Chapter 973
Outline
While Yu Qian and Chen Xun were busy increasing national treasury revenue, Pan Yun was immersed in a sea of data and books.
The time had come, and she was retrieving various machine diagrams and material smelting methods from her spiritual realm, copying them down one by one with a pen.
For example, once a railway is built, trains are needed. Should they use the most basic steam system or a more advanced internal combustion engine?
electricity……
Pan Jun decided against it for the time being.
Her hand, which was writing the plan, paused, and she seemed to be deep in thought. Actually, using electricity directly was not impossible. With magic arrays and talismans, some necessary technologies and materials could be replaced to convert oil into electricity.
The gray cast iron used for the cylinder block of an internal combustion engine can be produced with current technology, as can the crankshaft and connecting rod. However, the piston requires forged aluminum alloy, and the piston rings require special alloy cast iron, which cannot be produced with current technology.
If the diesel fuel extracted from the decomposition process is converted into power using another method...
Pan Yun put down the half-written plan and pulled out a blank sheet of paper to draw a formation diagram.
I was drawing until midnight, and I only had a few ideas. It was impossible to connect the array to replace the internal combustion engine.
Miaozhen brought in a bowl of noodles, picked up a diagram of an array that was lying to the side, and asked, "Junior Uncle, even if you can draw an array diagram to convert energy, how many talisman masters in this world can inscribe this array?"
Pan Yun suddenly realized: "You're right, we can't abandon the other set of techniques either."
She silently pulled out the plan sheet that had been pressed down by the blueprints and continued writing.
Miaozhen placed the bowl of noodles on the other side: "Junior Uncle, you should eat something first. You haven't eaten all day."
With Pan Yun's cultivation level, she could go three to five days without eating without much trouble, but she was at the age where she was still growing.
Pan Yun put down her pen, sat down, and took the chopsticks: "Where are Miaohe and Yanbai?"
Miaozhen: "Minister Hu from the Ministry of Rites came to see Junior Uncle, and just then Prince Zhou came with his heir to say goodbye. Third Senior Brother and Junior Sister were also there. The five of them got along unexpectedly well and talked outside for three hours. They were about to have their second meal."
Pan Jun tilted her head and thought for a moment, what could the five of them talk about?
Pan Yun raised an eyebrow: "Shall we talk about medicine?"
"Yes, when I went to the kitchen to make you noodles, they were already talking about publishing a medical book together, preferably something like the 'Emergency Relief Materia Medica'."
Upon hearing this, Pan Yun sped up her eating. How could making it as simple as "The Compendium of Famine Relief Herbs" be enough?
If we're going to do it, we should do it even better than "The Compendium of Famine Relief Herbs," and ideally, every village should have a copy, just like "The Great Proclamation."
If possible, she hopes to create a book like "The Barefoot Doctor's Textbook" and ensure that every ward has a copy, thus increasing the accessibility of literacy and medicine.
This is a public health issue, and in addition to the Ministry of Rites, the Imperial Medical Academy should also get involved.
Pan Yun frowned when the Imperial Medical Academy was mentioned.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Medical Academy had subordinate pharmacies for the benefit of the people and pharmacies for raw medicinal herbs, and also controlled medical education and assessment.
In recent years, not only have medical schools in various places closed or shrunk, but even public pharmacies have been shrinking.
The Huimin Pharmacy provided free medicine to the poor and was managed by medical officers dispatched by the Imperial Medical Academy. But now... Pan Yun rubbed his forehead, and after a moment smiled gently: "At least the founding emperor set a good precedent. The rules are readily available, and they can be modified to be used."
"what?"
Pan Yun waved his hand, casually putting everything on the table into his spiritual realm, and stood up, saying, "Let's go, let's go take a look."
When the two arrived, the five of them had already set up their tables and started drafting the table of contents to determine what they wanted to write.
After the emperor's birthday celebration, Pan Yun met with the Prince of Zhou and his son in the Imperial Study, and encouraged him to continue the legacy of his ancestors.
After the first Zhou king wrote "Emergency Relief Materia Medica", Zhu Yuanzhang ordered it to be printed and distributed. However, the two successive Zhou kings were caught up in the struggle for imperial power, and although the book was still circulating among the people, the government stopped printing it.
Pan Yun not only hoped to continue printing more copies of "Emergency Relief Materia Medica", but also hoped that the Zhou Prince's Palace would compile another set of simple prescriptions applicable to the common people. At the same time, he also hoped to reprint "Universal Relief Prescriptions", which was compiled by the late Zhou Prince, and distribute it not only to medical schools and pharmacies in various prefectures, states and counties, but also to put it in bookstores for sale at a low price.
Seeing that the emperor was completely in agreement and didn't mind the association between the Zhou royal family and the imperial advisor, the King of Zhou put aside his psychological pressure, followed his heart, and became close to Pan Yun.
He came today because the princes are leaving the capital one after another, and he is also taking his son back to Kaifeng.
Pan Yun glanced at their list and shook her head, saying, "It's not enough."
Hu Yuanjie tugged at his beard and asked, "How is that not enough? It covers internal and external diseases, and even toxicology. It's a book for popularizing medicine among ordinary people. How can they possibly read anything more?"
“It’s precisely because this is for ordinary people that your catalog is inappropriate,” Pan Yun said. “You can teach ordinary people how to handle minor illnesses and emergencies, but you don’t need to teach them profound pathology and pharmacology. For example, what to do if someone chokes, what to do if they have hiccups, what to do if someone falls into the water and you need to rescue them, how to stop bleeding if someone is cut by a knife and you can’t get medical treatment immediately… You don’t write about these things, but instead write about toxicology and cardiology. Those are books for doctors, not for ordinary people.”
Hu Yuanjie tugged at his beard, remaining silent and lost in thought.
King Zhou was not a very decisive person, but he thought Pan Yun was right. Moreover, he had lived among the common people and his circumstances when he was down on his luck were much worse than Hu Yuanjie's.
He whispered, "Following the Imperial Advisor's line of thinking, we could also write about fever reduction, heatstroke, drinking water health, and epidemic prevention, especially plague and chickenpox."
“That’s right. Plague is common among the people. When discussing the treatment of plague, we can also write about rat extermination,” Pan Jun said encouragingly, glancing at King Zhou. “When writing about medicine, we can use pictures of herbs from the ‘Emergency Relief Materia Medica’ to teach people how to obtain, process, and consume the medicine locally.”
The Compendium of Famine Relief Herbs includes 414 usable plants, many of which are both food and medicine.
These plants grow all around, but the people don't recognize them. Some people may know that some plants are edible based on oral traditions passed down from their ancestors, but their knowledge is very limited.
The late King Zhou had experienced war and famine. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters continued to occur. He wrote this book to teach the people about these plants in order to alleviate famine.
This book predates the Compendium of Materia Medica by two hundred years. Only 138 of the herbs in it were recorded in previous materia medica books. The 276 newly added herbs were all painstakingly discovered and painstakingly added by Zhu Su.
It was later known in the West as a "classic of Eastern botany".
Most importantly, Zhu Su was already a prince at the time, and he was rich, so he specially hired painters to draw pictures. In order to make them draw well, he even opened up a medicinal herb garden in his own palace, planted rare herbs in the garden, observed their survival, and then asked the painters to draw them. They were incredibly lifelike.
If you follow the clues, you'll eventually find it. (End of Chapter)