Chapter 958 Five More Years (XI) Five Maternity Clinics
Over the years, some of the people who attended Li San Niang's new-style midwifery school courses at the women's assistance association next to the Li family have passed the imperial medical examinations, while others have long been sent by Li San Niang to open maternity clinics elsewhere in the Tang Dynasty.
Later, some people became teachers in this midwifery school, teaching batches of people from all over the Tang Dynasty how to become a modern midwife.
Among these people, there were only four who were considered Li San Niang's disciples.
The eldest disciple, Qiu Xiang, had always been by Li San Niang's side.
In the two years before Li San Niang entered the Imperial Medical Bureau, Qiu Xiang mostly accompanied her, practicing medicine at the Yongpingfang Medical Hall.
But in reality, Qiu Xiang was always performing the duties of a disciple on the surface, but a bodyguard in reality.
Several years ago, Li San Niang had discussed with Qiu Xiang whether they should remove her from the gang of bad people, stop her from being Li San Niang's bodyguard, and let her go out and live the life of an ordinary person.
Qiu Xiang refused.
She said she had gotten used to spending time with Li Sanniang and would continue to live with her from now on, which she found very pleasant.
Li San Niang's second disciple was Song Fuling, who later became her constant companion.
Song Fuling's name was given to her by Li San Niang on the day she accepted her apprentice.
Although Li San Niang said she wanted to send Song Fuling to a place outside Chang'an to gain experience;
However, over the years, as Li San Niang spent more and more time with Song Fuling and as her official position rose higher and higher, Song Fuling helped her more and more.
Now everyone says Li San Niang can't live without Song Fu Ling.
But Li San Niang had already decided that at most another year, Song Fuling would eventually have to go out and work independently to gain experience.
As for Li San Niang's third disciple, wasn't she the same Ling Lan who originally lived in Shi Hua Lou in Pingkang Fang?
After adopting Jiu Niang's child with a chivalrous knight, Xiao Ping An, Ling Lan left Shi Hua Lou, bought a courtyard near the Li family, and began a peaceful life.
Because Li San Niang had worked as a female doctor for Shi Hua Lou for a period of time, Ling Lan had an idea and learned from Li San Niang. In the days that followed, she returned to Ping Kang Fang and became the female doctor behind the scenes of various brothels, specializing in treating the brothel girls.
After Li San Niang became the chief physician in the Imperial Medical Bureau, she proposed to set up a women's medical clinic in Pingkang Ward of Chang'an City.
They selected suitable people from nearby brothels to learn medical skills, specifically to treat the women and wives in Pingkangfang.
At this point, Li San Niang directly appointed Ling Lan as the head of the women's clinic.
Of course, Li San Niang's proposal to set up a women's clinic in Pingkang Ward was not initially accepted by the other people in the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Later, Li San Niang wrote a memorial and presented it at the grand court assembly, illustrating with a diagram the importance of setting up a women's clinic in Pingkang Ward and its relationship with the number of venereal disease patients, the speed of the disease's spread, and the number of cases in Chang'an.
Especially those civil officials in the imperial court who loved to seek pleasure in Pingkangfang felt both disgusted and frightened when they heard Li Sanniang's powerful voice as she read the memorial at the grand court assembly.
Therefore, the gynecological clinic was eventually built.
The fourth disciple was none other than the Nineteenth Bad Guy, who only studied with Li San Niang for a short period of time.
Nineteen later became a military doctor and is now working in a border town.
Among the few who had a master-disciple relationship with Li San Niang without the formal title, Yu Xue Lian, with Li San Niang's help, took her maid Shi Liu and went to work for Princess Qing Yang after she recovered from her illness at a drug rehabilitation center on the outskirts of Chang'an.
Now that Yu Xuelian is a seventh-rank official, the Yu family can no longer control her marriage.
The Yu family, on the contrary, had to curry favor with Yu Xuelian, hoping that she would have some influence in official circles because of Princess Qingyang, and that this would bring some benefits to the family.
Li San Niang also asked Yu Xue Lian if she was interested in getting married.
Yu Xuelian's answer to Li Sanniang was: "Master, why get married?"
What in this world is good for women, besides power?
Look at the princess, she had no choice but to obey her father's orders and get married, but at least she was able to choose her own husband and find someone easy to control. She was also able to stay in the court after marriage because of the power she held.
But how many women in the world can be like a princess?
Not to mention an irreplaceable female doctor like my master.
I was just lucky to meet my master, and with his help I was able to take the medical exam, enter the Imperial Medical Bureau, and become a minor official under the princess.
"If I were to get married, Master, who knows if I could keep everything I have now?"
Li San Niang understood Yu Xue Lian's choice. Yu Xue Lian had once gone on a hunger strike to protest against the marriage arranged for her by her family. Now that she had finally gained freedom and power, how could she let go of it? How could she possibly let go?
Another person who had a master-disciple relationship with Li Sanniang was Sun Chunlan. Ever since ten years ago, when Li Sanniang arranged for her to open a branch of a maternity clinic in Luoyang, the eastern capital, she had been staying in Luoyang.
Today, the Luoyang branch of the Maternity and Child Health Clinic is the largest branch in the Tang Dynasty, apart from the main clinic in Chang'an.
The branch halls in Jiangnan and the Western Regions are all no match for the size of Luoyang.
Because Sun Chunlan was born with a stone in her body, she was unable to have intercourse with men or have children, so she gave up the idea of getting married early on.
However, a few years ago in Luoyang, Sun Chunlan adopted a little girl and personally taught her to read and write, passing on everything she had learned from Li San Niang to the little girl.
The letter Li San Niang received from Sun Chunlan stated that she had arranged a marriage for the young woman. The letter also said that when she returned to Chang'an in the future, she would definitely bring the young woman, whom she named Sun Hui'e, to meet Li San Niang.
At present, there are five large maternity clinics in various parts of the Tang Dynasty. The one in Yongpingfang in Chang'an is the main clinic, Sun Chunlan's clinic is the Luoyang branch, and the remaining three are one in the western border city, one in Jiangnan East Circuit, and the last one in Guangfu (present-day Guangzhou area).
The head of the maternity ward branch in the Western Regions was Jin Zhenbao, the maid from a merchant family who had studied with Li Sanniang at the midwifery school alongside Sun Chunlan.
The head of the branch in Jiangnan was Yao Qingqing. She brought her whole family with her, including her mother-in-law, to Jiangnan East Road.
The branch hall in Guangfu was run by Zhongli Wenlian's family, specifically by Zhongli Wenlian's cousin, a woman named Zhongli Ting.
Li San Niang was reading Zhongli Wenlian's letter at the moment. Ever since the first Physicians Exchange Conference was held in Chang'an and was successfully held, the matter of "commoners' medicine and rich people's tonic" brought Li San Niang and Zhongli Wenlian together, and the two had been in frequent contact since then.
Zhongli Wenlian truly lives up to her reputation as someone who can manage most of the Zhongli family's business affairs. She was even able to travel to Guangzhou with her family's caravan at the age of over forty!
Li San Niang read the descriptions of Guangzhou in the letter, mentioning that she had seen barbarians, their rudeness, and the many fruits she had never seen before. The descriptions filled five or six pages.
This made Li Sanniang want to go to Guangzhou to see for herself.
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