Chapter 123 Stronghold
"Well, although it is still immature, please give me some advice, seniors."

"I have two ideas." Facing everyone's expectant gaze, Wang Deming spoke out the countermeasures he had just thought of, throwing out a brick to attract jade: "We must definitely increase the training and teaching of TCM schools, otherwise it will not be enough to meet the Ministry of Health's qualification requirements for TCM doctors to continue practicing medicine: to be familiar with Western medicine knowledge."

Ha Yumin smiled bitterly and responded: "Yes, that's right, we thought of that, but the problem now is that we can't find so many teachers."

"Western doctors in Beijing are too prejudiced against traditional Chinese medicine. We have put a lot of effort into finding He Guanqing from Union Hospital, Zhang Zhu from Infectious Disease Hospital, and Du Wanheng from Beijing Intermediate Pharmacy School to teach us."

"Other people look down on us."

"Besides, we don't have enough space! The house in Xiaoshun Hutong was donated to our Chinese Medicine Association free of charge by Chairman Zhao Shuping."

Listening to Ha Yumin's reply, Wang Deming suddenly had a picture in his mind: Problem? The problem is that I prepared a table of food, but two tables of guests came. How can I eat this meal?
Wang Deming shook his head slightly, expelling the image from his mind, and returned to the present. He confidently smiled and replied to Ha Yumin and the others: "I can take care of the location. Please follow me."

“Although we cannot donate it to the Chinese Medicine Association for free, we can still use it for free.”

"Oh, as long as there is a place!" Everyone was delighted and asked, "Where can we invite the professor who teaches Western medicine?"

Wang Deming pointed to his nose confidently and said, "Me!"

"We already have the teaching materials, but what about my teaching level?"

"President Ha, you should understand this, and today's exam can prove it. It is a very easy task to teach the basic medicine, diagnosis and preventive medicine of Western medicine to the vast number of Chinese medicine doctors."

"Hey, it's true!" Ha Yumin and the others were overjoyed, and the worries on their faces were gone. They couldn't help but teasing him, "Deming, it seems that you want to set up another branch in our Traditional Chinese Medicine Continuing Education School!"

"Good! Young people should have this youthful vigor!"

"Come on, come on, let's check out the place first."

Unconsciously, Wang Deming walked into the crowd, and while chatting and laughing, he brought Ha Yumin and his group to No. 18 Qinlao Hutong.

As soon as Ha Yumin saw the gate, he said in a tut-tut voice, "Deming, this is the residence of Zeng Chong, one of the four chief stewards of the Imperial Household Department in the capital!"

He turned around and joked to Zhao Shuping and the others, "Brother Shuping, Brother Daoji, it seems that the branch of our Traditional Chinese Medicine Continuing Education School is even more impressive than our main school!"

"Haha, that's right!"

"Everyone, please." Wang Deming extended his hand to invite them and took the lead to cross the threshold of the courtyard.

Although it was Wang Deming’s first time to come to Yard No. 18, this is already my house and the property title has been replaced!
While strolling in the courtyard, he discussed with Ha Yumin and others how to arrange the house in the future. "This row of back houses at the entrance can be converted into dormitories with bunk beds. If there are Chinese medicine doctors from the suburbs of Beijing who come here for further studies in the future, they will also have a place to sleep."

"The five main rooms in the second courtyard are used as basic medical classrooms; the side rooms are used as laboratories, where several microscopes and specimens are placed;"

"The five main rooms in the third hall are used as diagnostic classrooms."

"Hey, there's a garden in the east courtyard." As soon as they reached the third courtyard, Ha Yumin and his companions discovered a different world. A moon gate was open in the east. When they walked over to take a look, they saw several plum blossoms about to bloom. "What a great place!"

"If you are tired from class, you can take a walk here during the break."

"Haha, I'm afraid not!" Wang Deming rejected it with a smile.

"Oh?" Ha Yumin and others looked at him in confusion. Did he want to live alone? Well, it's possible.

Wang Deming led everyone into the garden and pointed to the open space in the middle and the rows of houses on the side. "Look, this is such a suitable place for doing chemical experiments!" "For us Chinese medicine practitioners to learn Western medicine, many people probably think it's a waste of time, and some may even think it's a waste of time!"

"Then we have to make something to show those who look down on Chinese medicine that we can make better Western medicine."

"So, I'm going to start by extracting sulfanilamide from the dye!"

“And then there’s penicillin!”

"Ah Deming, you also know how to make Western medicine?"

"Haha, I know a little, a little!" Wang Deming said modestly, but the upturned corners of his eyes and eyebrows showed his pride.

Then he explained: "This also has two advantages. One is that we can learn more intuitively and absorb the Western medicine knowledge we learn more easily. The other is that whether it is dyes, sulfonamides or penicillin, we can also earn a considerable amount of income."

"Subsidize our Chinese Medicine Association to better operate and promote Chinese medicine."

"Great." Ha Yumin and the others couldn't help but applaud and cheer, patting his shoulders enthusiastically and saying excitedly: "Good boy, you have a lot of potential!"

"Okay," Zhao Shuping's gray eyebrows trembled with joy, and he said, "I will go and order a plaque tomorrow, and then report it to the Ministry of Health!"

"Hey, what are you going to do with the fourth and fifth entrances?"

"Of course, we have to study the contents of Chinese medicine in depth!" Wang Deming restrained his smile, frowned slightly, and said with a hint of doubt: "Chinese medicine has many schools from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties to the present: medical classics, classical prescriptions, cold diseases, febrile diseases, cold and cool diseases, attacking evil, and nourishing yin."

“Is it possible to summarize, unify, and organize them into one?”

"Why is Western medicine so highly regarded by so many people? Western medicine can be standardized! But what about Chinese medicine? There are many schools and different opinions."

"Isn't this one of the main reasons why TCM is disliked or considered pseudoscience? If there is no unified understanding and explanation of a disease within TCM, how can people be convinced?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the scene suddenly became quiet. The presidents and vice presidents of the Chinese Medicine Association present looked at each other. They also belonged to different schools and were trained in the traditional master-apprentice model.

Wang Deming's proposal made them feel very uncomfortable. In the traditional education and thinking mode, they all believed that their own school was unique.
Looking at the reactions of the crowd, the wrinkles between Wang Deming's brows deepened. He didn't expect that no one responded to this proposal for a while. Is the difference or gap between the schools so huge?

Wang Deming asked in disbelief: "Seniors!"

"The source of our traditional Chinese medicine should be the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine and Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, right?"

"We have a saying: blind men touching an elephant! With so many schools, is it possible that only one aspect of Chinese medicine has been studied particularly deeply?"

“The sources are the same, but the understandings are different. However, we already have this theoretical basis, so we can integrate and optimize it. Why not do it?”

"In this way, the subsequent training of TCM talents will have a better foundation and basis!"

"Western medicine is developing, so we Chinese medicine can't just stand still and stay the same, right?"

"We must bring out the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine!"

"If the great doctors of traditional Chinese medicine don't do it now, will anyone else do it in the future?"

(End of this chapter)