Chapter 58 – The Great Prince’s Visit

The development of things had not gone as Fan Xian had expected, that Great Master of Qing, who had traveled the world like a lone hawk, still had not returned to Kyoto, and the Ye family had very silently accepted the arrangement and was forced to disengage from the entire Kyoto’s defense system. Of course, amongst the middle and lower level arrangements, they still had some strength left, only that they were no longer able to make too many waves, and had lost the power to directly sway the future dynastic government.

If Ye Liuyun really returned to Kyoto after this incident, the emperor in the palace, who was apparently solemn and amiable, would definitely reveal his most ruthless side, and at the risk of compromising the national power of Qing, he would also want to get rid of the Ye family outright-a family that held the important land in Kyoto, was about to be united in marriage with the emperor, and most crucially, had a great master as a solid backing, as long as the slightest hint of backlash was shown, it had to be forcefully suppressed back.

And in the end, Ye Liuyun did not return to the capital, which showed that the Ye family had helplessly accepted the current situation. Of course, His Majesty would not embarrass the Ye family too much for Ye Liuyun’s face and for the fact that the Ye family’s loyalty had never really waned. Ye Chong is still stationed in Cangzhou, and none of his titles or military honors have been diminished, and his rewards are even better than back then.

Even that straightforward and somewhat adorable Gong Dian, who committed such a great offense, His Majesty did not punish him severely, but only took away all of his military positions, and relegated him to civilian status after beating him with a thirty court cane.

Ye family is very aggrieved, but for the sake of the stable future of the country of Qing, they had to make a sacrifice, so that they can take the opportunity to stay away from Kyoto this is a place of wrongdoing, it is not necessarily a bad thing.

In fact, the real most disappointed should also be the eldest princess who was far away in Xinyang, and the second prince who was now under house arrest in the mansion.

“It’s really ridiculous.” Fan Xian couldn’t help but shake his head as he looked at the courtyard report sent by Mu Tie. The defense of Kyoto after the Ye family’s temporary retreat was a matter that everyone in the court was staring at nowadays, and the post of Kyoto guardian had unsurprisingly fallen into Qin Heng’s hands. And the most important commander of the forbidden army and the minister of the imperial guards, these two positions that have always been held by one person, but was split in two by his majesty.

The Minister of Imperial Guards is temporarily vacant, according to the news from the palace, it should be Eunuch Hong who is temporarily in charge.

And the position of commander of the forbidden army …… is surprisingly the Grand Prince!

The absurdity that Fan Xian said in his mouth was in response to this appointment by the Emperor. In this time and space in history, there have been very few precedents of the prince as a forbidden army commander, why? It is not afraid of those who are bold enough to use the hands of the emperor to use the soldiers to rebel! But the emperor will be the forbidden army commander position to the eldest prince. There is still a crown prince in the Eastern Palace, what is the emperor thinking? The eldest prince’s birth mother, Mrs. Ning, is an Eastern barbarian, so this throne is not his turn by any means.

Mu Tie didn’t dare to answer, and reported to Fan Xian about the recent work in one place, and looking at the look on the Lord Tishi’s face, he seemed to be a bit tired, so he hurriedly took his leave and went out.

“Teacher, take a rest.” In private, Shi Yanli was still accustomed to calling Fan Xian teacher rather than lord. He looked at Fan Xian’s face, which was obviously somewhat deficient in qi and blood, and said heartily, “His Majesty gave an explicit decree that you should not ask about the affairs of the courtyard for three months …… It’s obvious that he’s letting you recuperate, but you’ve chosen not to listen.”

The door master’s holy favor was extraordinary, and he, who was a student, was also somewhat vaguely proud.

Fan Xian shook his head and scolded with a smile, “You don’t stay in the Moon Embracing Building, what’s the point of running to my study every day and soaking?”

Shi Elaboration gave a bitter laugh, “That place …… feels always a bit wrong to stay.”

Fan Xian laughed and kicked him out, incidentally asking him to call out to Deng Ziyue to come in.

When Deng Ziyue entered the study, Fan Xian’s face immediately looked grave as he asked, “What conclusion did the courtyard come to about that white-clad assassin?” Although he knew that at the moment it seemed impossible for him to dig out the secrets in Chen Pingping’s heart, it was a bit of a shame to put in his hands a resource that was almost exactly similar to the old cripple’s and not utilize it for riddles.

Teng Ziyue shook his head and said, “Although His Majesty shouted out the identity …… of the other party in a single breath on the Hanging Temple,” he laughed bitterly, “As you know, Your Excellency, His Majesty is not a member of the martial arts, so his words naturally can not be used for accuracy. The Four Gu Swords did have a younger brother back then, but he’s been missing for many years, and the world is guessing if he was killed by the Four Gu Swords when they took over Dongyi City, so the courtyard has been very cautious in expressing its opposition.”

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, somewhat surprised that the Supervisory Academy hadn’t smoothed out this tail at Chen Pingping’s enticement, or was it that Chen Pingping was confident that the Shadow’s true nature couldn’t possibly be guessed at, and so he simply hadn’t done any of this maneuvering?

“But ……” Deng Ziyue said the second but, his face showing embarrassment, “But since His Majesty said that it was the brother of the Four Gu Swords, those of us who are subjects are not in a position to directly oppose it, especially since we don’t know if His Majesty’s casual remarks isn’t involved in the court’s movements in the years to come.”

Fan Xian laughed, Qing is good at martial arts, the whole world knows that, last year, he was assassinated in Niulan Street, his majesty took this good opportunity to send troops to the north, and occupied a large piece of land back, as a result, all the courtiers are now accustomed to his majesty’s hobby of planting stolen goods and finding excuses to fight wars, and don’t dare to just be smart about it.

Regarding the Hanging Temple matter, Fan Xian should have gone to the Supervisory Yuan to see the little eunuch and the assassin’s body, but he knew how muddy the water in there really was, and was still pondering whether or not he should get involved too deeply. Another reason was this: in his current physical condition, all of his relatives, including his father-sama, would not allow him to go out of the mansion.

He himself does not dare to go out, life as gold, little Lord Fan, now in the body of the true qi scattered, do not know when to collect back, immense disappointment, for their own personal safety is extra careful.

Of course, Fan Xian will not reveal his real situation to anyone.

The study was pushed open with a creak, the guards outside the door didn’t react, Fan Xian lay on the bed and looked over, it was really Wan Er and her sister.

Deng Ziyue saw the hidden angry look on the lady’s and young lady’s faces, and knew that he should leave, and after a salute, he respectfully retreated, so much so that Fan Xian did not have the chance to say anything when he wanted him to send a message on behalf of Bingyun to come and make a trip to the mansion.

“It was agreed to recuperate properly, but you refuse to save this heart.” The aunt and sister-in-law cooperated skillfully as they began to change his medicine and feed him, all the while still persuading him.

Fan Xian let out a bitter laugh, “It’s probably because I didn’t get the name right, I can’t stay idle.”

More than being idle? Since Fan Xian left the palace and returned home, Fan Mansion immediately turned into the most lively house in Kyoto, all day long, officials from the three courts, three temples and six ministries came to visit Lord Tiji’s condition in an unending stream, countless powerful and noble people came to the door one after another, and ministers, regardless of faction, came to show their goodwill, and on that south street in front of the Fan Mansion, the black compartments of the horse-drawn carriages were as cloudy as clouds, and the gift boxes were as constant as dragons.

The people who came to the Fan Mansion gave away all kinds of precious medicines. Fan Xian a person where to eat these, in addition to some of the really expensive raw materials, the rest are put to the moon building to deal with.

The assassination of the Temple of the Hanging Sky, so that Fan Xian has become the hottest minister of the State of Qing, and compared with his sudden rise to become the Supervisory Yuan, compared to the Secretary, this time there is to save the driver’s work as a cornerstone, to appear more solid and stable, and more so that the officials of the State of Qing are secretly afraid of the three points.

Officials are not blind or deaf, Fan Xian was left in the palace for so many days after he was injured, and listening to the news coming out of the palace, Fan Xian healed his injuries that night, his majesty didn’t seem to have slept much – such favor, that is to say, only Chen Pingping, the widowed old man can be compared.

When many people were carefully flattering the Fan family, how had they ever actually been completely convinced in their hearts? Especially those brave young men, they could not help but be jealous that Fan Xian’s luck was too good, why was he not by His Majesty’s side when His Majesty was assassinated?

“The family has gotten a lot of silver this time.” Fan Xian was speaking seriously, not joking. In his previous life, a district magistrate getting sick would get tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention a minister of his own tier, and in a Qing country where bribery was becoming more and more superficial.

“It’s just that it’s bitter for the lord.” Lin Wan’er laughed lightly and fed him a mouthful of medicine like a child. She was of such a noble birth that she certainly didn’t care about the flattering behavior of the courtiers.

Fan Xian, who was recovering from his injuries, did not have the mood to receive those officials who were actually showing their goodwill by visiting him, but these officials were all from different backgrounds, so he had to suffer Lord Fan Shangshu, who spent most of his time greeting guests, in addition to routine ministry affairs.

Fan Ruo Ruo complained: “These people come once not to mention, actually also turn over again, also not afraid of inviting people to annoy.”

“The ministers are still good.” Lin Wan’er suddenly thought of something, and with admiration on her face, she looked at Fan Xian and said with a smile, “The scariest thing is that Imperial Doctor. This boss man is truly a man of great patience, he came four times and you refused to see him. In the end, even His Majesty sent word to him that you would not enter the Imperial Hospital, but as a result, he still refused to die. This is not …… just listened to Vine everyone s saying, the Imperial Doctor is coming again today, is sitting in that room study, hard refused to go. A cup of tea are drinking into clear water, the master even make face, but he just pretend not to see.”

She tsked and sighed, “What a powerful man.”

Fan Xian gave a bitter laugh, and although he didn’t say anything, he also admired that Imperial Doctor Zheng, who was the number one in the Qing Kingdom in terms of cheek thickness. That night in the palace, at first, the Imperial Doctor did not have the slightest confidence in his own medical skills, but it did not affect him in the least to secretly stay in Guangxin Palace to spy on him and steal from him, and when he found out about the wonders of Fan Xian’s medical skills later on, he was even more determined to pull Fan Xian into the Imperial Hospital, or at least to let Fan Xian pass down those “weird medical skills”, and then, after that, Fan Xian was able to get to the Imperial Hospital. He was so determined that he made several visits to the door and refused to leave, and his methods were so roguish that he was really an anomaly.

In the eyes of the doctors of Qing, surgery was naturally magical, but Fan Xian knew that he was just lucky, and there were some key problems that made it difficult to promote this discipline in today’s world.

He inclined his head to look at his sister, who was carefully adjusting the lacing at her wound next to him, and suddenly thought of a certain possibility, but then shook his head.

Three people stayed in the study, the atmosphere was just right, but unexpectedly, there was a gentle knock on the door, and Fan Xian frowned.

“A guest is visiting.” The subordinate outside the door respectfully reported.

This time, even Lin Wan’er’s brows frowned and said, “Didn’t you say you wouldn’t see anyone?”

This guest couldn’t be seen, and Fan Xian looked at the uninvited Grand Prince with a bitter smile on his face and said, “How convenient it is to be in the palace, the Grand Prince didn’t go to the Plum Garden to see me, but why did he come today?”

Lin Wan’er also beamed and said strangely, “Big brother, right now there are many people in the mansion, why did you also come to join in the fun?”

The Grand Prince looked at her hopelessly. This younger sister was the one he had watched grow up since childhood, and after only being married for a year, her mind was all about her husband’s family, “There’s not so much to talk about.”

Brother and sister duo fought a few more words, the eldest prince helplessly defeated, made a move to move the flowers to catch the jade, said in a deep voice: “The great princess also came with me, this time is talking with Mrs. Fan, Chen sister, you go to take a look at it.”

The Grand Princess in his mouth was naturally the woman who had traveled a long way from Northern Qi to join her in marriage. Fan Xian was slightly stunned, but he did not think that this pair of men and women had cultivated such feelings before marriage, and that the palace had allowed them to come and go in pairs. He also thought of the several conversations he had with that Grand Princess on the return trip, and was slightly stunned.

Lin Wan’er and Fan Ruo Ruo were also incredibly curious about that exotic princess who had only been heard of, but not seen, and knowing that the Grand Princess must have something to say to Fan Xian, they got up and left.

The study was quiet, and Fan Xian slightly raised his right hand, signaling the other party to use the tea, and said softly, “Congratulations to the Great Undersecretary of the Palace.”

The congratulations were naturally on the other party’s assumption of the position of Grand Commander of the Forbidden Army. The Grand Prince’s eyebrows were raised, then relaxed and said lightly, “What is there to be happy about? This king was originally the Great General of the Western Conquest.”

Fan Xian laughed: “Although it is a drop of two ranks, how can the center of the forbidden army be the same as the border Yinshan?”

The Grand Prince glanced at him, wondering if he was hiding something else by saying this, and said a moment later, “This king …… doesn’t want to be this forbidden army commander, and would rather go to the north to replace Yan Xiaoyi back.”

Fan Xian shook his head, thinking that his majesty had transferred Yan Xiaoyi far away and ate the Ye family to death, and the defense was not that crazy bitch in Xinyang, you go to the north, Yan Xiaoyi is of course happy, but his majesty will be very upset.

“Don’t tell me that the Great Hall has come to see me, a patient, today to say that he is not as happy as he would like to be in his own workplace.” He laughed softly, “I can be a competent listener.”

“More than a listener.” The Grand Prince stared into his eyes, though he didn’t catch the meaning of the word workplace, “I would like to ask you for this favor.”

Calling himself me now, not the king.

Fan Xian noticed this change and began to feel slightly nervous in his heart, it seems that this great prince with Eastern barbarian blood is very seriously …… asking for his help.

God!

He let out a ghostly sigh in his heart and looked at the grand prince and said, ”Your Highness, what a vital position for the commander of the forbidden army, His Majesty is trusting in your loyalty to make this arrangement. Fan Xian, as a subject, how can he be presumptuous?”

The Grand Prince shook his head, “Fan Xian, truth be told, at the beginning of my return to the capital, I was rather unimpressed with you. When I was in the west, I heard that Kyoto had produced a Poetry Immortal, but I was a military general, and never believed that these matters of wind and flowers could be of any help to the people of the world, or to the court up and down the line ……”

He then turned: “But back to the capital a few months, see you act tough in the pure, loom out of a hundred especially show talent. Not to mention that you will be the old man to fix the difficult incomparable, alone that the hanging temple matter, will make me on your perception greatly changed ……”

“And in the middle of the palace, you were even able to cure your own will-be-dead injuries.” This slightly dark-faced prince said solemnly, “Nowadays, I really can’t think of anything else in this world that can be difficult for you. So for this matter, you must help me.”

Faced with countless high hats, Fan Xian fell silent. Chen Pingping had once said that this Grand Prince in front of him was different, and had deliberately stayed away from the palace since he was a child, wanting to get as far away from that chair as possible, and now that His Majesty, the old ghost who killed people without using a knife, was insistently trying to drag him into the muddy waters, it was no wonder that he wanted to rebel in his anger.

And the great prince’s power is mostly in the military, the court strategy above really does not have any talent, just the other side actually found his head, is really some unexpected.

Although Fan Xian is indeed very happy to see that among these “brothers”, there is a person who maintains a rare breadth of mind and clarity, and also sympathizes with the other party’s current situation, but he still shook his head firmly: “Your Highness, not dare, not not not to do, but can not, Fan Xian is, after all, just a courtier, and it is impossible for the Supervisory Yuan to discuss imperial politics. to delude the imperial government.”

The Grand Prince sighed, what he came here today was a bit presumptuous and even risky, just looking around the capital, besides Fan Xian, who could he go to? Could it be that he could only go to Chen Yuan once more after all?

“His Majesty’s mind is made up, no one can change it, I don’t think Your Highness needs to make another trip to Chen Yuan. However, I am a little curious, how did Your Highness come …… to make a decision today? In your eyes, I shouldn’t be a good and benevolent minister who is kind to others either.” Fan Xian seemed to be able to guess what he was thinking.

The Grand Prince slowly drank the fragrant tea in his cup and said, “Fan Xian, you can hide it from others, but you can’t hide it from me, don’t forget that I was also in the Hanging Temple at that time……. Just based on the fact that you saved my little brother first, and then my father’s father, I knew that you were a trustworthy person.”

Fan Xian was silent, not realizing that the values formed in that world had caused both the Emperor and the Grand Prince to develop an inexplicable trust in themselves.

The Grand Prince had come today because he also wanted to express his attitude to the side of the Supervisory Yuan, and at the same time, he also hoped that he could get certain helpful hints from Fan Xian, only that since the other party was keeping silent, he himself was not in a good position to be too presumptuous. With Wan’er in the middle as a bridge, in the future, if the situation in the capital really changed, one did not have the luxury of asking the Supervisory Yuan side to help oneself, but if Fan Xian could reveal some useful information, that would be enough.

“I heard that the Imperial Doctor is coming to the residence several times already?”

He changed the subject somewhat awkwardly, his long years on a horse having made him a little less savvy about this kind of curveball in the official world.

Fan Xian let out a laugh in his heart and explained, “He wanted me to serve at the Imperial Hospital, and after being refuted by His Majesty, he wanted me to teach students at the Imperial Hospital.”

This was a casual conversation, but the Grand Prince became serious and said, “Fan Xian, I also think you should go to the Imperial Hospital, I was also guarding outside of the Guangxin Palace that night, and by looking at the seriousness of those imperial doctors, I knew that your medical skills were truly exceptional.”

He asked curiously, “In fact, many people in the capital have wondered how you dared to let Miss Fan do it inside your own stomach. Those imperial doctors have blown you off as an immortal.”

Fan Xian responded with a bitter smile, “Don’t believe them, everyone knows that Fei Jie is my teacher …… If I let them dig up graves and enjoy corpses every day when they were four years old, and cut open the stomachs of corpses that were soaked in corpse water, they’d have my skills too.”

“I see, it seems that the word genius is not enough to explain anything.” The Grand Prince sighed and then advised, “Of course the Imperial Hospital is not as powerful as the Supervisory Academy, but it is better than the peace. The idea of the Imperial Doctor Zheng is also extremely simple, and if you teach your medical skills, I don’t know how many lives can be saved.”

He looked seriously into Fan Xian’s eyes, “Saving people is something like this, it’s always better than killing people. And since I’ve been in the military for years, I know what a good doctor means to those injured soldiers.”

“Why do you want to go and teach the art of medicine?”

“To benefit the world.”

“The Imperial Physician Zheng thinks this is what he means?”

“Precisely.”

“Your Highness turns out that today’s side project is to help the Imperial Doctor Zheng as a lobbyist, no wonder the topic turned so oddly earlier.” Fan Xian laughed.

Seeing his smug smile, the Grand Prince’s face gradually sank, saying, “Could it be that you think we’re all talking nonsense?”

In fact, it was really close to nonsense, letting Fan Xian let go of the hallowed Supervisory Academy’s mention of the Secretary to become a professor of medicine, letting go of anyone who couldn’t persuade him to come up with such words, but the two pedantic and straight people, the Imperial Doctor and the Grand Prince, said it directly.

Fan Xian stopped laughing and realized that the wound on his chest was a bit painful, he was startled and said, “I’m not making fun of you, on the contrary, I do have a bit of respect in my heart for the Imperial Doctor.”

To do surgery, there were many problems that could not be solved, the first was anesthesia, the second was sterilization, and the third was instruments. Now the standard of this world is not enough to solve these gates, Fan Xian anesthesia with the use of Golofang, disinfection with the hard resistance, which is based on their own strong physical function, if replaced by the general public, I’m afraid that it is not by the ecstasy death, or by the complication of the death of the Yin. As for the issue of equipment, it is even more difficult to solve, Fan Xian and Fei Jie thought for several years, but in the end, they only poured out the efforts of the three places, made that set.

If they couldn’t even stop the bleeding, what was there to talk about opening the knife?

Explaining these reasons in words that the other party could understand, the Grand Prince finally understood that this kind of medicine was a tougher kind of medicine, using the injured person’s body to fight against those knife-tipped psychedelics, and if Fan Xian hadn’t been practicing since he was a young boy, he wouldn’t have been able to make it through.

Thinking of those soldiers in the Western Expeditionary Army who suffered from arrow wounds that were ultimately incurable, he ultimately felt some regret and sighed as he slapped his thigh, “Is there no better method?”

Somehow, Fan Xian’s sister’s surprisingly stable hands came back to his mind, and comfortingly said, “There are some basics, and in a few days I’ll have Ruo Ruo go to the Imperial Hospital to cross-reference with the imperial doctors.”

The Grand Prince nodded and added, “Earlier, you seemed to be a bit dismissive of the four words of benefiting the people.” This was the doubt in his mind, Fan Xian was certainly a powerful minister who put profit above all else on the surface, but after a few moments of watching from the sidelines, the Grand Prince always felt that the other party’s ambitions should be more than that.

Fan Xian was quiet for a while, and then said softly, “There are many ways to benefit the people, and you don’t necessarily have to save people’s lives.”

The Grand Prince was a bit confused.

“For example, Your Highness. You have been in the west for several years, fighting the Hu people and killing countless people.” He spoke with a smile, “But yet you stopped the Western Hu invasion, isn’t that not considered benefiting the people?”

This blow of horse’s ass, even if the Grand Imperial Prince was no matter how stoic he was, he still had to take it raw.

“Another example is me. Although the world thinks that the Supervisory Yuan is just an eerie secret agent organization, but if I can make it work in my hands, leaning as much as possible on the right path, so that the world of our Daqing Dynasty is unbreakable, and the people of the world can live peacefully and happily …… Is it not considered to be a benefit to the people of the world?”

“The purpose may be the same, but the methods may be many.” Fan Xian spoke more and more vigorously, like his own junior high school language teacher in his previous life, and with a fluttering brow, he told the old story of Lu Xun’s abandonment of medicine to pursue a career in literature that year, of course, an old story of a thousand years ago that he had occasionally read in the ancient books of the trusty name of Zhuang Mo Han.

The Grand Prince was slightly stunned: “Save the national body, not as good as saving the national spirit?” He patted his thighs and said: “But my Qing is not the story of that country’s weak appearance, why do I need to teach with words?”

This is true, the Qing people’s culture is simple with a fresh and upward flavor, which is very different from the air that Lu Fu Zi had to breathe in the late Qing Dynasty.

Fan Xian laughed, said: “So …… I not only abandoned medicine, even the text also intends to brain abandon …… What am I? Abandon medicine and politics? Abandon the pen and take up the sword?”

The Grand Prince still did not agree with him, “You are indeed a talented person, why don’t you show all that you have learned in your chest? If you can make this world a better place ……”

Fan Xian waved his hand with some difficulty and said, “Most people want to remake this world, but few want to remake themselves (Note 1). I thought it would be better to remake myself first.”

Decades ago, there had been a woman who wanted to remake this world, and she ended up dying, Fan Xian did not want to follow in her footsteps, he was more afraid of death and more selfish.

As he spoke, a clamor suddenly came from outside the window, and the sound was filled with joy.

The Grand Prince glanced at him and said with a smile, “It seems that the decree to reward you has finally come down.”

Fan Xian smiled to himself and said nothing, what lurked in his clear eyes was only concern for his own body, that was all, and did not preempt the world of worry.

“Note 1: This is a QQ signature that I occasionally saw, and I found it quite interesting at the time, and immediately associated it with countless books of Qing wear Ming wear Tang wear otherworldly wear overhead wear. Fan wear is not going to take the road of transformation of the world, on the one hand, I am lazy he is also lazy, on the other hand, his mother is too diligent, thirdly, the level of my knowledge in some areas is really crummy, I can not write. For example, surgery, I really do not know how to do ah, if there is any ridiculous ridiculous place, please laugh, forgive then a.”