Although the consumption of money and food cannot be calculated, there is one thing that cannot be avoided, and that is the accounts.
That is, the accounts for dividing the spoils.
Many people feel that corrupt officials are stupid. They have already been greedy for money, so why do they still need to make accounts? Isn't this a way to give others away?
But in fact, keeping accounting books is an inevitable requirement.
For example, the Guizhou fraud case involved hundreds of officials, big and small, and it was extremely complicated to divide such a huge amount of money.
Depending on the size and importance of the official position, the money divided up will also be different.
If you don't categorize and organize them, someone will be forgotten, or someone will be neglected, which will form a loophole and lead to failure.
Especially in the officialdom, there should be no mistakes in the level and background, otherwise it will be easy to offend people.
Moreover, the existence of an account book also ties everyone to the same carriage, and they will all die if they die, so it is naturally airtight.
Even in the Qing Dynasty, the ledger was even the key to progress.
When a new official takes office, it becomes a rule that he must spend money to buy old account books from his predecessor, especially those for gifts.
Account books are the rules of officialdom.
When a boss celebrates his birthday, other colleagues give him one thousand, but someone who doesn't know the rules only gives five hundred. Does he still want to make progress? Or if he gives two thousand, is the relationship between colleagues necessary?
Moreover, Zhang Keyou even suspected that this fraud was related to the deficit problem of Shangxia Prefecture and County in Guizhou.
To make up for the shortfall, you need to make up for the amount transferred with one payment, and sometimes you even need to keep more accounts to prevent omissions.
So, where is the ledger?
Zhang Keyou set his sights on everyone in Guizhou, and the first one he targeted was the Chief Envoy of Guizhou.
He controls money and food, and all the money in the province passes through his hands. Even if it does not involve corruption, even if it is daily accounting, it is still a great help.
"It seems that His Majesty can only help..."
While he was hurriedly investigating the case, the city of Beijing became lively.
It turned out that as summer approached, the emperor was preparing to move again and moved to Xishan.
Although the number of people in Beijing, a huge city, has only decreased, it still looks empty.
The officialdom also breathed a sigh of relief.
That major case in Guizhou involved hundreds of palm print officers. Who among them didn’t have relatives, friends, colleagues, or classmates?
There are a lot of relatives and friends.
As long as the emperor ignores it, it will be overturned. As time goes by, big things will become trivial and trivial things will disappear.
However, for the vain Zhu Yixi, there was a great good thing that made him feel slightly happy.
The "Shaowu Medical Book", which has been compiled for several years, is finally completed.
After four years, hundreds of doctors at home and abroad prepared more than 10,000 prescriptions, many of which were not covered in the Compendium of Materia Medica.
For example, cinchona and cowpox are included in the treatment of malaria.
It covers most of the daily pathologies and is extremely applicable.
In addition, following the emperor's will, those unrealistic and fallacious prescriptions were deleted and verified, thus forming this great medical book with one million words and 30,000 illustrations.
With such a large scale, the manpower and material resources it consumes cannot be underestimated.
Moreover, medical books set a precedent in Chinese history:
All the prescriptions were actually included in the book after experiments.
In other words, the ignorant and flawed prescriptions in the Compendium of Materia Medica have been rejected through experiments on animals and patients.
What is included is all practical and effective.
This can be said to have caused huge waves in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, which attaches great importance to theory.
For those doctors who chose to compile medical books, this field of experiments was very significant for the improvement of their medical skills.
The people in the capital also benefited from this, with free doctors and free decoctions. Although there were inevitably some casualties, they were much better than before.
The birth rate of children is much higher.
The emperor's family also benefited a lot.
The emergence of pediatricians, gynecologists and other doctors has made the hospital overcrowded. Among the children born in recent years, few have died in infancy.
The Taiyuan Hospital reported: "The compilation of the medical book cost more than 300,000 yuan, and the number of common people, maids, and eunuchs involved in the experiment exceeded 10,000."
"Just the decoction alone consumed all the inventory in the inner warehouse..."
"A little money is nothing."
Zhu Yixi waved her hands, quite excited.
The compilation of Shaowu's medical books is visible to the naked eye in promoting traditional Chinese medicine.
It is conceivable that as long as medical books are published throughout the country, countless people will be saved and their lives will be saved.
Even in the city of Beijing, among the poor people who have been rescued, who doesn’t talk about the emperor’s goodness?
"I intend to establish a medical clinic."
Zhu Yixi said in a deep voice: "There are hundreds of counties and prefectures in the Ming Dynasty. As long as there is an official medical clinic, they can treat the people for free without charging fees."
"In this way, the quacks in the world will be eliminated, and the people will have a glimmer of hope."
As for the cost of soup and medicine, there is nothing I can do to help.
Free medical care cannot be done randomly, but providing good doctors to the people is a good thing that can be implemented.
The whole cabinet supports this because it is a benevolent policy and does not cost much.
With a few doctors and a medical clinic, it is easy for the county government to provide medical care.
However, the cabinet did have opinions on the publication of "Shaowu Medical Book".
The emperor's intention was to distribute it to major medical clinics for free so that people could borrow it and popularize medical books.
However, the cabinet disagreed and said it would cost too much.
Medical books, especially those with millions of words, almost require an entire carriage to pull them.
If engraving is used for printing, the number of copies can be up to tens of thousands, but the number of engravings involved can reach tens of thousands.
The cost is too high.
Moreover, there are many albums, which are difficult to print.
Therefore, the cabinet thought that it would be better to hand it over to the scholars of the Imperial College for copying.
Organize them and let them copy and draw manually. This will not only reduce the cost, but also indirectly cultivate a group of doctors.
That’s how the Yongle Ceremony came about.
"Aren't the supervisors drawing up yellow books in various places? How can they have time to get this thing?"
The emperor objected: "When they free up time, they will get the Year of the Monkey, the Horse and the Moon."
"For an atlas, just draw a board and print it directly."
"If it's woodblock printing..."
Zhu Yixi thought for a while, woodblock printing was too backward!
You can use lead type, which is not only fast, but also cheap.
The publication of Shaowu's medical books could also improve printing technology.
Speaking of Shaowu's medical books, Zhu Yixi suddenly thought of Yongle Dadian.
This number is even larger. If Shaowu's medical books were pulled by horse-drawn carriages, then Yongle's Dadian must be transported by ship.
Therefore, the universal value of this book is very low. It was only kept in Beijing and Nanjing as a sign of Emperor Yongle's cultural governance for future generations to admire.
If a fire breaks out here, the evacuation capability is too low.
"Yongle Dadian also needs to be copied into a few more copies."
Zhu Yixi suddenly said, surprising everyone.
The emperor really wanted to settle matters one by one.
"Your Majesty, the Yongle Ceremony is too big." Zhao Shu said helplessly.