Chapter 2483 Team
The ranks of the imperial physicians in the Imperial Medical Bureau remain unchanged. Dean Xiao is still a fourth-rank director, but before, the fourth rank was the full-time position, and the Director of the Imperial Medical Bureau was a part-time position without a rank. Now, the fourth rank is the part-time position.
Zhou Man was still a fifth-rank imperial physician, and she also held the position of editor at the Chongwenguan. She calculated in her mind that if she could also work part-time as a high-ranking official in the Imperial Medical Bureau, wouldn't that mean she would have three positions at the same time?
All three positions are real jobs, which means not only a salary but also official land.
The salary that the Jin Dynasty paid to officials was actually not much. Take Manbao as an example. She can now earn about ten to twelve taels of silver a month from working in a pharmacy. The medical fees from her outpatient consultations basically belong to her. The pharmacy only requires that the medicinal materials come from their pharmacy.
But her current salary as an imperial physician is only 3,600 coins a month, which is far lower than the price of practicing medicine outside.
Because for officials, their income does not mainly come from salary, or even rice allowance, but from the income from official land.
Generally speaking, officials with real official positions usually have official land. If not, their salaries will definitely be high, and other benefits will also follow accordingly, such as a doctorate in the Imperial College.
Although it might be hard to think about juggling three jobs, it seems to be very profitable.
Manbao was a little moved.
Then, together with the other imperial doctors, they looked at Xiao Yuanzheng with sharp eyes.
Xiao Yuanzheng waved his hand and said, "Don't look at me. There's a lot of work to be done. The Imperial Medical Bureau is different now than before, so I can't make the decision alone. But I will fight for you."
In the past, the Imperial Medical Bureau was an institution under the Imperial Hospital that trained doctors. It didn't even have a rank and relied entirely on the support of the Crown Prince and the Imperial Hospital. So except for a few discussions among the ministers when they needed to use money from the national treasury, matters in the Imperial Medical Bureau were basically decided by the Crown Prince and himself.
But in fact, the prince didn't care much about the Imperial Medical Bureau, so Xiao Yuanzheng had the final say on all rounding.
Now that is obviously impossible.
Xiao Yuanzheng went to the emperor to attend a small court meeting. Well, he was now qualified and could attend the small court meeting every day if he wanted.
In fact, Xiao Yuanzheng felt a little lacking in confidence when facing these adults of the same rank as him, so he didn't really want to participate.
But he had no other choice.
The Imperial Medical Bureau had not yet decided on any other officials except for him, so he had to attend.
No matter what, we have to first decide on the position of Chief Physician, so that we can recruit troops... No, we have to fill the vacancy.
Because they were his subordinates, he was the first to recommend them. On the way there, Xiao Yuanzheng had already thought about everyone in the Imperial Hospital, so when he arrived at the Imperial Study, he directly recommended two people to the emperor, "Doctor Liu and Doctor Zhou can be my assistants."
The ministers present expressed their opposition, not because they were against Xiao Yuanzheng's opinion, but because they thought, "Two Imperial Physician Secretaries cannot both come from the Imperial Hospital. Only one needs to be proficient in medicine, while the other must know how to manage subordinates. The Imperial Physician Secretaries are to assist the Imperial Physician Commander in managing the Imperial Physician Office."
Wei Zhi suggested, "I think we should transfer someone from elsewhere to assist Xiao Yuanzheng in building the Imperial Medical Bureau."
Others, especially the Minister of Personnel, seconded the motion.
How can the management of a department be so simple? The Imperial Medical Bureau does not only need imperial physicians who understand medical skills. Otherwise, how is it different from the Imperial Hospital which only knows how to treat patients?
In terms of eloquence and reasoning, Xiao Yuan was no match for these old men, so he was persuaded.
When it comes to calculating the required amount of medicinal materials in various places, rationally planning the expenditure on purchasing medicinal materials, the construction and optimal number of new medical offices each year, and the management of the relationship between the Imperial Medical Office and local medical offices, and other complicated matters, who is more capable, the imperial physicians in your Imperial Hospital, or the Jinshi or Mingjing who have experience as local officials, have been in charge of prefectures and counties, and have studied hard for more than ten years?
In fact, if the Imperial Medical Bureau was not a highly technical department, they would not even want to reserve the position of Imperial Medical Bureau Secretary for Xiao Yuanzheng.
Because these old people don't trust the management level of these medical craftsmen from the bottom of their hearts.
So, you choose one between Doctor Liu and Zhou Man.
But in fact, no one gave Xiao Yuanzheng the opportunity to choose. Zhou Man now holds two positions. Whether from the perspective of technology, qualifications, or personal energy, Doctor Liu is the most suitable.
Someone suggested that Zhou Man could be transferred from Chongwenguan to the Imperial Medical Bureau. After all, they were both fourth-rank officials, and the Chief Medical Officer of the Imperial Medical Bureau was a fourth-rank official, so it could be considered a promotion.
But let alone Wei Zhi and Old Lord Tang, even Xiao Yuanzheng, who was considered not very smart by everyone, expressed strong opposition.
He was not stupid and knew that Zhou Man's benefits in Chongwenguan were far greater than those in the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Not to mention that the Imperial Medical Bureau was a newly established department, its official and social status alone were different.
The Chongwenguan was full of civil servants, and their official status was the same as that of the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial College of the same rank. They were considered noble. What does noble mean?
It means a clean place with no money but a high status.
Zhou Man's situation there is much better than that in the Imperial Medical Bureau. Not to mention that the Chief Physician is only half a rank higher, he wouldn't change even if it was one rank higher.
So Xiao Yuanzheng directly appointed Doctor Liu as the Chief Physician of the Imperial Physician Office.
Manbao and the other doctors in the Imperial Hospital knew nothing about this. They were discussing enthusiastically the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts given by the court this year in the Imperial Hospital.
Well, you have to go to the Ministry of Revenue to collect the holiday gifts, but they will give you a list. You can take the list and then go to collect it, and collect the things according to the list.
Festival gifts are distributed according to positions, not numbers, so Manbao got two.
She watched with joy.
Doctor Zheng came forward to look at her list and was filled with envy. "Doctor Zhou actually has a jar of Bamboo Leaf Green."
Manbao said, "Last year it was chrysanthemum wine, why is it Bamboo Leaf Green today?"
"Bamboo Leaf Green is much better than Chrysanthemum Wine," Doctor Zheng said quickly. "If Doctor Zhou wants Chrysanthemum Wine, why don't I trade with you?"
"Forget it, I don't drink," Manbao said, "I'm going to take this wine back for my father and my brothers to drink."
Doctor Liu said, "It seems the treasury will have a good harvest this year, and the benefits will be better than in previous years."
Man Bao thought for a moment and said, "This year, the suburbs of Beijing and the Yongzhou area have been blessed with good weather and good harvests."
At least she reaped a lot of rewards from her two large pieces of land.
Doctor Liu, who knew more, smiled and said, "I heard that this year only the Taiyuan area suffered from drought, and there were floods in the Jingzhou area, but both were extremely serious."
There are floods and droughts every year. After all, the world is so big, how can there be good weather everywhere?
If the floods and droughts are not particularly serious, the local areas will just bear the consequences themselves. Only when the situation is more serious will the capital city step in to provide relief.
So overall this year has been good weather and good harvests.
Because everything went well this year, the emperor was very happy. Once he was happy, the court officials also became joyful. Except for the royal family who were still in mourning, the people had decided to have a good time during this Mid-Autumn Festival.
It’s only August 12th, but the place is already bustling with activity.
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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