Zhu Yijun asked Li Shizhen to come to Beijing because he was actually attracted by the artificial classification method he created. This is a scientific method that classifies organisms and minerals that are similar in practicality and form into various categories, and classifies them level by level. .
In Zhu Yijun's view, it is not surprising that Li Shizhen can be ranked alongside Zu Chongzhi and enjoy a high status in the history of world science. Although there are many fallacies in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", its scientific classification method is a century and a half earlier than Linnaeus, the founder of modern Western plant taxonomy, and his "System of Nature", and is known as the "Grand Book of Oriental Medicine". The profound influence it has had on the development of medicine, botany, zoology, mineralogy, and chemistry in the world can be said to be far-reaching.
Later generations of biology students memorized the seven classifications of kingdom, phylum, class, class, family, genus, and species by heart. They felt that everything in the world was in order, and they took it for granted that this classification method was simple.
As everyone knows, in the history of human civilization, taxonomy is the beginning of science. The reason why the Chinese name science "science" means "a branch of science that reflects the objective laws of nature, society, thinking, etc." In a word, there is no way to learn without dividing subjects!
The earliest biological classification of Chinese ancestors was recorded in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is two fewer methods of biological classification than that of Western scientists Lin Nei, but it is two thousand years ahead.
Later Chinese taxonomic thoughts were reflected in many documents, and the most brilliant one is the "Compendium of Materia Medica". No matter how many fallacies are recorded in it, the thoughts on biological and mineral taxonomy alone are enough to shine through the ages.
What Zhu Yijun studied in later party schools was not just simple junior high school history about how shuttles and Jenny machines induced the industrial revolution.
He remembered very clearly that during a class at the party school, a young female teacher quoted from many sources and told about the hobbies of European aristocrats and some arty bourgeoisie in geology, minerals, biology and even insects, which greatly promoted new geographical discoveries. , and laid the foundation for modern science.
The first achievements spurred by the Industrial Revolution and Enlightenment thought in later generations were scientific investigations and adventures popular among the European leisure class.
On the one hand, they funded mathematicians and scientists, and on the other hand, they also engaged in superficial research on geology, minerals, biology, etc., which directly led to the great progress of chemistry and physics. The first batch of wealthy people all started from seemingly simple geology, minerals and biological classification.
Later Darwin benefited from the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and called it the "Encyclopedia of Ancient China". ——And some Chinese people in later generations, those arty people who kept the "Encyclopedia of the British Empire" and "National Geographic Magazine" in their study rooms, never had any of them keep the "Mo Jing" and "Compendium of Materia Medica" next to them. ", "Kaogong Ji", "Shui Jing Zhu", "Mengxi Bi Tan", "Tiangong Kaiwu" and other countless Chinese treasures?
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Zhu Yijun asked Li Shizhen to return to Beijing. In addition to using one of the few scientifically literate brains in this era, he also needed to use his character that liked research and research to engage in research on cowpox.
After the early Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, smallpox became widespread in the empire. Zhu Yijun received a report at the beginning of the second year of Wanli that there was a doctor named Fu Sichuan in Ningguo Mansion, who mastered the method of "ripe variolation" and thought that vaccination of children would be profitable. "Of more than a hundred children, only one or two did not survive."
What Zhu Yijun didn't know was that the variolation technique spread from Fu Sichuan spread to the Arab world at the speed of light, saving the West from the ravages of smallpox.
The great philosopher Voltaire once commented on variola: "I heard that for a hundred years, the Chinese have been in the habit of vaccination; this is a great precedent for a nation that is considered the smartest and most polite in the world. and role model." At the time when Western enlightenment was taking place, without Fu Sichuan's variolation technique, countless people would have died from the smallpox virus.
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This report reminded Zhu Yijun that the popularization of cowpox in the empire must be put on the agenda. He knew that smallpox was the only infectious disease that had been eradicated by humans, and that its vaccine was derived from cowpox, but he did not know whether it was feasible to directly use the pus from cowpox to vaccinate against it.
So he summoned Fu Sichuan from Ningguo Mansion to the capital, and after some guidance, he ordered him to study cowpox. However, Fu Sichuan's method of variolation came from his ancestors, and he had no scientific research ability. He used the method of playing with variolation to hide and store cowpox vaccines, but none of them succeeded.
At this time, Zhu Yijun thought of Li Shizhen again, and immediately ordered the Jinyiwei Huguang Bureau to find him and let him go to Beijing. However, because the Huguang Bureau did not make it clear to Li Shizhen at the beginning, Li Shizhen did not go to Beijing to take over the task until the end of August.
Among those who arrived in Beijing earlier than Li Shizhen were the "Medical Saint" Wan Quan Wan Mi Zhai and Chen Shigong, who was proficient in surgery, and many other medical masters who were already famous in the world at this time.
Although Wanquan was already over seventy years old at this time, under the emperor's edict, he still packed the "Ten Types of Wanmi Zhai Medical Books" in his luggage, including "Key Points of Internal Medicine", "The Development of Preschool Medicine" and "Secrets of Parenting". Inside, he and his six apprentices were brought to the capital.
Because of his worldwide fame, Wan Mi Zhai caused a sensation in the capital as soon as he entered the capital. This is a home of distinguished ministers, and the house that Wanquan rents is almost filled with posts and gifts. Because this old man has high medical ethics and "treats other people's children as his own children" and will not refuse people, people who asked him to see a doctor were scheduled to wait two months from the first day.
Seeing that he was not convinced, Zhu Yijun was afraid that he would be tired, so he quickly sent someone to invite him into the palace, and enshrined him in the Imperial Hospital like a Bodhisattva. When the doctors at this hospital saw Wan Mi Zhai coming, they didn't even think about winning. They all just obeyed and made the old man happy every day. They were not acclimated at all.
After asking Wan Mi Zhai to check the health of the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces and himself, and give a health class. Zhu Yijun formally summoned Wan Mi Zhai, Chen Shigong and others to tell the truth about his purpose - to take advantage of the opportunity of abundant funds at this time to re-establish the medical examination department established in the early days of Taizu and establish the first true medical examination department in the Ming Dynasty. University—Jingshi Medical College.
In accordance with the later medical school model of integrating industry, academia and research, this medical school also imitated the organizational structure of Nanyuan Martial Arts College, and the first director was Wan Quan Wan Mi Zhai. Zhu Yijun built a palace wall in the northwest corner of Xiyuan, and opened a gate on the original palace wall, that is, he cut the abandoned small school ground from Xiyuan as the site of the medical school.
At the same time, Zhu Yijun also opened a small door in the newly built palace wall as the back door of the medical school. In this way, if he becomes ill in the future, he can immediately organize a large-scale consultation by opening this small door. Although this may make the imperial doctors at the imperial hospital feel uncomfortable, Zhu Yijun, who has been emperor for almost two years, cannot take care of their thoughts at this time.
The establishment of the medical school was no different from that of later universities in terms of system and mechanism. After the exchanges between Zhu Yijun, Wan Mizhai and others, the medical school will establish major departments such as the Department of Medicine, the Department of Nursing, and the Department of Pharmacy, including internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, infectious diseases, pharmacy, pathology, etc. Specialist.
When the Nanyuan Martial Arts Academy was established, there were still some murmurs in the court. The establishment of the Capital Medical College was praised by the entire court. After Zhu Yijun learned about Yan Guan's famous double standards, he also wanted to stimulate them. After discussing with Chen Shigong, he also established anatomy in the medical school to conduct research on human anatomy.
What Zhu Yijun didn't even expect was that this new subject, which had led to many versions of horror stories among the people of the capital, had not caused any backlash from the censors and officials.
Only then did Zhu Yijun know that these so-called "acting on the right path and cultivating the awe-inspiring spirit" had already surpassed the Ming Dynasty in terms of their well-known double standards when it came to their own life safety.
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