Chapter 2820 The Emperor's Plan
The capital city is sealed off for the New Year, and all the greetings from the previous year have been cleared out. Most of the memorials that are still being delivered are about matters.
Lord Yu thought that it was impossible for them to go back for the New Year anyway, so he simply didn't urge the messenger to deliver the letter and let him deliver it slowly.
So he delivered the goods on the fifth day, which was a journey of three to five days, and the court had already started to handle official business.
When the memorial was sent to the Secretariat, Bai Shan saw the memorial sent from Luozhou at a glance, so he took it out first, scanned it quickly, and did not write down any suggestions. Instead, he turned his hand and put it on Lord Fang's desk.
Seeing Lord Fang looking up at him in confusion, he smiled and said, "Dear Hide."
Lord Fang: ...Since you want to keep it secret, why don't you just not read it if you have the guts? Don't you understand why you should avoid seeing the memorial from Luozhou?
He glanced at Bai Shan, picked up the memorial from Luozhou, thought about it, wrote his opinions on how to deal with it, and put it in the memorial with the second most important one on the right.
So the emperor didn't see the memorial until the afternoon. It already contained the handling opinions written by the Secretariat, but the emperor only glanced at it and had his own ideas.
The emperor summoned Xiao Yuanzheng and said, "The local medical bureau has many problems, and its relationship with the local county government is somewhat strained. In the past three years, the Censorate alone has received 168 impeachment memorials against the local medical bureau. If you include the impeachment memorials from your local medical bureau against the local county government, the total is 212."
Xiao Yuanzheng sighed, "We still have fewer impeachments than the local county magistrates."
Emperor: "...What I want to say is that these conflicts cannot continue to accumulate. Their powers and responsibilities overlap, and their interests are entangled. It is difficult for anyone to submit to anyone else."
"But generally speaking, the medical bureau lacks confidence, and this is also due to your Imperial Medical Bureau. The people you send to the local areas are all students. They don't have much experience in treating patients, let alone managing local medical bureaus." The emperor said, "Young people who have just started out lack confidence and can't control their subordinates, let alone cooperate with local county governments. Calculate carefully, how many of the local medical bureaus you have established are still not controlled by local county governments?"
Xiao Yuanzheng fell silent.
There were actually not many local medical offices established in the first batch, only thirteen. Among them, Zheng Gu performed the best, as he had a natural advantage.
He used to be a small shopkeeper in Jishidiang, so he had experience. Jishidiang and Zhou Man were behind him. He was confident, had the means and talents, and his medical skills were also good, so Luozhou Medical Bureau was the best one.
I just didn't expect that he would be the first one to suffer a major blow.
Xiao Yuanzheng sighed, feeling that managing the Imperial Medical Bureau was much more difficult than the Imperial Hospital. Being the Director of the Imperial Medical Bureau was extremely tiring.
He humbly asked the emperor, "Your Majesty, please teach me."
The emperor nodded and said, "Before expanding further, you need to send a capable person to the local area to clarify the relationship with the local county government. At least establish the most basic rules and regulations with the local government. This way, it can be promoted. With a framework in place, the local medical bureau and the local county government will be able to get along more smoothly."
At this point, the emperor's face darkened slightly as he said, "From now on, there will naturally be no more incidents of local county yamen adulterating people with fake medicine in order to drive away the medical department."
Xiao Yuanzheng was not a fool. He would know who the talented person the emperor was referring to by calling out all the people in his Imperial Medical Bureau and the Imperial Hospital.
Officials in the local county government, not to mention the county magistrate, even the chief clerk and county lieutenant are no pushovers. Although he is not very happy, he has to admit that the doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau and the Imperial Hospital are good at treating illnesses and saving lives, but they are still far behind these county magistrates, chief clerks and county lieutenants in their ability to manage the local area and communicate with others.
Especially in their understanding of the court laws and regulations, they differed even more.
After all, it is normal for imperial physicians to read books like "Su Wen" and "Bencao", but it is abnormal to read books like "Da Jin Lv".
Local county magistrates all had the power to report to the emperor over their heads, but the imperial physicians of the Imperial Medical Bureau were in the capital. Although their ranks were high enough, they did not even have the opportunity to attend court. Reports and the like had to be submitted to him or they had to meet the emperor directly to get a reply.
There is still a big difference between oral reports and written discussions.
What's more, the content they talked about was so different.
He went through the entire Imperial Hospital and the Imperial Medical Bureau in his mind, and it was obvious that the only one who could defeat those county magistrates was Zhou Man.
She was different from them. Like the civil officials, she was enlightened by the Thousand Character Classic. She not only read the Analects of Confucius, the Book of Rites and the Book of History, but also read history books and laws of past dynasties. She was trained completely in the way of a civil official.
Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle. If we were to say who knows civil officials best, it must be them, so let Zhou Man go.
Xiao Yuanzheng quietly raised his head to glance at the emperor, then tentatively asked, "Your Majesty, what do you think of Zhou Man?"
The emperor sighed and nodded, "She is not bad..."
If it's good, why are you sighing?
"She's just too good. Now that she's gone, her medical skills will be needed in the capital."
Xiao Yuanzheng: "...Your Majesty, don't worry. Wasn't the capital always fine when Imperial Physician Zhou went to the Western Regions?"
Their medical skills are not just for show, okay?
The emperor thought so too, and felt that the medical skills of Xiao Yuanzheng, Liu Taiyi and others were also very good.
With the rules in place and the candidate chosen, Xiao Yuanzheng felt much more relaxed and asked directly, "Your Majesty, are you planning to place Imperial Physician Zhou in Luozhou?"
"No," the emperor shook his head directly, "Luozhou is not suitable for them."
Xiao Yuanzheng was puzzled.
The emperor said, "Luozhou is a wealthy province with many prominent families and the hometown of many officials. It's not easy to expand there first. Zheng and Gu are a lesson for us."
He wouldn't feel too bad about losing Emperor Zheng Gu, but he would feel very sad if he lost Zhou Man.
The emperor said, "I have chosen a good place for them."
Xiao Yuanzheng murmured, "They?"
"Yes, that's them," the emperor said, picking up a memorial from the side. "Bai Shan submitted a memorial, requesting to be transferred to a distant post."
The emperor said, "The reason the Medical Bureau is struggling in the local area is because it is in competition with the county government. Alas, I clearly want them to improve people's livelihoods, but I don't know why they have become so competitive. Now I have given them a chance, and we will see how they progress."
Xiao Yuan was struggling with this, "Your Majesty, will this be bad for the relationship between husband and wife?"
Upon hearing this, the emperor said angrily, "Bai Shan also had a copy of the memorial submitted by the Imperial Medical Bureau. Since it was also his suggestion, how can it be bad?"
That would make it easier to argue, right?
However, Xiao Yuanzheng thought about it and didn't say it out loud. What could the quarrel get any further? At worst, he could just divorce and live on his own. By then, there would be plenty of good men for Doctor Zhou to choose from.
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(End of this chapter)
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