Fortunately, Tao Dalin fell ill in Rishenglong and was finally rescued by Suxiao Jiuxin Pill.
Affected by the butterfly effect of the time traveler, Tao Dalin lived for several more years in this time and space. In the original time and space, he died of illness in office in the second year of Wanli at the age of forty-eight.
But in this time and space, one Zhu Yijun paid less attention to the Hanlin Academy, so his burden was much lighter, so he lived longer; the other Zhu Yijun developed the first life-saving drug after time travel, which is "quick-acting heart-saving medicine"
Pill", this pill saved Tao Dalin's life more than once.
Zhu Yijun directed the production of Suxiao Jiuxin Pills because his father had coronary heart disease before time travel and had a heart stent. As a doctor after a long illness, Zhu Yijun naturally wanted to look up the ingredients and side effects of "Suxiao Jiuxin Pills". This knowledge is in
This time and space is used.
At the beginning, Zhu Yijun guided the inner government to make handmade soap, the by-product of which was glycerin. At that time, he also had the idea of producing nitroglycerin.
However, after trying several times, they gave up. One, Zhu Yijun did not understand the preparation process of nitroglycerin and could not give the process; the other was that the purification methods of the Ming Dynasty were not good, and the preparation and purity testing of nitric acid (strong water) were very troublesome.
Therefore, nitroglycerin was not something that could be produced in the Ming Dynasty.
The "Suxiao Jiuxin Pill" in this time and space is still a Chinese patent medicine, and its main ingredients are Ligusticum chuanxiong and borneol. After Zhu Yijun proposed the two main ingredients, all other research and development work was completed by Taiyuan Hospital.
After the establishment of the medical school, it continued to increase research efforts and conducted many comparative experiments. After finally deciding on a formula for mass production, the price was reduced.
Tao Dalin bought the pills in Rishenglong, but he didn't know which version of the recipe the pills were from.
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On the second day of February in the fourth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun, who was fifteen years old, had his hair tied for the first time in the Qianqing Palace.
In the sixth year of Longqing, in order for Prince Wanli to succeed to the throne smoothly, under the arrangement of the seriously ill Emperor Longqing, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others performed a crowning ceremony for him in the East Palace. The ceremony at that time was still very grand.
Although he was crowned, part of Zhu Yijun's hair still hangs down naturally on the back of his head, which means he is not an adult.
This time the hair was tied, and there were no foreign ministers to watch the ceremony. As the legitimate mother-in-law, the Empress Dowager Chen came to Qianqing Palace. In the presence of Empress Dowager Li, Prince Lu, Princess Shouyang, Princess Yongning and other family members, she personally tied off the part of Zhu Yijun's hair that fell on her shoulders.
Comb it upward, put all the hair into a bun, put on a net towel, and then put a black gauze wing crown on him.
——This move means that Zhu Yijun has entered the youth stage from the boyhood stage. The selection of the emperor and the concubine will become the most important political event this year.
In this time and space, Zhu Yijun got involved in political affairs very early and gradually transitioned to personally taking charge of political affairs. The time he spent with his younger brothers and sisters was very short. As the saying goes, being near is not inferior, and being far is powerful. These younger brothers and sisters regard him as the emperor rather than the elder brother.
Many times, I was a little afraid of him - King Lu was especially afraid of him.
In the past two years, after Zhu Yijun tightened his grip on power, he also strengthened his education for King Lu and found several strict teachers for King Lu to teach him the principles of life and work. Empress Dowager Li saw that the emperor was not defensive about King Lu,
I was even more pleased.
Zhu Yili was five years younger than Zhu Yijun and was ten years old this year. Seeing that the emperor had already tied up his hair, he was very envious. When the ceremony was completed, he was the first to ask: "Brother, the emperor is going to choose a concubine this year. I don't know what kind of concubine he will choose."
Princess sister-in-law?"
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun smiled and touched his head and said, "I'm not anxious yet, but you are?"
When the two queen mothers, Chen and Li, heard that the emperor did not say that it was all up to the mother to make the decision, they looked at each other and smiled bitterly in their hearts - because the emperor had already taken charge of the government before the wedding, the selection of the concubine really could not be decided solely by the so-called "parents".
destiny".
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On the third day of February in the fourth year of Wanli, the emperor met with Ma Shengming and Princess Leping respectively. He praised Ma Shengming for going up the embankment to fight the flood, rewarded him with an official promotion, and gave him fifty taels of silver, both inside and outside. Ma Shengming communicated with tears,
Kowtow and thank God without mentioning it.
Zhu Yijun's visit to Princess Leping was also very short. He found that Princess Leping had a good appearance and was very happy. He briefly exchanged a few words. Seeing that the princess was too nervous to speak, he said no more. He personally led her there.
Meet Queen Mother Chen.
Empress Dowager Chen was childless for half her life. Although all the children of Emperor Longqing were nominally her children, Empress Dowager Li's biological mother was higher than her in the harem power list. Therefore, for Empress Dowager Chen, in addition to the emperor,
There is no child to support her.
The emperor was busy with political affairs and had little time to spend with her. Although he had mahjong as a spiritual sustenance, he still felt a little sad occasionally. Now that the emperor has adopted Princess Leping and raised her under the name of the Queen Mother Chen, the Queen Mother Chen really has some small expectations in her heart.
When I met Princess Leping, I saw that although she was unfamiliar with etiquette, she did not have the squeamishness of a royal noblewoman, and her temperament was very simple. When she followed the emperor's instructions and changed her name to Queen Mother Chen, she did not feel sluggish.
Like it very much.
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After Zhu Yijun tied up his hair, he issued the first edict, which was to draw the bottom line for the choice of concubine to the government and the public.
On the third day of February, the day Princess Leping entered the palace, Zhu Yijun issued an edict to prohibit foot binding: "Women's foot binding may have started in the Five Dynasties, and it was rare before Xining. After the Southern Song Dynasty, the genteel scum and the well-dressed owls actually regarded small feet as beautiful.
The world has become very bad. In recent years, everyone has done the same thing and mutilated their limbs without feeling any shame. How can the girls in the world be blamed?"
"It is forbidden for all women in the world to bind their feet. Those who have already bound their feet will be released and will not be bound again."
The edict stipulates that after the sixth month of the fourth year of Wanli, all officials in the world who are above the level of a living member and whose immediate family members have women with bound feet will be dismissed from office and their honors and titles will be taken away after being reported and verified.
Beginning in the sixth month of the fourth year of Wanli, some women were forced to have their feet bound, and their fathers, brothers or husbands were given eighty sticks and flowed to the northeast.
Taking the twenty-fifth year of Wanli as the basis, all children born after that will not be allowed to participate in the imperial examination if their aunt or biological mother is not born in heaven.
The last part of the imperial edict was: "The parents dare not damage the body, hair and skin. This is the beginning of filial piety. But parents are so kind that they would rather not feel pity when they see their children crying? Now the Heavenly Heart of the Supreme Body has issued a strict decree, and there is resistance.
Those who disobey the decree will be investigated and punished!"
After this edict was issued, it aroused a lot of criticism among scholars and the people. However, a series of articles, jokes and serial novels in the "Jingshi Daily" and "Huangming Nanjing Daily" finally exaggerated the public sentiment and regarded small feet as enemies.
status, and the example set by the royal family and court officials ultimately played a role in leading public opinion.
The exact origin of the bad custom of foot binding before the Qing Dynasty has been quite controversial in later generations. A common theory is that women's foot binding before the Qing Dynasty did not break the foot bones like in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, and the feet were awl-shaped.
However, under the influence of the aesthetic concept of small feet as beauty, many women in the Ming Dynasty also had reverse foot binding, with slender feet and upward toes as beauty, the so-called "pointy and curled, with a pair of crested heads". This is certain.
After Zhu Yijun traveled through time, he also asked the maids in the palace and found out that footbinding had become a common phenomenon among women in the north. However, in order to serve the nobles conveniently, all women entering the palace must relax their feet after entering the palace - After the two empresses Chen and Li entered the palace
That is to say, it is a half-day foot.
Because he was afraid of giving unnecessary thoughts to the palace ladies around him, Zhu Yijun did not let them take off their shoes to take a look, but only asked how old they were to have their feet bound and how to bind them - the palace ladies who were asked recalled that they were all miserable and said that the pain was unbearable.
The issue of women's liberation was also an issue that Zhu Yijun wanted to vigorously solve. Therefore, taking advantage of the election of the concubine, he first issued a ban on foot binding to pave the way for the future.
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Just one month after the ban on foot binding was issued, the Royal Medical College opened a new campus in March of the fourth year of Wanli and established a women's school, specializing in gynecology and nursing. It offered free admission to private students and provided lunch.
There were many poor people in the capital, who were trying hard to send their daughters to the Royal Medical College. However, because the admissions required literacy and sentence breaking, most of them were not selected, and the medical school did not recruit enough students. Later, the medical school had to first
A preparatory course was established to solve the problem of basic education for enrolled girls.
This preparatory school is the first girls' school in China. In order to choose teachers, Zhu Yijun also worried about it for a while. Later, the two empress dowagers sent a group of palace ladies who taught the princes and princess etiquette in the inner palace and eunuchs in the inner study.
This solved the problem of insufficient teachers in preparatory schools.
As a result, the news spread, and the family of officials in the capital was also in a sensation - where can I find such a good thing that my daughter can receive an imperial education?
As a result, the preparatory course originally planned to enroll 100 students, but when it was expanded to 300, there were still people crowded in. The medical school had no choice but to resort to the tactic of donating bursaries. Women from official families were admitted in order from high to low according to the amount of bursaries, and they recruited again.
Two hundred people.
A girls' school with a class of 500 students is considered to be quite large. When it comes to the safety of students and the protection of men and women, the medical school is very cautious. After requesting the decree, a school bus system was set up - all female students are uniformly transported between home and school.
They were picked up and dropped off by carriage, and officers and soldiers sent by Shuntian Prefecture were protected along the way.
As expected, the idle people in the capital gathered around the school gate and the school bus for several days to watch the excitement, but due to the tight security, they didn't see anything, so they dispersed.