As Ji Za said, throughout the ages, the greatest vision in people's hearts is to learn and teach, work to earn, to receive medical treatment, to provide for the elderly, and to live in a house.

The current state of Wu has been able to earn from work and live in a home.

The rest is up for debate.

After leaving Yanling, Qingji and his party returned to the capital Jinling.

At the next day's court meeting, Qingji began to issue a series of edicts.

"The edict of the widow is that from now on, Jinling will set up a Huimin Pharmacy, with Chen Xuan (Bian Que) as the bureau governor, and all the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital will set the price of medicinal materials and the amount of consultation fees."

Qing Ji looked around, set his eyes on the body of the imperial physician Ling Bian Que, and said: "All the consultation fees and medicinal materials must be lower than one-half or two-thirds of the market, or even lower. ”

"Huimin Pharmacy first piloted in Jinling, if the effect is acceptable, half a year later, it will be gradually promoted to the whole country. Be sure to do at least one Huimin pharmacy in every county! ”

"King Shengming!"

The ministers all followed the mountain and shouted a tsunami of compliments.

Qingji did not adopt it after all, and Ji Zha's previous proposal of "medicine shop official camp".

Why?

The cost is too high, which will squeeze the living space of the rest of the doctors and the pharmacy, not to mention, the key is that in that case, the government of the pharmacy is destined to not last long.

The burden added to the state of Wu is too great!

Qingji pondered in his heart, if Wu Guo ruled the world in the future, he would not need too much expenditure in other aspects, and he could even achieve free medical care for all......

However, now Qingji has no choice but to fight a price war with doctors and pharmacies in Wu through Huimin Pharmacy.

If they don't follow suit, they are destined to be eliminated by the market.

"Wang, this Huimin Pharmacy, I don't know where to allocate funds?"

Zhisu Neishi asked suspiciously.

"In the early stage, it was a treasury allocation."

Qingji said slowly: "The state treasury has allocated funds to build Huimin pharmacies in various places, and after maintaining normal operation, the local government will be responsible for all doctors' diagnosis funds and the use of medicinal materials. ”

"No."

There are now more than 200 counties in Wuguo, and there are at least one or two Huimin pharmacies in each county, which is really a lot of money.

However, as the saying goes, take from the people, use it for the people.

Such a policy of benefiting the people is understandable!

Qingji said again: "There are many widows and lonely old people in my Wu country, and they have not been treated well. ”

"The widow will set up a nursing home, so that the lonely and widowed elderly can enjoy their old age in the nursing home."

"A county has at least one nursing home, which is also allocated by the state treasury in the early stage, and after maintaining normal operation, the county where it is located is responsible for taking over."

"The matter of the almshouse is the responsibility of the detached."

"Minister, obey the king's orders!"

Shaofu was left and hurriedly agreed.

"Respecting the old and loving the young is my traditional Chinese virtue, which must not be lost. It's not just the lonely elderly! ”

Qingji said loudly: "In order to make the old people have something to rely on and support, the widow has decided that those who are over sixty-five years old will be allowed to order a son to serve and be exempted from servitude." ”

"For the old man, he will be given two pieces of cloth a year, 1,200 yuan of money, and 10 stones of grain and rice."

"If there is a person who takes the initiative to support the elderly, the reward is the same as the above example!"

"King Shengming!"

The ministers all said that they had no objections.

Whether it is a Huimin pharmacy or a nursing home, they are all welfare policies aimed at people's livelihood, how can they oppose it?

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With the wealth of Wu now, there is really no need to pick and search.

Wu is indeed a country that respects the old and loves the young.

The elderly who are lonely and widowed are supported by a nursing home.

If they are orphans, they will be specially raised by the government and stored in the military camp as reserve soldiers......

Now, with this decree promulgated by Qingji, the elderly of the people are not only supported, but also have special pensions!

Since you want to be gracious to the people, why don't you be more thorough?

"Two or three sons."

Qingji looked around, looked at the ministers and doctors under His Majesty's platform, and said slowly: "In the past two years, there have been fewer newborns in my Wu Kingdom than in previous years, what is the reason?" ”

"The widow has thought about it, and the encouragement is still not enough!"

"Wu originally did not have a verbal endowment, but it was added in order to increase the revenue of the national treasury and maintain the war and people's livelihood at the front."

"Now that the treasury is full, in order to encourage childbearing, the widow has decided to cancel the oral endowment, and all children under the age of 14 do not need to receive oral endowment!"

You must know that before, children between the ages of three and fourteen in Wu Guo were charged a verbal gift of 20 yuan.

Not much, but the number of newborns is large enough!

This "reckoning" is a poll tax between the ages of 15 and 56, which is generally 120 yuan.

In one year, the increase in revenue for the national treasury is about 73.89 million yuan......

After a pause, Qingji said again: "In addition, the more children in the country should be born, the better." ”

"If you give birth to a son or a daughter, you will be rewarded with two horses of cloth a year, and the money will be 1,000 yuan; gave birth to two sons or two daughters, and rewarded four pieces of cloth a year, with 2,000 yuan. And so on! ”

In order to encourage Li Shu to have children, Qingji also spared no expense.

As early as the beginning of the reform, Wu Guo had clearly ordered Li Shu: If I am a Wu person, give birth to a son, I can be rewarded with two altars of wine, a dog, and a daughter, I will be rewarded with two altars of wine and a dolphin (pig). As a sign of condolences!

When a pregnant woman gives birth, a doctor is sent to deliver the baby and help her give birth smoothly.

Now, on this basis, Qingji also has to reward money and cloth!

Superbirth?

Unafraid!

The state helps to raise!

The more births, the better.

Such a welfare policy is not ungenerous.

The more children you have, the more generous the rewards become, and you don't have to worry about not being able to afford them.

On the question of whether to open the wisdom of the people, Qingji never mentioned it.

Even if Qingji takes it out to discuss with the ministers, it is estimated that it will be difficult to get everyone's approval.

Why?

Because it is simply not appropriate to turn on the wisdom of the people now.

For example, in the Shang Dynasty during the Warring States Period, there were five policies of fooling the people-

One people, the weak, the tired, the humiliated, the poor.

What is "One People"?

Unity!

What is a "weak people"?

The country is strong and the people are weak, and the way to govern the country lies in the weak people.

What is "tired people"?

Seeking things for the people, tired of running for their lives, so that the people will be flawless and take care of other things.

What is "insulting"?

First, there is no self-esteem and self-confidence; The second is to instigate mutual reporting and exposure, and live in an atmosphere of fear all day long.

What is the "poor"?

In addition to the necessities of life, deprive the surplus of silver and surplus wealth (i.e., inflation or printing money).

To sum up, people are poor and short-sighted!

If the five are not effective, kill them......

Qingji will not do it so excessively, but he still thinks that Shang Ying's policy of fooling the people does have some merits.

That kind of Qin state is destined to be a huge state apparatus, and everything must be served by the military (military guoism).

This is not the case with Wu Guo.

What Qingji has taken into account, there are pros and cons to opening up people's wisdom, but for Qingji and for the Wu royal family, it is definitely more harmful than good.

Every time you slaughter more dogs, you are more likely to be a reader!

Qingji didn't dare to guarantee that once his future monarch appeared to be mediocre, he would be overthrown by the scholars cultivated by Wu State......

Therefore, under selfishness, Qingji will turn a deaf ear to the matter of Wu Guo's opening of people's wisdom.

Even if he knew that he would do this, he could not guarantee that the Wu royal family and his descendants would be able to live for eternity, and they must be guarded against......