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Chapter 241 The Silk Road of Huge Profits(1/2)



"Hey! What a tragedy! Another person drank pesticide!"

On the streets of Kaifeng City, a car pulled a person and hurriedly sent him to a traditional Chinese medicine hospital. Everyone around him shook his head and sighed.

"What a pity! It's definitely hopeless."

Some people in Kaifeng shook their heads and sighed. Since pesticides were popularized, poisoning by drinking pesticides has become common. Some people are already suffering, and most of them are just out of anger. However, no matter what the situation is, drinking pesticides rarely saves them.

This has led to one tragedy after another, which is also the reason why the government and the public have continued disputes over pesticides.

In the traditional Chinese medicine hospital, the doctors couldn't help but feel a headache when they saw another person coming in who was poisoned by pesticides.

Doctors' medical skills are used to treat illnesses and save people, and they only save sick people. However, these patients who drink pesticides are the most troublesome. Some want to die and do not cooperate with the doctors' treatment. Some have regrets.

But there was no chance to regret, and instead he blamed the doctors for their poor medical skills, or the doctors' pesticides that caused death.

Fortunately, doctors finally have a way to detoxify. When Yang Jie saw the patient arriving, he immediately ordered.

"Hurry and prepare soapy water! Use gastric lavage."

The gastric lavage method was just invented by Fan Zheng. Now it is just a theory and has not had time to be tested. At the moment, it can only be put on the shelves.

"yes"

The entire hospital of traditional Chinese medicine is immediately on standby. Once the treatment is successful today, doctors will be able to completely get rid of the dilemma of pesticide poisoning.

Soon, soapy water was prepared, and a group of doctors immediately controlled the patient who was foaming at the mouth and in great pain, and poured soapy water into his mouth with a pump.

"vomit!"

The nauseating smell of soapy water immediately irritated the patient's stomach, causing stomach cramps and causing him to vomit almost all the contents in his stomach. A pungent smell of pesticides suddenly filled the entire ward.

"This method works!"

Seeing a large amount of pesticide being vomited out, Yang Jie breathed a sigh of relief and induced vomiting of the poison, which meant that there was a possibility of resuscitation.

"Continue gastric lavage!"

Yang Jie did not dare to neglect, and immediately ordered that the toxin be diluted, neutralized, and induced to vomit as quickly as possible so that the patient could survive as much as possible.

At that moment, a group of doctors poured soapy water into the patient's mouth again, and then shook the patient's body violently, using the inertia of the soapy water to wash away the poison from the patient's stomach as much as possible.

After several times, the patient's vomiting no longer smelled like pesticide, so the doctor changed the original soapy water to light salt water and rinsed the soapy water out of the stomach.

"Okay! I should have saved my life!"

After the gastric lavage was completed, Yang Jie felt relieved and then ordered the doctor to release the patient.

After the patient was released from the restraints, he immediately lay on the bed and retched, and finally almost vomited out bitter bile.

"I will never take medicine again." The patient said painfully.

She did not expect that gastric lavage would be the most painful. The overwhelming feeling in her stomach made her never want to go through it again.

All the doctors couldn't help but smile bitterly. They had never thought that gastric lavage, a method of treating diseases and saving lives, could also have the effect of persuading people.

After gastric lavage, the patient gradually recovered. It was finally verified by a real case that gastric lavage can solve pesticide poisoning. The Di newspaper publicized the gastric lavage method to treat poisoning. Doctors immediately packed up all the soaps in Yizhuang and sent them away.

As an antidote, it is supplied to doctors all over the world.

Fan Zheng smiled bitterly. Soap was a personal care product made by himself, so it was very difficult to promote it. He did not expect that as an antidote, it would become an instant hit in the Song Dynasty.

Upon seeing this, Li Qingzhao immediately asked Yizhuang to expand soap production, and soap became popular throughout the Song Dynasty.

With the promotion of gastric lavage, although poisoning incidents still occur frequently among civilians, the number of deaths due to poisoning has been greatly reduced, and the dilemma of doctors has been solved.

After all, the benefits of promoting pesticides outweigh the disadvantages. In addition, doctors have added foul-smelling substances to pesticides to remind the people. If they use gastric lavage for treatment, they have done the utmost benevolence and justice.

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"Reporting to Fan Taicheng, the Liao Kingdom requested that the mirror and soap businesses be included in the Silk Road Plan."

Fan Zheng had just solved the problem of pesticide poisoning among the people, and immediately received officials from the Ministry of Rites to personally convey the Liao Kingdom's request.

"The news from the Liao Kingdom is quite good. As soon as the Song Dynasty had two good things, the Liao Kingdom came to visit." Fan Zheng shook his head and laughed.

Mirrors and soaps are both rare items. Once transported to the Western Regions, they will surely make huge profits. Silk, tea, and porcelain are both traded in large quantities. Although the overall volume is large, the profits are not the highest. Mirrors and soaps are new things.

There is no land in the Western Region at all. Once it appears, it will be a huge profit.

"What do you mean, Master Cai Bian, by asking me to ask Fan Taicheng?" an official from the Ministry of Rites asked.

When the Silk Road plan was discussed with the Liao State, it was Fan Zheng who was the chief envoy and Cai Bian's deputy. In addition, glass and soap were both invented by doctors. The Liao State wanted to include them in the Silk Road plan, so it naturally had to consult Fan Zheng.

Right meaning.

"Accurate! But when supplying it to the Liao Kingdom, the prices of mirrors and soaps were doubled as taxes to the Song Dynasty." Fan Zheng said with a big wave of his hand.

"The price has doubled?" someone from the Ministry of Rites exclaimed.

The Song Dynasty has always been at a disadvantage when facing the Liao Kingdom. Fan Zheng directly doubled the price of mirrors and soaps. If it angered the Liao Kingdom, that would be a good thing.

"Don't worry, just do it!" Fan Zheng said confidently.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites had no choice but to return to the lobby of the Ministry of Rites and reported the detailed matter to Cai Bian.

Hearing this, Cai Bian laughed and said: "The imperial court has received many more taxes for nothing. This is a great good thing. Naturally, the Ministry of Rites will not refuse Fan Taicheng's good intentions, and will do as Fan Taicheng wants."

Soon, the Ministry of Rites reported the quotations for mirrors and soaps to the Liao Kingdom.

After the news reached the Liao Kingdom, Liao officials were immediately furious.

"The Song Dynasty was so bullying. The price of mirrors and soaps was doubled. This is to take advantage of the Liao Kingdom!" Yelv Zhangnu said angrily. Soaps are not bad, especially mirrors, which were already expensive in the Song Dynasty.

, directly doubling it is not a small amount.

Yelu Yanxi also looked unhappy. He didn't like the Silk Road project to begin with, but he didn't expect that the Song Dynasty would rub his nose in it.

Yelu Nanyin frowned and said, "It is said that the mirror and soap were created by the evil doctor Fan Zheng, and it was his idea to double the price."

"Princess is wise!" Yelu Zhangnu said. He knew that Yelu Nanyin had a good impression of the evil doctor Fan Zheng, so he took this opportunity to make the princess hate the evil doctor Fan Zheng.

However, what he didn't expect was that Yelu Nanyin raised his brows when he heard this and said: "Since it was created by the evil doctor Fan Zheng, this thing must be popular in the Western Regions. People come and sell this thing to various tribes in the Western Regions at a five-fold increase in price."

"Five times!"

The officials of the Liao Kingdom couldn't help but exclaimed. They originally thought that Fan Zheng was already evil enough, but they didn't expect that Yelu Nanyin was even more ruthless and directly increased the price of mirrors and soaps five times. In this way, wouldn't the Liao Kingdom make more money?

The Song Dynasty cannot be accused of being sinister.

Yelu Nanyin said confidently: "Don't worry, mirrors and soaps are rare items. There is no price at all. Those Hu businessmen are even more shady. They may even increase the price by ten or a hundred times if they are shipped to distant countries."

"That's just a benefit to the Song Dynasty! Otherwise, our country, Liao, would have made even greater profits." Yelu Yanxi said dissatisfied.

The purpose of the Liao Kingdom was to suppress the Song Dynasty, and making money was secondary. The Song Dynasty not only exempted them from the annual currency, but also made a lot of money from the Liao Kingdom.

Yelu Nanyin solemnly said: "So far, the profits from the Liao Silk Road are about 100,000 yuan per month. If the profits from mirrors and soaps are added, it will probably increase by another 30%, which is far more than the annual coins.

"

"One hundred thousand strings!"

The officials of the Liao Kingdom suddenly stopped breathing. One hundred thousand guan per month. Even if transportation is inconvenient and trade decreases in winter, it will be nearly one million guan every year. If it increases by another 30%, it will be as much as 1.3 million guan. And

You must know that the annual income of the Liao Kingdom is only about 500,000 guan.

This does not include the economic stimulation the Silk Road Plan will bring to the Liao Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom spans thousands of miles from east to west and has a vast territory, but its main center of gravity has always been in the east. It has no deep ties to the Western ministries, and the Silk Road Plan also spans

East and west, allowing the Liao State to strengthen its jurisdiction over the western ministries.

Although the suppression of the Song Dynasty was relaxed, for the Liao Kingdom, the advantages outweighed the disadvantages. It not only provided a steady stream of financial resources, but also brought domestic stability to the Liao Kingdom.

"Nanyin did a good job! The Song and Liao countries have been at peace for a hundred years, and it is really not appropriate to have another dispute." Yelu Hongji said loudly.

"My Imperial Grandfather is wise! The Silk Road Plan means that both countries will benefit from cooperation, but will lose both countries if separated. Naturally, peace is the most important thing." Yelu Nanyin said happily.

The officials of the Liao Kingdom couldn't help but frown. The income of one million guan was indeed exciting. However, suppressing the Song Dynasty was equally important to the Liao Kingdom. However, Yelu Hongji relaxed his suppression of the Song Dynasty for the benefit of millions of guan. This is simply

The appearance of old age and lethargy.

"Grandfather..." Yelu Yanxi hurriedly admonished him.

"No need to say more. I know that you are young and vigorous, but as national affairs are the most important thing, you must not cause trouble." Yelu Hongji interrupted Yelu Yanxi arbitrarily.

All the officials of the Liao Kingdom couldn't help but sigh. The hope of the future revival of the Liao Kingdom would probably be pinned on Yelu Yanxi.

However, they did not know that such a result was the result of Yelu Hongji and Yelu Yanxi's joint discussion. An income of one million yuan was nothing to the Song Dynasty, but it was a huge fortune to the Liao Kingdom.

It was the basis for Yelu Yanxi to reorganize his military equipment.

Yelu Yanxi had already used the endless money from the Silk Road to secretly reorganize the army in order to revive the Liao Kingdom and wait for the opportunity to unify the world.

"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of Xixia has once again requested for peace! In order to consolidate the diplomatic relations between the two countries, we can jointly attack the Song Dynasty!"

After dealing with the Silk Road matter, Yelu Yanxi once again discussed the Xixia matter.

"Xixia marriage?"

Yelu Hongji couldn't help but frown. Empress Dowager Xiaoliang had proposed marriage many times, but he had not responded.

After all, the young emperor of Xixia was still too young, and the benefits of the Silk Road were now the financial source for the revitalization of the Liao Kingdom. Once he agreed to a marriage with Xixia, the two countries would have to work together to deal with the Song Dynasty.

If the two countries defeated the Song Dynasty, Xixia would intimidate the Song Dynasty to restore the currency and the market, and the two countries would share the interests of the Silk Road, and the interests of the Liao State would be greatly harmed.
To be continued...
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