Chapter 205: Medical Skills Passive, Fighting Hurricanes
[Skill 'Medical Skills' breaks through Lv5, please choose passive skills! 】
Three blue rays of light flashed in front of Su Ze's eyes. When he opened it, he saw that these three passive skills were all very useful skills.
[Blue Passive - Barefoot Doctor: Diagnosis and treatment of common diseases, medical skill level +1, can be treated with cheaper common drugs. ]
[Blue Passive - Prevention and Treatment Expert: When preventing and treating epidemic diseases, the medical skill level +1. ]
[Blue Passive - Gynecological Master: During gynecological and obstetrical treatment, medical skill +1. 】
The first two are okay, why is the third one so weird?
Gynecological expert?
Although giving birth to a child these days is like going through hell, the development of gynecological technology is indeed a milestone in modern medicine.
But let Su Ze deliver the baby in the county? Even if you don't want to be beaten out.
Resolutely exclude.
The first two passives put Su Ze in a tangle.
[Barefoot Doctor] is equivalent to a general practitioner, and [Prevention and Treatment Expert] is also very practical in this chaotic era.
Su Ze thought about it and chose the passive skill [Barefoot Doctor].
From the Shaw Brothers, Su Ze realized how lacking doctors were in Nanping as a whole.
Huang Tiju and his son from Huimin Pharmacy, the owner of Shaw Medical Center and a few apprentices, there are no more than ten doctors in Nanping City who can treat patients.
For a long time, Chang Ningwei relied on Ninth Aunt's talisman water and herbal medicine to treat his illness. When he was seriously ill, he could only rely on the third master's empress to bless him or not.
People of the age of the old grandpa and the ninth aunt are quite rare in Changningwei, and the child mortality rate is also alarmingly high.
Su Ze still chose the passive skill [Barefoot Doctor]. Countless histories have proven that the implementation of the general practitioner system in an era of backward medical care can effectively increase the average life span of the local area.
After choosing passive, various cheap and simple prescriptions emerged from his memory. Su Ze pulled up a weed beside the thatched house and recognized it as a cheap herbal medicine to prevent wind and cold.
He asked children from the almshouse to search for this kind of weed nearby, wrote the prescription to the Shaw brothers, and waited until work started to boil the medicine and distribute it to the people.
Su Ze couldn't help but sigh. The biggest advantage of barefoot doctors is that they can adapt to local conditions and provide basic medical services at low prices. In this era of scarce medical resources, they are an artifact of dimensionality reduction.
Su Ze came up with the idea of compiling a medical classic. It is now the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing. Li Shizhen should still be on duty in the Chu Palace, right?
If there are no accidents in the historical timeline, Li Shizhen will be elected to Taiyuan Hospital next year, and then resign and return to his hometown after serving for one year.
It's a pity that the Chu Palace is in Wuchang, and Su Ze has no intention of going to Hubei for the time being.
However, the medical skills at Level 5 are equivalent to those of famous local doctors, which is probably similar to Huang Tiju from Huimin Pharmacy. If you want to compile the "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook", you need to upgrade your medical skills to at least Level 10.
Medical skills still need to be improved. If this manual can be produced, it will be a good thing for the future.
However, with Su Ze's current level 5 medical skills, he could first produce a pamphlet with versions of commonly used diseases to popularize some simple medical knowledge.
Su Ze sent away the last patient, and a young eunuch hurried to the edge of the thatched cottage.
"Ms. Su, my godfather invites you to come over. The big family in the city are coming up the mountain."
Su Ze stood up calmly, washed his hands and said, "Please lead the way."
The little eunuch admired Su Ze's magnanimity, and he was worthy of it. It's Mr. Xie Yuangong, he's just different from those country scholars!
The most important thing is that Su Ze treats these little eunuchs equally. He doesn't show any dislike for their status as eunuchs, nor does he seem to be deliberately trying to make friends. He just treats them normally, which makes these little eunuchs feel comfortable.
Of course, Eunuch Tao couldn't live in a thatched cottage like Su Ze. He had already moved into a farm of a wealthy family, not far from where Su Ze settled down. Soon he saw the sedan chair at the door.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu explicitly prohibited ordinary people from riding sedan chairs, except of course people from the Zhu family.
Ordinary officials were not allowed to ride in a sedan chair carried by others, but this ban was soon abolished.
In this era when ordinary people are cheaper than livestock, in mountainous areas like Fujian, it is very common for gentry and local tyrants to ride in sedan chairs.
However, the eight-carrying sedan is only seen in film and television works. In Fujian, it is basically the kind of bamboo carriage carried by two people. It is also called "sliding pole" locally. It is a single-person sedan that is not very comfortable to sit on.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw Eunuch Tao drinking tea with a group of wealthy people. In his early years, Eunuch Tao entered the palace with a low status. He started his business by cleaning the pails in Yeting. He missed the age of going to the inner study. His educational level was only a little better than that of an illiterate person. He could Just simple literacy.
However, Eunuch Tao still respected scholars very much, and he also accepted several young eunuchs who had studied as godsons.
The biggest characteristic of Eunuch Tao is his pragmatism. Whether it is minting coins or regulating rivers, he can personally go into battle and supervise the affairs.
I have to say that Emperor Jiajing was really good at using people, and he really made the right choice when he appointed Eunuch Tao to mint coins.
Compared with those educated father-in-laws, a hardworking man like Eunuch Tao is indeed the best candidate.
Even if Su Ze hadn't figured it out, Eunuch Tao's ability would have made a huge impact in Fujian and he would have returned home with a full harvest.
But then again, Eunuch Tao's execution ability, coupled with such an emperor, does not seem to be a good thing for the people.
Eunuch Tao recently fell in love with the black tea brought by Su Ze. He brewed it with some local wild fruits in Fujian and added a little brown sugar. It became Eunuch Tao's daily tool to relieve the heat.
After seeing Su Ze, Eunuch Tao said as if he was relieved:
"You guys talk to Mr. Su, the Za family is going to inspect the dam!"
All the wealthy people hurriedly saluted Su Ze, Jieyuan, who was in the limelight in Nanping.
Su Ze sat down directly on Eunuch Tao's seat, raised his finger and said,
"Three things. The redemption will be completed before the Mid-Autumn Festival. After that, Wufeng Mountain will be impounded and dams will be built. No money will be paid for the flooded land."
Everyone immediately blushed, but Su Ze did not give them a chance to continue:
"Second, purchase the land at three times the market price of the best paddy fields, but it must be land registered in the county government treasury, and there can be no disputes. The lawsuit is here."
"Third, all transactions must be done in new currency. In addition, Eunuch Tao will use three cents coins to exchange for the old money in your hands."
The squires who had lawsuits against each other but had already reached an agreement looked at each other. At one glance, they were all ready to settle the lawsuit as soon as possible and immediately sell the fields in their hands.
They finally came to their senses. For Eunuch Tao, the real killer weapon was not controlling the water, but spreading coins.
As the first batch of three-cent coins entered the market, the private trading market, which lacked currency, was like a shriveled sponge, quickly absorbing the new coins into the business system.
The exquisite and high-quality new coins quickly replaced Song coins and became the currency in circulation in Nanping.
And old money is becoming increasingly hard to spend. These wealthy households have more or less hoarded some Song money, but they are not as extreme as the Huang family, who exchanged all the money in the house for old money and hoarded it.
Seeing the Song coins in their hands depreciating step by step, one "Ten" Sanxian coin can now only be exchanged for fifteen Song coins. If converted into silver, the value is higher than when they used rumors to plunder the old money from the people. Even lower than the price.
"Surprise" has a special issue, using simple and plain dialogue to promote the benefits of the new money law to the people.
At the same time, he vaguely pointed out the rumors that the court had abolished old money in the market, and behind it was the big investors who wanted to hoard private coins.
Nowadays, old money is falling even more, and it still cannot be used. There are very few businesses willing to accept old money.
It is difficult to imitate Sanxian coins, and the quality looks good. When trading, you don't have to judge the quality like before, and you can identify counterfeit coins, and it is much more convenient to circulate.
Who wants to continue using old money that is cumbersome and inconvenient.
In short, most families' dreams of making a fortune from imperial coinage were dashed.
You can’t spend old money, and you can’t imitate new money!
These large households asked craftsmen to do the calculations. If they wanted to cast a three-cent coin of the same quality and shape, and the craftsmen had to manually carve it, it would be worth more than a hundred old coins!
How can I imitate this?
Everyone can't figure out how on earth this damn eunuch minted such a fine Three Immortals Coin?
Could it really be a divine revelation in a dream?
Hearing Su Ze say that he wanted to exchange old money, these big business owners felt relieved. They all applauded, but Su Ze raised his hand to signal for silence and added: "
But you can only exchange old money with new money worth '50'. "
After saying that, Su Ze asked the little eunuch to distribute the Yingzhou coins "for fifty" to everyone. When they saw the new coins, which were only a circle larger than "for twenty," all the wealthy people cursed in their hearts.
This "fifty coins" only uses a little more material than the "twenty coins". The currency is actually minted in such a large value, which is clearly a large amount of money specifically used to exchange for the old money in my hand.
You must know that in the era of metal currency, the number on the coin does not represent the value of the coin, but how much everyone thinks the money is worth.
This kind of "50 yuan" can only be exchanged for 30 yuan in the market.
Originally, I wanted to mint coins through the imperial court and follow the trend of private minting to make a fortune.
But I didn't expect that this Eunuch Tao would not follow common sense and take the money from the heads of the common people, but from the heads of big households like them!
But Eunuch Tao's knife is so sharp that he can't even use the old money. The only person who can provide exchange is Eunuch Tao.
These big families were also frightened by Eunuch Tao, especially the small landowners who had little old money and little land on the mountains. They were all busy cutting their losses and leaving the market as soon as possible.
These landowners were busy promising to settle the lawsuit as soon as possible and sell the land to Eunuch Tao, and then they were busy riding the sedan chair down Wufeng Mountain.
At this time, Eunuch Tao walked out from behind the curtain. On such a hot day, he was not willing to inspect the river embankment.
Seeing the squires who had scolded him as a castrated dog give in, Eunuch Tao felt extremely relieved.
"Sure enough, Xianggong Su has a way to subdue these cunning and evil gentry!"
Su Ze said: "The old money in their hands is less than one-tenth of the old money on the market. Those who really hold a large amount of old money It's the Huang family and several other families, and they haven't let go yet."
Eunuch Tao said: "But as long as these people let go, as you scholars said, it's like a breach in the dam, and the entire dam will be destroyed. Will it collapse soon?"
Su Ze looked at Eunuch Tao and said: "The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in an ant nest. Eunuch-in-law is right. As long as the hole is loosened, Eunuch-in can mint more new money. People with old money are even more panicked."
As Su Ze expected, the originally united local gentry alliance began to sell off old money crazily after internal cracks appeared.
Eunuch Tao accepted them all according to the order, but he wanted to separate the copper coins from the coins, which were of different qualities and contained different substances. He also invited Eunuch You to spend some more time.
This technology is not difficult. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court collected a large number of copper coins and cast red cannons with iron galls and copper shells. With the help of Dajian furnace craftsmen, Little Eunuch You improved the process of smelting brass.
The problem of raw materials was solved. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Eunuch Tao, who had already exchanged enough old money, ordered all hydraulic workshops to run at full capacity.
The mint ran on time, and Eunuch Tao had a lot of money in one hand and a small amount in other hands, and he became the father-in-law of scattered wealth in Fujian.
Tao Gonggong spread "ten" and "twenty" coins to the people working on the construction site. These small coins flowed into the hands of ordinary people through the people and quickly circulated among the people.
The big money from "being fifty" was used to exchange old money in the hands of large households. Those large households that had accumulated a large amount of old coins knew that Eunuch Tao was robbing money. However, as more new coins entered the market, the new coins quickly filled the market. It has solved the previous dilemma of insufficient money in the market.
By the time before the Mid-Autumn Festival, except for the Huang family, all the other families on Wufeng Mountain had basically surrendered.
The Huang family finally won the lawsuit over the property by pawning their property, but at a glance, the other landowners had already left the big pit of Wufeng Mountain.
"It's a hurricane!"
Although Nanping County is still some distance from the coastline, this year's typhoon is extremely fierce. It has rained in Nanping County for two consecutive days.
The rain curtain on the eaves was opened, and the old housekeeper in a raincoat rushed into the ancestral hall and said to the head of the Huang family:
"Master, the river embankment on Wufeng Mountain cannot hold up!"
Huang Shixing's father is also an old scholar. Shi Ye didn't have the demeanor of a scholar. He pulled the housekeeper and said,
"Did that dead eunuch dig the embankment? I'm going to the government office, no, I'm going to the prosecutor's office to sue him!" The
old housekeeper knelt on the ground and said, "This year's hurricane It is extremely big. The water level of the Minjiang River has risen by 30%. No one has built embankments this year, so naturally there is no way to prevent the flood."
Bad news always comes one after another. Huang Shixing came in in a panic: "Dad! Baizhi County is going to Wufeng Mountain ! It is said that the water downstream is rising, and the embankments must be destroyed to release floods to alleviate the floods downstream!"
"Where is Zhang Tuiguan! What did he say?"
Huang Shixing said with tears in his eyes: "The Minjiang River is overflowing, and all the Yanping Prefecture Yamen will be punished. The Tuiguan Office has been He withdrew the government officials and said that he agreed with Eunuch Tao to destroy the embankment to store water and release the flood!"
Huang's father could hardly stand, but Huang Shixing rushed to help him.
Could it be that even the flooding of the Minjiang River was included in Su Ze's calculations? The Huang family and his son felt deep fear.
On Wufeng Mountain, Su Ze closed the family tree brought by the time travel, "Yimao year, September hurricane, the whole country was swamped, thirty houses were destroyed, and there was a great epidemic." This year, there was a flood discharge from Wufeng Mountain, and Jianxi was controlled before
. , the lower reaches of the Minjiang River should not be so tragic, right?
(End of chapter)