The queen was meeting with some older wives, and Chang Yu sat with her for a while. She was really bored, so she winked at Ming Da.
Ming Da still had his goal yet to be achieved, so he was unwilling to leave and just pretended that he could not see it.
Changyu had no choice but to sit for a while, but she couldn't sit down anymore. If she sat down any longer, she would fall asleep.
So he quietly got up and went out.
As soon as she went out, a gust of wind blew, and Chang Yu felt a little more energetic. She exhaled, turned around, and went back to her bedroom.
The eldest palace maid held her back and said, "Princess, all the officials have almost finished coming in. The empress will pass by in a moment. You have to go back to the palace now. You will be late in time."
She said: "If you are feeling low, why not go to Wude Hall and talk to someone for a few words to help you feel more energetic."
Chang Yu said boredly: "Okay, I don't know if Zhou Man has come in."
Mentioning Zhou Man, Chang Yu managed to cheer up a little, "Let's go, let's go find Zhou Man."
Man Bao was also looking for them. He came all the way from Wude Hall. When the two met on the palace road, they immediately rushed towards each other happily.
Man Bao held hands with her and said, "I'm just going to find you."
One said: "What is the Queen doing now?"
Chang Yu heard this and was curious, "What are you doing with your mother?"
"It's a big deal," Man Bao asked, "I heard you say before that the empress wanted to raise money for our Imperial Medical Office to buy medicinal materials?"
Chang Yu: "...Is that what I said? I just heard that the queen mother said it was for the military resources for this expedition. There are many people from your Imperial Medical Office following you. You must be involved. What's wrong?"
Man Bao asked: "Is it a lot of money?"
Chang Yu thought for a while and said: "It's quite a lot. I gave you eight 10-tael silver ingots and a lot of jewelry. They are worth 70-80 taels anyway."
She said: "Mingda gave me a small amount of jewelry, but a lot of cash. The total price is one or two hundred taels."
Man Bao was pleasantly surprised. If the palace was willing to give all the money to their Imperial Medical Office to prepare medicinal materials and medical equipment, it might be more than the 5 million allocated to them by the Ministry of Revenue.
Manbao regained his energy and took Changyu to the harem. She said, "I haven't paid my respects to the empress yet. Come on, let's go to the harem."
She decided that those who are near the water and the towers should get the moon first.
Chang Yu didn't think much about it, so he settled down, but Zhou Man was strong enough to drag her away, "Hurry, hurry, hurry, don't delay, I'll pay my respects to the empress."
Chang Yu said: "There are all the old wives of Zhao Guogong and the old lady of the Yin family. They are either talking about their sons or their grandsons. We can't get in touch with each other when we go there."
Man Bao said: "Your Majesty will take Lord Yin with him on this expedition."
So we can still talk, they have a common language.
Changyu: "..."
With Chang Yu leading them, they entered the main hall directly, and everyone was talking enthusiastically.
Man Bao pricked up his ears and heard what they were saying about "princess's kindness"
"This is what we did. It would be a great honor for us if we could share the worries of Your Majesty and Your Majesty."
The two of them were about to sneak in quietly, and the smiling queen sitting on top had a panoramic view of the situation in the palace.
Naturally, she also saw the two people sneaking around, so she smiled and said: "Madams understand the righteousness well. I am very pleased. It happens that Zhou Qing is also here. Zhou Qing, what do you think about this?"
Man Bao and Chang Yu, who had just slipped halfway, froze.
Adhering to the principle that a dead Taoist friend should never die a poor Taoist, Chang Yu broke free from Zhou Man's hand, walked back to his seat dignifiedly and sat down.
Yes, what do you think?
Chang Yu secretly thought: What does God think? They just came in from the outside and have no idea what they said before. How can they think about it?
Man Bao raised his head and smiled slightly. When Chang was about to cheat, Ming Da also raised his head and smiled slightly, and said cheerfully: "Mother, she is naturally the happiest. Although the money is donated to the soldiers, after all,
They are in charge of the Imperial Medical Office."
"She is an imperial physician. She has enough medicinal materials to treat illnesses and save lives. Would she be unhappy?"
Man Bao's eyes lit up, he swallowed his shameless words, nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, yes, I'm very happy."
The queen glanced at Mingda, smiled slightly, and said: "Zhou Qing is a person of high rank, so he should know better than us women in the back house. The weather in many places is not good this year. Before the autumn harvest, your majesty has reduced or reduced taxes in several places."
Because of taxes, the national treasury is not very full. Yesterday, the concubines in the harem and the prince's children all donated some money for military supplies. It's not a huge amount, but when you add up, it can help His Majesty and the adults solve some minor problems.
"
Man Bao nodded in approval and said with suppressed excitement: "For example, buy medicinal materials for our Imperial Medical Office, gauze and linen lamps for bandages. Not to mention the generosity of the empress and madam, even one penny can buy hemostatic medicine.
. This is a great merit in saving people’s lives. Zhou Man would like to express his gratitude to the empress and ladies of the past generations of soldiers."
The ladies who were originally led by Princess Mingda to donate money were still a little reluctant and unwilling to give up, but at this time they all dissipated.
Yes, this is a matter of great merit, just like giving porridge to the poor during festivals and festivals.
The old ladies and ladies whose families were on the war even called gods or Buddhas in their hearts, hoping that God would bless them for their safe return for the sake of their piety. If...
The money donated this time will also be used for them.
Although with their status, if they were really injured, they would not be without medicine, but they still had to comfort themselves in their hearts.
If the Imperial Medical Office had enough money, they might be able to buy better medicines. If they really need to take medicine accidentally, the difference between a hundred copper coins and one copper coin would be quite big.
Thinking of this, the old lady couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Zhou, are the medicines in your hospital ready?"
The lady whose family was away at war immediately pricked up her ears to listen.
Man Bao smiled and said: "Wei Chang, the Ministry of Revenue is only willing to give a budget of five million, but there are one hundred thousand soldiers for this expedition. Counting the personal troops that Your Majesty wants to take away, there must be 120,000.
"
Man Bao sighed and said: "That is to say, not counting the handymen and the logistics soldiers who transport supplies, those who fight on the front line, the cost of medicine for each person's injuries is only a little over 40 cents. This is at least three months' worth of medicine.
Woolen cloth."
Forty cents is enough to buy two sets of hemostatic medicine, which is the cheapest kind.
If it's more serious, the price of a single dose of medicine will be more than enough.
The other old ladies don’t know the price of the medicine, but they are not stupid either. If it lasts until the twelfth lunar month of winter, and they have to rely on forty cash for medicinal materials for three months, isn’t this asking people to die?
Everyone glanced at Mrs. Liu Shangshu, with some dissatisfaction in their eyes.
Mrs. Liu Shangshu:......
But if you really sit still, disaster will fall from the sky.
Mrs. Liu Shangshu glanced at Zhou Man and said nothing.