The daily life of Dali Siqing

Chapter 787
Jinling is a large commercial city in the south, and the value of goods is in circulation, but also because of this, it is determined that the people in the city will not have too much food in storage.

Including the big families in the city, the rich people are more pursuing the quality of life, and most of the food in the family is purchased.

Only some local prominent families who have a large number of fields outside Jinling City will use the grain produced by themselves.However, these grains are usually stored in storage outside the city and brought into the home on a regular basis.

Now that Jinling City has been ordered to be sealed off, the circulation of goods has been cut off at once.

Food and medicinal materials immediately became a problem.

There is still a solution to the problem of food. When Jinling was the old capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the imperial court once built Ying Tiancang in Jinling City, and the food stored in it was enough for the people of Jinling City to use for several months.

But there is no way for medicinal materials!

Although there are some medicinal materials in the Six Diseases Hall of Jinling Mansion, compared with the 20 patients, and the number is still increasing, the little medicine in the Six Diseases Hall is not enough to make soup...

Just as Yang Qingyuan and others were planning, the number of infected people from yesterday arrived.

"Another 10 people?!"

Yang Qingyuan looked at the statistics table sent in disbelief.

Of course, this is only an approximate figure, and Dazhou's administrative capacity is not enough to fully count the number of infected people.

Then Yang Qingyuan felt slightly surprised. The infected people all lived in the east of the city, and most of them were ordinary people.

It stands to reason that although the people of the rich merchants' families in ancient times did not have delicacies from mountains and seas and rich nutrition, they lacked exercise and exercise on weekdays, and their own immunity was not strong.

On the contrary, ordinary people in the city can own a house in Jinling City. Even ordinary one-story houses, these people are above the level of well-off people, and they don’t have to worry about food and clothing. Exercise, the quality of the body is better.

But now, these ordinary people are the ones who are infected with many diseases. Could it be that this plague also depends on people's food? !

Not thinking about this matter for a while, Yang Qingyuan simply stopped thinking about it. The most important thing now is to get the medicinal herbs.

Xue Wen heard the words and said, "Yang Hou, the medicinal materials in Jinling Mansion and its surrounding areas are controlled by Chen You, Wang Jie, Lu Zhe, and Liu Shi. They almost monopolize nearly [-]% of the medicinal materials in Yangzhou."

"These four are local giants?!"

"No, that's not the case!" Although Xue Wen took office not long ago, he was originally the governor of Gusu, and his ancestral home was in Jinling, so he knew the time of Jinling very well.

"None of these four families can be regarded as local prominent families. Among them, Chen and Wang are natives of Jiangnan, while Lu Zhe and Liu Shi are related to Fan Yang's Lu family, and the other is a branch of the Liu family in Guanzhong. Back then, the Taizu launched an army to attack Qiang in the north. Yuan, when the world was in turmoil, the four of them were considered to be people of some family background, so they took advantage of the troubled times to gather some thugs to protect the courtyard and make a living by smuggling medicinal materials. In the troubled times, the price of medicinal herbs was high, and they quickly made a fortune.

After Emperor Taizu Gao unified the world, the four gave up smuggling, and opened a pharmacy in Jiangnan in an open and honest manner, doing legitimate medicinal material business.At first the four of them competed with each other, but gradually they formed an alliance and joined forces to suppress other merchants.

At the beginning, they took all those who robbed them of their business, some of them were incorporated by them, some left after they fell down, and some disappeared... So gradually no one in Jinling City competed with them, and the business became more and more prosperous... "

Yang Qingyuan rubbed the folding fan in his hand, "It seems that if you want to get a large amount of medicinal materials, you have to start with them."

Xue Wen reminded, "However, Lord Hou, you still have to be prepared. They are the kind of businessmen who are treacherous to the bone, and they regard money as their life. It is not easy to pluck hair from them." Things. Now that Jinling is suffering from a major epidemic, with their methods, they will definitely increase the price of the inventory, and make the country suffer a lot!"

An inexplicable color flashed in Yang Qingyuan's eyes, "We have been enemies since ancient times. Although the four of them are in an alliance, what is the real relationship? Who is the boss among them?!"

"Lu Che is the most powerful, and he has the most nursing homes under his command, the first of the four."

Yang Qingyuan nodded to show that he understood, and then said to Xue Wen, "Chongwen, I'm going to prepare the medicinal materials, and you will personally supervise a few things tomorrow! First, from tomorrow onwards, everyone's drinking water must be boiled before entering the mouth."

"Yes!"

"Second, all the food eaten by the infected patient's family is sealed and sold, and samples are taken one by one, and handed over to the doctor for inspection!"

Xue Wen was stunned for a moment, "Master Hou, why is this?!"

Yang Qingyuan looked deeply, "As far as I know, there is no epidemic that can infect 30 people madly within a few days, absolutely none."

The change in the speed of epidemic disease transmission is measurable, and it should change from slow to fast when there is no huge variation.

That is to say, one pass to ten, ten to a hundred, one hundred to a thousand... is an exponential upward trend.

Even the most astonishingly contagious and terrifying Black Death, cholera, could not infect 30 people in the first few days.

This speed of propagation is unreasonable!
There must be something that induced the disease of these people.

"My lord said so, do you have evidence?!"

Yang Qingyuan's words are not surprising.

"The best proof is that Mr. Xue, you can still stand in front of me. Assuming that the epidemic can really spread at a speed of infecting 30 people in six days, Chongwen, you should have been one of them long ago."

Xue Wen was stunned for a moment, although he didn't understand the reason, but he felt that Yang Qingyuan's words were convincing, and he must be sure, and he was a Shangguan, so he didn't say much, and he did it right!

"By the way, Chongwen, where did Mao Gong go?!"

Yang Qingyuan hadn't seen Yang Guo since he entered Jinling, but the official document was clearly issued jointly by Yang Guo and Xue Wen.

"Master Xiao Yang went to the station of the East China Sea Division in Jinling. I heard that there are also sick people in the army, and the morale of the army is not stable. Therefore, Master Yang personally led people to appease the morale of the army, and at the same time commanded the epidemic prevention."

Yang Guo is Yangzhou Propaganda Envoy, if necessary, he can even take over the military power of Yangzhou temporarily. Now that there is a problem in the army, he will naturally go there immediately.

Yang Qingyuan nodded, and asked someone to send the general strategy. As long as Yang Guo can act according to his epidemic prevention strategy, although he can't completely cut off the spread of the epidemic, it is not difficult to control it.

After confirming the division of labor, Yang Qingyuan came to the branch of the Six Doors in Jinling.

If a workman wants to be good, he must first sharpen his weapon.

Yang Qingyuan still wanted to look for the files of the Chen, Wang, Lu, and Liu families.

Even if you want to do it, you have to have a legitimate reason.

Soon, a head-hunter from the Jinling Six-Fanmen branch found the case files of these four families.

These four families belong to the gray area in Jinling, and they have also received the attention of the Jinling Six Doors branch.

Yang Qingyuan sat in front of the desk and quickly flipped through the files of these four families.

But as Yang Qingyuan expected, they have been enemies since ancient times.

Chen You, Wang Jie, Lu Zhe, and Liu Shi would have some conflicts with each other from time to time, but as long as someone intends to get involved in Yangzhou's medicinal material industry, they will work together to suppress them until they are included. Or drive out of Yangzhou.

That's why, apart from them, there are no big drug dealers in Yangzhou.

The remaining [-]% ​​of the medicinal material market is occupied by other scattered pharmacies.

Among the four, Chen You was the oldest, followed by Wang Jie, Lu Zhe again, and Liu Shi the youngest.But Lu Che is the most intelligent and ruthless, and he is the brain and leader of the four of them. All the ideas among the four of them are decided by him, and he is better than the other four in terms of wealth.

Seeing the smile on Yang Qingyuan's face, Liu Wangshu knew that Yang Qingyuan knew the details of the four of them.

As for whether Yang Qingyuan could deal with the four of them, this was completely beyond the scope of Liu Wangshu's worries.

No matter how talented Lu Che is, how is he better than Li Hongyi, the former Grand Master of Jianji Temple? !
No matter how hot his methods are, how is it compared to Zhao Yu, the leader of the Azure Dragon Society? !
Yang Qingyuan looked up at the head catcher at the six gates of Jinling, "Boss head Li, there is something I need to trouble you for!"

Yang Qingyuan has not yet received the imperial edict, and he is only acting here as a prince and junior teacher, and has no direct administrative power over officials at all levels in Jinling, relying entirely on his own prestige.

"Your Majesty, this is really pissing me off. If you have anything to say, just tell me. The villain will definitely do his best."

"It's not a big deal, I just want to ask Li Butou to send an invitation to these four people. Just say that at noon tomorrow, I will host a banquet for the four of them at Jiangning No. [-] Restaurant."

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Jiangning County is a county under the jurisdiction of Jinling Prefecture. It is located to the west of Jinling City. It is also the mother county of Jinling along with Shangyuan County.

The canal also passes through Jiangning, so although Jiangning County cannot be compared with Jinling Prefecture, its prosperity is not far behind Jingzhou, Chuzhou, Jiaozhou and other prefectures.

Jiang Ning, Lu Zhai.

After receiving Yang Qingyuan's invitation, Lu Che immediately invited the other three brothers over.

Lu Che looked at his three brothers and smiled modestly, then took the invitation from Yang Qingyuan in his hand and said, "Brother Chen, Second Brother Wang, and Fourth Brother Liu, you all should have received the invitation from Yang Qingyuan like me, right? "

These four people are still brothers in name, staged a scene of brothers and sisters respecting each other.

The three of them nodded in agreement when they heard the words, and the four invitations were delivered almost at the same time.

Liu Shi is the youngest, but he looks the oldest among the four. He has dark skin and looks like a martial artist, but he is actually a man with a thick exterior and a thin interior. Serious disease, the medicinal materials of the court must be insufficient, if there is no support from the medicinal materials, more and more people will be infected!"

When he spoke, he had a gloating expression on his face.

He is not a doctor, but a businessman. He doesn't care how many people will get sick or die. Those are just floating clouds, and only benefits are real.

Wang Jie, who looked like an old Confucian scholar, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a smile: "Fourth brother, I thought about it together. When I got the news five days ago, I have already explained to the people below. Stockpile medicinal materials, and wait for the epidemic to spread. We sold this medicinal material at a high price. This is a god-given opportunity, if we brothers miss it! This will not be hit by thunder!"

Chen You, the oldest, still had a string of beads in his hand, "Good! Good! You guys need to accumulate some virtue!"

Chen You is the oldest, but he has started to believe in Buddhism over the years.

"We can sell medicine, but we can't kill people! I don't think it's too much to make money, so I sold it at five times the original price. Any higher price would be detrimental to morality!"

As he spoke, Chen You turned the rosary and recited "Amitabha, sins and sins".

Hearing these words, the remaining three people were taken aback for a while, even the most intelligent Lu Che didn't know what to say!
What is "five times the original price"? !Isn't that high? !

Even Liu Shi and Wang Jie just wanted to sell at three times the price, and sure enough, the boss is the boss, and this appetite is bigger than them!

After a slight silence, Wang Jie and Liu Shi readily agreed.

As long as the four of them join forces and don't sell medicines, there will be no place in Yangzhou where we can get a lot of medicines.The channels are all in their hands!
But Wang Jie seemed to have thought of something, and said, "Of course we want to earn this money, but this person surnamed Yang is not Yi Yuzhi's generation. I am a little worried!"

Where is Yang's record!This is a person who has reached the peak of power in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and he has done the work of abolishing and establishing the emperor.Compared with others, the four local snakes really seem to have no way to fight!

Chen You, who was chanting sutras, opened his eyes, "The few of us are a family of good people, and we also use medicinal materials to help the world on weekdays. What can this man named Yang do to us?! If he really dares to kill people in violation of the law, our brothers are here It’s not that there are no contacts in the capital!”

The four of them can do business for this sake without being coveted by others, and without being attacked by the government. Naturally, they have an umbrella in the court.

Filial piety of handfuls of money every year is not feeding pigs, it will come in handy at critical moments.

"Brother is right!" Liu Shi immediately spoke up in support, "This Emperor Linde's position is not upright, his foundation is not stable, and he has no real power. And this man named Yang was just kicked out of the capital back then. What is there to be afraid of?" .”

The four of them had no access to the power struggle at the peak of the Great Zhou Dynasty, so they could only guess the process of the struggle from the results like ordinary people.

Chen You nodded and agreed, "In the final analysis, he is a young man who is less than [-] years old, and his methods will not be too sophisticated. We are legitimate businessmen, and it is our own business whether to sell medicinal materials. Control the heavens and the earth, don't you want to control how we do business?! There has never been such a reason in the past dynasties! You can want medicinal materials! As long as you come to buy them, there are things for medicinal materials!"

Wang Jie, who hadn't responded all the time, noticed that Lu Che, who was the most intelligent among the four, hadn't spoken much. On the contrary, Liu Shi and Chen You were discussing vigorously, so he asked.

"Third, what do you think we should do?!"

Chen You and Liu Shi, who were discussing in full swing, also stopped and looked at Lu Che.

Lu Che was the third child, but for his intelligence, although the three of them were dissatisfied with their mouths, they respected and feared him in their hearts.

He was able to go from the one with the weakest foundation among the original four to the leader of the four today, and his methods are naturally extraordinary. He even organized the industry's offensive and defensive alliance to fight against outsiders.

Wang Jie and Liu Shi also wanted to hear Lu Che's opinion.

"Little brother can't tell now! But this man named Yang must be able to call the wind and rain in the court, and he must be capable. We must not underestimate him!"

Under Lu Zhe's basin of cold water, Chen You and Liu Shi also calmed down a little, and said in unison, "Third brother (third brother), what do you think should be done?!"

Lu Che shook his head, "It's hard to say now, let's wait until tomorrow, when we meet this Lord Hou first!"

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(End of this chapter)