Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 1429 A Glimmer of Hope for Redress, Behind the Scenes (Two Chapters Combined)
Next, the two went outside the room. Fang Yan didn't hide anything from Li Ke and directly told him the recipes for bags number one and three.

He also explained the entire thought process behind the compatibility to Li Ke.

This surprised Li Ke, not because of the ingenuity of the formula, but because Fang Yan was willing to tell him this secret recipe on their first meeting.

All six prescriptions issued this time were in medicine packets, with no information given to the staff about what was inside. It's obvious this was for secrecy.

Otherwise, it would be much more convenient to just distribute all the prescriptions and let the lower-level units purchase the medicines according to the prescriptions.

The extra transportation costs incurred for no apparent reason are actually all for the purpose of preserving the secrets of these six formulas.

Just thinking about the costs involved makes it clear that they are considerable.

But now that Fang Yan had so easily told him, Li Ke suddenly felt a little confused about Fang Yan's behavior.

Little did he know that the two recipes spoken in dialect were exactly what he would later summarize.

Li Ke hesitated for a moment, then asked Fang Yan:

"Director Fang, is it really appropriate to just tell me directly...?"

Fang Yan said with a smile:

"Then you'll have to keep it a secret for me."

"..." Li Ke was speechless. He even felt that Fang Yan was planning to harm him. If this matter was leaked, wouldn't it be because he was the one who leaked it?
However, the two had no grudges against each other, so Fang Yan had no reason to mess with him.

Li Ke wiped the sweat from his forehead and said:

“Okay, keeping it a secret is no problem. I’m a tight-lipped person. As long as you don’t tell anyone else, Director Fang, I guarantee that no one else will know about this.”

Fang Yan was slightly taken aback when she heard Li Ke's words. It seemed that Li Ke had caused her psychological trauma.

Considering that he had been tricked twice in a row, Fang Yan immediately understood him.

At this point, Li Ke couldn't help but ask again:

"But Director Fang, could you tell me why you trusted me so much when we first met?"

Fang Yan tried his best to make his attitude seem sincere, and he said to Li Ke:

“This is our first meeting, but I’ve heard your story a long time ago. I know Dr. Li is very talented, and the reason I’m telling you this is simply because I admire you.”

"Huh?" Li Ke was taken aback.

He didn't expect Fang Yan to give such a response.

What do you mean by "I heard his story a long time ago"?

It's not unusual for people from Lingshi to have heard stories from the capital, but is it possible for people from the capital to hear stories from Lingshi?

Who said that?
Countless questions arose in his mind in an instant.

Just then, Fang Yan asked Li Ke:

"Remember your own strong dose of Si Ni Jia Shen Tang?"

The name "Poge Jiuxin Tang" (破格救心汤) wasn't originally used. Initially, it was called "Jiuji Fang" (救急方), then "Fuzi Tang" (附子汤), and after referencing Zhang Xichun's "Laifu Tang" (来复汤), it was renamed "Zhongji Sini Jiashen Tang" (重剂四逆加参汤). Only after many years of clinical practice was it renamed "Poge Jiuxin Tang".

Upon hearing the dialect, Li Ke paused slightly, then nodded.
"of course I remember!"

"Director Fang has actually heard of him?"

Fang Yan said to him:
“I heard about it when I was working in the countryside in Sichuan. I knew back then that you used this to save patients with pulmonary heart disease and heart failure.”

"After returning to Beijing, I made some minor improvements and then reported it for promotion. Now it has been promoted in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in major cities across the country. According to statistics from a while ago, it has saved more than 80 people in six months."

"Oh, right, when I submitted the report, I also included your name."

After hearing the dialect spoken, Li Ke was completely dumbfounded:

"Huh? There's such a thing?"

Fang Yan said to him:
"How about I write down the prescription for you to see?"

Li Ke hesitated for a moment, then nodded:
"it is good!"

Then Fang Yan took out his pen and notebook and wrote down the complete formula for the "Exceptional Heart-Saving Soup".

Then he handed it to Li Ke:
"This is the improved formula. When I submitted it, it was called the Breakthrough Heart-Saving Decoction."

Li Ke looked at the complete recipe.

In addition to the aconite, dried ginger, prepared licorice root, Korean ginseng, cornus officinalis, raw dragon bone powder, active magnetite powder, and musk he used, the prescription also included salvia miltiorrhiza, trichosanthes kirilowii, allium macrostemon, white wine, sandalwood, amomum villosum, and cinnamon bark.

It contains many more ingredients than his original prescription.

He asked in dialect:

"This combination of ingredients includes more drugs than my current prescription. What's the reasoning behind this?"

Fang Yan already knew he would ask, so she pointed to the prescription and said to him:
"That's it..."

Next, Fang Yan recounted Li Ke's experience in drug combinations, which he had summarized in his later years, to the middle-aged Li Ke...

Li Ke was completely shocked, as if struck by a sudden enlightenment.

I couldn't help but admire him. This young man was truly living up to his reputation; he was indeed a genius!

He provided answers to questions I hadn't considered or hadn't thought through before.

He immediately took out his paper and pen and began to quickly write down what Fang Yan had just said, because he was afraid that he would forget it later, and if he forgot it, he might have to take many detours later.

The idea of ​​dialects shortened his lifespan by more than ten years, or even several decades.

It was only then that Li Ke realized the terrifying talent that Fang Yan possessed.

It's astonishing that someone could improve their own recipe so perfectly after only hearing it once.

He improved upon the Si Ni Tang formula from the Treatise on Cold Damage and the Lai Fu Tang formula from Zhang Xichun. Then, Fang Yan further improved the formula based on his own work, making it even more perfect. Even Li Ke highly agreed with this improvement plan, feeling that even if he had made the changes himself, the result would probably be similar.

Moreover, when the dialect was revised and reported to the Ministry of Health, they even filled in their own names.

In fact, he could easily say that this prescription comes from the Sini Tang in the Treatise on Cold Damage and the Laifu Tang by Zhang Xichun.

But he had only heard his own name before, and that's how he added it to the list; at that time, the two hadn't even met once.

Now, Li Ke can't help but appreciate the dialect.

He had no choice but to ask himself if he could do the same thing.

He felt that things were really hard to say.

He cupped his hands in a gesture of respect towards Fang Yan and said:
"Director Fang, I didn't really do anything, yet you still wrote my name on it. I really don't know what to say."

Fang Yan waved his hand and said:
"It's only right. If I hadn't heard your story, I really wouldn't have been able to come up with this formula. I must put your name on it."

"Moreover, it's not just about this one prescription. Your discovery about the dosage of aconite also indirectly explains why Li Shizhen's method of measurement and conversion was wrong. This was later proven after the excavation of cultural relics, and it has already been included in university textbooks this year."

"Huh? It's already proven?" Li Ke was dumbfounded. These were just one bombshell after another!

Fang Yan nodded and said:
"Yes, this thing is called the Great Minister of Agriculture Bronze Weight. It was discovered last year along the river at the Chenjiataizi Ancient Tomb in Heisongyi, Gulang, Gansu."

When Li Shizhen was studying medical works from the Han Dynasty, he proposed the view that "the ancient and modern systems are different. One liang in ancient times is equivalent to one qian in modern times." He believed that one liang in ancient times was equivalent to one qian at that time. However, modern Chinese medicine uniformly treats the liang in ancient prescriptions as qian, and then converts it to modern times. So now we treat one liang in ancient prescriptions as one qian, which is 3 grams.

"However, after the bronze weight of the Grand Minister of Agriculture was unearthed, experts from the Palace Museum discovered that one liang in the Han Dynasty was about 15.625 grams, which means that if we follow Li Shizhen's statement, the dosage of the ancient prescription was reduced by about 5 times."

Li Ke was excited:

"Really...is that really true?"

If what he said in the dialect is true, then the amount of aconite he used is correct! It completely matches the ancient method.

Fang Yan nodded and said:
"Yes, not only the copper weight of the Grand Minister of Agriculture, but we also found a similar measurement method in a traditional Chinese medicine book from the Edo period in Japan, which shows that Li Shizhen's statement is wrong."

Li Ke was stunned for a while before he came to his senses and said to Fang Yan:

"I knew it! I knew it! Li Shizhen must have made a mistake in the conversion!"

“I used what he said and used a dose of a dozen grams to save the person, but it didn’t work. In the end, it was my friend’s wife who made a mistake and saved the old lady! Later I realized that the dosage of aconite must have been insufficient, but according to Li Shizhen, I had completely overdosed it, so I don’t even know if I was right or wrong…”

"Dr. Fang, it's all thanks to you! You've cleared up all my doubts today!"

He was even more excited than before.

Fang Yan said to him:
"I was quite shocked at the time. I confirmed with the people at the Palace Museum several times, and finally had a meeting with the people at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Medicine. Only after the discussion was completed did we make some minor revisions to the textbook."

Upon hearing Fang Yan's words, Li Ke was taken aback and asked:

"Why not publish it in the newspaper? This kind of situation should be reported nationwide! Otherwise, many people still don't know about it."

Fang Yan shook her head and said to him:
"This matter is not so easy to explain clearly. Some people have been prescribing medicine according to Li Shizhen's units of measurement for their entire lives. If we tell them now, it could very likely cause a major social incident. We discussed it for a long time before deciding to first revise the textbooks in universities and then gradually promote it."

Li Ke frowned and said:

"But a mistake is a mistake. Wouldn't making it public now prevent more people from making the same mistake again?"

Fang Yan sighed and said to him:
"It's not that we don't want to make it public, it's just that people's hearts are unpredictable, Dr. Li!" "We've already encountered considerable obstacles by gradually rolling it out. If we were to announce it directly, we might encounter even bigger problems."

Li Ke opened his mouth, somewhat surprised, and asked:

"People of your status...are you afraid?"

In his view, people of their social standing, like Fang Yan, had no reason to be afraid.

Who would dare to cause him trouble?
Fang Yan looked around to make sure no one else was there before speaking:
"Of course I'm afraid! No matter who it is, if their actions affect the interests of most people, no one is unafraid."

"Therefore, we can't do this all at once. We have to take it slowly, step by step, and solve one problem at a time as we encounter one problem."

"Just like when the Qin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms, it didn't declare war on the whole world from the beginning, did it?"

Li Ke looked at the young man in front of him with some surprise. At this moment, he felt like a greenhorn.

The other person just casually said the truth that I had fallen down so many times without understanding.

Generally speaking, a person who excels in medicine is unlikely to be very adept at interpersonal relationships, no matter how intelligent they may be.

Moreover, Fang Yan looks to be only in his early twenties. What happened to him to learn to speak like that?
Li Ke scratched his head. After careful consideration, he agreed with what the dialect said.

He even suddenly understood some things from the past; a one-size-fits-all approach might have made things even more serious, and would have created more enemies.

He spoke in dialect:

“That makes sense… I did think this was too simplistic.”

Seeing that the other person was so receptive to advice, Fang Yan changed the subject and said:
"I heard from Dean He and the others that you have another case against you, right?"

Upon hearing Fang Yan's words, Li Ke's ears immediately turned red, and he said with a serious expression:

"There are two cases."

dialect:"……"

Well, there are indeed two cases. The one from 53 was still unclear in the end, and later someone used it to falsely accuse him, which led to his wrongful imprisonment again.

Historically, it wasn't until July 1982 that the injustice was completely redressed.

Li Ke asked in dialect:

"I wonder what Director Fang is trying to say?"

Fang Yan paused, then said to him:
"I have a way to exonerate you now. You need to organize your materials and then come with me to Taiyuan."

He had already made up his mind. Even if Zhang Yi couldn't be exonerated, he would contact the people in Beijing and ask them to help him get things done.

Upon hearing Fang Yan's words, Li Ke was taken aback, his breathing became heavier, and then he quickly shook his head and said:

"I'm afraid that won't work..."

"Why not?" Fang Yan was puzzled. She hadn't even explained how to help him clear his name yet, and he had already said no.

"I was falsely accused," Li Ke said, hesitating to finish her sentence.

Fang Yan frowned and said:

“I know that, so I asked you to write a report and provide some evidence, and then I took you to Taiyuan to get this done.”

Li Ke opened his mouth, hesitated for a long while, and then said:
"No, the person who falsely accused me back then has a family member who is an official."

"If I find evidence to prove that the accusation is false, then the other side will get the news and start verifying the evidence. Who knows how things will develop then."

“Dr. Fang, I know you mean well, but you can only stay here for a few days. I’ll be sad when you leave. Although I have a case on my record, it doesn’t affect my life too much. I think I should just leave…”

Fang Yan realized why Li Ke had to wait until July 1982 to be exonerated, and then the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was established immediately in 1983. His unfortunate life suddenly seemed to have hit rock bottom and bounced back.

So that's why there's someone above keeping things under control!
It seems that this person must have retired or been transferred before Li Ke was promoted.

To be able to suppress someone for so long, and remain completely unscathed after the storm, this person must be quite powerful!

"Are you afraid that things will be even worse after I leave, that this 'false accusation' label will not only remain but become even more firmly attached to you?" Fang Yan asked Li Ke.

Li Ke nodded.

Li Ke was afraid, but Fang Yan wasn't. He had come prepared and was determined to get this done. The more difficult the task, the more Li Ke would remember it after Fang Yan helped him solve it.

Li Ke then said:
"Dr. Fang, you'd better not worry about this. It doesn't affect me much right now, so it's fine as it is."

"I appreciate your kind gesture! If you ever need my help in the future, please don't hesitate to ask..."

At this moment, Fang Yan waved his hand and said to Li Ke:

"Let's put that aside for now. This matter may seem like a big deal to you, but it might not be a big deal to me. Even if we can't bring down the other side, I can still protect you."

"And are you really willing to carry this stain for the rest of your life? Let those who truly framed you go free, and might even be secretly laughing at you, jumping out at any time to obstruct your medical practice, or simply stabbing you in the back again?"

Li Ke's lips moved, as if she wanted to say something but then swallowed it back. Her expression clearly showed that she was somewhat moved by what Fang Yan said.

Fang Yan pressed her advantage and said to him:
"Look at me, Dr. Li!"

"Tell me, do you really want this?"

Li Ke was a little unsure how to answer at this moment.

"Although I just said I was afraid, that was for a large group, not just one person. You are facing one person, or at most a few people, not a large group. Since I dared to say that I would help you clear your name, it was not a spur-of-the-moment decision, nor was it just empty talk."

"You just asked me why I told you the prescription the first time we met? Besides admiring your medical skills, it's also because I know you as a person! I know you are a truly capable and responsible person, and you shouldn't be held back by these petty things and people!"

“But…” Li Ke was somewhat tempted, but in the end he still couldn’t make up his mind.

There are various reasons for this.

You can tell from the dialect that Li Ke is very conflicted right now.

“I know a stranger suddenly jumped out and said he wanted to exonerate you, and he said it with such conviction that it was hard to believe, but I assure you that I am sincere.”

"To be honest, before I came here, I was thinking of helping you get this done and then taking you directly to the capital. I also need manpower on my side, but after seeing the medical situation here, I know that there is a lack of good doctors. We need you to do more, to shine and use your medical knowledge to treat more people. So I'm giving you the choice. If you're worried that after this matter is overturned, that person will retaliate, then you can come to the capital with me."

"But even if you don't leave, I'm confident I can be your protector and make that person afraid to touch you."

"You probably don't know who my backer is."

"I can talk to Director Liao of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, Vice Minister Li of the Ministry of Health, and many other high-ranking leaders. My master is the head of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Group of the Central Health Care Group. I can meet those people who often appear in the newspapers. If you have a legitimate claim, I guarantee no one can touch you."

"Moreover, I came to Shanxi this time with a mission and authorization from above to solve problems! The pilot program has run into trouble, and some local officials have engaged in underhanded tactics and abused their power, all of which are within my investigation scope. If your case involves these people, then that's perfect! I will not only exonerate you, but also correct this unhealthy trend!"

He patted Li Ke on the shoulder, his grip firm and steady: "Tell me, who is it? Who is pulling all this strings behind the scenes? What's their name, and where are they now? Don't worry, I'm not reckless; I won't alert them. I have my own methods and channels to handle this. I can rewrite Li Shizhen's measurement errors into textbooks; surely I can protect a good doctor who's been framed? I assure you, I'm determined to handle this, and I'll see it through to the end! Not only will I clear your name, but I'll also make those who harmed you pay the price. Do you trust me?"

Fang Yan's eyes were piercing, full of determination and confidence.

Li Ke trembled slightly, and his breathing became heavier; he was indeed tempted.

He could sense the powerful aura emanating from Fang Yan, a man who had long held a high position and controlled the overall situation. This was an unprecedented shock and a source of hope.

Li Ke was so shocked by these words that her heart pounded and beads of sweat involuntarily appeared on her forehead.

The young man in front of me is indeed very influential in Beijing. This is not bragging, but something I have heard from the newspapers and from Bai Xiaochun.

The thought that he was personally arranged by Vice Minister Li of the Ministry of Health and Director Liao of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office finally broke through the dam of fear, as the grievances and anger that had accumulated over the years, as well as the sliver of hope that he dared not even dare to hope for.

He took a deep breath, as if using all his strength, his voice trembling, yet he uttered a name and a title with perfect clarity:
“Director Fang… is… is Deputy Director Wang of the county revolutionary committee, Wang… Wang Zhankui. He was a relative of mine back then… and it was he who suppressed my case and prevented me from overturning it…”

Fang Yan was taken aback.

Wait...the county?
He thought it was a big shot from the province!
Is this what they mean by "the King of Hell is easier to deal with than his underlings"?

Fang Yan stared at Li Ke's flushed face, feeling both annoyed and amused.

He was prepared to deal with provincial-level officials, but he never expected that the person who had been holding Li Ke back for nearly twenty years was actually a deputy director of the county's Revolutionary Committee.

The contrast made him chuckle softly, his tone tinged with a sense of relief:

"Wang Zhankui? The deputy director of the county revolutionary committee?"

Li Ke paused for a moment, nodded, and looked at Fang Yan's reaction with a puzzled expression.

He thought Fang Yan would frown and find it troublesome, but Fang Yan's face showed no trouble at all, instead revealing a look of being both amused and exasperated.

Fang Yan chuckled slightly and said to him:
“Dr. Li, you’ve been held back for the past twenty years by a ‘little devil.’ It’s not that I look down on county officials, but officials of this rank really don’t warrant me using my connections in the capital.”

Li Ke probably sensed Fang Yan's attitude, and he said:

"Director Fang, this person is no ordinary individual!"

Fang Yan asked curiously:
"Oh? How is it not simple?"

Li said:
"Everyone else collapsed last year, but he was fine."

PS: The basic chapter of 6000 words has been updated.

(End of this chapter)