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Chapter 417 Returning to Jiangning
As the case of the series of kings subsided, three families were killed and four were expelled from the country, the court finally calmed down again, and the time quietly came to the golden autumn of September.

Seeing the strategy set last year of "resting with the people in spring and summer, taking advantage of the coolness in the south in autumn and winter to train troops in small-scale rounds and eliminate hidden dangers in the rear", it is time to attack again.

Zhu Shuren, who had had enough rest, came to Jiangning Town again. While inspecting the work and taking stock of new technological discoveries, he held a meeting to summarize the experience and lessons of last year's land reform.

The second year of Longwu seems to have passed very quickly, giving people the illusion of "it seems that the September golden autumn of the previous year has only passed three or four chapters, why is it this season again".

But there is no way, whoever made everything this year focus on recuperation and recuperation, and there is no political toss or toss.The Qing court in the north is also recovering blood to restore the combat effectiveness of the army and licking the wounds of the previous year.

Everyone is safe and sound, so there is no need to repeat everything.

Zhu Shuren is happy to put most of his energy on his wife and children, and the days go by very quickly——

Every middle-aged man who has just had a baby will feel this way at this stage.It seems that I am so busy every day that I don't have time to turn my mind. I am pushed away by various emergencies, and I am confused again.

And at the level of Zhu Shuren, even if he is recuperating and raising a baby at home, he can always make more or less contributions to society.

No, for example, at the end of last year, he made a lot of piecemeal advances in obstetrics and gynecology for his wife to have a smooth delivery. Even though those things are inconspicuous, they are all practical and affordable.

If any small improvement can be promoted, within the overall scope of Ming Dynasty, it will at least be a benevolent act to save tens of thousands of pregnant women and babies from dying every year.
The only aftermath is that it may lead to rapid population growth in advance. After decades of chaos, the pressure has been reduced, the population has been reduced by more than half, and it is possible to enter the Malthus trap highway again.

But these are things for later, and there is no time to worry about them in a short time.The reputation and popular support brought to Zhu Shuren by promoting medical progress are real.

After the news of the conspiracy of the kings was exposed, the people in Nanzhili and Jiangxi, Zhejiang generally firmly supported Zhu Shuren, which was more or less related to the birth of Zhu Shuren's son and a lot of medical and health benefits to the people.

After all, the birth of this child is accompanied by a bunch of silent and beneficial things that are beneficial to the people, and the people of the world also have steelyards in their hearts.

Previously, there were so many fat-brained vassal kings in Ming Dynasty who had bred so many generations, and they only searched for people's fat and people's anointment, but I had never seen that vassal king who had a son that could really benefit the common people.

In order to let the son be born smoothly, so many medical advances have to be deployed, and there will be more work to be done to ensure the smooth and healthy growth of the baby.

The mortality rate of infants and children in ancient times was not generally high, and being born safely was only the first difficulty.

If other emperors were in power in previous years, the prince is worthless, as long as the first one can be born, the second and third can be born, and it doesn't matter whether it is guaranteed to be a legitimate son or whether it is born by the queen.Then it doesn't matter whether the medical level is upgraded, it's fine to die and regenerate.

Zhu Shuren's situation is very special. It is very difficult for his son to adopt his brother-in-law who is supposedly dead.

Moreover, his son must be born to his wife to have the possibility of adoption. The birth of his wife this time is somewhat hurtful. Who knows if he will be able to give birth to a healthier child in the future.In this regard, it is completely different from those emperors who rely on the pure patrilineal blood.

Therefore, in order to ensure that children do not die young, it is worthwhile to spend more energy to improve the level of children's medical care.

Still the same sentence, how much money Chen Ajiao spent on Liu Che back then, Zhu Shuren kept at least ten times more budget, this is a national issue.

(Note: In the last chapter, someone questioned Chen Ajiao’s infertility in a private message, saying it was an unofficial historical novel. Let’s post the original text: "Empress Chen has no children, and she spent 9000 million with doctor Qian Fan, but she has no children"—— "Historical Records. A Family of Foreign Relatives", Sima Qian)
So during the four months between moving the palace in June and closing the case in September, Zhu Shuren arranged a few moves, all about children's health care.

In Jiangning Town in the southwestern suburbs of Nanjing, there were already several research institutes last year, namely agriculture and animal husbandry, natural history, physical mechanical metallurgy, etc. This year, a medical research institute was added on the basis of the original agricultural and animal husbandry natural history a pharmaceutical institute,

The initial investment of each institute is at least tens of thousands of taels, and the total amount of follow-up continuous funding may reach 30 million taels.

Zhu Shuren is a modern person, and he doesn't understand ancient medicine, so he can't get involved in the part of Chinese medicine. He just allocates some money to provide a platform for some high-level imperial physicians and prestigious folk doctors.

What he can do is mainly to improve the surgery of this era, especially the upgrade of trauma management, infection prevention and other subjects.There is also a summary of research on the principles and prevention of various plague transmissions.

Because as modern people, even if they don’t understand medicine at all, their knowledge of surgical trauma management is still far better than that of the ancients. The ancients didn’t know about bacteria and viruses, and they didn’t know the mechanism of infection.

Epidemiology is also where modern people generally have an advantage. The ancients did not know the existence of bacteria and viruses, so it was difficult to comprehensively summarize the transmission principles of various bacteria and viruses.Modern people are always confronted with various infectious diseases, and they also know the common sense of hygiene.

For children's medical care, trauma treatment and infectious disease prevention and treatment are also important.Because children are not sensible and mischievous, they are prone to bumps and traumas, and they also like to mess around with flowers and grass to play and come into contact with infectious pathogens.

After the upgrade of the sanitation measures for trauma treatment and plague prevention, it will also be of great help to military medical treatment in wartime in the future, and can save more heroic wounded soldiers of Ming Dynasty.

In addition, there is another convenience in setting up a medical research institute in Jiangning Town, which Zhu Shuren only discovered after he set out to do it—last year, he built the first zoo and botanical garden in Jiangning Town that is open to the public. Based on the botanical garden, the land was acquired to open up a new adjacent park, which can be used for the cultivation and demonstration of herbal plants.

Although Li Shizhen wrote "Compendium of Materia Medica" more than 40 years before Zhu Shuren, it is now published in Ming Dynasty, and "Compendium of Materia Medica" also has illustrations.

However, the number of pictures in "Compendium of Materia Medica" cannot provide pictures of every herbal medicine after all. Li Shizhen wrote it privately back then, and did not have the conditions and cost to produce such a luxurious book.

What's more, even if there are all pictures, there is still a huge gap between the intuition of reading books and seeing the real objects, and it is easy for scholars to "know the grass according to the pictures, and recognize wheat as leeks".

Now after the new herbal medicine park is built in the botanical garden, we will try to keep a small piece of real herbal medicine that can be cultivated and cultivated in the south of the Yangtze River for demonstration, and keep a few complete specimens. In the future, doctors and pharmacy apprentices can come to observe and learn from errata, reducing quack doctors. It can be regarded as infinite merit.

If the climate is not suitable for planting and displaying, if it can be solved by the mica skylight greenhouse, try to solve it, so that tropical herbal plants can also be displayed.

Only cold-resistant herbal plants such as ginseng are left, and there is really no way to grow them in the south of the Yangtze River. After the recovery of the Central Plains, a botanical garden will be rebuilt in the cold north.

Zhu Shuren still made all these displays according to the norms of modern zoological and botanical gardens and museums. A small painted wooden sign was inserted in front of each flower, plant and tree, and the species name, place of origin and habit were written on it. No commentator was needed. Can understand.

In addition, ancient medical medicines are not all plant products, and many animals are used as medicines.

For those animal medicines, Zhu Shuren also opened a new expansion park in Jiangning Zoo, displaying live medicinal animals, some fresh and dried specimens, and individual specimens of medicinal organs for doctors all over the world to learn.The zoo is the same, and each building has an explanatory wooden sign.

As long as you can prove that you are practicing medicine or studying medicine, as long as you can afford the travel expenses and accommodation expenses to come to Nanjing, you can visit for free, and no tickets are charged.Others can also visit, but they have to make an appointment for a fee and limit the daily flow of people.

All of a sudden, in the summer of the second year of Longwu, many medical practitioners and apprentices in Nanzhili came to Nanjing to pay homage and visit. They all knew that there were many advanced things to see and learn in Jiangning Town. .

After these people visit, they will naturally further publicize Prince E's benevolent government, and they will also have support and empathy for the adoption of the grandson and the transfer of the palace.
Everyone said that getting a grandson today is God's blessing to Ming Dynasty, and the whole world celebrates it, benefiting all people.

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"I haven't been here for several months, and Jiangning Town has changed a lot. It seems that the money is not in vain."

One day in mid-September, when Zhu Shuren arrived in Jiangning Town again, he took a look around first, and then he planned to find Bieye to stay.What he saw and heard made him very satisfied with the results of his farming.

"It's all about the prince's benevolent government and the benefit of the people. Students read the history books, and those who practiced benevolent government in ancient and modern times all regard large-scale construction as a waste of money for the people. There is no such thing as the prince, who can benefit the people without causing the disadvantages of the Qin Emperor and Sui Yang." .”

Gu Yanwu, Zhu Shuren's secretary, also praised him from the bottom of his heart.He read a lot, saw a lot of simple and benevolent emperors resting with the people, and a lot of emperors who were overjoyed.

But it is unheard of for a ruler who is so rejoicing and does not add too much burden to the people, and whose input-output ratio is obviously super-profitable.

Zhu Shuren was used to this kind of flattery, so he just smiled lightly: "Stop talking about that, is Zheng Xiandi here?"

Gu Yanwu carefully reminded: "My lord, your appointment with Zheng Langzhong is the day after tomorrow, September [-]th, and we came early. He came from Fujian, and there was a scheduled schedule on the way. Especially a few days ago, I heard that the Zheng family We are still helping to conduct a thorough investigation of the clan clans that have been exiled and moved to Fujian, and the sudden incident makes it even more urgent."

The case of the series of kings has only been over for more than ten days. At that time, not only Zhejiang and Jiangxi were conducting a thorough investigation, but Fujian also naturally had to cooperate.It's just that there have been very few vassal kings who have gone to Fujian since ancient times, so the workload is smaller.

However, there are still some former members of the clan who have been deposed from the throne, and may live in Fujian. The Zheng family may have to check more in order to please the ruling Zhu Shuren.

For example, Zhu Yujian, the abolished king of the Tang Dynasty who was supported by the Zheng family as "Emperor Longwu" in Fuzhou in history, still lives in Fuzhou because of historical inertia.

It's just that Zhu Yujian was abolished by Chongzhen for the crime of "mercenary self-respect" at the end of the Chongzhen Dynasty in history, and it has been abolished for seven or eight years.In history, when Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changhao were in power for a short time, he was not restored to the title.In the end, Zhu Yujian was directly supported by Zheng Zhilong and Huang Daozhou in a state of abolishing the feudal clan.

Now that history has changed in an unsightly manner, Zhu Changhao proclaimed himself emperor as soon as he came up, and of course he didn't restore Zhu Yujian's kingship.This time, it didn't affect him.After the Zheng family snooped around, they confirmed that they didn't find any clues for Zhu Yujian to contact the kings involved in the case. Zheng Chenggong didn't want to frame good people, so they prepared to report the truth.

Speaking of it, this Zhu Yujian was a blessing in disguise, but if he was restored to the prince before, he might be contacted by letters from other princes, and then he would be imprisoned for life.Although the title was not restored at the beginning, he could live freely for the rest of his life anyway.

In history, Zhu Yujian was considered a very backbone, down-to-earth, and accomplished Ming dynasty vassal. He was able to completely stay out of the matter ahead of time, which Zhu Shuren liked to see.

After learning about the recent actions of Zheng's family, Zhu Shuren also expressed his relief: "Brother Zheng Xian is willing to seek truth from facts, that's a good thing. Since we arrived early, naturally we won't be harsh on him.

Gu's original intention was that he hadn't been here for a few months, so he came to Jiangning to enjoy it first. In the past two days, you should inquire a little bit. When Zheng Xiandi arrives, bring him to see me immediately.

Last year, Li Dingguo changed his land and returned to Yunnan and Guizhou, and gained a lot of military experience. The use and summary of some tropical disease prevention and treatment drugs should also be learned in Fujian to prevent problems before they happen.The miasma fever in Dayuan Island will only be worse than that in Yunnan.Let the medical officers under him communicate with the medical officers sent back by Li Dingguo. "

Gu Yanwu immediately stated that he had received the instructions, and he would keep an eye on everything, and he would summon Zheng Chenggong as soon as he arrived.

Zhu Shuren: "Then before Zheng Xiandi arrives, let's arrange for Gu to inspect all the research institutes in the past two days. I think they have made a lot of achievements this year."

Gu Yanwu immediately arranged it. Starting at noon that day, Zhu Shuren temporarily inserted some schedules, visiting various research institutes in Jiangning Town in turn, as well as the steel factory, copper smelting factory, and arsenal in Ma'anshan.

The most important thing here, of course, is the arsenal, so it was first lined up in the afternoon of the first day.

Zhu Shuren looked very carefully and found that the technology of magnetic beneficiation had improved again. After more than a year of running-in experiments, a lot of craftsmen in steelmaking plants and mining and beneficiation workers have also been trained, and they can master some new technologies.

The steel production and quality of Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Works have also increased again.

With better quality steel, weapon forging processing technology is not idle.When Zhu Shuren inspected last year, he saw that the craftsmen could only pull out rifled guns with straight rifled rifles.Now after another year of testing and running-in, it can finally pull out a more evenly rotating spiral rifling.

The moment he saw the spiral rifled gun, Zhu Shuren was naturally pleasantly surprised. He knew the significance of this thing for long-range sniping, so he quickly asked about the live ammunition test results.

But he soon learned that there were still big problems with the spiral rifling that had just been installed. First of all, the process of loading ammunition in the front bore became slower, more complicated and more delicate, and the reliability and environmental compatibility were also reduced.

Whenever the climate changes greatly, or rain, snow or sand enters the barrel, the difficulty of cleaning foreign objects in the spiral rifling is also greatly increased.

Even if there are no accidents, the rate of fire of the first-generation spiral rifled guns has to be further reduced from the original straight rifled gun to one round every two to three minutes to one round every four minutes.

In fact, in an environment with a little more sand and dust, or when the gunpowder combustion is low, this new gun cannot be reloaded on the battlefield at all. It can only be loaded before the battle, and it will burn after firing. stick--

Of course, with the spiral rifling, the power and accuracy of even this first shot have been greatly improved. Basically, you can accurately shoot targets within three or four hundred paces. As long as you are equipped with enough elite snipers who can aim accurately and Good, good marksmanship.

In order to achieve reliable reloading in complex battlefield environments, there are still many new running-in fine-tuning improvements to be done.

In addition, there is another big problem with the first generation of spiral rifled guns, which was just discovered during the research and development. The cause of the breech accident is still under analysis, and the craftsmen are even considering whether it is necessary to further thicken the barrel to solve it.

They just don't understand that the same barrel wall thickness and the same rifling groove depth are said to have similar effects on the strength of the barrel. Why is it so easy to blow up after changing to spiral rifling?
If this problem is left to the craftsmen to ponder by themselves, it may take a long time.Fortunately, Zhu Shuren knew more about physics than them, and he watched and listened very carefully during the inspection. After watching live ammunition shooting a few times, Zhu Shuren thought of something again.

Zhu Shuren casually dialed: "It should be the reason why the helical twist of the rifling is always given. When the gunpowder is just ignited, the chamber pressure is the largest, so if the rifling twist at the rear of the barrel is relatively large and the slope rate is high, the projectile will The torsional moment that is pressed into the rifling will also be very large, and if the barrel cannot withstand this force, the probability of bombing will increase.

After the projectile flies a few feet forward in the barrel, the chamber pressure has dropped significantly. At this time, the torque in the direction of rotation is larger, and the barrel can also hold it.

Therefore, there are two ways to solve it, or thicken the rear of the barrel.Either when pulling the rifling, the rotation rate should not be fixed from the beginning to the end. It can be straighter when it is close to the end of the barrel, and the closer to the muzzle, the higher the spiral slope.In short, it is from a fixed twist to a gradual twist with increasing inclination. You can try it out which one is better, and Gu will just say it casually. "

The solution he said is not necessarily correct, and maybe some variables are missed in principle.But the idea of ​​the experiment is not a problem. It is not wrong to introduce the idea of ​​changing the slope of the twisting pitch to inspire craftsmen to try more times and accumulate more experience and experimental data.

Zhu Shuren's only requirement is that all experiments that cost money must record the experimental process, results, and data. Even if they fail, at least they can sum up the lessons comprehensively so that future generations will know why, and the money will not be wasted.

(End of this chapter)