Ming Dynasty: My Father Zhang Juzheng

Chapter 6 Let our dad see it too

In the small hall, several people took their positions.

Zhang Juzheng and his steward You Qi stood aside and watched.

Zhang Yunxiu sat on the bench and stretched out his wrist and placed it on the table.

Opposite him, a middle-aged doctor put his five fingers on it and stared at Zhang Yunxiu.

After a moment's silence, he smiled and said to Zhang Juzheng who was standing beside him, "Prime Minister, your son's pulse is stable and his blood is as strong as a dragon. I dare to guarantee that your son does not have hysteria."

Zhang Yunxiu stood up and looked at Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng was embarrassed and waved his hand and turned away.

"Doctor Wang, why don't you take a look at my father too?" Zhang Yunxiu gritted his teeth and said stubbornly.

"To the Prime Minister?" Doctor Wang looked hesitant.

"I am not sick, why do you come to see me?" Zhang Juzheng stamped his feet and said.

As he spoke, a blush appeared on his dark face, the mixture of black and red made him look particularly strange.

Zhang Yunxiu was horrified by what he saw. As the saying goes, illness manifests itself on the outside. The toxins in the body cannot be excreted and so naturally accumulate on the face.

Doctor Wang standing by had already noticed it, but he didn't dare to say anything.

If the Prime Minister is not ill, he will be guilty if he is seriously ill. If the Prime Minister is ill, he will lose his head if he cannot be cured.

Just play deaf and dumb and pretend you can't see it.

Seeing that the two were silent, Zhang Juzheng waved his hand, pointed at Doctor Wang, and looked at You Qi impatiently and said, "I think he is also a quack. He can't tell if there is a disease or not. Forget it, forget it. You Qi, take him away, take the silver and leave."

"Yes." You Qi responded respectfully and led Doctor Wang out.

"Wait." Two voices sounded at the same time.

Zhang Yunxiu saw that Doctor Wang had broken free and was walking forward. He looked at Zhang Juzheng and said, "Although I am not very knowledgeable, my medical skills are inherited from my ancestors. They are not as bad as the Prime Minister said."

"How dare you!" You Qi shouted, blushing and cursing, "How dare you talk to the Prime Minister like that? Do you believe I will bring people to tear down your sign right now?"

Zhang Juzheng was already furious as he was contradicted by his doctor, his son and was also accused of being sick.

He glared at his son and Doctor Wang fiercely, and sneered, "Okay, I'll let you see."

"If I am not sick, I will see what you have to say then."

After Zhang Juzheng finished speaking, he returned to his chair and sat down, revealing a shriveled wrist.

Doctor Wang had an expressionless face. He took three or two steps forward, sat in front of Zhang Juzheng, bowed, and then put his fingers on it.

At one side, Zhang Yunxiu and You Qi stared at the two of them, their hearts in their throats.

The more Doctor Wang looked at him, the more frightened he became. He frowned and thought to himself: They say it's good to be an assistant, but his body is even weaker than that of an old farmer. His Qi and blood are deficient. If he continues like this, I'm afraid he won't last more than a year.

"What's wrong, Doctor?" Seeing the doctor frown, Zhang Yunxiu instinctively felt something was wrong.

"How much can you eat at each meal, sir?" Doctor Wang answered the question irrelevantly.

Zhang Juzheng was stunned and was about to answer when You Qi, who was standing beside him, wiped his tears and said, "Our master works hard every day, and as a result, he can only eat a small bowl of rice for each meal."

"Why are you crying?" Zhang Juzheng glared at You Qi, then turned around and asked, "What if I only eat one bowl of rice a day? Could it be that eating only one bowl of rice will make me sick?"

Doctor Wang nodded and replied, "The Prime Minister is already past the age of 50, his Qi and blood are already deficient, and he is easily attacked by diseases. He is still eating less now, so he will definitely be sick. How can he not get sick if this continues?"

"Our master has deer blood to nourish qi and blood. How can his qi and blood be deficient?" You Qi muttered.

At this moment, Zhang Yunxiu almost exploded.

When he arrived, he saw a group of captive sika deer in a courtyard. At first he thought they were for viewing.

I didn't expect it was used for Zhang Juzheng.

"No wonder! He can still be so vigorous at this age."

While Zhang Yunzheng was stunned, Doctor Wang smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "Deer blood is indeed a tonic, but Yuanfu is old and weak, and cannot take it. Such a strong medicine would be like poison."

You Qi screamed "Ah" and turned to look at Zhang Juzheng.

But seeing that the prime minister had a dark face and gloomy cheeks, he shrank his neck and took two steps back in embarrassment.

After a few seconds of silence, Zhang Juzheng grabbed the teacup and smashed it to the ground, causing the pieces to fly and the tea to spill everywhere.

"What nonsense! I don't know my own body? Do I need a quack like you to check it out?"

"You Qi, show the guests away!"

After saying this, Zhang Juzheng turned away.

Zhang Yunxiu hurriedly caught up, and the two of them walked in the corridor. Zhang Yunxiu advised: "Father, your health really can't be delayed any longer. As the ancients said, lust is a knife to scrape bones. You are already at this age." Before he finished speaking, Zhang Juzheng stopped, staring at Zhang Yunxiu with a cold look.

The aura he had developed over the years in a high position was only slightly revealed, and Zhang Yunxiu was so frightened that he couldn't stop trembling.

He fell to his knees with a thud and said sadly, "Father, what I said is from the bottom of my heart, you really should take care of your health.

"Zhuge of Nanyang once said: 'The heavens are so great, how can they be so unkind to me?' If you don't want the Wanli New Deal, which you have worked so hard on and created throughout your life, to be destroyed in an instant, you must take care of your health."

Zhang Juzheng's eyes were gloomy. He stared at his son kneeling on the ground for a long time before his expression relaxed and he said, "Go, call Doctor Wang back, and then go and release all the sika deer in the yard."

"You agreed?" Zhang Yunxiu was delighted.

Zhang Juzheng didn't say anything and just turned and left.

He was not afraid of death. If he were afraid of death, he would not have chosen to survey the land and offend those powerful families.

Being a prime minister in a peaceful society, flattering the superiors and indulging the subordinates, drinking and having fun with beautiful women every day, wouldn't that be a happy life?
Who knows, when the day comes that he retires, he may be praised by the emperor, and be sent off by all the officials, and even win a good reputation.

But this is not what he wants. What he wants is to become a person like Duke of Zhou and Lu Wang.

It took him twenty-seven years to walk from Jiangling to the Forbidden City, but it was not a trip just for pleasure.

Now that he is in this position, he has to do something.

After receiving Zhang Juzheng's instructions, Zhang Yunxiu walked happily and turned to the garden where the deer were raised.

Two stewards came up to him immediately, grinning and saying cheerfully, "Fifth Young Master, you want to get the deer blood too?"

"It just so happens that yesterday someone sent two newborn fawns. They taste extremely delicious. I guarantee that after you have them, you will be full of energy and can have sex seven times a night."

Use this to test cadres?

That cadre can't stand such a test!

Zhang Yunxiu glared at the two of them and shouted, "Father has ordered that all these deer be taken out and sold."

"Ah? Sell it?" The two were shocked. "These are all the master's favorite things."

"Didn't you hear what I said? My father told you to sell it and give me the silver you got."

The two of them still looked embarrassed.

"My words are useless, right?" Zhang Yunxiu saw the two people shirking responsibility, and remembered that Zhang Juzheng was harmed by the deer blood, and he was filled with anger: "Okay, okay, you two wait for me, I will go find You Qi to talk to him."

The two were so frightened that their knees went weak. They fell to the ground and begged for mercy, "We know we were wrong, we know we were wrong. I hope you will give us one more chance."

Zhang Yunxiu had a cold face and said nothing. Suddenly, a doubtful voice came from behind him.

"Wang San, Zhao Fu, why are you two kneeling on the ground?"

Zhang Yunxiu looked back and saw a young scholar walking towards him.

The man was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, tall and with distinct features. He was wearing a white mink robe, a jade belt around his waist, and black leather boots.

It is radiant and makes people feel very comfortable.

"Big brother."

"Master!"

The three of them shouted together.

The person who came was none other than Zhang Juzheng's eldest son, Zhang Jingxiu.

Because the first four sons were married, they did not live in the Grand Secretary's Mansion.

Today, Zhang Yunxiu arrived in Beijing rashly. Zhang Juzheng thought that the family should get together, so he sent someone to call back his sons.

"Wulang, what are you doing here?" Zhang Jingxiu was stunned when he saw Zhang Yunxiu.

"Brother, why are you here?" Zhang Yunxiu asked with a smile.

"I, I." Zhang Jingxiu hesitated for a long time and couldn't say anything. Seeing the two people kneeling on the ground, he quickly changed the subject and asked, "By the way, what are you two doing kneeling on the ground?"

Without waiting for the two to answer, Zhang Yunxiu pulled his eldest brother over and explained it in detail.

After hearing this, Zhang Jingxiu widened his eyes, looked at his brother and said with emotion: "It was you. I wouldn't dare to talk to my father like this."

"I call it a dead pig that can't be boiled in boiling water." Zhang Yunxiu made an inappropriate analogy, then smiled mysteriously and said, "Brother, if you want this deer, I can give you one."

"Cough cough."

(End of this chapter)