The second big issue that affects the chances of newborn survival is the level of medical care.

When Wen Yue gave birth to Xu Shiyang's eldest son, the Governor's Office at that time specially searched for ten of the most experienced and successful women from all over the province, and specially mobilized more than ten doctors to standby.

However, not all women can get this kind of treatment, and most of them can only find help from their own village, who is enough to be called a killer in Xu Shiyang's eyes.

Some women lack even the most basic concepts of hygiene, let alone medical protection – in fact, because of their weak constitution or lack of medical care, even if a child is born safely, it is possible that a child in this era will die a few years later due to a common illness that can occur at any time.

This problem will not be solved overnight, but it is not impossible to solve it either.

When he was helpless, Xu Shiyang plagiarized the idea of Taizu in another era - to carry out the activity of barefoot doctors going to the countryside.

The main sources of barefoot doctors are trainees who have undergone short-term training in the medical profession, self-taught people with certain abilities, and a small number of pre-existing doctors.

All barefoot doctors are responsible for medical services within one or more villages, and the household department pays them salaries according to the treatment of low-level officials, and also distributes them land to support them in part-time farming.

As a companion to the barefoot doctor's policy, Xu Shiyang personally asked Xu Muhe, the king of Qi, to urge the Ministry of Rites to establish a medical professional school.

First of all, in order to respond to emergencies, Xu Shiyang specially transferred manpower from the New Army medical team, which has rich experience in medical care and hygiene, to conduct short-term training for barefoot doctors across the country.

Secondly, in the name of the king of Qi, it was ordered that all provinces of Qi should build medical and nursing colleges equivalent to middle schools, and students were routinely selected from high school graduates, and those with medical experience could also be admitted after passing the examination.

Finally, there is the fourth university in Qi: Qiguo Medical University, which was established in Quancheng.

In addition to researching treatments for various diseases, Xu Shiyang also hopes that they will be able to develop a more scientific system of modern medicine.

The state of Qi now controls the primeval forests of Liaodong and Goryeo, and it is very convenient to obtain traditional Chinese medicine materials, but Xu Shiyang has always been obsessed with various modern antibiotic medicinal materials: penicillin and the like are not thinking about it for the time being, sulfonamides should be able to be made in recent years, right?

After all, there is no technical difficulty in crafting this thing, at least not the most basic amisulfonamide.

What Qi Guo lacks at the moment is only a certain direction to guide, and Xu Shiyang knows exactly which direction is correct.

This is the welfare of the traverser, the biggest golden finger.

The next issue that needs to be addressed urgently is nutrition.

In addition to the newly recruited displaced people, most of the civilians who have lived in Qi for more than three years have already solved the problem of food and clothing.

However, this so-called food and clothing is just food to eat, and the sources of non-staple foods, especially meat, fish, and eggs that can provide a lot of protein, are still very scarce.

It's not that Qi doesn't have non-staple food, in fact, it's just whale meat, and the meat supplement of the people of Qi shouldn't be what it is now.

However, the means of storing these foods were scarce in the past, and the logistics limited the import of meat from remote areas.

Whale meat is imported inland far from the ocean, and can only be salty, salty, cured meat.

In order to change this, Xu Shiyang opened a canning factory at the beginning of the year.

For the time being, the canning factory only produces two main types of cans: simple products in clay pots and fine products in glass jars.

The contents of the former are uniformly set at five catties, and the main varieties are: braised pork (whale meat, pork, mutton), plum cabbage button meat, oily minced meat, red sausage and the cheapest kelp tofu.

Among them, braised pork and plum cabbage button meat have the highest price, but they are also the most popular products.

The large oily minced meat is actually made by crushing various meat scraps and adding animal fat, this kind of thing if it was left in the era when Xu Shiyang came, when pet food was not necessarily bought, but in this era, canned food full of oil and water and meat flavor is very popular.

Canned red sausage has a lot of starch added to it, and it is the lowest grade meat food like oily minced meat, or rather, these are cheap meat substitutes.

Canned kelp tofu, Xu Shiyang only tried it once, and then almost spit it out.

However, this thing is actually very popular with the Goryeo people, and the king of Qi once gave some of the Goryeo envoys who came to Qi with a reward, but when those people returned to China, they also specially asked Xu Shiyang to buy a batch and send them back to China.

Xu Shiyang felt that the taste of the Fusang people was not much different from that of the Goryeo people, and if the canned kelp and tofu could not be sold in China, it would be shipped to Goryeo and Fusang for export.

Simple cans in clay pots have a shelf life of no less than three months, but after they are opened in the summer, they must be eaten as soon as possible, which is enough time for canned products to enter the dining table of people in inland areas.

Of course, there are also more delicate products, such as cans in glass jars.

These products are mainly canned fruits, high-quality canned fish, and canned meat, and the contents of all products are one catty.

There are peaches, pears and apples in canned fruits, and the Ministry of Industry once attracted businessmen from Jiangnan to open a canning fruit factory in Jiangnan to process local fruits produced by Jiangnan, of course, there is no glass industry there, and this factory has not yet been opened.

Fine fish and meat are all good fish and good meat, and like canned fruit, the price is also very touching, but these things can be properly kept for more than a year, and the wealthy people in Qi can buy some as private reserves.

After the canning factory was put into operation, Xu Shiyang, in order to encourage childbirth and subsidize nutrition for pregnant women, stipulated that legal pregnant women could buy any canned food at half price every ten days - if it was a clay pot, it was equivalent to enjoying half a kilogram of canned food at half price every day.

Another new product is milk powder produced by state-owned farms.

Milk is a dirty food in the Han tradition, and absolutely everyone touches it unless they are forced to do so - Su Wu, who was detained by the Xiongnu for decades, once complained that the Huns gave him milk to drink, which was an insult to him.

However, Qi Guo's milk powder is processed by high temperature sterilization, although a lot of sugar and soy flour are added to improve the taste, but at least there is no problem in terms of food safety.

Moreover, the style of milk powder also gives the public a kind of confusion, making everyone mistakenly think that this thing is not the same thing as the dirty milk in the past.

In order to improve the status of milk powder in the hearts of Qi people, Xu Shiyang plans not to sell the products in advance, but first to legally pregnant women and children under the age of three to give one can per month as a nutritional supplement.

In addition, it is supplied to elementary schools and a glass of milk is added to elementary school students every day.

Xu Shiyang hopes that these nutrients can improve the physical fitness of the people and the resistance of women and children, so as to reduce the incidence of some common diseases.