Chapter 6 Dengzhou

The little monk is not a monk but a miracle doctor who has returned from overseas. The news spread throughout Zhuangzi last night. The reason why it spread so quickly was due to the news broadcast of the old housekeeper Lai Fu. I told people time and time again that he had killed sixteen bugs, regardless of whether others like to listen or not.

What was really shocked was the old man's tuberculosis. An old man who had fallen into a coma woke up within one day under the treatment of a miracle doctor, and then he could sit up with the help of someone, and his coughing of blood stopped.

Chen Xie was brushing his teeth, and saw Zhang Yao smiling and making a gesture, and then continuing. The image of white foam on his mouth was indeed a bit scary. Zhang Yao, who had seen all kinds of weirdness in Chen Xie, had been used to it for a long time. The so-called body, hair and skin are affected by their parents, and they dare not hurt them. It seems that Chen Xie has no effect. When he first saw his short hair, Zhang Yao thought he was a monk.

Zhang Yao's interest was not to ask why he cut his hair short, but stared at the toothpaste on the edge of the copper basin for a while. When Chen Xie finished washing, he was still staring at Fangcao Toothpaste, XX Daily Chemical Company, address XXX, phone number XXX.

There are still several characters on the toothpaste that I don’t know (simplified Chinese characters). Zhang Yao, who was a Jinshi, found it very embarrassing. Some characters are combined together, and even if I know those characters, I don’t know what they mean. What is a daily chemical company? What is a telephone? What are those strange-shaped characters?

It is definitely impossible to be on guard against it. Chen Xie felt that it would be better to take the initiative. He took out a new toothbrush from the bag, squeezed out the toothpaste in front of Zhang Yao, and handed it over, and smiled and picked up his toothbrush and said, "Like me." After doing something, Zhang Yao couldn't help but dip the toothbrush in the water, then took a sip of water, spit it out, and began to brush her teeth a little clumsy.

Well, it tastes good and a little sweet. "This is for brushing your teeth. Oral hygiene is very important, otherwise you will suffer if your teeth are broken. By the way, don't swallow it in your stomach, spit it out, take a sip of water and then spit it out."

Zhang Yao quickly mastered the trick and completed the first experience of brushing teeth with toothpaste in her life, instead of taking green salt or willow branches. After spitting out the last mouthwash, she felt refreshing and pleasantly wanted to sing.

"It's really a divine thing! This thing is in America, I'm afraid it's not something that gods use?" Zhang Yao could only think of it like this. How can a person create such a thing? Although he doesn't say that he is so strange, he can't help but believe it. This toothpaste is not the ability to seize the creation of heaven and earth, how can he be made into such a tube?

"Uncle Zhang, this is not a god, it is an industrial product made by chemical production. Uh, I don't understand, it is a daily chemical product produced in a workshop."

"What is chemical industry?" "Chemical industry is..."

Chen Xie found that he had made a very serious mistake, which was to try to explain to a Ming Dynasty person what the concept of modern chemical engineering was. This practice is no longer something that can be described by foolishness.

"Abstract, this is made by man and has nothing to do with gods. Unfortunately, America is too far away. When I came back, the boat capsized on the sea. In the end, I drove a shore on a small boat. And there were no descendants of the Southern Song survivors on the other side of the Americas, and they all died on the sea where they returned home." Hurry up and lay the ground to avoid Zhang Yao going to America. For the sake of reality, Chen Xie still rubbed his eyes hard a few times while lowering his head, looking sad. But it is hard to say what the effect is.

Fortunately, Zhang Yao didn't care, so she raised her hand and patted his shoulder and said, "It's good to come back, it's good to come back." Her tone was full of concern, which made Chen Xie feel a little guilty. It's really not easy to deceive people, especially to deceive someone.

"Have the old man got up?" Chen Xie quickly changed the subject, and the old housekeeper Lai Fu appeared on the side like a ghost and said, "I got up early in the morning, and Er Niang helped her in the yard and walked a few steps."

"Then go and see. If the situation is stable, as long as you continue to take the medicine, you will be able to cut the roots in at most half a year." This is not a bragging. The power of antibiotics in this era is really great, and the effect is not comparable to that of modern people with strong drug resistance.

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Three days later, it was still the same road, and a carriage slowly headed towards Dengzhou City. The old man's illness was basically stable. In the future, he mainly focused on recuperation, leaving a month's bottled medicine (remove all the signs), and explained how to use it. Chen Xie followed Zhang Yao on his way to Dengzhou.

The Zhang family has a business in the city, and its business scope is mainly from Dengzhou's local products and seafood, and also carries some goods from Japan and Dongjiang Town. Interestingly, people who do business in these days basically do not have to pay taxes. From the perspective of civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor wanted to collect commercial taxes, which was to compete with the people for profit and a foolish monarch.

He talked with Zhang Yao along the way. When talking about commercial tax, Zhang Yao seemed to be justified. Even if Chen Xie was not very familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty, he felt a little uneasy. If he didn't collect commercial tax, where would the country get money? The Ming Dynasty also banned the sea. The problem is that banned the sea for the folk gentry, which was a joke, and it had long been in name only.

He was so at ease that he didn't pay commercial taxes. Even Zhang Yao was in front of him. Chen Xie felt that it was very evil. He would study the problems in the late Ming Dynasty next time he went back. When the cannon fired, he would fight against eggs without money? This is a truth that everyone knows in modern times. People in the Ming Dynasty were not stupid, so why did they do this?

With such questions, Chen Xie followed Zhang Yao to the gate of Dengzhou City.

Two soldiers stood at the city gate to check the people entering the city. When the carriage approached, the city gate heard a scream. Chen Xie used the excuse that the carriage was too stuffy and came out to sit on the shaft of the carriage and watched everything happening at the city gate. A fruit dealer, dressed in a torn dress, left in a hurry and disappeared into the city gate. The two soldiers at the door, one holding a spear, with rusty on the head of the spear, didn't know how long it had been worn. The other was wearing a waist knife, and it looked old. The two soldiers looked a little malnourished, with yellow faces and thin skin, and the mandarin duck battle robe was covered with patches. The red tassels on the hat were almost bald, and only a few strands were left, and they couldn't tell that they were red.

Chang Sui Shuigen came down from the donkey and walked forward swaggeringly. He didn't know what he said to the soldiers. Anyway, the two soldiers soon took action, and were dancing with guns and swords. Some people who were queuing up to enter the city were driven aside.

As a modern person, I naturally felt a little incredible when I saw this scene, but Chen Xie did not show any attitude. Instead, he sat calmly on the shaft and looked at the numb and ragged people on both sides of the road. They didn't even dare to look up at the carriage passing by.

During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the jurisdiction of Dengzhou basically followed the Tang system. In the early Ming Dynasty, Dengzhou's geographical advantages were once prominent, and he promoted the prefecture to the prefecture. In the "Ming Shilu", the reason for establishing the Dengzhou Prefecture was mentioned, and it was written: "At that time, Deng and Lai prefectures were all bordered by the sea and were Goryeo. It was the main road between Japan and Japan. It was not enough to maintain the prefecture and increase the military guards."

"Ming Dynasty: Official Records": "The Governor Denglai locally was a member of military affairs, and was established in the first year of Tianqi." In order to prevent the Later Jin from going south from the sea, in the first year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty (1621), the Shandong Governor separated from the Governor Denglai, and the two prefectures of Dengzhou and Laizhou were subordinate.

In the eyes of modern people Chen Xie, in terms of population, this is not a big city. But in terms of city walls, it has to be tall and majestic. When you look up, you must be ten meters high and more than three meters thick. (Note: Dengzhou City is 11.5 meters high and 3.5 meters thick.) "A nation without enterprising spirit, no matter how high the city wall is, it cannot stop the invaders' iron hooves."

Chen Xie murmured to himself, Zhang Yao didn't hear it clearly inside, and subconsciously asked: "Sihua, what are you talking about?"

"I didn't say anything, the city wall is quite high." Chen Xie quickly changed his words and stayed with Zhang Yao for three days. After having a certain understanding of the ideas and concepts of these people in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Xie's words became more cautious. Some words that seem to be nothing to modern people are shocking in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, there were not many taboos for scholars in the Ming Dynasty. They could curse the emperor and the government at will. Often, the reason was very absurd when Chen Xie looked at it. Just like Zhang Yao, when he mentioned the troubles of Liaodong, the conclusion was that the military ministers were incompetent and the emperor was unethical. They had nothing to do with civil officials, and when they said these words, they were very calm.

However, when Chen Xie mentioned that women's foot binding was a kind of destruction from a medical perspective, Zhang Yao's face changed, and he immediately told him a lot of truths about the Ming Dynasty. What are the three obediences and four virtues, what is the virtue of a woman without talent, and what is not to mention such words, so as not to cause trouble, etc.

Zhang Yao did not mean to blame Chen Xie, but just wishful thinking that he grew up overseas since childhood and did not understand the secular world of the Ming Dynasty at all, so he made such statements. After several similar conversations, Chen Xie became more cautious. He originally planned to open a hospital in Dengzhou to train several **men to play uniforms and temptations, but this plan was still in the womb before it even started.

Compared with the tall city walls, Dengzhou streets can only be described as narrow. At most, they are the width of the carriage. The streets are covered with sewage, pedestrians are ragged, and rich people are staying in the carriage. The streets are paved with stone slabs, which have not been repaired for too long, and the carriage is unbearable to walk on them. After a morning of the carriage, Chen Xie suspected that his butt was not his. Finally, he entered the city, so he naturally refused to sit in the carriage and walked down with his big bag on his back.

Zhang Yao didn't stop him, so he could only let him go.
Chapter completed!