Uncle from a poor family

Chapter 304 Those who are barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes
Early the next morning, Li Zisheng rushed to the Imperial Hospital with the new prescription.

The people in the Imperial Hospital were very surprised to learn that Li Zisheng was there in person. Those on duty, led by the director of the hospital Zhang Yuan, came out to greet him with Shi Qin, Qian Dun and Liu Wentai.

"Go in and talk."

Li Zisheng called out and several people followed him into the Imperial Hospital.

Zhang Yuan and others saw that Li Zisheng had come with bad intentions and guessed that it might be related to the emperor's illness, but they were not sure. They only saw Li Zisheng bringing Pang Qing to the central hall of the Imperial Hospital. After stopping, they looked up at the portrait of Bian Que hanging high with an extremely serious expression.

At this moment, no one was willing to step forward and ask what was going on.

“What a sacred temple.”

Li Zisheng expressed his sincere emotion.

Pang Qing laughed and said, "You are right, Taoist. This is where all the world's doctors gather. It can be said that famous doctors from all over the world gather here. It is said that as long as a patient enters the Imperial Hospital, he can come in horizontally and leave vertically. The hospital can bring the dead back to life. It is simply miraculous."

Zhang Yuan heard something was wrong in their conversation, and hurried forward to ask: "Li Yintai, who is sick in your house? If you need us to come and see, with your prestige, you can just send someone to inform them, there is no need to come in person."

Li Zisheng took out a list from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Yuan: "Zhang Yuanshi, I have a prescription here. Can you tell me how to use it?"

"this……?"

Zhang Yuan took the list and looked at it for a long time.

At this time, Shi Qin and others also came over and leaned over to watch.

Liu Wentai, who happened to be standing next to Zhang Yuan, was outspoken and recited it directly: "Scutellaria baicalensis, Coptis chinensis, Gardenia jasminoides, Honeysuckle. This is... a prescription for clearing away heat and detoxifying. Is it used to treat heat toxicity?"

Li Zisheng frowned and looked at Liu Wentai, and asked, "Who are you?"

Liu Wentai was very embarrassed. Apparently, he was not famous enough in the Imperial Medical Bureau. A big shot like Li Zisheng did not even know him. But if he took the initiative to step forward and introduce himself, it would seem that his previous actions were just to attract the other party's attention, which would be a disadvantage.

Zhang Yuan said tactfully, "This is Liu Wentai, a doctor from the Imperial Hospital."

"Oh."

Li Zisheng ignored him and turned to look at Zhang Yuan and asked, "I want to ask Envoy Zhang, how about this prescription?"

"It's quite satisfactory, but I don't know what disease it corresponds to?"

Zhang Yuan was a little confused for a moment and spoke casually.

Li Zisheng was a little surprised.

I thought to myself, it would be fine if you didn't have a new prescription to treat the emperor, but now I have brought a prescription and shown you every ingredient, and you still can't figure out what it is used for?
Seeing that Li Zisheng didn't say anything, Pang Qing thought that he needed to do it for him. He was about to step forward to explain the function, but was stopped by Li Zisheng.

Li Zisheng said: "Let me make it clear, this prescription is for your majesty, you guys consider it, is this prescription feasible?"

"No."

Zhang Yuan refused without even thinking, "When administering medicine to His Majesty, one must be extremely cautious. Prescriptions of unknown origin can easily cause relapses of His Majesty's condition. As the saying goes, drugs conflict with each other. Who dares to take this risk?

"Also, Li Yintai's duties do not seem to cover the use of prescriptions and medicines in our Imperial Hospital. Please leave, Li Yintai, and do not interfere with our work."

Li Zisheng said angrily, "You are a bunch of cowards. I never saw you take your majesty so seriously when I was treating him. Now I just gave you a prescription and asked you to consider it. Why are you making excuses? What's the matter? Is my medicine poisonous? Are you trying to murder His Majesty?"

"Master Li, please be careful with your words."

Liu Wentai hurried to persuade him.

Li Zisheng sat there, looking like he didn't want to leave, and said angrily: "Now I am not here to discuss with you how to use the medicine, but to formally inform you that you must use the prescription I provided on Your Majesty, and in the name of your Imperial Hospital, so that Your Majesty can feel more at ease when taking the medicine."

Shi Qin was a straightforward man. He strode out and asked sternly, "Master Li, if you have the ability to treat His Majesty, you shouldn't ask us to offer the medicine. You should just deliver it yourself. Why do you have to use our Imperial Hospital as a pretext? If anything goes wrong, will you be solely responsible for it?"

"nonsense!"

Li Zisheng glared and shouted, "When did I say I would avoid responsibility? I don't want you, a group of medical experts, to be laughed at by the world!

"Your Majesty has been taking the same medication since the onset of the disease at the beginning of the year. Now, your Majesty's condition has been getting worse, but you are still stubborn and stubborn? Do you think your Majesty is blind and doesn't know the tricks in your Imperial Hospital?"

"This……"

Shi Qin tried to refute, "Your Majesty, isn't your health good? Who said your condition is serious?"

Li Zisheng slammed the table and shouted angrily, "Don't act crazy in front of me! Your Majesty's condition is getting worse at a speed visible to the naked eye. At the beginning of the year, the whites of his eyes were not yellow, but now, after taking a glass mirror from the Queen Mother to observe from time to time, Your Majesty has long known that the whites of his eyes are yellowing! Recently, even his skin has turned yellow!
"Your Majesty is now exhausted and out of breath after walking a few steps. You have to sit down and rest. The symptoms are so obvious, and you still dare to lie with your eyes open...

"I'm telling you, is there any need to hide this? What is the condition of His Majesty's health? Do you think that without the Imperial Hospital's conclusion, no one would know?"

Pang Qing laughed and said, "It seems that some people are trying to cover up their mistakes!"

Zhang Yuan suppressed his anger and stepped forward to persuade him kindly: "Li Yintai, calm down first. His Majesty's condition is showing some signs of deterioration, but we should still take our time with many things. It seems... against the rules for you to just take a prescription of unknown origin and say you want to treat His Majesty."

"Okay."

Li Zisheng sneered and followed up with the other party's words and issued an order, "Then you should do something proper. Today I want you to change the medicine and use the prescription I provided to make medicine for His Majesty, and then send it to the Qianqing Palace for His Majesty to take. I won't make it difficult for you. As long as any of you prescribes a better prescription than mine, I will use yours. You can choose one from them!"

“You…what are you talking about?”

Zhang Yuan was puzzled. How could someone openly command the Imperial Hospital to do things?

You, Li Zisheng, are just a Taoist priest, and you want to interfere with us doctors?

Li Zisheng said, "Humph, if you are unwilling to follow my prescription to make the medicine, and are unwilling to prescribe the medicine, then don't go anywhere. I will wait here... Unless you want to make a big deal out of it and let His Majesty know that you are just good-for-nothings."

After that, Li Zisheng really stayed in the Imperial Medical Bureau and refused to leave.

After learning about the situation, the imperial doctors working outside the Imperial Hospital rushed back one after another. Regardless of whether they had anything to do or not, they all gathered outside the central hall to point fingers. Li Zisheng, who was waiting inside, was completely unafraid of boiling water. He demanded that the Imperial Hospital immediately come up with a new prescription that was completely different from the one used in the previous few months and not delay the treatment of the emperor's illness any further.

Li Zisheng originally thought that this would make the people from the Imperial Hospital surrender, but after spending a long time, this group of people still gritted their teeth and refused to give in.

Pang Qing went out to discuss with several senior officials of the Imperial Hospital, and returned with a sullen face to report: "Your Excellency, your efforts have been in vain. They refused to give in, saying that you have interfered with their normal work. They also said that they were going to file a petition to accuse you of delaying the Imperial Hospital from treating His Majesty."

Li Zisheng laughed angrily: "I originally negotiated with them in a friendly manner, but now it seems that my kindness is really taken for granted! In this case, forget it. I will stay here and see how this group of people will end after the incident."

Obviously, Li Zisheng is more justified in this matter.

I am here to denounce this group of mediocre and incompetent doctors for the sake of Your Majesty. Even if what I did is against the rules, I am doing it for the emperor's health.

Will the emperor blame me?
I'm afraid they will just clap and cheer!

Zhang Yuan was outside, almost going crazy.

This incident did not have much impact on ordinary imperial physicians, but for him, the impact was too bad.

Li Zisheng's disturbance might spread to the court and the public, and might even become known to the public. By then, the Imperial Hospital would become a joke...

Of course, Li Zisheng himself might also be laughed at by others, but who can blame him for not being afraid of causing trouble?

In terms of power, Li Zisheng is many times more powerful than them. If he wants to retaliate against them, it will be easy for him to do so.

In the courtyard outside, Liu Wentai saw that the situation was at a stalemate, so he quickly stepped forward to persuade them: "Envoy Zhang, if it really doesn't work, why don't we just follow that Lord Li?"

Shi Qinxian couldn't listen any longer and shouted, "Are you crazy? How dare you change the prescription for His Majesty? And you use a prescription of unknown origin?"

Liu Wentai said aggrievedly: "Lord Li has always been very careful about keeping his actions secret. If His Majesty sent someone to find a prescription from the people and wanted us to use it, but we insisted on resisting it with all our strength, then wouldn't we be..."

"okay."

Zhang Yuan interrupted Li Wentai and asked coldly, "Do you think this is possible?"

"This...I..."

Liu Wentai was speechless for a moment.

"If Your Majesty really found the prescription, even if he didn't believe us, he would never let Li Zisheng come to make trouble... This person clearly wanted to give our colleagues in the Imperial Hospital a warning. The medicine used in the prescription is mediocre and is not suitable for the liver disease Your Majesty suffers from. He did this just to humiliate us."

Zhang Yuan made his own judgment at the right time based on Li Zisheng's actions.

After all, he is the head of the Imperial Medical Service. He said that Li Zisheng came here specifically to cause trouble. No matter what others think, they have to correct their cognition based on what he said.

Liu Wentai stammered, "But... I always feel that... the prescription he provided is not simple... The combination of these four herbs seems to be quite unique... Although we have also added Coptis chinensis to the prescription your majesty is currently using, it is mainly based on licorice after all, and his medicine is really..."

Shi Qin questioned dissatisfiedly: "Hey, what's wrong with you? You don't think the prescription provided by Li Zisheng can really cure your majesty's illness?"

"of course not."

Liu Wentai shook his head and explained, "In fact, in my opinion, the idea of ​​the prescription is correct. Li Zisheng may not have come to our Imperial Hospital specifically to cause trouble."

No matter what Liu Wentai had done, or what extraordinary things he would do in the future, he was definitely one of the most outstanding people in the Imperial Medical Bureau in terms of pharmacology research. Obviously, he realized that Li Zisheng's prescription might really have miraculous effects.

Unfortunately, Liu Wentai was a lowly figure and his words carried no weight, so no one thought what he said was right. Some people even believed that he was trying to flatter Li Zisheng, so they looked at him in a wrong way.

Things dragged on like this.

Li Zisheng refused to leave no matter what. No matter how powerful the people in the Imperial Hospital were, they could not do anything to him. After all, Li Zisheng held a high position in the court and was favored by everyone, and everyone fawned on him and was afraid of him.
Finally, after internal consultations within the Imperial Medical Service, a decision was made that Shi Qin would personally go and invite Tan Chang, who was the Minister of Internal Affairs and a member of the Imperial Medical Service, to make the decision.

"…Eunuch Qin, that Li Yintai didn't care about anything and ran to the Imperial Hospital with a prescription, saying that the medicine must be prescribed according to his prescription. However, according to the judgment of my colleagues in the Imperial Hospital, the prescription is only used to clear away heat and purge fire, and it is completely powerless for liver disease. Therefore, Dean Zhang rejected it, and the situation has been deadlocked…

"Li Zisheng interfered with the normal operation of the Imperial Hospital. If this delayed the treatment of your majesty's illness, I'm afraid no one can bear the responsibility. If it weren't for the last resort, I wouldn't come to bother you."

Shi Qin knows how to pass the buck.

Only by putting the blame on others can you feel at ease.

Tan Changzheng personally led two young eunuchs to the Imperial Hospital. Upon hearing this, he couldn't help but ask, "Your Majesty's prescription, you haven't changed it in a few months, right?"

This question stumped Shi Qin.

"Don't blame Master Li for causing trouble for you. If you keep delaying like this, I'm afraid His Majesty will make you unhappy." Qin Chang took the opportunity to criticize this group of conservative and inflexible guys.

Since Liang Fang's downfall and exile to Nanjing, the situation within the palace has changed greatly.

The Imperial Medical Service itself was affiliated with the internal official system and had been dependent on Liang Fang before. Now they regarded Tan Chang as their new backer. After all, the current eunuch in charge of the Imperial Stables, Luo Xiang, could not handle the situation at all. The balance of power naturally tilted towards Tan Chang. Anyone with a discerning eye would know what choice to make.

(End of this chapter)