Li Shizhen was a famous medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, and his medical masterpiece "Compendium of Materia Medica" compiled and compiled has benefited people a lot to this day. As the top doctor at that time, Li Shizhen must have been summoned to the Tai Hospital. But what is surprising is that Li Shizhen only stayed in it for one year before resigning and returning home, away from this place of right and wrong! Why? Doesn't Li Shizhen want to earn herself a fortune through the Tai Hospital? It's not that I don't want to, it's actually too hard!
There is a saying called "accompanying the king like accompanying the tiger", which not only refers to the ministers around the emperor, but more worthy of the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital. Ancient emperors attached great importance to personal health, and many emperors pursued immortality, and they were even more critical of doctors. Therefore, the emperor's health was very important and was maintained by the Taiyi. If the emperor heals the emperor's illness, it is okay to say, but if it is not cured, whether the emperor has a terminal illness or not, the doctor will be impeached, and even risk losing his head! Therefore, tai doctor is a high-risk job, and the psychological pressure of tai yi is extremely high.
And after the Ming Emperor abolished the Chancellor, a large amount of work could only be handled by the Emperor himself, so that he stayed up late every day to work overtime to handle government affairs, and his physical fitness slowly declined; although it showed that there was a cabinet to help share in the middle and late period of the Dynasty, but the Emperor was still very tired. Naturally, the demand for Tai Doctor increases, and the chance of making mistakes in the process of diagnosis and treatment increases!
More importantly, in the Ming Dynasty, emperors were mostly at risk of short life. The Same 270-year-old Qing Dynasty had 11 emperors, but the Ming Dynasty had 15 people, and the average age was only 42 years old! Therefore, the Ming Emperor was shorter-lived and sicker, so that the imperial doctor was more conservative when treating diseases, afraid of any violent reaction, and let his life be in danger. As a top expert at that time, Li Shizhen could not fail to see the drawbacks of this form, and naturally resigned from the government and left, far away from the right and wrong!
Of course, there is a more important reason, that is, Li Shizhen has her own life ambitions. Although working in Tai Hospital has fame and fortune, it is too risky and too far away from herbal medicine. Li Shizhen felt that there were too many mistakes in the medical books at that time, and he already had the idea of correcting them, so working in the Tai Hospital was not conducive to the realization of his personal ideals.
Most of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were short-lived, that is, related to the political institutional structure, but also related to the constraints of the doctors of the Tai Hospital. The doctor did not dare to use strong medicine, and could only keep the disease low and could not be treated from the root, which naturally delayed the best treatment time and let the emperor die early. Li Shizhen estimated that it was precisely because he saw that the drawbacks would bring great risks to himself, so he decided to pursue his ideals. But fortunately, there is one more great medical scientist in this world, and one less unlucky egg who may die under the emperor's bed.