Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 681 Beijing No.1 People's Hospital
In Zhu Youjian's overall plan, the future Daming, Jiangbei, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guangdong and Guangxi will focus on the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, and the cultivation of medicinal materials and fruits, supplemented by mining of mineral resources. The Jiangnan area, which has both geographical advantages, provides resource guarantees and promotes the handicraft industry of Ming Dynasty to move towards the direction of primary industrial civilization.

The overall idea and layout planning have been completed, and everything in the future will be left to time.

All problems must be discovered and improved in practice. Mistakes in development are inevitable. As long as the direction of progress is correct, any mistakes will be tolerated and forgiven to varying degrees.

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

Only sustained and stable economic growth can promote social development and catalyze more civilizations.

The better the economy develops, the more tax revenues the court will receive, and more funds will be invested in improving people's livelihood and social welfare.

In the future, each county will be equipped with at least two government-run hospitals. One is open to everyone in Daming, and the other is a targeted maternal and child health care hospital.

Government-run hospitals are of a semi-welfare nature, and the government must provide a large amount of monetary subsidies to reduce the financial burden caused by the people's medical treatment.

To complete this grand strategic plan, money alone is not enough.

Infrastructure construction is not difficult, and the imperial court can afford it.

The key is the serious shortage of doctors and the development of new medical techniques.

The new medical technique refers to the surgery of Western medicine in later generations.

The Department of Health, which received the order, is running the first training course for doctors in Daming.

At the southeast corner of Yandai Xie Street in the west city of Beijing, there is a large building complex. All the buildings here are based on white walls and black tiles, giving people a sense of tranquility and solemnity.

A long strip of wooden sign is hung on the side of the wide south-facing gate of this complex of buildings. The varnished wooden sign has eight gilt characters from top to bottom: "Beijing No.1 People's Hospital". The face looks extraordinarily stretched and bold.

Although the words on the wooden plaque are not inscribed, anyone who cares knows that it is inscribed by the current Holy Majesty himself.

This hospital is not only the first hospital in the capital, but also the first large hospital open to the public in the history of Ming Dynasty.

After the wooden sign was hung, many court officials were puzzled by the new word People's Hospital when they learned about it, and there were many discussions in private. explain.

Naturally, the cabinet ministers would not go to ask Zhu Youjian about such a big deal, that would make the emperor think, what's the matter?As a cabinet minister, you don't worry about state affairs every day. On the contrary, you care about it in your spare time. You are not very competent as a cabinet minister.

Holy will is unpredictable.

The discussion about the meaning of the People's Hospital disappeared after about ten days as time went by.

There is no way, the people of the country are concerned about too many things, the Duke of a certain country took a concubine again, the servant of a certain court official had an affair with his concubine, these big events are both interesting and colorful, who cares whether you are a people's hospital Or a powerful hospital.

Although they are no longer interested in famous halls, after the vigorous publicity of the Shuntian Mansion, the people in the capital know that in this new type of hospital, there will be imperial doctors from the Taiyuan Hospital taking turns every day, and the hospital is also open to all people in the capital.

Regardless of whether you are a high-ranking official or a commoner, as long as you are sick, you can come here for consultation and medicine. The consultation fee is only five copper coins, and the medicine fee is much cheaper than those private clinics.

After hearing that the guards in Shuntianfu beat gongs along the streets and alleys every day to publicize, the skeptical people once again gathered in groups to discuss this matter, but in the end they generally expressed doubts about this matter.

What kind of existence is the imperial doctor of Tai Hospital?
According to the legend, he is a genius doctor who can tell the disease by just looking at his words and expressions. How could he come to this People's Hospital for a consultation, and the consultation fee is only five copper coins? person?

Not to mention five copper coins, it is five taels, 50 taels of silver for the consultation fee, and they will not give you a commoner in civilian clothes, and it is not enough to drop the price.

what?
The hospital is run by the imperial court, and the government will provide a certain amount of money to subsidize the consumption of the hospital every year. This is the hospital established by the order of the emperor.

No way?
The Holy Majesty is already an extremely benevolent Holy Monarch, so there is nothing to say to us ordinary people, but no matter how kind-hearted he is, he will not think of everything for us, right?

Lao Wang, your old father has a cold and fever, has he been ill after seeing several doctors?

Since there is such news, why don't you take your father to try it?

Don't delay any longer, for an elderly person over fifty years old, if he is not diagnosed and treated in time, something unbearable will happen.

Ever since, the little official surnamed Wang from Guanglu Temple hired a four-wheeled carriage and took his father, who had been ill for more than ten days, from his residence in Nancheng to the hospital in Xicheng with anxiety.

The little official surnamed Wang helped his father into the deserted hospital lobby, and immediately a woman in her thirties, wearing a plain skirt and a white cloak (isolation gown) with double breasts, came forward.

After inquiring about the purpose of the small official surnamed Wang, he immediately took their father and son to the counter similar to the cashier in the lobby of the restaurant and said something. The little official surnamed Wang immediately handed over five copper coins. Another woman in the same dress accepted the copper coins, and then issued a note that said the medical fee had been paid. The woman who led the way said softly, "Follow me", and then led the two of them around. The screen behind the lobby.

Walking not far from the back door, the three of them came to a house with a sign of a consulting room, and the woman smiled and said solemnly: "Please come in, both of you, Imperial Physician Liu is here for consultation. ", then turned around and returned the same way.

Although the small official surnamed Wang is also a member of the yamen, he has no chance to see the world on a daily basis. The experience he had never seen just now made him flustered. Under the tension, I suddenly feel dry mouth.

After hesitating for a moment, he felt that his father was already a little unsteady, so he gritted his teeth and pushed the door open and entered the room.

"The villain Wang Qinian, the scribe of Guanglu Temple, has seen Imperial Physician Liu!"

After entering the room, Wang Qinian took a peek and knew that this gentleman sitting upright with a serious face was indeed a real imperial physician.

Because this middle-aged man, who seemed to be well-maintained, had a kind of bearing, which can only be cultivated after a long time in the officialdom, and it is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to pretend.

"Well, no need to be polite.

Who are you?
What disease? "

The imperial physician surnamed Liu stroked his beard with his hands and replied indifferently, and then cast his eyes on Wang Qinian's father.

"This is the father of the villain. He had a cold and a fever before. The villain took my father to visit two doctors. He drank more than a dozen soups and medicines, but he never got better. I heard that there is an imperial physician here, so I brought my father here for consultation. , and please take care of Imperial Physician Liu!"

After Wang Qinian finished speaking, he took out a small ingot of about five taels of silver from his bosom, and slowly put the silver on the medical case in front of Imperial Physician Liu with a smile on his face.

"Help your father to sit down, I want to test his pulse!"

The imperial physician surnamed Liu seemed to have ignored the ingot of silver, and ordered without expression on his face.

(End of this chapter)