After settling everyone in, Xie Yushu took Chu Jinyu back. The Imperial Medical Academy's courses were nearing their end, and Xie Yushu had been leading them in surgical practice these past few days.
She planned to spend another half a month or so training them until they were ready to become apprentices, and then she would return to her mountain villa. Judging by the time, her mountain villa was probably almost finished. Just thinking about how that place would become the first modern commercial park in Daqi made her very excited!
When deciding to teach them surgical methods, Xie Yushu raised legal issues related to surgery with Emperor Qingyuan, especially regarding whether patients met the surgical standards and the qualification assessment of doctors in the Imperial Medical Academy, in order to prevent some people from performing surgery recklessly without meeting the qualifications, thus avoiding irresponsible situations that could endanger patients' lives.
A few days ago, Emperor Qingyuan summoned the director, deputy director, and several key members of the Imperial Medical Academy to draft a series of relevant regulations to maintain fairness and impartiality between doctors and patients, and at the same time, established a unified fee standard.
A batch of antibiotics has been produced in Tai'an Prefecture and delivered to Xie Yushu.
Xie Yushu handed over the methods for making antibiotics and refining alcohol to Emperor Qingyuan. Emperor Qingyuan immediately arranged for people to build factories in the suburbs to research and produce these products for distribution to various places and the border troops.
During the internship, in order to provide sufficient practical experience, the director of the Imperial Medical Academy issued a notice in the capital city in the name of the Imperial Medical Academy, offering free treatment to people with certain symptoms within a specified time, and also providing them with certain nutritional supplements, such as ten catties of eggs and five catties of pork.
They also promised that all patients they treated would be cured, and that they would provide compensation in case of any unforeseen circumstances.
As a result, many patients who had not been cured by traditional Chinese medicine heard that the Imperial Hospital was offering free treatment and nutritional supplements, and flocked to sign up.
Xie Yushu also became extremely busy. In the morning, she taught them how to assess whether they met the criteria for surgery, and in the afternoon, she arranged surgeries. She went from having them assist her during her own surgeries to letting them do the work themselves, while she supervised the aftermath from the sidelines.
With at least three surgeries performed every day, the originally planned ten days to half a month was extended to a month. During this time, almost all the life-saving diseases in the capital that required surgery were treated, and finally more than a dozen doctors from the Imperial Hospital successfully obtained their surgical qualifications.
After this high-profile medical treatment, Xie Yushu's name and the word "surgery" once again became the focus of Kyoto.
The gates of Xie Yushu's mansion were always crowded with people trying to build relationships, give gifts, become her disciples, or seek medical help. Some even brought the dead, insisting that Xie Yushu bring them back to life.
Helpless, Xie Yushu had to post a notice in front of the mansion gate, solemnly declaring that surgery could not cure the dead and urging them to bury the deceased as soon as possible. Only then did this phenomenon stop.
Surgical treatment is gradually becoming a trend. In order to ensure that ordinary people can receive timely medical treatment when needed, Emperor Qingyuan specially ordered three imperial physicians who had passed the surgical qualification exam to go out and make rounds every day to treat the people. He also specially bought a two-story shop, emptied it, converted it into a hospital, and personally wrote the four characters "Huimin Hospital".
In no time, praises for Emperor Qingyuan's diligence in governing and love for the people, as well as his status as a wise ruler throughout the ages, were endless. When the news reached Emperor Qingyuan's ears, he was so happy that he almost grinned from ear to ear.
The feeling of being adored is wonderful! During this time, he practically walked on air!
As the saying goes, "People fear becoming famous, just as pigs fear growing fat." Xie Yushu had come to the capital and had now achieved considerable success. She felt it was time to go back, as going too far would not be good. So she resigned from her position at the Imperial Medical Academy and prepared to pack her things to return to Tai'an Prefecture.
But now, even pigs know that Xie Yushu is a piece of fat meat, a piece of fat meat right in their mouths. Who would be willing to let her go without taking a bite?
No sooner had Xie Yushu resigned from Emperor Qingyuan's service than the Third Prince, son of the Empress, sent someone to invite her to Tianxiang Tower, expressing his desire to befriend her.
The prince invited her to dinner, and Xie Yushu couldn't very well refuse. Anyway, she was hungry, so she decided to eat.
However, the Third Prince remained calm and composed. Throughout the meal, he never mentioned trying to get Xie Yushu to take sides, nor did he ask Xie Yushu to do anything. It was as if he genuinely admired her and wanted to be her friend.
Finally, he left a message, saying that he particularly admired Xie Yushu's character, her sense of righteousness, and the many practical things she had done for Daqi. He told Xie Yushu not to ask for help if she needed anything, and he would do his best to help.
Before leaving, Xie Yushu also told him one thing.
"How can I, a mere woman, talk about having lofty ideals!"
As human beings, when we lack the ability, we should take good care of our own family affairs; when we have the ability, we should do something practical for the people, so that our lives will not have been in vain.
Those who share the same ideals and beliefs are naturally friends; those who have different ideals and beliefs, there's no point in saying more, is there?
The Third Prince laughed upon hearing this.
"That's absolutely right!"
Then I wish the princess a safe journey home!
"Thank you for your kind words!"
After bidding farewell to the Third Prince, Xie Yushu returned to her residence to pack her things and head back home.
Although I haven't been in Beijing for long, only a little over four months, I still have a lot of things to take back with me.
There were local specialties from Beijing that I bought for Xie Baotian, the Lu family, Qu Xiaodie, and Xie Tianqi, as well as some of the most popular fabrics, jewelry, hairpins, rouge, face powder, and the like. These filled two carts.
Then there's the food, clothes, and toys that Xiao Haitang and Chu Jinyu bought; each of them had to fill a whole cart.
The cart was also filled with the food, clothing, and other necessities that Xie Yushu had purchased after arriving here.
Besides these, there were also things belonging to Aunt Su and Nanxing, which added up to quite a lot.
Xie Yushu simply ordered someone to buy three more carriages and hire three more drivers.
This seemingly ordinary action gave Prince Fuguang and his group, who had been eyeing Xie Yushu for a long time, an opportunity.
It is said that Fu Guang entered the capital of Daqi before Wang Shu, and after finding out the power dynamics in the capital, he disappeared without a trace. The reason was that at that time, Emperor Qingyuan had received the blueprints for the repeating crossbow from Xie Yushu and ordered the Ministry of Works to mass-produce the repeating crossbows.
At that time, the Ministry of Works was collecting ironware on a large scale, which attracted the attention of Fu Guang. After making inquiries, he only heard that Xie Yushu had presented Emperor Qingyuan with a weapon diagram, but he could not find out what the weapon was.
Anything worth Emperor Qingyuan ordering the Ministry of Works to mass-produce must be something detrimental to other countries. Does that mean his own country will also be held hostage by the Great Qi?
But if he could get his hands on this blueprint, wouldn't that be a great achievement? Even if his father didn't pass the throne to him, he could still build a batch himself. Then, whether domestically or internationally, he wouldn't have to fear anyone.
They had tried to infiltrate the Ministry of War, but the Ministry was too strict in its management; anyone involved in this matter had to be protected by their entire family.
As for the factory's address, they had no idea.
As a prince from another country, where could he find nine generations of relatives to vouch for him? He couldn't get into the Ministry of Works, so as a second choice, he could only try to get close to Xie Yushu.
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