Chapter 435 Some things are not as bad as imagined
Li Yi opened the letter and read it for a while, then raised his head and glanced at Xu Xun strangely.
Then he turned around and said to Feng Yong with a smile, "Brother, there is news about Zhang Changsha's descendants."
“Zhang Changsha?”
Feng Yong frowned and thought for a moment before reacting. He glanced at Xu Xun also strangely, "This matter...has been a long time, hasn't it?"
When Li Yi returned to Hanzhong from Nanzhong, he mentioned this matter to him.
It was said that Xu Ci was asked to ask about this matter, but Xu Ci just vaguely said that he would do his best, and Feng Yong and Li Yi no longer had hope.
And at the beginning, he really wanted to establish a medical system through Zhang Zhongjing's descendants.
But since there was a successor trained by Hua Tuo himself, and Amei had two medical books by Zhang Zhongjing, he was not so urgent about this matter, and even gradually forgot about it.
I didn’t expect that Xu Ci could still remember this matter.
Glancing at Xu Xun, Feng Yong glanced at Xu Xun thoughtfully and asked, "Xu Zhongyeling, what did you say above?"
“Brother, let’s take a look too.”
Li Yi handed over the letter, "After Zhang Changsha passed away, it seems that a lot of things happened to the Zhang family in Lingnan."
After being here for so long, Feng Yong can finally read all kinds of official documents and letters from this era.
Xu Ci is also very thoughtful. He described in detail the current situation of Zhang Zhongjing’s descendants in Lingnan.
The main surname in Nanyang County is the Zhang family, and Zhang Zhongjing is from the Zhang family in Nanyang County, so he has the opportunity to become the governor of Changsha.
But for the mainstream society at that time, Zhang Zhongjing was an anomaly.
When he was a county, he was willing to handle the cheap karma. How can the Zhang family in Nanyang County tolerated such insults? Therefore, he sent people to persuade him many times, but the two sides always broke up unhappy.
Later, Zhang Zhongjing even left the Zhang family directly.
However, because of his medical practice, he could not even become an official, so he took his family and ran away to Lingnan to live in seclusion.
There were many plagues in Lingnan. Zhang Zhongjing was very skilled in medicine and cured many people in Lingnan. After his death, he was even built a shrine by the people.
It is a pity that after Zhang Zhongjing's death, his descendants were divided because of his medical practice. Some people returned to Nanyang and wanted to return to their ancestors, while some gave up practicing medicine and just wanted to guard Zhang Zhongjing's ancestral hall in Lingnan.
As for those who wanted to continue practicing medicine, there was no one - maybe there were, but the successor head of the Zhang family in Lingnan refused to let him go, and the news from the Zhang family in Lingnan said that Zhang Zhongjing did not have any medical books handed down.
“Absurd!”
Feng Yong threw the letter on the table and said angrily, "Zhang Changsha's temple was built because he used medical skills to treat the people, so the people erected it."
“His descendants now regard the practice of medicine as a savage beast, but they say they want to guard his ancestral temple in peace. It is really ridiculous!”
As for the theory that Zhang Zhongjing has no medical books handed down, that is even more ridiculous. Could it be that the two medical books he has in hand were written by others?
When Xu Xun heard this, he was slandering in his heart: Practicing medicine is a despicable profession. Is it wrong for people not to practice despicable professions?
“Only by erecting an ancestral hall can one raise the status of the family. The Zhang family in Lingnan was separated from the Zhang family in Nanyang and has a shallow foundation. By guarding the ancestral hall, it can be regarded as having a foundation.”
"Coupled with Zhang Changsha's reputation among the people during his lifetime, if he manages it well, he may not be able to take root and become his own. If he continues to practice medicine, he will end up in a lowly career. How can the current head of the Zhang family in Lingnan be like this? Will people from the clan be allowed to practice medicine again?”
Li Yi gave Feng Yong some analysis.
Feng Yong nodded, "That's the reason, but I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart."
He glanced at Li Yi and forced a smile, "Make Wenxuan laugh."
After finishing speaking, he sighed again.
According to the historical trajectory, if someone had not chanced upon the fragments of this book decades later and tried their best to restore it, I am afraid that this masterpiece of classical medicine would have disappeared into the long river of history along with countless others. Like those things, they were annihilated quietly.
Even so, it was only half restored in the end, and the remaining half has never been known.
It’s a cheap industry, it’s a cheap industry, it’s your mother’s industry!
Feng Yong cursed in his heart.
The people are the driving force of historical progress.
The hero is just the leader of the meeting.
It’s just that the power of the world is so powerful. Even if Feng Yong tried his best, the most he could do was to change the concept within his own control, remove the bad status and change it into a good one.
One way to change the lowly status of farmers and workers is to improve the Confucian idea of governing the country. For Feng Yong, this step is simply more difficult than traveling through time again.
How can it be so easy to make a statement?
How much more to stand up for the humble workers in Guizhou?
Another way is to directly use Ma Dabeard's theory: liberate productivity, develop productivity, and use productivity to promote (force) changes in production relations.
And this method is also very difficult. If the family is not destroyed, there is no hope at all.
Because aristocratic families would instinctively suppress agriculture, industry, and commerce in order to maintain their privileges, this indirectly suppressed the development of productive forces.
It is not without reason that in the Song Dynasty, when the aristocratic family was completely disintegrated, the famous saying "If you are not a good minister, you must be a good doctor".
No matter how later generations criticize the Song Dynasty for its weak military force, they must nod in recognition of its cultural brilliance.
Because of the spread of knowledge and the decentralization of knowledge interpretation power, this was the basis for the rise of scholar-officials, so later there was a saying that scholar-officials and the emperor co-ruled the world.
However, the exclusivity of imperial power was innate. When the "Great Zhu Hozi" proposed a self-castrating version of Confucianism, the emperor quickly promoted it.
The Song Dynasty emphasized literature over military affairs because the generals of the Tang Dynasty caused chaos in the country, and the Ming Dynasty weakened the power of ministers because the imperial power of the Song Dynasty was weak. Both of these are suspected of overcorrection.
It was this self-castration of Confucianism that caused some of the low-income industries that had been liberated in the Northern Song Dynasty to be tightly bound again.
In this era, how difficult it is for the two countries Wei and Wu, who are in power in the aristocratic family, to overthrow the aristocratic family!
Only Shu, due to special historical reasons, is the weakest link in the family.
Look for a foothold where the enemy's ruling power is weak. Feng Yong once taught himself this way in the dragon-slaying technique he learned since he was a child.
Li Yi knew that his brother acted strangely sometimes, so he didn't care when he heard Feng Yong's words.
I saw him saying to Xu Xun, "Mr. Xu, I have really troubled Xu Zhongye Ling this time. When you get back, please say a word to Zhong Ye Ling for you. I will definitely come to thank you in the future."
Xu Xun said quickly, "Why should Mr. Li Lang be so polite? Your Excellency said, it's just a matter of editing a letter. Your Excellency often says, Mr. Li Lang..."
As he said that, he glanced at Feng Yong above him again, and then said calmly, "Li Langjun... and Feng Langjun are rare talented people in the Han Dynasty. I want to get close to you."
Hearing this, not only Feng Yong, but also Li Yi had a strange expression on his face.
Xu Xun, on the other hand, felt his forehead rumbling and his face burning hot when he said these words. He didn't even dare to raise his head to look at Feng Yong and Li Yi, for fear of seeing sarcastic looks on their faces.
As if after an extremely long wait, Feng Yong above him suddenly laughed, and Xu Xun immediately gritted his teeth: Even if I die, I will not be angry with this bumpkin!
Thinking like this, he suddenly raised his head and saw Feng Yong smiling and looking extremely gentle.
"Xu Langjun's words are really over the top. Any talented person is just favored by everyone. Thanks to Xu Langjun for never giving up, it is really an honor to be able to make friends with Xu Langjun forever."
When Xu Xun heard this and saw the sincere look on Feng Yong's face, his eyes heated up and he felt a rush of blood rushing to his forehead.
It turns out that some things are not as bad as you imagined.
(End of this chapter)