"Fan Taicheng, I have found a cure for strange diseases!"

Tong Guan, who had rested all night, had just woken up, so he couldn't wait to find Fan Zheng to ask about the situation.

Whether the doctors can find the cause of the strange disease is related to the success or failure of the opening of the Maritime Silk Road, and the nearest Goryeo and Fusang have such a strange disease, which makes the whole fleet panic.

If it cannot be solved in time, it will be thousands of miles of sea frontiers to go to the South and Western Oceans in the future, which will not make the sailors suffer heavy losses and even more discouraged the maritime merchants.

"The doctor is fortunate not to be dishonored!" Fan Zhengdao.

A trace of ecstasy suddenly appeared on Tong Guan's face, he asked Fan Zheng for help was the most correct thing to do, and such a strange disease was solved in Fan Zheng's hands.

"I don't know what medicine I need?" Tong Guan asked impatiently.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "There is no need for medicine for this disease, just eat green vegetables to avoid getting sick." ”

"Such a strange disease, it's just a lack of vegetables!"

However, when Fan Zheng told Tong Guan the cause of the disease, Tong Guan's face suddenly turned strange, he never thought that the cause of the strange disease turned out to be an inconspicuous green vegetable.

"Yes, greens are often eaten by sailors and sailors on land, but are extremely scarce at sea, so the disease only occurs on ships going to sea, and if they are eaten in time, it is enough to prevent sailors and sailors from getting these strange diseases." Fan Zheng nodded.

"Greens! Isn't that simple? Tong Guan breathed a sigh of relief, his face suddenly changed, and he raised his voice.

"But the sea is thousands of miles away, where to find vegetables?"

He suddenly found that even if he knew the cause, it would be difficult to completely eliminate the illness of sailors, after all, in the vast sea, the most precious thing is green vegetables.

On the ship, grain can also be stored, meat can be marinated and stored, but vegetables are extremely difficult to store, and it is not close to land, so it is difficult to find vegetables at all!

Fan Zheng said solemnly: "Although it is a sea frontier of thousands of miles, there are many islands along the coast, and as long as you regularly go ashore to replenish green vegetables, you should be able to prevent the occurrence of sepsis." ”

Tong Guan smiled bitterly: "The method that Fan Taicheng said, although it is effective, but the disadvantages are also obvious, if so, then the fleet can only sail along the coastline, and go ashore everywhere to find vegetables and fruits to replenish, but it takes too long." ”

Not only would this make the journey even longer, but it would also delay a lot of time to get such a large fleet ashore in search of vegetables, which would make the already long voyage more difficult.

This voyage needs to avoid the summer hurricane season, but also take into account the direction of the monsoon wind, if you delay one more day in the sea, there will be an extra day of risk, and for maritime merchants, time is money, and naturally the shorter the time, the better.

Tong Guan naturally also wanted to safely and quickly complete the important task of envoying to the maritime countries, so that he could ask the imperial court for credit.

Fan Zheng smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't worry, Fan has already prepared vegetables for you!" ”

"Really?" Tong Guan looked at Fan Zheng suspiciously, the vast sea was boundless, not to mention Fan Zheng, even the gods might not be able to provide vegetables for so many people.

Fan Zheng saw that Tong Guan didn't believe it, and immediately handed over a handful of mung beans to Tong Guan's hands.

"Mung Bean!"

Tong Guan was suddenly full of black lines, he wanted green vegetables, even if the mung beans were a little green, but they couldn't be used as green vegetables!

Fan Zheng laughed and said: "Master Tong's words are wrong, mung beans are very useful, if you cook mung bean porridge directly, it will naturally be the staple food, but if you soak mung beans in water, it will only take three or five days, it can be a plate of green vegetables!" ”

"Mung bean sprouts!"

Tong Guan's eyes lit up.

"Yes!" Fan Zheng said proudly.

At that moment, he stretched out his hand and patted it, and a subordinate brought a plate of fried mung bean sprouts and put it in front of Tong Guan.

"The medical book records: mung beans are sweet and cool, quench heat and quench thirst, clear heat and detoxify, detoxify aconite, arsenic, stone poison, and more importantly, mung beans are extremely resistant to storage, and children carry a large number of mung beans on the boats, which can be used as staple food and vegetables, and can be eaten at any time on the sea, and there is no need to go ashore to find vegetables, which will greatly reduce the voyage." Fan Zhengdao.

Tong Guan looked at the mung bean sprouts in front of him, couldn't help but be moved, picked up the chopsticks at the moment, and feasted.

Tong Guan was Zhao Xu's close attendant in the palace, and he had never eaten any delicacies from the mountains and seas, but there had never been a dish as delicious as the plate of fried mung bean sprouts in front of him.

"It's a strange disease caused by a lack of greens!"

When the news came back to Dengzhou Port, all the maritime merchants breathed a sigh of relief.

Others may be surprised by this cause, but the maritime merchants often run the sea, so they naturally know that the most precious thing at sea is green vegetables, and the lack of meat can cause night blindness, and the lack of green vegetables can cause sepsis.

In addition, the reputation of the evil doctor Fan Zheng is known all over the world, and now he has prescribed a recipe for mung bean sprouts, so that everyone no longer has any doubts.

Sure enough, with a large number of supplements of greens and fruits, as well as marinated mustard greens with home remedies! In Qingzhou Port, some patients with mild symptoms of sepsis gradually improved, which further confirmed the correctness of Fan Zheng's medical prescription.

At present, the original somewhat depressed voyage once again caused a frenzy, the temptation of huge interests, the protection of the mission to the sea, and the overcoming of the cause of sepsis, so that there was no need to worry about going to sea.

At present, the number of ships willing to go to sea has skyrocketed, reaching thousands in a short period of time, and the collection of taxes alone is as high as 500,000.

When Tong Guan escorted 500,000 Guan to the household department again, the entire court was shaken.

"Qiqi official family, Fusang's country is relatively stable, but its domestic is extremely martial, and its sales are quite good, and our family only sold a thousand pairs of armor and weapons." Tong Guanyu reports.

"100,000 yuan!" Zeng Bu couldn't help but be stunned, a thousand pairs of armor weapons was 100,000 yuan, he didn't expect that the weapon trade would be so profitable.

The minister of the Manchu Dynasty also smiled bitterly, this going to sea is too profitable!

Many courtiers secretly calculated that since the imperial court ordered them to go to sea, it has only been more than two months. First, 300 ships going to sea paid 150,000 guan in taxes, Goryeo bought 200,000 kan of weapons, Fusang bought 100,000 kan of weapons, and now they collected 500,000 kan for the next time they went to sea, which is enough to earn nearly one million guan of money for the imperial court, which is simply faster than grabbing money.

Zhao Xu also forcibly endured the excitement in his patience, with this million, the tight finances of the imperial court will be greatly alleviated.

"Tong Guan! You did a good job, but remember, making money is secondary, the most important thing is to bring back the people of the Great Song Dynasty safely, and at the same time, don't make friends with the countries and promote the prestige of my Great Song Dynasty. Zhao Xu did not hesitate to praise.

"Tong Guan obeys!"

Tong Guan naturally understood Zhao Xu's will, if making money was secondary, then he would not put it at the front.

The ministers of the old party were also dissatisfied with the arms trading of the imperial court and attached importance to the maritime merchants, but in the face of such a huge fortune, they could only pinch their noses and admit it, and these maritime merchants were leading to trouble, and they were earning money from overseas countries, which was beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty, and they were naturally happy to see it.

Dengzhou off the sea! Thousands of sails are racing,

This time the scale of the voyage was even better than the previous one, with thousands of merchant ships following, and its scale attracted countless onlookers.

Trade at sea was highly profitable, and it was a great success, and each ship hoarded as much cargo as possible, and a single voyage was enough to make a man rich overnight.

At the same time, there is only one hull requirement customized by the major shipyards in Dasong China, that is, to be as large as possible and load as many goods as possible.

On the Shenzhou, Tong Guan looked at the hundreds of warships and thousands of cargo ships behind him, and he was suddenly in high spirits.

"The order confirms whether all ships carry mung beans, and ships that do not carry mung beans are prohibited from going to sea." Tong Guan ordered categorically.

The biggest risk on the ocean, in addition to natural disasters is sepsis, and the best way to solve the green vegetable crisis is mung bean sprouts, mung beans are related to the success of the Silk Road, and naturally it is the top priority.

"Yes!" Immediately a eunuch went to the ships in small boats to give orders.

As the ships responded, they said that they all had sufficient reserves of mung beans.

Mung beans are extremely common in the Great Song Dynasty, the price is not high, mung bean sprouts are the key to avoid sepsis, plus mung beans can be used as a staple food, have been carried, which has also caused the price of mung beans to rise slightly, Rao is so, the ships still purchase mung beans in large quantities, after all, anyone knows, if you bring less, you want mung beans at sea, then it is not the price of the Great Song Dynasty

"Let's go!"

With Tong Guan's order, thousands of ships pulled up their sails, and under the strong wind, slowly sailed out of Dengzhou Port, officially began to go to the Western Ocean, and opened up the Maritime Silk Road.

In Kaifeng City, Fan Zheng got the news that Tong Guan went to sea, and it was already six days later.

"Open up overseas, from now on, the process of the Great Song Dynasty will probably change!" Fan Zheng said with emotion.

Su Dun on the side frowned and said: "Whether the process of the Great Song Dynasty has changed, Su doesn't know, but the process of the doctor has changed because of this voyage!" ”

"Now Yang knows how vast medicine is!" Yang Jie said with emotion.

For a long time, doctors have been prescribing prescriptions to cure diseases, but Fan Zheng's gooseneck bottle experiment proved that the source of the disease is alive, and the subsequent microscope came to life, allowing doctors to enter the age of microorganisms.

However, microbial doctors have not studied it thoroughly, and the lack of green vegetables will lead to sepsis cases, which has plunged doctors into a deeper field.

Fan speculated that whether it is meat or vegetables, it must contain substances necessary for the human body to maintain life, and once it is lacking, it will cause diseases in the body! Fan calls it a vitamin. Fan Zheng said solemnly.

"Vitamins!"

The two nodded slightly, and Fan Zheng's name can be said to be in one sentence.

Moreover, vitamins are hidden in vegetables and meat, which is more difficult to observe than the source of diseases, which has a great impact on doctors.

"However, the example of sepsis at sea reminded Fan of a very similar disease." Fan Zheng frowned.

Yang Jie was surprised: "I don't know what kind of illness Brother Fan said?" ”

Fan Zheng explained: "I don't know if the two of you still remember, when we took the gooseneck bottle experiment and went to the Taiyi Bureau to kick the hall, the main thing was the family medical book "Treatise on the Origin and Syndrome of Diseases" for Chao Yuan, in which there was a case called gall disease. ”

"There are many galls in the mountainous areas" because the people "drink sand and water". "Yang Jie was the head of the Taiyi Bureau at the beginning, and he was familiar with medical books and opened his mouth.

Gall disease, commonly known as gall bag, refers to a cystic tumor born in front of the neck, which is a very popular big neck disease in our later generations.

Fan Zheng said solemnly: "Although there are certain errors in the "Theory of the Origin and Syndrome of Diseases", it cannot be denied that it is an excellent medical book, and the many "gall" diseases in the mountainous areas are the same as the sepsis of sailors on ships, which will only get sick under certain conditions? ”

The two of them were suddenly shocked, and Su Dun said solemnly: "Do you suspect that the mountain gall disease is caused by the lack of vegetables and the lack of certain vitamins in the body like sailors. ”

Fan Zheng nodded and said, "Other than that, I can't explain why this disease is extremely common in mountainous areas, but not many in other areas." ”

"But although the people in the mountains are poor, they can hunt and gather wild vegetables, and there is no shortage of meat or vegetables." Yang Jie frowned.

In addition to the inconvenience of travel, the diet of the people in the mountainous areas is almost no different from that of the people in other places, and there is no obvious lack of vegetables on the sea.

Su Dun was also worried, although he was a forensic doctor and had solved countless cases, he was still helpless in the face of this matter.

Fan Zheng nodded and said, "Actually, the real cause has been hinted at in this book. ”

"Drinking sand water, what is the cause of this?" Su Dun frowned.

Yang Jie's heart moved: "I know! It must be that sand water lacks some life-sustaining substances compared to the well water of the plains, just as there is a lack of vegetables on the sea. ”

"What should I do? Is it possible to draw water from wells in the plains for the people in the mountains to drink? Su Dun said helplessly.

The lack of green vegetables on the sea can also send mung bean sprouts, if it is to transport water, it will be troublesome, and the mountainous terrain is high, and the upward transport of water can only be carried by people, so many people is an impossible task.

Fan Zhenglang said: "Everything in the world only needs to find its cause, and it will be easily cured naturally, and you only see that there may be a lack of some life-sustaining substances in the sand and water, as long as you find the lost substances, you can solve this disease." ”

Yang Jie said deflated: "We don't even know what these substances are, how can we find them?" ”

Fan Zheng smiled confidently and said: "Gall disease mostly occurs in mountainous areas, and it is sand water for drinking, and the water flows to a lower place, where do you say those substances go?"

"In the river?" Yang Jie's heart moved.

"The river is also flowing!" Fan Zheng shook his head.

"The lake, not the sea!" Su Dun's eyes lit up, and he suddenly said.

"The sea?" Yang Jie looked at Fan Zheng and Su Dun with difficulty, he couldn't have guessed that the medicine for the big neck disease in the mountains was actually in the sea.

However, when he picked up the record of the origin and syndrome of various diseases, and recalled the joint reasoning of Fan Zheng and Su Dun, he finally found that there was probably only one reason.

"You can give it a try!"

Yang Jie nodded solemnly.

Fan Zhengdao: "This party is beneficial and does not cost, the sea is rich in products, and there are kelp, seaweed, dried scallops, sea fish, etc., which is enough for the people of the Great Song Dynasty to no longer have to be troubled by gall." ”

Su Dun and the others glanced at each other and nodded solemnly.

Yang Jie couldn't help but look strange, the sepsis at sea was caused by the lack of green vegetables on land, and the gall disease on land actually needed to be treated by plants in the sea.

The sea and the land drink and peck together, which is both a coincidence and a providence.

(End of chapter)