Chapter 387: New Agricultural Technology Achievements
Zhen Yao pondered for a moment and said: "My great-grandfather and great-uncle's library is strictly forbidden for outsiders to borrow, and there are a lot of books, I can only steal a few books, and it will be miserable if my great-grandfather and great-uncle know more." ”
Zuo Shaoyang said: "You don't need to take everything, especially the books on medical science, I just need to take a look at the basic medical prescriptions." One or two copies will do. If you can find it outside, you don't need it. ”
Zhen Yao nodded and said, "It's easy, I'll go back and bring you the treasured prescription books of my great-grandfather and great-uncle." But you have to watch a little faster, it will take too long to be easy to be discovered. ”
"Okay, I'll watch it for one night." I thought that the prescriptions of the Tang Dynasty were also relatively backward, and it was estimated that there were not too many formulas that interested me. It is enough to double it overnight.
Zhen Yao was stunned and said, "One night? Too short, right? I'll lend it to you for three days. ”
"No need, I'm already embarrassed to let Miss Zhen steal the book and show it to me."
"It's okay!" Zhen Yao said with a smile, "The medical book should have been pushed away from everyone's reading, and the doctor's medical skills have improved, so that the patient will be beneficial." ”
Zuo Shaoyang arched his hand and said: "Miss Zhen is kind-hearted and admirable. ”
"I can't compare to you! I heard that in order to treat a sick little girl in Hezhou, you were willing to take a risk and break through the enemy blockade and go up the mountain to find medicine, which is the real benevolent doctor. Few others can do it. ”
Zuo Shaoyang glanced at Qiao Qiao'er, knowing that this must be what she said, Qiao Qiao'er smiled and grimaced at him.
―――――――――――――――― the evening of the next day, Zhen Yao came.
As soon as he saw Zhen Yao's expression, Zuo Shaoyang knew that things might not be good, and sure enough, Zhen Yao told Zuo Shaoyang with a wry smile that she and her great-uncle Zhen Liyan were soft and hard, but great-uncle not only did not agree, but also reprimanded her for not caring about other people's idle affairs, and took the disciple's sixty-year medical prescription experience collection, and then stayed up all night, spent a day and a night, and copied a copy.
Zuo Shaoyang took the thick stack of handwritten medical books handed over by Zhen Yao, which was a summary of Zhen Liyan's experience in practicing medicine for more than 60 years, which was equivalent to the highest level of martial arts cheats. Looking at Zhen Yao's bloodshot eyes, Zuo Shaoyang was really moved.
In the following time, Zuo Shaoyang had something to do, and carefully studied this medical book that brought together the 60 years of experience of the top famous doctors in the Tang Dynasty.
After reading Zhen Liyan's so-called summary of sixty years of medical experience, Zuo Shaoyang finally understood why the Zhen brothers could become miracle doctors. Because he was surprised to find that many of the prescriptions in Zhen Liyan's book were the prescriptions in Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases"!
Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" includes two parts: typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases, and the whole book was scattered in the war of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Among them, the typhoid part was sorted out into the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" by Wang Shuhe of the Western Jin Dynasty and began to circulate, and the rest of the miscellaneous disease part has been annihilated to the Northern Song Dynasty, before it was collected and sorted into the "Jin Kui Yaolu", and then it was circulated in the world, in the early Tang Dynasty, the miscellaneous disease theory part has been annihilated, and Zhen Liyan used the identity of the imperial doctor to occupy a considerable part of the prescription, steal it for himself, and use it as his own experience.
That is to say, the Zhen brothers' status as miracle doctors was largely due to the possession of the medical prescriptions in Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", which had been scattered in the early Tang Dynasty at that time, which was equivalent to having a book of martial arts secrets lost by a super master of martial arts in his previous life.
These recipes are precious to others, but they are too ordinary for Zuo Shaoyang, and they are already familiar with their chests. However, he still benefited a lot from this book handwritten by Zhen Yao, because a considerable part of this manuscript is a summary of the Zhen brothers' more than 60 years of medical experience, including a considerable part of the Zhen brothers' own experience, which still has some inspiration for him, which cannot be learned in textbooks.
He read it carefully, and more than ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
Qiao Qiaoer's injury is progressing very slowly, fortunately, with Zuo Shaoyang's acupuncture and moxibustion to relieve pain, it can still be bearable, but Master Qiao is very anxious, he knows that Zuo Shaoyang's current dispensing is still a taste of chicken blood vine, and this medicine is likely to be available in Hezhou, so I hope they can return to Hezhou as soon as possible and treat their daughter's illness, but now this situation is not easy to urge, only find a way to let them end this lawsuit as soon as possible.
So, Master Qiao visited the Penglai Inn again and offered to go to Zhen's house to find Zhen Quan to help solve this matter. Seeing that the other party was so enthusiastic, Zuo Gui's father met Master Qiao regardless of his previous suspicions.
Master Qiao went for a day and came back in the evening, and the result was that Master Qiao spent a lot of effort, and finally invited the old doctor Zhen Quan to talk to the old lady Yu. However, the old doctor Zhen Quan came back and said that the old doctor Yu was indeed sick and couldn't get up in bed, and after the persuasion of the old doctor Zhen Quan, the Yu family increased the amount of compensation and was willing to double the loss of the Zuo family, that is, in addition to returning the 80 yuan dowry, another 80 yuan of compensation for the loss.
Zuo Gui's father was angry, saying that this lawsuit was not for money, and categorically rejected the Yu family's proposal. claimed to fight this lawsuit to the end.
However, the county government has been delaying the trial of the case on the grounds that Yu's family's parent, Mrs. Yu, is seriously ill and cannot attend the court to receive the news.
Even the Zhen family, the most famous old doctor in the capital, came forward to persuade the other party, but they still failed to succeed, and they couldn't even find out the real reason for regretting their marriage. This made Zuo Gui's father extremely depressed.
Seeing that his father was sad about this matter, sighing all day long, Zuo Shaoyang was helpless, and took out the inscription of the general Zhao Wang Li Yuanjing, suggesting that he be cheeky and ask King Zhao to uphold justice.
Zuo Gui's father had no choice but to agree to take the inscription and drive to Zhao Wang's Mansion to ask for a meeting.
The people of Zhao Wangfu recognized that this was indeed the word of King Zhao, and they were very polite to the father and son of the Zuo family, but regretfully told them that the Turks had raided the Tang border again, and King Zhao had been ordered by the emperor to lead his troops to the north to participate in the war against the Turks. I don't know when I will be able to return to the court.
Father Zuogui came out of King Zhao's mansion, stood at the door and looked up to the sky and sighed: "Is God really not opening his eyes?" ”
Zuo Gui's father wanted to knock on the Dengwen drum and file a complaint against the emperor, but Qiao Guan and Mrs. Qu both said that this case is now being tried by the Chang'an County Ya, and the excuse that the other party found was because Mrs. Yu was seriously ill and could not go to the court to respond to the lawsuit, and there must be high-ranking officials behind this matter, so even if the Dengwen drum was beaten, it didn't make any sense. Maybe it will be a surprise.
Zuo Gui's father was desperate, at this time, Peng County Lieutenant did work for the Zuo family, saying that as long as the Zuo family was willing to mediate, he could even persuade the Yu family to increase the compensation amount a little more, hoping that the Zuo family would end the case accordingly and choose another good match. The Yu family also made it clear that as long as the marriage is withdrawn, the compensation can be increased and negotiable.
Although Zuo Gui's father knew that there was no hope for this case, he couldn't swallow this breath in his heart, and he was stubborn to the end, saying that this lawsuit would drag on like this, he was not afraid, anyway, his son could not marry, and the daughter of the Yu family also wanted to marry!
So, the lawsuit was consumed.
The people sent by Qiao Guan to Hezhou rushed back, bringing back the chicken blood vine, as well as a letter from the Liang family and a hundred yuan of money.
From the letter, it was learned that the Hezhou fields had been harvested in autumn, and Zuo Shaoyang's 20 acres of fields planted with modern intensive farming techniques had achieved high yields, which were twice as high as those of other fields. Not only that, but because the rice and weeds are not cut together, the "three Laos, three swings, and three digging" method of modern farming is adopted, which is troublesome but can save time, so the rice ripens one month earlier than other fields that are cut and regrown. Although grain prices have dropped sharply due to the continuous transportation of grain to Hezhou from all over the country, the price of grain has remained at a high price of about 700 wen per bucket because the grain in the fields has not yet been brought up.
By the time the other fields of the Zuojia family and other localities generally entered the autumn harvest, due to today's favorable wind and rain, almost all the fields in Hezhou were planted and harvested, so the grain price plummeted, and in a few days, it fell sharply to 30 wen and 1 dou, which was less than 10% of the pre-war grain price!
Of the remaining 950 acres of land of the Zuo family, 6 acres were taken out to collect the land tax, and the rest was collected at 40 percent of the tenant rent, and 7,500 dou was collected.
Fortunately, Hou Pu had the foresight to help hire someone to build a lot of granaries in the old house, and after the grain was loaded, he left 1,500 buckets of rice, which were dried and put into the warehouse in time as rations and seeds for the next year. The remaining 6,000 buckets were made into 3,600 buckets of grain, and after selling them, they earned more than 100 yuan.
The total amount of money earned from the autumn harvest is 450 yuan, and all of it has been returned to the shopkeeper Yu.
Reading the letter, Zuo Gui's father couldn't suppress the joy and shock in his heart, he couldn't imagine that the twenty acres of land planted by Zuo Shaoyang's intensive cultivation method used by Miao Peilan would sell three times more than the total amount of grain produced by 950 acres! Of course, this is mainly because the grain maturity period of these 20 acres of fertile land is a month earlier than that of other fields, and it has caught up with the high grain prices.
I learned that after the autumn harvest at home, not only did I have 1,500 buckets of rice, but all the money I earned after selling grain was returned to the loan of the Yu shopkeeper, although I still owed 50 yuan, but the old lady Qu borrowed 100 yuan from the Zuo family, and the foreign debt of this year can almost be flattened, that is to say, the arrears of the Qu family's old house have been paid off, and from now on, this house will really belong to the Zuo family.
In accordance with Zuo Shaoyang's requirements, the medicine cabinet dug and transplanted medicinal materials from all over the country, except for a few medicinal materials that were completely unsuitable for planting in Hezhou, the rest were successfully transplanted, including chicken blood vine.
The chicken blood vine has been delivered, and Zuo Shaoyang can also prepare all the medicine for Qiao Qiao'er.
Although it is complete, Qiao Qiao'er's illness cannot be cured in three days and five nights, and the Qiao family is also mentally prepared and waits slowly. Fortunately, with Zuo Shaoyang's acupuncture and moxibustion to relieve pain every day, Qiao Qiaoer almost no longer has to endure the torture of illness, and can even walk around with a cane and laughing.
(To be continued)