Physician of the Song Dynasty: Zhang Kai and Li Qingzhao have a private life-long contract

After the imperial doctor made Qian Yi retire with satisfaction.

Fan Zheng stepped forward again and said: "To inform the official family, Princess Yelu has sent roundworm seeds. As long as the trial planting is successful next year, children all over the world will be free from the suffering of roundworms!"

"roundworms!"

An extremely disgusting picture appeared in Baiguan's mind, and his face twitched.

"Evil doctor Fan Zheng!"

Sure enough, there was only a wrong name, not a wrong nickname. Is it really appropriate for Fan Zheng to talk about such disgusting things in the solemn and solemn Chuigong Palace in front of the officials and all the officials of the court?

All the officials couldn't help but smile bitterly, because Fan Zheng dared to be so presumptuous, and besides, he was using the reputation of practicing medicine, otherwise he would have been impeached by the censor.

Zhao Xu didn't have the mental quality of a doctor. He suddenly felt sick and helplessly echoed: "Thank you for your hard work, Fan Aiqing!"

Everyone thought that Fan Zheng mentioned Artemisia wormwood to show his merit to the doctors, but they did not expect that Fan Zheng did not accept it as soon as it was good, but continued: "Let me tell the officials, Artemisia wormwood is related to the health of children all over the world." It is difficult to do it with the strength of the doctors, so I specifically asked the officials for help."

"Ask me for help?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but raise his brows and looked at Fan Zheng in confusion.

You must know that Fan Zheng's evil side has never been defeated, and almost nothing can stump him. Taking the initiative to ask for help now can be said to be the first time in the world, and Zhao Xu can't help but look forward to it.

Fan Zheng explained: "The doctors plan to try to plant Artemisia in Weizhou on Hedong East Road. I request the government and the court to allocate 10,000 acres of wasteland to the doctors as an Artemisia planting farm."

Later generations of artemisia were successfully planted in Weifang. Fan Zheng had the experience of later generations, and naturally he would not let the artemisia plantation take any more detours.

"Ten thousand acres of wasteland!"

"Weizhou!"

Zhao Xu and Baiguan couldn't help but be stunned. They didn't expect Fan Zheng's plan to plant artemisia was so big.

"As far as I know, most of the medicinal materials needed by traditional Chinese medicine hospitals are purchased from Bozhou. How come Master Fan has just been transferred from Bozhou, and Fan Taicheng's roundworms are planted in Weizhou instead. This is too biased!" Lu Dafang said with a smile. .

As we all know, the reason why Fan Chunli was able to be transferred to the post of Kaifeng Prefect is at least half of Fan Zheng's credit. If it weren't for the doctors to drive the medicinal materials industry in Bozhou, Fan Chunli would have had to struggle for another three years before he had the opportunity to be transferred from Bozhou, and he might not be the Kaifeng Prefect. heavy responsibility.

Fan Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "You adults don't know. Artemisia asparagus likes to survive in bitter cold places. It has strict requirements for soil, climate and precipitation, otherwise it will be difficult to survive. Doctors selected many locations and finally decided that Weizhou is the most suitable .”

"What's so difficult about this? The imperial court encourages land reclamation! Weifang happens to have a lot of barren land that can be reclaimed to plant artemisia." Zhao Xu said with a big wave of his hand.

The courtiers did not hold any objections. If the artemisia could be successfully planted, it would be good news for children all over the world. In comparison, ten thousand acres of wasteland would be nothing?

However, Fan Zheng was not satisfied. Instead, he pushed further and said: "We have the land and the seeds are in place, but the doctors still need the manpower to plant Artemisia wormwood!"

"Just tell me how much you need!" Zhao Xu said with a wave of his hand. The most important thing in the Song Dynasty was manpower.

"Planting Artemisia wormwood requires clearing land and requires a lot of manpower, not to mention that starting from seedling raising, to planting, to picking, and finally to making medicine requires labor, at least 3,000 people are needed!" Fan Zheng said solemnly.

"Three thousand people!" The officials were suddenly shocked. According to the existing agricultural scale of the Song Dynasty, only about one or two hundred people could be used to plant 10,000 acres of farmland, but it took as many as 3,000 people to plant 10,000 acres of artemisia.

Zhao Xu couldn't help but change his expression. Where could he find more than 3,000 people for Fan Zheng to plant artemisia?

"Does your Majesty really have these three thousand people?" Fan Zheng said meaningfully.

"Nonsense, everyone in the imperial court has a use. How can we randomly select 3,000 people to help doctors plant artemisia?" Lu Dafang angrily rebuked.

In his opinion, Fan Zhengnai was using his reputation as a doctor to rub his nose into his face.

Zhang Dun also frowned and looked at Fan Zheng dissatisfied.

Fan Zheng looked around and said word by word: "Did the three thousand people mentioned by Wei Chen refer to the side soldiers?"

"Soldiers!" As soon as Fan Zheng said this, all the officials were in an uproar.

Zeng Bu showed his anger and said: "Fan Taicheng, you are too arrogant. Soldiers are the foundation of the country. Even the soldiers are protecting the family and the country. They are not the farmers who grow medicine for your doctors."

Other officials also impeached Fan Zheng. For the first time, the old and new parties united to attack Fan Zheng.

Seeing this, Su Song came out and said: "Don't be impulsive, everyone. Fan Taicheng's intention is that he needs three thousand old and weak soldiers who have been eliminated to help the doctors plant artemisia."

"Eliminate the soldiers?" Baiguan couldn't help but asked in shock.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "Back then, Prime Minister Wang promulgated the Disarmament Law to rectify the Xiang Army and the Forbidden Army. It stipulated that soldiers must retire after the age of fifty. At the same time, soldiers were tested. Those who failed the Forbidden Army were changed to Xiang Army, and those who failed the Xiang Army were changed to civilians. . However, due to the recruitment system adopted by the Song Dynasty, many soldiers had no livelihood after being laid off, which made the soldiers extremely resentful!"

The biggest drawback of Wang Anshi's reform was that it did not pay attention to the consequences. The disarmament law did improve the quality of soldiers and alleviated the problem of redundant soldiers in the Song Dynasty. However, the soldiers who were demobilized did not have much ability to make a living during their military life. In addition, The court did not offer any compensation, which caused constant complaints from the military.

"You mean, the Artemisia Farm can accept the eliminated soldiers?" Zhao Xu suddenly said in surprise.

Redundant soldiers were a chronic problem of the Song Dynasty. If the Artemisia Farm suddenly accepted three thousand eliminated soldiers, it would relieve a lot of pressure on the court.

Fan Zheng said solemnly: "The Xiang soldiers are originally composed of disaster victims gathered by the imperial court. They themselves have certain farming experience. When the new law strengthened the army, the Song Dynasty did not have enough land to house these eliminated Xiang soldiers. Now they need a lot of manpower to take care of them." , and the higher value of Ascaris is the best way to contain the eliminated soldiers."

The imperial court urgently needed to get rid of the heavy burden of soldiers, and planting artemisia required a large number of manpower. The imperial court and the doctors hit it off.

"Okay! This method is wonderful!"

Zhao Xu Longyan said happily. He originally thought that it was just the Song Dynasty that had obtained new medicinal materials to protect the children of the world from the harm of roundworms, but he did not expect that it could also solve some of the problems of the Song Dynasty's redundant soldiers.

"Redundant troops?"

The old and new parties suddenly looked solemn. Redundant troops were a stubborn problem of the Song Dynasty, which caused headaches for emperors of all dynasties.

"What a pity! A roundworm farm only requires 3,000 people! The Song Dynasty had a total of 400,000 soldiers, and the efforts of the doctors were only a drop in the bucket!"

Zhang Dun said regretfully.

The Disarmament Law was an important part of Wang Anshi's reform. It could reduce the burden on the court, but it was criticized by the military. The Artemisia Farm could only support the needs of 3,000 people, which was just a drop in the bucket for the nearly 400,000 soldiers.

Fan Zheng solemnly said: "I would like to inform the officials that the Artemisia Farm is just a pilot project. If the farm model can solve some of the redundant soldiers, the establishment of Pingxia City will be enough to advance the Song Dynasty's border for hundreds of miles. Such a move Come, a large amount of arable land can be freed up. If the imperial court organizes the soldiers into a production and construction corps! The problem of redundant soldiers will be solved one by one."

"Production and Construction Corps!"

All the officials in the court were stunned. Since ancient times, the greatest role of soldiers has been fighting, but this is the first time that soldiers have been used as a corps for large-scale production and construction.