After Cao Yixuan and Wei Man went to settle down, Zhou Man looked at Zheng Gu and said, "You came alone?"
"No, there is still my wife."
Zhou Man nodded and said, "I'll have the guest rooms cleaned up. Don't stay at the inn. Stay at home."
Zheng Gu agreed with a smile, and then Zhou Man asked, "Is everything okay in the capital?"
Zheng Gu said: "When I came out, the Imperial Medical Office had already selected a place to build a medicine shop in Yongzhou, and the East Palace had allocated a piece of land in Huangzhuang to build a medicine shop. The distance between the two places was not very far. I heard from the hospital.
It means that after graduation, pharmacy students can choose to go to various medical offices to make medicinal herbs, or they can go to the pharmacy of the Imperial Medical Office, or they can go to the pharmacy of the East Palace."
Zhou Man tilted his head in confusion, "The medicine shop belongs to the East Palace? Doesn't it belong to the royal family?"
Zheng Gu smiled slightly and said: "When my uncle said that the medicine shop was about to open, several princes and princes came to your majesty and wanted to accept this errand. Your majesty was in a dilemma and couldn't make a decision for the moment, so he simply pretended to be deaf and dumb and asked him to do it.
I don’t know that this matter was all done by the prince alone, so now the medicine shop is under the name of the East Palace."
"That's true, but all the ministers in the court and the people in the royal family know that it is His Majesty's intention." Zheng Gu said: "Penicillin is very valuable. It is difficult to produce this medicine now. Sometimes the medicine workers do not operate well.
All the furnace medicine is destroyed. Except for the army, the hospital will always keep some in case of emergency needs."
He said: "But you also said that this medicine is not suitable for some people, so we will not prescribe such medicine unless we have to. Some adults, especially generals who go to the battlefield, always want to take some with them.
So I have been trying to find a way to buy it, but privately the price of the medicine has skyrocketed, almost the same price as ginseng."
But ginseng requires decades or hundreds of years of cultivation and discovery and excavation. Not to mention, the time cost alone is high, so it is natural that its price is high.
But penicillin...
The cost of this thing is far less than that of ginseng, and the price offered by Taiyuan Hospital to the military is not very high. After all, it is intended for ordinary soldiers to use it.
But this thing changed hands one or two times, and it actually fetched a sky-high price. The benefits are so exciting that so many people want to get involved.
The pharmacy of the Imperial Medical Office is run by itself, and the pharmacists they use are their own students and apprentices. The sales can also be directly connected with the Ministry of War, various medical offices and medical clinics and pharmacies, so there is no need for outsiders at all.
So everyone focused on the pharmacy owned by the prince.
"Except for the medicine shop, it's all the master's secrets." Zheng Gu was not qualified to go to court, so he still listened to his uncle. Moreover, Zhou Man's secrets caused an uproar in the court, and there were discussions in both the Imperial Medical Office and the Imperial Hospital, so
It's not hard for him to know.
"Most of the courtiers in the court have agreed to your suggestion, master. The state medical offices will recommend medicines and have jurisdiction over the county medical offices. However, some people are opposed," Zheng Gu said: "Those who support it believe that with the medicine shop, the imperial medical office will be able to
With constant income and the support from the national treasury and His Majesty’s internal treasury, the Imperial Medical Office can continue to operate for a long time.”
"Those who oppose it feel that this is not a long-term solution. The cost of local medical offices is too high, and it is inevitable that in the future some people will forge household registrations in order to deceive doctors, or even change their household registration from one household to another, and vice versa."
Zhou Man twitched the corner of his mouth, snorted and asked, "How did Xiao Yuanzheng respond to them?"
Xiao Yuanzheng couldn't get a word in at all, and they themselves got into a quarrel.
Zhou Man groaned and said, "Next time you write to Xiao Yuanzheng, remember to tell him. If anyone else says this, ask him to ask if all the officials in the county government, Yushitai, and Dali Temple are vegetarians."
Of?"
If you go from one household to another, you will arrest one, and if a pair comes, you will punish them severely. Let you really change from one household to another. Do you think they are still cheating?
Zheng Gu scratched his head and said, "Master, you are about to give birth, so you can't be angry."
"I'm not angry," Zhou Man waved his hand and asked, "Is there anything else?"
Zheng Gu hesitated for a moment and then said: "Master Wei is ill, but before I came, he was able to go to court. I saw his face, and it was a little bad. I asked my uncle, but he didn't allow me to ask. Is he in the hospital?"
We have also collected Mr. Wei's pulse record and no one is allowed to review it."
He remembered that Master and Master Wei had a good relationship. Master Wei was also a strong supporter of the local medical office's recommendation this time, so he felt that he should tell Master.
Zhou Man was stunned for a moment and fell silent.
Wei Zhi's health was very poor. Without the pills she gave her, she might not have been able to survive the end of the Liaodong War the year before last.
Seeing her silence, Zheng Gu also fell silent.
After a while, she came back to her senses and asked, "Is there more?"
Zheng Gu smiled and said: "The rest is our private matter. Master, Xiao Yuan is sending the third junior brother to the medicine shop. If nothing happens, he will be in charge of the medicine shop in the future."
Zhou Man was surprised, "Zheng Shao is not very old and has only been practicing for two years. Can Xiao Yuan feel at ease?"
He smiled and nodded: "He is a little worse at diagnosing pulses and prescribing prescriptions, but he knows much more about medicine than we do. His penicillin production has the highest success rate. We have tested it, and it is also the most effective."
, the most stable, so Xiao Yuanzheng chose him."
Zhou Man nodded slightly, "When he was in the Imperial Medical Office, he learned the best medicine and made better medicines than you."
Zhou Man asked: "Where are Liru and Sanniang? How are they?"
They are so nice!
There are quite a few female doctors in Beijing now. A batch of them graduated last year. In addition to a few in the Imperial Hospital, two female doctors also joined the Chang'an County Medical Office. However, because Liu Sanniang and Zhou Liru are Zhou Man's disciples, they are more
Somewhat popular.
Facts have also proven that their medical skills are better.
Therefore, the female relatives of the powerful and wealthy families in Beijing like to invite them when they are sick.
Those who are qualified can hire them from the imperial hospital, which is quick and cheap; those who are not qualified can hire them privately...
Zheng Gu remembered the lively scene in the imperial hospital last time when various families came to invite them, and sighed: "Compared to us male imperial doctors, they are so popular."
Zhou Man nodded with satisfaction. What she feared most was that female doctors would be squeezed out in the capital, and then it would be difficult for the Imperial Medical Office to recruit female disciples.
The master and the apprentice chatted for a long time, and then went to have dinner when called outside. Only then did Zheng Gu have people bring out the things that various families in the capital had asked him to bring.
Zhou Man was stunned for a moment, "Strange, didn't my family just ask someone from the palace to bring me something? Why is it still here?"
Zheng Gu thought for a while and said, "I told them ten days before I left. I got the things two days in advance. The people in the palace went later than us. It was an impromptu departure. We met on the road and left together.
Maybe that was cleaned up later?”
Zhou Man then asked someone to open the box to see what it contained, and found that there were half a box full of small clothes, shoes, and even diapers for all kinds of children.
She was dumbfounded and said, "You can see it. This really took time to prepare carefully."