When an overworked ER doctor opens his eyes, he finds himself resurrected in the morgue of a Ming dynasty county yamen. Good news: his transmigration comes with a medical System. Bad news: the System is sponsored by Putian-based businesses!
With the Barefoot Doctor's Manual in his left hand and The Art of War in his right, Lu Renjia gazes at the plague-ridden county and falls into deep thought. Other transmigrators get harems, so why did I get hell mode right off the bat? From giving the magistrate's daughter CPR and being mistaken for a lecher, to passing off 84 disinfectant as “holy water to ward off evil” and scamming people, this modern medical geek somehow turns the practice of healing into an extreme survival challenge.
Who could have guessed that treating a common cold would lead to the White Lotus Sect? That improving a loom would threaten the Canal Gang's livelihood? That saving a scholar from drowning would rescue the future emperor? When Lu Renjia is forced to stage a medical version of Nirvana in Fire at court, he finally gets it: the ultimate destination for an Imperial Academy of Medicine scholar is Grand Secretary!
From using artemisinin to treat malaria to turning a convex lens into a microscope, from teaching Zheng He's sailors how to prevent scurvy to discovering uranium ore in the Yongle Emperor's alchemy furnace. Other people fight palace battles with poison, but Imperial Physician Lu whips out the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases. Others hide weapons when plotting rebellion, but he sends “probiotics” to the rebel camp to cultivate cholera.
Worst of all is the refugee girl who keeps trying to touch his stethoscope: “My lord, you said you'd teach me nursing. How come the textbook is The Influence of Sea Power Upon History?” Lu Renjia gazes up at the sky and sighs, staring at his secretly improved flintlock rifle plans: It's not like I want this! But the Prince of Han is already developing biological weapons. Who still remembers that I'm just an utterly ordinary transmigrated doctor?
Medical disputes escalate into palace intrigue, and a consultation uncovers a rebellion. Watch as this modern medical geek uses penicillin to bring down the White Lotus Sect,
