The seventy-year-old Dr. Wan Taiyi had a look of horror on his face. He knelt down and kowtowed with a sharpness that was incompatible with his age: "Why did Your Highness say this? I have always served Your Highness with all my heart and never dared to be negligent. If His Highness's words just now were passed down,
If you go out, I will be killed immediately. I beg Your Highness to have mercy on me and spare my life."
The prince gave a wry smile, sat on the edge of the bed, and stretched out his hand to support the frightened Doctor Wan: "Doctor Wan, don't panic. There is no one else here, just you and me."
"Since I can remember, I have been giving injections and drinking medicine all day long. I have seen your face for more than ten years. You should also know very well what my temper is."
"I don't mean to blame you. It's just that in the past two years, I have often been short of breath, chest tightness, palpitations, and fainted for no reason. This is definitely not a good sign."
"I don't want to remain confused. I am the only one who knows what you said today. I will never tell anyone else. Tell me, how long can I live?"
Doctor Wan's face was pale and his whole body was trembling.
His Highness the Crown Prince's eyes were gentle, but firm, and he persistently wanted an answer.
The cold sweat on Doctor Wan's back gradually dried up, and his frantically beating heart gradually became calmer.
He opened his mouth several times, sighed silently, hesitated for a long time, and finally whispered: "Your Highness will atone for his sins. I will risk my life to tell the truth."
"Your Highness is born with a weak body, and his heartbeat is slower than that of ordinary people. It is not suitable for him to have violent mood swings, nor to be too excited. Otherwise, his life will be in danger."
The prince was silent for a long time and suddenly asked: "You mean, I shouldn't marry a wife? Let alone have sex between men and women?"
Doctor Wan gritted his teeth and said yes.
Prince, this is a problem brought in from your mother's womb.
In short, the heart and lungs are not well developed, the heartbeat is slower than ordinary people, and the body is much weaker than that of a young man of the same age.
Such a body would be kept in the royal family and carefully taken care of by a group of imperial doctors with the most skillful medical skills in the world. Otherwise, it would not live to be ten years old at all.
Even so, the prince's health deteriorated day by day after he became an adult. Every time he fainted, to the imperial doctors, it was like snatching someone from the hands of the King of Hell.
The prince can live for two more years if he is pure and celibate and avoids sexual intercourse with women. If he gets married and engages in sexual intercourse with women...it is hard to say how many days he will live.
However, imperial doctors would never dare to tell such truth.
The Emperor chose the Crown Prince as the only seedling. The Queen had already decided on the candidate for the Crown Princess, and was just waiting for the Prince to get married when the one-year period of filial piety was over. Let the Crown Princess come in as soon as possible, and she would be happy to give birth to an heir as soon as possible.
Who dares to say that the prince cannot marry and have children?
After Dr. Wan said these words, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he knelt down again: "It's all the incompetent ministers who can't cure His Highness the Crown Prince's illness."
This time, the prince remained silent for a long time.
This fact is a heavy blow to any Huaichun boy.
I don't know how much time passed before the prince whispered: "Mr. Wan, please step aside first! I want to be alone for a while."
Doctor Wan kowtowed and thanked him, stood up and left.
The prince was lying on the bed, his eyes blank.
Eunuch Lu quietly came in. Seeing the prince's expression as if he was mourning, Eunuch Lu was startled: "Your Highness, what happened?"
The prince didn't want to say anything and waved his hand to signal Eunuch Lu to step back.
The military tent became quiet again.
The prince lay quietly, his eyes falling in the air. He didn't know what he thought of, but strong pain flashed in his eyes. He suddenly turned his head to one side.
…
In the evening, His Highness the Prince cheered up, drank medicine and ate half a bowl of hot porridge.
Doctor Wan came to administer the acupuncture to the prince and carefully looked at the prince's face.
His Royal Highness, seeing nothing wrong, closed his eyes and fell asleep in front of all the imperial doctors and chamberlains, just like he would do acupuncture on a daily basis.
Doctor Wan sighed secretly.
The sky is really blind.
Such a good prince turned out to be a sick and short-lived man.
Once the prince does something bad, the Jin Dynasty will definitely be in turmoil.
"Your Majesty," the prince's personal commander walked in quickly and reported in a low voice: "The prince has ordered people to go back to the military camp to deliver a message. The army will travel eighty miles today and will reach Heishan stronghold in three days."
The prince nodded slightly and whispered: "I will write a letter and you will send someone to deliver it to the prince immediately."
The commander of the personal soldiers immediately took the order.
The prince was weak and did not get up to go to bed. Eunuch Lu brought paper and charcoal. The prince sat on the bed and wrote a letter.
…
Early the next morning, Xu Jing got up at the fifth watch, and Xu Shiyi hurriedly handed over the letter: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent someone to deliver the letter. When the letter arrived at the military camp, it was already the fourth watch, so the prince was not awakened."
Xu Jing hummed, took the letter, opened it, and laughed: "My cousin was afraid that I wouldn't be able to hold myself back, so he wrote a letter to encourage me."
Seeing that his master was in a good mood, Xu Shiyi boldly said: "Going to war on behalf of the Crown Prince is actually a hard job. The Crown Prince is broad-minded and doesn't care about small details. If it were the other Crown Princes, it would be too late to hide."
For example, Prince Pengcheng fell ill a few years later. Prince Xihe, who has a reckless temperament, is still "injured"...
Xu Jing didn't take it seriously and said casually: "Those cowards are good at playing dirty tricks, how dare they go to the battlefield. Let's go! Don't talk nonsense and set off early."
Of the more than 30,000 elite soldiers, 10,000 were left in the military camp, and Xu Jing led more than 20,000 to go on the expedition. Most of the more than 20,000 soldiers were from the Iron Guard and Qiaoqi camps. Ten thousand of the Imperial Guards were left behind to protect the military camp.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Marquis Zhongyong refused to stay in the military camp to recuperate and insisted on going out with him on the expedition.
Marching is hard work, no need to say more.
After another three days, we finally entered the most chaotic place in Jizhou, which is also the base camp of Heishan Village.
People were dying of hunger all over the road, and it was unbearable to see them. A bunch of women and children appeared out of nowhere, crying and begging for a bite of food to survive.
Marquis Zhongyong was afraid that Xu Jing would be soft-hearted, so he reminded him in a low voice: "Your Highness, there must be spies among these women and children. Don't be soft-hearted and let them get close. A month ago, my nephew encountered such a group of hungry people when he was leading the army.
.He was soft-hearted for a moment, but was killed by a female assassin with a sword."
Marquis Zhongyong said, his eyes a little red.
The Gao family suffered heavy losses this time, and several of their nephews, nephews, and descendants were killed in the battle.
Xu Jing whispered a few words of comfort to Marquis Zhongyong, and then ordered all the hungry people to be driven away.
Only then did Marquis Zhongyong feel relieved.
Righteousness does not control wealth; kindness does not control soldiers.
Xu Jing is really too young, and he usually laughs and curses without being formal. This time when he goes to war on behalf of the prince, every word and deed he does represents the prince, which is really scary. Now it seems that he is worrying too much.
The prince of Beihai acted in a very orderly manner.
Xu Jing called the crown prince Dingguo to discuss setting up camp.
Before the army had settled down, the bandits from Heishan Village took the initiative to attack.
