Chapter 390: Different Paths to the Same Destination

Looking back at the achievements of Arabia, Kong Ming suddenly remembered what Confucius said.

When three people walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher.

This is very suitable for Arabia.

Occupying half of the East and the West, possessing the learning of Rome and the skills of China, it finally became a powerful country and passed it down for hundreds of years.

If you want to learn science, it is important to focus on learning and education, but it is equally important to communicate with each other.

Just like the Ming Dynasty that the younger generation sighed several times, if it were not for the sea ban, it might still be unable to escape the fate of destruction in the end, but it should be able to at least prolong the country for a hundred years, right?

Shaking his head to discard these unrealistic ideas, Kong Ming copied down the so-called medical dogma.

Although it is a medical dogma, Kong Ming can see at a glance that its strict steps can also be used in engineering, academic research, governance and other aspects.

And Zhang Zhongjing on the side naturally needs no further explanation. Kong Ming looked over and saw that the old man's eyes were narrowed with joy.

Facing Kong Ming's gaze, Doctor Zhang said openly:

"Before, I still missed the stability of Chengdu and was afraid of the thousand-mile journey out of Sichuan."

"Now it seems that even if it is five thousand miles out of Sichuan, this road should be walked diligently."

This made the hall laugh, and Kong Ming couldn't help but smile.

He understood that before, the light curtain was just a casual chat, and very little about medicine.

After a year of operation, Chengdu was completely new, and the climate was much more comfortable than the bitter cold in the north. It was understandable that the old doctor didn't want to leave.

But I didn't expect that the first light curtain out of Sichuan would not only become one of the protagonists, but also talk more about medicine than before.

And this medical dogma was probably like a long drought to Doctor Zhang writing "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", so he didn't even smile.

In the joyful atmosphere, Jian Yong's face was slightly bitter.

He had said before that he would go to Rome when the world was at peace, but according to the light curtain, the chaos in Rome was no less than that of the Han Dynasty.

If he waited for the world to be at peace before leaving, wouldn't it be abandoning stability and going to chaos?

But now that he knew Rome, Jian Yong was unwilling to not go to Rome, and for a while he was in a dilemma.

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In the Ganlu Palace, the people who were familiar with the history from the end of the Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty looked at the chaos of the Roman Empire in the distance, and for a while they were also full of regrets.

"The climate changes like a snap of the fingers, and the empire has overturned for a hundred years." Fang Xuanling was melancholy.

For the old Fang, the scene of the universe and stars seen from the future will be unforgettable in this life.

And the more he thinks back, the more he sighs at the insignificance of human life, and it is the same now.

How much colder did the climate become from the Han Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty? Although there is no specific record, it can also be seen from the history books and people's livelihood.

When the weather is warm, the snow in Mobei does not stop, and when the weather is cold, Jiangdong does not freeze severely.

If the line that distinguishes the four seasons moves a hundred miles, a country will be destroyed and the world will be in chaos for a hundred years.

Du Ruhui saw Fang Xuanling's disappointment, so he gently patted his old friend's hand:

"Since this is the case, we need to change the fate of the Tang Dynasty."

"How great is it to win the ancient climate with people?"

How great is it? These four short words also made Fang Xuanling feel proud.

They are all old ministers who followed Your Majesty to settle the troubled times. If they were afraid of the difficult situation, they would not be here now.

Du Ruhui smiled lightly. After all, according to the established history, he should die at this time, and now that he is still alive, he should change the world.

The ministers in Ganlu Hall were no exception. Qin Qiong was thoughtful, Hou Junji was eager, and Changsun Wuji licked his lips and regretted his decision to resign.

Liu Rengui was eager to try, and Ma Zhou was serious.

Li Shimin was even more moved and sighed softly:

"Stones from other mountains can be used to polish jade."

Sun Simiao wrote without hesitation.

[In 249 AD, Mr. Sima Yi published a fantasy literature that changed the course of history facing the Luo River.

As a result, in the era of the Three Kingdoms, the Wei Kingdom, which had the strongest national power, became the first to be eliminated in fact.

In the same year, the ancient Roman Empire, which was also in the turbulent times of the "Thirty Kingdoms", also had a second major epidemic that broke out vigorously and lasted for sixteen years, killing hundreds of thousands of people in ancient Rome again.

Because of the turbulent times, many bureaucratic institutions have actually stopped, and the most complete records that have survived to this day are only the written records of Cyprian, who was the bishop of Carthage at the time, so this epidemic is also named the Cyprian Plague.

In terms of records, this plague also has a wonderful similarity with typhoid fever: it starts in autumn and gradually decreases in the summer of the following year, and as the weather gets colder, it will usher in another wave of outbreaks, and so on.

It is speculated that the plague still came from Central Asia, and began to spread to cities along the Mediterranean coast as people fled the plague. About three years later, the plague successfully occupied the ancient Roman Empire again and began to do whatever it wanted.

There is no way to know the exact number of deaths from this plague. An Athenian scholar asserted that at least 5,000 people died of the plague every day in Rome at that time. This number is more like hearsay, because the records left by this scholar also swore that there were two main ways for the plague to spread: clothes and eyes.

The report left by the contemporary bishop of Alexandria that can witness this Western tragedy from the side is that the bishop recorded the changes in the number of people rationed in the public food in the city of Alexandria before and after the plague.

According to a simple calculation based on the numbers left by this bishop, it can be seen that after the epidemic, the permanent population of Alexandria decreased by 62%. Even if you include those who fled due to the epidemic, the number of more than 5,000 people dying per day is not an exaggeration, even if it is an exaggeration. many.

In addition, these Western bishops also recorded in considerable detail the various symptoms caused by the epidemic, including high fever, bloody stools, general fatigue, esophageal lesions, hematemesis, limb lesions, and the late stage of the epidemic infection, which can lead to deafness and blindness, etc.

Therefore, we have made two similar predictions about the diseases that raged during the Plague of Cyprian from clues in modern times.

One is the flu, which needs no further explanation as it is still with us even in modern times.

The second guess is filovirus, the most well-known of this series being Ebola virus.

In comparison, the second possibility is more likely, because filoviruses basically have an incubation period of five to ten days, and the incubation period is quite difficult to understand for ancient people in both the East and the West.

This epidemic in ancient Rome was slightly different from the last one in that no medical pioneer like Galen tried to stand up and turn the tide. Everyone was helpless in the face of the epidemic. In the end, the epidemic in the East and the West ended up with the same goal for the first time. :

The great pain caused by troubled times to ordinary people and the helplessness of science have led to the vigorous development of religion.

In fact, you can get a clue by looking at the main records above, which are all bishops from various regions.

Therefore, it can be said that the epidemic has become the best accelerator for the achievement of church rule in the West. 】