The Imperial Age with the Resurgence of Han Style

Chapter 286 Royal Science Award
"Are you Jiang Mingyi, who is known as the desperate doctor?"

In the Chang'an Royal Grand Theater, the annual Royal Science Award Ceremony is taking place. In the center of the venue, a huge crystal chandelier hung from the ceiling, shining brightly. Portraits of scholars and experts who have won awards in the past are hung on the surrounding walls. They have made great contributions to science or invented major technologies and will be remembered forever by the world.

On this solemn and grand occasion, both the winners themselves and the representatives invited to watch the ceremony were affected by this highest honor in the world today. They deeply appreciate the power of science and its role in promoting social progress.

Emperor Yonglong walked up to a forty-year-old man, hung a golden Royal Medal of the highest medical award around his neck, and then looked at the man with a smile.

"Uh..." Jiang Mingyi's outstretched hand suddenly froze, and his expression became a little awkward. For a moment, he didn't understand what His Majesty the Emperor meant by saying that he had a "notorious reputation" spread outside.

Could it be that His Majesty is dissatisfied that he won the Royal Science Award? Or do you have some contempt and disdain for his reputation?
"Since ancient times, those who achieve great things do not stick to trivial matters." Emperor Yonglong took the money order marked with the amount of 5,000 yuan from Kong Dingwen, the president of the Royal Academy of Sciences. He then handed it to Jiang Mingyi gently, "So, even though you have mixed reputations, But you have made a huge contribution to the development and progress of our country's medical industry. No matter what the world says, your achievements are enough for you to win the Royal Science Award. There is no perfect person in this world. Nothing is perfect for people. If you follow ethics and morals in everything, you will probably achieve nothing in the end. Looking at thousands of years of history, how many people who promote the progress of human endeavors have not suffered. Criticism? Let him go and ignore what the world says about you."

"Your Majesty..." After hearing Emperor Yonglong's words, Jiang Mingyi suddenly felt as if he had learned something. At the same time, he was extremely moved. His nose became sore and tears flowed out.

Jiang Mingyi is a medical doctor from Zhenhai City (now Dili City) in Xuanhua Province (including present-day Timor Island, Sumba Island, Savu Island, Rodi Island, Flores Island, Solo Islands, and Alor Islands). Expert, famous in China for his expertise in gynecological diagnosis and treatment.

During his more than 20 years of gynecological diagnosis and treatment career, Jiang Mingyi not only accumulated and summarized a large number of gynecological cases, but also invented dozens of gynecological medical devices, especially the lower body speculum, which allowed male doctors to perform surgery without directly touching the female lower body. Enter the cervix and use this instrument to check the specific lesion.

Qi's medicine is inherited from ancient Chinese medicine, but after decades of development, it has also created a series of new medical fields, especially clinical medicine and surgical medicine, and is at the forefront of the world.

However, like doctors (physicians) in other countries in the world, many doctors in Qi are not interested in gynecological medicine. The traditional concept of "it is better to treat ten men than one woman" still affects and restricts the choices of countless doctors. .

Although Qi's thinking is relatively free and open, it is more or less restricted by traditional ethics. "Men and women are not close to each other in teaching and receiving." This is also the ethics of the world, and it cannot be easily broken in a short time.

Furthermore, during the medical diagnosis and treatment process, there is another question that has always troubled gynecologists: How can a man examine a woman and "sacrifice sensitivity" without affecting her modesty?
For a long time, gynecologists in Qi were generally women, and the source of medical information was also the "Miscellaneous Notes on Women's Doctors" written by Tan Yunxian, a famous lady in the pre-Ming Dynasty. It can treat habitual abortion, menstrual diseases, and postpartum diseases. , abdominal lumps and many other gynecological diseases, coupled with more mature surgical techniques (mainly caesarean section surgery for pregnant women with difficult labor), most gynecological diseases in Qi can also be solved.

However, there is a common and extremely difficult to cure condition in gynecology, that is "vesicovaginal fistula" (this debilitating condition is often the source of lower abdominal pain and urinary incontinence, usually due to obstructed labor: when When the baby is squeezed into the birth canal, it squeezes the soft tissue between the vagina and bladder), causing untold pain to thousands of affected women.

Jiang Mingyi's initial major in Jianye Tiangong College was not gynecology, but clinical surgery. After graduation, he was assigned to work in Zhenhai Hospital.

Later, after giving birth to two children in succession, his wife unfortunately suffered from "vesicovaginal fistula", which put the whole family into a lot of trouble.

As a doctor, I naturally want my family to receive complete treatment and become a healthy person. Therefore, in addition to the normal diagnosis and treatment work in the hospital, he began to study and research gynecological medicine, hoping to cure his wife's illness by his own means.

Different from other traditional gynecologists, they basically start from the simple to the complex, and gradually accumulate experience through case after case verification, thereby obtaining a large number of clinical practice records, and finally become a qualified gynecologist.

However, Jiang Mingyi directly used Nanyang natives as test subjects to obtain corresponding gynecological treatment methods and methods.

In Xuanhua Province, native children often suffer from rickets due to lack of adequate calcium supplements, while women suffer from osteoporosis and pelvic contraction due to calcium deficiency. This also leads to many gynecological symptoms of vesicovaginal fistula, or vaginal tear, which is very common among Aboriginal women.

Therefore, Jiang Mingyi would take the initiative to "help" native women treat gynecological diseases during local rounds.

In rural areas where medical conditions are extremely poor, it is extremely difficult for Han immigrants to seek medical advice and must go to the nearest county, town or big city.

It is even more difficult for natives with a very low status to seek medical treatment. Not to mention that they don’t have much money in their pockets to pay for medical treatment. Even if they can scrape together some money, few doctors are willing to do so. Diagnosing and treating them, I think it will waste my time and dirty my hands.

Therefore, once the natives get sick, they can only silently pray to the true God (many Qi State's overseas organized territories prohibit natives from publicly performing religious ceremonies), hoping to defeat the disease through "hard resistance".

Therefore, when they heard that a "kind-hearted" doctor was willing to treat women like them who were suffering from illness, they all felt grateful and praised Jiang Mingyi as a human messenger sent by Allah.

In a dilapidated thatched house in the countryside, an operating table was randomly set up. With the help of several assistants, Jiang Mingyi began one gynecological diagnosis and treatment process after another.

In less than five years, Jiang Mingyi made more than 60 kinds of surgical instruments through hundreds of in vivo experiments. One operation would be repeated dozens or hundreds of times. He accumulated and summarized a large amount of diagnosis and treatment experience, and found a cure. Effective method for vesicovaginal fistula.

However, during the experiment, he never used any form of intraoperative anesthesia for the patients, and dozens or hundreds of native women who were used as experimental subjects suffered greatly as a result.

Every operation is like a process of cruel abuse between patient and doctor, and every native woman's body is like a bloody "sacrifice."

The native woman was naked and without anesthesia, and was forcibly controlled by Jiang Mingyi and his assistants. In the patient's great pain, the diseased part of the vulva was cut open firmly, and then sutured back indifferently.

Sometimes, the assistants present could not bear the cruel surgical scene and fled, forcing Jiang Mingyi to order the natives next to him to continue to hold the patient on the operating table.

These native women who were used as living subjects for experiments were not given anesthesia during the operation. Jiang Mingyi's attitude towards these natives was considered to be more like treating them as test subjects rather than people like him. At the same time, he did not care whether the native women were willing or understood the experiments that would be conducted on them.

Naturally, in countless experiments, a large number of native women died unfortunately due to failed operations, postoperative infections, or other reasons. But without exception, they received no explanation or explanation, and it was only considered "bad luck" that led to their deaths.

A set of methods for the treatment and repair of "vesicovaginal fistula" was determined by Jiang Mingyi after countless in vivo experiments, which has enabled the majority of female patients in Qi to get rid of the embarrassment and pain of urine leakage. However, due to his behavior that violated ethical and moral standards, Jiang Mingyi's external image and reputation were questioned and criticized, and he was even maliciously called a "dead doctor."

As early as seven or eight years ago, some medical experts recommended Jiang Mingyi to the Royal Medal of Science Review Committee, hoping to award him the Royal Medal of Science for his medical achievements.

However, this move was opposed by many experts and scholars, who believed that the medical results he obtained were unethical and would tarnish the sacred Royal Science Award.

In fact, it is nothing new for the medical community in Qi to use native people as experimental subjects for disease diagnosis and treatment. There have been tens of thousands of cases. As early as the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, some experts in epidemic prevention and infection even used native people to experiment on diseases, diseases, and diseases. Prevention and control of viruses such as smallpox and plague and resistance to epidemics.

Otherwise, why would Linchuan medicine and surgery in Qi have such advanced methods and technologies?
That is summarized and summarized from the experiments on the native patients.

But why is Jiang Mingyi hated and criticized by all walks of life for practicing with natives?

Gein, he is a gynecologist, and he is also a male gynecologist. What is even more criticized is that the medical achievements he has obtained are actually the private parts of women. When people hear about it, they can't help but feel a chill. And...shame!
How could anyone accept it if he were to win the Royal Science Award, the highest award?
How to introduce it?

I can’t get on the stage!

Therefore, although Jiang Mingyi's "vesicovaginal fistula" diagnosis and treatment method summarized and summarized through native in vivo experiments has cured countless women in Qi, saved many unfortunate families, and was hailed as the "gynecological master" by patients, but for many years Since then, he has never been able to win the highest honor in medicine - the Royal Medal of Science.

Until last year, things turned around. Princess Xiangping, the sister of Emperor Yonglong, unfortunately contracted "vesicovaginal fistula" after giving birth, but she successfully recovered under the surgery of Jiang Mingyi's proud female disciple.

At that time, Emperor Yonglong came with the Empress Dowager to visit Princess Xiangping, and heard the words of this female disciple complaining about the injustice for her master.

Therefore, under the attention of His Majesty the Emperor, the Royal Science Award Review Committee re-discussed whether Jiang Mingyi could be nominated for the Supreme Science Award.

The Royal Foundation is the main sponsor of the highest science award and always carefully reviews the opinions put forward by the Royal Family. In addition, although Jiang Mingyi's medical achievements are not on the table, they have indeed made a huge contribution to the entire medical community and society. Not to mention, as a man, he has abruptly improved the technical level of gynecological medicine in Qi. A lot.

In other words, excluding ethical constraints and traditional gynecological prejudices, Jiang Mingyi is qualified to receive the highest Royal Science Award.

In that case, give this award to him.

After going around in circles for seven or eight years and suffering a lot of criticism and criticism, Jiang Mingyi finally won the Royal Science Award, the highest award, and also received high praise and evaluation from His Majesty the Emperor in person.

"What did the Frenchman say?"

After the awards, a grand reception luncheon was held at the Chang'an Royal Grand Theater. Hundreds of winners and invited guests gathered together. After Emperor Yonglong delivered his speech, familiar scholars and guests began to move around. , exchanging the latest scientific and technological trends and chatting about the development of their respective fields.

Emperor Yonglong took a hot towel handed over by his attendant, wiped his face gently, then pointed to a few French guests in the corner of the venue, and asked Kong Dingwen curiously.

"The Frenchman is said to be a very famous litterateur and has written several best-selling books in Europe." Kong Dingwen replied with a smile: "He was brought to watch the award ceremony by the French minister today and was very excited. He said to We propose that the Royal Science Award should add a category and include literary creation. This will definitely promote the development and progress of literature in Qi and even the world."

"Haha, if poems, songs, novels and novels are also included in the review category, is it still called the highest award in science?" Emperor Yonglong sneered, shook his head and said: "Literary creation is just for people's entertainment, how can it be compared with To compare with science? To take a step back, even if we add a literary creation award, do the French think they can win this award in our country? "

"That's right. Civilizations are different, and literary creations are also completely different, and it's impossible to judge at all. Moreover, since ancient times, there has been a saying that literature is not first, and military is not second. If the review comes down, it will have to be a pot of porridge, and ultimately there is no way to determine one. A suitable list of winners. Wherever there is a selection like scientific achievements, if it is good, it is good, if it is not good, it is not good.”

"Lao Kong is right." Emperor Yonglong nodded, "Our country of Qi can maintain its momentum of prosperity and prosperity only because it is based on science and technology, industry and commerce is the first, and military is the priority. Only then can we achieve the great situation we have today. Poems, songs, and poems, Moral articles cannot force our enemies to surrender. This is the way of literature..."

Just as he was talking, he saw his attendant walking quickly from the door, thinking that he had brought important news.

"Your Majesty, there is news from Daxing that the local Dali Temple has made a verdict on the Yingzhou corruption case." The attendant whispered: "A total of six people were found guilty in this case, and each received a sentence of 5-8 years in prison. The rest were acquitted because the evidence was unclear and the facts were unclear.”

"Huh?" Emperor Yonglong showed a surprised expression, "Only six people were found guilty? Ha, then the place where they were exiled is probably not a bitter and cold place, right?"

"Your Majesty, all those who have been sentenced to exile will be sent to Dongzhou (today's New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands)." The attendant nodded.

"Oh, Dongzhou!" Emperor Yonglong said mockingly: "Are you planning to let the officials who committed the crime go to Qingxiu to enjoy their blessings?"

"..." The attendant lowered his head and did not dare to speak.

"What is this?...Officials protect each other!?"

Emperor Yonglong suddenly lost his mood, snorted coldly, and left the noisy and lively ceremony.

(End of this chapter)