Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 344

"How is today..."

As the days went down, when dusk appeared, Jin Xuan also returned to the East Palace with Zhu Ciran, and Li Chaoqin, as the person monitoring Jin Xuan, returned to Qianqing Palace with today's news.

Zhu Youxiao in Qianqing Palace was dressed in a tunic, leaning on a chair with one leg on the chair, with one hand on his leg, holding a memorial.

Facing his inquiry, Li Chaoqin told Zhu Youxiao what Jin Xuan did today without any hesitation.

At the end, in order to get rid of Kim Hyun, he specifically said:

"In the eyes of this servant girl, Jin Xuan doesn't teach His Royal Highness the Four Books and Five Classics, and only takes His Highness to shoot arrows out of the palace every day. It's quite a plaything..."

"Okay..." Zhu Youxiao interrupted him, and Li Chaoqin immediately shut up.

Zhu Youxiao held the memorial, without any expression on his face, he looked calm, but he was a little happy in his heart.

He didn't really want his crown prince to only know the Four Books and Five Classics, because he himself didn't like to read those.

Comparing the Four Books and Five Classics and the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, he wanted Zhu Ciran to learn Yanshan's teaching materials even more, and even went to Yanshan to study and win over a group of his own people.

Only if he has his own team, will he be able to succeed to the throne safely in future battles.

This fight does not refer to Zhu Ciran and Zhu Youjian, because if it is two people, there is no need to fight.

Zhu Youxiao was worried about his younger brother's descendants...

"You back off..."

"The servants take orders..."

Hearing this, Li Chaoqin immediately got up and slowly exited the Hall of Mental Cultivation. At this time, Zhu Youxiao asked Wang An and Liu Ruoyu who were standing in the corner:
"What do you think of this Jin Xuan's teaching?"

When he asked this question, Wang An slowly stepped forward, looked down at his nose and heart, and replied cautiously:

"My servant thinks that Jin Xuan is impeccable, whether it's his tutor, his parents and brothers, or his personal character, as well as the character of his best friend."

"The servant girl heard that some businessmen came to ask for his 'running brush' many times, but she refused, and her mother avoided people who offered bribes, and her younger brother, Jin Qi, was a student of Yanshan's sixth class and had three years to graduate. "

"As for Jin Xuan's close friend, Bo Chengde, the head of Daxing County, I heard that he has a strong personality and hates evil. Since he took office, the paperwork in Daxing County has been organized in an orderly manner, and the money, grain and household registration have been properly managed. He has also refused bribes from businessmen many times. He is a rare honest official."

"Integrity officials..." Zhu Youxiao lowered his eyes, thought about something, and then said:
"I think they are not honest officials, but straight ministers."

"If Chengde is really like this, then he will make up for the vacancy of Daxing county magistrate this time."

"Long live...would it be too soon, he just graduated for less than a year..." Liu Ruoyu cautiously reminded.

You know, the county magistrate of Daxing is no ordinary county magistrate.

Since the 19th year of Yongle, when Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved his capital to Beijing, Wanping County and Daxing County have been the capitals of Jifu, similar to Shangyuan County and Jiangning County in Nanjing.

In terms of household registration, Beijing is divided into Daxing and Wanping, with 62 people in Wanping and 55 people in Daxing.

In terms of the number of people, the people in Daxing County are not inferior to a prefecture.

It is somewhat too much of a favor to let a person who has just graduated for a year manage Daxing County.

Liu Ruoyu's reminder is not unreasonable, but to Zhu Youxiao, it seems that the bad rules of local officials have offended him, so he scolded indifferently:
"It is precisely because he is a newcomer that he has to be entrusted with a heavy responsibility. The newcomer has not yet been won over by those greedy officials. Even if he can only stick to his heart for two years, it will save the people of Daxing from being exploited for two years."

It is not difficult to hear that there is a lot of resentment in Zhu Youxiao's words, but it is not difficult to understand.

If the matter of Wuqing County is put into the whole country, there are more than 5000 counties in the Ming Dynasty, and the county and county officials all followed the Wuqing method to increase consumption and entitlement, then these corrupt officials have corrupted at least [-] yuan from the Ming Dynasty. Ten thousand taels of silver.

Of course, not every county is as wealthy as Wuqing County, but even if only a hundred counties do this, the people will be exploited for millions of taels of silver.

Zhu Youxiao now likes to use newcomers and straight ministers, all because of this reason.

Although Zhu Youxue is still young, it is time to prepare for the training of Zhu Ciran.

Dear virtuous minister, Yuan Xiaoren...

These six characters are the environment created by Zhu Youxiao to train Zhu Ciran. As long as Zhu Ciran is surrounded by direct ministers, he will train him well, and let his younger brother take care of him, Zhu Ciran may be able to show a difference side.

"Let's get promoted!" With one sentence from Zhu Youxiao, Chengde's promotion was settled.

Seeing this, Wang An and Liu Ruoyu slowly returned their salutes, and Zhu Youxiao also looked at Wang An and said:
"Is my brother not going to Beijing yet?"

"It seems that King Qi's old illness has relapsed and he still needs to rest for a while. At the Imperial Hospital, I heard that Royal Doctor Wang, Doctor Zhang, and Doctor Li were all transferred to Baoding yesterday."

As soon as Wang An opened his mouth, Zhu Youxiao's heart immediately hung in his throat. He couldn't help but leaned forward, and asked with concern: "How is my brother?"

"The three imperial doctors have just arrived in Baoding, and there should be news coming back tomorrow, but His Royal Highness Qi Wang said that it will not be a problem." Wang An replied.

"Tell me as soon as you have any news tomorrow." Zhu Youxiao used my self-proclaimed name. Obviously, if anyone fools him about this kind of thing again, he will turn his face.

The last time Zhu Youjian was ill, everyone kept the matter from him, and he still remembers it vividly.

"Yes..." Wang An responded, and Zhu Youxiao also waved his hand and said, "Back off."

"Your servant will leave..." The two saluted, and then slowly exited the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

As soon as the two of them left, Zhu Youxiao was the only one left in the huge Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The empty Hall of Mental Cultivation made Zhu Youxiao feel uneasy. He got up and walked to the dragon case, and looked at the "General Map of Great Ming Kunyu" hanging high.

The borders of the two capitals and [-] provinces of the Ming Dynasty are vividly reflected on the three-foot silk cloth. Looking at the borders, Zhu Youxiao turned his attention to the "General Map of Kun Yu Wan Guo" hanging high on the other side.

A complete map of the world measuring two feet in length and width was a gift from Zhu Youjian to Zhu Youxiao before departure.

Standing under the map, Zhu Youxiao looked at the comparison between the territory of Ming Dynasty and the territory of the world on the map. Zhu Youxiao looked at Wu Sizang, as well as Dongyu and Nanzhang, as well as the Western Regions, Mobei, Northeast, etc. area.

These places are all places that Zhu Youjian told him to take back, and Zhu Youxiao also believes that once these places are taken back, he will become an emperor for thousands of years.

Thinking that he could create such a large dynasty territory, Zhu Youxiao straightened his back a little, and the original sense of uneasiness suddenly disappeared.

As dusk gradually slanted, the entire palace was lit up with candles little by little.

However, compared with the candlelight here, Zhu Youjian was leaning on a chair in the county government office of Baoding Prefecture more than two hundred miles away at this moment, allowing the three imperial doctors in front of him to diagnose his pulse.

The backyard of the county government office was not particularly large, and it was crowded with many people at the moment, but it was not because of Zhu Youjian's illness.

Zhu Youjian was not sick, he told Wang An that his illness was just an excuse.

The reason why he summoned the three imperial doctors was also to confuse his brother, and the reason why he did this was firstly because he didn't want to go to Beijing to scare the snake, and secondly because he wanted to have a good rest.

His operation made Wang Kentang and the three of them with more than ten assistants stunned when they arrived in Baoding.

However, in line with the principle that everyone has come, the three of them checked Zhu You's pulse together.

It happened that Zhu Youjian saw that they had brought a lot of students, so he asked them to help Cao Bianjiao and the others to diagnose the pulse one by one.

In this way, the backyard of the county government office became a medical examination site.

"Your Highness has a strong pulse, but it's just as you can say, liver qi is stagnant and needs to be cultivated for a few days."

When the three imperial doctors got the same answer in their pulse diagnosis, Wang Kentang, the oldest one, bowed to Zhu Youjian and made a reply.

"I also said that my body is fine, but you don't believe me..."

Zhu Youjian twitched his mouth, obviously he was quite confident in his body.

In his view, based on the blood and genes of the Zhu family, as long as you don't take drugs indiscriminately, it is not a problem to live to sixty or seventy, especially in the Jiajing lineage, the early deaths are basically due to drug use, so Only then did he strictly control Zhu Youxiao's demand for pills.

"By the way, how is the emperor's diet recently? How about the pulse diagnosis?"

Zhu Youjian thought of Zhu Youxiao's health, but Wang Kentang said when he heard the words:
"Three days ago, the next official gave the pulse of the Long Live. Although the pulse of the Long Live is not as strong as His Highness, it is still better than that of ordinary people."

"However, after His Royal Highness returns to Beijing, it's best to persuade Wansui to avoid eating. All the imperial doctors in the imperial hospital have advised Wansui to drink less alcohol, eat less seafood, beef and mutton, but Wansui..."

Wang Kentang didn't finish his sentence, and showed a wry smile, and Zhu Youjian also understood that apart from him, even Zhang Yan couldn't persuade Zhu Youxiao when it came to eating.

Even if Zhu Youjian persuaded him, Zhu Youxiao would at most reduce every meal of seafood to one meal a day, or one meal every two days.

Zhu Youjian was an inland person in his previous life, and he rarely had the opportunity to eat seafood, and he rarely heard of people with gout around him, but even so, he knew that gout was related to drinking, eating seafood, offal, and soup.

"This matter is over, I will remind Brother Huang when I return to Beijing."

Zhu Youjian responded to Wang Kentang, but he also knew that Zhu Youxiao would commit another crime within a few days of being honest.

"By the way, what's the situation in the medical school?" Zhu Youjian remembered the matter of the medical school, and Wang Kentang bowed back when he heard the words:
"Currently there are more than 5000 students, of which two-thirds are in surgery and one-third in internal medicine."

Wang Kentang said, and Li Zhongzi beside him also explained: "Medicine is no different than others. At present, in medical schools, the master guides the apprentice for three years, and the apprentice guides the junior for another three years, and they learn from the master at the same time."

"After enlisting famous doctors from all over the world, the school divided them into departments. After the division, there were more than [-] teachers."

"After September next year, the number of students should continue to expand by 5, and the number of students will reach more than [-] by then."

"It's just..." Li Zhongzi paused when he said this, and Zhu Youjian also knew that the other party had encountered a problem, so he raised his hand to signal him to continue.

Seeing Zhu Youjian like this, Li Zhongzi could only bow and say:

"It's just that most of the students are currently receiving a student salary of six taels of silver. Many of them can only support themselves, and it is even difficult for them to get married."

"I thought it was something, so I forgot about it..." Zhu Youjian immediately showed an apologetic expression when he heard the words, and bowed to Li Zhongzi and others:

"Government affairs are busy, and it's unclear when students will be able to leave the mountain to sit in the library, so I haven't set up a relevant system."

"I feel ashamed to hear Mr. Shicai say that right now..." Zhu Youjian first admitted his guilt towards the medical student, and added:
"According to the views of the three gentlemen, how many people can be sent out to sit in the hall right now?"

From the first year of the apocalypse to the present, for eight full years, Li Zhongzi and others and hundreds of disciples of more than a dozen famous doctors have studied for so long, and it is impossible that they will not be able to come out of the mountain, so Zhu Youjian specifically asked.

Regarding his question, Li Zhongzi also said:

"Specialize in one subject, and it is much easier and more enjoyable to study. Among the more than [-] students, more than [-] people have been able to leave the mountain. In the future, more than [-] people will be able to leave the mountain every year."

"However, according to the eight departments of Chinese medicine, they can only support two hundred medical departments."

The eight subjects of Chinese medicine are the subjects that Li Zhongzi and others have successively expanded in recent years according to the requirements of Zhu Youjian. They are divided into Chinese medicine internal medicine, Chinese medicine surgery, Chinese medicine gynecology, Chinese medicine pediatrics, Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion, Chinese medicine nursing, Chinese medicine epidemic disease Department of Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine and other subjects.

A medical department needs eight doctors and one assistant, and the assistant needs to be proficient in eight subjects.

Such a hospital can treat at least a thousand patients.

Zhu Youjian remembers that the ratio of doctors to population in later generations is about 2000 to 60. According to the standards of later generations, these [-] doctors can take care of at least [-] people.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian thought for a while, and then thought of Daming's population.

He turned his head to look at Lu Wenzhao, but found that Lu Wenzhao was being diagnosed, so he said to Li Zhongzi and others:
"I plan to transfer the Huimin Pharmacy Bureau and its medicine field to the Tai Hospital. In the future, the Tai Hospital will not only be responsible for the medical treatment of the court, but also be responsible for the transfer of Yanshan Medical College and medical students, the management of the Huimin Pharmacy Bureau's medicine field, and the Huimin Medicine Bureau to see a doctor."

"Students who graduated from Yanshan Medical School can go to Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau to work and sit in the library."

"Their salaries are paid twice as much as the minimum wage of the local people. For example, the minimum monthly salary of the people in the capital is [-] Wen, and they pay one tael or eight taels of money. The minimum monthly salary in Lin'an Prefecture in Yunnan is [-] Wen, and they pay one tael of silver."

"The salary of sitting in the clinic is twice that of ordinary doctors. On weekdays, doctors rest and sit in the clinic to treat diseases instead of doctors."

"In addition, the rules of the Huimin Pharmacy Bureau need to be changed. I'm afraid it won't work for the common people to charge the medicinal herbs for free. Now they only charge the price of the medicinal materials, plus a penny for the consultation fee."

Zhu Youjian abolished the rule of Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau to distribute free medicines, and also changed the rule that Huimin Pharmacy’s consultation fee was determined and collected by doctors themselves, and changed it to pay doctors’ salaries by the imperial court.

He is not No. 1 for such a pioneering work. Starting from the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Han Dynasty generally set up some institutions for the welfare of the people based on national strength.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the economic development of the two, the supporting facilities provided by the imperial court to the people were very complete.

Among the many social welfare institutions in the Song Dynasty, the representative institutions include the Pharmacy Bureau, Anjifang, Nursing Home, and Louze Garden.

Different from the medical system of later generations, the Pharmacy Bureau in the Song Dynasty provided medical services for the people, not for making money but for the health of the people.

Anjifang and Nursing Home were well-established social assistance and elderly care institutions during Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, mainly providing free medical services to those who had no money to see a doctor.

As for the "Louze Garden", this institution is actually an ancient welfare funeral institution. In the Song Dynasty, the corpses that were not buried were all managed by the Louze Garden. Prevent the spread of ancient diseases.

In the Ming Dynasty, due to the progress of the times and Zhu Yuanzhang's background as a farmer, the court paid special attention to the suffering of the people.

In order to prevent the common people from continuing to suffer, Zhu Yuanzhang implemented three major welfare policies, namely "Yangjiyuan", "Louzeyuan" and "Huimin Pharmacy".

Zhu Youjian is no stranger to the Nursing Home. Many of his Yanshan officials and soldiers were recruited from the Nursing Home.

As for the Louze Garden, it inherited the Zelouyuan system of the Song Dynasty, that is, the imperial court buried the dead for free.

The last Huimin Pharmacy was a free hospital in the Ming Dynasty, where people could see doctors and receive medicines for free.

Not only that, but Zhu Yuanzhang also experimented with the "guaranteed housing" policy.

He ordered the construction of public housing in the suburbs of Nanjing and arranged for the homeless to live there.

However, this policy was limited to the economic conditions of the feudal era and could not be promoted nationwide, but it can be regarded as the earliest national free public housing in history.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in poverty, was very concerned about the lonely old people who had no living security and the poor who could not take care of themselves due to disabilities.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the system, and to prevent officials from being corrupt, Zhu Yuanzhang wrote it into the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", which stipulates:

"Where widows, widows, lonely and seriously ill people are poor and have no relatives to rely on and cannot survive on their own. If the lawsuit should be adopted but not adopted, the rod is sixty. If the government should be given food and clothing, but the officials are reduced, it is the theory of self-stealing."

Under the deterrence of the "ancestral system", the emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to take it lightly, so the nursing home was quickly spread all over the country.

By April of the 14th year of Yongle, "all prefectures and counties in the world have Huimin pharmacies and nursing homes".

However, due to the corruption of the military farms, financial problems occurred in the middle and late Ming Dynasty which was affected. Especially after Jiajing succeeded to the throne, the construction of Yangjiyuan and Huimin Pharmacy began to gradually decrease over time.

During the Wanli period, due to financial problems, the number and scale of nursing homes and Huimin Pharmacy gradually decreased.

Up to now, there are only 430 and 670 places in the Daming Nursing Home, and [-] and [-] in the Louze Garden. Although there are still more than [-] places in the Huimin Pharmacy Bureau, there are more than [-] yuan in medicine fields, and more than [-] Mu, but in fact it is normal for doctors to charge consultation fees.

Now that Zhu Youjian wants to take Huimin Pharmacy and Medicine Field back to the imperial court in one go, no one will have any objections, because Huimin Pharmacy is currently in a situation where whoever takes over will pay money to maintain it.

"Your Highness..."

Lu Wenzhao got his pulse diagnosis and prescribed a prescription. He saw Zhu Youjian looking at him frequently, so he got up and walked over after the diagnosis.

"You came just in time, go ask Cheng En, I asked him to calculate how the accounts of Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau are going."

Zhu Youjian confessed to Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao went to look for Wang Chengen when he heard the words.

"If this is the case, the students have solved the problem of eating, but if it is calculated based on the placement of 6 people in the eight subjects, the annual salary may require millions of taels of salary expenditure."

After all, Wang Kentang was a former official. He knew very well that the official operation of the Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau was a good thing for the common people, but the premise was that the court had sufficient financial revenue.

Otherwise, the outcome of Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau may be nothing more than abolition in the end.

"What's a million taels of silver?" Zhu Youjian said suddenly, and said with a smile:

"In the land of Old Port, the annual income from mining gold and silver is more than one million taels."

"Although there are 1000 students, only [-] students go out every year. For the entire Ming Dynasty, it is just a drop in the bucket."

"The population is growing, and 1000 people can cope with at most a few hundred thousand people, and my Daming has tens of millions of people, at least a million doctors are enough."

"For the more than [-] students who can go out this time, I plan to establish a school in each of the two capitals of Daming and the [-] provinces, named after the provinces."

"Daming needs enough doctors, and the doctors who are sent out will be used as teachers, so it is better to let the students at the library level go to teach."

"As for those who don't have enough qualifications, you can study at the Tai Hospital while treating the common people at the Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau in the capital."

Zhu Youjian found employment for future medical students, but this kind of thing cannot be solved by him alone.

There are more than 3000 Huimin pharmacies and more than 70 mu of medicine fields. This is also a huge profit structure. Some hereditary Chinese medicine families need his guidance, and some quack doctors who are not good at medicine also need him to clean up.

His only advantage is that the Huimin Pharmacy itself belongs to the imperial court, so he can produce a test paper to screen out most of the quack doctors.

"Your Highness, take it back!"

When Lu Wenzhao's footsteps sounded, Zhu Youjian also saw him walking over with a booklet. When he handed it over with both hands, Zhu Youjian took it and opened it.

This record is the result of Nanzhen Fusi Jinyiwei's summary of the profitability of more than 3000 Huimin pharmacies across the country.

The more than 3000 Huimin pharmacies represent basically one-third of the number of doctors in Daming, and this number is more than 6000.

Zhu Youjian thought for a while, if these more than 6000 people can pass the examination papers set by Li Zhongzi and other famous doctors, then Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau will probably need to spend more than 60 taels of silver as salary every year.

As for the seven 10,000+ mu of medicine fields, it also requires an annual expenditure of tens of thousands of taels of silver.

From this point of view, the consumption is not too big. It is a good deal to spend seven 10,000+ taels to protect the health of tens of millions of Ming people.

In the future, for thousands or even thousands of students every year, the medical expenses will only increase by 3 or [-] taels of silver at most.

I have to say that Chinese medicine is indeed very cheap to see a doctor, but even so, the more than 70 taels is not a small expense.

but……

Zhu Youjian thought of the Iwami silver mine in Japan, the gold mine in Africa, the Mughal gold in South Asia, and...

In these places, a random sum can meet the expenditure of the Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau for more than ten years, which is easier and more cost-effective than collecting taxes from its own people.

For the health of the people, it seems that the daimyo had to do something about this matter...

Thinking of this, Chief Prosecutor Zhu You sighed, a little "unbearable" and said:

"If you suffer from foreign barbarians again, I will recite the name..."

(End of this chapter)