Chapter 657: Pragmatic for the people, Lu Chuangwang
Lu Si holds Volume 4 of Yin and Yang Medical Techniques in the world's largest encyclopedia ever written.
However, it is not the original manuscript of "Yongle Encyclopedia", but the version rebuilt by Gao Gong, Qu Jingchun, Zhang Juzheng and others during the Jiajing period of the former Ming Dynasty. It has always been hidden in the imperial history books. This is also the Royal Archives of the former Ming Dynasty.
Whether Li Zicheng entered Beijing or Manchuria, the archives of the Royal Historical Building, including the books in the interior, were not destroyed, but many were stolen. Lu Si ordered the prefect of Shuntian Fang Dayou to organize a special person to investigate the matter and make sure to recover the stolen archives and books as much as possible.
The reason why I read Yin-Yang Medical Techniques was mainly because Lu Si decided to set up an institution similar to the later health department outside the six governments, and planned to establish medical departments directly under the central government in Beijing, Yangzhou, Jinan, Xi'an and other places to achieve vertical leadership.
All prefectures, prefectures and counties will also recruit medical talents to set up official hospitals or medical centers. Medical talents recruited by the central and local governments will be given corresponding grades and official positions, making them "civil servants" of the Dashun government. In other words, Lu Si is preparing to squeeze out silver from the small finances of the Dashun central government to recruit a large number of civil servants, so as to provide a solid medical foundation for the reconstruction of the north.
Qianming also has central and local full-time institutions in medical affairs. The central government is the Imperial Hospital, which has positions such as Imperial Medical Supervisor and Imperial Medical Supervisor.
In the local area, prefectures and counties also have special medical department, discipline department, training department and other officials, responsible for the medical and health care in their jurisdiction.
The government agencies also have institutions such as Huimin Pharmacy, Yangjiyuan and Anletang, and their responsibilities are generally pharmacies, nursing homes, and cremation sites.
However, although there were special medical institutions in the Ming Dynasty, the management from the central to local governments was extremely imperfect. Many places either did not have medical department or official positions, or there were officials but no medical treatment, and there were medical treatments but no medicine.
The Central Imperial Hospital mainly treats medical treatment for the palace and nobles. In addition to treating medical treatment, the most important thing is to collect various prescriptions. In essence, it is mainly about treating medical treatment and cannot play a central role in coordinating the development of medicine and promoting the overall medical progress of the country.
It is precisely because of the "paralyzing" of official medical institutions that the people in the Ming Dynasty often went to private clinics, that is, local doctors, and the delivery of children was to invite midwife or experienced women.
In this way, due to the traditional concept of doctors and the cramped nature of the entire industry, medical technology has been passed down in small circles. It would be fine if there is no big plague. Once there is a big plague, China's fragile pharmaceutical industry will be difficult to deal with.
The best proof is that millions of people died of the great plague during the Chongzhen period.
It is easy to conquer the world, but it is difficult to govern the world.
But as long as you grasp three things, it is easy to rule the world.
That is, food, medicine, and learning.
Food is the foundation of people's livelihood, medicine is the auxiliary of people's livelihood, and learning is the wisdom of people's livelihood.
Body, spirit, head.
If you do these three things, Dashun's foundation will be completely solid.
In this way, Lu Si naturally attached great importance to it.
The King of Breakings may be a layman in specific "tactics" and often acts as a hand-off manager, but he always attaches great importance to it in strategy and personally formulates and supervises it.
In the current actual situation, Lu Si formulated the research and protection directions of Dashun medical treatment mainly include plague and obstetrics and gynecology. 60% of the funds allocated by the central government will focus on these two directions.
Although the great plague that has been prevalent in the north has been effectively curbed, it is still prevalent in some areas and is likely to rekindle and make a comeback.
At present, the population data reported by the actual control areas in various places is only about 12 million. If there is a great plague like the 15th year of Chongzhen, nine out of ten households will die. "One lane is more than a hundred families, no one is exempted, and dozens of people are left, and no one survives." Then the new dynasty of Dashun may also become very short-lived.
When Lu Si was visiting the old man in the folk two days ago, he heard those old people talk about the great plague more than three years ago, and he was also disgusted on the spot. He felt that the plague was terrible than natural disasters and man-made disasters. So after he came back, he asked someone to pick up relevant medical books and prepare for the establishment of the Dashun Medical Department.
The importance of this matter is more urgent than building another 100,000 troops and a large army to expedition in the south.
A doctor who wrote "Theory of Plague" and personally experienced the great plague in the 15th year of Chongzhen, Wu Youxing came to Lu Si's sight. This person was recommended by Gao Yigong.
It is said that Wu Youxing had worked as a medical officer in Sun Chuanting's army back then. Later, when Sun Chuanting was defeated, he went to Beijing to participate in the treatment of plague infected people, and proposed a theory of eliminating evil and achieving the original, which was very effective in treating plague.
After the Dashun Army defeated Beijing, the Shun Army also heard about Wu Youxing's deeds, so Niu Jinxing ordered the person to be organized into the army. Later, Wu Youxing fled from Shun Army and wanted to go to his hometown in Wu County, but halfway through the Dashun Shandong Front Army's northern expedition, and he became a medical officer in the second town of the Huai Army.
Gao Yigong heard that King Chuang was more concerned about the plague, so he immediately mentioned Wu Youxing.
Lu Si immediately remembered such a person, so he sent an order to find him, but found that the man was in the second town of the Huai Army and immediately sent him to Beijing.
Some of the medical officials of the Ming Tai Hospital had returned to their hometowns, and some were left in the yamen for appointment by the new dynasty. Most of them became Manchu medical officials. Lu Si ordered all the medical officials captured by various departments, including those brought by the Manchus from outside the pass, to Beijing.
He also ordered the Inner Palace Admiral Gao Qifeng to clear out the former Ming Dynasty inner court institutions such as the Imperial City Wanshou Palace, Xixinsi, Orchard Factory, and Pigeon House. He personally wrote a four-character plaque called "Medical and Helping the World" and hung it. He also discussed with Gu Junen to name the medical institution "Central Medical Bureau" and was the third-rank yamen.
All localities will also establish medical branches, branches, provinces, provinces are the fourth rank, prefectures are the fifth rank, prefectures are the sixth rank, and countys are the seventh rank.
The fixed-level product level is much higher than before, and the central government has allocated funds, so that local medical institutions no longer have no name but are truly playing the role of medical treatment and helping the world.
In addition to the Medical Bureau (institution), there are also central hospitals, hospitals at all levels of provincial prefectures and counties. In addition, there are four branches including medical offices (central and local medical personnel), medical offices (procurement and production of medicine villages), medical offices (combined drug books), medical offices (education, training) and other four branches.
It is also a mere sensation. As long as you have real talents and ability, you can become a medical official.
This is also the practical officer that Lu Si emphasized to Gu Junen.
Since ancient times, Chinese people have longed for being an official, so as long as Dashun gives a real official position, Lu Si believes that the folk doctors will definitely follow it.
Because Wu Youxing is good at plague prevention and control, Lu Si plans to temporarily entrust him to the Medical and Economic Department, and he will be responsible for central-level plague prevention and control. He will propose feasible plans and then start the implementation of the local government to ensure that once plague occurs after the founding of the Dashun Kingdom, it will be extinguished, treated and isolated in the shortest time.
Chapter completed!