After the fourth master and I wear each other [Qing wear]

Yinzhen has always been confident in tutoring the three children of the fourth brother's family with their homework.

When flipping through the copybooks, his thoughts did not change.

Opening the copybooks, it is easy to see that Hongying, Honghui, and Mo Yaqi's calligraphy practice progress is different.The oldest, Hong Yu, has been practicing calligraphy for three years, Hong Hui for two years, and Mo Yaqi, who has just learned calligraphy for a few months.

Although Yinzhen is not outstanding among the brothers, it is enough to correct the handwriting of the three children.Easily circle the well-written words, and mark where the defects are for the insufficient words.

It didn't take long, and today's copybook was approved.

Next is the question answer booklet.

After the three children read, they wrote down what they didn't understand, and waited for their fourteenth uncle to answer.

For the first question, there are only three thin sheets of paper.One sheet for each child, with only a few strokes on each sheet.

Yinzhen started to read the question without paying much attention, and then suddenly his eyes went dark, what kind of imaginative question is this!

Honghui said he was envious of birds with wings, and asked why people don't have wings?

There are also birdmen with wings in the stories of ghosts and monsters. Does Uncle Fourteen know the secret way to make people fly?

Mo Yaqi did not mention birds, but flowers.

Just ask why the flowers are so red?And some flowers are yellow?What determines the color of a flower?Can people change?

Looking at Honglin again, this child did not ask confusing questions, but he wrote a series of foreign words.

He said that he started learning English from Ama last October.Ama asked him to make sentences with new words every day, and then read foreign books and try to translate short sentences.

This time I asked Uncle Fourteen to help me translate.In addition, I also hope to introduce the method of reciting foreign words faster.

Yinzhen looked at the three pages in front of him, the children's handwriting and tone were quite immature, but they seemed to have given him a sap.

How to answer these questions?No idea at all!

Isn't it a convention that people can't fly?

Different flowers have different colors, that's how God decided.

Also, don't ask about foreign languages.He is not Brother Nine, and he has never learned a single word of English.

It was only the first day, and Yinzhen regretted it.

How does the fourth brother teach the children, and come up with such weird questions.

After thinking about it, I suddenly realized that the fourth brother probably knew that the children's ideas were wild and unconstrained, so he cheated the younger brother.

Regret is useless.

There will be no possibility of saying no to teaching, because this matter has been cleared up in front of Khan Ama and Er Niang.

The fourth brother explained in advance yesterday that children have different ideas from adults.

This time I asked my fourteenth brother to be my little master, because I didn't stick to the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics, and the gentlemen in my house worried about them.

Therefore, the question for the fourteenth brother may sound ridiculous, but I hope Yinzhen will be patient and tolerant.

Yinzhen can't argue with his children, especially when Kangxi asked him to be more patient, how dare he say no?

Hard to get off!unspeakable trouble!Heart torment!

A series of adjectives are not enough to describe the current mood, and this is only the first day of being a teacher.

Contrary to imagining that everything can be done at noon, I am afraid that it will not be done at midnight.

Yinzhen has to answer if he can't answer, so first solve the translation question raised by Hongying, and try hard to find the correct answer to this question.

First, I found Shisan who lived next door.Yinxiang had learned some foreign languages, but said that he did not learn English, but Portuguese.

Reluctantly wanted to find Brother Nine, but Brother Nine was hanging out in a shop outside the palace.Then I had to find a foreigner. Since Nan Huairen passed away more than ten years ago, priest Bai Jin is now the most famous.

Bai Jin is from France, but he also knows some English.

Tell Brother Fourteen that the English sentence comes from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice".If Elder Fourteen is interested in Western literature, he can recommend several French writers and poets.

Yinzhen refused without thinking.He approached Bai Jin under the guise of learning English by himself. How could he have the nerve to tell the truth? It was his little nephew who embarrassed him.

What is good about foreign works? He is most impatient with poetry and poetry. The biographies of foreign generals would be interesting, but there are no translations in Beijing.

Let's not talk about these gossips, and then we have to answer "why people can't fly like birds" and "why flowers are so red".

After thinking about it, he wrote a few dry words to Honghui and Mo Yaqi.For example, since ancient times, the way of heaven has stipulated the differences between humans and animals, the differences in the colors of vegetation growth, and so on.

The next day, the question set arrived as scheduled.

Hongyu expressed his gratitude to Uncle Fourteen for his translation, and there are no new questions for the time being, so he is waiting for another unanswered question from yesterday, asking how to recite words efficiently.

Yinzhen almost wrote down the meaning of reading a hundred times, and then he saw Honghui and Mo Yaqi's questioning.

Questions continue to revolve around birds and flowers.The children asked, Uncle Fourteen said that birds have wings and flowers have different colors according to ancient regulations, so which book said it, and which sage said it?Has anyone refuted it?

In just a few words, the seemingly innocent question seemed to knock Yinzhen's head buzzing like a big hammer.

How could he know who has studied it? Isn't this common sense!Who would question the right or wrong of common sense, why don't these children let the birds and flowers go!

Teaching and learning continued in Yinzhen's day-to-day distress.

The work of this temporary teacher took up all the rest time, so he had to run to the library to read ancient books that he usually didn't want to touch.Words spoken are like water poured out, and he still doesn't believe that he can't handle the birds and flowers.

Kangxi would also read the documents on entering and leaving the palace when he was free, so he naturally saw the questions and answers between his grandson and the fourteenth.

In this regard, I had a good time and didn't speak.Yinzhen was thinking hard, so he had to go to the library to soak in it, to cure his arrogant temper.

The same prince, Twelve knew that he contacted the building material dealer and prepared [-]% of the mansion construction in advance; Fourteen took out a long list and waited for others to do it, without asking in advance how to purchase those things.

Buying building materials seems to be a trivial matter, one that the prince does not have to worry about.

Kangxi didn't think so. Why not eat minced meat? It started from small things.

The prince doesn't have to do everything himself, but he can't take it for granted, at least he should understand the overall situation so as not to be deceived.

The fourth child proposed the idea of ​​replacing human pox with cowpox. In fact, he could send someone to do it, but he still did it himself.

In the experimental stage, they had to live in the same Zhuangzi as the condemned prisoners. Even if the living areas were completely separated, the living environment would definitely not be as good as Baylor House.

Contrasted with the fourteenth who wanted to build the prince's mansion for his own enjoyment, the drudgery of the fourth child's research on vaccinia was a serious matter for the country and the people.

The fourth child suffers from this hardship, so why can't the fourteenth child of the same mother?

After Kangxi diverged his associations, he was more determined to let Yinzhen continue to be a bitter little master.If Shisi didn't even have the stamina to deal with children's naive questions, what else could he accomplish.

It sounds so patient, but I have to think of another son—the prince.

I heard that another eunuch was beaten to death by Yinreng in Yuqing Palace, this son's temper became worse as he got older, and at the age of 26, he was not as sensible as when he was six.

Kangxi rubbed his brows, the eunuch was beaten to death after the prince met Suo'etu, it must be that guy Suo'etu uttered nonsense again.

Mingzhu was dismissed, how could Suo'etu not understand the reason why flowers have no hundred-day success, and he insisted on exhausting the love between the monarch and his ministers when he was young!

Back then, Suo'etu was not such a person.

At that time, he had just been in charge of the government, and Oboi was very powerful in the court, he had no respect, and he did whatever he wanted.Suo'etu also risked his life to capture Obai together, but now everything has changed.

Just like Nalan Rongruo wrote, "It's easy to change the old man's heart, but the old man's heart is easy to change."

In the blink of an eye, Rong Ruo has been dead for 16 years.

Kangxi was a little lost in thought, but soon regained his composure.

There may be nothing permanent in this world. Since Suo'etu was unkind first, don't blame him for being too unbearable one day.

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In the northern suburb of Zhuangzi, the sky is high and the clouds are light.

In the morning, it is seven o'clock.In early February, it wasn't long before dawn in the capital.

Wu Fuyi got up on time.Unlike Kangxi's vision, she is very satisfied with life in Zhuangzi.

Ask yourself that you live a comfortable life, and you are not lazy.

Get rid of the tragedy of getting up early at four o'clock in the morning, wake up at seven o'clock, and go for a morning run after a simple wash.

Then, have a leisurely breakfast.

After breakfast, read yesterday's news from Baylor House.

Looking at Fourteen's predicament, the day starts with a good mood.Then go to the closed experiment site in Zhuangzi and pay attention to the progress of the experiment.

Immediately, read the books you want to read, not limited to Chinese and foreign ancient and modern.

At noon, she decided to restore the three meals a day, but no one could control her.After the lunch break, you can go to the martial arts field to practice swords.

In the afternoon, go to the closed experiment site and talk to 25 condemned prisoners, each of whom has something to dig out.

Some are forced to go to Liangshan to harm others, and some are murderous by nature without blinking an eye.

Their crimes are just a few formulaic chats on the file, which is far less than face-to-face conversations, where they can learn more about the world's situation waiting to be discovered.

Today is the sixth day of the experiment.

The criminals were transferred here and imprisoned here. They were all inoculated with the pox solution of the sick cow, and similar pox appeared on their bodies.

They also knew that they were being treated as experimental subjects. Some struggled, some remained silent, and some went on a hunger strike to show their lack of cooperation.

Wu Fuyi has long understood that nothing is perfect in this world, and she is not always kind.

It is impossible for everyone on death row to be willing to let death row prisoners be the first wave of experiments.

Kind words of persuasion do not necessarily work for a dying person.At this time, it is necessary for the guards to contribute, to suppress by force, and not to have excess sympathy.

Some of these criminals were really sociopaths. For example, the youngest in this wave of prisoners was 14 years old, but he intentionally killed five neighbors.

According to his confession, since he was a child, he likes to watch something when a living creature dies. The more the living creature struggles, the happier he feels.

At the beginning, it was the chickens and ducks of other people's houses, and later it was the watchdog of the neighbor's house.

It gradually developed to lure younger children to go up the mountain and kill him, and then he used his age advantage to make the elders relax their vigilance and kill them and sink them into the bottom of the river.

Later generations had a law on the protection of minors, but the Qing Dynasty imposed the death penalty on 14-year-old malicious homicide.

If you kill someone under the age of seven, you may be spared the death penalty.

From the age of seven to ten, the emperor's ruling can be played.If you are over ten years old, that is how you should be sentenced. ①

This is the regulation of the "Laws of the Qing Dynasty" in the Kangxi Dynasty, and it is inevitable for the local governments to cover up and omit the specific cases.But at least the 25 people who were selected to participate in this experiment have been checked several times, and they are unpardonable.

Having said that, the death row inmates who made trouble stopped making trouble after two or three days.

Firstly, I was overwhelmed, and secondly, I found that although I had pimples on my body, there were no other symptoms.Among them, a female prisoner had a mild low-grade fever, which subsided after a day.

Judging from the data, in the first stage of the experiment, when people were infected with vaccinia, the symptoms were not serious.

When all 25 people have acne and have cultivated their bodies for a period of time, the second stage of the experiment will be carried out.

It is to give them human pox again, that is, a wave of mild smallpox infection.The results of the experiments at that time were the critical moment in determining the success or failure of vaccinia.

"Doctor Zhang, do you think that cowpox can really work? In my humble opinion, this is really nonsense. If cowpox can replace human pox to prevent smallpox, how come no one discovered it hundreds of years earlier?"

"Doctor Feng, be careful. Even if the sage sent me here to listen to Si Bei Le's orders, then we can just do things step by step. Whether it succeeds or not, it has nothing to do with you and me."

The two who spoke were two of the four medical officers sent by the Imperial Medical Administration this time.

In the Qing Dynasty, the imperial hospital was mainly responsible for treating the royal family, and the emperor would also send medical officers to see the ministers, but in general, the official position of the imperial physician was not high.

The highest is the fourth rank of the court envoy, and the lower left and right courts judge the fifth rank.

Then there is the sixth rank of imperial physicians, the seventh or eighth rank of official officials, and the ninth rank of doctors.The doctors and doctors below have no rank.

When Kangxi was in power, as the threat of smallpox gradually decreased, the originally specially opened pox department was merged into the small square pulse department.

Dr. Zhang Yu and Dr. Feng were originally the medical officers of the pox department, and their daily work was to find ways to reduce the adverse symptoms of the elder brother and princesses when they got human pox.In recent years, different human pox methods have been invented to improve the toxicity of the vaccine.

When I came to Zhuangzi in the northern suburbs, I heard that human pox was going to be changed to vaccinia. The four medical officers were actually not optimistic.

The smallpox method has been passed on and improved from generation to generation. Although there are still risks, for the royal nobles to use this familiar smallpox method, at least they know what the risks are.

In contrast, what about cowpox?

If the disease in the cow's body is transferred to the human body, who knows what weird derivative diseases will evolve.

After working in Tai Hospital for a long time, I know that being with the king is like accompanying a tiger, and one thing more is worse than one thing less.As for whether the folks can promote human pox vaccination, I don't have to worry about this matter.

Physician Feng continued, "If Sibeile wants to do vaccinia research, he can do it, but you have also seen Dr. Zhang, who even asked his family's Wu Gege to take care of the female prisoners, saying that he should pay close attention to the changes in the physical condition of the experimenters.

Gege's concubine just stays in the room and embroiders, and raising a child is a serious matter.This is superfluous.Sibeile dotes on women, and he shouldn't dote on women like this. "

Doctor Zhang gave Dr. Feng a sideways glance. This person was in charge of picking up the five female prisoners.

Wu Gege had strict requirements, requiring that the experimenter's physical condition be recorded clearly every half an hour, and there was no room for fooling around, and Dr. Feng was asked to take turns with another doctor and be on night shift at night.

"Let's talk less, the empress in the palace is the master, and Lord Belle's Princess is also the master of you and me."

Doctor Zhang didn't want to talk too much, even if he had criticisms, but he was very clear about the truth that talking too much would lead to mistakes, especially for an imperial doctor. "The truth that walls have ears, have you forgotten?"

Physician Feng immediately looked around.

Now the two were standing in the plum grove, and he didn't see anyone around.He breathed a sigh of relief and shrugged, "I just whispered. Okay, let's go, let's go back to work."

After the two medical officers were far away, a person slowly walked out from behind the rockery in the plum grove.

Yinzhen looked at the two distant figures expressionlessly, and clenched his fists under his sleeves.

Taking a deep breath, he turned his head and walked quickly.Looking at the sun, it was time for Wu Fuyi to eat lunch, so he went directly to the side hall to find someone.

In the side hall, the food has just been served.

Wu Fuyi saw that Yinzhen came uninvited, this is a rare visitor.

Ever since she came to live in Zhuangzi, the two of them never slept in the same bed or ate at the same table.

Of course we are not together, and our routines are different.

This time, there is no need to get up before dawn, and there is no need to ask Yinzhen to share the difficulties, so naturally it is better to sleep alone.

The timing of meals is also different.Yinzhen is used to two meals a day plus small and medium meals, but if she wants to return to the habit of three meals a day, she doesn't have to force herself to adapt to each other.

"What's the matter? You chose this spot, because you are greedy for the dishes I asked the kitchen to cook?"

Although Wu Fuyi said it slightly jokingly, he could also see that Yinzhen never came to the house for anything.

Yinzhen didn't talk about the discussions behind the imperial physicians, but said, "This body has never had human pox, and now I'm going to get vaccinia and become one of the experimenters."

Wu Fuyi paused with the hand holding the chopsticks, and put down the tableware.

No matter how confident she was about cowpox, it was an unheard-of adventure in the eyes of many in this day and age.

People can't be sure whether they are alive or dead after being infected with cowpox, and what unknown sequelae there will be.This experiment, in the eyes of most people, is absurd and dangerous.

Wu Fuyi waved away the attendants, waited until no one was left in the room, walked towards Yinzhen and whispered:

"Sibeiler, what stimulated you? Do you know what you are talking about? Could it be that you can't think about it for a while, and you want to use your wealth and life to support me in research? Don't give me an answer, I don't believe a single word."

The author has something to say: ①According to the "Laws of the Qing Dynasty":

Those over eighty, under ten, and seriously ill, who commit murder and should be killed, will propose a memorial, which will be obtained from the superior judge.Those who steal or injure others will also be redeemed, and the rest will be ignored.

Those over [-] and under the age of seven will not be punished even though they are guilty of death.There are people who make orders, and those who sit on their orders.If there are stolen goods that should be paid back, the stolen goods should be paid back.