Chapter 913 The dragon body continues to be in poor condition
Chapter 913 The dragon body continues to be in poor condition
A few pieces of iced watermelon knocked the old emperor down.
The old emperor had been bedridden for three months. He had seen many imperial doctors and Western missionaries, but his body had not improved.
However, with Hongxi and Zhang Tingyu inside and a cabinet led by Yuzhu outside, the imperial court was operating very well.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is much better than when the old emperor was fully in power.
Perhaps the old emperor was jealous, so he called Yuzhu over and asked him coldly: "Some people say that while I am lying ill on the bed, the court has become more political and people-friendly?"
Damn it, people who say such bad things definitely don’t have the balls to give birth to a son!
Yuzhu quickly explained: "Khan Ama, all major military and state affairs are under your control. You should be a leader in politics and people."
What he meant was that the entire empire was moving forward bravely and prospering along the direction set by the old emperor.
"Hmph, stop flattering me." The old emperor was unhappy and asked Yuzhu face to face, "Did you hold back your hands before?"
This question is extremely cunning and vicious, and if you don't handle it properly, it will be a disaster!
Yuzhu said calmly: "Back to Khan's Ama, I will go to the Yamen as usual every day and go back to my home to enjoy the ballet. What should I do?"
The old emperor thought about it carefully and realized that Yuzhu was right. This guy was not willing to stay in the cabinet for any longer.
In Yuzhu's heart, he knew better than anyone else that the old emperor's idea was that the Qing Dynasty would definitely not be able to survive without him as its father.
But the problem is that without the old emperor's fuss about changing orders from day to day and carrying out large-scale construction projects, the fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty has been rising steadily.
The treaty port of Dagukou was inconspicuous when it was first built.
However, after more than ten years of good operation, the strong foreign trade demand in Dagukou has profoundly affected the fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty.
Because, through the hands of Lao Shiba, Yuzhu has set up nearly a hundred handicraft workshops near Dagukou Pier.
In order to deceive others, Yuzhu split the production of tea, porcelain, spice deep processing and silk into countless small workshops based on the assembly line production method, with each small workshop responsible for only one process.
The specific person in charge is Wang Chaolu, who was defeated in the competition to become the next generation boss of Dashengkui.
Wang Chaolu, obviously the biological son of Wang Xiangqing, the contemporary boss of Dashengkui, was unable to take over Dashengkui due to the opposition of the other two founding shareholders.
Dashengkui's equity system is divided into fixed financial owner shares and senior shares earned based on seniority.
When dividends are distributed every three years, 30% of the profits must be put into the public accounts of financial shareholders for emergency purposes, and no one can touch them.
Top shares are shares that are rewarded based on merit. Once you leave Dashengkui, you will no longer enjoy dividends.
In later generations, the boss of a certain top shark company learned from this equity system and established a new model of collective shareholding by labor unions under a one-vote veto system.
When doing foreign trade business, money is not the problem; the scarcity of top management talents is the problem.
Since Yuzhu thought highly of Wang Chaolu, Wang Xiangqing was naturally grateful and sent his son to Dagokou.
The method of making jade pillars is actually not complicated, that is, making a fuss about the style of porcelain, tea packaging and silk colors.
Various styles of porcelain and jade pillars favored by Europeans were given a makeover and then fired in self-built official kilns.
The original way of exporting tea was to roll it into tea bricks, wrap it with oil paper and tie it with a rope, and that was it. It was very crude.
Yuzhu is different. The fine whole-leaf teas among various teas must be selected in advance, smoked with incense, and then put into exquisite porcelain and sealed.
It is worth mentioning that the porcelain used to serve tea has a trademark fired in advance and cannot be counterfeited.
Hey, with this approach, the premium rate is more than ten times higher than before, or even nearly a hundred times higher.
With high foreign trade income, the court's taxation naturally increased accordingly.
Now that the court has money, many serious things that it wanted to do but couldn't do before can now be done.
As a result, the old emperor felt very uncomfortable!
Oh, you did better without my direct control. Then, wouldn’t I become the redundant one?
Typical sour grapes mentality!
The old emperor waved his hand weakly, indicating that Yuzhu could kneel down.
Yuzhu pretended not to notice, and asked the old emperor tentatively: "Khan Ama, why don't you let me come forward and recruit foreign doctors from all over the capital?"
In fact, Yuzhu had a reason for saying this.
That year, the old emperor suffered from malaria. If it were not for the cinchona cream recommended by foreign doctors, he would have died many years ago.
Before the 17th century, there was no organized clinical education in Europe. Students went to medical schools to study, and as long as they passed the examination, they could receive a diploma.
By the beginning of the 18th century, European medical scientists had dissected countless corpses and had a clear understanding of the normal structure of the human body.
Clinical medical teaching then flourished, and Leiden University in the Netherlands set up teaching beds in a hospital for the first time.
As the number of foreigners in Dagukou continued to increase, foreign doctors also came to Dagukou to practice medicine.
As far as Yuzhu knows, most of these foreign doctors own microscopes.
It must be admitted that the emergence of microscopes has brought human medicine to a new level.
Before that, Yuzhu had never dared to recommend foreign doctors from Dagukou to treat the old emperor. To put it bluntly, he just waited for the old emperor to be helpless and bedridden.
The old emperor asked Yuzhu hesitantly: "Is it suitable?"
Yuzhu deliberately made a serious face and asked: "What's inappropriate? As long as your dragon body can be as healthy as ever, I'm not afraid of losing my head!"
In this era, recommending doctors to the emperor involves taking great risks.
The old emperor felt Yuzhu's sincerity and said nothing more. Yuzhu immediately understood that this was tacit approval.
The older this man gets, the more he fears that his descendants and ministers will neglect him.
Yuzhu was under tremendous pressure and wanted to recommend foreign doctors to the old emperor. This was pure filial piety!
Today's old emperor lacks nothing but sincere treatment from others.
Sincerity for sincerity, the bad things Yuzhu did were never hidden from the old emperor in private.
However, the old emperor never expected that Yuzhu would take advantage of the second princess's affection for him and cook the raw rice into cooked rice with lightning speed.
Yuzhu knew better than anyone else that if Prince Zhuang dies and the second princess has no weakness to control, then even if he finds a way to rape her, it will probably be as boring as chewing wax.
Historically, Prince Zhuang, Prince Boguoduo, passed away just after the fourth son ascended the throne. As a result, he was advantaged by the sixteenth son.
In order to show his pure filial piety, Yuzhu decided to go to Dagukou personally to screen the foreign doctors there face to face.
On the road, Yuzhu's carriage deliberately moved slowly. As a result, the second princess really chased her on horseback.
Hehe, this sultry Erniu Niu, once she gets the idea, her addiction will be much greater than that of Yuzhu!