I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 710 Beijing General Hospital

The sun rose higher and higher, and at around nine o'clock, it was hanging above the Chaoyangmen Tower, overlooking the entire city of Beijing.

In the north of the city, near the North Chongwenmen Street, there is a place with green trees, among which there are several pine and cypress trees that have grown into towering heights. Behind the pine and cypress trees, among the green trees, there are buildings looming.

This is the former Berlin Hospital, now the Beijing General Hospital.

There were more than twenty luxurious carriages parked in the open space in front of the west gate. The sandalwood carriages were dark green in color, inlaid with copper bells, cloud patterns and corner wraps. On both sides of the front of the carriages, two copper lanterns shone brightly in the sun.

The two horses stood with their heads held high, kicking the ground with their hooves from time to time. The swaying saddles and bridles on their bodies were made of the finest leather and fine copper, and were gorgeous and exquisite.

These twenty or so carriages are similar in style, with only slight differences in details. The horses pulling the carriages are mostly white, but there are also black and blue horses, but both horses are the same color.

For the nobles in the capital, going out in a mixed-colored carriage was like running naked.

Many people got off the carriage, including Duke of Yingguo Zhang Yong, Duke of Chengguo Zhu Xizhong, Marquis of Zhenyuan Gu Huan, Marquis of Xining Song Shien, and Marquis of Yangwu Xue Han.

Wu Jijie, Marquis of Gongshun, Tang Shilong, Marquis of Lingbi, Zheng Kun, Marquis of Wuan, Liu Zhen, Marquis of Anyuan, Xu Qiaosong, Marquis of Yongkang, Guo Dacheng, Marquis of Wuding, Chen Liangbi, Marquis of Taining, Lu Tong, Duke of Runing County, Li Yingchen, Earl of Xiangcheng, etc.

All the nobles in the capital who could come were present.

Some of them wore python costumes, some wore flying fish costumes, and some wore bullfighting costumes, and they wore folded fu hats on their heads. They all looked energetic and majestic.

Two people hurried out from the west gate. The former was in his thirties, wearing a Confucian robe and a net scarf on his head. He was Hu Zongxian's eldest son, Hu Guiqi.

The latter was in his sixties or seventies, dressed in Taoist robes, with a bronze crown on his head to tie up his hair, and had a Taoist and immortal look. He was none other than Li Ting, the director of the Beijing General Hospital.

Hu Guiqi crossed his arms and bowed, "My lords, dukes, and earls, I apologize for not coming to greet you in person."

Li Ting stepped forward and bowed, "I am Li Ting, your humble servant."

Duke Yingguo Zhang Yong stepped forward and held Hu Guiqi's arm. "We are ministers in the same palace with Duke Xuancheng. We were shocked to hear that he suddenly fell ill, so we agreed to come and visit him. We came in a hurry, please forgive us. How is Duke Hu doing now?"

"To reply to the Duke of England, my father woke up in the early morning and was able to speak at around eight o'clock. He was just fed a bowl of porridge."

"It's good that he woke up!" Zhang Yong turned to Li Ting, "Dean Li, Mr. Hu is the pillar of our country. I hope that Dean Li and the other doctors can use their magic to help Mr. Hu recover soon."

Li Ting replied blankly: "I will do my best, whether he can recover or not depends on God's will."

Li Ting, also known as Jianzhai, was a famous doctor from Jiangxi, an academician of the Imperial Hospital, and the president of the Beijing General Hospital. Together with another famous Jiangxi doctor from the Imperial Hospital, Gong Tingxian, they belonged to the Zhujiang School of Medicine.

Gong Tingxian has a wide range of expertise, including diagnosis, herbal medicine, internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, and ENT, and is best at health care.

Li Ting not only had superb medical skills, but was also good at embracing the strengths of various schools.

He compiled "Introduction to Medicine", which brought together all the previous medical knowledge and for the first time creatively divided medicine into two categories: basic and clinical.

People praise this book as complete, detailed, profound and concise.

Complete means that all categories are covered and all subjects are involved; detailed means that the classification is clear; deep means that it is profound and easy to understand; simple means that it is concise, practical and relevant to clinical practice.

He was previously the president of the Berlin Medical College. Later, when the Imperial General Hospital was established, he was invited to take charge of the hospital's affairs.

Zhang Yong and the others knew his temper, so they didn't want to offend him. They bowed and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Dean Li and the other great doctors."

“Well, if you want to see Lord Merlin, come with me.

Li Ting turned around and walked in front. Hu Guiqi bent down and stretched out his arms, inviting all the nobles to go first.

Lu Tong walked at the end, holding Hu Guiqi's hand and saying, "Little Guizi, tell me the truth, how is Lord Meilin's health?"

Lu Tong was an old subordinate of Hu Zongxian. They had fought together in the southeast to suppress the Japanese pirates, and they had a special friendship.

Hu Guiqi looked ahead and said softly, "After my father woke up, he was fine, but he couldn't speak clearly and his hands and feet were shaking."

Lu Tong sighed, "God doesn't bless heroes! Mr. Hu led us to dominate the battlefields in the southeast and crushed Japanese pirates, but we never thought we would end up like this today."

Hu Guiqi also looked gloomy and sighed.

Lu Tong patted Hu Guiqi on the shoulder and said, "The other brothers are fighting outside. If you have any difficulties, just tell me."

"Thank you, Uncle Kitagawa."

Lu Tan was seven years older than Hu Zongxian. At the beginning of the year, he took a pair of twins, who were said to be Korean noble ladies, as concubines, and one of them was pregnant.

Hu Zongxian suffered a stroke and was lying in bed.

Where can you seek justice?

Entering the west gate, the environment inside is quiet. There are many men wearing light blue slanting-collared shirts, navy blue tight-fitting pants, and round cloth hats walking around. Some are pushing carts full of bottles and jars, while others are pushing wheelchairs with patients with limited mobility on them.

Seeing a group of big shots in python costumes, bullfighting costumes and flying fish costumes coming over, they all moved aside.

Gongshun Marquis Wu Jijue poked Xining Marquis Song Shien and pointed at the men, "Old Song, you came to the Beijing General Hospital, tell me, what do these people do?"

What does it mean to come to the hospital when you are old? I regard the hospital as my home!

Song Shien rolled his eyes at him and said, "That's a nurse, also called nursing."

"What?"

"The doctor will diagnose you and prescribe medicine for you, and they will do all the other chores. They will feed you medicine on time and take care of you when you are bedridden. If you have difficulty walking, they will push you around in a wheelchair."

"Why are they all men?"

“There are women, but they are in the women’s ward.

If you want a woman to take care of you, you can send your maid to a female nursing school for further training. When she comes back, she will take good care of you and you can travel with peace of mind. "

"You have a bad mouth! Pt. Pt. Pt. Pt.!" Wu Jijue pouted several times.

In front is a garden with a pavilion, a pond and a flower bed.

There is a building on the right side of the garden. It sounds very noisy. From time to time, you can hear a whistle. The sound floats to the front of the building and suddenly stops.

The view was blocked by the building, so people couldn't see what was happening in front of them, and the sound became even more creepy.

"What's that noise? The sound is a bit like a fire truck." Wu Jijue asked again.

"An ambulance also has a rotating horn on the side of the vehicle. When the vehicle moves and the leaves turn, it whistles. But it is different from a fire truck.

It's woo-woo, the fire truck is woo-woo, woo-woo!"

"Hey, you're pretty good at imitating me. An ambulance is a horse-drawn carriage with a big gourd on the top?"

"Yes. Wherever there are sick and injured people, it will go there and bring them here. The building on the right is called the emergency department on the east side, and the ambulance will bring the sick and injured there.

The west side is called the Outpatient Department. If you can still walk by yourself, go there to register and queue up, waiting for your appointment. The building on the left,

Song Shien pointed to the building on the left side of the garden and said, "This is the inpatient building. People with serious illnesses or who have just undergone surgery all lie down here. There are two outcomes for patients who enter the inpatient building."

"Which two?"

"Either walk back or lie back down."

"Hiss!" Wu Jijue took a breath of cold air, "Old Song, you really come here quite often."

"I often have chest pains, so I can't go to the hospital."

Wu Jijue chuckled, "Old Song, you don't have a heartache, you have a headache. When other people's wives and concubines compete for their favor, they go fishing, drinking, meeting friends, hunting to get some peace and quiet, but you go to the hospital to get some peace and quiet, how weird."

"I like it, don't you?"

"Okay. By the way, are we heading to the inpatient building? Is Mr. Hu staying there?"

"Mr. Hu is the Duke of Xuancheng County, the Chief Military Commissioner, and the Grand Councilor. How could he live in the same building with ordinary people? Turning around, there is a large courtyard with three entrances, called Qinxin Garden, where Mr. Hu lives."

"I was wondering, this inpatient building is so noisy with so many people coming and going. Old Song, I kind of want to go in and take a look."

"Old Wu, I advise you not to go." "Why?"

"There's a morgue in the basement of this hospital building!"

"Mortuary? What's that for?"

"It's for the dead. There's an ice storage down there, and the dead are in the middle, called the morgue. In a hospital, there's life and there's death. If someone dies here, and their family can't take them away for a while, they'll be put in the morgue temporarily."

"That sounds weird."

"Old Wu, the most evil thing is not here, but the small building at the end. That's where the evil is."

"What's wrong?"

"That building is called the Medical Research Building. It's some kind of research institute. I heard that there's a room full of glass jars filled with alcohol, strong alcohol, and some fun stuff soaked in the alcohol."

"What the hell?"

"Heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, and brain."

"For cattle and sheep?"

"Haha, human!"

Wu Jijue took another breath, "This is so weird. They are studying medicine and they are studying this stuff? How can it be soaked in wine? How can I drink happily in the future?"

"It won't go bad if you soak it in wine! How can those medical students treat you if they don't study this? If they don't study the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys thoroughly, how can they treat you if there is a problem with any of your organs in your stomach in the future?"

"Makes sense!"

"There's more."

"What else? More evil than this?"

"There is a large room behind this small building, which is used for dissecting human bodies."

"Dissecting a human being? What does that mean?"

"They put the person on a cement platform, cut open his stomach with a sharp knife, and took out his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. They also used a circular saw that could be operated by foot to saw open his head and dig out his tofu-like brain.
It is said that it is specialized in training surgeons. Not only do they dissect bodies here, but they also dissect more bodies at the medical school.”

"Hiss!" Wu Jijue gasped again, "Isn't this just like Zhang the butcher butchering a pig? Where did the corpse come from?"

"After execution, the prisoners are sent here for study. They committed heinous crimes during their lifetime, and their death is considered to be a way of redeeming themselves.

I heard that in order to dissect human corpses, the institute even hired the executioner from the Ministry of Justice who was responsible for lingchi.

The emperor is benevolent and has abolished many cruel punishments such as lingchi and waist beheading. These executioners saw that they had lost their livelihoods, but they didn’t expect that they could pick up their skills again here.”

"Haha, slicing people, this technique sounds creepy. Are the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice willing to send the bodies of death row prisoners here?"

"Yes. I heard that this institute also helps the Ministry of Justice train forensic doctors, who specialize in studying how people died. Did they die of illness or were they killed by someone? And how did they die?"

"Tsk, you're talking so much nonsense, isn't he just a coroner?"

"Now they don't call it a coroner, they call it a scientific autopsy, or a forensic doctor."

Wu Jijue touched his chin, very suspicious, "Old Song, I'm very suspicious. You are so familiar with the Beijing General Hospital, you must have come here often and visited it many times.

This is a hospital, not a brothel. How could you fall in love with this place? This is wrong, very wrong!"

"Not your head!" Song Shien cursed with a smile, "I just want to watch these people being cut up, dissected, and their arms and legs cut off."

"You're such a fucking pervert!" Wu Jijue cursed.

Gu Huan turned around and waved to the two people who were lagging behind, "Catch up!"

"Coming." Wu Jijue responded, took a few quick steps, and walked to the front.

Song Shien, who was the last one to fall behind, couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead, took a long breath, took a few quick steps, and caught up.

Entering Qinxin Garden, it is even quieter. There are not only male nurses but also female nurses coming and going. They are wearing shirts and skirts, round cloth hats, and cotton masks on their mouths, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.

Seeing this group of people coming over, they all moved aside.

Hu Zongxian's ward was in the east wing, with an open space in front of the yard and a garden in the back. Li Ting led everyone into the central hall of the east wing and turned right. There was a huge glass window in front, divided into two grids, occupying two-thirds of the entire wall.

The two curtains were drawn to the sides, allowing a clear view inside.

The walls of the house were painted snow-white, and the floor was painted with a circle of sky blue paint half a person's height.

The interior is very simple, with a coffee table and the latest popular canvas sofa, which is said to have also come from Xiyuan.

It has steel springs inside and is filled with sponge. It can be covered with cowhide, sheepskin, or canvas on the outside, making it very comfortable to sit on.

The left wall also has a large window, which takes up almost half of the wall and is made up of small glass windows one meter square. The curtains are pulled to both sides, and you can clearly see the small courtyard outside, with flowers, grass, and a pavilion.

The sunlight shines in through the window, lighting up the room.

There are shelves in every corner, with vases on them, each containing a bunch of different flowers.

In the middle of the room was an iron bed. Hu Zongxian was lying on a beige mattress, covered with a thin beige quilt.

A female nurse was feeding him medicine with a bowl and a spoon.

He leaned slightly to the side and turned his head, and after every bite, one-third of the food would come out. The female nurse had to wipe it clean with a towel before feeding him the next bite.

Li Ting stood in front of the glass window and said to everyone, "Everyone, please visit Mr. Hu here. It's too small inside. Mr. Hu is weak, and everyone coming in and out will easily bring his illness in."

When you get to the hospital, you have to listen to the doctor even if you are a duke.

Everyone stood in front of the glass window. Hu Guiqi changed into a white robe, put on a round cloth hat, and walked in through the side door. The female nurse just finished feeding the medicine and stepped aside.

Hu Guiqi bent down at the head of the bed, called out a few times, and then pointed to the glass window in front. Hu Zongxian looked at the people behind the glass window, raised his hands with difficulty and clasped his hands to express his gratitude.

Everyone bowed in return and couldn't help but sigh.

He asked about the situation again and instructed Li Ting and Hu Guiqi to make sure they treated and took good care of Lord Meilin. After staying for less than half an hour, the nobles said goodbye.

When leaving, the nobles separated into twos and threes, talking to each other in low voices.

"Lord Meilin is ill, and I'm afraid there will be trouble at court."

Song Shien spoke softly to Wu Jijue, Wu'an Marquis Zheng Kun, and Anyuan Marquis Liu Zhen.

The four of them usually get along quite well.

"No matter how strong the wind and waves are, it has nothing to do with us." Wu Jijue laughed.

Liu Zhen also laughed, "That's right, we are strong when we have no desires."

"Hey, you think you're Hae Gang-bong."

"Whee!"

"Brothers," Zheng Kun suddenly said, "over there!"

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and saw that Yongkang Marquis Xu Qiaosong had invited Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Huan and Yangwu Marquis Xue Han to his carriage.

"Haha, some people still can't hold back." Song Shien sneered.

Wu Jijue curled his lips and said, "Who cares? Brothers, Nanyuan Zuifeng Pavilion has a new show."

"Let's go!" the other three responded immediately.

(End of this chapter)