Chapter 709 Tang Yao was stunned (please subscribe)

Tang Yao did not expect Luo Chong to be so direct and ask her what she would exchange for right away, but she had already prepared for the content of the negotiation, so she was not very panicked.

"Our Tang tribe is good at collecting herbs and making medicines, and can treat people. If the Han leader is willing, we can use these things to exchange for the technologies of the Han tribe. We can discuss the specific exchange method in detail."

Luo Chong was stunned when he heard this. He did not think of using medical skills and medicinal materials to exchange for technology in advance. If Tang Yao really had such a skill, he would not mind exchanging some of the technology. Anyway, the technologies of the Han tribe were not very advanced. Even if he did not give them, the other party would have a way to get them, but the speed was slower.

Luo Chong's advantage, or the advantage of the Han tribe, is not the existing technologies, but Luo Chong's forward-looking vision. The other party may have a way to learn and imitate, but the speed of development of the Han tribe is definitely faster than that of the other party. Maybe you have just mastered my first generation of technology, but my third generation products have already come out. This is his advantage.

Thinking of this, Luo Chong did not directly refuse or agree. He did not know Tang Yao well enough. The most important thing now was to evaluate whether the chips in the other party's hands were really valuable. If he used his technology to exchange for a set of treatment methods of the other party, he might as well hang himself.

"Well, you said that your Tang tribe is good at treating diseases and medicinal materials, but our Han tribe also has these things, so I don't know whether your medical skills can be used to exchange technology. Can you show me, or can I ask you some questions?"

"Okay."

Tang Yao thought for a moment and agreed directly. After all, this thing can't be said by words alone. Apart from other things, she has already taken the Han tribe's vehicles and ships, which are indeed good things, but her medical skills have not been seen by the other party yet. This is indeed a bit unfair, and it is not conducive to improving the value of her medical skills.

Medical skills are really hard to show, so Luo Chong can only understand them by asking. The most intuitive thing should be data, so he listened to him ask.

"I want to know what percentage of the population of the Tang tribe is over 40 years old, what is the infant mortality rate, and how many of the deaths are due to disease?"

These three questions are probably the data that best reflect the medical level of a faction, so Luo Chong asked this first.

Unfortunately, Tang Yao's Chinese can only be used for ordinary communication, and she doesn't quite understand some of the academic terms of the Han tribe, so she looked at Luo Chong with a confused face.

"What is the ratio, and what is the infant mortality rate?"

Little Luo Cheng put down the wooden spoon that he was drinking lotus root powder with, and looked at this aunt curiously. Luo Chong knocked on his forehead and felt a headache. It was too difficult to communicate like this.

"What I mean is, how many people in your tribe are over 40 years old, what percentage of the total population of the tribe, and how many children born each year die from various reasons, and how many of the deaths in the tribe are due to illness. Can you answer these questions for me?"

Tang Yao was confused again. She wanted to ask what these things had to do with her medical skills, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that there was a connection. If the Tang tribe had very good medical skills, would it be able to prolong people's lives? Would there be more people over 40?

If the medical skills were high, would fewer newborns die?

If the treatment technology was good, would the number of people who died from illness be reduced?

It seemed to make sense. These questions went straight to the core of the problem. If medical skills can't change these, then what's the point of medical skills?

However, she didn't know how to answer Luo Chong's question. The Tang tribe didn't even have the most basic household registration system. They didn't even know how many people they had, let alone the statistics of different categories that Luo Chong mentioned.

"I don't know about this. We in the Tang tribe have never calculated these. Does the Han tribe have to calculate all these things?" Tang Yao was very curious about this, and she felt a little inferior. She looked at others and then looked at herself.

From this point, it can be seen that the Han tribe actually attaches great importance to medical skills. They will also collect such data to find problems. Although the Tang tribe boasts of its advanced medical skills, they have never counted how many practical medical skills are used on the tribe members, and they have never thought about it. They simply go to treat someone who is sick. That's all.

Luo Chong nodded naturally to express his affirmation.

"Medical skills are indeed very important. They are the best things to improve the quality of life and survival chances of our people. However, if we deviate from this goal and lose the ability to benefit our people, then it will be meaningless.

"Our Han tribe also attaches great importance to medical skills, and we attach even greater importance to the inheritance and popularization of medical skills, as well as the changes that medical skills have made to the quality of life of our people. That's why I ordered the calculation of these data.

"We don't want too advanced medical skills for the time being. At present, after statistics, we have found the most lethal and most common diseases, and have conducted targeted research on treatment methods and searched for suitable medicinal materials. At the same time, we will also formulate new social rules based on the causes of these diseases.

"For example, in our Han tribe, the current neonatal mortality rate is 37%, that is to say, for every 100 children born, 37 will die before they grow up. Have you ever thought about how much impact this will have on the population reproduction of the tribe? "

Tang Yao was stunned by the data reported by Luo Chong. Nearly half of the one hundred children died. This was too exaggerated and terrifying. Although she knew that the Tang tribe also often had children dying and dystocia, and people often died, the tribesmen seemed to have regarded this phenomenon as normal. No one investigated how many people died and why they died, and no one tried to find a solution. Even she, who claimed to be proficient in herbal medicine, had never thought about these things.

It must be admitted that even if the medical skills of the Han tribe were not as good as those of the Tang tribe, the correct understanding and use of medical skills between the Han tribe and the Tang tribe were as different as heaven and earth. The Han tribe was cloud and the Tang tribe was mud.

What's the use of just being able to cure diseases? Have you found out why you got sick?

Looking at Tang Yao's face full of disbelief and surprise, Luo Chong once again dropped a bombshell.

"In terms of neonatal mortality alone, our Han tribe has conducted more detailed investigations and statistics. Among the 37% of children who died, at least 10% died because of dystocia, and the others lost their lives due to various diseases.

Do you know what this means? This means that for every 100 children born, 37 will die before they grow up, and 10 of them will die with their mothers due to dystocia.

In other words, for every 100 new people in the tribe, 50 people will die in exchange. Have you thought about these things?"

(End of this chapter)