Chapter 263 Listen to the Princess
When Chen Ning fell ill and couldn't move, she watched videos, all kinds of videos. Once, she accidentally saw a video about greenhouse cultivation, which happened to mention that potatoes are more suitable for greenhouse cultivation than corn.
That is why, in these more than 100 greenhouses, Chen Ning mostly grows potatoes and less corn, for fear of any mistakes and wasting corn seeds.
The early stages of potato planting require cutting and some preparatory work, and she chose prisoners who had been exiled with her.
When Shen Qingbai went to Liaodong Pass to build the city defense, most of the people he took were former prisoners from Beihai Prefecture. Because they didn't know their backgrounds, he took them to build the city wall, and left most of the more reliable prisoners who had traveled with them to Shen Ning.
Shen Ning taught this group of people how to sow the first batch of potato seeds.
Shen Ning was not proficient in cutting potatoes into pieces and growing them as sprouts. She fumbled with it as she went along and planted potatoes in four greenhouses first… After the potatoes in those four greenhouses had successfully sprouted and emerged, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to work in the remaining greenhouses according to the previous method.
There are more than a hundred greenhouses, each of which is managed by five to eight people, which is enough for the prisoners who came with her.
Compared to the original people in Beihai Prefecture, Shen Ning certainly trusted them more.
Among those people, she also specially selected some who had brought their families with them and acted steadily and reliably as the person in charge of each greenhouse, responsible for managing the greenhouse and assigning specific responsibilities to individuals.
While things in the greenhouse were progressing in an orderly manner, Shen Ning also carefully trained the selected doctors, and then was pleasantly surprised to find that those people were good at quite comprehensive areas.
Among the eight people with the best medical skills, four are good at treating internal diseases such as typhoid fever, two are good at treating external injuries, and two are good at treating leucorrhea... So, internal medicine, surgery, gynecology... we have it all!
Okay, eight chief physicians are here!
As for the other doctors, Shen Ning was not particularly confident in their medical skills, so he selected a few to be placed beside the chief physician to help with their studies, and then selected a few more to be placed in the "inpatient department" as residents, rotating them in turns. As for those who only had a basic understanding of medical theory, they were placed in the pharmacy to dispense medicine.
Perfect!
She is truly a chosen worker. No matter where she goes, she never forgets her work and makes everything very clear!
If those selected as hospital doctors are prisoners, they will no longer have to do heavy physical labor as before, and Shen Ning will also give them a certain amount of "overtime pay" based on the number of patients.
If they were originally civilians, they would be given a generous salary. In short, those who became doctors in the hospital were very happy and motivated.
At first, when the people in the city heard that a "hospital" had been opened there, they were confused and stayed away. After all, everyone knew that those huge "greenhouses" were the princess's property.
Is the "hospital" opened in the Princess's Mansion a place where ordinary people can go?
I'm afraid I'll have to exchange human flesh for pork, and I'll have to risk my life to see a doctor.
But soon the news about the "hospital" spread throughout the city, and the first thing to be reported was the old man who was coughing badly but still gritting his teeth to force himself to work.
The old man coughed so badly that he could hardly sleep at night. He was forcibly taken to the "hospital" by the manager of the greenhouse construction site. After arriving at the hospital, someone took him to the pharmacy at the back to get medicine.
From doctors to pharmacists, all of them were friendly and not at all as fierce as the doctors at the "Renshan Hall" in the city.
The doctor first prescribed five prescriptions for him to go home and boil them. At that time, the old man was ready to spend all his wages that month, but when he heard the cost, he was almost shocked.
The cost of seeing a doctor and getting medicine in such a large and luxurious "hospital" is less than one-third of that in "Renshantang".
It’s so cheap?
After returning, the old man also learned that because he was employed by Hua Yingxue, and the "hospital" also belonged to Hua Yingxue, he could take a three-day rest based on the "case" written in the hospital, and he could also get half of his wages every day during these three days.
If you calculate it this way, although he didn't make any money during the days he was sick and taking medicine, he didn't spend any money at all.
Can I see a doctor for free?
After taking five days' worth of medicine and resting for three days, the old man soon got much better. The first thing he did when he went out was to tell the neighbors that he had received medical treatment at the "hospital" without spending much money.
At first, no one believed it. How could it be possible that the consultation was free?
But then someone started to agree.
"Yesterday, Lao Daozi's youngest son had a long gash on his arm. Blood was gushing out. He heard the 'hospital' could treat injuries, so he went to try it out. And guess what, he got it sewn up... just like they sew clothes, using some wool or mutton thread or something..."
The person who was speaking drooled in amazement and said, "Guess what? It only cost fifteen cents. Fifteen cents, and that includes medicine and bandages!"
Fifteen cents was actually not a small amount for the common people. After working hard all day, the most capable person could only earn thirty cents.
But for treating such a serious injury, it is really extremely cheap.
In the past, for such a large wound with bleeding profusely, the medical officer would simply bandage it up, but the bleeding would continue. Furthermore, the weather was getting colder and the wound was healing more slowly. If frostbite developed in winter, the arm might even fester.
But in the hospital, they just sewed it up like that and put the arm in a sling. They said it would heal in ten days or half a month, and I just needed to change the dressing twice in between.
"Oh, and they also gave me a bowl of that garlic water, saying it would stop the ulcers..."
As the crowd grew, more and more stories were spread.
The boss's daughter had a high fever and convulsions and was dying, so she went to the hospital. They gave her some medicine and then scraped her back with a small board. The fever went away and the child recovered. They even let the child stay in the hospital for two days, saying that the room was not cold at all and there was someone to take care of her.
There was also the woman from the Xi family who had difficulty giving birth. Seeing that she was dying, they sent her to the hospital as a last resort. The princess actually personally instructed the "midwives" recruited by the hospital to deliver the baby... Later, both mother and daughter survived.
It is said that the mother and daughter stayed in the hospital. The midwife had no milk, so the hospital boiled goat milk for the child. They stayed there for two days and went home today. The chubby boy cried very loudly.
The main thing is that after saving a life, there is no need to pay off the debt by breaking the bank...
Someone murmured, "Could it be that the princess is the reincarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva?"
"What are you talking about? The princess is rich, and this little money is nothing to her."
"What nonsense! Their wealth didn't just fall from the sky... It was the Princess' kindness that granted us the land in Beihai Prefecture and treated us as her subjects."
"Last time when we built the greenhouse, there were very few people recruiting from outside, so I didn't get in. I don't know if there will be another chance next time."
"Yes, yes. I heard Huayingxue is hiring people to open up the wasteland and dig the land. They said they want to burn the weeds on the wasteland, then turn the wasteland over and put the ashes in. After the turned land has snowed over the winter, crops can be planted next year."
"Growing crops? Hey, Princess, you're not good at farming. We can't grow any good crops in Beihai Prefecture..."
"What if the crops don't grow and the princess's money slowly runs out? Will she close the hospital?"
"Who knows..."
"Go away, what do you know? That coal mine now belongs to the princess. Just think about how much silver the coal in it is worth. This little money is nothing. Work hard. I can see now that our Beihai Prefecture may be able to survive."
"That's right, that's right. Work hard and listen to the princess. Our lives will be better than before..."
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