Chapter 57 Section fifty-six

The next day is on duty again, this day the pulse is in the bedroom, led by Kui Jun, Minister of Internal Affairs, when he is about to arrive, he sees a eunuch rushing over, salutes and says: "Master Kui, go up quickly Come on! Lord Long Live is losing his temper!" "Hello!" The emperor lost his temper, Kui Jun was not in a hurry, and asked calmly, "Why?" "I don't know! Lord Long Live inspected the medicine himself, and he lost his temper after the inspection! Send an order to the Minister of Internal Affairs." "Okay! I'll go." Kui Jun turned his head and said to Du Zhongjun, "You stand on the porch for a while and listen to my greetings."

Du Zhongjun waited quietly outside the bedroom.The emperor's voice was very loud, "It's strange that my illness is not cured!" He said, "Look at the moths growing on the goji berries. Give me this bad medicine. How can I be cured?" "It's the medicine dispensed by Shou Pharmacy. It's probably old." "How can this work! Now I send you to Tongrentang to dispense medicine." "yes!" Soon, Kui Jun came out of the hall and beckoned to lead Du Zhongjun in. He saw the emperor sitting in front of a small round table with small packets of medicine on the table.

"Du Zhongjun," the emperor asked, "are the herbs the best in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou?" "Not necessarily, there are specialties from all over the place." "What about 'Yushu'?" "The ones from Yuqian County in Zhejiang Province are the best, so they are called Yushu." The emperor nodded, "This prescription was prescribed by Chen Bingjun. I didn't want to take it yesterday. I took it out to have a look today. I think it's not bad. It's okay to take a dose. Who knows, just give me some bad medicine." He asked again: "Fu Ling , Where is the best yam?"

"Poria cocos is naturally from Yunnan, and yam must come from Henan to be authentic." "Okay! In the future, when you prescribe prescriptions, you must indicate the origin of the medicinal materials!" "yes!" After Du Zhongjun asked for a prescription, he wondered in his heart, whether to indicate the place of origin of the medicinal materials, should the governors of all provinces pay tribute?Sure enough, you have to think carefully about how to prescribe the medicine, so you don't need to make trouble. As expected, on the second day, military planes dispatched all provinces, and all special medicinal materials were paid tribute immediately.In addition, the Empress Dowager Cixi issued an order: six doctors recommended by each province were divided into three shifts and changed every two months.At the same time, the next list was issued: Zhang Pengnian and Shi Huan in the first class, Chen Bingjun and Zhou Jingtao in the second class, Lu Yongbin and Du Zhongjun in the third class.

This is better than the method of six-day rounds.But what puzzled Du Zhongjun was why such a list was made?Of course he was confident, and the emperor also appreciated his medical skills.Lu Yongbin is a well-known doctor in the capital with a very good reputation. If the two of them are in the first class, they may be able to see great results within two months.Who knows what is the meaning of ranking the best players behind? Of course, this is something that cannot be explained, and from this day on, Du Zhongjun has also been estranged from the emperor's condition. He only heard that Tong Ren Tang opened a semicolon in Haidian, because since the wolfberry was infested with worms, the emperor ordered Kui Jun to be angry. After I went to Tongrentang to dispense the medicine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs once told me that the Summer Palace was far away from Tongrentang, and the round trip would take several hours. When I got back from dispensing, I couldn’t catch up with the food, so it was better to order Tongrentang to set up a branch nearby, which would be the most convenient.According to the emperor's permission, Tongrentang established a semicolon by order.

After seven or eight days like this, when Du Zhongjun was too idle to do anything, the Ministry of Internal Affairs suddenly sent someone to inform him that Jilu had an invitation.When he arrived there, he realized that he had been sent an unexpected mission. "Dr. Du, I invite you to be the examiner." Ji Lu smiled and said, "Read the doctor's article." It turns out that the emperor's pulse case was copied by someone at the memorial office every day, sold to the interviewers of various Shanghai newspapers stationed in Beijing, sent a telegram back, and published it in the newspaper.Duanfang was taking the doctor's examination in the south of the Yangtze River, so he took this as the topic, took 24 volumes, and sent a special messenger to send the 24 volumes to Beijing.The memorial stated: If you appreciate that volume, you will send this person to Beijing to ask for pulse.

"Duan Zhijun really knows how to be an official! However, the method is a bit too fresh. The empress dowager said, she doesn't know which volume is good? Send it to Lu Shangshu, the official department, but he doesn't dare to make decisions, so I have to Borrow your expertise." Du Zhongjun also felt that Duanfang was a bit whimsical, but he was very interested in it, hoping that there might be some masters among them, who could explain the truth thoroughly and use medicine with unique ideas, which could be used as a reference.So I immediately sat down at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and read carefully one by one.

Ordinarily, the same pulse case, the medication will not be very different.I don't know, there are at least ten different sayings in the twenty-four volumes. Some said that it should invigorate the kidney; some said that Liuwei Dihuang Wan should be used; some said that it should be used to replenish life fire; Tonify qi and blood, use extremely precious medicines such as ginseng antler.One of the most wonderful volumes said that the emperor's illness should be supplemented with both yin and yang, and the medicine prescribed was Shiquan Dabu Wan. "It's all speculation." Du Zhongjun said bluntly. "No one scratches the itch."

"I think so!" Jilu said, "Even those of us who often travel in the inner court can't figure out the emperor's illness. What's more, we are far away in Shanghai, and we only prescribe prescriptions based on the pulse test. Isn't it just scratching the surface?" "That's exactly what you said." Du Zhongjun asked: "I heard that the Empress Dowager eats a lot of food during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and she has been pulling grains all the time, do you have this saying?" "How not!" Just at this point, another minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Kui Jun, broke in and asked about the results of the "marking".Hearing Du Zhongjun's opinion, he just shook his head.

"Needless to say it's far away in Shanghai," he said, "It's very close at hand. The emperor took the medicines of Zhang Pengnian and Shi Huan like the head class, but the emperor has no effect..." He suddenly stopped, hesitating to speak, but there was something wrong. As if he was hesitant to say something. "Tell me!" Ji Lu was more unscrupulous than Kui Jun, "What are you taboo about?" So Kui Jun spit out the words that were stuck in his throat: "You are asking for pulse here, I have wanted to tell you a long time ago, the emperor's illness is not easy to cure, it is better if you don't ask for pulse!"

Hearing this, Du Zhongjun was in doubt, but it was inconvenient to ask more questions, and he expected that there would be no result if he asked more questions, so he pretended that he didn't hear it, and continued the unfinished topic, asking about Empress Dowager Cixi's dysentery. "There are good times and bad times, and I've been having stomach troubles." Ji Lu replied, "I just don't want everyone to mention it." "why?" "You think, the emperor asks for pulse every day, if the pulse case is sent out, and the empress dowager gets sick again, won't it affect people's hearts?" "It's not an answer to hide the disease like this!" Du Zhongjun said, "The elderly are most afraid of this problem, and what's more..." He also hesitated to speak. "Why don't you continue?" Ji Lu urged. "I've also heard it from people. I don't know if it's reliable or not? It's said that the Empress Dowager smokes this, isn't it?" Du Zhongjun made a gesture of smoking a big cigarette. "You mean the empress dowager smokes 'fushou cream'? Occasionally, she smokes for fun, but she has no addiction." "That's okay!" Du Zhongjun nodded: "Otherwise, dysentery is the most troublesome thing." "I heard that Mr. Lu contracted dysentery after quitting smoking. He couldn't cure it and lost his old life!" "General Constitution" is another name for the Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. After the promulgation of the new official system, only one member of the Dushi Yushi was established, and the former Zuodu Yushi Lu Baozhong was reelected. This person is from Taicang, Jiangsu Province. In the second year of Guangxu's reign, Bingzi Enke's Imperial Academy, he served according to the division, and became the censor of Zuodu.Cautious and honest, he is a good official, but unfortunately that "addiction" killed him.The smoking ban was strictly enforced last year, and the officials of the yamen in central Beijing were allowed to submit their own petitions and quit within a time limit.Civil and military officials outside Beijing, large and small, are limited to abstinence within six months.Half a year has passed, after careful examination, the four princes and ministers have the same obsessions as before, the two princes and princes are Prince Rui Kuibin and Prince Zhuang who have made meritorious service; the two ministers are coincidentally in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.One is the capital censor Lu Baozhong, and the other is the deputy capital censor Chen Mingkan. So the Minister of Military Aircraft Zou Ming took a very powerful measure. All the missions led by the two kings Rui and Zhuang, such as Du Tong, the former minister, and the inner court, were all dispatched, while Lu Baozhong and Chen Mingkan temporarily departed. If there is a shortage, all agents will be sent to act as agents, "if you can quit quickly, you will be allowed to resume your job as usual." Otherwise, the two princes and two ministers will be dismissed, and they will never be lenient. With such a strict decree, Lu and Chen naturally obeyed the order to be cautious.Chen Mingkan's smoking cessation was relatively smooth, but Lu Baozhong was in great pain. In fact, there are countless prescriptions for quitting smoking. Lu Baozhong tried to take them one by one, but it was ineffective. In the end, he used the method of "stealing addiction" with tears running down his cheeks and ignoring it. Only then did he quit, but his vitality was greatly lost. . In the first month of the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu's reign, he played Chen Ming and quit smoking completely, and he was still allowed to return to his post.But the disease was lingering, and it dragged on until the end of April, and I had to ask for a vacancy by myself. After a few days, I died.The Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't bear it, and she ordered a special gift, and the posthumous posthumous law is not bad. As usual, the first character is "wen", and the second character is "shen". It was Zhang Yinglin who took over from Lu Baozhong when he quit smoking. Empress Dowager Cixi had a very good impression of him. It turned out that Zhang Yinglin was Yi Chou in the fourth year of Tongzhi, who ordered the Hanlin in her hands, but there was no reason for inviting his relatives. He is from Licheng, Shandong. When he was editing in the 13th year of Tongzhi, he was selected as the emperor's teacher together with the reviewer Wang Qingqi in "Walking in Hongde Hall".That Wang Qingqi's character is not good, and he doesn't understand the general principles. He often gets some banned books such as "Meat Pu Tuan" and "Dengcao Monk", and Qiu Shizhou's "Spring Book", which he likes with Mu Zong, and finally brings the newly married emperor with him. , Wandering around the kilns, which led to a catastrophe of mocking the emperor's smallpox, which ended the Qing Dynasty since the Taizu, the father died and the son succeeded, and the lineage was passed down. When Wang Qingqi seduced the emperor furtively, Zhang Yinglin saw it and disapproved, but it was inconvenient for him to remonstrate, and it was also inconvenient for him to tell the truth, so he had to travel far away to avoid misfortune. In the first year of Guangxu, Fang began to go to Beijing to sell fakes. After recovering, Zhang Yinglin served as Hanlin for seventeen years, and then released Zhan Shiwai as Fengtian Fucheng, and also took charge of Xuezheng.In the year of Gengzi, the two palaces were hunting in the west, and all the officials were scattered, but Zhang Yinglin was the only one who guarded the defense of Xuezheng, waiting for a change.In the second year, he was summoned for trial, and he has been his minister of officials.When the official system was reformed, there was no distinction between Manchu and Han. Because Zhang Yinglin had been outside the customs for many years and was familiar with flag affairs, he was specially conferred the title of Deputy Commander of the Han Army of the Xianghuang Banner. He was the first Han member to serve as a banner official since the founding of the Qing Dynasty.