Chapter 127: Barefoot Doctor Breaks Through, King of Medicine Practitioners

Chinese medicine cannot be eaten just by digging it out.

It takes a complex processing process by the pharmacist to turn the raw medicine into a cooked medicine, and finally it can become a good medicine after being harmonized by the doctor's "main ingredient, assistant ingredient and messenger".

The herbal medicine shop is the intermediary link that supplies the medicines needed for doctors' prescriptions.

Large-scale pharmacies often send people directly to national medicinal materials distribution centers such as Qizhou and Zhangshu to purchase the required medicinal materials. For example, Tongrentang is an important customer of Qizhou Medicine Market.

In ancient times, small pharmacies in various counties did not have such channels and had to purchase raw herbs from local medicinal material wholesalers.

After Cao Jie took over the Ximen family's herbal medicine shop, he started the herbal medicine business in the entire Yanggu County. After unifying Yanggu County, he began to expand towards Dongping Prefecture.

In short, the raw medicine shop sells unprocessed medicinal materials and is a wholesaler, while the cooked medicine shop distributes processed medicinal materials and Chinese patent medicines and is a retailer.

Today's Chinese medicine is not the same as that of later generations.

Every doctor who can sit in the clinic must have some skills.

The decline of traditional Chinese medicine is not because traditional Chinese medicine is not good, but because the doctors who practice it are not good.

As long as you take a trip to a familiar pharmacy in Yanggu County, you can clearly understand the prosperity of traditional Chinese medicine. In such a small county, there are not only specialized pharmacies, such as children's medicine, oral and throat medicine, obstetric medicine, eye medicine, facial cleanser medicine, etc., but also special disease medicine, such as malnutrition medicine, wind medicine, hernia medicine, etc., and special medicines, such as cinnabar and black plum medicine.

Small but complete!

Now that he has the endorsement of the county magistrate, Cao Jie can let go in the wholesale and sales of herbal medicines.

Moreover, if you master the upstream raw herbs, you will be able to master the downstream cooked herbs and the information of all the doctors in the county.

If Liangshan's business is to develop and grow, medicine is indispensable.

Although Cao Jie can use his energy to transform medicines for future generations, when the number of employees reaches tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, even if he dies of exhaustion, he cannot guarantee that everyone can get the medicine!

In addition, with the Ximen family's herbal medicine shop as the foundation and the energy that Liangshan currently possesses to promote it, the herbal medicine business in Yuncheng can also be said to be in its possession.

Once this business got started, it snowballed and it wouldn’t be long before all the raw medicinal materials in Shandong would also be named Cao’s.

On this day, Cao Jie officially met with the shopkeepers of all sizes in the herbal medicine shops as "Yan Wang Enemy", rewarded them with silver, made promises, and stabilized their hearts.

"I didn't expect that it was Yuncheng Yanwangdi who bought the herbal medicine shop. I heard that this owner is the most loyal. Finally, I don't have to worry about being laid off."

"Yes! The boss is not only loyal but also generous."

"With the reputation of the boss, I think we will have to expand our business to all of Shandong next year! It will be exhausting."

"It's better to be tired. Only by being tired can you earn a lot of money!"

"Brothers, you are here to buy herbal medicines. I am the shopkeeper who sells herbal medicines. I will be in your care."

"Old Jia! I think it doesn't matter whether you are here or not. With the reputation of the Dong family, if you take out some Chunyang Yanzong Pills as an introduction, not to mention the Shandong herbal medicine shops, even the Tokyo herbal medicine shops will be scrambling to buy them."

The shopkeeper Jia was very friendly and said with a smile: "After all, we still have to make plans and train a group of shopkeepers! The boss is obviously aiming for the business of the whole Shandong..."

Cao Jie bought the entire Ximen Sheng Medicine Shop. He didn't need to exchange anything. He just needed to find a few people with clean identities from Liangshan to look after the business and learn a little.

As the shopkeepers left, Cao Jie wanted to be a hands-off shopkeeper and return to Liangshan to celebrate the New Year. At this moment, he suddenly found that his soul was stirring.

That feeling is like a little chick finally pecking its way out of the eggshell and being born into a brand new world.

He immediately calmed down and focused his thoughts on his own soul.

命魂之相，如今是【渔民LV4】、【赤脚医生LV4】、【厨师LV4】、【帮派头目LV5】、【曹贼LV3】、【谋士LV3】、【反贼LV2】。

These features blend together to give the soul a unique temperament.

Now, a compassionate look appeared on the soul, and even the medicine box with a small red cross on it underwent tremendous changes.

Soon, the medicine box disappeared, and was replaced by a small purple gold gourd hanging around the waist.

'This is……'

"The barefoot doctor got promoted?!" As expected, the winter sun shone into the herbal medicine shop, creating three lines of fluorescent characters.

[Life Soul Aspect: Medicine King (I wish that people in the world would be free of disease, so why worry about the medicine on the shelf gathering dust)]

[Experience: Level 1 (1/1000)]

[Talent: Healing the World LV1 (the raw medicinal materials stored in the medicine gourd will slowly increase in age)]

Cao Jie's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said in delight: "I got a little green bottle!"

Han Lao Mo's small green bottle can absorb moonlight, condense green liquid, and has the ability to ripen elixirs, so he has no shortage of elixirs to make pills.

This small purple gold gourd has the same effect as long as raw medicinal materials are stored in it.

"So, in the future, I can eat thousand-year-old ginseng like carrots?"

"This soul phase needs to be worked hard on and improved as soon as possible!"

'I don't know how many times the years have increased.'

"Oh, now that the medicine box is gone, where are my anti-inflammatory and antipyretic drugs?"

"It's okay, it's okay... the first aid kit still has its function."

The eleven kinds of medicines given by the barefoot doctor were really good: anti-inflammatory drugs, antipyretics, analgesics, hemostatics, medicine for traumatic injuries, Viagra, sleeping pills, nitroglycerin, cowpox, artemisinin, and streptomycin.

Although it consumes essence to transform it, and is not very effective for practitioners at a high level of essence refining, these medicines are essential for showing one's saintliness and becoming a miraculous doctor in the world.

"elder brother?"

Liu Tang pulled the carriage out and saw Cao Jie looking up at the sky in deep thought, with a look of compassion. He waited and waited, but he didn't move, so he whispered, "It's almost the New Year, brother, are you going back to Yuncheng today?"

"Go back! Before I go back, I'll go see what aged herbs the pharmacy has."

Soon, Cao Jie obtained a 300-year-old mountain ginseng, a 180-year-old Polygonum multiflorum, and some precious Chinese medicinal materials such as rhinoceros horns and bezoars.

I put some into the small purple gold gourd, but found only nine of them.

Moreover, plants are measured by roots, and minerals are measured by kilograms.

It cannot serve as a portable space indefinitely.

"You can install nine types of equipment at level one. Once you reach level nine or ten, it should be enough."

"But the rate of improvement of this year...is not that fast!"

That means an improvement of ten years per year.

If you want to get a thousand-year-old ginseng, wouldn't it take seventy years?

"It's still too low a level!"

"This experience value... actually requires people to call me the King of Medicine from the bottom of their hearts... This is forcing me to be Sun Simiao!"

On the carriage back to Yuncheng, Cao Jie's voice could be heard faintly:

“Tong Ren Tang was originally an old medicine store.

Sir, you are like the king of freedom.

The King of Medicine sat at the top, with the ten famous doctors lined up on both sides.

I will pay homage to the Medicine King first and then to you, so you are the Medicine King’s eldest disciple.

This Medicine King, whose surname is Sun, holds a dragon and a tiger, and twists a needle in his hand..."

When Ruan Xiaoqi heard it, although it was not as good as that song, it was particularly pleasant to the ears, and he couldn't help but recite it along.

(End of this chapter)