As the conspiracy among the kings subsided, three families were killed and four were expelled from the country. The court finally became quiet again, and the time quietly came to the golden autumn of September.
Looking at the strategy set last year of "resting with the people in spring and summer, and taking advantage of the coolness of the south to conduct small-scale military training in autumn and winter to 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 scientific and technological discoveries, he held a meeting to summarize the experience and lessons of last year's reform of the country.
The second year of Longwu seems to have passed very quickly, giving people the illusion that "it seems that the golden autumn in September of the previous year has only passed three or four chapters, why is it now this season again?"
But there is no way, who made everything this year focus on recuperation and recuperation, and do not bother with politics if it can be done. 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 in peace, so there is no need to elaborate on everything.
Zhu Shuren was happy to focus most of his energy on his wife and children, and life passed very quickly——
Every middle-aged man who has just had a baby will feel like this at this stage. It seems that he is so busy every day that he has no time to think about it. He is pushed away by various unexpected events, and the chaos passes again.
And at Zhu Shuren's level, even if he is recuperating and raising children at home, he can always contribute to society to some extent.
No, for example, at the end of last year, he made a lot of small improvements in obstetrics and gynecology in order for his wife to have a normal delivery. Even though those things are inconspicuous, they are actually beneficial to all people.
If any small improvement could be promoted, within the overall scope of the Ming Dynasty, it would at least be a benevolent act that would prevent the deaths of thousands of pregnant women and babies every year.
The only consequence is that the population may grow rapidly again in advance. After decades of chaos, the pressure has been reduced, and the population has been reduced by more than half, and it may once again enter the Malthusian trap expressway.
But these are things for later, and I can’t worry about them in the short term. The reputation and popular support brought to Zhu Shuren by promoting medical progress are real.
After the conspiracy of the kings was exposed, the people in southern Zhili and Zhejiang and Jiangxi generally firmly supported Zhu Shuren. This was more or less related to the numerous medical and health improvements that benefited the people before and after the birth of Zhu Shuren's son.
After all, the birth of this child was accompanied by a lot of silent and beneficial things for the people, and the people of the world also have strong feelings in their hearts.
Previously, in the Ming Dynasty, there were so many fat-headed vassal kings who had bred for so many generations, only plundering the people for their wealth and wealth, but I had never seen that vassal prince having a son that could actually benefit the people.
In order for the son to be born smoothly, so many medical advances must be deployed. In order to ensure that the baby grows up smoothly and healthily, there will be even more work to be done.
In ancient times, the mortality rate of infants and children was not unusually high. Giving birth safely was only the first hurdle.
If other emperors were on the throne in the past, the princes were not valuable. As long as they could give birth to the first one, they would be able to give birth to the second and third ones, and it would not matter whether the legitimate son was guaranteed or whether he was born to the queen. Then he would not care.
Whether the medical level has been upgraded and the dead can be regenerated.
Zhu Shuren's situation is very special. It is not easy for his son to be adopted by his brother-in-law, who is nominally dead. It requires a lot of trouble with the court's laws and etiquette.
Moreover, his son must be born to his first wife to have the possibility of adoption. The first wife’s delivery this time was somewhat harmful to her health. Who knows whether she will be able to give birth to healthier children in the future. In this regard, it is different from those who rely on pure paternal blood.
The emperors at the top were completely different.
Therefore, in order to ensure that children do not die young, it is worthwhile to spend a lot of energy on improving the level of children's medical care.
Again, how much Chen Ajiao spent on Liu Che, Zhu Shuren left at least ten times the budget. This is a national issue.
(Note: In the last chapter, someone actually sent a private message to question Chen Ajiao’s spending 90 million on infertility, saying it was a wild history novel. Please post the original text: “Queen Chen has no children, and she spent 90 million on medical expenses, but she has no children.”
——"Historical Records. Family of Foreign Relatives", Sima Qian)
So from June when the palace was moved to September when the kings came together to form a knot, in the intervening four months, Zhu Shuren also arranged several moves, all related to children's medical care.
In Jiangning Town, a town in the southwest suburbs of Nanjing, there were already several research institutes last year, including agriculture and animal husbandry, natural history, physics, mechanical metallurgy, etc. This year, a medical research institute was added to the original agriculture and animal husbandry natural history.
a pharmaceutical research institute,
The initial investment for each institute is at least tens of thousands of taels, and the total subsequent continued funding may reach two to three hundred thousand taels.
Zhu Shuren is a modern person and does not understand ancient medicine, so he cannot interfere with the traditional Chinese medicine. He only allocates some money to provide a platform for some capable imperial doctors and famous folk doctors.
What he can do is mainly to improve the surgery of this era, especially the upgrading of trauma treatment, infection prevention and other subjects. There is also a research summary 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 treatment is still far better than that of the ancients. The ancients did not know bacteria, viruses, and the principles of infection. Zhu Shuren has some skills in this regard.
Infectious disease is also an area 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 bacterial viruses. However, modern people always encounter various epidemics of infectious diseases, and they are aware of it through their own eyes and ears.
Health knowledge.
For children's medical care, trauma treatment and infectious disease prevention and treatment are also relatively important. Because children are not sensible and naughty, they are prone to injuries due to bumps and bumps, and they also like to play around and come into contact with infectious agents.
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After the health methods of trauma treatment and plague prevention and treatment are upgraded, it will also be of great help to military medical treatment during wartime in the future, and can save more brave Ming Dynasty wounded soldiers.
In addition, there is another convenience of setting up a medical research institute in Jiangning Town, which Zhu Shuren discovered only after he started to take action - last year he had built the first zoo and botanical garden open to the public in Jiangning Town.
Based on the botanical garden, we acquired land to open up a new adjacent park, which can be used for the cultivation and display of herbal plants.
Although Li Shizhen had written the "Compendium of Materia Medica" more than 40 years before Zhu Shuren, it is now published in the Ming Dynasty, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" also has pictures.
However, the number of pictures in "Compendium of Materia Medica" means that it is impossible to provide pictures of every herbal medicine. Li Shizhen was writing privately at the time, and he did not have the conditions and cost to produce such a luxurious book.
What's more, even if there are pictures in everything, there is still a huge intuitive gap between reading pictures in books and looking at real objects. It is easy for readers to make jokes about "recognizing grass based on pictures and mistaking wheat for leeks".
Now that we have built a new herbal medicine park in the botanical garden, we strive to keep a small area of physical cultivation demonstrations for all the herbs that can be cultivated and grown in Jiangnan, and leave some complete specimens. In the future, doctors and pharmacy apprentices from all over the world can come to observe and learn from them, so as to reduce the number of quacks.
It can be considered a great merit.
If the climate is not suitable for planting and display, if it can be solved by relying on a 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. There is really no way to grow them in the south of the Yangtze River. After the Central Plains is restored, a botanical garden will be rebuilt in the cold north.
All these displays were done by Zhu Shuren in accordance with the standards of modern zoological and botanical gardens and museums. A small painted wooden sign was inserted in front of each flower, plant, and tree, with the name of the species, place of origin, and habits written on it. There was no need for a commentator.
Can understand.
In addition, the medicines used in ancient medicine were not all plant products, there were also many animals used as medicine.
For those animal medicines, Zhu Shuren also opened a new expanded area in Jiangning Zoo to display live medicinal animals, some fresh and dried specimens, and individual specimens of medicinal organs for doctors all over the world to learn from. The zoo
Each building also has an interpretive 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 there are no tickets. Others can also visit, but they have to make reservations for a fee, and the daily flow of people is limited.
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Suddenly, in the summer of the second year of Longwu, countless medical practitioners and apprentices from South Zhili came to Nanjing to pay homage and visit. They spread the word to others, and everyone knew that there were many advanced things to see and learn in Jiangning town.
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After these people visit, they will naturally further spread the virtues of Prince E, and will also have support and sympathy for the adopted grandson and his move to the palace.
Everyone said that having a grandson today is God's blessing for the Ming Dynasty, and the whole world celebrates it, benefiting all peoples.
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"I haven't been here for several months, and the town of Jiangning has changed a lot. It seems that the money was not wasted."
One day in mid-September, when Zhu Shuren arrived in Jiangning Town again, he first took a look around, and then prepared to find a place to stay. What he saw and heard made him very satisfied with the results of his money to farm.
"The prince's virtuous government has benefited all the people. If you look at the history books, you will find that those who practiced benevolent government in ancient and modern times regard large-scale construction projects as a waste of people and money. There is no one who can do such a large-scale construction project that benefits all people and does not cause the disadvantages of Emperor Qin and Sui Yang."
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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 monarchs who rested with the people, and saw a lot of emperors who were very happy with their achievements.
But it is unheard of for a ruler to achieve such great success without placing too much burden on the people, and whose input-output ratio clearly exceeds profits.
Zhu Shuren was used to hearing such honest flattery, so he just smiled indifferently: "Stop talking about this, has Brother Zheng Xian arrived?"
Gu Yanwu reminded carefully: "Your Majesty, your appointment with Mr. Zheng is for the day after tomorrow, September 15th, so we came early. He came from Fujian and had 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 clans that established and moved feudal clans in Fujian, but something unexpected happened, which makes it even more urgent."
It took more than ten days for the kings to work together. At that time, not only Zhejiang but also Jiangxi were conducting a thorough investigation, and Fujian naturally had to cooperate. However, there were very few vassal kings who went to Fujian since ancient times, so the workload was smaller.
However, there are still some former members of the clan who have been deposed from the throne and may be living in Fujian. The Zheng family may have done more research in order to please the ruling Zhu Shuren.
For example, Zhu Yujian, the deposed Tang king who was supported by the Zheng family as "Emperor Longwu" in Fuzhou in history, still lives in Fuzhou due to historical inertia.
It's just different from what many people think. Historically, at the end of the Chongzhen Dynasty, Zhu Yujian was deposed by Chongzhen for the crime of "mercenary self-respect", and he has been deposed for seven or eight years. Historically, Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changzi were in power for a short time. During the period, he was not restored to his title. In the end, Zhu Yujian was directly supported by Zheng Zhilong and Huang Daozhou in a state of abolishing the vassal state.
Nowadays, history has changed beyond recognition. Zhu Changzi proclaimed himself emperor as soon as he came up. Of course, he did not restore the kingship to Zhu Yujian. This incident did not affect him. After some snooping, the Zheng family confirmed that they did not find any Zhu Yujian. Zheng Chenggong did not want to falsely accuse a good person of the clues for contacting the kings involved, so he was prepared to tell the truth.
Speaking of which, Zhu Yujian can be regarded as a blessing in disguise. If he had been restored to the title of king before, he might have been contacted by other princes through letters, and he would have been imprisoned for life. Now, although he was not restored to the title in the first place, he can still Live freely for the rest of your life.
Historically, Zhu Yujian was considered a very strong-minded, down-to-earth, and accomplished Ming Dynasty vassal king. He was able to completely stay out of the situation in advance, which Zhu Shuren was happy to see.
After learning about the recent actions of the Zheng family, Zhu Shuren also expressed satisfaction: "Brother Zheng Xian is willing to seek truth from facts, which is a good thing. Since we were the ones who arrived early, naturally we will not criticize him harshly.
I have not been here for several months, so I came to Jiangning to have some fun. You can ask around these two days. When brother Zheng Xian arrives, bring him to see me immediately.
Last year, Li Dingguo changed his native land and returned to Yunnan and Guizhou. He still gained a lot of military experience. The use of some tropical disease prevention and treatment drugs and prevention and treatment summaries should also be learned in Fujian to prevent problems before they occur. The miasma fever in Damuan Island will only be worse than in Yunnan. What's more, let his medical officers have a good exchange with the medical officers sent back by Li Dingguo."
Gu Yanwu immediately said that he had received the instructions and he would keep an eye on everything and would summon Zheng Chenggong as soon as he arrived.
Zhu Shuren: "Then before brother Zheng Xian 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 made arrangements. Starting at noon that day, Zhu Shuren temporarily inserted some schedules and took turns visiting various research institutes in Jiangning town, as well as the steel plant, copper smelting plant, and arsenal in Ma'anshan.
The most important thing here is of course the arsenal, so I got there first in the afternoon on the first day.
Zhu Shuren looked carefully and found that the technology of magnetic mineral separation has made some progress. After more than a year of running-in experiments, the steel mill craftsmen and mining ore dressing people have also trained a lot, and they can master some new technologies.
The steel output and quality of Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant have also increased again.
With the availability of higher-quality steel, weapon forging and processing technology has not been idle. When Zhu Shuren inspected last year, he saw that the craftsmen could only pull out rifled guns with straight rifling lines. Now, after another year of testing and running-in, they can finally pull out more evenly. The rotating spiral is rifled.
The moment he saw the spiral rifled gun, Zhu Shuren was naturally pleasantly surprised. He knew very well the significance of this thing for long-range sniping, and he quickly asked about the results of the live ammunition test.
But he soon learned that there were still big problems with the newly installed spiral rifling. First, the process of loading ammunition in the front chamber had become slower, more complex, and more delicate, and the reliability and environmental compatibility had also been reduced.
Whenever the climate changes greatly, or rain, snow or sand enters the gun bore, the difficulty of cleaning foreign matter in the spiral rifling also increases greatly.
Even if there were no accidents, the rate of fire of the first-generation spiral rifled musket would have to be further reduced from the original two to three minutes for a straight rifled gun to one shot per four minutes.
In fact, in an environment with a little more dust, or when the gunpowder is not fully burned, this new gun cannot be reloaded on the battlefield at all. It can only load one round before the battle, and then it will become a fire.
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Of course, with the addition of spiral rifling, the power and accuracy of even this first shot have been greatly improved. Basically, it can accurately shoot targets within three to four hundred steps. As long as there are enough elite snipers with accurate aim and good eyesight.
Good, good marksmanship.
In order to achieve reliable reloading in complex battlefield environments, there are still many new running-in and fine-tuning improvements to be made.
In addition, there is another big problem with the first-generation spiral rifled gun, which has just been discovered during the research and development. That is, the probability of the gun exploding is much higher than that of the original straight-rifled gun. Since last month, there have been two explosions.
The cause of the gun accident is still being analyzed, and craftsmen are even considering whether it is necessary to further thicken the barrel to solve the problem.
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 explode after changing to spiral rifling?
If the craftsmen were allowed to ponder this issue by themselves, it might take a long time. Fortunately, Zhu Shuren knew more about physics than they did. He also watched and listened carefully during the inspection. After observing several live-fire shootings, Zhu Shuren thought again.
Eyebrows raised.
Zhu Shuren casually pointed out: "It should be the reason why the spiral twist of the rifling is always given? When the gunpowder is first ignited, the chamber pressure is the highest, so if the rifling twist at the last part of the barrel is relatively large and the slope rate is high, the projectile will
When pressed into the rifling, the torsional moment will be very large. If the barrel cannot withstand this force, the probability of explosion will increase.
After the projectile has flown forward a few feet 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 hold it.
So, there are two ideas to solve it, either thicken the back of the barrel. Or when rifling, don’t fix the rotation rate from beginning to end. You can make it straighter when you are close to the end of the barrel. The closer to the muzzle, the higher the spiral slope.
.In short, it changes from a fixed twist to a gradual twist with increasing inclination. You can try it slowly and I will just say it casually."
The solution he mentioned may not be correct, and there may be some variables that have been omitted in principle. But the experimental idea is no problem. The introduction of the idea of variable twist slope will inspire craftsmen to try more times and accumulate more points.
Experience and experimental data are always correct.
Zhu Shuren's only requirement is that all experiments that cost money must record the experimental process, results, and data. Even if it fails, at least summarize the lessons comprehensively and let future generations know why, and the money will not be wasted.