"Sage, the ship is already moored in Yin County. The Guards were already heavily guarded around the area, and they were foolproof. Zhou Xiaoqi, the head of the Mingzhou Pioneer Division, Yang Aguo, the presiding officer of the Mingzhou Great Sect, and Wu Yixuan, the chief medical officer of the Mingzhou Great Sect, were all waiting on the dock, and if the saint wanted to summon them, the minister would go and ask them to come on the boat......"

It was Yang Po'er who spoke, Chen Dexing's chief internal manager and personal secretary - although he was a little old, he had already gone around. However, doing things is becoming more and more thoughtful, so that Chen Dexing is both relieved and easy to use. Because she is a woman, it is impossible for her to be like those male secretaries in the secretariat, and she will not be sent out to be the magistrate for a long time. Therefore, the person in charge of the secretariat is called her to serve as a concurrently servant.

Of course, this woman can have such status and power, and it has something to do with Chen Dexing's lack of eunuchs. In all dynasties, eunuchs were the emperor's private individuals, and they were the ones who received personal credit. Chen Dexing didn't need it - in fact, there was no way to use it, "Chen Li" stipulated that the Han people were not slaves, so naturally they could not be eunuchs - then in the Chen Ming Palace, there were only noble female officials like Yang Po'er who replaced the eunuchs.

It was already the autumn of the first year of the Great Ming Dao, and Chen Dexing was on his way back to Yanjing. The return route is via the canal to Gyeongwonfu and then back to the north by boat. In addition, Chen Dexing arrived at Qingyuan Mansion for another purpose, which was to see off the Mingzhou development team.

Chen Dexing's Jiangnan campaign has now come to a successful conclusion. Just half a month ago, Zhao Yun, the Taishang of the Song Kingdom, and Zhao Lin'er, the queen of the Song Kingdom, returned to Lin'an City together, and at the same time, there was good news from Liangguang. Jiang Wanli's department has already invaded Dali, and it has nothing to do with Daming for the time being - there is no hurry to take Dali, anyway, Jiang Wanli is also Han with him. Let them be educated there for a few years. When you're done cooking a big mess of Handi, you can go and clean up slowly.

And conquer Nanfan. Colonizing the New World and watching Tianzhu are these things, but they are the top priorities. The number of ways that Chen Ming is playing now can also be regarded as "passing on domestic contradictions". It is to divide the domestic warlord power abroad, and at the same time use the gold and silver of the New World to solve the domestic financial problems. It's basically the Western Zhou plus Spanish model.

Therefore, Dali is not busy fighting, Hetao and Hexi are not busy collecting, and Wusizang is even more thrown aside. Nanfan, New World and Tianzhu have to hurry up. This number of roads is a bit strange in all dynasties after the Western Zhou Dynasty, but it is just right for Chen Ming.

After all, this Chen Ming is the only sea power country in China's history!

The rise of Chen Ming is inseparable from the wealth of maritime trade in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it can be said that the money of the maritime merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty made the Chen Ming regime grow. And after the successful seizure of the so-called world. Chen Ming's finances still depended on gold and silver in the New World, on trade between China and India and Nanfan, and on the contributions of the industrial and commercial towns of the north and south.

However, the contribution of traditional land taxes and land taxes to the treasury is extremely limited. Such a situation is, of course, related to the military system and local autonomy realized by the Ming Dynasty.

On the one hand, almost all of the current Ming army is tied to land. After the pacification of Jiangnan, the military system of the Ming army will continue to be reformed, and it will be simplified to two types: non-commissioned soldiers who have been obliged to serve for generations, and military household soldiers who have only one generation of service obligations—the Eight Banners soldiers will be classified as military household soldiers, but recruited from non-Han Chinese. Other than that. As long as the military household soldier makes meritorious service, he can be promoted to the rank of sergeant. And in order to support the growing number of soldiers and soldiers, a large amount of land was distributed, a strong military aristocratic landlord class. It is also gradually taking shape. Due to their existence and growth, the Chen Ming court could only adopt a low agricultural tax policy.

On the other hand, the local gentry and gentry were autonomous. It also determines that the local government must have a certain financial foundation, otherwise there is no way to talk about autonomy. Hence the land endowment and part of the city tax. It became the backbone of local finances. It will be used for local government expenditures and local education and construction expenditures.

In this way, the finances of the imperial court (referring to the central finances) of the Chen Ming court. It can only be based on maritime trade and industry and commerce.

If there were no taxes from industry and commerce and maritime trade, the Chen Ming Empire would immediately collapse -- this was actually a kind of reversal, there would be no empire without money, and without an empire, no matter the gentry, gentry, or emperor, the interests would not be guaranteed. This kind of reversal has become a huge driving force for the state to promote industry and commerce and open up overseas trade.

And this driving force is now embodied in the three major events of Mingzhou development, the construction of Jiangdu and the development of Nanfan.

That's why Chen Dexing came to Mingzhou to see off the Mingzhou development team.

Compared with the scale of the previous two Mingzhou expeditions, the first Mingzhou development fleet that will sail away this time can be described as huge! The flagship of the pioneering fleet is the "New World", the largest and fastest ship of the Ming Navy. There are also four other "New World" class ships that have just entered service, named "Pacific", "Jinshan City", "Yinshan Port", and "Shenzhou City". These are all large ships with a standard load of 5,000 stones, and if the thirty-four four-inch guns are removed (only ten four-inch cannons are retained) and most of the ammunition. The deadweight tonnage can also be increased by 50% to an unprecedented 7,500 stones, which is almost 450 tons.

Moreover, the speed of this "flying scissor" sailing ship was much higher than that of any other sailing ship of the same period, and the travel time between the Pacific coast was greatly reduced. As a result, the five clippers would have to carry fewer supplies to cross the Pacific. As a result, they can carry more passengers and cargo.

The fleet, named the Third Mingzhou Expedition, was to carry 2,000 passengers, 500 horses, 500 pigs, 500 sheep, 500 cattle and 6,000 stone of cargo to Mingzhou. The goods were mainly wrought iron and Nanfen steel, which were used to make weapons, as well as rice and wheat seeds used for sowing. And those horses, pigs, sheep and cattle are ready to be bred in Mingzhou.

In addition, the cattle, horses, pigs and sheep that are transported to Mingzhou also have a function, that is, to extract the pox pus of cattle, horses, pigs and sheep and then inoculate them to people - this is the so-called cowpox inoculation.

Human pox inoculation may have appeared as early as the Tang Dynasty, and it cannot be said how popular it was in the Southern Song Dynasty, but there were already some people who had been vaccinated with human pox. Chen Dexing's mother-in-law, Guo Fu'er, whose mother's family has been a doctor for generations, will give people pox. However, the method used is very primitive, called the "pox clothing method", which is to use the smallpox patient's personal ** to wear it for a few days for children who have not had acne, and use this method to cause a low-intensity smallpox infection, so as to achieve the purpose of immunity. However, the success rate of this method is relatively low, because it is difficult to find the ** of the sick child, and even if it is found, it is difficult to guarantee that there must be a surviving smallpox virus on it.

Therefore, the "pox method" does not have much value to promote, and is usually only used in the homes of world doctors who often come into contact with smallpox patients. Thanks to Guo Fuer's mother's blessing, Chen Dexing successfully vaccinated with human pox through the pox clothing method.

However, Chen Dexing's sons and daughters did not use this inefficient method to plant pox, but Guo Fuer personally inoculated them with more safe and effective cowpox, which of course came from Chen Dexing's golden finger.

After Chen Dexing's children and harem beauties were vaccinated with cowpox, Chen Dexing taught the cowpox inoculation technique to the medical institute of Tiandao Academy, and asked them to study the method of large-scale promotion. However, the doctors of the medical academy spent a long time repeatedly testing the reliability and safety of cowpox, and it was not until the start of the war of the Southern Expedition to the Great Song Dynasty that they began to teach the cowpox inoculation method to the Tiandao Daoists, army and navy military doctors, and teachers of the Tiandao Mengtong Academy.

Moreover, the doctors of these medical hospitals have not found an effective way to maintain cowpox for a long time, and if they want to plant cowpox, it is best to find a cow, sheep, pig, or horse infected with vaccinia, so as to extract fresh pox scabs.

Therefore, the comprehensive promotion of cowpox vaccination in the entire Ming Dynasty may not be possible without ten or eight years of efforts.

According to Chen Dexing's meaning, cowpox vaccination will be carried out relying on several systems such as Tiandaoism, the Ministry of Education, and the army and navy, and will be carried out in the order of first young and then grown, and the army first and then the people. In addition, all military and civilians who go to overseas smallpox-prone areas, such as Nanfan and Tianzhu to open up, should also give priority to completing pox vaccination.

But the pioneers who went to Mingzhou did not have the right of priority to be vaccinated - because Mingzhou did not have smallpox!

"Minister Zhou Xiaoqi, meet the saint."

"Minister Yang Aguo, meet the saint."

"Minister Wu Yixuan, meet the saint."

The three members of the Mingzhou Pioneer Team who Chen Dexing had named to see early in the morning had been brought to Chen Dexing by Yang Po'er at this time.

"Mother-in-law stays, everyone else retreats."

Chen Dexing waved his hand and asked all the attendants and guards in the cabin and at the door of the cabin to retreat.

"Sit." Then he ordered Zhou Xiaoqi, Yang Aguo and Wu Yixuan to sit down.

After seeing that the three of them were all sitting firmly on the chairs in the cabin, Chen Dexing said again: "There will be a big epidemic in Mingzhou, but it is pox!" ”

The three of them were stunned when they heard this, and Wu Yixuan, a physician who graduated from Tiandao Academy, blurted out: "Sage, the minister knows that there is no smallpox in Mingzhou!" ”

Chen Dexing nodded, and said in a deep voice: "It is precisely because there is no epidemic that there will be a pandemic, an unprecedented epidemic!" He looked at the rather young white-faced scholar-like physician in front of him with blazing eyes, "Wu Qing, don't question my prophecy, what you have to do is to keep our strength in Mingzhou when the epidemic comes!" Keep the few Mingzhou natives who can all of us. ”

"I know." Wu Yixuan didn't dare to question the saint anymore, and hurriedly got up to receive the order.

Chen Dexing looked at Zhou Xiaoqi and Yang Aguo again, the two of them, Wu Yixuan, and the woman who accompanied the three of them to Mingzhou, they all had cowpox, so they didn't have to worry about them being recruited in Mingzhou. Unable to fulfill the special mission assigned to him - to publicize the impending plague to the natives of Mingzhou...... (To be continued......)