Datang Happy Landlord

Chapter 824;

Chapter 780;

"Because it was nearby, I went to the pharmacy of Wang Shangshu's house in Xicheng. I followed the prescriptions and caught none of the expensive medicinal materials. A set of medicines cost sixty or seventy dollars. I caught six sets. A total of more than 400 yuan, I think the sixth officer should be able to cure it."

Du Ruhui finished the process of seeing a doctor and the expenses in one breath, then shut his mouth tightly and said nothing.

The entire Golden Palace was completely silent!

After a long time, Fang Xuanling interrupted the calm scene:
"The expenditure of four to five hundred yuan to cure a cold is really not a lot of money for the servants in my court."

As soon as Fang Xuanling finished speaking, the leader Li Shimin pretended to be angry;

"House servant, do you only have the current prime minister in your eyes?"

"Your Majesty forgive me, I haven't finished my sentence yet..."

"Don't talk anymore, I don't want to hear you talk, back down."

"Yes."

Fang Xuanling ate the door shut, pretended to be so wronged, and stood back shaking his head.

Li Shimin was still angry, and continued his performance half-truthfully:
"Four to five hundred dollars is indeed very little to heal the pillars of the imperial court. Even for the seventh and eighth rank officials of the imperial court, four to five hundred dollars is not a big deal.

But for common people, four or five hundred yuan is a huge price, and the annual expenditure of farmers and common people is only this amount. Whose family head is willing to spend more than a year's expenditure on a cold?
I guess with my toes, I know that when people get cold, they just make ginger soup at home, cover them with thick quilts, and just survive like that. As the head of the household department, Changsun Shangshu, you have a lot of contact with the people, farmers, I said Is it accurate? "

"Return to your majesty, what your majesty said is absolutely true. Most of the people's families are not willing to go to the doctor for treatment when they have a cold. To put it bluntly, the people in my dynasty can only eat their stomachs since last year. Before..."

"Let's go on, there is no need to be taboo about discussing state affairs in the hall, anyone can say anything, there is no crime."

"Yes, thank you for your forgiveness. Your majesty, the minister in charge of the household department, knows best in his heart that after your majesty's various superior strategies, the common people can have a safe meal and barely fill their stomachs.

before?hehe!Maybe many people don’t believe it. Every year, many people starve to death. Every year, every year. Your Majesty, that is, last year, your Majesty started to improve farming. He also asked the counties to set up free warehouses and dig wells everywhere. He also taught farmers to build that kind of greenhouses to grow crops. After various means, the common people dared to eat three meals a day and had enough food.

If it weren't for your majesty's means, ha ha!People all over the world are still hungry, so what is the point of seeing a doctor and buying medicine? "

"Okay, it's all in the past, why bring it up? Don't the people now have enough to eat, and they won't starve to death. Changsun Shangshu, just talk about today's things, don't talk about anything else gone."

How could Li Shimin be unhappy when Changsun Wuji brought up his previous achievements in public?
On the surface, he blamed Zhangsun Wuji for talking nonsense, but in his heart he felt so comfortable that he would die!
Changsun Wuji was reprimanded in public, his face didn't blush, and his heart didn't beat:
"Yes, I obey the order. That is to say, this matter of seeing a doctor is also a lice on the bald man's head. It is obvious. Your Majesty, think about it. How many days have you just eaten?

Dare to spend hundreds of dollars to see a doctor and buy medicine?How can the common people have such precious bodies?Leaving aside whether the neighbors are making fun of him, can he come up with four or five hundred dollars?This is the most important thing, please learn from Your Majesty. "

"That's right, what Changsun Shangshu said is true. How can common people give away hundreds of dollars so easily? Even if they can, they won't give up!"

Both the monarch and his subjects were feeling emotional, and suddenly Du Ruhui's voice startled everyone:
"Your Majesty the Emperor."

"Huh? Du Aiqing? If you have something to say, it's okay to say it."

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor."

"I have other things to report. What your Majesty just heard is the process of seeing a doctor. When I went to see a doctor, I met a businessman who also went to see a doctor. He was a merchant from Guanzhong. He was a cloth seller. He also went to the doctor's house for treatment. The minister went to grab the medicine with him."

"Oh? Tell me, Ai Qing, what's wrong with the businessman in Guanzhong? How much did he spend?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the businessman has been taking care of the business from dawn to dusk in the early years. He suffered from back pain and had to go to a doctor for treatment from time to time.
This time, I happened to be met by the minister. I didn't mention where he spent it at the doctor's house. I just said that we went to Wang Shangshu's pharmacy together to get medicine. Small businessmen also dare not seize too good ones, let alone expensive famous herbal medicines.
As for the ones that don’t go up or down, each pair of herbal medicine for back pain is 230 and six dollars, and the monthly supply is seven guan and eighty dollars. Consistent medicinal money.

What I mean by saying this is that a few hundred dollars can cure minor illnesses and minor disasters, but serious illnesses cost thousands of dollars at every turn. When people get serious illnesses, what else can they do but wait for death?

Some serious illnesses even require more than ten thousand dollars to bury the medicine. It’s not nonsense. If you don’t believe it, Your Majesty, you can send people to the major pharmacies to inquire about it. "

"Don't get excited, Aiqing, I believe in you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor."

After Du Ruhui finished speaking, he saluted, and secretly glanced at his old partner. Fang Xuanling understood, and ran out again.

"Your Majesty, the medicine is too expensive and the people are too poor to afford it! This is a big deal!
The people in this world are all your people, your children, you can't just care about the officials of the court, regardless of whether the people live or die, Your Majesty! "

"Who said I don't care? Today I brought up Li County Duke's ideas here to discuss, just to control the people's life and death. Who dares to say that I don't care about the people's life and death? Today I will be the master of the people in the world, and I will never let it go easily. he."

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

The eight important officials from Prince Qin's Mansion, and some small ranks shouted in unison, all with the highest voice.

Some officials from the neutral faction also complied, but those from the opposite faction, every talkative one, saw the flesh on Li Shimin's face twitch again.

Du Ruhui glanced at Changsun Wuji, who raised his brows, but he stood up quickly;
"Your Majesty, I would like to report to Your Majesty that the medicinal materials in the pharmacy are too expensive. You should agree and support Li County Duke's idea to set up a medical center, recruit disciples, teach medical skills, and then cure diseases and save people. Accumulate virtue and do good deeds. Your Majesty's virtues will surely spread forever. Failing, please allow Your Majesty."

Li Shimin was about to take advantage of the quarrel and agree to come down, when several officials from the opposing factions below immediately came over and sang against him;
"Shangsun Shangshu, the medicinal materials in the pharmacy are bought with money, not from the strong wind. Shangshu is sorry for the poor people who can't eat the medicine, so they should go to the medicine seller to clean it up. How did you get involved with the pharmacy?"

"Yes, yes, Changsun Shangshu has put the cart before the horse!"

"Talk about it, isn't it true that you really want to impose a crime?"

"That's right, you can arrest those drug dealers, beheading or exterminating the family, who told them to sell expensive?"

Li Shimin was in a good mood these few days, and he was so angry within an hour, he looked down coldly with a dark face.

Changsun Wuji was not easy to bully, let alone incompetent, so he immediately retorted:
"Colleagues don't need to criticize me, let alone talk eccentrically. Although I didn't intervene in the sale of medicinal materials, I am in charge of the Ministry of Accounting.

As for the matters of money and food in the world, and the affairs of the people, I understand clearly that it is true that medicinal materials dealers sell them at a higher price, but their prices can be barely accepted.

What about your pharmacy?How much did you add to the price before selling it?Do you still want me to speak out? "

"Mr. Su!"

"The next official is here, please give me your instructions."

"Tell your Majesty the tax paid by the drug dealers in Chang'an City this month, and then mention the tax paid by the drug store to make it clear, don't get confused, lest someone Deliberately not being able to settle accounts, talking nonsense again, refusing to admit it!"

"Wei! Respect the book's life."

Changsun Wuji called out that this was not an ordinary person, but Yuanwailang, a special coordinator in the household department who was responsible for recording and collecting taxes.

As for taxation, he is familiar with it. He can recite it backwards without using a book. He is famous for his good memory. That's why he was called out by Changsun Wuji to disrupt the situation. The one who is not afraid of offending people.

"Reporting to His Majesty the Emperor, I am in charge of paying taxes on the import and export of medicinal materials in the four cities and two cities of Chang'an City. Today, I have not brought an accounting book, so I cannot tell the specific tax money and principal of various medicinal materials. The total number of merchants and drugstores, please forgive me."

"Well, you don't have to worry too much, Aiqing. No one can remember the price and cost of importing and exporting hundreds of medicinal materials. It is very rare for you to be able to remember the total number. Aiqing don't need to worry, but just don't talk nonsense about one thing."

"According to the order!"

After Yuanwailang agreed to the emperor, he looked up at the roof, thought for a while, and then said:
"Since Wang Shangshu is talking, let's start with Wang Shangshu's pharmacy."

"Last month, at the time of Guiwei on Geng Yin Day, a drug dealer from the Northeast went to Wang Shangshu's house and sold three kinds of herbal medicines for sixteen guan and 730 yuan. In the ranks, the system of ten taxes and one is used.

Therefore, the tax collected by the household department for this transaction is 670 and [-] qian. I still remember this amount because the drug dealer murmured two gossips while paying the tax, and was written by the people below at the same time. Put it in this book and bring it back. "

"Oh? Which official will go down to take charge? Ai Qing will reward him with some money later. The imperial court needs a lot of serious officials like this!"

"Your Majesty is wise, I will refer to His Majesty's opinion after I go back, and reward him with a hundred dollars as an encouragement, so that my subordinates will follow suit in the future, so that the errands of the household department will definitely be done more accurately."

"Dashan, what are the few gossips written in Aiqing's book?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, this booklet is on the minister's desk. The minister can arrange for someone to hand it over to His Majesty for inspection. What is written in it is that the drug dealer outside the pass sighed,

We worked hard for a year to dig, and then traveled thousands of miles to sell and exchange, and got more than ten guan coins, although it is not a small amount, but compared with your medicine store, it is really a sky and a ground,
You can actually sell four or five hundred guan of medicinal materials, how many people in Chang'an City can afford it? "

"Four or five hundred guan? Huh! Wang Aiqing's drugstore is doing a good job, isn't it?"

Wang Shangshu, who had always voted against Li Yu's plan to open a medical school, glared fiercely at the household official who spoke, and put on a bitter expression;
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the pharmacy of the minister's family is all in charge. The minister is busy with errands, and he has to teach the children and grandchildren of the family to cultivate morality and self-cultivation in order to repay the king's court. It is really neglected to discipline. The minister will investigate and deal with it immediately after returning. If it is such a huge problem The price difference is also a bit unattractive to those drug dealers."

Li Shimin didn't say a word, just looked down coldly.

Changsun Wuji tugged at the clothes of his subordinate officials, who immediately understood;
"Wang Shangshu, you are right in saying that you are not nice to drug dealers. It is really unfair to give a dozen of guan to others for five hundred guan."

Wang Shangshu didn't dare to answer the words indiscriminately, he just lowered his head in thought, for fear that if he said a wrong sentence, these dogs from the Qin Palace would catch him on the spot.

Seeing that a minister was being squeezed out by himself, Yuanwailang from the household department smiled easily;
"The lower officials are very interested in how the common people spend the five hundred guan coins. Minister, there are also some police officers who sprinkle water and sweep the floor in our household department. They are regarded as the people's homes. The lower officials feel that they can't spend five hundred guan. Baiguan’s family property, don’t you think so?”

Seeing that his capable subordinates were getting the limelight, Changsun Wuji answered the words very proudly;
"That's right! I know a lot about the families of the messengers. Let alone five hundred guan, there is no one hundred guan. It is estimated that the hundreds of guan are spent to buy some old ginseng from the Northeast?"

"Shang Shu is very good, he guessed right, it is Shennong who came from the northeast, if the drug dealer bought it, of course he would have to pay a few bucks more, but Shennong sells it by himself, he will only be bullied. "

"Oh, yes, I remember that last year, County Lord Li bought three or five old ginseng to honor His Highness the Queen. Is there such a thing?"

"Returning to Shangshu, yes, it is the fourth time that Mr. Li bought and exchanged old ginseng. Although the goods were not bought and sold in the medicinal material shop, it was Qinghe Cui's shop, which provided a bridge for matchmaking.

For the fourth time, Duke Li gave Her Majesty the Empress a total of four filial old ginseng. The tax money collected by the lower officials was a total of 17 ginseng. According to the system of ten medicinal materials and one tax, the lower officials took back [-] gins. money. "

After Changsun Wuji's subordinates finished speaking, they turned to look at another old man who had been opposing;

"Cui Shizhong, you haven't forgotten the money in and out of your pharmacy, have you?"

Li Shimin has also heard about the fact that the poppy is filial to his mother and doesn't care about money, but he really didn't expect to spend 17 silver coins to buy an old ginseng. While agreeing with Li Yu, he felt sorry for spending too much. It is astonishing to think about the profits of medicinal materials, no wonder that rascal has to intervene in it...

(End of this chapter)