Chapter 17: Traveling to and from the City (10)
In one night, Han Gang revised the draft that had been written before, and presented it to Zhao Ji in the form of a notebook, which edited the pharmacopoeia and set up a medical hall in the name of the Department of Health and Welfare to treat both the military and the people in Beijing.
Regarding Han Gang's application, Zhao Ji's side needless to say, with a wave of the imperial pen, he approved it to the Political Affairs Hall. And the political affairs hall did not delay for a while, and it was very smooth for Han Gang to get the signatures of several Zaifu.
Moreover, Zhao Ji also specially instructed the medical officers of the Hanlin Academy to make them all obey the dispatch of the Taiyi Bureau and the Department of Health. It's just that with Han Gang's current reputation in the medical world, basically every imperial doctor doesn't have the courage to stand up to his orders.
Qian Yi is a big name among the medical officers of Hanlin, he is a famous pediatric doctor in the world, and a "Direct Decision on Pediatric Drug Certificates" is the benchmark of pediatric diagnosis and treatment today. The health problems of the six princes are all taken care of by him on a daily basis.
But Han Gang said that he wanted to set up a pediatric clinic in the medical hall, let him select his disciples to participate, and at the same time, let him take one day every ten days to participate in the work of the medical hall after the establishment of the medical hall.
Not to mention that he is a pediatric expert in the hospital, even if his children are sick in the future, they will have to rely on him for diagnosis and treatment, there is no reason to wait slowly, Han Gang quickly came forward to meet him.
Generally speaking, those who can study medicine are indispensable to study poetry and books. The saying that if you are not a good person, you are a good doctor, also made many scholars who could not achieve Confucianism turn to the world of medicine. Although the name Qian Yi is the same as that of ordinary people who have no names and only ranks, the pediatric authority in his fifties who appeared in front of Han Gang is completely a gentle and polite Confucian.
Qian Yi is a medical officer in Hanlin, and he also has an errand in the Taiyi Bureau. As a subordinate, he came to meet Han Gang, and his performance was more appreciated by Han Gang than a groveling bureaucrat.
The Taiyi Bureau has the task of teaching, which is divided into nine departments, which is equivalent to the Dafang Pulse Department of Internal Medicine, the Small Fang Pulse Department of Pediatrics, the Department of Sores and Injuries of Surgery, the Department of Wind and Disease, and the Department of Obstetrics including Gynecology, and the Department of Oral and Laryngeal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Acupuncture and Moxibustion, which are known by the name of the Department of Oral and Throat and the Oral and Throat Departments, Ophthalmology, and Acupuncture Department, and the most popular department, there is also the use of Zhu Youshu, which is almost like witchcraft, and the Book Forbidden Department, which is a specialty that uses Fu Shui to treat patients, although Han Gang scoffs at this department, but there are some diseases, such as heart disease, The use of runic water is often more effective than acupuncture and moxibustion.
Just last year, the imperial court was preparing to set up the tenth department, the Department of Immunology, but An Taoding, who was the judge of health and welfare at the time, went back. In his opinion, immunology is the forbidden side of the Department of Health and Welfare, how can the Taiyi Bureau get involved? The matter was over, but Han Gang was ready to set up this department in the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Each of the nine departments of the Taiyi has a professor who teaches a class of disciples below. Qian Yi is a professor of Xiaofang Pulse Department. The professor of the sores and injuries department is Han Gang's old acquaintance Lei Jian, who has been in the Northwest Army for many years and has only recently been transferred.
Basically, the Taiyi Medical Bureau is a comprehensive medical institution that integrates teaching, research and medical care. Institutionally speaking, there was already a prototype of a medical school and its affiliated hospitals. What Han Gang has to do now is just to make it bigger and closer to future generations. It allows ordinary people to enjoy the medical treatment that only the royal family and noble relatives can get, and at the same time, the medical skills of the imperial doctors and their students are honed.
Regarding Han Gang's idea, Qian Yi was not half embarrassed, and he was very welcome: "When Qian Yi was still in Yunzhou in the old years, the official eunuchs were all healed as one. But since entering Beijing, the door-to-door consultation rate is the son of the prince, and there is no poor household. In the countryside, most of the treatments are incurable diseases, but when they arrive in Beijing, they are all headaches and brain fevers. The students of the Taiyi Bureau are even less experienced, and most of them have studied medicine for several years, but they cannot distinguish the pulse. ”
Han Gang praised this very much: "Erudite, interrogating, prudent, discerning, and dedicated." This is true of all the learning in the world, how can medical skills be an exception? Reading alone cannot be called erudition, and if you don't practice medicine much, how can you become a teacher? ”
Starting with Qian Yi, Han Gang met with several Hanlin medical officers who had professorships in the Taiyi Bureau one by one and explained his ideas to them. Based on the input of several experts, the initial concept was revised.
The system of the medical hall has been almost determined after many days of exchanges between Han Gang and the medical officers, and at the same time, the location and facilities of the medical hall have also been arranged by Han Gang one by one. He discussed with the Kaifeng Mansion and the Privy Council that the original four sanatoriums in the capital would be rebuilt and expanded, so as to set up a medical center for all the people in the capital.
Build the general framework, and the rest of the trivial things, of course, don't need Han Gang to do.
Wu Yan in the Department of Health and Welfare is an old friend of Han Gang and a benefactor of Han Gang. When the Department of Health and Welfare was founded, he was recommended by Han Gang to Wang Jue, and he was a judge in the department, and he was regarded as an old man in the department.
In the past two years, his official position has not changed, and it is far less smooth than Cai Jing, who was also a judge at the beginning, in the officialdom. However, it also allowed him to successfully take root in the Department of Health and Welfare. Han Gang wanted to establish a medical center led by the Department of Health and Welfare and the Taiyi Bureau, so he naturally chose Wu Yan as his assistant.
Wu Yan is an old man in the officialdom, and the first question he asked Han Gang was money, "Dare to ask Yukun, is this medical hall funded by the imperial court, or does it depend on the consultation fund to maintain it?" What about professors, physicians, and doctors? ”
"Of course, it depends on the cost of consultation and medicine. As for Yu Lu, he was named in the Taiyi Bureau, and he already had it, and he didn't need to pay it separately. However, once out of the outpatient clinic, the head should be counted, and the subsidy money will be given. ”
Wu Yan asked again: "Professors, physicians, and students of the Taiyi Bureau, should the consultation fees be different?" ”
"Of course."
Han Gang knows very well that it is impossible for any career to last long just by relying on kindness. Adopting abandoned babies, placing widows and widows, and burying the nameless dead are all legal responsibilities of the government. But this kind of government welfare system, which only spends money, has long since existed in name only. The money and grain allocated by the imperial court are already small, and with the addition of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, where can there be any practical effect? If you really want to talk about it, the monasteries are doing better than the government.
The imperial court once stipulated that every county had 200 yuan of medicine money every month every summer day, which was used to distribute summer medicine to the people. But except for a small number of officials who can still remember this incident, the vast majority of them either did not allocate it, or they were greedy after allocating it.
It is not bad to favor the people, but it is meaningless if there is no real name, the court loses money and food, and the people do not get benefits, and at most it will exist in name only in a year or two, and it is meaningless. Han Gang is a realist, and he will not climax as soon as he hears about welfare, and if good governance can be maintained by the imperial court without being abolished under various excuses in the future, it must have a certain degree of profitability, at least to be able to do so without losing money.
Wu Yan is an old bureaucrat, he has been in the middle and lower levels of officialdom for many years, and the good governance of the imperial court will most likely become a means for local officials to make profits, how can this be unclear? So be straight to the point.
After getting Han Gang's answer, Wu Yan had a bottom in his heart. However, Han Gang still reminded him that if it was an emergency, he still had to save people first, and he had to put the money behind.
Let Wu Yan be in charge of the establishment of the medical center, and the doctors have also arranged candidates, and when the reconstruction of the four sanatoriums is completed, they can officially receive the people of the capital.
Leave the matter of the medical hall to Wu Yan, and the rest is the compilation of the medical codex.
When it comes to medicine, the Great Song Dynasty has attached great importance to it since its founding. Not to mention anything else, Emperor Taizong is the one who loves to play with poison the most, and I don't know how many poison prescriptions are hidden in the imperial medicine courtyard. Poison and medicine have never been separated, this medicine has always been valued since Emperor Taizong, and there are few scholars who do not study medical skills.
During the reign of Renzong, the imperial court set up a correction medical book bureau to correct, revise and publish all kinds of medical books that have been handed down in ancient times.
The collation and revision of several of the most important medical classics of the doctor, "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", "The Book of Difficulty", and "Shennong's Materia Medica", are all credits of the correction of the Medical Book Bureau. For example, "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", "Jin Kui Yaolu", "Pulse Meridian", "Treatise on the Origin and Syndrome of Diseases", "Qianjin Yao Fang", "Qianjin Yifang", and "Secret Essentials of Waitai", this dry medical book, the Correction Medical Book Bureau has also edited and revised it one by one.
However, the correction medical book bureau is a temporary institution, and when the book is to be repaired, people are stuffed into it, and when the book is not repaired, it will be abolished.
Speaking of which, when Han Gang became famous because of the sanatorium a few years ago, there was also a proposal for him to participate in the revision of Sun Simiao's medical books, after all, it was rumored that he was Sun Simiao's private disciple, but Han Gang basically held a real position outside, and it was impossible to return to Beijing to serve as a messenger, so this proposal was not over.
Now, since Zhao Ji handed over the task of compiling the pharmacopoeia to Han Gang, it is natural that Han Gang is the inevitable editor-in-chief, and the assistant assistant must be found from the old people in the correction medical bookstore.
Lin Yi and Gao Baoheng are both officials who used to work in the correction medical bookstore, although they are not doctors, they are both proficient in medical skills, and they also know a lot about medical books. Han Gang was the first to order the two of them as his assistants. But there is another person, who Han Gang wants, but there are some difficulties.
"In fact, if it weren't for Su Zirong's high reputation, he would actually be the most suitable." Han Gang also mentioned this matter when he was drinking with Zhang Den, "A few years ago, he participated in the revision of the "Shennong Materia Medica" at the Correction Medical Book Bureau, and compiled the "Materia Medica". ”
Han Gang wanted to use Su Song's talent in medicine, but Su Song's status was not low, his qualifications were old, and his official rank was almost the same as Han Gang. It would be condescension to transfer him to be the deputy of the compilation of the pharmacopoeia, and it would be difficult for the court to approve the nomination. What's more, Han Gang criticized "Materia Medica" and was a little embarrassed by Su Song.
Zhang Dian felt that Han Gang had too many concerns, "As long as Su Zirong is willing, how can the imperial court stop him?" Yukun, why don't you write to ask Su Zirong, I believe he is also willing to return to Beijing. ”