Both the officialdom and the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River were severely injured. The Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Dali Temple firstly wanted to avoid a backlog of cases until next year, and secondly, for the sake of performance, so they rushed to close the case before the end of the year, and many people were exiled and beheaded. a paragraph.
The officialdom in Jiangnan fell silent, and it seemed that Yang Heshu's stay in Jiangnan went smoothly, and the investigation of the salt tax also went smoothly.
The Longchi Wharf in Beihai County is also open to navigation before the Chinese New Year.
Zhou Man was very curious and ran to join in the fun, and brought his sister-in-law and mother-in-law along by the way.
A group of people stood by the sea, blowing the cold wind, staring blankly at the simple pier, "This, this is navigable?"
Bai Shan closed his mouth and made amends for Master Cui: "Even if only one ship can be parked, it is still navigable."
He turned to look for Cui Wei, "Master Cui, am I right?"
Master Cui gave him a sideways glance, and said with some displeasure: "It's not fully completed, but it's not enough to stop a ship."
He nodded on the sea and said: "There, there, and those two sides, there are a total of four berths. We have calculated that medium-sized and small-sized sea ships can berth now. As for large ships, we have to wait. Wait."
Bai Shan narrowed his eyes and looked at it, and couldn't help but walk up to the pier to have a look.
Zhou Man raised his foot and followed, not forgetting to turn his head and say to Ming Da: "The wind is too strong and it's cold, otherwise you should not go."
Mingda gathered his cloak, "I don't feel cold."
So everyone followed suit.
The part of the pier that has been built extends all the way to the sea. It has a total of four forward roads. It is low tide at this time, so the sea water does not look deep, but when the waves hit it, it still makes people who have never seen the sea think tremble with fear.
Zheng Shi and Xiao Qian Shi followed Zhou Man closely, but when they raised their eyes to look at the endless sea, another sense of pride rose in their chests.
Master Cui led them to the front, "Master Bai can take a look at the depth of the water. Generally, the draft of small and medium-sized sea ships is not deep, and this position is enough to stop."
He pointed to the place under construction in the distance and said, "That's where the big ships will be moored."
He praised: "Longchi is indeed a natural wharf. I have been to Laizhou Wharf. This one is not worse than Laizhou Wharf. Moreover, we will directly draw such a large area for construction. As long as the adults give me enough people and stuff, I can definitely build a big pier!"
Master Cui is very ambitious now, and the part that has been built now is only one-tenth of the part of the pier. If all can be built according to his blueprint...
Bai Shan also thought about it, he calculated the county government's finances in his mind, and felt that he should get in touch with the emperor and Liu Shangshu.
The Chinese New Year is approaching, and it is time for local governments and household departments to prepare their budgets for next year.
Zhou Man stared blankly, and murmured: "I want to vaccinate next year, and I also want to build the remaining local medical department, and then I will upgrade it to the state medical department..."
These all cost money, and it cost a lot.
The couple looked at each other, and finally worried about the treasury and the emperor's purse.
In addition to them, water conservancy projects across the country, especially the Yellow River and Yangtze River, may also be dredged or embanked this year, and the Ministry of War and other ministries will also spend a lot, which must be quite a lot.
Zhou Man remembered something, and exclaimed, "The Ministry of War wants to buy medicine from our Imperial Medical Office, and it must cost a lot."
So there are more and more places to spend money, but income...
Master Cui immediately looked at Bai Shan with urgent eyes, "Master Bai, you won't tell me that you have no money, will you?"
He paid a lot for this pier. He squatted here for a long time just for measuring, and his hair was dried by the sea breeze.
Bai Shan quickly said: "Lord Cui, just build with peace of mind, you don't need to worry about money."
Master Cui breathed a sigh of relief, then pointed to their rear and asked, "The houses and streets behind the pier..."
Bai Shandao: "I'll figure out a way, sir, just build the wharf with peace of mind."
Master Cui raised his eyebrows.
Bai Shandao: "However, sir, please give me the construction plans of the streets and houses, so that I can order people to build them in a unified manner."
Master Cui frowned, "Start building now?"
Bai Shan said with a smile: "Of course it's not good to delay the farming season. The soil can be broken after the busy farming in the spring of next year."
Master Cui breathed a sigh of relief, he was worried that Bai Shan would rob him.
Bai Shan stared at the large open space behind him and thought, where can he find someone in such a large space
Zhou Man is also thinking, where should the local medical department make money
Even if one day the treasury and His Majesty's prince stop giving money, the Tai Medical Office should be able to rely on itself to support it.
Both husband and wife were in the mood to look at the scenery, and they lowered their eyes and began to think hard.
Zheng Shi and the others didn't have this trouble. They stepped on the sand on the beach to play after they got off the pier. Unfortunately, it was too cold to take off their shoes and socks, otherwise it would be fun to step on the sand with bare feet.
Yin Jue seemed to know what they were worrying about, turned his head and said to Zhou Man: "The off-the-shelf medicine that your medical department is making now is good. I heard from Mr. Qian that the medicine you just sent out made a lot of money, especially the penicillin. drug."
Bai Shan asked curiously: "Is the account even? How about the income and expenditure?"
Zhou Man said: "If you look at the income and expenditure in these few months, the income is more than the expenditure, but if you look at the whole year, the income does not cover the expenditure, and there is also the Qingzhou City Medical Department, because Doctor Tian and the others are all there. Beihai County, so the foreign patent medicine orders are all made by us."
Naturally, the income also goes to the accounts of the Beihai County Medical Department.
Yin Fu was still frowning, but Bai Shan looked at Zhou Man's face and asked, "Do you want to see a doctor and collect money?"
Zhou Man nodded again, but shook his head again.
Bai Erlang, who was watching, couldn't help asking, "Is this to be accepted or not? But it was confiscated before. If I accept it now, will I be stoned?"
Bai Shan nodded and also looked at Zhou Man.
"The most important thing about the medical department is to deal with the poor," Zhou Man said, "it is semi-public in nature when it was established, so the purpose is to allow patients who can't afford to see a doctor to treat their diseases. For the time being, they still don't charge for it. Even if they charge in the future, the imperial physician The department should also charge according to the medicinal materials, for example, some medicinal materials are fixed free, some medicinal materials can be half free, and some are charged according to the original price."
Zhou Man waved his hands and sighed: "This is just my preliminary idea, and I don't know what will happen in the future."
Bai Shan pondered: "The income of the finished medicine is very important..."
His eyes were deep, "We'll see after next year's fall."
Yin asked curiously, "What about autumn?"
Bai Shan: "The harvest of grain after autumn."
Yin or didn't quite understand what this had to do with the medical department, and was about to ask again, when Mrs. Zheng exclaimed, and everyone immediately turned their heads to look, and saw her and Mrs. Qian holding hands, their feet and trouser legs were washed up by the waves. The paw was wet, but Xiaoqian's right hand was still holding a big crab, Zheng screamed from the side, stretched out his hand to help catch it and looked scared.