[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

Emperor Hongwu thought he was brave, but regarding the matter of what medicinal materials he saw that day, the emperor said... It's better not to be too curious.

But no matter how much the raw materials used refresh people's perceptions, no matter how complicated Hong Wudi's mood was when he watched his wife swallow the bitter medicine, Empress Ma's complexion is indeed getting better day by day.

The family members of every patient in this world are dissatisfied with the patient's recovery. They always feel that their loved ones can get better faster, and the doctor didn't do his best. Emperor Hongwu is the same.

But he knows better than anyone else what Queen Ma was like before, and he also knows that these doctors from the south are stealing people from the underworld. Be careful, it is a crash.

And with his wife's physical fitness and mental state, she will never have the possibility of a comeback. Compared with other patients' family members, Emperor Hongwu is better than other patients' families-he knows that he is a layman.

It is even more taboo among laymen to direct experts, so no matter how suspicious and uncertain he was when he saw the prescription, Emperor Hongwu would just pick up the "Pocket Prescription" silently to learn medical skills, and would not ask the doctor to ask Dong. Ask Xi to express his own feelings and impose a lot of "I think" and "I think".

From this point of view, Emperor Hongwu is not only an excellent emperor, but also an excellent patient family member.

But that doesn't mean he's really so calm.This can be seen from the increasingly tense relationship between the monarch and his ministers in the court.

The inability to exert strength in unfamiliar medicine does not mean that he has no strength in government affairs. The Tyrannosaurus Rex, who had nowhere to vent his anger, returned to Fengtian Palace immediately after Queen Ma was relieved. A while ago, the prince was regent and was a little lenient. The atmosphere in the court hall was tightened at the moment, and all the courtiers returned to the quail state of watching their eyes, noses, noses, noses, noses, and hearts. No one dared to provoke Hong Wudi, who was exuding an irritable atmosphere all over his body.

Under the deterrence of Tyrannosaurus rex, the shipbuilding issue that had been suspended due to various reasons during the court meeting was put on the agenda again, and it was rapidly advanced under the emperor's gloomy gaze.

Because of Empress Ma, the current Emperor Hongwu is full of curiosity about the herbal medicine culture in different regions, "Since the herbal medicine in the southwest can cure the queen's illness, maybe the herbal medicine further south has more uses."

Now Zhu Yuanzhang has become a loyal supporter of the theory that foreign monks can chant scriptures. He told his grandson who was one step behind: "Ying'er, when you send people to travel, bring a doctor with them. Their duty is to protect the health of the crew. And go find some southern medicinal materials, figure out the medicinal properties of those medicinal materials, and introduce them back if possible."

Mu Bai nodded, expressing that his grandfather's thinking was completely fine, and added by the way: "Grandfather, do you think that the medicinal materials in Ming Dynasty should also be sorted out?"

"Yes," Hong Wudi, who got off work, felt the wind under his feet and walked quickly. While heading towards the Kunning Palace, he also assigned tasks to his grandson: "Many of the medical craftsmen this time are from Hunan and Yunnan. , you send someone to go there... No, it doesn’t have to be that far, most of the doctors are in the capital now, and so many people can compile a book with just one prescription and one medicinal material.”

"In this way, you gather them together and say that this time I will reserve a place for them in the "Dian Dacheng", which is dedicated to the medical calligraphy department, and ask them if they would like to contribute some prescriptions. If the prescriptions are proven to be useful , I will give them plaques."

Mu Bai lit a piece of wax in his heart for the group of doctors gathered in Yingtian Mansion, and quietly sympathized with them.Although Emperor Hongwu did not force doctors to contribute their own secret recipes, he knew that the prescriptions that could make the king of a country feel good enough to give a plaque were basically heirloom secret recipes.

Although strictly speaking, the doctors will not lose money in this transaction, the prescriptions are handed over to the state, and if there is no major accident, these prescriptions will not enter the private sector, and will not affect the business of medical craftsmen, but in this era together A unique recipe can support the revenue of the entire pharmacy. Even if you know that the country will not compete with individuals for business, the feeling of handing over your lifeblood will not be very good.

But on the other hand, if a medical craftsman wins a plaque, he will be publicly recognized.

As the country's largest IP and spokesperson, Emperor Hongwu stamped it, and the person who took the plaque won the gold medal certification, and in the future, customers will come like clouds.

In fact, this is obviously Jiang Taigong fishing, and those who wish to take the bait, but...

Mu Bai blinked, and said in a low voice: "Grandfather, the parents of the doctors, maybe they don't care about the plaque, why don't we..."

Emperor Hongwu paused, turned his head and looked at his grandson with a meaningful face, and the grandson and grandson exchanged a subtle smile, and everything was said in silence.

The next day, an imperial list followed the footsteps of the post ministers at the gates of every county in the north and south of the river. Emperor Hongwu expressed in the simplest and most straightforward vernacular that he had heard that there were famous medical practitioners hidden among the mountains and rivers. As the emperor, he would like to thank them People have contributed to the localities over the years, but at the same time, he also asked these people for help in the name of the emperor.

Now is the time when the country needs you.

As an emperor and a husband, he deeply felt the troubles caused by the uneven resources and different treatment methods between the north and the south.

Some illnesses are minor illnesses in the north, but ruined families in the south. Some illnesses are a matter of medicine in the south, but can only be arranged for funerals in the north. Such completely unnecessary tragedies really make him heartbroken as an emperor.

Today, the land area of ​​Daming is so large that the north-south and east-west spans are unprecedented in thousands of years, and the transportation around the country is becoming more and more convenient with the construction of post stations and pipelines. The things that restrained everyone in the past no longer exist. It's also time for a wave of mutual exchange.

In order to make up for the difference in medical resources brought about by different natural environments in different regions, Emperor Hongwu called on doctors all over the world to provide the prescriptions and types of herbs they knew.

If there is a creative discovery and breakthrough, the prescription and the name of the doctor will be collected and recorded and sent to the whole country for popularization. Shennong shared the sacrifice of heaven and earth.

After this decree came out, it was like boiling water into a pot, blowing out most of China's medical circle.

Previously, due to the small size and dense population of Yingtian Mansion, there was only one altar in the Ming Dynasty, where the ancestors worshiped the heaven, earth, sun and moon. Some voids have been remodeled.

Frankly speaking, Emperor Hongwu couldn't bear the current planning of Yingtianfu. As the capital of a country and also an economic and cultural center, Yingtianfu's population has already been seriously saturated.

The result of the overload is that large and small urban problems have erupted one after another, and the most unbearable problem is the excrement problem.

Due to the rigid needs of the population, Yingtianfu has been continuously annexing farmland, so that the area of ​​farmland in Yingtianfu and its surrounding areas has gradually become smaller, and the demand for manure in farmland is far less than the amount of pollution produced in cities, resulting in the waste in the homes of most urban residents. If someone buys it, you can only handle it yourself.

It's just that the way most people "handle themselves" doesn't fit Yingtianfu's civilized image. The government had to vacate several areas around it to collect and bury these urban wastes from door to door.

Although the soil can decompose organic fertilizers, but this is limited. Obviously, these fillings exceed the range that the land can decompose, so in summer, these landfills stink to the sky.

Coupled with the changes in terrain and landforms since the city was built, the sewage channels in many areas of Yingtianfu have been flooded by rivers. If someone is lazy and pours excrement into the rainwater channel, then the scene will definitely be very "beautiful" .

What's worse is that with the increase of Yingtianfu's population, a large number of idle laborers are pouring in. These people are unwilling to pay what they consider to be high garbage disposal fees, and often lazily litter. Sometimes, there are always a few corners of the city that emit a strange smell.

However, summer and autumn are the seasons when the monsoon is the strongest, and the number of envoys traveling through the trade winds is also the largest. These envoys wandered around in areas where backwashing was serious, but the face-saving Emperor Hongwu felt that these were really unbearable.

For the Ming emperor's resentment, Mu Bai could only pretend to be a wooden man obediently, not daring to tell his grandfather that these envoys were not flattering, they really felt that Ying Tianfu was very tall in all aspects.

Regarding what the hometowns of these envoys who came to Ming Dynasty for friendly exchanges are like... From the every move of the few Venetian merchants who were beaten to death and refused to take a bath after completing their first audience, Mu Bai can peep a little bit.

According to these people, Venice is already one of the cleanest countries in Europe, and there are many people in other countries who don't take a bath all their lives.

In the [-]th century, Europe had just stepped out of the Dark Ages. The Black Death, which had been raging for more than ten years, took the lives of most European people, destroyed the local belief in theology, and left the local people with the idea that "bathing is easy to cause disease." Invasion opportunities" dross thinking.

They don't even want to take a bath, let alone the concept of further hygiene. After the ancient Roman Empire existed in name only, the Europeans who inherited most of the historical and cultural heritage of Rome attributed the collapse of the Roman Empire to its urban construction and public bathroom system. Their strength staged What does it mean to waste food because of choking? It directly negates all of the Roman Empire, including the urban sewage system of course.

Of course, not all countries have no brains, but since most of Europe is managed by kings or lords of small countries, it is naturally impossible to have extremely high action capabilities like the centralized Ming Dynasty under such circumstances.

At least it is absolutely impossible for them to re-plan and manage the entire Yingtianfu sub-district one by one, dredging, diverting the Qinhuai River, and reducing its area to obtain a larger city area, as in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this may also be related to the fact that there were not many super-populous cities in Europe in the Middle Ages. If the population is not large enough, there will naturally be no need for sanitation management.

Today's Daming Yingtian Mansion is undoubtedly the brightest pearl in the East and even in the world.

In any case, after this period of continuous politics, the situation in Yingtianfu is much better than in previous years. The water of Qinhuai River has been diverted to avoid flooding the water level during the rainy season, and at the same time, it has brought a lot of water to the local people. homestead.

Although the soil along the river beach is loose and mostly saline-alkali land, some of them live well, so there is no need to pick and choose.

Batch after batch of "shantytowns" were demolished, illegal buildings were cleaned up, roads were re-planned, clogged sewers were dredged, and waste recycling was uniformly carried out by the government. After two or three years of rectification, Yingtianfu finally has a A whole new look.

Because of the re-adjustment of the city's planning and location, there was an unexpected joy this time, that is, the city finally squeezed out space for the altar that made the Ministry of Rites worry about it.

Although there is only enough space to build an altar, it is better than all the sacrificial activities in the past crowded together.

The new altar is the Earth Altar, which also serves as the Moon Altar. Emperor Hongwu did not hesitate to choose the two emperors Yan and Huang when he decided to worship the gods here, and Emperor Yan, as the Shennong Emperor who was in charge of medicine and grains, became the chief priest of the Earth Altar.

And who is Emperor Yan, that is the patriarch of all doctors!To engrave his own name, invented prescriptions, and discovered medicines on the stele in front of Emperor Yan for future generations to look up to. At a small scale, it is a tribute to the ancestors, and at a large scale, it is to honor the ancestors and live up to what generations have learned.

Its meaning is equivalent to putting the sculptor's works with David, the painter's works on display next to "Sunflower", and the pianist playing with Beethoven's piano. A plaque issued by Emperor Hongwu is much larger.

Who can stand this!

However, when Emperor Hongwu was delighted to see his wife's complexion getting better and better, and his grandson was gradually buried by various materials that responded to his call and flew to Yingtianfu from all directions like snowflakes, and Longyan was delighted, a room made him feel happy. Mood from sunny to cloudy thing happened.

In the summer of the 24th year of Hongwu, Longyang County by the Dongting Lake was hit by catastrophic floods. The summer crops that were in the grain filling period were all submerged after being flooded. It is easy to know that this will be a disaster year with no crops.

However, the county magistrate of Longyang County still demanded normal tax collection regardless of the people's sentiments. His classics and history Qing Wensheng deeply sympathized with the suffering of the people. , failed to listen to the sky.

On the first day of the fifth lunar month, Qing Wensheng entered Yingtian Mansion with a memorial in his official uniform. In the early morning, he hanged himself in front of the Dengwen Drum with a foot of white silk, and sent the memorial to Emperor Hongwu to pardon Longyang. Tax.

Fortunately, today's Yingtian Mansion is not what it used to be. Now it gathers the best doctors in the country.

The doctors who took a walk in the early morning found the little pawn hanging in front of Dengwen's drum in time, and put him down for treatment in time, which saved his life, but Qing Wensheng's vocal cords were permanently damaged. I couldn't make a sound, and naturally I couldn't do this job anymore.

Such a heroic petition for the people succeeded in bringing the disaster of the small county called Longyang to Emperor Hongwu. Emperor Hongwu immediately sent officials to Longyang to find out the truth, and after finding out that the situation was true, the local tax was reduced by [-] shi , At the same time put down the grain to encourage the people to replant in time.

But this is not the end, but a beginning.

Emperor Hongwu first visited Qing Wensheng who was still recuperating in person, and after asking about the situation, he punished the local county magistrate and the household officials who failed to deal with and reply to Qing Wensheng's memorandum in time.

Emperor Hongwu deeply felt that there were flaws in many of his previous decrees. He ordered that from then on, regardless of the size or severity, all documents that were issued by local disasters were not allowed to be sealed, and all were handed over to the emperor. Show awareness.

In addition, he also ordered that whenever there is a disaster among the people, officials can open warehouses to transport millet to save the people as soon as possible, and then report to the court.

But after doing all this, Emperor Hongwu still felt that something was wrong.

"But it's not enough, it's just treating the symptoms and not the root cause." The emperor who summoned his eldest son and grandson hid half of his face in the shadows. After a long silence, he said slowly, "I want to dredge the river."

"The dredging of the river is a matter of great importance, and there will be complaints from the people at that time, but this is a once-and-for-all matter, so we must do it." Emperor Hongwu raised his hand to stop the words of the prince Zhu Biao, and said indifferently: "I know that Qianyuan is because of The incident of dredging the river caused great confusion among the people, so I have also thought about how to deal with it."

"This matter is over - I will abdicate." The old man slowly raised his eyes, his eyes were deep and firm, and he whispered: "After Biao'er ascended the throne, he will be comforted. If necessary, he can imitate the change of the doctor and put a few more The craftsman is from the people to appease the people, but remember, don’t let it go, this matter has to be done little by little.”

"I will bear the responsibility of laboring the people, and I will abdicate to comfort the people's fatigue. In this way, the hearts of the people can be at ease."

The emperor, who had been weathered all his life and walked out of the mountains of knives and sea of ​​fire, smiled when he saw the two heirs, and said lightly of his decision to lay the foundation for his heirs with his life's reputation.

The author has something to say: in history, Qing Wensheng died in the line of duty, and the profession of Dianshi is equivalent to the secretary of the county magistrate, and there is no grade of small handyman, so his letters to Emperor Hongwu probably will not leave Hunan. Buckle down.

At that time, Longyang owed 10 taxes, and the local county magistrate in Longyang did not report it regardless of the people's sentiments. Qing Wensheng watched the people's hardships and ignored them, so he had no choice but to commit suicide in front of the Dengwen Drum. Send it to Emperor Hongwu.

Emperor Hongwu was also very shocked and moved after the incident. He permanently reduced the tax burden of [-] shi in Longyang County.

Qing Wensheng was only 32 years old when he died. The local people were grateful for the dedication of this official. After learning that the official’s family was so poor that he didn’t even have the money to help the official return to his hometown, he had to be buried in Longyang (he was from Chongqing and lived in After it belonged to Sichuan), he set up an ancestral hall for him, and used the public land to support his widow and son. Later, Emperor Wanli added him to the Spring and Autumn Festival. Outside the private house on the left side of the Daxiong Hall of the Zen Temple, local friends can go and see him when they pass by.

When I saw this story, the author was really shocked, so I thought I must write his story.

His behavior is really no less than that of a mantis, and he doesn't need to do it in terms of duty, relationship, or relationship.

It is a mortal who knows what he can't do and doesn't do it.

Knowing what to do but doing it is a hero.