In the evening, Mu's house, restaurant.
Mu Dakang and his four grandchildren ate quietly.
There was a strange atmosphere in the entire restaurant, and no one spoke.
Mu Wentao finally made a trip home, and when he came back, he told the old man that the medicine store was out of stock.
Mu Huayi happened to be there too and hurriedly explained to the old man.
The eldest brother and the little sister are both sulking.
A wealthy and famous family like the Mu family has been dormant in the south of the Yangtze River for many years and has good relations with all aspects of the land in Suzhou.
Medicine store is one of them.
The Mu family's medicine making is inseparable from the support of the medicine shop.
For so many years, the medicine shop has been loyal to the Mu family.
As Mu Dakang ate his meal, his mind was racing.
But Mu Wentao couldn't bear his temper and said hurriedly: "Grandpa, please speak up!"
Hearing this, Mu Huayi snorted coldly and angrily buried his head in eating!
Mu Dakang sighed: "Do you know what a medicine store is like?"
Before Mu Wentao could speak, Mu Shiqing spoke calmly: "I naturally know that each of the eight major medicine shops in the empire controls several production areas. There are countless medicine farms, medicine fields, and traditional Chinese medicine gardens in the production areas, and these things add Together, it forms the empire’s network of Chinese medicinal materials, which feeds the entire Chinese medicine industry and forms a huge chain of interests with so many Chinese medicine schools, hospitals, and doctors!”
"And above this is the Imperial Chinese Medicine Bureau, which is in charge of the eight major medicine shops."
Mu Dakang nodded and said in a deep voice: "Now that you have severed contact with the medicine store, even the old man and I can't shake the current chain of interests by half!"
"Grandpa, what do you mean by this?" Mu Wentao glanced at his little sister, feeling satisfied.
Grandpa said these words to him and his sister Shiqing.
After all, the identity of a medicine store is sensitive, and this organization is also very important in the entire Chinese herbal medicine market.
"Because the situation is urgent, and what the higher-ups care about is the situation. The struggle between Chinese medicine and Western medicine has lasted for decades. From the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present, Chinese medicine can be said to have been losing ground! Do you know why this is?" Mu Dakang said.
Mu Shiqing said: "Because Chinese medicine is not as profitable as Western medicine."
Mu Wentao also pondered: "In comparison, Western medicine has a mature system and industrial chain, and its complexity is not as difficult as that of traditional Chinese medicine. Training a Western medicine doctor is much lower than training a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, and the cost is much lower. Western medicine is also very effective in treating diseases, so it can be tested by the market in the empire."
Mu Shiqing echoed: "The old man should understand how difficult it is to train a Chinese medicine doctor. Those old people in our pharmaceutical industry..."
Mudakang nodded.
Woodhouse Pharmaceuticals has several old pharmacists and several old Chinese medicine practitioners. These are all family businesses passed down from our ancestors!
They are all old people who have been with the Mu family for many years.
Even so, we are now facing a situation where there is no successor.
However, Mu Huayi gritted his teeth and said, "Grandpa! Are you confused?"
As soon as these words came out, the whole family fell into silence!
Even Mu Wulue, the second oldest brother who had been silent, looked at the younger sister in confusion.
"Sister, you are crazy!"
Mu Shiqing frowned: "Huayi, how can you say that about grandpa!"
Mu Wentao was even more furious: "What nonsense! Apologize to Grandpa!"
They shook their heads repeatedly, and Mu Wentao was even more shocked and angry: "I think you followed that Mr. Xia to become famous, and you dared to speak rudely to Grandpa!"
Mu Huayi used to be very well-behaved.
She also respects the old man the most.
Such disrespectful words have never been spoken.
But today, she actually took the lead in scolding the old man for being stupid, but the sun was really shining in the west.
Mu Huayi gritted his teeth: "Grandpa knows best that the decline of traditional Chinese medicine is not caused by problems such as system and cost, but by the suppression of the entire Western medicine industry! Even the empire can't control it! These people, they know the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine, if they let If traditional Chinese medicine is promoted, it will hinder them from making money! That’s why they are suppressing it with all their strength!”
"For decades, the situation of traditional Chinese medicine has been caused! I think it has a lot to do with the Imperial Chinese Medicine Bureau!"
When Mu Dakang heard this, his expression changed instantly, and he scolded: "Huayi! Stop talking nonsense! How old are you, how dare you talk about state affairs!"
Mu Huayi gritted his teeth.
The whole family was shocked.
The old man has always been very fond of Mu Huayi.
Normally I don't even dare to get angry, but I can say that I dote on him, the apple of my eye.
But now, the old man is actually angry with Mu Huayi?
Mu Shiqing saw it and felt extremely happy.
Mu Wentao and Mu Wulue were both surprised and shocked beyond measure.
Even Mu Huayi's pupils shrank slightly.
She didn't expect that her grandfather would scold her like this.
Of course, it was her fault that she just scolded her grandfather for being stupid, so she had no choice but to gnash her teeth and bury her head in eating to express her anger!
Mu Huayi gritted his teeth: "Without the approval of those above the temple, how could the eight major medicine shops dare to exclusively supply good medicinal materials to foreign countries? Military countries, new countries, and Europe? Old man, do you really not know?"
Mu Dakang gritted his teeth, his face darkened!
The Mu family has always been doing traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.
How could he not know this?
"Oh, Huayi, there are still many things you don't know. From Grandpa's point of view, traditional Chinese medicine has not declined. It's just that the country intends to narrow the circle of traditional Chinese medicine and concentrate its efforts so that traditional Chinese medicine can go further..."
Mu Huayi snorted coldly and interrupted Mu Dakang's words directly: "Further, does it mean to be used as a tool for those Tianhuang nobles?!"
The whole family was in dead silence.
Even Mu Dakang raised his head and looked at Mu Huayi with complex eyes.
"Huayi, did Xia Ye tell you this?"
Mu Huayi said: "Grandpa really thinks that I don't know anything. I don't even need to tell my elder brother. I've been working at Woodhouse Pharmaceuticals for a long time. Don't I even know this?"
At this moment, no one dared to speak.
Mu Wentao and Mu Shiqing were both surprised.
Little sister, you really dare to say that!
Thousands of years of national quintessence has been used as a tool for those at the top to use.
The whole family was silent. The entire scene was like an ice cellar, and the atmosphere dropped to freezing point.
"Grandpa, there's no need to fool me. I still know a bit about Chinese medicine. For the same disease, the prescriptions prescribed by holy hands are absolutely different from those prescribed by ordinary old Chinese doctors."
"Some people can cure cancer with a medicine, but some people are helpless against cancer!"
"We are both studying medicine, and we have the same prescription, but different people take it, and the effects are completely different! Because of the medicinal materials!"
"According to what grandpa said, the empire kept the real good things in that circle and used them as tools for the nobles, but what was left for the common people? The overwhelming fake medicines, the Chinese medicines that were left unattended overseas? Or was it? Those shady medicinal supply chains?!"
Mu Dakang slammed the table!
He was so angry that he snorted coldly, and no one at the table dared to answer!
The old man is angry!
