Ever since they crossed Shanhaiguan, new immigrants in the Northeast have been able to feel the emperor's benevolence. The pilot program of barefoot doctors was also started in the Northeast.
In Guangdong, where the commodity economy is already very developed, there are now "bell doctors" everywhere, that is, walking doctors. They carry special bells and medical equipment, and usually bring a young apprentice with them, and go around the streets to deliver medical services.
Come to your door.
Citizens who suffer from common diseases usually seek treatment from doctors in medical clinics or pharmacies. Doctors do not have access to this market. Therefore, they do not generally treat common diseases, but take a special approach: specializing in difficult and complicated diseases.
For example, for snakebites, rheumatoid arthritis, vitiligo, stranguria, etc., Dr. Ling, who claims that his own plaster is "Yitieling", has as many as eight hundred if not a thousand. Some folk remedies can kill a cat but kill a mouse, and many of them have been sentenced to death by famous doctors.
Many patients, under the guidance of Dr. Ling's folk prescriptions, actually experienced miracles. This also led to the fact that even in cities with medical school graduates, Dr. Ling still has his customer base.
There is also a type of doctor who specializes in brothels, specializes in hidden diseases of men and women and provides abortion services. If they are really capable, they will also have a high reputation in secret channels. Some of them are tired of walking, and they will become a doctor in the hospital.
The brothel is occupied.
Of course, the above are all good things about Dr. Ling. In fact, most Dr. Ling are a kind of liars. They may know some medical skills, but these medical skills are far less brilliant than their words.
The Wu family of Zhang family was deceived. Because of the failure of her family's business, the old woman became very angry and contracted a strange disease. The symptoms were that her eyebrows and eyelids moved up and down when talking to people, the muscles on her face were twisted and made faces, and gradually moved down to her arms and even her body unconsciously.
of dancing.
She changed many doctors, prescribed countless prescriptions, and prayed to gods and made wishes everywhere, but nothing could relieve her. The old woman did not think about food and food, and became thinner day by day. Her son, Zhang Xiaoyi, gave up her business and went out to seek medical treatment. Suddenly one day, Dr. Ling came to Wu's house.
He said that he specializes in treating difficult and complicated diseases, so Mrs. Wu hurriedly sent the girl out to bring him and his young apprentice in.
When the doctor came in, he didn't ask any questions. He just looked at the old lady's face, like a fortune teller. Then he said decisively: "This disease is called brow and eyes disease - did the old lady get it from the rapid fire attack on the heart?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Wu immediately nodded in agreement. The doctor said again: "It must be money." Mrs. Wu nodded again.
Doctor Ling looked at Mrs. Wu's clothes again and said with a smile: "It's still caused by old grudges. Although it's not easy for the old lady to be a widow for many years, she still doesn't have enough food and clothing. It's all the legacy of her late husband. Now she doesn't care about the underground people.
Already."
After hearing this, Mrs. Wu exclaimed: "I don't care about him! He gave up when the child was five years old, and it's been twenty years now. He doesn't care about hundredth days, anniversaries, birthdays, Ghost Festival, ghost festivals, any time when he doesn't chant sutras, perform rituals, etc."
Money, how much money was spent on burning paper!”
Doctor Ling smiled and said: "Hey, I have been traveling around for many years, and I don't know how many people with diseases like yours have encountered! Old lady, if your late husband is still here, what do you do every day to make a living?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Wu said: "If he had lived to establish a family, I would not be like this every day, taking care of the cooking and female celebrities? What else could I do? When he kicked his legs, Xiao Yi was still ignorant, but fortunately his uncle at home took care of him.
My uncles are here to help me, and that’s all I do.”
The doctor sighed and said: "That's right. You only think about him three to five days a year, and the rest of the time you don't live your own life! Has he ever worn a piece of clothing made by you or taken a bite of it in the past twenty years?
The food you cooked. I don’t know how much resentment I have accumulated.”
It was the first time that Mr. Wu had heard of such a strange statement, but after thinking about it deeply, he could justify it and it made some sense. So he asked him: "What should we do?"
Dr. Ling was relieved when he saw that she approved this section. He glanced at his young apprentice, and the two of them quickly entered the scam mode. In the end, they successfully defrauded the consultation fee of ten taels and disappeared without a trace in Shunde City.
Mrs. Wu spent money, but her illness was not cured. Zhang Xiaoyi came home and heard about it, and the mother and son smiled bitterly at each other. Zhang Xiaoyi sighed: "I didn't expect that my mother pushed me to grow up, but I lost all my pension money. My son is unfilial." After saying this, he dropped it.
Cry.
It turned out that when Wu's late husband died, because Zhang Xiaoyi was there, her husband's family did not take back her land, and asked her to live with her son guarding the forty acres of mulberry forest.
If you rent out twenty acres of this mulberry forest, you can get sixty-five taels of silver. For the remaining twenty acres, you can hire some wholesalers and retail merchants to harvest leaves, and you can get seventy-five taels. The annual income of 140 taels of silver supports your mother.
With two children, the quality of life goes without saying.
Wu was considered a very wealthy widow in Shunde City. Although there were more disputes at home, Wu's family had older brothers and her son had uncles who could support her. She hired several honest servants and women to guard her every day.
I don't have any contact with my three aunts or six wives, I can endure the emptiness, loneliness and coldness, and I will keep it until my son grows up.
Although his son Zhang Xiaoyi is not good at reading, he is smart and has no problem reading and writing. He likes to listen to books and read newspapers. He has ordered a copy of "Nanjing Daily" at home. In addition to reading the serialized novels above, Xiaoyi reads them over and over again, as well as other news.
Love to delve into research.
One day I read a piece of news: "The Ming Dynasty exported silk to Japan for 20 yellow yen per foot. After dyeing in Japan, it sold for 100 yellow yen. Two and a half times the profit was in the hands of the Japanese. It is a pity."
Because Xiao Yi had a mulberry forest at home, he was familiar with the entire silk production process. When he went out to investigate, he found that there were no large-scale dyeing workshops in Shunde. When he returned home, he discussed it with his mother and started working with great fanfare.
At this time, Shunde, Guangdong Province produced the flagship product of the Ming Dynasty silk industry - angustifolia silk, also called Xiangyun yarn. Its front side is black with a faint luster, like black pottery. The back side is brown with irregular cracks.
, like the texture of a piece of Ru kiln.
This kind of silk will make a rustling sound when the clothes rub when you walk on it. Therefore, the silk is also called "Xiangyunsha". Later, it was renamed "Xiangyunsha" based on its homophony. It is a high-end fabric and is especially favored by Japanese aristocrats.
When Zhang Xiaoyi intervened in this market, although Xiangyun yarn was expensive, the output was not large. Zhang Xiaoyi also produced it according to the traditional process, which was called "sunshi". First, he used a boat to salvage river mud, smeared it on the soaked
On the silk with yam juice. Because the iron content in the river mud is just right, it reacts with the yam juice to dye the silk. After letting it stand, wash it, spray the yam juice again, and put it on the dewy grass.
"Spreading fog" - that is, absorbing water. Then drying and letting it stand for four months to become Xiangyun gauze.
Zhang Xiaoyi made some good money in the first two years - twice the profit. In the third year, Zhang Xiaoyi invested 2,000 taels to expand the workshop three times, preparing to take half of Shunde's silk production. But he did not expect that a new trading company in the north would also
Seeing the profits from this business, he also opened a Xiangyun yarn manufacturing company in Foshan.
Zhang Xiaoyi heard about this trading company and was not worried about it. Because no one had thought about this business before, but no one had succeeded after leaving Shunde. People in Shunde believed that this was a local specialty and no one could imitate it.
But the situation took a turn for the worse in the second year. Foshan's Xiangyun Sha Trading Co., Ltd. found a trick - no one knew how to break through. This thing had no technical content. But then a large number of extremely cheap Xiangyun yarn appeared in the market, and Shunde's
Xiangyun yarn is unsaleable.
Zhang Xiaoyi once went to Foshan and went in to investigate under the guise of a labor recruiter. He found that the Foshan trading company could produce Xiangyun yarn of the same color by sealing buttercups six times without using the river mud process. He was puzzled.
The old craftsmanship of scooping river mud, applying river mud, and crossing the river mud required a lot of strong labor. After Zhang Xiaoyi's investigation, he found that the labor cost of his workshop was still high compared with the trading companies in Foshan, and he could not compete with them.
In fact, the trick found by the Foshan trading company is very simple. They dug up river mud in Shunde and sent it to the Jingshi Institute of Geosciences to analyze the components involved in the chemical reaction. They only need to prepare the corresponding solution according to the iron content in the Shunde river mud to produce it.
Although the quality of Foshan Xiangyun yarn is worse than that of Shunde, it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the difference if two pieces of silk from different origins are not put together. The large quantity and low price of Xiangyun yarn hit the export market, and it suddenly hit the export market.
All the workshops in Shunde were destroyed.
Zhang Xiaoyi spent all his family's savings over the years and owed more than 200 taels of foreign debt in order to get laid off workers. There were also a large number of unemployed sunflower workers in Shunde. This was just a small microcosm of the turmoil caused by the increase in production efficiency throughout the empire.
In fact, after Zhu Yijun took the initiative to start the primary industrial production model, it caused huge turmoil not only in acanthus silk, but also in dozens of industries such as raw silk, silk, cotton spinning, ironware, and grain and feed processing.
This kind of turmoil differs between the north and the south. To the north of the Huaihe River, because industrial production absorbs a large amount of labor, various places are prosperous. Although there are occasional conflicts caused by mining and farmers competing for land, most of them are caused by improper local handling.
In the southern part of the empire, a large number of small production workshops were destroyed by more efficient large trading companies, resulting in a large number of unemployed people with nowhere to absorb them. This created a huge conflict with the previous situation of fewer people and more people, which attracted great attention from the emperor and the court.