Man Bao ran back to the Chongwen Hall, Xiao Yuanzheng and the others were checking the list, seeing that Zhou Man was so leisurely, he couldn't help asking her with a straight face: "Physician Zhou, have you finished the list you are in charge of?"
"It's done." Man Bao turned out the list she had written and showed them.
Everyone: ... so fast, obviously the same workload.
Man Bao pressed the list on the table, dragged a chair and sat beside Xiao Yuanzheng who was busy, and smiled at him with his face propped up.
Xiao Yuan was feeling cold, he was writing, but he still turned his back to avoid her eyes.
Man Bao said courteously: "Xiao Yuanzheng, do you want me to write for you?"
Xiao Yuanzheng originally wanted to push the work at hand to her, but seeing her like this, he immediately shook his head, expressing that he could do it without her help.
Man Bao was also disappointed.
She looked up and saw that everyone was looking at her intentionally or unintentionally, so she felt that this was not the place to talk, so she said to Xiao Yuanzheng, "Xiao Yuanzheng, why don't we go out and talk?"
Xiao Yuanzheng said with a serious and impartial face: "If you have anything to say, you can say it here, we have nothing to say to others."
"Having said that, but the matter is not yet decided, I don't want too many people to hear," Man Bao lowered his voice and said in a low voice: "I just came back from the empress's place."
Xiao Yuanzheng really wanted to maintain his uprightness, but he really wanted to know what Zhou Man was doing with the queen again.
After struggling for a while, he still sighed and put down his pen, got up and went out with her.
So having a subordinate who is as old as his youngest daughter and granddaughter is really not a good thing, especially this subordinate is very popular with his immediate superior, and it is even more annoying that many things can be discussed with his immediate superior.
He followed Man Bao outside, sighed and asked, "Tell me, what's the matter."
Man Bao then told Xiao Yuanzheng exactly what the queen had discussed with her, and she said, "Didn't the household department not approve the drug list we listed earlier?"
Xiao Yuanzheng: "They feel that it is a waste of money to give students such expensive medicines for teaching. Even if I say that these medicines can be used repeatedly for teaching, they will not agree to buy them."
Man Bao: "That's why our medical department has to have a small treasury of our own, so that we can buy the slips that are not approved by the household department."
Xiao Yuanzheng frowned, "You mean getting money from those adults' homes?"
Man Bao nodded, "They want a private doctor, so we just train them and give them money."
Xiao Yuanzheng frowned and said: "In this way, wouldn't the skill be passed on?"
"Oh, what time is this? Do you still think that your skills will not be passed on to the outside world?" Man Bao said, "Don't forget, there are also doctors from Fanbang in the Imperial Medical Office. After they finish their studies, they will return to their own country and the Tribal people, are you afraid that those people sent by the family will learn medical skills?"
Xiao Yuanzheng thought about it, too, to stop it, obviously he couldn't stop it, at most he would just leave his housekeeping skills and not teach others.
Man Bao was still chattering, "... I think Mr. is right, you just care too much about the housekeeping skills, like me, I don't care."
Xiao Yuan raised his eyelids to look at her, and let out a barely audible hum.
Man Bao didn't notice it, and continued: "It's like the fire of life in ancient times. The first person to know the benefits of fire, if he hides it and doesn't tell anyone, what's the use if he knows it by himself? We can only wait for the fire from the sky to save the fire, but he told others, and after many people know, when the fire from the sky goes out one day, someone came up with a way to make fire by drilling wood... "
Xiao Yuanzheng couldn't understand what Zhou Man was saying at all, so he could only watch her mouth open and close in a daze. , then he may only have this method throughout his life, and once he dies, no one will know this method, and I don’t know how many years it will take for another person to figure out this method.”
"But he told others that this method can be passed down, and then the next person may discover flint and steel at some point. It is thanks to these ancestors one after another that we now have flint and fire that can be used to make fire at any time. Zhezi." Man Bao finally finished the foreshadowing, and then gave the result, "So the medical skills are the same, we can teach each other with all our money, and we can teach powerful disciples. We can also think about studying the heights we haven't reached, one by one, one generation after another, and we will always develop more powerful medical skills than we have now."
This is what she came up with after briefly studying the history of medical development with Teacher Mo recently. She was once puzzled why the medical skills of Teacher Mo and their era were so good
In the past, she had only studied the development history and evolution history of ancient Chinese medicine. This was the first time she had come into contact with the development history of general medicine, so she knew that they were still too narrow-minded.
The narrow-minded Xiao Yuanzheng couldn't understand Man Bao's words, so he asked in a daze, "What kind of sky fire, what kind of fire is made by drilling wood?"
Man Bao: "... Haven't you read the history books? It is said that ancient humans first learned to use fire because of the sky fire."
Xiao Yuanzheng: "... I'm not a historian, why should I, a doctor, study such ancient history? And which history book is this written in, why haven't I heard of it?"
Man Bao scratched her head. Could it be that she had misremembered and mixed the history books produced by the Encyclopedia with the history books of this world
She will never admit it!
Man Bao said: "I don't remember, anyway, there is. No, this is not a problem. Shouldn't you be thinking about whether what I said makes sense?"
Xiao Yuan was waving directly, "Okay, we are talking about collecting money, it has nothing to do with this matter, you said you want to give ten places to those aristocratic families and dignitaries?"
Well, Man Bao can only change the topic in cooperation, thinking about the most important thing at the moment, she nodded and said: "Yes, all the money earned will be put in the Imperial Medical Office."
Xiao Yuanzheng asked, "How do you collect this money?"
Man Bao stared at him with wide eyes, Man Bao had no experience, and Xiao Yuanzheng certainly had no experience.
The two stared at each other for a while, and then Man Bao said loudly, "One hundred taels a year for each person!"
Xiao Yuanzheng: "...Are you dreaming? Who is willing to pay so much money to train a servant?"
Man Bao: "Then how much do you say?"
Xiao Yuanzheng stroked his beard and said, "Half, fifty taels?"
That's a lot, and you can buy a lot of medicinal materials.
Man Bao frowned and said, "How many years have you studied?"
In eight years, four hundred and two taels would be enough for a family of five to live a prosperous life, and it seemed like a lot.
Xiao Yuanzheng was also thinking, "What they want is a female doctor, and they probably want to specialize in women's diseases. At that time, most of them will be taught by you, so how many years do you want to teach?"