New Ming Empire mixed in America

"Thank you Lord Long Live for the good medicine. I'm fine now."

Seeing Li Mingqi walking in, former regent Cui Jianguo struggled to get up and salute him.

Li Mingqi quickly took a few steps and pushed him back onto the bed.

Just kidding, His Majesty the Emperor was so busy that he was sweating in order to successfully inject him with saline and penicillin. Now that he is moving around, what if the needle position bulges?

If we do it again, His Majesty the Emperor cannot guarantee whether we can successfully find the blood vessel again.

What if this is the reason why His Majesty the Emperor ‘loses his important minister’?

Seeing the former regent Cui Jianguo and Li Mingqi, who was covered in plasters and even smeared with aloe vera gel in some places, he gave up the commonly used trick of "talking with his hands and sleeping with his hands on his feet" to win people over.

He asked Sun Laifu, who was taking care of him next to him: "Have you given the general the medicine?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I have already given the General the righteous water to drink according to His Majesty's instructions."

Sun Laifu showed Li Mingqi the two remaining bottles of righteous water on the table.

Good guy, there are only two bottles left in a large box of Zhengqi water? I guess if I couldn’t drink any more, there wouldn’t be any two bottles left.

Li Mingqi looked at the former regent Cui Jianguo with complicated eyes. He said that he would not be tired if he worked heartlessly. The ancients did not deceive me.

His injuries had been examined by Barton, the ship's most skilled part-time doctor. The conclusion given at that time was that the external injuries were not serious, but that he might not be able to be saved due to exposure to the sun.

However, Barton, a part-time ship doctor with a strong sense of responsibility, still gave a treatment plan. That is: bloodletting first, and then craniotomy.

The plan of bloodletting was proposed by Barton following the commonly used medical methods in the West.

The craniotomy was Barton's own idea. He suggested: Since he was exposed to the sun, why not open his head to cool him down?

This statement was nodded by Liu Youcai, the leader of the ministers, and Liu Erhe also thought it made sense. Since all the civil and military officials in the New Ming Empire agreed, Barton began treatment.

If His Majesty the Emperor hadn't discovered it early, the Regent would have been buried at sea by now.

"General, rest in peace and rest, our Xinming Empire cannot do without you."

After showing some hypocritical concern for the former regent.

Li Mingqi called Liu Youcai and asked him to find someone else to take care of Cui Jianguo. He asked Sun Laifu, a reckless man, to take care of him. His Majesty the Emperor was not optimistic about the life safety of the former regent.

"Long live Lord, the information of all the people in the empire has been registered. Including the cabin that was added later, there are a total of 237 people. Among them, there are 16 carpenters, the largest number of blacksmiths, 33, and there are also people who have fired porcelain.

There are 4 helpers and 8 people who are skilled in delivering animals..."

After listening to the report, His Majesty the Emperor realized that everyone on the ship knew more or less a variety of crafts. But everyone had a common skill, and that was farming.

"How many scholars are there among these people? Those who can read and write are included." Li Mingqi asked a more critical question.

"If you include the ministers, there are...two of them...the other one is a blacksmith, his surname is Zhang, and he went to private school for several years." Liu Youcai wiped the sweat from his face and said.

Well, this was also what Li Mingqi expected.

I originally thought that no one except Liu Youcai, an old scholar, knew how to read, but I didn't expect that there would be an unexpected gain.

"Okay, let's list those craftsmen separately. When we get to the United States (no choice, I'm afraid of being blocked if I write the United States), they can come in handy."

As soon as Liu Youcai was sent away, Liu Erhe came excitedly to report that the candidate for Jin Yiwei had been decided.

Liu Erhe pointed to the row of men standing outside the captain's room and introduced to Li Mingqi:

"Long live my lord, I have selected twenty-six good players. Eight of them have been captured for group training, and their basic skills are not bad. The rest are soldiers who have followed the late emperor and were found in another cabin."

The people Liu Erhe was talking about were diehard loyalists who followed the former regent in launching a war to overthrow the country. Due to the suppression, except for the leader Cui Jianguo, who was ravaged, everyone else was locked up in another cabin.

"Okay, let them get familiar with their new identities first. After a while, the weapons will be handed out to them, and then they will learn how to use firearms from the foreign sailors."

After arranging these future royal guards, it was getting dark.

The people on the ship enjoyed the dinner after having their hair cut under the arrangement of the imperial minister Liu Youcai. This meal emptied a lot of the emperor's internal funds.

Standing on the bow of the ship, looking at the vast sea and the beautiful sunset, Li Mingqi felt very comfortable.

"Long live my lord, that foreign captain just took a box from the captain's cabin."

Sun Laifu came to tell the truth. He couldn't stand the foreigner who took away Long Live Lord's treasure.

"Those are his personal belongings. I have promised to let him take them away." Li Mingqi couldn't help but rub his temples.

Sun Laifu had consciously monitored Ernesto since he knew he had joined the Jinyi Guards. In just a few hours, he had already suggested several times to Li Mingqi to kill him and get back the glowing cross.

"Long live my lord, there must be treasures in that box. I asked the carpenter to see it. The box is made of red sandalwood, and the things inside must be valuable."

Sun Laifu became more and more excited as he talked, because he had already seen His Majesty's shining eyes.

"Your Majesty, I have already made an agreement with Commander Liu. As long as you nod, we will definitely deal with it cleanly and get your treasure back intact!"

What Sun Laifu said made Li Mingqi feel a little headache. He knew that this was not only what Sun Laifu meant, but Liu Erhe also fully agreed with it.

They felt that exchanging treasures like the Luminous Pearl for this ship was not worth the gain, and they had always wanted to help His Majesty the Emperor recover his losses.

But I can’t tell them the truth. Should I tell them that this thing will be worthless in dozens or hundreds of years?

"Okay, I can still use that foreign captain. There will be many places that will need his help when we get to the United States."

After raising his hand to stop Sun Laifu's nagging, Li Mingqi walked towards the sailors' lounge.

Now Ernesto has consciously lived in the sailor's room, and he was very self-aware and gave up the captain's room to the kings and ministers of the new Ming Emperor.

Although Ernesto is no longer the captain, he relies on his previous prestige to still occupy the single room that originally belonged to the boatswain.

Seeing Li Mingqi walking in, he asked curiously: "My dearest friend, if you are not enjoying coffee in the captain's cabin, why do you have time to come to my place?"

From the moment he came in, Li Mingqi's eyes were attracted by the red sandalwood box on the wall. In his heart, selling this box to the system would definitely be a big gain.

There was no time to go around the bush with Ernesto, so Li Mingqi asked directly: "Can you show me this box of yours? It looks like it belongs to the Qing Dynasty. If it satisfies me, I can consider buying it with gold."

Ernesto curled his lips secretly. This box was obviously European style, and he didn't know how the other party could tell it was from the Qing Dynasty.

Although he was surprised that Li Mingqi wanted to buy his box, he didn't want to let go of the business that came to his door.

In order for Li Mingqi to see it more clearly, this small red sandalwood box was placed on the dining table fixed next to the bed.

Li Mingqi didn't move. An old carpenter who was nearly 50 years old came out from behind him and inspected it very carefully.

Three or two minutes later, the old carpenter put down the red sandalwood box in his hand and said to Li Mingqi: "Your Majesty, this is genuine!"

In this atmosphere, it feels like a hemp trading scene in the 21st century.

The European and American style rosewood suitcase on the table, together with the twelve Spanish gold coins, nautical charts, silver pipes, gold-inlaid telescopes, silver-inlaid pocket watches and other items inside, belonged to Li Mingqi.

Ernesto received an old-fashioned aluminum lunch box and a set of aluminum tableware contained in the lunch box.

Not to mention Li Mingqi’s deception, in the mid-19th century, aluminum was more expensive than gold. Not to mention aluminum tableware with exquisite patterns engraved by laser.

After returning to the captain's cabin, he first went to the drawing room to check on the injury of former regent Cui Jianguo. Unexpectedly, he saw part-time ship doctor Barton next to him.

This ship's doctor, who works as a chef on the ship and occasionally pulls teeth, is studying the plaster on Cui Jianguo's body seriously.

Seeing Patton's focused look reminded His Majesty the Emperor of the risks involved in surgery in this era.

It is said that a famous Scottish doctor performed an amputation operation in only two and a half minutes from sawing the leg to suturing. It was definitely fast enough.

It is a pity that the patient went to see his God because of excessive blood loss. Not only that, one of the melon-eating spectators who bought tickets to look for excitement was randomly scared to death.

The most unlucky thing was the assistant who was accidentally injured by this famous doctor and cut off one of his fingers. He died of infection after the operation.

The surgical mortality rate is as high as 300%, which vividly illustrates what professionalism means.

After looking at the former regent with pity, Li Mingqi returned to the lounge.

In order to provide the people of the empire with a hearty meal, His Majesty the Emperor's balance has been greatly reduced.

If we can't find a way to make up for it, we probably won't even be able to fulfill the promise of a set of clothes for each citizen of the Xinming Empire.

Looking at the red sandalwood box on his desk, Li Mingqi reached out and touched it, and then the box and its contents disappeared.

There are more than 157,000 extra funds in the system balance.

After looking at the sales records, I found that the most valuable ones were Spanish gold coins, each of which could be sold for more than 10,000 yuan. They seemed to be selling for antique prices.

The remaining pipes, telescopes, etc. add up to just over 10,000.

As for the nautical chart, it was even worse, because it was newly bought by Ernesto before he went to the Far East, so it was worthless in the system.

The rosewood suitcase that Li Mingqi had high hopes for costed less than 20,000 yuan.

It seems that selling antiques is no longer possible. This red sandalwood box is an example. It was obviously purchased by the system as a raw material price.

This rule of the system completely disrupted His Majesty the Emperor's plan to make a fortune. He also planned to ask someone to return to the Qing Dynasty to haul some junk and sell it as antiques to the system. Now it seems a bit difficult.

However, Li Mingqi is not too disappointed. The current balance can almost survive the time of drifting at sea. At least it is enough for the food and clothing of the two hundred or so people in the Xinming Empire.

Once you get to the United States, it will be much easier to make money.

If nothing else, just get some aluminum ingots and mortgage them to the bank, and then use the mortgaged money to buy gold for recycling by the system, and you can meet the initial funding needs.