Chapter 693: Establishing a Nation by Force

Due to the rapid economic development of the "Nanming" system, cheap and high-quality general soap has become a necessary daily necessities at home.

After medical workers publicized the benefits of using soap, people became accustomed to using it, and soaps with medicinal properties, such as sulfur soap, have been prescribed by doctors as a medicine for the treatment of mild skin diseases.

The Huang family's medical team, under the leadership of Wu Youxing, is fully capable of successfully defending against a plague, that is, smallpox, and there is no specific medicine for this virus in today's world, and once people are infected, they can only resign themselves to fate.

The initial symptoms of smallpox infection include high fever, extreme tiredness, headache, back pain, and after two or three days, there will be a typical smallpox rash that is clearly distributed on the face, arms and legs, and there will be a reddish lump with the rash, which will suppurate within a few days.

In human history, plagues such as smallpox and the Black Death, and cholera have left a staggering number of deaths.

Too many doctors have been inspired, and the famous doctor in Chinese history, Sun Simiao, once used pus from smallpox and mouth sores to apply to the skin to prevent smallpox, and in the Ming Dynasty, the pox inoculation method was accepted by many people although it was very risky.

When Huang Sheng was testing recent scientific research results two years ago, he had a discussion with medical workers, and the team of Wu Youxing and Fang Yizhi suggested that the head of the family should let all children in the Huang family system be vaccinated against smallpox.

Hu Jianya, Li Chenxu, Li Lanxiang, Li Guixiang and others resolutely oppose it, they believe that the Huang family system is very efficient in disease prevention and control, and they can't take the risk of letting all children be vaccinated, because after all, the risk of infection is too great, and the prevention effect is not ideal.

Huang Sheng knew that smallpox had been extinct in the 80s, and that only laboratory samples remained of the virus.

However, smallpox is one of the oldest infectious diseases in human history and has the highest mortality rate, and it is highly contagious and severe, and people who have not had smallpox or have not been vaccinated against smallpox can be infected, and the mortality rate is as high as 20% or even 30%.

Huang Sheng had cowpox when he was a child, and knew how to prevent this epidemic, and he secretly admired it when he found that the people of the Ming Dynasty knew how to vaccinate against human pox.

He did not say whether to promote vaccination against human pox in the system, but suggested that Hu Jianya and Wu Youxing continue to lead the team to research, and they can try to inoculate animal pox, why can't they try cowpox?

The results speak for themselves, half a year later, the laboratory inoculation of vaccinia achieved a 100% success rate, with clinical data and a theoretical basis, a year later in the Huang family system for extensive vaccination, and now almost no Huang family people have this epidemic.

When Huang Sheng praised the medical workers and decided to give Hu Jianya and Wu Youxing their official positions, everyone in the room gave a standing ovation, because everyone was a beneficiary, and they all saw the contribution of medical workers.

Huang Sheng gave Hu Jianya and Wu Youxing the honor of Zhongshun Doctor, which is already two levels higher than the highest official position of Daming Tai Hospital, and the two of them could not imagine that one day they would become scholars and doctors, and they were overjoyed to get such a high grade.

This time, there are more than 50 other medical workers who have been canonized, ranging from Zhengjiu to Zhengliupin, and most of the doctors who came to the meeting did not expect this to be the case, and they will be more eager to repay the love of the "Nanming" government with practical actions.

Huang Sheng is already considering setting up an independent agency outside the six ministries, the National Health Department, which is equivalent to the health bureau and the Food and Drug Administration in later generations.

"Nanming" was founded, and there were too many civil and military generals and craftsmen who were rewarded and knighted, so I won't list them one by one.

When the bureaucrats and master craftsmen at all levels of the "Nanming" who attended the meeting came out, everyone was full of red faces, and they didn't know whether it was too hot in the Grand Theater or their enthusiasm in their hearts, anyway, Huang Mingli, Huang Mingdao, Han Kuan and other counts were overjoyed.

All the civil and military generals understand that "Nanming" still uses force to establish the country and rejuvenate the country with industry, and the biggest civilian and military generals are cattle people who lead troops to fight or master craftsmen with practical experience, even if they obviously don't care about the idle affairs of the six departments, the highest position is also reserved for them.

This is a special period, the "Nanming" government is still under military control, and it will be the same for ten years, and the rule of culture will not be able to gradually change until the real Haiqing Heyan.

The Ming Dynasty's civilian governance of the country was actually self-defeating, and it was not advisable in the world environment of the Age of Discovery, where Xiyi plundered colonies everywhere.

Huang Sheng always had to beat down one opponent after another, so that they could no longer afford to turn over the big waves, so that the country established by the Han people became the only superpower, and only when they were alone could they consider Wenzhi.

There is no doubt that the "God of War" went south to expand the territory, and Liaodong took a defensive position, but too many of the generals of the "God of War" in Liaodong were not clear, and Tang Daoheng, who came to the meeting, was of course a 'Nanming' general.

However, He Kegang, the commander-in-chief of the Right Governor, Jin Guofeng, the deputy general of the Governor Tongzhi, Xia Chengde, Lu Pinqi, etc., are all relied on by the Ming Dynasty, and they are all high-ranking officials and Ming generals.

Even Qinggeltai is also the great Taiji canonized by the Ming Dynasty, and these generals naturally have to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and it is naturally incumbent on them to defend the territory in Liaodong.

Tang Daoheng was overjoyed to be canonized as a third-rank guerrilla general of the 'Nanming', he was actually already a second-rank general of the Ming Dynasty, but this young man knew that there were many generals in the Ming Dynasty, and they were not worth mentioning in front of the civil officials who were born in Jinshi.

And the 'Nanming' is completely different, there are less than 100 military generals above the third grade, and when working with the civil officials of the third grade, it is just the opposite of the Ming Dynasty, and the military attaché's general order is the only implementation standard.

Huang Sheng did not allow Tang Daoheng to stay with the army to go south to expand the territory, ordered him to return to Jinzhou to take up his post, and sent an air force team led by captain Cheng Shiju to assist in the defense of Jinzhou.

In the past two years, it is necessary to move to Southeast Asia, and the army is thousands of miles away from Liaodong.

Huang Sheng asked Tang Daoheng to go back and tell He Kegang to convene a meeting of Jinzhou and Ningyuan civil and military, conveying the promise of the king of the south that each city must be held for three years, which means that it must meet the needs of three years of storage in the city to be able to confirm that it is safe.

'Huaxia Island', Zhongming Fort, and Yongping Mansion will assist the Ming generals to complete the grain storage plan, and of course they will also stock up enough coal, and this time Tang Daoheng will carry sixty six-pounder field smoothbore guns back to Liaodong.

With these artillery pieces that can flexibly transfer positions, they will definitely not suffer in firepower when defending the city, and with the Manchu Qing's ability to attack fortified positions, it is probably wishful thinking to take Jinzhou.

However, He Kegang's troops could only hold Jinzhou when there was no shortage of food and grass, and if they wanted to go out of the city and fight with the Manchu cavalry with thousands of troops, they couldn't do it at all.