The universe is running according to certain rules, the earth is rotating, and people living in Datang still exist for their ideals or habits.

The war is going on, and everyone in the Tang Dynasty knows that every day through the newspapers, you can see the situation of the front-line army in the previous paragraph, and the army of its own country has not been driven straight in, but the team near the river has tried to occupy as much resources as possible from other countries.

Then there are the grasslands, snow-capped mountains, jungles, swamps, and deserts, and the country's army has always been at strategic points, advancing very slowly with advanced weapons, and it can even be said that every step is cautious.

Such a result may seem unsatisfactory, but it is satisfying that the number of casualties on the battlefield is small and the natural environment is full of dangers.

For example, someone in the desert suffered from heat stroke, the grassland was bitten by snakes, there was still poisonous fog in the jungle, and it was very cold in the snowy mountains. As for the battle casualties, when disassembling the firearm, he squeezed out the blood blisters on his hand, threw the grenade and said that he would use a grenadier, but some soldiers were disobedient, threw his arm and threw it, not to mention that he strained his arm, and the grenade was thrown very close, and the shrapnel that flew out cut off a piece of the scalp, and it was easy to get infected.

The common people couldn't help but shout and curse in the taverns and tea shops, scolding the design of the guns, scolding the soldiers who joined the army for not training well, and some people directly scolded the commanders, why not pull the cannon to the snowy mountain and fire downward, so that the fight would be farther.

In the case of non-combat attrition, grief is always a minority, relatives at home have casualties, they will only sigh bad luck, but they do not complain about the country, in a short period of time, there is the comfort of neighbors and a large amount of financial subsidies from the government, and the pain in the heart needs to be healed by years.

When he ascended to the early dynasty, Li Longji would always read the names of the newly injured people once, sometimes twenty or thirty, sometimes four or five, zero casualties, and never appeared.

"How? People die every day, doesn't it mean that with advanced weapons, they should be undamaged. "Li Longji pronounced fifteen names in the early days of the dynasty, and six of them died of illness. Two fell to their deaths, one was bitten by a snake four days ago and did not survive, and the two died directly on the pontoon when they swam across, saying that the water temperature was not suitable and they had a heart attack. One saw a bear at night vigil. Chase after the bear to shoot to death, the remaining three are killed in the battle, the artillery fire passed, they pursued. The horses went crazy, and they died under the hooves of the horses, which was counted as a death in battle.

Fifteen people represent one of the fifteen families, so Li Longji looked sad: "Don't look at the numbers. Fifteen is not much, if it is put on your family, who do you say will die? ”

The ministers were silent, they really kept treating the dead people as numbers, just like money, however, if it was exchanged for themselves, no one would die a family member for a reason, it was really sad.

"Your Majesty. The minister thought that the advance of our army was still too fast, and that we should slow down further and strengthen the training for our own protection. It is better to die under the enemy's swords, guns, bows and arrows than to die like this. ”

Jiang Cen of Sinong Temple believes that the problem lies in the lack of training in peacetime, the geographical environment is poor, and there should not be too much non-combat attrition.

Xiao Song, the secretary of the military department, snorted coldly. stood up and said: "If you die under the enemy's sword, gun, bow and arrow, it is estimated that Zhang Zhong and Zhang Shangshu should be questioned." If there is a problem with the weapon, we will put our side in danger, in fact, how do we and other military attachés command? ”

When everyone heard this, they felt that it was very reasonable, a head-on confrontation, the artillery opened the way, the small artillery covered, the guns killed the enemy, the advance was so slow, and the enemy could be successfully hand-to-hand combat, and the Ministry of Engineering and the Ministry of War had to be cleaned up.

"If you want me to say, you shouldn't start a war, if you don't go over, how can you still die, Datang is good now, what are you doing when you fight others." Wang Hui came up again, he was obsessed, he just solved part of the problem of investment and returns, and began to find a way to block the Zhang and Wang families.

Li Longji ignored Wang Hui, after a country is strong, it will not fight, and the country is about to end, and the premise of peace is that others accept the rule and submit, otherwise you should not have any communication with others, especially in trade.

As long as there is contact, there will inevitably be contradictions, and when the time comes, will the interests of the people be safeguarded or not? Neighbors occasionally move knives and sticks, not to mention between countries.

Seeing that no one responded to Wang Hui's words, the military department Shangshu made his voice again: "Is Wang Shangshu afraid that the treasury will not be able to support it because he has spent too much money?" ”

"Many, according to Wang Juan's way of playing, every inch of land has always been money, and the money in the treasury is flowing out like flowing water, and it will be empty in a few months."

Wang Hui yīn said in a deep voice with a grimace.

As a result, no one supported his words, the civil and military officials were not stupid, and the amount of money the country has now can probably still be estimated, and the money consumed is used for weapons and transportation, but the transportation is not transported over and returned directly, but pulls things over there.

These things are already being shipped to various parts of Datang, but they are not being sold and processed. And in the process, a lot of things that could not be sold before were consumed, such as burlap, with the new technology of silkworm raising, and with a large amount of cotton from their own country and Silla, who would pull a few feet of burlap and go home to make clothes?

That thing is all used to make sacks, because of the transportation of the war, the demand for sacks has increased, and a lot of hemp rope that was supposed to rot has been consumed at once, isn't this money?

In the course of the war, the road was good, and everyone was helping to repair the road, and in the future, the Ministry of Industry under Zhang Zhong's management would make more asphalt, so that better roads could be built, and there was a foundation. This part of the income related to the long-term future is not counted in the household?

There are more backlogs, which are now selling very well, such as four years of old grain, except for wine, who wants to buy it for home as a meal?

Seeing that no one supported him, Wang Hui felt very lonely, or lonely, and planned to continue to state that the expenditure of money was too much and the treasury was empty, but Prime Minister Yu Wenrong took a step sideways.

"Wang Shangshu, I hope you can focus on the overall situation, don't always think about some personal things, if Xiaobao and Juan Juan are as narrow as you, I believe you know what the consequences are. I have offended them before, Juan Juan does not use swords and soldiers in the country, and Xiaobao retreats again and again.

Don't talk about being a person, just say save yourself, what you're doing now is a bit excessive, do you really want to force the two of them to turn back? Are you sure you can hold on even if we don't help each other? ”

Yu Wenrong said part of his opinion, his eyes swept to the others, and the others did not avoid it, and nodded one after another to meet his gaze.

Yuan Qianyao smiled. He said twice: "Xiaobao is never guilty, we knew when they were young that there would always be a line in doing things." So, ì Ben and Silla. Non-war tears into a river. If you don't use the sword, ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

What I want to say is that people are doing it, and the sky is watching. Whoever has the ability to clean them up, stand on Suzaku Street and shout twice, if they can survive, I will support it, and my life is hard. ”

Wang Hui retreated. It's not just that the court officials are opposed, but they are also afraid that the news of the early dynasty will spread out, not to mention shouting on Suzaku Street, as long as the people in the capital know, his family is estimated to have no peace.

Li Longji hurriedly played a round: "Don't say this, don't say this, Wang Qing doesn't need to worry, Xiao Baojuan still knows, they will definitely not do it directly." It's a big deal to make less money, and it won't let the investors lose money, Xiaobao controls it very well.

Speaking of business, before today's court meeting, the information that came back said that fifteen people had died. Injuries are not counted. Actually, actually......"

Li Longji looked very entangled, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Actually, it's not like we haven't fought before, and there are more dead. Of course, everyone doesn't care. Now I have been affected by Xiaobao and Juan Juan, yes, it is the impact, everyone values human life more seriously, and I am very pleased.

In fact, again, it is said that even if there is no war, there are fewer people who die every day in Datang due to various accidents? Nowadays, there are more than 300,000 front-line soldiers, and if they are disbanded and returned to ordinary life, can they be guaranteed to live well every day? An immortal? ”

Everyone shook their heads, 300,000 ah, how can they all be alive intact, and all kinds of accidents can cause dead people.

As soon as he thought of the accident, Yu Wenrong spoke up again and pointed directly at Zhang Zhong: "Zhang Shangshu, I want to ask, why can't the medical school work?" There are always people who can't be treated and die, and every time they die, we are sad. ”

"Fart." Zhang Zhong changed his previous kindness and scolded: "Your fucking medical school is an immortal academy? You don't know what it was like before? What does it look like now, you don't know? I don't want them to come up with better medicines and better treatments? Am I not sad to watch others die of illness? ”

"Dissipate your anger, Zhang Qing is still good." Li Longji comforted him.

"What's the anger? The speed of development of medicine is there, and you can't see how it is? Not to mention anything else, in the past, if you had a child, you had to die or live, and you worshiped the Buddha with incense. Now who says to have a child, you show me how easy it is to die? If you can't give birth, you will have surgery, what's the big deal.

I know that a relative of Yuxiang's family died of tuberculosis, and she is your cousin, who is not uncomfortable to see her vomit blood? But there is no medicine, you know that I am talking about me, don't you know that after I told the news to my Xiaobao and Juan Juan, they are now ordering the medical school to storm something they call 'Remiphon'? ”

Zhang Zhong didn't even sell Li Longji's face at this moment, and questioned Yu Wenrong.

The corners of Yu Wenrong's mouth moved, but he didn't make a sound, one was sad, the other was frightened, and honest people were also very powerful when they started fire.

It is even more impossible for Li Longji to pursue Zhang Zhongding's own crimes, Zhang Zhong is a person he knows very well, loyal and patriotic, not to mention punishing crimes, reprimanding will have incalculable consequences, without him, who will suppress Xiaobao and Juan Juan, if he says him, what will his son and daughter-in-law think?

Gao Lishi stood up at a critical moment and asked, "Brother Yongcheng, what kind of Remifeng is that, can cure tuberculosis?" Xiaobao didn't tell me either. ”

Zhong replied: "Xiaobao and Juan Juan said, tuberculosis, tuberculosis, is nothing at all, that is, the current development of science and technology can't keep up, and people died of smallpox in the past, and now you see who dies of smallpox?" There are also bugs in the child's stomach, which used to be a lot of them, but now they can go directly to Xiaobei and their baby candy house to get them.

Let's give us some time, Xiaobao and Juan Juan are difficult enough, Jiang Shilang, how is the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials? In particular, external antidotes and internal general medicines. ”

Zhang Zhong nodded to Gao Lishi, meaning that I won't explain too much to you, you ask your godson yourself, and turn around and ask Jiang Cen.

Jiang Cen hurriedly replied: "They are all planted, and your family has provided information about ginseng or something, the planting area is not small, and it will be processed in pieces according to the needs at that time, Brother Zhang, don't worry, Xiaobao has already said that it is ginseng that looks like the things in it are similar to radishes, and that is because our scientific and technological development is not in place."

Otherwise, you can compare, the most direct way is to eat ginseng and radish, the ginseng grown at home has been out for two seasons. There are five or six years, and there are eight years. According to the comparison of the least number of years, eating a pound of radish, normal people have nothing to do, try to eat a pound of ginseng for five years. See if you die.

We've experimented. A man with a normal body and a strong body usually eats half a catty of ginseng directly, and the nosebleeds do not stop, if it is cooked with something else. Not much of a problem. ”

"Don't remember to use the Tang people as an experiment, now the medical school has been raising a large number of rats and monkeys, although all things have spirits, but the spirits of all things are not human. The snake swallows the frog, and the snake does not think about the spirit of the frog. The tiger eats the rabbit, the tiger does not pity the death of the rabbit, since the weak eat the strong, in order to live well, what should be done still has to be done. ”

Zhang Zhong was satisfied with Jiang Cen's answer and said more things.

The ministers are indifferent, so they don't care whether other animals and other people die or not, that is, now, instead of before. It's not a big deal to kill an opponent, but it's too simple to persecute a person to death through political means more than ten years ago.

But not right now, because His Majesty's strategy has changed. His Majesty is no longer seeking balance, but to unify thoughts, why, because the rest of his mother wants to unite against His Majesty. First of all, we must consider Xiaobao and Juan Juan, if they are on His Majesty's side. No matter what you do, it's useless.

Could it be that a group of people are going to transfer troops? Juan Juan did not come forward, maybe there was a possibility of commanding the military forces of other places to rebel, Juan Juan showed up, and she said what she said. Fan businessmen to raise prices and cause domestic unrest? The merchant first wanted to see Xiaobao's face, and when he ascended to the height, he shouted, not to say that he was a businessman, and the boiling oil had to be cooled instantly.

As for the people, look at the pomp and circumstance when they were not married, and the appearance of younger brothers and sisters when they were born, you can know that the entire Tang Dynasty was jubilant, with colorful flags overturned and firecrackers rumbling.

With them, if you are waiting for others, including the forces behind you, don't expect to force Your Majesty to make concessions.

"Please play." Pei Yaoqing listed: "The current military service training system must be checked and strict, so as to prevent additional damage in future wars." ”

LONGi didn't want to delay other issues because he raised a matter of how many people had died, so he directly gave this issue to the past.

At the same time, he also instructed: "Ask Xiaobao and Juan Juan, when will the preliminary results come out?" ”

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were still staying in Yizhou, without the slightest idea of action, mainly because the position of Yizhou was too critical, and they could manage those fronts on the one hand, and on the other hand, they could reinforce the military operation against Zhenla in time.

Zhenla didn't move, and if the meteor didn't send back news, it would be impossible for them to leave.

Therefore, the two of them have a worse and worse impression of Zhenla, and Zhang Xiaobao gritted his teeth with hatred.

"I have decided, no one will stop me, and when this period is over, I will send all the people of Zhenla to the north of Hebei Province to dig coal for me, but I have to keep the amber and coal jīng there."

"The natural environment there is different from where they live, they won't go, you can't arrest people." Wang Juan is also disgusted with Zhenla, but she hopes that Zhang Xiaobao will use other means to deal with it.

Zhang Xiaobao smiled: "Don't go?" That's not enough temptation, should you be you and me? When facing other temptations, I think of my own backbone, and when I give them a big price, I don't believe that they are not moved, such as three times the income of our Datang miners. ”

Wang Juan was stunned, looked at Zhang Xiaobao puzzled, thought about it, and was even more puzzled: "If you do this, what will I do with the people of Datang?" ”

"What does it have to do with the Datang people, you said that they are in the southwest, not adapted to the northeast environment of our country, one is not adapted to the weather, the other is not suitable for the diet, and the lack of adaptation is that the bacteria in the body are different, and the different flora is easy to get sick.

How much do I give them triple their salary? I don't have free medical care for them, the possibility of them getting sick is very large, and when the time comes, I will get back the money they earned with the money from the medicine, do you see if you are sick? If you don't look at it, then wait for death, you don't have a penny, look, then pay for it.

If I charge the Tang people for medical treatment now, how much do you think our imperial court's financial revenue will increase? The ex-factory price of the pharmaceutical factory is low, but you have to pay taxes, right? Middlemen sell medicines, and they have to pay taxes, right? The director of the hospital is bribed by others, he wants to consume, set prices for patients, and pay taxes, right?

In fact, most of the burden of cost and sales is given to patients, but the consumption of the beneficiaries of their intermediate links is also GDP. ”

Zhang Xiaobao said with a sneer, after saying that, he found a problem, now that the times are different, he doesn't seem to need to do this, so he smiled embarrassedly and said: "What I want to say is actually people's instinctive pursuit of survival." I gave them a chance to make money, but I didn't give benefits, and I completed my revenge plan. ”

After listening to Zhang Xiaobao's words, Wang Juan was not in a high mood, and pursed his lips to think about it. said to Zhang Xiaobao: "Xiaobao." As long as we live, you promise me that you will never charge for medical care and education, which is the foundation of a nation's strength and survival. ”

"I know. A country is actually a family, and the politics of the past were actually a family world, and the original tribe was that other people in it supported you, thinking that you could lead them to a better life, so you were the chief. It is the collar of the tribe.

Now, the same is true, the people are your children, supporting you as emperor, waiting for you to bring them a better life, if you forget, or even feel that you are in charge of some of the people who have weapons, and start eating the flesh and blood of your children, I don't say whether you are a person or not. At least your child will overthrow you one day.

Don't think that you can have a weapon, the previous weapon was to feed the child and treat the prey, when one day you turn the weapon to your child, you will eventually perish, how many dynasties have verified. ”

Zhang Xiaobao said.

Wang Juan echoed: "Yes. So don't think that you have ruled for decades or hundreds of years and are very powerful, many dynasties actually ruled for a longer time, but in the end, the people were not able to make a living, and the officials forced the people to rebel. And the more you get to the end, the easier it is to lose power, because everyone has the knowledge. It's not very difficult to build a nuclear weapon.

A high school student, or even a junior high school student, as long as he has enough talent and works hard, can definitely build a small-yield atomic bomb after a few years of study. Once the people are forced to this extent, 10,000 people will build and build a thousand small atomic bombs, and once they are detonated, what will be the consequences? ”

"So let's work hard, try not to cause too much polarization, life, sometimes I really don't know what to pursue." Zhang Xiaobao said as he looked down from the window and looked at several officials from the Yizhou Prefecture holding signs there.

Wang Juan also saw that those officials usually don't come out casually, and now they won't get the approval of themselves and Xiaobao.

Your officials don't work in the yamen, and you stand under the Bihai Yinsha Restaurant and hold up a sign, is this the greatest embodiment of your social value? If that's the case, you might as well keep holding up the sign and stop being an official.

Many people don't know, looking at the officials standing there with a sign, they feel that the officials are very good and very intimate, and the content on the sign is illiterate to find someone to ask, saying that it is starting today, Yizhou's Bihai Yinsha and Haiyunjian Restaurant have doctors to see at the same time.

One by one, the people thought that the officials were really good, but in fact, they did not know that if the value of the officials was only reflected in this aspect, then the control arrangements of the imperial court would fail.

Who does the local official show the sign for the day? If it's for the people to see, then why don't you usually lift it? Do you have to wait for a bigger official to come?

After talking about the ten dog competitions, Xiaobei happened to see this scene, and glanced upstairs, all of them were not good-looking.

"I'm so disgusted, you said you didn't make a mistake, what are you doing here? Waiting for us to check you out? Why did the doctors all come out today? It's different from before, didn't you go to a local clinic in one place? ”

Xiaobei glared at the official holding the sign and said that she was angry, mainly because she had already checked it when she came, and there was nothing wrong with the local officials. Now people stand downstairs to advertise, and there seems to be no problem. But in fact, it's for my brother and sister, and you don't work?

Xiao Yuan also frowned, considered it, and said to Xiao Bei: "In the past, I stayed in one place for a short time, and I had to go to the local medical center, mainly to collect information about local diseases.

Now I have to stay for a long time, our doctor has already gone to the infirmary first, and after collecting information, it is not good to hide at home all the time and not show up, wasting resources. ”

"Let's go, take a closer look." Xiaobei glared at the official holding the sign again, can't you put it in that place to stand, you have to hold it.

People are already queuing, not because they are sick and look down on them, but because they think they are sick, but they don't check it out when they get to the hospital.

"What are you squeezing here, kid?" Becky came to the side of the group and said to a boy who was two years older than she was standing there.

"I've been sleepy in class lately, the teacher and I, as well as my parents, think I'm sick, the doctor in the hospital said I'm not sick, I don't believe it, just come and see, who are you, you ask me?"

After the boy answered, he remembered that he had said too much to others, especially the girl who was younger than himself, and he was very unhappy, maybe he would not know until he was older that if a girl took the initiative to talk to him, he should seize the opportunity.

Xiao Bei was puzzled, and when she saw that the boy was unhappy, she was also angry: "Who do you think I am?" If you take a closer look, there are nine of us, do you know? I'm Becky. You're not in the school, you run out to see a doctor, how long have you been sick? ”

"Becky? Ha, oh, oh, nine, no wonder it's funny, I've been sick for a few months, I'm sick, you can't catch me, I'm a patient. The boy looked at it carefully, and then counted the number of people, a little scared, and a little stubborn.

Xiaobei just wanted to say something more, but Xiaohai grabbed her, dragged her behind her, stood in front of herself, and said to a doctor who was treating others: "Show him the next one." ”

There are a lot of doctors under the restaurant, not only here, but also in the Haiyunjian restaurant in the other direction, all of whom are doctors from Zhang Wang's team.

They usually go to the local hospital first to understand the situation, and now that they have learned about it, staying at home all the time is a waste of resources, and they are sent out to see others, and the level of doctors in the hospital is naturally much worse than them.

The people also know that the Deyi Medical College was opened by the Zhang and Wang families, and the first batch of doctors were also provided by others, so it is obvious what the level of doctors who can travel with Xiaobao, Juan Juan, and Xiaobei is obvious.

It's just that the people won't scold, saying that the Zhang and Wang families pulled high-level doctors to their side, in the eyes of the people, this is very right, if the doctor is bad, what should Xiaobao do when they are sick?

So now this part of the doctor's medical skills are not high, the little boy went up to try everything, the doctor first auscultated, found no problem, and then took the pulse, felt it, and asked: "I don't go to bed until late every night, right?" And picky eaters. ”

"Doctor, no, my child goes to bed early." The woman who came with the boy said anxiously.

"He's lying down early, he may not be able to sleep, what kind of games have you been playing lately?" The doctor asked again.

"Big, Monopoly." The boy was frightened, and the doctor was too accurate.

Xiaobei slapped his head: "I'll ban the Monopoly game tomorrow, I know, he played during the day, he always thinks about it when he sleeps at night, maybe he thinks about it when he goes to class, and then he is a picky eater, not nutritious enough, of course he is sleepy." ”

"No, Monopoly is very funny, it seems to be luck, but in fact, there is also calculation." The boy is even more afraid this time, if Xiaobei wants to stop a game, then others will not dare to play.

"Doctor, you can figure it out." The boy's mother first looked at Xiaobei gently, and then asked the doctor anxiously.

The doctor who treated the boy looked at Xiaobei Jiu slightly, sighed, and said helplessly: "I really can't help it, if only I were like my little ancestors, I will listen to everything, all of them are well-behaved and sensible, your children ...... I can't prescribe traditional Chinese medicine, what I prescribe is nothing more than a prescription for strengthening the spleen, regulating qi, moistening the lungs, clearing the intestines, and regulating the stomach, the key is ......"

"Picky eater." Xiaobei squeezed out from behind his brother and said, after the doctor nodded, he said: "It's okay, it will be solved soon, the problem now is that he always thinks about the game." ”

"The game is easy to do." Xiaohai said: "Starting today, we invite him to come to the house every day to play Monopoly, no need to go to class, we take turns to play with him, play for ten days first, and see the effect." ”