When we entered, the shopkeepers in different clothes were already seated. The dishes had just been served and the shopkeeper of Fuchunlou was among them.

"It is an honor for Mr. Yuan to visit Yunque Pavilion." A Pero smiled and bowed to Yuan Congqian. "I am so smart. I am afraid that you have not eaten yet, so I have arranged a table of Gu Xian Banquet for your arrival. Please accept our kindness. Li Shishi is also waiting behind the curtain with a pipa."

Yuan Congqian nodded and took Qiu Fengshu to sit in the empty seat facing west.

Qiu Fengshu lowered his eyes and stood silently behind him.

Pero clapped his hands, and the pipa, guzheng and jinse suddenly sounded in harmony from behind the curtain.

Through the curtain, one could only see a pair of feet in white pantyhose, holding a pipa. The owner of the white pantyhose feet began to sing the "Dian Jiang Lip" of Xianlü Tune from the first act of "The Soul of the Beautiful Lady in the Green Lock", with a hint of deep affection in the sorrow:

"After enduring the chilly night, I woke up with a start, and saw the dawn through the screen window.

The fallen leaves rustle, and no one sweeps the ground...”

From Yuan Congqian's perspective, he could just see the snow-white shape outlined by the white stockings.

Yuan Congqian ignored the shopkeeper Pero's thoughts, stood up, clasped his fists, and said loudly: "I have called all the shopkeepers together today. I think you all know what is going on. It is just to check the accounts. Since the funeral in July, the Yuan Mansion has not reconciled the accounts for three months. We should sort them out one by one."

Pero's expression remained unchanged, and his smile remained the same: "The account books are vulgar and the smell of money is unbearable. Sir, you can come to check the accounts at any time. We will obey your orders day and night. But such dirty work can be done by servants. Why should Sir do it himself?"

"Are you teaching me what to do?"

bass!

Yuan Congqian glanced at him, and Qiu Fengshu immediately drew his sword from its sheath, with a cold and gleaming light.

The sudden sword light made Pero shudder.

The emperor prohibited the Heavenly Master from holding a title, so he would naturally relax restrictions in other areas and give him special treatment, including business. Not only would the Ministry of Revenue give him special treatment, but it would also issue gambling licenses to allow people to gamble. Yunque Pavilion was opened by borrowing Yuan's gambling qualifications.

The Yuan family is their main family. After not visiting them for a few months, they started to act arrogantly.

As for Qiu Fengshu, her thoughts were much simpler. She would kill anyone Yuan Congqian glared at.

The shopkeeper of Fuchunlou who was sitting next to him suddenly changed his expression, and he stood up quickly, clasped his fists and bowed his head: "My dear, even though we merchants are lowly, we can't carry our account books with us. We have been friends for many years, how dare I treat you like a child? I just hope that you don't starve yourself..."

According to the traditional business rules, these masters and nobles who pride themselves on their noble status would not come to check the accounts in person.

They entertained the boss well, and when the boss mentioned it at the banquet, the shopkeepers would naturally make a careful account and then send it to the boss's servants. As for the boss, he only needed to pretend that he didn't know that these restaurants were their property and enjoy himself.

Yuan Congqian would definitely not give them a chance to mediate.

If they find out that only one person is left in Yuan's mansion after it was destroyed by bandits, it would be difficult to gather all these shopkeepers in one room.

"Send the servants outside in and tell them to fetch the account books. One person will be sent home after the account books are settled. Whoever's account books are burned will be beheaded in front of me."

Yuan Congqian slammed the black market pistol on the table and looked around. "Who supports it, who opposes it?"

These words made no sense at all, and instantly set off an uproar in Mo Duoqing's box:

"My dear, this... this is different from what we agreed on!"

"My dear! Paying dividends in the middle of the month is detrimental to business ethics. Now is the time for banks to lend money to the barren people, so please think twice!"

"My dear, are you not satisfied with the food and this Li Shishi? I will change it right away..."

The shopkeepers stood up and gathered around, some not believing it, some getting angry, some trying to persuade them.

Although the expressions and words were different, the purpose was the same: to prevent Yuan Congqian from checking the accounts.

Qiu Fengshu narrowed her beautiful eyes, the sword flashed, and she pressed it against the neck of Pero, who was closest to Yuan Congqian: "If you take another step forward, I will kill you."

As the situation became tense, Li Shishi behind the curtain was so frightened that she dared not play the music anymore and stopped singing.

"The incompetent doctor is harming the people. The residents of the capital have difficulty using medicine. I am naturally anxious. I didn't expect to alarm the elders. I apologize first."

Yuan Congqian smiled and sat down: "As the eldest nephew of the emperor, I should be loyal to the emperor and serve the country.

In order to ease the pain of the residents of the capital city in using medicine, Yuan has reached an agreement with the Tianshi Mansion and the Taiwei Mansion to set up a government-built Western pharmacy to purchase Western medicines such as penicillin and sulfonamide from Western countries to prevent the capital city from being disturbed by epidemics again. The capital turnover is stretched to the limit, and I hope you can lend me a helping hand. "

Chapter 22 Crossing the River by Feeling Your Bald Head

"Yuan has made no contribution to Da Yan in his life."

Yuan Congqian said with emotion: "If the government-built Western medicine pharmacy can make affordable medicine available to all the people of Dayan, so that they don't have to go to the pharmacy and risk being cheated by the doctor to get medicine, and don't have to spend a lot of money to visit famous doctors, then I will die without regrets!"

The shopkeepers were puzzled and had no idea what this chicken-and-dog-fighting relative was up to.

I don't know whether he was taking the opportunity to praise Yuan Congqian's noble character, or to spend money to avoid disaster and give this relative some money so that he could do whatever he wanted with peace of mind.

Yuan Congqian took note of everyone's expressions and signaled Qiu Fengshu to put away his sword, start eating and wait for the shopkeepers to express their opinions.

Looking back, Qiu Fengshu's eyes drifted to the carefully cooked food on the round table from time to time, and she almost wrote the word "I want to eat" in her eyes. Yuan Congqian had no choice but to give her a plate of charcoal-grilled source stone insect sauce and a plate of boiled meat slices to fill the stomach of the girl who had only eaten a bowl of hot dry noodles that had been cold for two days for breakfast.

The decision to introduce Western medicine was one that Yuan Congqian carefully considered.

Because there is really no Western medicine hospital in Dayan!

Macroeconomics and developmental medicine have always been blind spots of the ancient classical political system.

The epidemic even terrified the capital, and we could get a glimpse of the medical development of other mobile cities. A very absurd reality is that now only Longmen, where Black Snake is in power, has a Western-style hospital in Da Yan. People in other parts of Da Yan can only rely on doctors in Tianshi Mansion and pharmacies to see a doctor!

Why hasn't medicine modernized?

It can only be said that the emperor played a good political balance, and there was no chaos between the various departments, and the civilians in the mobile city were not disturbed. Although there was no merit, Terra was already above average in the 1050s when the humanoids were shining.

Rectify the economy, establish monetary credit, introduce Western medicine, and build hospitals?

Again, not causing trouble and not tormenting the common people is the limit of these insects in the officialdom of Da Yan. Asking officials to do such things is too human, and there will definitely be big problems in execution, so the top leaders of Da Yan have always kept this loophole very tight.

Yuan Congqian planned to cross the river by feeling the way of the bald government.

They used the introduction of antibiotics, sulfonamides and other epidemic drugs as a means of monopolizing and making money in the early stages, gradually cracked important antibiotics such as penicillin and streptomycin, and learned about the chemical synthesis of special medicines and related chemical intermediates from Western countries.

While there are wars raging all over Future Terra, focus on developing!

The infected are a problem that all countries in Terra have to face, but the key is not anti-discrimination, anti-oppression and class struggle, because the uncontrollability and infectiousness of the infected do exist. The only way to save the infected on this land is to develop an affordable special medicine.

In Arknights: The End of the World, the oripathy is effectively relieved, except for the severe and painful gout all over the body!

While the Taiwei Mansion and Tianshi Mansion must compensate for the extermination of the Yuan Mansion, Yuan Congqian must raise enough funds to write to Zhenlong, requesting to establish a national bureau and board the ship to the new era. The Taiwei's killing of the foreign relatives is too explosive. In comparison, is it better to give the Yuan family in the capital free access to Western medicine?

Isn't the Yuan family a member of the emperor's family? What's wrong with buying and selling medicine?

After hesitating for a long time, the Pero first bowed to Yuan Congqian and said, "My lord, you are so righteous. Although I am a humble merchant, I am also concerned about the country and the people. I only hope that you will not abandon us indifferently. I am willing to settle the dividends of the Yuan Mansion in person, and pledge 500,000 taels for your righteousness, and be honored to be a disciple of the Yuan Mansion."

There were bursts of tiny boos.

The other shopkeepers looked at him like a fool.

Pero looked at the other shopkeepers as if they were fools.

Perrault asked, "What kind of money do you want? Silver, Jiaozi, Feiqian, Victorian coins, Cherwen?"

"Victoria coins are the best, followed by silver."

Yuan Congqian said.

Right now the most developed country in Terra is Victoria, and its currency is the most stable and strong, but there is nothing you can do about it.

"it is good."

Pero nodded directly without bargaining.

He called the store manager over and swept his finger across the shopkeeper on the table: "Bring all our store's account books for July and August, and the accounts for September so far, and you will personally count and hand them over to Mr. Yuan. Note that all payments must be made in Victoria coins!"

"Yes." The steward nodded.

Just as he was about to leave, the shopkeeper of Fuchunlou stopped him:

"Also, go to Fuchunlou in Anlefang and call the guy who's in charge of the store over. Ask him to bring the account book as well."

Fuchunlou was only involved in the catering industry, and the currencies it collected were very scattered, so the shopkeeper could not take out a large amount of Victoria silver coins.

"Ah."

Yuan Congqian nodded and dropped another bombshell: "In addition, this is only valid for today. After the pawnshop and silver shop owners have paid off their dividends, they can redeem the Yuan family's shares at twice the market price. From now on, they only need to pay the rent of the shop. From now on, they will have nothing to do with the Yuan family."

There was another uproar.

The freezing atmosphere suddenly became lively.

"Okay, my dear, I will also donate 100,000 taels!"

"I also agree to the fifty thousand taels! Here's a glass of wine for you, my dear!"

"Waiter, waiter, go to Yuan's shop in Jing'anfang and get our book!"

Amid the commotion, the merchants were suspicious, but they were never slower than others. After just a few rounds, before Li Xiaoniang, who was wearing white pantyhose, had finished singing the Xianlu tune "Hunjianglong", the account books sent over filled the table, fearing that Yuan Congqian would change his mind and continue to control them.

Li Xiaoniang had just sung the line "I missed the secret appointment and wasted the moonlit night and flower festival" when she was frightened by boxes of silver coins falling on the ground.

After Yuan Kerang died, the Yuan family’s protective umbrella function was greatly weakened.

The future of Western Medicine Soha is unclear, but the benefits of breaking away from Yuan are obvious!

Dayan has been an official-oriented country since ancient times, and merchants have always been vassals of officials.

After years of relying on the Yuan family, the pawnshop and silver shop have their own ways. If they go out on their own and are no longer supervised by the Yuan family, they can send their children to the Imperial Academy for military studies, and from the next generation they can slowly climb up to the ranks of the imperial nobles.

Pero, who had his back to the shopkeeper, raised his eyebrows, stroked his beard on his chin, and began to think.

Yuan Congqian certainly knew that this was a loss, as it was equivalent to exchanging ten or a hundred times the amount of silver for one portion of cash.

But that's what he had to do.

In addition to the restaurant, Yuan’s businesses also included a pawnshop and a silver shop.

It would be scandalous for the Queen to send people to spy on pawnshops and silver shops.

Yuan Congqian was alone, and he couldn't hold the pawnshop and silver shop, so he might as well cash out quickly while the shopkeepers didn't know. Now the shopkeepers would only suspect that Yuan Congqian was a loser who didn't follow the rules and wanted to gamble on the western medicine, and it was impossible for them to think that Yuan's family had no confidants.

The purpose of Yuan Congqian's visit was simple: to stop loss.

Living in the capital is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships. Those shopkeepers who are not familiar with the company are the ones who need to be abandoned. Using Yuan's share in these industries as a favor, he can reduce his enemies and make more friends, so that he can survive in the capital.

Chapter 23 Grinding Ink for You

In the private room of Yunque Pavilion, accountants from a dozen different households were checking each other's accounts, flipping through the account books and doing calculations. The account books were piled up like a mountain on the table.

The scene was quite solemn, like the Municipal Supervision Bureau's audit in the previous life.

The shopkeepers were already overjoyed under their disguise. After the settlement was completed, they left in a hurry with the accountant and the waiter of their own shop without looking back, and asked someone to secretly inquire about what happened in Yuan Mansion. He was willing to let them redeem their shares. Could it be that the Duke of Shu was really planning to take action?

As for the wine shops and teahouses, they all went back to their own homes.

When the last shopkeeper other than Pero settled the dividends, there were already three boxes of Victorian gold pounds and two boxes of silver coins in the box. There were also some smart shopkeepers who thought that the government-made Western pharmacy was feasible, so they did a good job with Yuan and left him a passbook of Longmen Bank that could be exchanged for gold pounds for easy access.

Seeing that Yuan Congqian was not interested in the actors performing, Perrault ordered them to be removed and asked the servants at the door of the box to wait for orders.

“The Gu Xian Banquet at Yunque Pavilion is known as the Gu Xianren Banquet and the Shenlong Zui Banquet, and a table costs a thousand gold coins.

Even the red wine used to accompany the pack animal meat was produced in the estate of a grand duke in Victoria. The cost of freezing, storing, and transporting the red wine to the capital alone was as much as five taels, enough to pay for a family's rice, millet, wine, and meat for a month.

A female voice sounded from behind Yuan Congqian.

When she walked to his side, she gathered her black hair and changed her tone: "You are so extravagant, but you don't eat a single bite?"

The person who came was Ling, who was wearing a flowing white dress.

Qiu Fengshu looked at Ling coldly and said, "Your Excellency protected my husband well that night. I am here to express my gratitude on behalf of the Queen. The Queen said that on the Mid-Autumn Festival in October, after the ladies pay their respects to the Queen, you can follow me to Hanyuan Hall to have a banquet with the Queen, listen to music, and compose poems over wine."

The girl's voice was gentle and pleasant to the ear, but her words were full of rejection of Ling.

One has blue hair and a white dress, the other has black hair, red silk and a black dress, they look like they came from two different worlds.

Ling chuckled, treating him as a child, and looked at Yuan Congqian: "I was worried that something might happen to you. I watched you for a long time, but I didn't expect that your idea was not bad."

"Thank you for the compliment from the chief priest."

"wrong."

Ling's eyebrows curved, and she twisted Yuan Congqian's hand, saying, "After last night, should I call you sister?"

Yuan Congqian immediately changed his words:

"Sister Ling."

"Yeah, uh, listen."

Ling's eyebrows curved even more, and he circled around Yuan Congqian and asked, "Gathering the floating wealth, the house is full of gold and silver, what are your plans next?"

"Write to His Majesty, requesting that an official be appointed to build a western medicine pharmacy. I will be in charge, and the Yuan family will be the only one who will listen. Then, I will allocate personnel, and through Chen Zhijun's channels in Longmen, ask the Duke of Lentinium or Victoria to purchase the stockpiled antibiotics and chemical production lines, and buy land to build a factory."

"antibiotic?"

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