It is impossible for these captives to be released directly back to their places of origin.

Their middle and senior officers are aristocrats, middle-level officers are minor nobles, and even ordinary soldiers are young and strong, and each of them may become violent elements and cause trouble to the existence of Zhao State.

If these people are directly sent back, it will be easy for the regions to fall into chaos and increase the difficulty of Zhao's rule.

Only when the regions gradually settle down can these people be released back one after another, and at that time the places are basically stable, and everyone lives their own lives.

Even if a small number of people want to rebel, they can't make any noise.

Civilians at the bottom are looking for enough to eat and live a life free of war, and no one wants to live in war all day.

Without the support of the people, the aristocracy would not have become a climate.

It would be better if someone was willing to move the whole family to the south of the Yangtze River, because the south is vast and sparsely populated, and a large number of people are urgently needed to develop, and at the same time, it can alleviate the contradiction of more people and less land in the Central Plains.

But if you want to develop the South, these are not enough.

Farmland reclamation, road construction, industrial layout, education popularization, changing customs and customs, disease and parasite control, and so on, all have to be done step by step, and it is difficult to complete without the efforts of one or two generations.

Three days later, Lian Po led a large army south to conquer Baiyue.

Wei Wuji also led people to pacify the remaining cities of Chu that had not been surrendered.

Huang Xie convened various nobles of the Chu State to discuss the matter of moving south, but Zhao Kuo did not participate.

After everything was assigned, Zhao Kuo began to visit various places in the south with a few guards.

At this time, the south was far less prosperous than the Central Plains, and it was very different from the Song and Ming dynasties' 'Suhu Lake was familiar with the world's feet' and 'Huguang was familiar with the world's feet'.

If you want to develop the south, it is obviously impossible to criticize and fold in the palace, and only by going to the local area in person and understanding the real specific situation can you adapt measures to local conditions.

And only Zhao Kuo can do this, and others are far from being able to compare with him in terms of industrial chain layout and economic development.

Let others do it, and in the end, you can't make money if you can't make it, and you have to put money in it.

Gusu City is located on the bank of Zhenze, which is the Taihu Lake in later generations, but at this time Zhenze is far larger than Taihu Lake, in addition to the lake, there are large areas of swamps around.

Huang Xie has done a good job in Jiangdong in recent years, organizing the people to build fields around the lake, reclaiming a lot of land, and collecting a large number of displaced people, and is quite famous among the people.

It was with Huang Xie's help that Zhao was able to take over Jiangdong smoothly without encountering resistance from the local people.

Maybe it's because of the harsh winter, the weather is relatively cold, or the change of political power, people's hearts are uncertain, there are not many pedestrians outside, and after seeing Zhao Kuo and others, they are all far away, with vigilance in their eyes.

"There's a long way to go." Zhao Kuo sighed and beckoned to the man who was about to leave in the distance, "This old brother, please wait."

"Your Excellency, are you calling me?" The man was a little frightened when he saw several stubborn soldiers behind Zhao Kuo, but he still stopped.

Anyway, you can't run, it's better to be obedient, maybe there is still a chance to live.

"Not bad." Zhao Kuo nodded.

The man was sure that Zhao Kuo was calling himself, and walked over cautiously: "What do you have to tell the little one?"

"Are you sick?" Zhao Kuo frowned and asked.

"How do you know?" The man looked at Zhao Kuo in shock, "You...... Will a noble man heal?"

"No, it won't." Zhao Kuo shook his head, pointed to the man's bulging belly and said, "Normal people can see it at a glance."

The man is thin and thin, his face is dark, his hair is gray, and he is wearing a kudzu coat that has been sewn many times, and it is obvious that the family is not rich, but his stomach is bulging, which is not normal at first glance.

There is nothing to be sick in, there are more patients in the world, and it is impossible for Zhao Kuo to see a patient, so he will stop and treat him, then he will not do anything all day long.

But the man's illness is a little abnormal, Zhao Kuo has seen several symptoms like the man along the way, all of them

The body is dry and thin, and the stomach is swollen.

An ominous premonition came to Zhao Kuo's mind, and he thought of a disease ravaging southern China.

"You...... You're not going to kill me, are you?" The man looked at Zhao Kuo in fear and retreated again and again.

He heard from others that some tribes in the south like to burn big-bellied men alive on fires. "How many people in the village are like you?" Zhao Kuo shook his head and said that he would not kill him.

"A dozen." The man said.

"What about the surrounding villages?" Zhao Kuo asked.

"Most of the villages are the same as ours." The man scratched his head.

"Do you have any adverse reactions? Like cough, diarrhea, skin edema, etc.?" Zhao Kuo asked again.

"How do you know? Are you really a doctor?" The man looked at Zhao Kuo in shock.

"Send a letter to Handan immediately, transfer Xiangzi, Song Zhen, Xia Wuhe, and Tao Cheng to Gusu, and in addition, mobilize fifty more doctors who are more knowledgeable in parasites and infectious diseases. The widow is waiting for them in Gusu." Zhao Kuo's face changed instantly, if he didn't guess wrong, nine times out of ten, the man would have suffered from schistosomiasis, which had plagued China for thousands of years.

It spread widely, throughout the Yangtze River basin and south of it, and was not curbed until the late twentieth century.

Even so, in the 21st century, people in and around Dongting Lake often suffer from schistosomiasis.

"No." When Liu Ping saw Zhao Kuo's expression, he knew that the matter was very serious, and he didn't dare to delay time, so he quickly took a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and wrote a letter, which was sent back to Handan by Xinying.

"Come and see if you can be cured." Zhao Kuo said to Bi Ming, Xiangzi and Song Zhen are both old, and this time Bi Ming will go out with the army.

Bi Ming inherited Song Zhen, and also studied with Xiangzi, and got the true inheritance of the two, he, Xia Wuji, and Tao Cheng are the best medical skills of the younger generation of Zhao State.

Bi Ming stepped forward and grabbed the man's arm, but the man didn't dare to resist and let Bi Ming check it.

Zhao Kuodu claims to be a widow, no matter how stupid he is, he knows who is standing in front of him, and where he dares to have opinions.

Naturally, whatever Zhao Kuo says, he will do.

Bi Ming carefully called the man's pulse, checked the skin edema, carefully checked the tongue coating and eyes, and even asked the man to take off his clothes to show him.

At this time, it was winter, although there was no wind and snow, and it was impossible to warm outside, but the man did not dare to say anything, and obediently took off his clothes.

The more he looked at it, the tighter his brows wrinkled.

"The minister is incompetent, and he can't think of a cure for the time being." After a long while, Bi Sheng let go of the man and said a little decadently.

Although even the most skilled doctors have diseases that cannot be cured, but seeing the patient standing in front of him, he is powerless, and he still feels a little uncomfortable.

Master Song Zhen gave him this name, not because he wanted him to kill the patient, but because he hoped that he could kill the life of the disease, just like Song Zhen, who also sent the end of the disease.

"There's no urgency about this matter, I'll think about it when I get back. According to the widow's guess, it is very likely that they are not suffering from ordinary fine Gu, but a parasite. If you can find a cure and make it widespread, you will be given a title." Zhao Kuo patted Bi Sheng's shoulder and signaled that the man could put on his clothes.

Schistosomiasis is so harmful that the number of people dying from schistosomiasis each year far exceeds one major war.

If Bi Ming can find a treatment that can be popularized, it is definitely not an exaggeration to seal the marquis.

"If you can save the people of the world from the suffering of disease, what does it matter if you are a marquis or not!" Bi Ming smiled bitterly and shook his head, he followed Zhao Kuo, isn't it because only Zhao Kuo can make everyone fed and clothed and live an ideal life.

Only Zhao Kuo can bring the corresponding status to the doctor and promote the development of the doctor.

Otherwise, no matter how much money Zhao Kuo gave, he would not stay in the imperial court.

After returning to Gusu, Zhao Kuo ordered to recruit some physicians from Chu, including the former imperial physician of Chu, but they had little experience with this disease.

But it's normal, if blood

Flukes are so easy to solve, and they won't exist until the 21st century.

Zhao Kuo still left them and told them, who can research a treatment that can be popularized, Feng Hou!

Zhao Kuo's painting of the pie greatly stimulated the fighting spirit of these doctors, and they studied day and night.

After all, not everyone is like a life, and they regard fame as a floating cloud.

Half a month later, the four of them rushed to Gusu from Handan.

When I learned about the situation, I immediately joined the study.

When the local people learned that Zhao Guo was here to treat them, they also cooperated, and gradually recognized Zhao Guo in their hearts.

For so many years, Zhao Guo was the first to organize doctors to help them, and before that, no country or government had ever looked at them. Regardless of whether it can be cured or not, this act alone is enough to warm their hearts.

However, things did not go so smoothly, although Zhao Kuo summoned a group of doctors with the most skilled medical skills in the entire Zhao Kingdom, and gave all the help he could, he still did not come up with any treatment.

There is not even a way to alleviate it.

The good news is that after several months of research and investigation, Xiangzi et al. confirmed that everyone was indeed suffering from schistosomiasis, and found the way to reproduce and spread schistosomiasis.

Their eggs hatch into larvae in the water, burrow into the snails to reproduce, and give birth to more schistosomes that float in the water, which can burrow into the bodies of humans or animals, causing schistosomiasis.

Snails are essential for the reproduction and transmission of schistosomiasis, without which they would not be able to reproduce and people would not get schistosomiasis.

After Zhao Kuo learned about it, he immediately ordered the reclamation corps to stop reclaiming wasteland, and all of them went to build water conservancy, fill in old ditches, dig new ditches, and curb the reproduction of schistosomiasis by killing snails.

At the same time, officials in various localities were ordered to organize the local people to catch snails, reclaim ditches, fill in the ditches where snails were overflowing, and stop schistosomiasis at all costs.

Not only that, Zhao Kuo also issued a notice to the world through slander, announcing ten parasites that are most harmful to humans, such as schistosomiasis, roundworms, toxoplasmosis, hookworms, tapeworms, and pinworms.

And promised that whoever could solve a parasitic disease would give him the title of marquis.

There are too many parasites in this year, schistosoma is just one of them, and there are many other parasites, especially in the south, which is very suitable for the growth of parasites due to the warm climate and dense water network.

People everywhere are suffering from parasites.

The state of Chu has not developed to the south, and the nobles of the state of Chu are not willing to go to the south, but not only because the south is not civilized.

If it is just uncivilized, with rich precipitation, warm climate, and fertile soil, it can develop in a few decades at most, so why risk your life to fight against the Chu royal family?

Moving to the south is also life-threatening, and it's not small.

The total success rate is not as good as flipping the table with the Chu royal family.

This is also why in history, the development of the south was after the Wuhu Rebellion, the Anshi Rebellion, the Jingkang Shame and other events, only when the Hu people went south, the northerners would be forced to move south, and the south could be gradually developed.

Normally, people don't want to come here.

In addition, Zhao Kuo also ordered the legions stationed in various places to go into the mountains to hunt fierce beasts.

There are many mountains and forests in the south, and there are many fierce beasts in the mountains and forests, and the fierce beasts often go down the mountains to harm the local people, so that the people can only flee to other places.

It is not an exaggeration to say that there are more beasts than men these days.

It is difficult for individual strength to resist large-scale fierce beasts, so they can only send a large army to encircle and suppress them.

The army can also benefit from it, and the flesh of the fierce beast contains a large amount of essence, which is of great benefit to the human body, and it is also possible to improve the realm of internal qi.

The two legions with the highest average internal qi realm in Zhao State are the navy and the Great Wall army.

The navy eats fish, and the Great Wall Army eats fierce beasts in the northeast.

When fighting in the Northeast, the Great Wall Army

However, even ordinary soldiers have the opportunity to eat the flesh of ferocious beasts in the transcendent realm.

It's a pity that everyone's talent is different, and some people have eaten a lot of flesh, and their strength has not grown at all.

During this period, all parts of the Chu State were also completely pacified, and at least on the surface, all the forces had submitted to the Zhao State.

Zhao Kuo built a wharf and a shipyard at the mouth of the Yangtze River as another part of the maritime trade route, as well as a series of industries related to fishing.

Then a ceramics factory was built in Jingdezhen, where the soil was suitable for firing ceramics, and the fired ceramics looked better than those in other places, and were easier to sell for a high price.

Some mountainous areas are inconvenient for cultivation and silkworm raising, so tea plantations are planned.

Tea in this period was just beginning to develop and had not really gained popularity, but that did not affect its importance.

In fact, Zhao's tea is particularly popular in the northern steppes and in Western countries.

Nutritional value aside, tea has a very important role, that is, it can make the undrinkable water delicious, and after getting used to it, there is a certain addiction, and there is no worry about sales at all.

Zhao used to be located in the north, which was not suitable for growing tea, and there were not many tea leaves obtained every year, so it could not become the industrial pillar of Zhao like silk and paper.

However, after the tea garden is planned, it will not be long before the tea production of Zhao Guo will be raised and become the new cash cow of Zhao Guo.

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