Chapter 291 "Stealing the Country"

Wallonga Province, East Africa,

"Hey, Morris, look, there's a snake in the tree ahead," shouted an East African soldier.

"Paul, you've been bitten! There's no hope! Take it down and bury it."

"Morris, you bastard, that's not the way to joke. I was just repeating the facts." Boll cursed at his comrade.

"Okay, stop arguing. Where is the snake?" asked the squad leader.

"Squad leader, look at the branch below the tree in front of you on the left. My eyesight is excellent, and I can see this green guy hiding under the leaves at a glance."

Following the direction that Boll said, the squad leader saw the snake clearly. He installed the bayonet on the gun, lifted the gun butt and gently flicked it. A green African tree snake fell to the ground. The frightened African tree snake disappeared from everyone's sight in a flash.

"Fortunately it's not Mamba, otherwise it would be troublesome to deal with." said the squad leader.

The African boomslang is a venomous snake with a low venom excretion volume and poor venom injection efficiency, so it is not very dangerous. Of course, since it is a venomous snake, the East African soldiers chose to act with caution when handling it.

As for the mamba snake, it is a common venomous snake in East Africa, and the black mamba is the most famous, but the black mamba generally lives in grass.

The reason why East African warriors fear the Black Mamba is not because of its toxicity, but because it is too aggressive.

Other African snakes generally will not actively attack people if they are not provoked, but the black mamba is the type that will chase people and bite them. It also requires great skill to catch a black mamba in East Africa as its speed is too fast compared to other snakes. The East African green mamba, which belongs to the same genus of mamba, does not have as extreme a personality as the black mamba.

As for toxicity, the mortality rate of venomous snakes in this era is very high. If you are bitten, you are basically at the mercy of fate.

East Africa is also taking action. In Mombasa, venomous snake researchers and biological experts have been hired to set up a research institute that specializes in studying anti-venom serum for African venomous snakes such as the black mamba and the puff adder.

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Hechingen, Hohenzollernburg.

"Your Highness, why don't we directly import medical talents from Europe, but go to the East? I heard that the medical skills in the East are more like those of medieval witch doctors."

Tom didn't understand Ernst's recent plan to introduce medical talent from the East. It wasn't that Tom was against it, but this project would cost money, and since it cost money, one had to be cautious. However, Ernst's ideas were sometimes wild and unconventional, so Tom felt it was better to confirm it.

In fact, East Africa had also acquired medical knowledge from all over the world before, but it didn't cost much, or even got it for free. This time, Ernst was going to spend a lot of money to recruit medical talents, books, and effective prescriptions from the Far East.

"Tom, the reason is very simple. It is not impossible that some people in the East use the banner of traditional Chinese medicine to cheat, but most of them have been systematically passed down for more than 3,000 years. They have been tested for a longer time than Europe. In addition, the historical records left by the Orientals in terms of culture are richer, while most of our parchment scrolls are used to record the Bible."

Oriental medicine must have existed for much longer than this, but Ernst has his own judgment. A large number of practical documents in the Far East appeared during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, that is, they were recorded and disseminated in the form of bamboo slips. Especially with the rise of private schools, a large number of intellectuals (including medical talents) wrote books to systematically sort out the experience of their predecessors and at the same time boldly innovate. The existence of a large number of bamboo slips allowed the entire medical system to be continuously inherited and developed in the form of text, rather than passed down orally.

Fallacies may certainly exist, but most of the effects were tested on that land, and those that were ineffective would have been eliminated long ago.

The time when Eastern medicine declined was actually before the Ming Dynasty. By the Ming Dynasty, medicine had already entered a stage of sticking to the old ways. It was not until the Western Industrial Revolution developed to a certain stage, which was during this period, that modern medicine emerged and surpassed it.

It was during Ernst's time that chemistry and biology had already begun to exert their influence, preparing to kick traditional medicine off the throne.

But Ernst did not dare to try the current European medicine. You would never know whether what they developed was poison or antidote, especially since various drugs were often used as "universal miracle drugs".

“But Your Highness, how can you guarantee that the people we summoned from the Far East are not scammers? We don’t know much about Eastern medicine,” Tom asked curiously.

"This is a simple matter. We just need to ask their government to facilitate it for us. Let Ambassador Richard personally discuss this matter with their top leaders. With official endorsement, I believe this matter will be easier. It would be best if we could communicate with their Imperial Hospital. Also, let us have more people in the Far East, North Korea, Japan, and Vietnam obtain their medical prescriptions and related books."

With official cooperation, at least a large number of scammers who are just filling in the gaps can be screened out.

Ernst had a plan in mind. His purpose was to steal medical formulas from the Far Eastern countries and then apply for patents in the West. Ernst would rather let East Africa eat it than let Japan and South Korea take it.

Anyway, East Africa is an immigrant country. Theoretically speaking, the achievements of the ancestors of immigrants from the Far East are also the achievements of the ancestors of East Africans. What's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine. There is no need to feel guilty about this. Everyone knows that East Africa has a short history, and East Africa will not shamelessly register the historical naming rights.

Ernst went on to say: "There is one more thing to note about this Far Eastern medical introduction plan. We must be vigilant against those quack doctors who use opium to cure all diseases and not let them sneak into East Africa."

"Your Highness, the biggest problem with this work is that our people don't know much about oriental medicine," said Tom.

"So we need to start more from the official side, and also have our own judgment. Some mistakes don't matter. When East African medicine develops in the future, we can just screen out the correct ones from the collected wealth." Ernst said.

This is like a high-multiple game. If you can find a top-level prescription like XX Baiyao, you will make a lot of money. If you can't find it, it doesn't matter. You won't lose money overall anyway.

Of course, Ernst will also invest in modern medical research in the future. As for now, he will first learn from traditional medicine.

Therefore, East Africa can only promote traditional medicine on a large scale at present, and Ernst chose to believe in oriental medicine. As for modern medicine in East Africa, the education system has not yet developed, so there is no way to develop it, or it is better to develop it in Europe. After all, Europe has talents, technology, and the most complete equipment.

Ernst vigorously promoted oriental medicine in East Africa in the early days and rushed to register its traditional medicine patents, so that later the Far Eastern countries privately gave East Africa the title of "stealing country". The one that was most vulnerable was Japan, because East Africa also registered a large number of traditional medical achievements unique to Japan. As for North Korea, it claimed that East African medical care was developed based on North Korean traditional medicine, and that the source of East African medicine was North Korea, and it was quite proud of it.

Of course, East Africans would not agree, especially the "old Chinese medicine practitioners" in East Africa, who have repeatedly emphasized that this is the achievement of our Eastern ancestors and East Africa has the right of inheritance.

(End of this chapter)