"Crackling ......"

On the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month, with the lanterns of the Qin Tianjian and the sound of ceremonial flowers, a "calendar" that took two years was finally completed.

When this unnamed calendar was delivered to Zhu Youzhen, his first reaction was to frown.

"Your Highness, this calendar is summarized by the old man and more than 600 officials of Qin Tianjian according to the records of Qin Tianjian in the past two hundred years, and then combined with the observation of celestial phenomena last year, please give your Highness a name."

In the carrying hall, when Zhu Youzhen flipped through the calendar in his hand, Xu Guangqi, who was dressed in a bullfighting suit, waved at him and described the hardships of hundreds of officials of Qin Tianjian in compiling this calendar.

At this moment, Xu Guangqi is already a "commoner" with only scattered ranks, and after the calendar is completed, it means that he can go home to rest.

"This calendar was compiled less than two years ago, is it accurate?"

Zhu Youzhen took the calendar in his hand and looked at Xu Guangqi with suspicious eyes.

This is not to blame him for being suspicious, but the "Calendar" is also the "Lunar Calendar", which is related to the eating of ordinary people.

It is impossible for Zhu Youzhen to use the Gregorian calendar, because in addition to unifying the world's standards, this thing has no effect on the current Ming Dynasty, and it is not as important as the lunar calendar for farmers.

Even if Zhu Youzhen did not revise the calendar, it would be impossible to use the Gregorian calendar to commemorate Jesus, and to use the "Yellow Emperor Calendar" to commemorate the Yellow Emperor.

"Back to Your Highness, the "Calendar of Time" has only been compiled for three years, but it has still been used for more than 300 years, and the calendar that my dynasty has revised is not only standing on the shoulders of the "Calendar of Hours", but also using a telescope for observing astronomy, and the difference observed is more accurate than that of the "Calendar of Hours".

Facing Zhu Youzhen's questioning, Xu Guangqi said confidently: "If Your Highness doesn't believe it, you can take a look at the ninth page of this calendar." ”

"Heaven and earth are round, and according to your book "Astronomy", Your Highness, you mentioned "rotation" and "revolution", you must also understand that the rotation of heaven and earth is getting slower and slower. ”

"In the previous dynasty's "Calendar of Hours", its method was to take 365.2425 days as one year old, but after careful observation by the officials of Qin Tianjian, in fact, the "Calendar of Hours" is not accurate, and the real data should be 365.2423 days as one year old."

"The students who graduated from Yanshan use the sun (sun), stars, moon separation (moon), sun-moon intersection (solar and moon eclipses), five latitudes (the movement of the five planets), and five star nodes (changes in the positions of the five planets) to calculate and observe the distances and positions of the major stars."

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"The orbits of the sun, moon, and the five planets were followed by the current and average cycles, and finally the correct law was obtained."

"With this as the yellow calendar, the people of the world will have no worries about farming......"

Xu Guangqi sincerely sighed that he could actually complete the compilation of an almanac that has been passed down for hundreds of years, and for Zhu Youzhen, as long as the calendar is fine, it can be promulgated.

Zhu Youzhen never felt that Westerners were smarter than Easterners, especially in astronomy.

The 5,000-year-old civilization of the Central Plains really lagged behind the astronomy of the West after the Yuan Dynasty.

Even later generations of Western astronomical researchers admired the level of science and technology and civilization in the Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, and almost unanimously believed that they had reached the highest peak in the world at that time.

Most of the calendars of the Song Dynasty were much more sophisticated than those of the Tang Dynasty, and as for why the calendar declined after the Yuan Dynasty, it was mainly due to the prohibition of astronomical research and the imprisonment of thoughts.

For example, the reason why the calendar was studied so quickly this time is mainly because the officials in charge of this calendar research are all officials who graduated from the Astronomical Academy of Suncheon Academy.

Zhu Youzhen himself did not have much knowledge of astronomy, at most he knew what the universe was like, but even so, when he wrote these in books and collected a large number of astronomical books forbidden by the imperial court for the students of the Academy of Astronomy to read and study, they themselves stood out from many leaders in astronomy.

It is precisely because of them that Xu Guangqi's calendar will be compiled so quickly.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen flipped through the calendar, and couldn't help but sigh a little at how serious the drawbacks of ideological imprisonment were.

"Please give this calendar a name...... Your Highness"

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen couldn't put down the calendar, Xu Guangqi took the opportunity to ask Zhu Youzhen to name him.

This kind of thing should have been done by the emperor, but after Xu Guangqi sent a letter to Fangshan, the emperor said that "everything in the court and China is decided by King Qi" instead of naming it.

Therefore, the heavy responsibility of naming this calendar was placed on Zhu Youzhen.

For Zhu Youzhen, he actually doesn't like the era name very much, because it is not concise and uniform enough.

Therefore, by promulgating the clipper ship of the new yellow calendar, Zhu Youzhen is ready to unify the standards.

"This calendar is called the "Great Ming Calendar", and this year is the 264th year of the Great Ming Calendar."

"As for the previous "Daming Calendar", there is no need to shy away from it, just note the "Jin Dynasty Daming Calendar" in front of it."

Zhu Youzhen reminded the people with the years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty that the Ming Dynasty has been established for many years.

From now on, as long as the "Ming Calendar" is promulgated, everyone will know how many years the Ming Dynasty has been established, and it will not be as muddy as before.

As for the year name, that's another matter, anyway, it is not illegal to call the number of years in the "Daming Calendar".

To be honest, Zhu Youzhen is really curious, in the new inheritance represented by this "Daming Calendar", how many years can the Ming Dynasty last, and is it possible to exceed the 400-year period?

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen put down the "Da Ming Calendar" and the fifty-year-old living note official who was sitting in the corner of the carrying hall also recorded this moment in the "Apocalypse Living Note".

"In that case, the old man retired ......"

Xu Guangqi saw that the matter was properly explained, and he was ready to go home to rest, but Zhu Youzhen stopped him:

"The Agricultural Institute of the Armaments Institute still needs Mr.'s help, I wonder if I can stay?"

Zhu Youzhen didn't like Xu Guangqi's actions of liking missionary work very much, but he still admired his actions in some agriculture, astronomy, and mathematics, and he wanted Xu Guangqi to enter the agricultural institute of the Armaments Institute to conduct agricultural research.

However, in this regard, Xu Guangqi shook his head and smiled bitterly and refused: "Your Highness, the old man is already seventy, and he just wants to go home to recuperate at present, but he is really incompetent." ”

"Good ......" Hearing Xu Guangqi's refusal, Zhu Youzhen sighed in his heart, and said to Wang Chengen in the corner with some reluctance:

"Decree to promote Xu Guangqi to Huahuibo, and the Ministry of Industry will repair Xufu in Fahuahui, and change Songjiang Mansion Fahuahui to Xujiahui."

"Slave and maid receive ......"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen spoke, Daming had another earl, and a place name was also changed.

"Old man, thank you for the grace ......"

When Xu Guangqi heard this, he looked for the direction of Fangshan, knelt down and kowtowed to thank him, which made Cao Huachun, who was dealing with the official affairs of the imperial store in the corner, a little dissatisfied, but soon he restrained his thoughts, perhaps because he had experienced too much.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Guangqi said goodbye to Zhu Youzhen and left the carrier hall in this way.

Wang Chengen looked at his back and couldn't help but smile and shake his head, while Zhu Youzhen looked at him: "What's wrong?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, the slave maid just thinks that this Huahui Uncle has become free and easy after he gets old." Wang Chengen truthfully said his thoughts, and Zhu Youzhen also walked to the window when he heard the words, and looked at the back of Xu Guangqi, who was about to walk out of the carrier door.

"It does ......"

Looking at Xu Guangqi's steady footsteps, Zhu Youzhen muttered, but he soon saw Wang Kentang walking into the carrier door in an official robe.

Seeing Wang Kentang coming, Zhu Youzhen knew what he was here for.

He returned to his chair and sat down, waited for a quarter of an hour, and then heard the Jinyi guard at the door report that Wang Kentang had asked to see him.

After signaling the successor, Zhu Youzhen waited for Wang Kentang to enter the hall.

Not long after, Wang Kentang, who was already eighty years old, walked into the carrier hall with steady steps, and said to Zhu Youzhen:

"Wang Kentang, the envoy of the Imperial Hospital, respectfully ask His Highness to ...... in peace"

"Lonely Ann." Zhu Youzhen replied and asked, "Is there something wrong with the hospital?" ”

"Go back to Your Highness, there is something ......" Wang Kentang nodded and bowed, and Wang Chengen also asked someone to bring him a chair, after all, Wang Kentang can be called an advanced age no matter what era he puts it in.

At Zhu Youzhen's suggestion, Wang Kentang sat down and sat upright and explained:

"One hundred and twenty-six imperial doctors have been promoted to the Tai Hospital this year, and there are 3,695 doctors."

"By the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, 9,937 doctors had been assigned to one of the six provinces in the north, and the Tai Hospital had taken over more than 1,400 Huimin pharmacies in 72 prefectures and 627 counties in the north, with an annual branch of 326,300 taels of medicine and silver."

Speaking of this, Wang Kentang gestured: "Your Highness, the county town in the north has reached a situation where there are five doctors in each pharmacy. ”

"So, where should the doctors over there be transferred to this year?"

Wang Kentang has high expectations for Zhu Youzhen's plan to popularize universal medical care, mainly because at present, the expenditure of Huimin Pharmacy is not high.

One Beijing and six provinces basically account for one-third of the population of the Ming Dynasty, if this is reversed, it shows that even if the universal medical care is popular, it only needs to spend one million taels.

However, this is also due to the low cost of treatment.

To put it bluntly, most doctors in this era treat headaches, colds, fevers, trauma and other diseases, plus they have their own medicine fields, and the cost of treatment is not high.

In addition, with the current transportation and technology of Daming, some complex diseases, before people have been sent to the pharmacy, the patient has already driven to the west.

With the development of technology, these diseases with higher treatment costs will slowly appear, and medical expenses will continue to increase.

However, that is a matter of the future, and Zhu Youzhen can't control the things at that time, just like the Huimin Pharmacy in Zhu Yuanzhang's period can only show its skills in Zhu Yuanzhang's period.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Kentang instead: "In your opinion, where do you want to send these doctors?" ”

Wang Kentang was stunned by Zhu Youzhen's rhetorical question, but he quickly reacted and replied:

"If it can, it should be sent to poor and backward places, not to rich and prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River."

Speaking of which, Wang Kentang also explained the reason: "In the rich land of the south of the Yangtze River, as long as the male in the family does not suffer from illness, the male can basically afford the consultation fee when he goes to the city to work." ”

"Since Tai Hospital took over the medicine fields of Huimin pharmacies in various places, pharmacies around the country have never sold medicinal materials, and they are basically distributed free of charge, and only consultation fees need to be charged, so for the rich Jiangnan, they are the place where they don't need free Huimin pharmacies for free."

"According to the opinion of the lower officials, it is reasonable to send these doctors to the three provinces of Duogan, Guanwai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiugang, Jiaozhi, Luchuan and other places."

Wang Kentang's words were said one by one, and Zhu Youzhen also kept bowing his head to express his approval.

When Wang Kentang stopped publishing, Zhu Youzhen also opened his mouth to express his thoughts:

"Duogan's matter can wait a while, these doctors, as well as future doctors, will be sent to the poorer provinces according to what you said, and if the Huimin pharmacies in each province need to be repaired, they will make a list and hand it to Cheng'en, and Cheng'en will send someone to check."

"As long as there is no fraud, we will all agree."

Whether it is ancient or modern, or in the future, as long as people have the conditions, they will go to a good place and prosperous economy.

Where the economy is prosperous, there will naturally be more doctors, which can be seen from the distribution of Huimin Pharmacy in Jiangnan.

Before Zhu Youzhen, there was no example of official training of doctors in the Ming Dynasty, and naturally there was no example of assigning doctors to local governments.

But even so, there are more than 3,600 Huimin pharmacies in Jiangnan, and there are more than 29,000 doctors in the pharmacies.

In comparison, in the entire north before Zhu Youjian, the number of doctors in Huimin Pharmacy was less than 5,000.

Although Jiangnan accounts for nearly two-thirds of the world's population, the entire north, which accounts for one-third of the population, has less than one-sixth of the number of doctors in Jiangnan, not to mention the southwest and the two vast regions.

Therefore, for Zhu Youzhen, it is a waste to concentrate all good resources on the head.

This year, if the more than 3,000 doctors of the Tai Hospital are used in Jiangnan, it will be just the icing on the cake, but if they are deployed to the southwest, the two Guangzhou, the border outside the border, and the old port, it will be called sending charcoal in the snow.

The matter of Tai Hospital was set by Zhu Youjian in this way, not only this year, but every year in the future, the students who graduated from Yanshan Medical College will be sent to remote areas.

After the matter was finished, Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Kentang about the number of medical students.

Not surprisingly, the number of medical students is growing steadily, with about 3,000 to 4,000 graduating each year.

It's just that the knowledge they receive can only deal with ordinary illnesses and trauma, and the more complex ones are not very good.

But even so, it can meet the daily needs of the people of Daming.

Those incurable diseases and diseases that cannot be cured by future generations are still terminal diseases in this era.

After finishing everything, Wang Kentang checked Zhu You's pulse and found no hidden diseases.

After doing this, Wang Kentang saluted and retired, and after Zhu Youzhen also saw him go away, Zhu Youzhen told Cao Huachun and others about other things.

"After the promulgation of the new policy, has there been any movement in Jiangnan?"

"No...... Those gentry and heroes are very honest, and the people do not make trouble, all thanks to the means of His Highness. ”

Zhu Youzhen's inquiry was quickly answered by Cao Huachun, and at the same time, he also admired Zhu Youzhen's methods.

Zhu Youzhen's methods are not difficult, in the past, when the Jiangnan gentry wanted to confront the imperial court, they all fanned the people, tenants and scholars to make trouble, but in this regard, Zhu Youzhen's methods were very simple.

Scholars who dare to oppose the New Deal are not allowed to participate in Enke for life, and the children of the common people who dare to oppose the New Deal are not allowed to enter government schools, and tenants are not allowed to divide their land or relocate.

Each of the three policies is tailored to the needs of each class.

Zhu Youzhen can't ban the imperial examination and ban Enke, but everyone knows that Enke once a year is the fastest way to step into officialdom.

Once they were forbidden to participate in Enko, most of the scholars' lives would be ruined.

As for the children of the common people who cannot go to official school, and the tenants are not allowed to divide the land in the future, these are the lifeblood of the people and the tenants.

Although the official school has not yet been promoted to Jiangnan, Huangdian will publicize the opening of official schools in various places in Jiangnan every day, as well as the time when the imperial court will open the official school in Jiangnan.

As for the division of land, many tenants in Jiangnan got cheap after Zhu Youzhen removed the guard post and divided the land, although it was only two or three acres, but that was also considered a division of land.

If you can't move in the future and don't give you a share of the land, then the tenants will be tenants for the rest of their lives.

More than 200,000 troops are stationed, and three policies are restricted.

Although the gentry in Jiangnan were reluctant and hated in their hearts, they had no choice after all.

Every time they were deflated in Zhu Youzhen's hands, it was because of military power, and Zhu Youzhen firmly controlled this thing, and did not give them a chance to bribe at all.

The Gongwei battalions in each province are rotated, and every time Zhu Youzhen wants to promulgate a new policy, he will be rotated by the Gongwei battalion.

No one in the court dared to oppose Zhu Youzhen, not to mention that he had a deeper grasp of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

As long as no one takes the lead, the local Gongwei battalion will not dare to disobey the yang and the yin.

However, the main reason why the new policy was promulgated so smoothly was that the majority of people supported it.

Except for the big gentry and the big and powerful who own thousands, tens of thousands, tens of thousands of acres, and hundreds of thousands of acres of land, other small and medium-sized landlords, rich peasants, and poor peasants all supported the new policy.

The reason why the late Ming Dynasty collapsed was because of the collapse of the economy, and the essence of the late Ming court was actually to constantly exploit the small and medium-sized landlords and rich peasants who were middle-class, and then bankrupt a large number of small and medium-sized landlords and rich peasants, and finally led to no one in the imperial court, so they were replaced by Li Zicheng.

History has proven that the small and medium-sized landlords and rich peasants, as middle-class people, were very obedient, and there were few rebellions against the late Ming Dynasty.

All rebellions were established against the backdrop of drought and the collapse of poor peasants who gathered into starvation.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen knows very well which faction he wants to pull and which faction he wants to deal with.

small and medium-sized landlords and rich peasants, tenants, poor peasants......

These are the people he wants to woo, as long as these people don't object, those big gentry, big landlords and big tycoons are a bunch of worms.

"It seems that there is basically no problem with the new deal."

got an accurate answer, and Zhu Youzhen responded to Cao Huachun with great satisfaction, but Cao Huachun also said when he saw this:

"Although the promulgation of the new policy is good, there are also many people below who want to fish in troubled waters."

"Since the beginning of the first month, Commander Lu has taken the Jinyi Guard to inspect and arrest hundreds of officials."

"Your Highness, do you see if it's ......?"

"No, let him catch it." Zhu Youzhen interrupted Cao Huachun's words, and he was still very satisfied with Lu Wenzhao's measures to inspect the place.

Officials are caught when they are caught, anyway, in the official schools in the world, there are civilian students who want to be officials with their heads sharpened.

At present, the earliest batch of government schools is already in the fourth grade, but there are still four batches of students in Yanshan Academy, about 260,000 people.

After four years have passed, the Ming Dynasty's reserve officials in Yanshan will be used up, and Yanshan's power will also be weakened.

Four years is enough time for Zhu Youzhen to popularize education in the remaining provinces one by one.

If you want to increase the number of schools (middle schools) and make the school a five-year period, then there will be a two-year semi-blank period in the Ming political arena at most, and then hundreds of thousands of graduates from Beizhili will begin to join Enke's team.

With the addition of the scholars who are preparing for the exam by the people themselves, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to lack officials.

Therefore, there are corrupt officials every year, but there are people who replace them every year, and Lu Wenzhao's existence is equivalent to warning others not to be corrupt officials and not to be corrupt.

Zhu Youzhen thinks that he has given enough money to the officials, not to mention anything else, after the promulgation of the new policy this year, the Ming Dynasty's finances are only 70 million taels, but in terms of the fact that the officials occupy more than 22 million taels, he is already benevolent.

Because of this, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but laugh whenever he heard officials say that the governor's office of the five armies had a lot of expenses.

The officials' salaries were given to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies as military expenses, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies could expand the army to 1.5 million.

Now that the Governor's Office of the Five Armies is disarming in open source, it can be regarded as Zhu Youzhen's preparation for the long-term peace and stability of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

He wants to take down the territory during his tenure, do a good job in the economy of the Ming Dynasty, and then hand over the governance to his brother and nephew, as long as the new policy is not destroyed, the Ming Dynasty can prosper for two more generations.

"What happened to the fleet that set off from Layue? Did you arrive in Yingzhou? What is the situation in the country of Qi? ”

Thinking of the future, Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at Wang Chengen, because he was in charge of supervising this matter.

"The Marquis of Liaodong ordered Liu Zuo to lead his troops to Qi State, and the news three days ago was that he had arrived in Beizhou Capital, and it is estimated that he will be able to arrive in Qi State in April or May this year."

"On the side of Qi State, Jin Xuan sent a clipper ship to send the news back to Yingzhou every month, and from October last year to the twenty-fifth day of the first month, Anling Mansion and Jingzhao Mansion have already cultivated more than 9,000 acres of cultivated land."

"According to your highness's instructions, Jin Xuan has found the local coal mine and gold and silver mines, presumably after these machines and labor reformers are brought over, Qi will be able to be self-sufficient in coal, and can also produce gold and silver."

Wang Chengen replied to everything Zhu Youzhen wanted to know, and Zhu Youzhen was very satisfied with this, but he still asked: "Is there any conflict with the local natives?" ”

"Naturally, there is, Kim Hyun commanded the soldiers and horses to destroy the twelve tribes that wanted to invade, captured more than 20,000 people, all of them as labor reforms, and the labor reform period was ten years."

Wang Chengen talked about the war that happened on the Qi side, but Zhu Youzhen didn't pay much attention to it.

After all, Europeans can conquer the Americas with arquebuses, not to mention the Ming army, which is equipped with artillery and flintlock pistols in batches, and has nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses?

Regarding the arrangement and governance of Qi State, Zhu Youzhen has already told Jin Xuan what to do, and with Jin Xuan's temperament, he will basically follow what he said.

Now Zhu Youjian should pay attention to when the steam ships can be used, how much production can be, and whether it can reach more than three times a year between Daming and Qi.

Only when these standards are met can the Ming Dynasty immigrate to Qi in batches.

In addition, it is a matter in the Northeast, and Zhu Youzhen also needs to deal with it.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen rubbed his eyebrows, and then said to Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun:

"Tell Huang Long to let him rest at home for two years temporarily, and then go over when the Qi country is better built."

"In addition, on the issue of the merit of the Third Northern Expedition, I thought about it carefully, and named Liu Xingzuo as the commander of the Liaodong Soldiers and Horses, and awarded the captain of the light car on the third grade, and Liu Xingpei, Liu Xingji, Liu Xingliang, and other five people who raised troops with him, awarded the soldiers and horses of each city to 100 households and 1,000 households, and awarded the captain of the six-grade cloud cavalry."

"Feng Li Yangeng was appointed as the commander of the Donghai Provincial Soldiers and Horses Division, and he was awarded the rank of lieutenant from the Sanpin Light Car."

Zhu Youzhen finally solved the problems left in the Northeast, Liu Xingzuo and Li Yangeng followed the Houjin army after all, although they belonged to the people who were forced to rebel by the Ming Dynasty, but the bad deeds are here, and Zhu Youzhen is unlikely to let them hold military positions.

Governing the Soldiers and Horses Division, this is already one of the methods he can think of, which can not only appease the two of them, but also have arrangements to prevent resentment in the army.

After arranging everything, Zhu Youzhen just wanted to take a break, but suddenly thought of someone again, so he couldn't help but turn around and ask:

"By the way, when will Li Dingguo return to Beijing?"