Chapter 129: The Current Situation of the Ganges
It would not be entirely wrong to say that China is the birthplace of the virus.
Viruses are also part of the species, and Zhang Chun believes that viruses cannot be contained, and the more you try to kill them, the faster they will mutate. This is the inevitable law of biological evolution. In order for people to survive, they must evolve a more complete immune system. Medical schools, which study the response of viruses in the human body and develop vaccines, only add to this process.
Due to the peculiarities of Chinese medicine, all kinds of viruses exist in China, because there is no way to contain them.
Another similar place is India.
Tao Jing told the story of the Indians burying the sick and dead in water, which led to the death of a large number of people.
"From a humanitarian point of view, it's cruel. But from a natural point of view, this is probably a way to ensure that more Indians survive. If nothing else, the outbreak in India may stop sooner than in other regions. Of course, the loss of personnel will be heavier than in other places, but is there a shortage of people in India? ”
Zhang Chun smiled bitterly.
Indians may not understand these truths, but they have chosen to use the population base to fight the virus, and finally force Indians to produce antigens and immune proteins. And this is also a matter of large populations, you can afford to toss. Other small countries may be abolished with a single infectious disease.
Medical schools have actually noticed the Indian approach for a long time. The Ganges, known as the sacred river, is able to wash away all the rivers of sin.
The Ministry of Land, Forestry and Health jointly filmed a documentary on the Ganges. Because half of the Ganges is under Chinese jurisdiction, the north bank of the Ganges is very different from the south bank, because the north bank is planted with a large number of herbaceous and woody plants. The origins of the Ganges River are also in China. So the amount of water in the Ganges is completely under China's control. Although the time for the liberation of the middle and lower reaches is still short. The trees did not grow, and the main role was still herbaceous plants. But the protection of the riverbank has paid off. The water of the Ganges has become much clearer.
At the same time, the mouth of the Brahmaputra River and the Bay of Bengal have been controlled by the Chinese Fishery Administration and Maritime Surveillance of China, and the British once built a railway in Chittagong to Dakar, but in the water network area, there is this old railway line, which still saves a lot of time.
Now Chittagong is connected to Lhasa to the north, and the communication line to Mandalay to the south is about to be completed. Another transport system along the Naga Hills will lead to Chittagong as a shipbuilding base and seaport facing the Indian Ocean.
Much of the Bay of Bengal is now under Chinese control, and the British fleet is cooperating with the Israeli Navy to contain the Soviet Union's weak navy. But for China's Pacific Fleet, many frictions have suffered a hidden loss. So Britain took the initiative to give way to the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Because the Andaman Islands have long been taken away by the Chinese.
The tide of the Ganges River is much more spectacular than the tide of the Qiantang River, with tides up to five or six meters high rushing into the vast tidal forests and marshes, and the Chinese side is relatively small because of population migration, and the tidal forests and marshes are protected.
The tide poured down the river, and several Gangese dolphins went up the river because of the damage done by humans to the environment. At present, there are very few migratory fish in the Ganges, and there are only about a dozen species in total, which cannot be compared with the Yangtze River, the Pearl River, and the Mekong River.
However, the Ganges dolphin is one of the few large animals. The Ganges River is known as the holy river. But it's not that rosy in reality. In the early days, only religious offerings were made by the poor people around the riverbank to bathe, wash and cook in the river, and floating corpses were a significant contaminant, because Indians believed that the Ganges River originated in the sacred lake of Mapanyongtso in Tibet. They believe that immersion in the Ganges washes away a person's sins; Indians scatter cremated ashes into the river, or throw dead bodies, relics and funeral items directly into the river and let them drift. It is believed that this will help the deceased to have a better afterlife, or even to attain "liberation" earlier.
Many devout Hindus make a pilgrimage to the Ganges. He also bathed in the river and meditated on the riverbank.
Now, in addition to these floating debris, there are also industrial plastics and emissions.
Roads, pastures and farmland have been planned on the north bank of the Ganges, and some embankments are being renovated and planted with trees. The Gangetic Plain, no matter how few people there are, is unlikely to waste the fertile land here. It is just that it is necessary to rationally readjust the industrial structure of some agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery. Compared with agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery processing have a longer industrial chain and absorb more people.
In the floodplains and pastures of the Brahmaputra River basin, a herd of Chinese rhinos roams, but their numbers are few and far between. The Animal Husbandry Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture obtained Sumatran rhinos and Javanese rhinos through Song Ziwen to release them here. The population has recovered and is now extending from Annam, Yunnan and Guangxi to the north.
In Yunnan, there are even black rhinos that have been transported from Africa for release.
Asian elephant herds have been recovering for decades, as far east as the Yellow River basin and north as the Pamirs. However, the ecology there is still a little fragile and cannot withstand the toss of these large animals. Compared to horses, the second type of person who is tamed is probably the elephant. Because this animal is so intelligent that it understands people's joys and sorrows. Even if the owner allows them to migrate with the population, they will be found the next year.
Elephants in China are basically released after some circuses have been disbanded, and they have a strong dependence on humans. They come from a variety of sources, including Russia, the Americas, and Africa, but now they have offspring with Asian elephants.
The Ganges is close to the Chinese side, there are already some crocodiles, the crocodiles of the Indian subcontinent can only be encountered at the mouth of the Ganges, but because of the arrival of the Chinese, the crocodiles began to go up the river, but basically on the Chinese side, because they will not be harassed there. In addition to the Indian crocodile, there is also the Chinese alligator. The alligator was artificially bred by the Animal Husbandry Bureau, and originally lived upstream, but now it is downstream of the river.
The Ministry of Land hopes that these will increase the population of migratory animals, and crocodiles can indeed clean up floating debris in the river, but they also pose a threat to Indians on the other side, especially Indians who love to bathe in the river, and some even meditate on the riverside.
Crocodiles don't go back to the South Shore most of the time because they don't like to be disturbed. But when the population of crocodiles is too large and there is not enough food. They're going to take risks.
Although the Ministry of Land and Resources controls the number of crocodiles, it is impossible to be very precise. This is especially true in the upper reaches of the Ganges, where the course is not wide.
Experts from the Ministry of Health, the Faculty of Medicine and the International Environmental Protection Organization are testing the effects of pollutants on the flora and fauna of the Ganges. One of them is why the human flu virus doesn't work in animals. What are the factors that make them immune to these viruses?
"Isn't the Compendium of Materia Medica useful for documenting the medicinal value of crocodiles and rhinoceros? Certainly useful. ”
This is the Institute of Medicine answering children's questions about these animals.
Due to the flu raging in the West and the marketing of penicillin by Western pharmaceutical factories.
"These drugs are digested and converted in the human body, and the body's immune system still has to respond to them. Our immune system is indifferent without food, even rice and flour. It's just a matter of how much of the reaction is different. You remember that TCM is about studying the body's reactions, not how to kill the virus. Don't forget to train your immune system, which is to eat as wide a range of foods as possible. Of course, it is cooked and eaten, not only easy to digest problems, but to avoid parasites. The body's immune system kills viruses, but not parasites. ”
"Will these animals be a threat to humans when they grow up?"
"Are these animals threatening you? No, on the contrary they provide you with food. Historically, it was animals, not humans, who were threatened. ”
The children burst into laughter.
"If the theories of those foreigners don't work, why are they so popular in the West?"
"Because of interests, because the right to speak is not in the hands of the people, but in the hands of interest groups. For example, if I am hired by an interest group, I will give you the benefits of Western medicine every day, but I will never mention the harm of Western medicine. A lie told a thousand times may become truth in you. Because I wasn't lying, I just didn't say anything about the dangers of penicillin. And it really can save lives in times of crisis. ”
"In China, there are no interests, but they have to be considered from a macro perspective. Individual interests should be subordinated to collective interests, collective interests should be subordinated to national interests, and national interests should be subordinated to national interests. You have to remember this, because this is the experience and lesson of China's rise and fall over the past 5,000 years. Countless dynasties have perished because of this violation, and countless characters have left behind infamy through the ages for violating this. Wherever you go, don't forget that. ”
Zhang Chun likes to sit with Lizhi and listen to the communication between the old and new players. Ideas are born out of communication and collision. Inheritance and abandonment all happen naturally in this process. You don't have to do it deliberately. (To be continued......)