Author: sole red

In early July, Song Qingyue found out she was pregnant. She was almost three months old. It was quite a coincidence, because she would have been pregnant when Li Zhao had just left.

In fact, she had already had a premonition before. During that time, she frequently started to feel sleepy and her menstruation did not come, so she knew if it was happening again.

After sending a telegram to the capital, Li Zhao was either happy or worried, so he sent a telegram back to ask Song Qingyue if she wanted to come to the capital or if he would send Meng Wanfeng to Taiyuan.

Song Qingyue sent a telegram saying that he did not want to go through any trouble, and asked Li Zhao to send Jiang Zizheng and his wife together, and also asked him to select five students who could basically practice medicine independently to bring to Taiyuan.

The Medical College of Gynecology in Taiyuan Prefecture can be opened.

Did Dr. Chu recently submit a report on the extraction of allicin?

In the report, he accurate all the data on allicin extracted by alcohol ginseng to a certain range. For example, the time for soaking minced garlic in alcohol is best controlled at two quarters of an hour. During soaking, you can try to put it in a warm place.

In this place, the optimal temperature is 40 degrees. The water bath method can be used to control the temperature. Afterwards, the temperature of the evaporated alcohol is optimally controlled between 55 and 60 degrees.

At the beginning of the report, it was mentioned that the "shelf life" of allicin is about seven days, and it is basically ineffective after seven months. It is best to take it three months after the production is completed.

Therefore, the conclusion is no, that kind of allicin balls are not very suitable for mass production, stocking and selling as a patent medicine.

The shelf life is too short.

In fact, Li Zhao also ordered the Taiyuan Hospital in the capital to make large quantities of allicin balls and send them to the battlefield as medical supplies. Unexpectedly, the response was mediocre, and the military medical officers expressed doubts about the "magic medicine" effect of the allicin balls boasted by the King of Jin.

Li Zhao very sent a telegram to Song Qingyue to ask if he had made a mistake in the operation, resulting in reduced efficacy of the medicine.

Now I have found a problem. If allicin is used with garlic, the shelf life of the medicine is too short.

"If it is not frozen, can the shelf life be extended?" Song Qingyue asked the imperial physician of Chu.

Imperial Physician Chu was stunned: "I have never tried that before."

Song Qingyue said: "He asked someone to get me ice cubes. I'll try it first. If low temperature can extend the shelf life, can it be used in winter?"

Song Qingyue believes that there are only two reasons for the failure of medicine, one is whether it is volatilized, and the other is whether it is oxidized. In fact, the shelf life can be extended by preventing oxidation and volatilization.

So she wanted to try it again. If she didn't make it into balls, she could follow the canning method and directly encapsulate the distilled medicinal oil in a small porcelain bottle or a small iron bottle, which might extend the shelf life.

Then think about it, now that there are stamping machines, can the packaging technology of cans be improved?

Is it possible? There is a big difference in technical difficulty between using a machine to make a washbasin and a machine to make a spiral metal bottle cap. At this stage, you can try traditional wax sealing.

Military use is temporarily unavailable due to the shelf life, so Bu Nao's planned meatballs can be regarded as the most popular in Shanxi for a while.

Speaking of hospitals, Song Qingyue simply built a "Zhaoyue Chongshan Hospital" in Taiyuan City.

The location was chosen at Chongshan Temple, the largest Buddhist temple in Taiyuan City.

This is also the origin of the word "Chongshan" in the name of the hospital.

Song Qingyue was very polite at first and brought many canned fruits to visit the presiding monk there, and discussed with him about using his temple to build a hospital.

"How many houses do you want to requisition?" the presiding monk asked.

"Everything." Song Qingyue laughed, "Do you mean, my princess, to move the Buddha statue away and use the Pilu Hall as the main hall of the hospital, and some of the buildings at the back will be used for medicine and some as wards."

"Then... the queen is joking." The old monk's face turned cold.

Song Qingyue laughed and said, "I'm not kidding. There are two thousand soldiers from Prince Jin's palace outside. If the abbot doesn't agree, I, the princess, can invite me to go to the palace to continue the discussion."

"Me! How am I blaspheming against Buddha? Are you afraid of retribution?" The old monk was so angry that his beard trembled.

However, Song Qingyue's expression remained relaxed. She stood up and walked around the abbot's elegant Zen room with her legs on her back: "According to our Buddhist teachings, if there is a cause, there must be an effect. Whether he will receive retribution will only be a month later."

The bright moon is not the retribution of our bald donkeys who occupy large tracts of land and do not pay taxes. Come on, the abbot caught this princess because of his rude words and arrested him. Please go to the palace for tea."

Before Abbot Zhai Luo responded, the sounds of young monks fighting with the palace guards could be heard in the courtyard.

Well, Song Qingyue very roughly arrested all the monks in the temple. The young monks who were farming, cooking, and cleaning were all forced to be vulgar, and the land that originally belonged to the temple was given to them. Each of them had five acres, please.

Pay taxes at the yeoman's rate.

In addition, Song Qingyue quickly called in the official matchmakers and ordered the matchmakers to take care of the group of vulgar young monks in Yidong.

As for the group of old monks, Song Qingyue didn't know what to do with them, so she locked them up in the dungeon of the palace. They were all old bald donkeys, all fat and big-eared. They didn't look like serious monks. They were hungry first.

Let’s talk about losing weight.

Later, monks from other temples came to the palace and said that the old abbot of Chongshan Temple was the right master of monks in Shanxi. There were two monks named Mingjing and Mingkong, who were the left and right Jueyi of Shanxi.

I came here and heard that several masters made mistakes, and now the three positions are vacant and no one is qualified. I would like to ask the Queen Concubine if she will allow other temples to nominate new Shanshi and Zuojueyi.

Song Qingyue didn't even understand what he was saying at first. It is true that the prince's family leader had a deep understanding of the bureaucracy of the Zhou Dynasty.

"Both Shanshi and Jueyi are the titles of monk officials. Shanshi is equivalent to the chief envoy of all registered monks in Shanxi Province. Zuo Jueyi is full-time responsible for the supervision of monks' discipline and precepts. They are equivalent to monks in dealing with monks and nuns who violate the precepts."

If ordinary people have a lawsuit with the temple, they should not go to the county magistrate or the magistrate's yamen to file a lawsuit, but they should go to the monks to file a lawsuit." The family leader explained in a leisurely manner, and finally called

Song Qingyue became red after hearing this.

"But it's so peaceful! Jueyi is not a monk, so he will definitely shut up in the temple!" Song Qingyue immediately grasped the key point.

The head of the family stroked his beard and nodded: "Your Majesty is right! That is not the reason why Chongshan Temple has grown to this point. How did the 20,000 acres of temple land come from? It is not the result of decades of continuous litigation and winning.

What?"

"Are those monks and officials like Shanshi and Jueyi under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel?"

The family leader shook his head: "It is under the control of the Ministry of Rites. It has documents and official seals officially issued by the Ministry of Rites."

"So, he really wants to send a telegram to the prince to report the incident?"

"No, it's best to tell the prince. The Ministry of Etiquette will surely help the prince to handle it properly."

Song Qingyue didn't expect that dealing with a few old bald donkeys who didn't like it would involve so much trouble.

There is already space for Dongzi Hospital and Medical College, and there is no need to build a building for the inpatient department.

Before August came out, the plaque of "Zhao Yue Chongshan Hospital" was put up. Now the word "Zhao Yue" is a brand name. When it is put up, people will know whether it was built with money from the Jin Palace. No need to ask, just ask if it is worth it.

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Song Qingyue asked Imperial Physician Chu to select ten doctors with their own specialties from among the people, and invite them to come to the clinic for treatment and to guide their apprentices.

It's not that Song Qingyue offered such generous conditions. To be honest, in those days, a somewhat famous doctor's life was very comfortable, especially those who could be invited by wealthy families to see patients at home. The consultation fee was generally

In one or two lines of silver to be in.

But after those doctors came to Zhaoyue Hospital, they could freely check all the medical books and medical records collected by Song Qingyue. They were all transcripts obtained from Zhaoyue Hospital, which were things that ordinary private doctors could not get.

In addition, she is very good at providing doctors with free recipes for the recently released miracle drug "Garlic Detox Pills".

As soon as he said that, within half a month, nearly thirty doctors came to the door and wanted to apply to be the hospital's chief doctor.

The decision of whether to admit or not will naturally be made by the imperial doctor of Chu. Anyway, next year, Song Qingyue decided to admit ten doctors.

She gives those doctors a basic salary of fifteen taels of silver per month. At the same time, she does not prevent them from visiting wealthy families for outpatient treatment, but stipulates that they must receive at least 600 consultations per month before they can receive the basic salary of fifteen taels of silver.

If the number of consultations is less than 600, a subsidy of 80 taels of silver will be given. If the number of consultations exceeds 600, a subsidy of 40 taels per visit will be given.

The contract is for eight years. If the contract is terminated, liquidated damages will be required.

When people come to Zhaoyue Hospital to see a doctor, they only need five cents for the registration fee each time, and if there is any leftover, they just need to pay for the medicine.

This is equivalent to Song Qingyue helping everyone pay for the medical treatment. For those doctors, food and accommodation are included, the income is stable, and there are many colleagues who can communicate with each other, which is a good thing.

The advent of allicin balls has also solved a lot of problems for those doctors. According to the practice of Dr. Chu himself, many diseases, such as coughs and fevers caused by wind and cold, diarrhea and fever caused by a bad stomach, are likely to be caused by fractures or trauma.

If the fever is caused, you can take garlic pills to treat the symptoms, and the effect is surprisingly good.

The current market price of garlic is about the same as the price of rice, ranging from eight to ten cents per catty, even if the average price is nine cents per catty.

The alcohol currently used to extract allicin can be recycled about twenty times. The extraction ratio is that one pound of garlic requires four pounds of alcohol. In this way, the extraction of every twenty pounds of garlic consumes approximately four pounds of alcohol and four briquettes.

The price of alcohol is one hundred and twenty cents per catty.

The amount of garlic an adult needs to treat a disease is about 20 pounds of garlic per day. If the symptoms are severe, is it okay to eat 30 pounds of allicin from garlic?

Then after calculating the cost and adding in labor costs, the cost of taking garlic balls to treat diseases will be about 700 cents per day. If you take it for three days in a row, you will get almost 20% off!

But it's not cheap at all, and the main cost there is consumed in alcohol.

So Song Qingyue gave Imperial Physician Chu a task to see if it was possible to directly distill garlic. If it was possible to directly distill garlic, the cost of allicin would drop dramatically.

Song Qingyue thought that the price was no longer cheap for ordinary farmers, so she didn't ask Zhaoyue Hospital to raise the price of the medicine any more, and sold it at cost price. The rest of the labor costs were subsidized by her, which was considered a disguised medical subsidy.

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Fortunately, garlic is now shrouded in the aura of "miracle medicine", and everyone thinks that its current price is very well accepted. Who said that in those days, more than ten taels of silver were spent on treating diseases, and there were so many incurable things in the city?

The savings of ordinary people's families are basically only about ten taels, and the savings of rural households in the east are even less. Many elderly people in rural areas cannot be cured if they get sick.

, it is easy to waste time and money to find a doctor.

But whether the effect of allicin is obvious to all, at least for the money, it can cure the disease with a high probability, which will make many people who come here to seek medical treatment thank God.

Bu Nao Song Qingyue is not afraid that because the medicine is too expensive, some people will give up treatment because they can't afford the medicine.

So she specially set up a "poverty relief" office in the place where the medicine was obtained, and sent two maids from the palace to go there. Their task was to see people who turned around and left after asking about the price of medicine, and to provide help in front of them.

The limit of assistance is two taels of silver.

As for where that money comes from?
To be continued...