The Ming army would not treat anyone badly in terms of food, regardless of the soldiers and husbands.

In addition to rice porridge, daily food is also accompanied by a piece of sweet potatoes. There is also fish soup in the food (Luzon is close to the sea and is not short of fresh food), and tropical fruits and melons are also rationed.

At the same time, Liu Yu also ordered people to take out the internal organs of sea fish and boil cod liver oil. This thing has a miraculous effect in treating night blindness.

At the same time, the intake of various fruits and vegetables has made the Ming army sailors and soldiers basically not suffer from scurvy.

Even Gore was surprised by this because sailors who sailed on the sea all year round were very likely to suffer from scurvy. For example, sailors in the Nanyang Merchant Fleet basically showed signs of scurvy. However, Gore had never been discovered by Ming soldiers and sailors during these days.

This surprised Gore and was puzzled.

In fact, Chinese sailors rarely get scurvy, while Spanish and English at the same time often die in large numbers due to scurvy.

The reason for this is that later generations attributed the credit to the fact that there were bean sprouts, tea and vitamin C on Chinese ships.

For example, when Zheng He went to the West, he planted bean sprouts on his boat.

In fact, bean sprouts are useful, but it is completely nonsense to save the lives of sailors in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Bean sprouts have VC, but the content is not high, only 8 grams per 100 grams. In addition, the bean sprouts will seriously lose their nutritional content when cooking. That is to say, you have to eat enough pounds of bean sprouts a day to barely be effective. You should know that bean sprouts consume a lot of fresh water.

There is so much fresh water on the boat, so I let bean sprouts and sailors grab water to drink. Does that mean people still have to live?

The reason why Zheng He's voyage to the West and even after his voyage to the West was basically not suffering from scurvy in the Ming and Qing sailors was because Chinese merchant ships basically went to the Southeast Asia, and they sailed along the coast from Fujian and Guangdong.

Basically, fresh water and tropical fruits can be replenished on coastal land.

Southeast Asian coastal fruits such as citrus are the key to keeping Nanyang sailors from suffering from scurvy.

After all, tropical fruits such as citrus are rich in vitamin C and the Nanyang merchant fleet can dock once every ten days and half a month, so naturally they will not get scurvy.

But Western sailors are different. At that time, there was no Suez Canal. If you want to come to the East, you had to bypass the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, cross the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

It took several years to go down the road. At first glance, it was full of oceans. It was not necessarily a year for seven or eight months. Western sailors who could not get land supplies were naturally sad. After all, the VC could only ensure the consumption of the human body for forty days. After forty days, scurvy and other things came.

So don’t think that Chinese sailors cannot get scurvy because the Chinese were so smart in ancient times. They knew that bean sprouts and tea could be prevented, and it was not enough to rely on them.

Chinese sailors rely on the geographical conditions of the Southeast Asian countries to make them walk and stop, and they can obtain supplies for vegetables, fruits and melons on the shore every ten days and half a month.

Western sailors at the same time sailed for several years and had no chance to stop for land supply. It was already a gift from God to run into an island on the ocean.

I have been wandering in the ocean all year round and cannot get fresh vegetables, fruits and vegetables, so I have such a high mortality rate.

Therefore, later generations were complacent about the Ming and Qing sailors not suffering from scurvy, while Western sailors died of scurvy.

They would never have thought that the reason why Chinese sailors in the Ming and Qing dynasties did not get scurvy was because they were so comfortable that they could not get it.

Just as European navigators crossed the Atlantic Ocean, discovered the American continent and sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to the Indian Ocean.

Sail the world from Columbus' discovery of the American continent to Magellan.

European navigators and sailors who gradually emerged from medieval ignorance used their courage and courage to conquer patches of oceans, discovered new continents, and conquered one indigenous tribe after another.

Years of sailing have made the sea conditions extremely difficult.

Even diseases such as scurvy and inability to obtain supplies often lead to the death of a ship of sailors in the ocean.

But that's it. Have Europeans given up on the ocean?

The Ming Dynasty government gave up voyage to the West because of financial difficulties.

However, Europeans have never given up on the ocean due to diseases such as scurvy and the harsh natural climate.

When merchants went to sea in Ming and Qing dynasties, they were like young wives leaving their boudoirs. When they were stumbled and stopped at the shore for ten days and half a month to replenish supplies,

European navigators have already stormed waves in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and even the Pacific Ocean, opening up the era of great geographical discovery.

It can be said that they exchanged the blood and sweat of several generations to gain hegemony for hundreds of years to come.

And what about the Ming and Qing dynasties?

Even the small Southeast Asia was not taken down, and even the close-to-earth island of Luzon was taken away by the Spanish.

How far is the Spanish from Luzon Island and how far is China from Luzon Island?

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Spain massacred China in Luzon five times. Did the Ming and Qing dynasties send troops?

One evades the excuse for having no money, and the other even slaughtered the people outside and was content with slaughtering them.

Then don’t blame why Europe conquered the world.

All of this was planted as early as the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Therefore, when he saw that many sailors in the Nanyang Company and even the Spanish merchant fleet were suffering from scurvy, Liu Yu felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

He is full of admiration for these sailors and also compassion.

So when Gore asked intentionally or unintentionally, Liu Yu replied decisively: "God Knows"

When Gore heard this, he was stunned at first and then laughed.

Liu Yu naturally knew that vitamin C could effectively prevent and treat scurvy, and at the same time, he also knew that citrus and lemons were rich in vitamin C.

Westerners in this era naturally don’t know what vitamins are, although through practice some Western captains did find that fruits such as citrus can prevent scurvy.

But it was not popularized and promoted. In addition, Western sailors often ate various jerky meat, merchant fleets may not be able to see land for most of the past six months.

Even if I told them, fruits can be prevented, they will probably have no good way to store fruits for a long time.

Most importantly, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, two million sailors died of scurvy during the Western navigation.

Two million, you should know that the Spanish colonies on Luzon have ruled for centuries, and there are no more than 10,000 Spanish colonists on the island.

This is also the reason why only a thousand Ming soldiers dare to come to Luzon.

Such astonishing death numbers also prove that the glory of the Western Age of Discovery also greatly restricted the conquest of the Western colonists by the world.

Think about it, a merchant ship set sail from Spain crossed the Atlantic Ocean, bypassed the Cape of Good Hope and came to the Indian Ocean, and then came to Luzon through the Indian Ocean. It took a year and a half to say along the way.

Without land supply for a long time, diseases such as scurvy can kill most of the crew members on the merchant ship. When the crew arrives at their destination, the fresh water on the island is rich in various parasites, which can cause sailors to suffer from malaria and other diseases.

Therefore, the mortality rate of Western sailors in the Age of Discovery was quite high, and this was the case with the Spanish colonists who came to Luzon in the fifteenth century.

Liu Yu is very happy to see Western navigators tortured by scurvy.

Because this undoubtedly restricted the colonization of Western colonists on various continents.

Gore was just a Nanyang businessman, so he naturally didn't know these little things in Liu Yu's heart.
Chapter completed!