Section 9 Monarchs and Ministers and Envoys

The next day.

As soon as Xiao Yuerong arrived at the hospital, she couldn't wait to come to the pharmacy to see if Lin Yifei's medicine had been taken first.

Although she has always been conscientious since she arrived at Anping Hospital, she has been working on time and getting off work on time, but it is the first time that she is so eager to come to work as today.

Changed into a nurse's white coat and trimmed her ponytail, why is the pharmacy still empty, look up at the clock hanging on the wall, seven o'clock?

Xiao Yuerong raised her wrist and looked at her watch again, oh, it turned out to be 6:60, sighed, blushed a little, and turned through the leather bag she brought bored, there were two books in it, one was the history of the Song Dynasty, and the other was a Chinese-English dictionary.

It is said that it is very important for college students to learn English well nowadays, Lin Yifei doesn't know how English is, don't pull it down, Xiao Yuerong said secretly in her heart, which is why she brought the Chinese-English dictionary.

In addition to buying reference books for her sister in the past few years, she has never bought other books, and has been preparing for her sister's college tuition, which is 20,000 yuan at the beginning of the school year, although it is a trivial matter for some people, but for her in the working class, it is necessary to save for two years without eating or drinking!

I didn't feel like I slept much all night, and I was in a daze, as if I had also arrived at the Songjin battlefield.

Niu Gao, Yue Fei, Jin Wushu, and so on......

In the morning, the sky was still bright, Xiao Yuerong had no intention of sleeping again, after preparing breakfast for her father, she went straight to the hospital, her mother died early, and her sister had just started college life, and the pressure was much greater, when she was in high school, their sisters had good academic performance, but she knew that she was her sister, and it was really hard for her father to bear it alone, so she took the initiative to drop out of school and look for a job, and when her father knew, she only sighed.

Dad has always been in poor health, and after Mom passed away, he took the two sisters with hard work, although they were only in their early fifties, but their sideburns already had spotted gray hair.

There was a little sour in her heart, and there was a smile on the corner of her mouth, Xiao Yuerong didn't think that her decision was wrong, the treatment in Anping Hospital was good, although she was a nurse, but a month's salary was okay, and there was still a slight surplus for two people for her sister.

My sister is sensible, I received the admission notice from Zheqing University during the summer vacation, so I went out early to be a tutor, and actively prepared for my university tuition, although it was just a drop in the bucket, but the family could understand each other, and that was already the happiest thing.

Bored flipping through my sister's Chinese-English dictionary, the words in high school have not been completely returned to the teacher, and suddenly I heard footsteps, and a nurse has walked in.

"Xiao Wang," leaving down the dictionary, Xiao Yuerong hurriedly asked, "Is the medicine in the special care room available today?"

Glancing at Nurse Xiao a little strangely, Nurse Wang looked up at the hour, "It's only seven o'clock, and the medicine will start at nine o'clock." ”

Xiao Yuerong remembered this regulation at this time, she has been in the hospital for two years, and it is the first time that she has no master like this.

"What's wrong with you?" Nurse Wang asked with concern, "Are you not feeling well, or is there something at home?" Why did you come so early today?"

"My sister is going to college, and I, the elder sister, don't know why, I'm a little excited," Nurse Xiao disguised: "You say it's funny, it's not funny." ”

"You said Yueru," Nurse Wang was obviously very familiar with Xiao Yuerong, "Yueru is a girl who is competitive, and she is admitted to Zheqing University, and ordinary people really can't get in." ”

Nurse Xiao had a smile on her face, and she was also very happy when others praised her sister.

"By the way, it seems that the special care ward you are in charge of is also from Zheqing University?" Nurse Wang asked suddenly.

Nurse Xiao's heart jumped for no reason, and she didn't know why she blushed a little, "Yes, he seems to be only in his third year, and now he is in the hospital bed, I don't know if he will delay his homework." ”

"It's a big fate for him to be able to pick up a small life. Nurse Wang didn't notice Xiao Yuerong's abnormality, "I heard that Dr. Qin said that he was already brain dead, but I don't know how he turned around, it can be said to be a miracle, he seems to be from the Department of Journalism, what major is your sister, Xiao Xiao?"

Xiao Yuerong's heart trembled when she heard that she was brain dead, and she was a little distracted, and she didn't pay attention to Nurse Wang's questioning.

"Xiao Xiao?" Nurse Wang shouted.

"What's the matter?" Nurse Xiao hurriedly responded.

"What do you want?" Nurse Wang was a little surprised, "I asked you what your sister is majoring?"

"Oh, what major? Journalism, no, she studied finance. Xiao Yuerong finally came back to her senses and was a little flustered.

Nurse Wang couldn't help but ask, "Xiao Xiao, are you really okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay, what can I do," Xiao Yuerong didn't know why, as if she was afraid that others would know something, "Xiao Wang, is the medicine in the special care room ready?"

"It's so early," Nurse Wang said in surprise, "It's not even eight o'clock." ”

"yes, yes, it's not eight o'clock. Nurse Xiao muttered to herself, sitting down with some disappointment, "I'm waiting." ”

Finally waiting for the time to deliver the medicine, Xiao Yuerong pushed the medicine cart and was about to walk towards the intensive care ward, when she suddenly thought of something, and when she came back, she put her shoulder bag in the compartment under the medicine cart.

"You have a valuable treasure in your bag," Nurse Wang said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "and you have to carry it with you every step of the way," and reminded with some concern: "The ward is also miscellaneous, you should be careful of throwing it away." ”

"Nothing, just two books for patients to read. Nurse Xiao replied and walked quickly to the door, leaving a confused Nurse Wang muttering, "This patient really loves to learn." ”

Before he walked to the door of the ward, a strong smell of Chinese medicine came to her face, Nurse Xiao smiled, thinking that she had come early, seeing that the medicine had been boiled out, didn't Dr. Qian come earlier?

Pushing the door in, I found that Dr. Qian was sitting at the head of Lin Yifei's bed, and the Lin couple stood there in surprise, wanting to stop but not daring to stop it.

Lin Yifei had already sat up, half leaning and half leaning on the head of the bed, and was holding the medicine bowl and carefully weighing, as if he could see something from the medicine, Dr. Qian actually looked at Lin Yifei nervously, as if he was expecting something.

"Old sir, if you add cimicifuga and rhubarb in opposite amounts, then you will be able to win the prescription rules of the king, the minister, the assistant, and the envoy. Xiao Farewell finally came out.

Doctor Qian was stunned for a moment, and muttered: "Swap the amount of cimicifuga and rhubarb?" pondered for a while, and sighed: "What you said is really good, I am auxiliary, and the adjuvant medicine is still not as good as you, I thought that I had been immersed in silver Chinese medicine for decades, and I was a little bit of a beginner, but I didn't expect that compared to you, a half-grown child, it is still far inferior, but you can smell the two more medicines I added just by smelling, and I am inferior to this kind of ability." ”

Xiao parted with a smile, "The magic of medicine, keep one mind, the old gentleman doesn't have to be too arrogant, although the medicine is domineering, although the medicine surname is weaker, but it can also heal, if the old gentleman can study the gentleman and the minister in the "Tongjun Medicine Collection", the harmony of yin and yang, and the three medicines, he will be able to prescribe a better prescription for the world." ”

Nurse Xiao was almost angry, the old Chinese medicine doctor who has been Dr. Qian for many years, you say that he is too faceless, this old man has a strong self-esteem, and to put it bluntly, he is just stubborn, and he is not angry now.

Unexpectedly, the old man bowed his head and was silent, as if he was thinking about something, Xiao Beili smiled when he saw this, raised the medicine bowl, and drank it all.

Aunt He has been a little anxious beside her, she and her husband came early, I didn't expect this old man to come earlier, I really suspect that he was here last night, just see that he is not small in the hospital, dare not offend, now take some rotten tree bark, broken grass roots and other things to boil for her son to drink, that is not sick to drink sick.

Gently walked up to Nurse Xiao's side and said in a low voice, "Nurse Xiao, today's medicine is not that, right?" said and pointed to the medicine bowl in his son's hand.

Nurse Xiao shook her head and said with a wry smile: "It should be in my hand, but Doctor Qian won't be right ......" lowered her voice again, "Aunt He, you can rest assured, Doctor Qian is an old Chinese medicine doctor for many years, and he is measured in medicine." ”

He Xiulan nodded, still relieved in her heart, but everyone said so, and she didn't know how to see a doctor, so she could only do it.

"Then what is the envoy of the monarch and the minister?" Seeing that Doctor Qian lowered his head and didn't know what to think, Nurse Xiao couldn't help but ask.

After thinking about how to phrase it, after a few days of communication, Xiao Bieli already roughly knows the way people speak in this era, and knows that the ancient text is inevitably incompatible, "'Jun' refers to the drugs that play a major role in the treatment of the main symptoms in the prescription, 'Chen' is the drug that assists the main drug or strengthens the efficacy of the main drug, and 'Zuo' refers to assisting the main drug in treating concomitant symptoms and inhibiting the main poisonous surname, Lie surname or anti-adjuvant drug, and 'make' is to guide various drugs to the lesion site or play a reconciling role in various drugs. ”

He originally thought that this explanation was easier to understand, but for Nurse Xiao, he still played the piano to the cow, seeing Nurse Xiao's eyes widen, nodding again and again, looking confused, Xiao parted and sighed, knowing that she still didn't understand.

"You're right," Doctor Qian finally raised his head, "The Monarch and the Minister's Auxiliary Envoy is the contemporary main and auxiliary medicine of the four medicines, but the Monarch and the Minister's Assistant, the harmony of yin and yang is simple to say, if you want to really use the medicine properly, how easy it is to say!"

"There is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of people with hearts," Xiao Beili said lightly: "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, Tongjun tried a thousand medicines, and only then did he leave a three-grade medicine, the prescription rules of the king, the minister, the Zuo, and the envoy, as well as the endless wealth of the descendants, but it is so difficult that there is no inheritance now?

Dr. Qian smiled bitterly: "Although what you said is good, but many ancient books have been lost, less than one percent recorded today, if you let modern people go to the same distinction, how can they have that patience, now college students, learn more Western medicine, learn less Chinese medicine, but a few of the few who learn Chinese medicine can read the book is already good, and more book knowledge has not been learned, only with a half-understanding of the beginning of medicine, how can such a doctor not be scolded, today's Chinese medicine has already been said to be down, a year is not as good as a year." ”

Xiao Bieli was silent, of course he didn't know it now, he resisted Jin at that time, but the Jin Kingdom was not wiped out by the Southern Song Dynasty, but by a Mongolian nomad, the Southern Song Dynasty only lasted for a few more decades, and finally fell under the iron cavalry of the Mongols.

Originally, during the Song Dynasty, Chinese society was already the most prosperous, developed, and promising period in China's thousands of years of feudal history, and there are materials to prove it.

The annual fiscal revenue of the Song Dynasty reached up to 160 million guanwen, and the average year in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty could reach 80 million to 90 million guanwen, even if the Southern Song Dynasty lost half of the country, the fiscal revenue was as high as 100 million guanwen!

What kind of concept is this, it can be compared to know that in the fifth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1571 AD, the country's annual income was 2.5 million taels of silver.

The twenty-eighth year of Wanli after the reform of Zhang Juzheng, that is, in 1600 AD, the annual income was 4 million taels, although Zhang Juzheng died after his death, but the relative financial reform was less damaged, and at this time it was only ten years after Zhang's death, and it is estimated that this number is not less than the income of Zhang Juzheng's reign.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, under the attack of the Houjin and the peasant uprising, the Ming political axe successively increased the collection of liao salary, expropriation and training salary, that is, the famous 'three salaries plus faction', which made the people's grievances boil and smoke everywhere. So this kind of practice, which was rated as 'drinking water to quench thirst', brought the country's income to the country only about 10 million taels per year!

This means that the total annual financial income of the Ming Dynasty at this time was about 15 million taels of silver. If we consider that the general exchange rate of silver coins is that one tael of silver is equal to the usual copper coins, then at this time, the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty was only less than one-tenth of that of the Northern Song Dynasty and less than one-sixth of that of the Southern Song Dynasty!

Although this is more than 300 years after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty!

Although the territory of the Ming Dynasty was much larger than that of the Song Dynasty!

The financial situation of the Qing Dynasty was better than that of the Ming Dynasty, and there were also the prosperous Kangqian era that we often see on TV, but that was mostly because that era was closer to us.

Because history can be tampered with!

It can be tampered with by those in power at that time!

Because there is a view that the 'prosperous era of Kangqian' is a lie, and some Chinese historians ignore history and deceive themselves!

During the Kangxi period, the "Treaty of Nebuchu" signed after the war against Russia ceded the territory, if it was a prosperous era but ceded the territory is really incredible, although many people have a variety of statements, but it is difficult to convince people, have you ever seen the cede territory when the prosperous era of this year?

Coincidentally, during the Yongzheng period, which was also in the 'prosperous era of Kangqian', the "Kyakhta Treaty" was also signed, which ceded territory!

Moreover, during the reign of the three emperors of Kang Yongqian, what did they do? They created wave after wave of * tragedy, Kang Qian went to the south of the Yangtze River several times to play extravagantly, and since Yongzheng, he has exhausted the people's fat and ointment to build the Old Summer Palace!

On the eve of the Opium War, the British invaders were already strong ships and artillery, while the Qing Dynasty army still used the artillery of the Ming Dynasty.

Tang Zhen, a civilian thinker during the Kangxi period, mentioned in his book "Hidden Book" that in the past 50 years of Qingxing, within the four seas, it has been said that the poor have benefited from the poor, and the agricultural air, the industrial air, the city empty space, and the official empty space. He saw with his own eyes that most of the women in Shanxi had no pants to wear, and "the people of Wuzhong had many children in the north."

During the visit of the British envoy Magani in the Qianlong period, it was recorded that there were many beggars on the streets of Yanjing. Many of the people were unkempt and ragged, so he described the Manchus as nothing more than clay-footed giants, and the so-called 'Chinese' were gradually degenerating into the era of 'semi-barbarians', as detailed in Magani's China Travels.

No wonder there is a joke circulating nowadays that the only benefit that the Manchu entry into the customs has brought to the present day is to promote the birth of a number of slave dramas, and also to promote the vigorous development of China's film and television industry!

In the first seven years of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1650 AD, the annual income was 14.85 million taels, and during the Xianfeng period, around 1850 A.D., the annual income was about 30 million to 40 million taels, which is still far less than the Song Dynasty 600 years ago, and at this time China's population has exceeded 300 million!

The population was more than three times that of the Song Dynasty, and it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that the country's annual income reached the level of the Song Dynasty!

Of course, due to the exchange rate, color conversion rate and other reasons, the income of the Song Dynasty may be overestimated, but even so, it is still an undoubted fact that the income of the Song Dynasty is far greater than that of any other feudal dynasty!

Does the fact that the Song Dynasty's fiscal revenue was so huge mean that the people's burden was also extremely huge? Of course, this is certainly the case in terms of per capita fiscal revenue.

However, you must know that the Song Dynasty is one of the only two large-scale dynasties in Chinese history that has not broken out of peasant uprisings with national surnames, and the only few large-scale uprisings, such as the Li Shunwang Xiaobo Uprising, the Songjiang Uprising, the Fangla Uprising, and the Zhongxiang Yang Qi Uprising, have never exceeded the scope of a province!

Another dynasty with such a good record is the Western Jin Dynasty, and one of the reasons why the Western Jin Dynasty was able to do so is probably that its lifespan was too short to break out in an uprising.

Of course, a big reason for thinking that the residents of the Song Dynasty lived in dire straits was because of the Water Margin, not to mention the fictional elements in it, in fact, from the perspective of the 'Water Margin', the main reason why those heroes who were forced to go to Liangshan fell into the grass was either persecuted, or committed crimes, or were captured and deceived to Liangshan.

But in 'Water Margin', we can see that a middle-level officer of the forbidden army can spend thousands of dollars to buy a knife, and in 'Three Words and Two Shots' or 'Strange Tales from Liaozhai', we can also see that 'Hundred Gold' was already the property of a Chinese family at that time.

The minister of the Northern Song Dynasty once complained about the extravagance of the world and said that the current peasant pawns actually wear silk shoes, no wonder some Western scholars say that the living standard of a European monarch at that time was not as good as that of a soldier guarding the city gate in Bianliang, Tokyo!

When Marco Polo, a merchant from Venice, the most prosperous city in the West at that time, came to the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, which had only absorbed a little bit of Song civilization, he felt dazzled, as if he was in paradise on earth!

However, this splendor came to an abrupt end under the trampling of the iron horsemen, and they resolutely refused to assimilate, and the Mongol aristocracy who tried to rule China by governing the steppe desert immediately made the Song Dynasty's society stagnate and even regress to the slave society in the pace of market economy capitalism!

Nearly a hundred years later, although the Han rebels regained state power, Zhu Yuanzhang mistakenly learned the lesson of Wang Anshi's failed reforms, and turned back the clock of history, sending Chinese society back to a self-sufficient natural economy, a situation that lasted until the British warships sailed into the mouth of the Pearl River!

And it is precisely because of the barbaric conquest, trampling and destruction of the iron horsemen that there is not much left of thousands of years of accumulation!

And the decline of Chinese medicine is only one of the treasures of China that has been annihilated, not the only one!

Xiao Bieli didn't know that although they fought against the Jin soldiers with their blood, they wanted to expel Hu Lu and return China, but they were doing a thing to save the prosperity of the nation again.

It's just that it was a war that was doomed to no result.

Hope, just like the blood-red remnant sun, has fallen behind the cliff mountain!

(There may be some digression here, but Mowu still wrote a stroke, although many of the above aspects are cited in the information, not after Mowu's research, I just sorted it out, readers can believe it or not, let it be regarded as Mowu to increase his national self-confidence and national pride.) )

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