427. Southern Tour
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From a certain Cheng dΓΉ on the ground, since the Qin Chi Road, China's road construction has never formed a scale, not to mention the comfort, basically belongs to the type of a layer of gray on a sunny day, mud on a rainy day, potholes on the road are not uncommon, this may not be a big problem for freight, but sitting on a mule cart without a shock absorption system is a kind of burden, as for the south with granite, stone and even broken bricks paved with official roads are not conducive to the travel of manned carriages, so the carriages that can pass quickly, Mule carts have never been the mainstream of passenger transport in Chinese history.
Zheng Kezhang is well aware of this phenomenon, but now the output of cement is limited, the military part occupies the majority, and the rest is used in urban construction. Therefore, Zheng Kezang's southern tour was mainly by boat, first through the Yangtze River into Dongting, and then along the Xiangjiang River, only in a few areas that are not conducive to navigation will he change horses.
One of the main tasks of Zheng Kezang's southern tour was to check the resettlement and adaptation of the migrants in the provinces that filled Hunan Province, so the team did not go fast, and basically marched through a prefecture in ten days. In this way, it is expected that Zheng Kezhang and his entourage will enter Guangdong at the end of October, take a sea boat from Guangzhou to the north at the end of November, return to Dongning in December, and spend the New Year in Anping City. After the year, he returned north after the sacrifice of the first king and ancestors, stayed in Wen, Taiwan, Ning, Shao, Hangzhou and other prefectures, and then entered the territory of Jiangnan, and finally arrived in Jiangning. At that time, Emperor Taishun will conduct a Chan Dynasty ceremony in front of the filial piety tomb, and transfer the throne and Zhengshuo to Zheng Kezang****??
To be honest, Zheng Kezhang himself didn't want to sit on the supreme position in such a hurry, but the expectations of his subordinates to become the founder of the country gave him a lot of pressure, and now Zheng Fan's exhibition has reached a bottleneck, or only an edict issued in the name of the emperor can make certain national policies and reforms appear justified.
Of course, it is not without harm to become the emperor of the new dynasty, at least now that the situation of nominally standing in the same trench with Zhu Qijun will be completely over, and the trend of the battle situation in Shuzhong may become confusing.
However, weighing the pros and cons, the benefits of the imperial establishment outweigh the disadvantages after all, so Zheng Kezhang had no choice but to comply with the requirements of all parties.
"Your Majesty," Zheng Kezhang was sitting on the boat, and a waiter outside the cabin reported through the curtain. "Governor Chen led the crowd to ask for a meeting."
Chen Dudu refers to Chen Ke, the governor of Hunan, Chen Ke has served as the official of Chengxuan, the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, and the co-organizer of Ma Zheng Yamen, and he is also one of the important ministers of Zheng Fan, Zheng Kezhang naturally can't be seen, as for the civil and military affairs in the province, Zheng Kezhang is not in a hurry to see it.
"Let him get on board." Zheng Kezhang ordered, and the waiter just wanted to turn around and convey, but Zheng Kezhang suddenly thought of something to add. "Let the governor of Hunan Tai Hospital also get on board."
Zheng Kezang's trip had a total of three layers of escorts, the outermost was the escort red single boat of the Yangtze River Fleet, the inner circle was the third regiment of the first brigade of the first division of the Praetorian Guard, and the inner circle was the palace guards.
Among them, the First Division of the Praetorian Guard did not have a direct source of troops, and the troops under its jurisdiction were drawn from the 6th Division, the 52 divisions of the 15th Army, and the various divisions of the Longxiang Army and the Fubo Army.
The palace guards to the inner circle are Zheng Kezang's honor guard and personal guards, which are generally composed of the graduates of the Martial Arts University Hall of the Water 6 Division, the heirs and pacesetters of the noble ministers of the Zong Noble Sect who were born in young martial arts, and some specially trained chamberlains. Although the honor guard is first-class, the armed attendants are also elite.
After passing through these three layers of slaughter, Chen Ke's state was fine, but the legs and feet of the Hunan Zhizhi Branch of the Tai Hospital trembled, and when he saw Zheng Kezang, who was not angry and arrogant, he was even more frightened and fell to the ground, and he didn't even hear Zheng Kezang's words to let him get up, and finally Chen Ke helped him to barely stand up straight.
"The people of Hunan moved from Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Henan, and the climate is poor, the environment is different, and diseases are naturally born." Zheng Kezang turned a blind eye to the ugliness of this five-grade official, and just told Chen Ke about it. "When the Qing is in charge of the locality, he should be vigilant and not let it expand into an epidemic." Chen Ke promised in response, and Zheng Kezhang then turned to the Zhizhi Branch. "Water Gu is prevalent in the south of the Yangtze River, and Qing should try to prevent it."
The affairs of the branch were already nervous, and when he heard that Zheng Kezhang came up with such a big topic, he was even more trembling: "Ministers, ministers, kings, the trouble of water Gu is severe, and the people have been poisoned by it for a long time. β
In ancient China, where there was no microscope and understanding of the pathogenic mechanism of parasites, once you got schistosomiasis, there was only one way to die.
"The trouble of the water Gu, Lone has been being investigated for many days." Zheng Kezhang said yes, but he was the supreme ruler, so naturally no one would question his words. "I've gotten a little bit of it." Zheng Kezhang ordered at the chamber attendant in the corner of the cabin. "Fetch the stuff." The chamberlain turned around and took a brocade box from the Bogu shelf in the cabin, opened it in front of Chen Ke and the branch officer. "Look."
"What is this?" The governor called out. "This, isn't this a snail?"
"Exactly." Zheng Kezhang is not explaining again, but giving orders. "This thing is the culprit, wherever it is, the water Gu will be fierce, so all localities should make every effort to clean up this thing." Of course, it is easy to imagine how difficult it is to wipe out a species in an area of well-connected waters. "There are officials everywhere who should go all out, and the Tai Hospital should also do their best to publicize its evils."
Chen Ke hesitated for a moment, and didn't know what he thought, and then leaned over with the affairs of the branch and responded: "The ministers should do their best to eliminate the snails, so that the king's benevolence and virtue will be known to the people of Hunan." β
Zheng Kezhang didn't say that Chen Ke's cognition was wrong, but said coldly: "The matter of destroying snails should be included in the examination in the future, but if the number of people with water Gu disease in a county and a government is above the quota, there will be punishment." β
Chen Ke was stunned, and his voice in response immediately became stern: "The minister understands what to do." β
Zheng Kezhang asked again at the branch office: "By the way, is the pox method still used to prevent smallpox now?" β
The pox method first appeared in the Song Dynasty, and it has been widely used in the Ming Longqing period, and in the era of Zheng Kezang, the pox method is even more popular in the north and south, and it has been further developed into four methods. One is the pox clothing method, that is, the underwear worn by smallpox patients is worn by healthy people who have never had smallpox, so as to cause artificial mild infection and develop resistance, which is the most primitive method; The second is the pox pulp method, that is, a cotton ball is dipped in the pox slurry of smallpox patients and stuffed into the nasal cavity of the person who has not produced smallpox; The third is the dry seedling method, that is, the pox scab of the recovered smallpox patient is finely ground and blown into the nasal cavity of the person who has not produced smallpox with a silver tube; The fourth is the water seedling method, that is, after the pox scab of the cured smallpox person is finely ground, the water is first moistened, and then the cotton ball is dipped in the nasal cavity of the person who has not produced smallpox. It should be said that human pox inoculation was the first example of the unknowingly applied principle of immunity to the treatment of diseases, and it has made its due contribution to mankind. However, due to the fact that smallpox is a virulent infectious disease, human pox vaccination is an artificial transmission of smallpox virus, which has a great blindness, and the reaction symptoms after vaccination are more severe, sometimes killing people.
Although he was puzzled, he still replied honestly: "If you go back to the king, you are still using the human pox method. β
"The pox law is too harsh, and the weak may not be able to eat it." Zheng Kezhang motioned to the chamberlain to hand over another stack of papers to Chen Ke and the magistrate. "This is the submission on the cowpox law that has just been deported by Jiangning Tai Hospital, Hunan might as well give it a try, if it is not wrong in Hunan, Lone is ready to implement the world soon."
These are for one purpose, that is, to highlight Zheng Kezang's virtues and to make public opinion and appease Zheng Kezang's Chan Dynasty.
Chen Ke, who has a clear understanding of this, naturally will not be confused on this issue, but he really has no money in his hands: "Your Majesty, such a virtuous minister does not dare to descend, but Hunan is now exempted from land endowments, and the government is sent to the countryside, this financial resources ****??"
"This money comes from the domain." Zheng Kezhang knew the other party's difficulties, but he spoke to dispel the other party's doubts. "It's just a qiΔ to do well." If you really can't do it well, Chen Ke, who estimated that they would have to take off their black gauze hats, and the magistrate agreed in unison. "Lone looked at Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", which said that where well water comes from the earth's veins is the top, and there are those who seep from the nearby rivers and lakes, and the sewage from the ditches near the city is mixed into alkali, and it is boiled with a mustache.
"Lonely taste to see the Yuanren medical classics, Yun Fan Qingdan brushing teeth is not as good as brushing teeth at night, tooth disease is not born, quite a thought, tooth disease is not born, one breath is fresh, and the other is its longevity, when vigorously promote ****??"
"There are quite a lot of leprosy patients in Xiangyue and other places, and they can be cured by smelling Tripterygium wilfordii, and Qing and others may be able to test the amount of medicine****??"
"Okay, those who want to take care of them have already been said, and when they go back, they should be implemented one by one, and it is better to send people to pass the test one by one." Chen Ke was a little depressed, he visited Zheng Kezhang in order to ask Zheng Kezang to get off the boat and stay in the Governor's Mansion in Changsha City, but Zheng Kezhang didn't give him a chance to speak, and chattered about a lot of epidemic prevention and treatment, but he didn't have time to say a word about the immigrants, Tuntian, and Qingzhang in Hunan Province that he wanted to report. "Then kneel down."
"Yes," Chen Ke replied, but did not move his footsteps. "Minister, I beg the king to move to the city."
"No need." Zheng Kezhang waved his hand. "Qing's kindness, Lone Heart has received it, and Lone will take a walk around Sixiang early tomorrow morning, it is quite inconvenient to live in the city, and Lone lives on the boat." Speaking of which, Zheng Kezhang said. "What Qing wants to say, submit the text, but it's a lot of nonsense, and seeing is believing****??"
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