Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 383 The emperor's illness improved slightly
Chicken Feather Letters, known as Yuxi in ancient times, were originally written on two-foot-long wooden slips with bird feathers inserted on them to indicate the urgency of the matter. In the Tang Dynasty, wooden slips were no longer used, and only feathers were inserted on the envelopes.Chicken feather letters are generally only used to convey urgent military information, and chicken feather letters are not used for ordinary things.

This memorial in the form of a chicken feather letter has been unsealed. Wang Pingan opened it and looked at it. Seeing the end of the memorial, it was written in red with cinnabar. The handwriting was approved by Li Shimin.The reply is very simple, it is to order the army to perform with great fanfare as a deterrent.

Looking at the content of the memorial, it turned out to be the military situation of the Turks.The content of the memorial is very long. To sum it up, it is because the Tang army sent troops to plunder Goguryeo during the autumn harvest in Liaodong, so that the people in the villages of Goguryeo fled into the city, and there was no one in the countryside.After the Tang army withdrew its troops, the tribes near Liaodong all ran to take advantage of the fire to loot and occupy Goguryeo's land by force.

The Goguryeo people dared to fight against the Tang army, and of course they would not be afraid of other tribes. After the Tang army retreated, the Goguryeo army immediately sent troops to drive away the tribes that came to occupy the land. Because those tribes near Liaodong fought on their own, they did not Unified command, as a result of several battles, they were defeated by the Goguryeo people one by one, and fled back to the grassland in defeat.

Although they were defeated and fled, the herdsmen in the tribe still grabbed a large amount of property. It was okay when they were in Goguryeo. The enemy was the Goguryeo army, but as soon as they returned to the grassland, the tribes began to fight each other. You robbed me. I will steal from you.

After the chaotic war, the herdsmen of many tribes lost their property of cattle and sheep. Winter is coming soon. They had no choice but to go south to knock on the pass, and wanted to try their luck in Datang.

Datang has always been very experienced in dealing with this kind of thing, the more chaotic the grassland, the better.The defenders from all over the country firmly guarded the pass and did not allow herdsmen to enter the pass.But Datang also has prefectures and counties outside the pass. These prefectures and counties cannot withstand the attack of thousands of herdsmen. The herdsmen are afraid that they will not be able to survive this winter. In order to survive, they can only fight desperately to attack these prefectures outside the pass. county.

As a result, the surrounding areas of several counties were plundered. Fortunately, the herdsmen did not have a unified command and were not good at attacking cities. Therefore, no cities were lost before this memorial was sent, but the situation was not good.

The situation at the border is developing from east to west. The closer the winter is, the faster the herdsmen will attack. In order to survive this severe winter, they have to keep looking for and looting the villages and towns that have not received the news, so they must Run faster than the person who reported to Tang Jun!In this way, fighting from east to west, the result is that all borders are tight.

This memorial is about this matter!
Wang Pingan looked at it, and thought: "The method of looting by the herdsmen is not just guerrilla tactics. They attack wherever they are weak, run away when they are defeated, and change places after they are defeated. They will never stop. Even if you try to chase them, you will not be able to catch up with them! "

He looked at Li Shimin's reply again, and nodded, this reply is good.Let the frontier army perform with great fanfare. To put it bluntly, it is to scare the wandering herdsmen so that they dare not approach the city gate. Although these herdsmen are brave and good at fighting, they are all defeated after all. Which place to stay, once they see that Tang Jun is ready, they can only leave.

Finding out a piece of paper, he was going to make a draft of the reply first, and then let him copy on it when Li Zhi came.Picking up the pen, facing this situation, I couldn't think of a better way to deal with it. Li Shimin's reply was almost perfect!

Holding a pen, he thought for a long time before he made a reply, which was a supplement to Li Shimin's reply.

The herdsmen of the Turks or other tribes are moving from east to west at an extremely fast speed, but it will not last long. When the severe winter comes, they will stop at one place and cannot move forward. Herdsmen will not go any further.And this place must be relatively rich, otherwise the herdsmen would not dare to stay here at the risk of freezing and starving to death.

More and more herdsmen stay here. Under the persecution of severe winter, they will definitely take risks and launch large-scale attacks on the states and counties in this place. At this time, the herdsmen will stop fighting indiscriminately. Follow them to fight.

Then, this place should be the place where the Tang army gathered, and the frontier troops from all over the country should predict where this place is in advance, so as to prepare in advance.

After Wang Ping'an finished writing these, he thought for a while, and then wrote again.It doesn't matter if you can't predict accurately, you can prepare in one place first, and then guide the herdsmen to go. The farther west the place is, the better, so that the herdsmen can travel more. When they arrive at the location, the herdsmen are already exhausted. Then you can wait for work, wipe them all out, or subdue them!
After writing the reply, Wang Ping'an was very proud. His supplementary reply was quite good, and he has the means to win thousands of miles away. He can be regarded as Zhuge Liang's first-class genius!
After drying the ink, he began to read the memorials below, replying one by one.

After a while, a little eunuch brought refreshments to Wang Ping'an to satisfy his hunger. Wang Ping'an ate a lot, and after eating, he continued to approve. Li Zhi's work was all done by himself, and he was very serious and responsible.

After nearly a morning of approval, all the memorials were approved, and after waiting for a long time, at noon, Li Zhi finally came late.

Li Zhi entered the Chongxian Hall, saw Wang Ping'an was waiting for him, he gasped, and said with a smile: "No illness, you came early today, have you eaten yet, let's eat together!"

Wang Pingan thought: "It's still early, it's already noon." He stood up, bowed to Li Zhi, and said with a smile, "I've been here for a while, and I haven't eaten yet. I'm just waiting to eat with His Highness!"

Li Zhi was very happy. When he arrived at the table and saw so many memorials, his expression became bitter again, and he said, "It's only been a few days of work, and so many memorials have been accumulated. When will it be approved? Forget it!" Alright, let's go eat first, after we finish our meal, take a nap, and recharge our energy, then come to criticize these things!"

Wang Ping'an sighed inwardly. It looked like he had just woken up and was about to eat. After eating, he went back to sleep... What a life!
He smiled at Li Zhi and said, "The ministers have already approved these memorials. They didn't write directly on them. They made a draft. Your Highness, you can just copy them on it!" As he spoke, he took the written papers and Pass it to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "Okay, you are still not sick, you are considerate of Gu, and you know that Gu doesn't like to read these boring things. Then let's have dinner later, after Gu finishes copying these first, we will be fine in the afternoon." Alright, let's go out to play."

He sat behind the table and copied them one by one in order, while Wang Pingan stood aside and studied ink for him.

After only copying a few memorials, Li Zhi became impatient, and said: "You are not sick, or you should learn the solitary font, and when you review the memorials in the future, use the solitary font and write directly on it. , and save copying one by one, which is too troublesome!"

Wang Pingan said, "This..." This is a bit embarrassing, I have already broken the rules by replying to the memorial for you, and if I follow your handwriting again, then let alone the emperor, just the one in the court Ministers, you have to fry the pot!
Li Zhi thought he was afraid that he might not be able to learn his own handwriting, so he pointed to the words he had approved on the memorial, and said, "Look, Gu's handwriting is easy to learn, and it's all block letters. You can practice it in one day!"

Wang Pingan shook his head and said: "This is not very good, the emperor will punish the minister if he knows about it!"

Li Zhi thought for a while, and said: "That's true!" He looked down at the draft, then raised his head, pointed to the draft, and said, "Look at you, some of these replies are long and some are short. The long ones are easy." If there is a flaw, you can copy it alone, and these short ones, only a few words, you can write them!"

Wang Pingan grinned. In the draft he drew up, there was only one long reply, and the rest were trivial matters. Naturally, the reply was not long. If it was according to what Li Zhi said, he only needed to copy one of these replies. , and the rest has to be done for him.

"Then, all right! But what if the emperor finds out?" Wang Pingan said worriedly.

Li Zhi said with a smile: "If we find out, let's say that these replies were dictated alone, and you wrote them on behalf of me. Once the father finds out, we won't do it next time. It's better to work alone, and it's fine to transcribe. If there is no Found out, let’s keep doing it like this!”

The words have come to this point, if you don't agree, you just don't know how to flatter, so Wang Ping'an had no choice but to nod!

Li Zhi picked up his pen and began to transcribe the longest reply, that is, the one from the border herdsmen.He didn't even read the content, and just copied it down according to the words, and he copied it very quickly, and it was done in a moment.

After copying, Li Zhi actually gave up his chair and asked Wang Pingan to sit on his chair and reply.He himself said: "No disease, you are busy, go out for a walk alone, you have ridden a lot these days, and you are not used to it when you suddenly take a break!" As he spoke, he walked out of the hall with his hands behind his back, Went to exercise in the yard.

Wang Pingan shook his head helplessly, so he sat down and imitated several times on the paper to practice Li Zhi's handwriting, and then carefully copied it to approve the memorial for Li Zhi.

Li Zhi is a lazy person, and his fonts are ordinary, so it is not difficult to copy, but if you want to copy it all at once, there is not enough time.Wang Pingan had no choice but to practice on paper several times before replying to a memorial, and then write it on the memorial, which would take a lot of time.

After a while, Li Zhi came back and said, "No illness, why haven't you finished the approval yet?"

Wang Ping'an's forehead was sweating, and he thought: "It's too slow, if you go faster, you will show your feet!" He said: "There are so many memorials, if you want to copy them all, I'm afraid it will take at least an hour. It's a mistake!"

"It will take an hour!" Li Zhi frowned, and said: "No disease, now you know how hard it is to be alone, the time it takes to approve these memorials is too long, and a single batch of these will give you a headache!"

Wang Ping nodded hurriedly and said: "Yes, Your Highness has worked hard. I didn't know it before, but now I have a deep understanding!" He said this, but he thought in his heart: "This is also called hard work? You don't have to think about it, just copy it. It’s still called hard work, so what about me, I’ve become a coolie!”

Li Zhi turned around twice on the ground with his hands behind his back, and said: "I'm going to eat alone, so I won't accompany you, you can do your work, and I will come to see you after I finish eating!"

Wang Pingan hurriedly said: "How about your Highness eating here? If I encounter something that I don't understand, I can ask you anytime!"

But Li Zhi said: "You gather all the things you don't understand together, and when Gu comes back, we will explain them together for you!" After speaking, he turned and left.Halfway through, I felt embarrassed again, as if I was treating Wang Pingan like a donkey too much.

He turned around again and said, "After Gu finished his meal, I'll bring you some delicious dishes to reward you!" Ask your cousin to come and let her accompany you?" This time must be interesting enough!
Wang Ping'an was taken aback, but don't worry, the less people know about this kind of thing, the better!He hurriedly stood up and said: "Don't dare to bother my cousin, I'd better copy it by myself, be quiet, and copy it faster!"

Li Zhi smiled and said: "Okay, then do whatever you want, it's really kind to treat you like a donkey's liver and lungs!" He had a reason.Put your hands behind your back and leave the hall.

Wang Ping'an had no choice but to sit down again and continue to be a donkey!

After a long while, he still hadn't finished approving the memorial, and Li Zhi didn't come back. It was past noon, the sun turned west, and the afternoon would arrive in a blink of an eye.

Ganlu Temple.

Li Shimin was also approving the memorial, accompanied by Shi Zhongchen.In the past two days, Li Shimin's condition has improved a little, and he has no more chest pains, but he can't say he's completely healed. He still feels some chest tightness and dull pain, but it's not as serious as before.

Picking out a few from the pile of memorials, Li Shimin said: "Go and send them to Zhi'er, and ask him to approve them quickly and send them back, as well as the memorials sent in the past few days, and hand them back together. In the past few days, he I have taken care of the affairs of the conference, but the serious business has been delayed."

Shi Zhongchen took the memorial and defended Li Zhi: "Your Majesty, the prince is busy with the Olympic Games and has contributed a lot. This is also a serious matter!"

Li Shimin hummed, and said: "Ask someone to send these memorials to him. Today's work is over today."

Shi Zhongchen hurriedly agreed, and went out of the palace holding the memorial. He wanted to send it himself, but he turned to look at the emperor. The emperor is reviewing the memorial now. What if he sees something unpleasant again and gets sick?You have to take care of yourself!
He looked at the little eunuchs and palace maids standing outside the hall, and suddenly found a person, beckoning: "Meiniang, come here."

There were dozens of eunuchs and court ladies standing outside the hall, all of them stood in a state of arrogance, when they heard Director Shi greet Wu Meiniang, they secretly turned their heads together and looked at her, everyone's eyes were full of jealousy, many people He even thought in his heart: "This little bitch finally got involved with Chief Manager Shi!"

When Wu Meiniang heard Shi Zhongchen calling her, her heart beat wildly. She usually put in a lot of effort to curry favor with Shi Zhongchen. For the sake of it, she is usually called Wu Gongren, but she has never been called Mei Niang like this today!
Under the envious eyes of everyone, she lowered her head, came to Shi Zhongchen, and heard Shi Zhongchen say: "You go to the East Palace and send these memorials to the crown prince."

After a pause, he said again: "Go to Xitai again when you come back. If Wang Ping'an is there, tell him to come to our house." Then he gave a few more instructions.

(End of this chapter)