After Jiulong Mountain has stretched and moved for hundreds of kilometers, it seems to have exhausted the aura of heaven and earth in the remaining veins of Daxing'an Mountains. No matter how hard it is to set up countless layers of mountains, they crawled down on the north bank of the endlessly flowing Yanqi River in southwestern Liaoning.Nine dragons are entangled with each other, sneaking into the undefeated waves of the Yanqi River in different postures, forming an overlapping barrier at the outermost edge of Jiulong Mountain, which is called Luyang Mountain by the locals, and making the Yanqi River throw a beautiful arc. bend.Therefore, it also constitutes the excellent geomantic omen of Yaowangmiao Town, a well-known distribution center of northern medicinal materials on the south bank of Yanqi River.

The reason why Yaowangmiao Town is called Yaowangmiao Town is that according to the local people’s explanation, it was originally the birthplace of Medicine King Sun Simiao, and Yaowang Temple was built in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, hence the name. .According to archaeologists' research, Sun Simiao was born in Sunjiayuan, Yao County, Shaanxi Province. This is only the residence of Sun Simiao's grandfather and grandmother, so it is also the birthplace of Sun Simiao's mother. Just a local subsidy.Even so, people are still willing to make mistakes and call this place Yaowangmiao Town.Over time, the conclusions of archaeologists have been completely forgotten, while the old house where Sun Simiao was born, the forest where he dug out bird eggs when he was a child, the school where he went to a private school, and the path he often walked on the mountain to collect herbs, etc. are constantly being forgotten. Discovered and admired, so Yaowangmiao Town has really become the birthplace of Sun Simiao, and its reputation is getting bigger and bigger.Today, Sunjiayuan in Yaoxian County, Shaanxi Province is the real birthplace of Sun Simiao, but for some reason it is not called Yaowangmiao Town. This has made the people in Yaowangmiao Town laugh more than once. Who is as serious as an archaeologist!Therefore, the people in Yaowangmiao Town borrowed the light of Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, and planted herbs in every family, and opened medicine stores in every household. For hundreds of years, it has been passed down from generation to generation. It has formed considerable local industrial advantages and has become the only distribution center for traditional Chinese medicinal materials in northern China.

When the spring breeze of 1912 reached Yaowangmiao Town, the small town with only a hundred households had grown into a large town of more than four hundred households with a population of over two thousand.Moreover, according to the layout of streets and building complexes, it is divided into two independent areas of Yaowang Temple, the southeast and northwest, facing each other across the river.The Southeast Medicine King Temple is known as the Former Medicine King Temple. It is mainly a traditional Chinese medicine market.The Northwest Yaowang Temple is called the Houyaowang Temple, mainly including inns, warehouses, teahouses, restaurants, theaters, brothels, etc.The water and land terminal is located in the center of the town, and there is a lot of traffic every day, bustling and lively.

Among the dozens of pharmacies in the former Yaowangmiao, Shu Shennongtang is the largest and most famous. The owner, Fan Chenxiang, is the president of the Yaowangmiao Town Trade Association. He is in his fifties. The voice, the sound is like a bell, the stride is like a shooting star when walking, and it is as heavy as drumming. It is refreshing at first glance.Of course, if anyone made him angry, he would definitely regret it, especially after he drank, once he got angry, he would never save face for anyone.Once, after drinking, he got into a quarrel with the special agent of the tax bureau. The special agent relied on his own status to speak disrespectfully, which annoyed Fan Chenxiang. Fan Chenxiang slapped him left and right. He took twenty or thirty steps, raised his hand and threw it into the branch of Yanqi River.At that time, it was late autumn, and when the executive climbed out of the icy river, he was too cold to speak.After that, when she met Fan Chenxiang, she no longer dared to talk nonsense, and Fan Chenxiang was slapped in the face because of this.Of course, in order to settle the matter of beating the executive, he finally spent a lot of silver dollars, entrusted favors and words from the Guangning City Tax Bureau, and let the executive suffer a dumb loss for nothing.

Fan Chenxiang has a habit, that is, regardless of winter or summer, he must get up at dawn, and then go for a walk on the pier in the center of the town without washing or washing.He did this not to get rid of the old and bring in the new, to change the air, but to find out what kind of goods were loaded on the wharf that morning, what was the quality, what was the price, and whether there was any profit to be made.If it is profitable, he will naturally eat it in one go. It is not profitable. He also needs to know who the goods will end up in and at what price. It's good to make a fuss out of it.So, in the words of Fan Chenxiang's third aunt, Ma Lanhua, he followed the saying - no profit, no early.

However, Fan Chenxiang didn't get up early today mainly for the word "profit", he had other plans: Cheng Hanqing, the eldest son of the town's most prominent Xinglin name Chuan Yunhe, moved back from Beijing with his family half a month ago.This master doctor of traditional Chinese medicine who has been an imperial physician by the emperor's side for more than ten years and the left hall official of the imperial hospital moved his family back not because he had committed any crime and was demoted back to his hometown by the emperor, but because of a reason that surprised Fan Chenxiang ——The Qing Dynasty, which had been in power for two hundred and sixty years, was overthrown!Emperor Xuantong has abdicated!A man named Sun Yat-sen ascended the throne in Nanjing (the place where it happened to be the opposite of Beijing), established the name of the new country, the Republic of China, and changed Beijing to Peiping.Therefore, Aixinjueluo's imperial career came to an end.Fan Chenxiang didn't care too much about whether Aixinjue Luo became the emperor, but that Sun Yat-sen proposed thirty-six prohibitions after he came to power, one of which was to ban Chinese medicine!It is said that this is also one of the reasons why the trees fell and the hozens scattered in Taiyuan Hospital.

Fan Chenxiang also heard that Cheng Hanqing, who had long wanted to return to hermitage, took the opportunity to ask Emperor Xuantong to retire, and with Emperor Xuantong's permission, his family moved back from the capital.All the people in Yaowangmiao Town who rely on medicine for a living came to Cheng's house to inquire about the situation and asked whether the ban on Chinese medicine was true or not.Of course, Cheng Hanqing didn't know what medicine was in this Sun Yat-sen gourd. He just said that if Chinese people want to cure their diseases, they must have Chinese medicine. Just open.After hearing this, the folks felt a sense of relief in their hearts. After all, Cheng Yuyi had served the emperor before, so could he speak correctly?Although Fan Chenxiang has a solid understanding of the matter of banning Chinese medicine, there is still one thing on his mind that makes him mutter - if he, Fan Chenxiang, was the richest man in Yaowangmiao Town when Cheng Hanqing's family didn't go back to Yaowangmiao, Then, after Cheng Hanqing's family returned to their hometown, Fan Chenxiang's influence was greatly reduced.This is not only because Cheng's clinic and pharmacy Huichuntang will take away a lot of business from him once it opens, but what makes him unable to sleep is that Cheng's old doctor has had a relationship with He Muqiao, the city guard of Guangning City, in the past two days. They are related by marriage - He Nv Ruohan will marry one of the Cheng family's twin brothers, and they will get married when the other of the Cheng family's twin brothers also finds a marriage, which makes him even more anxious.Originally, he wanted to betroth his daughter to the Cheng family, but he didn't want He Shouwei to take the lead, so he couldn't hesitate any longer, and had to ask a matchmaker to betroth his daughter to the other of the Cheng family's twin brothers.As long as he is a close relative of the Cheng family, he is not afraid that the Huichun Hall of the Cheng family will not give him food at the Shennong Hall, and at the same time, he is not afraid that the old imperial doctor Cheng will snatch his title of president of the Yaowangmiao Town Traders Association—see. In terms of in-laws, how could he be embarrassed?Because of this concern, he almost didn't sleep well all night, and got up at dawn. Now, he is going to find someone first, ask him to come forward as a matchmaker, and try to make a good relationship with Qin Jin of the Cheng family.