Chapter 83 Section 83

On the day when he returned to the palace, when Xiao Li was waiting for the emperor to take a bath, he found many spots on his arms, shoulders and back, which were light red in color, as bright as roses, and unconsciously whispered: "Hey!" "What's wrong?" asked the emperor. There is no need to hide this, dare not hide it, and cannot hide it. "On Long Live Lord," Xiao Li replied, "wait for the servant to fetch the mirror and ask Long Live Lord to look at it for himself." Xiao Li fetched a big mirror, knelt and lifted it up, and the emperor noticed something strange about him, "What is this thing?"

He was quite flustered, "Send Li Deli quickly!" It is said that Li Deli, the imperial physician, came to undress and examine him, but there was nothing wrong with it?Ask the emperor, "Does the emperor itch?" "It doesn't itch at all." If it doesn't itch, it will be broken, but what Li Deli said is exactly the opposite, "It doesn't matter if it doesn't itch." He said, "I will give the emperor a medicine for clearing away fire and detoxification. Take it and watch." "What do you call eating and watching?" "If you can make the erythema go away, you'll be fine."

The emperor was quite dissatisfied with these words, "Can't it disappear?" He asked sharply. Because Li Deli often saw the emperor's doctor, he knew his temper, so he quickly knelt down and said, "I will make the erythema go away. Your majesty, please rest assured! After taking this medicine, I will bring another person to take the emperor's pulse tomorrow." So Li Deli wrote a prescription, but the understated honeysuckle and the like seemed to be milder than scabies on the surface, but he was very nervous in the dark, as if he was pregnant with a ghost. Thinking about it, I still dare not say it. It has nothing to do with me, but if I say it, it will be right and wrong. I will wait to see the situation, and when I am sure, I will consider the severity and deal with it according to the camera.

After a few days like this, he was summoned again.This time, the audience was at the West Nuan Pavilion of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. The emperor was in a relaxed mood, playing with a group of little poodles. When he saw Li Deli, he said, "Your medicine is very effective, and the red spots on my body have all disappeared. Take a look. Do I need to take any conditioning medicine?" Then he took off his clothes and asked Li Deli to examine him carefully. Sure enough, the erythema disappeared, and his skin was smooth and smooth.Li Deli congratulated the emperor, saying: "The emperor is in good health. You don't need to take any conditioning medicine."

When he knocked out his resignation and left the palace, the eunuch came to pass the decree, rewarding him with two small rolls of Ning silk and a sable hat brim.Li Deli thanked him for his kindness and offered a bounty. His colleagues came to congratulate him one after another. He also smiled and socialized for a while, and only kept a well-known imperial doctor named Zhang Benren for his surgery. "Let me tell you about a skin disease." Li Deli said, "On the shoulders, back, and arms, there are large and small red spots, some are round, some are kidney-shaped, and they don't itch. What is that?"

"It's hard to say." Zhang Benren asked, "Is it drumming?" "No drum." Li Deli made a stroking gesture, "I touched it, and it's flat." "Together or not?" "Not even. One is one." "That's not good!" Zhang Benren shook his head, "It's 'Yangmei'!" Although he was concerned, Li Deli's heart still sank suddenly, and he asked calmly, "How long will it take for this red bayberry rash to disappear?" "It's not sure, it can be a few months, or a few days." "It's broken!" Li Deli slumped on the chair, unable to make a sound for a while.

"What's going on?" Zhang Benren leaned over and asked quietly, "Is it Cheng Baylor?" "No! It doesn't matter if it's him." "Then...?" Zhang Benren said with great difficulty, "Could it be...?" Two and a half sentences, one can imagine who he guessed?Li Deli nodded slowly. "Is there such a thing?" Zhang Benren shook his head, "Is it because you misunderstood it?" "I didn't read it wrong. Unless what you said is wrong." Li Deli showed regret again, "I was wrong! I should have recommended you to watch it at that time."

"Yes!" Zhang Benren bowed to the ground, "Uncle Li, let's talk about it first, if you want to recommend me, you have to take care of me." Li Deli was puzzled, rolled his eyes and asked, "What's your burden?" "This is a disease that cannot be cured! To be honest, you have to lose your head. Why don't you take care of it?" "I know, you said, how do you want me to take care of you?" "You are still in charge, I will help you see, how to treat, I give advice, you make up." Li Deli didn't speak, and asked after a long time: "When will it happen again?"

"It's not certain, it may be months, it may be years, it may not be published for a lifetime." "Thank God, I hope it will pass away, and don't post it for the rest of my life!" "Even if you don't give birth for a lifetime, the prince born in the future will also have fetal poison." Zhang Benren sighed sadly, "I think the fate of the Qing Dynasty is coming soon." Li Deli didn't have such profound worries, he was only thinking about whether he should report this "emperor's disease" that had never existed since ancient times, and if so, who should he tell about it?

Sitting alone in a sleepy city, how can I get it?After deliberation, Li Deli had to find someone to discuss with. Naturally, this person should be Zhuang Shouhe.There is a shortage of envoys in the imperial hospital, Zhuang Shouhe is judged by the right court, and Li Deli is judged by the left court. He usually monopolizes the power and seldom cares about Zhuang Shouhe. An idea to share the responsibility in the future. "I have to pretend to be confused." Zhuang Shouhe said calmly, "This matter is a big taboo. The disease should be tabooed by the sick, and the doctor should also taboo."

"That's certainly true, but I'm afraid that if there is trouble in the future, the higher-ups will blame me, why didn't I say it earlier?" "It's useless to say it earlier, it's a disease that can't be cured," Zhuang Shouhe said again, "and he will definitely not make trouble! How can the Son of Heaven of the Lord of Ten Thousand Vehicles suffer from such a disease?" Li Deli thoroughly considered the interests and interests, and finally made a final decision: "Yes! Pretending to be confused." So the emperor's illness was hidden.He himself did not feel any discomfort, and he went about his business as usual every day. The first thing he did when he summoned the military aircraft was to inquire about negotiations with Japan.Negotiations almost broke down, Okubo Toshimichi proposed an ultimatum of "five days to reply", King Gong ignored him, and automatically extended it for another three days.As soon as the third day came, which coincided with the Chongyang Ninth Festival, Okubo went to the Zongli Yamen again and had a fifth meeting with Prince Gong, demanding compensation of two million taels of silver for military expenses, but Prince Gong insisted not to mention the word "military expenses".Toshi Okubo changed his words and asked for the compensation of the "distressed".At this point, it's just about money. On September 14, the negotiations broke down, and Okubo Toshimichi told the British Legation that he had decided to leave Beijing in two days.So the British Minister Wade came forward to mediate again, threatening him in every possible way, Wen Hsiang, who had been torn apart from the disease, was dizzy from exhaustion, and promised to give 500,000 taels of silver.This is the Tianjin missionary case, which compensates the number of consuls and priests who were troubled in various countries, but the calculation is different. One hundred thousand taels of silver is for compensation, and four hundred thousand taels of silver is used to buy the houses and roads left by the Japanese army after they retreated from Fansha.And on September 22, three "China-Japan Treaty on Taiwan Affairs in Beijing" were signed.The biggest gain of Okubo Toshimichi's trip was not the five hundred thousand taels of silver, but a preface before the "Special Agreement": "This is based on the fact that Taiwan was born, and the Japanese nationals were arbitrarily harmed. Japan's original intention is to ask , then sent troops to the other side, and questioned Kai Shengfan and others." The victim was a Ryukyu fisherman who had been a Chinese vassal since the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, and suddenly became a "Japanese subject". , Wenxiang and Li Hongzhang were kept in the dark. On the day of signing the contract, something went wrong at Shenwumen. A carriage ran straight into the palace from Shenwumen. The horses pulling the carriage were frightened and lost control.The guards guarding the palace gate turned pale with fright, and they all came out to intercept them. They didn't pull the bridle of the black horse that was foaming at the mouth and kicking its hooves until Jingyun Gate. Furious, he yelled at the handlebars, "Get off me! You bastard, do you know where this is?" The handlebar Shih also knew that he had caused an accident, his face turned pale with anxiety, and he was speechless, Tashise became more and more angry, he slapped the bar of the car with his saber flat, and shouted loudly.Just at the moment when it was impossible to hand over, the curtain of the car was lifted, and a head poked out, and said in a disdainful voice: "What are you doing, you are shouting with a knife and a staff, who doesn't know where this is?" Why do you ask." Tashise saw that it was Xiao Li, the eunuch favored by the emperor, and was immediately discouraged, "I'm just asking," he said, "That's okay!" "It doesn't matter at all. It's okay!" Xiao Li didn't dare to be assertive, so he waved his hands and said, "Go! It's okay." The emperor didn't know about this unexpected dispute at all, because he was sitting in a sedan chair, entered the palace from Shenwu Gate, and returned to Qianqing Palace from the north. In the vast palace, there is no way to know the situation. It wasn't until the next day that he saw the memorial of the minister leading the guards impeaching the guards on duty, he was surprised, "What's going on?" He asked Xiao Li, "What happened to the carriage yesterday?" "The slave is in the car, and I don't know what's going on. When the car stopped, I realized that the car rushed to Jingyun Gate." Xiao Li also said, "The guards cursed when they opened their mouths, and slapped the handle of the car on the bumper with a knife, and they continued to curse." "Of course it should be scolded." The emperor said this sentence with a smile, and commented on the memorial to the minister of the guard: "Grace, no discussion." After reading the memorial, I went to the study room—I originally planned to stop for a day, but when I thought of what Wang Qingqi had promised yesterday, I became very interested and gave up the idea of ​​"relying on learning".