Generally speaking, doctors who specialize in gynecology have a lot of contact with young women, so they are usually young and well-established, preferably with white beards and trembling hair. This can make the rural residents who are accustomed to being closed-minded feel more at ease.
Chen Ziming is an exception. He has a handsome appearance and is not yet thirty years old. Because his father and grandfather have practiced medicine for two generations, he is very famous and trusted in the local area. Chen Ziming himself is obsessed with medical skills, and sometimes he simply does not rely on medical treatment.
Make money, charge very low fees, even free for poor families, and of course have an excellent reputation.
He has been away from Fuzhou for the past two years, which has caused some inconvenience to the villagers. A few days ago, he asked someone to send a message saying that he would be back soon, and many people were waiting to see him.
Chen Ziming left Linchuan and went to the courtyard of his hometown. In just ten miles, he was stopped by several groups of people. Each group of people came in the name of welcoming them, and in the end almost every group of people came.
I would like to ask implicitly: Mr. Chen's family has been working hard in the past two years. If he has enough money on hand, can he help the folks in Hunan?
This situation feels weird and unusual.
Chen Ziming said goodbye to his employer who traveled to Shanghai last autumn and traveled all the way back to his hometown. What he saw along the way, not to mention the splendid places along the Liangzhe Road, were Chizhou, Hezhou, Xuanzhou and other places along the river, all of which seemed very vibrant.
When Chen Ziming landed to buy medicine, he could clearly see that the city was crowded with people and there were many new businesses opening. Many cities began to expand new business districts outside the city walls to accommodate an increasing number of people.
It’s completely different from the depression I felt after Hu Ma Peeping River in the early years.
He knew that this was the result of the increasingly close trade and exchanges between the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The two big countries, each with more than 50 million registered households, suddenly broke down the barriers that had separated them for hundreds of years and began to communicate with each other at all levels.
None results.
When passing through Lin'an, Chen Ziming heard many people discussing this situation. Some people said that if this continues, the north will continue to infiltrate the south, and the rich and powerful people in the government and the public will be bribed by interests. If this goes on, the country will not be a country. This is a treacherous prime minister with a long history.
Conspiracy; some people say that after all, the people in the north are ignorant and captives, relying on roughness and bravery in vain. If they can rely on trade to immerse themselves in wealth and gentleness, the Song Dynasty may be able to win without a fight within a few years, and Zuji will be in power.
Human wisdom.
Chen Ziming didn't understand this kind of political affairs at all. He was a doctor, not a scholar, and he didn't feel the need to investigate the court affairs in detail. He only felt that this prosperity was closely related to the business firm where he worked.
It makes people a little proud.
But this sense of pride began to fade rapidly after he arrived in Fuzhou and returned to the familiar countryside.
In just ten miles, Chen Ziming realized how prosperous the cities were in the Song Dynasty and how depressed and impoverished the rural areas were.
It is said that although Jiangnan West Road cannot be compared with Zhejiang and Zhejiang, it is also a land of plenty, and the people's lives are passable. Even if they are not rich, as long as they have hands and feet, they can at least have a bite of food. But in the past two years, more and more people
Rich businessmen reached out into the countryside, causing huge changes in the countryside that had remained unchanged for thousands of years.
At first, the wealthy merchants only purchased large quantities of grain. This move quickly raised the price of grain. To a certain extent, it also discouraged the court's various methods of buying grain. This affected both the wealthy people in the countryside and ordinary farmers operating on tenancies.
The advantage is that the porters, boat owners, and merchants who are engaged in the grain transshipment trade also share in the profits.
The benefits of the grain trade soon attracted many wealthy merchants to start buying up land in various places along the Yangtze River to form farms specializing in selling grain to the north. In order to seize the opportunity of years of fighting in the north, they acquired land as quickly as possible to produce grain and bring With huge profits, the speed of land annexation in countless villages has been greatly accelerated. A process that might have taken decades or even hundreds of years has progressed fiercely in just two years, and along with it, there will inevitably be conflicts between the government and the people to enrich the people. Violent conflicts with tenant farmers led to fraud, plunder and violence.
And this is just the beginning.
Because the war in the north was quickly put down by the Great Zhou Dynasty, the demand for food in the north decreased rapidly and was quickly replaced by tea, medicinal materials, silk and other materials. As a result, manors in many places changed their grain fields into tea gardens, mulberry fields or planted medicinal materials. .
This process is also accompanied by a game of power, which is indispensable for fraud, plunder and violence.
More and more people are losing their land, or finding that the farming skills they rely on for a living have nowhere to use, so they have to gather in cities and be included in the increasingly prosperous business system. The farmers who stay in the local area have to Facing an increasingly difficult life.
Because the government and wealthy businessmen with the support of high-ranking officials and nobles can always reach an agreement, the pressure is inevitably transferred to the people at the bottom. When the people cannot bear the pressure, they have to resort to borrowing or resisting.
These two items were precisely one of the biggest financial resources for the Song Dynasty court or merchants. Even the official "Quality Treasury" or "Grain Loan" had a yearly interest rate of more than 50%. An ordinary farmer was embarking on the road of borrowing. From now on, it is almost inevitable that we will need to borrow new debts to repay old debts, sell land to repay debts, or even sell ourselves to repay debts.
All these things happened in just two years. Because they happened so fast, almost no one among the ministers in the DPRK felt this change. Because the Song Dynasty was already prosperous in business, and many things were happening constantly, these two years seemed too It's a little denser, but it won't make people wary.
Even if he raised his alarm, Song Dynasty would not react in any way.
Although the Song Dynasty was rich, the Song Dynasty court had been poor for a long time. The Song Dynasty's finances were in deficit year after year, Huizi continued to depreciate, and the economy was likely to collapse at any time. It was a huge market of 50 million people in the north, which provided great financial resources to the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty could not give up its fate. The huge profits from trade were also fate for the countless officials headed by the Prime Minister who were tied to this line.
So, one thing has hundreds of benefits but only one harm. What reason does the person who suffers the harm have to not persevere?
They are not scholar-bureaucrats, just common people.
The Song Dynasty ruled the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, not with the people. If necessary, it is natural for the people to suffer. The benefits in this world should not fall into the hands of the people; if the people are too full and fat, the emperor What to eat? Scholar-officials are afraid of going hungry?
The truth is like this, and the situation is like this.
So before Chen Ziming stepped into his house, he almost spent all the money he had earned in the past two years. Even a few ginseng seedlings that he planned to try transplanting were begged for help. They said they were temporarily used to cover the turnover. , Chen Ziming estimated that he would never want to see it again.
After he entered the house, he saw the creditor pressing for debt in his main room.
No wonder the folks in the village are so anxious, they are worried that I will not be able to support them enough if I use the money on my own family.
Chen Ziming could only sigh.
Most of these creditors are relatives or acquaintances of Chen Ziming. Chen Ziming has no financial resources. In the past two years, his wife has been away from home and has been struggling to survive, so she can't help but ask relatives and acquaintances for loans.
Everyone is sitting now, with a bit of expectation on their faces. Chen Ziming is a famous local doctor. His creditors are not easy on him, and his family does not have much money. Almost all the fields left by his ancestors have been replaced by medicine to treat patients.
I'm sick. Isn't it necessary to demolish his family's dilapidated house? The creditor's life is not easy, and he hopes that Chen Ziming will come back soon and pay back the money as soon as possible.
As soon as Chen Ziming walked in, all the creditors' eyes lit up.
Chen Ziming's wife jumped for joy. A few months ago, she received a letter from Chen Ziming. The letter said that she had benefited a lot on the ship between Fuzhou and Qingyuan Mansion. Not only was it enough to pay off the debt, but she could also buy several
Ten acres of good land. She kept the news secret and didn't tell anyone... just waiting to be proud of it!
Then they watched Chen Ziming stand still, first throw the empty robe on the ground, then unbutton the skirt and sleeves of the robe, and jump twice freely to show that there was nothing wrong with him.
He laughed and said: "You are a step too late. Dozens of families on the road heard that I was back and blocked the road to ask for help. I relented and gave them all my money."
The creditors' faces suddenly turned ugly. Mrs. Chen was stunned for a long time. She realized that this was really something that her own man could do, and she couldn't help crying.