Stir-fried Datang: The Strongest Daughter

Chapter 358 New Era
In the 12th year of Zhenguan, a pattering spring rain wantonly irrigated the farmland.

The joyful spring rain made people forget the farewell of the founder of the Tang Dynasty.

The dead are dead, and the living continue to live.

Furthermore, after the people cried once, they didn't feel that this matter had much to do with them.

Compared with their stomachs, it seems that the life and death of the emperor has become an insignificant matter.

In the vast and barren Jiangnan, pieces of wasteland have been reclaimed.

In the Tang Dynasty, the economic and political centers of the country were all in the north.At this time, there were only a few places in the south of the Yangtze River that were considered prosperous, and most of them were still barren land.Looking down on the map, in the area around Guangzhou in later generations, it was so desolate that there were not many ghosts there. The Lingnan area has been a place of exile since ancient times.

The life of the Cui and Zheng families who were exiled here was very difficult.Fortunately, the family has a big business. Although the family property was confiscated, some treasures were still entrained, and it was still useful for Li Shimin to keep them, and he didn't kill them all.Even sent some farm tools and seeds over.

Obviously, he wants this group of pampered family members to have a taste of what it's like to be a farmer. Why did they always annex the farmer's land in the past?

Mrs. Cui put the fry into the rice field, got up and beat her waist, and wiped the sweat from her brow. Qiongzhou (Hainan) is a hellish place with fire all year round. The hot weather makes people very uncomfortable.

But people have to bow their heads in front of survival. If they don't work hard, they will starve to death.

Along with the agricultural tools, various books on farming and breeding, as well as some rice, grain, money and silk were rewarded.It's a pity that there is basically no place to spend money in this place. The so-called county wall is not as good as the previous wall at home, and it is so dilapidated that it is beyond people's imagination.

but……

Thinking of what His Majesty rewarded, the Cui and Zheng families felt hopeful again.

Maybe if you manage this place well and make up for your mistakes, His Majesty can still let them go back?
With such expectations, they worked hard.

I humbly ask local old farmers for advice, and even study all kinds of knowledge in agricultural books.

This book seems to be specially written for them, and it even mentions how to catch sea fish and how to farm them in the sea.

The Cui family didn't understand the emperor's intentions, but Yang Xiaoran, who wrote this booklet, knew that Li Shimin had set his sights on Australia after sweeping away Xue Yantuo.The manufacture of large ships has gradually begun to take shape, and if you want to expand overseas trade, you must build good coastal ports as supplementary bases.

Therefore, in Mingzhou (Ningbo) in the south of the Yangtze River, Guangzhou in the south of the Lingnan, and Hainan Island, people are needed to build it so that the Tang army can go to sea in the future.

The development of Jiangnan and Lingnan is also imminent.

Due to the gradual popularization of high-yield and improved seeds, advanced farming techniques and farm tools, and increased productivity, people who are full of food have begun to have time to do other things, such as having children.

Because the government has encouraged everyone to have children in the past two years, and issued many related preferential policies, several years of recuperation has led to a blowout growth in the population.

From the population of more than 1000 million in the second year of Zhenguan to 11 million in the 3000th year of Zhenguan, this is not counting the population of the newly occupied territory, captives and foreigners.

Of course, just this few people, in Yang Xiaoran's view, are pitifully few.

Without advanced productive forces, this large place counts all the ethnic minorities and foreigners who come to do business in chemical industry and hide their household registrations. It is full of 4000 million people. This number of people is pitifully small in the era of farming civilization, and The Song Dynasty behind is simply incomparable.

So everyone still has to work hard to have children!
Some of the first batch of students in Xiaoqingzhuang were able to serve as assistants, and now they were ordered by the emperor to help Sun Simiao compile various medical knowledge, among which health preservation and childbirth for pregnant women became the most important.Li Shimin needs people, so the content in this booklet must be based on this.

After the Qingming Festival in the 12th year of Zhenguan, the capital government put up a sign stating that vaccinia vaccination had been tested repeatedly by Sun Simiao, and it was finally proved that this method could indeed prevent smallpox.To the ancients, this seemed like a myth, but it happened in reality.

Smallpox is the number one killer that destroys human life in ancient times.

However, in order to prevent public resistance, this measure was finally carried out voluntarily after intense discussions among ministers.

They said it was voluntary, but they brought in a group of prisoners. Amidst the screams of the prisoners crying for their fathers and mothers, these prisoners became the first batch of vaccinated people in the lower levels of Datang.

After lying in bed for a few days, a few pimples broke out, and a few days of low-grade fever, these people were alive and kicking, and happily became the first batch of naturalized people with the **** order issued by the imperial court.

The onlookers in Chang'an looked at the group of joyful captives in amazement, and then the official sign for receiving cowpox rewards immediately drove them crazy.

Sun Simiao led a group of apprentice assistants, and a group of cows who had been selected early to suffer from cowpox were pitifully locked in cages, enduring a group of humans stroking them, and almost collapsed.

What are these humans trying to do?
From the beginning, no one cared about the vaccinia receiving site, to the later popularity, it is simply dumbfounding!
For this reason, the imperial court had to send people who had learned how to treat acne from the Imperial Medical Office to serve ordinary people. The site opened from one to more than [-], but it was still too late.Every day when the street bell rang, a large number of people rushed over to drink tea, and long queues formed.For this reason, it is inevitable to strengthen the security management, and the Marquis Wu in each workshop were transferred to maintain order, so as to prevent these people from getting together and causing trouble in the end.

The common people who received the cowpox happily received a few hundred dollars, as well as nutritional supplements distributed by the court: two chickens and one piece of pork, and went home happily.

As more and more people were safe and sound after receiving the cowpox, the news gradually radiated to the surrounding areas of Chang'an, so the imperial court sent people to set up medical stations for receiving cowpox in various places.But the people behind will not have rewards and supplements.

The local doctors were also gathered together to learn how to vaccinate first.Otherwise, the imperial court would not have so many doctors available.

From this matter, Li Er also saw the necessity of opening a medical school.

In the article written by Yang Xiaoran back then, he clearly pointed out that the non-governmental doctors were not professional enough, which led to the problem that the average life expectancy was too short.In addition, women should be widely recruited as female doctors. It is more difficult for women to see a doctor than men. They should specialize in gynecological medicine, from diseases that women are inconvenient to explain to childbirth, so as to improve the survival rate of newborns.

Population shortage was like a knife across the head of the nascent empire.As the family business grows larger, the problem of underpopulation becomes more and more obvious.People are needed everywhere, and the shortage of population is obviously restricting the development of Datang, so Li Er is very worried.

Although a lot of work has been done, it is still a drop in the bucket, and this kind of thing seems to be nothing to worry about.Moreover, it is easy to give birth to a child. Although the government has rewards, it takes a lot of money to raise a child.The people have to bear labor and taxes. Although the Tang Dynasty is very powerful now, it is far from being exempt from agricultural taxes.

In this regard, a group of ministers can only look at the ocean and sigh, the only thing they can do is wait.

Li Er is very excited about the exemption of agricultural tax, because it can prove his greatness.At first, he was against it, but after reading Yang Xiaoran's report, after thinking about it for several years, he felt that it was not impossible.

It's just that if he blindly emphasizes science, improves productivity, liberates manpower, and does not take agriculture as the foundation, he is afraid of being backlashed by Confucianism.

For a while, the idea of ​​opening schools in various places sprouted in his mind.

Without aristocratic families and people who obstruct him, a group of officials is definitely not what an emperor would like to see.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to establish a new school?
Yang Xiaoran didn't know that Li Er had come up with such an idea, but he just heard from Li Chengqian that the imperial court planned to open a medical school, not only to recruit male students, but also to recruit female students, imitating the school system of Xiaoqingzhuang, inviting Sun Simiao to be the head of the mountain, and divided into women's medical schools. There are two parts, the College of Medicine and the Men's Medical College.In addition, according to Yu, doctors from the imperial medical department will also take turns to attend classes.

The source of students is nothing to worry about.Everything here is imitated by Xiaoqingshan. Although there may not be Xiaoqingshan who eats well, it is always okay to eat enough.The imperial court also felt that the medical soldiers were also very important, and doctors should not be recruited from the people every time.First, the levels are different, and second, it is easy to cause complaints from the people.

With all the doctors gone, who will treat the common people?
So this medic seems to be very important too.After two years of exploration, Sun Simiao's surgical skills are already quite good. This man really deserves to be a famous doctor in Chinese history. His medical talent is very superb, and his teaching level is also very good. It's like that.

The only thing that makes him regret is that there is still no progress in the manufacture of penicillin, and he has to continue to find suitable strains.

And the medical soldiers are not limited to men and women, as long as their family background is clean, the salary is so high that it makes people speechless.Enjoy the same treatment as soldiers.If a woman is willing to sign up to participate, she will also have an honorary title, which is tantamount to eating royal food.

Hearing Li Chengqian say that this group of courtiers actually agreed to let the woman enlist in the army, even though she was a logistics medical soldier, Yang Xiaoran was really shocked.

Isn't this group of Tang people too open-minded?
But after Li Chengqian spoke clearly, she was embarrassed again.

must be ugly...

What kind of logic is this? ! !

Still have to grow strong!
wipe!
This is clearly looking for a dominatrix!

Seeing her surprise, Li Chengqian smiled and said, "There are quite a few women who accompany the army every time, and they all do odd jobs. So the courtiers don't react too much..."

As soon as these words came out, Yang Xiaoran understood.

The emotional group thinks that women who serve as medical soldiers are basically the same as those women who do handymen. At most, they are paid two more wages, and they are given the title of female medical officer. There is no grade, so it is harmless.

Moreover, these Tang people were not scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and they knew in their hearts that women are more careful about some things.

But even so, Yang Xiaoran was still shocked, and then he and Wu Yuanhua secretly became excited.

Regardless of whether it is an official establishment or not, at least women can study medicine and join the army to do logistics, which is a great improvement!

(End of this chapter)