0333 The Secret of Population Growth (3rd Update)
Wu Yinzhi said proudly: "The king has dispatched the most famous doctors in medical skills, and has also mobilized the most experienced stable women and women to conduct special research. ”
"A set of handbooks for pregnant women from pregnancy to childbirth was summarized, and then promoted nationwide, and unified training was also carried out for stable women across the country......"
"And the Tang law also stipulates that if you can only protect one person for difficult childbirth, you must protect your mother, and if you don't protect your mother, it will be regarded as homicide......"
"At present, the probability of dystocia for pregnant women in China is only 10%, and the mortality rate of dystocia is less than 30%."
Sun Tai's eyes were about to pop out when he heard this data, he himself knew how to treat people and often treated people.
Although there is no statistics on the rate of dystocia in women, he has the impression that the probability is very high.
In particular, the probability of dystocia is higher for newlywed firstborns, and the mortality rate of dystocia is more than half.
Therefore, it is said that a woman giving birth to a child is a ghost door, and there is no exaggeration at all.
In the 21st century, with the development of medical technology and the protection of national laws, the risk of giving birth to a child has been minimized, and death from difficult childbirth has become news.
Gradually, people began to forget the true meaning of this sentence, and regarded the pain of having a child as a ghost gate, which was actually a complete deviation.
It's not that women don't have pain when they give birth, on the contrary, women giving birth to children is the highest level of pain.
But this is really not what it means to go through the ghost gate, but in ancient times, giving birth to a child was a real gamble for a woman, and that was the real ghost gate.
But that's a good thing, and hopefully people will never understand what it meant in the first place.
Straight to the point.
Sun Tai was shocked when he heard that the dystocia rate and dystocia mortality rate in the Tang Kingdom were so low, and then said with emotion: "The king's move is really ...... There are countless living people. ”
Wu Yinzhi said with deep sympathy: "Yes, the people of the Tang Kingdom are all grateful for the kindness of the king...... Not only have we developed medical techniques for pregnant women, but we have also done research on infant and child rearing. ”
"Summed up a complete set of parenting medical techniques, studied the most common diseases of infants and young children, and summarized the prescription ......"
Diets for infants and toddlers of different ages have also been developed to ensure that they are nutritionally balanced...... The infant mortality rate in the Tang Kingdom is less than 20%. ”
Don't think that this premature death rate is high, you should know that the average premature death rate of babies in this era is as high as more than 40 percent, close to 50 percent.
It took only five years for Tang to reduce the mortality rate to less than 20 percent, which was definitely a huge leap.
But the further you go, the harder it is to reduce this figure, and every percentage point reduction requires a huge effort.
After this explanation, Sun Tai has already understood why the proportion of children in the Tang Kingdom is so high, and the popularization of medical skills has brought about an increase in the survival rate, and there are naturally more children.
But he soon realized that this conclusion was too early.
The quality of life of the people of the Tang Kingdom is very high, and every household has chickens, ducks and sheep, which means that they are not short of meat and eggs to eat.
Ordinary people can often eat meat and eggs, which is simply living in a dream.
The breeding rate of mules, horses and cattle is also very high, with an average of one in three or four households.
He also saw some people who kept strange animals, and after asking, he learned that they were bamboo rats. It is raised to eat meat like domestic animals, and it is simple to raise and delicious.
If you can keep up with good food and good nutrition, your body will be healthy and not easy to get sick, and even if you are sick, you can get timely treatment.
This is a systemic matter, and it cannot be done by unilateral improvement.
Therefore, the number of children in the Tang Kingdom is not only because of the improvement of medical skills, but also the result of the improvement of the overall living standard.
This situation is not in one village or one place, but in every part of the country, and Sun Tai is simply too satisfied with it.
"The Datong world is nothing more than that." That's what he says most often.
There is also more trust in Wenyi's ideas and policies, which may still have various shortcomings, but it is too much progress compared to other policies.
If you have to say that you are not satisfied, it is that the smell of urine among the Tang people is a little more serious.
Wu Yinzhi explained: "The king has an order to buy saltpeter in unlimited quantities, and every household of the people boils nitrate, so the taste is a bit big." ”
Sun Tai then remembered that Wen Yi used the hands of Taoism to buy saltpeter in unlimited quantities, but he didn't expect that the whole people in the Tang Kingdom were also boiling nitrate.
With so much saltpeter, what the hell is Tang Wang doing?
He didn't believe anything like that.
But he didn't dare to inquire more, few people even knew about this thing, and he was looking for death if he was an outsider.
Continuing to travel, he soon discovers another strange place.
"This kind of land must be very barren, right? Why did the people leave the fertile land over there and not plant it, but reclaim it? ”
Wu Yinzhi replied: "This kind of land is indeed very barren, and it takes three or five years to grow other crops after reclamation, and the people were not willing to plant it before. ”
"The year before last, the imperial court discovered an uninhabited island, on which countless birds lived, I don't know how many years of accumulation, the guano on it is several zhang thick."
"These bird droppings are good fertilizers, and if you dry some of them in these barren fields, the fertility will be improved."
"After two more years of soybean planting, the fertility is fixed, and the barren land becomes fertile land. In the past two years, we have transformed nearly 100,000 acres of fertile land......"
An island full of guano? Transforming 100,000 acres of fertile land? Sun Tai felt that in the past few days of his travels in the Tang Kingdom, he had been shocked more than he had been for more than twenty years before.
He already knew that manure could be fertilized, but he didn't expect that there would be islands full of bird droppings in this world, and the magic of creation was really amazing.
Tang Guo's ability to discover Guano Island is also the end of destiny.
Then he went to the Rift Valley Plain to meet the horse farm, and this unique terrain made him believe in the destiny of the Tang Kingdom even more.
On a small island, there is such a vast plain suitable for raising horses, and God will give you anything if you lack anything.
However, after taking a rough turn around Dongning Island, Sun Tai discovered a problem, the population of Tang Kingdom was wrong.
Although he did not have a specific number, he was only about 600,000 at most, and the number of troops was obviously insufficient.
Where did those people and the army go?
He didn't hide the question in his heart, but asked Wu Yinzhi directly.
Wu Yinzhi didn't hide it, so he told him about Luzon Island.
Even though he had been surprised countless times, when Sun Tai knew that Tang Kingdom still had a territory eight times larger than Dongning Island, he couldn't help but be shocked again.
As if he was afraid that he would not believe it, Wu Yinzhi also took him around Luzon Island by boat.
Seeing this huge island with his own eyes, Sun Tai no longer had the slightest doubt.
The Tang State is not the kind of small country, but a large and powerful country with a jurisdiction of thousands of miles, and the development potential is huge.
The key is that he is alone overseas, can attack and retreat, and can defend, as long as there are no internal problems in him, he will be invincible.
If he was optimistic about Tang Guo only because of Wen Yi's new ideas before, now there is another reason, hard power.
After that, Wu Yinzhi took him to Xinyi City, Jianye City and Nanyu City.