Chapter 141
When you are successful, you will find that you are surrounded by good people.
Cheng Shijie can now be said to be very successful. He has a first-class official position. Even a relatively worthless first-class military attache is still a first-class military officer, especially when he also has a second-class Liaodong Economic Envoy, who controls the Ning Navy and controls the navy. The Dongjiang Army is a proper feudal official.
If Cheng Shijie was just a Dengzhou guard Zuo Qianhu or a Ning Haijun guard, Yang Qingyun would never serve Cheng Shijie. Of course, Yang Qingyun actually did not have the ability and strength to refuse Cheng Shijie's current official position.
Because medicine is one of the only other schools of thought that Confucianism does not exclude, the lofty ideal of scholars is not only to be a good doctor, but also to be a good doctor. With this environment and atmosphere, the environment for the development of medical skills is quite good.
Cheng Shijie has many options to choose from. If he is willing to look for them, he can find countless good doctors at sufficient prices. Yang Qingyun, the son of a former imperial doctor, actually has nothing to be proud of.
Cheng Shijie gave Yang Qingyun the position of dean of Xinghai Medical College, which was at the same level as Luo Tong, dean of Ning Haijun Field Hospital, and enjoyed both the fourth-grade rank.
Yang Qingyun was very satisfied with this and immediately began to introduce his work plan to Cheng Shijie as the dean of Xinghai Medical College.
The traditional Chinese medicine practice model is a clinic system, and there is almost no trend of forming large-scale general hospitals.
The real reason for the slow development of traditional Chinese medicine is that the threshold for this industry is very high. Unlike Western medicine, you can use a thermometer to measure your body temperature and you will know whether you have a fever. If you have a fever, you can take medicine, injections, or infusions.
But Chinese medicine is different. Chinese medicine pays attention to "looking, smelling, asking, and feeling!" These four words require a lot of experience. If you want to train a qualified Chinese medicine doctor, let alone three to five years, ten or eight years can barely be considered. To get started, it takes twenty years to achieve modest success, and thirty years to achieve great success.
It is precisely the training of traditional Chinese medicine that is so difficult. What Cheng Shijie is best at is integrating all available resources.
Ning Haijun’s field hospital has developed mature experience. For example, a medical team set up at the department level with a staff of twelve can perform simple surgeries, suture wounds, straighten broken bones, and bandage wounds. In an emergency, it can be divided into two treatment teams. , start working separately.
Nowadays, the medical skills of medical practitioners in southern Liaoning are really not very high. If they have a choice, most doctors are not willing to live in southern Liaoning. Therefore, there are almost no doctors with high medical skills in Ning Haijun's field hospital. However, in order to work quickly and deal with difficult medical problems.
Ning Haijun's field hospital is not like the hospitals of later generations. The surgical department is divided into general surgery, orthopedics, thoracic surgery, neurosurgery, urology, plastic surgery, etc. But Ning Haijun's surgery is divided into head surgery, arm surgery, leg surgery, foot surgery, thoracoabdominal surgery, etc.
Each department specializes in one area and is responsible for the treatment of arrow wounds, knife wounds, gunshot wounds, ulcers and other injuries...
"Qingyun, how was your visit to the field hospital?"
“I have a deep understanding and deep feelings!”
Cheng Shijie looked at Yang Qingyun and said: "We have very few people in southern Liaoning now. Although it is possible to immigrate from outside, it will take a long time for immigrants to become our own people. The best way is to reduce the infant mortality rate. Everyone is precious!”
Cheng Shijie signed a performance management regulation in front of Yang Qingyun, specifically for Yang Qingyun. For every qualified midwife trained at Xinghai Medical College, he could get a commission of one tael of silver. If the training was qualified If the number of stable wives is one thousand, he can get an additional income of one thousand taels. If there are 10,000 people, that is ten thousand taels of silver.
Yang Qingyun, the dean of Liaonan Medical College who had not yet started taking office, his eyes suddenly lit up and his breathing became rapid.
Being a stable mother is a very unique profession. Women who can become a stable mother must either have rich childbirth experience or have learned similar knowledge. The training is not complicated.
Cheng Shijie has checked relevant information. Generally speaking, a very important factor in the infant mortality rate in ancient times was sanitary conditions. That is, when Mrs. Wen was delivering babies, most families used the bedroom directly as the delivery room.
Especially the concept of hygiene. Ancient people believed that pregnant women or parturient women were afraid of wind and could easily get wind evil into their bodies. Therefore, this bedroom was a closed space for a long time before delivery, and the air inside was polluted. Coupled with the living habits of ancient people, A large number of bacteria are easily produced in the room. Hygienic concepts and hygienic conditions can easily lead to various diseases.
And the resistance of newborn babies is poor...
There is another very important reason: social productivity is low, and ordinary people can only provide for their own food and clothing. This will cause two problems. First, due to low living standards, children can only eat enough and are malnourished. Or it can be said that due to the mother's malnutrition, the milk has no nutrition. People with malnutrition naturally have low immunity and are more likely to get sick. Once they get sick, they will be in danger. Second, because there is not enough money, many children are unable to see a doctor after getting sick, or they have no money to buy medicine after seeing a doctor, so they can only let it go.
"I plan to build at least one maternal and child health hospital in each town in southern Liaoning in the next two to three years. This maternal and child health hospital will be responsible for delivering babies and providing postpartum care."
Cheng Shijie is also thinking that if we want to improve the living standards of all people in a short period of time, it is very unrealistic. This needs to be done step by step.
He can create wealth quickly, but he cannot quickly achieve universal prosperity.
The only way is to take a step back and provide subsidies from delivery to nursing to reduce the risk of infant death within one month after birth.
"Commander, I'm just afraid of this maternal and child health hospital. I'm afraid no one will go there."
Although Yang Qingyun is a doctor, he is no stranger to midwifery. Generally, if people ask a stable mother to deliver a baby, they will give a reward for successfully giving birth to a son. If a daughter is born, the mother-in-law will consider herself unlucky and will not ask for a reward. .
In terms of infant mortality rate, there are definitely more female infants than male infants, and this is also caused by concepts.
"From one month before giving birth to one month after giving birth, the mother can live in the Maternal and Child Health Hospital, with free food, accommodation, and nursing expenses!"
Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "When the newborn is one hundred days old, I will directly transfer two hundred copper coins to the account of the newborn's parents, which will be used specifically for the newborn's nutrition. This money will be transferred regularly every month until the baby Become one year old."
"This costs a lot of money!"
"I am not short of money now!"
Cheng Shijie has passed through the initial difficult period, and the massive initial investment in the current factory, including the subsequent farmland, has been able to receive returns.
From farming alone, Cheng Shijie can harvest more than 1.5 million shi of grain, possibly more, and of course a large amount of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and vegetables.
Although the principle of no taxation was adopted for the military occupation and military merit fields of Ning Haijun, Cheng Shijie would not allow other grain merchants to appear in southern Liaoning. He wants to become the largest grain merchant, monopolize and control the grain market in southern Liaoning.
When Cheng Shijie gave Yang Qingyun an idea, he borrowed his experience from working in a hotel and introduced: "Any craftsman who can be called a master steelmaker needs at least three years of work experience, or even longer. However, a If a restaurant hires dozens of master chefs, it will definitely not be able to afford it. In order to improve the speed of cooking, it can have one master and a dozen apprentices, who practice cutting vegetables, learn how to garnish vegetables, and how to stir-fry vegetables. Stew the vegetables and make the soup. In this way, a master chef and a dozen apprentices can run a medium-sized restaurant."
Listening to Cheng Shijie's words, Yang Qingyun suddenly realized that this was not Cheng Shijie's original creation. This was the way many masters liked to recruit disciples.
Just like Xu Guangqi, he had many apprentices. Sun Yuanhua learned his machinery manufacturing and artillery casting techniques, while Chen Zilong learned his agricultural techniques and astronomical calendar techniques.
By breaking down all the professional techniques and practicing one of them specifically, you can learn it quickly. By cooperating with others, you can do the work that only excellent technicians can do.
For a qualified chef, it takes three to five months to master knife skills. It also takes the same amount of time to master stir-fry, and the side dishes are almost the same. Even with New Oriental's model, graduates of two years can't even think of actually cooking. .
Yang Qingyun began to study how to establish Xinghai Medical College and how to grow Chinese herbal medicine on a large scale. Xie Jinglin followed Cheng Shijie's order and began to plot against Fan Yongdou.
Cheng Shijie popularized a concept to Xie Jinglin. In fact, Jiannu did not have any sense of territoriality. The current territory of Houjin was not completely fixed. Whoever captured the territory belonged to him.
The navy of the Ning Navy has not participated in the battle against Jiannu. Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the navy now have opinions and they also need military exploits.
Therefore, Cheng Shijie decided to take advantage of Fan Yongdou's urgent need for food to find a place for Ning Haijun's navy to earn military exploits.
This place is the twin city guards of Nurgan Dusi, which is later known as Ussuriysk. This is a hub city connecting the two strategic locations of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. Shuangchengzi is located between the Xihot Mountains, Changbai Mountains and Xingkai Lake.
It borders Dongning to the west and 100 kilometers from Vladivostok to the south.
Shuangchengwei is the confluence of Suifen River, Lakovga River and Suptiga River. The so-called twin cities mean that the east city is called "Fuerdan" and the west city is called "Jurgen", which are about four miles apart. Shuangchengzi was an early city developed in the Northeast. In the mid-9th century, Shuangchengzi was an important town in the Bohai Kingdom, and Yu Loulou and Mohe lived here for generations.
Although it is located in the northeast, it is located in Xingkai Lake. It was called Meituo Lake in the Tang Dynasty during the Tang Dynasty and was famous for its abundance of "Meituo crucian carp"; and because the lake is shaped like a "yueqin", it was called "Northern Lake" in the Jin Dynasty. "Qinhai".
Fan Yongdou looked at Xie Jinglin holding the map and pointing at the Shuangcheng Guards: "Our commander-in-chief is worried that he will be impeached by the ministers of the DPRK and China during the transaction in southern Liaoning..."
Before Xie Jinglin could finish speaking, Fan Yongdou said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Xie, you don't have to worry about this. Fan also has a lot of friends in the three Jin areas. We colleagues in the Jin area will also help each other. Marshal Cheng and I have become friends. Friends If there is trouble, we will definitely not sit idly by!”
"In addition to being able to do it secretly, it also has another function!"
Xie Jinglin pointed at the winding river and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Fan Da should know that we are doing business, and merchants do business. Naturally, everything is based on profit. Shopkeeper Fan Da knows that Jinzhou is only one hundred and fifty years away from Lushun. Why is there Port Arthur in Lushun, and we have Jinzhou West Port and Jingang East Port in Jinzhou, and we have Gaizhou West Port, Fuzhou East Port, and Haizhou Port in Gaizhou?”
"For the benefit of water transportation?"
"That's right!"
Xie Jinglin smiled and said: "Two thousand shi of grain requires at least 150 carts and at least 300 civilian workers. It takes three days to transport it from Lushun to Jinzhou. However, these two thousand shi of grain only require one ship." A ship with 400 materials can transport grain. However, only thirty-seven soldiers are needed to control this ship with 400 materials. Do you understand now?"
Fan Yongdou thought to himself that almost all the generals of the Ming Dynasty used soldiers as slaves. A kind-hearted general could also give the soldiers some military pay or food. Cheng Shijie was indeed good. Ning Haijun's officers were well fed and given enough food, so these soldiers , has been working for Cheng Shijie for free.
Fan Yongdou's followers have been inquiring about every move in Liaonan. He has been in Liaonan for almost a month now. Cheng Shijie never pays military salaries to military households, but only distributes food to ensure that the soldiers do not starve to death.
"Shopkeeper Fan, look at these Shuangcheng. Although it was originally the homeland of Jianzhou Jurchens, how many Jurchens are there around Shuangcheng now?"
"Not much indeed!"
Xie Jinglin smiled and said: "Our commander-in-chief can transport the grain from Jinzhou all the way along the sea to the estuary of Suifen River. After arriving at the estuary, we will follow the Suifen River into Meituo Lake. After entering Meituo Lake, we will Three towns, namely East Lake Town, West Lake Town and Beihu Town, have been set up on the north, east and west banks of Tuo Lake respectively. Once you leave the town, these are Jurchen territory. Your mission has been completed. You will be waiting at the Shuangcheng Guard. Just collect the money!”
"With this issue, Fan is just a businessman, I'm afraid he is powerless!"
"Shop Manager Fan, you can definitely do it!"
Xie Jinglin smiled and said: "If you can't do it, not only will it be difficult to transport the food to the Jurchens in Jianzhou, but you will have to bear the freight yourself!"
When Fan Yongdou heard this, he made a silent calculation in his mind. Due to the disaster in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and the canal being in disrepair for years, there were blockages in many places, and the transportation capacity was greatly reduced. Now the price of food in the south of the Yangtze River has almost risen to seven coins per stone, while the value of food in the north is as high as one stone and two coins.
Under this circumstance, even if the price of food will decrease after the autumn, rising food price is an inevitable trend. Xie Jinglin and Fan Yongdou negotiated the price of food for more than half a month and finally settled the price of food.
At the price of one tael of silver per stone of grain, 300,000 stone of grain will be sold to Fan Yongdou. If Fan Yongdou hires people to transport these 300,000 stone of grain, he will need at least nearly 40,000 to 50,000 carts and 80 thousand stone of grain. Ninety thousand young and strong people.
In addition to the expenses of so many personnel, transportation, sales and other links, although it will definitely not lose money, it will definitely make a lot of money less.
For a big businessman like Fan Yongdou, making less money means losing money.
As for Xie Jinglin's reason for taking advantage of water conservancy and reducing transportation costs, Fan Yongdou didn't believe a word of it. Xie Jinglin thought he was smart and his words were impeccable. Did he really think he was ignorant?
The Meituo Lake Plain is a land of nearly 20 million acres (approximately 12,000 square kilometers)
Why should the three towns of Meituo Lake be established as Hudong, Hubei and Huxi?
This is to protect the 20 million acres of land.
Although I understand what Xie Jinglin means, of course it must be what Cheng Shijie means. Cheng Shijie is addicted to using farming. In fact, farming can make money, everyone knows this.
The crux of the matter is that in other provinces in the Central Plains, there will be countless pairs of eyes and countless mouths staring, waiting to eat meat and not sharing a share of the profits from farming. If this is not done, there will be countless people holding back.
However, it was very good in southern Liaoning because there were no gentry landlords competing with Cheng Shijie for meat.
As for the farming in Meituo Lake, as long as Cheng Shijie brings hundreds of thousands of people to farm and wait for Cheng Shijie's fields to become mature fields, Cheng Shijie will not be able to get a cent of the profits from these fields. Wouldn't Huang Taiji be a good person?
Of course, Cheng Shijie actually really thought so.
He also wants to take advantage of others.
He first established five towns around Meituo Lake, a freshwater lake with an area of more than 4,500 square kilometers, like a plum blossom, forming the horns of each other.
The warships of the naval force of these five castles cooperated to defend them. If Jiannu wanted to take them by force, he would definitely lose a few big teeth. Besides, Cheng Shijie would not build an ordinary adobe city wall. Instead, he would use reinforced concrete to build five castles and insert a nail into the back of the slave.
"Fan has some acquaintances in Shengjing who can help spread the word. As for whether it will work or not, Fan can't guarantee it!"
“So best!”
Xie Jinglin smiled and said, "If Shengjing doesn't agree, let this matter go!"
"It's easy to say, Fan will send a message over there right away!"
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The distant Shengjing was also the core of the Hou Jin regime.
Shenyang seems to be a little deserted this year. In previous years, during this season, a large number of Mongolian and Korean merchants would gather in Shenyang. The Mongolians brought cattle, sheep and horses, and the Koreans brought high-quality rice, Korean ginseng and wood. Merchants from the Ming Dynasty would also be attracted by the news. , brought a large amount of grain, cloth, ironware, merchants gathered, and goods were abundant, which was unique in the entire Northeast.
But now, North Korean merchants have almost disappeared, and there are also many fewer Han and Mongolian merchants, giving people a feeling that things are different from what they used to be.
Who told God not to bless Dajin?
It was clear that he had won the battle of Daling River and could immediately point his sword at Jinzhou. When he was leaping over the Liao River, God slapped Jiannu hard in the face.
A sudden blizzard caused Jiannu to lose more than one-third of his cattle and sheep, and at least one-fifth of his population. This loss was more serious than the losses in the three Hunhe battles.
Because of the loss of cattle and sheep and the lack of food and grass, the entire Jin Kingdom was filled with a very depressed atmosphere.
At this time, some people even began to complain: "It would be great if we didn't rebel. If we didn't rebel, we would have the Ming Dynasty to provide disaster relief, and we would be able to survive at least!"
"If you don't mind, the Ming court will take care of us?"
"Why don't you ignore it? Let me tell you, in the 17th year of Wanli, there was a flood in South Zhili, and the imperial court allocated 400,000 taels of silver for disaster relief..."
"Did you hear that?"
"The Ming Dynasty allocated 40 million taels of silver for disaster relief!"
"What forty million taels of silver?"
"real or fake?"
"Look at this?"
As he was talking, someone took out a copy of Wanli Di banknotes, and saw it written on it: "Since September, drought has caused disasters. Taihu, Poyang and other lakes have dried up. Wusong, Zhejiang, and Li Shu have suffered greatly, and the number of people affected by the disaster has reached millions. According to the plan, Yizi dismantled the corpses and ate them, which caused the epidemic. The emperor couldn't bear it and allocated 40 million taels of gold from the child to help the victims..."
I don’t know when, some rumors about the Ming Dynasty disaster relief began to spread in Shenyang City.
At the beginning, it was only spread in the streets and alleys, but soon spread to every corner of Shenyang City, and then spread to the rear like a plague, and in the blink of an eye it got out of control.
When Huang Taiji received the news, he was shocked and angry: "Who is spreading rumors? Disturbing the hearts of our people? Investigate this for King Khan, investigate thoroughly, we must investigate thoroughly!"
As the saying goes, rumors stop only for the wise. In fact, anyone with some knowledge will not believe this rumor. The highest financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty was in the 30th year of Wanli (AD 1602), with a total revenue of 22.953 million taels.
Except for the 30th year of Wanli, the other times are about 20 million taels of silver. Under such circumstances, how could the imperial court provide 40 million taels of silver for disaster relief?
But the problem is, many people swore that they saw the imperial court's banknotes with their own eyes, with the official seal on them, and it didn't look like a forgery.
This made Huang Taiji feel that someone must want to take the blame for Daikin.
During this period, Huang Taiji was very embarrassed by this rumor. First of all, he was not Nurhaci. Although in the second year of Chongzhen, he broke through the border and entered the Kou capital, which greatly increased Dai Jin's reputation.
In the second year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty lost more than tens of millions of taels of silver. Although the amount of silver seized by the slaves was large, the problem was that the money was concealed at all levels, and less than 4 million taels of silver were received from Huang Taiji.
To be fair, Huang Taiji did not use the money to squander, but to expand the elite white-armored soldiers, nearly three times the number of white-armored soldiers, which was a lot of money.
He spent a lot of money to buy food, but those despicable merchants raised the price of food ten times, dozens of times. He spent two million taels of silver to buy less than thirty thousand shi of food in total...
On average, each stone of grain cost more than seventy taels of silver.
This amount of food is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for the Kingdom of Jin.
Just when the rumors were spreading more and more widely and public resentment was boiling, Fan Wencheng walked into Huang Taiji's study room with a small piece of paper and quickly knelt down and said: "King Khan, I am so happy, so happy. !”
Huang Taiji said impatiently: "Where does happiness come from?"
Fan Wencheng couldn't hide the smile on his face and said: "Great joy, really great joy! The Fan family has purchased 300,000 shi of grain from southern Liaoning according to plan, and it will be delivered in more than a month at most!"
(End of chapter)
