Chapter 44: The Cycle of Wealth
"Zhongjing, how are those apprentices you taught now?"
Zhang Ji was a little worried: "They have learned almost all the most reliable treatment methods for most common diseases. But my lord, is this really possible? ”
Yuan Shu sighed: "I can't help it!" There are some apprentice doctors who heal the people, at least better than nothing. ”
"If we really had that much time and famous doctors, we wouldn't need to do that. But not now, and there is an urgent need for doctors, so let's send this group of generals to use them first. In this way, a hospital has an average of ten apprentices, five of whom are assigned to work every three months, and the other five continue to study with you. This cycle will not delay the learning of these apprentices, nor will it delay the people's medical treatment. ”
Zhang Ji thought about it carefully, and finally nodded a little nervously.
"Also, for ordinary people, we can charge some cost fees for medicinal materials, after all, they don't have much money."
"As for those wealthy gentlemen who are treated in big hospitals, remember not to let them go. You can slaughter as much as you can, and you can prescribe some health medicine for them, and even help them make health plans on a regular basis, we don't cheat them, we must serve these people thoughtfully and meticulously, and try to be meticulous. I also opened a lot of luxury wards in the hospital, so that the seriously ill ones can be hospitalized here, and of course the hospitalization fee of the luxury ward will be very expensive. These local tyrants can spend as much thought as they can, and they can earn as much as they can. ”
Seeing Yuan Shu talking endlessly, looking like a profiteer, Zhang Ji wiped the sweat on his head: "Lord, isn't it a little bad for us to do this?" ”
Yuan Shu looked at Zhang Ji with disdain: "Do you think they are short of money?" We didn't lie to them, what they lacked was a high position and meticulous service, let's take what we need! What's more, if you think about it this way, most of their money is obtained by exploiting the people, let's take more money from them and collect less money from the people, which can be regarded as helping the people, right? ”
Hearing that in the end, Yuan Shu changed the concept of this kind of pit tyrant behavior to robbing the rich and helping the poor to do good deeds for the people, although Zhang Ji felt that something was wrong, he still nodded.
"Lord, Zhongjing understands, I'll go and inform the other doctors."
Yuan Shu had a teachable expression: "That's good, you go." ”
A generation of medical saints was successfully fooled into a pharmaceutical salesman.
However, in Yuan Shu's opinion, it is very good, the hospital system should be self-sufficient, and it can't be funded by itself every year!
The framework of the hospital and the college is basically in place, and the rest of the cloth village and canteen are even simpler.
Yuan Shu had already made rice for those working people before, but what he could provide for the time being was rice and vegetables, and it would be good to have some broth occasionally, after all, meat in Yangzhou is still relatively scarce, and it will be fine in two months.
Now Yuan Shu is going to set up a canteen and open some restaurants along the way to serve those wealthy families.
To this end, Yuan Shu also launched stir-fried dishes.
The cooking techniques of this era were still relatively primitive, and there were not many types of food, most of them were boiled and eaten, and the taste was relatively light.
Therefore, Yuan Shu made an iron pot and taught his subordinates how to stir-fry.
With a wok, it is natural to make some salt, oil, monosodium glutamate, dogwood and other things that can enhance the flavor.
Yuan Shu buys a large amount of soybeans to make vegetable oil, which is far cheaper and healthier than animal oil.
Salt and monosodium glutamate are also relatively easy, although Yuan Shu is not very clear about the specific principle, but at least he knows that the advanced method of drying salt and kelp can be made into monosodium glutamate.
Jiangdong is near the sea, salt is actually not too scarce, Yuan Shu casually found a piece of coast and sent a team of soldiers to guard it, and let the craftsmen experiment with how to dry salt and make monosodium glutamate, and constantly improve the method of drying salt and the purification of salt.
In this era, there were no chili peppers, so Yuan Shu replaced them with almost dogwood.
With these things, the variety and taste of the dish has improved greatly.
Since making the wok, the first thing Yuan Shu did was to cook it himself and scramble a few eggs for himself to eat. The aroma and taste simply made Yuan Shu salivate.
So that now Guo Jia and others often come to Yuan Shu's mansion from time to time to eat.
After all, although Yuan Shu spread the method of wok and stir-frying, it was still Yuan Shu's own home that made better types and tastes.
And the cloth village, it is not difficult, Yuan Shu asked a group of craftsmen to do nothing there to try how to make tools that can improve the weaving cloth, and now it has begun to bear fruit, and there is a finished product. One person would operate this invented loom as efficiently as ten people before it.
After these basic facilities were spread out in Yangzhou, Yuan Shu felt that a basic wealth cycle had been formed.
The government he represents provides jobs and money, and the people work for themselves to obtain the wealth they give, and then they take back the surplus money in the hands of the people in the form of clothing, food, housing, transportation, etc.
In this cycle, Yuan Shu will gradually increase investment, improve the prosperity of the people, and eventually stabilize the cycle.
The situation formed is that the people are very rich, the government is also very rich, and the people are equivalent to working for the government for free, building Yangzhou and manufacturing materials.
The most important thing is that the money that was originally discarded in the Yuan family's warehouse is no longer a pile of scrap copper, the wealth circulating in the society has increased invisibly, and the utilization rate of money has increased.
So on the surface, it seems that everyone has become very rich, and Yuan Shu is constantly throwing money, but in fact, the money is still so much, it has not changed, and Yuan Shu has only paid the money that was invested in fattening the people at the beginning.
If this situation continues, it will become more and more stable, as long as Yuan Shu does not die, everything will fall into place and get better and better.
Because once the cycle is formed, it will continue to grow and stabilize itself, and there is no need for Yuan Shu to bother to maintain it.
And when this cycle continues for a few more months and is completely stabilized, as long as the family gentry does not want to be abandoned by this circular society, and does not want to get out of this general trend, they must join it.
Otherwise, they can only guard the pile of money at home and slowly die, because the speed at which they create wealth is far from keeping up with the speed at which the whole society creates wealth, which means that their wealth is relatively decreasing.
When everyone and the family are involved, the wealth of the entire Jiangdong will roll bigger and bigger, and the money that was originally piled up in the warehouse of the family and gentry will also see the light of day, and all of them will become real wealth.
All this that Yuan Shu did seemed to be natural and very easy, but in fact, there were really few people who could do it after Yuan Shu.
This cycle of wealth is easy and powerful, but it is very fragile at first.
If it weren't for Yuan Shu's almost endless wealth from the beginning, which suppressed the family to the death, this cycle would not have formed.
Because if Yuan Shu has no money, and rich people such as the wealthy gentry of the family do not participate, the money in circulation will be very limited, and the wealth generated in the cycle will be extremely limited, and it will be very fragile and difficult to grow.
For example, if you only have money that can afford 10,000 people a year, you can only afford to support 100,000 people at most anyway, because wealth still has time in everyone's hands.
If a person earns money, it will be spent after a month, and the time that this money stays in his hands is a month, which means that each of the 100,000 people must at least have a month's worth of money in his hands as a guarantee, which still does not consider the idea that this person wants to keep some money for insurance.
So, if there is a limited amount of money in circulation, the cycle will be extremely limited and fragile.
If the other party has far more money than you, it is easy to destroy one of the links, thus destroying the whole cycle.
And the reason why Yuan Shu maintained this cycle so easily and easily was because Yuan Shu himself was now a real rich man in Jiangnan, and other families were not as rich as him.
In addition, with the government and military power in hand, no one dares and has no ability to break this cycle.
Yuan Shu can't hurt people with this, only the people can be cheap, and as long as Yuan Shu's link is not broken, the whole cycle will not collapse. If the cycle does not collapse, the people will become rich again, and then the cycle will grow again.
All in all, now the family in Jiangnan can't do Yuan Shu in all aspects, and can only watch him grow with the people, if Yuan Shu doesn't fall within three years, I'm afraid he will have to compromise and participate in it.