Can you live forever

Chapter 187

The biggest cost of Chinese medicine is not medicine, but manpower.

Massage and acupuncture alone are enough to treat most diseases, and the medicines in the classic prescriptions can also be replaced with cheap medicinal materials. Thousands of people have thousands of prescriptions. Under the dialectical correctness, it is a good idea to prescribe flexibly and use local materials. Doctors can do it.

As Chen Sheng said, sometimes a few pennies can save a life.

But the premise is that the doctor does not charge a consultation fee. In fact, when Chen Sheng practiced medicine, he never charged a consultation fee. Massage and acupuncture solved the disease, and it was just a small effort. The folks in the village should help.

Only in this way, the common people will not "hide diseases and avoid medical treatment".

Many illnesses are minor illnesses at the beginning, which can be treated easily, but after a long time, they become fatal serious illnesses. When people are sick, the people are willing to treat them.

Many doctors are willing to pay, willing to be poor.

But even the minimum survival is not affordable for the villagers. As long as the consultation costs money, they will not go to the doctor until they can't bear it. .

The Barefoot Doctors Act solves this problem.

At the same time as the official organization of free training, Jiajing paid these barefoot doctors directly with the Royal Bank, two taels of silver every year, and the number of registered barefoot doctors has exceeded 10.

The conditions are very wide.

Apprentices like Chen Sheng can receive this money, in order to encourage folks to study medicine, and then improve the assessment standards in the future, so that the medical training system will become more formal.

For this reason, Jiajing allocated 50 million taels of silver from internal funds every year to maintain this system.

Such a huge expenditure is impossible for the Jingshi household department, because the Jingshi household department only has 200 million silver per year, but it has to take care of all aspects...

However, Jiajing is rich.

After the banknotes were stabilized, the emperor had the right to mint coins, so he had the money to do things. The Ming Dynasty did not lack resources, but what was lacking was to use the money in the right place, not for the rich and powerful to enjoy themselves.

Four to five million taels. Before mastering the right to mint coins, Jiajing had no choice but to do nothing to deal with the Taicang warehouse of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

However, how much is this money?
When Wang Cuiqiao was still in Chengyifang, someone offered 50 taels to buy her. For those wealthy businessmen, this was just money to buy a woman.

Xu Jie is known as Qingliu, but he has 40 mu of land in Songjiang Mansion, which is 800 million taels in casual conversion.

The fields that Xu Jie greedy alone are enough for Daming to maintain medical expenditures for 16 years. Tens of millions of people can be freed from diseases, and tens of millions of babies can be prevented from dying.

The entire gentry class, lying on the body of the Ming Dynasty, how much blood does it suck every year?

The entire imperial court is putting money into their pockets. If all the money is used to build the country, how easy will the people's life be?
"Not enough, far from enough."

"There are fundamental problems in the entire imperial court, the entire system of the Ming Dynasty."

"The imperial court works for the people, not to exploit the people."

After understanding the economic accounts and deeply realizing the changes brought about by investing only 50 taels of silver in medical care every year, Jiajing finally understood how absurd the world is.

The actual tax revenue of Daming is 8000 million taels per year, but only 200 million taels are reserved in Taicang, the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the 200 million taels are used to do things, and they have to be exploited layer by layer.

Every year, if it is really implemented, 20 taels of silver for doing things for the people will be the sky!
How ridiculous is this?

8000 million taels raised a bunch of domineering demons and goblins!
and!

The entire class of gentry and merchants only exploited 8000 million taels from the common people every year?More than ten times!So much money has been spent on pleasure, if it can be used for running schools, medical care, agriculture, mulberry, and various industries...

Jiajing was still thinking deeply.

He thought a lot about capitalism and socialism that Zhang Zhixiang told him.

He thinks these are skins.

The real problem is that there is a huge rentier class above the common people. As long as this class can be removed and the wealth of the country can be used by the country, the common people can live a good life.

"Your Majesty, are you going to...reform?"

Chen Sheng didn't quite understand Jiajing's meaning, but it seemed like a good thing, His Majesty was thinking about the people like them.

"Yeah, I want to reform. I plan to take you and get back what belongs to you."

"I want to create a prosperous world like Anping said, where the world is for the public!"

"I want all of your children to be able to study for free, I want all the people to be able to see a doctor for free, and I want every common people in Ming Dynasty to live and work in peace and contentment!"

Chen Sheng was deeply shocked by Jiajing's words. After a long time, he asked stupidly, "Then, what about you, Your Majesty?"

"I?"

Jiajing was stunned, then laughed again, and said: "At that time, I happened to be going to cultivate immortals. I have such great merit, it is unreasonable for God not to give me a long life without bounds."

Chen Sheng panicked and asked: "Then there is no emperor, how can we do it, the world will be chaotic!"

Jiajing smiled and said: "Don't worry, the emperor will still have some, but at that time, the royal family will return power to the people, and the holy emperor will rule from the bow. Those courtiers are full of selfish desires, but they want the emperor to be selfless. It's really ridiculous. "

"But if the world is for the public, what's the problem if the royal family is really a clay puppet?"

"It's not that my old Zhu's family is greedy for the throne, but in fact, if I want to choose a puppet to sit in that position, it's true that it's best for my old Zhu's family to sit there, because in the future, anyone who wants to rebel will want to take over the world for the sake of the family. Yes, they have to take the world from Old Zhu's family."

"And at that time, you can respect the king and fight against the barbarians."

Chen Sheng didn't understand it very well, but he was extremely shocked. He felt that the royal family was at a disadvantage.

Persuading: "Your Majesty, after all, the Ming Dynasty belongs to the Zhu family, there is no need to return power to the people, the emperor should be the master of the world, this..."

Chen Sheng hasn't studied for a few years, so he can't say much about it. Anyway, he thinks that the Ming Taizu expelled the Tartars and restored China, and there is a wise king like the current emperor, so he should govern the country instead of being a puppet. statue.

That's so embarrassing.

Jiajing sighed slightly, patted Chen Sheng on the shoulder, and said, "Actually, you don't need to think about the royal family. There's nothing wrong with you."

"The "Emperor Ming Zu Xun" was tampered with by them long after Taizu died."

"How can a person who has insisted on a political philosophy for a lifetime completely deny it in the will?"

"There is only one sentence in the real Huangming ancestor's motto - 'I am originally a commoner, so what can the world do to me'."

"I'm just doing things according to the behest of my grandfather."

"The people support the Taizu to seize the world, so the Zhu family should return the world to the people. As for the emperor governing the world? Hehe...From ancient times to the present, the emperor has never really governed the world."

"The one who governs the world has always been the prime minister."

"It doesn't matter if the prime minister is one person or a group of people."

"As for whether the prime minister is governing the country for his own benefit, or for the sake of the people of the world, what is the difference for the emperor?"

"The reason is that those who rule the world for self-interest will vainly attempt to occupy the world and spy on the imperial power."

"And those who rule the world for the public interest will respect the imperial power."

"Because they know that only when there is another person above the head who can represent the will of the people to supervise, will the successors have concerns..."

"The emperor should be the representative of the people."

"The people need a banner. If there is no banner, public opinion can be deceived, a mass of loose sand, and can be squeezed at will."

"If you are private to the extreme, you are public."

"Why stick to it, why stick to it..."

　Thanks to "Laipibubai" for the reward of 1500 starting coins, and thanks to "Master Saki" for the reward of 500 starting coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)