"Thank you for your hard work." Xuan Weizi came to Hyperion's side, and the businessman quickly stood up. Although he witnessed with his own eyes how Xuan Weizi treated many poor people without distinction, it did not mean that Hyperion had the courage to do so easily.
Offending such a person.
Especially listening to Little Taylor's vivid description of how Xuan Weizi defused the last big explosion in Can Can Street made Hyperion even more certain that Xuan Weizi was a powerful advanced spellcaster.
"It's not hard work," Hyperion said quickly.
"After all, you spent a lot of money." Xuan Weizi said, "Even I can't feed and clothe hundreds of people at once."
Hyperion did not dare to show off in front of Xuan Weizi and said: "This is what I should do. Seeing so many poor people, who would have the heart not to lend a helping hand?"
Xuan Weizi said: "Really? But if good people are only allowed to pay without getting anything in return, who else will help the poor? There is never anything that should or should not be done. Huowu City is so big, and there is no one who takes the initiative to donate money.
Donate something?”
Hyperion didn't react for a moment, Xuan Weizi just smiled and changed the topic: "You have seen the medicines of our Changqing Chamber of Commerce. Do you think there are any prospects for sales and development?"
"I just don't know the prices of these drugs..."
Xuan Weizi calculated silently in his mind for a while, pointed to the empty clay pot that had just been cleaned beside the tent, and said: "The ointment for treating trauma and burns, the amount of ointment filled in the clay pot, costs about ten gold coins. If it is for anti-toxicity,
The detoxification potion is a little more expensive because it needs to use a small glass bottle as a container. A bottle costs at least twenty or thirty gold coins... As for other types of treatment for various colds, colds, diarrhea and dysentery, a few gold coins will cost you a jar. I will use it.
It is made into powder and granular form, and you can drink it by just mixing it with warm water."
When Hyperion heard these prices, he thought there was something wrong with his ears. He picked up these empty clay pots, weighed them, and said blankly: "Can't this pot hold one or two pounds of medicine?"
"Absolutely." Xuan Weizi said: "Of course, whether it is an ointment for external application or a medicinal powder for internal use, it has a shelf life. If there are better sealed containers, it can barely be stored for a few years."
"No, that's not what I mean." Hyperion panicked and asked quickly: "It's just... how can these medicines be so cheap? The cheapest bottle of healing potion made by an alchemist costs forty or fifty coins.
gold!"
Xuan Weizi can understand the shock to Hyperion. The alchemist's potion is actually equivalent to solidifying a healing spell into the potion. Although the combination of various alchemical materials can greatly save the number of spells, but once
There is a limit to the number of potions an alchemist can make per day.
In other words, even if there are enough alchemical materials, there is a limit to the production capacity of healing potions within a certain period of time. The training of an alchemist is not much easier than that of a mage. And forty or fifty gold coins are still the usual price. If there are frequent wars
During this period, the potions made by alchemists must of course be given priority to those participating in the war, not to mention that alchemists may also need to make potions with other beneficial effects, squeezing the production capacity of healing potions.
Faced with Hyperion's problem, Xuan Weizi explained: "The healing potions made by alchemists can provide healing effects on various injuries. Although they are not omnipotent, they can also be adapted to various situations. And our Evergreen Chamber of Commerce
The medicines are more common. They are used according to the severity of the injury, which is equivalent to splitting the functions of the healing potions. Of course, they are cheap if they are the same on their own. At the same time, these ordinary medicines cannot make people recover from injuries and illnesses in an instant like healing potions.
"
In fact, the alchemist's healing potion has very limited uses. First of all, the healing potion needs to be digested and absorbed by the user anyway. Even if it has its own magical effect, it can act on the injured as soon as possible. But if a person is disemboweled, water and food
For seriously injured people who are difficult to enter, treatment potions are also useless. Even a dozen bottles of treatment potions, poured and showered, cannot fully cure the injured, let alone beheading or decapitating them.
However, Xuan Weizi has witnessed the healing miracles of the Holy Lord Church with his own eyes. The healing power is almost comparable to that of "living dead, flesh and bones", which has completely subverted the law of life. It is no wonder that the people of the church claim that this is God's healing power.
Traces. In this regard, the alchemist's potion cannot compare.
"But even so, it's... too cheap!" Hyperion was amazed.
Seeing this, Xuan Weizi added: "This is the cost price of production, and it is the price in a remote place like Chaidui Town. If it is necessary to transport herbal raw materials from elsewhere in the future, or improve the production process, the cost will also be
It keeps rising. Not to mention transporting goods to various places for sale, as well as various customs duties, warehousing, and transaction management... Haha, you must know more about these than me."
In fact, the price Xuan Weizi mentioned before is already profitable, because the production of most of these medicines does not require the ability to cast spells, it is just a simple combination of medicinal materials, and at most it requires more attention to the cooking temperature.
It would be better to say that this world has come to a strange stagnation due to the healing miracles of the Church, the healing spells of the Emerald Circle, the alchemist's potion, and the development of medical technology in the ordinary sense. Even those who have studied various medicines
, more emphasis is placed on the benefits that drugs can bring to the human body, rather than on treatment.
Hyperion immediately thought of various business opportunities in his mind and said: "Dr. Olanso, have you ever thought that these drugs are more suitable for ordinary people with low incomes? For example, in places like Fire Dance City, although there are many
The alchemist's shop, but most civilians can't afford those expensive potions, and the mages in the city are extremely repulsive to church priests. Everyone gets sick and injured, and they die once they can't survive..."
"That's what I think." Xuan Weizi showed a smile. During his inspection in Huowu City, he indeed discovered what Hyperion mentioned. Most civilians have no access to medical treatment. At best, there are only some
Unfashionable doctors walk in the streets and alleys, applying lard, burning flowers and plants to cure diseases, or chewing hemp leaves to relieve pain. As for whether they can cure the patient, it is purely up to God.
This bit of medical technology is even inferior to that of the indigenous people. Even if Sandori does not use soul magic, she at least has herbal medicine technology accumulated over the years. Since the situation is like this, don't blame Xuan Weizi for "seizing the market."
After all, what could be bigger than life and death?
Hyperion, on the other hand, secretly rejoiced there. He had seen too many ordinary people die young due to lack of medical treatment. They were often injured or fell ill due to unexpected reasons, or they borrowed money to buy expensive healing potions.
, or he can't hold on and dies.
Hyperion has personally witnessed the effect of the medicine brought by Xuan Wei Zi. Although it is not as magical as the healing potion, which can quickly heal the injury as soon as you drink it, it is still much better than letting people endure the pain for a long time!
Hyperion could even foresee that these drugs would greatly improve the lives of lower-class residents and rural farmers.
"Doctor Olenso, I have an idea, I wonder if I can share it?" Hyperion asked.
"Just tell me. Now you are a partner of the Changqing Chamber of Commerce. I will also tell the news to other people in the Chamber of Commerce." Xuan Weizi said with a smile.
Hyperion said: "I see that you seem to be taking little Taylor with you to teach medicine. Do you have any plans to open a hospital? Oh! I'm not talking about hospitals opened by the Church's Mercy Hospital in various places, but doctors who are stationed there.
Among them, various cheap medicines are also sold. If a patient comes to seek medical advice, he or she can be treated on the spot... Of course, you can also send doctors to the door for treatment like rich people hire mage consultants, but the charges will be higher.
expensive."
Xuan Weizi thought to himself that this Hyperion could seize business opportunities, so he said: "It's possible, but I don't have that many doctors under my command."
"Then...can we train a group of doctors?" Hyperion added: "Of course, we don't want others to learn from scratch. There are already some wandering doctors in Huowu City. If they are trained intensively, plus the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce,
The medicine is enough to treat ordinary people’s minor injuries and illnesses.”
Xuan Weizi praised this very much. This kind of "barefoot doctor"-like medical power can greatly improve the life and health of people at the bottom.
The "Nei Jing" says, "The upper level of medicine treats pre-existing diseases, the traditional Chinese medicine treats diseases of desire, and the lower level of medicine treats existing diseases." If there were a sufficient number of "barefoot doctors" to solve everyone's ailments and pains, they would not be bedridden.
, a chronic disease that is ineffective for medicine and stone.
"Okay." Xuan Weizi immediately agreed: "It's just that I don't know these wandering doctors, and I don't know where to find them."
"I have a way!" Hyperion volunteered: "The wandering doctors are concentrated next to the necropolis in the outer city. I know some of them. In fact, among these wandering doctors, there are also apprentices who cannot become formal alchemists.
Things should arrive very soon."
"Take this sapphire star emblem card. You can use it to enter and exit the roadblocks, and it can also make these wandering doctors more trustworthy." Xuan Weizi said: "You must not only persuade them to come, but also bring all the medicines you can bring."
bring."
After sending Hyperion away, Xuan Weizi returned to the tent. Now most of the injured have been properly treated. Only some mentally retarded and disabled people are left. If Xuan Weizi hadn't arrived at Can Can Street in time, these people would have been killed.
Facing the sea of fire, death is almost certain.
Rosalian walked into the tent with brisk steps, and saw Xuan Weizi holding down the head of a retarded person with his hand, asking him to talk to him. As the light loomed between Xuan Weizi's fingers, the mentally retarded man could actually speak one after another.
He spoke in complete sentences, and showed a rare smile and moved tears.
"Okay, very good, you need to rest first." Xuan Weizi checked these mentally handicapped people one by one, and then went to the side to pick out the few remaining medicines.
"Ahem~" Rosalian came to Xuan Weizi, squatted down very gracefully and asked: "What were you doing just now? Are you experimenting on others again?"
"Yes, what else?" Xuan Weizi asked, then threw down the medicine jar with some disgust and cursed: "Damn, it's so expensive, why don't you just grab it?"
"What?" Rosalian didn't understand Xuan Weizi's meaningless words.
"Oh, it's nothing. I sent bird scouts to go to the alchemist's shop to check the prices of some medicines. They are surprisingly expensive." Xuan Weizi said unhappily.
Xuan Weizi has recently been able to adjust and control the meridians, move the spirit and Qi, and activate the vitality to cleanse the muscles and bones, but found that it is more difficult than expected. It feels like shoveling snow on a snowy day, and just after cleaning this end, the other end is piled up again.
There is always this stubborn heterogeneity lingering in Xue’s muscles and bones that is difficult to resolve.
This is not to say that there are any foreign objects in Xuan Weizi's body, but rather a body function that is incompatible with his alchemy practice. After in-depth and detailed internal inspection, it turned out to be a trace of blood talent that this body was born with, and it is accumulated in
Deep in the bones.
It's just that this bloodline talent is too deep, and it can't be sensed without refining the muscles and bones. But also because of this, this bloodline talent cannot be used at all, unless Xuan Weizi uses all the vitality of the furnace that he has trained with the foundation of alchemy to activate this.
Bloodline potential.
How could Xuan Weizi do such a thing? Otherwise, wouldn't he be the son of a prince who spends a lot of money to buy a scholar?
The problem now is that Xuan Weizi cannot speed up the process of refining the muscles and bones. Even if the grain furnace cauldron is revitalized, it can only refining the muscles and bones slowly, unless it borrows the power of the external elixir bait to assist.
After spending these days reading books in the library, Xuan Weizi did find a few medicines that met his current needs for refining his muscles and bones, but they were all expensive alchemy materials. If you include the first test to determine the compatibility, it was only once.
The amount taken is not enough.
To put it bluntly, they are poor.
Rosalian stared at Xuan Weizi from the side, and the other party said: "You have something to say."
"Forget about little Taylor, why are you using these people for experiments?" Rosalian looked at the people at the other end of the tent.
"They were originally abandoned by human society. In the eyes of other people, eating more food is a waste of resources."
Newly developed drugs are tried on them. If you are lucky, you can make fools wise and restore lost limbs."
Rosalian was sullen and silent. Xuan Weizi saw her appearance and said with a smile: "What? Seeing that I saved the people in Can Can Street, you thought that my character had changed drastically? But you found out that was not the case and you were disappointed again?
Don't worry, I'm still doing this for myself."
"I don't understand," said Rosaleen.
"People cannot exist apart from reality. This reality includes both the natural environment that you and I rely on, and the social environment." Xuan Weizi said: "Especially after experiencing the wind evil tribulation, I had a profound and direct understanding
, the inner and outer divine energy is connected as one, and all things are in harmony, then all lives are also connected. I value my own life, and I value the lives of all living beings, which are actually connected.
We steal from each other because of our connection. The three talents of heaven, earth and man steal from each other. I and others steal from each other. The so-called stealing from each other is actually taking. I and these disabled people take from each other, but what I get is not intuitive in the eyes of the world.
If you think of this as an act of altruism and benefit to me, and if you think of me as an act of kindness, you are totally wrong."