Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 260 The Emperor's Secretary

Li Jing smiled, raised his glass and drank it all, then said with a smile: "Eunuch Wang, what we said just now, you just need to know what you know, there is no need to tell the emperor everything."

Wang Chengen looked at Li Jing, smiled bitterly in his heart, and said in his heart: "If you don't say this, I'm afraid I really can't tell the emperor everything you said, but if you say this, you want me to tell the emperor what you said. I If you don't say it, I'm afraid you will have to think of other ways to inform the emperor, and then I won't be able to eat and walk around."

Shaking his head, Wang Chengen smiled wryly, and secretly said: "Even if you tell the emperor, what can you do, there are some things that the emperor would never do, and instead trying to make the emperor even more jealous."

Although he didn't know Li Jing's intentions, Wang Chengen nodded silently.

Seeing that Wang Chengen understood what he meant, Li Jingjing nodded. It is easy to deal with smart people, and there is no need to say a lot of things.

In fact, Li Jing also knew that Zhu Youjian would hate himself even more after knowing what he said, but Li Jing still hoped that Zhu Youjian would understand that it is impossible not to change the existing system of the country.

After Xiezhou was peacefully brought under his own rule, and he cooperated with a certain kind of officials in Henan, Li Jing realized that his previous strategy might not have been correct.

Occupying territory through the hands of rogues can make your policies implement faster, but it does more damage to the country and the people. At the same time, many capable officials were killed by rogues, and many innocent people lost their families as a result. .

If Zhu Youjian implements the New Deal, Li Jing will supplement it with some tough measures, which will reduce unnecessary losses.

Even if Zhu Youjian doesn't do it, at least it will plant a thorn in Zhu Youjian's heart. When Li Jing takes power in the future, he will implement his own government orders, which will also play a role.

Now that Li Jing is thinking about and dealing with problems, he no longer wants to use violent means to solve them as before, but now he hopes to solve them through political means.

Now Li Jing has become more and more like a politician.

Among the ten most powerful people in Ming Dynasty, there must be Wang Chengen's name, although Wang Chengen does not seem to have much power on the surface.

But Wang Cheng'en is the eunuch of Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies, and he grew up watching Zhu Youjian. This status is quite remarkable.

In the past, the cabinet was equivalent to the emperor's secretary, but as the power of the cabinet grew, it was possible to fight against the emperor, and the responsibility of the secretary fell to those who were in charge of the ceremony. No. [-] person (number one is Cao Huachun).

The position of a secretary is very strange and has no power in itself, but because he often speaks for the leader, many people regard the secretary as a leader.

Wang Cheng'en was the emperor's secretary, and often spoke on behalf of the emperor, so many people took Wang Cheng'en's words as the emperor's words.

In addition, he had served the emperor since he was a child, and the emperor was very kind to him, so Wang Chengen's words carried more weight.

For such a person, there is no doubt that no one would dare to offend, let alone not dare to offend, the people who flattered people could line up from the Ouchi Imperial Palace all the way to the moat.

But this certainly does not include Li Jing.

Li Jing's position is only Shanxi General, and it is said that Wang Chengen came to Pingyang Mansion, and the prefect should be received by the biggest official. Li Jing is actually not qualified to sit with Wang Chengen.

But since it is under the rule of Pingyang Mansion, basically no one knows who is in charge here.

And Li Jing obviously didn't want to hide this, so he grandiosely occupied the host's position, exchanged cups with Wang Chengen, and had a great time drinking, while Zhou Hengchen, the prefect of Pingyang Prefecture next to him, only had to accompany the wine.

However, Zhou Hengchen's ability to serve as an accompanist has already made everyone extremely envious.

Everyone present knew that not just anyone could drink with Li Jing.

Many people know that Li Jing likes to drink, and his favorite wine is Zhuyeqing, but Li Jing hardly drinks at ordinary times, only during holidays, Li Jing will drink freely.

Therefore, it is a rare opportunity to drink with Li Jing.

Wang Chengen didn't know about this, seeing that as long as Li Jing raised his glass, the officials present raised their glasses, Wang Chengen felt strange and thought, what are you doing with Li Jing drinking with me?
However, seeing these people toasting their glasses without looking at him at all, and only looking at Li Jing, he realized that they were not flattering him. Wang Chengen felt a little embarrassed about this.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Li Jing cupped his hands suddenly and said, "Eunuch Wang, there is something I would like to ask Eunuch for help."

Wang Chengen hurriedly said: "General Li, please tell me, as long as Wang can do it, he will definitely help."

Li Jingjing nodded and said seriously: "My lord, there have been droughts in Shaanxi for the past few years. Last year, there was a sudden heavy rain. If there is another drought this year, I am afraid that there will be a plague outbreak. Li has checked, and Shanxi is often the source of the plague. The so-called prevention before it happens, no matter whether there is a plague or not, we must be prepared. I have prepared a lot of medicines and arranged some preventive measures, but once the plague breaks out, these alone are not enough. Those who understand should be treated, I would like to ask the prince to send some imperial doctors who know how to prevent and control plagues from the palace."

Wang Chengen was startled when he heard this, and thought, what is this Li Jing usually thinking about, why is he worried about the plague for no reason.

However, Wang Chengen knew that what Li Jing said was true. Generally, plagues would break out after major disasters, and Shanxi was often the outbreak point of plagues.

According to the historical records in the palace, there have been many plague outbreaks since the Wanli period, most of which spread from Shanxi, and the starting point was in Pingyang Prefecture, specifically Hongdong County in Pingyang Prefecture.

Once the plague really broke out, the area around Pingyang Mansion would bear the brunt. Pingyang Mansion had poured a lot of effort into Li Jing, how could it be destroyed by the plague?Therefore, it is reasonable for Li Jing to attach importance to the plague.

However, the imperial doctor is not something that Wang Chengen can send to other places.

What does an imperial physician do?To put it bluntly, it is dedicated to treating the emperor and his wife and children.

There are many imperial doctors in Tai Hospital, and they are divided into several levels. Among them, the best doctors are in charge of treating the emperor, and the rest are in charge of concubines, some are in charge of princes, and of course, some are in charge of treating princes and ministers. Doctors can be said to perform their own duties.

Not everyone can transfer the imperial doctor who is responsible for treating the emperor. Even if the prince is sick, without the emperor's permission, these doctors cannot treat the prince. As for the concubines, they are not qualified to use the emperor's doctor.

If the princes and ministers in the capital were sick, they had to ask the emperor for instructions, and the emperor approved to arrange for an imperial doctor who specially treated the emperor's family members to see a doctor.

Although there are a lot of staff in the palace and there are many patients, but so many imperial doctors are definitely not enough.

The imperial doctor who has nothing to do stays in the imperial hospital all day long, on standby at any time, and those who are eager to learn take advantage of this time to study medicine and medical skills.

Li Shizhen, a famous doctor of the Ming Dynasty, was actually an imperial physician. When Li Shizhen was studying in her spare time, she found that there were many mistakes in the medical classics left by the predecessors, so she came up with the idea of ​​compiling a book on the medicinal properties of the world's medicinal materials.

In addition, Li Shizhen didn't want to stay in the palace all day to serve these few people. Li Shizhen's ambition was to treat more patients.

The best thing about Li Shizhen is not that he wrote the book "Compendium of Materia Medica", but the best thing about Li Shizhen is that he resigned from the palace.

The potential meaning of resigning and quitting is actually to stop serving the emperor, which is equivalent to looking down on the emperor, which will be beheaded.

If Li Shizhen was killed, then there would be no such great "Compendium of Materia Medica", and Li Shizhen's name would not be recorded in history.

In fact, Li Shizhen's smooth resignation has a lot to do with the emperor at that time, because the emperor at that time was Jiajing. Jiajing actually chose the wrong profession when he became the emperor. He should become a Taoist priest. Jiajing's favorite thing to do is alchemy. .

People who believe in alchemy can lead to longevity naturally want to use pills to cure their illnesses. Doctors are nothing, so Li Shizhen's resignation report was approved.

But Li Shizhen also found a reason for her resignation report, that is, to excuse her illness, otherwise she would still not be able to do so.

With so many restrictions on imperial physicians, Li Jing actually asked him to get a few imperial physicians from the palace, which made Wang Chengen feel a little embarrassed.

A shrewd person like Li Jing couldn't just find a few quack doctors to fool him, he had to send a few doctors with real talents and knowledge, and Wang Chengen never thought of sending a few quack doctors to fool Li Jing.

Not to mention that Li Jing helped him so much this time, just because of Li Jing's prevention and control of the plague deserves Wang Chengen's respect.

After pondering for a while, Wang Chengen said: "General Li, to tell you the truth, sending an imperial doctor here requires the emperor's imperial decree. Wang does not have the right to do so. But after Wang returns, he must find a way to get the emperor to send some imperial doctors over. .”

Li Jingwen nodded his head, he did what he could, he didn't talk too much, he was a man of action.

At that moment, Li Jing smiled and said: "Grandpa Wang, thank you Li in advance."

Turning to look at Zhou Hengchen, Li Jing continued: "Hengchen, prepare [-] shi of grain to be transported to the capital, and ask the prince to take the bus to the emperor."

Wang Chengen was overjoyed and didn't want Li Jing to be so forthright.However, Wang Chengen also knew that after receiving the ten thousand shi grains, the imperial doctor had to find a way to send them to Li Jing.

Asking Wang Chengen to give up this ten thousand shi of grain, Wang Chengen would definitely not do it. A few imperial doctors exchanged for [-] shi of grain. Such a good deal, if you take it to Zhu Youjian, Zhu Youjian will agree.

I am afraid that Zhu Youjian also hopes to send a few more imperial doctors to Li Jing, and ask Li Jing for tens of thousands of shi of food.

In fact, Li Jing wanted an imperial doctor not just to prevent the plague. The Academy of Sciences founded by Xu Guangqi has a department of medicine, but there has never been a good doctor in it, because good doctors are usually in the capital, in the palace, it doesn’t matter. can get it out.

If anyone in this world could get the imperial doctor out of the palace, it would probably be Wang Chengen and his boss Cao Huachun.

However, Li Jing didn't know Cao Huachun, and he didn't want to see this chief executive who dealt with the Donglin Party all day long.

This time Wang Chengen came, Li Jing naturally didn't want to miss this opportunity.

For building a science academy, Li Jing naturally spared no effort. In order to attract talents, Li Jinghua would do whatever it cost. A mere [-] shi of grain was nothing.

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