Chapter 2217: Anguo Medicine Market

In ancient China, there were four major rice markets: Jiujiang in Jiangxi, Wuhu in Anhui, Wuxi in Jiangsu, Shashi in Hubei or Changsha in Hunan. Rice from all over the country was distributed here, and there were also four major drug markets in the pharmaceutical industry: Bozhou in Anhui, Anguo in Hebei, Zhangshu in Jiangxi and Changsha in Hunan. In Yuzhou, Henan, these four major pharmaceutical markets determine the price of medicinal materials in the country, and are also the distribution center of traditional Chinese medicinal materials.

Bozhou, Anhui Province is the hometown of Hua Tuo, a genius doctor. Today, it has become a "medicine capital" of traditional Chinese medicine with a large number of drug dealers, numerous drug stores, and drug giants. It distributes more than 2,000 kinds of Chinese medicinal materials. market.

Yuzhou, Henan Province has a long history of planting, collecting and processing traditional Chinese medicinal materials.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Bian Que, the genius doctor, Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, and Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, have all practiced medicine and collected medicine in Yu, and wrote books. Under their direct influence, Yuzhou's pharmaceutical industry has also developed greatly. Since the Tang Dynasty, Yuzhou's pharmaceutical market has gradually formed. With the further development and prosperity of the pharmaceutical industry, during the Ming Dynasty, Yuzhou became the fourth largest in the country One of the large distribution centers of medicinal materials.

The formation of Zhangshu medicine market in Jiangxi is inseparable from Taoism. Gezao Mountain in the suburb of Zhangshu is a famous Taoist mountain and also a natural medicine field. It stretches for more than 200 miles and is rich in various medicinal materials. There are more than 100 kinds of plant medicinal materials and mineral medicinal materials. As early as the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taoists Zhang Daoling and Ge Xianweng practiced here.

While they were superstitious and preached to exorcise evil spirits, they collected medicines and made alchemy to cure diseases, and taught the method of processing. Later, Ge Hong, the grandson of the Ge family, summed up his medical experience and wrote "Elbow Backing Emergency Qianjin Prescription", which was handed down to the world; in Tang and Song Dynasties, camphor tree medicine The industry is becoming more and more developed, the number of people collecting and selling medicines is increasing day by day, medicine shops, medicine shops, and branch villages are gradually rising, and they are expanding to other provinces.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, a Sanhuang Palace (the Temple of the Medicine King) was built here. Every April 28th in the lunar calendar, the birthday of Sun Simiao, a famous doctor of the Tang Dynasty, was set up next to the temple. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, there were more than 200 traditional Chinese medicine shops in Zhangshu. At the same time, drug dealers from other provinces also came here to set up medicine shops, and even established associations of fellow villagers, which gradually became a distribution center for medicinal materials.

As for the Hebei Anguo Medicine Market, it started in the Northern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Its traditional Chinese medicinal materials are exquisitely processed. , has won the reputation of "the grass arrives in Anguo to make medicine, and the medicine arrives in Qizhou to produce fragrance".

Bozhou originated from Hua Tuo, and Yuzhou became famous because of Bian Que, Zhang Zhongjing, and Sun Simiao. Camphor trees are inseparable from Zhang Daoling, Ge Xianweng, and Ge Hong. Anguo enshrines Pi, one of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Tong, I have never heard of this person who can see a doctor, but because he was buried in Anguo, some people in later generations attached Pitong as the "King of Skin" who believed in the miracle doctor in Anguo County, so Pitong became the king of medicine inexplicably.

Anguo is not considered the largest drug market in the country, but due to the current traffic conditions, bulk medicinal materials can only be purchased nearby.

Therefore, Baicao Hall has always gone to Anguo, Hebei to conduct transactions. Due to the status of Baicao Hall in the pharmaceutical industry, every time they have to go to the Anguo Pharmaceutical Market to officially open the market.

So when Shen Long and the others arrived in Anguo, they found that the area around the Yaowang Temple was already crowded with people, but they had not started trading. The acquaintances greeted them, and the people at the gate of the temple hurriedly made way for them. Second Master Tu walked to the front of the temple and hurriedly stepped aside to let Shen Long go first, while extending his hand, "Young Master, please."

Shen Long knew that he was a child of the Bai family of Baicao Hall, so he should preside over the next ceremony by himself, so he raised his head and strode forward to the temple gate. Er Master Tu stood on the steps and said loudly, "Bai Caoting of the capital city The old and the young master have arrived!"

The audience immediately fell silent, and everyone looked out the door. Shen Long entered the main hall of the Yaowang Temple under the gaze of everyone, and the chief steward of the Yaowang Temple hurriedly cupped his hands, "Young Master, please offer incense!"

Tu Erye hurriedly walked to the table, picked up a stick of incense, lit it on the candle, and handed it to Shen Long. After saluting, Shen Long put the incense in the incense burner in front of the statue of Pitong, the king of medicine. After finishing the medicine king, the chief steward walked out of the palace gate and shouted, "The old owner of the Bai family in the Beijing Baicao Hall has arrived, and the Anguo Medicine Market is open. All the owners must strictly abide by the market regulations and open the market!"

After the opening of the market, the folks in the various stalls in the town began to get busy, displaying the medicinal materials transported from the northeast, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei and other places, and selling them vigorously; Shen Long followed Tu The second master and Mr. Xu came along the street, followed by many scouts not far away, and the shop assistants along the street shouted and greeted them from time to time, soliciting business from them.

Baicao Hall's Bai family is a big customer, if anyone can hold them back, then this year's business will be stable, and this order alone will fill up their stomachs, and Baicao Hall has always been known for its emphasis on the quality of medicinal materials, If anyone's medicinal materials can be included in the purchase list of Baicao Hall, it is also an affirmation of the store's strength and character.

In the future, when the shop assistants solicit business again, they can proudly say that this is the high-quality medicinal material that supplies the old Baijia of Baicao Hall in Beijing, and the nobles in the palace are using it. Just like the electronics factory that became Huawei's supplier in later generations, it will definitely not worry about business in the future.

The three of them just stopped in front of a large shed, when the shopkeeper rushed out to greet them, "Please come inside!"

Tu Erye nodded, grabbed Huang Lian from the basket, looked at it, and handed it to Shen Long, "Can you take a look at the young master's family?"

Yo, are you here to test me? Shen Long smiled, stretched out his hand to take it over and glanced at it, and the shopkeeper quickly introduced, "This is the top-quality eastern Sichuan Coptis chinensis, you see how fat it is, you all hold it, this kind of yellow is pure turmeric, no coloring has been added, It's a real chicken feet."

"Hehe, it's right that it's Coptis chinensis from the east of Sichuan, but you're from the south bank, the sun is less exposed, and the roots are not thick enough, which is a little worse than that from the north bank." Shen Long said with a smile. Chicken feet, Yalian, Yunlian, short calyx coptis, five-crack coptis, etc. Among them, the best chicken feet are produced in the mountains on both sides of the Yangtze River in eastern Sichuan and western Hubei. The rhizomes are thick, less bridged, and golden yellow. They are the top grade of Coptis chinensis, and those from the south bank are also good, but they are a little bit inferior.

Tu Erye and Mr. Xu looked at each other, showing a look of surprise, how old is this? So deep into the research of medicinal materials? The shopkeeper stayed on the spot even more. Is a doll from the Bai family so powerful?