After discussing with Zhang Juzheng, Zhu Yijun submitted the report on Myanmar's corruption to the court. During the discussions in the imperial court, Zhu Yijun went to Wuxue for two days in a row to discuss how to send troops.
The discussions at the Military Aircraft Department included, first, deciding whether to use the Beijing Camp, which was gradually reached an agreement under Zhu Yijun's support; second, the scale, route and logistical support of dispatching troops.
Yunnan is located in the far west of the empire. There are no roads in and out, and all the roads are dangerous and narrow mountain roads. From the capital to Yunnan, it is more than five thousand miles. If you take a section of the canal to Huguang, then cross Guizhou to Yunnan, or take a route from Huguang to Sichuan and then to Yunnan, it will take about half a year. Let’s not talk about whether people can bear it or not. Just the expenses and food support along the way will bring a huge burden to the local area.
In order to solve the problem of Beijing's camp entering Yunnan, the Department of Martial Arts Logistics has invested a lot of energy in the past two years to study the transshipment of grain and fodder from all over the country and finally bore fruit. Liu Yingjie organized professors and teachers who were familiar with the geography of various places to formulate a new plan for the march route: first take a grain ship from Tianjin to the coast and go straight to Hangzhou.
There are two supply points on the way, namely Dengzhou and Haizhou. After arriving in Hangzhou, the local government will supply grain, grass and ships, and then go upstream along the Yangtze River to Dongting Lake.
After passing Dongting Lake and walking along the Yuanjiang River, you can reach Guizhou. After arriving in Guizhou, those who can walk by water should try to take another section of the waterway, and those who cannot walk by water will have to walk.
This plan is much better than transporting through canals, rivers and taking long mountain roads, and won unanimous praise from the participants.
However, because the water level in the upper reaches of the Yuanjiang River is very different from Chenjiang Prefecture to the west, it is basically impossible to sail. Moreover, when entering a place where Tu and Han people lived together, they had to pass through the boundaries of more than ten chieftains, so the food and fodder problem was difficult to solve. Therefore, the imperial court should send an order to the Xuanwei Division in Guizhou in advance to order all governments to prepare for the support in advance.
Zhu Yijun was very happy to see that the logistics department led by Liu Yingjie had made a comprehensive plan. This plan was evaluated as "unique and innovative" and was rewarded and commended.
The march route and logistics problems have been solved, as well as the problems of acclimatization and miasma that hurt people. In this regard, the Capital Medical College was of great use.
In terms of medical progress, after the establishment of the medical school, Zhu Yijun directly pointed out multiple research paths. The first is the direction of studying diseases caused by microorganisms; the second is the direction of using anatomy to study pathology; the third is the direction of nursing care such as hygiene and disinfection.
In terms of epidemic prevention and control, the first priority is microbial research. This research first requires high-transparency glass-ground lenses to make microscopes.
At the end of the first year of Wanli, a craftsman surnamed Hou invented the blowing method to make flat glass. He was awarded an inscription by Zhu Yijun and a reward of 200 taels of silver. This incident stimulated the enthusiasm of Ming glass craftsmen to an incredible degree.
Because the production and manufacturing of glass does not require supporting facilities from other industries, it has developed rapidly under the high bounties.
After Zhang Jing received Zhu Yijun's task of making lead glass, he successively issued a reward of 6,000 taels of silver to encourage craftsmen in the inner government to innovate glass technology; in the first half of the second year of Wanli, he set up a special laboratory to test the emperor's various ideas.
In just three years, the laboratory improved the production of flat glass from the blowing tube method to the flat plate method. Later, because of the high price of burning charcoal, the fuel was improved and coal was used to produce coke for firing glass.
However, the coke-fired glass has always been somewhat black, which has troubled the craftsmen in the laboratory for a long time. Following the emperor's instructions and in accordance with the Chinese alchemical tradition, the craftsmen tried adding some lead to it - but it didn't work.
Until one day, a craftsman named Tian who was promoted from a soap factory to a royal laboratory suddenly had a whim and added some crystallization of plant ash filtrate into it. A magical change finally happened. Ming Dynasty was about seventy years ahead of Britain and took the lead. Invented highly transparent lead glass.
After Zhu Yijun traveled to the Ming Dynasty, he also thought deeply about the famous "Needham problem", that is, why China did not develop science like Europe in the Ming Dynasty.
He remembered that when he was casually browsing the Internet, he had seen a keyboard warrior give a particularly eye-catching answer - it was because China did not invent highly transparent lead glass.
This brother's theory can have several thousand words. In summary, it is the birth of lead glass, which led to the rapid advancement of optics and mirror grinding technology. With the liberation of human eyes, the theological foundation that had suppressed Europe for hundreds of years came into being. shake. In the end, the hybridization of the seeds of logic and science left by ancient Greece finally sprouted, blossomed, and bore fruit in Europe, which broke through the shackles of the Middle Ages.
Zhu Yijun did not fully accept this theory, but the invention of lead glass was indeed an indispensable step for him to develop Ming medicine. Lead glass was invented in November of the second year of Wanli, and in the first month of the third year of Wanli, the first microscope was delivered to the medical school - Zhu Yijun, a time traveler, truly pushed the wheel of history to an unknown direction.
The invention of the microscope promoted the microbiology of Ming Dynasty to flourish from scratch. The emperor's theory of studying things gradually emerged from the capital, and through newspaper propaganda, slowly spread to the entire world.
With this powerful tool and the cooperation of anatomy, the Capital Medical College successively made breakthroughs in the pathogenesis of typhoid, malaria, and schistosomiasis in the third year of Wanli.
With the mechanism, there are methods for prevention and treatment. Using the knowledge of health and epidemic prevention guided by Zhu Yijun, the medical school presented a medical book "Prevention and Treatment of Epidemics" at the end of the third year of Wanli after careful preparation. Zhu Yijun immediately promulgated it and serialized it in newspapers in Beijing and Beijing.
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After deciding on the invasion of Burma, the medical school will, in accordance with the emperor's decree, send five teachers and thirty students to conduct a wave of publicity and implementation of health regulations for epidemic prevention and control in the Beijing camp; and then select 300 smart soldiers. , emergency training on surgical first aid knowledge, and use it as medical soldiers on the battlefield - and these teachers and students will build the world's first field hospital behind the battlefield.
With the medical care accompanying the army, this army marching to Burma is considered to be the most luxurious in the world in this time and space.
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Because this battle is related to whether the empire's campaign goal of stabilizing Burma can be successfully achieved, this choice of coach is also quite nerve-wracking.
In terms of head coach selection, the Martial Arts Combat Department, under the leadership of Yin Zhengmao, also proposed several candidates to Zhu Yijun.
At the beginning, they followed the country's tradition of "controlling military force with civility" and chose their coaches to be civil servants - Yin Zhengmao did his duty and volunteered to expand territory in Myanmar.
After being rejected by Zhu Yijun personally, the serious combat department finally proposed candidates with rich resumes and outstanding military exploits:
Ranked first is Liu Xian. This man is now sixty years old and his ancestral home is Nanchang, Jiangxi. He was born with extraordinary physical strength and had read several books, but his family was poor and poor. Later, I followed my friends to Sichuan and worked as a private school teacher in the countryside for several years.
When Liu Xian was a teacher, the students he taught were better at fighting than memorizing. His friend saw that this was not the case and suggested that he bribe the local government and join the army by pretending to be a military householder.
After joining the army, Liu Xian finally showed his talents. In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing's reign, Miao rebellion occurred in Yibin, and the governor Zhang Zhen sent troops to conquer it. This old man got into the battle and killed more than fifty people, capturing three of the ringleaders.
As the saying goes, once a general becomes famous, his bones will wither, and Liu Xian was promoted to the rank of Deputy Thousand Households due to his merit. He was not satisfied, so he went to the Ministry of War and spent a sum of money to gain the title of commanding generals. After that, he entered the fast lane for promotion - he successively served as the Chief General of the Zhejiang Dusi Department. He once defeated the Japanese pirates at Pukou Gangxia, was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief, and later wiped out the Japanese pirates in Liujiazhuang. In the 41st year of Jiajing's reign, when he was in charge of guarding Guangdong, he led his army to Fujian to aid the anti-Japanese war, and worked with Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and others to defeat the Japanese one after another. He succeeded Langshan as the commander-in-chief and controlled the north and south of the Yangtze River to prevent Japanese invasion.
At this time in the fourth year of Wanli, Liu Xian became the governor of Tongzhi and the governor of Zuojun Mansion, and was appointed as a professor of the Department of Warfare. Department chair Yin Zhengmao commented on the recommendation report: "He is obviously a general, but he does not abide by the law as an official."
When the report was submitted to the Secretariat of the Ministry of War, Tan Lun added another comment: "The ability to gallop is superior to that of Jing Jiangbo - but the imperial army has no discipline at all."
After Zhu Yijun read the comments, he felt a sudden shock in his heart, and then looked at the second leader they recommended.
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