After the Chinese New Year, not only Zhou Man, Ming Da is also busy, so there is no time to take care of the children.
Zhou Man then found a vacant yard in his own home, and called all the Zhou family's children who were not yet old enough to start school, to study with two children, Bai Jingxing and Bai Ruoyu.
When it comes to reading, I spend three of the four hours a day playing.
Mrs. Qian brought the Zhou family's children over every morning, and brought them back in the evening. Mrs. Zheng taught them some poems, and occasionally drew pictures and played the piano for them. They lived a very comfortable life.
The maids in the palace were very useful. Not only did they have perfect etiquette, but they were also literate. They took care of them. According to Xiaoqian, the old Zhou Tou was taught a lot by the children who went back.
When the spring plowing day arrived and the imperial court had a field holiday, Zhou Man sorted out today's pulse case and sealed it up, put the unurgent official documents on the case on the medicine box, and left with them.
There were quite a few busy imperial physicians in the Imperial Hospital, and upon seeing this, they asked, "Master Zhou is in office?"
Zhou Man nodded, "My work is done."
Everyone watched her enviously.
"Don't look at it, if you can check all the official documents in your hands in an hour like her, you can also go to the office on time." Dr. Lu floated past them, slapped a note on the table of one person, and said: "Physician He, you are on duty in the palace tonight."
He Guangbai immediately stood up and replied, "Yes."
When an imperial physician heard this, he immediately went to look for him with the documents in his hand, "Emperor He, the night in the palace is long and boring, why don't you help me deal with these official documents?"
Others also went to him with the official documents in their hands. He Guangbai refused with a helpless expression, "I don't dare to accept it. If there is a delay in seeking medical treatment in the palace, what should I do?"
Imperial Physician Lu frowned, and looked at them displeasedly, "I've dealt with my own affairs, what's the matter with pushing it to someone who has only been in the imperial hospital for a few years?"
"Dr. Lu, don't you also suffer from it? We used to only need to see a doctor and prescribe a prescription. It is not difficult to write a pulse record and sort out the case information, but now I have to wait for the cost of the list of declared medicinal materials in various places. If you are not a clerk in the Ministry of Households, calculating an account is more tiring than seeing a hundred patients."
"Yes, we are all old, and they are younger than Imperial Doctor He, and their brains are clever. Those who can do more work, and we can share their patients."
"You... Imperial Physician Zhou..." Imperial Physician Lu looked behind them, everyone turned their heads, saw Zhou Man who had gone and returned, immediately lowered their heads, and took back the official documents in their hands.
Imperial Physician Lu stared, when did Zhou Man have such prestige in the imperial hospital
Weren't everyone more afraid of him before
He Guangbai's face also changed slightly, and he stood honestly with his head down, "Sir."
The students who came out of the Imperial Medical Office, especially the several classes that Zhou Man led, were more used to being called Mr. Zhou Man, not Mr. Zhou.
"I forgot to bring some documents, come back and get them," Zhou Man glanced at the official documents in their hands, frowning slightly, "What are these official documents?"
Seeing her stretching out her hand, an older imperial physician next to her put the document in her hand and complained in a low voice: "This is the official document of Tangzhou Medical Department's consumption of medicinal materials last year, as well as the list and budget of medicinal materials applied for this year. Ask the subordinate officials to check the amount that should be given this year based on the consumption of the previous year, Imperial Physician Zhou, well, I am old, and I am not a clerk of the household department, so how do I know how to count these things?"
Zhou Man flipped the pages and closed them, "Who gave it to you? This is the job of the Tai Medical Department, not within the scope of the Tai Hospital's responsibilities, and this thing has already been fixed."
It was all done this year, and in the beginning of spring, it only needs to be checked and distributed to the medical departments of the states to purchase the money.
Several other imperial physicians looked at each other, stepped forward to salute and said, "It is Xiao Yuan who asked us to check."
After Zhou Man heard it, he returned the official document to him, "Then check it out."
All the imperial physicians: ...
Zhou Man went to the office to get the materials he wanted, and left with the medicine box.
Everyone watched her off again. This time, an imperial doctor went to the door to look at her. Seeing that she had gone a long way, she turned around and said, "Let's go."
"Oh, I thought Mr. Zhou would help us out."
"Don't think about it, Mr. Zhou and the courtyard just have to be able to wear a pair of trousers, how could they disobey the courtyard's words?"
It is true that Zhou Man would not disobey Xiao Yuanzheng's words, but she was also very curious about why Xiao Yuanzheng did this, so she did not leave after leaving the palace, but transferred to the Imperial Medical Office.
The officials in the Imperial Medical Office were even busier. Even when it was time to go to the office, the officials were still so busy that they did not touch the ground. Zhou Man walked all the way into his office room, which was next door to Mr. Luo's office room. He had accumulated a lot of money on his desk. Official documents, the door was open, and when I looked up occasionally, I saw Zhou Man passing by his door, and he immediately chased him out with a pen in his hand, "Master Zhou, have you delivered the medicine payment account of the Hedong Road Medical Office?"
Zhou Man nodded and said, "It's delivered. I've asked someone to check that it's correct. It's already in storage. It will be sent out after the field leave."
"What kind of field holiday is this season?" Mr. Luo said: "I think the weather is fine today. If Mr. Zhou is free, you can send it out today, so that the states and counties can just receive it when the field holiday is over."
Zhou Man looked at the time and frowned: "So urgent?"
"Don't worry, I just received a report from Huainan Road from Zhongshu Province. It said that the epidemic in Huainan was severe, there were a lot of people with typhoid fever, and the death rate was still high. The medical offices of several counties in Huainan Road issued orders. I have written to request the Imperial Medical Office to send a senior imperial physician to check it out, and I must bring a batch of relief medicinal materials there when the time comes, I am very busy."
"It was cold in the spring a while ago, and it is indeed easy to catch wind and cold. I know, and I will go to distribute silver in a while." Zhou Man glanced at the pen in his hand, and reminded: "Master Luo, the ink on your pen is about to dry."
Only then did Master Luo remember that he was still holding the pen in his hand, and he hurriedly turned around and went back.
Zhou Man thought for a while, and went to find Xiao Yuanzheng.
Xiao Yuan was also busy, took the time to look up at her and then lowered his head, "If you have something to say, just say it."
"Why did the director give the official documents that have already been processed to the imperial doctors of the imperial hospital to process again?"
"Choose people," Xiao Yuan said, "the Imperial Medical Office is short of people."
Zhou Man stroked his chin and said, "The Jinshi exam has passed, and the bureaucrat exam will soon be over. Didn't Yuanzheng think about selecting some talented people from among them?"
Xiao Yuanzheng: "They don't understand medical science and medicinal materials. We don't care about the price of the medicine. The medicine list must be checked, and doctors must not do it."
Zhou Man said: "The drug list can be fixed. We will work harder in the early stage to finalize the applicable and free drug list, so that they will not make mistakes."
Xiao Yuanzheng: "If there is an increase or decrease..."
"Approve once at a fixed time, or one year, or two years, and re-establish the drug list."
Xiao Yuanzheng: "... In this way, the workload will be piled on us."
Zhou Man said: "It's a waste of manpower to select people from the imperial hospital like this now. Isn't the extra work distributed to us in the end?"