Sixty-seven, the invisible war

After torturing the cause and effect of the Maya's attack this time, in order to prevent these Mayan priests from exerting their magical powers again and summoning any gods to come down to scare people again, Wen Dehei, who had already trained a hard-hearted man in the barbaric life in the past few years, immediately ordered his cronies to behead and execute all the captured Mayan nobles and priests, and the corpses were burned to ashes by fire.

As for the remaining 500 or so Mayan prisoners of war, the men were sent to the quarries to do hard labor, digging up limestone for burning limestone and earth for burning bricks. A handful of women, mostly the wives and concubines of noble priests, were sent to a newly established "state brothel" to provide physical and spiritual comfort to merchants who came from afar to sell goods, and to earn a small fortune for the municipality.

This kind of captivity policy of "making the best use of everything" is naturally far from humanitarianism, and it also makes Professor Yang, an old Communist Party member, mutter. However, compared to the bloody tradition of the Aztecs cutting off the heads of all prisoners of war and sacrificing them to the gods, such a captivity policy is already very lenient.

In any case, all kinds of policies must not go beyond the background of the times too much -- half a step ahead of the times is a genius, and one step ahead of the times is a madman.

In fact, none of them could have imagined at this time how much trouble the Mayans of Tepetvanc City would bring them in the future.

After the prisoners of war were processed, the next task was already imminent.

That was to inoculate the Indians of Port Hope against smallpox and other vaccines before they came into contact with the Spanish expedition.

Historically, the Spanish conquest of the Americas had two battlefields - the visible battlefield and the invisible battlefield.

The former roared with the muskets and cannons of the Europeans, and galloped the warships and cavalry of the conquerors; The latter, on the other hand, was plagued by deadly germs and viruses from the Old World: smallpox, yellow fever, plague, measles, influenza, tuberculosis, ......

History books are probably only about the former, that is, the exploits of the conquerors. But for the Indians, the latter was even more terrifyingβ€”visible muskets, cannons, and cavalry, still able to manage to maneuver with courage and wisdom; And the invisible disease is impossible to resist at all.

The Spaniards have lived with these germs for thousands of years and have developed a certain immunity, while the Indians, who have just come into contact with them, do not have the immunity function to defend against these diseases.

Thus, the terrible plague followed the footsteps of the navigator and came to this new shijie in isolation. Indians throughout Central and South America died in the plague by thousands, and the survivors lost the courage to resist the white attack, which was the wrath and punishment of the gods in the eyes of most superstitious ancients. So, if someone gets a plague, then that person must have done something offensive to God.

Historically, the sinister Spaniards distributed smallpox used blankets everywhere in the Americas, causing the Indian tribes who took the blankets to die on a large scale in the smallpox epidemic. Later, the few surviving Indians discussed the matter, and Zuihou came to a god-like conclusion - it was the wrath of the heavens, warning us not to go to war with the god-like Europeans! Because Heaven is helping them with a plague and punishing us. The proof of this is that the Indians fell ill and died in the thousands, while the Europeans rarely fell ill...... Since it is God's will for the Europeans to conquer us, then we can only let them slaughter and plunder, and any resistance is blasphemous......

Not only did people die of illness, but even the will to fight was directly shattered by the plague.

As a result, by the end of this century-long war of conquest, the Indians had lost most of the Americas, from Mexico to Argentina, in the face of the Spaniards. The remaining Great Plains of North America will eventually be occupied by the British in a few centuries. …,

Therefore, in order to win this invisible war and prevent Hope Port from becoming a dead port in the plague, it is imperative to use modern vaccines to carry out universal vaccination in the kingdom of Hungshutizgan.

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In fact, given the danger of various bacteria and viruses to ancient people in modern shijie, this work should have been carried out a long time ago, and the time-travelers also recognized the importance of this matter from the beginning. However, due to the constraints of practical conditions in various aspects, it has not been possible to implement this matter.

-- Although most of the antibiotic pills on the market in China are prescription drugs, they are still relatively easy to obtain because of the huge production and sales volume, the lack of strict supervision by the relevant departments, and the fact that the travelers still have a layer of "government civil servants" to cover.

However, it is not so easy to purchase vaccines in large quantities, because vaccines are generally not sold directly in pharmacies, and it is difficult to bypass hospitals and epidemic prevention departments and order directly from manufacturers, especially on the scale of at least tens of thousands of vaccines like Hope Port......

So, although the travelers had long known that the Spaniards would bring smallpox, measles, and other virulent infectious diseases endemic to the Old World, causing the number of Mexican Indians to plummet from 15 million to 3 million, they were unable to raise enough vaccines for a while, and there was still nothing they could do.

Fortunately, they are not lone rangers who play the game of time-travel, but government workers with national backgrounds.

Professor Yang's visit to Beijing for a debriefing successfully attracted the support and attention of his superiors, and the above problems were finally solved.

Although the relevant leaders of the Paranormal Phenomenon Handling Office of the Ministry of Harmony of the State Council are not in charge of the economy, they are also very clear that once this unprecedented cross-time and space trade is launched on a large scale, its significance is definitely comparable to Columbus's discovery of the New World!

-- Modern China in the 21 st century has long ceased to be the Celestial Empire that is closed off from the rest of the world and claims to be "rich in natural resources and has everything, and does not borrow foreign goods to get through everything," but has evolved into an industrialized monster that greedily thirsts for all kinds of resources, and its thirst for wealth and resources is even greater than that of the Europeans in the Age of Discovery. Not to mention the oil buried in Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

If it weren't for the fact that the space-time gate has great restrictions on teleportation personnel, and the time that can be maintained is too short, and there are some things that need to be confirmed with your own eyes, the director of the office really wants to call the Military Commission to see if he can mobilize several divisions of the People's Liberation Army to grab the territory in the past - the Western colonizers have played a set of things in the whole Shijie for hundreds of years, and we Chinese are not unable to do it.

Since their own army can't get by, in order to ensure the export of resources, the indigenous thugs who have been pulled up in the local area have become treasures, and their health must be protected in order to defeat the Spanish colonists, tame the Aztec Empire, and turn Central America into their own land.

Therefore, with the liaison and coordination of the Paranormal Phenomenon Handling Office of the Ministry of Harmony of the State Council, Professor Yang took a stack of red-headed approval documents and opened a strategic material reserve warehouse in the city, and at once obtained 300,000 smallpox vaccines that were about to expire, as well as BCG vaccines against tuberculosis, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis preparations for infants and young children (to prevent whooping cough), as well as rubella vaccines, yellow fever vaccines, and rabies vaccines.

Of course, although the vaccine is already available, the slash-and-burn Native Americans of the Stone Age will have the medical knowledge of five centuries later in just a few months, and understand the medical principles and efficacy of this thing, you travelers may still feel that they are still not enough. …,

After some discussion, it was decided that rather than going out of their way to popularize a series of microbes and medical knowledge, it would be better to say that it was a blessing from "God-men" who could keep them away from all kinds of diseases...... Anyway, because of the pot camel machine built during this period and the introduction of agricultural electric tricycles, this country can even make such a strange feudal superstition as the "Cult of the Mechanical God", and it is not bad.

So, not long after, after the operating procedures of the pot camel machine were drummed into religious sacrifice ceremonies, a "Health and Epidemic Prevention Manual" published in the sixties of the last century for rural science popularization and literacy was also stimulated by the wife of Wen Dehei's wife, Princess Maca, and became the "Holy Codex" of a new religion, stipulating that the people of the city should take a bath at least once a day in order to better worship the gods, and then pray to the gods while bathing, brush their teeth or rinse their mouths in the morning and evening, eat regularly, and not drink raw water. It is forbidden to defecate on the streets of the city...... And the scar on the arm of the vaccination becomes the mark given by the "man of God" to believers, just like the circumcision of Jews and the baptism of Christians.

Although this may seem unscientific, it was the most effective way to educate the ancients about hygiene, and the Jews did just thatβ€”for example, in the book of Exodus in the Bible, Moses made the Egyptians sick and each family lost a firstborn son, while the Jews were unharmed. The Bible explanation and the Egyptian understanding of this is this: God is in favor of the Jews! No mortal can be an enemy of God's chosen people!

Therefore, the Egyptians not only wanted to free the Jews and let them return to their homeland, but they also wanted to extort gold, silver, food, and livestock.

However, these hapless Egyptians may not have noticed that the Jewish precepts required them not to eat raw meat, rotten meat, not to drink the blood of animals, not even to boil meat for several days during the outbreak of the plague, but to roast the meat at a higher temperature until it was cooked thoroughly before eating, and they were not allowed to eat leavened bread that had been left for many days, only dead bread that did not ferment and did not spoil easily, and it was forbidden to drink water that was not clean enough...... This series of hygienic differences was not visible to the ancient Egyptians, who lacked knowledge of microorganisms, and they could only see whether some people believed in God or not, and which god they believed......

This is the sadness of the lack of development of medicine!

In fact, Jews, Christians, and Muslims are, in a sense, using religion to popularize hygiene. For example, Muslims do not eat pork because domestic pigs in the Middle East always eat garbage in the cities, and people are prone to diseases if they eat this kind of pig meat. Jews require male circumcision and are also considered to prevent various genital diseases.

Therefore, among the ignorant Indians of Mesoamerica, the traverser could naturally concoct a "Scientology" by following the example of the cat.

Moreover, there is another wonderful advantage of promoting "Scientology" among the people of Honshutizgan - they have been defeated in war, then ruined, and plague during these years, and the population has plummeted to 1/30 of its original size, and almost all the priests and priests who hold the power of faith have died, thus making room for the "Church of Scientology" in terms of ideology, and the only tribal leaders who may pose an obstacle are their own people on the side of the traverser.

As a result, all kinds of modern hygiene knowledge was eventually popularized in the form of religion and became the standard of life of the people of Hungyutizgan

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