I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 142 Fan Yongdou made great contributions to Daikin
Chapter 141

When you succeed, you will find that you are surrounded by good people.

Cheng Shijie can be said to be very successful now. He is a first-rank official, even if he is a relatively worthless first-rank military officer, he is still a first-rank military officer. The Dongjiang Army is a proper official of the frontier.

If Cheng Shijie was just a Dengzhou Wei Zuoqian household or Ning Haijun's garrison, Yang Qingyun would never serve Cheng Shijie. Of course, Yang Qingyun actually did not have the ability and strength to refuse Cheng Shijie's current official position.

Because the medical school is the only one of the other hundred schools that Confucianism does not reject, the lofty ideal of scholars is not to be a good look, but to be a good doctor.With this environment, the environment for the development of medical skills is quite good.

Cheng Shijie has many choices. If he is willing to look for it, he can find countless good doctors with enough money.Yang Qingyun, the son of a former imperial doctor, actually has no capital to be proud of.

Cheng Shijie gave Yang Qingyun the position of dean of Xinghai Medical College, which is at the same level as Luo Tong, the dean of Ning Naval Field Hospital, and enjoys the rank of the fourth grade.

Yang Qingyun was very satisfied with this, and immediately began to introduce his work plan to Cheng Shijie as the dean of Xinghai Medical College.

The traditional Chinese medical practice model is the clinic system, and there is almost no tendency to form large-scale general hospitals.

The real reason for the slow development of Chinese medicine is that the threshold for this industry is very high. Unlike Western medicine, you can know if you have a fever by measuring your body temperature with a thermometer. If you have a fever, you can use medicine, injections, and infusions.

But Chinese medicine is different. Chinese medicine pays attention to "look, smell, ask, and cut!" These four words are very experience-based. If you want to train a qualified doctor of Chinese medicine, let alone three to five years, ten or eight years is barely considered. Getting started, you can achieve small success in 20 years, and great success in 30 years.

It is because it is too difficult to train Chinese medicine. What Cheng Shijie is best at is integrating all available resources.

Ning Haijun's field hospital has already explored mature experience.For example, a medical team set up at the departmental level, with a staff of [-], can perform simple operations, suture wounds, fix broken bones, and bandage wounds. In an emergency, they can be divided into two treatment teams , work separately.

Now the medical personnel in southern Liaoning are not very skilled in medicine. If there is a choice, most doctors are not willing to live in southern Liaoning.Therefore, in Ninghai Navy's field hospital, there are almost no doctors with high medical skills. However, in order to quickly carry out work and deal with difficult medical problems.

The field hospital of Ninghai Navy is not like the hospitals of later generations. Surgery is divided into general surgery, orthopedics, thoracic surgery, neurosurgery, urology, and plastic surgery.However, Ning Haijun's surgery is divided into head surgery, arm surgery, leg surgery, foot surgery, chest and abdomen surgery, and so on.

Each department specializes in one area, and is responsible for the treatment of arrow wounds, knife wounds, gunshot wounds, and festering injuries...

"Qingyun, how is the visit to the field hospital going?"

"I have a deep understanding and a deep feeling!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Yang Qingyun and said: "We have very few people in southern Liaoning now. Although it is possible to immigrate from outside, it will take a long time for immigrants to become our own. The best way is to reduce the infant mortality rate. Everyone is precious!"

Cheng Shijie signed a performance management regulation in front of Yang Qingyun, specifically for Yang Qingyun, for each qualified stable woman, that is, midwife trained by Xinghai Medical College, he can get a commission of one tael of silver, if the training is qualified If there are 1000 stable women, he can get 1000 taels of extra income. If there are 1 people, that is 1 taels of silver.

Yang Qingyun, the dean of Liaonan Medical College who had not yet started his post, suddenly had bright eyes and shortness of breath.

Being a stable woman is a very unique profession. Women who can become stable women must either have very rich experience in childbearing or have learned similar knowledge. The training is not complicated.

Cheng Shijie checked the relevant information. Generally speaking, a very important factor in the infant mortality rate in ancient times was the problem of sanitary conditions. That is, when Wen Po was delivering babies, most families directly used the bedroom as the delivery room.

Especially the concept of hygiene. The ancients believed that pregnant women or parturients were afraid of the wind, and it was easy for wind to enter the body. Therefore, this bedroom was a closed space for a long time before delivery, and the air inside was dirty. Coupled with the living habits of ancient people, The room is prone to a large number of bacteria.Hygienic concepts and hygienic conditions can easily lead to various diseases.

And the newborn baby's resistance is poor...

Another very important reason is that social productivity is low, and ordinary people can only solve their own food and clothing.This will cause two problems. One is that due to the low living standard, children can only eat enough and suffer from malnutrition.Or it can be said that the milk is not nutritious due to the mother's malnutrition.Malnutrition lowers the natural resistance, and it is easier to get sick.Second, because there is not enough money, many children are unable to see a doctor when they are sick, or they have no money to buy medicine after seeing a doctor, so they can only let it go.

"I plan to build at least one maternal and child health center in every town in southern Liaoning within two to three years. This maternal and child health hospital will be responsible for delivery and postpartum care for pregnant women."

Cheng Shijie is also thinking that it is very unrealistic to improve the living standards of the whole people in a relatively short period of time, and this needs to be done step by step.

He can quickly create wealth, but he cannot quickly achieve national prosperity.

The only way is to take the next step, provide subsidies from delivery to nursing care, and reduce the most likely period of infant death within one month after birth.

"Marshal, I'm afraid this Maternal and Child Health Hospital. I'm afraid no one will go there."

Although Yang Qingyun is a doctor, he is no stranger to midwifery. Generally, when people ask a steady wife to deliver a baby, they will give birth to a son successfully and give money. If they give birth to a daughter, even the mother-in-law will consider herself unlucky and will not ask for money. .

In terms of infant mortality rate, there are definitely more female babies than male babies, which is also caused by concepts.

"From one month before giving birth to one month after giving birth, the mother can live in the maternal and child health care hospital, and provide free board and lodging, as well as nursing expenses!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said, "When the newborn is [-] days old, I will transfer two hundred coppers directly to the account of the newborn's parents, which will be specially used for the nutrition of the newborn. This money will be paid regularly every month until the baby grow up to one year old."

"It costs a lot of money!"

"Ben Shuai is not short of money now!"

Cheng Shijie has gone through the initial difficult period, and the current factory, including the next farm, can receive a return on the massive investment in the early stage.

Cheng Shijie can harvest more than 150 million shi of grain just in the field, and there may be more. Of course, there are also a lot of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and vegetables.

Although it is said that the principle of no taxation has been adopted for the military positions and meritorious fields of Ning Navy officers and men, Cheng Shijie will not allow other grain merchants to appear within the scope of southern Liaoning.He wants to become the largest grain merchant, monopolize and control the grain market in southern Liaoning.

When Cheng Shijie gave Yang Qingyun an idea, he borrowed his work experience in the restaurant and introduced: "Any craftsman who can be called a master steelmaker needs at least three years or even longer work experience. However, a If a restaurant hires dozens of master chefs, it will definitely not be able to afford it. In order to increase the speed of cooking, one master can lead more than a dozen apprentices to practice chopping vegetables, learn how to chop vegetables, side dishes for side dishes, stir-fry dishes for stir-frying, Stews are stewed, soups are cooked, so that a master chef with a dozen apprentices can run a medium-sized restaurant."

Listening to Cheng Shijie's words, Yang Qingyun suddenly realized, and he understood that this was not Cheng Shijie's original creation, it was the way many masters like to accept apprentices.

Just like Xu Guangqi, he took in many apprentices, Sun Yuanhua learned his machinery manufacturing and casting artillery technology, and Chen Zilong learned his agricultural technology, as well as astronomy and calendar technology.

Decompose all the professional skills and practice one of them, you can quickly learn, and cooperate with others, you can do the work that only excellent technicians can do.

For a qualified chef, it takes three to five months to master knife skills. The cooking time is also the same, and the side dishes are similar. Even if the model of New Oriental, two-year graduates, don’t even think about it. .

Yang Qingyun began to study how to establish Xinghai Medical College and how to grow Chinese herbal medicines on a large scale.Xie Jinglin followed Cheng Shijie's order and began to plot against Fan Yongdou.

Cheng Shijie popularized a concept to Xie Jinglin, Jiannu actually did not have any sense of territory, and the current Houjin territory is not completely fixed, and whoever takes down the territory counts as his.

The navy of the Ning Navy has never participated in the battle against Jiannu, so the officers and soldiers of the navy now have opinions, and they also need military exploits.

Therefore, Cheng Shijie decided to take advantage of Fan Yongdou's urgent need for food, and find a place for the Ning Navy's naval forces to make military achievements.

This place is the Shuangchengwei of Nurgandus, which is the later Ussuriysk, a hub city connecting the two strategically important places of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok.Shuangchengzi is located between Sihuote Mountains, Changbai Mountains and Xingkai Lake.

It is adjacent to Dongning in the west and [-] kilometers away from Vladivostok in the south.

Shuangchengwei is the confluence of Suifen River, Lakovga River and Suputiga River.The so-called twin cities refer to the fact that the east city is called "Fuldan" and the west city is called "Jurgen", which are about four miles apart.Shuangchengzi is an early city developed in Northeast China. In the middle of the ninth century, the land of Shuangchengzi was an important town in Bohai State, and Yu Loumohe lived here for generations.

Although it is located in the northeast, it is located in Xingkai Lake. In the Tang Dynasty, it was called Meituo Lake, and it was famous for being rich in "Meituo crucian carp". "Qinhai".

Fan Yongdou looked at Xie Jinglin holding the map, pointed to Shuangcheng Wei and said, "Our commander is worried that we will be impeached by the ministers of the court and China during the transaction in southern Liaoning..."

Before Xie Jinglin could finish speaking, Fan Yongdou said with a smile: "Master Xie, you don't have to worry about this, Fan Mou also has three points of support in the Sanjin area, and our colleagues in the Jin area will also help each other. I have become friends with Cheng Dashuai, friends When there is difficulty, we will definitely not stand by!"

"In addition to being able to do it secretly, it has another function!"

Xie Jinglin pointed at the curved river and said with a smile: "Treasurer Fan Da should be clear that we are talking about business, merchants are doing business, and naturally everything is based on profit. Shopkeeper Fan Da knows that Jinzhou is only 150 miles away from Lushun. Why? Lushun has Lushun Port, Jinzhou also has Jinzhou West Port and Golden Port East Port, and Gaizhou West Port, Fuzhou East Port, and Haizhou Port in Gaizhou?"

"For the benefit of water transportation?"

"That's right!"

Xie Jinglin said with a smile: "For two thousand shi of grain, it takes at least 150 carts and at least 37 peasants. It takes three days to transport it from Lushun to Jinzhou, but the two thousand shi of grain only needs a car with four hundred pieces A sea-going ship can transport food, but to operate this ship with [-] materials, only [-] soldiers are needed. Do you understand now?"

Fan Yongdou thought to himself that almost all the generals of the Ming Dynasty used their soldiers as slaves. A kind-hearted general can even give the soldiers some military pay or food. Cheng Shijie is really good. , has been working for Cheng Shijie for free.

Fan Yongdou's entourage has been inquiring about every move of Liaonan. He has been in Liaonan for almost a month now. Cheng Shijie never pays the military households, but only distributes food to ensure that the soldiers will not starve to death.

"Treasurer Fan, look at this Shuangcheng. Although it was originally the homeland of the Jianzhou Jurchens, how many Jurchens are there in the vicinity of Shuangcheng?"

"It's really not much!"

Xie Jinglin said with a smile: "Our commander can transport the grain from Jinzhou all the way along the sea to the mouth of the Suifen River. After arriving at the mouth of the sea, we will enter the Meituo Lake along the Suifen River. On the north bank, east bank, and west bank of Tuohu Lake, three towns, Donghu Town, Xihu Town, and Beihu Town, were established respectively. After leaving the town, this is the territory of the Jurchens. Your mission is also completed, and you are waiting in Shuangchengwei Just collect the money!"

"This question, Fan is just a businessman, I'm afraid it's powerless!"

"Treasurer Fan, you can definitely do it!"

Xie Jinglin smiled and said, "If you can't do it, not only will it be difficult to transport the food to the Jianzhou Jurchens, but you will have to bear the shipping costs yourself!"

When Fan Yongdou heard this, he calculated silently in his heart. Because the north of Daming was also affected by the disaster, and the canal was in disrepair for years, many places were silted up, and the transportation capacity was greatly reduced.Now the price of grain in the south of the Yangtze River has almost risen to seven renminbi per stone, while the price of grain in the north is as high as one stone and two renminbi.

In this case, even if the price of grain will drop after autumn, it is inevitable that the price of grain will rise. Xie Jinglin and Fan Yongdou negotiated for more than half a month on the price of grain, and finally settled the price of grain.

At the price of one or two silver per stone of grain, 30 shi of grain will be sold to Fan Yongdou. If Fan Yongdou hires people to transport the 30 shi of grain, at least nearly [-] to [-] carts will be needed, and [-] to [-] shi Young and strong husband.

In addition to the expenses of so many personnel, the expenses of transportation, sales and other links, although they will definitely not lose money, they will definitely make a lot of less money.

For a big businessman like Fan Yongdou, if he earns less, he will lose money.

As for Xie Jinglin's so-called reason for using water conservancy to reduce transportation costs, Fan Yongdou didn't believe a single word. Xie Jinglin thought he was smart, and he couldn't leak his words. Did he really think he was ignorant?

The Meituo Lake Plain is a land of nearly 2000 million mu (approximately [-] square kilometers)
Why should the three towns of Meituo Lake be established as Hudong, Hubei and Huxi?

This is to defend the 2000 million mu of land.

Although I understood what Xie Jinglin meant, of course it must be what Cheng Shijie meant. Cheng Shijie became addicted to using farmland to farm. In fact, farming can make money, everyone knows this.

The crux of the problem is that in other provinces in the Central Plains, there will be countless pairs of eyes and countless mouths staring at them, waiting to eat meat, and if they don’t take a share of the income from farming, if this can’t be done, there will be countless people holding back.

However, it was very good in southern Liaoning, because there were no gentry and landlords to compete with Cheng Shijie for meat.

As for farming in Meituo Lake, as long as Cheng Shijie gets several 10 people to farm, and when Cheng Shijie's fields become mature, Cheng Shijie won't be able to get any of these fields. Wouldn't Huang Taiji be a good man?
Of course, Cheng Shijie really thought so.

He also wants to be black and black.

He first established five towns on Meituo Lake along this freshwater lake with an area of ​​more than 500 square kilometers, like a plum blossom, with each other's horns.

The warships of the naval forces of these five castles cooperated in defense. If Jiannu wanted to take them by force, he would definitely lose a few big teeth.Furthermore, Cheng Shijie would not build ordinary adobe walls, but used reinforced concrete to build five castles, and inserted a nail into the back of Jiannu.

"Fan has some acquaintances in Shengjing, and he can help spread the word. As for whether it will work, Fan can't guarantee it!"

"So best!"

Xie Jinglin said with a smile: "If Shengjing disagrees, forget about it!"

"It's easy to say, Fan will send a letter there immediately!"

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The distant Shengjing is also the core of the Houjin regime.

This year's Shenyang seems to be a bit deserted. In previous years, a large number of Mongolian and North Korean merchants gathered in Shenyang during this season. The Mongolians brought cattle, sheep and horses, and the Koreans brought high-quality rice, Korean ginseng and wood. , Bringing a large amount of grain, cloth, and ironware, the gathering of merchants, and the abundance of goods are unique in the entire Northeast.

But now, the presence of North Korean merchants has almost disappeared, and the number of Han Chinese and Mongolian merchants has also decreased a lot, giving people a feeling that the present is not what it used to be.

Who told God not to bless Daikin?
Obviously won the battle of the Daling River, and he could immediately point his halberd at Jinzhou. When the horse leaped over the Liaohe River, God slapped Jiannu hard.

A sudden blizzard caused Jiannu to lose more than one-third of its cattle and sheep, and at least one-fifth of its population. This loss was even more serious than the three Hunhe battles.

Because of the loss of cattle and sheep, and the lack of food and grass, the entire Dajin Kingdom was filled with a very depressed atmosphere.

At this time, some people even began to complain: "It would be great if we don't rebel. If we don't rebel, there will be relief from the Ming court, so we can survive at least!"

"Aren't you against the fact that the Ming court will take care of us?"

"Why don't you ignore it? Let me tell you, in the 17th year of Wanli, there was a flood in Nanzhili, and the imperial court allocated 40 taels of silver for disaster relief..."

"Have you heard?"

"The Ming Dynasty allocated 4000 million taels of silver for disaster relief!"

"What 4000 taels of silver?"

"real or fake?"

"You look at this?"

With that said, someone took out a copy of the Wanli mansion banknote, and saw that it read: "Since September, the drought has caused disasters, Taihu Lake, Poyang and other lakes have dried up. Wusong, Zhejiang and Lishu have suffered a lot. According to the plan, Yizi dismantled the remains and ate them, followed by the epidemic, the emperor couldn't bear it, so he allocated 4000 million taels of money for the children to help the victims..."

I don't know when, some rumors about Daming's disaster relief spread in Shenyang City.

At the beginning, it was only spread in the streets and alleys, and soon it spread to every corner of Shenyang City, and then spread to the rear like a plague, and it got out of control in a blink of an eye.

When Huang Taiji received the news, he was startled and angry: "Who is this spreading rumors? Disturbing my people's hearts? Check it out for King Benhan, check it out thoroughly, definitely check it out!"

As the so-called rumors stop at the wise, in fact, this rumor, as long as you have some knowledge, you will not believe it. The highest fiscal revenue of the Ming court in the past years was the 30th year of Wanli (1602 AD), with a total revenue of 2295.3 million taels.

Except for the 30th year of Wanli, the other times are about 2000 million taels of silver.Under such circumstances, how could the imperial court provide 4000 million taels of silver for disaster relief?
But the problem is that many people swear that they have seen the imperial court's banknotes with official seals on them, and they don't look like fakes.

This made Huang Taiji feel that someone must be trying to smash Daikin's pot.

During this period of time, Huang Taiji was very embarrassed by this rumor. First of all, he was not Nurhachi. Although he broke through the pass and entered the imperial capital in the second year of Chongzhen, the reputation of Dajin increased rapidly.

In the second year of Chongzhen, Daming lost more than tens of millions of taels of silver. Although Jiannu seized a lot of silver, the problem was that the money was concealed layer by layer, and the amount received by Huang Taiji was less than 400 million taels of silver.

In all fairness, Huang Taiji didn't spend the money squandering it, but used it to expand the elite white armor soldiers. The expansion of the white armor soldiers was nearly tripled, and the money was too much.

He spent a lot of money to buy grain, but those despicable merchants raised the price of grain by ten times, dozens of times. He spent 200 million taels of silver, and bought less than [-] shi of grain...

The average price per stone of grain is more than 70 taels of silver.

This amount of food is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for the Dajin Kingdom.

Just as the rumors spread more and more widely and public grievances boiled over, Fan Wencheng walked into Huang Taiji's imperial study with a small note in his hands, and quickly knelt down and said, "King Khan, great joy, great joy! !"

Huang Taiji said impatiently: "Where does the joy come from?"

Fan Wencheng couldn't hide a smile on his face and said: "Overjoyed, really overjoyed! The Fan family has purchased 30 shi of grain from southern Liaoning according to the plan, and the delivery will take more than a month at most!"

(End of this chapter)