I am the king of the dead

Yu Qian, Hu Wei, He Zhang, and Shen Yi stood up and resigned, and then returned to Yousi to be on duty.

Hu Yi unloaded the burden, naturally he had nothing to do, and wandered back to the house to toss about his small attic.

When Hu Wei returned home, the mansion was deserted and deserted. Hu Changxiang was not on duty at the Taiyuan Hospital today, but was also at home.

"What are you doing?" Hu Yan looked at Hu Changxiang who was sitting cross-legged on the ground writing and drawing, and asked with a smile.

Hu Changxiang said in a low voice: "Raise rats. Father, keep your voice down. The female rat will eat the offspring when she hears a loud noise. This rat is the most precious, and the second most expensive, it is very rare. Rats used in hospitals have to be taken from the house." I'll get it here."

Female rats eat young, while male rats are good at fighting.

Hu Changxiang turned his home into a zoo, but Hu Yan never accused Hu Changxiang of this incident.

Firstly, Hu Changxiang raised these things for the advancement of medical skills in the Taiyuan Hospital; secondly, Hu Changxiang raised them all in the breeding room and never ran out once.

"I'm retiring. His Majesty came back yesterday. I told His Majesty today about the matter of becoming an official. Your Majesty agreed." Hu found a bench and sat down, looked at the mice in the breeding room, and said with a smile.

Hu Changxiang said quite relaxedly: "It doesn't matter if my father retires, he has worked hard and worked hard all his life, and he is full of infamy. If he retires, he will take his grandson to the Imperial Hospital to improve his medical skills and do what he wants to do. "

Hu Wei said with some apology: "At first, you were blocked from taking the imperial examination, and you were not allowed to become an official. Now that I have withdrawn, if you want to take the imperial examination, there is still time."

Hu Changxiang waved his hands again and again, and said with disgust: "There is no better way to know a son than a father. Father doesn't know me yet? Is that where I should go?"

"I'm soft-tempered. When I come to the biggest Vanity Fair in the officialdom, I'm afraid that there will be no scum left that I have been eaten for a long time, and my father will be involved. I am fine in the Tai Hospital. I don't want to take the exam, and I can't pass the exam."

Hu Changxiang really likes to be on duty in the Imperial Hospital. He did not inherit his father's political wisdom, but his father's medical talent. Hu Changxiang enjoys studying medicine.

Hu Changxiang is tired of watching the intrigues in the officialdom for so many years.

"What are you writing about? Tell me about it." Hu Yan asked with interest. His son has been working on these breeding rooms for almost ten years. What exactly is he working on? He was busy in the past and never paid attention to it.

Hu Changxiang hesitated for a while and said: "These mice, in fact, it is the female mice that decide the family, not the male mice."

"When female mice do not reap the benefits of bonding with a male mouse, such bonding does not occur."

"Based on this premise, two conclusions are drawn."

"First: All the benefits that male mice have provided to female mice in the past do not sustain future relationships."

"Husband and wife are originally birds in the same forest, so they fly separately when disaster strikes?" Hu Wei asked tentatively.

Hu Changxiang nodded repeatedly, and said excitedly: "Yes, yes, yes."

"Second, any current benefits offered by male mice to maintain future relationships with female mice are ineffective and futile."

"For example, the No. [-] male rat saved a lot of food for the female rat before, but yesterday the male rat lost to other male rats and was injured. The female rat left after eating the food."

Hu Yan looked at the mouse that Hu Changxiang pointed to with great interest. This mouse was seriously injured, and he might not be able to collect food in the future.

"Are you just talking about mice?" Hu Yan asked with a smile.

Hu Changxiang shook his head and said, "It's not just mice, cats, dogs, lions, tigers, bears, and so on."

Hu Yan laughed, he was making excuses, and his son was seriously discussing natural phenomena.

Chapter 793 Becoming a Person Useful to Daming

"It is reasonable for animals to do this." Hu Changxiang emphasized that he has observed this phenomenon, but he does not think it is unreasonable.

Hu Wei looked at the mice in the breeding room, and asked suspiciously, "Why?"

Hu Changxiang said with an extremely strange expression: "Reproduce."

"The female mouse will conceive, give birth, and feed the offspring. During this process, the male mouse needs to be responsible for collecting food and protecting the female mouse and the offspring."

"To live is to reproduce."

It dawned on Hu that because female rats want to reproduce, when a female rat cannot benefit from bonding with a male rat, such bonding will not happen.

He seriously smacked his son's phrase "to live is to reproduce", and kept nodding his head. The fact is the same. There seems to be no difference between humans and animals. Most of them are born, live, and have children, and the cycle repeats.

Hu Changxiang thought for a long time and said, "Father, I am somewhat puzzled by the translation of Aristotle's anthology by the officers of the Maritime Hall of the Ministry of Rites."

"For example, "Annals of Animals" has nine volumes and 49 chapters, but there are many contradictions here and there, and the idiomatic expressions and sentence breaks in many places are not the same. This makes me often feel confused when I read it."

"For example, in Taixi it is called the Kingfisher Festival, and it is said that at the vernal equinox, the kingfisher will lay five eggs, but Aristotle's "On the Sky" does not have the concept of the vernal equinox."

Hearing Hu Changxiang's doubts, Hu Wei said with a smile: "This is normal. In fact, most of the Aristotle anthologies we translated were not written by Aristotle himself. written by name."

"Just like "Guan Zi" and "Shang Junshu", only a few articles were written by Guan Zhong and Shang Yang, and the others were collected and sorted out by disciples, or simply extended and demonstrated by later generations based on the arguments of these most holy teachers. and recorded."

"There is no limit to the sea of ​​learning, and there is no path to the mountain of books. Knowledge is a process of constant error correction. These books of the most holy teachers have to undergo error correction again and again over a long period of time, which is what we see. "

"As for the vernal equinox, it was Constantine I who knew exactly the vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox and winter solstice when Constantine I convened the first Council of Nicaea."

"I added it for the convenience of Daming's readers."

Hu Changxiang's eyes widened, and he looked at Hu Min in a daze and asked, "Did my father add it? That's no wonder, it has troubled me for a long time."

Hu Wei is a defender of etiquette, and he is very proficient in etiquette. Anthologies are for reading, not for worship on the bookshelf, so Hu Wei added the vernal equinox when he checked and corrected, so that it is easy for Ming scholars to understand.

No anthology is static.

For example, the first sentence in "Lao Tzu", Dao can be said, very Tao, name can be named, very famous.In the ancient prose of the pre-Qin period, it is said that the way can be said, not the constant way, and the name can be named, but not the constant name. In order to avoid the taboo of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng, the modification was made.

Hu Changxiang stood up, rummaged through the bookshelves, and then took out two volumes of books, handed them to Hu Wei and said, "I wrote a book, and I will ask my father to read it."

Hu Wei came to the desk next to the bed, put on reading glasses, read carefully, and read a few chapters.

This is a book that records animals. To be precise, it records the anatomy of many similar creatures in different categories.

"Tigers and cats are actually the same kind of creatures?" Hu Wei said in surprise.

Hu Changxiang walked over and pointed to the two anatomical diagrams and said: "Their physiological structures are not fundamentally different. They both have sharp canine teeth and retractable claws, and their skeleton structures are also very similar. Even their living habits are not too different. .”

"But the tiger has a longer skull and a more prominent malar process, which is able to attach a lot of muscle, giving it a very strong bite force."

"And the vocal cords of tigers allow them to roar, but cats cannot roar, so there are tigers roaring in the forest, not cats roaring in the forest."

After reading the book quietly, Hu Wei asked, "Is there any more? This is very interesting."

"It's good that it's interesting. I've written 22 volumes in total, and they're all here." Hu Changxiang pointed to the bookshelf behind him. It's not so much a book as a note, but Hu Changxiang said in a very confused way: "I don't know what's the point of writing these. use."

Although Hu Changxiang is studying animals, he doesn't know the significance of studying animals. He just likes them.

"Of course it is useful." After thinking for a while, Hu Wei said with a smile: "For example, livestock, poultry, aquaculture, bee, silkworm breeding, etc., if you can't grasp their structure, activities, living conditions, prevention and treatment, etc., how can you Breeding? Like bitumen from oil to treat ringworm in camels."

"For example, malaria, sucker, hook, silk, roundworm, worm, white, flesh, lung, stomach, scorpion, red, and dung beetle, aren't they also animals?"

"The Sutra of Eliminating the Three Corpses and Nine Insects for Preservation of Life believes that the haunting of three corpses and nine worms will cause people to die quickly. Get rid of the three corpses and nine worms to seek health and longevity."

"How can it be useless for you to study these?"

Hu Changxiang still said confusedly: "Is it really useful?"

"Of course!" Hu Yan put down his presbyopic glasses and said with a heavy expression, ""History of the Later Han·Xiandi Ji" records: Jian'an was 22 years old, and it was a big epidemic."

"In the 22nd year of Jian'an, Cao Cao, the king of Wei, set up the banner of the Son of Heaven. When he entered and exited, he was called a policeman according to the etiquette of the Son of Heaven. He made Cao Pi the prince, and sent troops to the south to conquer Sun Quan."

"In this plague, five of the famous seven sons of Jian'an died of the plague. Wang Can and Chen Lin fought with the army in the south of the Yangtze River, and died of the epidemic in the army. The other three people in Yecheng, Ying Yu, Liu Zhen, and Xu Gan, also Die from the disease."

"Whether it is Yecheng or the southern frontline residence, there is a big epidemic."

"Wang likes donkey braying, so each of you can make a donkey bray to see him off. Wang Can likes donkey braying, and Cao Pi led the mourners, and each of them brayed donkey farewell to Wang Can."

"This scene is ridiculous, isn't it? Cao Pi and others learn how to bray together."

Hu Changxiang imagined the scene, shivered suddenly, shook his head desperately and said: "It's not funny at all, it's even creepy."

What kind of despair can make Wei Wendi Cao Pi mourn to the point of learning how to bray like a donkey?

Hu Wei continued: "In the 22nd year of Jian'an, Sima Yi's elder brother, Sima Lang, delivered medicine to sick soldiers in the army, and died of the disease."

"Even if the dignitaries are like this, the common people are naturally empty."

"In the 22nd year of Jian'an, Cao Zhi wrote "Speaking of Epidemic Qi" and said: "Plague gas is prevalent, every family has the pain of zombies, and every room has the mourning of howling. Either the door is closed and the family is destroyed, or the family is destroyed. Either the family or the family is exterminated. "

"The flames of the epidemic are not only ravaging the Central Plains." Hu Wei said with emotion: "In the seventh year from Yuan to Zhengzheng, in the port of Sicily in Taixi, a ship loaded with cargo passed through the Strait of Constantinople, bringing people from the Golden Horde Khanate with them. The goods are docked at the port."

"People in the port celebrate and welcome the arrival of the ship, just like farmers harvesting grain. The arrival of the ship is a carnival, and the dangerous voyage represents wealth like the vast ocean."

"In the cabin, there are not only full warehouses, but also many rats. These rats carry fleas and spread to every corner of Taixi along the busy sea route."

"The Golden Horde has a disease, the rats are infected, the fleas are infected, and the fleas will become extremely hungry and thirsty after being infected. No one knows what happened. A large epidemic called the Black Death spread throughout Taixi. "

"This epidemic lasted for four years, killing nearly two-thirds of the population. A city-state named Florence was completely wiped out, and no one survived. To this day, the Taixi people still firmly believe that it is a god. It is testing their divine punishment."

"Cao Zhi's "Speaking of Epidemic Qi" said: It is ridiculous for foolish people to hang amulets and hate it."

How did Hu Wei know that it was not God's test, not God's punishment?

In Daming's etiquette since Jedi Tiantong, it is always God governing God's affairs and man governing man's affairs.

In addition to being the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, Hu Wei is also the author of "Simple Prescriptions for Preventive Hygiene". With a medical skill, he won the miraculous merit card bestowed by His Majesty.

Sprinkling water and washing the ground for His Majesty for many years, he has never obtained a miracle card. A book on preventive hygiene and simple recipes gave him the miracle card that countless people dream of, and truly won His Majesty's approval, even respect.

It is indeed respect. His Majesty takes Hu Wei's advice very seriously, and even if he does not accept it, he will explain the reason.

As for the spread of the plague, after many years of observation by Hu Wei and careful analysis by the Xie Yuyuan, the context of the spread of the plague was finally determined. The ubiquitous rats were infected with the plague, and then fleas passed the plague to humans.

Hu Wei looked at Hu Changxiang, and said with mixed emotions: "Speaking of it, it is a man-made disaster. Under the monstrous authority of Taixi and the Holy See, a large number of cats were culled during the nearly 400-year witch hunt, because Judas liked to keep cats, and Judas betrayed the god to Rome, causing the god to be killed."

"In a letter "Voice of Rome" written by Pope Gregory IX, the statue of the black cat was designated as evil."

"So, do you still think your research is useless?"

Hu Changxiang shook his head, and said in a simple and firm voice: "Useful! Very useful!"

"Then continue, my child." Hu Wei stood up and continued: "No matter what you do, keep doing it and become a useful person to Daming."

After Hu Yi finished speaking, he left Hu Changxiang's room, looked back, leaned on crutches, and returned to his small attic, carefully sorting out the documents in the small attic.

He told Hu Changxiang a story about where the Black Death in Taixi began and where it ended. Hu Wei didn't know, but based on the fact that Constantinople cut off the trade between Taixi and the Western Regions, he made up the port of Sicily. s story.

However, the great epidemic in Western Europe has indeed caused people to lose their lives.

Hu Ming was humming a song relaxedly, sorting out the paperwork, and enjoying the time of retirement.

At this time, there was a cat in front of Zhu Qiyu, lazily lying on the window sill, lazily basking in the sun, not afraid of people at all.

This cat is white with a light blue color, round body, fluffy hair, looks quite mighty, and has a pair of round eyes like copper bells, staring quite dignifiedly, and its neck is wrapped around a circle long hair.

This cat is the royal cat of the cat's room.

The Internal Administration of the Ming Dynasty specially set up a cat room to exterminate rats. There were three or four servants in the cat room, and they only raised famous cats before the imperial court.

Wanping County is in charge of cat food, and is giving 720 catties of rice, converted into [-] catties of meat, for cats in the cat's house.

There are three layers of meanings in Yuqian's emphasis on cats. Firstly, to feel the vitality; Emperor Jiajing.

The cats in the cat's room all have names, and the cats without titles are all males called a certain servant, and the female cats are called a certain girl.

The cat in front of him, named Xuemei, is extremely lively, walking sideways in the palace, there is no place it can't go, even Zhu Qiyu recognizes it.

Xuemei stood up, shook herself up, raised her head, and glanced at Zhu Qiyu sideways, as if it was the master, she swayed her body and gracefully walked away from the window of the imperial study.

"Hey, you have a temper." Zhu Qiyu laughed, the cat's high-toed appearance was quite cute.

Zhu Qiyu walked out of the lecture hall, he planned to go to the top ten calendar bureaus to have a look, Xu Dun of the Qin Tianjian had been eager to try in the court hall, but in the end he failed to perform.

Da Ma rushed to the ten calendar bureaus, Xu Dun, Bei Lin, Wan Jieli and other Qin Tianjian officials, Tian Wensheng, etc., had already waited in front of the door when they heard that His Majesty had arrived.

When Zhu Qiyu got off his horse, he glanced at the Gongyuan. The scholars there saw Tiqi Qingjie, and they knew that His Majesty had arrived at Qintianjian again.

The scholars can only feel that Qin Tianjian is really in the heart of the emperor. His Majesty came to inspect it in person as soon as he returned to Beijing.

"See Your Majesty, is Your Majesty blessed?" Xu Dun led everyone to salute respectfully.

"I'm safe, no courtesy." Zhu Qiyu held the whip and asked, "Who is Wanjieli?"

"The minister is Wan Jieli." Wan Jieli hurried out of the line and bowed his head.

This Wanjieli has delicate features, but he is a handsome young man.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "I met your uncle and grandfather Xu Youzhen in Jiujiang Mansion, and talked about you."

"Have you figured out the problem that I ordered you to understand last time?"

The last time Wan Jieli applied for funding, Zhu Qiyu approved the funding and gave a reminder.

Wan Jieli scratched his head and said, "I understand, but I don't fully understand. I really can't explain clearly. Please move on, Your Majesty."

The crowd came to a side room with a ceiling over four feet high, and Zhu Qiyu finally saw a few glass tubes hanging on the hanging beams.

Wangeli walked to the center, pointed to these glass tubes and said: "I pour water into the tubes, after closing them, turn the water upside down, then pull off the sealed lead sheet, move the water tubes up and down, the vertical height of the water column in the tubes Only three feet, one foot, one inch, seven minutes and four centimeters."