After Fan Chunren came to court, Fan Zheng took the opportunity to sort out the memories of his two lives. He was a medical student in his later life, but now that he traveled to the Song Dynasty, he found himself in a very embarrassing position.
He now has the most advanced medical concepts, but there is no use for them, because in later generations, most of his medical skills relied on instruments.
"Where is my EKG? Where is my B-ultrasound? Where is my CT scan?"
Fan Zheng looked up to the sky and sighed, and in the end he could only resign himself to looking at the thick ancient medical books in his hands. He found that the ancients did not have these advanced instruments, but they could compete with the advanced instruments of later generations based solely on experience. It was simply incredible.
What's more, he discovered many long-lost medical books in his predecessor's study. The medical skills in them were even more unbelievable, but they also reached the same goal as later generations.
Fan Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. Perhaps he could combine the medical skills of two generations and achieve great success in the Song Dynasty, which would also fulfill his predecessor's wish to become a famous doctor.
"Brother Fan, it's not good!" Suddenly a young man rushed into Fan's house and shouted anxiously.
"Brother!" Fan Zheng looked at the person coming! The other party's information couldn't help but emerge, Su Shi's fourth son, Su Dun, nicknamed Qian'er.
Fan Zheng did not expect that his time travel would produce a butterfly effect. Su Dun, who was supposed to have died at the age of two, miraculously survived. However, he had been frail and sick since he was a child. In order to let him grow up healthily, Su Shi asked him to study medicine at the Imperial Medical Bureau, and Fan Zhengnai Classmates, the relationship between the two is extremely good.
Su Dun's face turned dark and he said, "Just call me Brother Su!"
"Okay, godbrother!"
Su Dun suddenly felt helpless and didn't bother to correct him. Who knew that when he was critically ill, his father and uncle both wrote poems for him. I'm afraid his reputation as a god will be passed down for thousands of years.
"Brother Fan, something happened to you. The Imperial Medical Bureau has rumored that your medical status will be revoked." Su Dun blurted out the news he had obtained.
"Oh! Really?" Fan Zheng said indifferently.
"Brother Fan is about to be expelled from the medical profession. Why is there no reaction at all?" Su Dun said with surprise on his face. He wanted to see Fan Zheng lose his composure.
Fan Zheng said calmly: "What reason did the Imperial Medical Bureau use to expel me from medical status?"
"Of course you are prescribing a couple to reconcile? Now there is an uproar in the city. A doctor from the Imperial Medical Bureau proposed to expel you from the medical profession. In the end, the imperial doctor Qian Yi rejected it and changed it to invalidate the last annual examination. Three days later Retake the exam." Su Dun looked at Fan Zhengdao with strange eyes.
Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "So what if the whole city is in an uproar? Since when do doctors rely on public opinion to prescribe medicine? If the Imperial Medical Bureau wants to expel Fan for this reason, then it must prove that Fan's medical prescription is wrong."
Su Dun glanced at Fan Zheng in surprise and said, "Then how can Brother Fan prove that his prescription is correct?"
Fan Zheng asked rhetorically: "Does Brother Qian also think that Fan's prescription is wrong?"
Su Dun Qiqi Ai Ai said: "I naturally believe Brother Fan. Brother Fan has good intentions in wanting the couple to get married and have children. But as far as I know, getting married does not mean that you cannot have children."
Fan Zheng continued to ask: "Are all the children they gave birth to healthy?"
"Then...!" Su Dun's expression suddenly changed. Thinking of the rumors he had heard, he looked at Fan Zheng in shock.
"Could it be..." Su Dun said with a stiff expression.
Fan Zheng nodded, picked up a stack of data in his hand, handed it to Su Dun and said: "The reason why Fan prescribed a prescription for divorce was not because he could not have children, but because he wanted to get married. This is what the Fan family has done these days. After collecting the fertility status of the relatives in Kaifeng City, there is only one sentence to summarize it: if the relatives increase the number of relatives, the birth will not be fruitful."
"Hiss!" Su Dun looked at the shocking figures one by one and suddenly took a breath of cold air.
He originally thought it was just a prescription, but he didn't expect that the seemingly beautiful kiss would have such painful consequences behind it.
Fan Zheng said solemnly: "This morning, my father has brought these cases of in-person marriage to the court and asked the court to ban in-person in-person engagement. I think the court must be in an uproar now!"
Inside the Chui Gong Hall!
"To report to the Empress Dowager, during the annual examination of the Imperial Medical Bureau, the Imperial Doctor Fan Zheng actually advised people to leave. Now the city of Kaifeng is in an uproar, and people are shouting. They all denounced this as a quack doctor. I ask you to strictly investigate the recommendation of the Imperial Doctor. To prevent quacks from running rampant and ruining the lives of the people in the world." In the main hall, the imperial censor Zhao Tingzhi was making an impassioned speech, angrily rebuking Fan Zheng for his ridiculous actions.
The civil and military officials of the entire dynasty looked at Minister Fan Chunli and Prime Minister Fan Chunren with strange looks. The Fan family had been in power for many years and had made many enemies. This time the censor impeached Fan Zheng in public, and he was probably targeting the Fan family.
Fan Chunren frowned. He had heard about this a long time ago and had sent a message to his third brother, but he did not get the slightest response.
"To report to the Empress Dowager, Fan Zheng is indeed the third younger brother. He loves medicine so much that he gave up his favor and entered the Imperial Medical Bureau to study medicine. Now that he is prescribing the first prescription in the medical school, there must be something hidden!" Fan Chunren argued.
The Queen Mother Gao, who was sitting at the head, nodded slightly, turned to look at Fan Chunli and said, "What's Fan Aiqing's excuse?"
Fan Chunli shook his head, stepped forward and said, "To the Queen Mother, this recipe was indeed invented by Quan Zi, and the ministers have already cross-examined Quan Zi and believe that there is no fallacy in this recipe!"
"There is no fallacy!" The whole court was in an uproar. No one thought that Fan Chunli, a ridiculous medical prescription recognized by the world, would actually tell lies for the sake of his son.
Immediately, the eyes of many political opponents lit up. They had originally taken the opportunity to suppress the next generation of the Fan family, but they did not expect that Fan Chunli, who was affectionate and spoke out in defense, would actually make such a childish mistake.
"The minister impeached Fan Chunli, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, for hiding from each other. In order to protect his children, he actually confused right and wrong and did not distinguish between right and wrong. How can he hold such an important position as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs with such behavior?" Zhao Tingzhi perked up, like a shark after smelling fish. I pounced on it like a smell.
Suddenly, many courtiers impeached Fan Chunli.
Fan Chunren frowned when he heard this and said: "Third brother, how could you be so confused? The Fan family runs the family with sincerity, and you just sit back and watch Zheng'er make mistakes. Instead of correcting him, you actually help him do evil. Have you forgotten your father's teachings?"
"It is because of my father's teachings that I risked the disapproval of the world and supported Zheng'er." Fan Chunli raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, turned around and cupped his hands to Empress Dowager Gao,
"To report to the Queen Mother, I am writing to prohibit in-person incest, and to abolish the household marriage law and the prohibition of marriage between people with the same surname, and to prohibit marriage between direct blood relatives and three generations of collateral relatives."
As soon as Fan Chunli finished speaking, it was like a stone stirring up a thousand waves.
"If you marry with the same surname, you will not be married. This is one of the Zhou rites, and you openly question the Zhou rites!" Zhao Tingzhi pointed at Fan Chunli and yelled angrily.
The other courtiers also frowned. Weddings are a vital part of Zhou rites. Not marrying someone with the same surname has been a law of Zhou rites for thousands of years. Now, it was openly questioned. For a while, Fan Chunli became the focus of the court.
Fan Chunli said happily without fear: "The reason why Fan Zheng, the dog son, prescribed the medical treatment of separation is because the couple are very close to each other!"
"So what? It's a great thing to get married!" Many courtiers frowned.
Fan Chunli said sternly: "Zuo Zhuan: Marriage with the same surname will lead to a different birth. It can be said that the blood flowing through the marriage of the same surname is the paternal blood. What if it is calculated according to the maternal blood? Isn't it the same as being married to one another? "
"incest!"
The expressions of all the officials in the court suddenly changed. Although Fan Chunli did not say those two words, how could they not understand what Fan Chunli meant with their intelligence.
"That's nonsense!"
"It's simply apostasy. If you have the same surname and don't get married, you can live without a family. This is a Zhou ritual that has been followed for thousands of years. You actually question the Confucian classics."
"Kissing one another has been a tradition for thousands of years, and you actually slandered it out of thin air."
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The ministers in the Manchu Dynasty were very excited, and their marriages were often done through in-laws. Some officials even married through in-laws. If we say that in-person marriages were like incest, this was even more difficult in a court with extremely strict feudal ethics. It is a stain that is difficult to erase. How can these officials let it go?
Censor Zhao Tingzhi said loudly: "Since ancient times, men have been superior to women. Women are nothing more than men's vassals. How can maternal blood be regarded as inheritance? It is simply a big joke."
Zhao Tingzhi was making an impassioned speech when he suddenly felt something was wrong in the eyes of the court officials, and he suddenly woke up. Then he remembered that the Queen Mother Gao sitting in the highest position was also a woman, so she quickly retreated to a corner and remained silent.
Empress Dowager Gao looked embarrassed and said: "Shilang Fan, you mean that the paternal bloodline and the maternal bloodline can cause birth defects."
"good!"
Fan Chunli immediately presented the situation of the marriages he had investigated: "I randomly checked 300 cases of marriages between relatives and relatives in Kaifeng City, and found 20 of them, and 140 cases of congenital disease, disability, mental retardation, and premature death. Twelve families, less than half of normal families.”
"hiss!"
All the officials in the court suddenly took a breath of cold air, but such a terrifying probability made everyone shudder.
"It's impossible for me to... There are many examples of people getting closer to each other, but none of them have problems. What's the explanation for this?" Some officials said confidently.
Fan Chunli explained: "Some of the close relatives are not true maternal blood. The ones selected by me are all married to my cousins."
"A middle-class marriage?"
Baiguan was stunned. It was a custom in the Song Dynasty to call the children of the father's sister (aunt) as outside brothers and sisters, and to call the children of the mother's brother (uncle) and sister (aunt) as inside brothers and sisters. The outside is the outside and the inside is the middle, so the outside brothers and sisters and the inside brothers and sisters are also called "middle cousins". A person who marries the children of his aunt, uncle or aunt is called a "marriage between the first and second cousins".
There are many concubines in the natal family who are also called cousins, but they are not actually related by blood.
"It's nonsense. The paternal bloodline has surnames that can be verified, but the maternal bloodline cannot be verified. If according to what the third brother said, even heterosexual marriages will still encounter the same bloodline, wouldn't the world have long been dead?" Fan Chunren On the surface, he was refuting Fan Chunli, but in fact, he was giving Fan Chunli a chance to refute.
Fan Chunli nodded and said: "So if you marry with the same surname, you will not be related to each other. It should be a marriage of the same blood, and your children will not be related to each other. Wei Chen suggested that the division should be based on blood. Intermarriage between direct blood relatives and collateral blood relatives within three generations is prohibited. Those who are married to first cousins will be separated from each other with a hundred sticks."
"Shilang Fan's move is too selfish. My son's doctor ordered people to reconcile, but you actually let the best cousins in the world get divorced. In order to clear my name, you are so cruel." Zhao Tingzhi scolded angrily.
"A middle-class marriage will cause endless harm!" Fan Chunli said happily without fear.
However, Fan Chunli is not without supporters. Many officials who are not involved in the marriage between Chinese cousins and officials who sympathize with the dangers of incest marriage have supported Fan Chunli.
"No! The custom of kissing and kissing has been around for a long time. It cannot be changed. Moreover, there are countless married couples in the Song Dynasty. If this move is carried out rashly, I am afraid it will cause an uproar." Many courtiers tried to dissuade them.
After all, in-laws and in-laws really involve a lot. Countless people in the entire Song Dynasty used this marriage. The in-laws and in-laws, which have been passed down for thousands of years and have been recognized as beautiful, suddenly reversed and became a bad habit that caused endless harm, directly subverting everything. Three views of people.
For a while, there was endless debate in the court.
