Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

Chapter 321 Party Struggle
Parents have different blood types, and even brothers' blood types are not exactly the same.

This completely overturns the theories of identifying kinship by dropping blood or dropping bones.

Zhu Su's heart couldn't calm down for a long time. It seemed that he really calmed down and read those ancient medical books.

At this time, Wang Buli had already left the crowd, and these veterans began to cut their fingers to verify the situation at the scene.

Li Shanchang stepped out of the crowd and asked, "So the idea of ​​blood supplementation between blood relatives is all fake?"

"Of course, with different blood types, blood transfusions can easily kill people." Wang Buli said carefully:

"Especially when blood is transfused between blood relatives, it is very dangerous."

"Blood transfusion?"

"Yes." Wang Buli didn't mind giving Li Shanchang some scientific knowledge:
"I read in ancient books that there are only a few blood types in the world. For example, if someone loses too much blood on the battlefield, you can give him a blood transfusion from someone with the same blood type, and maybe he can be saved.

But there is no record of how to identify blood types, which makes me very confused. "

"If we transfuse blood of the same blood type, people who lose too much blood will not die?"

"If it's just because of excessive blood loss from the knife wound, then there's a 50% chance of success. It still depends on the subsequent recovery."

"What are the risks to the person giving the blood?"

Wang Buli thought for a moment, gestured with his hand to a cup and said, "This much at once won't have any effect. He will die easily if he takes more than this. Besides, he needs to recuperate well after having his blood drawn. It's best to eat a few good meals."

"Just like the amount of blood a woman has during her menstrual period every month?"

"About the same." Wang Buli thought that he had never measured the girl's bleeding amount, it varies from person to person.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Su's eyes widened. It turned out that there are still many unsolved mysteries in medicine.

Li Shanchang also nodded repeatedly. He did grasp one point, which was that this method should not be used until there was no hope of rescue.

Just gamble on your luck!

If you're lucky, you'll survive.

"Oh, then we are father and son!"

Feng Sheng couldn't help but pat Xu Da on the shoulder and burst into laughter.

Xu Da couldn't help wanting to laugh, but he held it back. After all, it was Old Deng's funeral.

"Be more restrained. Let people know that you are happy that Old Deng is dead."

"I couldn't help myself for a moment."

Feng Sheng was also amazed: "I never thought that medicine would be so easy to detect rumors. It seems that it is not a loss for us to send some money to Langzhong Hospital!"

"Not bad." Xu Da also responded: "Maybe after a short period of time, we can study how to identify blood types."

Therefore, when these military generals and nobles were eating at the banquet hosted by Ninghe King Deng Yu, they all wrapped their fingers.

This group of people insisted on using a dagger to solve a problem that could have been solved with a needle.

Otherwise it would seem that you are petty.

Wang Buli didn't know what to say about this scene.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have time to attend Deng Yu's banquet. He decided to go there again when he was preparing for the burial.

But I heard that Wang Buli told everyone about the blood test to identify relatives.

The blood types of children born from the same mother may not be the same, which made Zhu Yuanzhang feel strange, but he had no way to refute it.

He knew that Wang Buli had a way to identify everyone's blood type, but Wang Buli did not know the magic method and could not create it.

He did learn the technique of turning sand into gold, such as Liuli, but he did not learn the method of identifying whether a son is his biological son.

No need to think, it must be difficult.

To put it simply, Wang Buli had already learned it in the fairyland.

"Dad, doesn't this mean that from now on we can't tell whether the two are biological children? As long as the girl insists, there's no way to recognize her even if she's not my biological child."

Zhu Biao felt that once Wang Buli's words were spread, many sluts would feel free to commit adultery.

Anyway, you can't tell whether it's your blood or not.

Because the clan network is the most basic control system.

Your identity and status are not determined by your country, but by the people you are related to.

Your father is the first significant asset you acquire.

Your food is produced or purchased by him, and the amount of property you inherit depends on his savings or losses.

The patrilineal clan is the group you join through your father, which gives you your surname.

These men and their families share the same ancestors with you, and the ritual recognition that comes with that common ancestry.

In this network, men can seek land and capital in stable days, seek relief and protection in difficult days, and even in the worst of times there are charity tombs and ancestral halls where they can return to their roots.

The aristocratic families of the Tang Dynasty are a thing of the past, and the royal family of the Song Dynasty has also disappeared.

It is almost difficult to find a prominent family in the Ming Dynasty (excluding political and religious factors) that can claim that their ancestors were already famous before the Yuan Dynasty.

Elite families still emerged during the Yuan and Ming dynasties, but they declined much faster than the previous aristocratic families.

Families strengthen themselves by integrating into larger clan networks and sharing more resources.

The most successful clans owned vast tracts of farmland, granaries, charity tombs, ancestral halls, and family businesses.

Some clans also opened clan schools, and quite a few clans even sponsored the brightest boys in the clan to prepare for the imperial examinations.

A branch without offspring can adopt a son from a branch of the same clan, or ask a son-in-law to marry into the family, which is called a marriage by marriage.

In short, it's all about continuing the bloodline.

Now Zhu Yuanzhang brought his clan to an unprecedented height in one fell swoop.

Therefore, when Zhu Biao learned that Wang Buli had overturned the method of blood recognition, the clan's cohesion would be greatly affected.

But there is no effective solution for the time being, especially in large families, where bloodline problems are more likely to occur.

After all, under the system of monogamy and polygamy, there is always a time when one plug cannot serve so many sockets.

"That's what Wang Buli said." Zhu Yuanzhang put the secret letter aside. "But according to my opinion, Wang Buli definitely knows how to distinguish, but he didn't learn that magic technique."

Zhu Biao also agreed with his father's explanation. If Wang Buli really knew how to identify everyone's blood type, he might have shown it off at that time.

The reason why Wang Buli was stumped by Li Shanchang's questions was that he had learned some medical knowledge in the fairyland, but he did not learn it thoroughly.

So he won’t!

"It seems that things like immortal arts really require talent. Even if Wang Buli is smarter, he can't learn most of the knowledge in it."

"of course."

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Wang Buli had said when he explained mathematics that not everyone can learn this subject.

He didn't believe it at the time, and was stumped by the question given by Wang Buli.

For example, if water enters the tomb, it also needs to be drained. If the process is done at the same time, all the water in the tomb can be drained out within a few hours.

With this question, is it possible to really rob a tomb to test something?

Zhu Yuanzhang despised tomb robbing. The head of the Southern Song Emperor Zhao Yun was buried in Nanjing, and later moved to the Yongling Tomb to be buried together with his body.

Yang Lianzhenjia (according to Tibetan legend, there is a stone statue carved in Lingyin Temple) robbed the tomb of Song Lizong. He saw that the head was very big and liked it very much, so he cut it off and made it into an exquisite wine glass.

It was inlaid with gold and gems and had been played with for many years until it was discovered when the Yuan Dynasty treasury was searched in Dadu.

The so-called large glazed eagle by Wang Buli was fabricated to deceive the Mongols, but the wine cup made from the head of a Song Dynasty emperor was actually found in the treasury.

The father and son sighed for a while, but they hoped that Wang Buli could bring many convenient magic methods to the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty might be better off.

"Dad, I actually have a question that I haven't asked yet."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't even raise his head, but carefully looked at the long report submitted by Mu Ying. He would also decide the rewards based on it.

"ask."

Zhu Biao pondered for a while and said, "It is said that immortals do not eat or drink, so they do not need to poop or pee, but the showers and toilets that Wang Buli made before are all for us mortals to use. Do immortals also poop?"

"what?"

This question stumped Zhu Yuanzhang.

Who the hell cares about this kind of thing!
Zhu Yuanzhang had no interest in discussing such matters with his son because he had never encountered any immortals.

Who knows? Zhu Yuanzhang and his son were already used to sitting in front of a huge display screen to watch their descendants.

Previously, we have been focusing on the emperor’s actions, but today we will focus on the actions of his ministers.

The word "party strife" is fully revealed.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was somewhat looking forward to it, to see how intense the party struggles in the Ming Dynasty would be.

The factional struggles in the early Ming Dynasty were entirely orchestrated by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Soon after, factional strife broke out during the Jiajing reign. Fundamentally, it was not due to the strong subjective desires of the ministers, but was the result of Jiajing's ability to control people and his instigation and control.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied when he saw this opening text.

As a result, later generations still knew how to flatter their ancestor, and did not truthfully record the real reasons for the factional struggles between the Zhejiang East and Huaixi groups in history books.

Instead, the beginning of the factional strife was blamed on Jiajing.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought that his descendants would flatter him, but the fact is that the party struggles in the early Ming Dynasty were not that difficult at all.

The Zhejiang East faction was no match for the Huaixi faction. Zhu Yuanzhang wanted the Zhejiang East party to oppose him, but no one was willing to do so.

I have to say that Zhu is still quite bad at controlling party disputes.

Once the gatekeeping consciousness emerged, it evolved into a political model and official routine, and it was easy for people who came after them to follow this line of thinking.

It is both a political management strategy and the key to becoming a high-ranking official.

After the middle of the Wanli period, there were debates on a number of major issues - from the debate on the "foundation of the country" and the dispute over mining taxes, to the "Youweihong Debate (the case of the evil book)", "the follow-up to the Youweihong Debate", "the country of Prince Fu" and the "stick-hitting case".

"Dad, so many things happened during the Wanli period!"

Zhu Biao pointed at the titles, his eyes filled with shock.

Zhu Yuanzhang only understood a little bit of it, but he felt that these things were all political struggles starting from the fight for the foundation of the country.

"Let's watch first."

There were numerous factions among the court officials, and they all took pleasure in attacking each other.

In addition to differences in political views, some human relationships also gradually became involved.

The teachers, clan names, and local factions... eventually formed the four major political forces: the Qi Party, the Chu Party, the Zhejiang Party, and the Donglin Party.

But the "party" at that time had neither organization nor constitution or program.

They themselves may not have the awareness of "becoming comrades".

Rather, in the eyes of outsiders, especially hostile political forces, these people are in cahoots with each other, so they use the word "party", which is obviously a derogatory term, to describe their political opponents.

However, the level of those who formed factions since Jiajing was really too low.

Because of their support for Crown Prince Zhu Changluo, Emperor Wanli was angered and he dismissed many people.

So these people returned to their hometown in Jiangnan to start teaching.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened to these people from the south of the Yangtze River talking about benefiting merchants and the people, reducing taxes, developing water conservancy projects, and strengthening military forces in Liaodong to guard against the Jurchens.

"Hahahaha, this really makes me laugh to death."

Zhu Yuanzhang could not help but point at the giant screen and said, "After so many years, these people are still only able to shout empty slogans and have no real ability to govern the country.

Let them do the things mentioned above. If one out of a hundred of them can accomplish it, I will think that they are not all good-for-nothings. At least there is someone capable.

A bunch of nerds who only know how to read, what the hell do they know about governing a country! "

Zhu Biao certainly understood what his father meant.

What the emperor needs are technical bureaucrats so that he can better govern the country.

For example, there are very few people like Wang Buli who are really capable of doing the work and can do it well.

However, the political achievements of those scholars selected through the imperial examination were not as good as those of a minor clerk in the county government.

To the extent that the imperial examination system in the Ming Dynasty has been suspended, allowing everyone to learn some new skills and emulate the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty, this can be considered a form of progress.

Otherwise, there is only a small amount of content in the Four Books and Five Classics, and it would be very easy to come up with all the questions if you keep testing them over and over again.

The standard form of the eight-legged essay was finalized around the time of the Hongzhi reign.

In particular, Zhu Biao believed that many of the math questions could be asked in a variety of ways, and that the Ming Dynasty laws could be explained in a variety of ways through case analysis and memorization of laws.

"Justice and morality, tut tut tut."

Zhu Yuanzhang could not help but complain: "I really despise justice and morality. Can they be eaten as food or worn as clothes?
The Yuan Tartars will never tell you this, they will kill you with one blow.

It is even more impossible to control the court because of these two things. Biao'er, remember that none of the people in Jiangnan are loyal to our Ming Dynasty. We must collect taxes and exploit them severely!"

Because Zhu found that this group of intellectuals preferred the fantasy of administrative reform.

Yes, it’s just fantasy.

A fantasy worse than his!

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang looked down on these literati from the bottom of his heart, but he had no choice but to hold his nose and drive these high-ranking cattle and horses to govern the many people.

If an official is illiterate, many things cannot be handled.

"Dad, I remember."

In fact, Zhu Biao also discovered from the official documents that his father had been overly harsh on Jiangnan since he came to power.

Of course, what his father said was true. This group of people failed to achieve their goal of controlling the court in the Yuan Dynasty, and they wanted to achieve this goal in the Ming Dynasty. But how could his father allow this to happen?

Both parties were seeking the skin of a tiger, and now Zhu Yuanzhang's fist was just bigger, so they dared not cry out, but they were also accumulating strength in secret.

For example, they used the teacher-student relationship to attract some "talented" students, and took advantage of the imperial examinations. Eighty to ninety percent of the people on the list of successful candidates were from the south.

"Do you really think they are doing this for the court?"

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed disdainfully at the passionate Donglin Party members in the picture:

"Even though they are being suppressed by the emperor and other parties now, as long as they gain power, they will definitely consider the people in Jiangnan. They will definitely find ways to reduce taxes in Jiangnan so that the court can't collect taxes. I know everything."

After all, the operations in the south during the Chongzhen period, such as the tea tax of only six taels a year, really shocked Zhu Yuanzhang.

At this time, the court's control over Jiangnan was already extremely weak, resulting in the court being filled with Jiangnan scholars and unable to collect taxes.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang is currently ruthless in his suppression of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River.

It was only because of Wang Buli's gentle approach that these people voluntarily paid money to buy special government bonds that Zhu Yuanzhang could not find any excuse to deal with them for a while.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the giant screen which said that the Donglin Party had gained power. He saw that their method was to talk about morality, and then he said that you were immoral.

They believed that the interests of the Ming Dynasty would be better served through abstract moral exhortation than by relying on audits at all levels.

These Donglin Party members generally ignore the facts and focus on your moral problems, using this point to attack you.

In particular, Zhang Juzheng's strict performance evaluation system should not be implemented any further.

As long as everyone has high morals, the Ming Dynasty can solve any problem.

The key point is that the Donglin Party members who shouted slogans did not have high morals themselves.

As a result of the Donglin Party's unremitting efforts, many parties such as Qi, Zhejiang, and Chu finally abandoned their previous prejudices and united to fight the Donglin Party to the death.

Because the Donglin Party is so fucking disgusting.

Thanks to their concerted efforts, no major figure associated with the Donglin Academy ever re-entered government until the end of the Wanli reign.

Finally, this party struggle did not stop until the death of Wanli, and continued well.

Instead, it was the Donglin Party that gained the trust of the new emperor through the palace relocation case.

So after the new emperor ascended the throne, they actively cracked down on other parties.

But Wei Zhongxian stood up.

Where is the eunuch party in the world?

They were just a group of attacked ministers, so parties such as Qi, Chu and Zhejiang naturally joined Wei Zhongxian's army to avoid political attacks from the Donglin Party.

"Damn it." Zhu Yuanzhang patted the armrest beside him:

"I forgot whether Jiajing had his own army, but I am sure Wanli did not. How could this be possible?"

Once the emperor does not have his own army, what he says means nothing!
Zhu Yuanzhang finally understood why these civil officials always dared to speak out in the court. It turned out that they were restricting the emperor's power.

"As the Son of Heaven, how can you survive without a trustworthy army?"

(End of this chapter)