Even though it seems that there are many hospitals in later generations, doctors are still a scarce resource for patients. In this era of shortage of doctors, the medical situation is even worse.
Rich people can still go to the doctor and get some medicine and acupuncture, and as long as the problem is not a major problem, it will get better. As for the poor people who have no money, they can only find some herbs to deal with them according to local methods, and the rest can only be left to fate.
Chinese medicine has developed a unique set of methods for treating diseases in China for thousands of years. However, it takes too long to train a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner.
And for this reason, many unlearned people claim to have learned Chinese medicine after reading a few medical books. For the sake of profit, they cheated and deceived people everywhere, causing quack doctors to spread everywhere and ruining the reputation of traditional Chinese medicine.
The existence of these quack doctors makes the already bad medical situation even more difficult to deal with, causing serious harm to the poor people who need medical treatment.
It was precisely because he had witnessed with his own eyes the harm caused by quack doctors that Zhang Rui began to consider establishing a medical school after occupying Zhilian Mountain.
After all, casualties are inevitable for the bandit suppression army in future wars.
Only by ensuring sufficient medical staff to treat the wounded can the army be more worry-free.
But it takes too long for traditional Chinese medicine to become a success. Zhang Rui really didn't have time to wait that long, and the bandit suppressing army couldn't wait either.
However, in the hundreds of years since the Southern Song Dynasty, restricted by Confucian culture, traditional Chinese medicine, which was the first to have surgical treatment methods, has become its short-hand. What the bandit-suppressing army needs most is surgical treatment, surgical excision and suturing.
In terms of internal medicine treatment, Chinese medicine already has quite mature treatment methods. In this regard, Zhang Rui only needs to hire highly respected Chinese medicine practitioners to teach medical students.
But in terms of surgical treatment, Zhang Rui chose modern medicine as a blueprint to train those students, explaining bacteria and surgical treatment to medical students.
To explain bacteria, you should know that Zhang Rui only needs to create a microscope. However, surgical treatment can only allow those students to continue to perform surgeries to master it.
Every injured soldier of the bandit suppression army is a hero in Zhang Rui's heart. It seems unreasonable to use these wounded soldiers to train medical students.
Therefore, the wounded soldiers of the Qing army became the best training objects for medical students. Medical students who are familiar with treating a large number of wounded soldiers of the Qing army can quickly devote themselves to the medical treatment of the bandit suppressing army.
In the future, they can also join hospitals in various places to accelerate the development and progress of society.
For these benefits, the bandit suppressing army only needs to prepare more medical supplies. The anti-bandit army does not lack these medical supplies.
You must know that the bandit suppression troops occupied some of the richest places in the country during the Qing Dynasty. Not to mention taxation, the bandit-suppressing army alone collected a lot of wealth from the enemy.
What's more, the bandit suppression army also controlled maritime trade. All profitable trades such as silk, porcelain, tea, etc. made the bandits make a lot of money.
At the same time, the anti-bandit army also issued a large number of "war bonds" in the form of interest settlement. And these "war bonds" were eventually "sold out".
All in all, the anti-bandit army is not short of money now.
At the same time, the anti-bandit army was also willing to spend money.
It is also true that the area occupied by the bandit suppression army seems to have experienced war, but it is a prosperous scene.
Because in the area occupied by the bandit suppression army, as long as you work hard, you can always make money.
Even if you just go to the mountains to chop wood and collect herbs, raise chickens, pigs, and ducks at home, or go to the city to work in a factory to weave and spin yarn, you can bring a lot of money to your family. These are things that were unimaginable under the control of the Manchus.
At the same time, Zhang Rui also instructed that for families whose annual income is less than fifty taels, in addition to the necessary agricultural taxes, those small commercial taxes will be exempted.
The reason why we use fifty taels as the benchmark is because Zhang Rui was angry when he read "I See the Prosperity of Qianlong" by the British writer John Barrow in his previous life.
In the records, John Barrow recorded and described the real life during the Qianlong period.
"When their delegation arrived at the port of Guangzhou, they discovered an unforgettable scene of Chinese people. Almost all Chinese people were dark-skinned, short, and skinny. After seeing such a scene, look at the people who came here. The Qing Dynasty officials who greeted them all had rosy faces and fat heads and big ears, which formed a sharp contrast with the ordinary people and left a deep impression on them.
However, in all the ports they visited afterwards, the faces of the people were almost the same. When they disembarked and went to markets and villages, they discovered that ordinary Chinese people were actually thin, hey, and without beer bellies. Thin, ragged clothes, and poor housing were the first impression that the Qing people gave to the Magolney mission. "
Yes, seeing this made Zhang Rui angry. At the same time, after he traveled through time, the situation he saw was no different from these, or even worse.
The same land, the same people. However, foreigners’ records of the late Ming Dynasty are:
“In China, people have abundant food, are well-dressed, and have gorgeous furnishings in their homes. In particular, they work hard and are big businessmen and traders. All these people, together with the fertility of the above-mentioned land, make it rightly called the world’s most powerful country. The richest country."
"There is a natural treasure here. They produce a large amount of silk with excellent quality and perfect color, which greatly exceeds that of Granada silk. It is the largest trade in the country." "In the mountainous areas that are not suitable for farming, there are a large number of pine trees. Bigger, tastier nuts that you usually find in Spain. Between these trees, they grow corn, which is the general food of the Mexican and Peruvian Indians."
"There are outstanding people here. The men and women in this country have good physiques, are well-proportioned and beautiful people, slightly taller; most of them have broad faces, small eyes, flat noses, and sparse beards, but some have big eyes and big beards. The faces are very even." "Their women dress very strangely, much like the Spanish style. They wear many gold jewelry and precious stones, their clothes have wide sleeves, and they wear gold, silver and various silk materials."
“Business is booming here, and port officials allow merchants to trade with neighboring islands, such as the Philippines. Every year, many ships loaded with large quantities of goods go to Spain, and they are exported to Spain many times. They also travel to places where they can obtain other areas and places in the country.”
It stands to reason that the Manchu Qing Dynasty should have been more prosperous after the Ming Dynasty than at the end of the Ming Dynasty. But why are there two completely different situations?
Under the influence of various Qing courts at that time, Zhang Rui, who once recognized the "prosperity of the Qing Dynasty", couldn't help but ask questions at that time.
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