Chapter 15 Mongol soldiers are coming

As I said at the beginning, this is a complete chaos. Rejoice!You were not born there. After the famine passed, it seemed that there should be a few days of peace. Yeah, it sounds like I should have a better life-after all, I am a tax collector. But in fact, Li Dongyuan basically didn't have a good life for a few days. Because at this time, Genghis Khan of Mongolia had already formulated a strategy to attack the Dajin Kingdom, and the powerful Mongolian army began to attack Hebei, Shandong and other northern regions. We only need to look at the situation at that time to understand.

At the end of 1210, Mongolian soldiers began to harass the northwestern border of Jin. In the autumn of 1211, Genghis Khan marched south to the Kingdom of Jin.Genghis Khan sent Jebe as the vanguard to attack Wushabao on the northwestern frontier of Jin. In August of the same year, 400,000 Jin troops stationed in Yehuling, the Mongolian army won more with less, and the main force of the Jin army was wiped out.The Mongolian army drove straight in. In October, the Mongolian army crossed the Great Wall and surrounded Jin's central capital (now Beijing). In 1213, Mongolia divided its forces into three groups to attack gold: Shuchi, Chahetai, and Wokuotai led the right army, went south along the Taihang Mountains, and attacked the counties of present-day Hebei, Henan, and Shanxi; Hasaer and Wochijin led the left army. The Route Army attacked the counties and counties in the eastern part of Hebei today; Genghis Khan and Tuo Lei commanded the Central Route Army to attack the counties and counties south of Zhongdu, plundering Daming north of the Yellow River and the counties and counties in western Shandong.During this period, Genghis Khan sent his important minister Mu Huali to lead a Mongolian army deep into the eastern part of Shandong, broke through Mizhou (now the cities of Shandong), and slaughtered the city.

etc. In these years, we didn't get any records of what Li Dongyuan was doing, but we can fully speculate about Li Dongyuan's living conditions. It was nothing more than ordinary people who suddenly heard that the Mongolian army was coming, run away!So everyone fled to a place that seemed to be safe, and came back after the Mongolian army had left.Within two days, the alarm was raised again, and the Mongolian army came again! It's an almost total chaotic life, people can't do things normally, everyone's ears are pricked up like rabbits, running at the slightest movement.In the process of running away, there is no distinction between superiority and inferiority, no matter whether you are a son of a rich family or what, when the time comes, you will carry your belongings and run on two legs (of course, you may also hire a donkey).It was during this period that Li Dongyuan fully integrated into the lives of ordinary people and fully realized their miserable lives.If Li Dongyuan lived a somewhat reserved and decent life before this, then from this period onwards, fate completely broke his reserve and turned him into a fugitive like ordinary people.

During this time, one thing happened. A young man came from far away to find Li Dongyuan. Li Dongyuan looked at this strange face, very strange: "Who are you?" The young man knelt down: "I am a student of Teacher Zhang Yuanyuan, and my name is Wang Haogu." Li Dongyuan: "So it's like this, teacher, how is the old man?" The young man burst into tears: "Teacher, he is an old man, he passed away." Li Dongyuan's face froze, and tears gushed from his eyes. In the misty tears, he seemed to see the scene that often appeared in his heart again: on the top of the mountain, the teacher and he were standing together, the teacher was telling him the principles of nature, and the wind was blowing the hem of their clothes , shaking continuously.

After a while, Li Dongyuan restrained his grief and asked Wang Haogu, "Teacher, how was the situation before he passed away?" Wang Haogu: "The teacher asked me to give these books to you, and said that I haven't finished my studies yet, let me continue to study with you." Li Dongyuan looked at him, as if seeing himself many years ago. In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed, it seems like a lifetime away. I have become a middle-aged man. This young man left after studying for a few years. A few years later, he became another famous doctor in the history of Chinese medicine—Wang Haogu (note, it’s not the literary giant Yuan Haowen, whose names are somewhat similar, and many people make mistakes. ), he is the author of a relatively famous book in the history of Chinese medicine, "Short Cases of Yin Syndrome", and "Yi Lei Yuan Rong".At the same time, he also sorted out the pharmacological experience of his teacher Zhang Yuanyuan, wrote the book "Decoction of Materia Medica", sorted out what Li Dongyuan said when he was teaching him, and became a famous medical book "It's Difficult to Know".

In the preface of "It's Difficult to Know", he once described his senior brother and teacher Li Dongyuan affectionately: "Heaven is diligent and sympathetic, and I, Li Gongming, bestowed the wonderful things that have not been passed on. It’s just a matter of writing, every word and every word, the beauty is beyond description..." Sometimes I feel that these ancient Chinese medicine practitioners are like candles one by one. They use themselves to light up others, and those who are lit try to burn out all the energy they have accumulated to emit a stronger light. , In this way, the firewood of Chinese medicine has been passed down from generation to generation.

Some of this kind of inheritance happened in peaceful times, in quiet and tidy study rooms; Not even the threat of death can stop this inheritance. In the most difficult environment you can't imagine, where you often can't even eat, the candle emits a peaceful light. If there is one key word to sum up Li Dongyuan's life at this time, it is: turmoil. As long as you hear the alarm, everyone starts to run, you must run, because if you run late, you may die, or you may become a slave. A famous doctor at that time was called Ma Jiuchou, and he ran really well. I was bored, so I made a fortune before the arrival of the Mongolian army, and the result of the calculation was that it would be unlucky to escape, so I unfortunately believed the result of the fortune-telling, did not run, and died like this when the Mongolian army arrived, not only myself He died, and also implicated the brothers who believed in his fortune-telling.

Where are you going?Many people went to Bianliang (now Kaifeng City, Henan Province). Everyone believed that the big city was safe, and they would return to their hometown after the alarm passed. After going back and forth a few times, I thought, forget it, don't run back and forth, just stay in Bianliang. The influx of people from all over the country turned Bianliang into an extremely crowded super city, with heavy traffic, serious traffic jams (of course, horse-drawn carts or donkey carts should be jammed), and environmental degradation (because horses, donkeys, and people need to excrete every day) In short, all the problems that a big city can have have appeared.

Li Dongyuan was also tired of running, so he decided not to be a tax inspector (in fact, he couldn't be a tax official anymore, everyone ran away), so he should stay in Bianliang as well. "The Biography of Dongyuan Old Man" said: "So I used medicine to travel between the public and the court", and the curative effect was "big test". This kind of statement is really polite. If the ancients wanted to respect a certain person, it would be a big deal. If the wording is changed a little, it will appear that the person's status is much higher. The original meaning of the words "You Gongqingjian" was to show that Li Dongyuan was very good, but now people think that Li Dongyuan's medical ethics is problematic, and he only treats officials and masters.

In fact, the whole Bianliang was in chaos, everyone was ashamed, what kind of public officials, everyone was thinking about where to hide when the Mongolian army came, and where to hang out for the next meal, it was all for this It’s up, and it’s so elegant to write something——You Gongqingjian. I don't think it's polite, let's just say that Li Dongyuan has officially started practicing medicine. It’s not even a formal start. Think about it, the environmental conditions were so bad at that time, and all the people who came here were hungry and hungry, and there was no place to live and rest. How could this person be sick?Is it possible to stand by and watch so many patients in pain?Alright, don't say anything, roll up your sleeves and let's get started.

Let's talk about Li Dongyuan's treatment. Everyone has been waiting for a long time.