The emperor and the prince want to grant amnesty to the world, but things are not that simple. Someone has to write the imperial edict, right?
Unfortunately, it was Wei Zhi who was on duty in the Tai Chi Palace today. As soon as he received this imperial order, he put down his pen and said first: "The amnesty is very involved. We will wait until we confirm it with Your Majesty."
The eunuch who came to convey the order said: "Your Majesty means to issue the order immediately. Taking advantage of the fact that the Queen's condition is getting better now, if you use more force and pray, maybe people will be fine."
Of course Wei Zhi didn't believe in the amnesty and praying for blessings. He felt that the prince and the emperor were simply sick and sought medical treatment. As soon as he heard that all the princes and princesses had agreed, especially the third prince who actively wanted to go to the Ministry of Punishment to help, he stood up and asked:
"Where is your Majesty now?"
The internal official was stunned and had a bad intuition, so he quickly said: "Your Majesty is accompanying the Queen in the Li Zheng Palace."
He added: "Your Majesty is ill."
I mean, do you have the nerve to let the queen get hurt at this time?
Wei Zhi was really embarrassed, so instead of going directly to the Li Zheng Palace to find the emperor, he turned around to find Duke Zhao.
Zhao Guogong was the queen's brother. He was leisurely drinking tea in the Ministry of War. He accidentally looked out and saw Wei Zhilong walking towards him.
Zhao Guogong was stunned, immediately put down the tea cup, turned around and ran away.
Liu Shangshu, who was sitting opposite him, grabbed his sleeve and said angrily: "Why are you hiding from him?"
"Oh, he usually doesn't do anything good when he finds someone. If I don't hide, why are you staying here?"
"Then you have to ask what's going on first," Liu Shangshu scolded him: "If you run away without even asking, do you still want Duke Zhao's face if word spreads about it?"
Just when the two were entangled, Wei Zhi opened the door and came in, and Liu Shangshu immediately let go of his sleeves.
Zhao Guogong understood now, "Okay, Liu Hui, you did it on purpose!"
Wei Zhi: "What's intentional?"
Zhao Guogong glanced at him, turned around, sat down on the chair, and asked, "Why did Mr. Wei come to see me?"
It wasn't anything special. There was no need to beat around the bush. Wei Zhi directly told the two of them the emperor's decree.
Seeing Zhao Guogong and Liu Shangshu frown slightly, he knew that they did not agree very much, so he suggested: "Let's go see His Majesty together and give him some advice?"
Although Liu Hui disagreed, he was unwilling to wade through this water, so he said: "Our household department is busy. Zhao Guogong is the uncle of the state, so let him accompany you."
Wei Zhi mainly came to see Duke Zhao, so he looked at him.
Zhao Guogong secretly cursed Liu Hui and defended the emperor and the prince: "Your Majesty is also worried about the empress. If praying for blessings is really useful, actually praying for blessings is not bad."
“Have you ever seen when amnesty was useful in curing a disease?”
"How do you know it's useless if you haven't tried it?" Zhao Guogong said: "The Queen is blessed by nature. If many people sincerely pray for the Queen and the Queen has the power of rebirth, how do you know that God will not pity the Queen?"
"But those are bad people who do evil and commit adultery!"
"So we have to save them into the human realm. If they are taken to the execution ground and beheaded, they will enter the animal realm."
Wei Zhi thought this was a fallacy and was so angry that he started a quarrel with Duke Zhao on the spot.
There was a lively noise here, and the emperor in the Lizheng Palace over there waited for a long time to see the imperial edict coming, and couldn't help but frowned, "Why does it take so long to write an edict?"
He looked at Gu Zhong, who bowed and left, then came back after a while and whispered: "Your Majesty, Mr. Wei is on duty at the Tai Chi Hall today."
emperor:……
He regretted it. In fact, it would be the same if he issued the order tomorrow.
Man Bao was exchanging medical skills with the imperial doctors. Of course, the focus was still on the queen's condition, from which the treatment methods for various qi diseases were spread.
Xiao Yuan wanted to see Man Bao's acupuncture skills, mainly because he wanted to know how good her acupuncture techniques were, so that he could adjust the treatment methods for the queen later.
In fact, besides the imperial doctors like them, there are also medical women in the palace, not many, but there are five.
But their medical skills are far inferior to Man Bao's, let alone these imperial doctors.
What they have learned is similar to that of the medicine boys around the imperial doctors, and they are not yet able to prescribe medicine independently.
It’s not that they are not smart, nor that they are unwilling to learn, it’s just that due to various reasons, their medical skills are not very advanced.
The medical women in the palace were also selected by the sons of good families, and most of them were concubines from the palaces of imperial doctors.
Most of them followed their fathers and brothers at home to learn some common diseases and care methods for women, and then were sent to the palace to compete for medical women.
If you can be selected, you can get the title of Ninth Grade Medical Girl.
However, they will not be medical ladies in the palace for the rest of their lives. Most of them are selected at the age of twelve or thirteen. By the age of ten or twenty, if they are still unable to marry a nobleman, they will have to leave the palace and return home to marry.
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But because they worked as medical women in the palace, they have more and better choices than before.
But precisely because they will all get married, most of their families are unwilling to teach them core medical skills.
Similarly, there are very few women who study medical skills very carefully, because in a few years they will get married and have children, and the opportunities to use medical skills will be much less.
After all, they still underestimated medical women, and they also underestimated medicine.
The chiefs of all ministries are all second-grade officers, and only the dean of the Taiyuan Hospital is only a fourth-grade officer.
Although Man Bao has long been famous in the capital, and they had seen her medical skills when they talked to her just now, Xiao Yuanzheng still wanted to be more sure.
Manbao made an appointment with Xiao Yuanzheng to go to his house to get acupuncture together in the evening, so that he could see what she was capable of.
The prince was standing not far from them. Hearing that Wei Zhi was not willing to write the imperial edict, he was unhappy and said, "If the illness of the queen mother is delayed because of Wei Zhi, can he afford it?"
Wei Zhi was one of her own, so Man Bao couldn't help but look at the prince. Seeing that he was angry, she went to look at the emperor again. Seeing that he was also silent with a look of approval on his face, she couldn't help but said, "Your Majesty and
Doesn’t the prince ask the queen?”
The prince was angry. Hearing this, he turned to look at her and asked, "What's the matter with you?"
Man Bao frowned, "Your Majesty, Prince, you want to forgive the world and pray for the Queen. Obviously you believe in cause and effect, but you have to know that most of the people in prison are evil people, especially those who have been sentenced to beheading. They may feel that
I am grateful to the Queen for getting her retribution, but who will bear the hatred of the innocent people they harmed and their families? Will the consequences fall on the Queen in the end?"
The prince was angry: "How dare they!"
Man Bao silently glanced at the prince and said to himself: You care about heaven and earth, how can you care about what people think in their hearts?
The prince had obviously thought of this, especially after meeting Man Bao's gaze, it was difficult not to understand.
He was silent for a moment, then turned to look at his father.