Chapter 2428: Excited Just Thinking About It
"The first three batches of patients were fine, why are you the one with the problem?"
After all, it was because the honest and obedient ones had been picked out before, and the quality of this fourth batch was not very good. During this period, the effort spent on taking care of them was twice as much as before.
The manager pointed at them and scolded them, and a few people slipped out of the team and ran back quietly to get their things.
The steward snorted coldly when he saw this, but when he turned around and saw Manbao, he smiled ingratiatingly again. He took a half step back, and when he raised his head again, he became confident and said, "Hurry up, hurry up, those behind you hurry up, the adults still need to eat, who has so much time to waste with you guys?"
After the steward got angry once, no one dared to withhold anything anymore. They took out the things they had received, checked them and threw them into the fire one handful at a time.
Manbao watched the fire burn out, nodded with satisfaction, and said to the steward, "You and the guards will send the people away later."
"Yes, sir."
Someone then boldly asked, "Sir, can we share the cattle in the farm?"
Manbao asked, "What do you want the cow for?"
"Zhuangzi needs cattle for farming. It would be much easier if he had a cow. And that cow had smallpox. If it died of the disease, no one else would be able to eat it, except us. So it would be better to give it to us, right?"
Manbao: "Who told you that people can't eat cows that have had smallpox?"
Everyone was stunned and asked, "Isn't it?"
"Of course not. When these cows get old and die, I'll eat them for you to see."
Everyone: ...Thank you, no thanks, they just want to use live cows, or they want to eat it themselves and don’t want to see others eating it.
Manbao waved them away and said, "Don't even think about it. These cattle belong to our Imperial Hospital. We won't give them to anyone."
These are all the property of the Imperial Hospital. They were bought by Xiao Yuanzheng and her. Of course, they can't be given to anyone casually.
Xiao Yuanzheng decided to keep the cows in this imperial farm so that he could observe their condition in the future. If their Imperial Hospital was short of money in the future, he could sell them to raise some money.
Of course, Xiao Yuan was not short of money now, so he generously handed it over to the manager of the imperial farm and asked them to use it for farming.
Xiao Yuanzheng stayed in the palace for half a day and finally reported their achievements to the emperor and the ministers. He generously left the people on duty and took the others out of the palace to have dinner.
Including the medical assistant and the female doctor, he booked two tables in Zhuangyuan Building.
Dean Xiao and Imperial Physician Liu came to fetch Imperial Physician Lu and Zhou Man. They said cheerfully, "I will attend the grand court tomorrow. Imperial Physician Zhou will come with me. Although His Majesty hasn't said it explicitly, I believe His Majesty will offer a generous reward."
Who doesn’t like getting promoted?
Manbao and Doctor Lu were both slightly excited.
When they arrived at Zhuangyuan Building, Xiao Yuanzheng asked the two to sit on either side of him to show his respect for them.
Manbao naturally had to give way to Doctor Liu, so he fell one position behind Doctor Liu.
This was the first time that the Imperial Hospital had gathered in nearly three months, and since they had made great contributions, everyone was very happy. Except for Manbao and a few female doctors, everyone else drank a lot of wine.
After Manbao had eaten and drunk his fill, he looked outside and found that the sun was almost setting, and Xiao Yuanzheng and the others seemed to be moving on. So he simply stood up and said goodbye, and by the way, he took Liu Sanniang and several female doctors who were sitting at another table out with him.
Dean Xiao really wanted to invite people from the Music Bureau to sing a little song, dance or something like that. It was really not convenient for Zhou Man and the others to entertain them here, so he didn't stop them and smiled as he asked Doctor Zheng to send them off.
Manbao led a group of girls downstairs and turned to ask them, "Are you going back to the palace or home?"
Female doctors usually live in the palace, but the Imperial Hospital is obviously on holiday today, so they can naturally go home.
The female doctors thought for a moment and then decided to go home.
Manbao asked Liu Sanniang's driver to send them back one by one, and she and Liu Sanniang walked slowly back along the street.
Liu Sanniang walked beside Manbao and said, "Master, I heard from my grandfather that you are going to be promoted again this time."
Manbao had just drunk two glasses of wine, and his cheeks were a little red. Hearing this, he said, "Don't talk lightly about things that haven't been clearly decreed."
Liu Sanniang nodded.
The master and the disciple walked all the way home. Before they even entered the street where their home was, they saw Bai Shan strolling out with a horse. They were both stunned when they met, and Bai Shan smiled, "You're out?"
Manbao nodded.
Turning to see him leading her red horse, she asked, "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to pick you up," Bai Shan handed her the horse and said with a smile, "I heard from Brother Tang Xue that everyone in the imperial farm will be dismissed today, so I guessed you would be out today as well. But since you haven't come back for so long, I wanted to go and see you."
Daji got off his horse and gave it to Liu Sanniang.
Liu Sanniang declined, and Manbao and Baishan did not ride horses. Instead, they just walked back leisurely, leading the horses and chatting.
Manbao told him, "The test has come to an end for now. We have a grand court meeting tomorrow, so we should be able to have a holiday the day after tomorrow. Are you going to take the Ministry of Personnel exam the day after tomorrow?"
Bai Shan nodded and asked curiously, "Why is the grand court meeting tomorrow? Shouldn't it be the day after tomorrow?"
Manbao said, "Your Majesty is anxious."
Anyway, it only happens once every ten days, so what does it matter if it comes a day earlier or later? The emperor just needs to say a word, and he told his subordinates, and the officials will go and notify those who need to attend the grand court meeting.
Bai Shan looked around and whispered in Man Bao's ear, "You are going to be named village chief."
Manbao's eyes widened, his already red face became even redder, and there seemed to be a light in his eyes, "Really?"
Bai Shan smiled and nodded, "Really? Bai Er heard it from Princess Changyu. She said it was the emperor who told her personally."
Manbao began to calculate it himself and couldn't help asking, "Is it an official title or a title of nobility?"
There is a big difference between official titles and titles.
For example, Manbao's goal has always been to confer titles on her parents. With her current rank, her mother can be conferred the title of a fifth-rank county lady and her father can be conferred the title of a Fengzheng official. Conferring titles is an honor, and the court will give some formal clothes and hats and other things, and will also send some rice, flour, grain, oil and meat during festivals, but there is no salary on ordinary days.
Unless she died on the job, then there would be mercy, ahem, of course, she wouldn't die.
Official titles are real titles just like Bai Shan and others. They not only come with salary and rice, but also with land, which is very honorable.
However, there was no village lord in the Great Jin Dynasty. During the Western Han Dynasty, the court would reward the daughters of princes or meritorious officials with titles such as village lords and pavilion lords. Later, no one rewarded them. The daughters of princes could basically be granted a county as fief and directly be named county lords.
Manbao stroked his chin and thought. The village lord was a fifth-rank official, so he had a fief of 500 households, which was five miles. He got excited just thinking about it.
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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