Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 141 Major decisions that determine the direction of Chinese history

The eighth day of September.

Afterwards.

Wenhua Hall.

"Fifth brother is so anxious to see me, what is the important matter?"

After Zhu Di helped Zhou Wang Zhu Ju sit down, he sat next to Zhu Ju and asked with concern.

Zhu Tong said respectfully: "Fourth brother, I dare not go against Emperor Taizu's will, and it's not that I don't want to go overseas to found a country. I beg Fourth Brother, please give me a few more years of grace, and let me compile "Herbal for Relief of Famines" Finish."

"The General Affairs Department has published and distributed nearly a million copies of the book "Puji Fang" that you led the editors to compile last year. It has been highly praised by the common people and doctors, and there are countless people alive!"

Zhu Di couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this.

In his youth, Zhu Rui developed a great interest in medicine, believing that medicine could save lives and prolong life.

Not long after the Kaifeng feudal dynasty, Zhu Ji organized scholars to compile two volumes of the prescription book "Baosheng Yulu", and then began to organize people to compile the masterpiece of prescription science "Puji Fang".

In the 23rd year of Hongwu, when Zhu Ju was exiled to Yunnan, his understanding of the sufferings of the people increased.

He saw that the living environment of the local people was poor, there were many sick people, and the lack of medical treatment was very serious, so he organized local good doctors Li Bai and others to write a "Pocket Prescription" that was convenient, practical, and had family heirloom effects. Book.

Zhu Ju was well aware of the importance and urgency of compiling prescription books and famine relief works for the people. Soon after returning to Kaifeng at the end of the next year, he organized a group of scholars with expertise, such as Liu Chun, Teng Shuo, Li Heng, and Qu You. As the backbone of book compilation, etc., we also gathered some skilled painters and other auxiliary personnel to form a book compilation group.

These people collected a large number of various books and materials and laid a solid foundation for the "Kaifeng Zhoudi Book Jita Fan".

Zhu Ju also established a special botanical garden to plant various wild edible plants learned from folk surveys and conduct observation experiments.

Although he has been living in the capital after Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, he never stopped his research work on prescriptions and famine-relieving plants.

Last year, the "Puji Prescription" was compiled by Zhu Xi himself and assisted by Teng Shuo and Liu Chun.

"Puji Prescriptions" is a masterpiece that is considered to be "a collection of numerous and detailed prescriptions, compiled and analyzed in detail. Since ancient times, there has been no comprehensive preparation of prescriptions".

The book has a total of 160 volumes, including a general introduction to Fangmai, luck, internal organs, body shape, various diseases, women's diseases, infants, acupuncture, and materia medica, a total of more than 170 subjects, totaling 700 treatises and 230 five categories. There are more than [-] prescriptions and [-] nine pictures.

There are well-written theories and prescriptions for the above-mentioned diseases, and a large number of documents that were lost before the Ming Dynasty have been preserved, providing abundant research materials for future generations of scholars.

Historically, Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" cited many of its prescriptions.

Of course, the book also contains many repeated contradictions.

"And the year before last, the Prince asked me to publish the "Pocket Prescription", which was also written by you. Even Dai Sigong, the envoy of the Taiyuan Hospital, said that this book is a treasure book for saving lives and healing the wounded."

Zhu Di paused and then sighed.

"Pocket Prescriptions" is a four-volume book with more than 3000 recipes, some of which are homemade by the Zhou government.

This work is rigorously compiled. Prescriptions are given according to the disease, and the medicine is given to the patient. It also summarizes the experience of doctors in the past dynasties in using prescriptions. The categories of prescriptions are detailed and clear for easy application.

Historically, "Pocket Prescriptions" was reprinted more than ten times in the Ming Dynasty alone, which shows how much it was valued by doctors.

Its issuance made a huge contribution to the development of medicine in the southwestern frontier of China.

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di certainly attached great importance to improving the overall medical level of the Ming Dynasty. Various medical works compiled by Zhou Wang Zhu Ji played a huge role in the development of the Ming Dynasty's medical industry.

"Fifth brother, you have already compiled many medical books, why are you still obsessed with writing "Herbal for Relief of Famines"?"

Zhu Di suddenly asked.

"Fourth Brother knows that since ancient times, in all dynasties and dynasties, taxes have been heavy, disasters have been frequent, and people have suffered a lot, so they often use grass roots and bark to feed themselves."

Zhu Rui said with a look of pain on his face: "The oppression of our Han people in the Yuan Dynasty was extremely serious. By the early years of this dynasty, when the war had just stopped, the people had not yet been able to recuperate, and life was even more miserable. Eating bran-thick vegetables became a common thing."

"The common people have accumulated a lot of experience in the process of eating wild plants for a long time. Therefore, I want to compile "Herbal for Famine Relief" to identify, classify and summarize these wild plants, so that they can be used by the common people to save famines under the Ming Dynasty."

The words "plant" and "animal" have existed since ancient times.

"Zhou Li·Di Guan·Da Situ" says: "In a mountain forest, its animals are suitable for hairy things, its plants are suitable for things, and its people are suitable for hairy things."

Zhang Heng's "Ode to Xijing" of the Han Dynasty: "Plants are here to grow, and animals are here to stop."

Therefore, Zhu Di certainly understood what Zhu Xi was talking about.

Medicine and food in China have the same origin since ancient times. The development of herbal medicine in the past dynasties has provided many useful materials and methods for the understanding and utilization of wild plants.

It was on the basis of this knowledge that Zhu Ju and the medical scholars he convened began to compile "Materia Medica for Famine Relief".

However, Materia Medica for Famine Rescue is in the nature of resource investigation, and its compiled content is limited to edible plants, which is different from traditional Materia Medica.

It can be said that "Compendium of Materia Medica", as a special book recording edible wild plants, is a product of differentiation from traditional materia medica. It is also a symbol of the development of materia medica from pharmacology to applied botany in Chinese history.

"Fourth brother, in order to compile "Herbal Medicine for Famine Relief", I am willing to give up the title of king and only keep the Tianhuang Jade Certificate, a descendant of the royal family, and become an ordinary low-ranking clan."

Seeing that Zhu Di was silent, Zhou Wang Zhu Ju suddenly showed a look of determination on his face after a slight hesitation, then stood up, knelt down and said respectfully.

"Get up."

Zhu Di quickly leaned over to help Zhu Zhu up, with a troubled expression on his face, and said: "Fifth brother, it's not that I'm cruel, but it's because it's hard to disobey my father's orders, and I have no choice but to do so!"

"Fourth brother, my brother is willing to go to sea and build a country."

Zhu Ting said resolutely: "Please give me a grace period of two years, my fourth brother. In two years, my whole family will go overseas!"

Zhu Di said: "I can't agree to you immediately now."

"Fourth brother!" Zhu Rui said with red eyes: "Does fourth brother want to force my younger brother to die?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Zhu Di quickly explained: "I am hesitant because if I agree to your promise for two years, after the sixth brother, seventeenth brother and others know about it, they will find a reason to ask me to agree to them for two or three years. How should I make a decision then?" ?”

"If I agree, and three years later, they find a new reason, then three years and three years later, do we still have to obey my father's order?"

Zhu Xi said helplessly: "Fourth brother, I didn't deliberately find a reason to stay."

"Of course I know." Zhu Di continued: "But others will think that we are from the same mother and deliberately favor you."

"My dear brother, I can't help my fourth brother." Zhu Ru blamed himself: "I made it difficult for my fourth brother."

Zhu Di sighed and said: "I will think about it again and give you an answer later."

"My dear brother, take your leave." Zhu Xi bowed and bowed knowingly.

After watching King Zhou leave, Zhu Di called Li Xing and ordered: "Go to the side room of Wuying Palace, pick a single-cylinder portable telescope from among the many telescopes given to me by the prince, put it in a brocade box, and bring it over .”

Not long after, Li Xing came to the Wenhua Hall to resume his life, holding a red brocade box about two feet long.

Zhu Di opened the brocade box, took out the telescope, looked at it carefully, and then put it back.

"I'm going to visit the Prince's Young Master at Tianjie Temple."

After half an hour.

Temple of Heaven.

Under a pavilion on the back mountainside.

Zhu Di stood with his hands behind his hands, looking at the dense forest in the distance.

Yao Guangxiao stood nearby, holding a retractable telescope in his hand, and was looking at things dozens of miles away through the telescope.

"Gao Xu said that this object is made of a concave mirror and a convex mirror, which are superimposed. If you look close, it will rotate closer, and if you look far, it will pull farther."

Zhu Di's eyes fell on the telescope in Yao Guangxiao's hand, and he said, "Master, have you seen it?"

"I saw it. Even the birds on the trees could be seen clearly, as if they were right in front of me."

Yao Guangxiao held up the long telescope and said with emotion: "With this thing given by your majesty, wouldn't it mean that I have become the legendary clairvoyant?"

As a tool for searching and identifying long-distance targets, this telescope has the ability to focus beyond 30 meters and has clear images. It is a Yongle [-]-year-old military telescope.

"Hahahahaha!"

Zhu Di was amused by Yao Guangxiao's joke and said with a smile: "This thing is called a telescope, but it means clairvoyance!"

Yao Guangxiao put away his long telescope and said with deep eyes: "If you are marching and fighting, standing on the mountain and looking out at the enemy's formation, you will have a panoramic view of thousands of troops and horses. What a good thing!"

"Not bad!" Zhu Di nodded first, and then asked with a hint of curiosity: "How do you think those students who study object optics came up with this thing?"

Yao Guangxiao held the telescope in his right hand and stroked his beard with his left hand and said: "The affairs of the world are passed down from generation to generation, and the things they think about are connected with each other for thousands of generations. It can be said that one wave is higher than the other."

Having said this, he took out a three-inch diameter glass crystal ball pocket watch from his pocket with his left hand, held the pocket watch in his hand, and showed it to Zhu Di.

"Your Majesty, just imagine, how much effort have people put in from looking at the time immediately to looking at pocket watches and listening to clocks now? In another 500 years, people at that time will still not know how to live their lives!" Yao Guangxiao said with emotion.

Zhu Di smiled and said: "No matter how you live, you have to live on the ground. You won't fly in the sky and float in the river, right?"

"Haha, that's not necessarily the case."

Yao Guangxiao put away his pocket watch, looked at the jungle in front of his field of vision with eyes that seemed to see through everything, and said: "In the world, the word "future" is the most difficult thing to think about. No, it's not difficult to think about it, I just don't dare to think about it."

He withdrew his gaze, looked at the telescope in his hand, and said: "Once a person is bound by the things in front of him, his heart will be small and his vision will be short-sighted. Thinking that the future things have nothing to do with you is called short-sightedness."

"The so-called 'ordinary people have their own common sense'." Zhu Di continued.

"Your Majesty's words seem to be correct."

Yao Guangxiao said: "But your Majesty, just think about it, if someone can't even care about the meal in front of him, how can he think about the long-term things?"

"Master, what you said is right, it hit me right on the waist!" Zhu Di couldn't help but said solemnly.

"I talk too much." Yao Guangxiao bowed.

Zhu Di waved his hand and said: "It's not much at all. If someone doesn't even have enough to eat, how can he think about looking far ahead? It can be seen that sometimes you can only choose one or the other between long-term worries and short-term worries."

At this point, he suddenly frowned and said: "In order to show his benevolence and righteousness, Emperor Xiaowu of the former Han Dynasty resettled the Huns who surrendered to the Han Dynasty, but this laid the foundation for the Yongjia Rebellion in later generations."

"During the Great Split of China in the late Tang Dynasty, Shi Jingtang ceded the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures. From then on, the northern part of the Central Plains lost its defense line, so that the north of the river fell into the hands of the grassland people for hundreds of years."

"In the Song Dynasty, the Chanyuan Alliance eliminated national wars for the Song Dynasty and brought peace for a hundred years, but once the idea of ​​ceding territory and paying compensation was formed, it did not change until the end of the Song Dynasty."

"Master, tell me, what kind of profound impact will this change of vassals and the establishment of a country overseas have on future generations?"

Zhu Di finally couldn't help but expressed the worries buried deep in his heart.

"This is the order of Emperor Taizu. No matter what impact it has on the future of the Ming Dynasty, your Majesty is just following orders."

Yao Guangxiao stroked his beard and said.

The implication of the old monk is that if it has a good influence, it is because Emperor Taizu was wise. If it causes trouble, then even if future generations want to complain, they cannot blame you, Zhu Di.

Of course, Zhu Di understood the implication of Yao Guangxiao's words, but half an hour ago, Zhou Wang Zhu Xi's request made him waver a little bit about the change of feudal vassals into feudal states.

Let’s not talk about the distance, let’s just talk about the two or three generations.

At present, all those who have been transferred overseas are his brothers Zhu Di. In a few years, will he also send Han King Zhu Gaochi and Zhao King Zhu Gaosui overseas?

After all, he had promised Zhu Gaojiu that he would seal Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui overseas in the future!
Although Zhu Yuanzhang did not stipulate that all subsequent kings must change their feudal status to establish their country overseas, and even if Zhu Di broke his promise and did not enfeoff Zhu Gaosui overseas, he would still enfeoff his brothers overseas.

Based on Zhu Di's understanding of Zhu Gaojiu, there is a [-]% chance that when Zhu Gaojiu succeeds to the throne in the future, he will follow his example and transfer Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui to overseas.

It's a good thing that all the overseas vassals and the imperial court are in peace.

But the explosive packs and other firearms used to attack cities and territories produced by Mo Qiaosi are becoming more and more powerful and there are more and more varieties.

With the promotion and popularization of firearms in the military, if each vassal state wants to gain a foothold overseas and expand its territory in the future, it will be inseparable from the various supports provided by the imperial court, and among these supports there will inevitably be powerful firearms.

Zhu Di believed that within ten or twenty years, overseas vassal states would not be able to imitate new firearms.

But what about 50 or [-] years from now?
What about a hundred years from now?
By that time, among the first batch of Ming vassal states established overseas, there will inevitably be some powerful ones.

If the leader of his country has a different intention and attacks cities and territories everywhere, it will definitely trigger a war between many countries and cause the death of countless people.

And this terrible multinational war originated from today's changes in the title of kings!
In fact, a normal person would hesitate to make such a major decision that determines the future direction of China's history, even the famous Yongle Emperor in history.

"That's all, that's all! Even if I become a sinner for all eternity in future generations, I still have to obey Taizu's orders and carry out the change of title to the end!"

After Zhu Di hesitated for a long time, he made up his mind and said: "What happens in 500 years is too far away for me to see. But I believe that with Gao Xu here, a hundred years from now, the Ming Dynasty will become the most powerful central dynasty in history!"

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