Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 671 Antimalarial Drugs

"In the past two years, after our army entered Annan Kingdom, Champa Kingdom and other places, the list of casualties and officials has been counted. The situation is really not optimistic." An official of the staff department counted the relevant casualties in the Indochina Peninsula come up.

Compared with the more vague statistical rhetoric in ancient times, Chu Yun, who traveled from modern times, is extremely sensitive to statistics, or paranoid.When I was in the history department, when it comes to domestic ancient history, there is usually a lack of accurate data.The older the age, the more blurred the data. There are hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, but in fact there is a lot of water in it.

In order to have better control over his territory, Chu Yun is gradually establishing a corresponding statistical system, not only money and food, but also detailed battle damage reports and files of each soldier, so as to avoid the phenomenon of empty pay in the late Ming Dynasty.

He took over the statistics of the personnel lost in order to occupy the Indochina Peninsula in the past two years, and his face was not very good.

"Out of 10 people, at least 7 people died from the miasma..." Chu Yun glanced roughly.

When attacking the Annan Kingdom and Champa Kingdom, the real loss of personnel due to the war was not as many as expected, but the majority of people died of miasma.Miasma is a relatively general concept. Most soldiers, officials, and immigrants died of tropical and subtropical malaria.In ancient times malaria was a serious obstacle to the conquest of the southern regions.

"According to the reports from the front, many soldiers have contracted the disease. Once infected with this disease, they will have chills and shivering, and then have a high fever and unconsciousness. Eight or nine out of ten will die. It is extremely terrifying. Annan area The weather is hot and humid, and mosquitoes breed in summer and autumn, and the soldiers are impatient and complain, which has dealt a big blow to the morale of the soldiers." An official said worriedly.

"In the mid-Tang Dynasty, after Yu Nan stayed, Li Mi led an army of 7 to conquer Nanzhao Kingdom. As a result, miasma and epidemics were rampant in the army. The soldiers suffered from miasma and plague, and finally the whole army was wiped out. The Nanzhao Kingdom at that time was located in Yunnan today. The territory of the Chief Secretary. Fortunately, most of the soldiers recruited by our independent corps are from Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Lianghu. In other places, they are still afraid of miasma and plague like tigers and leopards." Another official also had a headache when he mentioned malaria.

Malaria... Chu Yun knows how terrible it is. Countless people died of this disease even in modern times, not to mention ancient times. That's why the discovery of artemisinin is eligible for the Nobel Prize in Science.

"Is there any prescription to cure this disease?" Chu Yun raised his troops from the north, and the chances of encountering malaria are not many, and he is not familiar with the ancient methods of treating malaria.

"Waitai Miyaofang" by Wang Tao of the Tang Dynasty contained as many as 85 kinds of prescriptions. Ge Hong's "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty included 32 kinds of prescriptions. Most of them used Changshan and other herbs to make miasma medicines, and animal bones, Folk prescriptions such as Renzhonghuang. It's just..." Some officials who are familiar with medicine said hesitantly, "It's just that the prescriptions have limited effects, and people who get sick can often just sit back and wait for death. Otherwise, from Qin to Song, miasma outbreaks would not occur many times during the Southern Expedition. The army will be defeated soon, and many prisoners who were exiled to the south also escaped death..."

"The folk remedies are unreliable, but the study of medicinal herbs is okay, that is to say, there is no particularly good prescription to overcome miasma. This is indeed a rather difficult problem. I will ask the Academy of Sciences to convene the whole world and set up a medical department to specifically overcome this problem. "Chu Yun can only pin his hopes on future medical technology.

Speaking of which, among the technologies that Chu Yun has developed, most of them are pure industrial technologies, focusing on resource mining, smelting, military affairs, and agriculture, while medical technologies are rarely developed.

Actually, it’s not that Chu Yun doesn’t want to develop very important modern medical technology, it’s just that modern medical technology is based on a lot of chemical and biological foundations, and many important achievements only appeared in the 20th century, such as the antibacterial drug penicillin just came out When it is time, it is more precious than gold.If such a technology can be activated, just by reselling the produced penicillin to the surrounding countries, the country can become rich.

But because the time of modern medical technology is too short, the required civilization point is an astonishing astronomical figure, and Chu Yun is powerless.

He learned about the miasma he encountered when he conquered Nanyang from the officials of the General Staff Department. When Chu Yun was alone, he turned on the industrial revolution system to check related technologies.

"Cinchona Cream Extraction Technology, a technique in the 19th century to extract the antimalarial ingredient quinine from the cinchona bark that Indians used to treat fever, requires 5 civilization points."

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"Artemisinin combination therapy, a combination therapy with artemisinin as the core discovered by a certain Chinese medical scientist, is a very effective means of treating malaria. By interfering with the functions of the mitochondria of the malaria parasite membrane, it requires 200 million civilization points .”

Chu Yun briefly browsed the medical technology of antimalarial drugs, and discovered the important technology discovered by his own country in the 20th century. He couldn't help feeling a little nostalgic for the world he traveled to.

He really wanted to start the "artemisinin combination therapy" directly to solve the casualties caused by malaria to the soldiers of the Kyushu Army.But artemisinin was discovered too late, and the required civilization points were astronomical, and Chu Yun faced the dilemma of not having enough civilization points to unlock the technology.

"Let's activate the Kinney extract technology first..." Chu Yun thought for a while, since he couldn't activate the current best technology, he could only retreat.It's like 100-point technology and 80-point technology. You can't open 100-point technology. 80-point technology is better than the current predicament.

But Chu Yun immediately thought that this technology needs to extract compounds from cinchona tree, and he has never heard of cinchona tree before or now. Could it be that there is no cinchona tree in his own territory in this era?

"System, where is the cinchona tree?" Chu Yun had no choice but to ask the system.

"South America." The system replied.

"That's the same as summoning the rubber plantation last time. Summon a piece of cinchona tree to the place I designated." Chu Yun is already familiar with the use of the industrial revolution system, knowing that as long as he has civilization points, he can do whatever he wants.

After capturing the Annan Kingdom last time, the industrial revolution system seemed to believe that it was a colony. Now the colonies occupied by Chu Yun include Annan, Champa, Dongying, and Chenla. The population of the colony is more than 300 million. The first stage of historical achievement "Rise of the Empire": a colony with a population of 1000 million and a population of 200 million has obtained 25 civilization points. The current civilization points are relatively sufficient for Chu Yun, as long as it does not involve advanced technology in the 20th century .

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