King of German Mercenaries

Two Mongolian doctors, the language talent seems to be not good. And, what frustrates Marin the most is that these two guys can speak Mongolian and Russian, which is popular in Eastern Europe, but can't speak German.

Since being recruited by the Teutonic State, the two have learned a little German, but they have only learned a few words to say hello. Then, they communicated with Marin, basically relying on a combination of simple German words and gestures.

One day, Marin was really tired of communicating with the two Mongolian doctors through gestures like this. Thinking that the two of them came from the Mongolian homeland before, maybe they could speak Chinese, so he used Chinese. Unexpectedly, the two can really speak Chinese.

However, the Chinese of the two people, Ma Lin sounds like the dialect in the north of SX, and it is about the accent of Datong. It's no wonder that the tribes of Mozhigen and Battle were originally close to Datong. In their tribe, they often send people to Datong to do business with horses in exchange for iron pots and tea leaves. Therefore, many children of noble families in the tribe have learned Datong dialect to facilitate trade.

At this moment, their Datong dialect Chinese finally came in handy. Fortunately, Datong and Mandarin are both northern dialects, and there are still many similarities. Therefore, as long as he speaks slowly, Marin can still communicate with these two Mongolian doctors who speak the Datong dialect. If they were talking about GD, then Marin would be blinded too. Because GD and Mandarin are very different. Even though he had listened to a lot of Cantonese songs in his previous life, Marin didn't read the subtitles, so he still didn't know what those Cantonese songs were singing...

After some exchanges, Marin was finally able to talk to these two goods. To be honest, if one day the patient and the doctor cannot communicate normally, it will be a sad reminder. The doctor always asks about the patient's condition. The patient speaks a dialect for a long time, but the doctor doesn't understand a word. How to treat it?

Fortunately, after moving out of Mandarin, Marin became the first person on the island who could communicate normally with these two Mongolian doctors. But it's useless, because Marin is the lord, not the translator. If one day these two people see a doctor and cannot communicate with each other, it will be miserable. In addition, the Mongolian doctor's treatment method is simple and rude. If you don't understand the disease, using the wrong and rude way of treatment may kill the patient.

So, in desperation, Marin had to teach them to speak German himself, which was a mess. At the beginning, when someone on the island was looking for them for treatment, Marin also made a cameo translation...

Thinking about it, Marin was dying of depression. The dignified baron actually acted as an interpreter for two Mongolian doctors, which is too much...

However, when Marin was teaching the two goods to learn German, he often chatted. One day, Bartle suddenly said that his surname was Li, and he brought a lot of seeds of oriental medicinal herbs...

Marin was shocked on the spot and broke the food glass imported from Venice...

"What did you say? Medicinal seeds? How many?"

"Huh?" Battle didn't expect Marin to react so strongly.

Still stunned.

"Don't be stunned, answer my question..."

"Oh, it's just a few small packets, a dozen seeds of each variety. I just collected the seeds out of curiosity. I originally planned to plant them in the Golden Horde..."

"What are there, let's talk about it!"

"Oh, there are mainly Astragalus, Bupleurum, Burnet, Fangfeng, Ephedra, Licorice, Gentian... Uh, before I came from my hometown, I collected some Artemisia annua on the grassland. Most people don't eat this stuff. For livestock..."

"Ah? Qinghao!" Who knows, after hearing Qinghao's name, Marin almost jumped up in surprise.

"?Sir, have you heard of Qinghao? In our place, this thing is called stinky wormwood. It tastes very bad, and most people don't eat it..."

"Of course!" Ma Linxin said. A few hundred years later, a great Chinese god named Tu Yoyo extracted artemisinin from Artemisia annua and won the Nobel Prize.

If Battelle didn't say the word stinky wormwood, Marin might still wonder if they brought the kind of artemisinin that he needed (Note: the artemisinin-extracting stinky wormwood is actually called Huanghua). Artemisia annua. It is also called Artemisia annua in traditional Chinese medicine, but it has nothing to do with the plant named Artemisia annua in later generations.). But when he heard the word stinky wormwood, he was relieved.

Why is Marlin so excited? Because artemisinin is the magic medicine for malaria, even more than cinchona. Also, the source of artemisinin is easy. Because Artemisia odorata is a perennial herb, it can grow in one year, and then extract the medicinal ingredients.

And cinchona cream, from the bark of the cinchona tree. However, it takes six or seven years for the cinchona tree to grow before peeling the bark to make cinchona cream, and the period of effect is very long. Unlike Artemisia annua, it is very convenient to plant it in the same year and harvest it in the same year.

As for its use value, the most important one is in the treatment of malaria. Marin lives in Europe and is less likely to develop malaria. But once the tropics were colonized, malaria was the number one disease. ,

These days, the deaths of sailors on ships are mostly caused by scurvy. The colonists who colonized the tropics mostly died of malaria...

Therefore, having a drug against malaria can also enable the development of tropical islands and increase safety...

With Artemisia annua, Marin has enough confidence to conquer the tropics and plant sugar cane. Otherwise, even if they do, a lot of people will die. Generally, if 10 people go to the tropics for colonization, if half of them persist and survive, it is not bad.

In order to adapt to the tropical climate, the colonists had to go to Africa to capture black slaves to work. Because blacks are more adapted to tropical climates than whites.

...

What makes Marin even more pleasantly surprised is yet to come...

"What do these herbs do?" Marin asked, pointing to Burnet, parsnip, and gentian, which he hadn't seen before.

Astragalus, Bupleurum, Ephedra, and Licorice are all very common herbs, and Marin is also known for its uses. However, he has never come into contact with Burnet, Parsnip and Gentian. After all, his level of Chinese medicine is not even half-baked. Therefore, he naturally did not know about some herbs that were used less.

When Bartle told Marin that Burnet was used to stop bleeding and reduce swelling, Marin was so happy...

It is also that he was not a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, and did not know the role of Burnet. Because, later generations, people basically use YN Baiyao, which mainly uses Panax notoginseng as the main medicine. Because YN Baiyao is very powerful, and Panax notoginseng has greatly covered the light of Burnet. Therefore, it is normal for Marin not to know Burnet.

As for Fangfeng, which dispels wind and relieves the external appearance, overcomes dampness and relieves pain, and gentian, which clears away heat and dampness, purifies the liver and calms anxiety, and treats hair loss, Marin does not pay much attention to it. Because these diseases are actually rare. However, it seems that many middle-aged Europeans have hair loss problems. Maybe, gentian still has some uses...

Among these herbs, the most important ones for Marin are the Artemisia annua and Burnet. Because, one for malaria and one for wounding, both are useful for colonial expansion. And ephedra is also a good herbal remedy for colds, and Bupleurum also reduces fever...

So, Marin made a lot of money this time. To this end, in order to grow this important batch, Marin decided to build a glass greenhouse to grow and protect these herbs...

Because, it has now entered the middle and late April, and the spring planting season has passed. However, these herbs are so important. So, Marin decided to build a glass greenhouse to grow these herbs.

Of course, in spring, summer and early autumn, glass greenhouses are not needed. Only, in late autumn, glass greenhouses are needed. Because, at that time, the climate became cold, and it was easy to freeze these precious herbs to death.