Chapter 2660 Willing to Go
The first name Manbao mentioned was Zhou Liru.
Doctor Liu took a look and couldn't help but ask, "Didn't Zhou Liru study physical therapy and acupuncture?"
Man Bao said, "She is also very interested in ulcer medicine. Moreover, her suturing skills improved greatly when she was in the Western Regions. If we ask her to go this time, she will definitely be willing to go."
Doctor Liu didn’t know how the lady of the Zhou family was raised. Why was she... so different?
Doctor Liu had no choice but to ask her to add it.
Then, we will select students who are interested in becoming surgeons from the class that will graduate next year.
Not many, only nine, and there will be even fewer next time, only seven.
Zhou Man discussed it with them briefly and decided to take all sixteen of them with him.
Manbao was dissatisfied with the small number of people and said, "Why don't you take a few more? The female class I taught before was good at suturing because it involved laparotomy and foetal retrieval."
Doctor Liu said, "They are different from other students. Their main focus is on leucorrhea. They are all girls, so how about this? Let's go to the Imperial Medical Bureau and ask them. If they are willing to go, they can go. If they are not willing, then forget it."
Like Xiao Yuanzheng, Doctor Liu had not thought of letting these female students join the army, but if Zhou Man and Zhou Liru both went, it would not matter to their reputation whether they went or not.
Manbao nodded. "I'll go. That way they won't be nervous."
Manbao is now just a doctor in the Imperial Medical Bureau, earning a meager salary and only teaching three or four classes here every ten days.
He rarely supervises students personally. When he is traveling with the emperor, it is possible that he will not show up to teach for two months. At this time, Doctor Liu often helps to teach.
After all, Manbao's current courses in the Imperial Medical Bureau are acupuncture and leucorrhea. As for the former, Imperial Doctor Liu has some research and can still teach students. As for the latter, Imperial Doctor Liu is even better at it, so Manbao has to ask others for advice from time to time.
But even though she comes less often, the students are very close to her, especially this year.
Unlike Liu Sanniang, she already had a strong foundation when she entered the Imperial Medical Bureau. She was also a female doctor in the imperial court, so she successfully graduated in less than two years and was promoted to assistant physician.
Zheng Shao, Zheng Gu, and those students like them who had a solid foundation when they entered the Imperial Medical Bureau were different. They were divided into classes through examinations in the second year after the establishment of the Imperial Medical Bureau and began to study different courses from them. Therefore, after graduating in the past two or three years, they went to work in medical bureaus in various places.
They had no basic knowledge when they entered the Imperial Medical Bureau. Some of them even learned to read completely after entering the bureau. Before that, they only knew a few words, and for various reasons, they knew some medicinal herbs and some basic medical theories.
They are also smarter than ordinary people and can remember things quickly.
But no matter how smart they are, if they have a poor foundation, they have to learn step by step after entering the Imperial Medical Bureau.
For example, Zhou Liru left the Imperial Medical Bureau for a year, but after returning, he not only did not fall behind in his studies, but was transferred to the physical therapy class and learned physical therapy techniques with students from another class, and was still able to keep up with his studies.
According to their years of service, this batch of them will graduate at the end of this year and will be assigned to work in various places in the early spring of next year.
There were only two female teachers in the Imperial Medical Bureau, one was Liu Sanniang, who was once their classmate, and the other was Zhou Man. The rest were all male teachers. They wanted to make friends with Zhou Man so that they could stay in the capital.
There are two places to go if you stay in the capital, one is the Imperial Medical Bureau and the other is the Imperial Hospital.
So Zhou Man mentioned this matter when he entered the classroom and asked, "I wonder if you would like to go. If you do, please take out a piece of paper and write your name and the word 'willing to go'. If you don't want to, just write 'don't want to'."
After a brief thought, the students gritted their teeth, stamped their feet, and wrote down their willingness to go.
Manbao was shocked when he received the note. Nineteen classmates in the class actually all agreed?
She raised her eyebrows slightly and smiled, "You're all very good, but going out with the army will be very hard. Although military doctors don't have to go to the front lines, if you encounter fierce fighting that can't be defeated in a short time, military doctors will have to set up medical tents at the front to more conveniently rescue the wounded, so you'd better think carefully."
She said, "Whether you go or not, it won't have much impact on your future careers. But if you go and then quit, you'll be considered a deserter. According to the Ministry of War's rules, deserters are punishable by death. I don't want my students to make that mistake."
The students looked at each other, and seeing that no one quit, even those who had hesitated in their hearts gritted their teeth and agreed not to withdraw.
Manbao slowly folded the slips of paper together, rolled them up, and put them away in her arms. She nodded and smiled, "You've all done a great job. I'll remain in the Imperial Medical Bureau's office today. You'll all have a chance to change your mind before sunset. After sunset, even if you make a move, I'll submit the list to the Ministry of War tomorrow morning, and there'll be no room for change."
Manbao looked at them quietly, then turned and left.
Everyone watched Zhou Man walk away, and then immediately became noisy, "You wrote a wish letter too?"
"Yeah, what about you?"
"Me too."
"So we really have to go to war with the army? Then, doesn't that mean we'll be working among a bunch of stinky men?"
"It's not like I haven't been seen by a stinky man before. Don't let Mr. Zhou hear this. As Mr. Zhou said, patients are patients. Even if there are indeed differences between men and women, we should try to keep a calm mind and just treat patients as patients."
“You really are going.”
"It's not too late for you to regret now."
"Who, who said I was going to regret it? I just didn't expect everyone to choose to go."
Manbao returned to the office, took out the stack of papers, and sat in the chair in silence.
Doctor Tan, who was drinking tea nearby, noticed that she had been silent since she came back, so he couldn't help but ask, "What happened to Doctor Zhou?"
He laughed and said, "I remember that Doctor Zhou didn't have classes today. Why is he here at the Imperial Physician's Office?"
Oh, I forgot. Imperial Physician Xiao Tan is on duty at the Imperial Medical Bureau today, so he doesn't know about the Emperor's personal expedition. So Manbao looked up at him and said, "Your Majesty is going to personally lead the army, and we will go with him..."
Doctor Tan was stunned and the teacup in his hand almost fell to the ground.
He swallowed and couldn't help asking, "Then, is my name on it?"
Man Bao shook his head and said, "No, Dean Xiao mentioned my name, Doctor Lu, and Doctor Zheng."
Doctor Tan breathed a sigh of relief, then thought it might be too obvious, and said quickly, "This is because Dean Xiao values Doctor Zhou. You, please take care of yourself."
Perhaps he felt that this topic was not very good, so he quickly changed the subject and asked, "How many students did Mr. Zhou select to go? Do you want me to help with the students' work?"
Manbao sighed and said, "Students interested in pursuing a career in ulcer medicine don't have the right to choose. They all have to go. But even the girls in my class have all applied to go."
So is this job to persuade them to go or to persuade them not to go?
Doctor Tan remained silent, feeling that he was being too rude and that there was such a gap between him and his students. He sighed, "They are all good children, with pure hearts."
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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