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During the busy seasons in spring and summer, the farmers were advised to work hard, and in autumn and winter, they built water conservancy projects, and took the opportunity to use small-scale troops in the hot southern regions and train troops in rounds.

In the first year of Longwu, he spent it safely in such an atmosphere of light corvee and poor tax, and resting with the people.

The land reform on the southern line was progressing in an orderly manner, and the combination of grace and power did not need to involve too much energy from the court, and the time quietly came to the first month of the second year of Longwu.

Last year's New Year was spent amidst the good news of Duoduo's demise.

But at that time, Jiangnan had just encountered a continuous and tragic war. Every village and every mile had homes of soldiers who died in battle, mourning the passing of relatives, and Changzhen Second Mansion next to Nanjing.

Therefore, the common people could not be said to be rejoicing at that time, at most they could barely breathe a sigh of relief, cheering up at the revenge of their great vengeance.

And this year's New Year is finally the first benevolent and virtuous government that is enough to allow the people in the south of the Yangtze River to live and work in peace and contentment, and sing the praises of the Holy Son of Heaven.

The cessation of the war, the abolition of the three rates and other temporary increases, the credible and stable new tax system, the thorough investigation and clarification of the hidden households and hidden fields, and the correction of the original unreasonable tax allocations, everything, finally let the people Seeing the hope of ending the troubled times.

If Daming can persist in this way, then it seems that there is nothing wrong with continuing to rule.

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As for Prince E Zhu Shuren himself, since he went to Jiangning Town in late autumn to hold a series of meetings and inspect a series of work, as the weather gradually became colder, he also reduced his walking and spent more energy on accompanying the expected delivery date. wife.

Even the princes and concubines in Crocodile King's Mansion were busy and carefully served the princess.

The status gap between them and the princess is too big, so it is impossible to have the idea of ​​competing for favor. The princess's acceptance of them as concubines is enough to make these stunning beauties from humble backgrounds grateful.

All they thought during this time was that they expected the princess to give birth to a son for the prince as soon as possible.

Because only the prince has a son, and he is healthy enough when he is born, and it is basically guaranteed that he will not die young, so the prince dares to pamper the four beautiful concubines at will.

Unlike now, the four concubines have to be counted as good days. The prince is willing to be lucky every month who is safe, and it is far more stuck than the scientific safe date, almost only before the menstrual event. Two or three days, and the two or three days after he left, he was willing to be favored, a little farther away, even if it was still safe in theory, the prince would not take the risk.

This is because they are afraid of messing up the concubines and adoptive successors.

Fortunately, Zhu Shuren doesn't care. There are four beautiful concubines. Even if each of them has only one week to be pitied each month, if the four add up, even if there is overlap, Zhu Shuren will not be idle for too long.

The beauties are suffering, women's hormone levels are originally related to safe dates, the closer they are to unsafe days, the more impulsive they want, but now they have to hold back.To solve this problem, you have to serve the princess wholeheartedly and settle the matter.

A big man like Zhu Shuren, even if he stays at home with his wife, will not be completely idle. He always wants to do something that is good for his wife, and at the same time, it can also benefit the country and the people, and benefit the common people.

For example, when Chongzhen was 14 years old, Dong Bai, one of his concubines, was pregnant and waiting to give birth, and later gave birth to a daughter.Before Dong Bai gave birth to a daughter, Zhu Shuren spent several months personally worrying about rectifying the medical and health conditions for pregnant women in this era.

The "burning and disinfecting scissors and cutting the umbilical cord method" was originally discovered by the Chinese people in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. Zhu Shuren figured it out at that time. Bacterial infection on the body, some women who are not strong enough even use their fingernails to cut off the umbilical cord, which is an important cause of infant infection mortality)
Moreover, Zhu Shuren must have done a better job than the people of the Qing Dynasty, so he not only asked people to cut the umbilical cord, but also drew inferences from one instance.

For example, when cutting, let the scissors that have just been burned be cut while they are hot. Anyway, there are no pain nerves on the umbilical cord. Pregnant women are not afraid of pain. unnecessary.

The scissors should be made relatively new and without rust. If the poor folks do not have new scissors, they should at least sharpen them with a whetstone to completely remove the rust layer.Finally, put clean gauze boiled and sterilized, and wipe clean the blade and wound with alcohol and distilled water successively.

This set of operations is relatively costly, and it was not promoted at the time, but it was so. In the next three or four years, many dignitaries and friends who were familiar with the Shen family learned the same old things, and gradually spread, which also benefited people. many people.

No matter how poor the people are, without the conditions for disinfection, they can learn a shortened version anyway.

This time, it was the princess's turn to give birth, so medical progress naturally had to be piled up, and the level last time was definitely not enough.

Therefore, taking advantage of this winter, Zhu Shuren asked for an order to transfer a group of experienced maids in their thirties from the palace. It doesn't matter, those who are physically strong and don't shake their hands when they see blood are preferred.You can recruit a few more experienced stable women, and give them intensive training and recruiting.

Since October last year, after the cold weather, Zhu Shuren asked people to find various women expecting childbirth inside and outside Nanjing, and provided them with additional free medical care. Those who are at risk of dystocia are picked out to take care of them, so that the maids can practice.

With a population of one million in Nanjing, not only tens of thousands of women are produced every year, but also tens of thousands every season.With Zhu Shuren paying for the medical expenses, he also screened out hundreds of women who are at high risk of dystocia, and let the coach Wen Po and the student court ladies practice their hands.

When the day comes, if you can have a smooth delivery, you can have a smooth delivery without intervention. If you find that it is really going to be a difficult delivery, you will face the risk of "protecting the big and the small". The doctors, stable women, and maids in the palace will have a chance to strike.

They have all been trained in advance in a small surgical technique, that is, simply cut horizontally and sideways under the parturient to enlarge the opening so that the baby can be pulled out, and then suture with needles and threads afterwards——

Of course, before the first real woman was used as the surgeon, each of these maids had already sewed hundreds of pieces of mutton for practice. During that time, they worked in the dining room of the palace every day. to cook.

The reason why mutton is used instead of cheaper pork is also because pig skin is much thicker than human skin, and it is difficult to grasp the texture of the needle when pricking it.

After the surface layer for tanning is removed from lambskin, the layer of edible leather left inside is about the same thickness as a woman's skin, and the simulation of surgical training is better.

Crossing lateral incision is already the smallest operation in obstetrics and gynecology in later generations. It is just a matter of scissors. As long as it is a natural delivery, future generations will give it a knife. This is common sense——

If you don’t use this knife, if you break along the fissure with force at the end, leaving sequelae of anal leakage and anal fissure, you will have to pay for medical affairs. If you cut this knife, the hospital will not have to bear the responsibility.It is conceivable how to choose in the era of the rule of law.

Precisely because it is so popular in later generations, everyone suffers from natural birth, so that Zhu Shuren, a grown man, knows this common sense, and it is not considered cheating (he also heard it from the chats of female colleagues at the time).

In ancient times when caesarean sections were not available, this was also the most beneficial and cost-effective medical advancement for the benefit of the people.Any other minor surgery is difficult in this era, and disinfection and suturing are not as easy as this one.

Throughout the winter, Zhu Shuren paid for the training of this group of strong and strong court ladies. After each of them practiced cutting and sewing hundreds of pieces of mutton and dozens of real people, their skills generally improved greatly.

And their practice has indeed benefited the people—at least hundreds of Nanjing women who would have died of dystocia due to the narrow crossing, were saved by this extra knife, and then sewed up again after giving birth.

Although it would be very painful to be cut and stitched in the era without anesthesia, it is better than losing your life.

As for women who still lost blood and died of dystocia, of course there are, and they still account for a small half.But when it is someone else, no one dares to make a fuss.

First of all, they have also inquired about it. After all, many of the women who were manipulated in this way survived successfully.Secondly, when these trained maids were allowed to do it, dystocia had already occurred, and if they were not rescued, they would be close to death.

Moreover, the medical team was sent by the prince sympathetic to the people for the sake of medical progress, and did not charge money from the beginning to the end. What can the common people say?
Otherwise, people in this era are simple and honest, everyone is used to seeing life and death, and is used to poor medical skills.We all know that it is normal for people to go in vertically and carry them out horizontally. After being cured, it will be good luck, so there is no high expectation.

Of course, there have been dozens of cases in the process that were indeed caused by minor mistakes of the maids, such as inadequate debridement and disinfection methods, and incomplete hygiene, leading to infection.

Zhu Shuren also gave both kindness and power. For personal faults, they will be punished to a certain extent, and the families of the victims will be compensated heavily.In the end, the best of the best was selected, and a steady middle-aged court lady who did not make a single medical mistake was selected, and finally used for court medical treatment.

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Zhu Shuren's preparations were not in vain.

As the new year passed, the lights of the Lantern Festival gradually dissipated, and the expected date of the princess's wife's delivery was getting closer and closer.

Zhu Yuchan found out at the end of April last year, and actually had it in early April, so if it took ten months, it would be around the middle of February.

In fact, the imperial doctor saw that Her Royal Highness's abdomen was developing much faster than expected, and her body was too heavy to move before the Chinese New Year.A senior lady in the palace, Wen Po, looked at it carefully, and repeatedly touched her belly to confirm, and they all speculated that there might be two of them.

Zhu Shuren didn't believe it at first, but after digging into his wife's medication records before she became pregnant, she realized that she had taken some imperial elixir that was good for conception, which probably had the effect of promoting ovulation similar to western medicine in later generations.

Normal women take turns on the left and right sides, with one row on each side every two months. If they are urged by drugs, they may row on the left and right side together.

Zhu Shuren was also an eye-opener. He didn't expect that there was such a secret medicine in ancient Chinese medicine. He already understood the medical laws of bilateral septal row and how to intervene.

Obviously, this is to increase the probability of having a child. In the relevant medical books of Taiyuan Hospital, the record of this drug is not prolific, but only increases the probability of having a son——

But Zhu Shuren knows the scientific truth, because if twins are produced by the division of the same egg, the chromosomes are the same, and the sex must be the same.

Only fraternal eggs, each chromosome is fused separately, and the probability of son and daughter is independent, so the probability of having at least one son can be increased to 75%.But it is suffering for the pregnant woman, and the pain is more. Fortunately, the long-term pain is not as good as the short-term pain, so as not to suffer twice and suffer twice.

Throughout the second half of the first lunar month, Zhu Shuren stayed with his wife every day to help her relieve mental stress and mediate her physical and mental state because his wife was getting heavier and had no interest in state affairs.

Although Zhu Yuchan was afraid and pampered, she was comforted a lot by her husband who was always with her in every detail and ignored the state affairs for the time being.

It was delayed until the [-]th of the first month. I thought it would be delayed until February, but in the end it was because the growth was too big, so I had to give birth about half a month earlier.

The ancients secretly believed that it was unlucky for a man to enter the delivery room, but Zhu Shuren had no such worries. He just took a thorough sauna in advance, smeared high alcohol disinfection all over his body, and changed into a new boiled and dried gauze robe, and then he could accompany his wife up.

As for the other rooms, of course they are also disinfected, and the midwifery maids are also disinfected all over.

This behavior of the prince has shocked many people, but no one can stop it.Zhu Shuren held Zhu Yuchan's hand the whole time to give her confidence, and at the end all the pre-rehearsed medical methods were used, such as a side incision and final sutures.

Really, relying on the much wider opening after the side cut, the two fetuses were pulled out smoothly,

Because there are two babies, the development is generally relatively light. The daughter who was pulled out first did not absorb nutrients well and was just over five pounds, while the son who was pulled out from the inside barely weighed six pounds.

I have to say that it is indeed thanks to the medicine that the probability has increased to 75%, and I finally got a son at one time. This is also a natural principle, not luck.

How can normal people give birth to twins so easily.

"Congratulations to the prince for making Zhang Zhang!" After confirming that the one inside was his son, a group of court ladies breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly congratulated him.

Zhu Shuren also breathed a sigh of relief: "Reward! Each person who delivers the baby will be rewarded with 300 taels of silver! The surgeon will be rewarded with 1000 taels! The one who burns and cuts the umbilical cord will be rewarded with 500 taels! The imperial physician will be rewarded with 3000 taels! !Give a golden plaque!"

Originally the richest man in the world, and also a prince, he finally got the eldest son, how can this reward be less?Naturally, everything is in order.

Thinking back to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Chen Ajiao spent a total of 9000 million yuan in medical expenses in order to see her infertility, accounting for one-thirtieth of the annual fiscal revenue of the Han Dynasty at that time, and she was not cured in the end.

This amount of money is so well known that Sima Qian wrote it down.

He, Zhu Shuren, won the national capital by gambling today, so how could he be poorer than Liu Che and Chen Ajiao?
Of course there will be a big reward!
All the participants hurriedly expressed their gratitude.

It was late at night, and with the sudden delivery, Zhu Shuren didn't dare to enter the palace to disturb them immediately, so he asked the maids to clean the two children carefully with warm wine, and observed them in the middle of the night to confirm that the condition was stable.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Yuchan also woke up and confirmed that she was fine, so Zhu Shuren sent people into the palace to announce the good news.

Emperor Longwu Zhu Changhao woke up early in the morning, and the personal eunuch next to him told him the news. Zhu Changhao also attached great importance to it and came to check immediately.

When Weng and his son-in-law met, there was no need to make it clear that Zhu Changhao was only concerned about the health of his grandson.

For the next month, he also went out of the palace to check on his daughter's house every day.
Until the beginning of March, the weak period when they were first born gradually passed, and the two children seemed to be able to support them.
The full moon wine was also done, and it was a banquet given to all officials in the Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Changhao finally announced that he would adopt this grandson to his son who died in his early years—that is, the child who was said to have died shortly after birth and was given the posthumous title of Prince last year.

As for the fact, of course Zhu Changhao never had a son, it's just that one of his side concubines gave birth to a stillborn baby, which was prematurely lost.

After the announcement of the adoptive decree, of course no one in the Manchu court dared to oppose it. This is the emperor's family matter. What can outsiders say about the uncle's adoption?

After the adoption is over, the child will not be able to call his biological mother his mother, but his aunt, nor his biological father his father, but his uncle.But compared to the gain, this loss is nothing at all.

In the middle of May, when the child was [-] days old, and the health condition was further stabilized, the emperor naturally had another grand feast for all the ministers and general rewards, and then announced that the [-]-day-old child would be accepted into the Spring Festival. Living in the Palace of Harmony, the princess's biological mother would naturally have to move to the Palace of Harmony to take care of the children.

Chunhe Palace was the place where Zhu Biao lived when he was the prince and Zhu Yunwen was the grandson. No one lived there after Zhu Yunwen.

Moving into the Spring Harmony Palace, although there is no intention of registering it, maybe it is too young, but the subtext behind it has been clearly revealed.