The Three Kingdoms: A vicious plan was offered, and Liu Bei was stunned!

Chapter 277: The Collapse of Salt and Iron, the Decline of the Han Dynasty, and the Affairs of the State, Copper Coins and Knives

It's a pity that I don't know where to find someone from the Mohist School. If only they could help me build an assembly line workshop. Wow!

He felt that Cao Cao and the others could take a rest.

Luo Yuancai expressed his great interest in Mohism. Since Zhang Zhongjing knew about Mohism, he might know a few people there. However, Zhang Zhongjing just smiled and said nothing.

He has a high status, high moral character, and is a medical saint. He is highly respected. Even if he doesn't say anything, Luo Yuan can't do anything!
I'm still counting on them to help improve Jiangling's medical standards.

Luo Yuan was not joking and immediately ordered the medicinal herbs to be sent. He gave Zhang Zhongjing whatever herbs he wanted. If there were not enough, he asked someone to buy them, and if there were still not enough, he would go and dig them!

"Sir, do you have a prescription? It's a ready-made prescription that's easy to make. For some common diseases, it can be made into a finished medicine. People don't have to go to the doctor and take medicine when they feel uncomfortable. It can also greatly relieve the pressure on you to see a doctor!"

"Each condition is different. How can we treat it without specific prescriptions?"

"Some diseases are just common ones and may not require medical attention. You can take medicine. It may not be specific to the disease, but medicine can always alleviate the symptoms. Only see a doctor for serious illnesses and take medicine for minor ones. Otherwise, you will be exhausted!"

Luo Yuan suggested that Zhang Zhongjing should not be so hesitant and should not look at them one by one. If there were formulas for ready-made medicines, he should just take them out and use them himself. If he didn't use them himself, would he leave them for the Japanese?

Did you know that those devils have registered your prescription as a patent?

Zhang Zhongjing was very generous. After thinking about it, he felt that what Luo Yuan said made sense, and agreed to sort out the prescription for Luo Yuan later.

Luo Yuan was so excited that his pharmaceutical company could finally open for business!
Treating patients doesn’t make money, and running a hospital doesn’t make money either, but how can I not make money by selling medicine?
Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Liu Bei, all the princes in the world don’t need medicine?
Ordinary people are all poor, how much money can they have? We don't make money from the people. But the nobles and dukes are all afraid of death. If they don't want to die, they have to take medicine!

Whose medicine in the world can compare with Zhang Zhongjing’s?

Luo Yuan secretly glanced at Zhang Zhongjing. Liuwei Dihuang Pills are a must!

I’m eating it now, it’s a good thing.

Then sell it as an aphrodisiac.

Take Liuwei Dihuang Pills and enjoy a successful life. Men are all bitches and they all like beautiful women. Liuwei Dihuang Pills are particularly targeted.

Luo Yuan did not disturb Zhang Zhongjing from seeing the patient, and turned back to find Xu Shu: "Yuanzhi, we are going to make a fortune again. Zhang Taishou is willing to give us some prescriptions, and then make them into finished medicines, which will definitely make money!"

Xu Shu thought it was a good idea, but he was not very happy with Luo Yuan's idea: "My Lord is a ruler, why do you always talk about profit?"

"If I don't talk about profit, what will I eat? We are the boss now. Which of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea doesn't cost copper coins? I am the ruler and I have to talk about profit. If the finances are not good, what's the point of playing?" Luo Yuan said, "Why is the Han Dynasty in such a state? It is because of financial failure. There were profits from salt and iron, but the profits from salt and iron collapsed after Liu Xiu. You think that the chaos in the world happened after Zhongping, but I don't think so. The profits from salt and iron have supported the Han Dynasty for 400 years."

"Sang Hongyang was truly a genius. But in order to become emperor, Liu Xiu sold out the profits from salt and iron, allowing the aristocratic families to control the salt and iron sales channels."

"Without money, the Han Dynasty is just an empty name, and it's not just like this today!" Luo Yuan said, "The affairs of the country actually depend on two things, one is money, and the other is the army. The emperor is noble because of this, but what does the Han Dynasty have? I heard that Emperor Heng and Emperor Ling sold official positions to make money. They don't know how to do business at all. They have the name of the Han Dynasty, but they can only sell official positions to make money. They are the lowest kind of businessmen!"

The people of the Liu family really don't know how to be businessmen. Luo Yuan laughed and said, "The current emperor is making a lot of money in Xuchang. Isn't he happier than the previous two emperors?" Xu Shu was already accustomed to Luo Yuan's novel arguments and smiled slightly. Thinking about it, it was true.

"My Lord, this is thought-provoking!"

"It's just so-so. Jiangling's finances seem okay now, but in the future, as the territory expands and the population grows, the finances will sooner or later be unable to make ends meet. Am I going to follow Liu Bei's example and make fifty coins out of a pawn to plunder the people's wealth? Do I still have any shame?" Luo Yuan sneered.

Liu Bei made coins in Jiangxia, directly making coins worth fifty. He used the same copper coin with different numbers to buy things from the people, causing prices in Jiangxia to become chaotic.

Luo Yuan and Kong Ming discussed making money to stabilize prices, but Kong Ming was not happy. It's not that he didn't see the disadvantages of this, but in order to fight against Cao Cao, he could collect the most supplies at the lowest cost. He didn't want to make Liu Bei unhappy, so Kong Ming pretended to be dead.

This is sacrificing for the greater good, but the victim is never part of the greater good.

Even Cao Cao didn't dare to do so. He followed the Han system, so the coins used in Cao Cao's territory in the north were all Han Wuzhu coins, iron coins, bronze coins, etc., but at least one copper coin was used for each commodity.

Luo Yuan complained, but there was nothing he could do. The people at that time were so miserable. They were treated like animals and cattle. No one treated them as human beings.

Fortunately, under the good governance of Jiangling, people's lives are improving.

With a population of 600,000, there are 80,000 soldiers in the army. Together with other auxiliary military personnel, the total number actually exceeds 150,000. One quarter of the population depends on the army for food!
The largest financial expenditure of Jiangling was also the army. Fortunately, Luo Yuan had profits from porcelain and encouraged commerce. Otherwise, if the people had to rely on farming, they would have been crushed to death by the army long ago.

At that time, it was considered a miracle if one could produce 300 kilograms of rice per mu of land. Where could they get hybrid rice? They could only plant whatever they could.

As long as it's edible, you can grow anything.

There is absolutely no waste of land in the fields, corners of the yard.

"Talent, talent. I need craftsmen and agronomists. Are those people from the Han Dynasty's Sinong Temple still alive?"

"This... I don't know!" Xu Shu was speechless. Sinong Temple? I don't even know if this institution still exists. After the Luoyang and Chang'an Rebellion, the Han Dynasty suffered great losses in its institutions.

The Minister of Agriculture of the Han Dynasty was very capable. He could grow cucumbers in the middle of winter. He had known about greenhouses for a long time and was also able to improve seeds.
Emperor Wu of Han could eat spinach in the middle of winter. Luo Yuan felt very angry when he thought about it. Emperor Wu of Han could eat spinach four hundred years ago, but he couldn't even eat it in Jiangling.

Special code!
Now it is late autumn, October, and it will soon enter November. At this time, it is winter and people will soon have to live on pickles!

Luo Yuan just couldn't help but not want to eat pickles!

When walking towards the Military Commander's Mansion with Xu Shu, we saw merchants selling pickles on the roadside, and many people were buying them.

The people in Jiangling have very low incomes, but compared to other places, the people here can still see copper coins in their hands. Three copper coins can buy a pound of pickles. The purchasing power of copper coins in Jiangling is very strong.

(End of this chapter)