Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 321 Shanyang Medical College

Unsurprisingly, Qu Zhisheng was lied to by Li Shimin, and he sold the entire Gaochang Kingdom to Li Shimin with just an order of one million guan.

In the next two years, all the grain output of Gaochang Kingdom will be transported to Tai'an City nearby. For every Gaochang citizen who goes to Tai'an City to participate in the construction of the city, Datang will pay Gaochang Kingdom a regular salary on a monthly basis. The food and lodging of the people.

This was a huge surprise for Qu Zhisheng. Gaochang State has more than 20 young and strong people, and if they hire these people to Datang, they can get more than [-] yuan from Datang every month. You know, in the past, the annual tax revenue of the entire Gaochang Kingdom was only worth [-] Tang coins. Now, in two months, they can get so much money. This business is too good.

In Qu Zhisheng's eyes, Li Shimin is a good man, and he is rich and powerful, but he never thought that once the construction of Tai'an City is completed, all the products produced in Gaochang Kingdom will not be sold, and the young and strong people will not be able to sell. They are more willing to work and earn a living in Tai'an City. What will be the situation at that time? I am afraid that when Tai'an City is completed, Gaochang Kingdom will be destroyed. Money, when the time comes, it's good that Qu Wentai and his son are willing to be a rich man in the Tang Dynasty. If they are not willing, they will have to spit out whatever they eat.

Stewed chicken soup with Hericium erinaceus is very nourishing, so Li Shimin has frequent intercourse at night. The next day, he wanted to be fully released, refreshed, and led a group of court ministers, and set off for the west of the city.

Today is the opening day of Shanyang Medical College to accept apprentices. Li Shimin promised to stand on the platform, so naturally he should do it more grandly.

However, his so-called solemnity is a little thin compared to the scene in front of the Chengxi Medical College, because tens of thousands of people gathered here early in the morning, and the team of hundreds of courtiers is a big deal for these tens of thousands of people. It looks very thin.

"I never thought that the scale of Shanyang Medical College would be so large."

On the carriage, Li Shimin saw the long wall courtyard of the medical school. However, the length of that section of the wall courtyard was only half of the outer wall of the medical school, because the gate of the medical school was in the middle of the wall courtyard. In other words, the total area of ​​Shanyang Medical College is almost as large as a square in Chang'an, occupying at least a quarter of the west of Shanyang City, which is comparable to the Tianshangju villa community with hundreds of villas. , in the middle, there is a lake formed by manual excavation when the blue bricks for building the city wall were fired. Sun Xiangfu asked people to plant peach trees all over the lake. Now, it is named Peach Blossom Lake.

"Your Majesty is coming, everyone, come with me to greet him!"

Sun Xiangfu came to the medical school early in the morning and sent his soldiers to help maintain the order. He had expected that today's scene would be very lively. After all, Shanyang Medical School has been published in newspapers from the beginning of construction to the recruitment of students. Yes, from all over the country, many doctors who wanted to worship under Sun Simiao had already come here because of his fame. What they were waiting for was this opportunity.

Soon, under the organization of the soldiers, a passage was opened in the crowd. Sun Xiangfu and a group of officials under him, as well as Sun Simiao, Li Chunfeng, and dozens of doctors who were evaluated by them as qualified to teach in Shanyang Medical College They lined up together to meet Li Shimin's car.

After some visits, Li Shimin led his ministers to enter the gate of the medical school with Sun Xiangfu and others. The first thing that caught his eye was a large stone tablet with several large characters engraved on it.

"Medicine is benevolence, and to learn benevolence requires a benevolent heart.

Sickness is a devil, and it takes fearlessness to get rid of the devil. "

"Hehe, what a benevolent, benevolent, and fearless man, you came up with this, right?" Li Shimin said to Sun Xiangfu with a smile after seeing the stele.

"Exactly, I can be regarded as half of the doctors in Tang Dynasty. For some specific moments, I know what the doctors need to face. I also hope that the future doctors who come to study medicine will know it. That's why I wrote this monument." .”

"Well, you, half a doctor, have set a good example. If there are any catastrophes in the Tang Dynasty in the future, there will be more doctors who don't care about life and death like you, then It couldn't be better. I discussed with the ministers last night, and there is a decree to be promulgated, so you choose a place and let everyone receive the decree together!"

Listening to Li Shimin's tone, this is going to be a big group reward. Sun Xiangfu knew that he always wanted to keep Sun Simiao as an official in the court, so he said with a smile, "The playground outside the teaching house has been properly arranged early in the morning. Your Majesty, please follow me." Come."

After a while, all the courtiers gathered in the vast playground of the medical school, lined up according to their ranks, and began to read Li Shimin's imperial edict when the servant king was available.

First, he talked about the importance of doctors to a country at length, and then talked about the spirit of Sun Simiao, Li Chunfeng and others who were not afraid of life and death when the smallpox plague broke out in Weinan.

In the end, it was the imperial court's approval of the medical school. When the head of the medical school was appointed by the emperor as an official under the fourth rank of the imperial court, it proved that it would be a national institution.

Therefore, all the management personnel and teachers of the medical school have obtained the status of officials, and their grades are not low. As long as the doctors who are recognized by Sun Simiao as qualified to teach, all have official positions above the eighth grade, the main doctors of each department, and more It is the official position of doctor of medicine who has been awarded the seventh rank, which is the same level as the imperial physician order in Chang'an before. For them, it is simply a step to reach the pinnacle of life.

More than 50 high-ranking officials, Li Shimin blocked them without blinking. He didn't care about the salaries of these medical officers at all, because it would be paid from Shanyang's finances, and no additional funds from the court were required. The college is called Shanyang Medical College!
After the imperial decree was read out, the servants immediately brought out the court uniforms that had been prepared long ago. After a while, all the newly appointed medical officers put on official court uniforms. Sun Xiangfu knew that Li Shimin was so impatient to let them change their clothes. It means that while using these official positions to encourage more people to study medicine, they also want to use doctors to help the court win the hearts of the people.

When the people in the northern lands are suffering from headaches, they are treated by medical officials wearing official uniforms of the imperial court. Then, they will naturally feel close to the people wearing official uniforms of the imperial court. This is also a way to promote national integration. means.

Li Shimin's reward for the medical school quickly spread to the ears of the students and common people outside the medical school who were waiting to enroll. Immediately, these people who were interested in studying medicine gathered from all over the country were excited, shouting that the emperor is wise, It made Li Shimin in the college feel very happy.

"Zhengming, what are the regulations for the admissions of the medical school?"

After the imperial decree was read, Li Shimin asked the big guys to visit the medical school at will. As the landlord, Sun Xiangfu naturally wanted to accompany Li Shimin, and came to accompany him, as well as Sun Simiao and Li Chunfeng. Sun Simiao was not good at communicating with the emperor.

In other words, what he thinks in his heart is not to chat and fart with the emperor and these healthy ministers at all, but to think about his medical research, or how many patients need his follow-up treatment today.

Therefore, he has been silent all the time, just letting Sun Xiangfu explain to Li Shimin.

"Well, Daochang Sun and Daochang Li have formulated a set of admission standards early in the morning, and Daochang Li will explain it to His Majesty!"

Hearing this, Li Chunfeng walked half a body forward and said, "Your Majesty, I plan to set up two classes in the medical school, one is for adults with medical skills, and the other is for beginners without medical skills.

To enter the adult class, you need to pass certain exams, such as identifying medicinal materials, writing prescriptions, and theories of medicinal classics.

The basic education class has some requirements on sight, hearing, smell, age, and literacy. Most of them recruit young men and women between the ages of 12 and 16 who are interested in learning medical skills, and start comprehensive teaching from the most basic medical knowledge. "

Hearing this, Li Shimin was a little surprised and said, "Even women are recruited?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, in fact, there are more women than men in Tang Dynasty. Moreover, women tend to be weaker and more prone to diseases. Therefore, their needs for doctors are also greater. If they are all treated by male doctors , it will be very inconvenient, therefore, our medical school not only accepts female students, but also the proportion of the number of students is not less than that of male students."

With Li Chunfeng's explanation, Li Shimin immediately understood that this is a social need that must be met.

"Then how many people do you plan to recruit this year?"

"Uh, this, there is no upper limit, just a downline, adult class, at least 500 people, elementary school class, start with [-] people."

"500 people?"

"Yes, this is the minimum requirement put forward by Dudu Sun. He said that a county-level city like our Shanyang with tens of thousands of people living in it needs at least a hundred doctors to take care of everything. In the next few years, An There are at least a few county-level cities to be built in the Peking University Protectorate, and there is a huge shortage of doctors, and only by recruiting students on this scale every year can we meet the needs of subsequent development."

After hearing Li Chunfeng's answer, Li Shimin turned his head to look at Sun Xiangfu in depression. You must know that there are not [-] ministers in the court in Chang'an!You, the Anbei University Protectorate, have to recruit more than [-] medical students a year, and you promised earlier that you will give all the graduated medical students a stable high-income job. Yang said that high income should at least start with a consistent monthly salary!Do you really think that the money belongs to Shanyang and not from the imperial court?

Seeing Li Shimin's expression, Sun Xiangfu had no choice but to come out and explain, saying, "Your Majesty, doctors are very important for the government to rule and manage a place. How many households in the Tang Dynasty were extinct because of the lack of timely treatment of illnesses?" I'm afraid you haven't done statistics yet, Chen's parents died of illness in Xingfu Village. At that time, they were just about 30 years old. If, at that time, Datang had enough doctors and advanced medical technology , they don't have to die at all.

You have to look in a longer-term direction. No matter how much you invest in medical care, it is worthwhile. With it as a guarantee, the population of our Datang will grow rapidly. With a population, there will be a labor force. There will be a source of troops, so that we can occupy and develop more land. At that time, no matter how much money we make, it will be doubled. "

(End of this chapter)