The Great Chu Empire in the eight years since Chengshun was generally peaceful. Even in the summer and autumn, the Great Chu Empire continued to launch large-scale wars in the Northeast and Monan Mongolia, but the wars were limited to the above-mentioned areas.
Even in the Guannei and Hebei areas, apart from the fact that one can often see one after another army transport convoys transporting heavy baggage on the official roads heading to the northern grasslands or the northeast, ordinary people actually cannot feel the atmosphere of war.
War is too far away from ordinary people.
More importantly, the war in the Northeast and Monan regions seemed large-scale, and the Chu army used a large number of troops, but in fact the intensity was not high.
After all the calculations, the Chu army fought a large-scale battle with tens of thousands of people on the south bank of the Songhua River with the Dongji people. The rest were small and medium-sized battles with hundreds or thousands of people.
This seemingly large-scale war, but actually not very intense, was just a slight exercise for the Chu Empire Army, and more of a large-scale military exercise on the spot to suppress bandits.
After all, large-scale battles in the Northeast region are actually about the same level as suppressing bandits.
The Dongji people, seven years after Chengshun, were no longer a strong enemy of the Chu Empire.
Therefore, for most people in the Dachu Empire, this battle in the summer and autumn of the eighth year of Chengshun was just some good news reported in the Dachu newspaper, and they did not actually feel the atmosphere of war.
In various parts of the Dachu Empire, war was not a daily topic that people discussed. Some daily matters were the focus of their discussions. Even some scholars and gentry discussed national affairs, and they mostly talked about some internal policies, such as their lives. closely related agricultural policies and industrial and commercial policies.
Especially for agricultural policy, the Chu Empire's five-year agricultural development plan started in the fourth year of Chengshun is now in its fourth year.
In the past four years, the Chu Empire has supported agricultural development in many aspects. A large number of water conservancy facilities have been built, including flood control dams, irrigation diversion canals, and a large number of wells.
At the same time, in order to better support agricultural production, a large number of government-run small and medium-sized machinery factories were built in many prefectures and even some large counties.
These machinery factories using water-powered machinery may seem inconspicuous, but they have brought drastic changes to the Chu Empire.
A large number of more and better iron tools were produced, and then brought to the market at a low price, and then obtained by farmers and many craftsmen, thereby improving their production efficiency.
The word production efficiency may seem a bit vague at first glance, but it actually changes people's lives.
When farmers cultivate the land, they save more effort, and they can cultivate more land at the same time. Especially in some places with vast land and sparse people, there is still a large amount of developable farmland. Almost all local farmers are cultivating and reclaiming wasteland.
Although it is still very hard, more food is harvested, and more rations can be left after delivery.
Not to mention, in order to support the development of agriculture, the Dachu Empire also has preferential agricultural tax incentives for reclaiming wasteland, including three exemptions and two half reductions.
These have greatly improved the living conditions of farmers.
One of the things that best reflects the improvement in people's lives is that the number of babies born among the people has increased significantly.
When the situation is stable and more food is harvested, people will naturally be motivated to have more children and feed them.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs has submitted reports many times, saying that in recent years, the number of private births has begun to increase significantly, but the number of doctors in various private medical clinics has increased without any impact, and they have been applying for membership. Increase funding for medical and health care, and apply for the establishment of specialized medical schools to train more doctors.
In response to this, in November of the eighth year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue held a targeted medical and health imperial meeting.
Not only the civil service ministers participated, but also the military ministers participated.
As for a health and medical conference that is an internal affairs matter, why would the military participate... That's because the military has a large number of professional medical talents, and it also has the only medical talent training institution in the Chu Empire, which is the army officer The medical department of the college and the medical training system in each recruit training camp.
The medical department in the Army Officer School is to train professional medical talents. It is geared towards training doctors, focusing on trauma, epidemic prevention and even mosquito bite prevention.
The medic training system in many recruit training camps recruits and trains medics directly from recruits. They are mainly used to rescue the wounded on the battlefield and take care of the wounded during war.
And this is currently the only large-scale medical talent training system in the Chu Empire.
There are no other colleges and universities. As for the private sector... they are still stuck in medical clinics. The doctor-apprentice model is not of any scale.
Even the government-run imperial hospital is actually similar to the traditional imperial hospital in the feudal dynasty. The sources of its doctors are directly recruiting famous doctors to serve. These doctors will also take a few doctors to study and so on. Although the number is also small. There are quite a few, but in the final analysis, it is still an apprenticeship model of teaching by words and deeds.
What the Ministry of Civil Affairs wants to do here is to educate doctors. They want to train doctors in batches, and the training cost should not be too high.
In addition, another very special point is that currently, almost all the trauma departments in the empire that are capable of doing research on the human body and pathology are all military doctors...
The military doctors in the Medical Department of the Army Academy... Although many of them are from traditional medicine families and have been exposed to traditional empirical medicine since childhood, after entering the medical department, they studied the internal structure of the human body, often dissected, and used various microscopes. Observe various microorganisms and try to figure out what makes people infected and sick.
They studied modern medicine based on scientific concepts under the guidance of Luo Zhixue.
Of course, during actual treatment, traditional empirical medicine will also be combined. Most of the medicines prescribed to patients are actually traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions... After all, some herbal medicine prescriptions are known to be effective through numerous experiences, although they are not yet known. Why is it effective, but at least it can cure diseases.
Regardless of whether the cat is black or white, the one that can catch mice is a good cat.
Therefore, although those military doctors are studying new medical theories and are devoted to finding out various disease-causing germs and getting rid of them... it does not affect their continued use of various traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions to treat diseases.
There is no conflict between the two!
At least, until various new drugs based on new medical theories are developed, the two cannot conflict!
What the Ministry of Civil Affairs wants to cultivate is not doctors of traditional empirical medicine, but comprehensive talents who combine new medical theories with the application of traditional empirical medicine...
And this is inseparable from the cooperation of the military!
At the imperial meeting, officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs emphasized and complained in various ways, saying that private medical care was really poor. Countless people died of diseases every day, and a large number of them were minors and pregnant women. .
Why was the average life expectancy of the ancient population so low? Of course there was malnutrition and people were too old to move when they were in their forties or fifties, but more importantly, the deaths of a large number of minors and pregnant women significantly lowered the average life span. .
Needless to say, there are dangers for pregnant women. Most people know that in ancient times, when women gave birth to children, they basically had to go through the hell gate. Whether they could live to give birth to their children depended on their fate.
And this probability is not too high!
As for the high mortality rate of young infants, I am afraid that not many people in later generations will pay attention to and understand this. In fact, it was very difficult for children of ancient people to live to adulthood.
Not to mention ordinary families, even in powerful families or even royal families, it is very difficult for their babies to survive to adulthood smoothly.
If you look through history books, you will find that many emperors gave birth to many sons, but not many princes survived to adulthood, so that the bloodline was cut off, and brothers and nephews eventually succeeded to the throne.
In the former Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen’s elder brother, Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao, did not have no sons. He gave birth to three children, but none of them survived...
In the end, after Tianqi died, the dragon throne came to Chongzhen's advantage. In the end, Chongzhen used too much force and kicked over the broken house of the Ming Dynasty.
And there are many emperors like Emperor Tianqi who have no sons!
And this is royalty!
What the royal family can enjoy is the world's top medical resources, with all kinds of royal doctors around, but even so, the death rate of princes and princesses is very high.
It is even more difficult for children from ordinary families to live and grow up.
At first, Luo Zhixue also knew that it was not easy for children to grow up smoothly, but he didn't take it seriously. However, after seeing the shocking report from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he had to be cautious and convened a special meeting before the emperor. Executive meetings are held to discuss health and medical matters.
The report submitted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs was not a large-scale statistical report, but a follow-up study by the Medical Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of a town under Tianfu. The results shocked Luo Zhixue, who was used to seeing the numbers of military casualties.
The mortality rate of these young infants and pregnant women was far higher than he imagined.
It was hard for him to imagine that in the report, two brothers from a family had their wives die one after another due to dystocia. Among the three children in the eldest brother's family, one only lived a few months, one lived more than a year, and another was three years old. He also died when he was just over one year old... A child from his younger brother's family also died when he was just over one year old.
In this big family, in the end, only the two brothers were left...
Although this is a relatively extreme example, Luo Zhixue also knew that the Ministry of Civil Affairs wrote this example just to shock him.
But Luo Zhixue still felt the hardship of people's livelihood from between the lines!
This also made Luo Zhixue understand that universal medical reform has reached the point where it is urgent to delay!
