The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 177 The medical camp takes shape

Liu Tai didn't have much expectations for things like steam engines in a short period of time.

After all, even if I push hard, what I want is to popularize steam engines in the entire social production, not just make an iron lump, and then say that China has made a revolutionary breakthrough in steam technology in the fourth century.

To a certain extent, what I am looking forward to is the steampunk civilization.

After all, the steam engine is simple, and I understand the principle, and it is other craftsmen who do the work. But when it comes to internal combustion engines or electric energy, I neither know the principles of internal combustion engines nor how to save electric energy. How can I develop these two civilizations?

The principle of steam engines is simple and crude. As long as the original steam engine production tools can enter thousands of households and use coal to replace human resources, even if they cannot see the arrival of the industrial age, it will be enough for China to enter. Industrial civilization.

And the expectations for Ge Hong are actually similar to this steam engine.

I didn't expect him to achieve anything in ten or twenty years. Others didn't know, but didn't he know how difficult it was!

Even if Ge Hong is the greatest chemist of this era, if he really wants to find basic elements from scratch, or even study the basic periodic table of elements, he will probably have to bury Ge Hong's entire body.

Maybe even the entire Jindan Sect will be involved in the great task of finding the 64-element periodic table.

Therefore, the only thing I need to do for Ge Hong's research is to give him money and keep trying.

To a certain extent, what Ge Hong is doing now is the basic theory of materials science of this era.

If there is a breakthrough in Ge Hong's area, then the development speed of the entire China will probably advance by leaps and bounds.

For these basic researches, as an official, the only thing we can do is to provide them with some useless financial support.

Compared with the basic research that Ge Hong is looking for, what Jie Fei is doing is implementation at the application level.

To be honest, Jie Fei has been with him for a while, and Liu Tai understands that Jie Fei is not the kind of scientific person who is good at getting to the bottom of things.

He is more like a talented manager. He is both good at technology and knows how to use people who are good at technology.

Therefore, if he is asked to manage various projects, Jie Fei can manage them in an orderly manner. The progress of each project is often summarized in his hands and reported to Liu Tai. New technologies can make breakthroughs every year.

This is also the reason why Liu Tai feels more and more that Jie Fei is somewhat easy to use.

The only pity is that this person does not have any aristocratic background. If he follows the normal dynasty development, it will be difficult for him to climb to a high place.

Even if you climb to a high place by chance, without a feared family, you may become an anomaly in the officialdom, and then be wiped out by the attack of the family.

But it is good for Liu Tai to be under his own hands. After all, these days, technical managers who understand both technology and management, and who can manage an organization with a scale of more than [-], how can they not be talents.

And soon at noon, Meng Dong arrived at Liu Tai's mansion almost on time and was introduced into the mansion.

When he saw Liu Tai, he saluted Liu Tai. After the two sides exchanged polite greetings, Liu Tai said:

"This war medical battalion needs to go with the army. How are the preparations going?"

"There are 360 ​​registered doctors in the medical camp. Except for the 33 who stay behind, all 330 doctors follow them, and they also bring 420 assistants. Therefore, the medical camp has a total of 780 and [-] people accompanying the army, and the medicinal materials..."

At this time, Meng Dong reported to Liu Tai the data he had already prepared.

"Don't tell me this!" Liu Tai stretched out his hand to stop Meng Dong.

Meng Dong was a little stunned when he heard Liu Tai's words. He thought Liu Tai came to him to report this.

"Just tell me what you still lack!" Liu Tai looked at Meng Dong and said seriously, "I will give you whatever you need."

Hearing Liu Tai's words, Meng Dong didn't react for a while. After all, the Duke seemed a bit too arrogant.

At this moment, Liu Tai looked at Meng Dong in front of him and said seriously, "Although when I first built the army, I established a medical camp, especially during the Han-Jin Changping Battle, it played a miraculous effect.

You and I both understand that medical camps are always used to rescue wounded soldiers without medical treatment. Medical camps are incomplete.

But this time I hope that our medical camp will not be short of medicine again, and I hope that every soldier of our army can be saved! "

"Please don't worry, Duke, since we recovered Qingzhou, you have allowed us to open medicine gardens on the hills of Qidi to grow medicinal herbs.

All herbs that nourish blood and heal injuries were dried before winter this year, then ground into powder, and prepared into medicinal powders specially used on the battlefield. In particular, a large amount of herbs for nourishing qi and blood were prepared.

If there is any problem, it is that we doctors have limited burdens and many medicinal materials cannot be sent to the front lines like us! "

Liu Tai said: "I will approve the note for you and equip you with two thousand donkeys to carry supplies for you.

In addition, you make a list of the remaining medicinal materials to Chu Hui, and he will prepare as many medicinal materials as possible when raising food.

However, the main medicinal materials initially depend on your plantations. It is definitely not enough to collect medicinal materials from the people of Qingzhou! "

"Thank you Duke for your kindness. Before I join the army, I will definitely make arrangements for the collection and planting of medicinal materials in the plantation!"

Meng Dong said to Liu Tai, "For the time being, it's just about transporting medicinal materials. As for other matters, we have made as much preparation as possible."

"Have you found Hua Tuo's Ma Fei San that I mentioned before?" Liu Tai looked at Meng Dong and couldn't help but ask.

Meng Dong replied: "Back to the Duke, we checked the miscellaneous books sent by General Wang and indeed found the formula of Ma Fei Powder.

But there is a special medicinal material here, which requires a special flower called Datura. I have never seen this kind of flower before.

You need to find the seeds of these flowers from the monks who are poisoned, so that you can make Ma Fei Powder! "

When Liu Tai heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little helpless. The so-called jailor burning the green bag book was just a legend. Liu Tai didn't believe it anyway.

So he had people sort out the various miscellaneous books that Wang Mi gave him before his death. After all, they contained a large part of the inheritance of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. This is also the reason why his steel industry can develop so fast.Because it not only has its own advanced ideas, but also has a strong accumulation of this era.

Ma Fei Powder, a herbal medicine, is somewhat different from steel technology, because this prescription does exist, but the materials required for the prescription need to be found in other biographical essays. Unfortunately, this essay cannot be found, so I can only Let Meng Dong and other doctors slowly explore.

Liu Tai couldn't help it. After all, it was great that Wang Mi could send some essays back. He couldn't be allowed to send every copy. It was normal to lose some.

But after this incident happened, it was impossible to recover Ma Fei Powder. Now it was very good to be sure that datura flower was the main medicine.

"Isn't it still possible?" Liu Tai heard this and said, "In this case, the only way is to let them bite the towel and perform the operation awake. The doctor selected can treat trauma, can see blood, and understands something. Embroidery skills!"

"Please rest assured, Lord, don't forget that I have followed you to the battlefield several times. Naturally, I don't know what kind of doctors are needed on the battlefield!" Meng Dong said confidently to Liu Tai.

When Liu Tai heard this, he nodded in recognition. No matter what, for Liu Tai, although Wang Jun's soldiers may not be as elite as his own soldiers, they are more numerous and they also control horses. technology,
Under such circumstances, Liu Tai knew that unless Wang Jun led the army to directly attack by force, the two sides would definitely just be a constant fight between the rangers and the squad.

This kind of fighting is actually the most dangerous and the most life-consuming of the soldiers.

And often both sides will not give up on this seemingly small, but inevitable confrontation.

In such a battle, although the losses among the soldiers were small, the loss rate was very high. For Liu Tai, if he wanted to continue this war model, the medical camp was indispensable.

Every time the medical battalion can recapture a soldier from the hands of death, it will have one more veteran who has walked between life and death, and at the same time, it can give greater spiritual inspiration to the scouts who are going to be rangers.

It doesn't matter even if they fight the other side's scouts as soon as they take action. As long as you can ensure that you can come back, the medical camp can save you.

The psychological comfort this brings is actually more important than the medical effect itself.

After discussing the follow-up details with Meng Dong, compared with Jie Fei's important but not urgent matters, Meng Dong's matters were both important and urgent, so I sorted out these matters one after another and sent them to Chu Hui. He dealt with it emphatically.

"Buddhists from India, Datura flowers? Forget it, wait until the war with Wang Jun is over and send people to Pingyang to look for them.

I remember that during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism began to gradually develop and even flourish. Why didn’t I feel it at all?

However, compared to the Han people, the Huns should be less resistant to Buddhism. If there are any monks preaching, theoretically, they should go back and visit Liu Cong... What a pity! "

There was no other way. Since there was no anesthesia, there was only physical means to immobilize the soldiers' whole bodies and stuff their mouths to prevent them from biting their tongues in severe pain.

But come to think of it, all of them are kanji fighting on the battlefield. If they can survive as long as they endure the pain, I believe most people can do it.

Liu Tai no longer struggled with this matter, but began to order his soldiers to prepare to go north to deal with Wang Jun.

As Liu Tai officially issued the order, Qingzhou began to formally mobilize. The soldiers began to prepare, carry their bags, and follow Liu Tai to build meritorious deeds. At least in terms of morale, Liu Tai's soldiers were still quite high. .

After all, they followed Liu Tai all the way to fight, and the soldiers at the lowest level became soldiers. They were given land, houses, and women. Even as long as they had a son, their future was even arranged.

Originally, a person would feel very empty when he no longer feels sorrow for survival.

But now Liu Tai has established nationalism for them, taught them "Han Shu" and understood the corresponding principles.

Now they are following Liu Tai on the battlefield, not only for their own ambition to make achievements, but also because they truly feel that they and others should restore the Han family.

Remaining defeated generals like Wang Jun who had fallen into the Jin Dynasty should have been swept into the garbage heap of history.

Liu Tai was not polite, and this time he took the initiative to go north with [-] soldiers, as well as generals such as Liu Ming, Zhou Ping, Ge Xin, Xi Jian, and Liu Xia.

Before leaving, Liu Tai also gave Chu Hui the authority to decide when Tian Tian and Su Jun would lead their soldiers northward and directly into Youzhou.

The problems encountered along the way also required Chu Hui's cooperation. The accessories of the catapult, the configuration of the wheelbarrow, and these bits and pieces all required Chu Hui's coordination.

It seems that Chu Hui is in the rear, but in fact he needs to deal with no fewer things than Liu Tai in the front, and sometimes he even needs to deal with more things.

Su Jun and Tian Tian, ​​after a trial voyage, also knew clearly the problems they might encounter along the way.

Needless to say, because the draft was deeper than that of the stern and the canoe, the stern and the canoe went to test the route that they could easily pass. As a result, the fourth-generation ships collided with each other, so many of them ran aground.

The only thing worth celebrating is the fleet rescue effect brought about by the sealed cabin technology and damage control capabilities. At least this prevents these fourth-generation ships from sinking directly after being damaged once.

After suffering a loss, the two of them recorded this shortcoming, and the next time they make a fifth-generation ship, they will slowly improve on the shortcomings of the fourth-generation ship.

Therefore, in Liu Tai's view, any product must be sold to the market after it is produced.

As long as there is demand, it doesn't matter if the product has any shortcomings, as long as it is updated again and again.

Don’t say anything, it didn’t exist in ancient times, just like it didn’t exist in any era. If you don’t develop and improve, it will never exist.

However, China's shipping technology from the Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty's treasure ships did not itself have an essential leap in energy and materials, but only continued changes in production technology.

And such technology only needs constant iteration. From the fourth generation ship to the birth of a Ming Dynasty treasure ship that can sail on the sea, it is only a matter of time, not a matter of productivity.

Tian Tian and Su Jun are now contentedly watching the fourth-generation ships they worked so hard to build undergo large-scale repairs. At the same time, there is no need to think about building a fifth-generation ship in a short time.

But it was still too late to repair it to a certain extent, so Su Jun planned to go to Jie Fei to see how many hundreds of steel he could produce in the next few months and whether he could let the craftsmen turn it into iron sheets.

Let these hundred-forged steel wrap a layer around the belly of the fleet to reduce the direct impact of sea rocks on the hull.

Because he knew the priority of the surprise attack on Youzhou, Su Jun believed that this reasonable reason could allocate the remaining steel in Su Jun's hands.

And it doesn't matter even if this layer of iron is damaged in the impact. As long as the plan to attack Youzhou is over and he sends the ship back for repairs, he can peel off the top layer of iron and smelt it again.

(End of this chapter)