Du Kangyong and Sun Wei said they knew it, and Zhao Zhili also said that they would mobilize all officials to go to the village to promote each household and do a good job of statistics.

Liu Chuanhai specifically said that statistics work is very important. His Majesty said that this is related to the subsequent centralized management. The feces of sick patients are also one of the sources of infection. There will be insect eggs in the feces and cannot be put into the ground as manure.

After giving all these things in place, the few people immediately began to act separately.

Liu Chuanhai first removed the meat from the boiled snails, and put only the shells into boxes. He rushed to the capital through the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal day and night. He also wrote a preliminary investigation report to Xiao Ruxun, mentioning medical issues.

Seven days later, Xiao Ruxun received these things. He immediately organized people to spread out all the snails and personally identified them. After measurement and identification, Xiao Ruxun found all the snails with a body length of less than one inch.

After further screening, dozens of snails with a body length of only one-third of an inch were taken out. After identification and careful recollection, Xiao Ruxun finally confirmed that the hardness of these shells and the dozens of snails with vertical stripes were the only intermediate host snails of Schistosoma .

Then Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered the eunuchs in the palace to deal with these snail shells, and then ordered the palace painters to enter the palace, carefully draw the snails, make them into picture albums, write them on identification methods, and then send them to the prefectures in Jiangnan to let officials learn to identify first, and then go to the countryside to teach these identification methods to the farmers, preparing for the comprehensive implementation of snail elimination work.

At the same time, after receiving the letter from Liu Chuanhai, Xiao Ruxun frowned.

The questions raised by Liu Chuanhai are very realistic and are also a natural barrier in front of eliminating schistosomiasis.

Locust plagues will not make people sick, so just eliminate locusts, but schistosomiasis is a disease. It not only needs to eliminate insects and snails, but also treat diseases. The investment is greater than eliminating locusts and is more dangerous.

The locust plague can take a different approach to help farmers benefit through the strategy of raising ducks and treating locusts, and allow the army to get meat at a low price. It is a good thing and greatly reduces the economic burden of the court. However, schistosomiasis is pure investment and has no economic returns.

To eliminate schistosomiasis is to save the labor force that has lost its ability to work and may lose its ability to work in the future. There is no economic benefit in it. It is pure expenditure and is the responsibility of the government.

This not only concerns the descending of snails, but also the reconstruction of the medical system.

Through this disease, Xiao Ruxun realized more deeply how difficult the lives of the ancient people were.

The whole body was moved by one move, and it was decided to eliminate schistosomiasis. It not only required the snails but also the reconstruction of a mess of private medical care. It also involved the training of doctors, the establishment of hospitals, the cultivation of medicinal materials, etc. The involvement was too wide, and Xiao Ruxun could not think carefully, so he called three cabinet ministers.

Wang Xijue Li Tingji and Ye Xianggao quickly came to the study to meet Xiao Ruxun. After reading Liu Chuanhai's letter, they understood the emperor's meaning.

"Although difficult and complicated diseases are difficult, there are medicines to cure after all, but this poor disease has no medicine to cure. After reading this, my heart hurts as if I had been stabbed by an injection. A big belly disease has medicines to cure and can prolong my life, but because I have no money and can't afford to take medicine, I can only wait to die slowly. This kind of thing exists widely among the people.

The emperor often said that he was rich all over the world and that everything in the world belonged to the emperor, but now I discovered that my people are so poor, sick, and have no money to see a doctor, so I can only grit my teeth and stand up. This is my dereliction of duty and my fault."

Seeing Xiao Ruxun blamed himself, Wang Xijue hurriedly said, "This is a problem left over from the previous dynasty. This dynasty has been established for less than two years, and there are many things, and the freezing three feet is not a day. Such problems cannot be solved in one day or two days. Why should Your Majesty blame himself?"

"Your Majesty promotes land reform so that the farmer can have the land, the farmers have good harvests, the food is not high, and the taxes are not high. It is a day I never dared to imagine. It is just that the time is still short and it takes some time to accumulate wealth and make yourself rich. This is not Your Majesty's fault, but Your Majesty's credit."

Li Tingji followed suit and persuaded the emperor.

Xiao Ruxun shook her head repeatedly.

"But now my people are wailing and suffering. I can't see or know. I still pretend to be deaf and dumb when I see and hear it? I can't do it. This situation must be changed. It's a good thing for everything. This is what I should do. I am the emperor. If I don't do this, who else can do it?"

Wang Xijue and Li Tingji both kept silent.

Ye Xianggao said, "I think no one mentioned this matter in the previous dynasty, but now someone has mentioned it. This just proves His Majesty's wisdom."

"How do you say this?"

Xiao Ruxun looked at Ye Xianggao.

Ye Xianggao said, "The disasters mentioned in the previous dynasty are all disasters in front of us, such as famine, flood, and drought. No one has ever mentioned insect disasters. Because insect disasters are not as many as famine, flood, and drought, no one has mentioned them and no one has paid attention to them.

Now some people mention that it is because no one dies due to famine, floods and droughts, so there are many people who die from insect disasters. Doesn’t this just prove that His Majesty’s wisdom in governing, so that the people can eat enough and have no worries about floods and droughts?”

Xiao Ruxun smiled bitterly.

"Gei Ye, I like to hear what you say very much, but the more I listen, the more I feel sad. When did it start to make the people not die so many times? "

Ye Xianggao was stunned, and then immediately knelt down and apologized.

"I have made a mistake, please punish me!"

"You didn't say anything wrong, you were telling the truth."

Xiao Ruxun asked Ye Xianggao to stand up and sit down.

"It's just that I feel sad. Rise, the people suffer, the people suffer, the people suffer. No matter the rise and fall of the dynasty, why are the people suffering? It is a shame for the emperor to not let the people live and work in peace and contentment, how can even fewer people die as a merit? Is the lives of the people really worth mentioning?"

The three cabinet ministers were speechless and didn't know what to say.

His Majesty is so concerned about the people today that they have never seen before. They don’t know how to express their attitude for a while.

"I want them to eat, drink enough, wear warm clothes, and live in houses, be able to read and read, and be blind when you are sick. You can go to the doctor to take medicine without gritting your teeth. There is no heavy tax burden, no landlords, gentry, bullies step on them to act as a blessing, not just to let them die so many."

Xiao Ruxun took a deep breath.

"I want to make a thorough overall planning for the issue of folk medicine. I want to hold a grand court meeting. Master Wang Ge Lao Li Ge Lao, you two are responsible for the organization. Master Ye, you go and convene a group of famous and powerful people doctors from the people, join the Imperial Hospital together. I have something to ask them."

"Abide by the order!"

The three cabinet ministers quickly left the study and began to implement the emperor's will.
Chapter completed!