In April of the eighteenth year of Hongzhi (1505), Emperor Xiaozong set up a fast to pray for rain in order to alleviate the drought in the people.
Heaven fulfilled the wishes of the people and sent down Ganlin, but Emperor Xiaozong suffered from the wind and cold. Unexpectedly, this time the illness was fierce, and Xiao Zong could not afford to be ill. The eunuch Zhang Yu, who was in charge of the Tai Hospital, the right tongzheng Shi Qin, the court judge Liu Wentai, and the imperial physician Gao Tinghe consulted together to prepare to prescribe medicine to the emperor. Zhang Yu was the eunuch who led the Imperial Pharmacy and was also the general person in charge of consulting the emperor's condition.
Unexpectedly, after the medicine was prescribed and Xiaozong took a few pairs, it did not improve, but it became more serious, and eventually died. At this moment, the courtiers were furious, and such a wise prince was actually cured to death.
Quacks kill, quacks kill! This is not an ordinary medical accident, involving the death of the former emperor, how can it be a child' play? Zhang Yu and other responsible persons were interrogated by the Lower Metropolitan Procuratorate.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty had strict regulations on the emperor's diagnosis and treatment and medication. When the emperor was ill, the official of the Tai Hospital looked at the imperial pulse, and the imperial doctor consulted, and generally at least two imperial doctors were required to take turns to diagnose the emperor's pulse. Then the envoys of the Tai Hospital, the court judge and the imperial doctor consulted together, and together with the eunuch in charge of medicine, they selected medicines in the internal bureau. The use of medicinal agents should be signed and sealed together so that they can be checked at any time; the diagnosis and treatment should be accompanied by a sparse, indicating the medicinal properties and diagnostic and treatment methods.
When cooking the imperial medicine, it was necessary for the officials of the Tai Hospital and the eunuch to monitor it together, and after cooking, the medicine was divided into two parts, one of which was tasted by the imperial doctor, the court judge of the Tai Hospital and the eunuch, and after tasting it, the other part was taken by the emperor. After taking the imperial medicine, it is also necessary to prepare a calendar book, stamp it with an inner seal, and carefully record the year and reason for the use of the medicine for investigation. From the diagnosis of the imperial pulse to the cooking of the imperial medicine, there are strict procedures and institutional regulations. It is a pity that no matter how perfect the system is, if it is not seriously implemented, it is still a decoration.
With such strictly prescribed procedures for diagnosis and treatment and medication, why is there a medical accident of medication error?
It can be said that the culprit is Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai, Gao Ting and the trio. Among the three, Liu Wentai is the most eye-catching. If Zhang Yu is just a eunuch in charge, and Gao Tinghe is just an ordinary imperial doctor, Liu Wentai is the second in command of the Tai Hospital! In terms of professionalism, he should not have made such a low-level medication mistake. Take a closer look at his resume and you'll be surprised to see that he made more than one medication mistake! During the Chenghua years, he once served as the right tongzheng and the envoy of the Tai Hospital, and he served as the leader of the Tai Hospital at that time. Because of the medication error, which led to the aggravation of Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen's illness, in fact, he was an indirect murderer of Xianzong's illness and death, so he was impeached by the Yan officials, and the magnanimous Ming Xiaozong Zhu Hu only demoted him from the Tai Hospital to the hospital to show punishment. It turned out afterwards that this leniency of Emperor Ming's filial piety eventually led to tragedy.
Emperor Xiaozong felt that there were many errors in the medical books and herbs, and ordered them to be rebuilt, and ordered Liu Wentai to take charge of the matter. Liu Wentai was ignorant of Materia Medica, and he even thought of copying the medical book written by Qiu Mao, and later his book was finally written and passed down to this day, and the book was called "Essentials of Materia Medica".
Judging from the process of revising the book and the previous experience of using medicine against Emperor Xianzong, Liu Wentai's medical skills are worrying, and what is more fatal is that he is still a person who is left and right, drunk on power and scheming. He had very good relations with the eunuch Zhang Yu and Right Tongzheng Shi Qin, and was also appreciated by Empress Zhang of Emperor Xiaozong. Liu Wentai's character was inferior, and because of his personal hatred, he impeached Wang Shu, a famous sage in the DPRK, under the guise of others. His character was so despicable that when he went to mourn Qiu Mao, he was rejected by Lady Qiu with a stinky scolding. Zhang Yu and Liu Wentai even omitted to diagnose the emperor's pulse, and they dared to directly prescribe medicine to the emperor.
This is not the most serious, the most serious thing is that the medicine they used is not the right way to the emperor's illness, which is the main cause of the emperor's death. Curiously, after interrogation, Zhang Yu and others were convicted of cheating between foreign officials and internal officials, which was also a capital offense, but they would not be executed immediately. Sure enough, the capital crimes of Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai and others were not carried out. In fact, this is a DPRK and Chinese ministers secretly protecting them behind the scenes.
After that, Zhang Yu and Liu Wentai were convicted of not following the crime of disrespect for misusing the imperial medicine, and were spared death. Liu Wentai died in Guangxi. In this way, the imperial doctors and eunuchs who killed Emperor Xiaozong actually escaped punishment, which is really infinitely emotional.
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