[Red Mansions] Lin's first genius doctor

Lin Jiang went to inquire about the life experiences of the maids who had been released from the palace the next day.

After much deliberation, she went directly to one of the most senior palace people in the palace, Nanny Chang who was beside the Empress Dowager.

As an evergreen tree in the palace, Nanny Chang has seen countless palace people come and go.

In the small courtyard where the Ci'an Palace people live, Mother Chang naturally lives in the best big room that is transparent from the north to the south.

Seeing Lin Jiang, Mother Chang first smiled and congratulated her: "Master Yuanzheng is about to be overjoyed, why do you have time to come and sit with me today?"

Lin Jiang came here, so he checked Nanny Chang's pulse first, and then changed the prescription given to Nanny Chang.

Only then did we get to the point, and asked Nanny Chang, where did the maids who left the palace at the old age go every year.

Nanny Chang squinted her eyes: "A court lady is no better than a eunuch—a man can pass on the family line, and if the family is not extremely poor, they will not sell their son to the palace to be a sword. of."

"Many of them are disliked when there are too many daughters in the family, or they are short of a few taels of silver. When they see that the palace wants maids every year, they sign and draw a pledge, and bring the official documents to prove that they are good citizens. There are no sinners in the ancestors. Then the daughter Send it to the palace as an errand, and the parents will take five taels of silver and leave."

Lin Jiang nodded: It's like Xiren. When she was originally sold into Jia's house, it was because the family was too poor to support so many children.But then gradually regained his vitality, and even thought about redeeming people from the Rongguo Mansion.

The same is true of many court ladies.

"If such a court lady is released at thirty, she will naturally go back home, and the family will make decisions in the future."

Nanny Chang held the stove in her hand, and her cloudy eyes fell into some kind of contemplation: "Of course, there are also many court ladies who don't even remember their family members. I don’t know my name and surname, so naturally I have nowhere to go.”

Just like a little bird.

Mother Chang saw that Lin Jiang was really interested in these palace people, so she told her in detail.

These homeless palace people who leave the palace when the time comes, the best fate is the kind of senior nuns who are specially reserved by the palace until they are 50 or [-] years old. Take it home and teach the daughters how to behave.

Even if it's not for the purpose of sending a daughter into the palace, but learning the rules of the royal family can be regarded as a weight in marriage.

But ordinary court ladies are not invited to be teachers like this.

Some will go down to the royal palace to be some nanny in charge, and some will continue to serve the imperial city. They need two nanny in charge than the laundry room, or the empress dowager needs people to watch them every year when they set up porridge sheds to donate to the victims. Class chores.

Mother Chang sighed: "But you have to have a well-connected court lady to find a new job. Many of them have to take the 40 taels of silver that the master gave when they left the palace, and rent a house in the market. For those who are willing to get married, it’s up to them to find someone to marry, for those who don’t, they can only do a small business and spend the rest of their lives in a hurry.”

Lin Jiang: These are exactly the people she needs.

Old, stable, swift in doing things, tight-lipped and won't talk about the patient's privacy—in this palace, it is difficult for people with big mouths to sneak in safely until the day they leave the palace.

It doesn't matter if they don't have any foundation in medical skills for the time being. After more than ten years of day-to-day training in the palace, the palace ladies have already engraved their execution power into their bones.

A person who can control himself not to turn over when he sleeps at night, and who can force himself not to cough in front of his master when he is sick, what else can't he do?

And the maids have been working for a long time, first of all, there is no problem in dealing with people and talking, and they always know some maintenance methods than the common people outside, especially the maids who serve the concubines, they watch their masters study these things every day.

And after staying in the palace for a long time, those who know a few words and can pass on the words of the master will have a good memory.

Even if it is not a maid who serves the concubine personally, even if she is in charge of things and looking at the warehouse, she still has special skills, such as good accounts, sharp eyes, and quick packing.

It can be said that the group of maids who were able to spend 20 years in the palace and then successfully took the rewards to leave the palace, in terms of personal quality, are much better than the women outside who have been trapped in the small mountain village for a lifetime.

Just such personal qualities will not bring them the happiness in the universal values ​​of this era.

Half of the maids who left the palace had no chance of being married to their husbands and godchildren.

Lin Jiang thought that his reserve female doctors and nurses had finally found the right group, which was the group of court ladies who were leaving the palace.

She first revealed this idea to Nanny Chang: "Mommy thinks, is it feasible?"

Nanny Chang was startled for a moment, and then laughed: "It's hard for you to imagine. Lin Yuanzheng didn't know that most of the maids who left the palace were used to it in the palace. In fact, even married people are out of tune with the market outside. Without the support of family members, many of them have been treated harshly by their in-laws, and there is no way to justify them.”

"Even so, many people still have to close their eyes and marry someone randomly..."

There was indifferent compassion in Chang's mother's eyes: "In this world, it's too difficult for a woman to live alone. Any rogue or vicious neighbor will bully a widow who lives alone. This is still a young woman who can take care of herself. , if you are too old and unable to move, even if you are rich, you have to wait to die. So sometimes you know that you are a jerk, and a woman has to grit her teeth and marry and just turn a blind eye."

Lin Jiangmoran suddenly remembered Xue Pan's famous poem: A daughter is sad, but a man married is a tortoise.

But even so, many women have to close their eyes to marry a turtle, and then close their eyes to complain about their own lives.

"If Lin Yuanzheng provides them with some livelihood, it will send many court ladies who have nowhere to go to heaven, which is a good thing."

Lin Jiang was taken aback by Nanny Chang's description.That said, it's kind of super scary.

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In this palace, there are maids who are old enough to be released from the palace every year. Lin Jiang first went to the emperor to report, and then Eunuch Thrush brought her to the Inner Court Department to see this year's roster.

This year, there are six first-class palace ladies, 19 second-class maids, and the most third-class ladies, 38.

And here, there are more than 20 court ladies who have no immediate relatives on the registration list.

Father-in-law Thrush directly called a meeting with the maids who were going to leave the palace after the year.

Lin Jiang's proposal received a positive response, and the enthusiastic atmosphere even surprised Eunuch Thrush—their eunuchs were actually quite envious of the palace maids, thinking that the palace maids would one day come out of the palace.

Why now it seems that for many court ladies, being able to leave the palace is not a good thing.

You said straightforwardly: "Even if we are out of the palace, we don't know where to go. To tell you the truth, we court ladies still have a philanthropic hall outside, which was funded by rich seniors. Adopting a few orphans is also a matter of doing."

Another court lady whose parents and elder brothers were still there took the initiative to jump out and said: "I always want to go out of the palace and find a temple to become a monk, but I can't leave all the money in the hands of my mean sister-in-law. She was the one who provoked my father Mother sold me to her son to pay for his education! Now that I go back with the money, don’t I... throw myself into the trap!” This is a person who is still holding grudges after 20 years, and even popped out an idiom with hatred.

Lin Jiang listened to them talking about their respective sufferings for a while, and then said: "The medical science is no other than others, it is a matter of life and death. And you have never learned it before, even if you can stay in the medical center, you must have done it from the very beginning. Starting with the most difficult chores is not a rewarding job."

I have to talk about this matter first, she has always opened a medical clinic, not a charity hospital.

The palace maids who wanted to win over quickly said: "We are palace maids, so we are afraid of hard work."

Mr. Huamei turned his head: "Does the Linyuan need a lot of people? Then I will pay attention to you every year."

Lin Jiang thanked you.

Now that the medical center has just opened, it is really short of manpower everywhere.Lin Jiang felt that these court ladies were not enough—the entire medical center not only needed female doctors, but even if they were not proficient in medicine, they could still cook, transport patients, help pack and distribute medicines, and check medicinal materials.

As long as you have a positive business, you are a living spring, and you have the confidence to support yourself.

Lin Jiang took out several colorful registration forms: "Those who can read will get the red form, those who can settle accounts will get the green form, and those who can make a big pot of rice will get the paper with brown borders—nothing It doesn't matter, get a white watch."

Then pointing to Xiao Que'er: "Those who can write can write by themselves, and those who can't, tell her your name and what you are good at, and let her help you write it down on this form."

Now Xiaoqueer can write a lot of words.

She is indeed a clever child.

The maids rushed forward enthusiastically.The original fear of leaving the palace turned into a kind of anticipation.

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When Eunuch Huamei and Lin Jiang walked out the door, they mentioned: "These maids have to go to the government to obtain household registration. If they have not married for a few years and want to establish a female household, the government sometimes does not approve it, because the female household does not pay. Taxes can’t get people out of corvée.”

In this day and age, it is not something that can be achieved by thinking about becoming a female householder.

The imperial court still wants to collect taxes. Not every court lady who wants to be independent of her family and apply to the government can be established as a female householder.

After all, female households are actually not in the national interest. The imperial court wants more people to have children and more people to farm and pay taxes.

Even in the years after many catastrophes in the previous dynasties, not only were women not allowed to establish their own households, but local widows were also required to remarry, and even unmarried girls over the age of 17 were directly assigned husbands in order to increase the population. [1]

Fortunately, there is no shortage of population in Dazhou for the time being, and the imperial court will encourage the existence of chaste women.

Lin Jiang said: "Eunuch, what do you mean, I'll go talk to the emperor again?"

Eunuch Thrush turned his head and showed a somewhat condescending smile to the Lin family: "In front of His Majesty, you can directly mention that you want these court ladies to learn to be female doctors in the future, and His Majesty will definitely allow it."

Lin Jiang saw that the thrush father-in-law was going to show off, so he smiled: "Okay, then I will say so!" Although Dazhou banned women's medical clinics in the palace since becoming emperor, it seemed bad to directly mention it like this, but Lin Jiang chose Believe in Mr. Thrush, a teammate who has never lost the chain.

And when Lin Jiang entered the Dazheng Palace to request an order for this matter, Wei Ren happened to be there.

The emperor turned his head and said to Wei Ren: "Look, the wedding is less than a month away, and she is still busy with the palace maid going out of the palace, what do you think?"

Lin Jiang is speechless: Sometimes the emperor likes to build bridges and stir fires to watch the excitement.

Wei Ren just laughed when he heard the words: "I think it's very good."

His smile fell in the eyes of the emperor, it was the smirk of the groom official, and when he heard Wei Ren's words, he felt that he was done for, the child he picked up became a strict wife.

And Lin Jiang's behavior is indeed a bit difficult for the emperor to understand. From his man's point of view, a daughter before marriage should not be anxious and longing for a better life after marriage, hiding in the boudoir and not going out to embroider for herself. Wedding dress?

In fact, the emperor originally only gave her three days off, it was a bit of a joke with her, and he wanted to give her leeway to ask for it.The emperor was well prepared, as long as Lin Jiang asks for leave, the emperor will approve it - as a result, Lin Jiang not only came to work, but also worked overtime spontaneously, and even gave him an offer for the emperor to work overtime together for the maid of honor.

The emperor couldn't help but sighed: "I remember that before the eldest princesses got married, it wasn't like this."

Even though Lin Jiang was teased like this, the emperor agreed to each of the matters related to the maids leaving the palace and entering the medical hall to study medicine on their own.

Lin Jiang was really surprised, she thought that at least the emperor would not agree so readily.

It was the father-in-law Huamei who later told Lin Jiang privately that the emperor had mentioned that when his biological mother died of illness early, the reason why the imperial physicians followed the palace rules to check the pulse from the beginning to the end only through the curtain, just kept adjusting The medicine was prescribed, and finally the medicine stone was invalid and went away.

In fact, for the emperor, he knew in his heart that his biological mother might have been seriously ill back then, and it might be useless even if the imperial physician could perform face-to-face consultation and administer acupuncture.

But from the beginning to the end, the biological mother passed away without even seeing the imperial doctor, and the emperor still had to think: If my mother had met a female doctor back then, maybe she would still be by my side now.

As an emperor, the emperor has always been calm and doesn't think about what-ifs.There is no regret for the important event of the court.But this is the only thing that made the emperor feel sad for many days.

After Lin Jiang resigned, the emperor was fair to Mrs. Huamei: "Our ancestors once had a rule that no women's clinic is allowed in this palace. Naturally, I don't want to disobey it. If that's the case, let this women's clinic stand outside."

Eunuch Huamei said in his heart: If Emperor Cheng knew that the imperial hospitals in this palace are all girls' homes, and the palace ladies can learn to be female doctors when they are old enough to leave the palace, I'm afraid they will be angry.

The emperor has always been good at doing things under the bottom line of the ancestors' rules, so that the censors can't openly scold him, and he can implement new reforms.

Lin Jiang sighed deeply.

This is the difference between the emperor and the overlord.

The Taishanghuang himself was tortured by the disease, and he wished that all the people in the world would accompany him in suffering, and he would kill others if they didn't feel uncomfortable, so that people had to feel pain.But the emperor passed away due to lack of medical treatment from his biological mother, so he will remember this regret, and hope that people in the world will not experience the same death as him.

This is probably why Prince Shao chose to leave the only chance to save his life to the emperor, even if he was a brother of the Supreme Emperor.

Such an emperor would be considered by countless people.

With the approval of the emperor, this matter went smoothly - originally, the fate of these court ladies was never noticed.When they left the palace, they were like small drops of water. No one cared whether they smashed into the mud or mixed into the river.

But for each of them, such an opportunity is a turning point in their lives.

As far as the emperor is concerned, it is really not a big deal for Lin Jiang to arrange some court ladies who are old enough to leave the palace to go to the clinic, but it is just to make up for a long-standing wound that he has hidden in his heart, and it will be fine afterwards.

For him, one of the most important things during the Chinese New Year this year is the coming of many countries to the DPRK.

When Lin Changzhou returned to the port of Fujian to replenish the goods of the Great Zhou Dynasty in September, he wrote a letter to the emperor, saying that there were some merchants from the Great Zhou who went to do business many times. can allow.

When the emperor heard it, he must agree.

The so-called "government of the Tang and Song Dynasties" refers to the scene of all nations coming to court, which is called a prosperous age.

Of course, what Lin Changzhou wrote in the booklet is quite clear. Some small countries are obviously greedy for the treasures of the Great Zhou. The so-called coming to the court to congratulate them is actually to get some benefits from the emperor of the Great Zhou.

But the emperor still patted the national treasury, saying: Let them come, this kind of face money should be spent and can't be saved.

Therefore, during this New Year's Eve, [-] envoys from various small countries accompanied Lin Changzhou to Beijing, and even seven or eight monarchs from overseas small countries themselves.

Among them, the most prosperous and wealthy country, and the earliest to establish diplomatic relations with Dazhou, is Qianxiang Country.

Qianxiang Kingdom is a country where a special female king is in charge of the country. The emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty have heard of it for a long time, and they also like the sweat towels, face powder and rouge produced in Qianxiang Kingdom.

Among them, the most famous one is the red sweat scarf, which is a specialty of Qianxiang country: wearing it in summer, the skin will be fragrant without sweat stains. [2]

They are all tributes that can only be distributed by the mansions of princes and dukes.

The emperor was very satisfied: very good, not only a barren small overseas country came to fight the autumn wind to ask for rewards, but also a female king with strong national strength like Qianxiang came to congratulate him in person. He made a contribution that surpassed the Supreme Emperor.

After all, although the previous emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty and Qianxiang Kingdom paid some tribute every year, the queen never came in person.

For this reason, the Ministry of Rites became busy again.

The main reason is that these overseas countries have different languages. Although they have done more business with the merchants of Dazhou, there are always a few people who can speak Dazhou official dialect, but the words they say are often the same.The officials of the Ministry of Rites are used to citing scriptures in everything, so the people on both sides are more painful.

Moreover, some of the monarchs of these countries are called kings, some are called princes, and some are god-kings. They are bald in etiquette. It took a lot of time to find out whether they are the highest leaders of the country.

The Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites is a person who is allergic to bayberry and was saved by Lin Jiang. Of course, he would not say that Lin Changzhou is not good. He wrote the book and tried his best to praise Lin Changzhou. The emperor Lin Youyi brought all the monarchs.

No matter how small his country is, he is also the lord of a country, and his yearning for the Great Zhou can be seen by coming in person.

In other words, even if they came to fight the autumn wind, the kings of these countries came to fight in person, and they were very sincere.

The emperor also often discussed with Lin Changzhou some foreign matters, and he was also curious that these were kings, why they came here regardless of the court.

Lin Changzhou explained to the emperor that in fact, some countries are small and really have no imperial court. For example, the Lanyun country is only as big as an ordinary city in Dazhou, and the national armed force is only 2000 people, which is not as good as the previous Jianwangfu. Su Wangfu's excessive princely force.

So the king came in person. Anyway, he was staying in the country, and there was nothing important for him to deal with. Why not come and see the world for a while.

Where does Dazhou have a vast territory, such a large country, there are always things that need to be decided by the emperor in various places.

The emperor automatically imagined a miniature country in his mind, and thought it was quite interesting.He also met a lot of "peers" and heard a lot of interesting things during this new year's festival.

What Lin Changzhou wanted to express to the emperor was not only the coming of many countries to the court, but also the threat from overseas.

The abundance of land in Dazhou is such a treasure trove.These small countries isolated overseas have no strength, so they come to please.But wouldn't those Western countries that keep inventing strong ships and powerful guns covet this treasure land?

He also specially brought the latest Western pistol and gun to the emperor.

From the point of view that the emperor is not an expert in firearms, it can be seen at a glance that it is better than Da Zhou's Shenhuo Battalion: this equipment is smaller and more convenient to carry, and it has greater lethality.

Lin Changzhou's friendly reminder: In fact, there are firearms and guns with more powerful firepower, but they are all prohibited military supplies.

The implication is to remind the emperor that what I bought was only civilian goods.

As the emperor of a country, the emperor became vigilant. After thinking about the New Year's Eve, he gave Lin Changzhou an important and private task when he went to sea the next year: get some technology from the West, and then get some talents.You can promise them any conditions, just ask a big price.

The emperor didn't believe it, he couldn't afford the price that Westerners could afford.

There will always be some people who are underappreciated in other countries who are willing to come to today's more prosperous and affluent Dazhou to live a life that is valued by others.

Of course these are all for later.

This year, the emperor still pays attention to these foreign countries from the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Prepare to fully show them the style and customs of Dazhou, and hope that they will put down their dignity and join Dazhou without hesitation and become a vassal state.

Sure enough, there were three or four kings, who immediately couldn't think of Shu, and they didn't need the emperor to mention it. They took the initiative to ask for orders, expressing that they wanted to be the vassal state of Da Zhou-they knew very well that it would be more dignified to say that it is a country that has established diplomatic relations. There are no benefits, only some big and small gifts. If it is a country, it will be rewarded with food and silver from the suzerain country.

Even in order to seek Dazhou's protection and stable economic exchanges, these monarchs sincerely stated that future kings will only count if Dazhou's canonized golden seal is counted.

There is another king who wants to give up the throne to his son on the spot, and he wants to stay in Dazhou to be a "king with a different surname" and live here.

emperor:……

After all, this is still the fault of King Beijing Jing.As the most outstanding contribution to the founding of the country in the past, the Prince of Beijing Jing who still retains the prince is the highest status among the kings with different surnames, and he has always been sociable, so the emperor assigned a monarch to him and let him be in charge of entertaining.

And King Beijing Jing lived a very chic and nourishing life, which immediately attracted the king deeply.

Hearing that the King of Beijing is not surnamed Zhou, but the emperor granted a prince with a different surname, the king immediately said, King Beijing can do it, so can I!

Fortunately, in the end, after many people explained, the king realized sadly that he must help Da Zhou conquer the world in order to have a king with a different surname.

The king didn't want to fight and just wanted to enjoy life, so he still decided to go back to his small country to enjoy life.

Such a small episode is nothing more than a joke for bloggers, adding another layer of gossip under the Beijing New Year Festival.

But Lin Jiang didn't have much time to listen to gossip.

She also has her own responsibilities: to lead the Imperial Hospital to be responsible for the safety of these kings' missions, to ensure that these kings enter the capital of Dazhou vertically and return vertically.

Not only that, but also prepare a large gift package of pills with the Imperial Hospital, as an important item that the emperor rewards the nations.

Many countries come here to exchange medicine and medical knowledge with Dazhou and feel the charm of traditional Chinese medicine.Many countries here are still in the witch doctor stage.

Many of Dazhou's finished pills, such as Plum Blossom Dianton Pill, Baoxin Pill, and Cuisheng Baoming Pill, are hard-to-find elixir in these countries, and any merchants who bring them can sell them at extremely high prices.

Of course, their country also has some medical skills that they are good at. For example, the country of Arda grows a kind of magical grass, which has a miraculous effect on fractures after being made into ointment. Ointment'ah, this medicine works well, just like her silver needles, it's not scientific anymore.

It can be seen that there is still a need for more communication in medicine.

In this world where Daiyu is actually the reincarnation of fairy grass, psychic gems can cure evil spirits, and there are many things that she cannot explain with science, which are left for her to explore.