After this matter was settled, Yu Wenhao asked Yuan Qingling to go to the palace to talk to Concubine Hu and think of a way to coax his father out of the palace.
Yu Wenhao believed that his father felt that the high price of medicines and high medical fees would do more good than harm to the court. After all, it was very comfortable to collect taxes.
Yu Wenhao also checked and found that the tax paid by Beitang Medical Center and Pharmacy was relatively high. His father was afraid of poverty, so he was willing to do anything that could increase revenue for the national treasury.
He believes that people who can go to a medical clinic to see a doctor won't care if a medicine costs more than ten or twenty cents a time.
However, this is the idea of him from a high position in the temple. He takes this idea for granted. The best way is to let him see it with his own eyes and understand the suffering of the people, so that he can be ruthless to reform.
Yuan Qing Ling went to the palace according to her words. She could speak frankly to Concubine Hu. Concubine Hu was a sensible person and supported the prince and Yuan Qing Ling. After hearing the whole story, she sighed and said: "Beijing
Is this the same? I thought it was only like this in bitter cold places. When I was in the border areas, the medical fees were very high. It was impossible for ordinary people to go to the doctor. When they got sick, they would just grab some herbal medicines.
, or find a barefoot doctor. I still remember a girl in the house. Her brother fell from a tree and was not seriously injured at first, but she had no money to hire a doctor, so her mother went up the mountain to collect herbs for him to cover the wound.
As she held it, the wound began to pus, and it swelled up to a large area. She had a high fever for several days, and then the girl knelt down in front of me and begged me to hire a doctor for her brother. But it was too late. The doctor went there.
After seeing it, I said there was nothing I could do to save it, but if I could have afforded treatment in the first place, my life would not have been lost."
Yuan Qingling couldn't help but feel sad. There were probably many people like this.
But what can be done? The medical clinics in Beitang have such high prices, both in terms of consultation fees and medicine fees. This is not just a place, but the whole country.
"Then please ask your Majesty to help me with this." Yuan Qingling said.
Concubine Hu said: "Prince, don't worry. I should be able to persuade the emperor to go out for a walk. The emperor should also go out for a walk. This world belongs to him, but he only stays in the palace all day long. He doesn't know the sufferings of the people. How can he do that?"
Woolen cloth?"
This is something that other concubines would never dare to say, and Concubine Hu is not relying on the emperor's favor, she has always been like this.
"Then thank you so much, empress!" Yuan Qing stood up and saluted.
Concubine Hu looked at her and said with a smile: "I really envy you and your wife. If it were anyone else, I'm afraid they wouldn't talk to you about these political matters, but Lao Wu didn't hide anything from you and was willing to ask you to help. How great."
Yuan Qingling smiled and said, "Madam, he asked me to help, and I can help him. Didn't he say it was really good? I still have to suffer."
Concubine Hu shook her head, "No, it's good to be able to help the people you love. I hope the emperor can tell me some troubles, but what he never says is that he loses his temper sometimes.
It’s just for me to see his temper, and I don’t even know what happened.”
"Father is angry with you?" Yuan Qing was startled. It's impossible, right? Father really loves Concubine Hu. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell it at a glance. It's impossible in ordinary times, let alone now that she's pregnant.
Pregnant.
Concubine Hu smiled and said: "He is not angry with me. It's just that when he comes here, his stinky face is still hidden. Sometimes when Eunuch Mu Ru is waiting around, he takes it out on Eunuch Mu Ru. Sometimes I take it out on Eunuch Mu Ru."
Look, my father-in-law is really aggrieved."
Yuan Qingling also laughed. It is true that Eunuch Mu Ru is sometimes very angry, but what can be done? My father cannot live without Eunuch Mu Ru.
"Where's the Tenth Prince?" Yuan Qingling had been here for so long before she remembered that she hadn't met the Tenth Prince yet.
"Went to the Queen's side." Concubine Hu said.
Yuan Qingling was a little surprised, "He went to the queen's place? Did the queen send him a message?"
Concubine Hu said: "He himself was thinking about going to his mother's place to play with Eighth Brother, but..."
Concubine Hu tilted her head, as if she was hesitant to speak.
"What's wrong?" Yuan Qingling asked when he saw this.
Concubine Hu lowered her voice, "I always feel that the imperial concubine and the empress have become much friendly recently. Not only do they accompany her every day, they also specially ask people to set up a small kitchen in the palace. Sometimes they live directly with the empress.
What's your idea? Can the concubine tell me?"
Yuan Qingling naturally knew, but Concubine Hu was never the kind of person who was curious about gossip, so why did she ask about it? She was probably afraid that the concubine and the queen would join forces and not know what to do. After all, she was so favored now that she gave birth to a child.
If your son is pregnant again, a mother will be more cautious.
She thought it was okay to tell Concubine Hu about this, so she told her what the concubine had requested.
After hearing this, Concubine Hu felt a little relieved and said, "So it's for this reason. That's better."
"Your Majesty, you don't have to worry too much. So many things have happened in the past few years. I guess nothing will happen to the harem."
Concubine Hu sighed softly, "I have to worry. Someone mentioned it in front of the imperial concubine a while ago, saying that the harem has not had a talent show for a long time, and it is time to hold a talent show. They said that the rules set by our ancestors cannot allow the emperor to exclusively favor me.
one person."
"Who proposed it?" Yuan Qing Ling was surprised, she had never heard of this matter.
Concubine Hu's eyebrows were filled with sadness, "It's Concubine Qin."
Yuan Qingling did not expect that Concubine Qin could cause some trouble. She thought that after Yu Wenjun died, Concubine Qin would live her life honestly.
"Now the youngest in the harem is me, and the emperor always comes here. And since the eldest prince left, the emperor has never been to her palace to visit her. She hates me for being close to you. Naturally
Thinking of ways to deal with me makes my heart happy."
As Concubine Hu said this, she felt that this was inappropriate and hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean that you would implicate me."
Yuan Qingling shook her head, "No, it is indeed because of me that the empress is hated by her, but I thought she would not cause any trouble again, but I didn't expect to bring up the matter of this talent show girl. In fact, the emperor didn't even
You probably won’t agree to this in the end, right? What did the imperial concubine say?”
Concubine Hu said: "I said hello a few days ago. The imperial concubine said this in front of everyone. She mainly wanted to hear everyone's opinions. In fact, no one would object, because apart from the fact that this is a rule left by our ancestors,
It’s also because they themselves are not very favored anymore. When I have been favored for a long time, everyone doesn’t like to see me. It’s better to choose a few young people to come in and compete with me to see the excitement.”
Concubine Hu said this with some helplessness. In fact, when she chose to enter the palace to serve the emperor, she knew that someone younger than her would definitely enter the palace in the future. The emperor was still young and in his prime, so it would not be a problem to have ten or eight more princes.