Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 350: The Scam Brothers
The weather in the southwest is now in late autumn and entering winter. The weather should be getting colder, but it is still extremely hot.

This kind of weather is most likely to breed malaria.

Tang Yin shuddered violently. He had been infected with malaria for several days, but he did not tell Chen Ce, who was far away in Shuntian Prefecture, about this news, for fear that Chen Ce would worry.

Han officials and soldiers throughout the Myanmar Xuanwei Office were infected one after another, and the situation became increasingly serious.

Although Tang Yin had made all the necessary preparations, he was still unable to stop the spreading malaria epidemic.

During the past six months or so, Tang Yin had already established a foothold in the Myanmar Xuanwei Division, and he had also managed to get rid of the three most powerful chieftains of the Myanmar Xuanwei Division.

Chen Ce's strategy played a great role.

"grown ups."

A clerk found Tang Yin, who was shivering with a pale face, and said, "The doctors sent by the imperial hospital have arrived, but they seem to be helpless against malaria."

Smallpox, malaria, plague and other plagues in ancient times all had high mortality rates. Whether one could survive did not depend on how good the doctor's medical skills were, but entirely on luck.

Tang Yin didn't know if he could hold on through this, so he waved his hand helplessly to let the clerk go. Finally, he picked up the pen, wrote a letter, and ordered someone to rush it to Beiping to give it to his teacher.

In the Qianqing Palace.

Emperor Hongzhi was extremely troubled by the large-scale malaria outbreak in the southwest, and the six ministries of the cabinet often went to the palace to receive imperial orders in recent days.

Seeing that the policy of transforming the chieftains in the southwest into officials has gradually taken effect, the people of the entire southwest have won over. If this plague is not controlled well, it may cause the chieftains in the southwest to become alienated.

This is a crisis but also an opportunity. Once this large-scale malaria is under control, the natives of the southwest will have more trust in the Ming Dynasty's rule over the southwest.

The cabinet sent batches of relief officials, doctors, medical officers, and medicines to the southwest. They knew that it was almost impossible to completely cure malaria. What they could do now was to prevent malaria from spreading widely. As long as it was controlled and no more people died in this plague, it would be a success.

In order to appease the people in the southwest, the cabinet made another promise to the southwest, saying that the Imperial Medical Bureau was developing an antidote for malaria.

Of course this is not possible. The dynasty has studied various plagues for hundreds and thousands of years, but still has not figured it out. This is just an excuse made by the cabinet to appease the people in the southwest.

Otherwise, if someone takes advantage of the plague to cause chaos in the southwest, the reforms that the court has been carrying out in the southwest for more than half a year will be a complete failure.

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Sophora japonica alley.

Liu Wentai looked helpless, but there was nothing he could do. The malaria in the southwest was not something he could solve, so he could only leave it to fate.

Chen Ce listened to Liu Wentai's words, thought for a moment and said, "Ask the doctor from the Imperial Hospital to go to the southwest to find a tree."

Liu Wentai: “Ah?”

Chen Ce continued: "Cinchona tree, leaves are oblong-lanceolate, elliptical-oblong or lanceolate, with obtuse or short pointed tips and cuneate bases; inflorescences are covered with light yellow soft hairs; stamens are hidden; capsules are oval and covered with soft hairs; seeds are oblong and winged..."

Liu Wentai didn't know why Chen Ce was looking for this kind of book, so he asked curiously: "Mr. Chen, this is..."

Chen Ce said: "After finding this tree, grind the bark into powder, boil it, and give it to patients infected with malaria. Maybe it will be effective."

Liu Wentai: “…”

You can't even cure your own illness, yet you swear that you can cure malaria?
"What are you doubting?" Zhu Houzhao stared at Liu Wentai, "Have you remembered everything?!"

"Hurry up and write it down, and let the imperial physician in the southwest follow my instructions!"

Liu Wentai sighed and said fearfully, "Mr. Chen, it's not that I don't trust you. The main reason is that the plague in the southwest is not just a plague problem."

"If, I mean if, if we prescribe medicine indiscriminately, and once problems occur after taking the medicine, the local people in the southwest will lose confidence in the Ming Dynasty even more." Chen Ce knew what Liu Wentai was thinking. This group of imperial doctors went to the southwest probably with the purpose of preferring not to make any achievements rather than to make mistakes.

Let them go for treatment, and at most prescribe some nourishing Chinese herbal medicine. At least make sure there are no other problems besides malaria, and that will be considered a success.

At that time, even if there was trouble in the southwest, the blame could not be placed on the Imperial Hospital.

At a time like this, everyone is thinking about protecting themselves, and the Imperial Medical Office is no exception, so they certainly wouldn't dare to try to prescribe new drugs indiscriminately.

Every profession has its own expertise, and Chen Ce could not force Liu Wentai to trust him in this matter.

After all, I am not a doctor, and I am seriously ill.

He had many thoughts, but Zhu Houzhao didn't care. He pointed at Liu Wentai and said, "You are the director of the Imperial Hospital! You don't think about curing diseases, but only about keeping things conservative."

"Whether the natives in the southwest will lose confidence in the imperial court is none of your business."

"I think you are afraid of being blamed by the Imperial Hospital, so you don't dare to try!"

Liu Wentai indeed thought so, but when Zhu Houzhao pointed it out, he was a little at a loss.

"Now, immediately, right now! Use your identity as the chief judge of the Imperial Hospital to write a letter and send it to the southwest!"

"Let the doctor in the Southwest Imperial Hospital prescribe medicine according to your prescription!"

"Liu Jin, bring me paper and pen."

Liu Jin chuckled and said, "Great!"

He took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, handed them to Liu Wentai, and said arrogantly: "President Liu, write quickly, don't force me to slap you."

After all, Liu Wentai was the imperial physician of three dynasties and was highly respected. However, he was threatened by a eunuch from the Eastern Palace at this time, and he was furious for a moment.

But he didn't dare to say anything at this time. These two powerful master and servant could really do something excessive.

To take a step back, if there really were any medical problems in the southwest, he could also push the blame onto the Crown Prince and Chen Ce. Even if His Majesty was angry, let him punish the Crown Prince and Chen Ce. It had nothing to do with him.

Liu Wentai gritted his teeth and finished writing the letter according to Chen Ce's instructions.

Zhu Houzhao casually handed the letter to Liu Jin and said, "Well, go to Shuntian Express and ask them to rush the letter from Doctor Liu to the southwest."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Houzhao bared his teeth and said, "Haha! Doctor Liu, you have written the prescription. If it doesn't cure the malaria in the southwest, you just wait and see."

Liu Wentai: “???”

No, this prescription was not prescribed by me. Didn’t you force me to prescribe it?
Liu Wentai was speechless.

Chen Ce said to Zhu Houzhao, "Don't scare Doctor Liu."

Liu Wentai felt relieved, thinking that Chen Ce was a man of courtesy and etiquette, unlike the crown prince who was so unreasonable.

"At worst, even if the emperor blames me, he can't kill Doctor Liu."

Karma?
Chen Ce, why are you as unreasonable as the prince? !

Chen Ce smiled and said to Liu Wentai, "Okay, it's just a joke. This matter has nothing to do with Imperial Doctor Liu. If the emperor asks, just push it to me."

That's more like it! Liu Wentai wiped the sweat from his forehead.

(End of this chapter)