Doctor Tan said, "Our family is different from other families. If our Tan family doesn't have good officials, then they can have good doctors. My father was a censor and a famous doctor. He also treated patients in his spare time."
Ru Siyao said, "The world is lenient to men and harsh to women. Your father treated patients because he was kind and generous. I am a young lady in charge of a family. If I treat patients, I am not doing my duty and there will be gossip outside. I will be surrounded by people's spit all day long. How can I have the mood to study medicine? I will probably become a resentful woman in the future."
Doctor Tan said hurriedly, "You are worried that I will be trapped by my family background. If that is the case, I will not be a doctor anymore. I will resign from the position of the Imperial Hospital, and we will open a clinic among the people. We can still treat patients and support ourselves, and make medicine our profession. This way, no one will gossip about us."
Ru Siyao had never expected that Doctor Tan would give up the bright future of the Imperial Hospital for her. She was so confused that she didn't know how to answer, and her hands were tightly wrung with the cloth for wiping her hands.
Doctor Tan raised his right hand, "I swear, I will protect you in this life and never let you suffer any injustice. You like medicine, and so do I. We share the same interests, and it would be wonderful if we could study together. Are only patients in the palace considered patients, and patients outside the palace not considered patients?"
Ru Siyao was almost melting in the passionate gaze of Doctor Tan. They became friends through medical treatment and learned from each other. Doctor Tan was talented and came from a medical family. He was selected into the Imperial Medical Service at a young age. His medical skills were far superior to hers, a female doctor who changed her profession halfway.
In the past few years, Ru Siyao had the honor of receiving his unreserved guidance and benefited greatly. They met because of the doctor and because of the doctor's love, Ru Siyao is 23 years old this year, a mature woman, not an ignorant girl, how could she not feel the intentions of the doctor? Unconsciously, her admiration and respect turned into love, but...
Ru Siyao made a painful decision, "I won't give up my future for you. I don't want you to give up your future for me either. I entered the palace as a female official when I was thirteen, and I am very satisfied with the status quo. I am not ready to accept the outside world, including marriage. I have no interest in the position of Mrs. Tan. Master Tan, please find a good match. I will not leave the palace."
After saying that, Ru Siyao walked out of the palace. Doctor Tan was stunned for a moment, then chased after him, lowering his voice and roaring, "I don't believe you're not tempted. I don't believe I've always been wishful thinking. Could it be that you were so nice to me before... just to learn medical skills?"
Ru Siyao said without even turning her head: "Yes, so please don't disturb me while I'm studying, Doctor Tan."
Doctor Tan was cruelly rejected and shed tears in the Qianqing Palace.
If you want to break up, do it cleanly, don't drag it out. Ru Siyao said something against her will, her eyes blurred, as if she had snow blindness, and she returned to the Sixth Bureau and the First Division completely relying on her senses. When she was at the Cang Zhen Gate, she almost bumped into someone, who was Hu Shanwei who had just sent his apprentice to take the exam.
Hu Shanwei reacted quickly and made way for the high-ranking female official to go first. She saw Ru Siyao holding a white cloth for washing her face and hands, and she felt very strange, but she didn't ask any more questions.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the female tutor Shen Qionglian announced the results, and the female scholar Huang Wei De was on the list again and passed the examination to become a female official.
On that day, more than 200 palace maids and more than 50 female officials were released into the palace. They carried their luggage and left the palace through Xi'an Gate. Their families had been waiting outside the palace for a long time.
"Mother!"
"elder sister!"
"daughter!"
Under the high palace walls, relatives huddled together, crying one after another. They had waited for too long and could no longer bring themselves to go home and cry. The high walls separated people but could not separate emotions.
Doctor Tan stood in the crowd, leading a horse, watching the women leaving the palace one by one. Even though he knew there was no hope, he was still waiting outside the palace for a miracle.
One by one, the women left with their families, and his heart grew colder and colder, until the last female official came out and reunited with her children who had grown up. The palace gates slammed shut, and his heart was broken.
The miracle did not happen.
Doctor Tan, who was hit hard again, left on his horse in disappointment. Suddenly, he found a middle-aged man waiting under the palace wall with his sleeves rolled up. Judging from his expression, he was also disappointed.
We are both wanderers in this world. Doctor Tan walked over and asked, "The person you are waiting for hasn't come out yet?"
The man said, "I know she is not old enough and will definitely not come out this year, but I just can't help but want to come and see her."
Doctor Tan saw that this man was handsome and elegant, and he must be a good person. He was in a bad mood and wanted to have a drink, so he said, "I feel the same way. Come on, I'll buy you a drink."
The man waved his hand and said, "Thank you for your kindness. I have already quit drinking."
Doctor Tan said, "Then let's go to the brothel to drink tea and listen to the opera. The Jiaofang Bureau has recomposed the "Pipa Ji" with string music under the imperial decree."
The man said, "I've heard of it, but this play is so popular that it's hard to get a seat."
Doctor Tan waved his chest and said, "Don't worry, I'll take care of it."
In addition to undertaking music and dance performances for the imperial court, the Jiaofangsi also set up brothels to perform commercial performances for the public. There were two brothels in the capital, one to the east of Wuding Bridge, next to which was the Fuleyuan where the Jiaofangsi musicians rehearsed. The other was to the south of Huitong Bridge.
Emperor Hongwu forbade court officials to hang out in Fuleyuan, and going to the brothel at Wuding Bridge was too inappropriate, so Doctor Tan took the man to the brothel at Huitong Bridge, revealed his identity, and the musicians wearing green headscarves in the brothel hurriedly sent the two to the private room. The man looked at Doctor Tan in surprise, "I didn't expect you to be a doctor at such a young age."
Doctor Tan smiled bitterly and said, "You are just a mere doctor, not worth mentioning. Come, have some tea."
The man had no interest in drinking tea. As if he had grasped a life-saving straw, his eyes sparkled and he kept leaning forward to ask questions, "You are the imperial physician, you should be in the palace often. What is the status of the court ladies in the palace? The nobles in the palace don't dare to beat or scold the court ladies, right? Do you know a court lady named Hu? She just entered the palace last year."
The man gestured in the air and said, "She is about this tall, a little thin, with big eyes and long eyelashes. She looks a bit like me."
Doctor Tan shook his head. "We, the imperial doctors, cannot step into the harem, or we will be beheaded. We can only examine people in the palace in the Qianqing Palace, or prescribe medicine based on pulse records and medical records. The female officials are all in the harem, and we cannot see them."
"Is that so?" The light in the man's eyes disappeared in an instant. "I thought the imperial physician could frequent the palace and know my daughter. I'm sorry, I'm just a businessman with limited knowledge. I'm sorry to make the imperial physician laugh at me."
Doctor Tan was kindhearted and could not bear to see him disappointed, so she said, "I have never seen a female official named Hu, but I heard that there is a very famous Hu Dianzheng in the palace. Now all the ladies in the palace know her. Her name is Hu Shanwei. She recommended the southern opera "Pipa Ji" to the emperor. As a result, the emperor liked it very much. He ordered the Jiaofang Bureau to compose it with northern string music and change it into an excerpt. It was performed almost every day. "Pipa Ji" became a hit and became one of the four major court operas."
The 21st act "The Wife Is Disgusted with the Bran" happened to be performed on the stage. Zhao Wuniang's husband did not return home, and there was a famine, so she was forced to eat bran and give the white rice to her parents-in-law.
When he heard Zhao Wuniang singing "a chaotic and barren year, a husband who never comes home, anxious and impatient parents, a timid and helpless loner," the man actually burst into tears on the spot, his clothes soaked with tears:
"My poor daughter, it's all my fault. I found her a short-lived fiancé, causing her to remain chaste and unmarried. Oh, if I hadn't been so impatient and forced her to remarry, why would we be separated by the palace walls today and unable to see each other?"
The man was none other than Hu Shanwei's father, Hu Rong. Hu Rong had fallen out with his daughter over the issue of remarriage, and he drank all day to drown his sorrows. He even ignored the pain when he knew that his second wife, Chen, had a drastic change in temperament and was torturing his daughter.
He naively thought that if his daughter could no longer stand staying at home, she would accept the reality of remarrying, and he would then arrange a generous dowry for her and let her marry in style.
It is a universally recognized truth that every young and beautiful woman needs to marry a reliable man.
Hu Rong really couldn't understand why a woman couldn't get married? How could a woman who didn't get married be tolerated by the world? Isn't this a mess
Looking at the middle-aged man in front of him crying and choking, Doctor Tan found it hard to believe that the man in front of him was the father of Hu Dianzheng, a prominent figure in the palace.
Let's talk about the frustrated people in the brothel of Huitong Bridge. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, at the grand court meeting, Emperor Hongwu announced a major event - the fourth northern expedition had begun.
The Ming Dynasty had already made all kinds of preparations in advance, and the civil and military officials were not surprised, and felt that they had finally waited for you. As spring came and flowers bloomed, the Northern Yuan Dynasty lost its natural barrier of cold and snow, and it was time for the Ming Dynasty to fight back.
Emperor Hongwu appointed Xu Da, Duke of Wei, as the Grand Marshal of the Expedition, Tang He, Duke of Xin, as the Left Deputy General, and Fu Youde, Marquis of Yingchuan, as the Right Deputy General, and sent them to march northwards.
The Northern Yuan army was on high alert and deployed troops in the northwest.
However, the cunning Emperor Hongwu appointed Mu Ying, Marquis of Xiping, as the vanguard of the Eastern Route Army of the Northern Expedition, and marched to the northeast, heading towards Gubeikou of the Great Wall, attacking from two directions.
Xu Da and Mu Ying, the two greatest heroes of the Ming Empire, were like two sharp daggers stabbing into the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty launched a two-front attack, and urgent military reports kept pouring into the capital day and night. Emperor Hongwu was naturally busy, and even Empress Ma ordered the harem to weave and sew military uniforms, shoes and socks day and night and send them to the soldiers on the front line.
Therefore, not only the court, but also the palace atmosphere became tense. Even the frail and sickly Concubine Sun responded to Empress Ma's order. The looms in the Yikun Palace chirped again and again, and did not stop until the third watch.
When Hu Shanwei heard that Mu Ying was the vanguard of the Eastern Army, he breathed a sigh of relief for Mu Chun who was in Xu Da's Western Army camp. Fortunately, the father and son were not in the same place, so they wouldn't be bothered by each other if they didn't see each other.
Seven big bosses from six bureaus and one company took the list written by Shen Qionglian and started a new round of "talent competition".
The oldest, Huang Weide, was named by Empress Ma, who often used her as a role model to encourage the palace maids to read, learn to read and understand reason. She had become the most popular figure among the new female officials in the examination.
The seven big bosses are ready to fight, just like they did last year when they fought for Shen Qionglian, they all want to recruit Huang Wei De under their command.
After arguing for a long time, neither party was willing to give in, so they had to resort to the same trick - drawing lots.
"Again?" Lady Cao shook her head. "No, I almost never win when drawing lots. Let's just do this, we'll gamble on our luck, let's play Pai Gow."
Cao Shang Gong has always had good luck playing leaf cards and Pai Gow, so choose the one you are good at.
As a result, Wang Shangfu of the Shangfu Bureau won everyone with the highest score of Pai Gow - Ding-3 and Ding-2-4, commonly known as the Supreme Treasure!
Huang Wei De thus became a female historian of the eighth rank in the Shangfu Bureau.
The people could only watch Wang Shangfu take the talent into his pocket.
Concubine Cao was jealous and angry, "How come you won? You must have cheated."
Wang Shangfu, who has always been well-behaved, rarely won a talented person by luck, so he was too lazy to argue with Cao Shanggong: "Don't just talk, show me the evidence."
Cui Shangyi quickly spoke up to liven up the atmosphere, "Next time, let's not gamble on our luck. Let's just throw the door bolt and see who throws it farther. The one who gets the man gets it. How do you think?"
Everyone remembered the joke about Hu Shanwei dropping a fortune and breaking the roof, and they couldn't help laughing.
Cao Shang Gong said to Fan Gong Zheng: "As the saying goes, one strength can defeat ten skills. This is exactly what Hu Shanwei is like. He looks delicate, but I didn't expect him to have brute force."
Fan Gongzheng said in a calm tone, "Her achievements today are not just based on brute force. Luck, wisdom, and vision are also behind it. To be able to bring up a talent like Huang Wei De, she must be very capable."
Cao Shang Gong rolled her eyes, "She is your favorite general, and she is invincible. However, if she is a rare talent, she should shine wherever she goes. Now there is a great opportunity - since Liu Siyan left, the Queen has been lacking a Siyan female official. Hu Shanwei made an exception and left her name in front of the emperor because of her recommendation of "Pipa Ji". The emperor and the queen have a good impression of her."
Fan Gongzheng looked at Cao Shanggong in disbelief, "You are kidding, right? From Dian to Si, another promotion, she has been in the palace for less than a year."
Cao Shang Gong sneered and said, "As a Shang Gong, I command the female officials in the harem. But I am not the kind of person who is unreasonable and cunning..."
Hearing this, the other six female officials rolled their eyes in tacit understanding.
Cao Shang Gong seemed to be completely unaware of her colleagues' contempt and continued, "I dare to recommend her to the Queen Mother as a female official in charge of speech and join our Shang Gong Bureau. I wonder if Fan Gongzheng is willing to give her up and let her pursue her career?"
Fan Gong was looking straight into the eyes of Lady Cao, trying to read the true meaning from her eyes, whether he just wanted to motivate her or really wanted to recommend Hu Shanwei.
Fan Gongzheng asked: "Are you serious?"
Concubine Cao asked back: "He is such a talented person, are you willing to let him go?"
Fan Gongzheng: "If you dare to use him, I will be willing to let him go."
Above the Palace Administrator and the Dian Administrator were two Sixth Rank Administrators. Both of them were free-spirited people who planned to serve the palace for their entire lives until they could no longer work and retired. For Hu Shanwei, it was difficult to move up.
Unless Fan Gongzheng gave up her position in the future, she had no plans to leave the palace. She was a widow, and she felt that she was not as comfortable in the palace as in her husband's family or her own family. Moreover, her own family was in a current situation and needed her to take care of them...
She was reluctant to let go of Hu Shanwei, but she also understood that Hu Shanwei had a better future in the Shanggong Bureau.
The Shanggong Bureau directly assisted Empress Ma and was the core of the six bureaus and one department, the closest to power. The Gongzheng Department was only responsible for punishing palace maids and deciding various lawsuits, and even concubines were not under their jurisdiction.
Cao Shang Gong said: "If you are willing to let it go, I will dare to use it."
Fan Gongzheng slammed the table, "It's a deal! Everyone present here is a witness, you all heard it clearly, if Cao Shang Gong goes back on his word, we will all look down on you from now on, and see how you can convince others in the future."
"This—" Lady Cao made a regretful expression after acting impulsively.
Cui Shangyi, Song Shanggong, Xu Shangshi, Wang Shangfu, and Zhao Shangqin were all very happy to see Lady Cao being humiliated. They all started to shout, "I'll testify! Lady Cao must keep her word."
Cao Shang Gong looked like she was being put on a pedestal and couldn't get off the stage. She hurriedly explained, "Si Yan is the mouthpiece of the Queen. I can't make the decision alone. I am only responsible for nominating. In the end, it depends on who the Queen chooses."
Fan Gongzheng handed over the paper and pen, "Do you dare to nominate now?"
"What are you afraid of? You are willing to let him go." Cao Shanggong wrote down Hu Shanwei's name in a fit of anger.
In the end, Palace Lady Cao handed Empress Ma a list of seven candidate female officials to serve as Siyan. Each of the six bureaus and one department selected a female official who was eloquent, quick-witted, and dignified.
Queen Ma thought for a moment and circled Hu Shanwei's name with a red pen.
Hu Shanwei rose rapidly in the palace, and within less than a year after entering the palace, she was promoted from an eighth-rank female historian to a sixth-rank official!
As soon as the imperial decree came out, everyone in the harem was shocked. It happened that the craftsmen had gone to repair the roof in the spring, and the palace people were talking about Hu Shanwei's promotion this time because he dropped a thousand gold coins to the highest place. Sure enough, there was a reason for this tradition in the palace, it was so effective!
When you lose a fortune next year, be sure to throw it away carefully!
After receiving the imperial edict, Hu Shanwei went to the Shanggong Bureau with the four treasures of the study as if in a dream.
First, you have to pay your respects to Lady Cao.
Cao Shang Gong still spoke coldly to her: "I racked my brains to get you to the position of Si Yan in the Shang Gong Bureau, not because I like you, but just to help you fulfill the promise under the old plum tree. In this Northern Expedition, the King of Qin will definitely make great contributions and restore his title. Only if you often hang around in front of the emperor will the emperor and empress always remember the evil deeds the King of Qin has done. One day, the emperor and empress's trust in you exceeds their trust in the King of Qin, and it will be time for you to take action. At that time, if you disappoint me, I have plenty of ways to get you out of power."
Hu Shanwei was impressed by the scheming of Concubine Cao.
At the same time, thousands of miles away, the young general Mu Chun of the Northern Expedition Western Army was also deeply impressed by the Ming scouts.
After a winter of burning, killing and looting by the Northern Yuan Dynasty, spring finally came and the Ming Dynasty was about to counterattack. Mu Chun joined the army of Xu Da, the Grand Marshal of the Conqueror Army. The war between the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Yuan Dynasty was a life-and-death hide-and-seek game of "Where is the Yuan army?" on the vast grassland, and this time was no exception.
Grand Marshal Xu Da received secret information from scouts and defeated the Yuan army at Huishan, winning the first battle. Mu Chun led his troops to fight east and west, killing people in great numbers, and finally got rid of the humiliation of always being on the defensive in winter.
Afterwards, Xu Da reorganized his army and waited for an opportunity. One night, a man on horseback approached the Ming army camp. The man on horseback was hit by four arrows in the back. No one knew how he managed to get here. The man was dressed in Yuan army clothes and waving a white flag of surrender in his hand. There were Yuan army pursuers behind him.
Mu Chun, who was on duty at night, found that this person looked familiar - it was the Ming Dynasty scout "Qi Liuhai" who saved them that night.
Mu Chun would definitely not make a mistake for a man who is so handsome even with such a devastating hairstyle.
Mu Chun hurriedly rode his horse and led his troops to rescue Qi Liu Hai and repelled the pursuers.
It was a miracle that "Qi Liu Hai" was still able to breathe and stay conscious despite having four arrows on his back and countless scars on his body.
"Qi Liuhai" took out a blood-stained cowhide map from his arms and pointed to a place on the Xiliao River. "The Yuan army is here."
After saying this, "Qi Liu Hai" used up the last of his strength and passed out.
That night, the Grand Marshal Xu Da ordered his troops to march to the Xiliao River, where they happened to encounter the Northern Yuan army crossing the river. The Northern Yuan army was caught off guard and trampled in disorder, causing the army to lose morale and drown countless people. They fled without a fight, and Xu Da ordered a pursuit and captured high-ranking officials of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, including Beilibuhua, the Minister of State (second only to the Prime Minister), and Taishi Wentong.
The Western Route Army won a great victory and returned triumphantly.
The author has something to say: Hongwu made a total of eight northern expeditions. In that era without GPS, he basically relied on "hide and seek" to win every time, which was actually a spy war behind the scenes.
The red rose and the white moonlight are back~
100 red envelopes will be given out tonight, and there will also be a big red envelope of 100 points for one question.
There is a sentence in this chapter, "Every young and beautiful woman needs to marry a reliable man, this is a truth universally recognized." This is a tribute to a sentence in a novel by a famous female writer, "Every rich bachelor needs to marry a wife, this is a truth universally recognized."
What is the name of this novel
a "Harry Potter" b "Sense and Sensibility" c "Pride and Prejudice" d "Twilight"