The sun shines through the sparse clouds and shines on the tranquil land of Jiangbei.

Unlike the drizzle in the south, as soon as the Yangtze River crossed the Huai River basin, Jiang Xinghuo felt obvious climate change.

"Orange is born in Huainan is orange, born in Huaibei is orange, one side of the water and soil is really raising one person, and the face is a little dry."

"Rubbing some whale oil?"

Cao Song took out a small jar of whale oil, Beizhen Fusi likes to send this kind of thing as a Jinyi Wei welfare, if you don't go to the village and don't go to the store when you go out on a mission, you can not only use it for heating, but also for stir-frying, and you can also wipe it if your skin is uncomfortable.

Although whaling is obviously not conducive to animal and marine conservation, whale oil is the best fuel in this era, so whaling ships often go to the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and the Ming law does not prohibit this.

However, Cao Song can be regarded as a sycophant on the horse's leg at this time, Jiang Xinghuo hates to wipe things on his face the most when it is not necessary, because it will make him feel very strange, of course, if it is a moment of life and death, there is no way to wipe some blood and muddy water, but usually Jiang Xinghuo is still a little clean.

So, Jiang Xinghuo insisted on enduring the feeling that his skin was blown dry by the wind after washing his face, and waved his hand to reject Cao Song's proposal.

Everyone disguised themselves as caravans all the way, from Nanjing to Zhenjiang Mansion, and then crossed the river from Dantu to Guazhou, Jiangbei, and then went north along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Zhangjiagou is located on the east side of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and then to the east is a very large lake Qingshuitan, across the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, is Jieshou Lake, Fanliang Lake, Bishe Lake, Xinkai Lake and a series of lakes that have been filled or drained, which is part of the Song Li's overall management of the Yellow River to seize the Huai into the sea.

The reason why he disguised himself as a businessman was because Jiang Xinghuo planned to stop by and see the implementation of the New Deal in the people with his own eyes.

Because this is the hinterland of the Huanghuai political envoys, we can not only see the promotion of the work of Qingtian, but also see the pilot work of policies such as the progressive tax on household registration, the notary tax on separation, and the integrated payment of grain by the gentry. You can even look at water control.

In short, this place is convenient for transportation, and it is a middle ground between the north and the south, so it is the most suitable place to observe the effect of the New Deal.

And once the Nanjing-Beijing commercial road is to be laid at any cost, this must also be the place of passage.

The villagers of Zhangjiagou saw the dust in the distance, and a group of people and horses came slowly, but they did not panic.

At the time of the Battle of Jingjing, this place was briefly affected, but because it was not a strategic place, the Yan army and the southern army were not interested in it, so they quickly regained calm, even if there was only a little banditry, it was also quelled in the process of suppressing bandits last year, and now although it is not rich, it is at least stable.

Life in the village is as usual, with old people playing leaf cards in the shade of the trees, children chasing and playing in the fields, and women sitting around the stream, washing their clothes and chatting about their daily routines.

However, underneath this calm, there is also an undercurrent that is about to surge.

The convoy pretending to be a caravan stopped here, and there was a tea shop set up by the villagers at the entrance of the village, selling not only herbal tea for a penny and a big fat pot, but also some steamed buns, noodles and other food.

"Ten bowls of noodles."

Board noodles, as the name suggests, is a noodle that is broken on the board, such noodles are particularly glutenous, from the Han Dynasty, the Huanghuai generation especially likes, if you go further north to Shandong, that is to eat steamed buns a little more.

Soon the noodles were served, there was not much seasoning, and it was not very delicious, but Jiang Xinghuo, who had been running around for a long time on the road, ate very deliciously.

"What's this way of eating?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at Zhu Youjiao, who was holding a bowl of noodles and squatting on a bench with garlic to eat, and asked.

"I don't understand."

From the tone of his voice to the subtle expression on his face, Zhu Youjiao was a little underwhelmed: "Emperor Taizu Gao loves to eat noodles like this, especially the noodles in Huaixi." ”

Zhu Youjiao didn't lower his voice, and the stall owner of the tea shop also heard it, and he was directly frightened, and he was so frightened that he didn't hear anything.

After all, although Lao Zhu has been dead for eight years, it is difficult for his residual power to completely dissipate, and it is not uncommon to send himself to prison with a word of arrears.

But Zhu Youjiao is not afraid of these, this rebel can even be reported by his father, and he is still afraid of his grandfather who has already been grounded?

Anyway, when they were studying in the main hall, Zhu Youjiao and Zhu Gaoxu were both the kind that were hung up and beaten by Lao Zhu.

Now that his grandfather is gone, and he can't crawl out of the grave of Zhongshan Xiaoling to beat him, Zhu Youjia is naturally a powerful burial.

As for whether Lao Zhu has this habit, Jiang Xinghuo really doesn't know.

But since Zhu Youjiao said it so eloquently, especially when he made a loud noise when he was talking about noodles, Jiang Xinghuo was inclined not to believe it. Maybe this kid with a backbone in the back of his head is in Hei Lao Zhu.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't like to eat garlic with noodles, but took a few salted duck eggs from the basket put by the stall owner and distributed them to Cao Song, Huikong, Wang Bin and others.

"The salted duck eggs in Gaoyou Prefecture are famous far and wide, try them."

Jiang Xinghuo knocked one and put it in the noodles, double yellow.

"Egg white, egg yolk like agate, red and white, wall and beads, it is really a treasure in the world."

Zhu Youjiao had almost eaten, and suddenly asked, "By the way, Huikong, can you eat duck eggs?" ”

Huikong's chopsticks paused in mid-air, thought about it and asked, "Why can't you eat it?" ”

Zhu Youjiao lowered his voice: "The last time I went to sea, I saw a lot of monks in Nantianzhu, they don't eat eggs, and they don't eat duck eggs if they want to, I asked them why, they said that there is a cloud in the Tripitaka: all eggs are not edible, and there are children." ”

Yao Guangxiao is not a serious monk, and Huikong is obviously not either.

"Our Chinese monks could still eat meat before Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, promulgated the "Broken Wine and Meat Text", what is it to eat a duck egg? What's more, there are no ducks in the duck eggs. Huikong said confidently.

Let's talk about a double yolk egg in one bite.

There was a young man next to him who saw that they were eating happily, and the saliva was about to flow out, so Jiang Xinghuo directly threw a duck egg to him.

"Please."

The young man was dark-skinned, lean and powerful, with muscles hanging from his arms, and grinned and said auspicious words.

"Thank you, your honor, everything is successful!"

However, Jiang Xinghuo's duck eggs are obviously not eaten for nothing.

"Who's the little brother?"

"Southwest of the town of Sanduan." The young man said as he ate his noodles.

"Look like you've just finished your work?"

"Yes, I just came back from filling the lake in the west a while ago, what's the matter, is there a lack of guides for the noble convoy?"

The young man is very clever, and when he looks at Jiang Xinghuo's dress, he knows that he is not a pure businessman, and his elegant temperament is difficult to hide.

"There is no shortage, just talk about it."

Seeing that he was very alert, Jiang Xinghuo snorted and said a few words casually.

That is, the construction site is in charge of eating, whether there are beatings and scolding and other things.

The results were not bad, and when the water was controlled and the dam was built, the basic food of the hired people was not deducted, but beating and scolding were inevitable, but it is said that there were few serious injuries to people. In short, there is still progress compared to before.

After eating, Jiang Xinghuo went to the entrance of the village again, endured the strange eyes of the aunts and the whispers of covering his mouth, and talked with an old man who was picking dung passing by.

"Uncle, how is the situation of the imperial court's requisition and dispatch this year?"

The old man put down his burden, looked at Jiang Xinghuo, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with a smile: "You are the imperial history of Jianhe, right?" I'll tell you the truth, your colleagues have been here several times. ”

Jiang Xinghuo: "."

Jiang Xinghuo finally understood why everything he had encountered when he came here seemed a little strange.

Co-authored River Patrol Yushi has already traveled to this place several times!

However, this is not surprising, this place directly belongs to Gaoyou Prefecture, and it is a supply point along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, there are lakes on the left and right, if the river patrol does not come, it is called a strange thing.

However, the old man was still quite happy and said: "To be honest, when I first heard that manpower was going to be recruited, the people in the village were a little worried, afraid that they would have to do some kind of conscription as before. But later I heard that the imperial court not only paid wages, but also took care of food, and the big guys were very happy. When this dam is built, the river will no longer overflow, and our crops will be secured, which is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people. ”

Jiang Xinghuo asked again with the strange eyes of the aunts, and the reaction was basically the same, but it was not like a unified tone, but more like the real situation.

The control of the Yellow River into the sea is not a day's work, and it requires concerted efforts to succeed, and now it seems that the people are not ignorant.

How did the word "Huang Huai" come from in the Huang Huai Political Envoy Division? The fact is that the people of Huanghuai have been more or less troubled by the flooding of the river, and the policy of the imperial court to control the water is also deeply popular with the people, and the construction of the embankment is also quite smooth on the whole.

At this moment, a group of tax collectors also came to the village, these tax collectors who were later trained and trained did not know Jiang Xinghuo and his party, they just followed the requirements of the new policy, and notified the current tax policy adjustment door to door, especially the progressive tax on household registration, the notary tax on separation, and the gentry's integrated payment of grain.

For a while, there were knocks and conversations in the village.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Xinghuo went to the field again to inquire about the situation of the clearing of the fields here, and the results were very different, because there were not many big landlords here, so the clearing of the fields was quite smooth last year, and the officials also enforced the law impartially.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo stood quietly aside, observing all this.

At present, it is not yet the time to collect the summer tax, and the tax collectors go to the countryside to publicize the tax policy, and the propaganda is the content of the local tax, not the summer and autumn agricultural tax, and the local tax system built by Jiang Xinghuo is currently mainly the progressive tax of household registration and the notary tax of separation, which is equivalent to a variant of the poll tax, which is to create financial resources for the local government and further tear apart the local officials and gentry.

From the point of view of the center, the collusion between the local officials and the gentry is extremely harmful, and the worse the relationship between the two, the easier it is for the center to control the implementation of local policies.

Since these two taxes are directly related to the vital interests of the gentry, according to the requirements of the New Deal, every household must pay progressive taxes according to the number of household registrations, and the division of families needs to be notarized and pay a large amount of taxes, so this is undoubtedly worse for the local landlords who have been picking.

However, although the landlords are dissatisfied, they also know that it is absolutely impossible to resist taxes and not pay them, so they can only hope that the state government will be sympathetic to the people's feelings and make some adjustments to the local tax policy.

However, it is obviously difficult for the state government to change these new policies, especially the political envoys of Huanghuai, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, which are close to the center of Nanzhili.

Besides, even if there is a ability, the local government will not change it, because this kind of mutant poll tax is a trickle of water and long-term business, as long as there are people in this place, it can always be collected, and the local state capital will be replenished with financial resources for expenses, why not?

Subsequently, the tax collectors informed the gentry of the payment of grain.

It's still the points that Jiang Xinghuo mentioned.

"It is strictly forbidden for the lawless gentry to take other people's money and grain to collect and take the lead in resisting grain; It is strictly forbidden for officials and gentry to collude in litigation; Strictly supervise students, and strictly prohibit students from boycotting exams and schools. ”

At present, the matter of the gentry receiving grain in one piece, as well as the establishment of two lists of "lawless gentry" and "lawless students", have been carried out on a pilot basis in Nanzhili, and the Huanghuai political envoy in Jiangbei has not yet carried out a pilot project, and the tax collectors have only publicized and implemented the policy in advance, so that the people and the gentry can have good psychological expectations.

In fact, this is also Jiang Xinghuo's small means in management.

For example, the Qingli New Deal and Wang Anshi's reform of the law are all in full swing, and the new policy decision of Kaifeng today will be implemented in the entire Great Song Dynasty tomorrow, not only lacking pilots, but also lacking information foreshadowing.

It seems to be vigorous and resolute, but in fact, the people below are often at a loss or confused, and they are not psychologically prepared at all.

And Jiang Xinghuo is not like this.

What Jiang Xinghuo wants to do, all the policies are to be piloted in a certain province in the north and south of the country, and then fine-tuned according to the experience of the pilot, and the fine-tuned policy will be promoted to the north and south of the country for another test, until it is confirmed that it is correct, and then it will be promoted to the whole country.

Moreover, before any policy announcement involving the local government, it will be announced in writing and orally through the "Ming Pao" or the tax guard in advance, so that the local people must be psychologically prepared.

But no matter what, the scene of the New Deal in this small Zhangjiagou is still quite interesting.

The propaganda of the tax collectors, the people's business is not their own business, and the helplessness of the gentry and landlords. These situations were all seen by Jiang Xinghuo.

All strata have their own interests, and Jiang Xinghuo is holding a knife to cut interests in his hand, so he naturally has his own considerations.

The implementation of the New Deal is for the long-term plan of the country, but as a policymaker, he also understands that the implementation of the policy needs to take into account the actual situation of the people.

At present, the implementation of the two types of local taxation is still being piloted in several political envoys in Nanzhili and its surroundings, and how to determine the specific tax rate still needs to be piloted two years later, according to the feedback of the political envoys and the actual investigation of the situation, Jiang Xinghuo also decided to think about it carefully to see how to find a balance between the new policy and the people's feelings.

After all, in addition to the gentry in Jiangnan and Jiangxi because of their own financial resources and temple influence, belong to the existence of a unique class, the gentry in other places, especially the gentry in the north, in fact, is not exaggerated in the proportion of land ownership, or the north is not called the gentry, only called the landlord This is no way, since Jingkangzhi is difficult to come, whether it is the Jin people and thousands of households to divide the land, or the Han dynasty of the Yuan Dynasty, they have in fact eliminated the gentry class that can form the monopoly of the Jiangnan gentry by virtue of force.

In the Ming Dynasty, it has been more than 30 years since the founding of the country, and the north is still like this.

To give the most intuitive example, the people who supported Zhu Di, the king of Yan, in the Battle of Jingyan were all small and medium-sized landlords and yeoman farmers in the north, and even many people joined the Yan army with their own swords and bows out of their own pockets.

Why? In addition to the fierce folk customs, it is after the Jingkang disaster that the Huhua in the north is too serious, so that the landlords are not interested in honestly farming and studying, and relying on farming and reading heirlooms to inherit land wealth.

- How can there be a robbery in farming quickly?

You farm, I'll sharpen my knives.

Therefore, the people in the north lack a sufficient amount of landlords, or there is not much "gentry culture" in the north, of course, for the landlords, since it is an agricultural society, it is impossible to have it, but it is said that the people are lacking, and the military nobles actually still occupy a large amount of land.

However, the military aristocrats have a lot of money, and their main source of wealth has been robbing in the past few years, so at present, they don't care about these sprinkling of the progressive tax on household registration and the notary tax on separation, and it is impossible to oppose the new deal because of this trivial matter.

The real opposition voices are the gentry in Jiangnan, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi.

Along the way, Jiang Xinghuo saw many villages like Zhangjiagou, and he continued to go north, Huailou Town, Baoying, Qingjiangpu, Matou Town, Suqian, Xin'an, Xuzhou, Peixian. All the way to Jimingtai, it can be regarded as out of the territory of the Huanghuai Political Envoy Division, and to the territory of the Shandong Political Envoy Division.

In the yamen of the former prime minister of the river in Jining Prefecture, Yanzhou Prefecture, Jiang Xinghuo met Song Li.

I haven't seen each other for more than a year, and the other party has become so black and thin, as if the whole person has been eroded by the sinking sand of the Yellow River.

Song Li's face was already thin, but there was really light in his eyes.

Jiang Xinghuo couldn't help but feel a little emotion in his heart, since he served as the governor of Hecao, this official fan has really worked hard, in order to control the Yellow River, he has been running on the river embankment day and night, fighting against the wind and sand, and fighting against the flood, in exchange for the achievement of the complete purging of the Huai River basin today.

Not to mention anything else, this perseverance and tenacity are really admirable.

"Big Ben, hard work." Jiang Xinghuo was the first to speak, breaking the silence.

Song Li smiled slightly and shook his head: "If you say it is for the country and the people, if you say it is small, it is also for yourself, why talk about hard work?" However, the national teacher is already busy, and this time he has come all the way, which is really not easy. ”

Why Jiang Xinghuo went north, Song Li knew it.

The two looked at each other and smiled, neither of them mentioned their thoughts when they first met in the War Bureau.

Now that Song Li relies on his technocratic ability, he has already stepped into the threshold of Shangshu with half a foot, and he is only half a step away from being a great minister, and he is fully committed to governing the Yellow River, but he has no distractions.

Jiang Xinghuo is also a pragmatic person, he carefully looked at the drawings of the current management of the Yellow River for a long time, and only felt that there were four words - the road is obstructive and long.

The problem of the Yellow River is the result of hundreds of years of accumulation of defects left by the Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties.

"I have gone all the way, the Huaihe River basin has been well managed, the headless lakes in the Yellow Flood Area have been filled, the place where the dam should be built has been erected, the clear water of the Huai River and the turbid water of the Yellow River have been distinguished, and the Yellow River is not easy to clear."

Jiang Xinghuo went north all the way, saw a lot, asked a lot, but almost didn't interfere.

Because he knows very well that many things do not need him to do it himself, such as the current management of the Yellow River, Song Li has worked hard for a year, the difficulty of the project inside, the complexity of communication inside, and the earthen embankment of more than 100,000 zhang. Where is it that he can instruct boastfully after a few glances at the drawings?

The process of setting a system and choosing the right people is like choosing the seeds and soil and cultivating the seeds.

People who raise flowers only need to take care of them carefully, and then wait for the flowers to bear fruit is the right way, instead of pruning and pruning today, turning over the soil tomorrow, it seems that they have done a lot, but in fact, they are all useless.

"Seizing the Huai into the sea is really a hundred years of accumulation, and it is really a lack of confidence to correct the Yellow River back to the old road of Henan and Shandong. The Yellow River is unruly and difficult to manage, which is not trivial. ”

Song Li's words that were a bit bitter could only be said to Jiang Xinghuo.

Song Li has been facing difficulties for more than a year and nearly two years, and the difficulties he has faced are extremely complicated.

First of all, the sediment problem of the Yellow River is the most difficult to manage, because the water of the Yellow River is surging down from the middle reaches of the river with huge amounts of sediment, which not only silts up the river, but also raises all the tributaries and even the riverbed that originally belonged to the Huai River system, threatening the safety of the people on both sides of the river.

Secondly, the water volume of the Yellow River is volatile, sometimes flooding, sometimes drying up, and this extreme change in water conditions also brings great uncertainty to the adjustment of the Yellow River's project to seize the Huai River into the sea. The time for water control is calculated in years, and there are flood periods and dry periods every year, during which Song Li needs to ensure that the new dikes and the old dikes can withstand the impact of the flood; During the dry season, he had to consider how to allocate water sources to ensure the basic flow of the river and prevent the people of Huanghuai from being left without water to irrigate the land.

In addition, the geography of the Huanghuai River Basin is really complex and changeable, which brings great trouble to the site selection and construction of the embankment.

Of course, the most important thing is that the imperial court does not have sufficient funds.

Controlling the Yellow River requires a lot of human, material and financial support, but the financial situation of the imperial court is not optimistic, although the income has skyrocketed, but the expenditure has also skyrocketed, the project of controlling the Yellow River is important, but not so important that it can get an unlimited budget, so it is necessary to save costs everywhere while ensuring quality.

Who can Song Li tell about these difficulties?

He is the governor of Hecao, and is in charge of the Yamen, the prime minister of the river, and the Yamen, the governor of Caoyun, not only the water control project is extremely busy, but also to coordinate personnel up and down, this backbone is really not timid at all, because if he shows no confidence, then I am afraid that the people who follow the Yellow River will be completely panicked, and there is no need to continue to do it.

Jiang Xinghuo knew that Song Li was not asking for answers, but just for confidence, but he still thought about it and gave the other party some suggestions that he came up with after thinking about it.

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a moment and said slowly: "The Yellow River is full of sediment and sediment, and there are too many deposits, and only by harnessing water to attack it can we keep the river unblocked." It is the foundation of the river, but this method needs to be adapted to local conditions, and it cannot be generalized that the sediment of the Yellow River mostly flows in the form of underground current, especially the content of sediment, and its transportation process is extremely calm, and the river in the middle reaches of the Yellow River is often overflowing and clear, and under it, the sediment particles are combined in a bundle or shuttle, and flow close to the bottom of the riverbed. ”

"What do you mean?"

"There is a stage of the method, the control of the Yellow River is not distinguished, the control of the Yellow River into the sea, must use the method of harnessing water and attacking sand, but if you go to the boundary of Shandong, if you want to return the Yellow River to the old road, you might as well spend time to clear the silt under the old road, and then build a cement dam at the key position, and then change the water and sand to the water to return to the trough This word is also thought of on the way when I came, and it is not necessarily appropriate to describe it."

Song Li didn't understand for a while: "Bundle the water and return to the tank? ”

"Yes."

Jiang Xinghuo took the pen and showed Song Li the schematic diagram: "Since we have reinforced concrete, and the old road of the Yellow River is now empty, it is completely possible to clean up the silt first, make the bottom of the river smooth, and then build cement dikes on both sides. The four embankments are the same, but because the cement embankment will not be infiltrated by the Yellow River like the earth-rock embankment, the flood water and sediment can be allowed to enter the wide beach between the embankment and the remote embankment, as long as the beach is low, the sediment will be poured in, and then deposited in it, and then dredged when the flood peak recedes. ”

"I see!"

Song Lijie said: "The turbidity of the Yellow River lies in the sediment, so no matter how clean the bottom of the river is, no matter how firm the embankment is, as long as it takes a long time, the sediment will still accumulate at the bottom of the river, and then continue to form a raised above-ground river." ”

"The main road of the Yellow River is very affected by the rainy season, and there are flood characteristics of soaring and steep falling, so that the center of gravity of the embankment and the remote embankment is alternated with a cement embankment, which can play an effective role in the additional silt and fixed embankment, which is equivalent to when the flood comes, the flood is divided to both sides, and then after the flood peak, the flood water on the beach is bound to return to the river trough, and the silt left in the beach can be dug out, although it cannot completely change the sediment accumulation of the Yellow River, but it can definitely have a considerable effect."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded in agreement: "That's what it means, for controlling the spread of the tributaries of the Yellow River to the point of seizing the Huai into the sea, it is best to use water to attack sand, but for the main road of the Yellow River, it is better to control the water and return to the trough." ”

Starting from the source of the Yellow River, they talked about which old road to choose from the estuary, and discussed the direction of the river, the construction of the embankment, and the siltation of sediment...... Every detail is not missed.

The discussions between the two men were sometimes heated and sometimes peaceful, but they always revolved around how to manage the Yellow River well.

Harnessing the Yellow River is a major matter concerning Henan, Hebei, Shandong, and Huanghuai, with a population of nearly 10 million people.

A peck and a drink, it is not predetermined.

In fact, the matter of "whether to spend a huge price and time to control the Yellow River" had already made up his mind when Jiang Xinghuo simulated the Yuan Dynasty in prison.

No matter how much money is spent, no matter how much time is paid, he has to clean up this mess left by Song, Jin, and Yuan.

In this way, the north and the south can develop hand in hand, and the Ming Dynasty will not be at risk of tearing.

Time passed imperceptibly, and in the blink of an eye, it was already sunset, but both of them seemed to have forgotten the existence of time, and were still immersed in heated discussions.

It wasn't until Wang Bin couldn't help but report that dinner had been prepared that Jiang Xinghuo and Song Li stopped discussing as if they had just woken up from a dream.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at Song Li's dark and thin face, and his heart was full of confidence, with such a big man who was obsessed with river governance having full authority to deal with this matter, the Yellow River's governance plan would definitely succeed.

Starting from Jining Prefecture, I went north to visit the battlefield site of the Battle of Dongchang, and then Jiang Xinghuo turned around and went west to Kaifeng to meet with Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, Zhu Youjiao squirmed and shouted Dad, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, looked at the son who had been floating on the sea for several years and became a monkey, and kicked him out. However, I heard that Zhu Hu secretly wiped his tears afterwards.

Zhou Wang Zhu Hu planted herbs well, most of the palace has become a traditional Chinese medicine farm, not to mention, the outside of the village is also full, all kinds of herbal medicine concentrated planting experience, basically summed up.

Zhou Wang Zhu Hu has been interested in medicine since he was young, and before that, he had completed the compilation of "Baosheng Yulu" and "Pocket Formula", the latter is a similar to the "Guide to Common Chinese Herbal Medicines at Home", which can be described as a detailed and clear prescription category, which is extremely easy to apply.

The major project that Zhu Hu is currently carrying out is to organize a group of doctors and scholars with expertise in Kaifeng, including Liu Alcohol, Teng Shuo, Li Heng, Qu You and others, to compile a huge work of medical summary, that is, "Puji Fang".

The major project of "Puji Fang" has now been basically completed, with a total of more than 100 classifications such as general theory of the square line, luck, viscera, body shape, diseases, women's entry, infants, acupuncture, materia medica, etc., including more than 60,000 prescriptions and more than 200 drawings.

This is not only that, Zhu Hu recruited a group of painters and farmers, specially used to record the whole process of the growth of drugs and some common plants in his traditional Chinese medicine farm, that is, "Saving the Famine Materia Medica", which now records more than 400 kinds of plants and medicines, and different from the traditional works of materia medica, Zhu Hu's description comes from direct observation, not tedious descriptions, only uses concise and popular language to express the plant form, and describes a plant that is accompanied by an illustration, and the picture and text are quite compact.

With this thing, Jiang Xinghuo's dream of centralized cultivation of Chinese herbal medicine to reduce the cost of medicine for the people is really possible.

With his gratitude to Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, Jiang Xinghuo promised that all of Zhu Hu's works, "Baosheng Yulu", "Pocket Fang", "Puji Fang" and "Materia Medica" will be included in the "Yongle Canon/Daming Encyclopedia" in full text, and these books with Zhu Hu's name will become the standard reference books for Daming medicine breeding and physician guidance, and people's home medicine.

But unexpectedly, Zhu Hu didn't have much interest in leaving his name, and only asked for everyone involved to sign it.

In fact, in this world, except for being the emperor, Zhu Hu has almost everything he can have, and he is different from his brothers, he is a person full of high-level interests - promoting medical skills to save lives is what interests him the most.

With the realization of this journey north, Jiang Xinghuo finally arrived in Beijing City, where he had never been in his life, in the midsummer of the fourth year of Yongle.

(End of chapter)