The next day.
After the end of the dynasty, Ying Teng went to the Imperial Physician's Mansion.
Xia Wuji, the imperial doctor who reminded Ying Zheng that "the king bears the sword" in the past, is now over seventy years old, with completely white hair and beard. Since last year, he has written to resign many times, but he has never received the permission of the First Emperor. However, although Still staying in Taiyuan Hospital, but basically half-retired and half-retired.
Xia Wuji has trained many outstanding doctors over the years.
The palace rarely disturbed him.
But this time it was different from the past. Ying Teng went straight to Xia Wuji.
Not long after.
A tall, strong, calm and serene old man, holding a wooden stick, wearing a wide robe with long sleeves and a bamboo crown, walked out from the back of the hall. When he saw Ying Teng, he quickly bowed and saluted: "Imperial physician Xia Wuji has met Zong Zheng."
Ying Teng helped Xia Wuji up and said, "Physician Xia doesn't need to be so polite."
"It has been nearly forty years since Imperial Doctor Xia came to the palace. I shouldn't have bothered you, but this time the matter is so important that I had to ask the old Imperial Doctor to take action."
Xia Wuji frowned and did not dare to ask.
Ying Teng seemed to have guessed Xia Wuji's thoughts, and said without blushing: "Your Majesty, nothing happened. It's just that recently when the officials of the Yushi Mansion were cleaning the imperial prison, they accidentally found several prescriptions carved on a wall, so they wanted to Please ask Dr. Xia to identify one or two."
"If the prescription is effective, it will also benefit the world."
"Prison? Prescription?" Xia Wuqie's cloudy eyes turned, full of suspicion.
He certainly didn't believe what Ying Teng said.
However, after so many years in the palace, he knew how to deal with things.
Since Ying Teng is unwilling to tell the truth, it only means that he is not qualified to know.
Xia Wuji nodded and said, "That's fine. If a new prescription for treating diseases comes out, it will be a blessing to the world."
"I have nothing to do in the summer and I should follow suit."
Ying Teng nodded slightly and took the initiative to lead the way.
On the road.
Ying Teng took the initiative and said: "Mr. Only when officials sort out these official scripts can they get the complete prescription."
Xia Wuji nodded and said: "The prescription is related to life, so we can't be careless in the slightest."
"Mr. Xia really understands things," Ying Teng said.
After a quarter of an hour's journey, the two arrived at the Yushi Mansion.
In the side hall, Censor Qi Gill had been waiting for a long time, and there were several imperial doctors standing in the hall.
Seeing Ying Teng, everyone in the hall quickly saluted.
Ying Teng raised his forehead slightly and asked Qi Gill, "How long will it take between Cheng Miao and Wang Cizhong?"
"Already on the way here, I think it won't take long." Qi Gill said, and also smiled: "These two people are very enthusiastic about the reform of writing. They must be very excited when they heard that a newer official script has come out. I think it will be worse than expected. It comes faster.”
Ying Teng's expression did not change and he continued to ask: "Have the stone walls of the prison been removed, or have they been damaged?"
Qi Ji said sternly: "Last night, the Yushi Mansion summoned dozens of Mohist disciples overnight to dismantle the stone wall with the inscriptions and find someone to copy it in advance. The officials of the Calligraphy and Calligraphy Department had just compared it and found that the stone wall had not suffered any damage. There is no damage, and there is no missing part of the writing on it.”
"Zong Zheng can rest assured."
Hear the words.
Ying Teng's expression softened slightly.
After hearing the conversation between the two, Xia Wuqie's expression changed slightly.
He originally thought that what Ying Teng said before was just a lie, but he never thought that he actually came from prison.
For a while.
I was even more curious about the prescription on the stone wall.
He looked around, went to several imperial doctors, and asked, "Have you ever seen the prescriptions on the stone wall?"
"Mr. ..In the past, most of our writing was in Qin seal script, but this is written in official script. Although we know some of it, we don't know much."
"And the prescription is related to the subsequent preparation of medicine and decoction, so it must be accurate and there is no room for error. Even one word of difference may be a thousand miles wrong."
"This is what you warned me to wait for, Mr. Xia."
"I didn't dare to be vague in the face of this unfamiliar prescription, so I asked Zong Zheng to invite you here."
Xia Wuji nodded.
He opened the bamboo slips on the case and frowned as he looked at the contents.
He didn't recognize most of them.
At this time.
He showed a look of understanding, knowing why Ying Teng said these words differently from the past.
In the Qin Dynasty, official script was only an auxiliary text and was not standardized. It was relatively crude and unwritten. Although it was widely used by the people, the characters in different places were actually very different. Even the same character could be written in more than a dozen ways in the Chu region alone. Not to mention the entire Great Qin Dynasty, although the Character Collection Office has been busy with the reform of characters in recent years, the progress has not been as smooth as expected.
The world's writing is complicated and chaotic.
The reform of writing involves many things, including not only the purpose, strategy, text designation, and writing paradigm, but also the need to be accepted by the world. You can imagine the difficulty.
But precisely because of this, there is no room for carelessness.
What's more, it also involves prescriptions.
He has been in the palace for so many years, but he has often heard that officials were punished for typos.
Cheng Miao, the current director of the Calligraphy and Calligraphy Bureau, accidentally wrote the Qin seal script into official script due to carelessness. The escorting soldiers only recognized the Qin seal script, so they misunderstood the characters and sent the grain and grass to the wrong place, causing several soldiers to starve to death. , Cheng Miao was eventually imprisoned.
At this time.
There was a sound of footsteps outside the hall.
Xia Wuji raised his head and looked around, and saw two old men with snow-white beards and hair, clothed in cloth and wearing bamboo canes, walking lightly and vigorously into the hall. At the same time, a voice followed, "Cheng Miao is here, the strange man is here." Where is the official script now?"
Ying Teng frowned, but still suppressed his dissatisfaction and said: "Cheng Miao, you are an official of the Office of Calligraphy Surveying. This official script concerns several prescriptions. You must carefully screen them."
"If you make one wrong word, it may harm many people."
Hear the words.
Cheng Miao's expression suddenly changed, and he bowed deeply and said, "I have met Zong Zheng before, and I, Cheng Miao, am fascinated by calligraphy. I have learned millions of words in these years, and no one in the world knows more about official script than I do."
Cheng Miao looked confident.
Ying Teng nodded slightly and said, "Do you want to see the stone wall or the copy?"
"It should be a stone wall." Cheng Miao said bluntly.
Ying Teng glanced at Qi Gill.
Qi Yi gave instructions outside the palace, and soon, several officials carried a stone wall into the palace. The stone wall was very large, with a radius of one foot, but the actual inscriptions on it were only half a foot. The radius was not enough, but the Yushi Mansion was worried that it would be damaged during transportation, so it deliberately removed the complete stone wall.
Cheng Miao glanced at it briefly, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
"This is indeed official script."
"Take the simplest stroke and use a rectangle as the shape."
"It's just that this official script seems to be more concise than the current official script."
"The meaning is present but the form is simple, and it is easy for people to recognize."
"It seems to have become its own school!"
"It's weird. It's weird."
Cheng Miao was also amazed at this moment.
