Chapter 136: Smallpox
What did Ma Gui do for smallpox?
In other words, it should be what Chen Mu did to defeat smallpox.
Smallpox is the name of Chen Mu, and people in this era generally call this infectious disease pox, and a person will only suffer from smallpox once in his life.
And the first test that these people who were trained on Khuwu Island was to get pox, human pox.
Human pox is not cowpox, limited to the technical level, even if there were good doctors from all over the world gathered on Kuwu Island at that time, the level of pox was still uneven, and the quality of each batch of pox powder was also different.
The remaining people who failed to get the pox will actually get smallpox because of the pox, and 30% of these unlucky people will die as a result.
The rest who are not dead will also be left with a pockmarked face due to illness.
Since the Ningguo government had a method of pox, this kind of preventive measure has swept the world in the past few years, but usually people only give pox to children, not adults.
In Daming, the threat posed by pox is not only the general failure rate of 2 to 30 percent and the mortality rate of 30 percent after failure, but also the catastrophe caused by the loss of strong labor in the family once smallpox.
A family or even a clan can be ruined by this.
In Kuwu Island, Chen Mu painted a big cake for them, and their desire for wealth and land made them plant pox without fear of life and death, and the earliest attrition began at that time.
All those who survived were not afraid of smallpox, not at all.
Not only were they not afraid of smallpox, but they also had sufficient means to prevent and treat smallpox.
When Hulan and his subordinate Mongol cavalry leisurely returned from the south with their captives and Andalusian horses as trophies, they saw hundreds of aborigines on the seashore looking at the big ships anchored at sea in a state of seeing gods.
Of course, there was also the place where the camp was supposed to be a camp, with raging flames and black smoke rising into the sky.
"Looks like the battle is over."
Hulan raised his hand and rubbed the shiny mane of the war horse under his seat, he rode a horse and led a horse, and the saddles of the two horses were full of trophies like damaged cavalry armor and intact weapons.
There was not much loot, and not everyone in the Spanish cavalry had armor, but each of them had horses, and except for one horse that was shot blind and half scrapped, the other four horses were fine.
The price they paid was just as great, as a Mongol horse was killed and the rider on horseback was injured when he fell.
Hulan, who re-boarded the ship, immediately found Ma Gui and asked the chief officer, "What's wrong with the Yanian people below?" ”
In this era, all the people in the whole world have a very one-sided understanding of the Native Americans, for example, Hulan stubbornly believes that the people of Mongolia, Jurchen, Korea, and Japan have huge and vast lands, so all the natives from Majiagang in North Asia should be Anian people.
Ma Gui was discussing with Ma Jin about choosing a name for this place, and he asked where his brother Zheng Tu's home in Guanxi was in the town of Water Margin, and got the answer of 'Zhuangyuan Bridge'.
In general, the west coast of North America near San Francisco has a Mingguo-style name for the first time on the map of the Ming Kingdom, called Zhuangyuan Bridge.
And on this chart, a large piece of land called Zhuangyuan Bridge is also marked with it: local chief, Zhenguanxi Zhengtu.
"I'm back, are there any casualties among my subordinates?"
Hulan nodded and said: "A Xiyi rider was captured, one of our horses was killed, the rider was injured, and we have to raise it for two or three months, and it will not be in the way-why is this?" ”
Hulan said and pointed to the aborigines on the beach who seemed to be seeing them off, some of them were wearing Ming army armor, and some were holding a big banner of Embarrassment, standing among the aborigines wearing feather crowns and looking out of place.
"Someone had smallpox and was sent to the cabin of the boat by Ma." Ma Gui said as if he was saying something small to insignificant: "And his children, take them on the boat together, and when they return to Majiagang, they will apply some honey to their bodies, and then continue to drink water every day, and boil hemp with honey water, whether they can be saved depends on his creation." ”
Hulan blinked, and was stunned for a moment before saying, "Then why do you want to bring it back to Majiagang, so that they can't save it?" ”
"We don't know if we can save them, they can't save them, and no one will risk smallpox to get close to save people."
To put it bluntly, there is a question of yes and no.
"People staying here are not only dead, but also may infect others, Zheng Tu's tribe now has two very small Fran machines, a few wooden cannons that can make several times, and more than 20 arquebuses, Ma left two soldiers to teach them to make the guns fire, and the combat power has grown."
"The people who are infected with smallpox stay here, and it is not good to make it difficult when the whole tribe is gone, who will block Xiyi for us."
"Ma Shuai wants them to hold this, why don't we continue to the south, they don't want to go south?"
"It seems that their tribe is so big, and no matter how far away it is, it belongs to someone else, and they don't care and won't go."
Hulan got a few good horses, which was happier than giving him gold directly, rubbing his hands and saying: "We don't need them, Liaomeng forty rides, just like them in a wooden village, one counts as one, we can all fight, let's go south!" ”
Ma Gui shook his head very firmly.
"If you go south, you are not afraid of the enemy on land, even if you are not invincible, you can get away, but if you meet the Xiyi ship at sea, and our ship has no artillery, won't it become a target on the sea, let people fight?"
"I just have this little soldier, I don't have to and can't take risks, victory or defeat is not a moment, go back to the north first, back to Majiagang."
Ma Gui said and looked down at the map spread on the deck under his feet, raised his hand to fix it in one place, and said, "In this way, along the coast, only the Yi people are hostile to us. ”
"If these two natives who suffered from smallpox can be cured, the Zheng Tu Department of Zhuangyuanqiao will respect us very much, and then they can be vaccinated, and our people will teach them words, and then they will know more about this land."
"They are a big tribe, they can gather thousands of troops, I think it is a multi-tribe gathering in one place and befriending them......"
Ma Gui was halfway through speaking, and suddenly felt a huge grievance in his heart.
What has he been through all these years?
Don't say that he is the chief military officer of the imperial court and a doctor from Yipin Ronglu, even if he was a general under Ma Fang in the past.
Whatever you do, Altan Khan, take the cavalry to kick your camp all the way, and let you know that Uncle Ma is still your Uncle Ma.
When did their brother think about who to befriend and who to please?
Now these things have been done so smoothly that I don't even blush when I say it.
The cavalry general from Xuanfu shook his head slowly, as if he wanted to shake the thoughts out of his head, living in the icy North Asia of Melica for two years, they were used to being disappointed and forgotten.
"I don't know if Chen Shuai will come this year, whether the reinforcements will come, if he comes, the situation we understand can guide the way for the imperial army, if he doesn't come, we will take advantage of the fact that the northern sea is not frozen yet, and go back to Shuihu Peak."
"Zhenshuo in the mountains pulled out all the artillery cannons, and the clothes, armor, weapons, and bird guns of the dead and wounded soldiers were also taken back and taken to Majiagang." /14_14088/