open sea

Chapter 1243 Data
"The imperial examination?"

Wanli put down the book slowly, interposed his hands and asked, "It's not easy for me to decide, but Dr. Chen will tell you first, if you go through a catastrophe or a catastrophe, you will gain a lot."

The imperial examination is not easy to change, not because of the law of the ancestors. Wanli has long felt that the proportion of some subjects in the imperial examination should be reduced, but this is not a matter of patting the head.

It has nothing to do with the law of the ancestors, and it has nothing to do with the resistance of the courtiers, but because it is easier for the court to change easily, and it is easier for the world to turmoil.

This is like saying that when the college entrance examination is approaching, the subjects of the exam are suddenly changed, so the students should not die of panic, the teachers should not die of anger, and the parents should not die of madness?
Chen Shigong's words almost scared old Gong Tingxian who couldn't sit comfortably beside him and fell off his chair.

A matter as big as the imperial examination, can we, a little doctor, talk about it?Besides, this has nothing to do with doctors!
But Chen Shigong just said, how courageous is this?
What makes Gong Tingxian's world collapse even more is that it seems that the emperor really intends to listen?
"Your Majesty has read your majesty's summary of the plagues over the years. Since the Yuan Dynasty, the plagues that have been presented to the imperial court have averaged once every eight years, and smallpox and big-headed plague have frequently occurred. After Emperor Taizu expelled the Tartars, the plagues reported to the imperial court have been reported to the imperial court every five years on average. Once, and since the first emperor opened the sea, the plague has entered a period of high incidence in the coastal areas, and the plague has easily spread to a county, with an average of three outbreaks per year for 17 years."

This data was not discovered by Chen Shigong, but by Wanli himself. He summarized these things and gave them to Chen Shigong. When he heard the doctor talking about it, he nodded and said, "I don't think it's because there were fewer plagues in the Yuan Dynasty, but because they The statistics are not in place, and the period when the plague was really high occurred after I changed the reign name after I ascended the throne, and there was no problem in the peace of the country, and such things as the plague can be reported to my imperial court."

In other words, Wanli thinks that the statistics in the past were unfavorable. He doesn't think it's a bad thing to find so many plagues. Compared with the catastrophe in a county in the past, it was impossible to report to the court. This is precisely his achievement.

In the eyes of people in this era, the plague is not a terrible thing. There are too many terrible things in the eyes of people, and the plague is not ranked at all. Even the plague itself is difficult to get attention.

People are more afraid of disasters that will bring plagues, military disasters, and rebellion once every three years on average?Drought, on average every two years in a province, are you afraid of severe drought?Are you afraid of floods, the Yellow River will burst once in a few years?A dozen counties were flooded at a time.

How old is the plague compared to this?

"But Your Majesty, the plague is indeed on the rise... In the coastal provinces and on both sides of the canal, there are more plagues than before. As far as I know, the plague is an infectious disease. The so-called infectious disease can infect both humans and animals. The greater the movement of people, the stronger the plague."

When Chen Shigong said this, he lowered his head with compassion in his eyes, sighed and said with emotion: "The times have changed."

The times have changed.

There are also many plagues.

In the past, not to mention the township capital, people would not go out of the village if there was nothing to do. When visiting neighboring villages, they had to carry their luggage with their household registration, and the inspection department on the road would check them.

Under the extremely small population mobility, if a family is infected with the plague, the family may die, and the neighbors on the other side of the mountain will not know it. A plague that might have been huge will disappear silently.

But it’s different now. There are so many densely populated factories along the coast, the city has become crowded, and the communication between people has become closer. Sea ships complete the voyage from south to north through various ports for half a month, and the capacity of the canal is also increasing. It was expanded to the extreme by official ships and civilian ships.

Wanli frowned suddenly, and he said angrily like a cat whose tail was stepped on: "You mean, it was wrong for the first emperor to open the sea? Do you still want to say that if I didn't go north to conquer Mongolia, this plague would not have happened?" Brought back!"

Chen Shigong didn't say that it was Wanli who had a ghost in his heart.

He has been doubting himself, he didn't show the summary of the plagues over the years to any minister in the court, because he thought that the plague appeared in Ming Dynasty entirely because of him.

If the Northern Expedition had not been launched, the wounded soldiers would not have brought back this plague. His empire was experiencing unprecedented extreme weather, with extremely cold winters and continuous drought. Spectrum.

But he couldn't stand the endless whispers in his ears from childhood to adulthood.

Make him stressed out and become cranky and irritable.

"Of course the first emperor was right to open the sea. Even if your Majesty does not go to the north, this plague will still be brought into the south of the Great Wall by the northern captives who invaded from the south; but if your majesty does not build the railway, the plague may break out in Miyun, because I have found the right one. For humans, the source of this plague is infected rats."

"Despite years of severe drought, ordinary people are still able to get by. There is no famine anywhere, but the rich and the poor gather in Tongzhou, and because the people gather in the city, there are people who have no property and no money. Their life is worse than that of the people outside the city. It's hard, if you catch a mouse and put it in the pot when you're extremely hungry, I'm afraid the hungry belly won't wait until the mouse is cooked."

"I want to say that the plague is inevitable, but any plague is invincible. There are indeed chronic illnesses that cannot be cured in the world, but there is no plague that we cannot deal with. Even if it cannot be cured with medicine stones, it can be isolated with a blockade The method is to wait for it to disappear...just."

Chen Shigong said: "The empire needs standardized coping methods and conforming to the rules of the times. Your Majesty has seen the situation in Tang Zhizhou, and also knows that those doctors who have won the Medal of Pillars of the Empire are not brave or incompetent, but they are not alive. come down."

"No matter how loyal and brave the bureaucrat dies, who will lead the people to isolate the plague? If the people are infected with the plague, the doctors will treat them, but if all the doctors are infected with the plague, who will heal the people?"

"If the local Zhizhou, who is quite an official voice, can say a word at that time, it will be more effective than the Beiyang military doctor standing at the street corner and shouting for a day-there will be more and more plagues in the future."

Chen Shigong said this, and said: "The disease of the Great Eastern Ocean will infect the Atlantic Ocean, and the disease of the Westerners will also infect the people of Ming Dynasty. Even if we don't open the sea, the Spaniards and Portuguese will bring this disease. The bureaucrats and people of the empire need it." With sufficient understanding of the spread and prevention of plague, local officials must have standard response measures after the outbreak of plague; local medical officials and medical households must also have at least one case of standard medicine for treatment for each disease; , Counties also need to keep protective equipment for the plague.”

"In this way, even if a plague occurs in the county government, the state government, and the government government, the county officials, government servants, and medical households can replace the equipment in the county government immediately, block the infected neighborhoods to prevent the plague from spreading, and the medical households enter the hospital for diagnosis and treatment without fear of getting sick and dying. , If the disease is clear, the medicine can be applied immediately, and there is no need to reproduce the panic caused by the death of a large number of medical households and the loss of knowledge, and the people can also take good care of themselves at home."

"As we understand the disease more deeply, we will not be afraid of more plagues."

Wanli clasped his hands and thought for a moment, then raised his head to look at Chen Shigong and said, "What you mentioned, you do it, I want a detailed plan and teaching materials."

(End of this chapter)