Chapter 187: The Sprout of Capitalism

The journey down the sea is naturally faster than the canal, which used to take only four days to reach the mouth of the Longjiang River in seven days.

At this time, Chen Cao was still in a coma.

He was having a fever.

After being sent to the Dingwu Marquis Mansion, Chen Cao's wives and concubines from top to bottom in the mansion cried together, and Li Wan'er, who had just given birth, rushed to Nanjing Guozijian with people without taking out the confinement period.

She was going to find Fu Dingchen, who was treating Chen Cao at that time.

John Tang and several Taixi people who were in charge of teaching in Chen Cao's academy came to visit Chen Cao's injury, and after careful examination, Father Conrad said to Li Xiang: "Dear Madam, Mr. Marquis has saved himself with the first aid method of the French Kingdom, but at the moment, John and I both agree that Mr. Marquis is a bacterial infection and needs to be treated with the best medicine, but unfortunately this is the Ming Dynasty..."

Conrad meant that he could treat wounds, but he couldn't deal with the fever caused by bacterial infections, and besides, he couldn't make the old-fashioned oxytetracycline antipyretic, which required a specialized doctor from the Holy Roman Empire.

Li Xiang cried anxiously, Li Wan'er was not there at this moment, and Wei Guogong and others, who rushed to hear the news, even came with a famous doctor in Nanjing City to treat Chen Cao's illness.

Several famous doctors were helpless because they had never dealt with the high fever caused by a gunshot, which was a treatment for bacterial infections in Western medicine that they had not seen in Chinese medicine.

can only reduce the fever according to the usual wind and cold, but Li Xiang doesn't believe it, he still believes in Fu Dingchen.

If it weren't for Qian Qianyi's help, even if Li Wan'er went out, she wouldn't be able to bring Fu Dingchen, even if Fu Dingchen had treated Chen Cao once, it was because he went with some purpose.

When Fu Dingchen arrived at Chen Cao's house, he saw a group of princes and marquis wearing red and green, and had to give a salute to these people first.

Xu Hongji waved his hand: "Hurry up and give Wuhou for diagnosis and treatment, these etiquettes are waived." ”

Fu Dingchen looked around, there was no shortage of famous doctors in Jinling City, there were more than ten prescriptions on the table, Fu Dingchen was too young, and the old Mr. Zhang Shishi, the fairy of Chengxi, who had treated Chen Cao several times, was even more disdainful.

Fu Dingchen smiled, then stepped forward to observe Chen Cao's injury first, and then took a pulse, and after a short time, he got up and laughed: "This disease is simple, take the three doses of the prescription I prescribed, and then you can wake up with fever." ”

A number of famous doctors have slapped their faces, they have been practicing medicine for decades, and they really have no experience in treating gunshot wounds, and none of them have been written in any medical books, even Li Shizhen in this era has also written about the specific treatment of firearm injuries, and the yellow-haired boy in front of him actually dares to speak out.

Fu Dingchen wrote the recipe after dividing five by two, and then handed it to Li Xiang: "Madame, although you go to grab the medicine, if Dingwuhou eats it and doesn't wake up, I, Fu Shan, will give Wuhou a burial." ”

Ooh...

How confident is that?

Li Xiang hurriedly blessed himself: "Thank you, Mr. Fu, Xiaoxue, hurry up and grab the medicine, you boil it yourself..."

"There are still unfinished assignments in the student Guozi Prison, please forgive me..."

Fu Dingchen, who called himself Fu Shan, had obviously changed his name to the name in history, and after saluting Li Xiang, he said hello to Xu Hongji and other nobles in the lobby and left.

Chen Cao has a lot of traditional Chinese medicine at home, and he quickly grabbed the pot, Zhang Shishi asked for the recipe written by Fu Shan from Li Xiang to take a look, and then studied it with a group of famous doctors who came up...

"Artemisia annua used three taels, and my mother knew one tael or seven dollars, this..."

"The old man rarely uses Artemisia annua on weekdays, and its antipyretic effect is average..."

"I also used a little gypsum, or I used the coolness of the gypsum to use the medicinal properties of Sasuke Artemisia annua..."

"Artemisia annua knows the mother, a gentleman and a minister, and look at the effect of this Artemisia annua Zhimu soup..."

"A yellow-haired boy can also give Wuhou a life?"

Chen Cao, who had taken a bowl of medicine, opened his eyes that night, and he felt that his whole body was extremely weak: "I've arrived in the underworld?" ”

Li Xiang and his wives and concubines, who had been guarding him, smiled one by one.

"Mr. Fu's medicine is really effective, hurry, go and heat another bowl of medicine for your husband."

Chen Cao, who drank the second bowl of medicine, fell asleep again in a daze.

It wasn't until I woke up again the next day that I felt much more relaxed.

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"If you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing..."

Chen Cao sat on the bed, Li Xiang and Li Wan'er waited in the house, and Chen Cao, who drank the second dose of medicine, woke up in the afternoon of the next day, and the fever subsided...

Li Xiang wiped his tears: "Why is my husband so careless, if something happens to you, what can we do with so many people in our family..."

Chen Cao's face was still pale, he only drank a small amount of gruel per meal for a few days, if it weren't for the fact that the family still had money to buy some good ginseng to replenish the body, and ordinary people would have covered the coffin to welcome guests.

"Get a bowl of chicken soup, I'm hungry..."

Li Xiangdang even denied Chen Cao's request: "My husband has a wound on his chest, and he can't eat such greasy meat when he recovers from a serious illness, so it's better to make porridge with bird's nest white fungus and some ginseng, my sister looks at my husband, and I'll go in person." ”

Li Wan'er couldn't say anything numb, but she still stared at Chen Cao, tears rolling in her eyes: "Why are you so careless?" ”

"Haha..."Chen Cao chuckled, shaking his chest pain: "There are always people who can't see your husband..."

"Do you have any plans?"

Chen Cao frowned and thought about it: "Now that I am in a big disaster, he will return freely every day, now is not the time, just live..."

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Chen Cao was able to get out of bed and walk to meet the guests on the third day, and Xu Hongji, who arrived first, saw that Chen Cao was still fine except for his mental health.

"Yew Chung, who did you offend in Jingshi?"

Xu Hongji asked, and he also wanted to know who wanted to cut off their Jinling nobles' financial routes.

Today's Chen Cao is the existence of the God of Wealth in the eyes of Xu Hongji, a group of Jinling nobles, they were once not optimistic about the lending business of Daming Bank, and now the business in Nanjing is very hot, and the interest money last year was 700,000 taels, although it was not much distributed to each family, but this is a real stable business.

Which of the past lent money didn't make a lot of complaints? And now the business is done, the people say that Daming Bank is doing well, businessmen are also vying to borrow money first, but also deposit their money in Daming Bank to eat interest, and so on, the entire Daming Bank involved in the credit business in Nanzhili will be all revitalized, and it is only a matter of time to increase income.

Not only that, but last year, the sea trade business involved in Chen Cao was distributed to Xu Hongji, and nearly 800,000 taels were distributed, which is a lot of income.

Therefore, Chen Cao's life and safety are related to the foundation of whether their gang can make money happily.

The night Chen Cao woke up, he carefully recalled that Wei Zhongxian was the only one in Beijing who could ambush him with musketeers halfway, but there was a contradiction in that with Wei Zhongxian's strength, there was really no way to recruit the dead soldiers who used firearms.

"All the people who came were killed by my family Ding team, this time in the ambush, twelve Jinyi guards died, seven of my family Ding team died, four were injured, all twenty people who came were killed, all the marks on the firearms were smoothed, I don't know the source of the firearms, I don't know who will kill me."

When Chen Cao said this, he remembered that the last time he was ambushed was in Jinling, and he also came with a group of masters who were accustomed to using firearms, but they used bows and arrows.

"Have you reported this matter to the court?"

Chen Cao moved his body slightly: "Well, after being ambushed, I quickly sent a letter to Tianjin Yamen, I have been in a coma for the past few days, but I don't know how things are going, so I can only take another look." ”

"Ambushing the marquis of the national dynasty on the official road is a big crime tantamount to rebellion, and it wants to destroy the three clans."

Xu Hongji, a young man, knew how powerful it was, and after chatting with Chen Cao for a while, he asked Chen Cao to recuperate with peace of mind, and said before leaving: "You can recuperate with peace of mind, I have already asked people to go to Longhu Mountain to get you some elixirs to nourish your body, and I will be back in a few days." ”

As soon as he talked about Longhu Mountain, Chen Cao remembered the blushing incident with the gauzy girl Zhang Ru by the waterhole that night: "Grandpa go slowly, Fengnian, send one to grandpa." ”

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Zhao Xinde Chen Cao conveyed that he was running away, and Chen Cao's life and death were related to his future wealth: "Master Hou, are you awake..."

"Yes, if I die, you guy will be in Wei Zhongxian's liquidation team."

Zhao Xin touched his head and laughed: "Hou Ye will not die in a big disaster, and his subordinates will be angry with Hou Ye when the time comes." ”

Chen Cao was also about to say about this matter: "The ambush matter is put on hold for the time being, this time I don't die, they should also be restrained, and my defense will also be strengthened, if you want to catch those dead soldiers, it is as difficult as ascending to the sky, it is better to treat it as a threat to them, after all, those people who know the story of fighting snakes and not dying but being bitten by snakes." ”

"That's it?" Zhao Xin looked at Chen Cao with some surprise.

"What do you think? And it's really hard to say whether it's someone from Wei Zhongxian's faction, there are many people who can't get used to me, and I have made many enemies in the Donglin Party over the years. ”

Chen Cao said and picked up the last bowl of medicine and drank it: "Let's discuss countermeasures when I get better about this matter, by the way, I remember that there was such a thing as letting you sit and sit in Longhu Mountain back then?" ”

Zhao Xin suddenly smiled: "I know, Master Hou cares about Aunt Xiao Kun... According to Hou Ye's instructions, there are our scouts in Guixi County, if Hou Ye needs it, I will go back to mobilize documents from Jiangxi to see if there is any news from Guixi. ”

"Well, you can do this matter, and send someone to bring a thousand taels of silver and a cart of gifts, all to Mr. Fu Shan, if he is free, invite him to come to the house as a guest, and say that I will thank him in person."

"My subordinates are going..."