Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 214 Compendium of Materia Medica
The three of them had just eaten half of their meal when a person rushed into the thatched hut in a fit of anger.

The person who came was Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in the world.

Li Shizhen entered the thatched hut, pointed at Hu Zongxian's nose, and cursed: "Hu Ruzhen, you are dying?! I just prescribed a prescription for you to take the medicine on time and take care of yourself. I have repeatedly told you not to catch the wind and cold. You are fine." , ran directly to the Xin'an River embankment. Do you know that you are not a 30-50-year-old man born! A 70-year-old man looks like a [-]-year-old man. You are still so reckless. Sooner or later, you will be exhausted. dead."

Hu Zongxian coughed for a while, then forced a smile, and explained to Li Shizhen: "The Xin'an River dam project is of great importance. How dare I, the governor of Zhejiang Province, dare to slack off? Anyway, the imperial envoy Mr. He is here, and tomorrow I will go back to Hangzhou with him go."

He Liu stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Doctor Li, don't come here to be safe."

Li Shizhen bowed her hand to return the salute, complaining: "I'm fine. But this Hu Butang next to you is already terminally ill! He has all the diseases he deserves and the diseases he shouldn't have! It's not him who wants to die. Find a way!"

He Liudao: "Emperor Li's medical skills are superb. Please also use a wonderful method to cure Hu Butang's illness."

Li Shizhen continued to speak angrily: "Oh, I don't have that much ability to cure the illness of the governor of Zhejiang Province! There is only one prescription available to cure his illness - that is the emperor's imperial decree to allow him to resign and return to his hometown to recuperate." ! This guy sleeps for three or four hours a day, and can only eat half a white steamed bun for a meal. Even the body of a fairy can't stand such a toss."

Hu Zongxian waved his hand: "My doctor Li, calm down. Come, sit down and taste my cabbage tofu."

When Li Shizhen saw Hu Zongxian's thin face, his anger was half gone.After he sat down, he said to He Liu: "Master He, you are a member of Jinyiwei, and you can talk to the emperor. Can you tell the emperor to give Hu Butang a few months of leave. He is overworked." If he is ill, I will prescribe medicine for him for a few months, and let him recuperate in peace, maybe his illness will be cured by more than half."

Hu Zongxian said meaningfully: "Don't worry, brother Dongbi (Shizhen). When the sixth child arrives in Zhejiang, I will be able to return to my hometown to recuperate immediately."

Li Shizhen said: "Come on. I've seen through it. Even if Hua Tuo and Bian Que were by your side every day, they couldn't cure your illness. I have two things to do when I come to Chun'an. First, The first thing is to sneak you back to Hangzhou from this piercing river. The second thing is that I came to ask you to say goodbye."

He Liu asked: "Why, Imperial Physician Li is leaving? Don't you live in Hangzhou anymore?"

Li Shizhen nodded: "I'm going to compile a complete medical encyclopedia, collecting all the medicinal materials from all over the world into this encyclopedia. In ancient times, Shennong's family differentiated medicines and tasted all kinds of herbs. I also want to personally experience the medicinal properties of various herbs. If you want to find medicinal materials all over the world, you will naturally have to travel all over the mountains, rivers and mountains of Ming Dynasty."

He Liudao: "Emperor Li refused to take the comfort and salary of the imperial hospital, but instead had to eat and sleep in the open, traveling all over the country in search of various herbs. Don't you regret doing this?"

Li Shizhen smiled: "Cure and save people is the foundation of medicine. But there are thousands of terminally ill people in the world? I, Li Shizhen, have three heads and six arms, but I can't cure them all. Only by writing a complete medical book for the reference of doctors all over the world can we save people." More people's lives. What's the difference between eating and sleeping in the open air?"

Hu Zongxian asked: "What name are you going to name this complete medical encyclopedia?"

Li Shizhen replied: "Compendium of Materia Medica"

He Liudao: "Then I wish Imperial Physician Li write this book as soon as possible to benefit all people."

Li Shizhen said to He Liu: "By the way, I heard from Hu Ruzhen that you are in charge of Beizhen Fusi now? Can you arrest all the Taoist priests around the emperor? I'm afraid they will kill the emperor sooner or later."

He Liu asked, "Why did Imperial Physician Li make such a statement?"

Li Shizhen said: "Shenhan Taoist priests, it's nothing more than defrauding the silver in the inner storage. What kind of golden pills are given to the emperor all day long! The so-called golden pills are full of iron, lead and mercury! The emperor will die on these things sooner or later. Ordinary A person who lives to seventy or eighty is considered a long life. But our emperor wants to live to be seven or eight hundred years old, seven or eight thousand years old! If he eats the golden elixir refined by those godly Taoist priests every day, I am afraid that he will not even live for sixty or eighty years. I can't live in the year of Er Shun!"

Hai Rui said from the side: "If those Taoist priests only cheated money from the internal treasury, that's all. Over the years, the emperor has cultivated Taoist temples and spent tens of thousands of dollars on refining elixir, all using the treasury It costs tens of thousands of dollars. You need to know that the treasury is full of people's fat and people's anointing!"

Hu Zongxian quickly waved his hands: "The more you two talk, the more you go out of the circle! Fortunately, the sixth child is from his own family. If another guard in Jinyi hears this, he will surely punish you for slandering the emperor. Alright, let's eat It's over, you go out first. I have something important to say to Lao Liu."

Hai Rui and Li Shizhen quit the thatched cottage.

Hu Zongxian said: "Lao Liu, your visit to the south of the Yangtze River is just a cover. Your real purpose is to investigate me, right?"

He Liu didn't want to deceive Hu Zongxian.Taking a step back, for a shrewd person like Hu Zongxian, even if he wanted to, he couldn't be fooled.

He Liu nodded: "Yes."

Hu Zongxian said: "Alas. Mr. Ge and Mr. Ge have indeed done a lot of ridiculous things over the years. Although they have lost their official positions now, the centipedes are dead and not stiff. The strict party members will still work against the cabinet. In official party conflicts, it will be the common people who will suffer. I am the strict party with the highest official position in the imperial court. Only by investigating me can I be punished. I know this well. Just use my death to end this party dispute."

He Liudao: "Hu Butang, I have a plan to keep your official position safe."

Hu Zongxian smiled: "I know what your strategy is. It is nothing more than asking me to impeach Mr. Yan Ge and jump from the strict party to the Yuwang party."

He Liu nodded: "Exactly. Hu Butang is the pillar of the country. Prince Yu has long wanted to win you over."

Hu Zongxian smiled wryly: "Old Six. Mr. Yan Ge has done too many wrong things. But he has always been kind to me. I can't repay my kindness with hatred. A gentleman does not have two masters. I have already boarded Mr. Yan Ge's boat. We must live and die together with this boat. I know in my heart that if the country of Ming Dynasty wants to last forever, the strict party must fall. If the strict party wants to fall, I, Hu Zongxian, must fall first! I have prepared reasons for you to investigate me. "

After finishing speaking, Hu Zongxian took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to He Liu.

"This letter was brought to me by Mr. Yan Ge before the Battle of Taizhou." Hu Zongxian said.

He Liu unfolded the letter, and there were only ten words on it: "The Japanese pirates must be suppressed, not all of them."

He Liu's complexion changed after reading it: This is Yan Song asking Hu Zongxian to raise his own self-respect!As long as the problem of Japanese pirates is not resolved, the emperor cannot remove Hu Zongxian, the pillar of the southeast.Hu Zongxian is the largest strict party in the court.As long as he controls the southeast half of the wall, the emperor will be cautious if he wants to be strict.

If Hu Zongxian was investigated and prosecuted for the crime of "raising the thief's self-respect", then he must be decapitated.Because raising a thief to be self-respecting is tantamount to plotting wrongdoing, and plotting wrongdoing has been an unforgivable capital crime in all dynasties.

Without saying a word, He Liu stood up, put the letter on the candle and ignited it.

"Lao Liu, what are you doing? With this letter here, your errand can be done now! Why did you burn it?" Hu Zongxian asked He Liu.

He Liu sighed: "I can't just watch a good official like Hu Butang lose his head! I'll tell you. I'm here in Jiangnan, and I want to give you a crime. Officials don’t lose their lives! If you lose your life, I will feel sorry for the millions of people in the south of the Yangtze River who have been favored by you!"

(End of this chapter)