Idle courtiers

Chapter 427 The truth of the past

What Uncle said just now has involved the most terrible secret of the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years, that is, the Tai Hospital colluded with the civil officials of the foreign dynasty.

Imperial physician, imperial physician, as the name suggests, is a doctor who treats the emperor.On the surface, perhaps this is a technical position.

But in fact, everyone is wrong. The doctor in the Tai Hospital is just an official position.

The Ming Dynasty implemented a strict household registration system, and the profession of imperial physician was hereditary.In other words, if your father is an imperial physician, then you are destined to prescribe prescriptions for the emperor to treat diseases, regardless of whether you are interested in medicine or not.

The country stipulates this, you have to work until you are old and die, and then let your children and grandchildren take over.

There is a common saying that goes like this: There are ten ridiculous things in the capital, tea soup in Guanglu Temple, prescriptions in Taiyuan Hospital, hopeful prayers for gods, knives and guns in the arsenal, workshops in the Department of Operations, clothing and food in the Nursing House, wife in the Jiaofang, and Ducha. The Constitution of the Academy, the Academy of the Imperial College, and the Articles of the Imperial Academy.

This is certainly a joke, but it also fully demonstrates the unreliability of these things.

Because of poor medical skills, whenever a nobleman in the palace fell ill, he called Fang Zi from the Imperial Hospital.The first thing imperial physicians think about is not how to cure patients, but how to shirk responsibility once something happens.It is impossible to take strong medicine, and it is impossible for a lifetime.The left and right are just licorice, wolfberry, Chuanbei, ginseng, loquat leaves and other inedible tonics that taste good.

When noble people have a cold, they simply say "drink more hot water" and even refuse to prescribe the prescription.

As a result, the Tai Hospital is filled with a large number of bureaucrats, and there are not many people with real medical skills.

Since it is a bureaucrat, it must be inextricably linked with the officialdom.In particular, this position can often enter and leave the palace and get in touch with the most powerful people in the world, so it is bound to be the object that the court officials are vying to win over.

If... If it is said that the imperial physician is really going to be detrimental to the emperor, it is too simple.

Zhu Lun asked with difficulty: "Uncle, all the prescriptions prescribed by this imperial physician must be kept on file. Moreover, before giving medicine to people, they have to test the poison... How can it be so simple."

Zhu Xizhong: "People's bodies are different. For example, some people are physically strong and have strong internal fire, so the prescriptions should be mild in nature and focus on warming and nourishing. If you blindly use big tonics, it is hard to guarantee that you will not lose your health." The yin and yang are out of balance. If things go on like this, the body will collapse. You go to check the prescriptions, they are all ginseng and deer antler, which are not poisonous, so why do you punish him?"

He continued to say indifferently: "The medicine is three-point poisonous, not to mention that some medicines are inherently poisonous, such as Shouwu and Nymphony, they are very careful when prescribing the medicine. It needs minister medicine, adjuvant medicine, and envoy medicine to assist. If it deviates, the consequences will be serious. Again, people have different veins, and the dosage depends entirely on the doctor's will, and you can't make a mistake."

Zhu Lun was stiff with cold, thinking of Emperor Xiaozong Zhengde's past, his mind was full of terrible thoughts.

Emperor Zhengde was a brave man who dared to ride straight into the Tatar army and kill several powerful enemies with his hands. His dragon body is so vigorous.But just because he fell into the water and got cold in Qingjiang Pu, Huai'an, is it possible for the dragon to control Bintian?

Not to mention him, even ordinary people who catch a cold can recover within six to seven days by drinking only hot water.

Was it drugged?

Yes, this one is probably too big.

Emperor Zhengde offended all the elders in the court, so it is hard to guarantee that everyone will not get rid of him.

Among them, Yang Tinghe, the chief assistant of the cabinet, is the most suspected.Otherwise, why when the emperor died, he did not choose a vassal prince from the Zhengde line of nephews to inherit the throne, but chose the emperor Jiajing who could not be matched with eight poles and whose blood was far away?

It's not because Wanzai was young and easy to control.

Ordinarily, Yang Tinghe chose him today, and Long Live should be grateful to him.Then why did His Majesty take such ruthless measures to eradicate Yang Dang, and repeatedly wiped out the Imperial Hospital?
There is only one truth. Imakami has already sensed the tricks of the Tai Hospital and Taichao Boss, and smelled danger.

Uncle Cai said just now that he and Yang Tinghe's son, the famous scholar Yang Shen are best friends, could it be that he was also involved in this matter?
Zhu Lun didn't dare to think about it, and he didn't want to think about it.

Zhu Xizhong knew that his nephew was extremely talented in criminal investigation and extremely shrewd, and knew that he already understood what he meant.

With a sigh, he said: "It's all happened 20 years ago, and it's gone. Today's imperial hospital has long been changed, so don't mention it anymore. But if you don't mention it, it's hard to guarantee that you don't want to turn over the old score and use the old one. Kill the current officials with a sword. Besides, Xu Shen is a relative of my family."

It was Xu Jie who reported and exposed Xu Shen in the imperial hospital, and Jiajing then bestowed death on Xu imperial physician.

I don't know if Xu Jie knows the past of the Zhengde Dynasty, and how much he knows.

But this cannot be avoided.

The best way is to make him unable to be the chief assistant.

It is not difficult for the Commander of Jinyiwei and the Admiral of Dongchang to join forces.

Julen: "Uncle, what should I do next?"

Zhu Xizhong thought for a while, and said, "Chen Hong is better than us at how to obtain evidence and how to report to the emperor. You and I don't need to do anything, just acquiesce, and try not to be clingy."

"But Uncle, didn't Chen Hong come to the door in person just now, how do you reply?"

Zhu Xizhong: "Not expressing a position is also an attitude."

If you don't express your opinion, that is tacit consent, and Chen Hong will definitely let it go.

Coming out of his uncle's house, Zhu Lun felt as if his chest was about to explode: What about justice? What about justice?
Even if you don't want to, you still have to do the work that should be done.

After coming down, Zhu Lun quickly arranged for an insider to monitor the East Factory.

The organizational structure of the East Factory is very simple, and the admiral is served by Bingbi, the chief inspector of ceremonies.The subordinate officials have one person in charge of the punishment of the thousand households and one member of the one hundred households of the punishment. Jin Yiwei is responsible for the thousand households and the hundred households.

In other words, except for Chen Hong who is an eunuch, the rest are Jinyiwei.Jinyi's pro-military yamen is the in-law's family of the Dongchang officials, and they also have the power of parallel leadership. It is not easy to find two eyes and ears.

In this era, the Dongchang and Jinyiwei have equal power, and it is not as dominant as Tianqi Chaodongchang later. Even the commander of Jinyiwei has to kowtow to greet Wei Zhongxian when he sees Wei Zhongxian.

It can be seen that the power of the factory guard comes from the emperor. If the emperor is partial, this mutually restrictive organizational structure will immediately become unbalanced.

Soon, information came from Dongchang, Chen Hong went to the prison where Kong Ming was held in person, and told him, you have to confess honestly, saying that Xu Ge sent you to assassinate the prince.If you say this, I can let you return to the vulgar and become an official, so that you can enjoy the glory and wealth.

In addition, he specially sent a confidant to pretend to be a prisoner and hold Kong Ming in the same cell to train him to speak confession.

After listening to the report, Zhu Lun shook his head and was speechless: This Chen Hong is really careful in his work, and he is extremely ruthless.Either don't do it, or do it if you want to do it.This time he did not hesitate to turn his face against Xu Jie completely, there was no way out.

The imperial hospital is just a thing of the past, the emperor has killed several times, and the imperial doctors in it have been changed over and over again.Come to think of it, the matter of the Zhengde Dynasty was already known today, and it was not taken seriously.Maybe he was secretly grateful to his uncle in his heart, if it hadn't been for the emperor Zhengde who fell into the water and died for a long time, there would be no Jiajing prosperity later.

Is uncle worried too much?

(End of this chapter)