Chapter 668 Standardization
We must control the wind direction in Chang'an, otherwise we will not be able to curb the priests' winds that will push the people. The grass is not strong enough now. If we can learn science for two hundred years, the grass is strong at that time, and we will not be afraid of unhealthy trends and evil spirits.
"We have to think of a way." Yun Yao thought about what method to use to kill the alchemist's style? Because alchemist is not only a pill refining, but also a political task, and is the emperor's eyeliner and a tool for accepting bribes. It is easy to say that alchemist's pills are fake, but they cannot replace their use in the hands of the emperor.
Sure enough, when the emperor protected himself, his interests were in opposition to the national interests. Li Shimin wanted to protect himself because he was old, so from his standpoint it was simply right. If he did not control all officials and nobles, then all officials and nobles would deal with him. After all, the current idea of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism has just emerged and has not yet been popularized in everyone's hearts. The king and his subjects do not trust each other.
Sun Simiao looked at the princess' changing expression and knew that this matter was against the emperor, so even the princess could not come up with a simple and effective solution. He also knew that the princess was already very busy and should not disturb him, but no one else could properly solve this matter except the princess. The old genius doctor knew that there were actually ministers who had made suggestions, but Wei Zheng had passed away and the other ministers were not so powerful. In the whole of Chang'an, only the princess was safe in doing things, and they would not be forced to do it.
Li Shimin would not listen to the minister's opposition. In fact, the minister's comments said similar to Sun Simiao, and he was also worried that the people would learn, and that the scammers would cheat and bring bad news.
"Old doctor, what do you think of this? We set up a hygiene management rule and system to comprehensively control the production process, hygiene status, and the effects of elixirs. Anyone who does not meet the production level of elixirs is blocked. If it is qualified, a hygiene mark is given to them, which means it is safe to eat. In this way, your Majesty is relieved to refine elixirs, and we don't have to worry about the overflowing of folk elixirs. We don't let Baixin believe in the alchemy and let the people believe in our hygiene marks. Without hygiene marks, even the elixirs refined by you and I cannot sell them." Yun Yao thought of this method. The alchemy cannot manage it, but the quality of the elixirs can be monitored.
No matter how many alchemists there are, as long as there are no counterfeit and inferior elixirs.
Sun Simiao thought about it and felt it made sense. He was not against the emperor's use of alchemy. What he was worried about was the safety of the lives of the people in Chang'an. So as long as the quality of the elixir is passed, you will eat it. Moreover, the elixirs of the elixirs certainly have no hygienic label. As long as the people do not believe it, they will not be cheated of money.
"This method is very good." Sun Simiao said that he would not label the alchemist, but label the elixir, which was indeed not delayed.
"Then let's think about how to determine the detailed labeling of the quality of the elixir." This standard still needs to be discussed in detail.
"That's true, why not go to the hospital and ask the doctor to discuss it together." Sun Simiao felt that such a big thing should be discussed with everyone.
It just tests the hospital’s construction achievements over the past few years and sees the doctors’ understanding of the elixir industry and the quality of elixirs.
When putting forward standards, you must teach alchemists how to meet the standards. For example, the production workshop must be isolated from materials, alchemists must bathe neatly, their hair must be wrapped, and they must wear masks. There must be no small animals with viruses, such as rats, cockroaches, etc., and of course, they cannot allow irrelevant personnel to enter and exit at will.
There were many requirements. After the standards were formulated, Yunyao and Sun Simiao jointly wrote a letter that in order to take safe elixirs in Chang'an, the first elixir method of the Tang Dynasty, "Pill Quality and Production Standards, and Supervision and Inspection Regulations", was officially put in front of Li Shimin.
After reading it, Li Shimin thought it was very good. He did not object to his use of alchemy. Instead, he supervised and inspected the process of alchemy refining and controlled the quality of the alchemy. It was quite good. In the past, many people died of taking elixirs, but now there are old miracle doctors who can take elixirs and what elixirs cannot be taken at a glance. They are responsible for the medicine practitioners.
So after discussing with his ministers, Li Shimin decided to pass this regulation and use it in Chang'an. Any medicine that cannot be obtained from sanitary labels cannot be sold. The Elixir Supervision Office was established and inspected various alchemists in Chang'an.
The alchemist had no complaints, because the first one to check was Yunyao’s elixir factory. Yunyao personally wrote a report and wrote an article to teach the alchemist how to refine elixirs. He also invited famous alchemists in Chang'an to visit and learn advanced alchemist procedures to ensure that everyone can ensure cleanliness and hygiene when refining alchemist.
Yunyao prohibited the act of adding metals to alchemy in the regulations. It is okay for gods to eat iron pills, but the human race is not a god. You cannot copy the alchemy formulas of gods and cannot eat messy metals.
After learning the new technology, the alchemist said that he was very eye-opening. No wonder the princess's alchemy workshop has such high yields. She feels very at ease when she walks into the workshop. Every employee packs herself tightly, and there is no garbage. She feels refreshed when she looks at the bright and clean environment.
To study, if you don’t study, you will have no hygiene labels.
At the same time, the newspaper also announced the appearance of the sanitary label, with the round shape of the elixir on it and the words "qualified" in the middle. This time the newspaper appeared in the color, the background was red and the characters were black.
If there is no qualified label on red background and black text, it means unhygienic elixirs and cannot be taken. To apply for a qualified label, you need to go to the Department of Health for application. After the inspection is passed, the qualified label will be issued. But this is not the end. After that, some elixir workshops will be randomly selected for review every month. If it fails, the sanitary label will be cancelled and it must be rectified before it can be continued to be sold. If there is no label, the elixir will be confiscated directly, the workshop will be sealed, and then the alchemist will be allowed to study hygiene. If you are not convinced, you will be imprisoned directly.
Anyway, as long as the people know that elixirs with hygiene labels are safe elixirs, the rest is to follow the doctor's advice and insist on taking elixirs randomly, then Yun Yao and the miraculous doctor have no choice.
In the case of low education, we can only use this method, just like the Zhou rituals of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It looks very complicated and troublesome, and even a person has to be arranged to watch the fire. But because there was no education at that time, we could only allocate every job in this way, otherwise we would not know what to do. We could only tell them how to do it, so that the alchemist would know that we should care about the quality of the elixir, otherwise they would never realize it.
This matter was just a small matter for the Tang Dynasty, but it was a big matter for the overall development, because through this matter, many ministers realized that standardization is actually a way to solve the problem. When encountering things, you don’t have to object, but you can also get control through standardization.
During the whole process, alchemists spent money to regulate, washing away the reputation of scammers. Ministers formulated regulations and solved the problem of the trend. The people took the safe pill and did not cause conflicts between the king and the ministers. However, it really came true that the saying "The emperor himself is the one who destroyed the dynasty." From this incident, we can see that the emperor would not care about how the dynasty would develop when protecting himself.
However, the emperor still needs it now, both the nobles and the people need it. The nobles need the emperor as a shield to prevent the people from directly overthrowing the nobles. The people also need the emperor, and the emperor needs to continuously open up the flow between the people and the nobles and establish a set of rules of the game that surpasses the nobles.
Without an emperor, the nobles and the people will easily confront each other directly, and it will be easy to form a situation where the nobles buy the people, and then go out to rob them together, just like in the Warring States Period. Yun Yao had done similar things before. When there was development, he kept buying the people with small favors, but once he encountered problems, neither the people nor the nobles would come forward to solve the problem.
With an emperor, the emperor will continue to promote poor families, promote the people, and fight against the nobles. Although the nobles also know that before the imperial examinations appeared, the nobles were not afraid at all, because the emperor had one force, while the nobles were all forces from all directions. The emperor promoted poor families, and the people were not afraid. But no one expected that the imperial examinations would promote poor families and the people in large scale, directly shaking the foundation of the nobles.
Chapter completed!