Chapter 889: To Be Kind
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Old Master Bai and Madam Bai seed to have taken a calming pill.
Yu Youyao continued, “There are pros and cons to everything. The People’s Relief Hall is deeply involved in a human life case, and it will push the Bai Residence to the top of the lilight. However, as long as the governnt office investigates and proves that the People’s Relief Hall is innocent, it will also indirectly prove that there’s no problem with the dicine in the People’s Relief Hall. It will make the commoners more convinced. The Bai Residence’s reputation will be damaged, but its reputation won’t decrease. The Bai Residence will have more reason to identify the Han Clan from the perspective of the victim.”
The Bai couple was extrely excited. They quickly knelt in the hall to thank her. “Thank you for your kindness, Princess.”
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As early as when the Bai couple decided to join the King of the North, they were already prepared to use money to save their lives.
This matter could not be delayed. The next morning, the Bai Residence posted notices at the entrances of all the Baiji dicinal Shops and the People’s Relief Hall in Xiangping City.
They announced to the public that Princess Shaoyi had gone to the Dragon Phoenix Temple to offer incense and pray for the refugees. She prayed that plagues and disasters would not descend. Madam Bai was lucky to have received Princess Shaoyi’s permission to enter the temple and witness Princess Shaoyi’s elegance. When she heard the Sutra of the dicine Buddha from Zen Master Hui Ji, one of the Six Wise Monks from the Precious Peace Temple, she was enlightened by Bodhisattva and was determined to be kind.
As soon as the notice was released, it caused an uproar in Xiangping City.
The content of the notice seed quite ridiculous, but often, people with great virtue could attract people to do good deeds, creating their virtuous reputation. Princess Shaoyi was originally known as a “living Bodhisattva”. Buddhism was also ant to teach all living beings to plant and obtain good karma.
In that case, it made sense for Madam Bai to be determined to be kind after receiving Princess Shaoyi’s guidance and enlightennt.
There was still the latter part of the notice. “The People’s Relief Hall is one of the Bai Residence’s businesses. Baiji was greedy and sold the inferior dicinal herbs produced to the commoners at a reduced price. We’re guilty of earning ill-gotten gains.”
“From today onwards, the inferior dicinal herbs produced by Baiji will not be sold in the People’s Relief Hall. The People’s Relief Hall will be permanently closed.”
“The prices at all the Baiji dicinal Shops will be permanently reduced by 20%.”
“From today onwards, for three days, all custors who buy dicinal herbs from this shop will enjoy a 30% discount. Each family will only be able to buy one portion once. The second-grade dicinal herbs will no longer be sold officially. Half of them will be sold, while the other half will be given to custors who need them.”
“The Baiji dicinal Shop will start a five-day volunteer dical consultation. All the commoners who participate in the volunteer dical consultation will be given low-grade dicinal herbs for free according to the severity of their illness.”
“The inferior dicinal herbs sold by the People’s Relief Hall have been tested by Sun Sheng and have dicinal effects. Please take them at ease.”
“The Bai Residence is deeply sorry that the People’s Relief Hall was inhumane as a business and deceived its custors. We will also repay the vast population. From now on, we will definitely follow your instructions and be kind. We will report this to the public.”
As soon as the notice spread, there were various opinions.
The commoners scolded Baiji for being shaless, but there was nothing to scold.
The commoners in Xiangping City who couldn’t afford dicinal herbs all bought them from the People’s Relief Hall. Although they were inferior dicinal herbs, they had the effect of treating illnesses and saving lives. The price was indeed cheaper than other dicinal shops.
Therefore, after a short period of indignation, the commoners’ attention was diverted by the series of activities such as lowering prices, discounts, volunteer consultations, and giving dicine.
They were not even in the mood to scold them. They ran to the Baiji dicinal Shop to buy the dicinal herbs and queued up for the volunteer consultation.
The price of dicinal herbs was relatively high, causing most commoners to almost not be able to afford them. Naturally, they could not miss such a good opportunity like reduced prices and a discount.
How could a person not fall sick?
It was also good to prepare dicine for colds, injuries, heat reduction, detoxification, and so on.
When Yu Youyao heard about the situation outside, everything was as she had expected. “Discounts, volunteer consultations, and giving dicine will cause the Bai Residence to suffer from a shortage of dicinal herbs and insufficient funds, causing the Bai Residence to suffer a huge loss. However, this is only for a mont. The Bai Residence has its own source of dicinal herbs and many business partners. As long as its foundation is still there, it will recover quickly.”
Uncle Sun did not care about this. He was only a little curious. “The ox bezoar sold by the People’s Relief Hall is fake and has no dicinal effect. Recently, the People’s Relief Hall has not bought ox bezoar. Then, Madam Zhang’s husband died from taking the dicine that wrongly included ox bezoar. It’s not valid at all. You just have to report this matter to the governnt office. This case won’t implicate the Bai Residence.”
After understanding Madam Zhang’s case, he first checked the ox bezoar sold in Jimin Hall.
Ox bezoar was obtained from the guts and liver of special cows. It was an expensive dicine and was mostly from the northwest, Liaodong, and other places where special cows were raised. It was very rare. It was also because ox bezoar was precious and rare that many people faked it. So fake ox bezoars could even look authentic. Only experienced doctors could tell.
Not all special cows could bear ox bezoar, and ox bezoar could not be truly raised. Most of them were bought from cattle feeders. Those of good quality would naturally be left in the Baiji dicinal Shop. Those of lower quality would be sold in the People’s Relief Hall.
The dical skills of the physicians in the People’s Relief Hall were average. It was not common for the People’s Relief Hall to have expensive dicinal herbs like ox bezoar. They did not have much contact with them, so they naturally did not know how to distinguish them.
Uncle Sun continued, “Although selling inferior dicinal herbs will damage the Bai Residence’s reputation, the Han Clan’s plan to deal with the Bai Residence will also fail. Why go through so much trouble to arrange this show?”
The Bai Residence did not need to reduce prices, discounts, volunteer consultations, and dicine to deal with the Han Clan at all. They could easily survive this calamity.
However, Yu Youyao had hidden the case of the fake ox bezoar and deliberately caused the Bai Residence to suffer losses.
It seed a little unkind.
Yu Youyao’s lips curled up slightly. “The dicinal herbs in the North are more expensive, and the commoners can’t afford them. It turned out that it was also the land-owning class who joined forces with the dicinal herb rchants to control the dicinal herbs business and wantonly raised the price of the herbs to restrict the vassal lords. Since I’ve interfered in this matter, I can’t sit back and do nothing.”
Why did the Bai Residence open the People’s Relief Hall to help the people and sell low-grade dicinal herbs?
It was all because the dicinal herbs in the North were more expensive. The Bai family felt that even inferior dicinal herbs were profitable. Not only did they sell the inferior dicinal herbs they produced, but they also bought inferior dicinal herbs from other dicinal herb rchants wantonly to sell them for profit.
As far as she knew, the Bai Residence had a large number of second-grade dicinal herbs.
Anyone who knew pharmacology could tell the quality of the dicinal herbs. It was definitely not a secret in the North that the Bai Residence publicly sold inferior dicinal herbs. The Bai Residence was the first and definitely not the last.
“Only when the Bai Residence and the other dicinal herbs rchants see the unbearable consequences of selling inferior dicinal herbs will they take it as a warning and not use inferior dicinal herbs to profit anymore. This is one of the reasons.”
Uncle Sun agreed deeply.
“Second, if the Bai Residence reduces the price, it will cause a huge impact on the other dicinal herb rchants. The other dicinal herb rchants will also reduce their prices one after another to compete with Baiji. When the dicinal prices of the three provinces of Liaodong fall, the commoners will be able to afford them. Good-quality dicine will also cause a head-on blow to the dicinal herbs business in Shanxi. At the sa ti, they will give warning to other rchants who have maliciously raised the price.”
It was no different from fighting a tiger from afar.
This move was to deal with the nobles.
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