Jiajing Chengming

Chapter 322: The harem is safe again, and the sound of opening the sea begins to appear!
March 27th, the fifth year of Jiajing.

As noon approached, the earth was dyed golden.

After the false alarm, the people in the harem finally returned to their former peace.

The two Empress Dowagers continued to visit the Kunning Palace as usual, often visiting the eldest prince and daughter, and would also take the two children to the Imperial Garden.

When Zhu Houcong came to see the two children, the two Empress Dowagers were watching with a smile as the eldest prince and the eldest princess chased the fluttering butterflies in the spring light in the imperial garden.

The two children were chasing each other vigorously, which made the palace servants who were running behind them nervous and happy, and they kept shouting: "Slow down!"

Zhu Houcong couldn't help laughing when he saw this. He put his hands behind his back and didn't let anyone disturb him. He just stood behind the rockery and asked the queen about asking the imperial physician to diagnose whether the eldest prince was frightened by the disappearance: "What did the imperial physician Chen say?"

The imperial physician Chen mentioned by Zhu Houcong was Chen Chong.

Ever since Chen Chong demonstrated excellent medical ethics and skills in the last incident where Imperial Physician Zhou was murdered, and helped the eldest princess to reduce her fever smoothly, and her fever did not worsen afterwards due to his treatment, Zhu Houcong appointed him as the director of the Imperial Medical Service, and promoted him to the position of Right Minister of the Ministry of Public Security, as an imperial physician.

Because Chen Chong's ancestors were a family of pediatricians and he was good at pediatrics, even though he was an imperial physician, his main responsibility was to treat the royal heirs and princesses.

Empress Yao replied, "Imperial Physician Chen said there is nothing serious, but she has been looking for Madam Zeng for a while."

"It should get better after a while."

After Zhu Houcong said this, he asked again, "How is the medical skills of Zhou Taiyi's daughter Zhou now?"

In order to improve the medical standards in the harem, Zhu Houcong asked the imperial physician Zhou to select a smart orphan as his adopted daughter from among the orphans in the royal palace while he was still alive, and also taught her medical skills so that she could treat the female relatives in the inner court in the future. Later, when Zhu Houcong came to Beijing and ascended the throne, he also selected her to enter the palace to practice medicine as a female historian in the Shanggong Bureau.

Imperial Physician Zhou named the girl Zhou Baishu.

However, although Zhou Baishu started studying medicine at a very early age, he currently only treated palace maids and did not directly treat the nobles in the harem, and was directly under the control of the empress.

Zhu Houcong now began to ask about Zhou Baishu, and Empress Yao smiled and replied, "She has improved a lot. Many palace people praised her medical skills and respectfully called her Sister Zhou. When she provided free medical treatment to orphans adopted by Xingming Academy, the prescriptions she prescribed were also recognized by Imperial Physician Chen, who even thought that her method of treating epidemics was better than his."

"is it?"

Zhu Houcong smiled and asked.

Empress Yao smiled and replied, "I think it has something to do with the fact that so many people consult her, from palace maids to orphans in Xingming Academy. Now when they have an epidemic, they all come to her for treatment. Naturally, she is more confident in the diagnosis and treatment of epidemics."

After hearing this, Zhu Houcong suddenly realized that if he wanted to improve the level of medicine in the Ming Dynasty, he should let the imperial doctors practice more.

As far as Zhu Houcong knew, before being selected as imperial physicians, doctors in the Ming Dynasty would be sent out to treat military and civilians, and then they would be assessed based on their treatment results to determine whether they were qualified to enter the Imperial Medical Service.

However, after these doctors entered the Imperial Medical Bureau and became imperial physicians, they only treated important patients and lacked practical opportunities to improve their medical skills through extensive consultation.

Many times, famous doctors need a large number of clinical cases to become miracle doctors. After all, whether it is curing life or death, experience is the key.

Zhu Houcong felt that he needed to reform the imperial physician system.

The imperial physicians of the Imperial Medical Bureau can continue to treat the general public, and even rely on their extensive clinical experience to continuously improve their medical skills and try out new medical methods.

After all, if the imperial physician's level were constantly improved, it would be more beneficial for him to resist disease and prolong his life.

Saying.

After the murder of Imperial Physician Zhou, Zhu Houcong accelerated the pace of reform of the Imperial Medical Service.

He had already issued an order to transform the confiscated residence of Duke Yansheng in the capital into an office for imperial physicians, and in the name of protection, all the imperial physicians and their families were concentrated in the residence of Duke Yansheng.

The residence of Duke Yansheng was located in Xiaoshiyongfang, close to the imperial city. The imperial doctors lived here, which not only allowed them to enter the palace for consultation more quickly, but also made it easier for them to be watched by the Jinyiwei.

But now Zhu Houcong thought that the imperial physicians should be given the opportunity to see patients from outside, so he came up with the idea of ​​setting up a public clinic in the name of imperial physicians.

However, Zhu Houcong only has this idea at the moment. He needs to think more about how to do it specifically and discuss it with the ministers in the Imperial Study and the imperial doctors.

Because in the afternoon I had to go to Zuoshunmen to meet with all officials.

Zhu Houcong put the matter aside for the time being, and after lunch, he chose to walk to Zuoshunmen.

Although Zhu Houcong did not attend morning court every day like Zhu Yuanzhang, he basically never turned down the morning court.

He did this to give the outer court officials, except the ministers of the Imperial Study, a chance to see him and avoid separation between the inside and the outside.

The court officials were also very happy that the emperor was diligent in attending the noon court.

For them, this is more diligent than several emperors.

At the afternoon court session, the issue that the emperor and his ministers were most concerned about and discussing was naturally still the maritime ban.

Especially now that the Xie family has been wiped out, the eldest prince almost disappeared, and several officials with backgrounds of wealthy coastal families and Jia Yong, the left vice minister of the Ministry of Personnel, have been imprisoned, all the ministers in the court have clearly realized that the court's strict ban on the sea has brought the struggle between the court and the wealthy coastal families into a white-hot stage.

For Grand Secretary Lin Jun, he also learned from these things that the big families along the coast were unwilling to give up their maritime interests even at the cost of overthrowing the table because of the strict maritime ban imposed by the court, so they wiped out the Xie family and even started to make trouble for the royal heir.

of course.

Lin Jun also knew that many large households along the coast were simply unable to make concessions, after all, many of them relied on smuggling to maintain their affluent lives.

Especially in Fujian and Zhejiang areas.

Because Lin Jun himself is a wealthy man in Fujian.

Therefore, he was very clear that a strict ban on maritime activities would only make it impossible for many large families along the coast to survive.

But Lin Jun naturally understood that the emperor had no intention of compromising. Instead of allowing the government to strictly ban the sea, he also turned the table over and created incidents of disobedience and unfilial piety in order to force Xiong Yiqi and others to go to jail.

This way.

Lin Jun also understood that the big coastal families like him could no longer expect the emperor to compromise and let the dynasty ban the sea but not strictly enforce it. They could only advocate opening the sea for the sake of the overall situation and the stability of the village.

Otherwise, these wealthy families along the coast would only die more miserably, and the emperor would be forced to do more extreme things.

The monarch and his subjects would become completely hostile to each other.

By then, everyone in the world will inevitably feel uneasy.

More importantly, his Lin family, a top-level coastal eunuch family that serves as a link between the upper and lower classes like the Xie family, may also suffer the same fate as the Xie family. They may be exterminated by the wealthy coastal families and pirates below because they transfer pressure downward, or they may be exterminated by the emperor because they dare not offend the wealthy coastal families and pirates below and oppose the imperial court.

In short.

Lin Jun realized that if he didn't open the sea, not to mention other families, his Lin family would probably be in trouble both inside and outside, and eventually end up with the family broken up.

Therefore, Lin Jun took the initiative to say at the court meeting: "Your Majesty, the family of the Grand Scholar was wiped out, and the heir to the throne was threatened, all because of the too strict ban on the sea! Fujian and Zhejiang have many mountains and few fields, and the people rely on maritime trade for their livelihood. Therefore, strict bans on the sea will only lead to more unrest. Therefore, I, an old minister, believe that the sea should be opened to satisfy people's hearts, save the people, and achieve long-term peace and stability!"

(End of this chapter)