Chapter 745 A Dream of Youth 277
When Xie Ning returned to the capital, it was midsummer. She had been staying in her hometown for the past few months and naturally did not know what had happened in the capital, except that there were far fewer monks on the streets.
Meanwhile, the private examinations at the Imperial Academy had already been completed. Although Xie Ning was the advocate, her main responsibility was not in this area, so the people in charge were Yan Xi and other officials from the Ministry of Works.
These female officials would accompany the weavers to the designated pilot prefectures to promote cotton textiles. After the pilot promotion in the prefectures had been going on for a while, they would begin to cooperate with private weaving workshops.
During this period, countless wealthy merchants openly and secretly exerted their influence on the Xie family, all in an effort to obtain the qualification for cotton textile production.
It's not that they can't find cotton and spin it themselves, but firstly, if the government finds out, they will be fined and shut down; secondly, besides the cloth made from grass and cotton, they also crave the machines in the government workshops!
Xie Ning's improved textile machine was so efficient that it was hard for anyone to resist its allure.
Xie Wangzhi refused all the offers of bribes he received to obtain cotton textile qualifications, explaining that he was not in charge of that area.
In no time, the Ministry of Works came up with an auction method: you needed to be qualified, and the highest bidder won!
Even so, many merchants still spend a fortune on it.
With government-run workshops in the country, these privately owned weaving workshops probably wouldn't get much benefit, since the market price of cotton cloth is very low. But just because they can't sell it domestically doesn't mean they can't sell it abroad.
They would travel to the northern Jin Dynasty, the surrounding barbarian lands of the Great Zhou Dynasty, or even sail overseas to exchange for gold, silver, or rare and precious gems and spices from the Great Zhou Dynasty.
With just a few transactions, you can make a fortune.
The Chen family had considered all the methods these merchants could think of, and had arranged for Chen Yunsheng and Chen Yunbai to go to sea or travel to the Western Regions in batches.
Chen Yin also wanted to go out to do business, but Huo Shi sent him back. After all, he was getting on in years, and if he went out to sea, he didn't know if he would come back. He should just stay home and focus on the other businesses at home.
After all, the Chen family's business was not limited to textiles. The textile workshop was mainly managed by the Huo family, while Chen Yin managed the Chen family's restaurants and other businesses.
Chen Yuncheng had considerable expertise in improving and designing looms, so Xie Wangzhi invited skilled craftsmen and great scholars to teach him.
Once Chen Yuncheng has improved his basic skills, we'll let him take the college entrance exam. I can't say for sure about other departments, but he should be able to get into the Ministry of Works. After all, Xie Ning didn't forget Chen Yuncheng when he talked about those improved looms.
This can be considered as him making a name for himself in front of the emperor.
Xie Ning completely relinquished control of textile matters, except for improvements to the looms, and then devoted herself to the official business of the pharmaceutical factory.
Currently, the imperial pharmacies are located not only in the capital but also in some other important prefectures. However, only the pharmacies in the capital have women's pharmacy workshops.
Xie Ning wanted to assign people to pharmacies in various places.
However, she was also well aware that the current level of students in the pharmaceutical institute was far from being able to stand on their own.
Because the number of students in the pharmaceutical institute was already small, they had to study in the capital and also busy making medicines, which could be described as a work-study arrangement. If Xie Ning wanted to distribute them to pharmacies in various places, there wouldn't be enough people.
Therefore, we can only bring out this group of people, and then assign one or two to each pharmacy, so that they can independently recruit students and open up the pharmaceutical division.
However, teaching alone would be very slow, so when Jiang Yuanzheng invited her again to become a doctoral professor at the Imperial Medical Bureau, Xie Ning proposed merging the Pharmaceutical Bureau and the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Jiang Yuanzheng hesitated greatly, while the Imperial Physician refused him several times. He said, "It's fine if Xie Ning comes, but what about those female workers?"
"Doctor Xie, the pharmaceutical workshop has a mission. If all those female workers go to the Imperial Medical Bureau to learn, how will the pharmaceutical workshop operate?"
Xie Ning was copying down the data when she heard this and nodded in agreement. "What Dean Jiang said is right, so I plan to recruit another batch of women."
When the first batch of students goes to the Imperial Medical Bureau to study, they will take turns teaching the newly joined students at the Pharmaceutical Institute. Once the new batch has a solid foundation, the medical skills of the first batch of students will have improved considerably.
Then she could send the first batch to pharmacies in various places, so that the second batch could continue to study at the Imperial Medical Bureau.
This process will be repeated, and the team of female doctors will gradually expand. At that time, she will proceed with the next step of her plan.
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