On the second day of March, memorials and letters from officials in Mizhou arrived in the capital city like snowflakes.
From the high-ranking officials of Ning'an County to the governor of Mizhou, all criticized Fang Yun's behavior, believing that Fang Yun was going against the historical trend and denying the development of the human race. Fang Yun was walking on a dangerous path that must be corrected.
Minister of Culture Jiang Hachuan sneered in front of the cabinet: "How can there be obedience or rebellion? It's nothing but party disputes!"
The left prime minister proposed to hold an emergency meeting of the court. In the court, officials argued with each other and the situation became chaotic.
The four ministers remained silent, allowing the other officials to argue.
As for Fang Yun, who caused the chaos in the court, he went to the household department once a day as if nothing had happened.
The household department of a county government corresponds to the Ministry of Households of a country and is responsible for matters related to the county’s fields, household registration, taxes, commerce, animal husbandry, markets, etc.
In a country, the Ministry of Personnel is the head of the six ministries. In a county, the Personnel Office is also the place with the most real power. However, in terms of the most lucrative benefits, the Household Affairs Office is the most profitable of the ten offices.
The household department was headed by the chief clerk, and everyone in it was Shen Ming's men, so no one could get in.
Even if Fang Yun placed two aides in there to act as temporary clerks, it would still be difficult to control the household registration room.
Although Fang Yun has been focusing on fortifications and prisons these days, his private soldiers, who are scholars, have already infiltrated every corner of Ning'an County, and the ten departments of the county government are the top priority.
At present, Fang Yun has completely taken control of the ritual room and the criminal room, and by taking advantage of the matter of praying to heaven and offering texts, he has completely taken control of the sending and receiving room for conveying documents.
As for the workshop, the general secretary has already delegated power. The chief clerk Shen Ming once went to hold him accountable. The other party said that as long as the people from the workshop left, he would immediately oppose Fang Yun.
The influence of the Holy Academy on the human race is too great. Shen Ming thought about it for a long time but could not find a solution, so he assumed that the workshop was also controlled by Fang Yun.
There are ten departments in the county government, and Fang Yun is in charge of four of them.
As for the other six houses, Fang Yun could only infiltrate slowly, which was the helplessness of the county magistrate. Since he was in the bureaucracy, he had to do things within the rules. Once he made too extreme a move against the officials, it would inevitably cause a backlash.
In fact, if Fang Yun did not have the ability to report to the Palace of Rites and the Palace of Punishments, and did not have the endorsement of the Holy Court, he would have been denounced by all the officials long ago.
Fang Yun had two goals in going to the household registration office. The obvious goal was to have the household registration clerk take him to the fields in Ning'an County to learn about farming.
Thanks to the help of two farmers sent by Xu Xing's family, Fang Yun's inspection of the farm was very smooth. However, he sacrificed the time to go to the workshop. Now he draws a set of mechanical drawings every three days and lets the workers in the workshop study and manufacture them themselves.
The secret goal is to thoroughly understand the household registration office and prepare for taking over the household registration office.
On the third day of March, three sets of plague documents, namely "Plague Prevention and Control Law", "Plague Classification" and "Plague Prevention Encyclopedia", came out at the same time. Fang Yun handed them over directly to the Medical Hall, and at the same time handed copies of the "Plague Prevention and Control Law" to the Criminal Hall and the Ministry of Justice.
The new classification of plague caused controversy in the medical hall, because Fang Yun used the exogenous pathogenic factors of the ancient Chinese "Five Causes Theory" as an explanation, and attributed the causes of all infectious diseases to pestilence, which was unimaginable before febrile diseases became popular.
Facing overwhelming doubts and opposition, Fang Yun remained unmoved. He had no time to argue. He not only had to revise the first half of "On Plague", but also had to finish the second half and eliminate some omissions of the original author Wu Youke. Then he would bring out the extremely important Sanjiao dialectics to lay the foundation for the establishment of the Warm Disease School in Shengyuan Continent!
On the seventh day of March, Fang Yun held a morning meeting with his staff. The staff strongly suggested that he take back the power of the Household Department from Shen Zhubu, but no matter how the staff persuaded him, Fang Yun never agreed, which even discouraged some people.
On March 10, the Criminal Palace issued a document stating that the "Plague Prevention and Control Law" had been approved by the great scholars of the Criminal Palace. As long as it was approved by the Medical Palace, it would not only be promulgated in Ning'an County, but also promoted throughout the Shengyuan Continent as soon as possible.
The legal reforms before Fang Yun have not yet been fully implemented and have only been tried in one state. This shows how much importance the Criminal Court attaches to the "Plague Prevention and Control Law."
The Medical Hall still had doubts about Fang Yun's plague classification and treatment methods. The "Plague Prevention and Control Law" was not passed by the Medical Hall, but Fang Yun was not in a hurry. He thought that after the full text of "On Plague" was published, the "Plague Prevention and Control Law" would definitely be passed within a month.
In the mornings of these days, Fang Yun went to the fields every day, not only to learn how to grow wheat or grains, but also to learn how to grow vegetables and raise livestock.
During the field study process, Fang Yun not only had guidance from farmers, but also help from scholars from farming families. At the same time, he was also doing two things at the same time in the world of strange books, studying the classics of scholars from farming families in the Shengyuan Continent and the agricultural and animal husbandry works of ancient China.
In the first five days, Fang Yun said nothing and just studied, but starting from March 7th, Fang Yun continued to ask a lot of questions and gave suggestions to the two farmers.
At the beginning, the two scholars from the farming families could still answer the question barely. Later on, they had to pass the letter to the old scholar or old Hanlin from the Xu family. But this was not the end. In the end, even the university scholars in the Shengyuan Agricultural Palace got involved.
Anything for fortification can be manufactured directly, but farming is different. It takes a long period of time to be verified. Therefore, Fang Yun had decided long ago that in farming, three things should be done. The first is to improve farm tools, the second is to lay the foundation of hybridization theory technology, and the last is to give farmers development directions in the form of suggestions or questions!
"I think that just as humans and monsters have blood inheritance, plants must also have blood inheritance. To give the simplest example, if you plant melons you will get melons, if you plant beans you will get beans. Why can't you get beans if you plant melons? It's because the melon contains the blood inheritance of the melon."
"We don't have rice in Ning'an County, but we do in Jiangzhou and Ji County, and farmers have long had hybridization technology. I observed according to the records in the book that rice has tall stalks and short stalks. When tall stalks are hybridized with tall stalks, the result is always tall stalks. When tall stalks are hybridized with short stalks, sometimes all of them are tall stalks, and sometimes there are tall stalks and short stalks. When short stalks are hybridized with short stalks, the result is always short stalks! I wonder if it is the power of rice bloodline that is affecting it? Can we find a pattern?"
"Rice that is too short has low yields, and tall rice will fall to the ground when encountering strong winds, and has poor resistance to lodging. If we understand the power of rice's bloodline, can we hybridize a rice plant that is half as tall as the tall one?"
"Have you ever noticed that some animals and plants are fine, but their children or offspring suddenly show strange changes? Becoming different from the normal state? I call this a mutation. Can we use these mutated plants to crossbreed and get a better next generation? Ordinary mutations are uncontrollable. How about putting them in the former residence of the semi-saints to be cleansed by the holy power? How about putting them in the demon world? What will happen if we put them in the literary world?"
Fang Yun was like a madman with wild imaginations. He expressed various knowledge about genetics and breeding of later generations through conjectures, and he could find solid evidence for all of them.
Every night, the great scholar of the Agricultural Palace would receive a document that recorded all of Fang Yun’s views on agricultural affairs. (To be continued…)