Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 361 Do You Really Know Medicine?

After Yu Daoxiang was silent for a while, he said, "How is Brother Huang's illness, I'll go and see."

Empress Xiao said, "Haoyue! Do you really understand medicine?"

Yu Daoxiang nodded and said: "My master is a strange person. I have studied medicine with him, and he should be better than the imperial doctor in the palace."

Empress Xiao thought of the peerless expert who was able to snatch the princess away from the Khitan Palace 19 years ago, and thought that such a person could indeed be called a strange person, so she couldn't help but feel a little hesitant in her heart, pointing to Wu Xiuming and said: "Then you might as well show him first."

Yu Daoxiang smiled slightly and said, "Okay!"

After Yu Daoxiang inspected Wu Xiuming's body expressionlessly, she glanced at Wu Xiuming in surprise. Although Wu Xiuming recognized him, she didn't know Wu Xiuming who was only a small role in Huaxia Weifu.However, she saw why Wu Xiuming was poisoned.

At the beginning of the year, when Ye Mansion's "half-dead labyrinth" was built, the ghost doctor had specially prepared this poison. Yu Daoxiang, who was in Ye Mansion at that time and was afraid of the ghost doctor, would naturally pay attention.However, she didn't know the real reason why Wu Xiuming appeared here.She guessed that Wu Xiuming was originally an expert spy sent by Khitan to inquire about Tianxing Yupei at the beginning of the year. Later, he was trapped in the half-dead maze, and was forced to join the Huaxia Weifu. Now he must have found a chance to escape back to Khitan.

However, Yu Daoxiang didn't care about this kind of trivial matter. She wouldn't even blink when everyone in the Huaxia Wei Mansion died except Ye Chen, Shui'er and Yu Qingyan.

The strange poison concocted by the ghost doctor, with Yu Daoxiang's caution, how could she not find an antidote, and when she asked Ye Chen about it, Ye Chen told Yu Daoxiang the secret recipe without hesitation.Therefore, this poison, Yu Daoxiang can also be detoxified.

Yu Daoxiang pretended to contemplate for a while, and said expressionlessly: "One liang of burdock seeds, three liang of mountain bean roots, three and a half ounces of Shanci mushrooms, one hundred-year-old phoenix fairy, bezoar, realgar, borneol, raw gypsum, Scutellaria baicalensis, rhubarb, platycodon, and licorice are half liang each, and then pork spine is used for two liang, and Smilax smilax for four liang, and the medicine is boiled according to this ratio, and the toxin can be detoxified after drinking the medicine juice."

Wu Xiuming complained in his heart, because he knew that several of these medicines were highly poisonous, and he knew that Yudao Xiangding probably didn't know the truth about his coming to Khitan, most likely because he thought he had escaped from the Huaxia Weifu. , so worried that Yu Daoxiang took the opportunity to kill him.But he had no chance to tell Yu Daoxiang the truth.

"Prepare the medicine according to what Princess Haoyue said." Empress Xiao didn't know medical skills, so she directly arranged for people to prepare it.

Wu Xiuming was taken outside the Hall of Martial Virtue and waited anxiously. Empress Xiao was not in a hurry to take Yu Daoxiang to meet the Khitan Emperor, but pulled the latter to start chatting.This is because Empress Xiao knew that the emperor had just fallen asleep.In addition, Empress Xiao also wanted to see Yu Daoxiang's medical skills before talking about it.

The matter arranged by Empress Xiao was naturally implemented very quickly. Just when Empress Xiao mentioned that she was going to find a son-in-law for Yu Daoxiang among the nobles of the Manchu Dynasty, and Yu Daoxiang shook her head resolutely, an eunuch came in and said : "Your Highness, Wu Xiuming has already drank the concoction boiled by the princess' prescription, and the poison has been cured. It's just that some stinky sweat is coming out of his body, and it's inconvenient to enter the palace, so he wasn't allowed in."

When Empress Xiao heard it, she immediately beamed with joy, and she felt a little more expectation in her heart.

The Khitan Emperor's bedroom.

After Yu Daoxiang looked at the emperor's illness very carefully, she frowned tightly. After thinking for a while, she shook her head, her expression full of disappointment.

The emperor has experienced this kind of scene countless times, without much disappointment, instead comforting Yu Daoxiang: "Haoyue! I have been used to it over the years. I can see you come back before I die. With you accompanying my mother, I will be considered dead." It’s okay, it’s reassuring.”

Yu Daoxiang's heart was touched, no matter whether it was the same father, the same mother, or the same mother, the emperor who was seriously ill in front of him was his own brother, and there was no doubt about it.

She can have no affiliation or affection for the country of Khitan and the people of this country, even if the country of Khitan and this family are destroyed, she will not care in the slightest, but her only two relatives in this world, her own How could she not care about her mother and brother.

Even if there is no emotional foundation with mother and elder brother before, the blood and family relationship that melts in water is always the same.The most important thing is that since she met the Khitan royal family, no matter what Empress Xiao and other royal ministers thought and how wary they were of her, her empress dowager mother and the emperor's brother were sincere to her.

"Brother Huang! Sister-in-law, there is a peerless genius doctor in Kaifeng City of Song Kingdom. He may be able to cure Brother Huang." After hesitating for a while, Yu Daoxiang said.

Empress Xiao said: "Haoyue! You mean Ye Chen, the auspicious talisman."

Yu Daoxiang said: "Ye Chen...he can heal wounds and detoxify. But he can't cure diseases. But the person who can cure the emperor's illness lives in Ye Chen's house. He is called ghost doctor."

Empress Xiao stared at Yu Daoxiang and asked, "Haoyue! Do you know Ye Chen?"

Yu Daoxiang hesitated for a moment, glanced at the emperor's elder brother, and said, "Ye Chen has a special physique. My master wanted to eat him, but he killed him instead. During this process, I was ordered by my master to conceal my identity and get close to him." Ye Chen. So, I know some secrets that the world doesn't know. For example, Ye Chen can only heal wounds and detoxify, but he can't cure diseases."

Yu Daoxiang's statement was a bit bizarre, but after a little contemplation, Empress Xiao believed it.Because among the three dying people cured by Ye Chen, Ma Gangzi was seriously injured, while Cao Bin and Song Emperor Zhao Kuangyin happened to be poisoned.

Thinking about it carefully, apart from establishing a military hospital and setting up a health care system for Song State, Ye Chen really didn't seem to have treated anyone.

"Okay, since that's the case, I will now dispatch experts to Song Kingdom, sneak into Kaifeng, capture that ghost doctor and treat His Majesty's illness." Empress Xiao said.

Yu Daoxiang said: "Sister-in-law, that ghost doctor lives in Ye Mansion's 'half-dead maze' all year round, and almost never comes out. And even Zhang Wumeng can't break into that 'half-dead maze' even if he doesn't have half a day. "

Empress Xiao frowned immediately, even if she could let Zhang Wumeng do this, Zhang Wumeng would spend half a day breaking through the 'half-dead labyrinth', but this time is enough for the Song court to mobilize countless masters, even The army surrounded Zhang Wumeng, how could they capture the ghost doctor to Khitan.

Yu Daoxiang said at the right time: "Sister-in-law, my master once saved the ghost doctor's life, so the ghost doctor owes my master a great favor, I secretly begged him, as long as the ghost doctor is willing, I can walk out of the 'half-death maze' by myself." Even Kaifeng City, and even the State of Song, took the initiative to come to Shangjing to treat the emperor's brother. If the emperor's wife sent someone to break into the Ye Mansion, once the matter was exposed, let Song Emperor know that it was the emperor's wife who wanted to catch the ghost doctor to treat the emperor's brother. , I am afraid that Emperor Song and Ye Chen will kill the ghost doctor immediately."

Empress Xiao's complexion changed slightly, she naturally couldn't believe that Yu Daoxiang could really invite the ghost doctor based on Yu Daoxiang's one-sided words.But what Yu Daoxiang said later was correct, once the person she sent was exposed by accident and the ghost doctor was killed by Emperor Song, then maybe no one can cure His Majesty's illness completely.

Therefore, Empress Xiao did not dare to take this risk.But she was also afraid that Yu Daoxiang would make a mistake after getting the cultivation method taught by Zhang Wumeng Taiping. After leaving Shangjing, she didn't go to ask for a ghost doctor, but went away.After all, since Yu Daoxiang came to Shangjing, her indifference to the identity of the Khitan princess has been too obvious.

After contemplating for a while, Empress Xiao said: "Haoyue, go down and rest in your Haoyue Palace first, I will think about this matter carefully."

After Yu Daoxiang left, Empress Xiao immediately called the eunuch to accompany her, and ordered: "Go to Qingnan Mountain and invite Zhang Tianshi to enter the palace."

After more than a year, Zhang Wumeng stepped into the Khitan Palace again, which means that among the two prohibitions issued by Empress Xiao against the Taiping Sect last spring, the one about Zhang Wumeng not being allowed to enter the palace has been cancelled.After the news got out, it would inevitably cause an uproar in the Khitan court, and it would play a decisive role in restoring the prestige of the Taiping Sect in the court.

Walking upwards along the quiet stone path of the Shangjing Imperial Palace, the eunuch who opened the way carefully supported the queen, for fear that the queen wearing a phoenix robe would accidentally fall, and the eunuchs holding whisks and water bottles stood on tiptoe , lowered his head, not daring to make a sound.

The Liao Kingdom was originally established by the nomadic Khitan people, but since the founding of the country more than 70 years ago, the Liao Dynasty court has always focused on the development of the nation. In order to maintain the original Khitan nationality, it is extremely wise to adopt the policy of "one country, two systems" , deliberately separated the control of nomadic and agricultural peoples, advocated rule by custom, and created a bicameral political system.Moreover, they created their own Khitan characters to preserve their own culture.

In addition, the Khitan Kingdom has always advocated absorbing the cultures of the Huming ethnic groups in various countries such as the Tang Dynasty, the Bohai Kingdom, the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty, Wuyue, and the Western Regions, effectively promoting the political, economic, and cultural development of the Liao Dynasty.The military power and influence of the Liao Kingdom covered the Western Regions. Therefore, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains and the Jiangnan Huaxia Kingdom were once weak, which led to the countries and forces in Central Asia, West Asia, and Eastern Europe, as well as those who walked the Silk Road. Merchants, even for a long time, regarded Khitan as a representative title of China.

And all of this is inseparable from the intention of the Khitan royal family to learn Chinese culture and the system of the Han court.This has played an important role in the development of the country and the integration of famous and ethnic groups. At the same time, after more than 70 years of study, the rules in the Khitan Kingdom's palace are almost the same as those of the Han Dynasty's royal family, and even more strict and luxurious. Excessive.

Empress Khitan's face was not very good-looking. I don't know when Taiping religion appeared in Khitan country and became the state religion of Khitan country.Even though she intends to suppress the Taiping Sect after taking control of the court in the past few years, it is still undeniable that the Taiping Sect has a great potential in the Khitan court, especially the unbreakable special relationship with the royal family.

(End of this chapter)