Guo Quanshu's death did not have any actual impact on the political arena of the Chu Empire.
Because Guo Quanshu had already formally begged for his remains and entered the official position in the spring of the twenty-sixth year of Chengshun, the turmoil caused by Guo Quanshu's official appointment had already been experienced in the winter and spring of the twenty-fifth year of Chengshun.
It can be said that the political turmoil caused by Guo Quanshu's transition from serious illness to official career to his current death are all within Luo Zhixue's control.
Minimize negative impact.
To a certain extent, Guo Quanshu's serious illness and retirement from office was a good thing for the Chu Empire.
Because Guo Quanshu is a typical founding hero, and he is also the only one among a large number of founding heroes who has been at a high level for more than 20 years.
He is the banner of a large number of founding heroes.
And if he does not fall, it means that in the political arena of the Chu Empire, no matter whether it is the civil servant group or the military general group, it is still shrouded in the influence of the founding heroes of the old era.
To put it simply and bluntly, the founding heroes blocked the way for those who came after us.
After all, the positions in the top political arena are limited. There are only nine ministers of counselors. If you don’t step down, how will others come up?
Take Guo Quanshu himself as an example. He has always been the counselor in charge of civil affairs, and he has also been the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for more than 20 years... If you include the period before the establishment of the empire, Guo Quanshu served in all civil affairs departments. For a long time, Guo Quanshu had controlled the official administration of the Chu Empire for more than 20 years.
During this period of time, I don’t know how many people have opinions on this.
There are actually many people like Guo Quanshu. Even in the years after Chengshun, there are still many first-generation founding heroes among the top officials of the Chu Empire, and they hold high positions.
Twenty years after Chengshun, Luo Zhixue began to allow the second and even third generations of civil and military officials to launch a final challenge against the first generation of founding heroes.
This situation has gradually improved.
Today, in the twenty-seventh year of Chengshun, in the Council of Ministers, the highest authority of the Chu Empire, the nine ministers, including three military generals, are all second- or even third-generation officials.
For example, the current Minister of Staff, member of the Military Council, Chief of Army Staff, and Army General Huang Jinkui is a typical second-generation general.
To say that he is a second-generation general does not mean that he is young... In fact, he is not young, and he joined the army during the Unification War. This second-generation refers to his young qualifications and short time in the position.
During the period of the Civil Unification War, that is, during the period from the Funiu Mountain Cavalry to the destruction of the Eastern Captions, Huang Jinkui only became a major general.
The rank of lieutenant general was promoted after the end of the Unification War.
The time when he was promoted to general was the 18th year of Chengshun, only nine years ago.
A general who has been a general for nine years is considered a junior in the Chu Empire Army.
However, this person is quite capable in amphibious operations and military construction. Nowadays, the Chu Empire's large colonies in Nanyang are basically opened up by him with his troops.
After his term in Nanyang ended, he was transferred back to the empire as deputy commander of the Second Army. Two years later, he made a natural transition to the commander of the Second Army and was promoted to the rank of Army General.
In the 22nd year of Chengshun, Huang Jinkui was transferred back to the capital to serve as deputy chief of staff operations. It is worth noting that this is also the position of an army general and is at the same level as the chief of staff.
The General Staff of the Great Chu Empire, as the highest military command organization of the Great Chu Empire's army, is also very large and complex.
All affairs are managed by the Chief of Staff. However, due to the large number of affairs, the Chief of Staff is also a member of the Military Academy and the Minister of Staff, and often participates in the central decision-making of the empire. Therefore, the Chief of Staff is only responsible for the general direction and is rarely directly responsible. specific matters.
Some of the daily affairs of the General Staff Department are specifically responsible for several deputy ministers of the General Staff Department.
Among them, the executive deputy minister is responsible for some daily administrative affairs within the staff department, and the deputy minister for operations is responsible for combat command affairs. Both deputy ministers are at the level of generals. In addition, there are several ordinary deputy ministers with the rank of lieutenant general, who are responsible for their respective responsibilities. different affairs.
After becoming the Deputy Minister of Operations of the Ministry of Staff, it also opened the way to the top for Huang Jinkui.
In the 24th year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue issued an oral order and transferred General Huang Jinkui, then deputy minister of operations, to the imperial study to assist in handling important military and political affairs. This promotion almost made it clear that he was about to become the chief of staff.
Because the number of military generals in the Imperial Study Room, or in the Senate, is limited. There are only three positions for the Minister of Staff, and the quotas are basically fixed. They are the Minister of the General Staff, the Minister of Military Affairs, and the Minister of the Navy. The generals who hold the positions.
The personnel of the co-organizing ministers are actually semi-fixed. The person in charge of the highest military orders of the Guards is usually the Chief of Staff of the Guards, the Minister of Army Logistics, the Minister of Ordnance, and the Minister of Navy Military and Political Affairs.
Occasionally, other generals will serve as co-organizing ministers, and this phenomenon is basically paving the way... It won't take long for this person to become one of the military ministers of staff.
Sure enough, one year later, Huang Jinkui was promoted to Chief of Staff and Counselor on military and political affairs, becoming one of the nine top officials in the Chu Empire.
By this time, Huang Jinkui's political status had actually exceeded the limitations of a military general, and he began to fully participate in the decision-making of the highest strategy of the Dachu Empire.
After all, this is what the nine counselors of the Great Chu Empire do!
Huang Jinkui's successful ascension to a certain extent also means that all the first-generation founding generals in the military system have withdrawn from the core of power.
Several core generals among the first generation of military generals, such as Field Marshal Xu Zhixian, Field Marshal Zuo Yingzhe, Field Marshal Huang Dingquan, etc., once took turns sitting on the throne of the Minister of Counselor.
But now, these marshals have all taken a back seat, do not hold any actual positions, and have withdrawn from active service.
Of course, the rank of marshal is still maintained, because the rank of marshal in the Chu Empire is not actually a level of military rank, but a special honorary title, which is only awarded to senior generals with outstanding military exploits.
However, even if an ordinary general retires, his general rank will not be withdrawn, because the officer rank in the Chu Empire is lifelong. Unless it is deprived of the law through formal procedures, otherwise, once the officer rank is granted, it will be retained for life.
In the case of retirement, the word "retired" will be added to the military ranks of other officers except marshal on the official documents.
Several marshals and a group of senior generals from the Chu Empire gradually withdrew from the core of power, and were replaced by people like Huang Jinkui.
In fact, they were already in high positions during the Unification War, and were basically major generals or even lieutenant generals. In the past ten years of foreign campaigns, they have accumulated merit and been promoted to generals, becoming the real power in the military system of the Da Chu Empire. Admiral.
Huang Jinkui became the Minister of Staff and the Minister of Staff, to a certain extent, it announced the beginning of an era.
The military side was marked by Huang Jinkui's ascension to the throne, while the civilian side was marked by Guo Quanshu's entry into office. In the two years between the 25th and 26th years of Chengshun, after the transition was completed, the Great Chu Empire was officially declared The first generation of founding heroes completely withdrew from the core of power.
The Great Chu Empire has ushered in a new era!
This is very important to the high-level political circles of the Chu Empire, and it is also very important to Luo Zhixue's many strategic ideas.
Luo Zhixue knew very well that if the upper-level positions of the Chu Empire did not change for a long time and the civil and military officials below lacked channels for promotion, then many troubles would evolve.
At the same time, when the top-level civil and military officials have been holding on to power for a long time and cannot be promoted, and even have all kinds of honors, it is easy for many messy problems to arise.
For example, they want to retain power and punch and kick those who come after them.
For example, they changed their original intentions and began to serve their own private interests, and then engaged in all kinds of horrific corruption and so on.
In a pool of stagnant water, there will always be many problems.
Therefore, around 20 years after Chengshun, more than ten years after the end of the Unification War, when the empire was initially stabilized inside and outside the empire and was rising steadily, Luo Zhixue began to upgrade the officials at the top of the Da Chu Empire... …
After several years of continuous replacement, a comprehensive upgrade was finally completed in the 26th year of Chengshun. The central officials of the Dachu Empire who completed the upgrade began to fight for honor and power.
To this end, many major actions have been launched, such as the domestic large-scale railway plan, the large-scale shipping plan, the three-step overseas expansion plan, the Western Expedition plan, etc. In fact, they have all been launched one after another in recent years.
These newly appointed ministers and co-ministers want to achieve results, want more power, gain more trust from Luo Zhixue, and gain a better posthumous reputation. Strategic development is very thoughtful.
Unlike the first generation of founding heroes, many people always like to talk about their achievements during the Unification War... giving people the feeling of sleeping on their merits.
Luo Zhixue doesn't like this!
How long had it been since the Industrial Revolution began in the Da Chu Empire? At best, it was only during the first industrial revolution. It had not even been able to build a pure steam-powered ocean-going ship.
Not to mention aircraft, tanks, aircraft carriers, and the electrification that Luo Zhixue has always been thinking about.
The most important thing is that according to the survey and statistics report released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Dachu Empire in the 25th year of Chengshun, the average life expectancy of the people in the Dachu Empire is still only forty-five years old.
And the average life span of a large number of workers is even shorter, only about forty years old...well, they don't live as long as farmers. This is a major feature of the early industrial revolution, that is, because of the harsh working environment, workers' The average life span is not as good as that of farmers of the same era... Of course, this farmer also specifically refers to farmers in the industrialized country.
If workers in industrialized countries are compared with farmers in other countries who were in the agricultural era at the same time, they are much better, because the average life span in the agricultural era was only over 30 years old... and their incomes are even more incomparable.
The income of an ordinary worker in the Dachu Empire is more than the income of small and medium-sized landowners in other agricultural countries!
If he is a skilled worker, then if he goes to Fuso or Nanyang with his income, he will become a rich man...
The average life span can best reflect the people's livelihood level in a region. Luo Zhixue has also been committed to improving the average life span of the people of the Dachu Empire.
Of course it has had an effect. Over the past twenty years or so, the average life expectancy of the people of the Chu Empire has increased from about thirty years to forty-five years. This is already a very good result.
But it's not enough for Luo Zhixue... He doesn't insist that the average life expectancy can reach the seventy-year-old level familiar to later generations, but it should be around sixty years old at least, right?
After all, officials of the fourth rank and below in the Chu Empire, including officials or employees in various education, medical and government-run enterprises, do not retire until they are sixty years old. Among them, the retirement age for heavy physical and dangerous positions is earlier. But not until the age of fifty-five.
In other words, the average age of the Chu Empire is not even the retirement age... The actual situation is that even among the middle and low-level officials with better living conditions, a considerable number of them do not live to be sixty years old...
This is nonsense.
The average age is affected by the level of food and medical care, and these two major issues have also been Luo Zhixue's focus in recent years.
We have long begun to promote inclusive medical care, vigorously establish medical schools, provide professional training to a large number of existing doctors in the private sector, and establish a large number of government-run medical institutions.
So far, every town in the Dachu Empire has at least one government-run hospital. Although the scale may be large or small, the medical capabilities may be strong or weak. Small ones may even have only one doctor.
But at least every town has such a government-run hospital, and the fees are not expensive. Serious diseases cannot be cured, but common ailments can still be cured.
But even so, many people are actually unwilling to go to the doctor... they just carry it when they are sick, and they go to the hospital only when they can't bear it anymore, but at this time, it is often impossible to save them.
After all, the medical level of the Chu Empire is still relatively limited these days. The modern medical theory is still a little behind, and there are not many drugs under the modern medical theory. Most diseases are still treated by traditional empirical medicine. As for surgery, Things like that are even more difficult to deal with.
Because there are no antibiotics...will you get infected after surgery? Whether you can survive after the infection depends on your life!
Drug research in the Da Chu Empire is very difficult... Even though Luo Zhixue has told the researchers about the limited number of drugs he still remembers, they went to search for research, but so far, the drug researchers in the Da Chu Empire Still haven’t been able to find an effective antibiotic!
You mean penicillin? Luo Zhixue only knew this name, but when he told the researchers this name, the researchers were all stunned, "What is this penicillin?"
In future generations, you are not a medical practitioner. If you don’t go to Baidu now, do you know the detailed production steps of penicillin?
I'm afraid many people don't know that this thing is an organic compound.
Not to mention antibiotics, the research on other chemical drugs is also very difficult. Researchers need to go through various experiments over many years to find a certain ingredient from various compounds that can cure the disease, and then the side effects of this ingredient should not be too great. .
Because of the difficulty, many medical personnel in the Chu Empire tried to make breakthroughs from empirical medicine.
They sorted out various plant or mineral medicines in empirical medicine, and then tested them one by one to find out the clear efficacy of a certain plant or mineral on a certain disease, and then tried to extract it... Unfortunately, the extraction process was also It is difficult, and it is even more difficult to synthesize it artificially and produce it on a large scale after extraction.
The Dachu Empire has been using cinchona trees imported from South America to treat malaria for more than ten years. Many people are trying to figure out why cinchona trees can treat malaria and extract the active ingredients.
Research has indeed progressed. Scientists from the Da Chu Empire have extracted the active ingredient quinine, but subsequent artificial synthesis is very difficult. So far, scientists from the Da Chu Empire have not been able to Synthesize this thing artificially.
Therefore, the current treatment of malaria can still only use cinchona trees, or quinine extracted from cinchona trees. However, the output of cinchona trees is also limited. Now the Great Chu Empire is planting cinchona trees all over the world...
Generally speaking, the current drug research in the Chu Empire has achieved more results from empirical medicine. Even if the specific ingredients are not clear, they cannot be synthesized artificially. However, through a large number of experiments, some of them have been found. It is better to plant effective plants or minerals.
Based on the research on empirical medicine, many manufacturers in the Chu Empire began to produce Chinese patent medicines to treat various diseases.
At the same time, there are also various extracts, and even some synthetic compounds, such as quinine, and some compounds that seem to have effects, but also have huge side effects.
Overall, it is still in a very backward state, but there is nothing that can be done about it. The development of modern medicine in the Chu Empire has only been developed for more than 20 years, and the previous ones are mainly focused on various theoretical research, and how to treat various diseases. The process of identifying a disease and finding targeted drugs actually only takes about ten years.
In response to this situation, Luo Zhixue feels that it is necessary to increase investment in the medical field, especially medical theoretical research and drug research.
The Dachu Empire's investment in the medical field in the past twenty years was actually mainly focused on inclusive medical care, how to get more people to see a doctor and take medicine.
Even if you are looking at a country doctor who only has half a bucket of water, what he eats are some plant medicines or mineral medicines from various empirical medicines.
Although more cutting-edge theoretical research and drug research have been carried out, they are only carried out in a few high-efficiency and large hospitals, and are implemented in a small but precise manner.
Now, Luo Zhixue feels that such a small but precise approach is not very good. At least because of the lack of funds and personnel, many experiments need to be done for a long time. The most important thing is... less is less, but there is no refined... cultivation. After more than 20 years of talent in the medical field, there is still no top talent who can carry the medical field forward!
Since the quality is not good, we can only increase the quantity.
In scientific research, if one person conducts 10,000 experiments, it will take 10,000 times the time. But if you recruit 10,000 people to do it at the same time, the time required will be shorter.
To put it bluntly, you just throw money away if you don’t have enough brains!
After having this idea, Luo Zhixue quickly summoned relevant officials from the medical system and education system to prepare to increase the training of medical talents and increase investment in medical research.
Strive to achieve small results in talent training within five years and big results within ten years.
Strive to achieve several breakthroughs in drug research within five years and major breakthroughs within ten years.
Regarding drug breakthroughs, Luo Zhixue clearly requested that research on therapeutic drugs for various types of bacteria should be increased. Isn't it just a matter of testing the inhibitory and killing effects of various compounds on the bacteria one by one, and then finding reliable compounds?
I've started testing various compounds... If ten thousand kinds don't work, then I'll try one hundred thousand or one million. I still don't believe I can't find them!
