"Ma Aiqing, why do you ask for doctors and craftsmen?" After reading the memorial on Ma Lin, Zhengde summoned Ma Lin in the leopard room northwest of the imperial city. The audience were three cabinet ministers, Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and Liang Chu.

After Liu Jin's party member Cao Yuan stepped down, the court officials strongly recommended Liu Zhong to the cabinet to win a deputy state-level treatment for him to retire. However, Zhengde held a grudge against Liu Zhong, leading the palace to force the palace to knock on the palace, so he refused to promote Liu Zhong to the cabinet, but chose Liang Chu, who had a less experienced qualification, to enter the cabinet. The ministers wanted to write a letter to force Zhengde to submit, but Zhengde was furious and burned all the memorials that day, no matter big or small. Moreover, Zhengde claimed that as long as there were memorials that recommended Liu Zhong to enter the cabinet, all the memorials that day were burned out. Seeing that Zhengde was so resolute, Liu Zhong did not want the monarch and minister to break up completely and voluntarily withdrew, so that the matter was not to be overwhelmed.

Seeing that Liu Zhong knew the truth, Zhengde did not pursue the matter anymore. He also added Liu Zhong's literary rank and paid a salary. Of course, he would be exempted from the negotiations when he entered the cabinet. This was Zhengde's warning to his ministers.

Seeing Zhengde ask this, and the three cabinet bosses around him also looked over, Marin immediately cried:

"Your Majesty, you don't know anything! In Europe, medical skills are outrageous! For example, when people are sick, should they take medicine?"

Zhengde and the three cabinet masters nodded together, and Marin's next words made the tea in their mouths spew out...

"But in our place, people don't take medicine when they are sick, and those quack doctors who are like witch doctors will bleed directly... Your Majesty, three elders, think about it, how weak are people when they are sick? As a result, those quack doctors will stab and bleed... Isn't this similar to murder?"

The four bigwigs wiped the tea sprayed clean and nodded in agreement with Marin's words. Zhengde looked at Marin with a heartache:

"Ma Aiqing, you have suffered. How many times have you been let go of blood since you were young?"

This time it was Marin's turn to spray tea, but he thought about it seriously and said:

"It seems that there is only one time..." According to the memory of the predecessor of this body, it seems that when he was 13 years old, he fell seriously ill once. The Hoffman family specially released blood on Marin to the doctor in Bochum he invited... As for other times... it was mainly because the Hoffman Manor was located in the countryside and he wanted to find a terrible "witch doctor" who could treat bloodletting...

Thanks to the remote location of Hoffman Manor, there are not many "witch doctors" who know "hypermedical skills" of "bloodle therapy". Otherwise, with the strength of Marin's body, I guess I would have been unable to wait for Marin's soul to penetrate and would have been bleeded long ago...

When Malin said the reason why "the countryside is poor and even the quack doctor who can treat bloodletting cannot find it", Zhengde and the three cabinet masters both looked like "You are really lucky".

"Ma Aiqing, I didn't expect you to live so miserable... Master Li, how many doctors are suitable for him?" Master Li is Li Dongyang. Li Dongyang once served as the teacher of Emperor Hongzhi and Zhengde. Zhengde respected him very much and called him "master". It should be pointed out that the master here is different from the master, and the emperor cannot call people a father casually. In addition, there are official positions of "Taishi", "Taibao", "Taifu" and "Shaoshi", "Shaobao", and "Shaofu", so the emperor and the prince often call the imperial teacher or the prince's teacher "master", or "Shibao", and "Shaofu". Of course, it is sometimes used to call monks. After the liberation, the master was used to call craftsmen.

Li Dongyang stroked his goatee, thought for a while, and said:

"It's no problem to give the doctor of Ma Guo, but the Imperial Hospital cannot give it to the doctor..."

"Why?" Zhengde was puzzled.

"Cough cough..." Li Dongyang pretended to cough and thought to himself - Why are you so stupid? He gave the imperial physician to Marin, what should we do?

Speaking of which, Li Dongyang was also unlucky. His own son died prematurely, so he had no choice but to adopt a nephew as his son. He was a clerk, and some nephews were willing to adopt him, but they were not born by him after all. Therefore, Malin did not dare to mention the topic of pediatricians and premature death, so as not to hurt Li Dongyang's heart.

When Zhengde saw Li Dongyang wink at himself, he also realized that he was - Yes, the imperial physician was treating the royal family and ministers, so how could he give it to others at will? So he changed his words:

"Ma Aiqing, look, the imperial physicians are all people with official positions. I cannot give away the Ming officials at will..."

Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and Liang Chu immediately gave a private like, shouting "666" in their hearts, cheering for the reasons found by Zhengde...

Li Dongyang answered at this time:

"Then let it be. I'm now ordering that someone can choose a doctor with great medical skills among folk doctors without an official position..."

"Wait..." Marin stood up and asked:

"What Your Majesty and the three cabinet masters mean is that the imperial physician who has an official position cannot give it to him, so those who have no official position can do it?"

Li Dongyang thought for a while and said:

"That's true, but we can't force doctors who don't want to go too ruthless..."

"What if it's a criminal?"

"What does it mean?" Li Dongyang was stunned, but he quickly realized:

"You mean those eunuchs and imperial physicians who cling to Liu Jin?"

Marin clapped his hands and said:

"It's them! Anyway, they are guilty and have no official status. Wouldn't it be nice to give it to the minister and take it to Beihai? Anyway, in the Ming Dynasty, because they were eunuchs, they didn't even have a share of amnesty, and they would have no hope in the future!"

Li Dongyang thought about it, discussed with Zhengde, Yang Tinghe and Liang Chu, and agreed to Ma Lin's request. As for the ideas of those former imperial physicians? As a guilty man, where to go, he only depends on the court's words...

In this way, Malin easily found 200 doctors from various departments, including 5 former imperial physicians, from the Ming court, which made Malin happy.

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Then, it is the problem of craftsmen. In fact, craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, especially shipbuilders, were not better than European shipbuilders. But the problem is that European craftsmen are all old men. Not only are they high salaries, they often make revolutions... The most revolutionary class in Europe is mainly craftsmen...

Although Marin was also cultivating craftsmen, unfortunately there was too little time to go. For example, shipbuilding craftsmen could not cultivate superb craftsmen in a few years, and at most they could cultivate barely qualified craftsmen.

The Ming Dynasty's craftsmen were different. These craftsmen were born with craftsmen and had to learn craftsmanship since childhood. Generally, a middle-aged craftsman basically had more than ten years of craftsmanship.

Even though the Eastern shipbuilding craftsmanship is different from that of Europe, the craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty craftsmen is there. As long as they learn the ideas of European shipbuilding, shipbuilding is still very simple.

So, Marin directly spoke up and wanted many Ming shipbuilders...

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However, Emperor Zhengde hesitated...

Because of Marin, the young Zhengde suddenly became interested in sailing. After sending Marin away in the name of "we need discussion", Zhengde expressed the signs that he was also interested in sailing to Li Dongyang and others...

Marin didn't know that because of the behavior of the shipbuilder he wanted, Zhengde almost intervened in the voyage...

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However, God blessed Malin. At this critical moment, an important figure came out, saved Malin, and destroyed the hope of the Ming Dynasty's development of the great voyage...

This guy is Comrade Liu Daxia, who in the legendary way, burned Zheng He's navigation chart...

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Needless to say, Liu Daxia’s origin is the case. When it comes to the great voyage, he cannot avoid this "loyal minister" who burned the hopes of the Ming Dynasty...

Although later historians have mixed praises and criticized him, at present, Liu Daxia is an outstanding representative of the loyal minister and the leading figure of Qingliu...

Coincidentally, Liu Daxia had retired and returned to her hometown. However, because she offended Liu Jin, she was punished to go to Suzhou (the later generations of Ganyisu Jiuquan) to guard the border and serve as a military force.

When Yang Yiqing was responsible for going to Qingyang, Gansu, to appease the public opinion after the rebellion of King Anhua, he quietly brought Liu Daxia back to Beijing and hid it in Yang Yiqing's mansion.

After Liu Jin fell, Liu Daxia made public appearance. However, because Liu Jin's false accusation had not been rehabilitated, he still stayed in the capital and continued to live in Yang Yiqing's mansion.

It should be pointed out that Liu Daxia, Yang Yiqing and Li Dongyang studied under the great scholar Li Chun when they were young. Therefore, the three of them were close friends of the same school. Moreover, Liu Daxia was also the "big brother" among the three.

Because he did not reply to Malin immediately, after returning to the evening, Li Dongyang happened to visit Yang Yiqing's mansion and talked about this matter. It was obvious that Zhengde didn't want to give Malin many shipbuilders, and planned to do a large sailing by himself...

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"Bang--" After hearing Li Dongyang's words, Liu Daxia slapped the table suddenly and roared:

"Binzhi, you must not let Your Majesty have the idea of ​​sailing! The Ming Dynasty cannot resist the trouble of sailing!"

If it were later generations, people would probably have come forward to criticize Liu Daxia. However, this was the Ming Dynasty, and the Confucian scholars in the Ming Dynasty all agreed with Liu Daxia's words...

Li Dongyang and Yang Yiqing nodded together after hearing Liu Daxia's words. Then, Li Dongyang asked:

"Senior brother, do you think how to stop His Majesty from sailing?"

Liu Daxia thought for a while and said:

"I have burned the shipbuilding drawings left by Quan eunuch Zheng He, but those shipbuilding craftsmen are probably still handing down shipbuilding skills from generation to generation. The descendants of the craftsmen who can make treasure ships are probably concentrated in the Jiangnan region. The treasure ships are mainly produced in Longjiang Treasure Shipyard in Nanjing. Two junior brothers, you can check the files and see where the descendants of those craftsmen who know the craftsmen who are good at making treasure ships are distributed. Then, they will be given to the Lord of Ma..."

"I gave it all to Lord Ma? Senior brother, there were more than a few thousand craftsmen who built treasure ships back then? It was passed down and there were probably thousands or tens of thousands. Including the family members, it was estimated that more than 20,000 to 30,000 people... Could it be that they all give it to Lord Ma?" Li Dongyang said in surprise.

Liu Daxia said with a ruthless face:

"Binzhi, only in this way can you extinguish Your Majesty's intention to go to the West again! Think about the fact that when Taizong (Emperor Yongle) was in power, he almost exhausted the treasury in order to go to the West. Even in order to maintain expenses, Taizong had to send treasure money indiscriminately. But Binzhi (Li Dongyang) and Yingning (Yang Yiqing), look at it. Now there is almost no one who recognizes the treasure money, and no one buys it indiscriminately. Are you willing to watch the treasury in Ming Dynasty be consumed again?"

"So, we must give all the descendants of craftsmen who know how to make treasure ships to Lord Ma, so that His Majesty's intention to reopen his voyage to the West!" Liu Daxia said passionately.

If Ma Lin was present, he would probably jump up excitedly and kiss Liu Daxia's old face - you are really my lucky star!
Chapter completed!