Imperial College.
Siye Hu Hui entered the medical school with a book in hand. When he saw Wang Bin reviewing his homework, he didn't bother him. He found a medical book and started reading.
Wang Bin put down his brush, rubbed his sore eyes, and smiled at Hu Xi: "Hu Siye is very concerned about medical matters. I heard that a few years ago, he had a discussion with the envoy Dai Yuan on "Internal Medicine". "Do you know whether the sutras of "Difficulty" are true or not?"
Hu Xi waved his hands repeatedly: "How dare you compare yourself to Doctor Dai."
Wang Bin stood up and walked towards Hu Xi: "A few days ago, Si Ye mentioned to Sheng Yin that he wanted to compile a book on simple disease syndromes, prescriptions and medicines. Is there any progress on this matter?"
Hu Xi nodded repeatedly and handed over the manuscript in his hand: "When I visited Shanxi, I saw quack doctors misdiagnosing diseases and making mistakes in medicines. The people who were saved died innocently, and I felt sad and angry. Back to the capital After that, I searched in many ways and got help from the medical school, and then I came up with the first draft of "Easy Prescriptions for Health"."
Wang Bin took it, looked through it carefully, nodded from time to time, and praised: "All winds, colds, heats, and dampness are all contained in it. Most of the medicines and prescriptions are simple, effective, and easy to use. Good, very good." . I think it can be put in the medical school for review and then published."
"So, thank you very much."
Hu Xi was extremely grateful.
Wang Bin took Hu Bin and sat down. Just when he was about to say something like "A doctor has a parent's heart," Sheng Yin walked in and shouted unhappily: "Nonsense, it's just nonsense! Hu Siye is here, come here." Just right."
Hu Xi looked at Sheng Yin with a smile. This was Wang Bin's disciple. He was known as the "Master of Skills" and had a high status in the medical school and Tai Hospital. He used to be calm and dignified. He didn't know who could offend him, so he opened his mouth to ask. : "What makes Miaoshou Chengqi angry?"
Sheng Yin walked to the table, poured a cup of tea, drank it in one gulp, and said angrily: "Hu Siye, is the Jiangxi Academy too presumptuous? In the past, everyone could come and go freely, listen to the lectures if they wanted, and watch if they wanted to. , the supervisors are free to come and go, and the husband can come and go without hindrance, but now the Craftsman College has broken the rules and is doing things behind closed doors. It also talks about confidential matters and does not allow outsiders to enter. When did our medical school become an outsider?"
Hu Hao laughed loudly when he heard that it was about the Jiangxi Academy, and pulled Sheng Yin to sit down: "If you say that other colleges have offended you, I can come to your door to argue with you now, but this is not possible in the Jiangxi Academy... …”
"No? Why not? The Takumi Academy is no longer under the supervision of the Imperial Academy?"
Sheng Yin lost his temper.
Wang Bin looked at Hu Xi, and he was also a little puzzled: "I went to the Craftsman Academy a few days ago to customize some medical knives, but the old man in Gongshu didn't even let me in through the gate. He didn't care about the basic hospitality of the Craftsman Academy. It’s time for you to take charge of your business.”
Hu Xi shook his head with a look of helplessness on his face: "Currently, the Craftsman Academy is conducting some secret research. Don't talk about you. Even if I want to go in, I have to go to Gongshu Qiao to ask for permission. Without permission, I can't get in." go."
"Secret research? What research?"
Sheng Yin asked.
Hu Xi was speechless. She said it was a secret, but you still ask, why don't you have any sense of confidentiality?
"I don't know the specific content. Even if I know it, I can't tell you. But I can tell you that this is an extremely important research. The emperor personally explained it. Craftsmen, including some folk craftsmen, are involved in it. This matter is classified as confidential. You should also notice that there are sentries at the craftsman academy. To be honest with you, they are people from the Security Bureau."
Hu Xi said seriously.
Wang Bin and Sheng Yin looked at each other. It was probably unusual for such top powers to gather in the Craftsman Academy. Perhaps this research was extremely important.
Hu Xi stood up and said, "Don't spread these things to anyone. You just need to know that Gongshu Qiao is not ignorant of etiquette, but has a mission. If you need anything later, you can write a document and submit it to the Craftsman Academy."
Wang Bin couldn't guess what was going on in the Craftsman College, but he also knew that each college had its own most secret knowledge. For example, the medical school had organized a group of people to secretly study anatomy. Of course, the objects of dissection were animals. with dead criminals.
Although this process is not pleasant, Wang
Bin once opposed such inhumane research, but Sheng Yin was very supportive. In addition, anatomy has indeed brought many medical achievements, such as organ disease problems, functional problems, and even practiced mature suturing techniques. When Zhu Yunwen When I saw that the sutures were made of hemp thread, I was so depressed that I vomited blood, so I suggested using catgut, which solved the trouble of removing the sutures.
Wang Bin always believed that these studies were harmful to nature and inconsistent with human nature, but an autopsy by Sheng Yin changed Wang Bin's view.
The Ministry of Punishment was about to execute a murderer who had already been convicted. The medical school suggested that he should be hanged instead of beheading.
After the criminal department hanged the prisoner, he transferred him to the medical school. After the autopsy began, Sheng Yin remembered Zhu Yunwen's cardiopulmonary resuscitation, opened the dead man's chest, looked at the heart, and kept pressing the heart with his hand wrapped in a fish maw glove. A scene of extreme horror appeared. The heart started to beat, and the dead people came to life...
At that time, four of the eight people who participated in the autopsy ran away and one of them fainted. Sheng Yin was also trembling with fear. The prisoner came back to life. Before he had time to rejoice, he saw that he had been disemboweled and was frightened to death. .
Sheng Yin found a way to save his life. Although it is not clear what situation is suitable for this method, this incident proves that when a person dies, he may not really be dead, and maybe he can be rescued...
Seeing this, Wang Bin supported Sheng Yin's research despite a lot of resistance.
The top secrets of the medical school are not allowed to be told to other colleges. The situation in the Craftsman College is probably similar now. Since the Second Artillery Bureau is involved, it is probably related to firearms...
Wang Bin's guess was wrong. The Craftsman Academy was not studying firearms, but a kind of steel monster.
Craftsman Academy.
Dean Gongshu Qiao, supervising students Zhou Chang, Zhang Ju and Wang Qian, Second Artillery Bureau Tao Zengguang and Hu Yuancheng, Warfare Bureau Zhao Yuan and Zheng Gui, Science and Technology Bureau Wu Yuan and others seriously and carefully inspected the steel objects in front of them.
Since September of the fifth year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunming Craftsman Academy secretly launched the "steam engine" project, these top craftsmen have gathered together to study the principles, structure and uses of steam engines day and night.
In half a year, no matter whether it was winter and heavy snow outside, or whether it was spring and flowers were blooming, whether it was the army going out for battle, or the military situation in Yangjiang, it did not affect the research of the Craftsman College.
Zhu Yunwen came to Jiangxi Academy more than once to explain the corresponding theory and basic structure.
The research on the steam engine project led to the emergence of industry, and rudimentary industrial equipment began to appear, and standards for standardized production were formed. The steel improved by Hu Yuancheng laid a solid material foundation for the production of steam engines. Metal pipes, metal gaskets, and metal valves were all made by hand by Ming craftsmen bit by bit.
As for other boilers, cylinders, water tanks, water discharge pipes, water inlet valves, air intake valves, control valves, water tanks, etc., these have no real technical difficulty for Ming craftsmen.
But despite this, the development of the first steam engine still took up to six months, from theoretical exploration, to tool manufacturing, appliance manufacturing, to assembly and finalization.
Now, the nearly ten-foot-tall steam engine is finally assembled.
Gongshuqiao, Tao Zengguang, Zhao Yuan, and Wu Yuan signed the inspection documents on behalf of the four parties and handed the documents to the security bureau guards at the door. The security bureau immediately sent the documents to the palace.
Zhu Yunwen was discussing financial and people's livelihood issues with Xie Jin, Yu Xin, and Xia Yuanji.
Xia Yuanji said frankly: "From the current point of view, there is no problem for the Ministry of Revenue to support the northwest operation for seven months. However, if it exceeds seven months, especially after winter, it will be very difficult to transport grain to the northwest. Once the road is blocked by heavy snow, it will be difficult." It’s difficult to maintain a steady supply.”
Zhu Yunwen looked at the direction of the Hexi Corridor and said: "During the Han Dynasty, the Hexi Corridor was a fertile land with prosperous agriculture, which provided enough military supplies for the Han Dynasty to control the Western Regions and conduct repeated expeditions. But by our dynasty, the Hexi Corridor has been abandoned, and agriculture It has been severely reduced and is mostly covered with vegetation, which is really a pity.”
Xie Jin and Yu Xin smiled bitterly.
The Central Plains has lost the Hexi Corridor for too long. It can be said that since the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, except for Zhang Yichao's brief recovery of the Hexi Corridor, the Central Plains dynasties have lost the Hexi Corridor in hundreds of years.
Song Dynasty?
Its prosperity and literary style spread to Hexi, but it did not take Hexi back.
During the Yuan Dynasty, the nomadic people wanted to use their farmland for grazing. How could they allow the Hexi Corridor to expand agricultural production and use it directly as a horse farm?
It was not until the Ming Dynasty that Zhu Yuanzhang sent an army to take back the Hexi Corridor again.
It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang was more defensive in his northwest strategy. In addition, production in the Jiangnan and Central Plains areas had not resumed, and he had no spare energy to open up the Hexi Corridor.
Now in the Zhu Yunwen period, the Hexi Corridor cannot become a "granary" to supply the army. This means that a large number of farmers, camels, horses, donkeys, and carts are needed to go to Suzhou and Jiayuguan along the route of the Hexi Corridor ancient road. Even Dunhuang and other places.
Xia Yuanji knew the pressure Zhu Yunwen was under, and in order to make Zhu Yunwen relax, he said: "Your Majesty, as of now, there is no problem with the money and grain dedicated to the northwest war. Moreover, the chief envoys and censors from various places have reported that the summer grain growth in various places is good. There should be no problem with a bumper harvest this year, especially in places such as Northern Zhili and Henan. The grain output is likely to exceed previous years, and the imperial court can free up more power to support the northwest."
Zhu Yunwen felt much more relaxed after hearing this.
God is so kind to us that there were no famines, floods or droughts this year.
Food is the ballast of all economies. As long as there is food, there will be no major problems in the Ming Dynasty.
Yu Xindao: "Fengyang Prefecture is experiencing a slight drought this year, and we originally wanted to reduce production. But the imperial court built large-scale Shuijingqu River, and the people of Fengyang Prefecture saved a lot of crops. There is no hope that we will have a good harvest this year."
Zhu Yunwen nodded slightly and was very pleased: "The people of Fengyang Mansion can no longer go out to beg in the winter. They have their own homes. Although it has cost a lot of money and food, the results are worth it."
Xie Jin also reported some good news: "Since the shipping tax system and the floating tax rate, business has not been depressed. On the contrary, there have been many more businessmen. Overseas trade has become more popular, especially among the Ryukyus, Siam, etc., merchant ships There are frequent exchanges, and it is said that some merchant ships want to go to Guli, Kezhi and other places along the sea route of Zheng He's fleet."
Xia Yuanji saw Zhu Yunwen looking over and said, "I have asked some businessmen, and they said that before the floating tax rate, they were wary of doing business, for fear that if they expanded their business, they would be in trouble. Now the imperial court has provided regulations with clear terms. On the contrary, they feel more at ease.”
Zhu Yunwen smiled.
If the original method of operating the Shipping Department were followed, and the commercial tax set by Zhu Yuanzhang was followed to lift the ban on the sea and loosen restrictions on commerce, within ten years there would be merchants in the Ming Dynasty who were as wealthy as the country, and the country would not allow this.
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