"Your Majesty, the Fifth Prince has come to report that his army has captured Venice, Genoa, and Florence, and has entered Rome on the day the telegram was sent."
Li Ruolian came to report to Zhu You.
After hearing this, Du Yinxi looked at Zhu Youxiao and said, "So, except for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and Great Britain and Ireland, the entire Europe has reached the territory of our Han family!"
Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "Very good, the process of unifying southern Europe is really a catastrophic one."
Immediately, Zhu Youxiao asked again: "Did the fifth prince mention anything else in the telegram, besides greeting me?"
"Yes, the fifth prince hopes that the imperial court will send more highly skilled medical doctors to the front line, because recently many people in the army have suffered from the same kind of liver enlargement. The symptoms are mostly jaundice and spider nevus all over the body, and a swollen abdomen. , as hard as iron, with ascites produced, so people who know how to treat plague need to check whether it is caused by the local water and soil, which leads to frequent occurrence of this type of disease in the military. The onset of this type of disease is sudden, and they will be comatose within a few months. His death has caused panic, so we specially asked the imperial court to send better and famous doctors for consultation."
Li Ruolian replied at this time.
Zhu Youxiao was quite surprised after hearing this: "You have such a disease?"
For a moment, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but look solemn, and hurriedly told Du Yinxi: "Go and invite Ye Qing, the chief medical officer beside me."
"yes!"
The Ye Qing mentioned by Zhu Youxiao is Ye Chaocai, the number one surgical genius in the Ming Dynasty.
Historically, he had performed anal atresia surgery. Now, after Zhu Youxiao came to the throne, Ming Dynasty vigorously developed modern medicine, especially surgical medicine. Therefore, Ye Chaocai's current surgical skills are better than those in history.
Of course, Ye Chaocai was also accomplished in internal medicine, otherwise he would not have become Zhu Youxiao's medical officer.
As soon as Ye Chaocai arrived, Zhu Youxiao quickly asked Du Yinxi to inform Ye Chaocai of the situation.
Ye Chaochai was silent for a moment after hearing this. After a while, he said: "Your Majesty, in my humble opinion, this is not necessarily a plague. Because this kind of disease has also happened in China, and before I came to your Majesty, I also went out of order." I have visited and investigated this kind of disease all over the world. According to my opinion, this kind of disease has several situations. One is that the mother and her child are infected, because the mother has the virus and it is passed on to her son; the other is the aggregation of the disease, which is estimated to be It is true that a certain plague is spreading; but there is also a situation where moldy food is often eaten; therefore, I would like the army to investigate and investigate whether the officers and soldiers have eaten moldy food."
"Moldy food?"
Du Yinxi couldn't help but ask after hearing this.
Zhu Youxiao looked a little serious, then looked at Li Ruolian and said: "Send Ye Qing's words to the fifth prince verbatim."
After Zhu Youxiao said this, he ordered: "Use secret electricity!"
"yes!"
Li Ruolian replied and reported again: "In addition, the fifth prince also sent a telegram saying that there is a shortage of medical alcohol on the front line and an extra batch needs to be shipped."
Zhu Youxiao nodded after hearing this, and then looked at Ye Chaocai: "It's up to you to send famous doctors to the front line."
"According to the order!"
Ye Chaocai retreated after taking it back.
Zhu Youxiao then asked Du Yinxi to draft a decree for the Ministry of War to arrange for a batch of medical alcohol to be shipped there.
After Du Yinxi made the order, he asked Zhu Youxiao worriedly: "Your Majesty, although most people are not as clear as Doctor Ye and know that eating moldy food may cause such illnesses, everyone knows , moldy food is not allowed to be eaten, and if some soldiers on the front line really suffer from such diseases because of eating moldy food, wouldn’t it mean that there is a problem with logistics? "
Zhu Youxiao glanced at him and said: "For some people who only have profit in their eyes, they will do anything! Even selling the rope to strangle themselves to their enemies, as the ancients said, profit makes the mind faint. This This situation is not impossible.”
"So, Your Majesty asked the Jin Yiwei to use a secret message to remind the fifth prince?"
Du Yinxi asked.
"Yes, I did consider this possibility, so I asked Li Ruolian to contact Lao Wu and the others using secret messages. We, the rulers, have to keep fighting against such people, because such people will always exist. "
After Zhu Youxiao said that, he added: "Business is especially prone to problems caused by these people."
"What your Majesty is saying is that businessmen value profits, and there has always been a saying that those who are dishonest will not do business. However, the main tax in the Ming Dynasty is now commercial tax, so it cannot be separated from business."
Du Yinxi followed.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao laughed and said: "There is no need to beat all the merchants to death with a stick. Business has its positive significance, that is, it can reasonably allocate the resources of the entire society, but the court and the people cannot condone some businessmen to act recklessly! In that case, it will not be conducive to the development of the entire business. In addition, it is necessary to promote the emergence of more social business groups, so that some good businessmen who are willing to maintain business order can unite to resist unscrupulous businessmen, so as to avoid obtaining the goods operated by Chinese merchants in the future. The reputation has been reduced to the point where it is not as good as the products of merchants in the feudal country."
"Your Majesty said so."
Du Yinxi continued: "The seventh prince has a free and easy personality, and he is informal in running the army. He has mentioned this problem before, and it can be avoided if Li Dingguo is here, but now Li Dingguo has been transferred." Let's go, if there is any mistake, it will be a fault recommended by the minister."
"I am the one who makes the decision, you don't have to take it upon yourself!"
"What's more, if Zhu Cizhuo really has the flaw Zhou Yuji mentioned, then this flaw will be exposed sooner or later! Now the empire still needs young commanders, such as Li Dingguo. Sooner or later, he will be allowed to lead the army alone. How could he be allowed to only serve as Zhu Cizhuo's assistant? After a long time, it would be a blow to him and easily affect his will. What's more, he was really needed at that time! In addition, if a jade is not polished, it will not be used. This old five Without some mistakes, it is difficult to become a truly outstanding commander."
Zhu Youxiao said, "I just feel sorry for the ordinary officers and soldiers who were innocently implicated."
"As the saying goes, one general's success can cause thousands of bones to wither. There is nothing we can do about it. Besides, the truly hateful ones should be those truly evil ones!"
Du Yinxi persuaded.
Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Yes, no matter who it is, I will not forgive him lightly if he does something shameless!"
The fifth prince, Zhu Cizhuo, was standing in the Colosseum in Rome, looking at the entire city of Rome with great interest.
At this moment, he received a secret message from the imperial court from his subordinates.
After receiving the secret message, Zhu Cizhuo also realized the possible problems here, and therefore ordered: "Instruct the army directly under the guard town to come with me to the seventh town station of the second army of the fifth regiment of the Florence Guards!"
"yes!"
The place Zhu Cizhuo was talking about was the place where the Ming Dynasty's frontline troops were concentrated in the outbreak of hepatomegaly.
Because Zhu Cizhuo arrived suddenly, Chen Shikai, the chief military officer here, could only rush out to greet him and asked: "Why did the general come here suddenly?"
Actually, what Chen Shikai wanted to ask was, didn't you just come here some time ago?
And why did you bring so many soldiers?
Chen Shikai felt a little uneasy.
After seeing Chen Shikai, Zhu Cizhuo asked directly: "Old Chen, have the number of soldiers suffering from liver disease increased?"
Chen Shikai immediately replied: "It's still increasing, and three more have been discovered."
"Where is your logistics camp?"
Zhu Cizhuo suddenly asked.
Chen Shikai froze in place after hearing this. He did not answer immediately, but rolled his eyes randomly.
But at this time, Zhu Cizhuo suddenly drew his gun and pointed it at Chen Shikai and shouted: "Answer me!"
Chen Shikai had beads of sweat on his forehead and hesitantly replied: "Behind my guard camp."
Therefore, Zhu Cizhuo immediately shouted: "General Soldier Yan, take two battalions over first and surround his logistics camp. All officers in the battalion will be detained! If there is resistance, shoot without mercy!"
"yes!"
Many horse hooves flew up, sending up smoke and dust all the way.
Here, Zhu Cizhuo continued to point at Chen Shikai and ordered: "Tie him up!"
After Chen Shikai was kidnapped, Zhu Cizhuo also led the remaining soldiers and horses towards the logistics camp of the seventh town, broke into the grain depot here, and stabbed the grain bags here with one knife, and then left I saw that the grain that leaked out was mixed with a lot of moldy grain.
"Your Highness! Governor Yao said that it would be okay for soldiers to eat this moldy grain. It can fill their stomachs anyway. I thought it would be cooked thoroughly, but I never thought it might be related to liver disease."
Chen Shikai, who was escorted over, said at this time.
Zhu Cizhuo turned around and kicked him in the stomach: "I really want to chop you to death now! You bastard, you are a moldy thing, how dare you feed it to your brothers? You are really blinded by lard! You deserve it Are they the ones who risk life and death for you?!"
Chen Shikai felt as if his abdomen had been hit by a hammer, his vision went black for a while, stars appeared, and his intestines seemed to have been kicked out. He said in great pain: "I thought it was okay!"
"You think it's okay, but I see that you don't take them to heart at all and have no comradeship!"
Zhu Cizhuo yelled, and at the same time, he also blamed himself: "It's my fault too, I blame me for not trusting you too much. When you drink one by one, and when you pat your chests and make promises, each of you promises better than the other. I said I wouldn't do anything that would make me feel sorry for my colleagues just for small profits, but in the end, they got together to harm my own soldiers just for a few fucking dollars! If I had known this, I should have been more discerning and learned from it Li Dingguo personally inspects all kinds of grain and baggage every day."
After speaking, Zhu Cizhuo waved his hand and said: "Take him under custody and wait to be handed over to the court for disposal. The rest of the logistics management personnel will also be detained, and new grains will be transferred directly from the base camp."
"General, please plead for me. General, please plead for me!"
Chen Shikai continued to shout when he was taken away again.
"Notify the entire army of this matter and let all officers and soldiers know about it. In addition, order each army to strictly inspect their respective grain depots. If any moldy food is found, report it immediately. Otherwise, if it is not reported, it will be randomly inspected by this general. When the time comes, don’t blame me for being merciless.”
Zhu Cizhuo continued.
"General, is there something wrong with this? Once all the officers and soldiers know about this, it will affect the soldiers' trust in the officers, especially in the logistics battalion."
Admiral Jiang Yan could not help but dissuade him at this time.
"You have to have some distrust, so that all the soldiers in the army can supervise you, otherwise you will be treated like a fool like me! On the battlefield, I can take bullets for them, but in the future, we still have to investigate what should be investigated."
Zhu Cizhuo said.
Jiang Yu said nothing more.
Zhu Cizhuo then sent a secret telegram to Zhu Youxiao about the situation he discovered during the surprise inspection.
After Zhu Youxiao learned about it, he said: "There is indeed something fishy! Let the Jinyi Guards go and investigate, from the grain merchants who deliver the grain to the purchasing officials of the Ministry of War, and the officials in charge of inspections in the Logistics Department of the Privy Council, to the officials in charge of logistics in the Western Expeditionary Army , all the cooks who cook directly in the town will be imprisoned and dealt with strictly! In addition, those who should be held accountable must also be held accountable!"
"According to the order!"
Du Yinxi replied, and then said: "This is a nest case, but it must be fundamentally related to profiteers colluding with bureaucrats. As your Majesty expected, as long as the people above make mistakes, this unhealthy trend will Being able to get through it right away is really hard to guard against.”
"The feelings of compatriots are still weak, and there is no thought of the nation. We really need to be diligent in dusting them all the time to avoid being stained with dust! Send a decree to the Privy Council, ordering the troops on the front line to stop all military operations. They would rather delay the cause of reunification than to clean up the interior. In terms of ethics, ask Jinyiwei to send people to each army to spot-check whether there are any other phenomena of shoddy quality. Soldiers cannot bleed on the front line, but they have to be framed by corrupt officials and profiteers! In addition, let the Ministry of Commerce send people to each province to investigate, and there are There is no such thing as substandard or even selling fake and shoddy products; once all are found and reported, I will deal with them seriously and teach these guys a painful lesson!"
When Zhu Youxiao said this, he said: "Set me a mailbox and allow everyone in the world, regardless of status, even ordinary children, to write anonymous letters to me, and have a dedicated person collect the letters."
"Your Majesty, do you want everyone in the world to be supervised by everyone in the world?"
Du Yinxi asked.
Zhu Youxiao nodded.
…
"The medical alcohol ordered by the Ministry of War is mixed with half more water! But it must be labeled as 75%! Remember."
When the imperial court began to investigate and seize cases of selling moldy grains for military rations, Qi Maozong, the owner of a large private medical alcohol factory, ordered He Laoqi, the boss of his factory, to purchase additional medical alcohol from the Ministry of War. One sentence.
He Laoqi was quite surprised after hearing this and asked: "Isn't this a fraud? And since it was ordered by the Ministry of War, it must be used for battlefield rescue. What if something goes wrong?"
"It's okay, it can be disinfected as well."
Qi Maozong replied.
"Didn't you say that medical alcohol only needs this concentration?"
He Laoqi asked with some confusion.
"Do you want to do it? Why are you talking so much?"
Qi Maozong asked directly, and then said: "Besides, what are you afraid of? It's not for us to sell it here. If something happens, the worst we can do is run overseas and hide!"
"But!"
"Why are you talking so much nonsense? I know it all!"
He Laoqi had no choice but to do as he was told.
