[Qing wear] Harem promotion expert

Imperial Physician Liu came out of the open hall, and squeezed a heavy red seal just obtained.

Instructed the elementary school apprentices who followed him: "Go to the bird house in a while and ask for some common birds. Tell the manager that the Tai Hospital needs to test medicine, and they will know."

The little apprentice agreed to go.

Today, Empress Xin concubine specially called him to ask about the drug, Imperial Physician Liu couldn't help being surprised at first.

"Could it be that your wife is suffering from some kind of illness?" It shouldn't be, the health condition of my concubine Xin is the one that he has encountered the most worry-free and confident in since he started his career.

Jiang Heng shook his head: "It's nothing wrong, I just heard that some Western merchants wanted to bring in some Western crows and tablets." He pushed a transcribed business list to Imperial Physician Liu, and asked, "I don't understand medicine, So I would like to ask Imperial Physician Liu. Our imperial hospital already has drugs? What are they used for?"

Imperial Physician Liu took the order and read the notes at the back: "In the Tang Dynasty, there was a saying that Afuran tablets can relieve pain, and "Compendium of Materia Medica" also said that Afuran can cure dysentery...Westerners use this medicine to relieve asthma and relieve asthma. , Tai Hospital has never used it like this.”

He put down the business order, and said to Jiang Heng: "The Western medicine mentioned by your mother, in fact, the foreign affairs office once sent a box to the imperial hospital for examination, and asked me if I needed it for a medical consultation."

"It's just that according to my observations, this western product is not much better than the local cloud ointment in Yunnan. Besides, there are not many times when the imperial hospital uses drugs—there is not much use of knives in the palace." I am too lazy. It takes a long time to import any western goods, and what the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou sends to Beijing every year is enough.

It is not that there is no surgery in Chinese medicine. Hua Tuo's bone scraping treatment appeared many years ago, and many imperial physicians wanted to follow suit, but whose bone would dare to scrape in this palace?

Occasionally, it is necessary to lightly set the bones of elder brothers or remove the barbs on the hands, okay?

On the contrary, military doctors in the army use more of them—those with broken arms and legs, those who are injured and in pain are dying, and those who need to goug out all kinds of abscesses. It is a rare treasure medicine.

"However, these drugs are very expensive, and there are only a limited amount allocated to military doctors by the Taiyuan Hospital every year. Let alone affordable among the common people, I am afraid that many people have never heard of this drug. As far as Juchen knows, some people in Beijing The old princes and lords, who are tortured by the disease, know that there is no cure for medicine, and they will live in a few days, and they don't want to suffer from pain, so they will use some 'fushou ointment' regardless of their lives."

Fushou ointment is not exactly the same as the medicinal drug tablets used in Taiyuan Hospital.

A hibiscus tablets are only for temporary pain relief or severe diarrhea, or prefer natural herbs, just take it orally once.However, the Fushou ointment is made by adding some various medicines such as goat flower and mandala grass, which make people "drunk and unaware". Yes, and the volume will continue to increase.

Jiang Heng patiently asked about the serious matter that he wanted to ask the most: "I don't know much about the drugs that Doctor Liu said, but I have heard of drug ointment. This thing is very addictive! If it spreads, everyone will Isn’t it very troublesome to use them all?”

Doctor Liu said: "I don't know, this fushou ointment was originally a secret recipe for the imperial court that Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty forced the imperial hospital to refine, and the folks have nowhere to go. And every medicine on the prescription, including the Aphrodisiac tablets, is in the The inner capital is very expensive, and I am afraid that the silver taels consumed by a little powder are enough to live for several years in the fields outside." Naturally, expensive things are difficult to circulate.

"Secondly, I know the famous family of this medicine, but I also know its harm. The medicine tastes like drunk, and the smell is foul. Although the body does not hurt, the person is too weak to stand up, and it is wasted. Lifespan. People cherish their lives. If it wasn’t for the excruciating pain, and the old man’s life is already dying, who would use Fushou Ointment? I have seen the old man in an official’s house, the pain was severe , this medicine will no longer work after taking it, and when you get anxious, you just swallow a pack and die."

After Jiang Heng asked about the current situation, he calculated in his mind: Sure enough, today's Daqing drug is still a top-notch precious and rare medicinal material, and it is indeed effective in some diseases.

If the country has been able to keep its door open, and can verify and strictly control the amount of these drugs, it will always be safe and sound.Just like from the Tang Dynasty to the present, this medicine has always existed, and even the royal family in the Ming Dynasty used it, but it did not become poisonous to the people.

Until in the future, when a large amount of Western opium flows in, it will be like Pandora's box is opened.

However, the next words of Imperial Physician Liu shocked Jiang Heng: "By the way, I forgot if you didn't mention the minister. The minister was not interested in this Western drug at first, but the English businessman would find a way to find a way. They said it was them. I thought of a new way, you don’t have to endure the bad smell to take this drug, you can refine it with soil, and then smoke it on fire. I heard that it’s the same as smoking ordinary dry tobacco, but it’s even more refreshing, and I haven’t seen it before. Tried."

At this time, the imperial physician still doesn't know how horrifying it would be if the method of smoking that he didn't care about was spread.At this moment, he just shook his head and said: "The Tai Hospital rejected the Western businessman, only saying that the drug is expensive, so it can't be used to burn it like this. How much is the high-quality dry tobacco and hookah? This drug is a hundred times the price."

"But the Western businessman seems to have mentioned that they have a huge land dedicated to planting this drug. As long as you buy a large amount, the price will be much lower. I don't know if the judge will ask for two more boxes to try." gone."

Jiang Heng:! !

First, conceptually confuse smoking opium with dry tobacco, and then greatly reduce the price to allow a large number of them to flow into flower-growing lands. These two tricks of England are too cruel!

Imperial Physician Liu was still very emotional while walking on the road: Empress Xinpin is really a caring person.

Just now she repeatedly reminded herself that Westerners cannot be trusted, since the Imperial Hospital knows that Aphrodisiac cream can eat dead people, then what they said about smoking is harmless should be just a lie.Let the Tai Hospital find some voles to try it out first, don't buy a lot of drugs blindfolded, if it is harmful to people, it will be a big crime for the Tai Hospital.

Afterwards, he ordered someone to take a big red seal for Imperial Physician Liu: "Emperor Liu will go back and pay attention to this matter for me, and let me know when there is a result."

Imperial Physician Liu is a money fanatic, but he is also a real money fanatic. After receiving a generous reward, he naturally has to do things.

Although there is nowhere to catch voles in the Old Summer Palace, there are plenty of birds of all kinds.Physician Liu is going to give the bird a spray of Western medicine, and then he can reply.

While planning, I was thinking: take some voles, rabbits and birds to test the medicine, it is often done in Taiyuan Hospital, it is hard to believe that the concubine knows about it.Speaking of concubine Xin, she is really a rare concubine who has a thirst for knowledge, and she has always been. When it comes to medical theory, she is willing to ask why, instead of just doing it.

The fourth princess of Weidao looks better than children of the same age.

The children of the royal family or the aristocrats are certainly not lacking in nutrition, and they are more white and delicate than the children of the common people, but many, especially girls, are also raised weaker and more delicate, and they always look like they don't like to move.

But the fourth princess didn't, her arms and legs were already very strong.

When the princess celebrates her first birthday, the emperor, queen mother and Yonghe Palace will surely reward her generously again.At that time, it happened to be another year ago, and Imperial Physician Liu had already made up his mind to buy himself a good horse this year with a generous amount of silver.

He left like this, leaving Jiang Heng still facing the business order.

In fact, what she was worried about was not whether Emperor Yongzheng would ban Western drugs.

Of course the emperor would ban it, this has happened in history.

During the Yongzheng period, as soon as opium was introduced into the Qing Dynasty, it was banned by Emperor Yongzheng: If anyone found opium smuggled, he would be issued with a shackle for a month, and if a large number of smuggled shops were opened, he would be sentenced to exile for three thousand miles. The punishment measures show that although the emperor banned opium at that time, it was basically like banning private salt.

More of a ban on smuggling.

After all, at that time the emperor himself was frantically taking elixirs, and various chemicals, such as lead, mercury and cinnabar, seemed to be free of money.Emperor Yongzheng still looked down on opium, an outdated court secret recipe that was used by the former Ming emperors and had no effect on longevity, and went to his own great cause of alchemy.

Jiang Heng knew that cigarettes would be banned.

I also know that I can stand it at this time, and even the next 100 years.

Because fundamentally speaking, Britain is afraid of the Qing Dynasty at this time, so it can always be banned.As for the three emperors Kang, Yong, and Qian, they are all outstanding emperors in terms of their governing skills and abilities.

This also means that the enemies they can suppress and the country they can control, the emperor behind them can't.

That is really the enemy is developing rapidly, and the self is shrinking, and the two phases are superimposed, resulting in a greater gap.

What Jiang Heng thought was not just about the emperor driving out the English merchants and preventing these opium from entering Beijing.

But the farther future.

From the establishment of the foreign affairs yamen, it can be seen that the emperor attached great importance to the power of Western guns and artillery.

Just from the matter of the drug, let the emperor see what crazy things these Westerners can do for gold and silver, for trade, and for the crazy harvest of wealth from other countries.

Outside is an increasingly powerful enemy, an enemy who is restless and well-intentioned.

There is no emperor who will not consider future generations.

Especially a workaholic like Emperor Yongzheng who wanted to grasp everything in his hands. Once he paid attention to this matter, he would definitely think about making a century-old plan for the future.

The emperor is already thinking about future generations.

For example, now, he is thinking about what kind of Fujin he should find for Hongshi so that he can control him!Only then can it be beneficial to the descendants of Hongshi's lineage!

In the previous life, the Dong E clan he pointed to Hong Shi was also a noble daughter from a famous family.

But helplessly, Dong E's temperament is too dignified and virtuous, and he is powerless against Hongshi's actions.Afterwards, Hongshi was expelled from his clan, and Dong E's family was also unlucky - he only lived with his husband for five or six years, but then he lived in poverty for five or sixty years. The family supports them to live.

This time the emperor is going to choose a very powerful Fujin for Hongshi.

Or choose a tribal Gege with a fierce temperament on the Mongolian grassland who has not been influenced by the capital's etiquette—the emperor seriously considered this possibility.

Now that he has only one daughter, Minmin, he is absolutely reluctant to send her away for marriage.But in the Beijing Palace, there are quite a few daughters of his brothers. However, the emperor judges others by himself, thinking that the daughters are all raised by a delicate and precious family. It's so sad that I can't see my relatives.

I think there is a reason why the sisters he went to get married with before coming here have a short lifespan.

Since it is necessary to increase the in-law relationship between the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia, it is not the case that the daughter's family must be married - let Hongshi be the choice of this family, and he has made some contributions to the country.

The reason why the emperor thought about Hongshi's marriage so intensively was that Hongshi was angry again.

Yesterday when Xu Hongshi went to see Concubine Qi, he was naturally paying attention.When the night was free, the emperor asked Su Peisheng: "Hongshi went to see Concubine Qi today, how did the mother and son talk?"

Since arriving in Yuanmingyuan, although the concubine Qi has kept two confidantes in the palace to serve her, but the rest of the palace cleaners and Su La, who does rough work, have been replaced by the original palace servants of Yuanmingyuan or people from the Department of Punishment—— That is to say, Su Peisheng is the palace man who can ask questions accurately.

At this moment, Su Peisheng shrank his neck and said: "Third Elder Brother and Concubine Qi think they are a little unhappy, and Third Elder Brother has a very ugly face when he comes out."

The emperor let out a "huh", but he was a little relieved: "Concubine Qi is confused, it would be bad if Hongshi just blindly obedient and obedient."

"What about after that? Did Hongshi go back to Haosheng to study?"

Su Peisheng thought: "If the emperor doesn't ask him, he can't take the initiative to file a complaint, but the emperor has already asked, how dare he not answer."I had no choice but to shrink my neck and said: "Third elder brother thought it was because he was unhappy, and met Jiu Beile on the road. Afterwards, third elder brother rode out of Yuanmingyuan with haha ​​beads, went to the foreign affairs office for half a day, and returned at the end of the day. garden."

emperor:……

When Hongshi's homework was a mess, he gave him the grace to see Er Niang, who made a mistake, and fulfilled his filial piety. In the eyes of the emperor, he was really lenient to him!

If the first emperor had this kindness and kindness towards their brothers (except for being very tolerant to the prince in the early years, Lord Kangxi was good to the other sons when he was kind, but he also had no patience when he made mistakes), their brothers would definitely It would be wise to quickly thank Dade and go down the donkey, and then study diligently, so as to make Huang Ama happy.

It's good for Hongshi, he went out to play with his horse!

At this time, it would be rude for an ordinary son to go out without telling his elders, not to mention that a prince as big as Hongshi ran away by himself.

If he didn't know that Hongshi was not a rebellious person by nature, the emperor would have brought him over to ask, do you still have a father in your eyes?Are you presumptuous and disobedient!

Fortunately, Hongshi's consistent performance saved him. The emperor knew that it wasn't that he didn't see the emperor in his eyes, but that he didn't have a brain in his head.

But even if he knew that Hongshi's mistake was unintentional, he was not lighthearted.

However, the emperor didn't bother to ask him to come over and scold him again: this kid is a hob meat, he was so angry that he was still in the mood to go out to play, and he played very freshly, so he went directly to play with Westerners.

Ordinary people are pointed out that their homework is not good in front of their younger brothers. Shouldn't they feel ashamed that they can't eat and sleep, and they don't know their homework well, so they dare not go out to meet people?

The emperor really didn't understand Hongshi, since that's the case, it's better for father and son not to meet each other, and he would lose his breath.

So the emperor turned his anger to how to choose a powerful wife for him.The emperor has already begun to write down the princes of various ethnic groups in Mongolia who have a good relationship with the Qing Dynasty and who are usually relatively honest.

Start picking your own in-laws.

If there are no accidents this year, I'll give Hongshi a final date on the marriage!

However, the emperor doesn't want to see Hongshi, and doesn't want to be angry, but Hongshi really wants to see his dear and irritable Huang Ama, to please him, and treat Huang Ama with Wangyou sugar pills by the way, hoping that he will be peaceful and happy, and stop picking on himself the thorn.

So after lunch that day, Hongshi went to Jiuzhou Qingyan to see him.

Su Peisheng opened his eyes wide and looked at Third Elder Brother.

He, Eunuch Su, is also a well-informed person. He has seen countless people in the palace, and he has made himself a crystal-hearted person.

It is rare to see such a 'simple' person as Hiroshi.

He heard from Changqing, the big dining room, that the Northeast often pays tribute to a kind of roe deer, and the meat has a special taste.The most interesting thing is that the roe deer is stupid. If the hunter wants to catch the roe deer, he doesn't need any elaborate traps. He just needs to make some movement, and the roe deer will probably run back to see what the movement is?Then it fell directly into Orion's palm.

Eunuch Su is now looking at the third elder brother with the eyes of a roe deer.

You, third elder brother, want to see the emperor?

Just asking to see the emperor after failing the exam last time?Begging to see the emperor after riding his horse out of the Old Summer Palace in private?

Eunuch Su tried his best to remind Hongshi: "Third elder brother, did you make up your homework and the article to ask the emperor to read?" Looking at Hongshi Kongkong's hands, he stepped down the steps for Hongshi: "But the article is in your sleeve?"

The implication is: If you don't write a high-quality article, go back quickly and don't come to scold me!

Hongshi shook his head: "No." Then he spread his hands: "The clothes are thin in summer, how can things be stuffed inside, Mr. Su just joked."

It is rare for Eunuch Su to be choked to death, and he thought: I am not joking, I am just a joke!

He really didn't want to go in to report, and he was very worried - Su Peisheng was not so kind to worry about Hongshi, mainly because he was afraid that the emperor's temper would not turn around for a long time after getting annoyed, and he would hurt the people he was waiting for Qingyan from Jiuzhou.

So Eunuch Su finally gritted his teeth, approached the third elder brother and whispered: "Old brother, I dare to tell you something. In June, all the summer harvests in the north are exhausted, and I am reporting to Beijing. The emperor always attaches great importance to agriculture and mulberry. I've been up all these days, and I sleep very late at night, it's inevitable in summer... I'll be more irritable."

The three words "anger and anger" came out, and Su Peisheng didn't believe Hongshi and didn't understand: Your emperor ama is angry, don't poke the tiger's eyes, run away!

Sure enough, Hongshi understood, and was greatly moved, even a little proud.

Eunuch Su always told me about Huang Ama in private, which shows that I, the eldest son, is still the most respected by the palace people.

So he also lowered his voice and confided in Su Peisheng: "Don't worry, Mr. Su, I just came to care about Huang Ama because I knew Huang Ama was angry and didn't have a good rest!"

Eunuch Su was completely defeated.

Then, with a mentality of looking away from everything, he went to inform the emperor: the third elder brother was seeking to see him outside, and he insisted on seeking to see him.

Sure enough, seeing the emperor's brows were tightly frowned, it took a long time for him to utter a few words: "Let him get out."

When Eunuch Su came out to invite Hong again, he saw that he entered the door with a bit of urgency and even joy. Eunuch Su felt that his heart was like a lake in winter, cooling off the coolness.

Thinking of the two days of serving with trepidation, Eunuch Su couldn't help thinking of being open and frank.

Aside from other things, the emperor is always happy when he sees the concubine Xin.Those of them who serve are also willing to serve along with them, and of course they are more respectful and polite when they see the concubine Xin.

The atmosphere is contagious, so starting from the people in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the palace has never been rude to Yonghe Palace.

Especially Chang Qing's cunning, as Su Peisheng knew, since the day when the noble concubine was not a noble concubine, he immediately moved towards the Yonghe Palace.

Su Peisheng thought wildly outside for a while, and then heard the emperor's angry shout from inside the room: "You bastard!"

Alas... Su Peisheng was not surprised, and stretched out his hand to call a little eunuch down the steps: "Go to the big dining room and tell Chang Qing that the dinner should not be greasy anymore, and add two more dishes to the fire. By the way, the fried rice that the concubine Xin likes to use Remember to have a dish of Sazi cold mixed with bitter chrysanthemum."

The little eunuch ran away cleverly.

Only Eunuch Su had the identity to stand on the steps, continuing to listen to the intermittent and occasionally loud reprimands from inside.

Soon, the third elder brother came out with a disheveled face.

Su Peisheng hid to the side, and didn't come forward to greet him. Sure enough, Hongshi didn't want to talk, so he covered his face and left.

After being angry by Hongshi for a while, the emperor couldn't look down on the excerpt for a while.

I just want to go out to relax, and the nearest one is the Tantan Pavilion: It doesn’t matter if I go to see my daughter, or see my other children, they are not the only ones who come to collect debts from me.

When Jiang Heng heard that the emperor had arrived, he thought it would be a good time to tell the emperor about the drug.Unexpectedly, when the emperor came in, his face was full of anger.

Qiu Xue poured tea, and Jiang Heng took it with his own hands: "Is there anything unhappy about the emperor?"

Talking about things like this is addictive.

It's just that the emperor didn't tell Jiang Heng about Hongshi, but since it started, he couldn't stop the car.

At this time, he waved his hand to let all the palace people go down, and only the two of them were in the room, so he said, "Hongshi... I really don't know what to say! I gave him the grace to let him see Concubine Qi, he didn't want to I didn’t reflect on my progress and didn’t talk about it, but ran to the foreign affairs office for most of the day without answering.”

"That's not enough. He dared to come to Qingyan of Kyushu to ask for an audience. He went to play for me and filial piety!" The emperor took a deep breath when he said this, obviously so angry that he needed to organize his words : "He also said that he met two English businessmen and gave him a taste of the best refreshment medicine used by the English royal family."

"As soon as he heard about it, he thought of me, and he heard Su Peisheng say that I was very angry, so he just used it to show my filial piety!"

"Filial to me? Why isn't he mad at me?!"

Speaking of this, the emperor was annoyed again, remembering what Cai Hongshi mentioned earlier about 'Grandpa Su told his son that you are very angry recently', he immediately called Su Peisheng in, and said coldly: "Do you think your neck is too strong now? I am so tired of carrying this head on my shoulders and want to take it off for a rest? You dare to reveal my happiness and anger to the prince! Then next time, do you want to give it to Hong Shizhen's jade seal?"

Eunuch Su kowtowed in a hundred words, and he had a hundred regrets in his heart: I was wrong, I was really wrong, I shouldn't have hinted at a roe deer!I'm guilty!

He couldn't help but use the corner of his eyes to sneak a letter to the concubine, wondering if he could take the sake of being polite to each other in the past, and believe that the concubine could say something nice for him.

But what Jiang Heng was thinking about was another thing: the British businessman gave Hongshi the medicine to relieve fatigue and refresh himself?Could it be that they are so daring to start promoting opium directly from the prince?

Then she would be able to mention this to the emperor!

In the frank and open hall, Su Gonggong mentioned Hong Shizhong in regret.

And Hong Shi, who was kicked out, was also very distraught: Huang Ama...why can't see his filial piety at all.

Hiroshi looked at the silver box in his hand.

Why don't you go see Er Niang again, after the quarrel yesterday, it can be seen that Er Niang was imprisoned in the Old Summer Palace because of her grievances, so that her anger was extremely high, and she had never seen Er Niang lash out at herself so much before. temper.

Moreover, Huang Ama refused to accept his filial piety, so Er Niang would not treat him like this.