"Fang Aiqing. You are really my lucky star, you just returned to the central capital, and this news came from there, this is simply the first good news of this dynasty! ”

In the imperial study, Zhu Mingzhong walked back and forth excitedly.

It worked.

Finally it worked!

The success rate of the treatment of malaria has been greatly improved by the artemisinin crystals extracted before, and it can be said that from now on, malaria will no longer be any threat to Daming. The obstacle that prevented the Chinese people from entering the South Seas was finally conquered, and the Chinese people no longer needed to use their lives as a price to conquer the South Seas.

At this time, Zhu Mingzhong didn't even know how to describe his mood at this moment.

Celebrate, yes.

Be sure to celebrate. Thinking of this, Zhu Mingzhong raised his voice.

"Quick, quickly inform the imperial dining room, I want to have a drink with Fang Aiqing today......"

Looking at the excited Majesty, Fang Yizhi couldn't believe his eyes, was this the Majesty he knew?

"I wonder what kind of happy event will make Your Majesty so happy?"

Fang Yizhi asked with a smile.

"This is it!"

I casually took out a small glass bottle with a few pills in the bottle, this?

What is it?

Could it be morphine tablets?

Aside from morphine, Fang Yizhi didn't know what other medicine was in such a glass bottle.

Zhu Mingzhong looked at it and seemed to be a little confused, so Fang Yizhi said.

"This is artemisinin that I extract from Artemisia annua. This medicine can cure malaria, that is, it can cure the pendulum! ”

Fang Yizhi is no stranger to "swinging", after all, he is from Jiangnan, and when he was wandering in the south, he also witnessed the remnants who avoided the mountains like him losing their lives because of swinging. Once people are infected with this disease, they will suddenly have chills, chills, and then high fever, nonsense, delirium, if not treated in time, it will be life-threatening, but in areas with humid climate, many people get this disease, at that time, people have nothing to do about this disease, often sit and wait for death.

"My master!"

Once again, Zhu Mingzhong attributed everything to his master.

"In the course of practicing medicine for many years, I found that many people in areas with humid climate get this disease, and this disease will occur more often in summer, but there is no possibility of disease in winter and spring, so it is inferred that it may be an acute infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes, so I will instruct all troops and immigrants to Taiwan and Nanyang to be equipped with mosquito nets and window screens to avoid mosquito bites, but this does not solve the problem!"

The biggest advantage of having a true and false "master" is that you can attribute everything to him, which saves a lot of trouble. The reason why the incidence of malaria infection among immigrants in Taiwan and Nanyang has been controlled at 10% is largely related to the mandatory mosquito control, just like the construction of the Panama Canal in the United States, through mosquito nets, window screens and insecticides, the yellow fever that once forced the French away was successfully controlled, so that the Panama Canal was successfully built, and it is precisely because of the prevention and control of mosquitoes that malaria will be kept within a controllable range in the immigrants and armies of Nanyang and Taiwan, and in the 19th century, When the Chinese people went to the South Seas, the incidence of malaria even exceeded 70%, and the mortality rate reached 30% - although there was quinine at that time, millions of people still died of malaria.

"But this doesn't solve the problem, after all, mosquito nets, window screens, and screen doors are all dead, just like when the King of Jin was in Yunnan, the reason why his vitality was repeatedly injured was because of malaria, and even failed because of this, sometimes it would be before the battle, and the soldiers died seven or eight out of ten."

In fact, the wars related to malaria in Chinese history have not been so lucky. In the absence of effective medicines, once the army encounters malaria, it can be said that it is defeated without a fight. Almost every battle to the south has a record of a "great epidemic in the army", and even as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was recorded in Sun Tzu's Art of War: "If the army has no major epidemic, it is said to be victorious."

Until World War II, malaria remained the army's worst enemy. The battle between the US and Japanese armies in the rainforests of Southeast Asia can be described as fierce. But they have a common enemy - malaria. General MacArthur of the United States once complained about this: "1/3 of my soldiers have malaria, 1/3 are caring for malaria patients, and only 1/3 can fight." "In fact, it would be nice for MacArthur to have 1/3 of his soldiers fighting, after all, the American soldiers at that time also had some drugs such as quinine to treat malaria.

"He was later inspired by the ancient recipes, and then spent several years curing the secret medicine for malaria, but I was not proficient in the arts, but his old man's hard work was almost lost. In the past two years, I have instructed the army to use the Eastern Jin Dynasty Ge Hong's book "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" recorded in the book "One grip of Artemisia annua, two liters of water, wringing the juice, and taking it" to try to treat malaria, among which there are successful examples, but there are many more examples of failure. Later, I began to devote myself to studying the records left by the master in order to replicate the secret medicine that the master had cured...... That's it! ”

Pointing to the small medicine bottle in Fang Yizhi's hand, Zhu Mingzhong was all smiling.

"With this medicine, my Ming officials and people no longer need to worry about malaria, the land of the South Seas, and from now on it can be a smooth road, and it can be another land of fish and rice in China that is three crops a year! Even ......"

The corners of his lips raised slightly, and Zhu Mingzhong said with a smile in a mocking and helpless tone,

"My navy, sailors, no longer have to be harmed by syphilis, this disease is the navy's worst enemy!"

After Columbus discovered America and conquered that wild world, the Native Americans also gave their gift to the Old World, which was a new disease called "the revenge of the American continent" - syphilis. In 1492, Columbus' sailors brought the pathogen of syphilis back to Spain, where it soon spread across Europe. Syphilis is so vicious that it kills an estimated 10 million people in just a few years. Since then, syphilis has spread throughout the world thanks to great geographical discoveries.

Syphilis is already a very common disease among sailors in various countries, and it is they who have brought this infectious disease to the whole world. Sailors, navies, and of course the military, were the hardest hit by the disease until the 20th century, before penicillin was invented.

Maybe it's because he has been by His Majesty's side for a long time, so Fang Yizhi also has a certain understanding of His Majesty, and he is not surprised that he is not ashamed to talk about this disease, not to mention that His Majesty himself is a traveling doctor.

"Oh? Could it be that this medicine can also cure syphilis? ”

Fang Yizhi looked at the medicine disease in his hand, and his eyes were full of surprise.

"If that's the case, this medicine is really a panacea!"

"It can't cure syphilis, but it can cure malaria!"

Because he is barely from a family of doctors, Zhu Mingzhong also knows many home remedies, of course, this is not a home remedy, after all, there are still people who have won the Nobel Prize for this discovery.

"When the old man was practicing medicine, he had also been exposed to syphilis, and he was helpless against this disease, but later, his old man accidentally discovered that if a patient infected with syphilis was infected with malaria, once the malaria was cured, syphilis would be cured, so he thought of a way to fight the virus with poison, treat syphilis with malaria, first let the patient be infected with malaria, and then use his secret medicine to cure the patient's malaria, so that the patient can be cured."

In fact, it is not that malaria kills syphilis, it is because malaria fever and the syphilis virus cannot tolerate high temperatures and achieve clinical cure, because there is no other effective treatment for syphilis, and malaria already has a treatment, so there is this method of "fighting poison with poison". This malaria fever treatment for neurosyphilis continued until the birth of penicillin.

"Ling, Lingshi is really a sage in the world, can actually think of such a ghostly method to treat the plague, if, if the epidemic was rampant in the Central Plains, if Lingshi was there, the Central Plains would not be uninhabited for thousands of miles, both the military and the people were affected by the epidemic, and even Shenjing, if there was a Lingshi back then...... How can they fall into the hands of thieves? ”

The reason why Fang Yizhi sighed so much was because of the plague epidemic in the north during the Chongzhen period, in fact, there were continuous outbreaks of regional plague since the Wanli period in the late Ming Dynasty, but it did not spread widely. The plague that occurred in a single area quickly spread to other areas as displaced people, peasant armies, and migratory rat colonies were infected, and the epidemic spread dramatically to the point where it eventually spiraled out of control. By the time the thieves entered the capital, the capital was already empty under the plague epidemic. Even the survivors were weakened by the aftermath of the plague, and they had no intention or ability to resist the attack of the peasant army.

"How does Aiqing know that he didn't go?"

Zhu Mingzhong asked rhetorically, and sighed.

"If it weren't for the teacher who went to the epidemic area to treat the people, how could he have met me by chance, and then left me by his side, taught me medical skills, and taught me ......"

When he spoke, Zhu Mingzhong thought of his family in another time and space, and thought of his grandfather when he was young, and his grandfather would always teach him some medical skills, although most of them were folk remedies, but they also benefited him immensely, if it wasn't for his grandfather, he might not be able to gain a foothold in the city, and even in this era, if it weren't for the medical skills of so many three-legged cats, how could he have today's achievements?

It's just that now even if he is the king of a country, he will never see his family again, and he can't even pay tribute to his grandfather in a dignified manner.

Seeing that His Majesty's whole person fell into silence, Fang Yizhi knew that His Majesty must be chasing after his teacher, and when he saw His Majesty's appearance of almost wanting to cry, he spoke.

"Your Majesty's ancestor can be described as a sage in the world, practicing medicine for many years, there are thousands of people, but also in Your Majesty's teaching of life, in the opinion of the minister, Your Majesty should be the current will for the teacher to cultivate the ancestral hall of virtue, in order to show his merits......"