System, help me become the empress

Chapter 192
A few days later, Meng Mansion.

"Master Meng, you really have to help me this time."

Since Rong Yingran left, Minister of Rites He Liu has been very busy. He has the best relationship with Meng Zhiqian in the court, so of course he came to him for help.

Meng Zhiqian put down his military book and asked, "How do you want me to help you?"

He Shangshu was speechless, holding his forehead with one hand, and said after deliberation: "Let Rong Yingran come back."

"I'm afraid not."

"Then help your Majesty to discuss some funds for running a secondary school."

He Liu couldn't figure out how Rong Yingran was able to manage the 'Public School' and 'Shangjing University' so well even though he couldn't apply for funding from the court many times.

The location of middle schools in remote areas has just been decided, and more and more problems are coming one after another. The funds for purchasing supplies for middle schools, local teachers cannot keep up, and there are very few families who can support the expenses of going to middle schools.

It would be fine if He Liuguang was worried about middle school. The first year of university courses would end in two or three months. He had to lead these college students into different subjects and improve the construction of different schools.

Even though he was so busy, Yu Tan from the Ministry of Officials came to him every day to ask him for the school running data of the local public school, saying that it would be used as the scoring standard for the examination of local officials!

How can he find time to collect data? !
I can only stay behind closed doors and hide as much as possible.

"How much money do you still need?"

He Liu remembered the 50 taels of silver that Rong Yingran had applied for before, and hesitantly discounted it in half: "First, 20 taels?"

20 silver, at least enough to last until Rong Yingran came back.

"Let me help you find out when Minister Rong will return to Beijing." Meng Zhiqian shook his head. Now even the funds and food for the Ministry of War's attack on Ming Mi came from Jiangnan, and Shangjing couldn't afford any money at all.

"Well, even if Rong Yingran comes back, the Ministry of Rites still has to deal with the problem of insufficient funds. I don't know why His Majesty lost his temper this time."

"I really don't know why? Then why didn't you ask He Muqing in the hall?"

"It's not suitable."

Meng Zhiqian hit the nail on the head to point out the key point: "Because you think she is rebellious and difficult to control, even if this person is very capable, you still don't like her. From your personal point of view, there is no problem, but His Majesty can't bear it. The six ministers only want people who can be easily controlled, which will only encourage the trend of gang formation in the court, and His Majesty will also worry about whether the power will be emptied."

"When you were in the court, you didn't say you wanted her to go to the Ministry of War."

"..."

Naturally, Meng Zhiqian felt that it was inappropriate, but it was not because He Muqing was rebellious. To say rebellious, when he was studying, he was more disobedient than anyone else.

He Liu also regretted it unceasingly. If he had known earlier that Rong Shilang was burdened with so much work, he would have snatched a few juniors with outstanding abilities to train them up: "Master Meng, what about the funding?"

Meng Zhiqian thought for a long time before speaking slowly.

"Since the Ministry of Officials is conducting examinations, it can naturally find out many officials with problems. Yu Tan asks you for public school data, then you can control Yu Tan for corrupt officials. Yes, there is still some possibility for you to ask His Majesty for funds."

"Okay, just do it!"

Besides He Liu, Yu Tan also went to Bao Changnian for help.

It is easy to say that the method of examination is successful, but how many officials would he offend if he did this once, without Bao Changnian to put him in front of the pressure, it would be impossible for Yu Tan to do it.

As for the impact on the Ministry of Industry, road construction was originally their established goal, but now they just moved forward the original arrangement a little bit.

#
Fast forward to mid-June.

""Gan Bao" is out, there is big news!"

The cries of newspaper vendors can be heard everywhere in the streets and alleys.

"The Dagan smallpox vaccine has been sold to the Mingmi Kingdom at a sky-high price! Come and read today's newspaper!"

"Have one."

"I also want."

"Give me ten first."

……

The Gan Bao that the peddler had memorized was sold out in a short while, and he kept a copy for himself to read, and now he concentrated on reading after finishing his work.

"The monarch of the Mingmi Kingdom let go, and promised to spend 100 million ingots of gold to purchase a large amount of smallpox vaccine for the entire Mingmi Kingdom."

The teahouse next door started the daily newspaper reading program again.

"There are 100 million ingots of gold. I have never seen so much gold in my life."

"Isn't Mingya a small country, can it afford such a high price?"

"It was said in the newspaper that the entire Mingmi Kingdom can barely scrape together 20 ingots of gold, and the remaining 80 ingots will be paid in installments later. The mining rights are given to Dagan."

"It's really a good thing that the treasury has so much more money! You think about the imperial government's office schools, middle schools, universities, the establishment of new medical pavilions, and Shengong bureaus. Don't spend a lot of money in them. And the imperial court tax revenue has decreased now. I have I am always afraid that the national treasury will not be able to sustain it. When I have Mingya’s gold and the imperial court has silver, maybe I can build a few more dams and bridges.”

"Looking at it from this point of view, it's pretty good that the king of Mingmi Kingdom is willing to give so much gold to treat their people."

I don't know who suddenly said something, but as soon as the words came out, it caused an uproar in the whole audience, and the critical voices in the crowd became more and more intense.

"The king of Mingmi Kingdom is a bastard. Now many cities and counties in Mingmi Kingdom have become empty cities and dead cities. It is because their monarch ordered to lock up infected and non-infected people in order to stop the spread of smallpox. Burn them all to death."

"However, the people who burned to death in Mingmi Kingdom were poor and powerless people. The rich people in those places all spent money to buy connections and ran away. This is why the smallpox in Mingmi Kingdom became more and more serious. There Doctors have nothing to do with smallpox, so they can only allow local officials to seal the city and burn people."

There was a gasp in the crowd.

"This is too cruel."

"Not only that, but now Mingmi's farmland is completely deserted. Even if they survived the smallpox, can they survive the subsequent famine? The Mingmi farmers are crazy, and the whole country is full of rebels. The king of Mingmi So if you are willing to pay big money to buy the smallpox vaccine, it’s because you are forced by those peasant rebels and have no choice.”

"Thinking about it this way, it's more than a single victory over them. The floods and plagues of the year before last, the cholera last year, and the snow disaster this year, our Majesty never said that we would give up any of the people, let alone sacrifice the people of a city. So, the worst thing about Ming Mi Kingdom is not the smallpox, but the bastard king, and finally I have to rely on the smallpox vaccine invented by me at the New Medical Pavilion to save my life."

"It doesn't cost money for the smallpox vaccine to be vaccinated by Dagan people. If you think about the people in Mingmi Kingdom, it's equivalent to earning several taels of gold for nothing."

"You said, the Ming Mi Kingdom won't die just like that, right?"

An old man with mottled hair stood up from his chair full of enthusiasm and said: "You don't know what the people of Mingmi Kingdom were showing off to us decades ago. When their monarch was born, there was a vision in the sky, and he was the reincarnation of a god. Afterwards, Mingmi produced a lot of mines one after another. After they got rich, they didn’t pay much attention to us Dagan. At that time, the life of Dagan people was not easy, and many people really didn’t like it. You should be dumbfounded now that the traitor has joined Mingya."

"It's not just that. Let me tell you that the Jingzhou dam bombing case, the White Lotus Sect uprising army, the Shu king's rebellion, and even the assassination of our Majesty last year are said to have Mingmi Kingdom involved in all of them. Don't think that Mingmi suffered smallpox this time." Yes, it looks miserable, but they never gave up fighting on the Yunnan border, and even tried to find someone to spread smallpox over. Fortunately, our Majesty is wise, and sent the doctors from the new Medical Pavilion to vaccinate the Yunnan soldiers against smallpox as soon as possible."

"How rampant the smallpox virus is in Mingmi, but it doesn't cause any splashes on our Dagan side. This is the fate of the country."

"It's true that evil will be rewarded with evil. Ming Mi Kingdom is an emperor who has been reincarnated from a god. It's not bad to say that a ghost was reincarnated to take revenge on them!"

If there were people who sympathized with Ming Mi at the beginning, but since they heard about the vicious things Ming Mi had done to Dagan, they were so angry that they didn’t even want gold. Why should we send our people to take risks to treat him? their people?

The storyteller who was reading the newspaper kept shaking his head, not knowing what he was feeling. Suddenly his eyes fell on the author's name at the end of the article, and he paused: "Editor: He Muqing? This is not the new subject of this year. The number one scholar? No wonder the writing style of this article is different from the past, Liu Zhuangyuan has a successor!"

"Wait, let me rationalize my thinking. He Muqing is the No. scholar this year, right? Liu Zhuangyuan was the No. scholar the year before, and Su Huaihe was also the No. scholar a few years ago. Haha, writing articles for "Gan Bao" has begun to have a threshold Well, I have to hurry up and buy some more dry newspapers for my son and put them under the pillow, so that I can feel the joy of the champion!"

After such an interruption, everyone's attention seemed to return to the editor of the newspaper: "Yeah, it's really all about the number one scholar. When I got home, I told my son that this is called "The Number One Scholar". He took it to study hard."

No one expected that this joke would lead to another name of "Qianbao", "Zhuangyuanbao".

At this time, Xu Youxi brought He Muqing to the New Medical Pavilion.

"This is the new medical pavilion?"

"Ah."

Xu Youxi introduced to He Muqing several key members of Xiaxin Medical Pavilion, Ruan Yuzuo, Dr. Hu Qi, assistant Geng Yun and so on.

"Your Majesty, I request you to go to Mingmi Kingdom to treat smallpox."

"No." Xu Youxi resolutely refused, "What if something happens to you, what will the New Medical Pavilion do? You don't know how malicious the Mingmi people are towards Dagan. Even if there is an army guarding them, the first few batches went in to vaccinate their people The doctor of the smallpox vaccine has also been in danger several times. Once Lord Mingmi knows that you made the smallpox vaccine, he will definitely hate you to the bone, and the consequences will be disastrous for you to go there rashly."

"Nine out of ten people in Mingmi Kingdom are infected with smallpox. The smallpox vaccine is only effective for people who have not been infected with smallpox. Selling the vaccine to Mingmi now will not have much effect. At present, the most important thing for Mingmi Kingdom is A doctor who can cure smallpox."

Xu Youxi shook his head: "No."

"Your Majesty, it is impossible for the progress of new medicine to stay in the laboratory forever."

"There is no need to discuss this matter again."

"This."

Ruan Yu hesitated to speak.

Hu Qi looked at Ruan Yuzuo, and suddenly made up his mind: "Your Majesty, Caomin Hu Qi asked for orders to go to Mingmi to try to treat the smallpox virus. Caomin is not as famous as Mr. Ruan, and even if he goes to Mingmi Kingdom, he will not be too conspicuous."

Xu Youxi looked at Hu Qi: "If Ruan Yuzuo agrees, you can go."

His Majesty agreed with Hu Qi to go to Mingmi Kingdom, but Ruan Yuzuo couldn't bear it. In his opinion, Hu Qi was just a talented child, how could he let him risk his life to go out?

Xu Youxi looked at the people with tangled faces, sighed, and began to lead He Muqing around the new medical pavilion.During this period of time, the research of Xinyige has been progressing rapidly, especially in the research and development of antibiotics and new vaccines.

Since the New Year, Daqian Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine has gradually stepped into the normal state and has been able to generate a lot of profits.In the future, a system of mutual benefit and mutual assistance will gradually be formed in which the TCM hospital makes a profit to support the new medical pavilion, and the new medical pavilion will continue to introduce new achievements, making the treatment methods of the TCM hospital more and more powerful.

Xu Youxi kept thinking about the next step of the development of the new medical pavilion, and He Muqing who followed her carefully observed every place in the new medical pavilion full of curiosity.

Suddenly, He Muqing stopped, pulled Xu Youxi's sleeves hard, and said in a trembling voice in a certain direction: "What they just brought in... was a dead person? I remember that the New Medical Pavilion requires so many ice cubes every year." , Could it be, it’s all for preserving the corpse?”

Xu Youxi heard the sound and looked over: "That's right. Most of them are ordinary people who died of illness. They voluntarily donated their bodies to the New Medical Pavilion for research. When you enter the New Medical Pavilion, you should find a few copper furnaces outside. , the names of many people who have contributed to the new medical pavilion are engraved on it."

He Muqing recalled that before entering the cabinet, he did see several large copper furnaces. When those new doctors who had just entered the cabinet passed by, they would often bow in the direction of the copper furnaces.

At that time, she felt that the respect of the new doctors for the copper stove was like the respect of the students of the academy for the portrait of Confucius hanging in the classroom, and she really felt right.

Xu Youxi continued: "Do you know how many people died because of dystocia? Most of them were dead. But since the new doctor was able to proficiently perform cesarean sections on puerperas, many people have been saved. You can think about it, if Without these people who actively donate their bodies, how can new medicine develop?"

"Don't they...don't feel scared?"

He Muqing remembered that there were still many young women in the New Medical Pavilion. Could they persevere in the face of so many corpses?

"There is nothing to be afraid of, just as there is nothing incredible about new medicine. The New Medical Pavilion has always been like this, respecting life and even more respecting death."

He Muqing was silent, this sentence really shocked her a bit.

"There are people in the New Medical Pavilion who really can't accept it. Most of these people have changed their research direction, some are doing vaccine research and development, some are doing controlled experiments, or they are transferred to the Shengong Bureau to do other auxiliary research."

"...But no one has ever regretted coming to the New Medical Pavilion."

(End of this chapter)