Chapter 49: The Holy Bow is Fallen (3)

Bo's intention to visit famous doctors was passed down, and Yi was worried. The emperor refuted his request last time, but this time it was correct. It seems that the saint was unhappy. Otherwise, with the emperor's somewhat stubborn nature, it would be difficult for him to express such a different meaning in one thing.

While we were sighing, we heard the horse's hooves mixed with the sound of brisk wheels. We could tell that it was a Western "Tinsmei" carriage that was different from the rear gear. Of course, foreigners came.

The person who came was the counselor of the British Consulate, named Husming, and accompanied by the general translator Maihuatuo, who wanted to meet King Gong or any official of the General Administration.

The regulation of the Zongli Yamen's business affairs, Zhang Jing must record the records whenever he meets with foreigners. Zhang Jing is divided into countries. Zhang Jing has the largest number of people in the British stock market, with a total of twelve people. The most capable person is a Hangzhou native named Wang Kangyu, whose courtesy name is Mantang. He was the son of Wang Yuansun, a famous copycat collector of the Daoguang Dynasty. His ancestors were from Huizhou. During the Qianlong period, he moved to Hangzhou to operate salt and dictionaries and became the richest man. Like the Cha family in Haining, Wang was both a businessman and an official, with elegant children and good children. He accumulated four generations. Although his reputation was not as good as the "Ningbo Tianyi Pavilion", when he mentioned the "Wang's Zhenqitang Collection" in Hangzhou, he was also well-known among the scholars.

The most famous of the descendants of the Wang family was Wang Yuansun, whose courtesy name was Xiaomi. He was only the secretary of the cabinet. However, those who returned to the field were still worthy of the governor and governor. All of them were respected. Zhenqi Hall's collection of books was also as prosperous as Wang Xiaomi. The place where they lived was in Dongcheng, which was called "Xiaomi Lane".

Wang Kangyu was in charge of the court and was successful in his studies. After entering the government, he became the head of the Ministry of War. Since he was a child, he has collected a lot of books. Wang Kangyu has read a lot, not as deaf as the Hanlin in the same year. The General Administration Office has newly established a new government office. He volunteered to join and served as Zhang Jing. It has been more than two years since today. He is very familiar with foreign affairs and is also a talent that Yi is very useful. He is one of the famous Red Zhang Jing in the General Administration Office.

The four guests and hosts sat opposite each other on both sides of a large dining table, exchanged greetings and got to the point. Mai Huatuo was in Beijing for many days and spoke Chinese more and more fluently. As soon as he came, he said that he accompanied the counselor to the General Administration to investigate the emperor's condition today.

When he heard this, Yi was shocked and knew that he had encountered a problem! He winked at Wang Kangyu and signaled that he would also think carefully. If he was too poor to deal with it, he would need to provide support.

When Husming made a statement, Mai Huatuo translated the truth: "I was surprised and concerned when I saw the emperor's illness today. The edict said, "The saint is not at peace, it has been more than several months." Why did I not talk about it in two or three months?"

"Thank you for your concern." Yi Kuang replied rationally: "The holy man has been in conflict with each other for a long time, and there are often legends. Why don't the noble minister know? How can he be there? I have not been able to hang on it."

Mai Huatuo said a long article to the counselor, supplemented by gestures, as if explaining something? After hearing this, Husming nodded and asked, "I wonder what disease did the emperor of your country have?"

This is not convenient to talk nonsense, and you cannot use words such as inquiring and then giving me advice. Yi had to answer vaguely: "The emperor is due to overwork, and he is mentally sluggish, poor stomach, and restless sleep at night."

"This is a symptom that ordinary patients have. What is the disease?"

The other party forced him to ask, which made Yi secretly angry. Wang Kangyu next to him wrote the word "lung" and moved the paper to him. "It's probably a lung disease." Yi asked Mai Huatuo again, "Your Counselor of your country wants to inquire so clearly, why?"

After listening to the translator's words, Husming said: "People with lung disease are prone to being sad and sad. It is really unfortunate for the emperor to have this disease." He also said: "The emperor of your country requires everyone to recommend doctors. There are several priests who preach in China who are proficient in medicine. I want to recommend two to treat the emperor and to ensure friendship between the two countries."

After hearing the translation, Yi was very surprised and replied urgently: "Thank you for your care. I will express my gratitude on behalf of my country first. However, the matter of recommending a doctor must be handled. You cannot make any tangible reply at this time, please forgive me."

Husmin did not express his dissatisfaction with his answer, and only asked: "When will we get an answer?"

"It will take about three or five days." Yi said, "You must be cautious in this matter. You need to ask the imperial physician and ask the ministers. Moreover, His Majesty, the Emperor of Our Country, is not in the capital, and the news is transmitted from time to time, three or five days is the fastest."

"Then, I'll be sure to hear the response in five days." After that, Husming stood up and said goodbye. Yi took the guest out. He had just returned and had not sat down yet. Another notice was made: French Minister Sir Dounale was visiting.

This time, Zhang Jing of the French Stock Exchange and Tang Wenzhi from Taicang, Jiangsu Province, took a transcript. After meeting, Dou Nale first expressed his condolences to Yi, which was the same as the British. He hoped to send French medical staff in China to the emperor to enhance friendship between the two countries.

When Dou Nale was sent out of the yamen, the American minister also came. Yi had no choice but to pretend to greet him. After saying a word, the consulates in various countries in Beijing sent people to inquire, with only one content, hoping that the doctors from their own country could be used to diagnose and treat His Majesty the Emperor.

He left all these people perfunctorily, Yi didn't even have to eat lunch, and returned to the duty room and sighed: "The imperial edict was originally used by my Celestial doctors, but who knew that it would cause foreigners to intervene in the intervention. It was really troublesome."

Bao Jing and Li Hongzhang took the meeting text recorded by Zhang Jing and looked at it. While reading it, Li Hongzhang frowned and said, "They are also kind-hearted, and it seems that they are not convenient to refuse. What is the prince's idea about this?"

"Now, it depends on the emperor's intentions, and no one dares to make random suggestions. I think, you might as well report this matter truthfully and then see how the emperor decides."

"I think so too," Bao-Ying said, rolling up her cuffs, sat down at the desk, picked up a pen, and copied the memorial accordingly.

When the memorial was sent to Rehe, Jia Zhen and others read the memorial, they were both funny and curious. "It is hard for all the barbarians to have such filial piety." Ji Zhichang said: "After all, they still have the idea of ​​a king and a father in their hearts."

"Issuing an edict to seek medical treatment is to visit the saints of Qihuang in our Celestial Dynasty to treat the emperor, and it is impossible to keep the barbarians in the matter. If they express their loyalty in this way, there will be something unspeakable."

It is said that the ministers of various countries recommend doctors to "have something unspeakable" and have lost the morals of ministers. Foreign envoys recommend doctors to diagnose the emperor, and describe it as "the matter of not being able to control the barbarians" and they feel even more unkind. Jia Zhen was displeased and replied seriously: "This cannot be said that people like to meddle in other people's business. Ordinary families have good friends and relatives, and it is common for them to recommend doctors, let alone the king of a country, let alone the edict to seek medical treatment, and he asked others to meddle in other people's business. Ting, you have never done the Westernization Affairs Bureau, and you don't know the joys and sorrows of it!"

"I mean, if the emperor is sick, how can foreign countries intervene?" Sai Shangayou argued with himself, "Besides, foreign doctors are not worthy of seeing the emperor."

"Yes, I also think that the emperor of Wancheng is not afraid to try Western medicine lightly." He Rulin also interrupted: "The kindness of the foreign minister can only be understood by his heart."

Jia Zhen was unwilling to have a quarrel with these people, so he put the note in a yellow box and sealed it. He stood up first: "It's better to fuse you for the Holy Trial."

The emperor's spirit today was better than yesterday. He took it over and looked at it in one glance. He asked, "Has the famous doctors sponsored by various provinces arrived?"

"Yes. When I say to the emperor, Xue Fucheng, a person from Hejian Prefecture sponsored by the Governor of Zhili, and Ma Wenzhi, a famous doctor sponsored by Zhejiang Governor Huang Zonghan, have already reached Rehe. When will the emperor summon him, and when will the minister take them to see him?"

"Xue Fucheng? This name sounds so familiar."

"Yes. Xue Fucheng was the brother of Xue Fuchen who impeached the governor of the grain transportation, Yang Dianbang, because of his bribe for Chen Fuen."

"Ah, I remembered it." After all, the emperor was sick and his body was not as long as he usually did. He pressed his hand against his forehead and said, "Don't rush to let them in. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and led the doctors of the Imperial Hospital to take a closer look and see if they have any good solutions? Don't find one, and you will prescribe those bitter medicines for me."

"twitter."

Xue Fucheng and Xue Fuchen are twin brothers. Both of them were juren from the Shuntian provincial examination in the 24th year of Daoguang. Moreover, his academic title was very high, almost the only one who was Jie Yuan. Others said that they would definitely be able to go to high school next year. Who knew that they would be extremely unsatisfied in the second year of the exam and became unnamed. But his younger brother won.

Their father Xue Xiaofan was in a prefecture and county in Hunan. He wanted to give away a gift for his son, donate a doctor and distribute it to the Ministry of Works to wait for another exam next year, so as to save the road from running around. Who knew that Xue Xiaofan died of illness and was in office. Two brothers went to the funeral for thousands of miles and returned home. After three years of death, Xue Fuchen entered Beijing again, while Xue Fucheng stayed at home to serve as his mother.

When the new king ascended the throne in the 30th year of Daoguang, Xue Fuchen was confused and bought it for a while and ended up in a dirt. When Xue Fucheng heard about this in his hometown, he regarded it as a fear of being an official. Although his younger brother had written several letters to ask for help, he always used the reason that his mother was in the hall and did not dare to stay away. He did not want to, nor did he dare to enter the emperor again.

Although his life was hard, he had a lot of spare time. At this time, he began to dabble in medical books. He was a special person and was very dedicated. He did not have to be careful when he thought hard and thought hard, and he had to analyze the doubts and read them clearly. Therefore, in five or six years, he read all medical books in various schools carefully and integrated them, and became a famous doctor who learned without a teacher. He was well-known in the local area and was praised.

Xue Baoshan has also seen such a resume. Although he is a juren, he is recommended as a doctor at this moment, and there are imperial edicts who will be examined first, and his fellow practitioners are jealous, so he doesn't have to be polite.

So he sat upright, as if he was an examiner, "asking for advice" medical methods. The name is asking for advice, but in fact it is a question. After a while, Xue Baoshan retreated because he understood everything, the other party understood everything; he did not fully understand what the other party understood.

After the last incident of Changhong, the Ministry of Internal Affairs became much more honest. This time, the one who was sent to the betrothed was Prince Li Shiduo, who was the youngest. He was only eighteen years old and was very decent in speaking and doing things. After Quanling died, the emperor had seen him specially before Yinfeng and was very satisfied with his words and deeds, so he gave him the hereditary prince to inherit it.

Shi Duo didn't know much about medicine, but he could tell that his eyebrows were high and low. The person asked was calm, but the person who asked the question spoke hesitantly, as if he was not sure whether he should ask or not. Then the depth of the abdomen of these two people can be seen without asking.

"It's so brilliant." Shi Duo bowed his hand and interrupted them, turned around and asked Xue Baoshan again, "Look, are you going to ask for a pulse today?"

"No need to be urgent," said Xue Baoshan. "The emperor's condition must be explained to Brother Xue first."

So he talked about the emperor's condition to Xue Fucheng. I don't know if he was intentionally hiding his own personalities or not, but he could only tell the symptoms, but could not tell the name of the disease. Xue Fucheng was quite confused, so he directly asked to read all the pulse cases of the emperor's illness until now.

"The pulse case is reported to the office. I will ask for a pulse tomorrow, and you will be fine if you follow me in person."

Xue Fucheng knew the rules of the imperial physician asking for pulse, and the pulse case was copied and submitted in yellow paper as usual. The Imperial Hospital had a draft, but refused to make it public and reported it to the office. It was obvious that it was difficult to keep it intentionally. In this way, there was nothing to talk about. After asking about the moment when I entered the palace the next day, the accompanying committee member was still accompanied by the Xiheyan Inn and returned to the Xiheyan Inn to rest.

The member's surname is Hu, and he is an alternate magistrate. He is good at socializing and familiar with people. Nar Jing'er specially sent him to take care of him. He once told him in person: "It is not easy to be a job in the inner court. Don't save money when you go there. The Interior Ministry and the Imperial Hospital should be perfunctory, and the eunuchs in the palace should not offend him. Treating a doctor is his business, and greeting and socializing is your business. If you have any difficulties, you can ask others for advice. So as soon as you go back to the inn, you will ask for the interview.

"Hmph!" Xue Fucheng sneered, "It's really annoying! They are hostile to me when I come to steal their jobs, and they are hostile everywhere. This is outrageous! What to say tomorrow is what the situation of asking for me will say. If they make trouble, I have to ask you to go back and report to the government. This is impossible for me to do it."

"Yigong, Yigong!" Xue Fucheng's character "Zhuangyi", so he called it Yigong. Hu Magistrate hurriedly advised him, "You must be patient, I will try to clear it. This is the number one patient in Tianzi. Yigong is pursuing this. If you have such an opportunity to spread your life, how can you easily miss it?"

This sentence touched Xue Fucheng's heart and he remained silent, meaning that he agreed. Magistrate Hu comforted him and had to run around. He found a friend of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and sent three red sealed bags, including silver notes, one large one thousand taels, and the other two small ones were two hundred taels. The smaller one sent the people who were caring for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the eunuch in the palace, Sula, and the larger one respected the eunuch Liufu, who was the chief eunuch who was filial to the emperor.

The next morning, Magistrate Hu accompanied Xue Fucheng to the entrance of the garden, and someone was greeting him. He took him into the military office and saw that in addition to Xue Baoshan, there were two officials of fourth and fifth rank uniforms. They asked each other for advice and found out that they were also imperial physicians, one was Li Deli and the other was Gong Ping.

Both of them have the surname Xue, and they are of the same clan. Because yesterday's story doesn't make each other feel good, but they naturally have to take care of the etiquette of officialdom, so they still greet with a smile.

Then, Shi Duo arrived and said in a hurry: "Let's go! The upper part screamed."

So Shiduo led the way, and Xue Baoshan followed closely behind, followed by Li Deli and others, and finally Xue Fucheng, walking straight towards Yanbo Zhishuang Palace.
Chapter completed!