My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 796: Autumn High Mountain View

After a series of hard fundraising in the past, the Qin Empire was finally able to take practical actions and adopt practical means to popularize knowledge and benefit the people's livelihood.

This is very important to popularize knowledge and enlighten the people, and of course it is divided into several major modules.

The first is medicine, the second is science and technology industry, and the third is culture and ideology.

Some people may think that Chinese medicine was already widely used in the Qin Dynasty. Was it necessary for Qin II to mobilize the power of the country to develop Chinese medicine?

I'm afraid you're wrong.

First, the four major events in life: birth, aging, sickness and death.

Doctors are in charge of or influence two major matters: life and illness.

This person should make four friends in his life, one is an expert in Yijing and the other is a doctor.

This shows how important doctors are to individuals.

Furthermore, this medical level has a great impact on the health level of the entire country.

Doctors are very important both to individuals and to the country.

However, Fusu wanted to rectify the medical profession not only because the medical profession had a great influence.

This is the second reason, which is related to the Yixue mentioned above.

Yixue and Chinese medicine developed almost from the same mother, but in different directions.

Those who are good at Yi are also good at medicine, and similarly, those who are good at medicine are also good at Yi.

The pity is that any science has almost the same problem - they are all operated by humans.

This is true for Yijing and also for medicine.

Originally there was no problem between Yixue and medicine, but once it touched human hands, it became different.

Just like the Yijing that has proposed a solution and started to deal with it, although "Yijing is for gentlemen", there are still many scammers who come out to play tricks. One percent are elites, and ninety percent are just filling in the numbers.

Once the Yijing fell into the hands of humans and evolved into a tool for ordinary people to make a living, it was no longer a simple academic subject.

By the same token, medicine is not much better.

The decline of traditional Chinese medicine, or the fact that traditional Chinese medicine is criticized in some aspects, is also due to this reason.

This is what real science is. After repeated research, we find that the problem lies with humans.

Therefore, on the one hand, medicine has a vital impact on people's livelihood all over the world, and on the other hand, there are too many different schools of thought within the medical field. Even if it is not promoted or simply not dealt with, big problems will arise.

This issue is more complicated than people imagine.

In other words, if the bad trend is not curbed, those who are not proficient in Chinese medicine will often get away with it until the truth is revealed and someone is killed. Before being punished or exposed, they will train more disciples and continue to cause harm, and so on.

A quack doctor emerges in a county town. When he can't make money, he does illegal things, frames good doctors, and attacks good doctors.

This kind of thing has been happening since ancient times.

Bad money drives out good money, and the same is true among Yi scholars.

If a good Yi scholar influences some people to make money, then he will be discredited; similarly, if a truly good Chinese medicine practitioner influences some people to make money, then those jealous people will turn around and discredit the good doctor.

Discrediting good doctors is only the first step, and the rest will only be left with those who are just filling in the gaps.

Until the person dies, the disease cannot be cured, or the Yi scholars simply did not make the divination accurately.

Then the entire industry will be harmed and its reputation will be ruined.

As the saying goes, learning from history is a mirror, Fusu must have started to address the problems of these people from the source of history, the Qin Dynasty.

Therefore, since Fusu took power, he appeared to be indifferent, but in fact he was even more strict than when Qin Shihuang ruled the country.

These strictly managed areas are mainly concentrated in traditional cultural fields such as Yi studies, medicine, and classics.

Therefore, Qin II quickly ordered the doctors of the Imperial Academy to study the knowledge of the ancient Emperor's Internal Classic and the Emperor's External Classic, and based on the classics themselves, subdivided traditional Chinese medicine into internal medicine and external medicine.

The reason for the subdivision is to establish a set of ironclad standards that cannot be modified by individuals.

People have so many things. If people do well, they can be like Siddhartha Gautama, or like Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, who saves all sentient beings with kindness.

But once this person has a bad thought, he will become like a poisonous snake that will bite anyone and end up hurting others and himself.

As an emperor, he possessed supreme power. Not only did he give traditional Chinese medicine a broad voice, but he also blocked the source of the disaster and cleared out the bad seeds that did not respect human life. Once the water in the pool was clear, the entire industry environment would improve, and naturally everything would be fine, without the need for the state to step in to guide and regulate.

Of course, according to the core spirit of TCM, TCM treatment mainly involves expelling toxins and completely cleaning them out or taking medicines to neutralize and eliminate the effects in the body, rather than taking medicines to eliminate viruses in the body, or removing an organ to prevent the diseased part from spreading.

Traditional Chinese medicine still adheres to the logical spirit of the ancient Chinese. Everything must come from oneself.

Therefore, treatment of diseases always starts from the inside, which is why China has a well-developed method of introspection and has conducted very in-depth research on the human body's meridians, acupoints, and qi channels that cannot be captured by X-rays.

In surgery, Chinese medicine has advanced acupuncture techniques.

Therefore, Qin II would not blindly develop Western medicine, but he would not interfere with the development of traditional Chinese medicine either.

Every profession has its own specialization. Traditional Chinese medicine has its own core. Traditional Chinese medicine cannot be quantified and studied, which means that the state's control will be restrictive to the development of traditional Chinese medicine.

How can a discipline that requires doctors to use introspection to treat diseases be forced to develop by external forces?

So what Fusu needs to do is to keep a close eye on the construction of the traditional Chinese medicine team.

As an emperor, Fusu governed the country by governing the people.

If the bad guys in every industry are caught and severely punished, the industry will naturally be clear-headed.

The experience Fusu learned from Qin Shihuang was that one should never rely on external things and think that one can restrain people by establishing a certain law or system.

That is impossible. Look within, never look outside.

Anyone who develops a sense of dependence on something outside of himself will be ruined when that sense of dependence disappears.

Therefore, in order to popularize traditional Chinese medicine, the country wants to popularize knowledge to the public by having the simplest medicinal properties and medical reasons personally examined and compiled into books by people designated by the state.

Of course, the most important thing is to guide from the source, so we need the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic and the Emperor's External Classic, and compile the properties of hundreds of herbs into paper books and distribute them to the people, completely breaking the aristocracy's monopoly on these classics and knowledge.

Then, traditional Chinese medicine will be monopolized by the state, supervised by the state, and controlled by local governments. Medicine will no longer be allowed to develop freely and survive on its own.

Managing people is the most important thing. Only by cultivating doctors with more sophisticated medical skills can we really make medicine accessible to the general public. This requires great efforts.

It is conceivable that the Imperial College would have to be expanded in the future, because Qin II saw through the essence of the word "freedom". Losing the freedom of self-discipline and even external discipline would be irresponsible.

This major medical event shocked the entire medical community.

When the common people were awakened and encouraged, the doctors began to get worried.

Their original intention was just to make a living, and they didn't have such a noble sentiment to save the dying and heal the wounded. Or maybe they just liked the noble name, and they had a sense of rejection towards the act of saving the dying and heal the wounded itself.

So a big storm soon swept through the medical community, and many people began to curse Qin II.

Humph—this was also what Fusu had expected.

This shows that the move I made was correct. I hit the snake at its most vulnerable part. If I hadn't hit the right spot, the other party wouldn't have reacted so violently.

The young emperor's approach to reform was different from what his ministers thought.

Everyone thought that Fusu would crack down on the nobles when he came to power, but he didn't. Fusu chose to start with the industry instead of the class.

Of course, in a sense, by serving the broad masses of the people and with the broad masses of the common people standing behind Fusu, Fusu had already completely defeated the corrupt powerful class.

The medical reforms are actually consistent with Fusu's recent order for the craftsmen, doctors, and alchemists of the Qin Empire to conduct microscopic research. In essence, it is to unearth the wisdom of the past that could not be applied by the people in real life.

In the past, knowledge was monopolized by the aristocracy, served the aristocracy’s life, and satisfied the interests of the country’s rulers.

In fact, knowledge has begun to change throughout the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

I have discussed this knowledge problem before, and it was a long discussion at that time, so I will not elaborate on it here.

Since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, people have been learning knowledge, not wisdom.

This meant that when Fusu worked on culture and education, he had to make changes in the content.

Medicine and science and technology industries have already begun to deal with two of the issues, and the third is this major cultural and educational issue.

The biggest problem of human beings is that they have consciousness but do not understand real knowledge.

He recited the "Tao Te Ching" which had thousands of words changed by others, and then he fell into one pit after another and finally got himself into a desperate situation.

When one understands the real knowledge, the so-called science, one will then discover that being upright, having a firm heart, and doing good are the true principles.

This is exactly where the contradiction lies between Confucian ritual culture and the current Qin Empire.

Because popularizing the complicated ritual culture of Confucianism to the common people is fundamentally inconsistent with the social reality that the social classes have evolved into aristocrats and common people over a long period of time.

The living conditions of the common people are becoming worse and worse. They can barely make ends meet and have too much housework to do. Who would care about being polite or doing good deeds?

Therefore, from the very beginning, Confucian classics were destined not to become textbooks written and distributed to the people for wide circulation, nor should they become a tool for educating the people.

Because the purpose of this school of thought's existence in the world is to lead people to a higher level, this causes Confucianism to always appear somewhat empty.

Confucianism can be listed as one of the three major schools along with Taoism and Buddhism. Ultimately, they are all pursuing a higher-dimensional world. To be honest, the vast majority of people at the bottom of society find it difficult to survive in their own dimensional world, so how could they possibly pay attention to these things?

Of course, there are also reasons related to one’s own karma.

We mentioned the medical field before, and Xiangli Che is already taking care of the science and technology industry. The next highlight is the third one.

The second emperor ascended the throne and finally took control of paper manufacturing and printing. The first thing he did was to distribute the screened content to the people in the name of the imperial government.

It can be imagined that the books that people lack the most, or the most practical tools for people, are reference books.

But in the past, reading was the business of the nobility. The nobility lived a life of luxury, and books changed from recording sacrifices and wars to being a vehicle for the study and expression of ideas of various schools of thought during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

During this process, only the books written by Mohists were the closest to people's lives, while other books were not very practical, especially Confucian books.

Confucian books, after all, are biased towards the aristocratic class.

History has once again proved this point over the past thousands of years. His fans have always been a small group of people in society, either material aristocrats or spiritual aristocrats.

About ten years ago, it was considered a good thing for a Qin family to have a set of bamboo slips, and the books were basically mainly dictionaries and the Book of Songs.

The so-called word book is a dictionary. What is the purpose of having such books? It is to help children give names.

However, with such scarce tools to record these things, the common people were often unable to use these lofty ideas such as the art of war, diplomacy, poetry, books, rituals, music, archery and charioteering.

The popularization of reference books became inevitable after the opening of the industrial age of the Qin Empire.

But what Fusu wanted to do in culture and education was not as simple as popularizing tools.

Fusu wanted to attack or even eliminate one thing - morality.

It may sound strange at first. Why attack morality?

This morality is not that morality. The morality here is the morality that has harmed good people for thousands of years and allowed bad people to run rampant.

It is actually quite difficult for people to be deceived by others, but it is very easy to deceive themselves.

In addition to medicine and industrial physics sciences, the cultural propaganda that Daqin wanted to carry out was actually about the natural sciences and cosmic knowledge summarized by ancient sages.

Fusu was no longer willing to deal with morality or to deceive the people.

The so-called natural science and cosmic knowledge are actually complementary to the previous Yi studies and medicine.

For example, studying and explaining the festivals and informing the public can make it a utilitarian science and allow this knowledge to truly benefit the people.

For example, the day before the beginning of spring, summer, autumn and winter every year is called the Four Absolute Days.

During the four bad days, people's energy is very weak and they are very prone to getting sick and catching colds; business will always fail because on this day, the seasons change and the air changes, and people's bodies become very fragile.

Therefore, we should follow the teachings of the ancients and rest on the four days of rest.

This will reduce the occurrence of disasters.

Therefore, Fusu intended to promote these good things that actually benefited the people and turn them into beneficial science.

This means that learning this course can bring benefits to your family.

The reason for doing this is also to restore the customs of the people to the simple state of ancient times.

To do this, the process is actually the opposite of what everyone thinks.

(End of this chapter)