The First Gongsheng of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 436 Bingkuan's Glory

Zhu Youtang knew that the old lady was urging him to accept a concubine again.

It is not enough to accept one prince, and it is too little to have two princes. It seems that it is in line with the old lady's wish to have children in groups.

Zhu Youtang felt depressed and thought, even if you give me so many women, I can't make so many babies!Doesn't this thing depend on "fate"?

Originally bored because of Zhu Houxuan's illness, this mood is even worse.

When he returned to Xinuang Pavilion, Concubine Xian was still using physical methods to cool down his son, wiping Zhu Houxuan's body over and over again.

"Your Majesty, if I have a servant to invite, why not...invite that Miss Ning into the palace and let her treat the emperor's son."

Concubine Xian is now in a hurry to go to the doctor.

With her humility, she has never dared to regard herself as a concubine, and she did not dare to suggest that in the past, but now it is really nothing to do.

What she thought of was Miss Ning Tong.

Zhu Youtang frowned and said, "What kind of medical skills does she know?"

Concubine Xian said: "My servant once saw that Miss Ning was studying medical books, and she did a lot of tidying up. She taught many things related to raising babies."

Zhu Youtang suddenly thought of something, and suddenly said: "Yes, after learning that you were pregnant, it was Bingkuan who placed you with the wife who knew Jie, and Bingkuan must have arranged everything. After all, men and women have different identities. It is impossible for Kuan to take care of your daily life all the time, so I entrusted it to her."

Concubine Xian asked: "Then, Your Majesty, can I find her?"

"En." Zhu Youtang nodded, "Now that Bingkuan is not here, there is no possibility of returning to the capital for ten days and a half months, so let's try."

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Just when Zhu Youtang sent someone out of the palace to summon Ning Tong into the palace.

In the imperial hospital, a group of imperial doctors, no matter they have official titles or not, sat down to discuss countermeasures... Daming's prince is sick, which is the biggest thing in the imperial hospital, but fortunately, the imperial family is concerned about the illness of princes under the age of five and so on. There is not much to pursue. It has been known for thousands of years that in the absence of medical conditions, the probability of a child surviving to the age of five is only about [-]%. In the case of Zhu Houwei's death, they can be said to be "running away". pass a catastrophe".

But after what happened to Zhu Xiurong, the emperor now has higher demands on the Tai Hospital.

"This is related to the reputation of our hospital for thousands of years!" Wang Yu, as the envoy of the hospital, set the tone for this treatment.

Many imperial physicians present did not take it seriously.

It’s been thousands of years, and it’s only been a hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. You don’t mean to say that the honors given to the emperor’s medical institutions in the past dynasties are all represented by you alone, right?
Liu Wentai said: "It's strange to say that a child with a high fever must be accompanied by cold or fever, or bloated poison, but in the third prince, this symptom is not seen. If this symptom is not due to internal disease And rise..."

It's not an internal disease, it's an external poisoning.

That's probably what it means.

It seems that even the people in the Imperial Hospital know about the disputes within the Ming royal family.

I only heard that Concubine Xian entered the palace after giving birth to her son, and she didn't seem to have much contact with the queen after entering the palace, which inevitably makes people think too much.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Wang Yu glared at Liu Wentai and reprimanded him.

Liu Wentai spoke for Wang Yu earlier, but that doesn't mean he was blessed with Wang Yu.

In the Imperial Hospital, the current Wang Yu is recognized as the No.1 doctor, but that was before Zhang Zhou, and he Liu Wentai was also very good in Chenghua, but now he has become a doctor in the Imperial Hospital. Soy sauce.

Wang Yudao: "Have you read Zhang Shangshu's handwriting? What do you think?"

An imperial doctor said: "Wangyuan envoy, I think the symptoms of the third prince are a bit like what Zhang Shangshu mentioned in the letter, this... pneumonia caused by viral influenza, I don't know what it means, but It is expected to be so, because the symptoms are in the lungs, so it cannot be seen from the outside, after all, the little prince is still young."

Wang Yu frowned.

Liu Wentai next to him scolded, "Do you know what you're talking about?"

The imperial doctor looked around and saw many people snickering, and then sat down dejectedly and didn't make a sound.

Wang Yudao: "I've read it too. It's said that Zhang Shang's writing is like a heavenly book. Who can understand it? Most of the medicines he wrote on it are unheard of. Even if you take the medicine according to the prescription, you can give it to me." Are you ready?"

The previous imperial doctor heard that Wang Yu was still seriously discussing this point, and quickly added: "The purple flower, lobelia, and mother-in-law can all be found. As for the others... I don't know what they are."

Liu Wentai gave the imperial doctor another look, and then said to Wang Yu: "Wang Yuanshi, think twice before doing anything. Even if the medicine with unknown history is cured, I will wait until I have no merit, and everything will be recorded there. If something goes wrong with this new Duke, I must be the one to take the blame."

Although this sounded indecent, the imperial physician present seemed to subconsciously nod in agreement.

Study other people's healing manuscripts to treat the emperor's son?
If something goes wrong, you must be the one who takes the blame.

"Then think about it." Wang Yu was also helpless, "The results must be released before noon, and I have to go to the third prince for consultation at noon. Now the third prince can no longer take oral medicine, you can think clearly."

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Just when the Tai Hospital was still discussing the treatment countermeasures.

Here Ning Tong has already entered the palace under the guidance of the little eunuch. She is carrying a temporary medicine box, and she doesn't even know what she is here for.

Say cure?
Ning Tong knew very well that he had never been in this line of work, and at the beginning it was nothing more than a little self-study, in order to take care of the concubine, mother and son who had not yet entered the palace, and the self-study textbooks were given by Zhang Zhou.

But there is also a little advantage. She is not from a professional class in this era. She doesn't know anything about cold, heat and cold. Basically, you have any symptoms and I learn to treat them. All I can do is just let me know. If I say it out loud, I will not study the medicinal properties of medicinal materials by myself, and I don't need to consider whether these medicinal materials are cold or hot.

It's not that I don't want to think about it, it's because I really don't understand.

When Miss Ning arrived at the gate of Xinuange, she saw Zhu Youtang coming out of it.

Ning Tong hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Ministers see Your Majesty."

Zhu Youtang said: "The person who brought you into the palace must have explained the situation, so go in."

Zhu Youtang didn't want to see how Ning Tong treated his illness, because he didn't think it was necessary, and avoiding it might create some suspense.

Letting Concubine Xian and Ning Tong be alone is also to make it easier for the two women to talk.

In fact, even Zhu Youtang felt that Concubine Xian seemed too uncomfortable to adapt to the environment in the palace after entering the palace, especially when he was there, which might also bring some emotions to the matter of taking care of the children.

What Zhu Youtang was thinking about was, after my emperor's son recovered from his illness this time, he should consider building another palace for their mother and son so that they could live there.

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It was also as Zhu Youtang expected.

Without him present, after seeing Ning Tong, Concubine Xian really relaxed a lot, pulled Ning Tong as if asking for help, and said, "Sister Ning, save my emperor's life."

Ning Tong was also emotional.

A woman who looks like a little maid can suddenly become a good concubine on the same level as Queen Zhang?Why did she do it?

Ning Tong sat down and said, "Let me see first."

She used to diagnose Zhu Houxuan, but nothing unexpected happened, Ning Tong couldn't figure out the condition of the baby in front of her.

Caught blind.

"How?" Concubine Xian was full of expectations for this woman who had helped her in times of trouble.

Ning Tong said: "Have you used any medicine? Let me see."

This is coercion.

Ning Tong didn't know anything about pharmacology, all she could do was to research whether those medicines were prescribed too much, but how could such a big mistake be made in such a hospital prescription? People with medical skills noticed it?
Immediately Concubine Xian brought over the prescription.

Ning Tong looked at it and muttered: "Gypsum, ephedra... are all good medicines, why not?"

Concubine Xian wiped her tears and said: "Cai Guogong said that my prince was born out of destiny, he has no lifespan, that is to say, he will die at any time. I am against the sky."

"Who is Cai Guogong?" Ning Tong still didn't know about Zhang Zhou's change of title to Cai Guogong.

Concubine Xian said: "It's Mr. Zhang."

"he……"

Ning Tong almost wanted to ask, when did he become Duke Cai?

But seeing the aggrieved face of this little sister, she seemed to realize that she was here to treat illnesses, and as for Cai Guogong and Lai Guogong, that was not the point.

"Let's reduce the fever first." Ning Tong rummaged through her small medicine box for a long time, and then took out a strange-looking thing.

"What is this?" Concubine Xian asked.

"I don't know either." Ning Tong said, "That Cai Guogong said it's called a fever-reducing needle, but it's been a long time, and I don't know if it works, but before I came, I boiled the water in it again, It is said that as long as it hits the body, it should get better sooner."

"Hit on the body?" Concubine Xian was even more confused.

Ning Tong said: "I just use this thing that looks like a silver needle, but it's actually a goose quill with a hollow in the middle. As long as I push it in from the bamboo tube, the medicine will go in. If you think it's wrong, I also brought it here. Several medicines are said to be effective in reducing inflammation and diuresis.”

Only now did Concubine Xian realize what is the difference between people, or the difference between doctors.

She didn't understand a single word that the people from the Tai Hospital said before.

But Ning Tong's words seemed much more plain, and they were not sloppy at all.

Come up and give her two choices.

Either inject the medicine directly into the body without antipyretic needles, or take medicine, but the effect may be slow, but there is a high probability that it will be effective.

"What kind of medicine are these?" After all, Concubine Xian is a mother. Before giving Ning Tong medicine, she felt that she should ask clearly, so that if the emperor asked about it later, she could answer it herself.

Ning Tong thought for a while with his head sideways, then shook his head and said, "I don't know what's in the antipyretic needle, it seems to be something extracted, as for these kinds of medicines, there are Xiaobupleurum, Andrographis paniculata, Dandelion... It seems to be my mother-in-law. Ding, a bunch of things, oh, the Andrographis paniculata are not from the Central Plains, but from Lingnan or even Nanyang, and they are only grown by Lingnan people as dishes."

Andrographis paniculata, the main material of Xiyanping, is very famous in Chinese medicine injections.

And it is produced in Southeast Asia. It is said that Andrographis paniculata was recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica", and Li Shizhen used this medicine to treat her own snake venom when she was young, but in fact it did not. The earliest record in Chinese medical books is that Andrographis paniculata was produced in the Republic of China. "Lingnan Herb Collection".

"Then... let's use it then."

Concubine Xian had already received instructions from Zhu Youtang.

When Ning Tong came, as long as Zhang Bingkuan prescribed the medicine, even if Zhang Bingkuan was not in the capital, he would follow what Ning Tong said.

Although Concubine Xian also felt that it was not a good thing to inject a lot of water into her body that she didn't know what it was.

But now she would rather trust Ning Tong... After all, Ning Tong is in this palace, and the only other person who will not harm her and her child is the emperor himself.

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Ning Tong herself has no experience with injections.

In addition, the goose quill was obviously thicker than the needle head, so Ning Tong injected medicine into Zhu Houxuan's arm, and finally the child's arm was pricked to bleed, and Zhu Houxuan cried out in pain.

Then he boiled the medicine, and Ning Tong personally helped to cool Zhu Houxuan's body with warm water.

After working for more than two hours, a bunch of imperial doctors were standing outside, but they were not allowed to come in.

They are also curious, the emperor was dying because of his son's illness before, but now he is so indifferent?We're all waiting at the door and won't let us in?

"Everyone, move to the Qianqing Palace first to wait, and I will let you know if there is something to come." Li Rong came over in person and pushed the group of people back.

Then Li Rong entered the Xinuang Pavilion.

When he saw the scene in front of him, he also felt incredible.

A woman who came from outside the palace was busy decocting medicine and cooling down the little prince, her movements were skillful, as if she was a powerful doctor.

But Li Rong knew that this Ning Tong was just Marquis An Bian's ex-wife, and she didn't even understand medical skills.

"Your Majesty." Li Rong walked over to salute Concubine Xian.

Concubine Xian said: "Eunuch Li is here?"

Li Rong asked: "The little prince's illness, is it better? Look at this old slave's mouth, how can he recover so quickly?"

Concubine Xian looked back at her son, and said: "But she said, it seems that her body is not as hot as before, but the fever has not completely subsided. I asked the nanny to feed me some milk, and I have already drank it."

Li Rong was surprised: "Is it so fast?"

Ning Tong was already sweating profusely at this time. In other words, this Xinuang Pavilion was not suitable for people like her who were busy with work, because there was a heater here and it was too hot.

"Open the window to let in some air, otherwise the little prince will be bored." Ning Tong said.

Li Rongdao: "Old slave, did you hear me right?"

Concubine Xian didn't wait for Li Rong to express, she walked over and opened the window herself.

After ventilation, it seems that the room is not as stuffy as before.

Ning Tong sat on the chair, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I have tried my best."

Li Rong hurriedly said: "You can't say that."

Ning Tong frowned, is there any problem with me saying that?

Concubine Xian suddenly called out: "The emperor is awake."

Then several people looked at Zhu Houxuan who was lying on the sickbed at the same time, but they saw Zhu Houxuan lying there, staring at the people in front of him with wide eyes, neither crying nor fussing, but there was light in his eyes, not like that kind of lifeless gloom .

Li Rong said: "The old slave will go back and report to His Majesty."

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At the gate of Qianqing Palace, a group of people were mumbling there.

The group of people in the Tai Hospital usually go to the palace and are not much different from their home. They often go to the inner garden of the palace, so naturally they don't have any worries.

But when they were having a heated discussion, Zhu Youtang walked out from the Qianqing Palace.

Everyone was silent.

They obviously didn't expect that the emperor would not be there to look after the prince, but would be in the Qianqing palace.

If there is anyone who can prevent them from entering Xinuange, Zhu Youtang is the only one.

Accompanied by Li Rong, Zhu Youtang then headed for Xinuange. It was only a few steps away, the kind that was just around the corner.

"What's going on, Your Majesty?" Liu Wentai walked out and glanced at the emperor's back as he walked away.

Wang Yu said: "Don't ask too many questions, I guess it's not a good thing."

A group of people behind were discussing again.

While the discussion was going on here, someone came out from the other side of the Qianqing Palace. When the group of people saw the appearance of the person clearly, they had to keep silent.

The person who came was Queen Zhang.

"Is Your Majesty using you to diagnose the prince?" Queen Zhang asked as she walked up to the crowd.

Wang Yudao: "Returning to the Queen Mother, I have already checked the prince's pulse early this morning, but when I came at noon, I have waited until now and have not let him see it."

Empress Zhang said: "That's because His Majesty doesn't believe you anymore. With Bingkuan, your medical skills will not be able to enter the hall of elegance."

Wang Yu was very upset when he heard this.

Although the emperor didn't say such bad words before, in fact, that's probably what he meant.

It was because of Zhang Zhou that they were compared.

Liu Wentai said: "Empress, is it not Zhang Shangshu who is not in the capital now? At the critical moment, I need to wait for a diagnosis. After all, Zhang Shangshu is not a medical officer of Ming Dynasty."

Empress Zhang kept walking in the direction of Xinuange.

She seemed too lazy to pay attention to the sophistry of these imperial doctors.

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Inside the Xinuang Pavilion.

When Zhu Youtang came in, seeing that his son's condition seemed to have improved a lot, he almost cried with joy.

It's not that he's too fragile, it's because this son is so hard-won... and the old lady even asked him to threaten him, if this son is gone, he will have to give him another life... If he can keep it, Then can't I save a lot of trouble?
For other men, maybe taking a concubine and having a son is such an interesting thing, but it is different for me.

That's not my hobby at all.

Having a son is entirely for the inheritance of the emperor's heir, and there is no joy in it at all, but it makes me feel inferior every time.

Otherwise, why did I only marry the Queen before?

I just don't want to show my disadvantages to too many people. Since I don't have that ability, I just have one.

"Your Majesty, the prince seems to be not as hot as before, but it's not a recovery."

Ning Tong said very seriously, "Minutes don't know much. If you want to diagnose a disease, you have to wait for Cai Guogong to return to the court to make a decision."

Zhu Youtang was very excited, nodded and said: "You have done a good job."

Zhu Youtang is not lying.

I feel that Bingkuan is outside, and I almost give up struggling. Who knows there is an alternative, if it weren't for you...how could I feel the glory of Bingkuan?
(End of this chapter)