Dayong's livelihood issues are numerous, and although the Bao Sheng Manual is passed down, it cannot transform into white silver to replenish the state treasury's deficit.
Moreover, the seventy-year-old Emperor suddenly contracted a disease, and in the past two years, he has often flown into a rage within the palace.
The Imperial Physicians have been reserved in their words, unwilling to speak plainly, until Emperor Jingxing grew impatient and desired to make an example of them, did someone finally confess that the Emperor's illness was neither wind nor cold, neither deficiency nor labor, but in fact a result of excessive consumption of alchemical concoctions, depleting the Innate energy of the kidney region, like the stem of delicate grass, already snapped.
And the bent root is truly difficult to straighten again.
Emperor Jingxing was not fond of these equivocations and only asked if it could be treated.