The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Chapter 303 Taoism Creates Gods
The process of Han Laoliu's family settling down is omitted, anyway, they are 120% satisfied with the treatment of Zixiao Temple.

When they settled down properly, Chen Jingke called the father and son over and asked carefully about the management of the Yellow River.

Han Xiaogou hasn't been to the Yellow River, so it's hard to say anything. Han Laoliu has been there several times and talked about many real problems.

As for the solution to the problem, he has only two suggestions: plant trees and turf upstream, and build gates downstream to release sand.

In fact, to put it bluntly, there are still five words, to control the Yellow River first to control the sand, which is the only core of the Yellow River governance through the ages.

After learning about their ability to control the river, Chen Jingke explained the methods of controlling the Yellow River that he had seen from later generations, such as beaming water to attack sand.

These truths are actually not complicated. Han Laoliu understood it as soon as he heard it, and he admired Chen Jingke even more.You really are a nobleman, you know everything.

Finally, Chen Jingke told them: "The imperial court is about to re-govern the Yellow River. You write down the river-governing strategy you know, and I will show it to the sage when the time comes."

When Han Laoliu heard that he showed it to the emperor, he trembled with excitement: "Yes, yes, please don't worry, real person, I will definitely write it well."

In the next period of time, Chen Jingke was very happy to see one or two good Gewu articles from time to time.

Most of the writers are mathematics enthusiasts. In ancient times, mathematics was also a very important subject. The Imperial College has a special subject of mathematics, so it is not surprising that there are talents in this field.

There are also chemistry subjects, but most of them are Taoist priests depending on their identities.It's not incomprehensible to think about what Taoist priests have done for alchemy.

His side looks very lively, but in fact, it can only be regarded as an inconspicuous little thing, and no one pays attention to it except Gewu lovers.

The real big news is from Sun Simiao's side.

If you want to talk about the hottest news in the Tang Dynasty in July and August, it is undoubtedly that the living god Sun Simiao found a way to prevent and treat smallpox, and because of this, he was named a medical saint.

The news spread quickly, and the city of Chang'an boiled instantly, and the streets and alleys were all talking about it.

What Sun Immortal is indeed worthy of being Sun Immortal, even smallpox can be cured, what is it if he is not an immortal.

Naturally, some people don't believe it, but when they saw the archway in Zixiao Temple, they couldn't believe it even if they wanted to.

Immediately afterwards, news came out that this method only requires one treatment to immunize against smallpox for life, and the imperial court has ordered that everyone in the world be treated for free.

Now everyone is completely restless.

Originally, they all thought that the treatment of smallpox should be troublesome or something, but it had little to do with them anyway.

Now that I suddenly hear that everyone in the world is being treated for free, it has something to do with them.

After eating melon and eating me, everyone began to panic, and more and more people questioned it.

Is the cure for smallpox real or fake?What does this method look like?Is it dangerous?

Of course, some people also questioned that this news is fake. After all, it is unreliable to treat everyone in the world.

Not to mention anything else, where are there so many medicinal materials?Even if there are so many medicinal materials, how much money does the court have to treat so many people?

Soon this statement gained the upper hand, and the news of universal treatment was false.

However, at this time, a definite news spread from various yamen:
The imperial court decreed that local yamen should complete the population check as soon as possible, and report the number of people truthfully, so that the imperial court could allocate enough smallpox medicine.

If the work of the yamen is not in place and the report is missed, the local people will not be able to receive treatment and smallpox will break out.

Immediately after the release of a new issue of Mochizuki Tan, the first one is "Broken Flowers".

The article did not say what the prescription for smallpox was, not even a single word was mentioned.

It just tells how Sun Simiao took the risk and lived with the smallpox patient himself for five months to study the smallpox virus and find a cure.

And I was the first to experiment with the new method, and then experimented with hundreds of death row prisoners to finally confirm that the method was available.

There are also a few touching stories interspersed during the period, and at the end is the sentence Sun Simiao said to Li Shimin: defeating smallpox in Longshouyuan.

In short, everyone who reads this article will have a thought in their minds: Sun Shenxian is too great.

But everyone has seen another meaning from this article, smallpox has really been conquered.

The spread speed of the Mochizuki talk is far faster than word of mouth, and the authority is also many times higher, and soon most of the country knows about it.

Not only that, Chen Jingke also mobilized the entire Taoist power to publicize this matter. When he wrote to the heads of various factions, he said bluntly:

Daomen needs a god, a living god, a god who can benefit everyone, so as to help Daomen to a higher level.

Of course, we can't let others work for nothing. Chen Jingke promised that all factions can send Taoist priests with medical skills to Beijing to learn treatment methods.

At that time, they can vaccinate believers against smallpox within their sphere of influence.

Faced with this condition, the Taoist factions have no idea of ​​resistance.Everyone knows how important the method of treating smallpox is to preaching and consolidating the sphere of influence.

It can be said that what Zixiao Temple and Sun Simiao want in this wave is fame, while the various factions get real benefits, and the two hit it off.

Therefore, Taoist sects from all over the world made efforts at the same time, spreading the word that "my lord and living god Sun Simiao has found a cure for smallpox".

Unlike before, which only focused on lobbying high-level officials, Taoism after the reform also attaches great importance to the people. In the past two years, a lot of energy has been invested in promoting Taoism among the people.

It is not an exaggeration to say that wherever people gather, there are Taoists.

When the entire Taoism is mobilized to promote one thing, its influence is greater than that of the state machine.

The object of Mochizutan is the group of scholars living in the city, while Taoism is aimed at the people at the grassroots level, and the two sides have formed a perfect cooperation.

Sun Simiao's momentum was the same for a while.

Sun Simiao himself was very helpless about this, and said: "You, you have boasted too much. Besides, you told me about the smallpox vaccine. I just went to verify it. You are the first to do it."

Chen Jingke said with a smile: "I said that others don't believe me, even if they believe it, they may not dare to vaccinate. Only if you are an old man, everyone will believe it and be willing to vaccinate."

"In order to eliminate smallpox and save more lives, you old man should work harder and bear this reputation."

Sun Simiao said: "I'm afraid everyone in the world wants to shoulder this kind of burden."

Then he said: "The new medical skills are all your family's property, but I am here to enjoy the reputation. I am really uneasy."

Chen Jingke comforted: "In this world, there is no one else in my family except me. I can deal with these things as I say."

"And what I told you is just a direction and a framework, and it is you who turned them into medical skills that can cure diseases and save lives, so it is only natural for you to enjoy this honor."

"Besides, how many times have you been entangled in this matter, can't we entangle every time we gain something?"

"It is said that old children and old children, the older you are, the smaller your heart is. You can't be exempt if you are a living god."

Sun Simiao was dumb, shook his head and said, "Okay, I'm being hypocritical again."

Then the two began to discuss how to vaccinate the whole people.

Sun Simiao said: "Cultivating vaccinia is easy, but the difficulty lies in how to vaccinate tens of millions of people. In fact, it is best to directly publish the method and let doctors from all over the country vaccinate themselves."

Chen Jingke shook his head, and said solemnly: "This method must be done by the imperial court, and it must not be done by others, even if it is slower."

Sun Simiao immediately understood what he meant, and his eyelids twitched a few times before he said, "Indeed, smallpox is extremely poisonous, and any problem in any link will lead to serious consequences, and the court must do it in a unified way."

He was a little dissatisfied with Li Shimin's intentional concealment of the truth about the smallpox vaccine and slowed down the vaccination, but now he immediately understood the complexity after being reminded by Chen Jingke.

Quite simply, vaccinia is the smallpox infection of cows. Although the toxicity is less toxic, it is also smallpox.

The most worrying thing is that some people falsify, falsely report the number of vaccinations in order to catch up with the task, or directly maliciously spread the human smallpox virus to cause a pandemic of infectious diseases.

There is a unified shot by the imperial court. Although the vaccination speed is slow, it can guarantee safety.The most important thing about universal vaccination is safety.

However, in fact, Li Shimin never considered the issue of safety at all.It's not that he doesn't care, but that universal vaccination is unprecedented, and it's normal for him not to understand.

There is only one reason why he concealed the vaccine, profit.

If the truth about the vaccine is announced directly, everyone will only be grateful to Sun Simiao, not the imperial court.

If the imperial court uniformly inoculates, this matter will become dominated by the imperial court.The people will read the good of the court, so as to achieve the effect of buying people's hearts.

It is also a powerful deterrent weapon to the outside world, forcing countries to sign an alliance under the city.

For someone like him who has been playing politics all his life, the smallpox vaccine can do too much.

It can only be said that his behavior just ensured the safety of vaccination, and it can be regarded as a wrong attack.

On the other hand, Li Shimin was also very happy looking at the social sentiments collected from various places.

"Look, look, as soon as the smallpox vaccine came out, all kinds of monsters and monsters died down."

Changsun Wuji smiled and said: "It is said that the gentry have begun to retreat in an all-round way, and they no longer run around like before, and the progress of the census work has become smoother."

Tang Jian echoed: "That's true. According to the reports of the inventory teams in various places, it is expected to get the real population data by the end of the year."

"I don't know if I don't investigate. This investigation is really shocking. So far, more than seven million hidden people have been identified, and it is speculated that there are no less than this number who have not yet been identified."

Li Shimin's face suddenly became ugly. These people are tax revenue and soldiers, but they have become the property of the gentry, so he is naturally not happy.

"Very well, my promise will not change. After the census is completed, all officials involved will be granted official titles, and those with official titles will be promoted three levels in a row."

The imperial court mobilized more than 5000 officials in order to check the population. Li Shimin's order is equivalent to directly adding more than [-] officials to Datang.

You must know that the total number of officials in the Tang Dynasty is only [-], which is one-third more than that.

You don't have to worry about redundant officials, and you don't have to worry about officials' salaries.

Not to mention that the number of officials in Datang was seriously insufficient, and an increase of 5000 people would not be able to fill these holes.

It is said that the extra 1000 million people also need officials to manage them. These officials can just come in handy, and there is no need to worry about the phenomenon of military officials like the Song Dynasty.

By the way, the phenomenon of redundant officials in the Song Dynasty was not caused by the imperial examination.

The imperial examination is held once every three years, and 300 people are selected each time.Counting Enke and the like, according to the biennial, the average increase of more than 100 people per year, how can it be redundant?

What really caused the evil results of redundant officials was the grace system. The magistrate of Qipin county could favor three relatives to be officials every year, which was three per year.

It is even more exaggerated for senior officials and prime ministers above the third rank, who can favor ten relatives as officials every year.

Being a county magistrate for ten years can be able to favor thirty relatives, and being a senior official of the third rank or above for ten years is really like a dog ascending to heaven.

Although officials from Enyin's background can only be minor officials and cannot enter the ministry hall, but minor officials are also officials, and they have to eat the imperial salary.

As a result, there have been more officials and fewer posts, and the phenomenon of redundant officials has become serious.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang changed the rules and disqualified the relatives of low-level officials from enyin, and the prime minister can only enyin one person every year.

Therefore, the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty was more rigorous than that of the Song Dynasty, and more scholars were selected, but there was no phenomenon of redundant officials.

Closer to home.

There is another reason why Li Shimin transferred the more than [-] people who participated in the census to official status, and that is that their backgrounds are relatively low.

Basically, they are the children of local wealthy families and poor families, and some are even poor people who can read and write. These people will impact the powerful bureaucratic system of the gentry when they enter the officialdom.

It can be said that Li Shimin has already figured everything out.

Then he asked Kong Yingda again: "Kong Jijiu, how is the academic and political construction going?"

Kong Yingda was obviously very happy, and said with a smile: "The resistance to school construction in various places has been greatly reduced, and many places that have not made progress have finally loosened."

As the son of the country, he is the first person in charge of the academic and political system. It can be said that he has worked hard and he is much older.

But he loves it.

Confucius taught without discrimination. As a descendant of his descendants, he implemented the system of education and government, which is considered to be in line with his ancestors.

Moreover, the textbook used in the Xuezheng system is the Nine Classics published by Hongwenguan, and he is one of the most important editors.

While promoting the academic and political system, it also snatched back the right to interpret the ancestral culture, killing two birds with one stone.

It is no exaggeration to say that he is happy.

Li Shimin nodded and asked, "How is the training, sir? When will school start?"

Kong Yingda said: "About one-third of the states and counties can start school on time in August, and the rest can only wait until early next year."

"It's not all about local officials not cooperating, it's more about the mismanagement of the master. Learning politics is a major national event, and it's better to lack than to overuse."

Li Shimin was very satisfied and said: "Yes, education is related to the rise and fall of a country, and it is better to be slow than urgent."

As he spoke, he asked Ren Feng to fetch two thick stacks of books, pointed to one of them and said, "You can look through these books to see if they can be used as elementary school books."

Kong Yingda took it over and took a look, and immediately knew the source of these books, saying:

"This is the elementary school book used by Zixiao Temple. I have read it and it does have advantages, especially the innovation in mathematics that makes me amazed."

At this point, he changed the subject: "Ran Chen thinks that only arithmetic is worthwhile, and the rest of the books are dispensable. Especially Pinyin, I really don't see much use for it."

　The writing is a bit messy recently. I reorganized the outline yesterday, so I didn't have time to code.

　　This chapter is for yesterday, and there is another chapter for today in the middle of the night, so you can get up early tomorrow to read it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)