Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 591 Merit
"Don't be kidding, Master Quan, Master Cui, you two asked for too much, and the last twelve were all rounded up by you, so what should I do?" Li Mingda stood up holding his waist said angrily.

Just after Li Mingda finished speaking, Quan Wanji, Cui Changshun and the others showed a little expression of calmness, meaning what do you want the admission quota of Chang'an University, you little girl.

Li You still smiled at this time and said: "Sizi actually has some friends, and there are actually no more than twelve enrollment places on my side. I have already promised four, so now I only have [-] students in my hand." Eight places.

Chang'an University will start at the beginning of next year, and there are still two months left. In order to prevent someone from asking me for a few more places, I have to keep four places in my hand. That is to say, I can only give you four places for the three of you. places. "

After speaking, Li You showed a sorry expression.

"Huh?" Li Mingda said bitterly, "I want five places, but you will give me four. How can I explain?"

Just as Li Mingda finished speaking, Quan Wanji and Cui Changshun stood up together: "Your Highness, these four places belong to the three of us, not you alone."

"What. Why. It's the first place I asked for from the palace. You are all later, so of course all the rest are mine. According to the first-come-first-served one, Liu Shangshu is also mine. Only Tang Guogong's two Not mine.

So you go grab Tang Guogong's quota, don't grab my five quotas. "

Li Mingda quibbled all the little fallacies that benefited him one by one, and Quan Wanji, Cui Changshun and others were also dumbfounded. Fortunately, Li You said slightly at this time: "Sister, you are indeed the first one to ask me for help." People with the quota, but unfortunately I didn't agree to you immediately, so for the four quotas, you should discuss with Master Quan and Master Cui, I still have something to do here, so everyone.!"

Li You gave a slight salute to Quan Wanji and the others: "I'll go first..."

"Then I'm leaving too!" Tang Jian stood up.He doesn't want to stay here anymore, so he should leave as soon as he achieves his goal. If he stays for a long time, he doesn't know if his place will be robbed by others: "His Royal Highness, thank you for your two admission places, I am very grateful, next time The next time I have something to say hello, as long as the old man can do it, he will definitely go all out."

"A certain one too!" Liu Dewei also got up to leave, he was not a fool, everyone knew he had to hurry up.

Just like that, Li You, Tang Jian, and Liu Dewei left, and only Quan Wanji, Cui Changshun, and Li Mingda were left in Li You's study, and they had to allocate four places.

And none of the three wanted to give it up, they all wanted to grab two places. It is said that the competition that day was very fierce, the three of them were like cocks fighting, the final result was very interesting, Li Mingda grabbed two places by himself, Quan Wanji and Cui Changshun only grabbed one.

The two old men were about to die of anger, and they all went to complain to their daughters in a fit of anger.

Quan Wanji found Quan Zhixi, and Cui Changshun found Cui Xiuniang.

Quan Wanji told Quan Zhixi that this Princess Jinyang is really bad, she deceived herself and Cui Changshun by playing dice, and here Cui Changshun also told her daughter Cui Xiuniang that Li Mingda used dice to deceive the two of them. Lied to.

Later Li You found out about this matter and knew that his two father-in-laws were very angry because of the last quota in their hands, so he had to draw two more quotas from his four quotas for the two of them. Father-in-law is angry with Li Mingda.

However, Li Shimin laughed heartily when he knew about this, and not only did not punish Li Mingda, but also praised Li Mingda for his intelligence, which was very similar to him. This is probably Li Shimin's infinite love for Li Mingda.

Time is like an hourglass, it kept moving forward, Li You went back to modern times, and this time back to modern times, Li You was looking for medicine, fortunately Zhao Lingling, that girl who studied medicine came back, Li You So I talked about Lingnan with Zhao Lingling.

At this time, Zhao Lingling laughed out loud. It turned out that Zhao Lingling had done a project on Lingnan, and she knew very well about Lingnan in ancient times.

In fact, the ancients believed that Lingnan was a place of near death, mainly because the science and technology at that time was backward, and many diseases could not be solved correctly, so it became a place of near death.

Dangerous mosquitoes in Lingnan are one aspect. The main reason is that you can go closer to the tropics. The weather is hot and humid, which is easy to breed bacteria.What you and we are saying now is that Lingnan should belong to the subtropical zone. Before Lingnan was opened, there was a large area of ​​jungle, which was very dangerous.

In ancient times, it was said that there was a kind of miasma in Lingnan that could make people sick.

Zhao Lingling explained miasma with a smile. This so-called miasma is actually a common disease in Lingnan, which is recorded in the Lingnan series.

Miasma is a kind of typhoid fever. Due to the backwardness of ancient science and technology, it is impossible to sterilize large areas, so it leads to the breeding of various infectious diseases.

In addition, the ancients had no awareness of infectious diseases, and they did not know how to isolate the source of infection and block the route of infection, so they spread it from ten to ten.The miasma has also spread widely, causing countless deaths and injuries.

Han Yu once wrote a few words like this, knowing that if you come from afar, you should be intentional, so that you can keep my bones by the river.

It can be seen that the ancient people were afraid of Lingnan.The worst thing in southern Fujian is not mosquitoes, but malaria.Due to its unique climate and backward science and technology, the Lingnan area has led to malaria.

In ancient times, there was basically no solution to this infectious disease.Generally, if you get it, you will basically die, and the appearance of death is extremely miserable and painful.So this intensifies people's fear of Lingnan.

Later, in many stories, after the author's imagination, it was said that there are wizards in the Lingnan area who can cast spells and kill large numbers of people with poison. In fact, it is a description of the malaria epidemic in Lingnan in ancient times, causing countless deaths and injuries.Therefore, Lingnan has been called the land of narrow escapes since ancient times.

Moreover, malaria in Lingnan was not only in ancient times, but also in modern times, that is, in the 50s, it was estimated that there were about 200-300 million malaria cases in Guangdong every year, and it was still the most lethal disease.

You say that modern times are so powerful, what would it be like in ancient times.

And here, we have to thank a female hero, the Nobel laureate Ms. Tu Youyou. In the 60s, tens of thousands of soldiers in the US-Vietnam War died after being bitten by malaria-carrying mosquitoes and died of malaria. The number of soldiers is incalculable.

Faced with Vietnam's request for help, China established a research team. Tu Youyou, who was at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the time, was ordered to take over the important task of researching anti-malarial drugs.

Relying on her feet, she visited malaria prescriptions, and relying on her hands, she sorted out a collection of 640 million-word prescriptions word by word.

At that time, there were more than 2000 prescriptions for malaria, which needed to be tested one by one.

The huge workload consumed all her energy.For the development of new medicines, she had to send her children to foster care: the development process was extremely difficult, and she studied more than 200 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, but still failed.

When everyone around her persuaded her to give up, after all, even a developed country like the United States is helpless, let alone us.

However, Tu Youyou did not give up, she turned her attention to the thick ancient medical books.

Looking through the vast sea of ​​classics, she discovered a prescription in an ancient book about curing fever caused by malaria.

This gave her the inspiration to use a low-boiling point solvent to extract the effective substance, which was later found to have 100% inhibition of malaria.

However, when they carried out clinical trials happily, the results were not satisfactory: the effective substances discovered through untold hardships, but it was impossible to judge whether they could be applied to human beings, and the research once stagnated.

Although she knew that her life was in danger, Tu Youyou still decided to try the medicine herself, after 191 experiments.It finally worked.After repeated improvements, experiments, further improvements, and endless updates, finally in 1986, artemisinin obtained the new drug certificate from the Ministry of Health.

In 1999, the World Health Organization included artemisinin in the list of essential medicines.Before Tu Youyou discovered and successfully extracted artemisinin, about half of the world's population was at risk of suffering from malaria, and Tu Youyou's discovery directly reduced this number by 50%.

Then, in 2015, Tu Youyou's team extended the time for artemisinin medication again, and this progress can solve the world-class problem of "artemisinin resistance". The reporter of "People's Daily" also learned that in While making new breakthroughs in the study of "artemisinin resistance", Tu Youyou's team also discovered that dihydroartemisinin has a unique effect on the treatment of highly variable lupus erythematosus.

Lupus erythematosus is known as an immortal cancer. Because it cannot be cured, it is terminally ill.

For those affected, the disease means death. In 2012, the number of patients with lupus erythematosus in China has reached 90, and this figure is growing continuously, among which the prevalence rate of systemic lupus erythematosus ranks second in the world.

The aunts of Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga that we know all died of this disease.

Regarding lupus erythematosus, the biggest recognition is that there is currently no cure, which means that in China alone, Tu Youyou’s invention may save millions of lives, and if viewed from a global perspective, this number will be geometric multiples increase.

In 2015, Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in Biology and Medicine, and she was also the first Chinese to win the award.

Few people have dared to risk their lives and face unknowable dangers like her, just because of the glimmer of hope to heal others. In 2019, the British BBC launched a national poll, and Tu Youyou was listed as the "most iconic figure of the 20th century" along with Marie Curie, Eins, and Turing.

With the artemisinin developed by Ms. Tu Youyou and her team, Li You believes that if his army is stationed in Lingnan, it will no longer be in danger and will go forward without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)