Lin Jian took a small wooden spoon and dug some pale yellow medicinal powder to the end of his nose and smelled the strong aroma of medicine, his fingers dipped some medicinal foam to the tip of his tongue and licked it, slightly bitter.

Wu Yanqing's prescription is different from the ordinary external application of knife tip medicine (Jinchuang medicine), this medicine can be applied externally or orally, has the effect of hemostasis, analgesia, and even has obvious effects on ulcer wounds. From the perspective of Lin Bin's later generations, the dispensing according to this prescription has a strong anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effect, which is much better than the knife-tip medicine with animal bone grinding as the main medicine, and also has obvious effects on accelerating the healing of fractures and internal bleeding.

Wu Yanqing was famous in Jiangning for treating bruises, and this prescription was obtained by studying the medical books of his predecessors and summarizing decades of experience in treating bruises and bruises. At this time, Wu Yanqing not only dedicated this prescription to Lin Jian to open a medicine shop, he couldn't get out of it himself, but also pulled his eldest son Wu Jiye, who had his true inheritance, into the medicine shop to do things.

Lin Mengde walked behind Lin Lian, feeling full of emotion in his heart, thinking that there are many officials in Jiangning like a carp crossing the river, Lin Lian is just a small Confucian Lin Lang, and his official position is really nothing, but how many officials in Jiangning can make people willing to use for their own use like Lin Lian? Even Gu Wuchen's people around him who can really use it with confidence are far less than Lin Lian.

Lin Jian didn't know what Lin Mengde was thinking, he held his chin in his hand, and stood aside seriously to watch Wu Yanqing's son Wu Jiye instruct the apprentice to concoct medicinal materials.

The most used medicine in Wu Yanqing's recipe is kudzu, and what Jiyun Club purchased is sliced and dried kudzu root slices, and the bran is simmered in the medicine shop and ground to powder before mixing other main medicines.

Lin Jian can recognize more than ten kinds of healing herbs that can be found in the wild, but he really doesn't know much about traditional Chinese medicine, and he can't make better suggestions for Wu Yanqing's prescription, but on how to improve the efficiency of preparing medicines, I am afraid that the common sense knowledge of later generations is much better than that of the current world.

Although the assembly line did not have much significance before the large-scale replacement of manual work by machine production, the production efficiency has also been significantly improved from the development of traditional handicraft workshops to more detailed and specific workshop handicrafts. This is what Lin Jian learned in junior high school.

The medical centers and medicinal herb shops in the world also prepared medicines for sale, but the medical halls and medicinal herb shops in the world can be said to be standard handicraft workshops, and most of the people used are apprentices.

Before leaving the school, the apprentices depended on the medical hall for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the other remuneration was extremely limited, and there was a strict personal dependence relationship between them.

"Master and apprentice are like father and son", this sentence is not used as a metaphor for the relationship between master and apprentice, but according to the "obedience" law of the world, the authority that the master has over the apprentice is similar to that of the father, and the apprentice is guilty of disobedience when he beats the master, and even if the master misses and kills the apprentice, he will only be sentenced to a misdemeanor of imprisonment or less; Of course, the Master also has many obligations to the apprentice.

It is precisely because of these factors that even if the clinic has apprentices to work for nothing, the scale of the preparation of medicines for external sales is limited due to the number of people.

The pharmacy that Lin Tie was going to set up in Hekou, even if the people he recruited were nominally apprentices, were technically a formal handmade pharmaceutical workshop, and the recruited people were paid monthly food and silver. Although apprentices could not be used for free, on the other hand, there was no obligation to teach them the responsibilities and other aspects of their studies, and there was no strict limit on the number of recruits to make it possible to expand production.

In the words of a junior high school textbook, the emergence of this de facto employment relationship in Kawaguchi Pharmacy represents the real germ of capitalism.

Lin Jian will not pay attention to capitalist inism, his real concern is to make everything in the estuary more efficient, so that he can use the estuary as a small place to gather more people and forces.

Lin Jian talked to Wu Jiye, asking him to separate and refine many steps in the preparation of medicines, so that the apprentices in the pharmacy did not have to be familiar with the properties of medicine, except for the master who dispensed medicines, other apprentices even only needed to master the part of the work they shared.

In this way, hiring a person can be used to do things with a little training and guidance, and the part of the work he is responsible for is easier to be proficient and mastery, with fewer mistakes and higher efficiency.

The medical center uses ten skilled apprentices who have been trained for several years to prepare various powdered medicines according to the complete process, which can make 500 packs a month, and the Hekou Pharmacy uses ten ordinary people with little training under the guidance of a skilled apprentice who is familiar with the medicinal properties, and the division of labor is strict, and the powder medicines can be prepared in a month, not to mention 1,000 packs, 2,000 packs or even more.

Lin Jian also suggested that Wu Jiye could test the medicinal properties of a mole rat in the wild of Jiangning, so that he could continuously improve Wu Yanqing's prescription.

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"Mrs. Gu, Gu Gongzi, and Miss Gu are all here, and the carriage has just arrived at the gate of the fence......"

Lin Jian stood under the osmanthus tree in the atrium of the pharmacy and talked to Wu Jiye about the preparation of the medicine, and someone ran over to report that Gu Wuchen's wife, Mrs. Gu, and her daughter Jun Xun had taken a carriage to the estuary, and Zhao Qinmin and Gu Siming had already gone over to greet them.

"Then let's go first." Lin Lian pulled Lin Mengde out of the pharmacy together, and when he passed by the thatched hall, he saw that Gu Yingsleeve, the third lady, the sixth lady, and the young lady Ma and Zhao Xulu were all ready to greet him in the grass hall, Lin Xulu didn't know whether to run to the south gate of the fence to greet him, and stood outside the grass hall and waited for Lin Lian to come back, and Lin Lian pulled him over.

Today is the seventh day after Lin Tingxun's death, although he has not yet been buried, the Lin family still invited Taoist priests and monks to the estuary to do the "first seven" rituals. Lin Jian sent a letter to Mrs. Gu three days ago, mentioning that Lin Xulu and the Lin family intended to resolve the old enmity between the Lin family and the Gu family, but the Lin family was wearing filial piety, so it was inconvenient to visit, and hoped that Mrs. Gu could personally go to the estuary.

Mrs. Gu had already received a letter from Gu Wuchen from Dongyang, and sent a letter to Lin Bin, saying that she would come to the estuary to worship on the day of the "first seven", and by the way, visit her niece Gu Yingsleeve and other Gu family members who had taken refuge in Jiangning.

Lin Jian and Lin Meng got to the south gate of the fence, and Lin Xulu, Zhao Qinmin, Gu Wuchen's cousin Gu Siming, and Gu Siyuan, who was riding a tall horse, were hugging the carriage that Mrs. Gu and Gu Junxun were riding in.

"Lin Jian should have personally picked up his wife and sister Jun Xun out of the city, but it was too late to come out to greet him at this time, it's really damn good." Lin Jian made a way towards the carriage.

"What are so many courtesies, you are busy with your business, we don't have long legs?" Mrs. Gu lifted the corner of the gauze car curtain, although the weather was already hot, but the big families paid attention to the female dependents and did not show their heads, Mrs. Gu opened the curtain and talked to Lin Lian, and she didn't treat him as an outsider.

Lin Jian smiled, didn't say much, and followed the carriage all the way to the thatched hall before welcoming Mrs. Gu and Gu Junxun off the carriage. The female dependents were naturally received by the female dependents, headed by the seventh lady, and the wives of Liu Yue'er, the third lady, the sixth lady, and the young lady Ma, Lin Xulu, Gu Tianqiao and others surrounded Mrs. Gu and Gu Junxun and went directly into the inner hall.

Gu Siyuan had a grudge against Lin Bin, and surrounded everyone in the front hall, deliberately leaving Lin Jian aside and not talking to him, and talking to Gu Siming and Zhao Qinmin very diligently. Lin Jian didn't mind, and whispered to Lin Xulu on the side.

In the Gu Mansion, there are some things that Gu Wuchen can't do, and Gu Siyuan can't stand out in front of his strong mother, and the highlight of today is in the inner house.

"Old Seventeen," Lin Xulu said in a low voice, "the three aunts finally nodded and agreed to pay a total of 24,000 taels of silver for three years at one time for my father. Although Dongyang Mansion is not chaotic, but there are many rogues, how to transport this silver back to Dongyang, I also want to ask Lao Seventeen to make up your mind for my brother. ”

Lin Jian thought about other things in his heart, the Lin family's silver to raise Xiangyong should be controlled within 10,000 taels per year, and Lin Tingli in Dongyang would have to take away 8,000 taels a year, so Jiangning only had 2,000 taels of silver to support Xiangyong, and almost only 100 people. There are always more than 300 villagers in the Lin family on the Jiangning side, which means that nearly 200 people will be laid off.

"How to reduce Xiangyong here in Jiangning, has it been decided?" Lin Jian asked.

"In addition to the Xiang Yong who was transferred to Jiangning to serve as a military guard before, there are only 100 reorganized Xiang Yong who took refuge at the mouth of the Jiangning River with the boat this time, and these Xiang Yong have no credit to the Lin family and hard work, and the Lin family can't treat them badly. The other townsmen were all killed by the second brother and stayed in the township camp after being attacked and defeated, and the second brother was killed by Zhao Neng's traitorous slaves, and the Lin family was tolerant enough not to hold these townsmen accountable for their ineffective protectors, so they naturally would not raise them in vain, and planned to disperse them after today's 'first seven' - Old Seventeen, what do you think? ”

When the township camp was attacked, Zhao Qingshan, Lin Jiyuan, and Chen Shouyan led 300 township warriors to follow Lin to bind them in Luoyang Lake, and nearly 400 township warriors remained in the township camp. When the camp was attacked, only fifty or sixty people were killed on the spot or seriously injured and killed by Zhao Neng and the horse thieves were killed on the spot, and most of them were scattered and fled, as of now, there are one hundred and fifty or sixty people in this part of the rout that Lin Tie gathered at the mouth of the river, and there are nearly two hundred people scattered outside.

"The second uncle was polite to the third brother, and then told me about the major events in the clan, of course I support the decision made by the second uncle, the third brother and a few wives." Lin Jian said, thinking that this is okay, this part of the township Yong has been broken up, and then the Lin family has been cut out, and it is easy for him to train.

Mrs. Gu had a luncheon in the thatched hall, pulling the ladies to talk about their daily routines for a long time, and when the sun hung down to the eaves of the corner tower surrounding the house, she called Lin Jian over to talk.

"I pulled my sleeves a lot just now, since the Lin family has bought a family business in Hekou, I think that the seventy or eighty people from the Gu family who came to Jiangning will also settle in Hekou, and everything in the city is not convenient, I will give you five hundred taels of silver, and you are responsible for helping me do things well." Mrs. Gu said.

"I don't have any arrangements here for the time being, I don't know if you will have other ideas, Mrs. Gu, there are indeed many inconveniences in the city. Since that's the case, then leave it to me......" Lin Jian said, the Gu family has several female dependents in the house, and he shouldn't mention to the face that he doesn't want the Gu Mansion to give silver, in short, he won't be short of five hundred taels of silver, but the good man still has to do it for Mrs. Gu.

Mrs. Gu, Gu Junxun, and Gu Siyuan returned to the city, and Lin Jian rode a horse, and Gu Yingsleeve took a carriage to personally send them into Donghua Gate.

Outside the Donghua Gate, Mrs. Gu insisted that Lin Tie and them should not send it again, lifted the curtain and said to Lin Tie: "Yingshou refuses to live with me in the city, she really wants to ask you to take care of it at the mouth of the river, she wants to have a mistake at the mouth of the river, but it's not that I can't spare you." ”

"Please Mrs. Gu, don't worry." Lin Lian said without squinting.

Seeing Mrs. Gu and her party enter the Donghua Gate, Lin Liancai rode his horse around, next to the carriage that Gu Yingsleeve was riding, chatting in whispers as he walked.

"I chatted with my aunt in the afternoon, and I realized that Jun Xun didn't have anyone yet......" Gu Yingsleeve lifted the corner of the curtain of the car window, and sat in the carriage and watched Lin Jian talk.

"I know this," Lin Jian said, "I'm seventeen years old, and I should worry about her." ”

"Don't pretend to be stupid, you know what I mean," Gu Yingsleeve said coquettishly, "Jun Xun is looking for a topic to talk about your affairs today, if you have no opinion, I will mention this to my aunt when I enter the city the next day - Jun Xun is really beautiful, not much worse than the two in your house, and I can't insult you." ”

"To be honest," Lin Jian sighed softly, "I'm worried that I won't always walk the same path as your uncle in the future......

"Are you afraid that Jun Xun will be caught in the middle of it and be difficult to be a man?" Gu Yingsleeve's beautiful eyes looked at Lin Lian, and asked again, "Why aren't you worried that I'm caught in the middle of it and it's difficult to be a person?" ”

"......" Lin Jian smiled and said nothing.

"The situation is rotten, each drifting away, maybe in a few years, my uncle will hit the wall again and be covered with blood, you will never form a life-and-death enmity with my uncle, what are you worried about in the future?" Gu Yingsleeve said.

"Alas," Lin Jian shook his head and sighed, and said, "Anyway, I am only a disciple of the Lin family, and my fame is only a lift, and I am also a Confucian Lin Lang. ”

"I don't believe my uncle cares about this?" Gu Yingsleeve said.

At this moment, two fast horses galloped towards each other, and they were the two guards who stayed at the mouth of the river. When they saw Lin Tie, they turned over and dismounted and said: "The Lin family wants to dismiss the villagers, and the rumors are leaking, more than 100 villagers gather to make a commotion, please go back to the estuary to deal with ......"

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