The queen was meeting with some elderly imperial wives, Changyu sat with her for a while, she was really bored, so she gave Mingda a wink.
Mingda still has a goal that has not been achieved, so he is not willing to leave, but pretends that he cannot see it.
Changyu had no choice but to sit for a while longer, but she couldn't sit any longer, and if she sat 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 in, and Changyu felt refreshed. She let out a breath, and turned around to go back to her bedroom.
The palace maid held her back, "Princess, the officials and orders are almost finished coming in, and the empress will pass by in a while, you have to go back to the bedroom now, and you won't be able to come here in time."
She said: "If you are not energetic, you might as well go to Wude Hall and talk to people to refresh yourself."
Changyu said boredly: "Well, I don't know if Zhou Man has come in."
When Zhou Man was mentioned, Chang Yu managed to regain his energy, "Let's go, let's find Zhou Man."
Man Bao was also looking for them, all the way from Wude Hall, the two met on the palace road, and immediately rushed towards each other happily.
Man Bao held hands with her and said, "I'm going to find you now."
One said: "What is the empress doing now?"
Changyu was curious when he heard the words, "What are you doing looking for the queen mother?"
"It's a big deal," Man Bao asked, "I heard you said that your majesty is going to raise money for our imperial medical office to buy medicinal materials?"
Changyu: "...Did I say it? I only heard from my mother that it was for the military funds for this expedition. There are many people from your Imperial Medical Office who follow you. It must be your share. What's wrong?"
Man Bao asked: "Is there a lot of money?"
Chang Yu thought for a while and said, "It's quite a lot. I gave eight ten taels of silver ingots to me alone, and a lot of jewelry. They're worth seven or eighty taels anyway."
She said: "Mingda gave few jewelry, but gave a lot of cash, the total price is one or two hundred taels."
Man Bao was very pleasantly surprised. If the palace was willing to give them all the money to the Tai Medical Office to prepare medicinal materials and medical equipment, it might be more than the five million allocated to them by the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Man Bao cheered up, and led Changyu to the harem, she said: "I haven't greeted the empress yet, let's go, let's greet the empress."
She decided to get the moon first.
Chang Yu didn't think much of it, so he settled his feet, but Zhou Man was so strong that he dragged her away, "Hurry up, hurry up, don't delay me to greet my mother."
Chang Yu said: "There are all Mrs. Zhao Guogong, the old lady of the Yin family and other old orders. They are not talking about sons, or talking about grandsons. We can't get in the way when we go there."
Man Bao said: "This time, His Majesty will bring Lord Yin along with you."
So they can still speak, they have a common language.
Changyu: "..."
With Chang Yu leading them, they entered the main hall directly, and everyone was talking hotly.
Man Bao pricked up his ears and heard what they were saying, "Princess benevolent heart"
"This was originally done by us. If we can share the worries of Your Majesty and Your Majesty, it will be our good fortune."
The two were about to sneak in quietly, when the smiling queen who sat on it had a panoramic view of the situation in the hall.
Naturally, she also saw the two sneaking around, so she smiled and said: "Madams understand the righteousness, I am very pleased, it just so happens that Zhou Qing is also here, Zhou Qing, what do you think about this matter?"
Man Bao and Chang Yu, who had only slipped half way, froze.
Chang Yu adhered to the principle that a dead fellow would not die a poor one, broke free from Zhou Man's hand, walked back to his seat dignifiedly and sat down.
Yes, what do you think
Chang Yu thought to himself: What does God think, they just came in from the outside, and they don't know what they said before, how can they see it
Man Bao raised his head and smiled, and when Chang was about to play tricks, Ming Da also raised his head and smiled, and said cheerfully: "Queen Mother, she is naturally the happiest, although the money donated is for the soldiers, but in the end They are under the control of the Medical Administration."
"She is an imperial physician, and she has enough medicinal materials to save lives, will she be unhappy?"
Man Bao's eyes lit up, he swallowed the shameless words, nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, yes, yes, I am very happy."
The queen took a look at Mingda, smiled slightly, and said: "Zhou Qing is a person who is superior, and she should know better than us backyard girls. This year, many places are not doing well. Before the autumn harvest, His Majesty has reduced or exempted several places. Taxes, so the national treasury is not considered abundant. The concubines in the harem yesterday, as well as the princes and children, donated some money for military funds. It is not a lot of money, but if it accumulates, it will help His Majesty and the adults solve some small problems. "
Man Bao nodded approvingly, suppressed his excitement and said: "For example, buy medicinal materials, gauze and linen lamps for bandaging for our imperial medical office, not to mention the generosity of the empress and wives, even a penny can buy hemostatic medicine This is a great merit for saving lives, Zhou Man is here to thank the empress and wives on behalf of the soldiers."
The wives who were lured by Princess Mingda to donate money were still a little bit reluctant and unwilling, 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 the old wives and wives who had people at home even chanted gods or Buddhas in their hearts, and only hoped that God would bless them for their pious return, if...
The money donated this time will also be used on them.
Although in their identities, if they are really injured, there will be no medicine, but they still have to comfort themselves in their hearts.
If the Tai Medical Office has enough money, maybe it will buy better medicines, and if you really need to take medicine accidentally, the difference between the one hundred copper coins and one penny is still quite big.
Thinking about it this way, the old lady couldn't help but ask: "Master Zhou, have you prepared all the medicines in your imperial hospital?"
The lady who had her family on the expedition immediately pricked up her ears to listen.
Man Bao smiled and said: "No, the Ministry of Households is only willing to give a budget of 5 million, but there are 100,000 soldiers in this expedition, and counting the pro-military troops that His Majesty wants to take away, there must be 120,000. "
Man Bao sighed and said, "In other words, not counting the handymen and the logistics soldiers who transported supplies, the money for wound medicine for those fighting on the front line is only in the early 40s, which is at least three months' worth of medicine money. Woolen cloth."
Forty Wen is enough to grab two pairs of hemostatic medicine, which is the cheapest one.
If it is more serious, the price of a pair of medicines will be more than that.
The other old ladies don't know the price of the medicine, but they are not stupid. If it's the twelfth lunar month of winter, and they need to pay forty wen for the medicine materials for three months, isn't that going to send people to death
Everyone glanced at Mrs. Liu Shangshu, with some dissatisfaction in their eyes.
Mrs. Liu Shangshu: …
It's really sitting honestly, and disaster falls from the sky.
Mrs. Liu Shangshu glanced at Zhou Man and said nothing.