A rooster's crow woke up the small village. People rubbed their eyes and got up while yawning, and started a busy day.
This is a small village next to Luoyang City, called Dukang Village. It is famous for its fine wines, but what is more important is the location of Dukang Village.
Dukang Village is located ten miles south of Luoyang City. People who want to enter Luoyang City every morning will rest in Dukang Village before entering the city. In the evening, people leaving Luoyang City will also rest here before leaving.
People come and go here every day, and it is as lively as going to the market every day.
Huang Xiaoshi came to this small village with two disciples. After a simple breakfast, the two disciples went to the end of the village to set up a stall to sell medicine, while Huang Xiaoshi drank tea alone on the breakfast table.
This is a breakfast stall in the village, with only two tables and a few small stools. People who have had breakfast can drink unlimited bowls of country tea at the owner.
Huang Xiaoshi was drinking tea here slowly. He was not actually drinking tea. Huang Xiaoshi was waiting for someone.
In the past six months, Huang Xiaoshi has brought his disciples to practice stalls every day. Everyone in Dukang Village knows this young man who likes to wear black.
Because he was afraid of missing out, Huang Xiaoshi would wait until the sun was almost setting in the afternoon before leaving.
Through the operation of the stall in all weathers, the elixir business in Dukang Village is now very good. Three baskets of elixirs are sold out before noon every day. The salesmen who travel all over the country like to buy some elixirs to take away.
Today is August 26th.
As time passed day by day, Huang Xiaoshi's anxiety became more and more intense.
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Time flies so fast, this is already the sixth year since Huang Xiaoshi came to this world.
After merging Wang Er with Shennongmen, Shennong Baicaomen has completely monopolized the elixir supply market in the southwest through continuous expansion in the past three years.
To be precise, there was originally no market for selling elixirs outside the Shennong Baicao Gate.
The elixir sold by Shennong Baicaomen is similar to the traditional Chinese medicine that Huang Xiaoshi used before his time travel.
You know, even before Huang Xiaoshi traveled through time, the road to marketization of Chinese patent medicines was extremely tortuous, and people have always used Chinese patent medicines as an excuse.
Let alone mention it now, many people are not only suspicious of Chinese patent medicines, but also disdain and reject them.
Doctors generally believe that people who eat grains will suffer from all kinds of diseases. Even if everyone's case is the same, the root cause of the disease is often different. Even if the root cause is the same, everyone's constitution is also different. Even if everyone's constitution is the same, everyone's constitution will be different.
Life situations are also different.
There is a saying that "no two leaves in the world are exactly the same."
Similarly, doctors believe that no two diseases in the world are exactly the same.
Since all diseases are different, we must pay attention to prescribing the right medicine.
At this time, if you make a medicine for everyone to take, even as long as the symptoms are the same or similar, in the eyes of these doctors, it is said that the medicine does not treat the disease at best, and it is a murder of money and life at worst.
However, there are many people in the world now who have a very urgent need for cheap drugs.
In this world, the vast majority of poor people and a large part of ordinary people cannot afford to hire a doctor when they get sick.
Doctors charge a consultation fee for visiting a doctor. No matter how prices change in the past dynasties, the doctor's consultation fee is not low. By analogy, it is equivalent to 10 days of living expenses for ordinary local residents.
If it is a famous doctor, the consultation fee will be doubled.
Although it is said that some doctors will reduce or reduce medical fees for poor people, they are in the minority after all.
The doctor and his whole family depend on the medical fee for food, how can they get free treatment every time?
The reason why doctors are so scarce is because it takes a very long time to train a doctor under the apprenticeship system, and they also face a very high elimination rate.
Those who are not smart can't do it, those who don't have patience and perseverance can't do it, and those who have evil intentions can't do it.
There are hundreds of apprentices, and after more than twenty years of study, only a handful of them finally graduate.
Coupled with the control of family inheritance, doctor has always been an extremely rare profession.
If rural people want to see a doctor at home, they not only have to pay for a round trip, but they also have to pay double the consultation fee.
When you go to see a doctor, you spend a lot of money to bring the doctor in. That’s just a doctor’s visit.
You have to pay extra for taking medicine.
Some people got smart and said, "I won't see a doctor anymore. I'll find someone else's prescription for medicine."
Sorry, pharmacies don't sell it.
First of all, it is because before the doctor writes a prescription, he will first write a description of the condition, then a paragraph of his own treatment ideas, and the last part is the prescription.
That is to say, each prescription is actually a complete diagnosis of the condition.
The patient's name is written on it.
You take someone else's prescription and the pharmacy clerk sees it and says it's not the right medicine for you. He's sorry and doesn't dare to sell it.
In the same way, if you take a prescription three or five times in a row, the clerk at the drug store will politely say to you, "I'm sorry, you have finished taking this prescription. You need to see a doctor to check your physical condition again."
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With treatment, the patient's condition will change. At this time, a follow-up visit is needed and the prescription will be readjusted.
Just as no two diseases are exactly the same, no two prescriptions are exactly the same.
As time goes by, the condition of the same person will change. The doctor will replace the medicinal materials with similar properties according to the patient's actual condition, or slightly adjust the dosage of the same medicinal materials to make the medicine more suitable for the patient's condition.
Because the content of active ingredients in natural medicinal materials is very low, doctors need to bring out the maximum medicinal properties of the medicinal materials every time.
Otherwise, it will happen that the disease is identified and the medicine is prescribed, but the dose is insufficient and the patient cannot be cured for a long time or even the condition worsens.
If every disease is like a door, the current condition is like a door lock.
The doctor needs to use the most accurate key to open the current lock.
This requires that the prescription must be closely aligned with the condition.
If it is a complex condition, the doctor has to be like a master of reasoning and think through every step of his treatment before he dares to prescribe medicine.
It is quack medicine to take one step at a time and take one step at a time. Good doctors always take one step at a time and take three steps at a time.
In order to come up with a prescription, it is common for doctors to think hard for more than ten days.
This extreme "personalization" inevitably brings high costs and low efficiency, which also destined that high-end services such as "medical treatment" can only be enjoyed by a very small number of people.
Everything will be fine once you get used to it.
After everyone takes this situation as a matter of course, although the number of people who die prematurely because they can't afford to see a doctor or take medicine will not decrease, people's mentality has improved, and everyone calls it fate.
If this is a disease, then this disease is called "poverty".
If this is fate, then this kind of fate is called "poor".
Shennong Baicaomen directly breaks this industrial structure and sells medicine directly without seeing a doctor.
There are some people who praise this practice, but there are also many people who criticize it. It is a red-and-black approach.
Fortunately, the Shennong Baicao Family has a great business now and is not afraid of anyone coming to trouble it.
Of course, if a doctor is really squeezed out of his job by the Shennong Baicaomen, not only will he not deserve sympathy, but he will be laughed at.
It shows that your medical skills are inferior.
The key reason why most doctors don’t think that Shennong Baicaomen is robbing them of their own food is that Shennong Baicaomen targets the low-end market, and the pills they sell are really cheap.
The reason why elixirs are cheap is initially because of the price war between Shennongmen and Baicaomen. After Shennongmen and Baicaomen merged, Huang Xiaoshi, as Gong Guangjie's financial director, never thought about making money from the poor.
In Huang Xiaoshi's words, market share is more important than making money.
Gong Guangjie seemed to understand, but he knew that Shitou's words must be accurate.
If you don't make money, you don't make money, just make money.
This kind of low-end medicine is definitely not really cheap compared to other things, but compared with the consultation fee, which can easily cost several hundred cents, and the medicine, which costs more than ten cents, ordinary people can already afford it.
Just like that, when I was sick in bed and couldn't afford a doctor, so I could only stay upright, I saw Shennong Baicaomen selling medicine on the street.
Most of them have the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, buying some medicine and feeding it to the patient indiscriminately.
Many people have actually been cured this way.
The people of this era had very simple ideas. People were destined to die, but after taking more than ten cents worth of medicine, they actually came back to life. It was like a life was wasted.
It’s really too late to be happy.
Even if some people die after taking medicine, this is the so-called "fate". No one would think of it, and no one would dare to trouble the medicine seller, saying that the medicine doesn't work.
Due to the extremely strong demand, the market became extremely hot immediately after it was opened. The elixirs of Shennong Baicaomen were in short supply.
As the market expanded, Shennong Baicao Sect also expanded crazily. From a small and unknown sect a few years ago, it suddenly grew into a major sect in Sichuan.
Now Shennong Baicao Sect has over a thousand disciples and tens of thousands of medicinal farmers. Even the deputy sect masters have three people, left, middle and right. The group of people who followed Gong Guangjie have already become famous.
However, between the sect master and the deputy sect master, there is a very special "second sect master", that is Master Shi Huang Xiaoshi.
Huang Xiaoshi didn't know his birth date and age. After Gong Guangjie picked up Huang Xiaoshi, he randomly assigned him a twelve-year-old age based on his height. He calculated carefully that this year Huang Xiaoshi would be eighteen.
In these three years, Huang Xiaoshi grew from a dark and thin boy to a dark and thin young man.
Being dark is due to too much sun exposure, while being thin is purely a physical problem.
I don't know whether it was because he was too depleted in nutrition and couldn't make up for it, or because his body was born with this appearance. Huang Xiaoshi stopped growing after his height was just over 5 feet 1 inch. When converted into meters, it is less than the root number three.
Huang Xiaoshi is currently the second son-in-law of the Shennong Baicao Sect (the number one is Gong Guangjie). If he had not been in Shu for a long time, and the people of Luoyang thought that he had already married, the people who wanted to marry him would have broken the threshold.
For such a young man with a hairless mouth, everyone at Shennong Baicaomen called him "Master Shi".
There is both respect and fear in this voice of Lord Shi.
In just one battle with Wang Er, Huang Xiaoshi killed everyone.
That day, after comforting Gong Guangjie, Huang Xiaoshi walked out of the hall and woke up all five Shennongmen disciples who had been knocked unconscious and had their acupoints stabbed.
These five people are all talented people who are aware of current affairs. After understanding their current situation, they immediately became Gong Guangjie's licking dogs, calling them "Master Gong" one after another, even more affectionately than the disciples of Baicao Sect.
Afterwards, four doormen went to clean up the mess in the hall, and one doorman took Huang Xiaoshi to the well to fetch water for him to take a shower.
When Huang Xiaoshi took off his clothes that were extremely heavy because they were stained with blood, the disciple carried three buckets of water to wash away the smell of blood on Huang Xiaoshi's body. He was surprised to find that this evil blood
After the man took off his clothes, there was not even a single cut on his body. In other words, the blood all over the floor was shed by others.
The other four doormen who were cleaning up the hall also had a hard time, especially when they were cleaning up Wang Er's body, they saw that Wang Er had hundreds of stab wounds crisscrossing his body, and everyone was shocked.
They really don't know how Wang Er offended Huang Xiaoshi and was killed by him so evilly.
From that day on, Huang Xiaoshi's reputation as a brutal murderer was established. No one dared to call Huang Xiaoshi's name, and no one except Gong Guangjie dared to call him Shitou.
Two years ago, because Shennong Baicaomen's business was getting bigger and bigger, it needed to continue to expand the market. At this time, Huang Xiaoshi proposed to Gong Guangjie that a branch should be established in Luoyang.
Later, Huang Xiaoshi told Gong Guangjie one by one the reasons for setting up a branch in Luoyang.
First of all, a sect must expand, and where to expand is a matter of direction.
This direction is really the direction, southeast, northwest, this kind of direction.
However, Bashu has its own unique characteristics. If Bashu wants to expand, the first problem is transportation, that is, the problem of roads.
The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to reach the blue sky.
This mainly refers to the east road in and out of Bashu.
Going east along the Yangtze River is one of the most convenient ways out of Bashu. However, due to the large drops and dangerous peaks along the way, the water flow is very fast. In addition, there are many bends in the water, and the capsizing rate is unimaginably high.
Among the most dangerous rivers, the Three Gorges is the most dangerous. Every time you pass it, you have to peel off the skin (Sichuan trackers are basically concentrated here, and the purpose of pulling the track is mainly to sail against the current when going up and to prevent the boat from going too fast when going down).
The most dangerous part of the Three Gorges is the Qutang Gorge. In the middle of the fast-flowing river, there is a huge stone pillar blocking the river.
Countless boats crossing the river were crushed to pieces on this stone because they were unable to dodge (Yanlidui, commonly known as the bird's nest stone, was blown up in the winter of 1959).
Transporting goods on this road is completely gambling with God.
But the other way, from Bashu to Hanzhong is relatively easier.
There is a saying that makes Long look forward to Shu.
Once we have captured Longyou (today's Gansu), we can attack Xishu. This road is sufficient for the army to pass.
Therefore, although Bashu is closer to the east, the real main road is the road to Hanzhong.
After arriving in Hanzhong, we will go to Xi'an.
After arriving in Xi'an, the road is easy to walk. If you go through Xi'an and then go straight to Luoyang.
Although Luoyang is not the capital now, you can go north, south, or east through Luoyang. It is worthy of the saying "the key to the world and the throat of Kyushu".
If Shennong Baicaomen wants to promote the market, it must base itself in Luoyang.
When Huang Xiaoshi said this, Gong Guangjie, who was afraid that he was obeying his words, did not reply immediately.
After all, establishing a branch is a big deal, and if not done well, the entire Shennong Baicao Sect may be ruined.
A few months later, Gong Guangjie approached Huang Xiaoshi and said that he could establish a branch in Luoyang. Huang Xiaoshi knew that the matter had been approved.
Huang Xiaoshi had a very good idea of the people of the Tianlong Sect. Just like what Wang Er said before, although the people of the Tianlong Sect also value money, what they value more is territory and people.
Lower-level sects requested expansion, but it was too late for Tianlong Sect to encourage them.
Gong Guangjie also told Huang Xiaoshi with a relaxed look on his face that when establishing a branch, don't worry about money. You won't lose too much within three years, and you can operate at a breakeven within five years.
Huang Xiaoshi knew that Gong Guangjie must have cheated a large sum of money from the Tianlong Sect by establishing a branch.
In this way, the Luoyang branch of the Shennong Baicao Sect was established, and the branch was managed by Huang Xiaoshi. Huang Xiaoshi changed from the second sect leader to the Huang sect leader.
I originally thought that when the elixirs were transported from Bashu, the tofu would be sold at the price of meat, so I would definitely lose blood.
Unexpectedly, Huang Xiaoshi's business was booming. Not only did he not lose money when he branched out, he also gained a lot of money from his own branch.
No one knew what Huang Xiaoshi's head looked like. If he poked it anywhere, money would come out like water.
The reason why Huang Xiaoshi proposed to establish a branch in Luoyang was because Luoyang was so important.
After Huang Xiaoshi arrived in Luoyang, the first thing he did was to find his own anchor.
Huang Xiaoshi's anchor is not the top that distinguishes real and virtual, but a person.
This person is Jiang Tianxiong, the leader of the Tiangang Sect in Luoyang City, a wealthy businessman from Luoyang, a hero from Heluo, and the leader of the Royal Forest Army.
The same title can only show that this guy's identity is extremely complicated.
And Huang Xiaoshi also knew that the [Tiangang Wuji Kung Fu] practiced by Jiang Tianxiong was originally a super-class internal skill and mental method created by a generation of heroes, Xiao Xiami.
Not to mention too much, after Huang Xiaoshi came to Luoyang, the first thing he needed to do was to determine the current time.
This time is not the era as the common people call it, but the original "game time".
Originally, this kind of thing should be impossible to determine, after all, the original game did not mention the year number at all.
But it just so happens that there is an important scene in the game: "Jiang Tianxiong's 50th birthday, all the heroes gathered in Luoyang".
In the game, it is displayed as "February of the second year", but the start time of the game is "September of the first year".
Jiang Tianxiong's age is the most important time anchor.
When Huang Xiaoshi arrived in Luoyang, he learned that Jiang Tianxiong was only forty-seven years old, so he felt relieved.
In the past two years, Huang Xiaoshi has been making money safely and has successfully become a local worm.
The water in Luoyang is too deep, so Huang Xiaoshi doesn't dare call himself a local snake, so he can just be a little bug.
When Jiang Tianxiong was forty-nine, when summer had just begun, Huang Xiaoshi and his disciples came to Dukang Village to stay there every day.
However, time passed day by day, and the days until September were getting fewer and fewer. Huang Xiaoshi's heart became more and more anxious. He was not sure whether he could really wait for the most important person.
In the past six years, Huang Xiaoshi has been thinking about ways to escape. Currently, there are three options: upper, middle and lower. However, Huang Xiaoshi is not ready to use it. He wants to try an off-board trick and directly use the bug to skip all the levels and reach the finish line.
Just when Huang Xiaoshi sat down until the afternoon, thinking that he had waited in vain again today, a person came to the path at the end of the village.
Seeing that person, Huang Xiaoshi's spirits immediately lifted.
It's coming, it's coming, it's finally coming.
The previous first volume can be seen as a prologue or a wedge.
From this volume onwards, more characters begin to appear.
To be honest, it feels like it is a challenge for me to write so many characters well.