I Can Control My Ancestors-Chapter 341 - 26: The Great Kyushu Migration and the Gu Clan’s Sage of Medicine
Compared to the normal migrating populace, these sick individuals naturally moved much slower.
Gu Ling completely settled among them.
She was almost daily among the patients, observing their physical changes after taking medicine.
Moreover, she also employed some methods from the Baiyue wizards.
This was sent by Gu Yi.
Of course, Gu Ling would never employ those human sacrifice methods of the witch doctors.
She merely used the local herbs provided by these witch doctors and continued her observations after administering them to the patients.
This did indeed provide her with some assistance.
Though the witch doctors’ methods were somewhat backward,
as local natives, they undoubtedly had a better understanding of these diseases.
But how could these alone solve everything?
More and more people continued to collapse.
On this arduous journey, hopes of survival for the sick were exceedingly slim.
Yet Gu Ling persisted in not choosing to give up.
She steadfastly stayed on this path, accumulating experience while trying to save people.
Mental solace indeed played a certain role.
At the very least, it stabilized the hearts of some of the already hopeless patients.
But death would not cease.
Although some could gradually recover with strong bodies and medication, the number who fell was far greater than the ones who healed.
This was a reality no one could change.
No matter how hard Gu Ling tried, she couldn’t avoid this decline.
Finally—
After nearly five months of traveling,
in January of Qianji Year Twenty-four,
the migrating populace finally began to arrive at Panyu one after another.
From an initial group of over thirty thousand, less than twenty thousand remained upon reaching Panyu.
This revealed the extent of the casualties.
Yet such an outcome was already remarkable, whether through the expansion of the Mei Pass ancient road or the stabilization of the situation, which reduced the casualties.
Recalling the past, when Emperor Wu of Han relocated the penal colonists to Lingnan,
the death rate was as high as fifty percent.
Perhaps this was a sign of progress in the times, and it also had something to do with the valiant efforts of Gu Ling and many other doctors.
Gu Ling was immensely strong throughout the journey, remaining steadfast even when seeing someone die before her eyes, no matter how much her heart ached, maintaining her strength.
This was all to steady the hearts of the patients.
But the moment she saw Gu Ye, she could no longer hold back.
"Brother!"
Accompanied by a trembling voice, Gu Ling wiped her tears as she walked up to Gu Ye and bowed: "Sister...."
"No need for that, sister."
Before she could speak—
Gu Ye directly pulled her up, using his hand to wipe away the tears at the corner of her eye: "You’ve done very well."
Even Gu Yi had to admit that Gu Ling had indeed exceeded her expectations.
Though she was a woman,
compared to the males of the same generation in the Gu Clan, in terms of capability or character, she was evidently more outstanding.
Gu Ling still cried sorrowfully.
Having been holding it in all these days, she naturally needed to vent now.
Gu Yi did not interfere with this.
And so, Gu Ling cried and talked about her experiences along the way, and facing death every day.
Not until much later did she gradually calm down.
What Gu Yi did not expect was—
Gu Ling immediately proposed that she wished to return to the Central Plains.
Gu Yi initially thought that Gu Ling couldn’t accept Lingnan’s climate, but Gu Ling’s voice sounded again.
"When Brother next migrates the populace, I shall definitely return."
"My medical skills have improved greatly along this journey, next time I will surely save more people."....
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"During the Yan Han period, Gu Ye’s Lingnan development strategy, through immigrant border consolidation, economic expansion, and cultural integration, completely transformed the ancient frontier governance model.
This initiative not only propelled the Pearl River Basin to become a new agricultural center, laying the foundation for the economic shift to the south in future dynasties.
It also made Panyu Port the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, heralding our nation’s oceanic civilization.
The implemented ’Huaxia-Barbarian Co-governance’ policy broke the traditional distinction between Huaxia and Barbarians, fostering a symbiosis of Han-Yue culture that retained their respective characteristics and provided a practical model for the ’diverse unity’ framework of the Huaxia nation.
The development of Lingnan marked the formal transition of Chinese civilization from the Yellow River Basin’s single-core drive to an era of multi-faceted prosperity leveraging rivers and the sea."
— "People’s Education Press History Textbook. Seventh Grade Upper Volume (National Integration Unit)"
