Fortunately, Tao Dalin fell ill in Rishenglong and was finally rescued by Suxiao Jiuxin Pill.
Affected by the butterfly effect of the time traveler, Tao Dalin lived in this time and space for several more years. In the original time and space, he died of illness in office in the second year of Wanli at the age of forty-eight.
But in this time and space, Zhu Yijun paid less attention to the Hanlin Academy, so his burden was much lighter, so he lived longer; after Zhu Yijun traveled through time and space, the first life-saving drug he developed was "quick-acting heart-saving medicine" Pill", this pill saved Tao Dalin's life more than once.
Zhu Yijun directed the production of Suxiao Jiuxin Pills because his father had coronary heart disease before time travel and had a heart stent. As the so-called long-term illness leads to a cure, Zhu Yijun naturally wanted to check the ingredients and side effects of "Suxiao Jiuxin Pill". This knowledge can be used in this time and space.
At the beginning, Zhu Yijun guided the inner government to make handmade soap. The by-product was glycerin. At that time, he also had the idea of producing nitroglycerin.
However, after trying it a few times, I gave up. First, Zhu Yijun did not understand the preparation process of nitroglycerin and could not give the process; secondly, the purification methods of the Ming Dynasty were not good, and the preparation and purity testing of nitric acid (strong water) were very troublesome. Therefore, nitroglycerin was not something that could be produced in the Ming Dynasty.
The "Suxiao Jiuxin Pill" in this time and space is still a Chinese patent medicine, and its main ingredients are Chuanxiong and borneol. After Zhu Yijun proposed the two main ingredients, all other research and development work was completed by Taiyuan Hospital.
After the medical school was established, it continued to increase research efforts and conducted many comparative experiments. After finally deciding on a formula for mass production, the price was reduced.
Tao Dalin bought the food in Rishenglong. He no longer knew which version of the recipe the pills were from.
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On the second day of February in the fourth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun, who was fifteen years old, had his hair tied for the first time in the Qianqing Palace.
In the sixth year of Longqing, in order for the prince Wanli to successfully succeed to the throne, under the arrangement of the seriously ill Emperor Longqing, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others performed a crowning ceremony for him in the East Palace. The ceremony at that time was still very grand.
Although he was crowned, part of Zhu Yijun's hair still hangs down naturally on the back of his head, which means he is not an adult.
This time the hair was tied, and no foreign ministers watched the ceremony. As the legitimate mother, Queen Mother Chen came to Qianqing Palace. With Queen Mother Li, King Lu, Princess Shouyang, Princess Yongning and other family members watching the ceremony, she personally combed the part of Zhu Yijun's hair that was hanging on her shoulders upwards, and put all the hair into a bun. After putting a net towel on him, he put a black gauze wing crown on his head.
——This move means that Zhu Yijun has entered the youth stage from the boyhood stage. The election of the emperor and the concubine will become the most important political event this year.
In this time and space, Zhu Yijun got involved in political affairs very early and gradually transitioned to taking charge of politics personally, so the time he spent with his younger brother and sister was very short. As the saying goes, those who are close are not inferior, and those who are far are powerful. These younger brothers and sisters often regard him as the emperor instead of their elder brother, and they are all a little afraid of him - King Lu is especially afraid of him.
In the past two years, after Zhu Yijun tightened his grip on power, he also strengthened his education for King Lu and found several strict teachers for him to teach him the principles of life and doing things. Queen Mother Li was even more pleased when she saw that the emperor was not defensive about King Lu.
Zhu Yili was five years younger than Zhu Yijun, and was ten years old this year. Seeing that the emperor had already tied his hair as an adult, he was very envious. After the ceremony was completed, the first one asked: "Brother, the emperor is going to choose a concubine this year. I wonder what kind of emperor's wife he will choose?"
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun smiled and touched his head and said, "I'm not anxious yet, but you are?"
When the two queen mothers, Chen and Li, heard that the emperor did not say that it was all up to the mother to make the decision, they looked at each other and secretly smiled bitterly in their hearts - because the emperor had already taken charge of the government before the wedding, the selection of the concubine really could not be decided solely by the so-called "parents". destiny".
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On the third day of February in the fourth year of Wanli, the emperor received Ma Shengming and Princess Leping respectively. Ma Shengming was praised for his work on the embankment to fight the flood, and was rewarded with an official promotion and fifty taels of silver, both inside and outside. Ma Shengming communicated with tears and thanked Tianen without mentioning it.
Zhu Yijun's visit to Princess Leping was also very short. He found that Princess Leping had a good appearance and was very happy. He briefly exchanged a few words. Seeing that the princess was too nervous to speak, he said no more. He personally led her to see Queen Mother Chen.
Empress Dowager Chen was childless for half her life. Although all the children of Emperor Longqing were nominally her children, Empress Dowager Li's biological mother was higher than her in the harem power list. Therefore, for Empress Dowager Chen, in addition to the emperor, There is no child to support her.
The emperor was busy with political affairs and had little time to spend with her. Although he had mahjong as a spiritual sustenance, he still felt a little sad occasionally. Now that the emperor has adopted Princess Leping and raised her under the name of Queen Mother Chen, Queen Mother Chen really has some expectations in her heart.
When I met Princess Leping, I saw that although she was unfamiliar with etiquette, she did not have the squeamishness of a royal noblewoman, and her temperament was very simple. According to the emperor's instructions, when she changed her name to Queen Mother Chen as mother, she didn't feel awkward. Queen Mother Chen liked it very much.
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After Zhu Yijun tied up his hair, he issued the first edict, which was to draw the bottom line for the choice of concubine to the government and the public.
On the third day of February, Princess Leping entered the palace. Zhu Yijun issued an imperial edict prohibiting foot-binding: "Women's foot-binding may have started in the Five Dynasties, but was rarely seen before Xining. After the Southern Song Dynasty, genteel scum and well-dressed local owls actually regarded small feet as beautiful, which led to a bad world. In recent years, everyone has If you don’t feel ashamed to destroy your limbs, why should the girls in the world deserve it?”
"It is forbidden for women in the world to bind their feet. Those who have already bound their feet will be released and will not be bound again."
The edict stipulates that after June of the fourth year of Wanli, all officials, rice-eating officials and above, and immediate family members who have women with bound feet but do not let them go will be dismissed from office and stripped of their honors after being reported and verified.
Beginning in June of the fourth year of Wanli, some women were forced to have their feet bound, and their fathers, brothers, or husbands were given eighty sticks and flowed to the northeast.
Taking the twenty-fifth year of Wanli as the basis, all children born after that will not be allowed to participate in the imperial examination if their aunt or biological mother is not born in heaven.
The edict concluded: "The parents dare not damage the body, hair and skin, which is the beginning of filial piety. But parents are so kind that they would rather not feel pity when they see their children crying? Now the heavenly heart of the body has issued a strict decree, and there is resistance. Those who disobey the decree will be investigated and punished!"
After this edict was issued, it aroused a lot of criticism from scholars and people. However, the numerous articles, jokes and serials published in "Jingshi Daily" and "Huangming Nanjing Daily" finally exaggerated the public sentiment to the point where they regarded small feet as enemies, and the example of the royal family and court officials also played a role in leading public opinion. .
The exact status of foot-binding practices before the Qing Dynasty has been a matter of great controversy for later generations. A common saying is that women's feet were bound before the Qing Dynasty. The foot bones were not broken like during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the feet were awl-shaped.
However, under the influence of the aesthetic concept of small feet as beauty, many women in the Ming Dynasty also had reverse foot binding. The beauty of the feet was slender and the toes pointed upward, which is the so-called "pointy tip and a pair of crested heads". This is certain.
After Zhu Yijun traveled through time, he also asked the maids in the palace and found out that footbinding had become a common phenomenon for women in the north. It's just that all women who enter the palace must relax after entering the palace in order to serve the nobles. The two queen mothers, Chen and Li, relax after entering the palace, so they are half-day enough.
Because he was afraid of giving unnecessary thoughts to the maids around him, Zhu Yijun did not let them take off their shoes to look at it. He only asked how old they were and how they had their feet bound. The maids who were asked recalled that they were all miserable and said that the pain was unbearable.
The issue of women's liberation is also something Zhu Yijun must vigorously resolve. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of choosing his queen and concubine, he first issued an order prohibiting foot binding to pave the way for the future.
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Just one month after the ban on foot binding was issued, the Royal Medical College opened a new campus in March of the fourth year of Wanli and established a women's school, specializing in gynecology and nursing. It offered free admission to private students and provided lunch.
There were so many poor people in the capital that they sent their daughters to the Royal Medical College. However, because the admissions requirements require literacy, most students are not selected, and the medical school does not recruit enough students. Later, medical schools could only establish preparatory courses to solve the problem of basic education for admitted girls.
This preparatory school is the first girls' school in China. Zhu Yijun also worried about choosing a teacher for a while. Later, the empress dowagers of the two palaces sent out a group of palace ladies to teach the etiquette of princes and princesses and eunuchs in the inner study. This solved the problem of insufficient teachers in the preparatory school.
As a result, the news spread, and the family of officials in the capital was also in a sensation - where can I find such a good thing that my daughter can receive an imperial education?
As a result, the preparatory course originally planned to enroll 100 students, but when it was expanded to 300, people still crowded in. The medical school had no choice but to resort to the tactic of donating bursaries. Women from official families were admitted in descending order according to the amount of bursaries, and another 200 people were recruited.
A girls' school with a class of 500 students is considered large. When it comes to issues of student safety and male and female protection, the medical school is very cautious. After requesting the decree, a school bus system was established - all female students were transported by carriage between home and school, and officers and soldiers from Shuntian Prefecture were protected along the way.
As expected, the idle people in the capital gathered around the school gate and the school bus for several days to watch the excitement, but due to the tight security, they didn't see anything, so they dispersed.
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