"Mother, slow down......"

In the Qianqing Palace, the hall at this moment was filled with a strong smell of herbs, and in the bed, Zhu Di's rough big hand held a thin arm.

The blood vessels on the arms are clearly visible, and the thin ones can't hang the flesh.

Sitting on the side, Zhang, as the eldest daughter-in-law, was feeding medicine to the owner of the arm on the couch.

This is the fourth year after Empress Xu suffered from breast cancer, although the imperial doctor of Tai Hospital and the doctor of Yingtian Hospital said that she could live between five and ten years, but judging from the current situation, Empress Xu's situation obviously cannot support it for ten years, or even ......

"How is my mother's condition?"

Outside the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Gaochi nervously asked the doctors of Yingtian Hospital and Tai Hospital, and the two medical officers looked at each other when they heard this, and finally said:

"His Royal Highness's illness has entered the middle and late stages, even if there is physical therapy and medicine stones to help, but ......"

The two of them were spitting, and Zhu Gaochi looked anxious: "Say! ”

"The longest is three years, the shortest is less than one year...... the medical officers gave the results head-on, which made Zhu Gaochi feel like he was struck by lightning.

He stayed where he was, sat down slowly on the ground, speechless for a while.

Seeing him like this, Zhu Gaoxu, who was standing behind him, waved his hand: "You guys stand down." ”

"Yes," the two medical officers were relieved, and hurriedly left after returning the salute.

Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Gaosui had already learned about their mother's situation, but Zhu Gaochi had just learned about it and couldn't accept it for a while.

"Boss, don't sit on the ground, it's cold on the ground."

Zhu Gaosui helped Zhu Gaochi up, Zhu Gaochi also reacted, and hurriedly looked at Zhu Gaochi: "Second child, mother, do you have any way to do this?" ”

"......" Zhu Gaoxu was speechless, what could he do.

If he could even cure his illness, then Da Ming's technological progress would not be so slow.

"This matter can only depend on the mother herself."

Zhu Gaoxu gave a difficult answer and continued: "I set up a hospital in Annan early and specialized in breast cancer, but to this day, there is still no progress. ”

"Even if it is early breast cancer, I have not lived for two years after surgery, not to mention that my mother is already in the middle and advanced stages."

"In the current situation, my father and I don't dare to gamble ......"

What he said is true, in this era of antibiotics, surgery itself is a very risky thing.

Although there were no problems in the short period of time after the operation, most of the breast cancer patients who were operated on by Annan died of wound suffering when the wound became infected and alcohol disinfection could not curb the inflammation of the wound.

Zhu Gaoxu, who got these results, really didn't dare to use the operation on his mother.

He had medical school research on penicillin and various anti-inflammatory drugs and anesthetics very early.

In particular, in the Cochin Hospital, where surgery is frequent, morphine, as a narcotic drug, was successfully extracted from the opium poppy under the reminder of Zhu Gaoxu, and this step alone is 500 years ahead of world medicine.

In addition, the magnification of the microscope has been continuously improved by hand polishing in order to observe germs, and it has now reached the level of 500 times the pitch, which is the progress of the early 18th century.

Although it is not yet 1,500 times the level of optical microscope in later generations, for Daming, this level of microscope is enough to use.

Under Zhu Gaoxu's reminder, the research of blood types is also on the right track, and Jiaozhi Hospital divides blood types into four conventional blood types: A, B, C (A), and B (AB), as well as the more special D (RH) blood type.

For Daming's glazed technology, firing test tubes is not difficult, and it is not a problem to mix plasma according to blood type.

The only difficulties were the needles and blood vessels, but in this case, the artisans made the syringes out of aluminum needles, which were poured and molded, and then pierced through the tubes with fine, hand-polished needles to make hollow needles.

Although the resulting material is very crude, it can still be used as long as it is properly sterilized, but the blood transfusion process must be very slow, because the needle is too large and it is easy to make mistakes if you are not careful.

These various simple situations mean that even promotion needs to be carefully considered, and Zhu Gaoxu naturally will not apply them to his own mother.

"What about that mother?"

Zhu Gao's nose was sour, and tears gradually blurred his vision.

He turned around and wiped his tears, and when he turned back, neither Zhu Gaoxu nor Zhu Gaosui could give an answer.

Obviously, Empress Xu's situation can only rely on herself.

How long she can live can only depend on herself, except for Guo Yan and Zhu Gaoxu, no one knows how much Queen Xu has suffered.

She was supposed to pass away in July last year, but due to the timely physiotherapy and the strong desire to survive, she survived until now.

Guo Yan takes care of her every day and naturally understands her situation.

She always smiles at Zhu Di, even if she is tired, she will squeeze out a smile and not let Zhu Di worry, but only she can feel how much she bears behind her.

"Boss, second, third!"

Zhu Di's voice came from the hall, Zhu Gaochi wiped away his tears, and hurriedly took the lead and walked in.

They walked into the temple and stood in a row, but without exception they all bowed their heads.

Empress Xu has been helped up, and her once tall figure has become a burden, and her weight of less than seventy catties makes her cheeks sunken and yellow, and her eyes are deep.

Even so, she smiled and said, "Come forward, I'll take a look." ”

"Yes......" The three of them had a sour nose, but they still stepped forward one after another, kneeling willingly in front of the stepping bed.

Seeing this, Empress Xu stretched out her thin hand, touched the top of the three of them, and motioned for them to raise their hands and put their hands together:

"Mother has nothing to say, I just hope that you three brothers are well."

"I'm already very happy to see you together, and in the future, you will be the emperor, and you will take good care of your eldest brother and third brother......

"Mother, I know, you can rest well." Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but rub his sour nose, but Queen Xu shook her head:

"If they do something wrong, whether you can let it go or let it go, it's your own family."

"Okay." Zhu Gaoxu nodded in response, he really couldn't bear to listen to his mother's weak voice.

Even if his hearing is as sensitive as his, he still needs to concentrate to hear, and the eldest and third are kneeling and taking a step forward, so that they can hear Queen Xu's words clearly.

The two brothers with shallow eye sockets couldn't hold back and shed tears one after another.

"Okay, I'm fine, you all go down, and I won't have home-cooked food with you today."

Empress Xu seemed to feel something, not only let the three brothers leave, but Zhu Di was all taken away by her.

Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochu, and Zhu Gaosui all understood, but Zhu Gaochi was unwilling, but Zhu Gaochu directly picked it up and dragged him out.

"Second brother, don't drag me, I want to accompany my mother again."

Zhu Gaochi cried like a pig, Zhu Gaosui directly lifted his two legs when he saw this, and the two brothers carried him out.

After putting him down, seeing that he was going inside, Zhu Gaoxu reminded: "Mother's milk rock is bleeding pus and blood, I need my sister-in-law and Yan'er to help me change the gauze, why are you going in?" ”

"Huh?" Zhu Gaochi's crying expression paused, wiped his tears and complained: "You don't tell me either." ”

"I still have to tell you in front of my mother?" Zhu Gaoxu was speechless.

"That's right." Wiping his tears and snot, Zhu Gaochi stood in place and waited.

After a word, a basin of sewage stained with pus and blood was brought out, and it was still soaked in gauze, and the blood scale and pus on the gauze were serious, Zhu Gaochi was the first time to see it, and he almost retched out, but fortunately, Zhu Gaosui quickly covered his mouth.

"Take a deep breath, it's like this the first time, it's normal."

Zhu Gaochu glanced at it, and only then did he withdraw his gaze when he saw Zhu Gaochi swallowing.

Soon, Guo Yan, who wiped his hands clean, walked out and said to Zhu Di and the three brothers: "Mother said, let my father and you go back to deal with government affairs first." ”

"As long as I am accompanied by my eldest brother and sister-in-law and third brother and third sister, I will stay."

"Okay." Zhu Gaoxu knew that his mother had a lot of things to tell the boss, so he looked at Lao Dao:

"I'll leave it to you on my mother's side, you are the eldest son, you have to take good care of your mother's emotions."

After that, Zhu Gaoxu looked at the third child again: "Third child, keep an eye on the boss, don't let him howl like killing a pig, disturbing the peace of his mother." ”

"Okay, second brother, don't worry, I know how to do it." Zhu Gaosui grinned.

"Dad, let's go."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Di, who had been sitting silently on the side, Zhu Di also got up when he heard this, took a complicated look at the dormitory, and finally turned around and walked out of the hall.

Zhu Gaoxu followed, and the father and son took the foot to the Wuying Palace.

After they left, Zhu Gaochi pouted: "This second brother, training me is the same as training my son." ”

"Who made you lose your score." Zhu Gaosui added oil and vinegar, Zhu Gaochi came back to his senses and glared at him: "You call the second brother the second brother, and I will be the boss if you call me?" ”

"We are both princes, why do we care about so many things when we are on an equal footing?"

Zhu Gaosui's wings hardened, and Zhu Gaochi also put his two hands in his sleeves when he saw this: "Alas, it's really new people who are better than old people, I think you and I were in the house back then, and you had to call you big brother whatever you wanted to eat, but now it's ......."

"Come on, hurry up and get in, my mother misses you!"

Pushing Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaosui walked into the dormitory first.

Zhu Gaochi shrugged his shoulders and said to Guo Yan on the side: "Look at it, the third child is so virtuous." ”

After that, he also followed and walked in, only Guo Yan watched the two of them play treasure and snickered from behind.

She can feel that her mother's mood should be much better these days, after all, with these two living treasures, it is hard not to be happy.

Compared with her own mother, she is more worried about Zhu Di and her husband.

Thinking of this, she glanced outside the hall, but she couldn't see the backs of the father and son.

On the shaking step, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu didn't say a word, until Buyu came to the front of the Wuying Palace, and saw several scholars waiting in front of the Wuying Hall and the six scholars waiting in the palace, Zhu Di said: "You can watch and deal with it yourself for a while." ”

"Hmm......" Zhu Gaoxu responded, obviously Zhu Di hadn't come out of Queen Xu yet.

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live......"

The ministers saluted, and Zhu Di just responded lightly and walked into the hall.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu forcibly raised his spirit and greeted: "Come in." ”

Under his orders, the ministers walked into the hall, and Zhu Di also came to his place and sat down.

Zhu Gaoxu sat aside, and the ministers all stood.

This is not the Chunhe Palace, and there are chairs to sit on when you go to the Chunhe Palace, but you can only stand in the Wuying Palace.

"Your Majesty, the scholar of the Chen's Palace, Xie Jin, has something to do."

As soon as he entered the Wuying Hall and sat down, Xie Jin, who was bored with himself, took the initiative to stand up.

After coming back to recuperate for a few months after the Second Northern Expedition, Xie Jin was not as embarrassed as before, he finally had some meat on his body and returned to his previous demeanor.

Although Zhu Gaoxu hated Xie Jin's always high-minded posture, he still frowned: "Accurate." ”

Zhu Di didn't say a word, and Xie Jin could only sort out himself and start to do things when he saw this.

"The palace has calculated the situation with the household department, the official department, and the Ministry of Industry for this year, and we all think that the garrison in the west can be reduced as appropriate, such as reducing the 6,000 soldiers and horses under the rule of Duogandusi to 4,000 first."

"Although only 2,000 soldiers and horses have been reduced, it can save nearly 100,000 dollars in money and food."

"Besides, the local post roads and post stations have basically been built, and there is no problem in transferring 2,000 soldiers and horses back to Sichuan."

"If the land of the West encounters an enemy, you can also directly transfer troops from Chengdu Mansion to Lasa to prepare for the enemy."

Although they also knew that the imperial court could obtain tens of thousands of horses from the Xifan, in their opinion, as long as they controlled the post roads and the tea and horse trade, it was indeed a waste of money and food to garrison too many troops.

"The garrison in the land of Xifan can be reduced, but not now, we must wait until the post road and post station are fully completed, and then I will reduce the garrison of Xifan to 7,000, Dogan 4,000, and Uszang 3,000."

Zhu Gaoxu dismissed the idea of the courtiers represented by Xie Jin, and Xie Jin continued to act when he saw this:

"If so, then the minister will explain to the courtiers, and at the same time there is one more thing to be played."

"Say." Zhu Gaoxu was too lazy to talk nonsense with Xie Jin.

"Since Fu An and the others have returned to China safely, Zheng He and Chen Xuan should continue to go to the West instead of staying in Kurumus."

"In addition, the imperial court has arranged a lot of subordinate national pavilions and officialdoms overseas, and there are even garrisons in Ceylon, which consumes a lot."

"In the recital that Zheng He and Chen Xuan played a few days ago, they also specially asked the imperial court to increase the number of naval troops to 12 guards, and His Majesty also gave Zhu approval."

"At present, the Navy has also increased overseas subsidies, ten times a year, and the minister wants to ask, is this too much?"

After Zhu Gaoxu's adjustment yesterday, the navy's money is now 20 stone of rice and 18 yuan of money, and as for cloth and cotton, it has been cancelled, after all, the navy does not lack these things, and they can easily buy goods wherever they are, but the officers and soldiers in the interior are not very good.

"I have calculated the amount of money for the navy, 67,200 people, 1.8 million guan after the money and grain are converted, and 2 million guan after counting the maintenance of the fleet."

"This money is nothing to the imperial court, and the benefits brought by the navy are not a lot."

"The annual gold production value of Luzon is more than 12,000 guan, and it can reach 20,000 guan if you count the commercial tax."

"The old port can collect nearly 500,000 yuan in taxes every year, and there are nearly 60,000 stone taxes and grains."

"The government and trade revenues of the Japanese market and the government can reach nearly two million yuan, which together are not only enough to pay for the navy, but also to maintain peace along the coast."

"Now that the coast is peaceful, the imperial court can also dismantle many coastal guards."

"I have calculated, there are twenty-two guards along the coast, if they are all changed to the people and the war is changed to soldiers, then after integration, twenty-two counties can be newly placed and six guards can be retained."

"The reduction of more than 80,000 troops alone can save nearly 600,000 yuan of money, grain, cloth and cotton for the imperial court."

"In this way, does Bachelor Xie still think that the two million yuan for maintaining a navy of more than 60,000 people is very expensive?"

Zhu Gaoxu's answer was reasonable, and Xie Jin couldn't find any thorns, but he was very aware of the independence of the navy, so he said:

"The navy is lonely overseas, only the generals' relatives are in the capital, if there are generals who have different intentions in the future, they can completely divide overseas and become a country of their own, which is not conducive to the imperial court."

Xie Jin's words are the worries of emperors throughout the ages.

Before there were telegrams and telephones, it often took ten days and half a month for a letter to be sent thousands of miles away from the sea.

Such a long period of information transmission usually means that the imperial court cannot obtain first-hand information about the local area, and if a general plots a rebellion, it is very easy for an overseas island to be divided.

However, Zhu Gaoxu also thought of this early, so he asked Xie Jin: "Where is the shipyard of the imperial court?" ”

"Gangnam." Xie Jin's heart sank, and Zhu Gaoxu asked again: "Is there a shipyard overseas that can manufacture more than 1,000 warships?" ”

"No ......" Xie Jin lowered his head, and Zhu Gaoxu continued: "Can you cast artillery overseas?" ”

"Can't ......" Xie Jin returned the salute and no longer refuted Zhu Gaoxu.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also spoke: "The life gate of the navy is already in the hands of the imperial court, as long as the imperial court gathers manpower and material resources and constantly iterates on warships and artillery, then the so-called rebellion of the navy is not a problem." ”

"If it really comes to the time when the overseas division is really carried out and the imperial court is unable to send troops to suppress it, then I am afraid it will already be the end of the dynasty, why care about overseas territories?"

Zhu Gaoxu's words were a little unlucky, but everyone was used to him thinking about things in a bad way, so he didn't refute them.

It's not that they can't refute him, but it's useless to refute it, anyway, this father and son have money and soldiers, and they don't nod their heads, and everyone else talks like a fart.

"Your Majesty......"

Liu Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, took the initiative to come out and saluted: "Does the imperial court need to send troops to recruit troops to prepare for the Khan throne with Ghost Lichi?" ”

When it came to the things in the north, Zhu Di barely mentioned a trace of spirit, and he took a deep breath to calm down and said:

"Although the Ghost Power Chi has no more than tens of thousands of troops and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, it will not be easy for Benjamin to defeat him, unless Warat and Tatar help him."

"From the Thousand Households of Hailaer in the north, there is news that Alitai of Tatar has met and fought with the tribes of Waramaham in the lower reaches of the Yuma River."

"In my opinion, Mahamu should want to conquer Tatar and unify Mongolia."

Zhu Di said, Liu Jun hurriedly said: "The relationship between Mahamu and Taiping and Bald Polo is not very close, as far as the current situation is concerned, the imperial court can send envoys to appease Taiping and Bald Polo, so that Mahamu can be alone." ”

"Unlikely." Zhu Di vetoed Liu Jun's idea and continued:

"If Warat can really conquer the Tatars under the leadership of Mahamu, then the Taiping and the Vulture Polo will also benefit, and they will not be willing to submit to the imperial court."

"I am ready to order Wang Yi to lead the Daning cavalry to Hailaer Qianhu to respond to Alitai, and temporarily block Mahamu's attack."

"When the imperial court is a little more stable, I will personally lead the troops to Mobei and clean up the three wild dogs of Mahamu."

"As long as you take them in, they will be as honest as Alitai."

"When the time comes, the imperial court only needs to balance Mobei and wait for the time."

Zhu Di said that in the end, he couldn't help but look at Zhu Gaoxu, obviously thinking that he couldn't wait for that day, but Zhu Gaochu had this time.

In Zhu Di's opinion, if it is Zhu Gaoxu, then it is still very feasible for the imperial court to manage Mobei weakly.

However, Zhu Di underestimated Zhu Gaoxu, and all Zhu Gaochu thought about was actual control and strong restraint.

"How many prisoners are there in the imperial court this year?"

Zhu Gaochu asked Liu Guan, the new secretary of the Criminal Department, Liu Guan was nearly fifty years old, but he was very good at looking at eyes, so when Zhu Gaochu opened his mouth to ask, he thought of Zhu Gaoxu's thoughts, and hurriedly said:

"There are more than 16,000 prisoners in total, but there are still more than 60,000 captured Changshan barbarians on the Annan side."

He mentioned Changshanman, and Zhu Gaoxu said after hearing this: "Transfer the domestic prisoners to the Haila'er Thousand Households, and promote Haila'er as a guard." ”

"As for the 60,000 barbarians in Changshan, they were transported to Ryukyu Province, and the port found in the northern part of Ryukyu Province was placed in Keelung Port and Keelung County."

"Eliminate the Fujian Pinghaiwei and Quanzhou guards, integrate the soldiers into Keelungwei, stationed in Keelung Port, and be responsible for managing Changshanman's burning of mountains and forests in the local area, and collecting grass, trees, and soil ashes."

"In addition, the shipyards in Longjiang, Hangzhou and other places were ordered to build 100 horse ships, set up patrol guards, and full-time saluvite from coastal islands to Chongming Island."

"The grass and wood ash collected by the Ryukyu Prefecture was also transported to Chongming Island, and from next year, Songjiang and Suzhou will be the two pilot governments of the Jiangnan New Deal."

"From now on, the people of Suzhou and Songjiang will be registered and the fields will be measured."

"Before June, anyone who took the initiative to report his own acres of land and applied for measurement was not responsible for the crime of concealing the number of acres and acres of land in the past."

"Those who are overdue for six months will be dealt with strictly according to the "Da Ming Law"!"

When one after another decrees were issued through Zhu Gaoxu's mouth, the ministers were happy and worried.

The happy thing is that most of them have gotten the news and purchased fields in Susong Erfu early, and they are undoubtedly the beneficiaries of this new policy pilot.

The worry is that they feel that since the second Susong Mansion has started the pilot, it may not be too long before the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are fully piloted.

If this news comes out, the entire Jiangnan is estimated to be noisy, and the squires and wealthy families below are estimated to put pressure on them.

What if it's just pressure, or what about them?

In the face of the father and son who were rich and soldiers, they were really powerless to fight back, even more powerless than in the Hongwu years.

Zhu Gaoxu's new policy, they can't interfere from the source, and they can't change the status quo.

Even if they can intervene in Liaodong and the Bohai Sea now, it will be too late in time.

They are not only facing the father and son, but also a quietly rising emerging force behind the father and son.

In the eyes of Xie Jin and others, the father and son have undoubtedly cultivated a terrifying existence......

(End of chapter)