The big man has a living father

Chapter 117 Science Newspaper

Huo Hai really didn't expect that someone could see the crater with the naked eye.

Huo Hai had seen a program while watching short videos before. The program invited a group of Maasai or some other people from a primitive hunting tribe to participate. Those people could clearly see the patterns on mahjong tiles from three kilometers away.

Huo Hai always felt that this might be caused by the geographical environment.

I didn’t expect this to exist in China. The naked eye vision is 5.6!
Huo Hai thought that he could make a vision chart to screen the vision of different people and prepare for many professional things.

And Luo Xiahong could not have imagined it even more.

How could anyone in the world be able to increase the limit of vision through external force?

After listening to Huo Hai's description, Luo Xiahong confirmed again: "You mean, if you grind a transparent crystal into this kind of concave and convex shape, you can magnify things?"

Huo Hai: "This is a very simple truth. You can try to see through a drop of dew and you will understand."

Luo Xiahong: "Is this all your research institute has?"

Huo Hai: "How fresh, we have plenty of glass."

Glass actually existed as early as the Warring States Period, but no large-scale manufacturing method had been developed. It can be judged that almost all of them were accidental products, and many were even crystals that were mistaken for glass.

Of course, there are also cases where glass is mistaken for crystal.

Luo Xiahong lived in Langzhong, so of course he had never seen anything like glass.

After listening to Huo Hai's description, Luo Xiahong said: "Can I join the research institute? I want to study glass!"

Huo Hai: "Are you trying to develop a device that allows ordinary people to see farther, or a device that allows you to see farther?"

Luo Xiahong nodded seriously.

Why did Luoyang Hong know that the moon reflects sunlight?
Because when the craters are visible to the naked eye, it is easy to see the spherical edge of the dark part of the moon.

There is no need for much analysis. You can tell at a glance that this thing is a ball. The reason why it waxes and wanes is because part of it emits light. What kind of light is it? It reflects sunlight, just like things on the ground look dazzling white in the sun and black in the shade.

But there was a huge problem in Luo Xiahong's life that could not be solved.

That is, he can't make others see what he sees.

So Hun Tian said there is no market at all.

As long as people can barely see the edge of the dark side of the moon, the Hun Tian Theory will become orthodox astronomy in a short time!

Huo Hai nodded: "Go ahead."

"You can go to the research institute now. It's not far anyway."

"Let's live there from now on."

……

The city of Chang'an is changing with each passing day.

Many people who left Chang'an last year and this year were confused when they came back.

Is this still Chang'an?

Although Chang'an was very prosperous in the past, there weren't so many people walking around all day, and there weren't so many goods being transported back and forth!

But they didn't know that the change in Chang'an City's appearance was already the smallest part of the real change.

In the streets and alleys, many children shouted: "Newspapers for sale, newspapers for sale!"

A captain was riding by on a tall horse and saw the paper in the child's hand. He couldn't help but feel curious.

This kid doesn't look wealthy, but he's actually walking around with such a big stack of paper?
"Kid, what do you do?"

The child looked up and said, "General, I sell newspapers."

The captain was puzzled: "What newspaper?"

What he originally asked was what a newspaper was. The child heard him ask what newspaper it was and said, “It’s Science News. This is the first issue of Science News. This newspaper became so popular that you can’t even find the first issue.”

The lieutenant pinched his chin and said, "I heard in the south that a kind of white paper is popular in Chang'an now. I didn't expect to see it after I came back. How can there be such dense handwriting on it? Wouldn't the ink used to write bamboo slips be blurred when written on hemp paper?"

The child laughed awkwardly: "How would I know? Do you want to buy it or not? I don't know the words written on it, but the lieutenant said that the things written on it are related to longevity."

When the lieutenant heard this, his eyes widened: "How much is one serving?!"

Child: "Twelve big coins."

So much paper, so cheap? Captain: "Give me one!"

The captain took a newspaper, took a look at it, and leaned forward.

I can't understand it at all.

Although he recognized many of the words above, he did not recognize most of them.

The words I know are not enough to read fluently.

Also, what is written here doesn't seem to be elegant language, but vernacular. Just a quick glance at it and you can see many words that are used in daily conversation.

The captain was a little confused, thinking he was being fooled, and was about to look up to scold the kid.

But I saw another familiar lieutenant who also bought a copy and started reading it directly: "Table of contents, "Dahan Human Settlement Environment Sanitation Report", "Dahan Medical Health and Hygiene Report", "Nutrition Survey Report", "Health Guidance Report?"

"Is this guaranteed to be authentic?"

"Hey, Mr. Huo wrote a preface recommending it? That must be true."

The captain became puzzled. When he met this guy, he couldn't read and was not a captain. Didn't they set out to the grassland to fight earlier than I did? Where did he learn to read and how did he get promoted?
The captain took the newspaper and left, ready to ask someone he had a good relationship with.

At this time, in the elementary school, the teacher opened the newspaper and said: "In today's science class, we will not learn the content in the textbook for the time being, but take a look at the research results of the cutting-edge science of the Han Dynasty."

"This first study is the result of research by Lady Yi Shuo, a female medical officer of the Han Dynasty."

"The reason is that when Doctor Yishuo visited fellow apprentices, she found that the incidence of various diseases in Chang'an County this winter has dropped significantly. After repeated investigations, she finally locked the cause on the environmental sanitation regulations of Chang'an County." "After comparing, Doctor Yishuo found that urinating and spitting anywhere will increase the incidence of diseases among people around, and the way to avoid this is to prohibit urinating and spitting anywhere."

The teacher looked at the newspaper and continued to summarize: "So Doctor Yi Shuo conducted in-depth research based on this phenomenon and found that many diseases were transmitted in a similar way, so he made some conclusions."

"Once a person is sick, the waste gas, waste water, excretion, spit and runny nose he exhales may become carriers of pathogens, and contact with these pathogen carriers can easily infect oneself."

"Therefore, Medical Officer Yishuo is here to remind all children not to do uncivilized behavior such as urinating and defecating in public, and to stay away from urinating and defecating in public."

"And to prevent infection, you can wash your hands frequently."

In fact, there are many things in this article that the teacher did not read out.

Because in his opinion, the things recorded here would be too scary if told to children.

There are a lot of comparisons in this film.

For example, the average infection rate per thousand people in neighborhoods where urinating and defecating in public is prohibited is lower than the infection rate per thousand people in Wannian County where urinating and defecating in public is not prohibited.

The latter is far superior to the former.

This is just the most basic statistics, and a large number of statistics on other diseases were then conducted.

Some of them are more scary than others.

For example, leprosy.

There is also epidemic disease, that is, plague.

There were even pictures in the newspapers to illustrate what a leper would look like.

All I can say is that the picture is extremely terrifying.

It also describes how leprosy is generally treated if contracted.

The solution was to lock up all the people with the disease in the same village, which was called a leprosy village.

There are even records that when this disease occurred in some places, in order to prevent the spread of the disease, the infected people would be directly killed and then burned.

Including the plague, its spread is prevented by avoiding the movement of people.

Therefore, Yi Shuo concluded that these behaviors are actually preventing the spread of infectious diseases.

Teacher: "So, for your own health, everyone must remember the four diligences: wash your hands frequently, take a bath frequently, cut your nails frequently, and wash your hair frequently."

"There are a lot of bacteria on your hands. If you pick your nose, rub your eyes, or touch your mouth with dirty hands, you will bring germs into your body and cause illness. So you must wash your hands frequently. Taking a bath frequently can promptly remove dust and bacteria from the hair, skin surface, and pores. Fingernails are prone to harboring dust, dirt, and mold, so you should trim your nails frequently."

In this part, the institute's experiments were mentioned again, and a relatively brief report was quoted.

This report was written by the physician Peng Yi, who was a former disciple of Huo Hai and is now a researcher at the institute.

Peng Yi has been conducting research on mold spots. Because he discovered the problem of the spoilage process of rotten food, Peng Yi put forward a bold hypothesis.

"Any living thing is bound to come into contact with mold pathogens, which can cause large-scale outbreaks in a short period of time after the organism loses its activity. When the organism is active, some parts of these pathogens are prone to cause a large number of symptoms."

"Because we observed that the spread of mold is similar to that of fungi, we temporarily called this pathogen mold. These molds are very small, just like sand placed ten meters away, which is difficult to observe. But when there is too much sand and it forms a pile of sand, it can be observed. We are currently trying to find a way to observe a single mold with the naked eye."

The teacher himself found all this very magical, and he was eager to know whether all these inferences were true.

However, apart from the inferences, most of the content in this article has strong evidence.

After all, the controlled experiments are here and the data is here.

In order to prove its authenticity, it was even signed. A lot of data was obtained from famous doctors in Chang'an, including doctors from Wannian County, Chang'an County, Ling County and the city.

In addition to doctors, there is also data provided by herbal medicine dealers.

After nearly three months of sanitation and environmental improvement, the average shipment volume of medicinal materials in Chang'an County has reached one thousand people in the past three months, which is much lower than that in Wannian County and Ling County.

The fact that so many doctors have signed the certification speaks volumes.

I didn’t expect that all the medicinal herb dealers were willing to sign their names.

You have to know that after the medicinal materials merchants sign their names, if other places know this principle and follow suit, then their medicinal materials sales will drop significantly!
But in fact, the medicinal material dealers who came out to provide evidence were all laughing their heads off.

Among the largest medicinal materials merchants in the city, one is a descendant of Fan Kuai, named Fan Taguan.

To be precise, he is no longer Wu Hou now, because as early as twenty years ago, someone reported that Fan Taguan was not the descendant of Fan Kuai, but the son of his mother's affair with someone else.

As a result, Fan Taguang was stripped of his title.

Fan Taguan started a business in Chang'an City. Although he lost his title, his network of connections was still there, so Fan Taguan's business was doing very well.

Now that Fan Taguan has come out to prove the authenticity of the data in this article, he has not lost anything.

At this time, Fan Taguan was also reading an article, but he could not understand simplified Chinese characters, so he asked his nephew to help him read.

After reading it, Fan Taguan stroked his beard with a smile.

The nephew whispered: "Uncle, why are you so happy? If everyone in Chang'an did as described above, wouldn't they rarely get sick? How can you sell medicine?"

Fan Taguang glared at his nephew: "Shengke, you are still young and don't understand."

"People in the world will think the same as you do. They will only think that I am stupid, but they don't think that reputation is the greatest benefit."

"If His Majesty sees that we are willing to give up huge benefits for the sake of the people, he may restore our family's title."

In fact, the Fan family was restored to a noble title in history, but that was several decades later, fifty-five years later to be exact. At that time, when Fan Shengke was restored to a noble title by Emperor Xuan, he was almost dead of old age.

Of course, Fan Taguang, who was stripped of his title, did not get the chance to have his title restored.

But times have changed, and it may still be possible.

The young Fan Shengke, who was only twelve years old, said: "Uncle, you always told me to remember to restore my title, but wouldn't it be better for us to make more money and live a good life?"

"I didn't realize until I went to school that most of my classmates' families weren't as rich as we were. We were so rich, and in Chang'an today, we were already extremely lucky."

(End of this chapter)