Chapter 55 Section fifty-four

When the telegram arrived in Zhejiang, Feng Rutao, the newly appointed governor, was very nervous and invited his friends to ask for advice.The governor and the governor's friends are called "copywriting committee members", and they are very polite like the state and county magistrates to the "Old Master".If you are looking for someone alone to discuss matters, you will often ask for advice. If you want to consult extensively, you must order the small kitchen to prepare a table of dishes. Halfway through the day's meal, Feng Rutao took out the telegram, raised his head, and the whole audience looked at one person and laughed.This man's name is Du Zhongjun, style name Ziliang, from Yangzhou, he was the former friend of Zhang Zengyang, and Feng Rutao kept him in charge of correspondence.

"Why?" Feng Rutao asked: "Zi Weng must be good at this way?" "The real person doesn't show his face." Someone said: "Zi Weng's medical way is really called 'Starting to Chengchun'." "That's great!" Feng Rutao said, "I definitely recommend it." "No, no! Thank you Zhongcheng for your kindness. This matter has a lot to do with it, so I dare not follow orders!" The tone was so harsh that Feng Rutao was stunned.I was thinking in my heart that if he said that he didn't know much and didn't dare to try it rashly, he might be speaking modestly, saying that "the relationship is very different", that is, he has different opinions, and it is inconvenient to make mistakes.

"Long-term plan, long-term plan!" Someone saw the wind, and with such a sentence, the matter was resolved and the deadlock was resolved. On the second day, Feng Rutao went to visit Du Zhongjun on purpose, explaining the purpose of his visit and persuading him to go to Beijing to apply for a job, but he also said that if he really has difficulties, he can discuss it. "Zhongcheng!" Du Zhongjun replied: "After the Reform Movement of 1898, there was also the act of seeking medical treatment. The situation at that time was always very clear to Zhongcheng." So Du Zhongjun told a story that he had personally heard about the "comrades".His comrade is a bannerman of the Han army stationed in Guangzhou. His surname is Dingao, and his style name is Guishan.The coup d'etat of 1898 caused shock at home and abroad, and soon there was an imperial edict to seek medical treatment for the emperor, and the general of Guangzhou recommended Men Ding'ao to Beijing to answer the imperial edict.

At the same time, three other people were recommended as famous doctors: Zhu Yu, Yang Jihe, and another Yu Xun who, like Men Dingao, had a very remote surname. Men Dingao read a lot of medical books, drafted the pulse and finalized the case, quoted the "Nei Jing", "Su Wen" and the writings of various famous scholars since the Jin and Yuan Dynasties.Empress Dowager Cixi appreciated him very much and praised him as a Confucian doctor. When it was time to take medicine, it was consulted by four doctors.There are differences in opinions, profit and loss considerations, and finally formulate the pulse case and prescription.The conclusion of the pulse case is: "according to the various diseases, it is always caused by deficiency of endowment, long-term weakness of heart and spleen, deficiency of liver yin, rising of deficiency fire, inflammation of lung gold and burning of body fluid. It is suitable to use sweet and warm medicine to cultivate true essence , but the water is deficient and the fire is strong, so it is not subject to supplements, so it is restricted by medication. Now I intend to use the medicines for nourishing the mind and spleen, nourishing the lungs and promoting body fluid, nourishing the liver and kidney, and containing the products that strengthen the fire and suppress the fire. It is still suitable to save labor. Rest and recuperate."

All four of them privately agreed that the most important thing is "it is still appropriate to save labor and rest and recuperate". There are fourteen herbs in total: Yunfu, Shenling, Huaishan medicine, Xishengdi, Ophiopogon japonicus, Yuanshen, Hangbai peony root, frost mulberry leaf, chamomile, golden dendrobium, platycodon grandiflorum, bamboo rutabaga, licorice, and trichosanthes.Anyone who has a little knowledge of medicine can see that there is no strong medicine that is strong and strong, and prescribing such a painless prescription is nothing more than perfunctory. At that time, the theory of abolishing the establishment was so rampant that even the ministers stationed in Beijing of various countries knew about it.In the end, I found a secretary at the French Legation, who was an old acquaintance of Men Ding'ao in Guangzhou and who knew Chinese, so he was entrusted to ask Men Ding'ao to find out what happened.Men Ding'ao didn't dare to answer his orders when he asked for a pulse and a prescription, he was so forced that he couldn't shirk, he took a pen and quickly wrote the word "no neck" on the dry inkstone, erased it immediately, and got up to see the guests.

The truth of "Holy Bow and Violation of Peace" has aroused the suspicion of ministers from various countries.So first he recommends a doctor, and then he invites an audience with the emperor. Empress Dowager Cixi instructs Qing Wang Yikuang to hesitate.Seeing this situation, Men Ding'ao was deeply afraid that he had leaked a great secret from the word "no neck, which would lead to death, so he excused being haunted by a fox in the inn and went to Beijing to avoid disaster. "Please think about it, Zhong Cheng," Du Zhongjun finished telling the story, and then said: "The emperor is not sick at all. If you insist that he is sick, if something serious happens, it will be unjust to blame the doctor!" After a pause, he added a few more words: "If this happens, not only will I die unjustly, but it will also implicate the Lord. Zhongcheng, one thing more is worse than one thing less!"

The last few words touched Feng Rutao, and he decided to accept the suggestion and put the matter aside for further discussion.