In October of the eleventh year of Wanli, the capital.
The dew is hidden, and the Forbidden City is full of gold.
Beside Taiye Pond, there are also layers of trees dyed.
In the dense forest beside Taiye Pond, Zhu Yijun, who was taking a walk, took a look at the Golden Rooster presented by Li Shizhen.
Cinchona frost, also known as quinine, was a drug prepared by Zhu Yijun, who ordered the imperial pharmacist Jin Xuezeng, the governor of Fujian, and Liu Bin, the governor of Fujian Province, to find a way to obtain cinchona trees from overseas and use lime.
This drug is miraculous in treating falciparum malaria, which is prevalent in tropical areas.
"Did the express delivery go to Yunnan and Guangdong?"
Zhu Yijun took a look and asked about Li Shizhen.
Li Shizhen replied: "Sent it, and according to the emperor's instructions, let their accompanying medical officer use it in conjunction with the prescriptions for treating cold, heat and malaria in the "Elbow Prescriptions"."
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this.
The main ingredient for treating malaria in "Emergency Prescription" is artemisinin, which is the experience of Chinese civilization in treating malaria.
Cinchona was originally a treatment method summed up by the Indian civilization who had been troubled by malaria for a long time in the tropical environment.
However, both will develop drug resistance after being used for a long time, and will have miraculous effects on different types of malaria. Therefore, Zhu Yijun asked Li Shizhen to remember to use them together with the military medical officers.
"How are you discussing with the cabinet regarding the establishment of a medical department in Taipei Hospital and the reform of the medical registration system?"
At this time, Zhu Yijun suddenly asked about Li Shizhen's farewell.
Li Shizhen replied: "Just as His Majesty instructed in the past, the medical registration system will be transformed into a medical scholar system. Specifically, it is: first, non-medical registration subjects and descendants of the clan are allowed to practice medicine; second, medical practitioners who want to obtain medical qualifications must go through Medical officer examination; third, doctors, together with civil and military students, can enjoy court food, ranging from three to six bushels per month depending on their medical level. If you don't want to be an official, you can apply to the government office for compilation of pharmacopoeia and medicine. Government funds will be used for collecting funds and developing new drugs.”
"That's good."
"But don't impose restrictions on the practice of medicine by doctors who have not obtained medical qualifications, and simply accuse them of being quackery!"
Zhu Yijun said, and told Zhang Hong: "Pass my words to the cabinet."
Reforming the Ming Dynasty's medical system was something Zhu Yijun had been doing for a long time, starting when he asked Li Shizhen to set up a medical clinic to train orphans sent by the imperial court to become doctors.
The most important thing in Ming Dynasty is people.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun gave Li Shizhen many orphans at one time for him to train and screen. So far, he has screened out several good doctors, and they have been assigned as medical officers to serve in the army or the palace, and to open government-run medical clinics in various places.
Most of the orphans who were fostered just became ordinary medical nurses, responsible for doing odd jobs for these people while continuing their studies.
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"I asked you to use the microscope I gave you to observe the puddle. How did you do?"
Zhu Yijun suddenly asked about Li Shizhen's farewell.
Li Shizhen couldn't hide the excitement on his face, and hurriedly replied: "It's quite shocking! I think water-induced diseases are caused by tiny things that can only be seen with a microscope, and are not just caused by evil spirits."
Zhu Yijun smiled slightly: "If you observe more, I will give you a notebook of my observations and summaries for reference. You can summarize them yourself and try to find out the characteristics and possible disease-causing mechanisms of these small microorganisms, which may be beneficial to the development of medicine in this dynasty." .”
Li Shizhen said yes.
In addition to food production and technological level, what affects whether a civilization can survive and expand is its ability to adapt to bacteria.
A plague wiped out medieval civilization in Europe.
Smallpox also made the Indians even more unable to fight against European invasion.
If Ming Dynasty wanted to solve the problem of increasing population through external expansion, its understanding of hygiene must also improve, at least to know the existence of bacteria.
Historically, the Chongzhen Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, which was severely affected by the plague, accelerated the collapse of the economy in the north. Therefore, the Chongzhen Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, which could not quickly resolve internal and external troubles, was affected by the epidemic in the north. Wu Youke, a famous doctor at the time, began to develop infections with viruses and bacteria. This preliminary understanding led to the writing of "On Epidemic Warmth", which prevented the plague from having a greater impact in the early Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun dare not ignore the impact of bacteria and viruses on national strategy.
The golden autumn is the time when the red leaves are in full bloom.
The Ming Empire was gathering an army in the south to destroy Burma, and in the east it was gradually turning Japan into a land of Han civilization. It was also building a large number of observation towers and post roads in the north.
But these are implemented by the bureaucrats below.
Instead, he, the emperor, had nothing to do after setting the tone and national policies. He could only play his role as an emperor in small matters such as making cinchoni cream and improving the imperial medical staff's understanding of germs.
However, this is not the result Zhu Yijun wants.
After all, the country is not his only stage.
It was impossible for him to do everything personally, even to the point of interfering with where a new vehicle and cannon built by the Ordnance Bureau should be placed.
What's more.
If he really wants to personally command the army, and even conspire with local gentry and powerful people, and coordinate them and their clans to be consistent with each other on military and national affairs, he may not be as good as the civil and military officials of this era, and of course there is no need. .
If bureaucrats don't do their job well, they can be replaced.
If his emperor makes a mistake, he can't replace him, right?
After Zhang Juzheng's death, Zhu Yijun began to set the tone and show his attitude to the bureaucrats. He saw the fate of those who were not close to the cliff or even secretly stumbled such as Xu Jie and Zhang Siwei. He saw the fate of Zhang Juzheng and other reformist civil servants after they worked hard to seek the country. It is to let the bureaucrats in the world know that although the Lord is above the Nine Heavens, he does not know who his loyal ministers are, and he also knows what the world should be like.
As for me, as an official, I have to make achievements if I want to be a minister.
It can be said that Zhu Yijun did all this just for today, so that the bureaucrats and people who make up this country can operate according to his vision.
Now his goal has been basically achieved.
His bureaucrats didn't let him down, either.
Such as Wang Xijue.
According to the memorial that Wang Xijue sent back to Beijing after inspecting the maritime trade, Zhu Yijun knew that Wang Xijue obviously negotiated very harmoniously with the bureaucrats and gentry in Guangzhou and Guangdong, and in the end he was not assassinated by local forces.
Moreover, after Wang Xijue discussed with these Guangdong bureaucrats and gentry, he also asked the court to adjust the tax details of the Guangdong Shipping Department in his memorial. He proposed to charge an average tariff of 100 to 30% on domestic merchant ship cargo, while imposing tariffs on barbarians. Shipping goods are charged an average tariff of 100 to 50%.
This can be said to be much higher than the previous customs tariff of Guangdong Shipping Bureau!
Of course, this is nothing compared to the commercial benefits from India to Haojing and Guangzhou and from Haojing and Guangzhou to Japan.
You must know that in this era, the trade line from India to Ming Guangdong, and then from Ming Guangdong to Japan was one of the most profitable trade lines, and the profitability of most goods was more than 100%.
Zhu Yijun was very satisfied with this. He not only saw Wang Xijue's ability, but also achieved the goal of rectifying Guangdong's maritime trade and dealing with the invasion of foreign barbarians in Haojing.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun also granted Wang Xijue the title of Shaofu for his role in quelling the invasion of the Western Barbarians, and was promoted to a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion. Yin Yizi was appointed as a supervisor of the Imperial Academy, and the other civil servants and generals who participated in this matter also received awards.
Even the first assistant, Shen Shixing, was promoted to Zuozhuguo for recommending Wang Xijue.
Because sending Wang Xijue to Guangdong was arranged by Shen Shixing.
From beginning to end, Zhu Yijun did not seem to be a very useful emperor. He only expressed trust and rewards, and he did not even choose who should be responsible for something.
But isn't this the result of Zhang Juzheng's ten years of hard work and the goal he really wanted to achieve at the expense of destroying three ethnic groups to protect the remaining members of Zhang Juzheng's party?
