Chapter 25: Sudden Summoning
Li Yuanji laughed dryly and said, "Take my handwritten letter and go to the Imperial Hospital to pick out a few female doctors you like and recruit them to serve as subordinates in your mansion."
Borrowing money from others is troublesome.
For scarce talents like this, we have to do it in one step and make them officials of the Prince of Qi's Palace and tie them up in the Prince of Qi's Palace.
Anyway, the Prince of Qi opened his mansion and built a government office.
There are hundreds of positions for subordinate officers, so it is not a problem to place a few female medical officers.
"Then... I won't thank you, lest you say that we don't need to be so polite between husband and wife."
Yang Miaoyan smiled sweetly.
Just... sound compelling.
Li Yuanji took a closer look and said , "You seem to be very concerned about this matter..."
Yang Miaoyan nodded and said, "There are at least 2,000 guards and palace maids in the mansion, and many of them get sick in winter. If we can consult the female medical officer sooner, we can save people sooner."
The guards and palace servants in the Prince of Qi's palace totaled a thousand people, which was actually not a lot.
The King of Qi is a prince, and has his own palace for personal affairs and a palace for the inner chamber.
Each prefecture had dozens of officials and five schools of soldiers, totaling one thousand men.
The combined number of soldiers and horses in the Qinshi Palace and the Zhangnei Palace was two thousand.
If Li Yuanji wanted, he could transform these two thousand men into an iron cavalry comparable to the Black Armor Army under Li Shimin.
Among the two thousand soldiers, six hundred served as guards in the palace, and fourteen hundred lived in the farm of the Prince of Qi's palace outside the city.
There were six hundred guards, hundreds of maids, door maids, dancing maids, painting maids, weaving maids, etc., hundreds of eunuchs and stewards, hundreds of beauties in the Prince of Qi's mansion, and the maids and servants they brought from their mothers' homes. Two thousand people were not enough.
However, Li Yuanji didn't care about these things. He had handed over all the internal affairs of the mansion to Yang Miaoyan, and he didn't intend to interfere.
He was more concerned about whether Yang Miaoyan had seen the volume that he shouldn't have read when reading "Treatise on Febrile Diseases".
"Ahem... Did you have any thoughts on "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" before?"
Li Yuanji asked guiltily.
Yang Miaoyan blinked and said innocently, "What do you mean, Alang?"
“Ahem…”
Li Yuanji coughed twice again and pretended to be calm and said, "That is to say, you have read that volume. What do you think?"
"Treatise on Febrile Diseases" has a total of twenty-two volumes, and the person who recompiled the book added some personal opinions, so there are thirty volumes in total.
The volume that Li Yuanji was concerned about was the twelfth volume after the ancient version of suture.
Although it is called "volume", it can actually be understood as "chapter" or "chapter".
The reason why it is called a volume is that when the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing wrote this book, paper was not yet popular and printing had not yet been invented.
Zhang Zhongjing wrote it on bamboo slips.
There are limited words that can be carved on bamboo slips, so prescriptions for similar diseases are carved into one bamboo slip, totaling twenty-two bamboo slips, so it is called twenty-two volumes.
The reason why the ancients were accustomed to using a few words to summarize the meaning of a sentence or even a paragraph was because it was inconvenient to record.
After hearing what Li Yuanji said, Yang Miaoyan asked curiously, "Why is Alang paying attention to this matter? Is Alang also interested in medical skills?"
"Haha... curious, curious."
Li Yuanji talked nonsense.
Yang Miaoyan looked unsuspecting and said, "I only read the first four volumes. When I read the fifth volume on suturing techniques, I felt uncomfortable seeing the pictures on it, so I didn't read on."
"oh……"
Li Yuanji didn't know why, but he felt a little disappointed.
Yang Miaoyan looked at Li Yuanji suspiciously .
Li Yuanji quickly laughed and started chatting with Yang Miaoyan about other things.
Li Chengye had already been placed on the long table by him, crawling around everywhere.
Dou Xian and Li Xu were playing and when they saw that no one was watching them, they gradually relaxed and started playing around in the hall.
Li Xi lay obediently in Yang Miaoyan's arms and fell into a deep sleep.
Li Yuanji chatted with Yang Miaoyan about many things.
After the conversation, Li Yuanji looked ashamed.
Yang Miaoyan is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and even knows a little bit of archery.
Li Yuanji was rather average, he was not good at any of the arts, including music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and his predecessor was also a mediocre one.
As a result, when Li Yuanji talked with Yang Miaoyan about the topics of music, chess, calligraphy and painting, he was beaten the whole time.
Fortunately, in Yang Miaoyan's heart, he is just an unlearned person, otherwise he would be despised to no end.
However, when talking about what he had seen and heard, Li Yuanji immediately started singing the song of the emancipated serfs, beating Yang Miaoyan the entire time.
Yang Miaoyan was only sixteen years old and had not been to many places.
Many of the things I saw and heard were either from books or from others. They were Li Yuanji's opponents.
They kept chatting until Dou Qian and Li Xu got tired of playing. Li Chengye used ink to paste himself into the shape of Bao Zheng, and the two stopped talking as they were still not satisfied.
"It's getting late. I'm going to prepare food for A-Lang."
Yang Miaoyan said with a smile, holding Li Xi, Li Chengye, and taking Dou Qian and Li Xu out of the main hall.
As soon as she walked out of the palace, Yang Miaoyan's pretty face turned red.
As for why she became famous, only she herself knows.
After Yang Miaoyan left, Li Yuanji collapsed on the couch, stretched his body, and muttered, "Failure, failure..."
As for why he failed, only he himself knew.
…
For a long time afterwards, Li Yuanji worked as a salted fish in the Wude Hall.
After he dealt a heavy blow to Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, no one bothered him anymore, and he didn't want to bother anyone else.
There was no talent worth recruiting, and he was too lazy to go out of the Wude Gate and cause trouble.
Every day he either practices calligraphy or accompanies Yang Miaoyan in coaxing the baby and chatting, and occasionally they discuss medical skills.
But it is limited to the discussion of the medical skills in the first four volumes of "Treatise on Febrile Diseases".
After Li Yuanji handled the government affairs that Li Jiancheng had transferred to the mansion for a few days, he handed them over to Li Sixing and Ling Jing to handle.
After secretly visiting the former subordinates of Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, Ling Jing recruited several barely employable talents for him.
He left no name in history, nor was he a great talent recorded in history.
In Ling Jing's words, they are just barely useful and can help deal with some trivial matters in Bingzhou's government affairs. If they are handed over to handle major matters, it would be like disregarding human lives.
Li Yuanji believed in Ling Jing's vision, so he arranged some minor official positions for them according to Ling Jing's suggestions.
Li Yuan turned a blind eye to his continued recruitment of former subordinates of Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande.
It seems that I have given up on this matter.
But Li Yuanji guessed that Li Yuan must have seen that he and Li Shimin had taken action one after another and dug out two talents from Dou Jiande's old subordinates, and they wanted to advance and retreat together, so he did not ask much.
If he is pushed into a corner, and really works together with Li Shimin to form an alliance of common advancement and retreat, Li Yuan will regret it to death.
The busiest person in the mansion should be Xie Shufang.
Li Yuanji just casually said to Xie Shufang in his spare time that if one wants to master martial arts, one must train hard in the coldest days of winter and the hottest days of summer.
Xie Shufang started practicing immediately. Not only did he practice by himself, he also brought the six hundred guards in the mansion to practice together.
In the morning, Xie Shufang took the lead and led the guards to practice strength together. At noon, they practiced the horizontal sword formation. In the afternoon, he took the guards to the horse farm outside the city to practice horse riding and charging . In the evening, they practiced archery.
His day was fully scheduled.
The guards occasionally complained, but their resentment was not particularly strong.
Because Xie Shufang trained the guards in the mansion and the soldiers outside the mansion together.
A new group of people are replaced every five days, but he is the only one who never rests.
Li Yuanji expressed his support for this. The stronger the guards and the troops of the Prince of Qi's Palace were, the higher his safety factor would be. Of course he had to support it.
Every now and then he would order the chef in his mansion to slaughter some sheep as a snack for them, and if he saw someone working hard in training, he would also reward them with some money.
Xie Shufang practiced for nearly half a month.
The training was not stopped until the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month when there was a heavy snowfall.
The snow was half a foot thick.
Seeing Dou Qian and Li Xu having fun, Li Yuanji's childish innocence was aroused, so he took Yang Miaoyan, Dou Qian and Li Xu to the open space in the Wude Hall to make a snowman.
There were six snowmen, two big and four small. With the joint efforts of Li Yuanji and Yang Miaoyan, and the constant interference of Dou Qian and Li Xu, it took a full hour and a half to complete.
Look at the round body, round head, and fat white snowman.
Dou Xian and Li Xu jumped and shouted.
Yang Miaoyan's cheeks were red from the cold, but she still looked energetic.
Li Yuanji looked at Yang Miaoyan's excited expression and subconsciously reached out and touched Yang Miaoyan's head.
Yang Miaoyan was stunned.
Li Yuanji laughed, "I thought you were always calm, elegant, and composed, but I didn't expect you to have this side."
Yang Miaoyan blinked her eyes, and no one knew what she was thinking.
Li Yuanji took his hand back and said with emotion: "This kind of life is actually very good, don't you think?"
Yang Miaoyan nodded subconsciously.
She was really happy during these days of getting along with Li Yuanji and chatting with him.
In the past, when she was in Prince Qi's mansion, it was like being in prison.
Despite being the Princess of Qi, she seldom gets along with her husband like an ordinary couple.
Eating together, coaxing the children and talking to each other during these days made her feel what married life was like.
She agreed with Li Yuanji's words. This kind of life was actually pretty good, and she didn't mind continuing like this.
"This is how we'll live from now on."
Li Yuanji reached out and touched Yang Miaoyan's head again.
Yang Miaoyan was just about to respond.
An eunuch appeared before them in the wind and snow.
The eunuch looked unfamiliar. Judging from his attire, he was the Supervisor of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, an official below the sixth rank, in charge of ceremonials, proclamations, imperial decrees, and the names of women of high rank.
The eunuch rushed to Li Yuanji and said in a serious tone: "Your Highness, we are summoning you to the Taiji Hall to see the emperor."
Taiji Hall is located directly south of Taiji Palace. It is where Li Yuan actually handled government affairs and held court.
The Secretariat, Sherenyuan, Menxia Province, History Museum, and Xiuwenguan were located on both sides of the Taiji Hall.
Li Yuan summoned Li Yuanji to the Taiji Hall to see him, which meant that something big had happened, something big enough to shake the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuanji had already guessed what had happened, so he didn't want to go.
He would rather live like this forever and not care about worldly affairs.
But Li Yuan's summons this time could not be refused.
