In Pingshan County, Gao Quan, who had been studying in the capital for almost half a month, finally returned to his Huichun Hall.

"Master, why should we drive us away?"

"Did the disciples do something wrong?"

When Gao Quan was beside Gao Quan, the seven apprentices he accepted heard that Gao Quan wanted them to leave Huichun Hall, they all burst into tears and knelt beside Gao Quan in one by one.

In this era, learning craftsmanship is definitely not an easy task.

Whether you study medicine, learn to make irons, be a carpenter, mason, or even kill pigs, you need to learn from your master. Moreover, if you have the word "father" in it, you can know the status of your master.

Basically, apprentices need to suffer a lot if they want to learn the master's skills. As for medical studies, they usually have to follow the master at a very young age. First, they start with the chores and work as a cattle and horse for the master for a few years. They have to work hard and have no salary income.

If you have done well in the past few years and the master is satisfied, you can start to process some miscellaneous items, such as grinding medicinal materials, decocting medicine, boiling medicine, etc., which usually take several years to do.

Only after that can you start to learn something slightly useful, such as starting to learn to identify medicinal materials, sorting and sorting medicinal materials, etc. This will take several years to do it.

Then the master may start teaching you something real, such as looking, listening, asking, touching, etc., and usually it takes several years to learn it.

After you have a certain level, you are almost twenty years old. Then you can help your master work for a few years for free. The master’s conscience is discovered, which will make you become a master.

It can be said that it is definitely not an easy thing to study medicine. If you meet a good master, you can learn real skills after learning for more than ten years. If you meet a bad master, you may not learn anything in your life. You are all the master's long-term worker, hard work, and doing things for a lifetime.

As for being beaten and scolded, it is commonplace, and there is nothing strange at all. Everyone even thinks this is a matter of course.

Not only will parents who send you to learn skills think that the fight is good, but they even tell your master that they should discipline them strictly. People around them will also say that the master is right, that strict teachers produce high disciples, etc.

Many people may think this is too much?

If this is in later generations, there will definitely be countless people criticizing it. After all, if a teacher dares to slap a student in the face, he will probably be beaten half to death by his parents, and he will also have to lose money and lose his job.

But in this era, learning craftsmanship is the case. It is not easy to learn craftsmanship and be taken over as an apprentice.

You not only need to have an acquaintance or relationship, but also need the master to like you. If he thinks you are not the ingredients for this bowl of rice, even if the emperor comes, he will not accept you.

So, in this era, it is difficult to learn craftsmanship, but everyone cherishes such opportunities very much, so they not only work hard and beat or scold, but also treat their masters as fathers.

When Gao Quan's apprentices heard that they were going to drive them out, they were all frightened and frightened.

This was kicked out by the master. Once the reputation spreads, it will be difficult to survive. Moreover, my parents probably have to beat me hard. More importantly, I cannot study medicine and it will be difficult for me to make a living in the future.

If you want to eat the rice that practices medicine, you must learn the skills. Who cares about you when you go out halfway?

"You don't have to worry~"

"It's not that my teacher wants to drive you away, but I can't bear to leave you. I always treat you like my own children."

"It's shameful to say that this time I went to Beijing to take the medical examination, and I only received the rating of a junior doctor."

"According to the provisions of the Ming Dynasty Medical Code, junior doctors cannot accept apprentices, so there is no way for teachers to do so, they can only send you out."

Gao Quan looked at his apprentices and was also a little reluctant.

Once the apprentice leaves, everything in his home depends on himself, and he will not be able to drink tea and read newspapers with his legs crossed.

But there is no way, the court's regulations are like this, and the government has already started to take action.

There were several clinics in Pingshan County, but now only their own Huichun Hall and Li Xiang’s Huiren Hall were left. All other clinics have been disqualified from practicing medicine by the government, and even Zhang Xing’s clinic has been closed.

Even the government officials also went to the towns below to arrest the doctors, barefoot doctors and others, and began to crack down on random medical practices and fraud. Several people who relied on selling ancestral pills were sent to prison. I heard that they might have to be sent to the Golden Island.

So he had to let several of his disciples go. This time the court attached great importance to this matter. Although the Ministry of Revenue was the Ministry of Revenue, the Minister of Personnel Liu Jin was the one who promoted the matter.

The Minister of Personnel is known as the Heavenly Official and is in charge of the officials in the world. In a word, the officials below dare not delay at all. The county magistrate of Pingshan County is also quite active in this matter, and the relevant regulations in the Ming Dynasty Medical Code were also implemented quickly.

“Master~”

"We really can't bear to leave you, and we still want to serve you by your side."

Gao Quan's apprentice burst into tears and was reluctant to leave.

"Okay~"

"I have written a letter of introduction to all five of you. With the letter of introduction, you can go to Daming Medical College in Beijing, and you can continue your studies and further your studies in Daming Medical College."

"Where are you able to learn more and learn faster."

"I just hope you don't forget your original intention when you first learned medicine, to save the world and cure diseases and save people!"

Gao Quan looked at his apprentices again. He was pretty good about his land and rarely beat and scolded him. He would teach them according to time. His apprentices were also good, diligent and studious, and had good character.

He took out the introduction letters he had written long ago and handed them to his apprentice one by one. In fact, this was not his conscience discovery, but what he told them when he left Daming Medical College.

People who are not qualified as intermediate doctors are no longer qualified to accept apprentices. All apprentices who have not yet graduated can continue their studies at Daming Medical College.

This can be regarded as expanding the scale of Daming Medical College, and it will not waste existing medical talents. Many people have learned a lot from their masters, and they can become teachers as long as they continue to study for a few more years.

"Thank you for your kindness~"

When several apprentices heard that they could continue to study medicine, or go to Daming Medical College to study medicine, they all couldn't help but get excited and thanked me quickly.

"Don't thank me, let's go, let's go, let's go."

"Study medicine well~"

Gao Quan waved his hand and turned back to his room.

Back in his room, Gao Quan took out a book and studied it carefully. This was a book published when he was studying at Daming Medical College, which talked about how to use a thermometer and related common symptoms, etc.

"Da Ming Medical College is indeed well-known~"

"It is actually summarized in detail. No wonder the doctors here in Daming Medical College can be called professors. Such detailed summary of experience and publishing books is always compared with "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", "Qianjin Prescriptions", "Shennong Bencao Jing", etc. The professors of Daming Medical College who wrote this book are also comparable to those of Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing."

While looking carefully, Gao Quan couldn't help but sigh.

It is difficult to study medicine. The key point is that there are too few medical books of all kinds, and each medical book is extremely precious.

You should know that books themselves are very expensive in this era, let alone books about medicine, which is even more precious.

It is often in the hands of a few people, and it is difficult to copy, so many prescriptions and so on are only in the hands of a few people.

For those who practiced medicine in ancient times, curing diseases and saving lives was one aspect, but just like scholars, the highest pursuit was to be able to write books and biography and write a work that could be remembered for generations.

This time I went to Daming Medical College, not only did I learn a lot, but I even brought back a lot of books.

These books are not only newly compiled and written by the Ming Medical College, but also many medical books collected by the Ming Medical College.

The Ming Medical College collected various medical books, then sorted out these medical books, corrected the wrong places, and then reprinted them, and sent a large number of medical books to the doctors who participated in the assessment and study this time.

"I admire~ I admire~"

While watching, Gao Quan sighed and was deeply impressed.

The contents in the book are very detailed, and they are all written in vernacular, just like the Morning Morning News, which is very easy to understand. At the same time, there are many prescriptions in it.

Some of these prescriptions are common prescriptions, but some are very precious. Gao Quan even saw a few prescriptions that he regarded as treasures and thought he had his own ancestral prescriptions.

This is also why Gao Quan admires it very much.

Because of the selfless spirit of the Ming Medical College, the things summarized are free to be taught to you for free, and such selfless spirit is really admirable.

"Old Gao~Old Gao~"

"Someone has come to see the doctor, don't stay in it."

"I don't know what crazy you are, and you drove all your apprentices away. It depends on how you live in the future."

Just when Gao Quan was fascinated by the sight, his wife's voice came from outside, and the voice was full of dissatisfaction.

All the apprentices left, and the family's affairs would no longer have free labor, so naturally they were very dissatisfied.

"I understand~"
Chapter completed!