Physician of the Song Dynasty: Zhang Kai and Li Qingzhao have a private life-long contract

"Reporting to the official family, the old minister impeached the imperial physician Fan Zheng for his own selfish interests and contributed the labor service to his family, with the intention of allowing the world's doctors to escape from the corvee."

In the Chui Gong Hall, Fan Chunren spoke righteously.

The officials looked at this scene strangely. The others may have impeached Fan Zheng out of righteous indignation, but Fan Chunren is the prime minister, and personally impeaching a small imperial doctor would be overkill. Not to mention, Fan Chunren was Fan Zheng. My second uncle, if you want to say that there is nothing fishy, ​​then you can think that the official is a fool.

Zhao Xu helplessly held his forehead, not knowing what kind of medicine Fan Zheng was selling in the gourd, so he could only cooperate and said: "Fan Taicheng, do you have any excuse?"

Fan Zheng bowed his head and said: "I have nothing to say. As soon as the slaves come in and go out, the doctors in the world will indeed benefit from this."

Something's wrong! When the officials heard that Fan Zheng was not making any excuses, they were immediately heartbroken.

People's lives were at stake. Dr. Ling had no property and was living in poverty. Even they could make up several reasons for Fan Zheng on the spot.

Fan Chunren continued to denounce: "Since Fan Taicheng became a forensic doctor, doctors have promoted the strategy of medical clinics and treating the elderly, and even doctors have to pay almost no money for in-house medical treatment. Such treatment is unprecedented. My father once said that if you are not good, you will be a good doctor. Now among the people It is said that it is better to be a good doctor than a good minister, but even so, the doctors still want to be grieved and want to escape from the service money. If they are not severely punished, it is unacceptable."

All officials suddenly felt sad. Since the reform, the salaries of doctors have skyrocketed. Many famous doctors' salaries are more generous than those of their officials, not to mention their plans to treat elders and medical clinics, which makes many officials jealous.

wrong!

Is Fan Chunren criticizing doctors? It sounds like he is praising a doctor in disguise.

Zhao Xu looked strange and said: "Then what Xianggong Fan said, how should doctors be severely punished?"

Fan Chunren said proudly: "There are three thousand illnesses in life. This is true for ordinary people, and it is also true for all officials in the court. I have heard that doctors have spent a lot of money to study geriatric diseases for the Queen Mother. I wonder if this policy can benefit all young people in the world. Old officials, let all officials over sixty years old be able to see doctors at 90% of the fee, so that doctors can be severely punished and officials all over the world can be benefited."

"90% reduction in fees!"

All the officials in the court were excited. Not only ordinary people felt that medical treatment was expensive, but many officials in Qingshui Yamen also felt the same. Especially the elderly were frail and sick. Many diseases required medication all year round, which amounted to a large expense. If nine were exempted, The cost is not a small amount, it is enough to save doctors all over the world from military service. This time the doctors may have to steal the chicken but lose the rice.

"The doctor accepts the punishment!"

Before the Manchu officials could react, Fan Zheng said directly.

"Uh!"

Fan Zheng agreed so readily, which made them believe even more that this uncle and nephew of the Fan family must be up to something.

Sure enough, Fan Chunren solemnly handed over a memorial and said: "Wei Chen recently studied doctors and found that doctors are booming. Doctors have almost no worries. They will further support the doctors. Wei Chen felt this and suggested that the court follow the doctors' strategy of treating the elderly and let the third-grade Officials under the age of sixty will serve in retirement."

"A sixty-year-old official retires to his official position!"

Before Fan Chunren finished speaking, the civil and military officials were in an uproar. Moreover, the Book of Rites once said that officials in the Song Dynasty were only appointed to official positions at seventy. Officials in the Song Dynasty had always been in office at seventy. Now it was suddenly brought forward to sixty. Naturally, many people were unwilling. As Fan Zheng said, no official is willing to give up his power.

"Of course, hundreds of officials have dedicated their lives to the court, and the court cannot treat them poorly. After an official reaches sixty years old and becomes an official, the court will still pay 80% of his salary until his death, allowing him to enjoy his old age like a doctor. This can alleviate the seriousness of the disease. The disease of redundant officials in Song Dynasty can also show the benevolence of officials."

Baiguan's heart was pounding and he swallowed back what he wanted to say to refute. The imperial court continued to pay 80% of the salary, and the doctors had previously promised to treat the sixty-year-old official at a discount. Although he had lost his official position for only a few years, he could easily receive the salary without having to work hard, and he could still get treatment from the doctor. The original resistance Emotions were greatly reduced.

The important ministers in the court were silent. After all, Fan Chunren's career scope was only below the third rank, which did not have much impact on them. However, it was still beneficial to them to have a 90% reduction in fees for those who were over sixty.

Fan Chunren continued: "According to Wei Chen's statistics, there are now nearly 40,000 officials of all sizes in our Song Dynasty. Among them, there are fully 2,000 people below the third rank and over 60 years old! In the future, there will be thousands more every year After reaching the age of sixty, in the future the Song Dynasty will be able to appoint officials according to the number of people who retire every year, and the problem of redundant officials will definitely be greatly alleviated."

"Two thousand people!" Zhao Xu's heart thumped. The Song Dynasty has always had a serious problem of redundant officials. Either officials were seriously ill or died unexpectedly, or they were seventy years old and became official. There were vacancies. Moreover, the vacancies were rare and unstable. If If he directly lays off 2,000 people at once, it will definitely cause an uproar and excitement. Now that officials over sixty have retired and have plans for retirement and medical care, the resistance will definitely be minimized.

"Fan Zheng had a great idea!"

At this moment, everyone understood that Fan Chunren's uncle and nephew had conspired. Fan Zheng proposed to share the labor between his parents, which made all the officials jealous. Fan Chunren took advantage of the situation and conveniently gave these benefits from the medical family to the old officials. The officials would benefit in the future. Naturally, Fan Chunren's hostility towards doctors was greatly reduced, and Fan Chunren took advantage of the trend to launch a policy of providing care and medical care for officials in their old age, which alleviated the problem of redundant officials in the Song Dynasty, which could be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"Does the Fan family also want to reform?"

The old party was moved. They did not expect that Fan Chunren would become smarter. He learned from his father Fan Zhongyan's radical method of removing officials and replaced the old and rotten sixty-year-old man with young and powerful officials. Although the root cause was not cured, But it also greatly alleviates the problem of redundant officials.

"Evil doctor Fan Zheng still favors the Fan family after all. He actually allows us to implement the hated method of working as a slave to his mother, and allows the Fan family to implement the law of sixty-year-old officials who are happy with everyone." Zhang Dun and others said with great dissatisfaction.

However, they did not realize that the cause of this incident was probably because of them. If they had not transferred their anger towards Fan Zheng, Fan Zheng would not have joined forces with Fan Chunren.

"This method is great!"

Officials of the old party praised this method one after another, saying that this method does not cost the national treasury, can benefit elderly officials, and can also solve redundant officials. Naturally, everyone is happy.

"I also agree with this method!" Zhang Dun solemnly said.

"At that time, Cai Huangshang, the father of Cai Xianggong, was over seventy years old. Chen Zhizhong and Chen Xianggong went to Chenzhou. Seeing that he was old, he persuaded him to resign. Cai Xianggong's father was unwilling to resign because his family was poor and he had to support his family. Chen Xianggong In order to enforce the law impartially, Cai's father had no choice but to resign. His family was in poverty. If he had had such a pension plan, this situation would not have happened." Zeng Bu also lamented.

Everyone in the New Party also supports this policy. In addition to the fact that this policy is beneficial to everyone, another reason is that the New Party has just come to power and is far different from the old Party in terms of strength. The nearly two thousand officials who have resigned this time are Most of them are die-hard members of the old party, and these vacant official positions can naturally be used to recruit people and greatly enhance the strength of the new party.

"This strategy is feasible!" Zhao Xu said with heartbeat.