Looking at the entire Tang Dynasty, there has always been a topic that goes by, that is, aristocratic families. They monopolize the dissemination of knowledge, control the imperial examinations and the court, making it impossible for civilians to get room for promotion, thus making the influence of aristocratic families increasingly greater and even threatening the imperial power.

It was precisely because of the dangers of the aristocratic family that Li Shimin and Li Zhi and his son never gave up suppressing the aristocratic family. However, even they could not shake the foundation of the aristocratic family at all. At most, they only limited the expansion speed of the aristocratic family.

It was not until Wu Meiniang became emperor that the aristocratic family refused to cooperate with her, which forced Wu Meiniang to vigorously promote officials from civilian origins and limit the influence of the aristocratic family, which also reduced the influence of the aristocratic family for a time.

However, after Wu Meiniang abdicated, the aristocratic family made a comeback again. Most of the prime ministers in the late Tang Dynasty were born into aristocratic families. It was not until the Huang Chao Uprising that the aristocratic families ended by this turmoil. It can be said that the aristocratic family was almost accompanied by the entire Tang Dynasty.

Even Li Shimin and Li Zhi have no choice but to take the aristocratic family, let alone Zhang Zong, at least he still has the solution for the time being, but Zhang Zong cannot move the aristocratic family, which does not mean that he has no choice but to deal with the people in the medical field. These people can also be called aristocratic families, but they are just medical families. They monopolize medical knowledge and would even rather lose it than spread it out, just to maintain their monopoly position.

If Zhang Zong establishes a medical school, it will definitely touch the interests of the above people, which is also the biggest obstacle that Zhang Zong has to face. Although these people are not like the big families like the Five Family Seven Wang, they still have a considerable influence in the medical community, so Zhang Zong needs Sun Simiao's reputation and influence. As long as Sun Simiao is willing to support himself, he will have the capital to fight those people.

Zhang Zong expressed his attitude and also brought Sun Simiao's banner. Zhou Shenwei and Xu Sanfeng were Sun Simiao's disciples, so naturally they only followed their teachers. You should know that the authority of teachers in this era is very high, even with their father. So although Zhou Shenwei and Xu Sanfeng are both white-haired old men, they still have to listen to their teachers at this time.

In contrast, Zhou Shuling was a little hesitant, but in the end he saw Zhang Zong's attitude firm, and Zhou Shenwei and Xu Sanfeng both supported Zhang Zong, so he finally nodded in his support.

Zhang Zong knew that Zhou Shuling agreed only because of the situation. Perhaps in his heart, he did not agree much, because as far as Zhang Zong knew, Zhou Shuling was also from a medical family. In other words, he and the family behind him were both beneficiaries of medical monopoly, so it was not surprising that he did not agree with this matter.

However, Zhang Zong didn't care much about Zhou Shuling's attitude. Now the general trend is on his side. If he dares to object, he will probably change his order to be the Imperial Physician Department. Anyway, he will take over the Imperial Physician Department completely. Of course, Zhou Shuling is willing to cooperate. If he is unwilling to cooperate, don't blame yourself for being rude.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the court is about to prepare for the officials to have a holiday, but Zhang Zong did not rest, but began to prepare for the medical school in advance, such as choosing a location, choosing students and teachers, and some structures of the medical school.

However, the most important thing is to write medical textbooks. Zhang Zong was unable to use this, so he handed over to a group of imperial doctors such as Zhou Shenwei and Xu Sanfeng. However, they were just auxiliary. The real main force was Sun Simiao, the miracle doctor. You must know that Sun Simiao is a general practitioner and is very proficient in internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, surgery, enthalpy, etc. It is perfect for him to write textbooks.

As for the Zhou Shuling, because his previous attitude was a bit swaying, Zhang Zong did not dare to let him participate in the medical school affairs, but instead handed him over the promotion of the growth of cowpox. Now Chang'an and Luoyang are planning to promote the growth of cowpox after the New Year, and there are many things to do in the early stage, and Zhang Zong can't take time to deal with these things now.

The preparations in the early stage were very tedious, and Zhang Zong was very busy. Finally, he stopped what he was doing until one day before the New Year. It was not that the work was over, but that he had to prepare for the New Year, especially some officials were on holiday. After all, there were too many things, and it was not a shortage of the New Year days.

That morning, Zhang Zong walked out of the bedroom yawning, and then stretched his waist long. Tonight was New Year's Eve, and it was the first day of his rest, so he slept in a nap and didn't even eat breakfast. Now he felt a little hungry.

However, just as Zhang Zong was about to wash up and then ask someone to prepare breakfast, he didn't expect that Wan'er would come quickly to report: "Young master, that fake Persian is here!"

"Caesar? Didn't he go on a boat?" Zhang Zong also showed a surprised expression when he heard this. Caesar's business is very big now, and the land business can no longer satisfy him. So he had already bought a fleet of ships before, and he went to Quanzhou in person at the beginning of the year, saying that he wanted to take a boat to sea in person. Zhang Zong hadn't seen him for a long time.

"It should have been back from the sea. The manager handed over the gift list he sent, which contained a lot of seafood." Wan'er guessed that she had not seen Caesar, but had received a report from the manager. She also knew that Zhang Zong was very concerned about Caesar, Ni Nishishi and others, so she came to report immediately.

"That's true. He has been there for almost a year." Zhang Zong nodded when he heard this, and then he didn't bother to have breakfast and walked to the front hall.

As soon as he entered the hall, he saw Caesar sitting there drinking tea. When he saw Zhang Zong, he immediately stepped forward and bowed: "Congratulations to Brother Zhang, I didn't expect that you have been the prince-consort for a while. You are already the prince-consort, which is really gratifying!"

"Well, what are your gains from going to sea this time?" Zhang Zong did not answer the other party's words, but directly changed the subject and asked.

"It's okay. I went to Tianzhu. I originally wanted to go west a little further, but unfortunately the cargo on the ship was full, so I had to come back early." Caesar replied with a smile. He was obviously much darker than before, and he lost a few laps. He looked more leaner than before, and his temperament was more calm than before.

When Zhang Zong heard that Caesar had gone to India, he was also curious and immediately asked about what he had seen and heard along the way. Caesar also told him about his experience in detail, especially his experience in India, which made Zhang Zong very interested.
Chapter completed!