I want to be emperor

The death of Guo Quanshu did not have any real impact on the political arena of the Great Chu Empire.

Because Guo Quanshu had already officially begged for bones and retired in the spring of Chengshun 26, the turmoil caused by Guo Quanshu's retirement had already been experienced in the winter and spring of Chengshun 25.

It can be said that the political turmoil caused by Guo Quanshu's serious illness, resignation, and death are all within Luo Zhixue's control.

Minimize the negative impact.

To a certain extent, Guo Quanshu's serious illness and resignation is a good thing for the Great Chu Empire.

Because Guo Quanshu is a typical person of the founding heroes, and he is also the only person among the large number of founding heroes who has been in the top ranks for more than 20 years.

He is the banner of a large number of founding heroes.

And if he does not fall, it means that the political arena of the Great Chu Empire, regardless of whether it is the civil official group or the military general group, is still shrouded in the influence of the founding heroes of the old era.

To put it simply and bluntly, the founding heroes blocked the way for the latecomers.

After all, positions in the top political arena are limited, and there are only nine ministers of affairs. If you don't step down, how can others rise to the top?

Several marshals of the Great Chu Empire and a group of senior generals withdrew from the core of power one after another, and Jin Kui and others replaced them.

In the 24th year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue issued a verbal order to transfer General Huang Jinkui, who was the deputy chief of operations at the time, to the imperial study to assist in important military and political affairs, and this promotion almost clearly indicated that he was about to become the chief of the staff department.

This situation has gradually improved.

At the same time, there are also various extracts, and even some synthetic compounds, such as quinine, and some compounds that seem to have effects but have huge side effects.

So far, every town in the Great Chu Empire has at least one government-run hospital. Although there are large and small scales and strong or weak medical capabilities, the small scale may even have only one doctor attending the consultation.

Although more cutting-edge theoretical research and drug research have been going on, they are only carried out in a few efficient and large hospitals, and the implementation is less and more precise.

The Great Chu Empire has used cinchona trees imported from South America to treat malaria for more than ten years, and many people have tried to understand why cinchona trees can treat malaria and extract the active ingredients.

Not to mention antibiotics, the research on some other chemical drugs is also very difficult. Researchers need to go through years of various experiments to find a certain ingredient that can cure diseases from various compounds, and then the side effects of this ingredient should not be too large .

These newly appointed ministers of counselors and co-organizers want to make achievements, want more power, and gain more trust from Luo Zhixue, in order to gain a better posthumous reputation. Strategic development is very attentive.

All affairs are managed by the Chief of Staff, but because there are so many affairs, and the Chief of Staff is also a member of the Military Affairs Council and Minister of Staff, he often has to participate in the decision-making of the empire's central government, so the Chief of Staff is only responsible for the general direction in time, and is rarely directly responsible Specific affairs.

But it is still not enough for Luo Zhixue... He does not insist that the average life expectancy can reach the standard of over 70 years old that later generations are familiar with, but at least it should reach about 60 years old, right?
After all, officials of the fourth grade and below in the Great Chu Empire, including officials or employees of various education, medical care, and government-run enterprises, will not retire until the age of 60. Among them, the retirement age for heavy physical and dangerous positions is earlier, but Also to be 55 years old.

However, this person is quite capable in amphibious operations and military construction. Today, the large colonies of the Great Chu Empire in the Nanyang region are basically led by him to open up the situation.

So now the treatment of malaria is still only through the cinchona tree, or the quinine extracted from the cinchona tree, but the output of the cinchona tree is also limited, and now the Great Chu Empire is now planting cinchona trees all over the world...

In the case of retirement, the word "retired" will be added to the ranks of other officers except marshal in the official official documents.

That is, 20 years after Chengshun, Luo Zhixue began to let the second and even third generations of civil and military officials launch a final challenge to the first generation of founding heroes.

Of course, the rank of marshal is still maintained, because the rank of marshal in the Great Chu Empire is actually not a level of military rank, but a special honorary title, which is only awarded to senior generals with outstanding military exploits.

In the 22nd year of Chengshun, Jin Kui was transferred back to the capital to serve as the deputy director of operations of the staff department. It is worth noting that this is also the position of an army general, and it is at the same level as the head of the staff department.

This is nonsense.

The General Staff of the Great Chu Empire, as the highest military order organization of the Great Chu Empire Army, is also very large and complex.

For example, they changed their original intentions and began to serve their own private interests wholeheartedly, which led to all kinds of horrific corruption and so on.

Some of the daily affairs of the staff department are under the specific responsibility of several deputy ministers of the staff department.

Based on the research on empirical medicine, many manufacturers in the Great Chu Empire began to produce Chinese patent medicines to treat various diseases.

After all, the level of medical treatment in the Great Chu Empire is still relatively limited these days, and the modern medical theory is not good enough, and there are not many kinds of medicines under the modern medical theory. Most diseases still rely on traditional empirical medicine to treat them. As for surgery Things like that are even worse.

The time when he was promoted to general was Chengshun's 18th year, only nine years ago.

Among them, the executive deputy minister is responsible for some daily administrative affairs within the staff department, and the deputy chief of operations is responsible for combat command affairs, and the two deputy ministers are both at the general level. different affairs.

Generally speaking, at present, the drug research in the Great Chu Empire has achieved more results from empirical medicine. Even if the specific ingredients are not clear, they cannot be artificially synthesized. However, through a large number of experiments, some of them have been found out. An effective plant or mineral is still more acceptable.

The rank of lieutenant general was promoted after the unification war.

The average age is affected by both the level of food and the level of medical care, and these two issues are also the focus of Luo Zhixue's attention in recent years.

For example, if you want to keep power, you will beat and kick the latecomers.

After becoming the Deputy Minister of Operations of the Ministry of Staff, he also opened the way to the top for Jin Kui.

After Huang Jinkui became the chief of the staff, after the minister of affairs, to a certain extent, it announced the beginning of an era.

Luo Zhixue doesn't like this!

Therefore, around the 20th year of Chengshun, that is, more than ten years after the end of the Unification War, when the empire was initially stable at home and abroad, and was rising steadily, Luo Zhixue began to upgrade the officials in the top ranks of the Great Chu Empire...

During the period of the Civil Unification War, that is to say, during the period from the Funiu Mountain cavalry to the demise of the Eastern captivity, Jin Kui only became a major general.

This is very important to the high-level political arena of the Great Chu Empire, and it is also very important to many strategic concepts in Luo Zhixue's mind.

But now, these marshals have all retreated to the second line, did not hold any actual positions, and have withdrawn from active service.

Luo Zhixue knew very well that if the upper echelons of the Great Chu Empire remained unchanged for a long time, and the civil and military officials below lacked channels for advancement, many troubles would arise.

The most important thing is that in the 25th survey and statistical report released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Great Chu Empire, the average life expectancy of the Great Chu Empire is still only 45 years old.

By this time, Jin Kui's political status had actually surpassed the limitations of a military general, and he had begun to fully participate in the highest strategic decision-making of the Great Chu Empire.

Even if he was looking at a rural doctor with only half a bucket of water, what he ate was some plant medicine machines or mineral medicine machines of various empirical medicines.

Sure enough, after a year of transition, Jin Kui was promoted to the head of the staff department, counseling important military and political affairs, and became one of the top nine officials in the Great Chu Empire.

Of course there are effects. Over the past 20 years, the average life expectancy of the people of the Great Chu Empire has increased from about 30 years old to 45 years old. This is already a very good result.

Unlike the founding heroes of the first generation, many people like to talk about their achievements during the unification war at every turn... It gives people a feeling of sleeping on the credit book.

The research has indeed been carried out. The scientists of the Great Chu Empire have extracted the active ingredient quinine, but the subsequent artificial synthesis is very difficult. So far, the scientists of the Great Chu Empire have not been able to Synthesize this thing artificially.

Not to mention aircraft, tanks, aircraft carriers, and electrification that Luo Zhixue has always cared about.

And now, Luo Zhixue feels that such a less and more refined method is not good, at least because of the lack of funds and personnel, many experiments need to be done for a long time, the most important thing is... less is less, but there is no fine... training After more than [-] years of talents in the medical field, there is still no top talent who can carry the medical field forward!

After finishing his tenure in Nanyang, he was transferred back to the empire to serve as the deputy commander of the Second Army. Two years later, he was logically transitioned to be the commander of the Second Army, and at the same time he was promoted to the rank of general of the army.

Because the number of military generals in the imperial study, or in the Senate is limited, there are only three ministers, and the number is basically fixed. They are all the ministers of the General Staff, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs, and the Minister of the Navy. The generals in charge of the position.

In other words, the average age of the Great Chu Empire is not even the retirement age... The actual situation is that even the middle and low-level officials with better living conditions, in fact, quite a few of them will not live to be 60 years old...

Because there are no antibiotics... Whether you will be infected after the operation, and whether you can survive after the infection depends on your life!
Drug research in the Great Chu Empire is very difficult... Even if Luo Zhixue has told the researchers about the limited number of drugs he can remember, they went to search for research, but so far, drug researchers in the Great Chu Empire Still haven't been able to find an effective antibiotic!
You mean penicillin?Luo Zhixue only knew this name, but when he mentioned this name to the researchers, the researchers were stunned. What is your penicillin?
You in future generations are not medical practitioners. If you don’t go to Baidu now, do you know the detailed production steps of penicillin?

A nine-year-old general, in the army of the Great Chu Empire, is definitely a junior.

The military side is marked by Jin Kui’s ascension, while the civilian side is marked by Guo Quanshu’s retirement. In the two years of Chengshun 25 and 26, after the transition was completed, the first generation of the Great Chu Empire was officially announced. The founding heroes completely withdrew from the core of power.

For this reason, many big moves have been launched, such as the domestic large-scale railway plan, large-scale shipping plan, overseas three-step expansion plan, western expedition plan, etc., in fact, they have all been launched in recent years.

The Great Chu Empire has ushered in a new era!

In fact, there are still many people like Guo Quanshu. Even in the few years after Chengshun, among the top officials of the Great Chu Empire, there are still many first-generation founding heroes, and they are in high positions.

If workers in industrial countries are compared with farmers in other countries in the agricultural era at the same time, then it is much better, because the average life expectancy in the agricultural era is only in their thirties... and the income is even more incomparable.

A pool of stagnant water, there will always be many problems.

In fact, they were already in high positions during the Unification War, and they were basically major generals or even lieutenant generals. In the past ten years of foreign wars, they have successively accumulated meritorious service and been promoted to generals, becoming the real power in the military system of the Great Chu Empire. Admiral.

Today, in the 27th year of Chengshun, in the Senate Council, the highest authority of the Great Chu Empire, nine ministers, including three military generals, are all officials of the second or even third generation.

How long has it been since the Great Chu Empire started the industrial revolution? At best, it was only during the first industrial revolution, and even a purely steam-powered ocean-going ship could not be built.

Several core generals in the first generation of military generals, such as Field Marshal Xu Zhixian, Field Marshal Zuo Yingzhe, Field Marshal Huang Dingquan, etc., used to take turns sitting on the throne of Minister of Affairs.

They sort out the medicines of various plants or minerals in empirical medicine, and then conduct experiments one by one to find out the definite curative effect of a certain plant or mineral on a certain disease, and then try to extract it... Unfortunately, the extraction process is also difficult. It is difficult, and it is even more difficult to artificially synthesize and mass-produce after extraction.

To say that he is a second-generation general does not mean that he is young... In fact, he is not young, and he also joined the army during the Unification War. The second-generation refers to his young seniority and short time in the top position.

For example, the current Minister of Staff, member of the Military Affairs Council, Chief of the Army Staff Department, and Army General Jin Kui, he is a typical second-generation general.

The investment of the Great Chu Empire in the medical field in the past 20 years is actually mainly focused on inclusive medical care, how to make more people see a doctor and take medicine.

After all, this is what the nine ministers of the Great Chu Empire do!
Huang Jinkui's success in ascension also means to some extent that the first generation of founding generals in the military system have all withdrawn from the core of power.

Because of the difficulties, many medical personnel of the Great Chu Empire tried to make a breakthrough from empirical medicine.

But at least every town has such a government-run hospital, and the charges are not expensive. Serious illnesses cannot be treated, but ordinary common minor illnesses can still be treated.

It has long started to engage in inclusive medical care, vigorously established medical schools, provided professional training for a large number of existing doctors in the private sector, and established a large number of government-run medical institutions.

If the quality is not enough, then the quantity can only be increased.

The income of an ordinary worker in the Great Chu Empire is more than the income of small and medium landlords in other agricultural countries!
If he is a skilled worker, he will be a rich man if he goes to Fusang or Nanyang with his income...

In response to this situation, Luo Zhixue feels that it is necessary to increase investment in the medical field, especially medical theory research and drug research.

During this period of time, I don't know how many people have opinions on this.

And the average life expectancy of a large number of workers is even shorter, only about 40 years old...well, they don’t live as long as farmers. This is a major feature of the early industrial revolution, that is, because of the harsh working environment, the average life expectancy of workers The life expectancy is not as good as that of the peasants of the era...Of course, this peasant also specifically refers to the peasants in the industrial country.

At the same time, when the top civil and military officials hold on to power for a long time, and at the same time there is no room for promotion, even when they are full of various honors, it is easy to have many messy problems.

But even so, in fact, many people are unwilling to go to the doctor... When they are sick, they carry it hard.

The average life expectancy can best reflect the people's livelihood in a region, and Luo Zhixue has always been committed to improving the average life expectancy of the people of the Great Chu Empire.

The staff of the co-organizers is actually semi-fixed. The head of the highest military order of the Guards is usually the Chief of Staff of the Guards, the Minister of Army Logistics, the Minister of Ordnance, and the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Navy.

On the whole, it is still in a very backward state, but there is no way to do it. The development of modern medicine in the Great Chu Empire has only been in development for more than [-] years, and the front is mainly concentrated on various theoretical researches. How to treat various diseases? The process of identifying a disease and finding a targeted drug will actually take about ten years.

Take Guo Quanshu himself as an example. He has always been the minister in charge of the administration of officials, and concurrently served as the Minister of the Ministry of Official Affairs for more than 20 years... If you count the period before the establishment of the empire, Guo Quanshu served as the chief of the official affairs department. , Then Guo Quanshu has controlled the administration of the Great Chu Empire for more than [-] years.

Occasionally, other generals will serve as co-organizing ministers, and this phenomenon is basically paving the way... It won't take long for this person to basically become one of the military's ministers of affairs.

I'm afraid many people don't know that this thing is an organic compound.

However, even after ordinary generals retire, their general ranks will not be withdrawn, because the ranks of officers in the Great Chu Empire are lifelong, unless they are deprived of violations through formal procedures, otherwise, once the ranks of officers are awarded, they will be retained for life.

After several years of continuous replacement, a comprehensive upgrade was finally completed in the 26th year of Chengshun, and the central officials of the Great Chu Empire who had completed the upgrade began to fight for honor and power.

For scientific research, it takes 1 times as long to do 1 experiments by one person, but if you get [-] people to do it at the same time, the time required will be shorter.

To put it bluntly, it means throwing money if you don't have enough brains!
After having this idea, Luo Zhixue quickly summoned relevant officials from the medical system and education system, and planned to increase the training of medical talents and increase investment in medical research.

Strive to make small achievements in talent training within five years, and make great achievements within ten years.

Strive to achieve several breakthroughs in drug research within five years, and major breakthroughs within ten years.

For drug breakthroughs, Luo Zhixue clearly requested to intensify the research on therapeutic drugs for various types of bacteria, isn't it just to test the inhibitory and killing effects of various compounds on the bacteria one by one, and then find out the reliable compounds!
All kinds of chemical compounds have been tested by me... 100 kinds are not enough, so there are [-] kinds, [-] million kinds, I still don't believe that I can't find them!