In fact, Jiangnan Hospital had already diagnosed that Zhao Shouzheng was suffering from cataract.

The so-called "cataract" is simply senile cataract.

Zhao Shouzheng was born in the tenth year of Jiajing, and he is exactly sixty this year. It is normal for him to have eye problems at the age of sixty. Moreover, traditional medicine believes that this disease is caused by "anger hurting the liver, blood not flowing, kidney water depletion, and qi and blood dissipation". Zhao Shouzheng worked too hard day and night, and was always worried and angry. It would be strange if he didn't have eye problems.

It is true that this disease can cause blindness, but surgery can restore sight.

Traditional Chinese medicine has accumulated very mature methods. One is through acupuncture, called Jinzhen Puzhang. Another is through medicine, called Cizhu Pills. This prescription is a good prescription for connecting the heart and kidney, and senile cataracts are mostly caused by the lack of connection between the heart and kidney.

The Medical Saint Wan Mi Zhai was very good at ophthalmic treatment. Although he passed away two years ago at the age of ninety, he had passed on his life's learning to the younger generations at Jiangnan Hospital and Jiangnan Medical College.

After the introduction of new medical technologies such as microscopes and anatomy, the research and treatment levels of ophthalmic diseases have made great progress and far surpassed those of Wan Mi Zhai in his time.

Gong Yanxian, director of Wanmi Zhai Eye Hospital, went to Beijing several times to treat Zhao Shouzheng. After consulting with the expert committee of Jiangnan Medical Group, they concluded last year that a not-too-difficult operation combined with drug treatment would allow the patient to recover in a few months.

However, after the plan was handed over to Zhao Hao, he suppressed it and told Dean Gong to make the condition sound more serious to scare Mr. Zhao...

The purpose is naturally to make him retire early due to illness.

First, the battle for the national capital will not be as settled as the ministers expected. Instead, the best part is yet to come. After a period of skill cooling, both sides will completely lose their minds, turning the court into a Shura field, killing people like crazy!

By then, there would be no room for peacemakers or smooth talk. If you want to play tricks, you will only get yourself into trouble! Even masters like Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue could not handle it and could only step down in disgrace. A lowly person like Mr. Zhao would be tortured to death by the emperor and his officials.

Second, according to the Strategic Committee’s assessment, the situation could deteriorate sharply at any time, and the speed at which social contradictions intensify may far exceed previous expectations.

Because through large-scale social surveys, Zhao Hao discovered that one of his previous views was incorrect.

In his previous understanding, wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. The heavier the oppression, the stronger the resistance! And vice versa...

But what is ironic is that this social survey, initiated by the Group's Strategic Decision-making Committee and implemented by the Group's General Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, covered 1,400 counties and 1,000 households in the two capitals and thirteen provinces. The results showed that those who were most intolerant of the old system and injustice were not actually those places that were most oppressed and exploited.

On the contrary, it is in areas with developed economies, less harsh policies and relatively better living conditions that people react most strongly to injustice and oppression!

Therefore, Zhao Hao's previous assumption that the revolution would break out from the inland provinces where the vassal kings were parasitic, as had happened in history, was probably wrong. In fact, because the group kept trying to stop the situation from getting worse, there would be no uprising in these provinces.

On the contrary, the revolution is likely to break out in the southeastern coastal areas, where the people are least affected by harsh rule!

This is because a revolution has quietly taken place in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong areas.

Even without the Jiangnan Group, in this land where the so-called sprouts of capitalism were born, with the collapse of the traditional peasant economy and the long-term spread of the School of Mind, especially the Taizhou School, a large number of citizens emerged who broke free from the constraints of land and ethics.

These people enjoyed unprecedented physical and mental freedom. They could go wherever they wanted and do whatever they wanted. Their income was relatively considerable, so in addition to supporting their families, they could pursue some spiritual enjoyment. A civic culture with freedom as its core was born.

It is precisely because they have torn off a corner of the shackles of ethics and enjoyed the air of freedom that they find the feudal power that permeates all around them even more intolerable.

Therefore, in the late Ming Dynasty, various riots against the gentry class emerged one after another, such as the famous "People's Raid on Dong Huan", which is a good example.

It was not that the gentry became more vicious and cruel, but the collapse of the feudal system caused changes in social psychology - even the gentry class consciously reduced their evil deeds, but the hatred it aroused became even greater!

In other words, the collapse of part of the old system will not only make people feel better, but will make the remaining part a hundred times more disgusting.

Therefore, after the middle of the Wanli period, the entire Ming Dynasty entered its most dangerous moment. Coupled with the constant natural and man-made disasters, this old world with a prosperous economy, brilliant culture and vibrant vitality completely collapsed before it could give birth to a new world...

Now with the addition of Jiangnan Group, a super huge catalyst, this process will be accelerated by at least several decades.

This is why the survey results show that people in society as a whole are generally uneasy, especially in the four southeastern provinces!

It was possible that only one final blow would shake the whole thing, causing the greatest commotion and the most terrible confusion ever experienced!

At this moment, it is Zhao Hao and Jiangnan Group's responsibility to step forward, control social unrest and chaos to the smallest extent, and get the country back on track as soon as possible!

At this time, how could he let his old father continue to serve as the prime minister of the court and stage a drama of love and hatred between father and son?

In addition, this incident also taught Zhao Hao a profound lesson. In the future, he should never just look at the reports below and make judgments based on his assumptions.

Those in power inevitably become detached from the masses and from reality. The higher the position, the more they are sidelined.

Because as long as one is a human being, he or she will have subjective colors and selfish motives. He or she will involuntarily avoid the important issues, generalize, whitewash the mistakes, and describe things in the way that he or she would like to see or in a way that is beneficial to himself or herself.

In this way, the amount is increased little by little layer by layer, and when it reaches the highest level, it becomes "billions of bits and pieces". It is impossible for Zhao Hao to see the truth just by relying on the report.

It is useless to rely solely on superficial inspections. Only by using scientific methods and conducting in-depth and detailed large-sample investigations can we get closer to the truth.

Without investigation, there is no right to speak. The old man's teachings should never be forgotten!

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After sending his father back to Pudong to enjoy the company of his grandchildren, Zhao Hao rushed to Taiwan to attend the completion ceremony of the first phase of the Jianan Water Conservancy Project.

Taiwan is the first administrative region established by the group, and it is a special administrative region.

The chief executive of an ordinary administrative district is the director of the management committee, who is at the fourth administrative level.

The Chief Executive of a special administrative region is called the Chairman of the Management Committee, who is at the third administrative level, on the same level as the group directors and is eligible to join the group board of directors.

Currently, among the group’s 18 administrative regions, there are only three special administrative regions: Taiwan, Luzon and Malacca, which shows their importance.

As for why Taiwan is so important, what do you think?

In short, the highest instruction is to build Taiwan into a beautiful treasure island!

After more than 20 years of unremitting development by the group, plus the two new cities established last year, the Taiwan Special Administrative Region now has a total of 12 cities with a population of 3.5 million.

With the approval of the Group, the Management Committee divided Taiwan into five regions, each of which was headed by a member of the Management Committee, who was responsible for directing the cities in the region to share resources and coordinate development.

Among them, the Taipei Cooperation Area, including Keelung City, Taipei City, Tamsui City, and Yilan City, is mainly based on coal industry, gold mining, agriculture, fishery, and port trade. It is also the strongest area, accounting for half of Taiwan’s population and two-thirds of the economy.

The Hsinchu-Taoyuan Cooperation Area in the south is composed of the Hsinchu Plain and the Taoyuan Plateau. Two cities, Hsinchu and Taoyuan, were established, and the main industries are irrigated and dryland cultivation and fisheries.

Further south is the Taichung Cooperation Zone, which consists of the Taichung Basin and the Changhua Plain. The two cities of Taichung and Changhua are established here. This is the area with the best agricultural endowments on the island, and is mainly engaged in rice, sugarcane planting and sugar production.

Next is the Chia-Nan Cooperation Region. The three cities of Tainan, Yunlin, and Chiayi on the Chia-Nan Plain have similar industries to the Taichung Region, but their innate conditions are not as good. Although the plain has the largest area, its grain production is not as good as the former.

Finally, the Fengping Cooperation Area includes Fengshan Hills and the two cities of Fengshan and Pingtung on the Pingtung Plain. In addition to rice and sugarcane planting and fishing, Fengshan Port, which faces Southeast Asia, is the largest port in Taiwan.

It should be said that Taiwan’s soft and hard conditions are great, but it has serious congenital defects. It is easy to get started... It is simple to immigrate to Taiwan in the early stages, but it is not easy to grow and become strong.

The biggest obstacle is the lack of water and soil. The land in western Taiwan is mainly red soil, which is easy to harden, so rainfall cannot penetrate and form groundwater.

Although Taiwan has abundant rainfall and rivers with ample water, due to topographical restrictions, rivers flow westward from the towering Central Mountain Range into the sea, with short runoffs, and the area they can nourish is naturally very limited. In addition, low-lying areas near rivers often suffer from floods, and the harvest is also lost.

In addition, the long coastline has created a large area of ​​saline-alkali land. As a result, Taiwan's twelve cities claim to have more than 10 million acres of arable land, but 70% of it is dependent on the weather and suffers from drought, floods, and salinization. This is also an important reason for the superstition of Taiwanese people in later generations.

What does it mean to depend on the weather? It means that if the weather is good, there will be a good harvest. If the weather is not good, there will be drought, floods, and large areas of crops will be completely destroyed.

Therefore, if we want to turn Taiwan into a real treasure island and sugar island, we must vigorously develop water conservancy!

Generally speaking, it is to take advantage of the natural terrain difference in western Taiwan, build reservoirs one by one, intercept the abundant river water in the rainy season, and prevent floods. In the dry season, the water from the reservoirs is sent to the water-deficient farmland through a dense water diversion network. In this way, the harvest can be guaranteed regardless of drought or flood, and people no longer have to rely on the weather for food!

Water conservancy projects should be started as early as possible, the sooner you start, the sooner you can enjoy the benefits, and the sooner the simpler it is… Once the immigrant villages and towns are formed, the farmland of each commune is connected, and if you build reservoirs and dig canals, you will inevitably have to move villages and flood fields. Even if the immigrants are obedient and have a high level of awareness, they will definitely not be less in compensation, and the cost will be very high.

Therefore, over the past twenty years, the top priority of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region has been to build the Canal with all its might!

ps. Just this chapter...