Chapter 3107 Shock
Xiao Yuanzheng sighed deeply and said, "Zhou Man said that the royal family opening this pharmacy will bring more benefits than disadvantages to the people of Dajin and the world."
Doctor Lu was furious. "What about our Imperial Medical Bureau? She even wrote us a letter telling us to find a way to make money, saying that this was the only way for the Bureau to survive long-term. But then she turned around and handed the prescription over to the imperial family. We just managed to get the prescription out to all the medical bureaus, and we just opened a small path, and now it's closed off?"
"No," Xiao Yuanzheng glanced at him and said, "Zhou Man said that we should petition the court to build a pharmacy for the Imperial Medical Bureau. Our pharmacy will be even larger than the royal family's. We will not only produce penicillin, but also watermelon frost, wound medicine, and windproof powder. In short, as long as it is easy to sell and suitable for patients all over the world, we can make it. In addition, we also have various ointments and patches..."
Doctor Lu's mouth dropped open in surprise, while Doctor Liu shuddered. He then glanced around, making sure Doctor Zheng was gone before swallowing and saying, "Won't this offend every pharmacy and clinic in the world again?"
Xiao Yuanzheng thought about it and shook his head, "I don't think so. Selling these finished medicines probably won't reduce the source of patients in pharmacies and clinics. On the contrary, we can sell the finished medicines to pharmacies and clinics all over the world."
Imperial Physicians Liu and Lu were lost in thought.
Naturally, each pharmacy and medical clinic has its own prescriptions for ready-made medicines, but some of their prescriptions are definitely not as comprehensive as those of the Imperial Medical Bureau. The Imperial Medical Bureau has more prescriptions, and even most of them are not as good as those of the Imperial Medical Bureau.
They can just sell the finished medicines to pharmacies and clinics as medicinal materials.
Doctor Liu took a while to recover and asked hurriedly, "What about the medicines from various medical offices..."
"I still do, but I only give them some commonly used, less confidential prescriptions. Important prescriptions like penicillin can only be kept in the pharmacy of the Imperial Medical Bureau and will become confidential in the future."
For some reason, Imperial Physician Liu breathed a sigh of relief, a smile spreading across his face. "I've always thought Imperial Physician Zhou was being too generous. It's not that being generous is bad, but this medicine is of great importance. If the person who got the prescription had ulterior motives and spread the word..."
Xiao Yuanzheng sighed and said, "Who could have known this medicine would be so potent? Not even Lord Zhou himself had anticipated it. In his letter, he repeatedly confirmed with me the accuracy of the data from various trials, fearing that someone had deliberately exaggerated its effectiveness."
So although they valued this prescription at the beginning, they were not very cautious. Fortunately, not many people knew about this prescription. Now, except Zhou Man and Wen Tiandong, everyone else has been summoned back to Beijing to take classes and then put it in a suitable confidential position.
Xiao Yuanzheng asked the two of them, "What do you think of Zhou Man's idea?"
Doctor Lu asked, "Can our pharmacy compete with the royal family's?"
He said bluntly: "If you can snatch it, then give it to us. Half of our finances now still depend on Your Majesty and the Crown Prince."
Xiao Yuanzheng touched his nose and said, "Zhou Man suggested that we set up another department in the Imperial Medical Bureau to specifically inspect the quality of finished medicines and fake and inferior medicines on the market."
Doctor Liu and Doctor Lu fell silent again. Doctor Lu didn't say anything until the end. Doctor Liu sighed and said, "Director, listen to Master Zhou."
He patted his robe and stood up. "In terms of official qualifications, we are superior to her, but in terms of intelligence, talent, and foresight, we are indeed inferior to her."
He bowed and was about to leave, but after a moment's hesitation, he couldn't help but turn around and say, "Director, why don't we add a course in the Imperial Medical Bureau specifically to teach the Four Books and Five Classics and the Classics, History, and Miscellaneous Works?"
Doctor Lu opened his mouth, but hesitated to speak.
Dean Xiao frowned and said, "But this will distract the students' attention, which is not good for their medical skills."
"But medical skills alone aren't enough," Imperial Physician Liu couldn't help but say, "Look at us, and then look at Lord Zhou. We can only look at our feet, while Lord Zhou looks to the horizon. If it weren't for Lord Zhou's advice this time, the Imperial Medical Bureau would have been caught up in a struggle with His Majesty's royal family. The Imperial Medical Bureau has only been promoted for a few years, how could it withstand all this?"
Xiao Yuan was silent.
Doctor Lu looked at Doctor Liu, then back at Dean Xiao. He couldn't help but whisper, "How about asking Zhou Man?"
Xiao Yuanzheng thought this was a good idea and nodded, "Okay, I'll write to ask her. Oh, by the way, she urged me to send her someone last time, so I'll ask her who she wants. After the New Year, I can pick two people to send to her."
"Two?" Doctor Lu sat up straight immediately. "How can Qingzhou accommodate so many people?"
"Qingzhou is different," Xiao Yuanzheng said, "Zhou Man went to Qingzhou to find the most suitable way for the local medical bureau and to improve the various rules and regulations of the local medical bureau, so we must do our best to satisfy her."
Xiao Yuanzheng picked up the letter on the table and pointed at it. "She suggested that the provincial medical office be upgraded to the fifth or sixth rank according to its rank, and that it govern the county medical offices. The county medical offices would be divided into grades six to eight according to the county's rank. She said she has already submitted a memorial, and once the new year begins, His Majesty and the three provinces and six ministries will see her memorial."
Imperial Physician Liu and Imperial Physician Lu were speechless again.
In the end, the two of them walked out of the Xiao family in silence.
Seeing that Doctor Liu was about to bow and say goodbye, Doctor Lu couldn't help but grab his arm and said, "Doctor Liu, do you think Zhou Man will be the next director?"
Doctor Liu: "... Doctor Lu, Dean Xiao is in his prime, don't overthink it."
As long as the imperial physician is not implicated in power struggles, he or she can generally live a long life. How old is Xiao Yuanzheng?
Doctor Lu withdrew his hand, but said firmly, "I think Zhou Man is very likely to be the next director of the hospital. No, he may even be the next director of the department."
The former is fine, but the latter is a third-rank official, a frontier governor.
Imperial Physician Liu said quietly, "Master Zhou is now a fourth-rank editor."
So what's the big deal if she's promoted to the third rank ten or twenty years later?
Doctor Lu thought so too, but he felt something was strange, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
When he was almost home, he remembered, "Yes, Zhou Man is a girl!"
After thinking about it, he quickly deflated. Never mind. Didn't the officials in the court know that she was a woman? Didn't they still attend court for many years?
When Doctor Lu returned home, he saw his two sons chasing and playing with sticks in the yard. His face immediately turned serious and he stopped them unhappily. He asked sullenly, "What are you doing? Have you memorized all the herbs and soup recipes I asked you to memorize?"
The two children stopped immediately, put their hands behind their backs and hid the sticks.
Mrs. Lu rushed over after hearing the news and said quickly, "It's the New Year, let the children take it easy."
"If you can't even memorize this little recipe for a medicinal soup, what's the point of being so careless?" He then remembered something and asked, "Where's the big girl?"
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(End of this chapter)
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