"Imperial examinations?"

Wanli slowly put down the book, intervened and asked, "It's not easy for me to decide, but Doctor Chen will first tell you that after the great disasters and epidemics, you will gain a lot." ”

The imperial examination is not easy to change, but it is not because of the law of the ancestors, Wanli has long felt that some subjects in the imperial examination should reduce the proportion, but this is not a matter of patting the head.

It has nothing to do with the law of the ancestors, nor does it have anything to do with the resistance of the courtiers, but because it is easy for the court to change, and it is easier for the world to be full of emotions.

This is like saying that when the college entrance examination is approached, the test subjects are suddenly changed, and the students must not die in a hurry, the teachers must not be angry, and the parents must not go crazy?

Chen Shigong's words almost made Gong Tingxian, who couldn't sit comfortably next to him, fall down from the chair in fright.

Such a big matter as the imperial examination can be discussed by our little doctor? Besides, it's a doctor thing!

But Chen Shigong just said, how bold does this have to be?

What made Gong Tingxian's world collapse even more was that it seemed that the emperor really planned to hear it?

"The minister looked at His Majesty's summary of the plague over the years, since the Yuan Dynasty, the plague that has been presented to the imperial court has been presented once every eight years on average, and smallpox and big-headed plague are frequent plagues; Since Emperor Taizu expelled the Tartars, the plague reported to the imperial court has been reported to the imperial court once every five years on average, and since the first emperor opened the sea, the plague has entered a period of high incidence along the coast, and the plague has often affected a county, with an average of three plagues per year in the past 17 years. ”

This data was not discovered by Chen Shigong, but by Wanli himself, he summarized these things and handed them to Chen Shigong to see, at this time he heard the doctor talk about it, he nodded and said: "I think this is not because there are few plagues in the Yuan Dynasty, but because their statistics are not in place, the real high incidence of plague is after I changed the year name since I ascended the throne, and there is no trouble in the south and the north captives, and such things as plague can be reported to my imperial front." ”

In other words, Wanli thought that the statistics in the past were unfavorable, and he didn't think that it was a bad thing to find so many plagues, compared to the past when the catastrophe in a county could not be reported to the imperial court, which was precisely his merit.

In the eyes of people in this era, the plague is not a terrible thing, there are too many terrible things in the eyes of people, the plague is not ranked at all, and even the plague itself is difficult to get attention.

People are more afraid of disasters that will bring plagues, military disasters, and rebellions every three years on average. Drought, an average of two years a province drought are you afraid? Floods, the Yellow River will break once in a few years, are you afraid? Flooding more than a dozen counties at once.

How old is the plague compared to this?

"But Your Majesty, the plague is indeed on the rise...... In the coastal provinces, on both sides of the canal, there were more plagues than before, and as far as the ministers knew, the plague was an infectious disease, and the so-called infectious disease could infect people and animals could infect people, and the greater the flow of people, the more intense the plague would be. ”

When Chen Shigong said this, he lowered his head with compassion in his eyes, sighed and sighed: "Times have changed. ”

Times have changed.

There are also many plagues.

In the past, people didn't talk about the township, they didn't go out of the village if they had nothing to do, and they had to carry their bags and household registration when they went to the neighboring villages, and the inspection department had to check them on the road.

With minimal population mobility, a family was infected with the plague, and the neighbors on the other side of the mountain probably died without knowing it, and a plague that could have been huge disappeared silently.

But now it is different, there are so many densely populated factories along the coast, the city has become crowded, and the interaction between people has also become closer, and the sea ships have completed the voyage from south to north through various ports for half a month, and the capacity of the canal has also been expanded to the extreme by official ships and civilian ships.

Wanli suddenly frowned, and he said angrily like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail: "You mean, the first emperor opened the sea wrong?" Do you want to say that if I don't go north to Mongolia, this plague will not be brought back! ”

Chen Shigong didn't say that Wanli had a ghost in his heart.

He had been doubting himself, and he had not shown the summary of the plague over the years to any of the ministers of the court, because he thought that the plague appeared in the Ming Dynasty entirely because of him.

If he hadn't launched the Northern Expedition, this plague would not have been brought back by the wounded soldiers, his empire was experiencing unprecedented extreme weather, extremely cold winters, and continuous drought, he knew that the heavens were constant, and he also knew that the heavens and humans were unreliable.

But he couldn't stand it, and from childhood to adulthood, someone kept whispering in his ear.

It makes him stressed out and irritable.

"Of course, the first emperor is right to open the sea, even if His Majesty does not go to the north, this plague will still be brought into the south of the Great Wall by the northern captives who invaded from the south; However, if Your Majesty does not repair the railway, the plague may break out in Miyun, because the minister has already found that for people, the source of this plague is infected rats. ”

"Despite the great drought for many years, but the ordinary people are still passable, there is no famine in various places, but the rich and poor in Tongzhou gather, and because the people gather in the city to appear people who have no industry and no wealth, their lives are more difficult than the people outside the city, when they are hungry, they catch a mouse and put it in the pot, I am afraid that the hungry belly will not wait for the mouse to cook."

"I want to say that plague is inevitable, but no plague can defeat people, there are indeed stubborn diseases in the world that have no cure, but there is no plague that we can't deal with, even if it can't be cured with medicine stones, we can use blockade and isolation to wait for it to disappear...... Merely. ”

Chen Shigong said: "The empire needs standardized response methods and conform to the rules of the times, Your Majesty saw the situation in Tang Zhizhou, and also knew that those doctors who won the Pillar of the Empire Medal, they are not brave, nor are they incompetent, but they did not survive." ”

"No matter how loyal and brave you are, who will lead the people to isolate the plague when the bureaucrats die of illness, and if the people are infected with the plague, there will be doctors to treat them, but if the doctors are infected with the plague, who else can treat the people?"

"If Zhizhou, who has a good reputation in the local area, can say a word at that time, it will be more effective than the Beiyang military doctor standing at the street corner and shouting for a day - there will be more and more plagues in the future."

Chen Shigong said, "The disease of the Great East Ocean will infect the Atlantic, and the disease of the West will also infect the people of the Ming Dynasty, even if we don't open the sea, the Spaniards and the Portuguese will bring this disease over, the imperial bureaucrats and the common people need to have enough understanding of the spread and prevention of the plague, and the local officials must have standard countermeasures after the outbreak of the plague; Local medical officers and medical households should have at least one standard drug for each condition to be used for treatment; Provinces, states, and counties are also required to have protective equipment for the plague on hand. ”

"In this way, even if there is a plague in the county, state, and government, the county officials, government officials, and medical households can change their equipment at the county government office as soon as possible, block the infected neighborhoods and prevent the plague from spreading, and the medical households can enter the hospital for diagnosis and treatment without fear of dying of the disease, and the symptoms of the disease can be treated immediately, so that there is no need to reproduce the panic caused by a large number of medical households dying of illness and losing the state, and the people can also do a good job of protection at home."

"The more we know about the disease, the more plagues we have, and we are not afraid."

Wanli held his hands and thought for a moment, then raised his head to look at Chen Shigong and said, "You mentioned, you will do it, I want a detailed plan and teaching materials." ”