In the early morning of the next day, more than ten of Zhang Yanling's masters and servants got up early to prepare to leave before the hot weather. When they were getting ready to set off, they suddenly saw a carriage slowly coming and stopping in front of the house. Everyone was surprised.
In the meantime, the carriage door opened and two people got out of the carriage.
The two people who got off the donkey cart were both women, and turned out to be Tan Ruqing and her maid Xiaozhu. This surprised Zhang Yanling, and she was also a little happy, but there was no expression on her face.
Tan Ruqing was wearing a thin white silk shirt today, with a light blue skirt underneath, her long bun spread on the back of her head, and a thin layer of powder, making her look pure and dignified. However, her expression was worse than before.
He was more serious and less gentle and approachable. After getting off the carriage, Tan Ruqing frowned and looked at Zhang Yanling and others.
"Miss Tan, why are you here?" Zhang Yanling saluted while riding on his horse.
Tan Ruqing frowned and said: "Master Hou is my patient, so I came to see how Master Hou is recovering. Where is Master Hou going?"
Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "Oh, I'm going to do some work at the manor outside the city, in Xishan."
Tan Ruqing said: "Xishan? So far?"
Zhang Yanling didn't know why she asked in such detail, but she still replied: "More than thirty miles, not far."
Tan Ruqing said in a deep voice: "Master Hou, your body has fully recovered? Can you bear the bumpy journey of more than thirty miles?"
Zhang Yanling said with a smile: "Thank you, Miss Tan, for caring about me. I have recovered. Speaking of which, I still have to thank Miss Tan for her wonderful rejuvenation skills."
Tan Ruqing muttered: "You can't go."
"What?" Zhang Yanling asked in surprise.
Ma Quan, who was standing by, chuckled and said, "Doctor Tan, do I still need your approval to go wherever my Marquis goes?"
Tan Ruqing ignored him, only looked at Zhang Yanling and said: "Master Zhang, Ruqing said before that your body needs to rest for half a month. It's only been seven or eight days now. You can't act recklessly. Could it be that you have forgotten the lessons learned from the past."
Zhang Yanling narrowed her eyes and said: "Miss Tan, I am very grateful that you saved me. But I made it very clear that day. I am grateful for saving my life, and I don't need to worry about the rest of my life. Besides, my
The body has recovered."
Tan Ruqing bit her lower lip and said: "No, I, Tan Ruqing, always work from beginning to end. You are the patient I am treating. If I can't completely make you recover, I won't stop. No matter whether you agree or not, I can't change you."
The fact that you are the patient I am treating. I will not stop unless I truly think you have recovered after examination."
Huang Si laughed and said: "How can there be a doctor like you? My Marquis said that you don't need to take care of it, but you still want to get involved. How can there be such a shameless person like you? This is the first time I've seen him."
Zhang Yanling shouted: "Panzui! How do you speak? Miss Tan is my savior."
Huang blushed and quickly shut up.
Zhang Yanling turned to look at Tan Ruqing and said: "Miss Tan, I have recovered, otherwise I would not go out to do errands. Don't worry, miss, I don't think I need to trouble you anymore. We still have a long way to go."
, taking advantage of the coolness of the morning, you can walk a little longer, Miss Tan, please come back, thank you for your trouble."
Tan Ruqing frowned and said: "Master Zhang, it's not that Ruqing insists on pestering you, but... you are the first official patient that Ruqing has visited. What you said last time was right, Ruqing was indeed reckless.
, used the bloodletting disease. It was actually very risky. I only focused on verifying my treatment method and ignored the risks. In the past few days, I have thought very clearly. Since I acted rashly, I must ensure that Mr. Zhang
You are fine. So after thinking about it, I have to come and check on your condition. Although you think you have recovered, I know that it will take half a month for the poison in the blood to completely dissipate, so I asked Mr. Hou to rest for half a month.
, rather than a whim. If Lord Marquis is unwell and his symptoms relapse during this trip, it will be my fault."
Zhang Yanling said in a deep voice: "I won't blame you if I relapse. There is no need for Miss Tan to take responsibility. Just don't worry."
Tan Ruqing said in a deep voice: "That's not because you said you don't want me to be responsible for the Tan family and I won't be responsible for the Tan family. Where is the identity of the Marquis? If the Marquis doesn't pursue it, someone will. Besides, I don't want to give up halfway.
.This is my first official treatment of a serious illness. I don’t want it to be an unsatisfactory result. Otherwise, my bloodletting method will no longer be used. Therefore, please cancel this trip and rest for six or seven days.
, until the toxins in the blood are completely eliminated.”
Zhang Yanling understood what Tan Ruqing meant. On the one hand, she was her first patient with a major illness, and Tan Ruqing did not want the treatment to fail. On the other hand, she also hoped to verify the effectiveness of bloodletting to treat wound infections.
.If she relapses again due to being tired and busy, this method will be declared a failure and can no longer be used. Furthermore, her identity also puts pressure on her. If something happens to her, the Tan family will be involved.
Zhang Yanling didn't want to delay his trip, but he was also moved by Tan Ruqing's persistence. Tan Ruqing actually didn't offend him, and he couldn't be petty. Even if others were alienated from him, he couldn't be ungraceful because of it.
"Miss Tan, let's do this. It may take me two or three days to go to the manor. After three days, when I come back, I will follow your instructions to rest for a few more days and not go out again. But today I have all the carriages, horses and personnel. That is a must.
Gotta go."
Tan Ruqing bit her red lips and pondered for a moment, then turned to her maid Xiaozhu and said: "Xiaozhu, give me the medicine box. You go back and report to the old lady that I followed Mr. Zhang to his Xishan Manor. In two or three days
Come back."
"What?" Everyone present was surprised.
Xiaozhu said in surprise: "Miss, you... go with them? That's not possible, absolutely not."
Tan Ruqing said: "Don't worry, I will pay attention to the changes in the patient's physical condition at any time, so that I can rescue him in time if something happens. You tell the old lady and let her rest assured that Ruqing will take care of herself."
Xiaozhu was still waiting to talk, but Tan Ruqing frowned and said, "Xiaozhu, don't you listen to my instructions? Go quickly."
Xiaozhu nodded helplessly, handed the medicine box to Tan Ruqing, stomped on the carriage and left.
Tan Ruqing carried the medicine box and looked at Zhang Yanling who was stunned and said: "Master Zhang, can you prepare a car for me? I can't ride a horse."
Zhang Yanling frowned and said, "Do you really want to come with us?"
Tan Ruqing said: "Unless you cancel the trip."
Zhang Yanling laughed and said loudly: "Myolie, please get in the car, Miss Tan. I'll be waiting for you."
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Beijing Xishan is actually the general name for a large area of mountainous land, which is part of the Taihang Mountains. In the tens of miles between Beijing and Xishan, there are actually not many fertile fields in Pingchou, because it is filled with a large number of hills and weeds.
On sloping land, there is very little area of farmland that can actually be cultivated.
The princes and ministers of the Ming Dynasty lived in the capital, and most of them owned a manor outside the capital. Moreover, these people were all greedy and owned an astonishing amount of land. People like Zhang Yanling, who owned more than a thousand hectares of land,
In fact, Gui is not the one with the largest land area. Zhang Yanling's brother Zhang Heling owns two large estates in northern Beijing, each with an area of more than 800 hectares.
The princes, princes and ministers, big and small, were frantically grabbing land. Some obtained it through rewards from the emperor, and some used various means to force farmers to sell their land. Like giant rats, they occupied most of the acres outside the capital. Now.
Nowadays, very few people outside Beijing actually own land, and a considerable number of people have actually become tenant farmers, becoming a tool for these people to accumulate wealth and live a life of dreams and dreams. This has to be said to be a huge hidden worry.
Throughout history, the decline of each dynasty is inseparable from the annexation of land and the displacement of the people. The main financial and tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty came from the peasants, and the court allowed the princes, nobles and ministers to annex the land without any limit, allowing the peasants to
Being forced to become tenant farmers has had a huge impact on the Ming Dynasty's finances and taxation. Unfortunately, not many people understand the truth, or even if they do, they are unwilling to change it.
After more than an hour of running around, Zhang Yanling and his team of more than ten people arrived at Xishan Manor at noon, which is located 30 miles west of Beijing. It is said to be Xishan Manor, but in fact this manor is still more than ten miles away from Xishan, so
It governs more than a thousand hectares of land, including a small mountain ridge called Wild Dog Ridge and a large tangled grassland.
Along the dusty gravel road, a group of carriages and horses arrived at a village called Zhaojiazhuang on the east side of Wild Dog Ridge. There are more than a hundred families in Zhaojiazhuang, who originally had their own land, but now they have all become Jianchang
The tenant farmers in Zhang Yanling's Xishan Manor originally farmed the land that belonged to them, but for various reasons they had to hand over the land and became completely propertyless.
In addition to Zhaojiazhuang, the same is true for the people in three nearby villages, all of which are tenants of Xishan Manor. However, the number of households in those villages is smaller, and Zhaojiazhuang is the largest village.
Huang Si had already sent someone to notify Steward Sun of Xishan Manor in Zhaojiazhuang in advance. When everyone arrived at the entrance of the village, the plump Steward Sun and several of his men had been waiting under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village for a long time.
After a brief exchange of greetings, everyone got out of their carriages and walked towards the village. The roads in the village were dusty and full of potholes. The houses next to them were low and dilapidated. They were mostly children with thatched mud walls and disheveled clothes.
Standing on the side of the road with dull eyes, looking at this group of well-dressed people, the old man with a cane stood dumbly in the yard. The weather was hot, and the village house exuded a lingering stench of corruption.
The smell is unbearable.
Zhang Yanling frowned and looked at all this. He had seen poverty, but he had never seen such a poor village. From Zhaojiazhuang, you can see the whole picture. The living standards of the people in the entire Ming Dynasty were no more than this. History books say that Hongzhi was
The ZTE prospered, but now it seems that the light of ZTE has obviously not shined on these people. The so-called ZTE is probably just the imagination of historians. The people in Gyeonggi are like this, let alone other places. These people farm the land for themselves, but they are so poor.
Zhang Yanling felt very guilty in her heart. Although all this was not caused by herself, it seemed to be inseparable from it.