Shen Yuelan naturally didn't know about the undercurrent happening outside the courtyard. She now planned to give Su Chang a task, which was to let her and Xuanyuan Minghong's team go to Jiangning Prefecture first to investigate the contract money in Jiangnan.
Because Su Chang was born in Jiangnan, she is familiar with the misty area of Jiangnan. With her as a guide, Xuanyuan Minghong and his team can carry out the exploration work better.
Shen Yuelan will take over Jiangling Prefecture personally. After finding the contract money for Jingxiang, she will take Fu Xi and others to Jiangnan to meet them.
Shen Yuelan made such arrangements naturally because Gan Yuelong's arrival gave Shen Yuelan a certain confidence. Even if the main combat force in her hands was sent out, Shen Yuelan could calmly deal with various emergencies.
Xuanyuan Minghong and others have not been without results these days. They have been inquiring in Jiangling Prefecture for more than half a month and have found many witnesses who said that they had spent this type of copper coins, but the number of people is really too large.
Shen Yuelan speculated that the contract money should have always been used as ordinary currency and had not fallen into the hands of any specific person, but this undoubtedly increased the difficulty of the search by Shen Yuelan and others.
They could only handle more copper coins by buying things, exchanging silver and money, doing business, etc., in an attempt to filter out the contract money from the vast sea of money. Fu Xi and others did the same thing in Xiangyang Prefecture.
This will undoubtedly take a lot of time, but governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. As a fisherman, Shen Yuelan feels that she needs patience. Gan Yuelong also agrees with Shen Yuelan's idea, so everyone starts to set up businesses in Jiangling Prefecture and start doing business.
Just one day before Xuanyuan Minghong and his companions set off, Shen Sushang mentioned Li Shun's contract money to Shen Yuelan.
[The state of the contract coin seems a little strange, as if it has a living being, but it is also half dead, and it is vaguely hostile to me, which is completely different from Su Xin. I can't eat it, and I can't not eat it.]
Shen Yuelan heard this and suddenly remembered that the contract between this contract coin and Li Shun was forcibly cut off by Xia Longque with the magic sword, which greatly damaged his strength, so he was half dead. As for hostility, huh!
[Give me the contract money and I will help you deal with it. ]
Su Chang was slightly startled when she heard this, as if she had guessed what Shen Yuelan wanted to do, and hesitated whether she should take it out. Seeing this, Shen Yuelan spoke bluntly:
[Su Shang, if she was like Su Xin, it would be fine. If you want to keep her, no one will stop you. But she has become conscious and has begun to hate us, right? ]
[Su Shang, if you don't want to kill her, do you have the confidence to influence her and make her become your family again? ]
[If you can't, then you're raising a tiger to cause trouble. ]
【I……】
Chapter 72 Doctor Xiao Shen
Su Chang finally had no choice but to hand over the contract money. She asked Shen Yuelan to give her one night to talk about the contract money again.
If the other party refuses to change his mind, it will not be too late to deal with it. Shen Yuelan shrugged her shoulders and did not force it. She turned around and went to study what business she should do next.
Shen Yuelan wanted to buy a winery and do the liquor business, but there were no wineries on the market that were willing to sell their shops, and Shen Yuelan herself could not get a business license issued by the government, so she had to give up.
I heard that Fu Xi is a very wild person. Relying on her strong force, she and her gang set up an underground casino. They make money like water every day and make huge profits.
It’s a pity that Xuanyuan Minghong and the others are leaving tomorrow, otherwise Shen Yuelan would have to give it a try.
After many attempts, Shen Yuelan finally bought a coffin shop on a street where business was not very good, and opened a clinic relying on Gan Yuelong's medical skills.
Shen Yuelan and others served as apprentices, learning medicine from Gan Yuelong. When in Tokyo, Shen Yuelan also studied medicine with Gan Yuelong for a period of time, but the study ended due to the outbreak of the Annan War. This time, the study has been resumed.
On the day before Gan's Clinic was about to open, which was also the morning when Su Chang and her companions were about to set off, Su Chang still handed over the coin. It was obvious that she had failed.
After a night of communication, Contract Qian's attitude towards Su Chang softened a lot, at least she acknowledged that Su Chang was her sister.
He once hesitated whether to stay with Su Chang and serve his elder sister with Su Xin, but in the end he chose to die because he could not forget Li Shun. Since ancient times, it has been difficult to be both loyal and filial, and this is the case.
Su Shang named this sister who was determined to die Su Yi. Looking at these two guys acting out this drama of sisterly love, Shen Yuelan didn't know whether to kill them or not.
She has even given this guy a name, which shows that she has developed feelings for him. If I take action against her, Su Shang will blame me for the rest of her life. I should have dealt with her before giving her the baby.
最后沈月岚还是没有宰了素衣,因为沈月岚也和这家伙谈了一上午,说起了素裳对于自己姐妹的喜爱,讲到了李顺并没有被她们杀死,最多只是揍了一顿而已。
At the end of the conversation, except for this guy who still had some resentment towards Xia Longque's knife, he was not so reluctant to stay. Shen Yuelan thought that it might be because Li Shun was still alive that her resentment dissipated a lot.
Shen Yuelan hung her at the door of the clinic, hoping to enrich her short and boring life experience by letting her witness the various stories happening in the clinic every day, so as to reduce Li Shun's influence on Su Yi.
Although Su Yi complained that this move was useless, at least Shen Su Shang went to Jiangnan happily after seeing that her sisters were not killed.
I don’t know if it’s because this place used to be a coffin shop, but the clinic’s business has never been very good, and the daily turnover is pitifully small.
Shen Yuelan was really bored, so she started to think about medicinal wine. Although the sale of alcoholic beverages requires a franchise license issued by the government, the concept of whether medicinal wine is medicine or wine is vague, which gave Shen Yuelan some room to play.
As a result, a medical clinic in Jiangling Prefecture suddenly became popular. Although the medical skills of the doctors in this clinic were very advanced, what they were most famous for was actually their medicinal wine, which not only tasted sweet and mellow, but also could cure diseases, beautify the skin, and prolong life.
Of course, the latter two are a bit exaggerated, but it is true that they taste good and can cure diseases, and the government can't interfere with them. After all, they make genuine medicinal wine. Of course, it is more likely that they don't want to interfere.
After all, there was an eyewitness who claimed that he saw with his own eyes that Doctor Xiao Shen in the clinic handed two bottles of fine medicinal wine brewed by herself to the governor of Jiangling at the back door of the clinic.
You should know that a bottle of raw medicinal wine made by Doctor Xiao Shen can be sold for around thirty strings of coins in Jiangling City, while medicinal wine made by other apprentices can be sold for around five strings of coins. Even at this price, it is often sold out.
The only thing that is a little strange is that whether Gan's Clinic is selling wine or treating illnesses, all payments are made in copper coins, and gold and silver are not accepted, and no one knows why.
In short, Shen Yuelan's business has been established in Jiangling Prefecture. Most of the people who go to the clinic are here for the medicinal wine. Therefore, Shen Yuelan likes to show off in front of Gan Yuelong, who is ignored by everyone, whenever she has nothing to do.
Although she was beaten badly every time, she still enjoyed it. Gan Yuelong could treat it as a child's play once or twice, but after the third or fourth time, Gan Yuelong felt a little dissatisfied.
In addition, her performance in the first few days of opening was indeed very poor, so she began to think about how to improve her performance.
Although I have thought about going out to provide medical treatment like I did in Tokyo City, this operation is for the purpose of profit. If it is like the time in Tokyo City, wouldn’t it be a loss-making business?
Just when Gan Yuelong was in distress, Shen Yuelan's casual words gave her inspiration.
[Sister Yuelong, why didn't ancient people have ready-made medicines? Like the ones in later times, you can take pills directly to treat the symptoms, instead of having to take medicine by prescription.]
Just as Gan Yuelong was about to refute, she suddenly had an inspiration. Although there were ready-made medicines in ancient times, they were very difficult to make and only a few high-ranking officials were qualified to use them.
Most of the time, civilians cannot afford medicine and can only endure it. If they can endure it, they will get through it. If they can’t, they will die.
Thinking that he could explore this direction, Gan Yuelong began to study day and night to create finished pills that ordinary people could afford.
Two days later, the regular customers who came to the clinic to buy medicinal wine discovered that Dr. Gan, who was always in the clinic every day, had suddenly disappeared.
[Doctor Xiao Shen, where is Doctor Gan? Why haven't I seen her in the clinic these past two days? ]
[Ah, Sister Gan, she saw that the clinic didn't have much business, so she's practicing pharmacology in the backyard. If you want to see a doctor, tell the medicine boy and he will call her for you.]
[Ah, no, no, no, I'm just asking. I'm here to buy medicinal liquor. The new product that came out yesterday is really chilly and pleasant, and it lives up to its name of Ice Beauty...]
There are many conversations like this. After all, any discerning person can see that in Gan's clinic, the only real doctor is Doctor Gan. Although Doctor Xiao Shen also has medical skills, he is obviously better at making medicinal wine. If you really get sick, you have to find a real doctor.
Shen Yuelan naturally thought so too. She has been learning medical skills recently. Compared with the past, Shen Yuelan can now treat some common diseases on her own. Otherwise, even if she can make medicinal wine, she will not be honored as a doctor.
Although the clinic's business has been booming in the past few months, what is worrying everyone is that the contract money they have been looking for is not among the copper coins they have earned, and the same is true for Fu Xi.
It seems that the business has to continue. Shen Yuelan has already made up her mind that the medical clinic business will continue until the end of this year. If they can't find any trace of the contract money in Jingxiang and Jingzhou, they will try their luck in the lower states.
But she definitely couldn't continue the medical clinic business. After all, Zhao Er would die in March next year. If she heard that Jingxiang had medicinal wine that could cure all diseases and was summoned to the capital, she would have to go to war with Zhao Er again, which would not be appropriate.
Chapter 73: Bold Fu Xi
Gan Yuelong was even better than Shen Yuelan had imagined. She used the basic raw materials of some special medicines of later generations, made liquids that could maintain a certain medicinal effect according to their characteristics, and then condensed these liquids into jelly the size of pills.
Finally, the glutinous rice flour is stuck to the outside of the jelly using the rolling and sticking method used to make glutinous rice balls, making a medicine coating of appropriate thickness. The final effect is a finished medicine ball that is about half the size of an ordinary glutinous rice ball. The patient can take it home, steam it, and take it.
Although some of the medicinal efficacy will inevitably be wasted during the steaming process, it is better than having no medicine to take. Although in Shen Yuelan's opinion, Gan Yuelong's pills just look quite common.
The materials, methods and prices were all common, but only relative to common people in later generations. The effort required for extracting the medicinal liquid alone was enough to stump more than 80% of the doctors in the Northern Song Dynasty.
What's more, glutinous rice flour is not something that ordinary people can afford. The really poor people eat rice, and they don't bother to remove the husk. They just rely on the rice husk to fill their stomachs, let alone grind it into powder.
Gan Yuelong held the finished medicine pill in her hand and felt a little disappointed for a moment. Was it really too difficult to make a finished product of this level using the medical technology of the Song Dynasty?
Shen Yuelan took a bite and found it sour and sweet and quite delicious, quite suitable for children. Although ordinary people could not afford it, once a panacea of this level was released, the dignitaries would definitely flock to it.
Although Gan Yuelong was a little depressed, the purpose of making it was to sell it, so she did not object to Shen Yuelan's plan to sell it to a rich man.
Just as Shen Yuelan expected, once this product was launched, it caused a buying frenzy in Jiangling City. Especially after the first batch of buyers personally tested it and found it to be effective, Gan's Medical Clinic was crowded with patients almost every day, and the business of the entire street also improved.
Some people lined up at the door of the clinic before dawn. Su Yi, who was hung at the door by Shen Yuelan, had not had a good sleep for many days because of the noise. What made Shen Yuelan quite relieved was that Su Yi rarely mentioned Li Shun now.
Day after day she only thought about when Shen Yuelan could take it down from the door so that she could find a quiet place to have a good sleep. After she mentioned it to Shen Yuelan many times, Shen Yuelan finally promised her that if she could find out some information about the contract money from the visitors, she would let her rest.
One message in one night, with a clearly marked price and no deception. Su Yi instantly became lively after hearing it and started working hard for her vacation.
Looking at Su Yi who was actively collecting information, Shen Yuelan smiled slightly, "Hmph, little guy, within a year I'll make you forget even what Li Shun looks like."
Regardless of how Shen Yuelan plotted against Suyi, the clinic is now facing a serious problem. That is, in the past few months, Shen Yuelan and others have only earned money but not spent it, and the accumulated copper coins have reached a terrifying amount.
The copper coins have filled up the three rooms in the backyard of the clinic and the entire courtyard. If Shen Yuelan doesn't find a way to dispose of these copper coins, the mountain of money in the courtyard will be taller than the house.
Although Shen Yuelan knew that exchanging the money for gold and silver was the best way, as the saying goes, wealth should not be exposed. Once the money is transported out of the door, it will definitely attract criticism. There are people who hate the rich in every era.
Moreover, Shen Yuelan couldn't imagine what some merchants would do if such a huge amount of copper coins were exchanged with them.
Fortunately, in the end, Fu Xi heard about this. Her casino had made a "big deal" some time ago and was short of copper coins at the time, so she ran over to help Shen Yuelan exchange all the copper coins for gold and silver, and then took all the copper coins away.
Shen Yuelan knew what Fu Xi meant by "big deal" without asking. The only one who could take in such a huge amount of copper coins must be a big customer in the north.
However, Shen Yuelan did not intend to stop it. The Liao Kingdom had been getting copper coins from the Northern Song Dynasty for a long time. According to later generations, they were all part of China, so why should they be so divided?
Of course, if you dare to say this in the Song Dynasty, whether it is the Liao Kingdom or the Northern Song Dynasty, you will be killed in minutes.
The two countries have been fighting for more than a decade, and there have been so many blood feuds and separations between husband and wife. How can you just make a conclusion with just one sentence? It is the same principle that you should say what you want to say at the right time.
Therefore, even Fu Xi was very cautious when doing business, for fear of being caught in the act. However, Shen Yuelan still discovered Fu Xi's omission.
That is, all the gold and silver ingots that she brought over were engraved with the words "Supervised by the Liao government". It was obvious that they were the official silver of the Liao Dynasty. Fu Xi was so bold that he didn't even bother to deal with them.
But what Shen Yuelan didn't expect was that Fu Xi, who was even bolder, was still to come. After a month, Fu Xi came back again, and brought back a contract coin. As soon as Shen Yuelan saw the rust and mud on the contract coin, he knew that this was definitely not the one from Jingxiang, but the one from Youzhou!
The fact was just as Shen Yuelan thought. Fu Xi had accumulated a lot of connections in the Liao Kingdom through the copper coin trade. During a banquet, Fu Xi inadvertently mentioned this matter.
Fu Xi's big client became very interested in the matter and spent several months helping Fu Xi find the contract coin in the huge Youzhou. It is said that the contract coin was found in the tomb of a king of the Western Jin Dynasty.
The client also said that she liked Fu Xi very much and hoped that Fu Xi could go back to Liao with her to be her daughter-in-law. However, Fu Xi just took it as a joke and did not take it seriously.
After hearing this, Shen Yuelan's face turned green. She tremblingly asked Fu Xi if her client's surname was Xiao and his given name was Chuo? And his son's name was Longxu? Fu Xi asked Shen Yuelan in surprise how she knew so much.
This question made Shen Yuelan angry. She rubbed Fu Xi's little face and told Fu Xi in a tone of disappointment that the current empress dowager of Liao was named Xiao Chuo, also the famous Empress Dowager Xiao in history.
And her son, Yelu Longxu, who was in his prime at this time, the man who almost became Fu Xi's husband, was the current emperor of the Liao Dynasty and the sixth ruler of Liao, known in history as Emperor Shengzong of Liao.
Fu Xi was stunned. Could it be that she had been calling the Empress Dowager of Liao a sister for a while? The more Fu Xi thought about it, the more likely it was. The more she recalled it, the more she felt that this was the case.
Fu Xi asked Shen Yuelan with some fear what to do? Shen Yuelan jokingly said that Fu Xi could go to Liao Kingdom first to experience what it feels like to be a queen.
Seeing that Shen Yuelan was still laughing at him, Fu Xi suddenly became angry and pressed Shen Yuelan on the bed to bully her until Shen Yuelan admitted her mistake and begged for mercy, then Fu Xi was willing to stop.
Shen Yuelan stood up and wiped the remaining tears from the corners of her eyes, then glanced at Fu Xi with resentment, which made Fu Xi itchy and she pretended to approach her again. Shen Yuelan quickly dodged and didn't dare to act anymore. She tidied her messy clothes and said indifferently.
[It's just a queen mother, what are you afraid of? It's not like I haven't dealt with you before, you dog emperor. As long as I don't change history easily, I'll do whatever you want according to your previous way.]
Chapter 74: Being too clever
[Ah~, that's what I said. 】
[But she is the Queen Mother after all. She is very nice to me and even helped us find the contract money.]
Shen Yuelan was not clear about this little girl's thoughts when she heard this. This guy was very smart, how could he not know the true identity of Empress Xiao? I'm afraid she had already laid out the plan for a long time, just waiting for Empress Xiao to jump into the trap.
Now that he owes someone a favor, he has come to me to ask for repayment and reward. However, Shen Yuelan always rewards those who have made contributions, and Fu Xi did a really great job this time.
So, that night Shen Yuelan started working urgently and made five Qin Wang Talismans and ten National Collapse Talismans for each member of Fu Xi's group. The latter was the result of Shen Yuelan's recent research, and it was just right for Fu Xi and others to give it to try out the effect.
As for the gift to repay the favor to Empress Dowager Xiao, Shen Yuelan looked at the warehouse behind her, which was filled with medicinal wine and medicinal pills. Haha, is there anything more suitable than these?
So not long after, Empress Dowager Xiao, who was hiding in Xiangyang Prefecture, received a large number of gifts from Fu Xi.
The most precious of these are Gan’s medicinal wine and medicinal pills, which became popular not long ago in Jiangling Prefecture further south.
Legend has it that this wine is sweet and mellow, can beautify the skin, prolong life, and cure diseases and save lives. Xiao Chuo doesn't know whether this wine can achieve the latter three, but this medicinal wine is indeed delicious.
And the medicine pills are sour and sweet and delicious. I gave them to sick people and their conditions improved significantly. It is truly a miracle drug!
After confirming the effect of the medicine pill, Xiao Chuo praised Fu Xi's gift and was very satisfied. A few days later, she mentioned to Fu Xi again that she wanted her to be her daughter-in-law.
If the first time there was some politeness in his words, then the second time he really wanted to take Fu Xi away.
However, to Xiao Chuo's disappointment, Fu Xi finally rejected her proposal. But as if to compensate her, before she left, Fu Xi sent her a batch of medicinal wine and medicinal pills.
Although fine wine and magical medicine are good, they are not as important as a wise queen to the Liao Dynasty. During this period, some special means were used to kidnap Fu Xi directly, but they all ended in failure.
Seeing that the time to return was approaching, Xiao Chuo had to leave in a lack of interest. When Fu Xi was seeing her off, Xiao Chuo's faint little eyes made Fu Xi's heart ache.
Fu Xi had a miserable life these days. Not only was he served with incense when he slept, but someone also drugged him when he was drinking tea. There were also people watching him every moment.
At first, Fu Xi was quite curious about who sent these assassins and what they wanted to do. So she pretended to faint, and then she found out that these assassins were sent by Xiao Chuo, who wanted to kidnap her and make her the queen.
Fu Xi was speechless. She had seen a group of people vying to be the queen, but she had never seen someone being drugged and forced to be the queen.
In order to prove that their methods were useless to him, Fu Xi even got up from the bed in front of Xiao Chuo, patted his butt and left.
However, he did not expect that Xiao Chuo liked him more and his subsequent actions could be described as becoming even more extreme.
Some of Xiao Chuo's assassins were too lazy to hide. When Xiao Chuo was eating noodles, an assassin who looked like a little girl drugged him in front of him.
Fu Xi had to take medicine with his meals every day. The key point was that the medicine made by the Liao Kingdom was not very tasty, and was particularly bitter. Fu Xi could not eat after just two bites. For this reason, he did not have enough food every day and lost 15 kilograms, which was more effective than losing weight on his own initiative.
All the fat he had gained in the Northern Song Dynasty was taken away by these people from the Liao Kingdom, but because of this, Fu Xi also became more handsome.
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