A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 467 Meeting the Medicine King

The black fine dog is named Wuxie.

Its owner is a Taoist priest, dressed in rough clothes, with a gourd around his waist, holding a handle of Buddha dust, and looks like an ordinary Taoist.

But when the fat shopkeeper saw him, he immediately went forward to salute respectfully, "The medicine king is here, and the small shop is full of glory."

The rough-clothed Taoist, who looked only in his prime, responded to the fat shopkeeper with a smile on his face, and then said, "I'm so rude to break into your store, this little dog."

The fat shopkeeper obviously knew this Taoist very well and respected him very much.

He introduced it from it, and Wu Huaiyu knew that this Taoist had a great background. The layman Jingzhao Webster, whose grandfather was the magistrate of Gong County in Henan Province at that time, so the family moved to Gong County.When he was 13 years old, he was well versed in the learning of Laozhuang and Zhuangzi. He was a vegetarian for a long time, and then he became a monk in Songyang Temple.

Legend has it that he visited Taoism and traveled around, searching for famous mountains, and once met a god.

Not only is he very skilled in Taoism, but he is also good at talisman seals, alchemy, and medicine. He is also good friends with Sun Simiao. Because he often uses medicine to save people, the folks respect him and Sun Simiao as the king of medicine.

Now, under the order of the emperor, he is practicing in Xuandu temple in Beijing.

Xuandu Temple is the largest Taoist temple in Chang'an, and it is also the base camp of Louguan Taoism in Chang'an. Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the forbidden Buddhist Taoism, but he built a Taoist temple in Tiangu, Zhongnan Mountain, and selected ten high-level Taoists to practice, leaving a trace of vitality for Taoism.

These ten high-ranking Taoists are all Louguan Taoists.

Later, Yang Jian built Daxing City in the Sui Dynasty, and specially built Daxingshan Temple and Xuandu Temple on both sides of Tianjie Street in the city, and built Daxingshan Temple and Xuandu Temple.

Wang Yan's status in the building temple is the senior uncle of the current temple master Qi Pingding, and the senior brother of the previous temple master Su Daobiao.

And Wu Huaiyu is Qi Pingding's uncle and Wang Yan's younger brother.

Medicine King Wei Shanjun had never seen Wu Huaiyu before. Although he was entrusted with practicing Xuandu Temple, he spent most of his time away, visiting famous mountains and making medicines to save lives.

"Pindao pays homage to Duke Yi."

"The King of Medicine is too polite."

Wei Shanjun's reason for appearing in Jingyang is also simple, that is, it is now a big market for medicinal materials. He passed by this time to look at the medicinal materials, but his dog ran away with other dogs.

Speaking of that dog, there is also a story.

Wei Shanjun had an elder brother who studied Buddhism in his early years, became a monk in Shaolin, advanced in Buddhism, and became an elder. He went to visit his elder brother and met this dog stray in front of Songshan Temple.

The monks disliked the mangy dog, and also Wei Shanjun who fed the dog, and asked his brother to drive him and the dog away.

Wei Shanjun never disliked this dog, and the dog never left him. After his treatment, the dog's skin disease was healed, and its hair was black, long and fluffy, and it was very beautiful. He named it Wuxie.

尨, originally meant a hairy dog.

"Unexpectedly, there is such a story about Wu Jie. These two dogs of mine were puppies I adopted from the farmers' homes at the foot of the mountain when I was practicing with my master in Zhongnan Mountain. Speaking of which, these two dogs are also somewhat extraordinary.

My master has cultivated in Zhongnan Mountain for 72 years. There are tigers in the mountain to protect the Dharma. Several generations of tigers have been passed down to protect them. These two puppies have been fed the milk of a Dharma-protecting tigress since they were young. "

Wei Shanjun said with a smile, "No wonder I, Wu Xie, was fascinated and ran away as soon as I saw your tabby puppy. This has never happened before."

Both of them are Taoist priests, and both are good at medicine, so meeting here by chance is also due to fate.

So Wu Huaiyu invited him to have dinner together, and chatted about Taoism and medicine by the way. Wu Huaiyu was not that interested in Taoism, but mainly wanted to exchange medical skills. After all, this Taoist is as famous as Sun Simiao, and he is also a good friend of his friends.

The conversation was very pleasant, and I gained a lot.

Wu Huaiyu was quite emotional, such a famous family as Jingzhao Weidu is really amazing. Not only do they have people in the court who are prime ministers, but there are also people who are officials and officials in the middle of the court.

For example, in Huayan Zhuang, the main sect of Buddhism today, Monk Du Shun is a member of the Du family.And the drug king in front of him is from the Wei family, and even his elder brother is a Shaolin elder.

According to folklore, Wei Shanjun had met an immortal, he had to be granted the edict of the Three Emperors, and he also obtained the Taoism of immortal transformation. Wu Huaiyu was not interested in this. After all, he also told Li Shimin that his teacher Xiaoyaozi had met an immortal three times before. He practiced in Zhongnan Mountain for 72 years and became a land immortal.

Whether they are gods or not, they know best inside their peers.

But if we really want to discuss alchemy and painting symbols, Wu Huaiyu is also an expert, and Wei Shanjun is also very impressed.

Beside him was a very tall boy of [-] or [-] years old. After knowing Wu Huaiyu's identity, he admired him very much and asked many questions. Zang was the one who drew the talisman.

The origin of this young man is not simple.

"Junior Ye Fashan, named Taisu."

Little Taoist Ye Fashan, Wu Huaiyu seems to be familiar with this name, but he is so young that it is impossible for him to be a famous person now.

According to his own introduction, his family practiced Taoism for five generations.

The Huoju Taoist family of the Maoshan Sect of the Shangqing School.

This young man was very eloquent, saying that he was born in fifteen months because his mother Liu's nap dream swallowed him.

Good guy, I almost became Nezha.

What's even more amazing is that he drowned in the river when he was seven years old, and his family couldn't find him for three years. Three years later, he suddenly appeared, saying that a boy in Tsing Yi led him to meet the Taishang Laojun.

Let's talk about kung fu, it has been three years in the world.

Legendary enough.

This is even more outrageous than when Wu Huaiyu crossed the Yellow River and fell into the water when he was nine years old, and was taken into the mountains by an old Taoist to practice Taoism for nine years, only to find out later that the old Taoist was Zhongnan Yinxian.

After he returned, he had many supernatural powers, such as being able to chew two liters of walnuts and swallow them in shells.He also burned the Neng iron bowl to dark red, and then held it up with both hands without incident.

Wu Huaiyu felt that this kid was more likely to be rescued by an acrobat during the three years of his disappearance. He took him away to learn the art for three years, and then ran home after looking for an opportunity.

After all, it's like putting your hands into a hot oil pan to make money, what to pick up a red-hot iron bowl, it sounds like a juggling trick, not a real Taoist body protection.

Anyway, Ye Fashan, who came back, showed extraordinary performance. His family has practiced Taoism for several generations, so he also began to learn the Maoshan Taoism of yin and yang divination, calligraphy and drawing spells.

Later, I went to Tiantai Mountain, Qingcheng Mountain and Songshan Mountain to visit famous Taoists. Now I am nine feet tall, with wrinkles on my forehead, and it is said that I have the secret technique of exorcising ghosts.

He is now also Wei Shanjun's disciple, following him to learn medical skills.

He is very interested in Wu Huaiyu's experience. He himself fell into the river and disappeared for three years and returned. Wu Huaiyu was taken away to learn Taoism after falling into the river for nine years before going down the mountain.

He also heard that Wu Huaiyu drew two statues of door gods for the emperor, made of the general Qin Shubao and Wei Chigong, and then used talismans to drive away the ghosts in the palace.

It was fun chatting with this guy.

He has some skills, he is very good at drawing talismans, he is worthy of being a family of monks, and he is also good at medical skills.

It's just that he is too tall, like a bamboo pole, and his forehead is full of forehead lines. It doesn't look like he is 14 years old, but he feels older than his 40-year-old master.

After talking, Wu Huaiyu remembered that this Ye Fashan was the master of Jinglong temple in Chang'an later, even entered the court and became the minister of Honglu Temple, and was also named the Duke of Yue.
"There is a Taoist priest Ye Jingneng in Zhongnan Mountain, but your parents?"

"That's my uncle."

Ye Jingneng is known as Ye Tianshi in Chang'an. He is best at talisman and is very famous. He also went to Beijing to practice in Xuandu Temple by order. However, this person spends most of his time practicing in Zhongnan Mountain. Wu Huaiyu met him, and he is very good at talisman.

It turned out to be his uncle.

People in the world worship Buddhism and Taoism, monks and monks are still more respected, but Wu Huaiyu prefers Taoist priests,
It is said that Taoist priests went down to rescue Taiping in troubled times, but the monks only knew that in prosperous times they wantonly amassed money.

Like Wei Shanjun and Ye Fashan in front of them, they are practicing Taoism and traveling around to save people. They don't just think about collecting land rent, lending usury, and doing business.

The master and apprentice admired Wu Huaiyu very much, so Wu Huaiyu invited them to go with them and have an in-depth exchange, and the two immediately agreed.

For dinner, their master and apprentice are also completely vegetarian.

Wu Huaiyu, a Taoist priest down the mountain, ate a large piece of barbecue, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

Although Ye Fashan was young, he was already good at using talisman water to treat diseases and treat people. Wu Huaiyu knew in his heart that the so-called talisman water was actually just a prepared Chinese patent medicine decoction. There was this soup drink in the pharmacy in Dongxi City, Chang'an.

Of course, if it is another disease, then you have to prescribe the right medicine.

But many Taoist priests insist on using a talisman, burn the talisman into water, and let the patient drink it, not talking about the merit of the medicine, but the effect of the talisman.

This kind of thing can't be seen through.

Wu Huaiyu himself has done similar things, such as drawing talismans for Li Shimin and pasting door gods, etc. He even went to the altar to invite the God of Salt in Yanjing Village, Zhang County, Longyou.

In fact, the Ye family has practiced Taoism for generations, but their family belongs to a special branch of Taoists called Huoju Taoists.Huoju Taoist priests can marry and have children. A family Taoist sect sets up a mandala to worship Taoist gods, sect ancestors and local gods.

Even Taoist Huoju can eat meat.

However, Ye Fashan is now practicing Taoism with Wei Shanjun, so he is no longer a Taoist priest of Huoju, and he also follows Wei Shanjun to eat vegetarian food.

"Your Majesty is advised to ask His Majesty to set up medicine in the prefectures and prefectures of the country, confer medical doctors, teaching assistants, and select medical students. This is a great deed."

Wei Shanjun admired this matter.

People will get sick if they eat five grains, and medicine is very expensive.

The aristocrats and powerful people can still afford it, but for many ordinary people, minor illnesses are dependent on them, and serious illnesses are waiting to die. Even in some remote places, doctors and medicinal materials are limited, and it is difficult for even the rich to have good medical conditions.

Wu Huaiyu advised to set up medicine. Although there are only ten medical students in Xiazhou, one doctor and one teaching assistant, the local medical school with 12 people not only teaches medicine, but also patrols and saves patients. Especially when dealing with local epidemics and infectious diseases, it can play a great role.

Wei Shanjun is a drug king who walks at the bottom of the folk, and he feels deeply about this move.

"It's still too little. It's a drop in the bucket. There are tens of thousands of economics students in my Chaozhou county. There are sixty economics students in the upper state and twenty in the lower county.

I hope that in the future, when the imperial court has more financial resources, it can also imitate the classics, not only increase the number of medical students in prefectural medicine, but also set up county medicine at the county level to train medical students. "

Wu Huaiyu proposed that in the future, prefectural and county medicine should not only be a medical school for teaching, but also a government-run hospital to save diseases and treat people, prevent plague and fight epidemics.

"I hope that in the future, the imperial court can set up government-run relief agencies like Liujiguan and Beitianfang, and set up Huimin pharmaceutical bureaus in various prefectures and counties. The imperial court will provide capital, grow medicines, collect medicines, and then dispense medicines. The focus is on parity, especially to prevent epidemics that can spread rapidly."

This Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau is a large pharmacy run by the imperial government. Its purpose is to grow and purchase by itself, reduce costs, and then sell pharmaceuticals, especially at low prices. Just like Changping warehouses to stabilize food prices, it is necessary to provide some help to ordinary people who can't afford medical care or medicine.

Of course, as long as the large pharmacies operate normally, especially the government-run ones, they will definitely make money. If the money earned is expanded, it will not only increase profits, but also play a greater role in medical security.

People's livelihood is the most basic guarantee of national strength. Not only must the people have enough to eat, but they must also take care of the people's medical care.Although this will be difficult for future generations, we can work hard in this direction.

What Wu Huaiyu said made the medicine king Wei Shanjun admire him.

At this time, there was no such official organization at all. In the Southern Dynasties, there was the Liuji Temple, which was of the nature of official relief, and later Beitianfang appeared, which was mainly operated by temples.

The monastery accepts donations and even lends money to collect rents. They earn a lot of money, and they also donate some money to charity.

This kind of charitable behavior can not only help the temple gain a good reputation, but even these Beitian healing workshops are actually making money, because although Beitianfang needs to spend money on buying medicine and treating doctors, it also accepts donations from devout men and women. Therefore, temples often end up not only not needing to post money, but this project can also have a large surplus. It is a profitable charity, and of course all temples do it.

For the imperial court, this kind of behavior is encouraged, but Wu Huaiyu feels that when the imperial court has the conditions, it should also establish a corresponding institution, such as the Huimin Pharmacy Bureau.

It is not only a large chain of government-run pharmacies across the country, but also strengthens people's livelihood and medical care, and can even make money.The money earned does not need to be handed over to the imperial court, it is good to keep it to expand operations and increase medicinal material reserves.

For the imperial court, it is also very important to protect the people's livelihood and win the hearts of the people.

Now there is a common problem in Zhenguan from Chang'an to local prefectures and counties, that is, there is a shortage of doctors and medicines, medical resources are seriously insufficient, and too few people can really enjoy medical insurance.

Don't say you don't have money, if you have money, you can't do without doctors and medicines.

Therefore, the imperial court set up medical schools in various prefectures and prefectures in addition to the existing central medical school of the Imperial Medical Administration to train medical students and strengthen medical capabilities.

The result of the lack of medical care and medicine is that many people are sick and have no doctors, so they can only wait for death, or they believe that it is useful to pray to gods and Buddhas, or they believe in witchcraft and superstitious folk remedies.

There are too few Taoists like Wei Shanjun who practice medicine and cure diseases.

"Mr. Yi is a great benevolent, benevolent government. If it can be implemented, we are all willing to contribute a small amount of effort."

"Actually, I have another idea. In addition to medical students, medical schools in various states also regularly hold short-term training courses to recruit some literate people in rural areas and teach them some basic medical knowledge. In this way, they can also treat some minor diseases when they return to the countryside.
Both agriculture and medicine, farming during busy farming seasons, practicing medicine during slack seasons, or farming during the day and sending medicine to doctors at night. "

Of course, this kind of barefoot doctor is unlikely to have any superb medical skills, but given the current situation, if there are such a group of barefoot doctors in the village, who can regularly go to medical school for short-term training every year, have certain medical knowledge, and have some commonly used drugs provided by Huimin Pharmacy at home, then it is okay to deal with minor illnesses.

In the era of inconvenient transportation and shortage of medicine, this kind of barefoot doctor can also play a great role.

"This is also benevolent and good governance!"

Wei Shanjun plans to follow Wu Huaiyu for a while to help plan this benevolent government.

(End of this chapter)