Both parties signed an agreent which, at Japan’s strong insistence, was not made public. East Africa is well aware of Japan’s intentions, which are to never give up its ambitions. However, as long as East Africa carefully manages the Southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan will have to pay a price to seize them again.
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Hohenzollern Province.
Although East Africa is powerless to develop its pharmaceutical industry, it is still trying its best to develop traditional Chinese dicine according to its own characteristics and advantages, or to reduce the treatnt costs of Chinese dicine.
This is a topic related to taking advantage freely. The West emphasizes patents, while the Far East does not have this concept. Of course, it’s not that doctors in the Far East are generous, as much of these skills are spread through family and apprenticeship, which can be quite selfish and at risk of being lost. This is understandable, after all, it’s their livelihood.
Moreover, the Far East may not value dical advancent much, which can be seen in its social status. In Arica, doctors and lawyers are very important professions, but both are costly industries.
In the 19th century, dicine emphasized the notion of "my fate is determined by , not by heaven." Its efficacy hardly reassures Ernst, so he pays great attention to health issues and tries his best to reduce the risk of illness.
Currently, East African dicine lacks a foundational figure to drive modern dicine, a self-forming complete system, or advanced equipnt and new thods to foster developnt, and it ets none of these conditions.
The traditional Chinese dicine system is relatively mature, and it’s not sothing that can be easily surpassed by the new Chinese dicine, nor can it significantly impact the current dical system in East Africa.
Therefore, East Africa can only heavily develop the cultivation of dicinal materials based on traditional Chinese and Western dicine. Both ancient dical systems cannot do without the support of dicinal materials, and East Africa is no exception now.
In this era, Europeans and Aricans are indifferent to Chinese dicine, thus easily demonizing it. Japan is charging full speed ahead on its path of "leaving Asia to join Europe." Therefore, no one else except East Africa is eyeing Chinese dicine, and the Far Eastern empire is quite indifferent to this aspect now.
Since Europe and Arica disdain it, the Far East is also beginning to have doubts about its traditional industry, and many legitimate Chinese dicine practices are increasingly being questioned.
In terms of freely acquiring Chinese herbal dicines, although the Far East has no patents, growing Chinese herbs is a skilled task, and East Africa needs to import most of its Chinese herbs from the Far East.
The main component of Chinese herbal dicine is herbs, and even though East Africa’s climate is mostly tropical savanna, with a variety of grasses, Africans have an extrely low level of developnt for dicinal herbs.
Thus, East Africa’s local dicinal herbs primarily take the Arab influence in African dicine as a starting point, inheriting and absorbing the dical traditions of the Swahili people and the Arab people along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.
Black people actually have their own witch doctor systems, but the Black forces now completely controlled by East Africa have naturally declared the end of their witch doctor systems. Although Black people exist, African witch doctors are different. Even in the most underdeveloped Africa, there are still knowledge barriers.
Before colonization by East Africa, the original Black forces in East Africa had a low level of developnt, and the sa was true for dicine, which had to be tied in with superstition.
This turned curing into a matter of mysticism. If a patient was healed, it ant the spirits had not abandoned their people; if not, the patient’s faith was deed lacking and thus abandoned by the spirits, thereby solving issues of dical disputes.
Even if a death was due to dical malpractice, the ruling class blad the spirits. If there were issues, it was due to the impurity of the soul, unrelated to the treatnt.
African witch doctors belonged to the ruling class, as most of these so-called doctors were either tribal chiefs, priests, or other high-ranking individuals.
Of course, these deceptive tactics required a technical level too, as the spirits could not always take the bla, and lies would eventually be exposed.
This witch doctor system was overall more detrintal than beneficial to East Africa, as it mainly remained in the primitive societal stage and was far too outdated.
The most well-developed traditional dical practices were the Far Eastern and Arab dicine. The forr had long been passed down and beca increasingly complete, while the latter benefited from geographical advantages, incorporating the strengths of many traditions.
East Africa chose Chinese dicine, naturally requiring the use of Chinese dicinal materials. However, East Africa’s environnt mostly does not support these, or cannot currently facilitate their spread, necessitating large imports from the Far East, which still cost much less than many Western dicines with unknown side effects.
The trial and promotion of Chinese herbs in East Africa have not shown significant effects, especially so commonly used dicinal herbs such as the panacea ginseng.
Hohenzollern Province is one of the ginseng trial planting bases, mainly located in shaded river valley areas.
"These ginsengs planted on the north slopes can indeed mature, but the quality and efficacy compared to the Far Eastern Empire remain unknown."
"Currently, we have identified four ginseng planting bases nationwide. As of now, the ginseng from Hessen Province appears to be the best in terms of growth, size, and it most closely resembles characteristics of Far Eastern ginseng. However, we still need to further observe its specific efficacy, requiring more samples and clinical trials."
"Hessen Province mainly relies on mountainous terrain. Although the quality of the produce is excellent, it is not suitable for large-scale promotion. I think we should try planting in the South African Plateau in the far south of East Africa."
"Kells, what are your thoughts?"
"I’m mainly considering from the perspective of sunlight. I’ve heard that the best ginseng-growing regions in the Far East are at relatively high latitudes, while our highest latitude in East Africa is the southern three provinces, which are already subtropical."
"You are assuming a bit much. Although the South African Plateau has suitable temperatures, it does not have the characteristic humidity that ginseng prefers."
"Of course, I know this, which is why I suggest choosing the forr Swaziland Kingdom as the location, which should have fairly abundant rainfall and relatively large terraces."
"But many of us haven’t been to Swaziland, so we don’t know if what you say is true?"
"Of course, don’t you understand ? What’s the point in tricking you? Swaziland is now a prefecture-level city, and the indigenous population has mostly been relocated, with a very low population now. However, there are troops stationed around to guard against the Portuguese, so security is definitely not an issue."
"So, Kells, how about I’m entrusting this task to you? You can lead a team to Swaziland to conduct trials and report the results at each stage."
"Director, I can’t do it. You know , and although I like plants, I have limited cultural knowledge. I definitely can’t lead a team unless you assign Mars to assist ."
Mars laughed and said, "If I go to Swaziland, then I’ll be the team leader. It wouldn’t be your turn. Moreover, I have to inspect Hessen Province in a few days, so the task still falls to you."
"But I really have no experience!"
Director: "Kells, don’t worry. Basically, you just need to repeat what you did every day here in Swaziland. How about this, there’s a new intern Houtu, I’ll assign him to assist you. He has returned from studying in Europe, so with his help, I believe you will have no problem!"
Kells said helplessly, "I guess that’s the only way."
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