"I heard that you know the art of Qi and Huang, and have lived countless people. Huang Tian has a spirit, and he is said to be the image of the gods. Why don't you cultivate virtue, communicate with the four directions, and spread medical ethics to save all people... I will discipline all the things before. Tang Zhou has already punished him for his sloppy mistake... Today there are ten boys, all of whom are intelligent, who have gone to the seashore and hope to take them in..." Little Wang Rui spoke for Ah in a childish voice. Sheng Lang read letters.

Ah Sheng leaned on the desk and rubbed his temples.Waking up at six o'clock in the morning is to see a doctor and give lectures to medical students. In the afternoon, she is reviewing the data of the autumn harvest and studying the rent in disaster years. They came to her as child labor.

Today is Wang Rui's turn.

After reading a letter, Ah Sheng only felt that his blood was getting higher and higher. "Achi, light the incense for calming the nerves."

Luo Chi, who was kneeling at the back, bowed slightly, got up and took a box of fragrant wood chips from the dark cabinet, scraped two scoops with a small copper spoon, and replaced the peel on the incense burner.There was not even the slightest sound during the whole process.

The expensive scent of agarwood permeates the room, mixed with the aftertaste of rosewood and clove.A Sheng took a deep breath, opened his eyes and asked Wang Rui, "Do you understand what the letter means?"

The quiet Wang Rui hesitated for a moment, then shook his head.

Ah Sheng sneered: "Zhang Jiao wants to make me an envoy of the gods! One envoy of the gods will be exchanged for ten medical students, and then he will help him pretend to be a ghost. It's a good plan! If I don't help him, I will be a victim of the epidemic. The common people would not be saved. Ha, what is this called? This is called moral kidnapping!"

Wang Rui sat on the spot like a wooden man, without saying a word.Ah Sheng knew his character, so he didn't force the geek to express his opinion, so the person who sent the letter became the target of bombardment.

"Director Qin, what do you think?"

Qin Liu glanced at Hua Yan and Zheng Xuan, who were sitting in the guest seats, with a serious face: "These people only practice ghost tricks, and you should not be with them. Besides, we have learned the words of sages since we were young. Whenever we make progress in medical skills, we will not be associated with them." Donate a book to the imperial court. Is the imperial court broadcasting medicine better than them to save the people? What's more, how can the enmity of the great doctor Zeng be exposed with a single sentence?"

Open your eyes and talk nonsense, since when did he, Qin Liu, believe in sage books and the court?And let the Eastern Han court broadcast medicine, I am afraid it is not living in a dream.

Ah Sheng let out a foul breath, and followed the nonsense: "That's what I mean too, send those ten boys back. A Rui passed on my words after returning: Anyone who learns my Fahrenheit medical skills should respect ghosts and gods and stay away."

Wang Rui nodded: "No."

"Go."

So Wang Rui withdrew.After another half an hour, the two diners who finished their snacks and tea also got up to leave.It was dark, the stars were dotted, and the lighthouse in the distance began to light up yellow light.

A Sheng took the letter and walked all the way until he came to the small pavilion in the middle of the reservoir in the main courtyard.Qin Liu followed her silently like a ghost.There was no one around, only the mountain wind whistling.In terms of secret conversations, this kind of place is the least likely to be overheard.

Ah Sheng took the kindling himself and lit the lanterns at the six corners of the water pavilion. "What do you think?"

"That depends on what the master wants?"

A Shenghu sat on the stone seat, the coolness from under her buttocks made her frown slightly: "Be objective, tell me what you think of this letter." She nodded on the stone table: "Sit."

Qin Liu was also polite, imitating her and sitting on another stone seat. "Compared to Tang Zhou's villain, Zhang Jiao has a better vision and is more difficult to deal with. Seeing that we can't shake our reputation, he stopped in time. This is not easy to make enemies. He even took the initiative to deal with Tang Zhou as a show of favor, and sent a boy to express his alliance. Meaning. Although there are still various flaws, but to achieve things, this is enough.”

A Sheng looked at the shadow of the lights in the lake: "Continue."

Qin Liu's eyes flickered: "The master hides 10 people in the south." Although half of them are children, the [-] strong labor force has exceeded the number of servants in most aristocratic families.If you want to rebel, [-] elite soldiers are enough to cause headaches for counties.

You know, the population of Hepu County in Jiaozhou according to official books is only [-].The Cao family almost restored Zhuya County, Hainan Island, and opened up countless fertile fields, but they did not pay a cent of poll tax to the court.If it weren't for the weakness of the Eastern Han Dynasty, if it wasn't for Hainan being an island isolated from the mainland, and if it wasn't for the Cao family's ships controlling the Qiongzhou Strait, once this matter was exposed, it would be enough for Ah Sheng to drink a pot.

From Ah Sheng's standpoint, she didn't want the Eastern Han Dynasty to be strong.Qin Liu keenly grasped this point.

"Using medical skills to control the population. Zhang Jiao thought I was the same as him, so he proposed to form an alliance. But in fact..." Ah Sheng's voice was so low that he could not hear it.

It's really the same as him.

But in terms of thought, Zhang Jiao uses superstition, and Ah Sheng uses science.But who says science can't be a kind of faith?

The cold wind blows in the autumn night, and under the flickering lights, the shadows are also shaking.

"It must be reversed, and it must be defeated. Therefore, we cannot have anything to do with them." A Sheng said suddenly.

Qin Liu raised his eyebrows: "I know." He only said that he couldn't get involved, but he didn't say that he couldn't contribute to the flames, so that both Taipingdao and the Eastern Han Dynasty would suffer.

His expression was so unflattering that Ah Sheng had to stare at him: "I don't care what you think, it rots in your stomach. Three generations of my family are Hanchens."

Qin Liu: "I see." Cao Sheng is not a Hanchen, and she will never be a Hanchen as a woman in her life.Even if she controls a population of [-] and makes everyone under her rule have no worries about food and clothing, and can read and write, she will not be able to be a Hanchen.

The road she walked was surrounded by abysses on both sides.

Zhang Jiao's letter was burned to ashes, and ten believers and children were sent back to Jizhou.Two months later, women's medical halls all over the country erected monuments in front of their doors, and wrote six characters: "Respect ghosts and gods and stay away."

There is no beginning and no end, but a discerning person can see it as the way of peace.

Zhang Jiao didn't know until this time that the medical woman who died in Donglai Huang County was the nurse of the head of the women's medical hall. "This matter can't be done, otherwise a big Sinon..." He sighed, "Fortunately, the Cao family didn't pay much attention to reputation at all, so they didn't suppress us."

Tang Zhou was very aggrieved: "We rely on the poor people, how can we treat the Cao family who are seeking fame?"

Zhang Jiao took the "God-given" nine-jointed rod and slapped his disciple's ass hard: "Why do you want to be an enemy of people who could be used for help? And as long as you believe in Huang Tian, ​​no matter whether you are a scholar , the poor family, or the eunuch are all comrades and allies, why don't you understand?"

Zhang Jiao has been preaching for four years, and has tens of thousands of believers in five states. Naturally, he is not a silly or irritable old man.

It is risky for Ah Sheng to spread the enmity between medical halls and Taipingdao. Women’s medical halls in various places may face violent suppression from Taipingdao, and more bloodshed cannot be ruled out.But compared to being dragged into the water by the Yellow Turban Army in the future, or our own staff becoming religious because of the ambiguous attitude of high-level officials, the current risk is worthwhile.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Jiao's direct lineage is also in the stage of accumulating strength and does not want to provoke unnecessary hatred.Although there will still be friction between the two sides in winning patients, since the medical hall has canceled the outpatient system, anyone who visits the doctor will not open their eyes and talk about religion.

There are naturally fewer patients.

But there are also orphans.

As long as the number of orphans sent to Weihai from various places stabilizes at two hundred per month, Ah Sheng's core interests will not be violated.

200 people come every month, so naturally 200 people should leave.

Ships in Weihai are not able to go south all year round, and the fastest voyage is to follow the autumn and winter monsoons.Besides, summer typhoons are also a huge threat.More than ten years of experience have made Weihai Mengxue's graduation season fixed after the autumn harvest. The new batch of thousands of Mengxue graduates, together with rations, dried meat and vegetables, are loaded on a Shanghai ship and head south in batches.

According to the plan, they will undergo a two-year special physical training and further brainwashing in the South Island, and then they will be diverted. Specially recruited and trained by the Ministry of Spy, Procuratorate and other agencies.

Now there are two more places to go, return to Weihai to study medicine, or follow Zheng Xuan to learn traditional classics.After the new looms and new crops solved the problem of food and clothing for 10 people, Ah Sheng could spare a small part of his manpower to pursue some more advanced things, such as a library.

Of all Ah Sheng's assets, the education system has been invested the longest and thus runs the smoothest.The main trouble comes from the outside.For example, Zheng Xuan came to the shipyard to look for her that day, and he seemed in a hurry.

"Second son, I heard that the students of the third level of Mengxue are leaving Weihai? Are they going to the southern manor to pick spices?"

Asheng nodded: "I have finished learning arithmetic, excerpts from the Five Classics, and common sense of nature. They can know more than [-] characters, can write and count, and can be used whether they are going to a store or a manor. These thousands of people It is impossible for everyone to become a great Confucianist. It is enough to study for three years and understand some basic principles.”

Zheng Xuan calmed down and said, "The second young master spends his own money and food to educate his family. I shouldn't have interrupted. But Sun Qian, Liu Yu, and Dian Ji are all malleable talents. , will definitely achieve something in the future. Since the second son has already taught him to read and write, wouldn't it be a pity to cut him off suddenly?"

Ah Sheng looked at Zheng Xuan in surprise: "Could it be... Zheng Gong wants to accept them as disciples? Doesn't Zheng Gong despise them as lowly people?"

Zheng Xuan had a serious face: "Confucius taught without discrimination, and some of the three thousand disciples came from poor backgrounds. I can't compare with Confucius in learning. Should I be blinded by the world?"

Ah Sheng hurriedly begged him: "I was wrong in what I said just now. It's just that working in the south for two years and repaying the money, food, paper and pens for three years is a rule established ten years ago. If I specifically exempt the three of them from working , what will other people think? If Zheng Gong is really optimistic about them, I will recall them from the south after the two-year period expires."

After speaking, she asked Luo Chi to transfer the files of the three of them, and noted Zheng Xuan's name on the blank voluntary admission column.

For this reason, Zheng Xuan could only sigh: "Once the rules of the Cao family are established, even the master himself cannot violate them. This is the root of the Legal school."

On the big ship in the port, the boatmen who are overhauling and the workers who carry supplies go up and down like ants.In the shallow sea surrounded by fishing nets, there are teenagers practicing swimming.The vigorous life is not afraid of the increasingly cold sea water.

"Second Young Master," Zheng Xuan said suddenly, "If Weihai Mengxue has been established for ten years, and more than a thousand children are sent away every six months, by now, there must be at least [-] children in the Southern Spice Manor."

Ah Sheng frowned fiercely and fell silent.It took her a long time before she said: "Those who went south in the early years have grown up. They built a manor in the south to wait for me, hoping that one day they can give me a shelter." She looked up into Zheng Xuan's eyes: "In the first month of next year, I will Ready to go south, does Mr. Zheng want to come with me?"

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