Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 161 Adoption
Departing from Dinghai on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, Zhu Yuan arrived in Yangzhou on September [-]th. He didn't expect to receive an order from Lao Zhu to stop people halfway, and he even felt privately that you, the ancestor, are 'helping' me recruit again. People hate it.

The slander belongs to the slander, but it still stops.

In order to prevent the fleet from being too eye-catching, most of the boats were sent away in advance, especially the huge ship with five thousand materials, leaving only one thousand-material sea-going ship with a small number of followers.

Furthermore, they once again landed in the mansion of the salt merchant Fu Shou.

The reason is that it is not what it used to be, even though he was treated as a distinguished guest last time, but this time, he felt completely anti-customer, and the whole Fu family was revolving around him.

Zhu Yuan didn't do anything, he came all the way, he was not out of the state of the sea envoy at all, he was still busy with things from morning to night every day.

Born to work hard?
no!

So soon it was September [-]th, and he had been notified in advance. After lunch, Zhu Yuan took a bath and changed his clothes very formally. The officials rushed to the pier together.

The vanguard fleet with flags and flags began to arrive in Yangzhou at the beginning of Shenshi, and security arrangements were made in advance, but it was not until Youshi that a flat-bottomed boat that Lao Zhu was on board officially docked.

The building boat is small, double-decker, about ten feet long, and the standard 500 material volume.

It's the dry season in winter, and the canal has been slack for many years, and ships that are too big can't get in at all.

Zhu Yuan stood on the shore with his official position as the head, and he was a little distracted. Fortunately, the huge ship was sent away early, otherwise, the big guy with 5000 materials stopped here, reflecting the old Zhu's 500 materials "boat", that picture In comparison, I dare not think.

After the boards were set up, a 70- to [-]-year-old official with a long beard and green robe went down to the shore with his robe. Zhu Yuan remembered seeing him occasionally when he entered the palace at the beginning of the year, but he didn't know the name.

The two sides greeted each other, saluted briefly, and the green-robed official said: "Your Majesty ordered Zhu Yuan, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, to board the boat to have an audience, and order the others to disperse, and they will summon them if necessary."

Everyone bowed their hands together.

Zhu Yuan didn't care about the reaction of the people behind him, so he skilfully boarded the ship with the green-robed official humbly, and also learned the name of the other party, Qin Yubo, who is currently serving as a Hanlin waiter.

Looking at Buzi in the official robe on the other side, a white pheasant, Zhu Yuan knew that it was from the fifth rank.

The fifth-rank civil servants are all white pheasants.

The fifth grade is the direct bachelor of the Imperial Academy that Zhu Yuan once served for a short time.

Ugh.

How come it's three grades?
I don't know why, but at the tense moments when I obviously want to see Lao Zhu, I always lose my mind and sigh with emotion.

After getting on the boat, he followed the stairs to the second floor of the building. Zhu Yuan had just stepped into the cabin with two guards standing at the door, when he saw Lao Zhu in daily black robe coming out of the cabin.

The grandparents and grandchildren looked at each other, Zhu Yuan was about to bow down, but the old Zhu had already stepped forward and grabbed Zhu Yuan: "It's okay, it's so polite."

After speaking, he looked up and down with the eyes of an elder looking at a younger generation.

Seeing this, Qin Yubo folded his hands and retreated quietly.

"It's been almost a year since I've been talking, and I'm still so thin. I should eat more on weekdays," Lao Zhu muttered, and noticed that Zhu Yuan's left hand was still wrapped in thick gauze. What the hell, I asked for a knife earlier to cut down corrupt officials, but in the end, I cut myself, even if you want to warn those local officials, at least find a death row prisoner."

As he said that, he had already pulled Zhuyuan to sit down at one side of the table, not wanting to let go of his precious 23rd grandson's little hand, so Lao Zhu pulled the stool closer by himself.

Looking at it again, he said: "You... oh, I see so many letters, I seem to be able to see the hard work, just go back to Jinling, and take a rest."

Zhu Yuan didn't know what to say for a while.

From Lao Zhu's actions when he just ran out of the inner room, as well as his current words, he was completely treated as a family member.

Can……

Ancestor, I'm sorry for you, I'm a fake.

Ok.

I just feel sorry for it, but in any case, I can't say it.

will die.

And the knife in his hand...doesn't explain it.

Zhu Yuan could imagine that those people at that time, as well as those who heard about it, such as Lao Zhu, who had already started his own associations, would take the initiative to give explanations.

As for the real reason.

No one would have guessed it anyway.

Just give you a thousand Harry Potters.

Well, it doesn't seem right,

Hamlet.

At the moment, I felt my eyes were a little wet, and after brewing for a while, I finally said: "My ancestors, it's all my duty, it's not hard."

Old Zhu nodded, seeing Zhu Yuan started to cry, he pretended to be displeased: "What are you crying about, you're useless, stay for dinner later, I'll watch you eat more."

Zhu Yuan raised his sleeves and wiped his eyes, calmed down, and then thought of greeting: "My ancestor, how are you these days?"

"How can it be bad?" Old Zhu couldn't help grinning when he heard Zhu Yuan's question: "This battle went so smoothly, I didn't dare to think about it beforehand, let alone Dadu, it was Shaanxi, it was nothing. In general, let alone two years of time saved, how much money and rations are left for the soldiers. Heh, it’s all thanks to you.”

"Yuan'er is just talking on paper," Zhu Yuan is also habitually modest: "Our ancestors are blessed by heaven and earth, and the soldiers in front also have to use their lives to achieve this great victory."

After saying a few more gossips, Lao Zhu restrained his expression a little, and finally turned to the main topic: "I stopped you in Yangzhou for something. I read...I couldn't sleep well for a few days and nights."

Speaking of getting up, he made a follow-up gesture.

Zhu Yuan followed Lao Zhu to the inner room, which was a study room. Lao Zhu casually picked up a chair and asked Zhu Yuan to sit down in front of the desk. Said: "It's you who said... about the epidemic prevention..."

Speaking of having found a document, Lao Zhu deliberately turned to a page and handed it over.

Zhu Yuan picked it up and looked at it.

This is the minutes of the meeting on the morning of the seventh day of September regarding the establishment of the corresponding quarantine departments of the Customs and the Navy. In one sentence, Lao Zhu deliberately circled it repeatedly with a red pen, "Twenty or thirty years ago, a similar epidemic also spread to China." After a while, Zhu Yuan remembered that he had said this.

Moreover, I also understand why Lao Zhu circled the picture.

Twenty or thirty years ago, there were only a few of Lao Zhu's big family in just a few months. The key...was the plague.

History does not record the specific disease at that time, and Zhu Yuan is only guessing.

Unexpectedly, one sentence made Lao Zhu not sleep well for a few days.

Thinking about it here, Lao Zhu on the other side of the desk had already spoken again, with a heavy tone in his tone: "What are you talking about in Europe, right now... this thing is still spreading, I'll ask you, will it spread to our Daming, If... if it arrives, you may be cured well?"

Seeing that Lao Zhu didn't even want to mention his name, Zhu Yuan could imagine the pain that those things brought to him back then.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Yuan said honestly: "My ancestors, not only in Europe, but in the present, the northern grasslands, or the Western Regions, or even the Central Plains, there may be corresponding germs existing in animals or human bodies. There are many epidemic diseases, like smallpox, which is more serious than the plague, and there is a possibility of epidemics from time to time. The mechanism was unknown before, so it could not be better prevented. In the future...if the ancestors can always support Yuan'er, even if these diseases are completely eradicated , are not impossible. In fact, hundreds of years later, the current epidemics will rarely appear, or even be completely extinct."

Because of the memories from the past, Lao Zhu still couldn't believe what Zhu Yuan said, so he paused and asked, "Just talk about this... this..."

Zhu Yuan nodded, thought for a while, and said: "This plague, my ancestors should have read the information I sent, the source of the disease is a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, which can parasitize in humans and mice at the same time, and spread because of fleas, etc. Parasites, they have sucked the blood of rats, and then turned to the human body, thus causing diseases. Regarding this, there are two ways to block it. One is to kill rats. There are cats in the city, which are responsible for catching mice. Yuaner suggested that after returning to Jinling, the ancestors should also raise some cats in the imperial city. Furthermore, fleas and other parasites spread. This, pay attention to personal hygiene, change clothes frequently, and often Taking a bath can also be avoided. Speaking of which, Yuan'er didn't know what fleas looked like in her previous life, and only occasionally saw fleas when she came back here, and now...at least there shouldn't be many around Yuan'er."

In my previous life, I really didn't know what fleas looked like. I had no idea when I was too young. When I grew up, the environment around me changed too fast, and it almost disappeared.

Back here, at the very beginning, there was something in Zhu Yuan.

After that, the servants around him also found out.

When Zhu Yuan began to pay special attention to the hygiene problems of himself, the people around him, and even his personal residence, they no longer appeared.

After hearing what Zhu Yuan had said, Lao Zhu nodded slightly, pondered a little, and relaxed a little.

Again, fear comes from the unknown.

So he signaled Zhu Yuan to continue.

Zhu Yuan thought about it again, and said: "Furthermore, if it happens between people, the transmission is mainly through saliva...'Spum flying horizontally', and the contact with each other... These can also be blocked, Wear special protective clothing, wear a mask that covers the mouth and nose, and so on. Moreover, compared with the elusive rat, if it is found, the patient is isolated in time, and the transmission is blocked."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuan thought for a while, and then said: "Twenty or thirty years ago, on the one hand, it was a troubled time, on the other hand, the Mongolian people's ability to govern the country was really inferior to that of the Han people, and they were a dynasty that lost control of the local area. At the end of the period, it was impossible to implement effective control, which caused the tragedy of the widespread spread of the epidemic. Now, the world has turned to peace, and we Han people have regained the world, and... I, in short, we can build a better national epidemic prevention system. Those words just now, if we can try our best to use them for decades, it can even reach a level where our children and grandchildren don’t know what smallpox, cholera, plague, etc. are like. Speaking of this, cholera seems to be passed through Rats spread it, it seems to be... Vibrio cholerae..."

Lao Zhu nodded again, he had already started to think in his heart, and asked again: "Possible diagnosis and treatment?"

"Bacteria can be treated with antibiotics," Zhu Yuan said, remembering, and added: "I probably remember, it seems, after hundreds of years, the average life expectancy of human beings can be raised from more than 30 years to the common Over 70 years old, in addition to the daily reasonable avoidance after understanding the pathology, there is also the discovery of this antibiotic, which makes most of the bacterial infection diseases can be treated.”

"Since that's the case, when you get back to Jinling, hurry up and get out this... this antibiotic," Lao Zhu confessed, and then said, "I remember, you also said that there is such a... virus?"

"Yes, smallpox is a virus," Zhu Yuan nodded, ignoring the words of rushing out antibiotics, and continued: "This kind of disease is easier to solve than bacterial diseases, because viruses, many All of them can be prevented in advance through vaccines. Some viruses, after being vaccinated, will never be reinfected for the rest of their lives. Coincidentally, smallpox is. Well, I remembered, smallpox can be solved by vaccinating. It is a kind of cowpox. Similar diseases, if it is actively introduced to the human body, compared with smallpox, it will only cause a small reaction, or even no reaction, but it can make the human body produce an antibody, so that a person will never be infected again for a lifetime .”

Combined with some relevant knowledge that Zhu Yuan has instilled intermittently over the past six months, Lao Zhu understood, nodded again, and did not forget to explain: "When you return to Jinling, you will start immediately." Thinking about it: "According to what you said, these methods are all If it takes time, or even decades of work, then... what about now?"

Zhu Yuan said: "On the one hand, it is reasonable prevention. On the other hand, traditional medicine has solutions for various diseases. This still requires the court to work harder on training doctors and researching medicine. Not just what Yuan'er said Those new medicines and the traditional medicine left by our ancestors are all ready-made, and they need to be carefully sorted out and promoted."

Chinese medicine is really a treasure.

According to Zhu Yuan's understanding, for example, for viral diseases, the goal of Western medicine is to find ways to develop drugs that directly target viruses.Chinese medicine is to prescribe the right medicine.I don't care what caused you, what kind of disease you have, just give me any medicine.

What is the difference between the two?
First of all, one must be determined, and both must rely on the body's own immune system.

For the former, if no drug can be found to kill the virus, it can only rely entirely on the immune system, which is likely to be killed in turn.

The latter, I don’t know if you are a virus, but I prescribe the right medicine to relieve the symptoms, which can greatly reduce the difficulty of the human immune system itself in fighting the virus and increase the possibility of recovery.

As for the principles of Chinese medicine?
If you don't have the ability to figure out the principle, don't talk nonsense, let alone forcefully twist the Western medicine.

For example, in a case of Western medicine, from a biological point of view, the components of radish and ginseng are similar, so their medicinal value cannot be proved.The classic rebuttal of Chinese medicine is simple and rude: I dare to eat a catty of radish, but do you dare to eat a catty of ginseng?

Ginseng is a great tonic, but if you eat too much at one time, you will die.

For another example, in a major epidemic, others collapse directly, round after round.

As for China, the concept of epidemic prevention and control has been deeply rooted for thousands of years, ensuring that it can be prevented when it is prevented.While treating, a gust of wind seemed to pass away suddenly.

There is still no specific medicine, but why is there such a big difference?
Is there a possibility that it is actually the traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions that can be seen everywhere, ranging from licorice tablets, Dao Qinglong soup, and other kinds, which played a very important role?

Unfortunately, many people don't want to admit it.

Just because of the weakness in the past, the cooperation between the inside and the outside, over a hundred years of total self-denial, self-dwarfing, and self-loathing, everything that was once traditional is wrong and dross, and should be abandoned.

Even if Chinese medicine is patented one by one according to the book, even if Chinese medicine physiotherapy is blooming everywhere in the West, but I just don’t believe it.

Dross!

no way.

His spine was broken, and he was constantly pressed down by various internal and external methods. After a few generations, he couldn't stand up.Even, what I fear most is that after struggling, I finally stand up again. Many things are already too late, too late, too late.

Inside the cabin study.

Lao Zhu continued to ask about various details of concern, Zhu Yuan answered them one by one, and before he knew it, the sky had already darkened.

Some preliminary decisions have been made.

In addition to increasing support for the Imperial Hospital, Lao Zhu also upgraded the Ying Hai Division and the Navy's related six-rank epidemic prevention department proposed by Zhu Yuan to two levels, both of which are five-rank yamen.

After the matter was finished, Lao Zhu felt relieved and felt that he could have a good night's sleep tonight. While calling someone to deliver dinner, he said to Zhu Yuan, "Tell me about the duck raising later, and what else?" Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, I think there are big principles in it, so you have to explain it carefully."

Zhu Yuan nodded in agreement.

The two got up and came to the outside room, just sat down at the round table, Lao Zhu said again: "There is one more thing, when you return to Jinling, you can recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors."

Zhu Yuan was startled.

Being recognized by Lao Zhu, while being happy, the first thing that comes to mind is, how do you recognize it?
Please take out the genealogy and clearly write: Zhu Yuan, the No. 20 third grandson of the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty.

Ok.

I can't imagine this picture either.

Old Zhu has already continued: "That's right, I have asked people around me about this identity, and I have been thinking about it for a long time in private. Our own family doesn't care how noisy those courtiers will be, but there should always be an explanation. This... the truth must not be true. Let’s talk. Let’s just say, you are the son of our Zhu family who is living outside the Wufu, and your seniority is just one generation lower than Biao’er, and the same generation is not suitable. One more thing, considering your title, I will let you go Adopted to my second elder brother, back then... well, let’s not talk about the past, anyway, from now on you will continue his incense, Yuan’er, how do you feel?”

how is it?

Zhu Yuan could understand Lao Zhu's many considerations in an instant, but he knew that he was a counterfeit, and Lao Zhu was so heartbroken to him, what else could he do?

For example, the phrase 'consider the matter of title'.

What knighthood?
If it's just the children of Wufu, the Marquis and Duke will be at the end.Turning to adoption, it immediately has legal legitimacy, and it is still the legitimacy of inheriting a 'king'.

For others to "return to the Ming Dynasty to be a prince", at least they will have to struggle for decades.

We here...

In less than a year, he was on his way to the top.

What more bike do you want?

At the same time, without hesitation, Zhu Yuan, who had just sat down, stood up again and bowed to Lao Zhu: "Yuan'er is determined by the ancestors."

(End of this chapter)