Brother Zhang does not have superpowers, but he has an abnormal memory. The duration of his memory is infinite. Simply put, as long as he writes down something, he will never forget it.
A project that might take others ten years or more and require a whole nation to complete can be completed in a few months because there is no need for trial and error, let alone inspection.
The simplest item is weights and measures. People need to find the water level, air pressure, and temperature. Brother Zhang can accurately compare it to one meter with his hands, and then manually divide more precise values. It may take dozens of people to use a standard ruler. Months, but Brother Zhang only spent six minutes, five of which were still looking for suitable materials.
In theory, it is best to use gold, but gold is too expensive... Brother Zhang used copper plates, which was almost enough.
Brother Zhang is not an ordinary time traveler. He is the kind of person who can create a civilization by hand as long as he lands on the ground without dying. With weights and measures, water conservancy will be easier to handle. Once small dams are built, hydroelectric power generation can start. Well, the transmission shaft is the simplest thing, and the wooden one can be used for a long time.
Zhang Yao published a book ten years ago, called "Essential Manual for Travelers - A Complete Simplified Engineering Manual from Bronze Ax to Reactor". At that time, the sales volume of this book was only 300 copies, and Brother Zhang was one of them. a reader.
Therefore, Brother Zhang did almost nothing in the first year of taking office. He just led the original carpenters, blacksmiths, bamboo cutters and plasterers in the county to create a set of machine tool products by one person.
How to describe this matter as exaggerated? It is equivalent to one day in 2023, when a person led three hundred students who had just graduated from junior high school to use their summer vacation time to create a controllable nuclear fusion reactor.
Of course it's not that exaggerated, but the significance of the era is no less generous, and for a year, the court was still debating whether Jiangzhou should build additional barracks to face possible military disasters.
Fortunately, the weather has been smooth this year. The fields that have been divided are growing well, and business in the county has begun to pick up little by little. Overall, everything is looking good.
But the problem is not without it, that is, there are almost no educated basic industry workers. Industrial equipment can be rubbed by hand, but basic industry workers cannot. It requires a long education process to accumulate bit by bit. , you must know that in this era, even in a relatively remote place like Ji County, the illiteracy rate has reached over 95%. Only ten out of a hundred people who can write their names correctly have already Quite remarkable.
However, Brother Zhang is not worried at all, because there are ready-made homeworks that can be copied. The first step is to carry out compulsory training. People aged ten to thirty in the county need to set aside at least fifteen days a month for night school training, and every An assessment will be conducted once a month. Those whose scores do not meet the standard will have their taxes increased by 30% for that year, which will not be canceled until the assessment reaches the standard.
When this policy was first implemented, the people in the county were miserable. In the end, they had no choice but to hold their noses and admit it. After all, this thing is really related to money. When you are at home, you are just idle anyway. Yes, it would be good to go to night school in the evening.
The county-wide literacy campaign lasted for more than a year and almost two years. In the blink of an eye, Brother Zhang has almost completed his three-year term here. The entire county has also grown from the previous 5,000 households to about 8,000 households. However, there are not many households overall. The main reason for our progress is to thank God for the good weather in recent years.
Brother Zhang is now twenty-one years old, and Zhao Rong is also twenty.
Girls in this era should get married around the age of 14 or 15, but Brother Zhang has made a rule in the county that women under 18 and men under 20 are not allowed to get married. At that time, this policy was even brought to the court, and the commotion was quite fierce. Ouyang Xiu took the lead and said that this naughty little brat would be killed, but the matter was eventually suppressed because of two data.
One data is the neonatal mortality rate, and the other data is the maternal mortality rate. In previous years, one of these two figures was 45% and the other was 40%. There have been no changes for many years. One is the problem of medical and health conditions and the other is the problem of premature childbirth. Originally, the average age of women giving birth to their first child in the county was less than fifteen years old, which led to a very high probability of dystocia, and even if there was no Dystocia and death from infection due to developmental problems are also important causes of maternal death.
In the past three years, Brother Zhang has focused on the population while focusing on industry. Compared with industry, the medical and health industry is easier to capture. And isn’t Zhao Rong literate? She is now Brother Zhang’s women’s director, specializing in capturing Health and fertility issues.
Brother Zhang compiled all the obstetrics and gynecology he knew into a book and taught it to Zhao Rong. After three years of training and practice, Zhao Rong now dare not say anything else, but he can definitely be called the number one gynecology department in China. Holy hand.
Coupled with Zhang's various advances in chemistry, antibiotics such as penicillin and oxytetracycline have begun to be widely used, and the emergence of hydraulic centrifuges and centralized reactors have made pharmaceutical production less difficult. Now the county's neonatal mortality rate has increased from Forty-five percent has dropped to 9 per 1,000, and the maternal mortality rate has dropped from 40 percent to 1 percent.
Once these two data were handed over, those who read the sages' books did not dare to say anything anymore, because the basic core idea of Zhao Zhen's dynasty was that human life was more important than the sky. Opposing this was tantamount to opposing Zhao Zhen's initiative to move the capital to avoid military disasters. Opposing the principles and policies that this dynasty has always formulated, they have no other choice but to hold their noses and admit it. Moreover, it is only one county with 20 to 30 thousand people, so they don't want to create trouble for themselves.
However, just three years after Brother Zhang took office, a major event came from the court, that is, Zhao Zhen was ill. It was said that he suffered from severe pain in the abdomen and even fainted. The Imperial Hospital even treated the ninety-year-old imperial physician ancestor Even after I came out, it didn't get better.
There have even been rumors inside and outside the court that the official family may not be able to escape this disaster, and even the imperial mausoleum has begun to make preparations.
This news soon reached Zhao Rong's ears. She knew that she would leave immediately to return to Lin'an if she was struck by lightning.
"Brother Zhang, I'm going back first. They said my father is dying."
Zhao Rong ran all the way to the steel factory and found Brother Zhang who was working as a technical director. She said with tears in her eyes: "My mother sent someone to tell me to go back and see my father for the last time..."
Brother Zhang raised his eyelids: "What are the symptoms?"
"It was said that my father had constant abdominal pain, fainted several times, and had not had any water or food for several days."
Brother Zhang hummed: "I'll go back with you."
When Zhao Rong heard this, his eyes immediately lit up, because in his eyes, Brother Zhang in front of him was almost omnipotent, and nothing in the world could stop him.
When she heard that he was going back with her, Zhao Rong's restless heart suddenly calmed down.
Although it was said that foreign officials could not return to the capital until they were summoned, this was an urgent matter after all, and they did not bother to think about those broken rules. Anyway, everyone knew it in their hearts. A princess had been wandering around with a man for three years. Although there is no conclusive news yet, it is self-evident what their relationship is. Everyone chooses to turn a blind eye for the sake of the royal family's face, so...it doesn't matter.
So each of them traveled through the starry night with a fast horse. The journey that usually took three to five days arrived on the second day.
The Zhao Rong in the past would definitely have been unable to bear it, but after these three years of training, spreading the knowledge of physical hygiene all over the country, and catching the bad habits of underage marriage everywhere, she has already changed from what she used to be. Although she was still a little tired when she arrived in the capital, But the spirit is still good.
Zhao Rong was a princess, so she did not need to announce when she brought Brother Zhang into the palace. They ran all the way to Zhao Zhen's palace. When they were outside, the ministers, princesses and the sick prince were all present. Everyone looked at it. They were all tired when they went up. They were probably waiting here for the news of Zhao Zhen's death.
"Let us in!"
Zhao Rong wanted to enter the house, but was stopped by the eunuch. Zhao Rong, who was still too polite and virtuous at the moment, went up and yelled: "Get out of here!"
The eunuch was also very sad, thinking that he had grown up with the official family when he was nine years old. Now that the official family was about to die, he still fulfilled his duties and planned to send him to the official family for the last time, but when he saw the always gentle When Zhao Rong suddenly became so anxious, he couldn't help but feel sad and cried: "Your Highness, please let the officials be quiet for a while..."
"Shut up!" Zhao Rong turned around and took out a scalpel from his pocket and put it in the old eunuch's hand: "Get out of the way!"
The atmosphere suddenly became tense. After all, it was a serious crime to approach the emperor with a sharp weapon. Even a princess could not commit this taboo.
Just when the wind was rumbling, Brother Zhang stepped forward and patted Zhao Rong on the shoulder. Then he walked up to the big eunuch and whispered a few words into his ear. The big eunuch was startled: "Seriously?"
Brother Zhang nodded and handed him the bag in his hand: "You go and prepare some concentrated salt water and concentrated sugar water, then boil the contents in this bag with boiling water for ten minutes, and then bring the kettle over."
"Yes, yes, I'll do it right away."
The big eunuch made a way, Zhao Rong looked back at Brother Zhang, and then the two men were let in by the guards. However, when others tried to go in, the guards had half of their swords drawn out.
The two of them quickly came to Zhao Zhen. At this moment, Zhao Zhen was almost exhausted. He was lying there breathless. Brother Zhang took out several bottles and jars, and then said to Zhao Rong: "According to the anesthesia ratio for caesarean section. Dispensing medication.”
"good!"
Zhao Rong immediately started to work, while Brother Zhang walked up to Zhao Zhen and checked carefully. Judging from various manifestations, it was appendicitis infection, and he would definitely need an operation at this time, although the overall facilities were still very simple. , but now it can only be used as a living horse doctor.
Soon, the chief eunuch brought what Brother Zhang needed. Brother Zhang immediately began to roughly disinfect the room, and then used a syringe to give Zhao Zhen painkilling and anti-inflammatory drugs, and then gave him a skin test. The injection was administered immediately after it was discovered that he was not allergic to the anesthetic.
Brother Zhang hung a mask on his ears and cut open Zhao Zhen's abdominal cavity with terrifying precision. Then he found that his cecum had almost rotted away. If it was not removed, it would be gone.
I won’t describe the process in detail because the author’s medical level is limited and I’m afraid you might go home and cut your own appendix and cause problems.
The final suturing work was done by Zhao Rong herself. At this time, the nutrient solution was prepared. Although the purity was not high enough for intravenous injection, as long as it could be fed, the effect would not be too bad.
"Brother Zhang...why are your hands so steady?"
Seeing that Zhao Zhen's breathing gradually stabilized and a trace of blood gradually appeared on his face, she knew that this first hurdle of death had been passed. As long as she survived without infection, there would basically be no major problems. So Zhao Rong, relieved, sat there and asked about Brother Zhang.
Brother Zhang didn't speak at all, he just handed a bowl of sugar water to Zhao Rong: "It's not my steady hand, it's your hypoglycemia."
After saying this, Zhao Rong realized that she hadn't eaten a grain of rice since the morning, and she was indeed a little dizzy now, but she was too focused just now and didn't notice it.
She drank a bowl of sugar water, and her dizziness was relieved immediately, so she sat there and asked curiously: "So the sugar water was prepared for me?"
"Um."
Although her Zhang brother has cherished words like gold for so many years, she can still see love in the expression of this guy who cherishes words like gold.
If there is anything sweeter than sugar water, it must be Zhao Rong's smile at this moment.
Zhao Zhen slept for about twelve hours. Fortunately, Zhao Zhen had already passed gas in more than an hour. After that, he had to be fed buffalo milk and sugar water every two hours until he opened his eyes slightly.
And when he woke up and saw Zhao Rong for the first time, although he was not yet conscious, he tried his best to open his eyes wide, and asked weakly: "Rong'er... why are you here? "
Hearing him speak, the eunuch who had been standing at the door for three days and three nights without sleep and had already fallen asleep suddenly opened his eyes, then rushed outside to report.
Zhao Rong was also excited. She came to Zhao Zhen's bed and knelt down, already sobbing.
As for Brother Zhang, he hid aside and leaned against the window, drinking alcohol. After all, this was the first gate of death, and the second was the most difficult period of infection.
Fortunately, the palace was generally clean, and Zhao Rong brought enough things. Zhao Zhen's physical condition was not bad. After three days, the infection symptoms slowly subsided. Although he was still bedridden, Much better than before.
"What a magical skill." Zhao Zhen leaned on the bedside and said to the queen: "If it weren't for Rong'er and that idiot, I'm afraid I would have died."
"How could the official family's lucky person and heavenly minister leave so easily?"
"Haha, after a life and death situation, no one can escape." Zhao Zhen sighed: "Why don't we choose a date and arrange Ronger's marriage."
"Everything depends on the officials. So, how do you plan to reward that idiot in our family?"
"It's hard to get a seal or reward, so be it." Zhao Zhen shook his head and said: "The prince-in-law cannot be a real official, even a county magistrate. He is now very popular in Yuhang, and once he is awarded a reward, he will lose his reputation. So be it. .”
"Can the child be happy in his heart?"
"I don't know about others, but that idiot must be happy."
(End of chapter)
