Chapter 18 Three years and three years

Author: It’s so hard to get an ID

Chapter 18 Three years and three years

early morning.

A rooster's crow woke up the small village. People rubbed their eyes and got up while yawning, and started a busy day.

This is a small village next to Luoyang City, called Dukang Village. It is famous for its fine wines, but what is more important is the location of Dukang Village.

Dukang Village is located ten miles south of Luoyang City. People who want to enter Luoyang City every morning will rest in Dukang Village before entering the city. In the evening, people leaving Luoyang City will also rest here before leaving.

People come and go here every day, and it is as lively as going to the market every day.

Huang Xiaoshi came to this small village with two disciples. After a simple breakfast, the two disciples went to the end of the village to set up a stall to sell medicine, while Huang Xiaoshi drank tea alone on the breakfast table.

This is a breakfast stall in the village, with only two tables and a few small stools. People who have had breakfast can drink unlimited bowls of country tea at the owner.

Huang Xiaoshi was drinking tea here slowly. He was not actually drinking tea. Huang Xiaoshi was waiting for someone.

In the past six months, Huang Xiaoshi has brought his disciples to practice stalls every day. Everyone in Dukang Village knows this young man who likes to wear black.

Because he was afraid of missing out, Huang Xiaoshi would wait until the sun was almost setting in the afternoon before leaving.

Through the operation of the stall in all weathers, the elixir business in Dukang Village is now very good. Three baskets of elixirs are sold out before noon every day. The salesmen who travel all over the country like to buy some elixirs to take away.

Today is August 26th.

As time passed day by day, Huang Xiaoshi's anxiety became more and more intense.

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Time flies so fast, this is already the sixth year since Huang Xiaoshi came to this world.

After merging Wang Er with Shennongmen, Shennong Baicaomen has completely monopolized the elixir supply market in the southwest through continuous expansion in the past three years.

To be precise, there was originally no market for selling elixirs outside the Shennong Baicao Gate.

The elixir sold by Shennong Baicaomen is similar to the traditional Chinese medicine that Huang Xiaoshi used before his time travel.

You know, even before Huang Xiaoshi traveled through time, the road to marketization of Chinese patent medicines was extremely tortuous, and people have always used Chinese patent medicines as an excuse.

Let alone mention it now, many people are not only suspicious of Chinese patent medicines, but also disdain and reject them.

Doctors generally believe that people who eat grains will suffer from all kinds of diseases. Even if everyone's case is the same, the root cause of the disease is often different. Even if the root cause is the same, everyone's constitution is also different. Even if everyone's constitution is the same, everyone's constitution will be different.

Life situations are also different.

There is a saying that "no two leaves in the world are exactly the same."

Similarly, doctors believe that no two diseases in the world are exactly the same.

Since all diseases are different, we must pay attention to prescribing the right medicine.

At this time, if you make a medicine for everyone to take, even as long as the symptoms are the same or similar, in the eyes of these doctors, it is said that the medicine does not treat the disease at best, and it is a murder of money and life at worst.

However, there are many people in the world now who have a very urgent need for cheap drugs.

In this world, the vast majority of poor people and a large part of ordinary people cannot afford to hire a doctor when they get sick.

Doctors charge a consultation fee for visiting a doctor. No matter how prices change in the past dynasties, the doctor's consultation fee is not low. By analogy, it is equivalent to 10 days of living expenses for ordinary local residents.

If it is a famous doctor, the consultation fee will be doubled.

Although it is said that some doctors will reduce or reduce medical fees for poor people, they are in the minority after all.

The doctor and his whole family depend on the medical fee for food, how can they get free treatment every time?

The reason why doctors are so scarce is because it takes a very long time to train a doctor under the apprenticeship system, and they also face a very high elimination rate.

Those who are not smart can't do it, those who don't have patience and perseverance can't do it, and those who have evil intentions can't do it.

There are hundreds of apprentices, and after more than twenty years of study, only a handful of them finally graduate.

Coupled with the control of family inheritance, doctor has always been an extremely rare profession.

If rural people want to see a doctor at home, they not only have to pay for a round trip, but they also have to pay double the consultation fee.

When you go to see a doctor, you spend a lot of money to bring the doctor in. That’s just a doctor’s visit.

You have to pay extra for taking medicine.

Some people got smart and said, "I won't see a doctor anymore. I'll find someone else's prescription for medicine."

Sorry, pharmacies don't sell it.

First of all, it is because before the doctor writes a prescription, he will first write a description of the condition, then a paragraph of his own treatment ideas, and the last part is the prescription.

That is to say, each prescription is actually a complete diagnosis of the condition.

The patient's name is written on it.

You take someone else's prescription and the pharmacy clerk sees it and says it's not the right medicine for you. He's sorry and doesn't dare to sell it.

In the same way, if you take a prescription three or five times in a row, the clerk at the drug store will politely say to you, "I'm sorry, you have finished taking this prescription. You need to see a doctor to check your physical condition again."

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With treatment, the patient's condition will change. At this time, a follow-up visit is needed and the prescription will be readjusted.

Just as no two diseases are exactly the same, no two prescriptions are exactly the same.

As time goes by, the condition of the same person will change. The doctor will replace the medicinal materials with similar properties according to the patient's actual condition, or slightly adjust the dosage of the same medicinal materials to make the medicine more suitable for the patient's condition.

Because the content of active ingredients in natural medicinal materials is very low, doctors need to bring out the maximum medicinal properties of the medicinal materials every time.

Otherwise, it will happen that the disease is identified and the medicine is prescribed, but the dose is insufficient and the patient cannot be cured for a long time or even the condition worsens.

If every disease is like a door, the current condition is like a door lock.

The doctor needs to use the most accurate key to open the current lock.

This requires that the prescription must be closely aligned with the condition.

If it is a complex condition, the doctor has to be like a master of reasoning and think through every step of his treatment before he dares to prescribe medicine.

It is quack medicine to take one step at a time and take one step at a time. Good doctors always take one step at a time and take three steps at a time.

In order to come up with a prescription, it is common for doctors to think hard for more than ten days.

This extreme "personalization" inevitably brings high costs and low efficiency, which also destined that high-end services such as "medical treatment" can only be enjoyed by a very small number of people.

Everything will be fine once you get used to it.

After everyone takes this situation as a matter of course, although the number of people who die prematurely because they can't afford to see a doctor or take medicine will not decrease, people's mentality has improved, and everyone calls it fate.

If this is a disease, then this disease is called "poverty".

If this is fate, then this kind of fate is called "poor".

Shennong Baicaomen directly breaks this industrial structure and sells medicine directly without seeing a doctor.

There are some people who praise this practice, but there are also many people who criticize it. It is a red-and-black approach.

Fortunately, the Shennong Baicao Family has a great business now and is not afraid of anyone coming to trouble it.

Of course, if a doctor is really squeezed out of his job by the Shennong Baicaomen, not only will he not deserve sympathy, but he will be laughed at.

It shows that your medical skills are inferior.

The key reason why most doctors don’t think that Shennong Baicaomen is robbing them of their own food is that Shennong Baicaomen targets the low-end market, and the pills they sell are really cheap.

The reason why elixirs are cheap is initially because of the price war between Shennongmen and Baicaomen. After Shennongmen and Baicaomen merged, Huang Xiaoshi, as Gong Guangjie's financial director, never thought about making money from the poor.

In Huang Xiaoshi's words, market share is more important than making money.

Gong Guangjie seemed to understand, but he knew that Shitou's words must be accurate.

If you don't make money, you don't make money, just make money.

This kind of low-end medicine is definitely not really cheap compared to other things, but compared with the consultation fee, which can easily cost several hundred cents, and the medicine, which costs more than ten cents, ordinary people can already afford it.

Just like that, when I was sick in bed and couldn't afford a doctor, so I could only stay upright, I saw Shennong Baicaomen selling medicine on the street.

Most of them have the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, buying some medicine and feeding it to the patient indiscriminately.

Many people have actually been cured this way.

The people of this era had very simple ideas. People were destined to die, but after taking more than ten cents worth of medicine, they actually came back to life. It was like a life was wasted.

It’s really too late to be happy.

Even if some people die after taking medicine, this is the so-called "fate". No one would think of it, and no one would dare to trouble the medicine seller, saying that the medicine doesn't work.

Due to the extremely strong demand, the market became extremely hot immediately after it was opened. The elixirs of Shennong Baicaomen were in short supply.

As the market expanded, Shennong Baicao Sect also expanded crazily. From a small and unknown sect a few years ago, it suddenly grew into a major sect in Sichuan.

Now Shennong Baicao Sect has over a thousand disciples and tens of thousands of medicinal farmers. Even the deputy sect masters have three people, left, middle and right. The group of people who followed Gong Guangjie have already become famous.

However, between the sect master and the deputy sect master, there is a very special "second sect master", that is Master Shi Huang Xiaoshi.

Huang Xiaoshi didn't know his birth date and age. After Gong Guangjie picked up Huang Xiaoshi, he randomly assigned him a twelve-year-old age based on his height. He calculated carefully that this year Huang Xiaoshi would be eighteen.
To be continued...