This excuse, in the eyes of modern people, is very civil. But on the contrary, what is now in power in the Ming Dynasty is a group of pure literary youth.

Therefore, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty automatically made up Ma Lin's thoughts - Ma Lin admired the splendid mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty very much, so he wanted to look everywhere......

Then, Ma Lin's strange reason was affirmed by the Chinese and young ministers of the DPRK, and he was allowed to travel to various places in Daming. Of course, there are still restrictions on some border areas. Because, the Ming officials were also afraid that the secrets of the border defense would be known to outsiders. However, Ma Lin didn't want to go to the border in the first place, but planned to go to the mainland to purchase various supplies and herbs, and he didn't want to go to the border gate at all.

Therefore, after obtaining the approval of the imperial court, Ma Lin directly used the Daming post station system and went all the way to the south......

As for the 10 warships, Marin ordered them to go south by sea and go to the mouth of the Yangtze River to stand by. As for letting those warships sail through the Grand Canal? It's not that the imperial court doesn't allow it, but that the Grand Canal can't accommodate it.

The current Grand Canal is not the Grand Canal that was widened after the liberation of later generations, but a very narrow ancient canal. Therefore, a 500-ton warship is easy to run aground in it, and it is also difficult to turn, which is not very safe. Therefore, Marin had no choice but to let the fleet go to the mouth of the Yangtze River by sea.

But before leaving Beijing, Ma Lin suddenly remembered a very important thing - he had to ask the Ming court for some people......

Who? Mainly physicians and craftsmen......

First of all, the physician, in this era, the medical skills of the Ming Dynasty were the best in the world, much better than the European bloodletting treatment. With the world's top doctors, it is also guaranteed that Marin and his family can live longer.

Although Marin had previously brought in two Mongolian doctors, Mozhigen and Battle, their medical skills were also able to dominate Europe. However, Mongolia's medical skills are still strong in orthopedics, bruises, and veterinary medicine. As for other subjects, they are far inferior to the doctors of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, Marlin values gynecology and pediatrics the most. Needless to say, pediatrics had a high rate of infant mortality in ancient times, especially in Europe. Many European aristocrats who had no heirs did not give birth to children, but all of them died. For example, Juan III of Spain, if Marin hadn't saved his life, he would have hung up long ago, and he would have no chance to become the king of Spain. The later Queen Anne of England was even more exaggerated, she gave birth to 17 children, but none of them survived. Therefore, it was only later that the English throne fell to the Elector of Hanover.

Marin only has one sister-in-law now, Caesar, and if there is an accident one day, it will have to be finished. Therefore, it is necessary to equip the Ming Dynasty doctors with excellent medical skills.

There is also gynecology, which is also very important. In Europe, because medicine is extremely backward, many noble ladies fall ill when they give birth to children, and then die early. Even, every time you give birth, it's a game of death. Many noble ladies died at the age of twenty or thirty because of difficult childbirth or childbirth. Dystocia may be a difficult disease to deal with, but Chinese medicine is the best at solving the problem of postpartum disease. Even Western medicine in later generations is not as good at postpartum conditioning as Chinese medicine. Because, traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to self-cultivation.

Moreover, the status of doctors in Daming is very low. Except for those medical officers or scholars with merit and fame, the status of other doctors is very low. The court said who the reward would be for, that was a matter of one sentence.

The best thing is that Ma Lin remembered that this time Liu Jin fell, it seems that there were some imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital who were classified as eunuchs because of Liu Jin's previous alliance, and then they were unlucky enough to go to prison. These people are the key targets of Marin's strategy. Because, it is impossible for other imperial doctors to be given to him by the Ming court, after all, the Ming monarchs and ministers also count on those imperial doctors to save their lives. And folk doctors, although there are also skilled doctors, but they are more difficult to find, and people may not be willing to go with you. And what is easy to find and easy to recruit, the medical skills are often very average. There are only a few unlucky imperial doctors, with high medical skills, but they can't help themselves, and they are in prison, so they can be taken away by Marin.

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As for the craftsmen, that's even less to say. Doctors can save people's lives, although their status is low, and officials do not dare to treat them too harshly, after all, they have a place to ask for doctors. But craftsmen, any petty official in the Ming Dynasty, can drive those craftsmen like slaves (farmers can order crafts and are not craftsmen), and they don't treat them as normal people at all. And the status of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty is not as good as that of farmers who farm. Except for the craftsmen who master the secrets such as firearms and some top craftsmen who make tributes, the rest of the craftsmen are probably not in the eyes of the Ming officials at all.

The limited development of science and technology in ancient China has a great deal to do with this political environment that treats craftsmen harshly. If it weren't for the harsh treatment of craftsmen by the ancient feudal dynasties, which would it be Europe's turn to develop science and technology?

And the reason why the ancient Chinese feudal dynasty treated craftsmen harshly was also strange - it was actually because of the ideological differences between Confucianism and Mohism during the Warring States Period. At that time, the Mohists sprayed Confucianism fiercely, thinking that Confucian things were flashy and useless.

Then the Confucian children held grudges, and when Dong Zhongshu "deposed the hundred schools and respected Confucianism alone", the Confucianists who turned over and took power began to liquidate the Mo family. The Mo family is a representative of the craftsman's skills, so all craftsmen, whether they are descendants of the Mo family or not, are unlucky, and are regarded as "sluts" by the Confucian Dynasty, and all craftsman skills are also regarded as "strange and obscene skills" by Confucianism......

The grievances between the Confucian and Mo families eventually led to the development of Huaxia Science and Technology being greatly hindered. After all, no one who is smart wants to be a "slut" and tinker with "strange lewd skills". When European countries were still in the barbaric Middle Ages, China's science and technology could still be guaranteed to lead, after all, thousands of years of accumulation were there. However, when the papacy that imprisoned the mind declined and science reared its head, Europe soon surpassed China in science and technology and formed a crush.

In fact, the development of science and technology has little to do with the political system. The biggest obstacle to the development of Chinese science and technology is actually the grievances between Confucianism and Mohists. If there was no grievance, there would have been no Confucian Dynasty's suppression of craftsman skills, and perhaps ancient Chinese technology would have exploded.

Therefore, it was not the feudal dynasty that hindered the development of science and technology in ancient China, but the Confucianism that hated the Mohists. But in ancient China, Confucianism and feudal dynasties were one, so the feudal system helped Confucianism bear the blame. Then, the history books of later generations will be blown blindly, as if the political system has been changed, and everyone will be able to go to heaven...... But the chaos of the Republic of China period shows that this is pure nonsense. Isn't capitalism in the Republic of China more advanced than feudalism? However, during the Republic of China, the industry was not as good as the Westernization Movement at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and there was a certain regression.

Therefore, the reality is that for science to develop, it first needs a stable social environment, and then it is necessary to depose Confucianism, which suppresses the skills of craftsmen, and has nothing to do with political parties......

But in fact, Confucianism is not bad, and many of the things in it are very good. But the mistake is the mistake, why did Confucianism and the Mo family have a feud, resulting in the death of the two families. This confirms the old saying - "If you listen to both, you will be clear, and if you believe partially, you will be dark". When Dong Zhongshu proposed to "depose the hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone", Huaxia itself entered a dark period of thought. Moreover, one black is nearly two thousand years. In short, it's not that Confucianism is bad, but that it shouldn't be allowed to dominate.

No matter how good the idea is, it will be corrupted after a family is dominant. No matter how good a minister is, if he has been in power alone for a long time, he is easy to become a rebel (such as Wang Mang). Only compatibility and balance are truly king. Of course, this compatibility certainly can't include those neurotic sensationalism perverted ideas.

Anyway, as long as Huaxia is still in power by the Confucian family, science and technology will not develop, and it will not become Marin's opponent in the future to colonize the world. And the craftsmen have no future.

For example, we later talked about the "craftsman spirit". In the Ming Dynasty of this year, if you talk about the "craftsman spirit", people will definitely think - you are a good person, why do you pursue the spirit of "slut"?

But this is beneficial to Marin, because the Ming Dynasty does not attach importance to craftsmen, so it is easy to ask for some craftsmen from the Ming court. And the facts also proved that Marin was not bad......