Chapter 192: Electric Fan

Yan Ning asked, "Did you find out anything?"

The Prince of Nanyang then recounted the matters he had just inquired about.

Xu Bing is one of Yan Yu's men; they still have a hideout outside the city, all of whom are Yan Yu's former subordinates.

Yan Ning found it strange: "The man is already dead, what are they still doing for him?"

The Prince of Nanyang said, "Yan Yu still has a child."

Yan Ning was somewhat surprised: "Are you talking about Yan Qing? He is born of a concubine, and Yan Yu was not good to him."

The Prince of Nanyang said, "It is that Yan Yu had a son with a mistress, named Yan Shu, so they want to rebel and let Yan Shu ascend the throne."

Yan Ning:...

A single bomb of hers could wipe out their entire force; to think they still want to rebel, do they have no sense of reality?

Yan Ning immediately dispatched Zhuo Heng with a troop to capture them alive and escort them all to the Ministry of Justice prison.

Yan Ning did not take this little interlude to heart.

Yan Ning built Cement Roads, promoted high-yield crops, promoted improved Seed varieties, and let all children go to school...

Yan Ning and Yan Ze did many things for the common people, and the people felt grateful to them in their hearts.

Therefore, basically no one was willing to rebel.

Those people were of no consequence.

After Qian Ruofang wrote out the prescription here, except for a dozen or so special cases, the others were also slowly recovering.

For the remaining dozen or so who could not be cured, they took pulses one by one, adjusted the prescriptions, and soon they were cured.

Just when everyone thought they could finish the job, the Imperial Hospital Dean Chang Shuang suddenly fainted.

After a period of chaos among the few, they discovered that the Dean had already been infected.

Fortunately, the prescription had already been worked out, so everyone just had to treat him accordingly.

It is just that recovery from illness is like pulling a silk thread; Chang Shuang was already of advanced age, and having suffered such an ordeal, he looked like he was not going to make it.

Yan Ning thought of a way to have him drink tea brewed with Spirit Spring Water, and only then did Chang Shuang feel a bit better.

Chang Shuang still felt somewhat powerless.

Chang Shuang said to Yan Ning, "Your Highness, I fear I am no longer capable of holding the positions of Imperial Hospital Dean and Dean of the Medical Academy."

Yan Ning was somewhat sorrowful; she quite liked this Imperial Physician Chang Shuang.

He was precise in his use of medicine and would even consider the taste of the drugs, fearing she would find them bitter, so he would switch to non-bitter medicine to decoct.

It was a pity that Chang Shuang was already over sixty years old.

In ancient times, over sixty was already an advanced age.

Chang Shuang continued, "I request to resign from the work of Imperial Hospital Dean and just be an ordinary teacher at the Medical Academy."

Yan Ning said, "That is fine too, it won't be so tiring."

Chang Shuang continued, "Your Highness, Qian Ruofang's medical skills are superb; if she were to be the Dean, the Medical Academy could develop well."

Yan Ning nodded: "Doctor Qian has worked hard treating the plague, so let her be the Dean of the Medical Academy; I will go to the Ministry of Personnel tomorrow to mention it."

Yan Ning immediately wrote an imperial edict.

Xin Muyu's father, who was an official in the court, muttered in a low voice, "Is the edict written by Her Highness of any use? His Majesty's side..."

Yan Ning heard her whispering with Qian Ruofang.

It was mainly because after eating the Spirit Fruit, her five senses were more acute, and she heard it by accident.

Yan Ning said, "Rest assured, the edict I wrote is useful."

Seeing her say this, Xin Muyu felt a bit embarrassed.

After the plague was completely resolved, they began to resume morning court sessions.

Yan Ze commended all the Imperial Physicians, as well as Yun Shu and his son Yun You; if it hadn't been for Yun Shu isolating the people first, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Afterwards, he commended the people of the Imperial Hospital and the students from the Medical Academy who came to help.

Each person was rewarded with quite a bit of silver and cloth.

Several students were also appointed as intern assistants at the Medical Academy; the rank was not high, but it was an official position, which was already very good.

It was already autumn, and one could still feel a trace of chill when getting up in the morning.

It was also at this time that Yun Shu finished making the Electric Fan.

It was not the small fan made of wood from before, but a large fan that could blow air.

Once they had plastic as a material, everything was convenient to make.

Yun Shu brought the Electric Fan to the court session; the Electric Fan was particularly eye-catching, and Yan Ze asked directly, "Yun Shu, what good thing have you made again?"

Yun Shu brought the Electric Fan to the very front, "It is a fan, but it is already autumn, so it is no longer needed."

Yan Ze said, "If it is not needed this year, we will use it next year, but how long can this fan blow?"

Yun Shu already had the experimental data, "If it is left on day and night, it can be used for seven days."

The Minister of Revenue touched the Electric Fan and asked with some curiosity, "If the seven days are up, must one buy a new one?"

Yun Shu unclipped a black object from the bottom of the fan, "This is a Battery; if it runs out, just change the Battery."

Yan Ning also asked, "Is this fan troublesome to produce? Would it be feasible to open a factory? And what is the price?"

Yun Shu answered them one by one.

"Production is not very troublesome, but making the Battery is a bit troublesome. The price of one fan is five taels of silver; the craftsmanship is complex, but it really cannot be any lower."

Yan Ning felt that without air conditioning, having an Electric Fan was not bad.

Hearing that the craftsmanship was complex, Yan Ning thought about making more early on and stocking up on inventory, so as not to have none to sell in the summer.

The Electric Fan Yun Shu made was left with Yan Ning, and they began to ponder how to set up a factory.

Especially in a place like this in ancient times, with things the ancients had never even seen before and complex production, if they wanted to start one, it was truly cumbersome and difficult.

However, Yun Shu broke it down into several steps, preparing to test whether it could be mass-produced.

He looked for employees in the Capital, and to attract people, he offered a daily wage of one hundred wen.

Before long, the positions were already filled.

Although it was difficult, a batch of electric fans had been produced.

Yan Ning and Yun Shu went to the electric fan workshop together to check on the situation.

Without an assembly line, relying solely on the workers' hands, twenty electric fans were made.

Yan Ning touched them one by one along the way, frowning as she said, "Why are so many of them crooked?"

Yun Shu picked and chose, finally selecting seven of them.

He said, "These seven can be used; later I will place them in the Electric Lamp Shop to sell and see if anyone buys them."

Yan Ning asked again, "The success rate is very low, is five taels of silver enough? Should we increase it a bit?"

Yun Shu shook his head, "No need, these losses are already calculated into the cost."

The factory continued to operate like this, with even an intention to expand its scale.

There were no electric fans in ancient times, and people wore thick clothes in summer; once they got used to using electric fans, they would likely be unable to live without them.

During this time, Yan Ning always felt as if she had forgotten something, but she couldn't recall what it was for the moment.

It wasn't until she said to Cuilan that winter was coming and it was getting a bit chilly, and that she missed the days in Lingnan.

Cuilan said right then that they could go whenever they wanted once the Railway was built.

Only then did Yan Ning remember what she had forgotten.

Such a huge Railway! She had actually forgotten about it!

Yan Ning hurriedly went to the Imperial Study to rummage through the memorials, looking for the ones regarding the Railway; she wanted to know what state it was in now.

At this moment, Yan Ze entered with several ministers.

As soon as he saw her flipping through the memorials, he knew what she was looking for.

Yan Ze took a stack of memorials out from a drawer, "I kept saying I would have someone send them for you to see, but I was too busy and forgot."