Physician of the Song Dynasty: Zhang Kai and Li Qingzhao have a private life-long contract

After the heavy snow, winter has arrived, and soon the winter solstice in the early year of Shao Sheng arrived.

The holidays in the Song Dynasty were very relaxed. On the day of the winter solstice, people had seven days of rest.

It is said that during the Renzong period, Bao Zheng once proposed changing the important holidays to five days, but was fiercely opposed by the officials. After Song Shenzong succeeded to the throne, he changed the important holidays to seven days.

The reign title of Zhao Xu when he ascended the throne was Shaosheng, so he naturally respected the rules of Shenzong, and various festivals were still designated as seven days.

"Thank you Shenzong!"

Fan Zheng thanked him from the bottom of his heart,

The Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival also have seven days of rest. The statutory holidays of the Song Dynasty lasted for 76 days. Being an official in the Song Dynasty was the most comfortable era. This was one of the reasons why Fan Zheng admired the Song Dynasty the most.

“The fire insurance suggested by the doctor is very good!”

During the winter solstice, the Fan family reunited, and Fan Chunli gave Fan Zheng a rare compliment.

Fan Zheng was immediately flattered.

You must know that although Fan Zheng has gained such a great reputation, Fan Chunli still calls him a traitor. Now that he is openly praised, Fan Zheng is quite surprised.

Fan Chunli is not just a boaster. Kaifeng City is densely populated and has densely packed houses. In addition, there are many wooden houses. Fires occur frequently every winter, which has caused headaches for all Kaifeng prefects.

If a large-scale fire occurs and countless people are displaced, Kaifeng City will also be responsible for resettling these affected people.

But now that fire insurance is available, it can be said that the burden on Kaifeng Mansion has been greatly reduced.

Fan Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "Father is relieved, but in Kaifeng city, there are still a considerable number of Kaifeng people who have not taken out fire insurance, and there are even insurance frauds. Today, doctors are still losing money."

The doctors had just introduced insurance and lacked experience. In addition, there had been constant fires in recent times. This had just been implemented, which caused a lot of confusion. What's more, some people took out insurance first and then deliberately started fires in order to seek compensation.

"What should we do?" Ma asked worriedly.

"Fire insurance benefits the country and the people, so don't give up easily." Fan Chunli advised. Once the fire insurance comes out, the responsibilities of the government will be greatly reduced. Fan Chunli naturally does not want the fire insurance to be abandoned halfway.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "My child understands that if the fire insurance is to operate smoothly, I am afraid that it cannot be separated from the assistance of Kaifeng Mansion. I also ask my father to help me."

Fan Chunli frowned and said, "If you want my father to force Kaifeng residents to buy fire insurance, this is impossible."

With the New Party's lessons learned, even if Fan Chunli agrees with Fan Zheng's fire insurance, he probably will not force Kaifeng residents to buy fire insurance. Otherwise, if the people are not united, they will be impeached by the ministers in the future and ultimately fail.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "Of course not! The fire insurance covers the houses in Kaifeng City. The child needs Kaifeng City household registration and house deed information to prevent someone from deliberately concealing the report."

Fan Chunli nodded in agreement. Fire insurance has many benefits for Kaifeng City, and Kaifeng Mansion will definitely support it.

"There is another situation, that is, someone deliberately sets a fire to defraud the insurance company!" Fan Zheng frowned again.

Li Qingzhao on the side suddenly suggested: "When you sign the insurance, it is best not to insure the entire valuation. It is best to only insure 80% of the valuation. If you deliberately set a fire, it will not be worth the loss. It will definitely reduce the risk of insurance fraud." Behavior."

"What the lady said is true. In addition, my husband also needs the cooperation of Kaifeng City's fire submersible team to be responsible for Kaifeng City's failure to extinguish the fire and determine the cause of the fire." Fan Zheng said again.

Kaifeng City has a dense population of residential buildings and shops, and fire is a major hazard. In order to prevent and extinguish fires, the Song Dynasty established the world's earliest professional firefighting organization - the "Liberal Fire Brigade".

The submersible fire team has professionally trained professionals. Every city will have the highest fire watch tower. There are people watching upstairs. If a fire is discovered, the cavalry will report it immediately.

The fire submersible team will have professional fire submersibles with professional fire extinguishing equipment to put out the fire. To prevent it from spreading to other residential buildings, of course this was also the impact of the "Rongwang Palace Fire" that year.

"Submersible Team!" Fan Chunli frowned.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "In the future, compensation for fire insurance will be based on the judgment of the submersible fire team to show fairness!"

"Yes!" Fan Chunli waved his hand.

"No matter how well you and your son have negotiated, I'm afraid the government and the public will spread the news that Fan Ya Nei is in charge of Kaifeng Mansion." Ma said helplessly upon seeing this.

Fan Chunli immediately snorted and said: "I have a clear conscience! It's just a group of jealous people."

Ma rolled her eyes at Fan Chunli and said, "Other people have a tiger father and a dog son, so why are you a dog father and a tiger son?"

"Father and son, we are better than the old, and each mountain is higher than the other." Fan Zheng hurriedly tried to smooth things over.

When Fan Chunli heard this, his expression improved and he showed a hint of pride.

"It doesn't mean the same thing!" Ma asked back.

Fan Chunli's face suddenly froze.

When Li Qingzhao heard this, he couldn't help but hide his face and chuckle.

On the second day of the winter solstice, Fan Zheng went to the Kaifeng City diving team in person.

Fan Zheng is preparing to use the fire-fighting concepts of later generations to transform the diving team to avoid excessive losses caused by fires, allow doctors to pay less compensation, and allow fire insurance to operate smoothly.

"Is this a ladder?"

In the latent fire team, Fan Zheng looked in surprise at the long ladder in front of him that was two feet high, which would be as high as six meters in later generations.

A large wooden bed was used as the bed, with six wheels at the bottom and two ladders at the top, each more than ten feet long, with a rotating shaft in the middle. Fan Zheng couldn't help but be shocked when he looked at the long ladder, which was the same as the fire ladders of later generations.

"Fan Taicheng has a keen eye!" Seeing the famous Fan Yanei come to the Qianhuo team in person, the Qianhuo team leader did not dare to neglect and immediately accompanied him personally.

The ladder is a siege weapon of the military, and it was actually used by the fire brigade to put out fires and save people. There were not many high-rise buildings in the Song Dynasty, and a two-foot fire-fighting ladder was enough to deal with most fires.

"This is a pump! Use a long bamboo to open the orifice, wrap the water pole with cotton wool, and draw water from the orifice." Captain Qianhuo introduced.

Fan Zheng's eyes flashed with strange color. This was probably the earliest fire pump.

What surprised Fan Zheng even more was the water bag. The water bag is made by peeling off the skins of large livestock such as cattle, horses, and donkeys. It can hold three to four hundred kilograms of water at a time. It can be tied to the outlet with a length of ten feet. Xu's bamboo tube.

If the fire burns too much, it only takes four or five divers to work together to lift the water bag and inject water into the house through the long bamboo tube to extinguish the fire.

"This is probably the most efficient method of putting out fires without the black technology of later generations!"

Fan Zheng sighed,

Da Song's diving team actually used the existing fire-fighting technology to the limit, and in the end they could only leave with wonder.

Sure enough, as doctors and the Kaifeng City Diving Team began to cooperate, the fire insurance was finally perfected.

Especially after the winter solstice, it is followed by the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival.

The proliferation of lanterns, firecrackers, and Kongming lanterns has greatly increased the risk of fire, and more and more people have taken out fire insurance.

When Shaosheng's first year was coming to an end, fully 80% of the residents in Kaifeng City were covered by fire insurance.

The doctor's fire insurance was a great success.