The Return of the King: A Generation of Prodigies

If it weren't for that life-saving pill, Mrs. Wang's condition would be very bad now.

After all, for the frail Mrs. Wang, the injuries on her body might not mean anything to others, but to her, they could cost her life.

"Yes." Shen Tianjiao turned her gaze away from Madam Wang and looked at the female doctor and said, "Zhiyu, Madam Wang will have to take care of her from now on."

"I have already promised Prime Minister Wang that you will stay and take care of Madam Wang until she is fully recovered."

"Yes, I will obey the Empress's command." Zhiyu then looked up with some embarrassment and said to Shen Tianjiao, "But if I stay to take care of Madam Wang, who will serve you, Empress?"

Zhiyu was taught personally by Doctor Wang. After she finished her apprenticeship, she stayed by Shen Tianjiao's side and served her.

Although there were imperial physicians in the palace, as women, there were many illnesses that were inconvenient for imperial physicians to diagnose, so they had to rely on female doctors to diagnose and treat them.

If Zhiyu stayed to take care of Lady Wang, it would indeed be very inconvenient in the palace.

"Nothing, I'll ask the Imperial Hospital to transfer a few more female doctors over to handle it first."

Although there are other female doctors in the Imperial Medical Service, they are not specially trained, and their loyalty and medical skills need to be considered.

But now Zhiyu can't go back, so Shen Tianjiao can only do this for now.

"Zhiyu, while you're staying with Madam Wang and have some free time, think about how you can train more female doctors."

"Not only does the palace need a large number of female doctors, but the homes of princes and ministers, as well as ordinary people, also need professionally trained female doctors."

If women of ordinary families fell ill, not only would they not be able to find a female doctor to treat them, they would not even have a chance to see a female doctor.

Most female doctors are not able to really cure diseases and save lives. Many of them only know some simple basic medical skills. But even so, they are still sought after by the families of dignitaries and nobles.

Shen Tianjiao had long wanted to ask the Imperial Hospital to recruit a group of little girls who had not yet reached the age of marriage and have them trained by professional medical practitioners from an early age, so as to alleviate this problem.

But Shen Tianjiao was always very busy, and she forgot about this matter.

If Shen Tianjiao hadn't come to visit Mrs. Wang today, she wouldn't have remembered this matter.

"Yes, I understand." Zhiyu raised her head slightly and said, "It's just that it's hard to find people nowadays, and learning medicine is a very difficult thing."

"Don't always focus on the women in officials' families; you can also look for them among ordinary people."

"Anyway, once these female doctors have been trained, their skills will be used by the people and used for their benefit."

"Although most children from ordinary families cannot read, it doesn't matter. We can teach them slowly. No one is born knowing how to read and write."

The reason why there are few female doctors is, on the one hand, due to environmental restrictions. Many families are unwilling to let their daughters study medicine in public, because in people's minds, being a female doctor is always a degrading and lowly thing.

On the other hand, even though female doctors are considered to be of low status in people's minds, there are still very high thresholds and requirements.

It’s not something that anyone can do if they want to, but it’s a matter of choice.

Although girls are not allowed to go to school openly nowadays, girls from wealthy families or official families can hire teachers to teach them at home to learn how to read and write.

Therefore, when choosing girls who can be female doctors, they will not consider children from ordinary families at all. They will only choose girls who have received education and can read and write.

But for those girls who can read and write, how could their families be willing to let them do such menial things?

Therefore, they could only look for the homes of those who had fallen on hard times among the wealthy, those who had fallen on hard times among officials, those who had been dismissed from their posts and investigated, and those who had their homes confiscated and were exiled for committing crimes.

This makes the already scarce talent even more scarce.

"Yes, the servant knows."

Zhiyu, who had been keeping her head down with no expression on her face, finally smiled after hearing what Shen Tianjiao said.

"Madam Wang, you must serve carefully here and never be careless."

"I have brought a lot of medicine from the palace this time. Please give Madam Wang the ones you think are suitable. When you have used them up, please let me know and have the palace send more."

As long as Mrs. Wang can recover, Shen Tianjiao is willing to give her any amount of good medicine.

"Yes, I will do my utmost to take care of Madam Wang and will not slack off in the slightest."

Although Zhiyu didn't know what had happened, she knew that the Queen Mother came to visit Lady Wang in person, which must be a matter of great importance. Naturally, she had to serve her more carefully and not let Lady Wang make any mistakes.

"Okay, you've been tired all day, go and rest early."

Although Mrs. Wang fell asleep and didn't know that Shen Tianjiao came to visit her, what did it matter?

Anyway, when Mrs. Wang wakes up tomorrow, she will naturally know that Shen Tianjiao came to visit her.

At that time, Mrs. Wang will only be grateful and thankful for the Queen's kindness.

After leaving the courtyard where Wang Yunzhi and his wife lived, Shen Tianjiao did not go back to rest immediately, but asked Shen Tingzhi to accompany her for a walk around the Huguo Temple.

From late today till now, not only the two officials from the Ministry of Justice have arrived, but several more officials have come one after another.

The doctor said that Wang Yunzhi was a lone minister who did not form cliques for personal gain or have close dealings with any officials. Now it seems that those were all lies.

If he did not form a clique and was not close to any official, then whose orders did these officials who came today follow to come to the Huguo Temple?

It seems that Prime Minister Wang is just a person who seeks fame and reputation and is very good at covering up his fake integrity.

Shen Tianjiao had already understood all these things. After all, Wang Yunzhi had helped Li Chaohui before. If he didn't have supporters behind him, how could he control the overall situation and help Li Chaohui succeed?

But although Shen Tianjiao knew it, she didn't care. Who among the officials in the court didn't have allies and supporters behind him?

Even in their Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, don’t they have half of Yun Li’s generals assisting and supporting them from behind?

It is difficult to gain a foothold in the court without supporters and allies behind you.

It is not scary that these people form an alliance, what is scary is who they will support and in whose hands they will become the knife.

Now, these former supporters of Li Chaohui are about to become Shen Tianjiao's people and be used by Shen Tianjiao. This is enough.

Standing on Xianyun Mountain of Huguo Temple, you can overlook the entire Huguo Temple.

"Five people have come today, and they are all very important figures in the court."

"Some of them come from aristocratic families, and some come from powerful families. In short, if they and their families stomp their feet, Yun Li will tremble."

"It seems that I have underestimated the strength of our Prime Minister Wang."

In the past, Shen Tingzhi always felt that Wang Yunzhi was only able to gain a place in Li Chaohui's camp by relying on his influence in the court.

But what happened today made Shen Tingzhi completely realize that Wang Yunzhi had been able to stay in the court for decades and become the person Li Chaohui relied on the most and dared not offend, not only because of his outstanding personal abilities.

There are also those powerful people hiding behind him and silently supporting him.

Shen Tianjiao smiled and said, "There are more people behind him than just these people. You will be even more surprised tomorrow."

"People say behind his back that Prime Minister Wang is capable of stirring up the affairs of half the Yunli court, and these are not exaggerated flattery."

"That's true. Some of these people were his old friends, and some were recruited by him later to help Li Zhaohui consolidate his position."

"So now you understand why I've put so much effort into making a major change in the heads of Yunli and other aristocratic families."

"These aristocratic families are now generations of in-laws. Their relationships are complicated and intricate, and any move in one area affects the entire body. They don't care about their relationships on a daily basis."

"But once their interests are violated, they will immediately put aside their grudges and hatreds and unite for their own interests."

"The result of doing this is that whatever I do will be restricted by them, and I will eventually become just their pawn."

"On the surface, they were very cooperative, proactive, and obedient in this matter of abolishing the private armies of various families, but in reality, they were just testing me."

"They are waiting to see what my next plan will be. If what I do is to protect their interests, then they will support me. But if what I do is not to protect their interests but is detrimental to their interests."

"Then they will all rush forward and rise up against me, and will make a big fuss about abolishing their private soldiers to attack me."

"So I have to be very careful with every step I take. One wrong move could lead to a complete loss."

Shen Tianjiao looked back at Shen Tingzhi and said, "Second brother, I need someone who can help me, do you understand?"

"Of course I understand, otherwise I wouldn't have returned from the Northern Frontier."

Shen Tingzhi looked at Shen Tianjiao in confusion. He didn't understand why Shen Tianjiao asked him such a question.

Shen Tianjiao sighed and said, "You still don't know."

"Jiaojiao, if you have something to say, just say it. Is there anything we can't talk about between siblings?"

Shen Tingzhi has been so busy these days with the affairs of Wang Yunzhi and his wife that he has to sleep with one eye open at night. He really doesn't have the energy to guess what Shen Tianjiao means.

"Second brother, what I need right now is someone who can stay by my side and help me stabilize the situation in Shangjing. Do you understand what I mean?"

"You and I both know very well what the current situation in the court is."

"I need someone to assist me, Mu'er needs someone to support him, and Yunli's country needs someone to decide its fate."

The meaning of Shen Tianjiao's words was very clear. She needed Shen Tingzhi to stay in Shangjing and stop running around like he was doing now, putting himself in danger.

Shen Tingzhi is such a smart person that he doesn't want to think about it, but that doesn't mean he doesn't understand what Shen Tianjiao means.

He came back from the Northern Frontier to help Shen Tianjiao stabilize the Sino-North Korean situation and be her strongest supporter.

But since he came back, he has spent very little time in Shangjing. He is either suppressing a rebellion or on his way to suppress a rebellion.

He never had a moment of leisure. Although everything he did was for Yun Li's peace, it went against his original intention of coming back.

The situation in Shangjing is unstable, and the court officials now have their own thoughts.

Shen Tianjiao seems to have taken control of the entire court and the government, but in fact, these are just illusions. Those who are restless will always be restless.

The lessons learned from their previous experiences will never teach them to abandon their greed and desires, because they always have a lucky mentality and think that they will succeed.

They don't feel pain unless the knife falls on their bodies.

Their apparent submission was not true submission. They were just looking for an opportunity, an opportunity that would make Shen Tianjiao fall to the bottom and never be able to recover.

Shen Tingzhi has also experienced the ups and downs of officialdom. How could he not know the dangers of officialdom and human nature?

If Shen Tianjiao did not have the support of the Marquis of Zhenbei Mansion, she would not have been able to manage the government affairs at this time, but she would have been eaten alive by those people long ago.

Therefore, Shen Tianjiao now not only needs the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion as her backing, she also needs someone by her side to block those open and covert attacks for her, to give her advice and win over people's hearts for her.

Only when Shen Tianjiao has a powerful helper by her side, those people will understand that Shen Tianjiao is someone they cannot afford to offend. Only in this way will they restrain their greed and desires, and everyone will maintain a stable state of mutual restraint.

As long as we can stabilize them and the political situation is truly settled, they will no longer be a threat. At this time, we can defeat them one by one and dismantle their alliance with ease.

Although Li Muyang has now been named the crown prince, he is too young and cannot have his own power.

Therefore, he could only rely on the support of Shen Tianjiao and the Zhenbei Marquisate to ensure that his position as the crown prince would be stable.

It will take a long time for him to grow up and have his own power and supporters.

No one would be afraid of a prince without sharp claws. Before Li Muyang had the power and ability to control the court, in the eyes of those people, he was just a little tiger that was not to be feared.

Li Muyang, who has only the honor of a prince but not his power, is the most dangerous person.

If he loses his protection, he will immediately become a puppet used by those people, and they will put Li Muyang to death for their own interests.