Chapter 477 Capital emergencies
It has been the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse. After completely destroying the Jiannu regime, the Ming Dynasty no longer had any external threats, and the empire was able to continue to move towards prosperity, and the confidence of the people was greatly improved due to the complete elimination of the Jiannu regime.
At this moment, Emperor Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting in the luxury version of the power motorcycle, was watching the bustling crowds of people all over the capital. In just eight years, the cultural style of the entire capital had changed a lot.
Due to the introduction of municipal services and modern urban management concepts, the roads in Beijing have long been widened by several meters, and even divided into lanes and sidewalks, as well as special lanes for emergency military reports and ambulances. People were sent by Shuntianfu to plant green plants between them, and zebra crossings were also introduced, and overpasses and underground aisles began to appear. This was inevitable that the population surge caused by the increase in the number of factory workshops in Beijing.
It is impossible to see horse manure and randomly discarded garbage on both sides of the road, nor can we see randomly building and expanding surface buildings. A large number of older people in the nearby county, Guozhou Prefecture, became the first batch of sanitation workers in the Beijing, Beijing, Daming. They waited at any time in the small wooden pavilion specially built for them to monitor the cleanliness of the city at any time.
The Wucheng Bingmasi has merged with the public safety forces of Shuntian Prefecture to fully be responsible for the maintenance of public security and order in the entire capital. There are no messy stalls on the avenue near the inner city. This area has been classified as a residential area by Shuntian Prefecture, while a large number of stalls, restaurants and inns have been arranged in areas not far from the residential area. Factory and workshops have been moved out of the city, and far away from the newly opened reservoir area in Miyun County, and divided into industrial areas. However, because these factories and workshops are the most advanced scientific and technological production concentrations in the Ming Dynasty and even the world, the Ministry of Industry and Shuntian Prefecture have also expanded a solid city wall in the industrial area.
Although it was the scorching sun at this time, Zhu Youxiao, who came out of Chengtian Gate, could not feel the dazzling sunshine. The residences of major officials and families were all hidden under towering ancient trees. Apart from the chirping of cicadas, they could not hear any noise. They could only occasionally hear the ringing sounds of buses and cars passing by in the inner city, dripping and very crisp and pleasant, which complemented the bells of Chongguo Temple.
Because this is the inner city, which is the residence of central institutions such as the six ministries and Imperial College and dignitaries, it is difficult to see the high population density of the super city of Beijing. The buses and carriages in this inner city are only for the students of Imperial College and the Beijing University, as well as the officials from the lower-level yamen from major yamen to get off work. Sometimes some officials get up late and think that the sedan chair is too slow and riding horses is too conspicuous, so they will choose to take bus carriages to the palace.
Zhu Youxiaote aims to set up a bus stop outside the Meridian Gate of the Palace City, so now officials can take buses directly outside the Meridian Gate, saving time greatly and avoiding having time to have breakfast in order to get a morning court.
However, because the buses in the inner city are almost all taken by the literati class, the interior decoration and external structure are a little higher than those in the inner city and the order will be better. Almost no one wants to stand in the bus.
Of course, there are more private vehicles in the inner city. Since Emperor Zhu Youxiao had his first steam-powered locomotive, several Grand Secretary and several nobles in the cabinet have basically owned one, but they basically won’t sit out every day because it’s too ostentatious, and no one knows whether the censor will see you. If you are unhappy, you will be embarrassed.
After receiving the road construction funds allocated by the Ministry of Works, the officials of Shuntian Prefecture obviously did not dare to make trouble in the improvement of roads in the inner city. After all, any person who randomly pulls out is better than theirs. Therefore, the roads in the inner city have long been asphalt road surfaces. The green plants on both sides of the asphalt road are trimmed very flat, with flowers clustered, and even pieces of beautiful auspicious words or things will be pieced together on major festivals.
When Zhu Youzhai's horse carriage walked across the asphalt road and left the Ming Gate, he could hear the noisy noise and enter the life world of civilians in the capital.
Although it is obviously not as quiet as the inner city here, you can see that the citizens at this time are indeed different from eight years ago. Each market has already set up house numbers, and there is a shop and a consumption concentration in every ten workshops. This concentration is often the most lively place and the place where traffic accidents and criminal disputes are most likely to occur. Therefore, in every such concentration, there will be a public safety force stationed here.
Zhu Youxiao can hardly see the people in ragged clothes and beggars. Since the late Ming Dynasty, the world has been pursuing prosperity and breaking the shackles of hierarchy. Ordinary civilians also like to wear bright and gorgeous clothes. Zhu Youxiao has not strictly regulated them. Therefore, with the further increase of social wealth, these civilians have pursued luxury and are extremely generous in their efforts. Even old women over 60 years old will wear a few pieces of jewelry. The high-end stores opened by Royal Industrial Corporation in these places are endless every day.
The large department store market, created by the master of Chengyi, has now expanded from Nanjing to Beijing. Even in Dashiyongfang, where Zhu Youxiao is now passing by, you can see Liu Kongzhao's words "Qingtian Department Store".
Zhu Youxiao didn't mind this, but couldn't help but be surprised. When Liu Kongzhao asked for an order to go to Beijing to study at the Beijing University, Zhu Youxiao didn't know that he wanted to learn from Li Mingrui, Guo Yunhou and others to become wealth makers in the new era of the Ming Dynasty, and he thought that he was intentionally going to abandon martial arts and follow the literature and learn from the Beijing University University.
As a result, what Zhu Youxiao did not expect was that Liu Kongzhao had only been in preparatory courses for one year and gave up his studies. After returning to Nanjing, he got such a thing. According to the report of the Dongchang, Liu Kongzhao had already obtained cooperative relations with major factory workshops in Beijing, including not only the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau. He also started to work in wealthy but small counties and towns such as Jiangling, Qingpu, Wuxi, etc., and finally expanded directly to Nanjing. Now it has expanded to Beijing and has become the first retail giant in the Ming Dynasty. Its wealth is already rich enough to rival a country.
Of course, the tax revenue created for the central court has also solved the employment problems of many people in various places. For this reason, Zhu Youxiao even had to take an encouragement attitude towards him, encouraging him to continue to expand his business to Western Shu, Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi and even outside the Guanxi Palace.
Zhu Youxiao did not continue to stay in this area. He had to go to the power plant construction base of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the outer city today. Since Galileo successfully captured the current, Zhu Youxiao has shown great attention to this topic, because once this unexpected happens, the Ming Dynasty will quickly enter the electrical era from the steam power era.
Although the Ming Dynasty may still be in the era of large-scale application of steam power for a long time, steam-powered locomotives will still begin to popularize on a large scale, and steam-powered ships will also begin to capture the Ming ocean and major inland rivers, squeezing the living space of traditional wooden ships. The first train hosted by the Ordnance Department and the Royal Industrial Company will still use steam power as the main source of power, but there is still a great possibility to realize the application of electricity in local areas. After all, once large-scale application of electricity is available, higher-end weapons will also have the possibility of manufacturing, and electroplating chemical technology will usher in its golden period, and the steel products manufactured by the Ming Dynasty will not appear so low-looking.
However, just when Zhu Youxiao first left outside the Ming City, he happened to pass by the Royal First Hospital. Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but want to go into the public hospital he had run for investigation.
So, Zhu Youxiao ordered the motorcycle to stop, and then entered the Royal First Hospital accompanied by Wang Chengen, the chief inspector of the Sili Supervisor, and Wu Jin, the head of the East Factory. Although Zhu Youxiao and others were wearing casual clothes, those who could afford large chimney motorcycles were either rich or noble these days, so those who entered and left the Royal First Hospital consciously kept a distance from Zhu Youxiao and others, and no one would stop them from entering the Royal First Hospital.
The Royal First Hospital is the first large public comprehensive hospital in the Ming Dynasty and the first medical treatment center that combines scientific research and medical care. Zhu Youxiao has concentrated almost all imperial physicians and local famous doctors here, and has also arranged a group of inner-authorized palace maids who were good at Western surgical treatment that he had trained in the palace ban here. Now, a few years have passed, the Royal First Hospital has become one of the largest comprehensive hospitals in the country and even the world.
Due to Zhu Youjia's special order, although most of the Royal First Hospital are imperial physicians and local famous doctors, they do not pay attention to the quality of people in diagnosis and treatment of diseases and rescue of people. Therefore, there have never been few people coming to the Royal First Hospital for treatment every day. It is precisely because more and more people come to the Royal First Hospital for treatment that there are extremely shortage of nurses and doctors at the Royal First Hospital. Fortunately, Zhu Youjia has already opened a medical department at the Jingshi University, and at the same time, Wu Youke personally presided over the establishment of the Daming Medical Science Hall, which can reserve and train a large number of medical talents for the Royal First Hospital.
The Royal First Hospital is the house of a former Shangshu, so it covers a large area. The long row of buildings at the front is the diagnosis department, and almost a large number of patients will stop there, that is, looking at, listening, asking and touching, writing a prescription to get medicine. Zhu Youxiao was not interested in this. He was interested in the scientific research system and disease prevention and control center of the Royal First Hospital. In this era of fierce infectious diseases such as smallpox and plague, the Royal First Hospital not only concentrated the best medical technology in the Ming Dynasty to provide patients with the greatest protection, but also shouldered the epidemic prevention responsibility of the country when encountering major infectious diseases.
Wu Youke, Minister of Health, had already learned about Zhu Youxiao's sudden visit to the Royal First Hospital. He didn't care about taking off his white coat and hurried to Zhu Youxiao: "I don't know that your Majesty suddenly arrived, and I'm really guilty of being welcomed by me."
"Mr. Wu, you are the one who dares to wrestle the arm of the King of Hell, how dare I blame you?" Zhu Youchao respected famous medical experts like Wu Youke, so he also called him Mr. In fact, throughout the Ming Dynasty, Wu Youke and Sun Chengzong were now known as Mr. Zhu Youke. Not only that, it was not only that, but also allowed Wu Youke, a doctor, to be directly appointed as the second rank of the second rank because he successfully improved the method of smallpox and acne. This undoubtedly greatly encouraged doctors and also made Wu Youke feel flattered.
Wu Youyou didn't dare to joke with Zhu Youxiao, but just smiled awkwardly. Seeing that he was still wearing a white coat, if he hadn't been wearing a black gauze on his head, he really didn't know that he was a great minister, so he asked, "What are you still busy with?"
"Report to Your Majesty, I just finished a surgery to curl the stomach, so I didn't have time to change my clothes." After Wu Youke explained, Zhu Youxiao just nodded and asked him to take him to the scientific research base of the Royal Hospital.
When Zhu Youxiao entered the scientific research base of the Royal First Hospital, he smelled a pungent phenol smell and the smell of animals such as mice and monkeys.
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but pinch his nose tightly, then walked in, and passed around the area where a large number of experimental animals was located before the smell was slightly diminished. He could see that many early-trained medical technicians were skillfully using the glass syringe in their hands to inject drugs into mice clamped on the plate, or someone directly dissected a rabbit or frog in the anatomical dish, and said to his assistant something like clamped the vagus nerve.
When you walk inside, you can even see an old man who is a coroner but has long been trained to become a medical surgeon expert in the Ming Dynasty teaching how to surgically remove the cetus sha from the Medical Department of the Beijing University of Medicine or the Medical Sciences Hall of the Ming Dynasty.
On the third floor, Zhu Youxiao could even directly see some corpses or other specimens that had been treated with formalin were displayed in the surrounding tins. Except for Zhu Youxiao, Wang Chengen and Wu Jin couldn't help feeling disgusted and were irritated by the strong smell of formaldehyde. Zhu Youxiao was a medical student in his previous life, so he could tolerate this. He even personally suggested to Wu Youke how to better conduct medical experiments and prepare for the sudden encounter of a large plague in the future.
Wu Youke could only quickly say yes.
But who knew that when Zhu Youxiao wanted to go to see the Center for Disease Control and Control and ICU of the First Hospital of the Ming Dynasty, a doctor from the First Hospital of the Royal First Hospital, who was also wearing a white coat ran directly to Wu Youke: "Mr. Wu, something is not good. Yesterday, outside the city, a traveling doctor named Zhang Tianhua accidentally found a man suddenly fainted on the ground, his whole body was trembling, but his forehead was hot, so he could treat him. Who knew that the man was not saved, and the traveling doctor and his accompanying servant also had diarrhea, and now more than ten people have been infected! The soldiers guarding the city have quickly gone to Shuntian Prefecture, and the people stationed in the outer city of the East Factory brought the news to us. Do you think we should save or not?"
"It must be managed, but this is probably a precursor to the epidemic. You must not take it lightly. If you send an order, all the doctors in the plague monitoring room will immediately rush to the outer city with me!"
Wu Youke said that, then took off his white coat and was about to run back to change into the epidemic prevention suit first, and saluted Zhu Youxiao and said, "The incident happened suddenly, and I can only sue you first. I have neglected Your Majesty. I hope Your Majesty will forgive you!"
"Go, don't worry about me, just be careful. When you hear this symptoms, I'm afraid that the plague in Shanxi has begun to spread into Beijing. You must pay great attention to it and hold my gold medal. It is necessary to temporarily mobilize all forces in the capital to help you prevent this matter from expanding, causing great harm to the people in the capital!"
Chapter completed!