Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 284 It's not about money!

Fortunately, this time I went to Tianzhu?

Hearing Zhu Jinsong's shameless words, the hearts of Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs were as messed up as if they had been trampled by tens of thousands of alpacas.

As the majestic emperor of Ming Dynasty, he left a lot of state affairs and the harem behind, and took a group of murderers from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to go to Tianzhu for a while, and when he came back, he had to say that it was fortunate that you went to Tianzhu Then we would like to ask you, old man, do you still want to lose face?

Just when Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs were secretly slandering, Zhu Jinsong ordered Ke Zhiming to tell the story of Jiugang and Lanfang. The speed of obtaining information or mobilizing resources is much earlier than Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs knew.

And after Ke Zhiming roughly talked about the old port and Lanfang, Zeng Cheng, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs couldn't help but feel a little bit afraid.

Unlike the barbarians in Europe who linked the Black Death to bathing, the Zhongyuan Church has attached great importance to the epidemic since ancient times. Cao Zhi described the plague in "Speaking of the Epidemic Qi" "Every family has the pain of a corpse. There are wailing mourners in the room, or they close the door and die, or they lose their family and die."

If it is said that Cao Zhi’s time was far away from Ming Dynasty, then the recent rat plague in the late Ming Dynasty is enough to be regarded as a heavy enough lesson—the rat plague began in the sixth year of Chongzhen, and the place was Shanxi, and it was in the 14th year of Chongzhen It spread to Hebei, and spread to more areas with Li Zicheng's army. Chongzhen spread to the capital in 14 years, which made "the children in the neighborhood are absolutely invisible. There are coffins and no coffins. The number of nine gates is more than [-]." When Gou Chengzi led his troops to attack the capital, he was already facing a dead city where "people and ghosts are mixed together, and people dare not walk at sunset".

Before that, although the national power of Ming Dynasty had reached the point where it was stretched to the left and right, the entire court still held the attitude and determination of "the whole Liao can be restored", and the officers and soldiers could also maintain a certain offensive against Gou Chengzi. It was after the great plague that Jianlu took advantage of it.

Therefore, in the face of the epidemic, whether it is caused by natural factors or man-made, the first reaction of Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs is to completely extinguish it.

However, what is more frustrating is that Lanfang and the old port are a certain distance away from the mainland of the Central Plains. Even if there are troops stationed in Lanfang and the old port, the army and the government have plans to deal with it. Solve the problem in a short time.

If the epidemic is allowed to spread again, the situation in Jiugang and Lanfang may have completely gotten out of control after the news of Lanfang and Jiugang reaches the Central Plains hall, and then the court responds.

Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs are very clear in their hearts. If... if the mobilization of troops into Lanfang and Jiugang cannot be resolved, and the situation is completely out of control and irreversible, then the old port and Lanfang can only be completely sealed to ensure The diseases in Old Port and Lanfang will not spread to the Central Plains.

This kind of nonsense has happened many times in ancient history—if the disease is allowed to spread from Lanfang and Jiugang to Zhongyuan Tangkou, according to the population of Zhongyuan Tangkou, who knows what it will eventually mutate into.

Including those diseases that disappeared by themselves in history, almost one of them is considered as one. They all disappeared naturally because enough people died, causing a large population vacuum and losing the conditions for transmission. Rarely, very few of them were due to the mild and controllable mutation of the disease. In other words, there is no treatment to disappear.

Plague and smallpox are almost the two most direct examples.

Fortunately, Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor, happened to be near Lanfang and Jiugang, so he could directly make his own decisions without waiting for the court's decision. He immediately received a steady stream of people from Jiaozhi, Siam, Xianglin, Yunguang and other places. The mobilization of resources such as doctors and medicinal materials directly blocked the epidemic in Lanfang and Jiugang, and those barbarians failed to cause any disturbance.

It's just that before Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs had time to rejoice for a long time, Zhu Jinsong went on to say: "It's better this time. I happened to be at Jiugang and Lanfang at that time, but what about next time? If I happened to Isn't there?"

When Zhu Jinsong said this, Zeng Cheng and the others' faces that had just looked good just now turned ugly again.

Indeed, as Zhu Jinsong said, judging by the madness of those barbarians, if Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, did not happen to be on the side of Jiugang and Lanfang this time, even Jiugang and Lanfang would be able to settle this time The epidemic will definitely have a considerable price to pay.

Needless to say anything else, the Daming State Treasury is definitely going to let out a few bowls of blood.

Just thinking of this, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs felt a little bit uncomfortable—if it wasn’t for you, Emperor Zhu, who wanted to go fishing and specifically asked the troops stationed in Jiugang and Lanfang to slow down, I’m afraid that the barbarians would make trouble. The barbarians had been dealt with before the incident, at least they would not be given the chance to throw corpses and poison tactics.

So, don't you, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, have the slightest responsibility?

After being silent for a while, Zeng Cheng said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I think that if similar situations happen again in the future, the local garrison and guards should be dispatched as soon as possible, and those who should be killed should be killed and those should be arrested. We should not give the barbarians the opportunity to dig up and throw away the corpses."

Zhu Jinsong's face immediately darkened.

What do you mean?Co-author I wanted to catch a fish but something went wrong, right?

But after thinking about it, Zhu Jinsong felt that it was indeed his fault.

If he didn't want to fish in Old Port and Lanfang this time, and wanted to recruit more laborers, the troops stationed in Lanfang and Old Port would have already solved the problem.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jinsong became even more upset, and once Zhu Jinshuang was upset, it would naturally make Zeng Cheng and other big bosses even more upset.

Zhu Jinsong snorted coldly and said, "Da Ming doesn't have troops stationed in all places. If there is an epidemic in Europa or the barbarian small countries on the side of Silly Eagle, it happens that some unknown person brought the epidemic to Daming. , wouldn’t that be a great disaster?”

"Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about Yin Dian. Except for those who were scalped by the descendants of the Anglo-Saxon bandits, a large part of the original natives there were brought by those Anglo-Saxon bandits. The plague that went there was killed by the scourge."

"Some diseases may not be a disease to those Anglo-Saxon robbers, but they are deadly to those Yindian natives."

After Zhu Jinsong said this, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs also turned ugly.

It was not until a long while later that Zeng Cheng thought about it and said: "In this case, it is time to increase the number of doctors and clinics in Daming. Only when there are more doctors and clinics, when faced with this situation in the future can be resolved more easily.”

Zhu Jinsong hummed and said, "This can be considered a solution."

"At present, there is only one doctor for every [-] people in Ming Dynasty. Although it is much better than the barbarians in Europe who have no doctors at all, but when it comes to death, this number is not even a drop in the bucket. superior."

"My request is very simple. The Medical Branch of the Royal College of Medicine will separate a separate subject to analyze the medicinal properties and action principles of various medicinal materials, and strive to synthesize some more common drugs in the future."

"For example, when common people suffer from wind-cold or wind-heat, they only need to buy some ready-made Bupleurum Soup or Mahuang Soup and drink it with water. I believe that this is not difficult."

Zeng Cheng nodded and said: "This is really not difficult, but doctors always pay attention to looking, smelling, asking, and feeling when treating diseases, and pay attention to one person and one side. Different people and different diseases need different medicines. According to your majesty As you said, although it is convenient, the effect may not be good enough?"

Zhu Jinsong shook his head and said, "I don't ask how good the effect is, only that these prescriptions are universal."

"If 1 people suffer from exogenous wind-cold, and more than half of them can use ephedra soup to be effective, then ephedra soup will be universal. It is absolutely possible to prepare ephedra soup in advance and find a way to make it that does not need to be boiled and does not need to be boiled. Wuhuo, the potion that you just need to drink with boiling water is placed in the pharmacy or medical center - the larger the amount prepared, the cheaper the price will be, and the more convenient it will be for the common people."

"More importantly, if there is an epidemic, whichever prescription is effective, it can be directly used on a large scale and in large quantities. There are only benefits but no harm to the prevention and control of the epidemic."

After being told by Zhu Jinsong, Zeng Cheng and others also felt that this method was reliable.

In fact, the local government of Ming Dynasty also has a reserve of medicinal materials in order to deal with possible epidemics.

It is precisely because of this that when Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs heard about the problems of Jiugang and Lanfang just now, they were somewhat confident.

However, it is undeniable that the amount of medicinal materials stored by the local governments of Ming Dynasty is not very large, and they are all in bulk. After thinking about it, it is indeed not as simple as the method Zhu Jinsong said.

Thinking of this, Zeng Cheng nodded, and replied: "I will discuss with my colleagues to see how to solve this problem better."

Zhu Jinsong hummed, nodded, but then changed the subject and said, "By the way, George III and Louis XVI promised when they were in Tianzhu that England and France would send some troops to Tianzhu to help us. Daming recruited barbarians from Tianzhu as laborers, and while cleaning up the barbarians over there, they will use those barbarians to mine copper mines for us in Daming."

"In addition, England has a copper mine in Sri Lanka's colony. The specific reserves are not clear now, but George III also promised to sell the copper ore to Daming at a low price."

"That is to say, the Ministry of Officials does not need to rush to transfer officials to Tianzhu, and the Ministry of Households also does not need to rush to transfer people to Tianzhu. It can wait for the steam locomotive and the telegraph to be repaired." I'll make another call later."

"In addition, after the Lanfang and Jiugang incidents, I have another idea, which is to spread the telegrams throughout Daming. In this way, if similar things happen again, the court will know immediately, and there will be no more back and forth on the road. Delayed time delays the military plane."

As soon as Zhu Jinsong's voice fell, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs entered into the egg pain mode of looking at each other.

Spreading the telegrams throughout the entire Ming Dynasty does not seem to be difficult. After all, it is necessary to prepare more copper wires. After solving the problem of waterproofing, all kinds of buried lines are installed, and machines capable of sending and receiving telegrams are installed between the cities.

Just like the route from the Royal Academy to the Forbidden City, the difference is that it will be more complicated, and it may take a while for the Royal Academy to get it done.

The problem is that this kind of thing is easy to say, but it can be fatal in practice-the first is the problem of copper mines.

Although George III and Louis XVI had promised to recruit labor for Daming, and promised to use those laborers to mine copper mines for Daming, how could it be enough to turn copper mines into copper wire?

Even if the problem of copper wire is solved, the problem of waterproofing is also solved, so don't we still need to dig holes and embed wires?
So, the problem came back to the origin again—Daming needed a lot of manpower to dig holes and lay wires.

Of course, this problem is not the most troublesome. After all, a large part of things like telegraphs can be built along with the railway. It is not very difficult for those laborers to dig a hole and bury a line when building the railway. big.

The real problem is that these copper mines are not owned by Daming—if Sri Lanka is taken directly, the cost of mining copper mines and turning them into copper wire will be much lower. Now Sri Lanka is still owned by England, so Daming has to come up with it. money to buy copper from England.

Wouldn't it still make England money after such a level?

If England makes money, doesn't that mean Daming loses money?

Liu Huaiwen said without a nose, "Your Majesty, it's not that I'm stingy, but that this Sri Lanka is the port where Zheng He used to rest when he sailed to the West. What's the matter if it has been owned by those barbarians?"

Zhu Jinsong laughed and said: "I heard a great sage named Lu Shuren say that if someone says it's not about money, then it's probably about money."

Liu Huaiwen's face froze, and he said stiffly, "It's really not about money!"

Zhu Jinsong laughed again and said, "That's all right, all right, I don't care if it's about money or not."

"It's impossible to let the barbarians in England make some money now—how many people does our Ming Dynasty have? I believe you, the Minister of the Ministry of Households, should be very clear. Will enough people migrate there?"

"If I can, I can send troops to Sri Lanka now, and even force George III to give Sri Lanka to Daming."

"If not..."

(End of this chapter)