The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

The army failed to encircle and suppress the bandits, and instead they were killed and suffered a huge defeat. The central government had no choice but to release Song Changqin, a famous general who had been convicted of party disputes, as the governor of the three sides, responsible for exterminating the bandits.

Song Changqin joined the army and found that the soldiers in the army had no fighting spirit, and the officers were arrogant and killed good people while taking credit for their merits. Song Changqin then used the Hongmen Banquet to kill the military leader Feng Renhong, purge Feng Renhong's followers, and control the army.

At the same time, Tu Danke was also captured by the army. The reorganized army was short of doctors, so Tu Danke was brought along. During the process, Tu Danke's medical skills gradually gained the trust of the army. Only then did he discover that there were a large number of doctors in the army, and even his master, a famous doctor from Suzhou, had been captured and joined the army.

After continuing the march, Tu Danke learned the reason why there were so many doctors in the army: It turned out that infectious diseases had begun to break out in the army at this time. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the officers desperately sought out doctors to try to control the disease.

Famous doctors each used methods to deal with infectious diseases, but this disease was different from those encountered by this dynasty in the previous hundred years. The doctors used old methods to treat the disease, but it was ineffective because the medicine was not suitable for the disease, and even made the soldiers avoid medical treatment.

Tu Danke discovered a way to treat infectious diseases through thinking, but this method was different from the method in ancient books. After Tu Danke proposed it, even his master was unwilling to support it, and Tu Danke was kicked out of the army.

At the same time, Song Changqin also took office as governor. He went to various places to raise food and grass, but the big landlords all pushed each other, talking about how difficult they were and didn't have a tael of silver. But after the banquet, Song Changqin received a gift from the big family. The gift list was sent to him - these large households who were unwilling to support food and grass gave him gifts worth thousands of taels in one go.

Tu Danke, who was kicked out of the army, met the bandits and was coerced by the bandits. Because he had saved the life of a captured bandit leader in the army, he was not killed and was treated with courtesy by the bandits.

The leader of the bandits asked Tu Danke to treat his subordinates. At this time, Tu Danke discovered that the same infectious disease had broken out among the bandits. Tu Danke could only try his best to treat them, but because there was no corresponding medicine, he could not cure.

At the same time, Song Changqin encountered great resistance in collecting grain and wages. The big landlords were unwilling to provide military rations no matter how much Song Changqin tried to sarcastically persuade him. Instead, they gave him heavier gifts every time he visited Song Changqin, hoping that Song Changqin could be asked to let them go.

Song Changqin investigated and found that these landlords had food in their homes but failed to pay taxes. Even in times of famine and emergencies, many officials protected them. He impeached these landlords and officials to the court in an attempt to gain the support of the court, but these large landlords were all Because of his connection with Tongtian, Song Changqin did not respond to his request. Instead, he was ostracized by the court.

The bandits where Tu Danke was located were attacked by the army, and Tu Danke was captured again and returned to the army. At this time, he discovered that the infectious disease in the army was very serious, and even his master was infected with the disease.

Before his death, the master asked Tu Danke: "Why is the method that has been effective for hundreds of years ineffective now? How can we cure this disease?" He died with hatred.

Tu Danke gritted his teeth and took over the work of treating infectious diseases, requesting to use his own new method to treat the disease. The matter was reported to Song Changqin, who nodded in agreement.

Tu Danke used new methods to finally control the infectious disease.

At the same time, Song Changqin gathered the local gentry and wealthy households together, and finally asked them if they could provide food. After receiving another prevaricating reply, Song Changqin threw a cup as a sign, and let the ambushed army control all these large households, and any resisters were killed. After amnesty, the army was directly sent to search the homes of large households, and all the unpaid taxes on the grain hidden by these large households were recovered, and the grain taxes were used to arm the army to fight the bandits.

On the eve of the war, Tu Danke left the army and used the methods he had summed up to treat infectious diseases to try to treat more people suffering from the disease; Song Changqin led the team to fight the bandits; at the same time, because his home was confiscated And Shang Shu, who was impeaching Song Changqin, flew towards the capital like snowflakes...

The whole novel ends abruptly here. Although the ending is not written, the sad tone of the entire text has already foreshadowed Song Changqin's death, either on the battlefield, or being captured by the court for questioning, or being attacked by both sides. He died of grief and anger. This novel is written with reference to "The Tribulation of the Ming Dynasty", but it is far more than the plot of the movie "The Tribulation of the Ming Dynasty".

Wang Wenlong tried to describe the end of a dynasty in the novel. He borrowed the method of later novels such as "War and Peace" that reflected the background of the great era, and inserted a large number of perspective changes, through thieves, celebrities, farmers, soldiers, landowners, doctors, The eyes of officials describe the world in their eyes from multiple perspectives, and outline bit by bit an apocalypse where people's hearts are in chaos.

The use of multiple perspectives makes all the characters not completely evil: the bandits are not all bad people, most of them were forced to go to Liangshan because they had no food to eat. The officers and soldiers are not all good people. Many of them kill good people for credit, are timid in battle, and are even unwilling to pay food and wages. The big landowners also had their own reasons: they didn't trust the imperial army, because these troops basically couldn't win the war, but they would come back to plunder every time, so the big landlords would rather keep the food in their own hands.

None of us are simply bad people, it's just that the times have made them stand on contradictory opposites, and the whole world is spiraling downward.

Wang Wenlong wrote the outline for several days, and then began to write formally. He showed the first few chapters to Li Guoxian and Shen Yixiu.

Li Guoxian and Shen Yixiu were both fascinated.

After all, Li Guoxian was born in a maritime merchant family, so he didn't have a deep impression of this novel, but Shen Yixiu was silent for a long time after reading it.

After reading the book, Shen Yixiu couldn't help but ask Wang Wenlong: "Does Mr. Xiang think that there will be a day when the world will be in chaos?"

"I hope it's just the words of a novelist." Wang Wenlong sighed. After several days of continuous creation, he was somewhat immersed in the emotions of the work.

After Wang Wenlong came to the editorial office with the manuscript, Deng Zhimo took it to read first.

When Deng Zhimo first saw the title of "The Record of Cure", he thought it was a martial arts novel. Unexpectedly, as he read it, he discovered that the perspective of this novel was grand and profound.

After reading for a whole day, Deng Zhimo couldn't help but sigh at the manuscript: "This book is so well written..."

He finally understood the reason why Wang Wenlong named this book "Records of Treatment of Malaria":

The whole novel tells the story of two doctors.

Tu Dan used his medical skills to treat an outbreak of infectious diseases, and Song Changqin also used his own abilities to treat a dynasty that was about to decline.

Tu Dan used new methods to treat infectious diseases and was successful, but Song Changqin used new methods to squeeze out wages from wealthy families, but he seemed destined to die under the counterattack of the old forces - the diseases that people are born with can be cured, but the world seems to have changed. Severe illness is hard to come back from.

(End of this chapter)