Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 353 Doctors and Corrupt Officials
To be precise, there were three people who came back with Sahalian, Zamusu, a Daur headman and an Oroqen man, all aged 50.

The three of them were taken outside Zhao Xin's tent and waited for a while, when they saw the tent curtains shaking, and two tall, beardless young men came out.

Sahalian and others bowed their hands to Zhao Xin and Wu Siyu and saluted Zhamusu and others. When they heard that Zhao Xin, who was the tallest, was the head of the Beihai Navy, he quickly knelt down. He fell to the ground and begged in his mouth, "I beg your Majesty to save me!"

Zhao Xin and Wu Siyu bent down to help the oldest Zamusu up, looked at Sahal and asked, "What happened?"

Sahalian sighed and said, "Heilongjiang City has run out of food. The officers and soldiers retreated in a hurry, leaving the old, weak, women, children and wounded soldiers in the city. There are more than 2000 people in total."

After finishing speaking, he pointed at Zamusu and said: "This old brother ran out from Rafkai in the north to report. These two are local township heads. This is the head of Daur, and this is the The leader of Oroqen."

"Rafkai?" Zhao Xin's eyes lit up, and he asked Zamusu quickly, "Are you from Yaksa?"

While talking, Zhao Xin's guard brought some folding wooden chairs for everyone to sit outside the tent, and brought tea over.Zhamusu and the others were anxious and at a loss in front of Zhao Xin.At this time, the nearby cooking team was preparing lunch, and the aroma of fat mixed with meat floated by; Zamusu swallowed involuntarily when he smelled the food, and his stomach gurgled loudly.

Seeing this, Zhao Xin immediately said to Saha: "Are they hungry? Then take them to eat first."

Sahalian smiled and said, "I originally planned to pay a visit to you, and then take them to see the Raksha captives."

Zhao Xin said indifferently: "Then go and watch after dinner, and talk about it after reading something."

Sahalian said: "Where is Heilongjiang City?"

Wu Siyu said: "Even if it is to give food and send people to treat diseases, we have to enter the city. Don't you think so?"

Two hours later, when Zhamusu and others, who were full of food and drink, went to the old city of Aihui to look around again, when they saw Zhao Xin again, they knelt down 20 meters away. Sahalian and his subordinate He Zhe The hunter hurriedly helped them up, and complained: "What are you doing? Didn't I tell you all during the meal that Bei Haijun has no rules of kneeling, so get up!"

Seeing Zhao Xin approaching, Zamusu said to Sahar with red eyes: "I'm not weak! I'm kneeling for Rafkai, Yaksa, and those who died in Humar City. These days Killing Rakshasa, they will not spare even women and children!"

The other two Daur and Oroqen headmen also echoed: "Yes! Before you arrived, from Humar to Aihui, we died too many people! When Raksha crossed the river two days ago, a morning More than 2000 people died!"

After all, the three old men fell to their knees again, and before Zhao Xin could understand, they kowtowed to him three times.

Zhao Xin hadn't lived enough yet, he didn't want to lose his life, so he turned sideways to avoid it.After the three of them kowtowed and stood up, they listened to Sahalian's translation, smiled and said to the three of Zamusu: "Now, are you all relieved? Go back and persuade your people to open the city gate. The food will be sent to you."

At dusk, after the persuasion of Zhamusu and the other three, the north gate of Heilongjiang City finally opened.

Under the leadership of Sahalian and others, hundreds of soldiers from the Northern Navy walked into the city with bags of grain on their shoulders. Zamusu and others led them through the inner city to the south gate of the inner city. The rice storage warehouse, where the grain is stacked.

Along with the food transportation team, there were also ten members of the Beihai Town Medical Team; the most eye-catching one was a middle-aged man wearing a Beihai uniform with a few strands of long beard. It is Wu Xianning, a son of the Wu family, one of the three famous doctors in the south of the Yangtze River.

It has been almost three years since Wu Xianning came to Beihai Town. When he and his cousin Wu Xianhou followed Shen Jingdan to Beihai Town, they were quickly attracted by the dazzling equipment and treatment methods in Beihai Town Hospital.Like beginners, the two brothers asked Hong Tao and Liu Siting shamelessly, and after a few months, they each became outpatient doctors.

At the beginning of last spring, Wu Xianning returned to Jiangning and brought his wife and children to Beihai Town.And the biggest reason why he did this was because of a chat between him and Hong Tao.

It is said that Zhao Xin purchased a lot of medicines and equipment from another time and space, but in Beihai Town, almost all of these medicines were provided to everyone at a loss.In addition to these, the expensive Chinese medicinal materials that Zhao Xin bought back from Guangzhou are not expensive after being formulated into medicines.

The Wu family is a family of medicine, and they have pharmacy businesses in Jiangning and even the capital city; like Beihai Town Hospital, they sell medicine like this, plus the cost of transportation and procurement, they will definitely lose money!According to Wu Xianning's own estimates, if the Wu family's pharmacy sells such precious medicinal materials as Beihai Town, they will lose a hundred and ten taels of silver a month for borneol, musk, bezoar, rhino horn, ginseng and other precious medicinal materials.

So Wu Xianning endured it for a while, and finally found an opportunity to ask Hong Tao his own question: "Dean Hong, why do you sell the medicine so cheaply? Although the patient's current financial burden has been reduced, they are losing money after all! You guys How long can you last like this?"

Hong Tao's answer at the time was: "Mr. Wu, as a doctor, I don't think anyone can rely on this to make huge profits in matters of life and death. Even if the Beihai Navy enters the border and wins the world, we will not rely on this to make money."

Wu Xianning was stunned by these words, it took him a while to tentatively mention Zhao Xin's opinion on this matter.The so-called "eating the king's salary, loyalty to the king", Zhao Xin's treatment for the Wu brothers is not low, not to mention free food and lodging, there is also 20 silver dollars per month, which is equivalent to 40 taels of silver.

Hong Tao laughed at that time, and said to Wu Xianning: "Mr. Wu, if he didn't agree, do you think I can do this?"

After Wu Xianning heard this, he went back and told his cousin Wu Xianhou. The two brothers were filled with emotion at the time, thinking that such a rebel had never been seen before.

From then on, the Wu brothers followed Beihai town with determination.When the two returned to Jiangning last year, they not only brought their wives and children, but also brought seven or eight children of the Wu family, who are currently studying at the Beihai Town Hospital.

Now Wu Xianhou was sent to Fuerdan City to preside over the hospital there, and Wu Xianning came with him since he heard that the Beihai Navy was going northward for an expedition.

As soon as Wu Xianning entered the city, he was most concerned about the patients, so led by Zamusu and escorted by several soldiers from the Northern Navy, he led his staff to the Great Buddha Temple in the west.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the temple, Wu Xianning smelled a strange smell. When he walked around the gate, he saw whether it was the main hall or the side hall, there were old, weak, women and children living here, a huge crowd.

Seeing Wu Xianning and the others suddenly come in, these people in the courtyard were startled, they wanted to hide but there was nowhere to hide, they were at a loss.Different from the indifference of the people in the pass, Heilongjiang City is a garrison city, which means that except for the border residents who fled here, most of the old and weak women and children in the temple are family members of the Eight Banners garrison.

Of course, the rich and powerful families all ran away, leaving only the lower-level bannermen.They either lost their homeland because their family members were killed in battle; or they were unable to move because their family members were injured; they didn't know how the Han army that had defeated Rakshasa would deal with them.

At this moment, Zamusu said loudly: "There is food! A pot is being set up outside the rice storage warehouse to make porridge!"

Good fellow, as soon as the words were finished, the people in the yard coaxed them, grabbed their pots and pans and rushed out, fearing that they would not be able to eat if they were late.After a while, the courtyard was completely empty of people.

Afterwards Zamusu led Wu Xianning and the others through the main hall to the hut in the backyard. They saw that the courtyard was full of groaning wounded patients, and several monks were either feeding water or applying medicine to the wounded.The smell of excrement, the grassy smell of unknown herbs, the stench of festering and rotting wounds, etc. rushed to the face.

Seeing Wu Xianning and the others coming, the monks stopped what they were doing and looked at the "rebels" in the eyes of the officials.

In a corner of the courtyard, under the light of a torch, a middle-aged man in his 40s was squatting on the ground to give the pulse to an injured Qing army, and standing beside him looked like family members of the injured.Seeing the middle-aged man shaking his head and sighing, and saying something in Manchu, the family members burst into tears.

The middle-aged man turned his head and saw Wu Xianning in the uniform of the Beihai Navy. He was also stunned for a moment. Just as he was about to step forward to speak, he saw the other party striding over, squatting beside the wounded man he had just signaled for pulse, and began to check stand up.

The middle-aged man explained in a low voice in Mandarin: "He was hit by the lead bullet of Raksha, and now the lead poison has entered his body, even if Hua Tuo is still alive, it will be difficult."

Wu Xianning unwrapped the gauze on the patient's abdomen, and saw that the wound had suppurated. He checked it, and casually asked the middle-aged man, "Have the lead bullets been taken out?"

The middle-aged man said: "The lead bullet has penetrated into the abdomen, how can this be taken?"

After hearing this, Wu Xianning hastily said to the medical soldiers behind him, "Get ready to operate immediately."

"Surgery?" The middle-aged man on the side was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Is this possible?"

Wu Xianning stood up and asked, "Are you a doctor?"

The middle-aged man hastily cupped his hands and said, "No, I just know a little about herbal medicine."

Wu Xianning heard that he was speaking with a Zhejiang accent, so he cupped his hands and said, "Wu Xianning is in Jiangning, and his name is Taiping. Excuse me, brother?"

The middle-aged man looked happy, and hurriedly said: "Li Bi, who is in the lower Kuaiji, alias Wenshan, is now an assistant teacher of the government school in this city."

Wu Xianning was busy saving people, so he didn't have time to chat with them. He asked Li Bi to discuss with the monks of the Great Buddha Temple, and quickly find an empty room.Several monks did not dare to refuse when they saw the soldiers of the Beihai Navy holding "guns". After a lot of work, they vacated a meditation room.

Taking advantage of the time when his subordinates were disinfecting the house, Wu Xianning took a few nurses to check the wounded patients in the hospital, and marked them with chalk according to the severity of the injuries; Li Bi was curious, and asked for a piece of chalk to follow Wu Xianning help.

Wu Xianning saw that there were too many injuries in the backyard, mixed in severity and inconvenient for treatment, so he asked the monks to help. All the slightly injured with triangle marks on their clothes were transferred to the school military field north of the Great Buddha Temple, and two more were arranged. The medics followed.

After all this work, the disinfection in the meditation room has been completed, and the temporary operating table has been set up.Due to limited conditions, Wu Xianning didn't care about other things. He put on a mask and a light blue surgical gown and began to treat the wounded.He kept busy until late at night, performing one surgery after another; when he came out of the temporary operating room, his tired legs were weak, and he didn't even want to talk.

It was said that Wu Xianning was busy with surgery, and Li Bi couldn't intervene. He looked outside the operating room for a while, but couldn't see why.When he heard that the porridge was being given out at the rice storage warehouse, he felt his stomach was empty; he drank a bowl of rice soup since morning, so he hurried there.

Heilongjiang City is a military fortress, and most of the facilities inside and outside the city are designed to meet military needs.The granary in the garrison city has always occupied an important position, and it is used as a supply for the army and the people during wars or special periods.

The rice storage warehouse located outside the south gate of the inner city has 400 warehouses, and the grain storage warehouse has as many as [-] warehouses; in addition, there are more than [-] storage warehouses two miles south of the city.

The third line of defense prepared by Eredmubu was located in the area of ​​rice storage and grain storage, so when the Qing army retreated, it was very convenient to take almost all the food here.

When Li Bi came, he saw bonfires and torches from a distance, illuminating the night-shrouded rice storage yard as if it were daytime. A dozen large iron pots were lined up in a row. Xing walked forward slowly, but there was no one to speak.He felt strange, so he walked over, who knew that there were still more than 20 steps away from the iron pot, when he heard someone beside him say: "Mr. Li, you can't do it! Those who don't line up will be punished with sticks!"

Li Bi turned his head and saw that it was the parent of a student in the government school, so he stopped and asked, "What's the reason?"

The person who spoke bowed to Li Bi, and then said: "You have to go over there to get the badge first, and then come to line up after getting the badge."

Li Bi nodded, then turned around and walked towards the point pointed by the man.The place where the sign was received was set under a mat shed. A guy who looked like a clerk in the uniform of the Northern Navy was sitting there, and there were several soldiers of the Northern Navy sitting behind him.

"I'm here to get the badge." Li Bi cupped his hands and said.

The clerk raised his head and said, "Hey, it's really not easy to be able to speak official language. Han Chinese or...?"

Li Bi hurriedly said, "Han people, I'm from Zhejiang."

"Oh. What for?"

Li Bixin said that it was like checking household registration in Baojia, but he still said that he was a teacher in a government school.

Afterwards, the clerk asked about his age and whether he had any family members, and wrote it down in a booklet. Then he took out a cardboard, wrote Li Bi's name and age on it, and handed it to him, saying: "One day. Three meals, each meal can only be taken twice."

Li Bi took the card in a daze, and saw that besides his name and age on the top, there were squares drawn with black lines on the bottom, with six squares in each row, and there were ten lines in total on the card.

"Only ten days?"

The clerk grinned and said, "There's more on the back."

Li Bi flipped over the card and saw it before suddenly realizing it. He cupped his hands and thanked him, then turned around and went to line up.After finally queuing up and it was his turn, the person in charge of serving the porridge saw that he had no bowl, so he took another pair of bowls and chopsticks, and served him the porridge.Li Bi thought it was an ordinary bowl of brown rice porridge, but he was surprised that it was thick white rice porridge.

He was a county magistrate, so he knew the way of giving out food, but in the world, he had never heard of anyone who used good white rice to cook porridge for charity.

In the 46th year of Qianlong's reign, the case of impersonating food and embezzling supervisory food in Gansu, known as the "No. 100 corruption case in the Qing Dynasty" in later generations, occurred.This case involved more than 300 people including the Governor, the chief envoy, and officials from the provinces, prefectures, governments, and counties, and recovered nearly [-] million taels of stolen silver. It affected several provinces such as Zhili, Shengjing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Yunnan, and shocked the whole country. Even Emperor Qianlong exclaimed that this case was "a strange thing that has never been seen before."

However, Li Bi was convicted of embezzling and dividing more than 2 taels of silver in this case. He was first ordered to be executed in prison, and later he was sentenced to atonement for the suppression of the "Su 43 Rebellion". The 47 accomplices were exiled to Heilongjiang together.

This, a proper corrupt official.

(End of this chapter)