Everything is scarce, and Chinese medicine is very difficult, if you want to achieve a little success is no less than the cold window of a scholar for ten years, and with that profound knowledge and the perseverance to taste all kinds of herbs, and practice medicine over the years, it is better to go directly to participate in the imperial examination.

During the Ming Dynasty, if you wanted to become an imperial doctor, you had to go through very strict tests, and it took at least ten full years.

Although the hanging pot is respected and earns a lot of money, but the social status is far inferior to that of officials, take the Tai Hospital as an example, the highest status of the hospital envoy is only the fifth grade, which is already the highest official position that a doctor can achieve.

Therefore, doctors are always scarce, and there are even fewer famous doctors with real medical skills, even if the Xu family wants to invite a famous doctor in the capital to come, they have to send someone to urge them three times and four times, and each time they come, they have to seal at least twenty or thirty taels of silver for the carriage and horse fare, and the cost of the imperial doctor is several times or even more than that of ordinary doctors.

If it weren't for the Xu family's mistreatment, they really couldn't afford to invite them, there were so many people in the family, and anyone who had a headache and brain fever had to ask a doctor to come to see a doctor, and the Xu family would have to go bankrupt in less than a year.

What's more, if the identity is not enough, please don't move people, Xu Hao once asked a few doctors who came to the house for consultation, it turned out that Chinese medicine had become a very rigorous and professional industry in the Ming Dynasty, and it was no less difficult to become a doctor than to be a talent in the examination.

And it is not that one Chinese medicine practitioner can cure all diseases, but has been subdivided into more than ten specialized departments, such as Dafang Pulse Department, Xiao Fang Pulse Department, Typhoid Department, Gynecology Department, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, Oral Dentistry and so on.

When Xu Hao lived in Zhuangshang, he saw the people who were sick and couldn't afford to hire a doctor or hired a useless Mongolian doctor, and the miserable scenes of the people who suffered all kinds are still vivid.

In fact, the most terrible thing is to meet quacks, often minor illnesses are delayed into major illnesses, and even die in a daze.

In view of this, coupled with Qingwen's sneer, Xu Hao's idea of self-reliance was firm, and he remembered that he had seen Da Changjin back then, why not let his maids learn medical skills, so that he could not only treat his own family but also the people around him.

Traditional Chinese medicine has always been known for its breadth and profundity, Xu Hao naturally will not let the maids learn everything, just specialize in gynecology, pediatrics and common diseases, as for the bad custom that women will be discriminated against when they study medicine, Xu Hao doesn't care at all, and it is not open to outsiders, can you control it behind closed doors?

There are female medical officers in the Ming Palace, and there are several records of female famous doctors since ancient times, although the medical family has the rule of passing on the son but not the woman, but there is no ban on women not being allowed to practice medicine, as for learning medical skills to kill people or something, it is better to wash and sleep quickly, as long as this kind of thing is a normal person, the probability of occurrence is no less than that of a high school champion.

Xu Hao came out and instructed the steward to invite a doctor to come back, thinking about how to get back a famous doctor to teach the girls their medical skills, often those famous doctors who cherish themselves regard their ancestors and years of medical experience as more important than life, and they can't count on it, which is also one of the root causes of the gradual decline of Chinese medicine under the impact of Western medicine.

Wait for someone to inquire if there are any female medical officers in the palace who are old and have no children and no daughters, please go to the house and let the maids who are interested in studying medicine recognize their godmothers and send them to the end of their lives, so that they will not worry about not being able to learn relevant medical skills.

As for the enlightenment of medical skills, it is very simple, it is a reader who will teach, starting from the "Neijing", "Compendium of Materia Medica" and other related medical books, and slowly find some broad-minded doctors to teach for some time, with a theoretical foundation, practice has to find a way, probably while groping and treating it, there is no way.

Learning a skill is very attractive to most people, and the maids have learned that they can pass it on to future generations, so that they don't have to worry about no one studying medicine.

Xu Hao thought about opening a school in the garden first, and if it was effective, he would also open one in the village, but unfortunately Western medicine had just developed in these years, otherwise he really wanted to combine things and open a regular hospital.

Seeing that it was almost the middle of the night, the steward finally invited a middle-aged doctor back, Xu Hao led the person into the inner house without saying a word, and the eyes of the maids such as Zhulan and Qingwen were wide-eyed, but they didn't expect the young master to really invite the doctor.

The doctor has been practicing medicine for many years, and he looks calm when he enters the bamboo garden, but Qiu Xiang feels embarrassed, Xu Hao frowned and said What is there to avoid curing the disease? Even if the lady in the palace is sick, she has to do this.

Qiu Xiang was just suffering from a headache and fever caused by the wind and cold, and after the doctor was diagnosed, he prescribed a few pairs of medicines, said a few words of precautions and left, Xu Hao ordered someone to prepare ten taels of silver to send it early.

After sending the people away, Xu Hao deliberately sighed and said: "Actually, I can cure this disease, it was Qingwen who squeezed me at that time, and the ten taels of silver flowers were distressed." ”

Qingwen pinched the prescription in her hand and said, "If you go to the doctor if anyone gets sick after today, I will be willing to be a girl for you for the rest of my life." ”

Zhulan and Musk Yue were silent, their eyes were a little expectant, and Qiu Xiang, who was lying on the bed, sighed: "Don't embarrass him, I have spent three months of monthly money for me, and my heart is panicking." ”

"If you are sick, you will be cured." After Xu Hao finished speaking, he looked pensive, and walked around with his hands behind his back, "It's better for us to learn some medical skills by ourselves, and we don't have to ask for help if we have minor illnesses and disasters." ”

Zhulan's eyes lit up, and she said: "This is a good idea, the doctor in the village relied on the pox technique that she had learned for a few days and a half in her early years, and she ate and drank spicy food all year round. ”

"Pox? Is it the kind that cures smallpox? ”

Xu Hao hurriedly asked, he still remembered that in the books, films and dramas such as Qing Dynasty court novels he had read, children in the Qing Dynasty often died of smallpox and chickenpox, which was very terrible, among which smallpox was a malignant infectious disease.

Zhulan nodded and said: "Exactly, speaking of which, we have all been vaccinated with human pox by the doctor since we were children, and we haven't seen anyone have had a rash over the years, which is really lucky." It's no wonder that the old lady has to send a filial piety to the doctor every year, the old generation said that in the early years, because of smallpox, many people in the village would die. ”

Xu Hao was stunned, he never thought that there would be human pox? In fact, he was really unheard, at a time when the whole of Europe was ravaged by smallpox, and more than 150 million people could have died over the centuries. At the same time, the number of deaths in China was far smaller than that of any other small country in Europe.

This pox is said to have been passed down from the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming Dynasty, it had already had a wealth of experience in treating pox, and it had been passed down from generation to generation, and smallpox was not a serious threat to the death of children, especially since most children in the south had been vaccinated with pox early.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, because of the distrust of traditional Chinese medicine, especially the distrust of southerners, coupled with the influx of Westerners, smallpox became the biggest killer of the Manchu royal family, Shunzhi and Tongzhi two emperors died of smallpox, Kangxi and Xianfeng although they survived, but also left a pockmarked face.

Shunzhi's eight elder brothers hung four, six Gege died five, Kangxi's thirty-five sons fifteen died early, and twenty-five princesses died thirteen, which shows the depth of smallpox at that time.

At that time, when smallpox appeared, the entire area was completely cordoned off, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

It wasn't until the seventeenth year of Kangxi that the human pox method in the south was introduced to the north and then to the court. Kangxi attached great importance to this, and soon extended it to all the children of the Eight Banners, and the Mongolian steppes, Korea and Japan also benefited from it. At that time, Russia sent people to China to learn this technique, which began to be introduced to Europe, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than 100 years, there is no record of death due to smallpox. Eventually, according to this method, the West invented cowpox for the benefit of all mankind.

What's interesting is that in those Qing court novels, the male and female protagonists invented cowpox at every turn to save Brother and Gege, and it was often the Kangxi Dynasty where travelers gathered.

After this incident, Xu Hao became more and more respectful and trusting of traditional Chinese medicine, and told the eldest sister about his plan to let the maids study medicine early the next morning. Xu Qinglian was worried that she had nothing to do, so she recommended herself to be an enlightenment teacher.

The matter spread quickly, there were many maids who begged to learn with an attitude of giving it a try, Xu Qinglian selected seven or eight literate disciples, who were stable and patient, and honest disciples, including Zhulan and Musk Yue, Qingwen was screened out because of her impatient temperament.

Xiao Yushi was also quite interested in this, and started classes with the maids, Xu Qinglian first taught the Neijing word by word, and took the trouble to explain. Xu Hao knows that studying medicine is not a day's work, and I am afraid that it will be good if one person can become a talent by then.

Thinking about related things when he was fine, Xu Hao felt that production was a very dangerous event in ancient times, and no matter how many people helped during production, it was not too much.

Xu Hao immediately took precautions, so he invited a very experienced old Wen Po, because it was inconvenient for him to come forward to explain the knowledge from modern times such as confinement, so he told it through the mouth of the old Wen Po. When Xu Hao's cousin gave birth to a child, his brother-in-law was far away in a foreign country, and he served his cousin for a month, with rich theoretical knowledge and practical experience.

The mother-in-law accepted his benefits at first, and gradually realized the truth, began to accept it humbly, memorized all those fresh words in the head, and learned to put it into practice, a few times to give birth to the head of the head is the Tao, what prenatal nutrition with eugenics and eugenics to come, the people are full of admiration, do not want to gradually become a well-known moon woman since then, countless dignitaries have hired her to deliver and serve the confinement child.

Xu Hao was very glad when he learned about this, fortunately he didn't go out in person back then, otherwise he would not have become the god of confinement worshiped by thousands of families?