"Why is Father so happy?"
Zhu Biao was puzzled. Shouldn't the emperor be angry when he was attacked?
Zhu Yuanzhang looked back at him, but did not explain. Some things can only be understood but cannot be expressed. With Zhu Biao's understanding, he will understand it sooner or later.
Zhu Biao got Zhu Yuanzhang's prompt and vaguely found his own answer.
As kings, the emperor and the scholar class relied on and struggled with each other.
The accident in the court today was the most intuitive fight. The scholar class took advantage of the Yanshenggong incident to force the emperor into the palace in a small way.
If the emperor gives in this time, the king's authority will be affected.
But on the contrary, the emperor suppressed Liu Bowen's momentum, and the king's authority was once again consolidated.
It is difficult to be an emperor!
Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhu Biao's thoughtful look and smiled:
"Have you figured it out?"
Zhu Biao replied:
"Father, I have figured it out, but I also find it funny...Uncle Zhang always gets involved in such unreasonable disasters for no reason every time!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the emperor stopped and turned back to look at him silently.
Zhu Biao was shocked. Could it be that Zhang Changsheng's fate today was actually deliberately guided by the emperor? When he thought of this possibility, a chill ran down his spine. His father's scheming was so deep that he could not imagine it at all.
Use Zhang Changchun to deal with the Kong family and give the Zhang family enough favors, but these favors will also bring the hatred of hundreds of officials to the Zhang family, and then use hundreds of officials to check and balance the Zhang family?
"The emperor's mind is the most important thing to check and balance. You still have a lot to learn!"
Lao Zhu patted Zhu Biao on the shoulder and walked forward.
Zhu Biao thought for a long time, had a slight understanding, and then followed.
Return to the Imperial Study Room.
On the other side, the left prime minister Li Shanchang, the censor Zhongcheng Liu Ji and others came with the Zhang family and his son.
Because of the conflict just now, no one on the three sides spoke.
After the eunuch reported, Zhu Yuanzhang handed over the medical skills to Liu Ji. When Liu Ji saw it, he couldn't sit still.
Let’s not talk about whether this method is easy to use or not. At least the medical skills are reliable.
From Ge Hong to Wang Dan...
Vaccination methods have actually been recorded in the past, but their value has been lost in the long river of history, and no one has really utilized this method.
Now Longhu Mountain has been taught by gods to save the common people.
Only then could this method be fully presented to the emperor.
"Liu Bowen, what do you have to say?"
Zhu Yuanzhang asked coldly, Liu Bowen sighed and knelt directly in front of the emperor.
"I am reckless. If Longhu Mountain's method is true, Master Zhang deserves a better reward!"
"My Ming Dynasty's rules are about rewards based on merit. If you have made great contributions, I will not be stingy with rewards. If you just want to rely on the ancestors' favor, I can only give so much. The Kong family wants more. Fight for yourself!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's words can be regarded as finalizing the incident of Yan Shenggong.
Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang looked at each other. These two people, who were political enemies, bowed to the emperor in unison.
A small contest between the two classes, the king and the courtiers, ended with Zhu Yuanzhang's complete victory.
"Okay, I'm here to come to you. I'm not here to discuss this with you. I want you to discuss how to find an effective promotion method!"
Promoting the vaccination method in the form of a king's order is what Zhu Yuanzhang must do.
Regardless of selfishness or public morality, this matter is a matter of great benefit and no harm!
From a moral point of view, if China fully rolls out the vaccination method, the number of premature deaths due to the plague will be greatly reduced. The benefits are far and near. From a close perspective, after the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the upcoming Northern Expedition, the Ming Dynasty will sooner or later enter the country. The rest and recuperation stage of the new dynasty.
People are one of the most important resources for the future rule of the new dynasty, and the vaccination method can indeed reduce the losses of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
And in the long run, the promotion of this acne method will not benefit the Ming Dynasty overnight, but will benefit the Chinese people in the future.
From a selfish point of view, those who promote this matter are destined to leave their names in history books.
The person promoting this matter today is naturally Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty...
After Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang figured out the details, they would not go against the grain on this matter.
Li Shanchang has already begun to think about how to benefit himself from this matter.
He studied the medical book and was secretly amazed by the contents.
After thinking for a moment, Li Shanchang said:
"This method is simple and easy to understand. I think we can directly make this method public to the world and implement it in the form of official documents. I order the local officials to organize local famous doctors to promote the vaccination method.
If the number of people vaccinated is included in the assessment for the coming year, officials will naturally implement it! "
This is the simplest and most efficient method, but Liu Bowen disagrees:
"If it were really that simple, His Majesty wouldn't come here to ask for your opinion or mine. Mr. Li's thinking is still too simple... If I did it according to your method, I'm afraid I wouldn't harm Your Majesty..."
"Liu Ji, what do you mean? Tell me what you have to say."
The brief alliance between Li Shanchang and Liu Ji immediately became tit for tat as their common goal was lost.
"Actually, Mr. Li's idea is not wrong in general, but it is a bit simple and crude. This method uses the pox seeds on people or cows as medicine. It is a method of fighting poison with poison. Mr. Li, you are new to this method. Do you dare to try?”
Liu Bowen stopped Li Shanchang from questioning him. He had a sullen face and said nothing.
"The common people are not scholars and are illiterate. Even if the government claims that this method is effective, they may not dare to verify it. Your Excellency said that it is correct to implement it in the form of decrees, but when local officials implement it, it will inevitably go astray!
For example, I saw that there are two types of vaccinia: cooked vaccine and cooked vaccine. The steps to make the cooked vaccine are complicated, but the cooked vaccine is very simple.
Mr. Li said that this matter will be included in the assessment, but have you ever thought that the local officials would choose simpler Shimiao when targeting the people because they want to complete the assessment?
However, the vaccine is dangerous, and three to four out of ten people vaccinated will develop reactions that could put their lives in danger.
The people are not familiar with the vaccination method. If there are casualties due to Shimiao, it will go against His Majesty's original intention of promoting the vaccination method. Secondly, it will also damage the people's trust in the government.
Can Mr. Li bear the risks involved? "
Li Shanchang did not expect that a suggestion he made casually would be caught by Liu Ji in so many ways.
What he proposed was just a first draft, which would naturally be handed over to the Central Publishing House for further study.
It's just that Liu Ji didn't give him any face and raised the seriousness of the problem too high at once, which was like putting him on the fire.
The atmosphere between Li Shanchang and Liu Ji suddenly became tense.
Zhang Chenggong on the other side, listening silently, suddenly realized something.
When he saw the two of them competing, what he thought of was Zhang Yi.
Zhang Yi once told him that if the vaccination method had not been seriously implemented by Emperor Hongwu, it would be almost impossible to really popularize it.
Zhang Changchang initially thought that Zhang Yi's words were a bit exaggerated.
However, the conversation between Li Shanchang and Liu Ji made Zhang Changshang vaguely understand that even if Emperor Hongwu worked hard, it would not be easy to accomplish something.
Government orders are difficult to implement, and governing the country is not as easy as others think.
If one is not good, a good thing will turn into a bad thing...
(End of chapter)
