There are quite a lot of officials in the Natural Disaster Response Strategy Department.

Xiao Ruxun included a large number of officials in it. Many young officials were just selected and were thrown into this official office and became a clerk. Then he was about to start running errands from all over the world.

Doing this can fully train an official's ability to do things, expand his horizons, and let him understand how many disasters and difficulties the country is, how the people are suffering, how heavy the responsibilities they are on, etc., which are of far-reaching significance.

In order to better deal with these problems, a large number of professional personnel will also be included in the Natural Disaster Response Strategies Department. Previously, Chen Jinglun and Chen Zhenlong were included in it to be responsible for controlling locust plagues. At present, the harm of schistosomiasis in Jiangnan is not less than that of locust plagues.

These are all national strategic tasks that require the entire country to mobilize a large amount of manpower and material resources with strong mobilization and execution capabilities to be responsible for the overall planning actions.

This time, Xiao Ruxun sent two operation teams to Jiangnan. One operation team went directly to the garrisons in Jiangxi and Huguang to help the army establish a relatively complete mechanism to prevent schistosomiasis. The other team went to Zhejiang and Fujian provinces in southern Zhili to capture snails and investigate the scope of schistosomiasis.

Xiao Ruxun specially instructed Liu Chuanhai, the doctor who led the team, to tell him that once the relevant cases were found, he would organize people to salvage snails in the nearby water body.

He told Liu Chuanhai that when catching snails, do not do it yourself and do not touch the water body. Instead, use fishing nets and other things to catch them. Do not touch them after salvaging them, and immediately put them into boiling water to cook them to death.

Cook for at least half an hour, and then send all the snails captured back to the capital and hand them over to him. He wants to confirm some things.

Liu Chuanhai expressed his understanding and immediately organized people to go south and took a boat to go south from the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. He arrived in Nanjing in less than five days. Then he went deep into the south of the Yangtze River and began to investigate according to Xiao Ruxun's requirements. The first stop was Dangtu County, Taiping Prefecture.

Because he received the imperial edict from Xiao Ruxun to "combining the green light in full cooperation", he knew that this matter was very important and acted as the governor of Nanzhili and one of the five tiger generals of the land reform, Du Kangyong, personally led a team to accompany Liu Chuanhai to Dangtu County.

The first seat in Nanzhili came, so the Taiping Prefecture Prefecture governor Sun Wei also came with him. The two immediate bosses came together. Zhao Zhili, the magistrate of Dangtu County, suddenly felt under great pressure.

He invited local doctors to tell Du Kangyong and Sun Wei about the existence and harm of this disease. When he learned that the disease was widely present in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Du Kangyong and Sun Wei looked bad.

"I used to hear insects in my hometown occasionally causing diseases, but I never knew the scope was so large."

"Yes, insect disease also occurs in my hometown, but I don't know that it can actually infect so many people."

Liu Chuanhai nodded and asked Zhao Zhili, "Is it okay to take office as County Magistrate Zhou? Have you ever recovered?"

This was also what Xiao Ruxun told him, and he also brought some condolences from the central government to the presidency.

"Mr. Zhou's health has recovered substantially and has improved greatly after taking the medicine. I guess I can start working again after resting for a while."

Zhao Zhili replied to Liu Chuanhai like this.

"Okay, I will tell your Majesty."

Liu Chuanhai said, "Mr. Zhao County, please take me to Xiangyang Village. I want to see the people who are sick and the waters where they live. What we know now is that the pathogen of this disease comes from the water and is transmitted by a snail."

"screw?"

Du Kangyong and Sun Wei also found it strange when Liu Chuanhai said this.

"What snail can contend with this disease?"

"Is it just a snail?"

Liu Chuanhai nodded.

"That's what Your Majesty said, it is a kind of snail called snail that spreads this big belly disease. The snail is very small and is less than an inch long, but the virus insect that can cause disease is inside the snail.

This snail grows in water, which can make poisonous insects grow slowly, and make the water full of poisonous insects, becoming plagued water. Once someone touches the plagued water, the poisonous insects can invade the human body in an instant. If you want to eradicate this disease, you must destroy the snail."

"I see."

Du Kangyong and Sun Wei are both from Jiangnan. They obviously know the harm of insects parasitizing in the human body, and their eyes changed when they hear it.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Chen Deng, the governor of Xuzhou, liked to eat raw fish. Later, he became ill, had a huge abdominal distension and a red complexion. The famous doctor Hua Tuo prescribed him a prescription. He spit out several dou of live insects. Hua Tuo forbid him to continue eating raw fish, but Chen Deng could not control himself and continued to eat it. In the end, the medicine stone was helpless and then died because of it. The insects can be seen from this.

Du Kangyong told this story.

The story of Chen Deng's death from insect disease is quite widely circulated. It is a famous example of death due to insect invasion and has attracted the attention of intellectuals.

"How should people with worms in their abdomen be treated?"

Liu Chuanhai shook his head and said he was unaware: "The doctors in the Imperial Hospital do not have a unified view. Our primary purpose here is to study and prevent the epidemic from continuing to expand, rather than treating it. The disease has far-reaching harm and cannot continue to cause healthy people to be infected."

Zhao Zhili said, "A previous official who went to Xiangyang Village for investigation with Xiaguan came back and fell ill. The doctor took him asawei clog pills. After taking it, he excreted a lot of insects. The abdominal lumps were slowly eliminated, and the high fever no longer continued. Now his body is recovering."

Liu Chuanhai immediately asked the doctor, and the doctor said that this was indeed true, but he also said that this method sometimes worked, but sometimes it was not so effective, because some people who took the pills were cured at the time, but soon afterwards, similar symptoms appeared.

"Can it be that the deworming is not clean and there are insect eggs left in the body?"

Liu Chuanhai asked this.

"Many people also think this way, so it is also effective to continue taking similar insect pills."

The doctor gave such an answer.

Liu Chuanhai nodded and asked again: "Since he can be cured, why are there still so many people who are still sick? How come they cannot be cured until they die?"

The doctor showed a look of shame and did not know how to answer.

Finally, Zhao Zhili explained.

This problem involves even bigger problems.

"The price of medicinal materials is not cheap, and the quantity is not large. Most of the people who have money can afford it are officials and powerful families. These families have money, but most of the sick people are extremely poor tenant farmers, and they have no spare money and cannot eat enough food. Where can they still have money to cure their illness?

Although doctors have parents’ hearts, some doctors do have the intention to help, but the medicinal materials are indeed limited and cannot cure so many people. Besides, the number of clinics and doctors is really small, while there are so many patients. Most of them cannot afford to pay, and doctors have to eat and cannot do business at a loss.

Therefore, doctors are willing to help, but patients cannot afford to pay for medicinal materials. Some large clinics are willing to be kind to treat medicines. However, there are few medicinal materials, and there are only a few people who can be treated, and it is even rarer to cure them. To put it bluntly, there are few doctors, few medicinal materials, many patients, and many poor people."

As soon as he said this, Liu Chuanhai showed anger on his face. Du Kangyong and Sun Wei were both land reform officials. They obviously remembered their situation and experiences a few years ago, and showed a sigh.

"There were many previous dynasties who had established Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau to manage local medicinal materials and were responsible for treating the people. Where was Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau? Are there no medicinal materials in one county and one state?"

Liu Chuanhai asked again.

Zhao Zhili shook his head.

"Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau was fine at the beginning. The more I got to the back, the more I was just a cover. There were often no medicinal materials. Even if there were, there were some ordinary medicinal materials everywhere. They could not be made into insect-preventing medicine and could not save people. In many places, Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau was just an empty shell and had been edible by the local officials of the previous dynasty.

Ordinary people get sick, either grit their teeth and hard, or make some ginger and other boil water. The rest depends on the will of heaven. In the past or two years, Your Majesty has taken Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau as the focus, but the freezing of three feet is not a day. If we start over, we can't get many medicinal materials."

After saying this, Zhao Zhili couldn't help but shake her head.

The doctor sighed and said, "My teacher in the following year once said that there are many difficult and complicated diseases in the world, but in the end there is medicine to cure, but only the poor disease is not cured..."
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