Volume 22 of Changning Kingdom: Miraculous Medicine (4)
"Yes, thank you for the reward, Commander-in-Chief!" After Alan finished speaking, he banged his head and knocked to the ground.
"Go ahead!"
The man who Alan called the chief soldier was named Huang Qilin. Huang Qilin was unknown in the Ming Dynasty, but he was a famous figure in North Borneo, and the Huang family was also the most powerful Chinese family in the area.
According to the self-proclaimed history of the Huang family, their ancestor Huang Senping was the commander-in-chief of the Tengchong Guards in Yunnan. During the Hongwu period, he was sent as an envoy to Borneo by Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and finally settled here. Of course, the research data of the Great Library believes that they should be in the late Yuan Dynasty.
Refugees from the southwest region went south to sea to escape the war. It had nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang, and Huang Senping was not a general of the Ming Dynasty - this official position did not exist in the early Ming Dynasty.
Huang Senping's immigrant group is very large. In addition to his family, there may be many other fellow countrymen, numbering in the thousands. They traveled south from Yunnan, passed through Myanmar, and crossed the sea to Borneo - the Kalimantan Island in the old time and space.
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When they landed at the mouth of a large river in East Kalimantan, they were exhausted and got into a boat accident. Some of them broke their arms. The local indigenous people called this river "kinabatangan", which means "Chinese Broken Arm".
It means "Hand". After Huang Senping arrived here, he integrated the Chinese forces in the Broken Hand River Basin and established an independent small political power.
The area located to the north of the Duanshou River is the Bo Ni Kingdom, which has declined in national power. This Bo Ni Kingdom has a very long history, and there are records of paying tribute in the history books of the Sui Dynasty. At this time, it was protected to the south by the Indonesian Sultan Shilifo
The country is often under the control of the royal family, and is often required to pay tribute to it. It is often invaded by the Sulu Sultanate in the southern Philippines. The country's situation is extremely dangerous.
After seeing the advanced agricultural production capabilities and strong armed forces of the Chinese, the newly enthroned Sultan Muhammadshah of the Bo Ni Kingdom decided to ask for help from Huang Senping. In order to conclude an alliance, Sultan Muhammadshah first married his daughter to Huang Senping and gave him a gift.
Huang Senping was given the title of "" (Manaragananai, equivalent to the "Vice King" in Europe). Later, Mahmosha asked his younger brother Ahmed to marry Huang Senping's sister Huang Yuanli and gave her the "Chinese Princess of the Broken Hand River".
The two regimes formed a close alliance due to the marriage between the rulers. This alliance finally brought the Balni Kingdom back from the abyss of destruction. The Chinese also gradually expanded from the Broken Hand River Basin to Kalimantan.
North of the island.
In 1402, Sultan Mahmosa died, and his son Abdulmajidhasan succeeded to the throne. Huang Senping and Mahmosa's brother Prince Pengirantemenggong served as regents. In 1406, Abdulmajid Hassan died.
There was a two-year interregnum. During these two years, a series of political struggles took place. In the end, Ahmad, who favored Huang Senping, overcame Prince Temangun and succeeded to the throne, becoming the second sultan in the history of Balni.
In 1408, Huang Senping led an envoy to pay tribute. This was recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty".
The Huang family has spent more than 200 years in Borneo, inherited for twelve generations, and their family background is still prominent. Fujian immigrants from the south have continuously expanded and developed Borneo. However, in this process, a devil has always been there.
Hovering above their heads - malaria, terrible malaria. Four years ago, a major epidemic wiped out five Chinese villages at the foot of Changning Mountain. Several thousand Fujian immigrants were almost wiped out within a few years of their arrival in Borneo. Until
Nowadays, that area has not recovered its vitality. As the actual rulers of the Chinese area in Northern Bo Ni, the Huang family has always made malaria prevention and control a top priority.
Over the years, the Huang family has been trying to find treatment and preventive measures. They have used many kinds of folk remedies, from Europeans, Chinese, and indigenous people, as long as they are claimed to be useful, but none of them have been used.
It really took effect. Many immigrants fell ill with malaria and died within a few years.
Although some people are safe and sound, such a death rate is unacceptable to any ruler. Especially due to the ravages of malaria, the land that was originally developed was once again abandoned and occupied by forests again...
Alan has obtained a potion that is said to be able to cure malaria. I hope this time he is not happy for nothing. However, Australians have always been able to surprise or scare people, and maybe this time is the same.
"Shidong, you will go and see for yourself the situation of each family that has received the potion in a moment. According to Alan, it will take effect in one and a half hours. When the time comes, you can go and see it and report back to me immediately.
"Dad, it will be Zishi in one and a half hours..."
"So what about Zishi?! Are you so intolerant of staying up late?"
"My son doesn't dare." Huang Shidong said quickly, "My son is worried about your old man's health. Why don't you report back tomorrow."
Huang Qilin sighed, "Human life is at stake. This medicine is now my family's life-saving straw, how can I remain indifferent."
Huang Shidong felt that his father was exaggerating, because the Huang family has lasted for twelve generations from the ancestors to the present. It has spread out in the local area and is already a large family with over a thousand men. Although not all of them have died of malaria.
, also rare.
"Dad, although malaria is very harmful, most of the people who die are new arrivals, and most of the old locals are fine..."
"You are so confused!" Huang Qilin angrily scolded his son, "What is the most important thing in the world? It's people! When our ancestors came to the bank of the Broken Hand River, if there were not thousands of fellow tribesmen around him, how could Sudan think highly of him? Will his daughter be considered worthy of him?
Marry him? Will you make him the 'King of Side by Side'? We need wind and rain in Borneo now, but it depends on tens of thousands of people under our subordinates? Now that people come to Tangshan, come to Tangshan.
After staying here for two or three years, there will be no survivors, and in a few years there will be another great epidemic, and the rest will die again..."
This makes Huang Qilin very worried. The Chinese population in North Borneo under the control of the Huang family has grown very slowly. It has been more than 200 years since the ancestor Huang Senping led his fellow tribesmen to Borneo. The world is peaceful and there are domestic people.
Immigrants continued to arrive, and the population grew to more than 30,000 people.
"Without people, our family cannot stand here. Not to mention the Dutch, British, Spanish, Sulu and Sri Lankan Buddhists who are eyeing us, let alone the Sultan of Ayutthaya (Kota Batu). If
We don’t have such strength, haha, I’m afraid it’s hard to say!”
"Yes, my son is confused."
At midnight, Huang Shidong went around to all the patients who had received the medicine, and rushed back to report to Huang Qilin: The medicine is effective!
"really?!"
"Really!" Huang Shidong was very excited, "I haven't had any chills for an hour and a half after taking the medicine!"
"Okay," Huang Qilin was extremely excited, "You can go see it again tomorrow morning, and come back to me after you see it!" After saying that, he took a long breath, raised his hands in prayer, and murmured something for a long time.
Then he put down his hand.
The next day, the patient's condition improved significantly. Although some people still had a chill, the chill was not severe and did not last long. The key is that most of the fever symptoms disappeared.
"...They all say that the person is much better than before, his brain is clearer, and he has an appetite! The doctors all say that this is really a miracle medicine!"
"In this case, this medicine is effective!" Huang Qilin said, "Have any of the doctors seen the medicine? Can you taste the compatibility?"
"All the doctors have tasted it and have no clue at all." Huang Shidong knew that this was his father's top concern, so he quickly reported back, "I just said that this potion has a single taste, so it is probably a single-flavor medicine."
"Single-flavored medicine?!" Huang Qilin knows a little about pharmacology, but most doctors prescribe medicine according to the formula of "monarch, minister, assistant and envoy". There is rarely a single-flavored prescription. If there is, he only remembers one Dushen Decoction.
It seems that Australians really have a "miracle medicine"!
"Since there is a magic medicine, why not ask Alan to go over and do some more work!"
"It was originally planned to let Alan go there. We need to install a pair of eyes there. But if you steal medicine like this, something will happen sooner or later. I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with..." Huang Qilin shook his head, "Besides, stealing medicine can also be stolen.
How much? So, prepare yourself and go to the south in person in two days to meet with the group and see if you can get the magic medicine."
"Dad! If they don't give the medicine, what should we do with the child?" Huang Shidong asked, "Besides, they came here in a strange way. I can't figure out where they came from. I'm afraid that I would ask them for medicine rashly... My eldest brother is in Dacheng (Gotha).
Did Batu get any information about this group of people?"
"There is no news from him yet. But there is some news from the Dutch. This is a group of Australian maritime merchants who have formed a company called the Nanyang Company."
"Are Australians maritime merchants? Why are they burning forests and digging wells in such barren mountains? Are they going to open up wasteland and farm there?!"
For the Huang family, the names of Australians are not unfamiliar. Although the Huang family is overseas, Huang Qilin, as the leader of the Chinese in Borneo, is also very concerned about major events in his homeland in the Central Plains, and many Chinese merchant ships sailing to Southeast Asia are also
Provide him with information channels to understand his hometown.
In the past two years, most of the merchant ships sailing to Southeast Asia departed from a place called "Hong Kong" under the jurisdiction of the Australians, and many rumors about Australia spread from the sailor's taverns in the big cities: big unsinkable iron ships, no sails and no sails.
All the legends about the self-propelled boat with oars as fast as the wind and the magical city with black smoke were so absurd that Huang Shidong felt that they were just crazy words used by drunken sailors to brag. What do real Australians look like?
No one has ever seen it on the ground in Borneo.
Huang Qilin tasted the bitter tea in his hand. The tea cup was the recently popular "Australian crystal cup". He thought for a moment and said:
"If they don't give it, you should test their purpose of coming here and don't offend them. If it is true that Guangfu, the first city in the south of the Central Plains, can be captured in one day as rumored, I'm afraid they can do it just by raising their hands.
Squeeze us to death. For us, the most important thing is that the Australians have a magic medicine that can cure miasma. This magic medicine is related to the wealth and lives of tens of thousands of people in the entire Borneo. It is a matter of great importance and must not be lost...