Chongzhen never expected that so many officials and their families would actively give him money, even though he only held 50% of the shares of Nandu Hospital.
Due to the rapid word-of-mouth effect, wealthy gentry and their families in the city quickly joined the trend of physical examination and couldn't help themselves.
The reason is very simple. First, Shilin in the city suffered a complete defeat. Qian Qianyi and others in Donglin were banned. Zhu Jihuang and others who were restored to society were arrested. Xu Fuyuan and others from several societies simply quit anyway.
Secondly, the merchants lost the shield of Shilin and were helpless against the wolf-like and tiger-like factory guards and brave guard battalions. They were like a group of lambs to be slaughtered.
Thirdly, unlike the dispute over the country during the Wanli period or the resistance to Wei eunuchs during the Apocalypse period, most of the court officials this time adopted a wait-and-see attitude.
In this way, it is equivalent to letting Shilin and merchants directly fight against the emperor's eagle dogs. The former has no soldiers and horses in his hands, and just shouts with his mouth. How can he have any chance of winning?
After the backbone of the scholars and most of the merchants were dealt with by the emperor, the remaining wealthy gentry were afraid that they would be liquidated. They took this opportunity to communicate with their companions and spend money to buy medicine to show their goodwill to the emperor.
There is still a chance to survive after seeing the emperor. Once you go to see the Lord of Hell, there will be no turning back...
Chongzhen pretended not to have seen this move at all. As long as he was willing to pay, everything would be easy.
Physical examinations for officials are free of charge, but for wealthy gentry, a nominal fee of thirty taels of silver per person, including taking a film, is charged, plus the cost of medicine.
Don't think it's too expensive. There is no other place in the whole south that has such amazing fairyland machinery.
Even if you go to Beidu for medical treatment, you will have to pay a lot of money for transportation. It is better to spend some money in Nandu and save the pain of traveling.
Chongzhen heard from Liu Dahao that after the Army Hospital in Beidu used X-ray machines for external use, there were also a huge number of patients coming for treatment.
It's just that the price of a certain company's optical films is much cheaper than that in Nandu. After all, you can enjoy the ex-factory price and don't have to calculate the shipping fee.
Chongzhen did not like the wealthy gentry in the city very much. Like the profiteers, they were all free money.
Therefore, the price of thirty taels this time is a "punitive... physical examination"!
It is not a one-size-fits-all approach, in order to ensure fairness on the surface.
Thirty taels per person for those over fifteen years old. Twenty taels per person for those under fifteen years old.
I heard that the prince sent immortal machines, which could also bring glory to ordinary people. Many wealthy gentry came to see him for the original intention of absorbing the immortal energy.
But after seeing their own X-rays, most of them were frightened out of their wits. Maybe only there are such ghastly and terrifying things down there.
But the doctor from Beidu was sure that it was made by a machine from the immortal world, so the rich gentry had no choice but to accept their fate in order to get the immortal energy.
Some people did suffer from bone injuries due to the cold weather and slippery roads. This time they were able to get a big deal.
Although the appearance after being put in a cast was very indecent, in order to save his arms and legs, he could only do this.
What is different from the situation in Beidu is that patients here in Nandu are asking to be hospitalized...
This is a very suitable excuse to spend time with colleagues day and night, and you can quickly learn about any trouble.
The wealthy gentry of old always brought their filial sons with them. If there were not enough filial sons, they would use their sons-in-law to make up the number.
The young wealthy gentry asked his wives and concubines to accompany him during the day and return home before sunset.
There are many benefits to getting together, even if you have a broken leg, you can play mahjong or read the newspaper.
With my arms broken, I can still watch the excitement and brag, which is really a lot of fun.
Each ward is equipped with a mahjong table, which is a quarter of the number of beds.
Middle-aged and elderly patients who are addicted to playing mahjong, even if it is inconvenient for them to play in person, they should let their filial son or son-in-law take over and direct from the side.
You don't need to be very old. In the Ming Dynasty, you could get married at the age of fifteen, and it was not impossible to have children before marriage.
A man in his thirties can become a grandfather. If he is lucky, he can have a great-grandson before he is fifty...
The poor cannot afford to stay in the hospital, so there is no need to consider these people. The inpatient department of Nandu Hospital is divided into general wards and VIP wards.
The former costs one tael of silver per day, and the latter costs three taels of silver per day. Since services such as heating, food, and daily examinations by doctors are provided, the price cannot be considered expensive.
The diet includes three meals a day, which are formulated by the doctor based on the patient's physical condition. Specifically, you can choose from packages A, B, C, D, etc.
It is strictly forbidden for family members to bring food to patients, especially spicy dishes and various types of alcohol, as well as foods that can aggravate the patient's condition. For example, diabetics cannot eat sweet foods.
Some patients did not know they had diabetes until after the physical examination, which was the reason why the wounds could not heal. They instantly felt that thirty taels of silver was well worth the money spent.
The people living in the orthopedics department are all seriously injured patients. They are inconvenient to move and cannot digest food quickly, so they are determined not to eat enough. Eighty percent full is enough for each meal.
Many obese patients who can't control their mouths ask their family members to secretly bring them some cooked food. Otherwise, they will starve to death living there and eating vegetarian food every day.
Fat people have no idea about new terms such as hypertension, hyperglycemia, and hyperlipidemia. Even after hearing explanations from doctors, they think they are still far away from the disease.
I was frightened until I saw a patient suffering from high blood pressure lying on the bed or on the floor.
"Everyone is full?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, the hospital beds are very tight!"
"Then we can use the two noble mansions as the inpatient department, and use the mansions of Marquis Anyuan and Marquis Lingbi!"
"yes!"
After hearing the good news, Chongzhen decided to continue his efforts.
There are one hundred people living in a noble mansion, and the daily hospitalization fee is one hundred taels of silver, which is a huge amount of thirty thousand taels a year!
Three buildings are close to the 100,000 yuan mark. It seems that opening a hospital is really a clever idea!
That traitor must have made a lot of money with this trick, and I can do the same!
And according to reports from informants, since all those hospitalized are wealthy people, goods shipped from the north are very popular there.
After the physical examination of the elderly wealthy gentry, most of them know their physical condition and no longer live frugally.
You need to wear glasses to read the newspaper, and use a glass to drink water. Some people bought a sofa, and some even bought a new toilet.
The wives and concubines who take care of the patients are even more competitive with each other. Taking care of their husbands comes second, and spending money in the hospital is the first priority.
Eat what you haven’t eaten before!
If you haven’t played it before, you should play it!
If you haven’t bought it yet, buy it!
He was actually able to earn two cents of money. Chongzhen didn’t expect that opening a hospital would bring unexpected benefits...
In fact, I made three shares of money, but half of the third share had to be paid to the performance team from Beidu.
Since the performance team performed for the emperor and his subjects for the first time in Fengtian Temple a few days ago, Chongzhen has been attracted by its novel show.
Later, he also asked the performance team to perform for the concubines in the palace, which naturally received high praise.
After the ministers saw it, it spread among their colleagues, so a certain emperor asked the performance team to perform two performances in order to win people's hearts.
Then they performed four performances for the factory guards and four performances for the Yongwei camp, which left everyone in awe.
These twelve performances were all part-time performances. Apart from the rewards from the generals who were not short of money, they actually didn’t make much money. The performances in the hospital were the ones that could really make a lot of money.
Tickets cost 2 taels of silver, and the audience for each show was no less than 200 to 300 people. There were two shows a day, and every show was very popular.
There are five sketches, five crosstalks, and fifteen songs, and the total performance time is about two and a half hours.
Even though the ticket price is really expensive, after watching it, no one dares to say that the performance is not worth it.
The sketches and cross talk are something the audience has never seen before, and the songs are something the audience has never heard before.
What the audience bought tickets to watch was a new and unique show, and the performance just met everyone's demands.
I really want to watch it after watching it. This kind of good-looking program is much better than the local Mi Mi music.
Suona, gongs and drums, xylophone, pipa, and erhu have all become perfect accompaniment instruments, complementing the singer's singing.
Passionate, explosive, explosive and dramatic, these are the characteristics of Beidu's songs.
Especially touching the tender hands of my wife and concubines, and then listening to such heavenly sounds, it is really an unparalleled enjoyment.
Usually after a song is sung, the audience is still intoxicated and has more to say.
After all the programs were over, the voices asking for a return came and went, one wave after another.
It is not uncommon to spend ten or twenty taels of silver just to listen to your favorite songs again.
After Chongzhen got his reward, he originally planned to keep this performance team until the Chinese New Year, especially during the Spring Festival to make it more lively.
However, Liu Dahao said that a certain traitor would send another performance team to Nandu to wish them a happy New Year, so he gave up his original idea.
Since it was to celebrate the New Year, the program would naturally be more festive, and Chongzhen couldn't help but start to look forward to it...
The important thing is that this kind of performance is really profitable, but it is a rare good job.
I also have a palace band, which is really different from the performance team of the treacherous son.
Chongzhen also planned to transplant the other party's skills to his subordinates, so that he and his concubines could see each other every day in the future.
Training takes time, especially this kind of program that is completely different from ordinary singing and dancing, and it takes a lot of effort to learn.
For musicians and singers, reading music scores is almost as strenuous as reading a bible, but fortunately they still have the basics.
If you have the foundation, just listen to the tune and hum it a few times, and then get some guidance from an expert, and sing it in public a few times, you can learn a little bit.
What made Chongzhen extremely happy was the news that many scholars had to shamelessly take their elders to the hospital for physical examinations due to physical discomfort.
As a result, I heard that Zhu Jihuang and others who had been so high-profile all bowed their heads and admitted their mistakes. After writing a confession, these people no longer dared to mention resisting the imperial court and asking the emperor to abdicate.
Since all the backbone forces have been uprooted, the four gangs in Nandu City, namely Donglin, Fushe, Jishe, and Zhetan, are no longer able to continue to be enemies of the emperor and the court.
The rest are stragglers with little reputation. If they do not get the support of merchants and wealthy gentry, they will be unable to stand up and make public noises based on their own strength.
In view of the small number of casualties, the factory guards and the Yongwei battalion almost did not use force to solve the problem. This was regarded by Chongzhen as a feat similar to the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin did when he drank a cup of wine to release his military power...
However, except for Ma Jinggong's troops who guarded Yangzhou City and handed over cash and goods worth two million taels of silver as scheduled, the rest of the places continued to resist the imperial court to this day after hearing what happened in Nandu City.
This made Chongzhen very angry. If the local government did not pay money, grain, and taxes, what would be the difference from the separatist feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty?
It is really unreasonable to ignore the imperial court and have no regard for the emperor!
What made Chongzhen even more annoyed was that his confidant Han Zanzhou's advancement plan in Ma'anshan was greatly hindered.
The reason is that Ma'anshan is full of graves, and the local Diao Min is even more lawless, refusing to move the graves and openly defying the factory guards.
Han Zanzhou was still strict in his letter, and Diao Min yelled at him, threatening that he was still in his grave!
Mining is about to start in the spring, and the tomb has not been cleared yet. A group of unscrupulous people are really deliberately causing trouble for themselves!
It is easy for Han Zanzhou to suppress Diao Min, but if all the evil cannot be eradicated, there will naturally be endless troubles in the future.
Chongzhen felt that this matter was not trivial, so he immediately summoned all his ministers and held a small court meeting to brainstorm and discuss countermeasures.
It was finally decided that the deadline was set as the first day of February. The local people must move the tomb before the end of the first month, otherwise they will bear the consequences.
When people should be arrested, they will be arrested. Regardless of the number of people, as long as they continue to resist orders and show disrespect, they will all be jailed and convicted according to their actions. For serious crimes, they can be executed, and for minor crimes, mining can be used as atonement.
Ma'anshan Iron Mine is the first of the three key projects promoted by Nanting. All efforts must be made to ensure the smooth start of the project. Chongzhen will not allow anyone with ulterior motives to interfere with this large project.
Chongzhen also hoped that this large project would create a large number of jobs, attract coal mine production in Lianghuai, and ship semi-finished iron ingots to Beidu in exchange for a large number of Beidu's specialties.
Not to mention Diao Min's obstruction, even if Diao Min, wealthy gentry, scholars, and local officials unite, Chongzhen will resolutely suppress these rebellious officials and traitors.
If you want to rebel, just send troops to destroy it!
Ma'anshan is already a dragon vein and belongs to the emperor.
Whoever dares to openly build a tomb on the royal dragon vein and refuses to move it will be punished!
Even if you bury the elders of the previous Meng Yuan Dynasty in the mountains, you still have to dig them out for me!
Otherwise, if things go on like this and the mountains are covered with tombs, won’t Ma’anshan turn into Ma’an Tombs?
How can you, the majestic dragon vein of the Ming Dynasty, allow you to build graves on it without spending a tael of silver?
You can bury people if you want, just bury them where they belong!
It's buried somewhere it shouldn't be, and whoever buried it will dig it up!
If you don’t want to dig it yourself, then someone will dig it for you. Don’t blame them for digging them up and crushing the bones of your ancestors into ashes!
It is a crime of great disrespect to set up a grave on the dragon vein of the Ming Dynasty!
It is not excessive at all for the factory guards to dig out the criminals and crush their bones and scatter their ashes!
Anyone who is dissatisfied can go to the immortal world to argue with His Majesty Taizu Gao Emperor...
After winning the game against scholars and profiteers, Chongzhen's confidence had greatly increased.
It turns out that as long as you use the right strategies and methods, you can get rid of these thieves.
After gaining successful experience, Chongzhen is now able to deal with these matters that seemed quite difficult in the past more calmly.
However, the chaos in the Jiangnan area must be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise it will spread and spread to the eight corners of the country under the jurisdiction of Nanting, and it will no longer be difficult to deal with.
What made Chongzhen angry was that the imperial court paid salaries to officials in Jiangnan, but these officials openly betrayed the imperial court at this time and chose to fight against the imperial court.
If it weren't for the fact that stability is the priority at the moment, all these rebellious officials and traitors should be killed!
After spending a lot of money on food, they ended up raising a group of white-eyed wolves that eat everything in and out, and they are spread all over the south of the Yangtze River.
One can imagine how a certain emperor felt about this...
Huang Degong and other generals advocated forceful suppression, but they were unable to attack on all sides due to insufficient troops.
Hong Chengchou's main force is still attracted by the rogue bandits in the Dabie Mountains. Currently, they are limited by the terrain and have made little progress.
It was not a bad idea to divide his troops and send them to Jiangnan to suppress Diao Min, but Chongzhen was worried about losing the good situation of suppressing the bandits.
After discussion between the emperor and his ministers, Chongzhen dispatched Song Ji's troops down the river to recover Zhenjiang first.
It would be fine if the Zhenjiang defenders did not resist, but once the king's division arrives and closes the city gates, it will be a rebellion in the true sense!
By then Hong Chengchou's tens of thousands of troops will have to be used...
