Chapter 20 Fiery
After Yang Ze finished explaining to Yang Deyang, he asked, "Do you understand this treatment method?"
Yang Deyang thought for a moment and said, "I understand how to apply medicine very well. But I don't understand the method of acupuncture. It's just that the old man has never learned acupuncture before, so I can understand it all for a while, but it's really impossible to do it."
Yang Ze said: "You go back and write the method on paper. If you have time, read the book about acupuncture and you will gradually understand. I still have to go to Guazhou and can't stay here for a long time. Let's discuss it later if you have the chance!"
Yang Deyang was quite grateful and bowed to Yang Zeshen, saying: "Doctors have never been taught about their unique secret techniques, but Doctor Yang told the little old man about this good way to cure diseases. Your demeanor is as good as the ancient doctor. The little old man is truly convinced. If someone asks you in the future, the little old man will definitely say you are your mentor!"
As he said that, he actually had the sign of kneeling down. It seemed that he really wanted to worship Yang Ze as his teacher. Yang Ze would not receive such a courtesy, so he hurriedly stopped him.
Yang Ze held the cardboard box in one hand and held Yang Deyang with the other, and said, "You must not do this in the hall. I am telling you how to cure diseases. I don't want to learn the great doctors of ancient times. I just think that there are more doctors who know good methods, so there will be more patients who can save them. I won't say the great truth, but I just have this idea. If you give me a great gift, it will cost my life!"
Yang Deyang could not have wanted to reduce Yang Ze's life. He heard that he would naturally not be able to continue to worship him. He was very moved and felt that comparing with Yang Ze, his previous power was simply a shame.
Yang Ze let go of him, pointed to the cardboard box in his hand, and smiled and said, "Don't say anything thanks. I'll be very happy if you gave me this!"
After saying that, he waved goodbye to Yang Deyang, got on the carriage, and left Jiafanpo Town.
Yang Deyang looked at the carriage that was getting further and further away, and felt very moved. Although Yang Ze was very young and not very handsome, he was extremely tall in his heart at this time, and he could almost describe it as a graceful and famous character!
Suddenly, Yang Deyang stomped his feet and sighed: "Why don't I have a beautiful granddaughter? Otherwise, I would be betrothed to Doctor Yang, and I might get an imperial edict in the future. Doctor Yang has a limitless future!"
On the carriage, Xiang Zhang and Yang Ze were sitting face to face, and she suddenly asked, "Doctor Yang..."
Yang Ze hurriedly said, "Don't call me Doctor Yang. I'm sorry to hear that, you'd better call me by my name, just call me Yang Ze."
He smiled at Zhang and said, "That's not OK. I can't show respect anymore. Otherwise, I will learn from the doctor Zhou and call you Mr. Xiao Yang!"
Yang Ze smiled and said, "Actually, I'm very embarrassed to call me Mr. Xiao Yang." He put the cardboard box on his lap and said, "Let's see, what local specialties Yang Chuantang has given!"
When I opened the paper box, I saw four-color pastries inside, all of which were cake-shaped, a bit like mooncakes, but far less delicate than mooncakes, and a bit like thick small dough cakes.
He looked at the pastries at Zhang and said, "This is a Hu cake with filling, a sugar-filled and a meat-filled one. It is a good gift for visiting relatives and friends. It can be regarded as the most decent gift for ordinary people."
Yang Ze said oh, thinking: "There should be no mooncakes these days. This kind of thick pie is a good gift. When I open a snack shop and sell mooncakes, it may be more profitable than opening a pharmacy shop!"
Xiang Zhang was not interested in thick pie, and she said, "Mr. Xiao Yang, I just wanted to ask you, you are so good-looking, I guess you are very famous in your hometown. Are the villagers all praising you?"
Yang Ze put the lid of the paper box and planned to eat the thick pie as lunch. After hearing the question to Zhang, he felt a little embarrassed, so he sighed deeply and said, "No one praised me before. I used to be ignorant, liked to gambling, and even cheated when I lost money. As a result, the owner of the gambling house beat a brick and kept the injury on the bed for a while. After healed, he began to calm down and learn family medical skills. My family opened a Zhirentang in Baoan County. I can be regarded as a son inheriting his father's business."
He said softly to Zhang, nodded and said, "The prodigal son turned around and didn't change gold. You are actually a blessing in disguise. Then, after you recover from the injury, will you be unlucky to go to the gambling house boss?"
Yang Ze shook his head and said, "He runs a gambling house. I lost money and cheated. There is nothing wrong with him hitting me. If everyone is like me, he will open a gambling house. Although he is not a good person, I may not be much better than him at that time. Besides, he did not ask for the gambling debts I owe him. If this matter is over, there is no need to mention it!"
Xiang Zhang was silent for a moment and suddenly said, "It is best if you think so, but if the gambling house owner remembers that you owe him money and go to trouble your family, you don't have to be polite. You just need to say to me, my boss will deal with him for you. He has photographed you a few times, and my boss will take pictures of you back a hundred times."
Yang Ze whispered and thought to himself: "What does this mean? Could it be that her husband is the gangster leader in Guazhou? Can he shoot the bricks of the gambling house boss for me? Ah, these days, you are not called a gangster leader. You will reason with you first and then beat your people. That is called a light hero. You will run around, beat you when you see someone, and run away after you beat him. You will be invulnerable to the sword and gun. Let you beat him first, you can't beat him, and then he will beat you, called Iron Man, but I don't know what kind of hero his husband is."
Yang Ze laughed a few times and said, "I don't like fighting and killing people the most. Besides, I don't want to sue. To be honest, this time I went to Guazhou, I was appreciated by the county magistrate and was exempted from the boy exam. As long as the governor is correct, I can take the scientific examination directly and take the scholar exam!"
He exclaimed to Zhang and said, "Mr. Xiao Yang was removed from the boy test? Your county magistrate, who wrote a document and asked you to go to the governor?"
Yang Ze nodded and said, "Yes, is there anything wrong?"
He frowned at Zhang and said, "Your county magistrate should not have been to the imperial examination, but he was not from a literati, right?"
Yang Zedaqi said, "You can guess this! The Wu County Magistrate of our Baoan County is indeed not from the imperial examination. He was promoted to the county magistrate because of his military achievements."
"No wonder!" said to Zhang: "Mr. Yang, listen to my advice. You'd better meet the chief after you find the governor. Otherwise, even if the governor is allowed to take the scholar directly, you will definitely fail!"
Yang Ze was shocked and said, "Why is this? I didn't offend the Chief Secretary, right?"
He smiled at Zhang and said, "It's easy to talk about the military generals, but the civil servants' affairs are twists and turns, but it's a headache!"
Seeing Yang Ze's confusion, she explained: "If you have passed the boy's test, it is correct to go directly to the governor, but you are exempt from the boy's test. This requires a document to be kept for future verification. The chief is the governor's assistant. This kind of official document must be transferred to the governor first. If he skips the chief and goes directly to the governor, the chief will definitely think that you don't take him seriously and lose his face. Then he will definitely not let you become a scholar. You must know that the academic affairs manager in charge of the examination are not afraid of the governor, but only the chief. If the chief and the governor say that you are not good enough, how brave is the one who is in charge of the government, you dare to say that you can do it!"
Yang Ze was stunned for a moment and said, "I know nothing about the matter in the officialdom. I thought that as long as I had a letter of recommendation from the county magistrate, I would definitely get things done! Sister-in-law, if you know this, can you tell me so that I will not offend anyone unintentionally!"
He nodded to Zhang and explained in detail to Yang Ze.
It turned out that in order to prevent the local officials from being too powerful, especially the governor, the imperial court implemented a system of upper and lower constraints, which means that the governor's power must be checked and balanced by other officials, and this official is the chief official.
As the assistant to the governor, the chief minister usually helps the governor, but the chief minister has a privilege, which is to be responsible for the evaluation of officials in the state. Of course, the chief minister does not need to write the evaluation of the governor. There is no assistant to write the evaluation of the chief official? However, except for the governor, all the evaluations of other officials belong to the chief official.
The academic and political education in the state is in charge of the examination and is directly responsible to the governor, not under the jurisdiction of the chief minister. However, the academic and political education officials should be promoted or demoted, but the examination is written by the chief minister. So how can academic and political education not be afraid of the chief minister? If the chief minister talks to any candidate, then the candidate will not think of fame during the term of the chief minister!
Therefore, the position of Chief Secretary is a very pleasing official position, but if it is a person who does not see the sand, it is an official position that is very offensive!
After hearing this, Yang Ze felt very upset and said, "What should I do? It seems that I have to go to see the Chief Secretary, but the letter I received was given to the governor. One letter cannot be given to two people. According to the magistrate of Wu County, I must go to see the governor first. But in this case, if the Chief Secretary is cautious, wouldn't I be bad!"
He smiled at Zhang and said, "Don't worry, I don't know the chiefs of other states, but the chiefs of Guazhou are definitely not scrupulous. As long as you see him and with your character, he will definitely not make things difficult for you. As long as you hand in the exam, you don't hand in a blank paper, even if you make a mistake, as long as it's not too outrageous, you will definitely become a scholar. I will congratulate you in advance!"
Yang Ze uttered and said, "Sister-in-law Xiang, do you know the chief of Guazhou?"
But he did not answer his words, but said, "Guang Gua, the Chief Secretary, has a strange temper, and it is not a good thing to know him."
Yang Ze suddenly thought to himself: "The Gua Governor General Shi is not surnamed Xiang, right?" He thought so in his heart, but if Xiang Zhang didn't take the initiative to ask, he wouldn't ask.
After all, he was a man of two lives, and he was not the kind of naughty man. If someone didn't take the initiative to mention it, those who didn't understand would think that Xiang Zhang did not trust him, but if you think about it carefully, you will understand that Xiang Zhang was doing it for his own good.
Just imagine, if the Gua Prefectural Chief Shi really had a surname named Xiang, Xiang Zhang told him in advance and took him to see Xiang Changshi himself, wouldn’t it mean that Yang Ze would have stood in line before entering the officialdom? If he was caught in the whirlpool of the officialdom, it would be too late to regret it.
When Yang Ze first asked about Xiang Zhang, Xiang Zhang told him clearly that because her husband offended many people, she could not stay in her hometown. In fact, this is for Yang Ze. Her husband offended so many people and others dare not take revenge on the chief of a state. Can't he deal with him as a commoner? As for her husband's future repayment of Yang Ze, it was out of the thanks from the patient's family to the doctor. This is human nature, and others will not cause trouble for Yang Ze.
Later, when she learned from Zhang that Yang Ze had the intention of entering the officialdom, she did not say that her husband was an official, but to protect Yang Ze. If she took Yang Ze directly to meet her husband, she would definitely be considered by others as the chief secretary's confidant. After Yang Ze entered the officialdom, she would have to be tripped up all over her head.
But if Yang Ze meets the governor first and then the chief will be in business. No matter how good his personal relationship with the chief, it has nothing to do with the official business. The separation of public and private affairs will not involve the issue of taking sides. Even if the chief takes care of Yang Ze in the future, it will be a reward. It will not make people feel that the chief is Yang Ze as a confidant, which will stumbling on him.
Yang Ze thought about this and felt that things in the officialdom were too tangled, which made people feel troublesome. He no longer thought about these things, changed the topic, and talked about children to Zhang. Without talking about officialdom, the carriage suddenly became relaxed. Having a child as a pistachio is not boring on the road.
They were so comfortable to travel, but many people in Guazhou were uncomfortable because something happened to Guazhou, and the place where the accident happened was very coincidental, and it happened to be the Guazhou Medical Center.
Guazhou Medical Center is located in Qingteng Street, which is the main street of Guazhou. From the south gate, it is Qingteng Street. The street leads directly to the north city gate. The governor's yamen faces west and east in Fulufang on the west side of the street. Guazhou Medical Center is located in Longxingfang on the opposite side of the street, which is exactly opposite to the governor's yamen. The medical center is mainly used to facilitate treatment of high-ranking officials. If the high-ranking officials are sick, they can come to the medical center to find a doctor as soon as possible.
In the main hall of the clinic, there were about twenty doctors gathered. The three led by the three were all wearing light green official uniforms. In terms of grade, the one in the center was a ninth-grade doctor. The two people on both sides were ninth-grade doctors. The other doctors did not have official uniforms, but they were all wearing brown uniform robes.
The doctors in the hall were all frowning, and the doctor in the lead looked even more pale. Sitting on the chair, the doctor's right hand kept trembling, muscles on his face twitched, and an angry expression on his face.
The doctor is named Ma Denggao. He is the head of the Guazhou Medical Center. He is only in his early sixties this year. In terms of the doctor's age, it is the golden age. He is old enough, but he is not particularly old. He has rich experience in treating diseases. He is still more than ten years away from resigning from his seventies. Moreover, he is good at flattering and is highly appreciated by the governor, so his status is solid. He has always been a true and absolute authority in Guazhou Medical Center.
The medical clerk on the left of Ma Denggao is named Ji Xinben. He is just forty years old. If you want to talk about his appearance, Ji Xinben is quite good. He has a good face, a good facial features, and a beautiful beard. He has a very beautiful beard. But if you want to talk about medical skills, it is exactly the opposite of his appearance. Not to mention being a doctor in a medical center, even if he goes out to open a pharmacy, he is not qualified to be a doctor! But why can he become a doctor? Because he is Ma Denggao's son-in-law, he not only becomes a doctor, but also has the possibility of taking over as a doctor at his father-in-law!
The doctor on the right side of Ma Denggao is Zhou Yujin who just rushed back yesterday. Zhou Yujin is actually the first in the Guazhou Medical Center, but Ma Denggao is under pressure, so he can only be the second, and Ji Xinben is under pressure, so no matter how high his medical skills are, the possibility of taking over as a doctor is extremely small.
His face turned blue and his tone of speech was naturally not much better. Ma Denggao said, "Everyone, you are all backbone of the medical center and are all talents known as famous doctors. Now that the governor is seriously ill, you should come up with a charter and treat it as much as you should. You can't delay it anymore!"
No one dares to speak, and they all lower their heads. Those who can enter the medical department and become doctors have no need to say anything about their medical skills. However, they are not stupid. At such critical moments, whoever speaks is a fool!
Who is sick now? But the governor in charge of a state is sick. If something goes wrong during the treatment, it will be a matter of losing his head. Even if the governor doesn't pursue the investigation, of course, he will die if he can't be cured, and he will not be able to investigate it. However, the court will definitely pursue it. No one can afford this kind of investigation!
Ma Denggao waited for a long time, but when he saw no one said anything, he said angrily: "If the governor has a bad reputation and the court pursues it, but he wants to cut off people's heads. You are not children, don't you even understand this principle!"
After hearing this, Zhou Yujin sneered in his heart. Even if someone wants to take the blame for this matter and chop people's heads, he will only chop you, the doctor in charge. It is impossible for all of us to cut off the heads. Anyway, if you want to cut off, you will be chopped down. At best, we are scolded. Of course we all understand this principle!
"If you don't say it, then I'll call it!" Ma Denggao glanced at the doctors below, and glanced at which doctors were shivering, but he didn't click. Instead, he turned his head and said to Zhou Yujin: "How do you think about the illness of Doctor Zhou, Master Governor?"
Zhou Yujin cursed in his heart, and knew that this old guy would name himself.
After he rushed back yesterday, he immediately went to see the governor, but he did not dare to prescribe medicine, because the governor's illness was quite serious, so he dared not prescribe the prescription without authorization. You must know that the prescription was prescribed by Ma Denggao before, and it was considered Ma Denggao's if it was not cured, but if he prescribed the prescription, it would be considered him. How could he take such a big blame?
When Ma Denggao saw Zhou Yujin not speaking, he raised his voice and said, "Master Zhou, I asked you what you said, why don't you answer? But are you unwilling to treat the governor with your heart?"
This time I didn’t dare to play silence, so Zhou Yujin hurriedly said, “Where is Mr. Ma starting? I’m not answering, but thinking about the way to cure the disease!”
"Then have you come up with any method? Just tell me quickly!" Ji Xinben said in a strange voice. Zhou Yujin was the biggest obstacle to whether he could take over as a medical center. Moreover, Zhou Yujin was even stronger than him, so he didn't like Zhou Yujin no matter how he looked at him. He wanted to find fault when he had nothing to do and squeeze Zhou Yujin.
Zhou Yujin suppressed his anger and said, "Mr. Ma prescribed Wumei Decoction for the Governor, which was very correct. Xiaguan really couldn't think of a better prescription!"
Ma Denggao was not happy and was about to continue scolding Zhou Yujin, but his good son-in-law rushed to say, "But the medicine my father-in-law prescribed was not effective, which made the condition worse. Otherwise, if you ask you what you are doing, it is obviously not the right one, but you just say the right one. What do you mean? Are you watching my father-in-law's joke?"
Ma Denggao almost got angry when he said this. His son-in-law was just an embroidered pillow. Is this helping him? Why is it so unpleasant!
Zhou Yujin said, "I don't mean to see Lord Ma's joke. If you insist on me prescription, then I will prescribe a prescription for worms to convince Lord General, but I'm afraid you won't agree!"
After hearing this, the doctors shook their heads together. Of course they didn't dare to agree. This is not the time to be angry!
Zhou Yujin said that there was a reason for prescriptions for the governor to beat insects, because the first symptom of the governor after getting sick was that a roundworm was vomiting out of his mouth!
Chapter completed!