Chapter 1516 Division
The palace servants began preparing dinner. The Emperor pulled the Empress to sit at the table, a little curious. "They're all doctors, let alone Dean Xiao. Few ministers in the court have ever thought about these issues like Zhou Man. Only that old man Wei Zhi likes to speculate. How did she come up with this idea?"
The Queen offered him a piece of meat and said, "I asked her about it. It was her teacher who was testing them. Apparently, she was calculating how much permanent farmland her nephews would receive when they came of age. So, her teacher asked them to calculate whether the wasteland in Qili Village would be enough for them when they came of age. That's why she kept talking."
The emperor was curious, "How many nephews does she have?"
The Queen was delighted, "I heard there are eight now."
Emperor: "...still one household?"
The queen smiled and nodded.
The emperor was somewhat unwilling to accept this. "This is taking advantage of the imperial court. Didn't the magistrate of Luojiang County persuade them to split up?"
The Queen said happily, "How could a county magistrate come to someone's house to persuade them to divide their property? Her parents are still alive. Isn't that unfilial?"
The people she was talking about were naturally Old Zhou and Qian. Although they were not Zhou Man's biological parents, because Zhou Man treated them as his parents, the queen got used to calling them that.
The emperor said, "It is better to divide the family, otherwise it will be easy to cause conflicts when the family business becomes too big."
The queen smiled and shook her head, not taking the words to heart. The emperor was just talking nonsense. As the king of a country, he couldn't really order his subjects to divide the family property.
So the emperor just mentioned it, and then asked, "What is Mr. Zhou Man's name?"
"I heard his last name is Zhuang, and his courtesy name is Xunmei."
The emperor thought hard and finally found him among the pile of memories. It turned out that they had a pretty happy conversation when they stayed overnight in the temple.
The queen glanced at the emperor and did not mention the matter again.
The emperor was thinking while eating. Although it was accidental that Zhou Man would think about these things because she had so many nephews and nephews in her family, there were many families with the same problem as her, even children of noble families and officials. Why hadn't they thought about it?
Obviously it’s the teacher’s fault, because no teacher has ever asked them this question.
The problem of the equal-field system actually existed since the founding of the country. The situation in different places was different. Some places distributed land in full compliance with national policy, but some places could not implement it. Even the people did not know about this policy.
He served as emperor for more than ten years, and he only made the situation a little better. The next emperor would definitely continue to do so, but how to do it was a problem.
It’s definitely not okay to have a bad temper like Dalang, who starts fighting at the slightest disagreement. We should take it step by step like him.
The emperor thought about it and slept directly in the study at night. The next day he found time to go to the East Palace.
When they arrived outside Chongwenguan, it happened that Wei Zhi was giving a lecture to the prince today, so Bai Shan and the others followed along to listen to the lecture.
The emperor stood outside the window and quietly looked at the prince sitting in the front row.
Today Wei Zhi was talking about the "Clan Records". Of course, he was not reading out the rankings and contents from the "Clan Records", but telling them about the current influence of each family in each region.
Originally, Wei Zhi was going to talk about the law book today, but after talking with the emperor yesterday, he was troubled, so he changed the topic today.
Balancing the power of the aristocratic families is also what the future monarch needs to do. The current emperor is doing it, and the emperor does not think there is anything wrong with this course.
After listening for a while, he turned and left. When he reached the next hall, he overheard Zhou Man arguing with someone, "Why can't acupuncture be incorporated into physical therapy? Didn't you say the medical manual I wrote for Dr. Liu and the others was useful?"
“What I learned was too complicated.”
"But acupuncture is a form of treatment. Even if you can't master it in depth, you should at least have a basic understanding of it. Don't Xiao Yuanzheng, Imperial Physician Liu, and Imperial Physician Zheng all know some acupuncture?" Man Bao said, "You can't expect an Imperial Physician in the future to prescribe medication after examining a patient, then turn around and ask an Imperial Physician specializing in acupuncture to determine the acupuncture method? What if the acupuncture method is exactly the opposite of the medication?"
Students of advanced acupuncture and physical therapy do not need to learn it, but they must at least have some knowledge of it so that they can coordinate with doctors with other specialties.
After all, students in the physical therapy department are the top priority of the Imperial Medical Bureau.
A group of imperial physicians were standing outside the library, arguing, oh no, arguing. After arguing for a long time, everyone took a step back, so Imperial Physician Zheng wrote down his conclusion on paper so that he could add the outline content later.
For two days in a row, not only Dean Xiao, but all the doctors in the Imperial Hospital had no good opinion from Zhou Man. I don't know if this little girl often quarrels with others, oh no, it's debate, but she speaks very coherently when she talks about these things.
If you want to use your power to pressure others, then only Xiao Yuanzheng can do it, because apart from him, no one else's official position is higher than hers.
But if you use your power to pressure her, she can pretend not to understand and is very thick-skinned; if you don't use your power to pressure her, you can't win the competition with her because your eloquence is not as good as hers.
The main thing is that she can quote from classics. They are obviously a group of imperial doctors, so why are they arguing here like literati?
After settling their recent disagreements, everyone was still quite enthusiastic. Even Dean Xiao glanced around at everyone with a sharp gaze and asked, "Is there anything else to discuss?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Dean Xiao then said, "If you don't have any, please go yourselves. Find the necessary medical books and materials, copy them out, and send them back. We will discuss the contents another day."
No one has any objection.
Dean Xiao looked at Zhou Man and said, "Master Zhou, although you are the one who studied acupuncture, you must also copy the content and bring it to us for discussion."
Manbao said it was no problem.
So everyone dispersed. Man Bao turned around and saw the emperor and Gu Zhong standing in the corridor. Xiao Yuanzheng and others also saw them and knelt down to pay their respects.
The emperor exempted them from formalities and pointed to Zhou Man, saying, "Zhou Man, accompany me for a walk."
Manbao glanced at Xiao Yuanzheng secretly.
Xiao Yuanzheng: ...Why are you looking at me? Although I am your superior in name, I have never been your superior for a single day.
So he pretended not to see Zhou Man's gaze.
Seeing that there was no response, Manbao could only get up and leave with the emperor. Humph, if he ignored her, when the emperor asked about the Imperial Medical Bureau, she would say whatever she wanted.
The emperor took her for a stroll around the Eastern Palace and asked curiously, "Are you discussing the Imperial Medical Bureau? How is the discussion going?"
Manbao talked a lot today and his voice was a little hoarse, but he still talked about their achievements in the past two days.
Their efficiency was quite high, mainly because there weren't many people in the Imperial Medical Service, with only one or two people in charge. Dean Xiao was very authoritative, so it was easy to work things out.
In comparison, it is much more efficient than the emperor's court. After all, he had discussed the reorganization of the Imperial Medical Bureau for a long time.
Of course, Manbao would never admit that he was satirizing the emperor.
(End of this chapter)
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