Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 168 Bloodletting
Today's earnest conversation with Yu Bai made him completely admire Zhao Dezhao from now on, and he was convinced.

Zhao Dezhao broke through the two major checkpoints of Dongting Lake and Henan Road, and saw through Lu Ping's true face, approaching Tokyo.

All this completely broke Zhao Guangyi's expectations.

Although Zhao Guangyi was not [-]% sure of Li Jianan's land and water plan, he never expected that Lu Ping's plan would fail.

Just as Zhao Dezhao had predicted, Zhao Guangyi's plan: Even if Lu Ping could not succeed, he could still blame Shi Shouxin. At that time, both the government and the public were in chaos, and the King of Wei was incompetent, so he finally asked himself to take action.

Zhao Dezhao crossed the Henan Road and arrived at the city of Tokyo that night.

Since Zhao Guangyi lost the news, Zhao Dezhao and his party were extremely cautious. By the time he got the news that the king of Tianshui County had entered the city, it was already too late.

Regardless of the exhaustion of the journey, Zhao Dezhao went straight to the palace after returning to Beijing, begging to see his father.

"Your Highness! Your Majesty has not yet awakened, but the Queen, Princess Tianshui, has been waiting in the palace, and Dr. Wen has also been waiting."

"Take me to Dr. Wen!"

Arriving outside the main hall, Imperial Physician Wen rushed out to greet him upon hearing the letter.

I haven't seen you for a while, Doctor Wen seems to be a few years older.

"Thank you so much, doctor!"

"Don't dare! Your Highness has worked hard! Great victory in Lingnan! Veteran has already heard about it, Your Highness is wise and mighty..."

Zhao Dezhao didn't want to be polite to him, so he asked directly, "How is your father's condition?"

Imperial Physician Wen sighed, "The Holy Majesty reprimanded the ministers during the court meeting that day, and fainted for a while. Although the dragon's body is fine, it still hasn't woken up."

"For meals, the eunuchs feed some liquid food..."

The two came to the hall lightly, Zhao Dezhao raised his eyes and saw that Zhao Kuangyin's eyes were closed tightly, his face was as heavy as gold, and he was no longer as vigorous and heroic as before.

Since ancient times, it has been said that beauties are late and heroes have their end. This generation of famous emperors who have been famous for thousands of years in history has really come to an end!
Inexplicably, he felt sad in his heart. The body's love for his father and the soul's admiration for the emperor collided with each other. Zhao Dezhao's eyes were red and his nose was sore.

But after a few more glances, Zhao Dezhao suddenly caught some familiar details.

That is, before I traveled through time in my previous life, I seemed to have seen some similar scenes in the hospital.

He moved forward slowly, and under the gaze of Imperial Physician Wen and all the eunuchs, he stretched out his fingers and lightly touched his father's body twice.

That feeling is getting stronger and stronger.

In my previous life, I had seen similar scenes several times when my relatives and friends and relatives were hospitalized to visit.

After observing Zhao Kuangyin's body reflexes, Zhao Dezhao used the medical knowledge from later generations to judge that Zhao Kuangyin's illness was actually milder than expected, but the continuous high blood pressure caused the brain nerves to be compressed, resulting in fainting.

If this disease was placed in the era before time travel, it might not be difficult to cure.

It's just that in this era, the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine may go astray.

Because the imperial physician didn't know the real reason, he must have blindly used nourishing and nourishing things as medicine.

This will increase Zhao Kuangyin's blood pressure indefinitely.

In fact, hundreds of years later, a diagnostic and treatment method called "bloodletting" would appear in Europe for this disease.

It is to open the patient's veins, release the blood clots that block the blood vessels, and decompress the heavily burdened blood vessels.
After the blood pressure is lowered, the brain nerves are no longer compressed, and the person will wake up again.

It is said that Washington, the founding president of the United States, received this kind of "bloodletting therapy."

Although this method was neither scientific nor reliable in this era, Zhao Dezhao thought about it for a long time and felt that it was worth a try.

Because my father has been in a coma for a long time, and if he continues like this, even if he is fine, his body will probably fail.

Body atrophy, cranial nerves gradually die, visceral dysfunction, bladder and kidneys will gradually fail.

At that time, it was not even possible to become a vegetative state, because the auxiliary medical equipment of this era could not support the conditions required for a vegetative state at all.

"Doctor Wen! Father's disease seems to be that the blood clogs the blood vessels and oppresses the brain, causing fainting. Have you ever thought about trying bloodletting therapy?"

Doctor Wen was stunned for a while, waiting for Zhao Dezhao to finish explaining his thoughts.

Not to mention Doctor Wen, the eunuchs and servants around me were all dizzy.

Does Your Highness the Prince want to bleed the Emperor's father?
Are you sure this is healing, not patricide?
"This...Your Highness, although what you said seems to have some truth...but this is His Majesty's Eucharist after all. This move is too appalling, and I dare not obey it."

Wang Jien was also by his side for this matter. Hearing Zhao Dezhao's words, he secretly sent the little eunuch to the inner palace to invite Empress Song, and stepped forward with an apologetic smile, "Your Highness! What kind of bloodletting therapy you are talking about is simply unheard of. Up and down the knife, that is a serious crime of bullying the king!"

Zhao Dezhao nodded, thinking that he was right, the imperial physicians had not gone through these trainings, let alone being unable to help, if they slipped their hands and made more openings, it would really be like treating a disease instead of killing a king.

But if there is any further delay, the royal father is just as dangerous...

That being the case, I might as well do it myself.

Zhao Dezhao made up his mind and ordered someone to find a small knife with a thin blade.

Wang Jien and Doctor Wen acted as if they hadn't heard it, and they didn't dare to keep this excuse.

Zhao Dezhao had no choice but to dig out a knife from Dr. Wen's medicine box. This knife was meant for cutting ginseng and was not very sharp.

But something is better than nothing, Zhao Dezhao put the knife on a candle and roasted it for a while, intending to disinfect it.

But in the eyes of Imperial Physician Wen and Wang Jien, this kind of behavior is almost crazy.

Roasting the knife, you want to bleed the emperor's father!

Is this still human?
Is this what the prince did?
That is to say, Zhao Dezhao has always performed very well, and his bloodletting theory is unheard of, but it seems to have some truth.

Otherwise, Dr. Wen and Wang Jien would have called for help long ago.

Just when Zhao Dezhao picked up the sterilized knife and was about to strike the fainted Zhao Kuangyin,
There was a rush of footsteps outside the hall.

Empress Song and Wang Xiuzhi rushed in with several court ladies.

"You, you, you... Prince Tianshui, you want to kill the king and rebel!"

After receiving Wang Jien's secret report, Queen Song, who was in a hurry, finally came.

Even Wang Xiuzhi was confused. He couldn't figure out what Zhao Dezhao was going to do.

However, she saw that Zhao Dezhao's eyes were clear and his mind was normal. Out of her absolute trust in her husband, although she opened her mouth in horror, she still controlled herself and said nothing.

"Queen!" Zhao Dezhao saluted according to the rules.

Empress Song ignored him at all, and kept asking him, "What are you doing with the knife? Are you going to kill the king? If someone hadn't come to tell me the news, you, you would just..."

Zhao Dezhao smiled wryly, "Empress! It's not what you think. This is bloodletting therapy, which is specially used to treat my father's illness."

(End of this chapter)