Apart from Sun Mingcai, the most famous player in Chang'an City today is Zhang Juanhua.
Zhang Juanhua is the wife of Wu Zhonghua, an eighth-level fitter of hand-operated steam engines. She was forced into the game by her son Wu Gang.
After entering the game, Wu Zhonghua and Wu Gang father and son were busy working on the steam engine all day long, and Zhang Juanhua also found fun in the game.
Being able to enjoy a young life in the game, Zhang Juanhua is naturally not willing to dance in the square anymore, and as her body becomes younger, the dreams that Zhang Juanhua could not realize when she was young are also sprouting again.
Zhang Juanhua was a doctor in the factory. Later, the factory's infirmary was merged into the community. Zhang Juanhua worked as a community doctor for a few more years and then retired honorably.
Zhang Juanhua has won many medals for advanced medical workers, but as the city's industry gradually declined, the population also continued to decrease.
The health center where she once worked has now become a small clinic for the elderly to receive water treatment and physical examinations.
Zhang Juanhua knew that the decline of the industrial city she was in was irreversible. There were fewer and fewer young people, and people were gathering in big cities that were more convenient and cheaper to live in.
But in the game, Zhang Juanhua is now standing in the greatest city in the world - Chang'an!
Zhang Juanhua regained her dream when she was young and built the greatest hospital!
Relying on the reputation accumulated from the last plague treatment many years ago, and with the support of Wannian County Prime Minister Wang Chengwei, Zhang Juanhua led the doctors in Chang'an to apply medicine and disinfection, and extinguished a plague.
Zhang Juanhua's reputation rose rapidly. With the assistance of Wang Chengwei, Zhang Juanhua opened the first hospital in the Tang Dynasty, Bao Ci Tang, in Wannian County.
Zhang Juanhua adopted a go-getter attitude, recruited many medical student players, and finally opened the first general hospital in Datang.
In fact, Datang Fengyun has been in service for such a long time, and there are many players practicing medicine in the game, and there are even surgeon players who have performed surgeries in the game.
But opening a hospital is not just a matter of medical skills. Running a large general hospital is also a matter of management.
Running a hospital costs a lot. It is difficult to maintain the operation of the hospital and ensure the balance of revenue and expenditure of the hospital.
How to balance fairness with efficiency, ensure that all patients who come to the hospital can receive treatment, and what to do when encountering patients who cannot afford medical expenses, these are all difficult problems in management.
At this time, Zhang Juanhua used her rich experience as a community doctor to boldly start her career in running a hospital in Datang.
In Chang'an City during the Tang Dynasty, there were already doctors who specialized in providing medical services. Almost every shop had shops selling medicinal materials, and there were often doctors in these shops who could diagnose and treat diseases.
In addition, there are specialized doctors practicing medicine in Chang'an City, including "Golden Doctors" who specialize in acupuncture, and female doctors who specialize in treating gynecological diseases. These doctors often practice in their own homes, but they also treat patients.
Basically, some medicines are prescribed and people go back to take them.
However, it is hard to say how effective these folk doctors can be. Many folk doctors are similar to charlatans, and the effect of their medicines and drinking talisman water is similar, which is a placebo effect.
Naturally, when you become an official, you cannot seek treatment from quack doctors like ordinary people. The imperial court has regulations that when officials and their family members of the fifth rank or above are sick, they can ask the imperial doctor from the imperial hospital for diagnosis and treatment.
However, the level of imperial doctors is also uneven. In this era, it is unclear whether the treatment effect of doctors or witch doctors is better.
The Bao Ci Tang opened by Zhang Juanhua has recruited many player doctors. The entire Bao Ci Tang framework is the structure of a community health center.
The departments only have simple surgery, internal medicine and pediatrics, plus a pharmacy, and Bao Ci Tang was opened.
Surgery to treat bruises, internal medicine to treat colds, and pediatrics to treat children can almost meet the needs of the people of Wannian County.
Zhang Juanhua may not be an excellent community doctor, but she is indeed an outstanding hospital manager. Under Zhang Juanhua's management, Bao Ci Tang treats patients while maintaining Bao Ci Tang's profitability under Zhang Juanhua's cost control.
Bao Ci Tang treats common diseases and uses the most common drugs, the most expensive of which are the drugs from Longyou Pharmaceutical Factory.
Zhang Juanhua strictly requires each department to control costs. In Zhang Juanhua's view, medical treatment is not a one-time charity, but a long-term social security service.
If you want the hospital machine to be able to operate for a long time, it is necessary to maintain a good financial status. Hospitals that cannot balance their books will collapse sooner or later.
Bao Ci Tang quickly made a name for itself in Chang'an. Now the people of Chang'an know that there is Bao Ci Tang next to Wannian County Yamen. It has very good curative effect and the doctors can treat patients and prescribe medicine very quickly.
More players with medical backgrounds have gathered under Zhang Juanhua, and Zhang Juanhua is already considering opening a second Bao Ci Tang.
For Bao Ci Tang, which has become famous in Chang'an City, Wangfu Bank, which secretly opened stores in the East and West cities, is much more low-key.
These two royal banks were opened at the corners of the East and West Second City. They did not do any publicity when they opened. But soon the businessmen in the East and West Second City all knew that there was one bank in the East and West Second City where they could borrow money at any time.
Money bank.
At the beginning, Jiang Lun established Wangfu Bank in Chang'an just to facilitate players' settlement needs in Chang'an and to facilitate players in Chang'an to do business.
But Jiang Lun soon discovered that businessmen in Chang'an had a strong demand for borrowing money.
After a period of practical operation, indigenous businessmen came to the bank and asked to borrow money from Wangfu Bank.
Zhang Leyan, who was in charge of Wangfu Bank, quickly received the report. After some research, he discovered that Chang'an's loan market was actually so huge.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty could be said to be an empire built on usury.
The powerful families, temples and Taoist temples in Chang'an were all keen on one thing, and that was loan sharking, also known as usury.
Even various yamen will pool their public funds and lend them on the market.
The interest rates on these loan sharks can be as high as 30% or even 50%, but there are still many businessmen queuing up to borrow money.
Chang'an's business is developed. Although the interest rates on these loan sharks are high, they can earn several times the interest on a single business, so businessmen are naturally willing to borrow money.
Zhang Leyan saw business opportunities, so he suggested to Jiang Lun that he start a loan business in Chang'an.
Jiang Lun hesitated for a while, but finally approved Zhang Leyan's suggestion and provided loans at two royal banks in Chang'an.
Wangfu Bank has sufficient funds and has a set of risk mortgage assessment standards for lending.
Zhang Leyan also made detailed regulations on Wangfu Bank's loans. For example, loans must have collateral, and only merchants who own shops in Chang'an can borrow money.
Although the loan conditions were harsher than others, the interest rate was only 20%, which was far lower than the interest rates of other banks. Soon the door of Wangfu Bank was broken through.
And as long as you meet the loan requirements, no matter how much money you want to borrow, you can borrow money from Wangfu Bank. Once such credibility is established, Wangfu Bank will quickly become famous among businessmen.
Nowadays, not only ordinary businessmen, but also some dignitaries and officials who are short of money will secretly borrow money from the Royal Bank.
Zhang Leyan's attitude is still the same. As long as he can provide enough collateral, no matter how much money he needs to borrow, Wangfu Bank can lend it out!
No one knows how much money the King of Yue's Royal Bank lent, but everyone knows that as long as you can take out the mortgage, you can withdraw money from the Royal Bank at any time.
There are more and more players in Chang'an, and it has gradually become the upgrade location chosen by middle and low-level players.
In comparison, the new Lingzhou spawn point is not very attractive.
Cui Tao was also a little troubled. He resigned from the prosperous Zhangye and came to Lingzhou, but found that there were not many players willing to come to Lingzhou.
There are no specialties in Lingzhou, and it seems that there are no battles to fight now. Except for some players who are keen on farming, there are only a few players who follow Cui Tao to farm in Lingzhou.
However, Cui Tao quickly cheered up. No matter what, the conditions were much better than when Longyou started his business. You must know that the Hetao area where Lingzhou is located was the most fertile area of the Xixia Kingdom in later generations. The Xixia Kingdom relied on Lingzhou.
The rich people in the Wu area had been at odds with the Song Dynasty for so long.
Cui Tao is naturally confident in building the Lingzhou area into Longyou's new granary!
Cui Tao vigorously built Lingzhou, while another group of players with a pioneering spirit began to move south along the Grand Canal and entered Yangzhou, the most prosperous city in the Tang Dynasty except Chang'an.
Gao Shi, the governor of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, invited the player Wang Yadong to serve as Yangzhou's shipping envoy, and the player opened a hole in Jiangnan official circles.
Wang Yadong naturally replaced his subordinates with players, and at the same time recommended many "talents" to Gao Shi.
Gao Shi responded well to Wang Yadong's recommendation. He became the governor of the Jianghuai River because of his military achievements in pacifying King Yong. He lacked a local foundation and local scholars were unwilling to serve in his shogunate. He was already suffering from a lack of talents.
Most of the players recommended by Wang Yadong are professional and technical talents, and they can indeed solve Gao Shi's problems. Gao Shi will not be stingy about the positions in the Jiedushi government.
In addition to the high-quality Jiedushi Mansion, players are also flocking to the Jiedushi Mansion of Xichuan Jiedushi Wei Jiansu.
As the friction between Datang and Nanzhao and Tubo intensified in southern Sichuan, more military generals and players poured into Chengdu and joined the new army compiled by Hu Yu.