"Yichang, let's have a good rest today and not talk about national affairs."
Zhu Yuanzhang continued to run to the city gate upstairs to eat, and the others had to accompany him. As soon as he sat down, he made the first suggestion.
"Your Majesty, how did you rest yesterday?" The chief didn't care about talking about anything and asked about the efficacy of the medicine.
"Okay, it's been a dreamless night, what can we use?" Zhu Yuanzhang admitted that Xiaqiu Village was brave enough to prescribe medicine when asked.
"There is only a jujube kernel soup, and the precious ambergris is added to the incense. In the past dynasties, the Tang and Song Dynasties, the people traded with the Yi people, and the people who ate the food often exchanged it for ambergris.
If there are more, Your Majesty can change more. They are originally medicines, but they can be made into incense and smell good. They can also be used as a fixative for perfumes.
Use the second-worst ambergris as a fixative. The white one won't go bad if you keep it, and it will become less and less in the future. it……"
The director gave Zhu Yuanzhang a popular science about the origin of ambergris. Just like pearls, foreign matter entered the whale's body, was then wrapped in secretions, and then discharged to the sea. After hundreds of years of soaking in sea water, it became usable ambergris.
This is what happened, and when the director told it, he was very vivid. Mainly to delay time, Zhu Yuanzhang had to wrap and steam the siomai immediately when eating it, so as not to affect the taste.
Unless you happen to have freshly steamed siomai, you can take it and eat it.
The mutton soup has already been boiled, so you can eat it as you go.
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished listening and looked like he had learned a lot, the beef spring bamboo shoots and shaomai were steamed, and the bowls of haggis and mutton were brought out to pour the soup.
"So that's it. It's really precious. The ambergris now is from at least a hundred years ago. Sperm whales seem to have collected a lot of it.
We used to be a poor boy herding cattle, how could we enjoy such good things?
When you become an emperor, you can only know whether something is good or not and should be grown by asking people with experience in the previous dynasty. Why don't we open the warehouse and take people in to see it.
They have books to record things, so they can help us organize the library, in case there are any missing or unrecorded things! "
Zhu Yuanzhang sighed while adding seasoning to the mutton soup.
He finally found out what he was missing, the background of a wealthy family, if he had a father who was an emperor...
All right! Even if you become an emperor yourself, your children should know more and see things in the world.
"Your Majesty, we have recorded the items in He Lin's Beiyuan Treasure House. If Your Majesty needs it, can we write a booklet based on those items and introduce in detail the origin and use of each item?"
The head of the store didn't want to check the warehouse. Once he checked, he was sure to find out the problem, that is, someone had stolen it, or stolen some of the treasures and replaced them with defective ones.
Originally, people were living well, but if I go and kill a group of people, what a sin!
If you want to investigate, His Majesty will send someone else to investigate. It has nothing to do with Xiaqiu Village. Who is involved behind the scenes depends on His Majesty's mood.
"Do you have a picture? It's salty, so your mutton soup hasn't been seasoned yet, right?"
Zhu Yuanzhang tasted the mutton soup and said that he had added too much salt while chatting.
"No, it's just that your Majesty will give me some food." The chief understood, and took a spoon to toss the soup from the bowls of the two of them.
After Zhu Yuanzhang said OK, Li Changfang stopped and said: "There are pictures, but the pictures have to be done little by little. There are too many. Fortunately, all the medicinal materials in the previous prescription have been drawn, so there is no need to draw them again."
The convenience of drawings is guaranteed. Hanhan would draw pictures when he found time. Without pictures, engraving and printing would be impossible. Common people do not know many things.
Common poisonous snakes and poisonous mushrooms should be shown to the people, and then various medicinal materials. If you encounter them on the roadside, go to the mountain to pick mushrooms and find them, take them back quickly. The people will sell them for money, and the court will collect the medicines.
This is mainly for department stores, and people from all over the country learn from the store's pictures and then pick them up.
I usually ignore things that are weeds when I see them. If I know they are medicine, of course I will pick them.
This will reduce the pressure on Huimin Pharmacy, which will be expanded in the future. The biggest problem of the pharmacy is not lack of money but lack of available medicines.
The money can be subsidized by the finance. The healthier the people are, the more they work, the more output will naturally be produced. Then when excess things enter the circulation of commodities, there will be taxes.
At that time, the imperial court will issue credit currency, print money and give it out according to the Ming Dynasty economy, through commercial bank loans and national debt, or through repurchase.
Through the interest difference between selling and buying, the money is thrown away. For example, when lending to others, the annual interest rate is 3%. After a few years, both the loan and the deposit have increased, and the deposit interest rate is 6%.
The 3% of the previous loans were not recovered at all. This is a way for the central bank to release money and money into society.
In addition, there are social and economic benefits derived from loans. As long as they are higher than the loan interest rate, currency is issued and water is released.
Everything has two sides. If used well, it is good, and if used improperly, it is evil.
Therefore, there is no fear that the imperial court will provide medical subsidies to the people. What is lacking is that there are not enough medicinal materials and an environment for the growth of medicinal materials.
Only when people in various places collect medicines to sell can the medicinal materials be transported here and there, so that there are many kinds of medicines available in every place.
Some of the medicinal materials are medicines that people can use for free, and some of them are seasonings and soaps that people have to buy.
Isn’t it good for people to use the money from selling medicinal materials to buy these?
There have to be enough pictures, and they have to be in color. This is quite tiring, but the children helped with the drawings, and not everything is done by me, the headmaster.
The chief told His Majesty this part of the matter, and it must be done.
"That's very good. In the future our Ming Dynasty... oh! We agreed not to talk about state affairs during dinner."
Just as Zhu Yuanzhang was about to follow what he said, he suddenly had a headache. Why did he turn to this aspect again?
Yes, it started from whether I slept well last night. I first said that I wanted to rest and not talk about state affairs. It was better to ask how my sleep was yesterday. I said it was good, and then asked what medicine I took...
Later, there were sperm whales, ambergris, treasure houses, pictures, yes, pictures, and in the middle there was a sheep soup with too much salt, mixed with Yichang, and evenly mixed.
Let me ask you, how does it relate to the circulation of medicinal materials and the issuance of credit currency? too difficult! It’s so difficult!
"Your Majesty eats sweet garlic." The chief quickly followed and changed the subject.
"Sweet garlic is good, salty garlic is also good. The white one is sweet, and the soy sauce-colored one is salty. It was not easy to eat garlic when we were young. It is expensive.
If you don't take good care of garlic and ginger, a large area will die. You are white and can't even eat salt, so you still eat onions, ginger, and garlic?
In what month is garlic harvested? Is ginger planted in spring? The softened ginger sprout planting method given by the village is amazing!
Pickled ginger sprouts are so delicious! It's sweet and sour, but in the hot summer, it's better to eat ginger buds than ginger, or candied ginger. "
Zhu Yuanzhang tried his best to stop thinking about national affairs and talk about food. The ginger sprout technology in Xiaqiu Village has benefited countless people.
"Your Majesty, the ginger has been planted. The best female ginger in the village has been planted again. After planting it many times, the medicinal effect is good." The village chief replied.
"We know this. We have already sent people to arrange the few ginger planting places provided by our village, and there will be more and more in the future.
Yes, there is space in Hubei. Last year we asked people to talk to the local people and let go of the plain land that is good for farming.
Then we will select some land for people to grow ginger on a large scale. If the income from growing ginger is not as good as farming, we will subsidize it.
It belongs to industrial optimization rationing, no one suffers, the court and... uh... eat siomai. "
Zhu Yuanzhang was troubled again as he spoke, and agreed not to talk about national affairs...
My heart felt uncomfortable after the allergy in the past two days, and even less so. I tried hard to make up for it today!
(End of chapter)
