Chapter 85

In accordance with the agreement with Ye Jinshu, Chu Yi announced the truth about the clinic to the people.

The culprit was Xiao Yuanbo from the old aristocracy party.

The bulk of Xiao Yuanbo's family business was in medicinal materials. Ninety percent of the medicinal materials circulating among the people in the entire imperial city came from Xiao Yuanbo.

Under the premise that Xiao Yuanbo's mansion was in charge of most of the medicinal materials, any doctor who wanted to open a clinic at the foot of the imperial city had to get medicinal materials from Xiao Yuanbo.

In other words, Xiao Yuanbo openly controlled the medicinal materials circulating among the people at the foot of the imperial city, but in fact he was also indirectly controlling the clinics opened in the imperial city.

Over the years, Xiao Yuanbo overtly and covertly coerced the doctors in the imperial city to do many things that were beneficial to him, and at the same time he also set rules for the people.

The rules of seeing a doctor.

In order to cure the disease, one must first express respect and gratitude to Xiao Yuanbo.

As for the way to express gratitude, it is to give a gift to Xiao Yuanbo.

How much to give depends on the severity of the illness.

It's not that no one had reported these things about Xiao Yuanbo before, but Xiao Yuanbo was shrewd and would not easily leave any handle. Even if he was accidentally slandered, he would just push a servant from the Earl's Mansion to cover up the matter.

Every time Xiao Yuanbo lost a loyal servant, he would restrain himself a little, but soon, Chu Yi would get the news.

The medicinal materials sold by Xiao Yuanbo are available at two prices.

Doctors who worked for him were able to get better medicines at lower prices.

However, those doctors who are disobedient and stick to their principles have to pay several times higher prices to buy some medicinal materials with extremely poor efficacy.

It’s not that there aren’t people who stick to their principles and try to resist with their own justice, but under the oppression of reality, these people soon discover that nothing can be accomplished with just passion.

It is more about seeing one's own powerlessness in the face of cruel reality.

Over time, the pharmaceutical industry under the imperial city has become the most profitable but also the darkest industry.

If ordinary people were sick, they would rather walk a little further to get their pulse checked at a stall outside the imperial city than seek medical treatment nearby at the foot of the imperial city.

Those wealthy businessmen who were not short of money became Xiao Yuanbo's main targets.

This kind of thing has been going on for a long time in the imperial city, and even among the people it has been tacitly accepted that medical expenses are extremely high, and it is outrageous that an ordinary citizen will lose half of his property for a common minor illness.

Ever since Chu Yi found out about this, he has been wanting to do something.

When he was young and frivolous, he even took some people to sneak into Xiao Yuanbo's house, grabbed Xiao Yuanbo from his bed while he was working hard, and beat him up.

After that incident, Xiao Yuanbo was extremely frightened and angry, and used all means to find out who attacked him that night.

The young prince's methods were not mature enough, and it was the emperor who cleaned up his mess at the critical moment, thus preserving the prince's excellent reputation to date.

Chu Yi remembered that he asked the emperor after he was discovered.

"Father, why did you let Xiao Yuanbo go? Is Xiao Yuanbo's mansion so unshakable?"

Chu Yi still remembers clearly what the emperor said that day, and even the expression on his face when he spoke. "It's not that it's unshakable, it's just that it can't be moved now."

"Why, father, I want to do this."

"The time has not come yet. Besides Xiao Yuanbo, there will be another Xiao Yuanbo. More importantly, the people are just dissatisfied with Xiao Yuanbo now. If you take action now, the people will just think you did a good thing, nothing more. But you will have to bear the backlash of the old nobles for this."

"But if Xiao Yuanbo's greed grows to a point that the people cannot bear, then if you take action again, it will be destiny and the will of the universe. No one can tell you what to do. Even the old aristocracy cannot go against the will of the people."

"Yier, as a ruler, you should follow the will of the people, but in fact you are manipulating their will. You have to do the right thing at the right time, and just be patient."

Chu Yi has been enduring until now.

From the moment he learned that Ye Ruoyan's request was to open a clinic in the imperial city, he knew that his chance had come.

He knew Ye Ruoyan's character very well. She had strength, ideas and talent. As long as she was given enough support, she could easily gain a foothold at the foot of the imperial city and under the nose of Xiao Yuanbo.

Originally, Chu Yi only planned to provide Ye Ruoyan with medicinal materials to help her build her fame, but he didn't expect that Ye Ruoyan was even more ruthless. She used all her savings over the years to provide free treatment to patients who came to the clinic for the first time.

Among them, there happened to be a stubborn disease that had plagued the patient for more than ten years. With Ye Ruoyan's acupuncture and medicine, it was cured.

The patient's son was a wealthy businessman. When he heard that Ye Ruoyan had cured his mother, he prepared a large amount of gold to thank Ye Ruoyan, but was rejected by Ye Ruoyan.

"Not planning what needs to be planned is a shame for a doctor; being greedy for wealth is dangerous for a doctor." This is what Ye Ruoyan said when she refused the gold.

In the end, she only collected the cost of the medicinal materials and her own clearly marked consultation fee.

With Chu Yi's deliberate action, Ye Ruoyan's words quickly spread among the people, and all the people knew that a clinic had opened in the imperial city, which was opened by General Ye's concubine's daughter.

The consultation fee is cheap and ordinary people can afford it. If the patient is in real difficulty, Miss Ye will provide treatment for free, as long as the patient promises to pay the consultation fee when she earns money in the future.

During the years when the imperial city was invaded by Xiao Yuanbo, it has almost become a default rule that one needs to pay high medical fees to see a doctor. But now a Ye Ruoyan has appeared and demonstrated to the people what a doctor is with her actions. How could they be willing to return to the shadow of Xiao Yuanbo?

Even if they have to wait in line for a long time in front of Ye Ruoyan's clinic, they are willing to wait in front of the door early in the morning.

In less than a month, Ye Ruoyan snatched away all the patients from other clinics.

Chu Yi deliberately asked Xiao Yuanbo to plant someone next to Ye Ruoyan, but in fact, this person was the one he placed next to Xiao Yuanbo many years ago.

At this point, all the conditions were met, and Ye Ruoyan happened to provide an excellent solution, so Chu Yi decided to use a life in exchange for the peace of the people of the entire imperial city.

Chu Yi had never expected that Ye Jinshu would be accidentally injured in the whole incident.

If he wants to completely clear Ye Jinshu's name, then some of the things he did in secret will inevitably be discovered.

Chu Yi even thought about letting Ye Jinshu bear some of the infamy for his great cause.

Fortunately, judging from the current situation, he doesn't seem to have to face such a difficult choice.

Chu Yi's mood was better than ever before.

(End of this chapter)