Although the two parties did not sign the merger contract on the same day, in fact, Qin Dalong and they did not have much choice.

They gathered together to fight against Guo Dan, but they still had more than enough strength, and now that some ironsmiths were quite supportive of Guo Dan's merger plan, they had no choice but to play.

Guo Dan is also very confident in this, since he has offered this price, he must be sure, so he took advantage of this gap to invite Wang Yu, the president of the court, and Xue Wenqing, the president of the litigation court, to come over and discuss how to protect the artisan household.

This incident did remind him that the artisan household is too humble at the moment, although it is said that the merchant is not as good as the merchant, the merchant is rich, and the artisan has nothing, that is, a group of tool people, who are exploited as the main object, and the farmer is on a par with the farmer.

Although the capitalists also want to expropriate people, if this continues, there will only be fewer and fewer craftsmen.

This is very bad for capital.

Since ancient times, China has not had a scientific system, and if you want to develop technology, you need skilled craftsmen to make up for it.

At this point, the three parties quickly agreed.

Xue Wenqing and Wang Yu both raised their hands in approval.

Because this matter actually involves the power of the merchants, if the responsibility of the craftsmen is exempted to a large extent, then all the responsibility will be pressed on the merchants, and they are also afraid that the merchants will have too much power, and this is also a check and balance on the merchants.

Eventually, they settled on a rough principle.

First of all, the person responsible must be held accountable, whether you entrust it to someone else or someone below you commits the crime, the actual owner of the workshop must be punished, but it is only severe. Who told you to ignore the people below, and who made you lazy.

Secondly, the person responsible for the case must also be punished, even if you are instructed by the employer, you must be punished, because you can report it, and if you don't report it, you know that you have violated the law and still do it, then who can you blame.

If it is a direct production of contraband, of course, it must also be held accountable, but it is lighter, as for cutting corners, this is two points, if the employer gives an order, the craftsman is naturally exempt from responsibility, because cutting corners itself is not illegal, only because of the constraints of the contract, so it is illegal, but if the craftsman cuts corners from it, it has to be the employer to sue the craftsman.

All responsibilities are clearly divided.

While this increases the responsibility of the merchants, it also makes it necessary for the merchants to work hard to produce better goods. Nowadays, every businessman in Weihui Mansion represents Weihui Mansion, and the product issue is also very important to Guo Dan.

In addition, this also officially announced that Weihui Mansion abolished the joint sitting system.

If the joint sitting system is followed, it is difficult for the craftsman to escape responsibility, and under this principle, the joint sitting system has already existed in name only.

In fact, in the past two years, there have been very few cases that have been prosecuted for the joint sitting system, because in the commercial society, the joint sitting system must be abolished, everyone is cooperating, if it is sitting, a workshop may drag half of the county into the water.

Of course, this is not explicitly stated, because they do not have this power, they are only coming from the side to abolish the joint sitting system.

After the agreement, Wang Yu suddenly asked, "Do you want to discuss this matter with your father-in-law?" ”

Guo Dan was stunned and said, "That's right! I've been here for a few days, and it seems that I haven't seen your father-in-law yet. ”

Wang Yu sneered: "I heard that I went to Xinxian County." ”

"New County?"

Guo Dan said: "Is it because of business?" ”

"It's ......."

Wang Yu wanted to speak and stopped.

Xue Wenqing said bluntly: "Your father-in-law is here, he rarely deals with official affairs, and he doesn't go to the surrounding state capitals to deal with foreign affairs now, so he patronizes his rouge shop, and he goes to Xinxian for business purposes." ”

At the beginning, Guo Dan gave the rouge workshop to Zhang Cheng, and this rouge shop was given to Jigui.

Their eunuchs were very interested in these.

Guo Dan was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "This is not a bad thing, his duty is to deal with foreign affairs, and now there is nothing to do in foreign affairs, if your father-in-law doesn't find something to do, he can only point fingers at you every day." ”

Xue Wenqing thought about it, he didn't want to be commanded by eunuchs every day, so he didn't say more.

After sending Wang Yu and Xue Wenqing away, Guo Dan was about to discuss with Aunt Xu again, but suddenly found that Aunt Xu didn't seem to be in the house, so he asked Yang Feixu: "Did the layman go out?" ”

Yang Feixu said: "I went out in half an hour." ”

"Didn't you say where to go?"

"Nope."

Odd! Isn't she not a fan of going out here? Guo Dan muttered to himself, but he didn't care too much, and said, "Let's go out for a walk too." ”

.....

Southern suburbs.

"Stop."

Aunt Xu got out of the carriage and glanced at the small farm yard in front of her, although there was no one in the courtyard, she smiled slightly, stepped forward, and asked, "Is anyone there?" ”

After a while, I saw an old man with a white beard and hair coming out of the house.

It was the old man who chased the crazy old man with the medicine box on his back that day.

When he saw Aunt Xu, he was surprised and said, "How do you know that the old man lives here?" ”

Aunt Xu just glanced at the herbs on the ground.

The old man laughed: "Come in." ”

When Aunt Xu entered the courtyard, she knelt on the ground and saluted, and said respectfully: "Niece Xu Fengluo has seen Li Shibo. ”

The old man said, "Get up, get up." ”

There are not many people who can make Aunt Xu perform such a big gift, and this old man is none other than the famous doctor Li Shizhen.

He once served as a physician in Beijing, so he met Xu Mengxi, and in addition, he was also an old acquaintance with Aunt Xu's mentor, Mr. Wan Mizhai.

Li Shizhen asked, "Is Ling Zun's health okay?" ”

Aunt Xu just nodded.

Li Shizhen said: "It seems that your father and daughter have not reconciled? ”

Aunt Xu said: "The younger generation is not filial, and he has no shame to go home to face his father." ”

Li Shizhen sighed and said, "It's difficult for this Qing official to cut off family affairs, not to mention that the old man is not even a Qing official. Sit, sit. ”

The two sat down in the courtyard.

Li Shizhen said: "Although I saw you in the city that day, I didn't recognize you because I was entangled in something at the time. By the way, the young man who stood beside you that day, but your Lang Jun? ”

Aunt Xu's face turned red, and she hurriedly shook her head and said, "No, no, that person is Guo Dan, the tooth merchant who contracted this Weihui Mansion." ”

"It's him."

Li Shizhen nodded and said: "In the past year, Lao Yu has heard the most names, but this Guo Dan never thought that he was so young, this person is really a strange person." Then why are you with him? ”

Aunt Xu replied: "The junior had a master-apprentice relationship with his wife, and later he asked the junior to help him with advice, and the junior was the same as the teacher, and he was also very curious about this person, so he agreed. ”

After a pause, she suddenly asked, "Shibo, that day in the city, the person Shibo was chasing seemed to be Mr. Wenchang." ”

"Who else but him?" Li Shizhen sighed and said: "I remember that a year ago, the old man was practicing medicine in Shanyin, and he happened to meet the crazy old man, who saw that he was drunk on the side of the road at an old age, no one cared about him, and he cherished his talent, so he wanted to treat him, but after the crazy old man woke up, he scolded the old man for being a quack doctor, wanted to harm him, and threatened to let the dog bite the old man."

The old man didn't want to care about him, and let him fend for himself, but at that time, he was angered by his evil words, he didn't let the old man doctor, and the old man still wanted to cure him, so he vowed to cure him, and after chasing him for a year, he chased here, and now it's ridiculous to think about it. ”

Speaking of the back, he himself was happy.

"I see."

Aunt Xu nodded with a smile, and said: "Regarding Mr. Wenchang's matter, the younger generation has also heard a little, his madness attacks from time to time, and it is difficult to cure it, is there a way for Shibo to cure it?" ”

Li Shizhen stroked his beard and smiled: "Didn't your master teach you, this heart disease still needs heart medicine to be treated, and there is no medicine in the world to cure it." ”

Aunt Xu was surprised: "In that case, why is Shibo still .......!" ”

Li Shizhen said: "In fact, as long as he agrees to let the old man be cured, most of his illness will be cured." ”

"The younger generation is stupid, I don't know what Shibo said to reconcile?"

"Alas...!"

Li Shizhen sighed and said: "In this year, although we quarreled when we met, we also chatted calmly a few times, his wisdom is really rare in the world, but it is precisely because he is too smart that he was born with this madness, it can be seen that there are two sides to everything, confusion is not necessarily a bad thing, and being smart is not necessarily a good thing." ”

Aunt Xu said: "Being smart can also make people crazy? ”

Li Shizhen was silent for a while, and said: "He refused to let me heal because he felt very desperate about everything in this world, and the reason for his despair was because he had seen through everything, coupled with his arrogant nature and refusal to condescend to others, so he went crazy." ”

"Juniors get it."

Aunt Xu said: "If Mr. Wenchang is willing to let Shibo heal, it proves that he is no longer desperate." ”

Li Shizhen nodded, but then sighed: "But for now, the old decay can't see any hope." Saying that, he looked at Aunt Xu and said, "Feng'er, you have always been resourceful, I don't know if you have a way?" ”

Aunt Xu pondered for a while, and suddenly asked, "Shibo, why did you come to this Weihui Mansion?" ”

Li Shizhen was stunned for a moment and replied, "The old man is chasing him." ”

Aunt Xu asked again, "Is Mr. Wen Chang still in Weihui Mansion now?" ”

Li Shizhen pointed to the west and said, "I live in a hotel not far away, and the old man makes the apprentices look at it, alas... This crazy old man looks like he is weak, but he walks like a fly, and he is chasing after him all the way, and the old man is also very difficult. ”

Aunt Xu asked again, "Shibo, have you stayed in other places for so long?" ”

Li Shizhen thought for a while and said, "This doesn't seem to be true." As he spoke, he suddenly asked, "Did you find anything?" ”

Aunt Xu nodded slightly and said, "The juniors are just guessing, not sure, the juniors suspect that Mr. Wen Chang is coming for Guo Dan." ”

"Guo Dan?"

Li Shizhen shook his head and said, "It's unlikely." Xu Wenchang is a good person, but he can't even look down on the first assistant of the dynasty, how can he look down on a tooth businessman. ”

Aunt Xu said: "Fang Cai Shibo mentioned that Mr. Wen Chang was in deep despair, and the younger generation also met some people who were disappointed in the imperial court in Weihui Mansion and rekindled hope. For example, Xue Wenqing, the president of the litigation court, is like this. ”

Li Shizhen nodded and said: "This Weihui Mansion is indeed different, although it is full of copper smell, but the people here are all hopeful and vibrant, which is very different from other state capitals. By the way, did Xu Wenchang talk to Guo Dan that day? ”

Aunt Xu nodded and informed Li Shizhen of what happened that day.

"Maybe you're not wrong in your guess."

Li Shizhen couldn't help but snort, "This old man looks crazy, but in fact, his heart is very bright." ”

Aunt Xu smiled and said, "This strange person still needs a strange doctor!" After that, she felt that this was inappropriate, Li Shizhen was also a strange person, and hurriedly saluted: "The younger generation lost his words, and I hope that Shibo will forgive me." ”

"No, no, no, no!"

Li Shizhen stopped again and again, and laughed: "You are right, this is a peerless formula." ”