Chapter 1713 Appreciation
When the prince turned the corner, Xiao Yuanzheng walked even slower and put his hand on his lower back.
Manbao looked at him in amazement, "Are you nervous and your hands and feet are weak? Or are you hurting your waist?"
"It's all because of you. The prince and the adults are still kneeling. Why did you stand up? You were still so strong. I accidentally twisted my body while trying to stop you."
Manbao immediately put down her things and tried to help him press. Xiao Yuanzheng looked around and saw no one was around, so he leaned over the railing to press for her. He hissed twice and said, "It's just that you're cramping because you're using the wrong force. It's not very serious. Press it, right, right here, with a little force..."
Manbao pressed the button and asked, "I think Wang Ji is really angry. Director, should we send a doctor to his house?"
Xiao Yuanzheng felt that this child was worrying too much and said, "Send the imperial physician. Even if he's not sick, he'll get sick from anger, and then it will be even harder to explain. If he doesn't feel well, he will go and get a doctor."
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "But I'm afraid he won't call a doctor."
She said, "Although we are ministers and we must not coexist with evil men like Wang Ji, we are also doctors. Since we know he is ill, and he can afford the consultation fee anyway, we should send someone to see him and cure him."
Xiao Yuanzheng understood some of what she said and turned around to look at her in surprise. Seeing her serious expression, he asked curiously, "Don't you hate Wang Ji?"
Manbao was puzzled: "Why should I hate him?"
"He impeached you..."
"I impeached him, too," Manbao said nonchalantly. "As an official, when you encounter something you don't like, isn't it time to impeach? But I really don't like him. I think he's too narrow-minded and self-interested. But that's his character. I've already said he's unfit to be an official. I've made my stance clear."
Xiao Yuanzheng: "...So you didn't hate people even though you argued with them like that?"
Man Bao was puzzled. "Why should I hate him? There's no good in an argument. He was the one who attacked me first. Otherwise, I would have just thought about those words in my mind but never said them out loud. He insulted me like that, so naturally I had to fight back. Besides, he's really not fit to be an official. He's nothing but a dead body in the position of Censor, and who knows how many people he'll harm."
Xiao Yuanzheng was helpless: "...He was about to lose his job because of you, but you don't hate him. But I think he must hate you to death."
Manbao sighed and said, "He's the one who's sad too. Anger hurts the liver, sadness hurts the lungs, and fear hurts the kidneys..."
At this point, Manbao looked at Xiao Yuanzheng and said in a subtle way, "Xiao Yuanzheng, your back isn't very good. Don't be too afraid if you encounter this kind of thing in the future. If it really doesn't work out, we can just quit and go home. We have the ability, so why worry about not being able to make a name for ourselves?"
Xiao Yuan was furious. "Nonsense, who said my kidneys are not good?"
Manbao held his waist without saying anything.
Xiao Yuan was about to speak, but was afraid that he would make more mistakes the more he spoke, so he could only hold his breath and remain silent. After a while, when the pain in his waist had eased, he patted Zhou Man's hand and said, "Alright."
Seeing that he had gotten rid of the donkey after it had served its purpose, Manbao could only sigh. She picked up the information again and followed Xiao Yuanzheng back to Chongwenguan.
Halfway through the walk, Xiao Yuanzheng said, "If you're really worried, just ask the doctor from Jishitang to come over when you see Doctor Zheng."
Manbao was also planning to let Doctor Ding visit the Wang family, but she had no experience in being an official and was afraid that she would violate taboos.
Seeing Xiao Yuanzheng say this, Manbao felt relieved and said happily: "I knew that Xiao Yuanzheng was a kind-hearted doctor like me."
Seeing her carefree and worry-free appearance, Xiao Yuanzheng couldn't help but smile. He shook his head slightly and said, "Who else is so shameless as you to brag?"
Xiao Yuanzheng returned to Chongwenguan with a sigh, but did not stay long. Instead, he took most of the documents on the table back to the Imperial Hospital. Doctor Liu followed him busily, "Why can't these things be left in Chongwenguan?"
Xiao Yuanzheng sighed and said, "Let's not talk about the fact that the Wang family has old friends all over the court and the country. Just look at this time, our Imperial Hospital has been forced to side with the Crown Prince. It's not convenient to keep the things in Chongwenguan anymore. It's safer to keep them in the Imperial Hospital."
"The Imperial Medical Bureau is originally under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Palace. Isn't it reasonable for us to be close to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"
Xiao Yuanzheng shook his head slightly and said, "We think it's reasonable, but others in the court may not see it that way. So we still have to do what needs to be done. No matter what outsiders think, at least we must not leave such an impression on His Majesty."
Doctor Liu understood that they were imperial physicians and could only obey the emperor.
Doctor Liu thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to Doctor Zhou..."
Thinking of Zhou Man, Xiao Yuanzheng shook his head slightly, admiring her and feeling a little relieved. "That child is better than everyone in our Imperial Hospital combined. Her character and talent... Don't worry, she will go further than any of us in the future."
When Zhou Man first arrived at the Imperial Hospital, Dean Xiao was somewhat distant and wary of her. After all, she was too young and a girl. But after a few months of getting along, even the experienced Dean Xiao had to admit that she still had a pure heart and was extremely talented in medicine. "She is different from us. We started learning to read and write with the 'Compendium of Materia Medica', but she started with the 'Thousand Character Classic' like the scholars, and studied the 'Great Learning' and the 'Doctrine of the Mean'. In terms of knowledge, she is far superior to us."
Xiao Yuanzheng could never forget her standing in front of the desk and listing data for them to show the importance of the Imperial Medical Bureau.
She figured out just by asking around at Jishidiang that a lower county had at most five doctors, including barefoot doctors and traveling doctors from the countryside; a middle county had no more than ten doctors, while an upper county had more, but taking Yizhou City as an example, there were no more than twenty doctors.
And how many people are there in a county?
Dajin was in dire need of doctors, but they had never considered this before, let alone the number of medicinal fields needed to plant after establishing a medical department, or the number of herbal farmers they could support...
But she calculated them all clearly, item by item.
They are exactly the same as those officials in the Ministry of Revenue.
But she is only fourteen years old, she still has a long life to live, and she can do many things.
Thinking about how she dared to stand among the officials and argue with Wang Ji this morning and still hold her own, why was Xiao Yuanzheng still worried about her?
Should we worry about whether he is okay?
She will definitely go very far in the future.
Old Master Tang also thought so. He did not hesitate to praise Zhou Man and told Wei Zhizhi directly: "Master Wei's vision has finally improved for once."
Not long ago, the Censorate uncovered a corrupt official who was recommended by Wei Zhi eight years ago.
The emperor immediately criticized Wei Zhi for having poor vision.
Wei Zhi: ...
After trying his luck, he said, "There's one more. When Bai Shan becomes an official, you will praise me again."
Old Master Tang smiled and shook his head.
See you at 4 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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