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The doctors immediately became noisy.

Dr. Ding was particularly dissatisfied and loudly said to everyone: "We are the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, ah no, the Great Song Dynasty. What can they do to us? Don't panic, I will go and negotiate with them!"

After a while, he came back in circles, angrily called for the accompanying caravan guards, and continued to talk to the Goryeo civil servant. It took a long time and seemed to be very intense when talking.

The doctors waited for a while before they saw Dr. Ding coming back again.

"How is it? Do you have anything to say?"

"Ahem...our boss really knows about this."

It turns out that there seems to be a government-run pharmacy in Kaicheng. Among them, there are three-level officials, namely imperial physicians, medical doctors, and bureau students, with more than two hundred in number. In fact, most of the positions in these government-run pharmacies are hereditary, and there are many quack doctors among them. Anyone who dares to seek medical treatment from them must be very brave.

Pharmacies other than government-run pharmacies were mostly owned by wealthy families. Although the pharmacies were closed at this time, doctors and medicines had already been gathered in preparation for emergencies. This is a basic operation in a tense atmosphere, not to mention Goryeo, but also the Central Plains.

The trouble is that in the past two days, all the wandering doctors and miscellaneous drug stores in and around Kaicheng have been wiped out in advance by a certain force. This hand is very vicious.

After all parties in Goryeo determined that Yin Chang had neither the intention nor the ability to be involved in Goryeo's political situation, someone began to recruit Khitan and Jurchen vagrants wandering near Kaicheng under the guise of preparing for their polo competition.

These people have been in Liaodong for many years, fought countless fierce battles, and experienced severe cold weather. They are all tough and tough. As a support for their military force, they are much stronger than ordinary Goryeo soldiers.

So one family recruited, and every family followed. In just five or six days, all the homeless people who could be recruited around Kaicheng were collected, and the brave Jurchen workers in Licheng Port were also selected. Each family prepared gold and silver money and rushed to Jiaozhou Road and the east boundary to wreak havoc. lure.

The Khitan headquarters entrenched in the eastern border are unlikely to be shaken in a short time. However, after they entered Goryeo, there was a lot of internal chaos, and internal strife broke out several times. There were many scattered small groups that broke away from the headquarters due to the failure of the struggle. Their scope of activities had already exceeded the eastern boundary and spread all over the mountainous areas of Jiaozhou Road.

These people were originally regarded as thieves by the Goryeo Kingdom and were beaten and killed, but suddenly they became guests. Naturally, they were very happy and congratulated. However, since they are the losers in the struggle, they will inevitably be displaced and suffer a lot. To win over their hearts, in addition to providing financial benefits or promising power and position, necessary medical conditions are also indispensable.

In particular, Cui Yu, the deputy privy envoy, started very early. On the surface, he was recruiting coolies in a hard labor camp outside Kaicheng, but in fact he was the first to send people to the eastern border.

Just today, he released two hundred people recruited from the hard labor camp in Kaicheng, and also made them make noise day and night and practice polo playing as a cover. In fact, he hid an entire Khitan tribe in a hidden manor south of Kaicheng and at the foot of Nanshan Mountain.

The small part is compared to the large part of the Khitan that still occupies the eastern boundary at this moment. Among this group of Khitans, there were at least five or six hundred people who were able to ride poor horses and shoot strong bows, and they were accompanied by many old, weak, women and children. Cui Yu was able to dispatch him to the vicinity of Kaicheng in such a short period of time without anyone noticing, and the civil servants headed by Li Kuibao played a great role.

It was Li Kuibao who told Cui Yu that in ordinary times, the old and the weak were a burden. But now Cui Yu wants to use these people to do big things. The old and weak people accompanying them are weaknesses that can easily be controlled.

Of course, these old and weak people also need to be taken care of. Therefore, the treatment arranged by Cui Yu also included inviting medical officers to provide treatment and treatment.

It happened that at this time, all the pharmacies and medical clinics around Kaicheng were wiped out, and the promised benefits were missing.

Normally, even the Koryo army would not have a medical officer accompanying them. It’s okay to skip this hoop.

Goryeo is different from Dazhou, which attaches great importance to medical security. The status of soldiers in the Great Zhou Dynasty was extremely high. During the process of establishing the army, they constantly searched for good doctors, gave them good treatment and status, and obtained a large amount of medicinal materials through trade, thus continuously reducing the mortality rate of veterans in the army. When the army is not fighting, military doctors also manage local government-run medical clinics and provide services to ordinary people at a relatively low cost. But in Goryeo, the vast majority of people, including soldiers and officials, did not have the right to get sick. Except for the top two classes of aristocrats, royal families, monks and the like, people just get over it on their own if they get a minor illness. If they get over it, they will live. If they can't get over it, they will die. If you get seriously ill, it's easier to just go to the mountains and don't bother your family with the body.

But these Khitan people are no longer ordinary people; the current situation is also unusual. It's okay if they just use these Khitans to play polo. The situation in Kaicheng is tense now and bloody conflicts have begun. Cui Yu will ask them to protect the Lord at any time!

If you don't show kindness and don't care, how can you let them risk their lives at the critical moment?

If care is not provided on the spot, it is inevitable that some people will be dissatisfied. If you don't even provide medicine, who can believe that you are sincerely soliciting?

Cui Yu wants to search for doctors and medicines from far away. It's not impossible, but it won't be urgent.

Fortunately, Cui Yu was the Deputy Privy Envoy and the person who nominally controlled the capital. Even if there were rumors in the city that he had fallen out of favor and was no longer chosen by Cui Zhongxian as his successor, it would not be difficult to influence the managers of the palace. Before the polo competition, he also had the opportunity to communicate openly with Yin Chang.

So he simply sent someone to give Yin Chang a generous gift as a sign of goodwill. At the same time, he also asked me to send some reliable doctors to do me a small favor late at night.

If Cui Yu tried to join forces with Yin Chang, or use Yin Chang's identity to gain a temporary advantage in Kaicheng, it would be too much to expect. Once the two companies cooperate, it will inevitably attract attention from many aspects and even detonate the situation in Kaicheng in advance.

But for Yin Chang, a few doctors are nothing worth mentioning, and they are not embarrassing. And it’s not known that the good relationship formed by this small cooperation may actually be of some convenience during the polo competition.

The most important thing is that if you are looking for a local medical officer in Goryeo, it is not impossible for you to hit a hidden stumbling block, leak the details, or be fed poison. Cui Yu had already sent people to verify their identities and confirmed that the doctors, accountants and other miscellaneous personnel under Yin Chang were all hired by Yin Chang from the Song Dynasty and had never set foot on the land of Goryeo in his life.

Yin Chang and his party were already separated from the situation in Goryeo, and these Song officials were separated from Yin Chang by one layer. With these two layers of separation, Cui Yu could use people with confidence.

Dr. Ding coughed and coughed: "These Korean people gave us the money first. The boss said that all the money belongs to us, and he won't take any of it. In addition, the Korean nobles also have extra gifts..."

"It's late at night and so many people want to see it. Is it a matter of money?" someone shouted.

"The owner of this place is one of the few big shots in the Kingdom of Goryeo, and he has a lot of money. Even if we don't talk about money, ordinary people like us will not suffer any loss if we can form a good relationship with a noble official of Goryeo. Besides, the thank you gift will be given immediately!"

"How much is the thank you gift?"

Mr. Ding held out two fingers and said with a smile: "Twenty coins per person, which are loud and bright copper coins! I have been busy tonight, and there is still more!"

Twenty strings was a lot, so Doctor Dai smacked his lips.

Chen Zixin rolled up his sleeves and tucked the corners of his robe into his belt: "That's all, medicine is a benevolent art. The men and women in front of me don't have any complicated diseases, they are just flesh wounds or physical weakness. Let's allocate tasks. , Let’s start work now!”

At the same time, the official in charge of the building also touched several heavy small bags in his sleeves.

Hearing the soft sound of metal colliding in the small bag, he said to the person next to him with some emotion: "It seems that these Han doctors are all miracle doctors. In just one night, six groups of people were invited out! But every group When people go out, they have to hide their whereabouts, which is really difficult to arrange."