After Cao Yixuan and Wei Man went to settle down, Zhou Man looked at Zheng Gu, "You came here alone?"
"No, there is my wife."
Zhou Man nodded, "I had someone tidy up the guest room, don't stay in the inn, stay at home."
Zheng Gu responded with a smile, and Zhou Man then asked, "Is everything alright in the capital?"
Zheng Gu said: "When I came out, the imperial medical department had already selected a place in Yongzhou to build a medicine workshop, and the East Palace had allocated a piece of land in Huangzhuang to build a medicine workshop. The distance between the two places is not very far. It means that after graduating from the pharmacy department, students can choose to go to various medical offices to make classic medicines, or go to the pharmacy of the Imperial Medical Office, or go to the pharmacy of the Eastern Palace.”
Zhou Man tilted his head in doubt, "The pharmacy belongs to the East Palace? Isn't it the royal family's?"
Zheng Gu smiled slightly and said: "When my uncle said that the pharmacy was just about to open, several princes and county kings came up to His Majesty and wanted to accept this job. Your Majesty was in a dilemma and couldn't make a decision for a while, so he simply pretended to be deaf and dumb and pushed him to do it." I don't know this matter, it was all done by the prince alone, so now the pharmacy is under the name of the East Palace."
"But that's the case, but all the ministers in the court and the people in the royal family know that it is what His Majesty meant." Zheng Gu said: "Penicillin is very expensive. Now this medicine is not easy to produce, and sometimes the pharmaceutical workers are not good at it. All the furnace medicines will be destroyed. Except in the military, only hospitals will keep some in case of emergencies.”
He said: "But you also said that this medicine is not suitable for some people, so we will not prescribe it unless it is necessary. Some adults, especially generals who will go to the battlefield, always want to take some with them, So I have been trying to find a way to buy it, and the price of the medicine has been skyrocketed in private, almost the same price as ginseng."
But ginseng needs decades, hundreds of years of planting, and people have to discover and dig it. Among other things, the cost of time alone is not low, so its high price is a matter of course.
Penicillin…
The cost of this thing is far less than ginseng, and the price the Tai Hospital gave to the military is not very high, after all, it is intended for ordinary soldiers to use it.
But this thing changed one hand, two hands, and it turned out to be a sky-high price. Benefits touch people's hearts, that's why so many people want to get involved.
The pharmacy of the Tai Medical Department is run by themselves, and the pharmacists used are their own students and apprentices. The sales can also be directly connected with the Ministry of War, local medical offices, and medical pharmacies, and no outsiders are needed at all.
So everyone was staring at the pharmacy under the crown prince.
"Except for the pharmacy, it is the master's book." Zheng Gu is not qualified to go to the court, he still heard what his uncle said, and Zhou Man's book caused an uproar in the court, and there were discussions in the Imperial Medical Office and the Imperial Hospital, so It's not hard for him to know.
"Most of the courtiers in the court agreed with your suggestion, Master, that the medical offices of each prefecture provide products and govern the medical offices of each county, but some people opposed it," Zheng Gu said: "Those who support it think that with the pharmacy, the imperial medical office will be able to With continuous income, coupled with the support from the national treasury and His Majesty's internal treasury, the Tai Medical Department can continue to operate for a long time."
"Those who oppose it think that this is not a long-term solution. The cost of the local medical department is too high, and it is inevitable that some people will forge their household registration in order to deceive doctors in the future, and even change the registered household to the registered household, and the suspended household to become the registered household."
Zhou Man twitched the corner of his mouth, snorted and asked, "How did Xiao Yuanzheng answer them?"
Xiao Yuanzheng couldn't get in the way at all, and the two of them got into a quarrel.
Zhou Man groaned: "Next time you write to Xiao Yuanzheng, remember to tell him. If someone still says that, you can ask him to ask. Could it be that the officials of the county government, Yushitai, and Dali Temple are all vegetarians? Is it?"
If you change from going up to down, you can catch one if you come, and if you come to a pair, you will be fined a pair, so that you can really change from going up to down. See if they still cheat
Zheng Gu scratched his head, "Master, you are about to give birth, so don't be angry."
"I'm not angry," Zhou Man waved his hand and asked, "Is there anything else?"
Zheng Gu hesitated for a moment and then said: "Master Wei is sick, but before I came, he was able to go to court, I saw his face, he was a little bad, I asked my uncle, but he didn't allow me to inquire, too. We also confiscated Mr. Wei's pulse case, and no one is allowed to look it up."
He remembered that Master and Master Wei had a good relationship, and Master Wei was also one of the ones who strongly supported the matter of the local medical department's appointment this time, so he felt that he should tell Master.
Zhou Man froze for a moment, then fell silent.
Wei Zhi's health is very bad. If she didn't have the pills she gave, she might not have survived the end of the Liaodong War the year before last.
Seeing her silent, Zheng Gu also fell silent.
After a while, she came back to her senses and asked, "Is there any more?"
Zheng Gu smiled and said: "The rest is our private matter, Master, Xiao Yuan is letting the third junior brother go to the pharmacy. If there is no accident, he will be in charge of the pharmacy in the future."
Zhou Man was surprised, "Zheng Shao is young, and he has only practiced for two years. Can Xiao Yuan feel relieved?"
He smiled and nodded and said: "He is slightly inferior in pulse diagnosis and prescription, but he has a much deeper understanding of medicine than us. His penicillin production has the highest success rate. We have tested it and the medicine is also the best. , the most stable, so Xiao Yuanzheng chose him."
Zhou Man nodded slightly, "When he was in the imperial medical office, he learned the best in pharmacy, and he made better medicines than you."
Zhou Man asked, "Where are Liru and Sanniang? What happened to them?"
They are so nice!
Now there are quite a few female doctors in Beijing Middle School. A batch of them graduated last year. In addition to a few in the Taiyuan Hospital, two female doctors were admitted to the Chang'an County Medical Department. But because Liu Sanniang and Zhou Liru are Zhou Man's disciples, they are more Be welcome.
Facts have also proved that their medical skills are better.
Therefore, the female relatives of the rich and powerful families in Beijing like to invite them when they are sick.
Those who are qualified can invite them from the imperial hospital, which is fast and cheap; those who are not qualified to invite imperial physicians can invite them privately...
Zheng Gu recalled the lively scene in the imperial hospital last time when he saw various families inviting them, and sighed: "Compared to us male imperial physicians, they are so popular."
Zhou Man nodded in satisfaction. What she fears the most is that female doctors will be excluded in the capital. At that time, it will be difficult for the Imperial Medical Office to recruit female students.
The master and apprentice gossiped for a while, and then went to eat dinner when they were called outside, and then Zheng Gu asked people to bring out the things entrusted to him by various families in the capital.
Zhou Man was stunned for a while, "It's strange, didn't the family entrust someone from the palace to bring me something? Why are there still here?"
Zheng Gu thought for a while and said: "I want to tell them ten days before I go out. I got the things two days in advance. The people in the palace went later than us. It was a temporary departure. We met on the road and left together. Maybe it was cleaned up later?"
Zhou Man asked people to open the box to see what it was, and found that there were all kinds of children's clothes, shoes, and even diapers.
She was dumbfounded, "I can tell, it really took time to prepare carefully."