How can I detect problems with a pharmacy?
After hearing Lu Qiqi's words, a hint of murderous intent flashed in Song Yanqing's deep eyes.
An Jiu glanced at Lu Qiqi and bowed to report, "When An Shi led his men to investigate, they discovered that the guard in charge of supervising criminal affairs went to Lin Ji Pharmacy to buy a large amount of medicinal materials. Suspicious, they asked Magistrate He to search the account books."
Upon hearing this, Lu Qiqi was quite puzzled. With the Shadow Guard's methods, there was no need to conduct a large-scale search of the ledgers. They could simply sneak them out in the dead of night without alerting anyone.
Song Yanqing said, "Let the Dark Ten cause as much trouble as possible in the city. It's time to make these pharmacies bleed a little."
These pharmacies clearly had medicinal herbs, but they pretended to comply while secretly disobeying orders. When the imperial physician led people to buy medicine, he only provided half of the wound medicine, selling the other half to others at a high price.
While the soldiers on the front lines charged into battle, these merchants hid behind the soldiers, who used their mortal bodies as a wall, and lived a life of plenty.
Now, for his own selfish gain, he has committed the act of betraying his country and turning against his country, which is truly unforgivable!
An Jiu naturally understood what the young master meant by "dismissing the school." He feared that these merchants would have to live in fear and trembling as they traded on the frontier in the future.
"You just mentioned the prison guard," Lu Qiqi asked curiously, "Who is that? And who is he guarding?"
After receiving a nod from Song Yanqing, An Jiu began to answer Lu Qiqi's questions, "Building city walls in the border town and mining ore in Yanlian Mountain both require a large number of people."
Therefore, in recent years, His Majesty has decreed that criminals whose crimes do not warrant the death penalty will be escorted to the border cities to build city walls and mine ore.
The wardens were responsible for guarding these prisoners.
The Dark Ten discovered a treacherous oversight officer surnamed Wu, who was responsible for overseeing the construction of the border city.
Upon hearing this, Lu Qiqi suddenly looked up at Song Yanqing, who happened to be looking at her as well. Their eyes met.
After a moment, Lu Qiqi said, "There are..."
Before she could utter the word "enemy army," she saw Song Yanqing gently shake his head, and thus her words abruptly ceased.
Seeing that Lu Qiqi had stopped in time, Song Yanqing instructed, "An Jiu, send someone to keep a close eye on the criminal affairs department. As for the guard officer surnamed Wu, find out his background and report back."
"Yes!" An Jiu accepted the order and withdrew.
"The tea has gone cold, please bring another cup," Song Yanqing instructed An Yi.
After An Yi was sent away, Lu Qiqi finally voiced the question that Song Yanqing had raised when he interrupted her: "Isn't An Jiu one of your men? Why didn't you tell him there were enemy troops in the torture chamber?"
Song Yanqing said, "Not telling him is for his own good."
If he were to learn that enemy troops had infiltrated the prison service, he would inevitably and subconsciously increase manpower there. Given the current situation where the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light, it's not wise to take such a risk.
Lu Qiqi instantly understood, "An Jiu can neither exterminate the criminals nor accurately locate the enemy. Doing so will not only make it difficult to find the traitors, but will also allow the enemy to prepare and hide. In the future, the soldiers in the border city will probably have few nights of peace."
Upon receiving this news, Lu Qiqi finally understood why there had been continuous fighting recently and why the Tatars showed no interest in fighting. The reason was that they wanted to send someone to infiltrate the border town.
After the war ends, the soldiers of the Great Jin will clean up the battlefield and search for their surviving comrades.
The Tatars took advantage of this, selecting men from among the physically robust warriors who resembled the people of the Great Jin Dynasty to impersonate wounded soldiers and infiltrate the city.
Even so, how did these Tatars get into the prison and thus impersonate prisoners?
To accomplish these things, it is essential to have people in the military and the penal office to provide support; neither can be omitted in order to ensure proper arrangements.
From this perspective, the border pass is now walking on a tightrope, vulnerable to attacks from both sides. There can be no slackening, or it will plunge into a bottomless abyss.
Lu Qiqi sat in the main tent for a while before returning to the wounded soldiers' camp.
After spending two hours changing the bandages for the wounded soldiers, she planned to go to the medicine tent to help Imperial Physician Ren with whatever she could before dawn.
Since the doctor in charge of the medicine treasury was imprisoned, Imperial Physician Ren and Ren Yuan have been living in the medicine treasury to keep an eye on the doctors and register their medications.
When Lu Qiqi lifted the curtain of the medicine tent, she saw Imperial Physician Ren writing at his desk, while Ren Yuan was holding a winnowing basket and picking out the scraps from the medicinal herbs.
"Imperial Physician Ren," Lu Qiqi said cheerfully, "is there anything I can help with?"
During this period, Lu Qiqi was a capable assistant to Physician Ren. She was skilled at selecting and preparing medicines, and sometimes she could even offer some pointers and correct some minor problems in his preparation.
Therefore, the more Physician Ren looked at Lu Qiqi, the more he felt that she was a rare medical talent.
If her relatives hadn't been away, Imperial Physician Ren would have loved to find a matchmaker on the spot to propose marriage!
The more he thought about it, the more pleased he became, and his smile grew even more benevolent. He said, "Then I'll trouble the village head to help Ren Yuan select the medicinal herbs."
"Selecting medicinal herbs is a very simple matter," Lu Qiqi said with a light smile. "No problem."
After saying that, Lu Qiqi greeted Ren Yuan and sat down opposite him.
Upon hearing his father's words, Ren Yuan calmly placed the winnowing basket he was carrying on the low table.
The medicine tent was filled with the aroma of various herbs. Lu Qiqi stayed inside for two hours, and her body almost smelled of herbs.
Just as it was almost time for dinner, Lu Qiqi was preparing to take her leave and return to her own tent for a private meal.
There was some commotion outside the medicine tent.
"Hurry inside and find some medicinal herbs to apply to yourself."
"Yes, yes, thank you, sir."
"Thank you, sir."
The noise was quite loud.
Ren Yuan looked up and met his father's gaze. He nodded and prepared to leave the tent to check the situation outside.
But as soon as he took two steps, he saw seven or eight people scrambling to squeeze into the medicine tent.
It's the doctors who used to dispense medicine in the pharmacy; they're back!
However, all seven or eight of them were wearing undergarments that looked loose and ill-fitting.
"Hurry up and apply the medicine to them."
Lu Qiqi stood up, her gaze fixed on the back of one of the doctors, looking at the bloodstains that had stained his white undergarment.
Ren Yuan then remembered that they had entered the tent with heavy, clanging footsteps, and quickly said, "Quickly, sit down first."
The doctors were in so much pain in their backs that they dared not move. They were finally able to sit down with the help of Imperial Physician Ren and Ren Yuan.
The moment their buttocks touched the bench, all eight doctors grimaced in pain, large beads of sweat appearing on their foreheads.
Lu Qiqi stood behind them with the medicine tray, watching Ren Yuan help them undress.
The doctors' back wounds had stuck to their clothes, so they had to carefully tear them off. Ren Yuan and Imperial Physician Ren had to expend a lot of effort.
Lu Qiqi applied medicine to them, and to distract herself, she started chatting with the doctors.
"Dr. Lian, how were you all released?"
She picked up a cotton ball with a tweezer, put it in the bowl and stirred it. The water and wine in the bowl were instantly poured into the plump belly of the cotton ball.
Even though the doctor's back was so painful that it tensed up, he said in a hoarse voice, "Someone in the medicine treasury has confessed."
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