Uncle from a poor family

Chapter 387: Use the new instead of the old (asking for monthly tickets)
The inner hall of the Palace of Heavenly Purity.

Wang Ji met the emperor for the first time.

This was also his first time to treat the emperor. Although he had no experience in the palace, he had come into contact with some dignitaries when he came to Beijing before. After all, his medical skills had long been famous. In his opinion, there was no essential difference between treating Zhu Jianshen and treating other people.

His mental quality is better than most people of this era.

However, after examining the emperor, he also felt the tremendous pressure Zhang Luan was under.

Wei Tai asked on behalf of the emperor: "Mr. Wang, how is it?"

Wang Ji replied: "The injury is in the liver, this judgment is correct."

Wei Tai was somewhat speechless and couldn't help but look at Li Zisheng standing beside him.

What he meant was that His Majesty had liver disease, but did he really need to give a diagnosis? Or was it that only when he said it would it be authoritative?

Zhu Jianshen didn't think much of it.

After all, the man in front of him looked much more reliable than the doctor Wan An had brought back from Boye County. He asked softly, "Mr. Wang, since the injury is in the liver, is there any way to resolve it?"

Wang Ji said: "Although I am not very clear about the mechanism of this disease, from what I have seen, your Majesty's liver disease is very common among the people. Often, many people in a family are sick at a time, and there are no obvious symptoms when they are young. But after the age of 40, the disease often lingers for no more than a year or two, and then..."

This is about the contagiousness of liver disease.

Although the doctors of that time did not know the mechanism of transmission, and many people even thought, like the alchemists, that it was caused by some evil disease, the issue of its infectiousness was well known to the world.

Zhu Jianshen nodded, because Zhang Luan had said the same thing before.

Wei Tai asked again: "Mr. Wang, since you know about this disease, you should have treated it before, right?"

"Ah."

Wang Ji nodded and said, "In fact, many people do not have obvious symptoms after the disease occurs. They only occasionally experience weakness and spleen deficiency. Not many people pay attention to it. This is also because liver disease is mostly painless. In addition, after the disease occurs, the method often used by patients is to strengthen the foundation and nourish the essence. The key is to stabilize the disease and prevent it from spreading."

Wei Tai seemed very anxious and asked, "But people outside say that people with liver disease can be cured. Why do you say that it can only delay the progression of the disease?"

“There are different types of illness.”

Wang Ji explained, "There are many types of liver disease, and the one your majesty suffers from is the most dangerous one. So far, your majesty's physical signs are fine, which is enough to show that the previous consultation and medication have been just right. Otherwise..."

"How else?"

Wei Tai asked hurriedly.

Li Zisheng stepped forward to stop him: "Eunuch Wei, how dare you ask such a question?"

I almost wanted to scold Wei Tai, are you really confused or are you pretending to be confused?
Otherwise, the emperor would have died of illness by now. Is there any need for you to ask?

Zhu Jianshen said helplessly: "So my illness has reached the time of recurrence, and it has been delayed for half a year, so there is less than a year left?"

Wang Ji suddenly realized that he might be too straightforward and did not consider the patient's personal feelings.

Look what this says...

But the patient in front of him was the emperor after all. If he had questions, and they were asked to him personally, would he dare to lie? Wouldn't that be deceiving the emperor?

"Your Majesty, judging from the conditions of many patients among the people, this is indeed the case," Wang Ji said, "But your Majesty has a doctor like Mr. Zhang who has the ability to bring people back to health, so perhaps..."

Wei Tai couldn't help but frown.

Even Zhang Luan, who was standing solemnly beside him, did not expect that Wang Ji would compliment him at this moment.

But Zhang Luan immediately thought, he praised me so much in front of the emperor, could it be because he saw that the emperor himself was not confident in curing the disease, so he deliberately praised me a little more in order to praise me to death?

You say I'm great, but as for the treatment of the disease, leave it to me to be responsible for it, right?
This young man...

You seem honest and humble like a Confucian scholar, so how come you are so cunning?

Zhu Jianshen asked, "Then how long did the longest-lived patient of Wang Qing's family, who treated this disease among the people, live?"

"More than ten years."

Wang Ji said confidently, "And there are quite a few of them."

Hearing this, even Li Zisheng was shocked.

You are such a good guy!
I just thought you were trying to avoid the job of treating the disease, but who would have thought that you would immediately give everyone a shot in the arm.

This is what you said, you can survive for ten years!

If you can't do it, it would be truly deceiving the king.

"but……"

Wang Ji was not a fool, and he immediately explained, "Your Majesty's condition is actually quite serious, and everyone's physical condition is different, so it cannot be generalized. And the younger the disease is when it occurs, the more symptomatic treatment methods there are, and the longer the expected survival time is."

Wei Tai asked angrily, "Mr. Wang, what do you mean by that?"

Are you trying to whet our appetite and make fun of us on purpose?

Zhu Jianshen coughed a few times and said, "It seems that you have treated many similar patients in Wang Qing's family."

"Your Majesty, in fact, I have treated quite a few patients in the past few years. I would not say a hundred, but I have treated at least thirty or fifty patients. I have also seen many cases, all of which were passed down from my ancestors."

Wang Ji introduced, "In my opinion, it is not advisable to take too much medicine for this disease. Different prescriptions must be used according to the development of the disease to treat the disease."

Wei Tai first glanced at Li Zisheng, then asked, "Mr. Wang, have you seen the prescription given by the Imperial Hospital? What do you think?"

Wang Ji praised: "They are all excellent."

Zhu Jianshen said, "You don't have to be shy about it. Good is good, bad is bad. I asked you to come here so that you can improve the prescription. You don't have to follow those so-called great medical experts. In fact, the Zhang family of Mr. Zhang Luan rose to prominence because I entrusted them with important tasks. When it comes to treating illnesses, I value the actual efficacy more."

Wang Ji nodded and said, "Your Majesty, I am telling the truth. I have seen the prescriptions written by the Imperial Hospital. Only the prescription written by Zhong Lan before was more constructive and played a very important role in curbing the spread of liver disease. The prescriptions used later were... too ordinary." "What!?"

Only then did Zhu Jianshen realize that Wang Ji was also an upright person.

Just say whatever you want to say.

"Zhong Lan?"

Zhu Jianshen suddenly remembered that there was indeed such a person in the Imperial Hospital, and immediately asked, "Why haven't I seen Zhonglan come to treat me recently?"

Wei Tai replied helplessly: "Your Majesty, Zhonglan's mother passed away and he has been back to observe mourning for several months."

"Humph!"

Zhu Jianshen was a little annoyed. He snorted coldly and scolded, "I thought the people in the Imperial Hospital thought that the prescription he prescribed was not good and replaced him. It seems that... send someone to tell Zhonglan to come back immediately. At this critical moment, they still let him observe the mourning period... cough cough."

In the emperor's opinion, my life is almost over, and you actually let go the doctor who was previously in charge of me?

Isn't this intentional cheating?

And the one who was deceived was me, the emperor!

Tolerable or unbearable!
Li Zisheng smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, Zhonglan has been away for a long time, and he may be unfamiliar with your Majesty's latest condition. Moreover, the prescription he prescribed may not be better than that of Zhang Taichang and Mr. Wang."

Wei Tai hurriedly said: "Master Li, even if it doesn't work, Zhong Lan is still a relatively powerful doctor among the imperial doctors. The court is in need of people, so we should ask him to return to the capital as soon as possible..."

Li Zisheng rolled his eyes, as if to say, do you need to explain this to me?

Am I not trying to persuade Your Majesty not to be so anxious?

"go on."

Zhu Jianshen urged.

Wang Ji said: "Later, I read the prescriptions written by Zhang Taichang and found that... he was really insightful and ingenious. Every prescription he wrote... I was amazed."

"What are you marveling at?"

Wei Tai said, "Is it good or not?"

"It's excellent." Wang Ji replied.

Wei Tai kept on talking: "You haven't used the prescription yet, how do you know whether it's good or not? Do you dare to make a conclusion without seeing it with your own eyes?"

What you mean is, you are not saying this simply to please Zhang Luan, or even to please Li Zisheng, right?
The reason why Wei Tai was so persistent in questioning was because he had learned from the experience of Qin Chang's dismissal. He believed that when it came to treating the emperor, he could not simply cater to Li Zisheng, but must have his own opinions. Many of his doubts were even expressed on behalf of the emperor.

If he was just a follower, what did the emperor want him for?
If he didn't know better, he might have served as the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department for even less time than Qin Chang.

Wang Ji said: "In fact, all the medicines used in the prescription can be analyzed from the perspective of pharmacology. From my observation, the prescription prescribed by Zhang Taichang is quite unconventional in pharmacology and should achieve excellent results after use. Some of the medicines have been studied in depth by the elders in my family and they believe that they can be used to treat liver disease, but no results have been found on how to match them. As a result, no new prescription has been developed."

"oh!?"

Zhu Jianshen raised his hand and said, "Use a real example to prove it."

Wang Ji said: "It is reflected in things like thistle and gentian. These medicines have been studied by several generations in my family, and there are countless materials left."

Zhu Jianshen nodded and said, "Have you told others about your research?"

"Your Majesty, the elders in my family have been researching these herbs. I don't know if outsiders are also doing this kind of research."

Wang Ji said, "I was also shocked to see that the herbs studied by my elders for generations could be reasonably combined and appear in Zhang Taichang's prescriptions."

Zhu Jianshen frowned and looked at Zhang Luan, and asked, "Mr. Zhang, are those prescriptions of yours really from your family? Did your ancestors also do this research?"

"This one……"

Zhang Luan was embarrassed.

What the hell am I researching!

I only presented those herbs as my son listed them. How would I know what pharmacological effects they contained?
Still researching?
I'm lucky enough to be able to memorize the name.

Li Zisheng quickly stepped forward to help out: "Your Majesty, Zhang Taichang can even cure smallpox, let alone other diseases? I think these are what he learned from his own research."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

At this moment, Zhang Luan could only stand up, pretend to be calm, and climb up the pole.

Zhu Jianshen asked, "Then Mr. Wang, is there nothing you can improve on the previous prescriptions?"

Wang Ji bowed and said, "I will do my best. Regarding the use of medicine and other matters, I will discuss more with Zhang Taichang."

The fact that Wang Ji only mentioned that he discussed it with Zhang Luan, but not with other imperial physicians, just goes to show that Wang Ji is also a conceited person and does not want to discuss cases and medications with those doctors who he thinks are mediocre.

"it is good."

Zhu Jianshen ordered, "Come here, find a place for Wang Qing to stay so that he can come to the Imperial Hospital or even the Imperial Palace at any time to treat me.

"He can read the information about my condition at any time, and can use all the medicinal materials to make medicine. Everyone in the Imperial Hospital must cooperate with him to treat my illness."

"Yes."

Wei Tai leaned forward and accepted the order.

He was also wondering in his heart whether His Majesty was also suspicious. In fact, Wang Ji did not think Zhang Luan was that powerful, but was simply embarrassed to reveal it in front of Li Zisheng and Zhang Luan?
That's why we give him a relatively high degree of freedom of action. Why don't we ask him more questions when we call him in for a one-on-one meeting?

"Mr. Zhang, from now on... you should discuss more with Mr. Wang." Zhu Jianshen said, "And the Imperial Hospital, you should also give them more guidance. I... ah! It all depends on you."

(Continue to ask for guaranteed monthly tickets at the beginning of the month!)
(End of this chapter)