Wanli Xinming

Chapter 134
Fortunately, Tao Dalin fell ill in Rishenglong and was finally rescued by Suxiao Jiuxin Pill.

Affected by the butterfly effect of the traverser, Tao Dalin lived in this time and space for several years longer.In the original time and space, he died of illness in office in the second year of Wanli at the age of 48.

But in this time and space, Zhu Yijun paid less attention to the Hanlin Academy, and the burden on him was much lighter, so he lived longer; both after Zhu Yijun traveled, the first life-saving drug 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 he crossed the border, and he also had a heart stent.The so-called long-term cure, Zhu Yijun naturally wanted to check the ingredients and side effects of "Suxiao Jiuxin Pills". This knowledge was used in this time and space.

At the beginning, Zhu Yijun instructed the Neifu to make handmade soap, the by-product of which was glycerin, and at that time he had the idea to produce nitroglycerin.

However, after a few attempts, I gave up.On the one hand, Zhu Yijun did not understand the preparation process of nitroglycerin and could not give the process; on the other hand, the purification methods of the Ming Dynasty were not enough, and the preparation and purity inspection of nitric acid (strong water) were very troublesome.Therefore, nitroglycerin is not something that can 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 medicines, other research and development work was completed by the Taiyuan Hospital.

After the establishment of the medical school, it continued to intensify its research efforts, and also did a lot of comparative experiments. Finally, after the formula was finalized for mass production, the price was lowered.

Tao Dalin bought it at Rishenglong, and he no longer knew which version of the formula was made of pills.

On the second day of the second lunar month in the fourth year of Wanli, fifteen-year-old Zhu Yijun tied his hair for the first time in the Qianqing Palace.

In the sixth year of Longqing, in order for Wanli, the crown prince, to succeed the throne smoothly, under the arrangement of the seriously ill Emperor Longqing, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others gave him a crown ceremony in the East Palace. The ceremony was still very grand at that time.

Although the crown ceremony was done, some of the hair on the back of Zhu Yijun's head was hanging down naturally, which meant that he was not an adult.

This time, there were no foreign ministers watching the ceremony.As the mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Chen came to the Qianqing Palace. In the presence of Empress Dowager Li, King Lu, Princess Shouyang, Princess Yongning and other family members, she personally combed the part of Zhu Yijun's hair that fell on her shoulders, and put all her hair in a bun. After putting on the net towel, he put on the Wushayishan crown.

——This move means that Zhu Yijun has entered the youth stage from the boy stage, and the election of the emperor and concubine will become the most important political event this year.

In this time and space, because Zhu Yijun got involved in political affairs very early, and gradually transitioned to being in charge of the political affairs, the time he spent with his younger brother and sister was very short.The so-called near is not inferior, far is the prestige, these younger brothers and sisters have often regarded him as the emperor rather than the elder brother, and they are a little afraid of him - the monkey king Lu is especially afraid of him.

In the past two years, after the power has been tightened, Zhu Yijun has also strengthened the education of King Lu, and has found several strict teachers for King Lu to teach him the truth of being a man and doing things.Empress Dowager Li was even more gratified when she saw that the emperor had no intention of guarding against King Lu.

Zhu Yiliu was five years younger than Zhu Yijun, and he was ten years old this year. Seeing that the emperor had already tied his hair, he was very envious.When the etiquette was completed, he was the first to ask: "Brother Huang is going to choose a concubine this year. I wonder what kind of imperial sister-in-law will you choose?"

Zhu Yijun heard it, patted his head with a smile and said, "I'm not in a hurry, but are you in a hurry?"

The empress dowagers Chen and Li heard that the emperor did not say that it was entirely up to the empress mother. They looked at each other and smiled bitterly in their hearts—because the emperor had already ruled before the big wedding, the matter of choosing a concubine really can't be entirely based on the so-called "parents". fate".

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 practice of going up the dike to fight the flood, and he was rewarded by a higher level of official, and 50 taels of silver were given, two of which were inside and outside.Ma Shengming exchanged tears, thanking God for not mentioning it.

Zhu Yijun's time to meet Princess Leping was also very short. He found that Princess Leping had a good appearance and was very happy. He exchanged a few words briefly. Seeing that the princess was too nervous to speak, he didn't say more.He personally led her to see the Empress Dowager Chen.

Empress Dowager Chen had no children and daughters for half her life. Although all the children of Emperor Longqing were nominally hers, Empress Dowager Li's mother was higher than her in the harem power list. Therefore, for Empress Dowager Chen, in addition to the emperor, Not a single child is under his knees.

The emperor was busy with political affairs and had very little time to accompany her. Although he had mahjong as his spiritual sustenance, occasionally he still felt a little sad.Now that the emperor has adopted Princess Leping under the name of Empress Dowager Chen, Empress Dowager Chen really has some small expectations.

When I met Princess Leping, I saw that although her etiquette was unfamiliar, she did not have the squeamishness of a royal lady, and her temperament was very simple.According to the emperor's instructions, when she changed her mouth to call Empress Dowager Chen her mother, she did not feel sluggish, and Empress Dowager Chen liked it very much.

After Zhu Yijun tied his hair, Mingfa's first decree was to draw a bottom line for the court and the opposition to choose a concubine.

On the third day of February, Princess Leping entered the palace.Zhu Yijun issued the "Edict of Prohibiting Foot-Binding": "Women's foot-binding may have originated in the Five Dynasties, and it was rare before Xining. After the Southern Song Dynasty, the scumbags and the local owls in clothes and crowns took the small feet as their beauty, which caused the world to become very bad. Effective, destroying the limbs without being ashamed, but what about the girls in the world?"

"It is forbidden for women all over the world to bind their feet. Those who have already bound their feet should all be released, and no further binding is allowed."

The imperial decree stipulated that after June of the fourth year of Wanli, all officials in the world, and those who had a foot-binding woman or above in their immediate family, would be dismissed from office after being reported and verified, and their name and name would be deprived.

Beginning in June of the fourth year of Wanli, there were those who forced women to bind their feet, and their fathers, brothers or husbands had eighty sticks, and they flowed to the northeast.

Taking the 25th year of Wanli as the benchmark, all children born after that, whose aunt and biological mother have a non-natural foot, are not allowed to take the imperial examination.

The decree finally said: "The body is hairy, and the parents do not dare to damage it. This is the beginning of filial piety. And the parents are kind and can't bear to see their children cry and would rather not be pity? Those who do not comply with the decree will be investigated and punished!"

After this decree was issued, it aroused a lot of criticism from scholars and the people.However, the series of articles, jokes and serialized novels in the "Jingshi Daily" and "Huangming Nanjing Daily" finally made people's hearts feel like petty feet, and the royal family and court officials played a role in leading public opinion. effect.

There was a lot of controversy in later generations about what the bad habits of foot binding were before the Qing Dynasty.A common saying is that before the Qing Dynasty, women bound their feet, and they did not break the bones of their feet as in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and their feet were awl-shaped.

However, under the influence of the aesthetics of taking small feet as beauty, women in the Ming Dynasty also had many reverse foot bindings, with slender feet and upward toes for beauty, that is, the so-called "pointy and upturned, a pair of crested heads", this is certain.

After Zhu Yijun crossed over, he also asked the maids in the palace, and only then did he know that the footbinding of women in the north had become a common phenomenon.It's just that all women who enter the palace, in order to serve the nobles conveniently, must put their feet up after entering the palace - the two queen mothers Chen and Li will put their feet up after entering the palace, so they belong to half-day feet.

Afraid of giving unnecessary thoughts to the maids around him, Zhu Yijun did not let them take off their shoes to see, but only asked how old they were to bind their feet and how to wrap them.

The issue of women's liberation is also what Zhu Yijun wants to solve vigorously.Therefore, taking the opportunity of the election and the concubine, he first issued a ban on foot binding to make some preparations for the future.

Just one month after the ban on foot-binding was issued, the Royal College of Medicine 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 the public and provided lunch.

There are many poor people in the capital who squeeze their heads and usually send their daughters to the Royal Medical College.However, due to the requirement of literacy and punctuation, most of them were not selected, and the source of medical school students was not enough.Later, the medical school could only set up a preparatory department to solve the problem of basic education for girls entering the school.

This preparatory school is the first girls' school in China.In order to choose a teacher, Zhu Yijun also worried for a while.Later, the Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces dispatched a group of maids who taught the etiquette of the prince and princess in the inner palace and the inner supervisor of the inner study, which solved the problem of the shortage of teachers in the preparatory school.

As a result, the news came out, and the family of the official in the capital was also a sensation - where can I find such a good thing to allow my daughter to receive a royal education!

As a result, the preparatory course originally planned to enroll 200 students, but when it was expanded to [-], there were still people squeezing in.The medical school had no choice but to resort to the tactic of bursary donations. All the women of the official family were recruited according to the amount of bursaries from high to low, and another [-] people were recruited.

A girls' school with a class of 500 students is also considered large in scale.The medical school is very cautious when it comes to the safety of students and the defense of men and women.After requesting the decree, a school bus system was established—all female students were transported between home and school by horse-drawn carriage, and officers and soldiers from Shuntian Prefecture were sent to protect them along the way.

Unsurprisingly, the idle man in the capital watched the lively scene around the school gate and the school bus for a few days, but due to the tight security, he didn't see anything, so he dispersed.

　The emperor is about to choose a concubine. Do you have any good suggestions?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)