Father can be an enemy to the country

On the first day of the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Boss Zhu personally announced that King Zhou had successfully developed the ‘Hongwu Miao’ that could completely prevent acne!

There have been rumors about this matter among the government and the public for a long time, and both civil and military officials are doubtful about it. First of all, this matter must be true, but it is not known whether the Hongwu Miao are as amazing as Emperor Hongwu boasted.

But since the name ‘Hongwumiao’ was given, no one dared to question it. Besides, during the Chinese New Year, who dares to cause trouble to the emperor? So they all offered compliments, competing to talk about the benevolence of the king of Zhou, the prosperity of the country, God's blessing on the Ming Dynasty, and the relief of the people.

What really shocked them was that Boss Zhu brazenly claimed that he had been vaccinated with Hongwu vaccine! And not only himself, but the entire royal family has been vaccinated, even the emperor's eighteenth son Zhu Su and his nineteenth son Zhu Su, who are under one year old, are no exception.

The ministers had to sigh, this old Zhu family is really reckless... and they are not afraid of being wiped out if something goes wrong.

Of course, you have to be deeply moved on the surface, saying, In ancient times, there was a divine farmer who tasted hundreds of herbs, and today there is a sage who tastes acne. Your Majesty is truly as benevolent and virtuous as the heavens...

Boss Zhu didn't care whether they were genuine or fake, and took advantage of the excitement to announce that the Tai Hospital would be upgraded to an Imperial Medical Temple, which would be responsible for all medical and epidemic prevention matters in the world.

According to the plan jointly agreed upon by the prince, the king of Zhou, the king of Chu, and the chief and judge of the imperial hospital. The Imperial Medical Temple has one temple minister, who is of the fourth rank. There are two Shaoqings from the fourth rank, two prime ministers from the sixth rank, and two chief administrators from the seventh rank. There are five departments: Chief Imperial Physician, Epidemic Prevention, Pharmacy, Medicine, and Military Medicine.

Among them, the Imperial Medical Office was restructured from the original Imperial Hospital. In addition to continuing to be responsible for the medical services of the royal family and princes and ministers, it is also responsible for sorting out the medical records of famous doctors from ancient and modern times, collecting effective prescriptions from all over the world, and cataloging them in books. It is also the responsibility of appraising their efficacy, discarding falsehoods and retaining true ones, selecting good ones and teaching them to prefectures and counties, and making doctors use the medicines according to the prescriptions.

The Department of Epidemic Prevention is responsible for monitoring the national epidemic situation, formulating epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic policies, coordinating and directing national epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic matters, and disposing of anti-epidemic drugs to benefit affected people free of charge.

The Pharmacy Administration oversees Huimin pharmacies nationwide.

Huimin Pharmacy has been around since the Song Dynasty. It is a government-run pharmacy that provides free diagnosis and cheap medicines to poor people. It is a kind of medical relief with social welfare nature.

Boss Zhu cares about the poor people, and of course he is not willing to lag behind. In the third year of Hongwu's reign, he issued an order to open Huimin Pharmacy in all prefectures and counties to treat the poor, sick, military and civilian diseases free of charge. Each bureau selected a medical officer to withdraw the money and select it at the medical office. A physician and a surgeon each sit in the hall.

As for the most important source of medicinal materials for the pharmacy, Boss Zhu’s consistent style is to provide them with taxes from the place where the medicinal materials are produced.

Boss Zhu’s original intention is definitely good, but the execution is not so wonderful. The Ming Dynasty simply did not have the strength to afford such free universal medical care, so Huimin Pharmacy in various places was naturally a mere formality.

Later, Boss Zhu had no choice but to sell medicines to the people at low prices, and the situation improved. But it still cannot change the dilemma of lack of medical treatment and medicine in pharmacies in various places.

But it cannot be said that the Huimin Pharmacy is useless. At least when the plague breaks out, the imperial court has the Huimin Pharmacy, which can promptly distribute medicinal materials to the people and provide epidemic prevention guidance.

Boss Zhu set up the Pharmacy Department to take charge of the Tianxia Huimin Pharmacy this time. He also wanted to see if there was any way to make this virtue policy that benefits the people play its due role.

As for the Medical Department, it oversees medicine in local prefectures and counties. Medicine is a subordinate office of the local government. It is responsible for leading local doctors by medical officers to study medical books, prepare medicines, and treat diseases of officials, soldiers, civilians, and prisoners.

The Military Medical Administration, as its name suggests, is an organization responsible for training and transporting military doctors to the army and managing military hospitals...

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The Imperial Medical Temple and the Five Temples stand side by side, which can be said to have raised the Ming Dynasty's medical system to an unprecedented height. Naturally, we received full support from everyone at Taiyuan Hospital.

In the past, imperial doctors were just miscellaneous officials between officials. Although the ministers were polite on the surface, that was because they were pointing out that they were looking for medical treatment to save their lives. In fact, no one regarded them as real officials.

Now there is an opportunity to put the medical system on an equal footing with court institutions such as Dali Temple and Taichang Temple, and to allow medical officers to become serious court officials. How could everyone in Taipei Hospital miss this opportunity that they never dreamed of?

And fearing long nights and many dreams, they fully agreed to all the plans put forward by the several highnesses, and unanimously requested His Highness the King of Zhou to serve as the first minister of the temple... They just hoped that the Imperial Medical Temple would be established as soon as possible and no more extraneous matters would be avoided.

Of course, another important reason why the establishment of the Imperial Medical Temple was so smooth was that the Zhongshu Ministry did not stop it.

If we follow past practice, the establishment of such a large organization, from the establishment of officials, to the allocation of expenses, and even the formulation of powers and responsibilities, the Zhongshu Province will have to spend every penny. A year and a half would be considered fast.

But this time, as soon as the Request for the Establishment of an Imperial Physician Temple in the name of the Eita Hospital was sent to Zhongshu Province, Prime Minister Hu approved it without changing a word.

Only in this way can we catch up with the announcement of the founding of the great dynasty on New Year's Day.

Even Boss Zhu was quite surprised. After announcing the decree, he praised Hu Weiyong and said:

This time, the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China cooperated very well, which was unexpected.

Back to the emperor, no matter how confused I am, I still know that the emperor established the Imperial Medical Temple in order to 'transform the king's way and bring great benefits to the public'! Hu Weiyong hurriedly came out of the class and said respectfully: Of course we must support it vigorously.

Look, let's just say Hu Xiang is a sensible person. Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled, looking down at Hu Weiyong's face full of respect and sincerity, and could not see any other meaning.

The emperor smiled and said: As for the expenses of the Imperial Medical Temple, don't worry, Mr. Hu, it will not increase the burden on the court. This is what a few boys have promised to us, otherwise we would not agree so happily.

Oh? This surprised Hu Weiyong. Medical care was a big hole. Every year, the chief secretaries of each province complained to him, and this year he paid more than one hundred thousand yuan to Huimin Pharmacy.

He estimated that the expenditures of all the provinces combined would be in the millions...

Unexpectedly, those young and energetic princes actually wanted to solve the shortfall by themselves. They were really ignorant.

But of course he would like it if he could avoid having a headache. Hu Weiyong then smiled and said: Your Highnesses are really capable of things that ordinary people cannot. I was still worried about where this expense would come from.

Who knows if they can keep their word. Boss Zhu left a hint in a very skillful way: If the lie is blown by then, Zhongshu Province will have to wipe their butts.

I have no shirking responsibility. Hu Weiyong agreed.

Excellent, you really deserve to be a prime minister! Boss Zhu was full of praise.

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Because of the high degree of cooperation of Prime Minister Hu, the first dynasty in the thirteenth year of Hongwu ended in an extremely harmonious atmosphere.

So after the dispersion of the dynasty, His Royal Highness the King of Zhou had to catch up with Hu Weiyong and thank him alone.

Hu Weiyong was very respectful and polite to the King of Zhou, and said that if he had any difficulties, he could come to him and that all the people in Zhongshu Province would be happy to help him.

The king of Zhou was so happy that he could not open his mouth from ear to ear. He felt that everything in the world was working together!