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Chapter 357 Let the Princess Think About It

"That's it. Before His Majesty bestowed the marriage, I had already promised them. I don't want to be a person who breaks promises. Princess, you decide."

After throwing a thorny problem to the princess, Yang Chao ran to the barracks as if fleeing.

He told Aimee Zhu about his promise to accept Dong Xiaowan and Li Xiangjun as concubines, and let Aimee Zhu decide for herself.

In fact, his tone is very firm, that is, no matter what, he must take a concubine, otherwise he will be a dishonest person, which is tantamount to forcing the princess. If the princess refuses to agree, then he will fall into Yang Chao's dishonesty.

It was only a one-night couple yesterday, and today they are going to take a concubine. Even if they are placed in ordinary people's homes, it is unavoidable to be merciless, let alone in the case of a royal princess. Aimee Zhu can't think too much about it, so Yang Chao feels that it is difficult to face her. ran to the barracks.

The recruits in the barracks have completed basic training.

Now they are doing further martial arts training.

Spearmen are the most, 10 out of 3000 are spearmen, [-] bird musketeers, [-] archers, and [-] crossbowmen, and the fastest learners of [-] horsemen become cavalry, and the artillery is also expanded. To [-] people.

The training does not need Yang Chao's supervision. Yang Chao just walks around in the barracks. Many male veterans are training the army formation. Zhao Kang and his own soldiers are practicing horse fighting. Needless to say, many male army formations are already very proficient. There is no problem in going into battle to kill the enemy, and Zhao Kang's personal soldiers are also in good shape. Although there are only five hundred people, everyone can ride a horse, and can do simple chopping moves. As for riding and shooting, they can't do it. I realize that hitting a target on a running horse is not something that can be done in a few months.

After half a day of riding and hacking and formation practice with the soldiers on the school field, Yang Chao then went to the stable.

The stables were built last in the big school yard, occupying a corner of the school yard. Without these buildings, Yang Chao really didn't know where to put the [-] horses.

Now there are more than 6000 horses.

Most of the war horses seized from Haizhou are mares. I heard that the Mongols like to use mares when they go out. The reason is that they can drink mare milk to satisfy their hunger when there is no supply. I don’t know if the Manchus learn from it. At this point, out of the [-] horses captured by Yang Chao, nearly [-] were mares. As for the male horses, it was depressing because they were all castrated.

So breeding has always been a problem, and the solution to this problem was after Yang Chao returned this time, through the emperor, he allocated more than 300 stallions from Xiaolingwei.

To the east of Xiaolingwei, there is a large open sloping land. During Zhu Yuanzhang's time, a horse farm was built there. By now, the place name of that area is called horse farm.

Where are there not only the military horses of Ming Dynasty, but also a large number of common people who raise horses for a living. Where did Yang Chao's grooms come from before.

The stallions of Xiaolingwei are still good. During the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, most of the famous horses that Fanbang paid tribute to were bred here. However, it is not a problem to select hundreds of good-looking horses as stallions.

The reproductive ability of Mongolian horses is very strong. This kind of horse breed, which is small in size and not carefully fed, actually surpasses those so-called famous horses in terms of quality.

Nearly a thousand horses are now pregnant, and the first foal is just a few months away.

Riding a horse casually wandering around the barracks.

Hearing a few screams suddenly, Yang Chao couldn't help being curious.

This is the barracks of the logistics department, and most of the scholars are here.

Follow the sound and walk in, and find that it is the medical team where Wu Yi is.

Wu Yi is now also awarded the title of Chief Qian, and Yang Chao has no shortage of official titles, so basically everything necessary has been given a title.

Wu Yi has a medical team of nearly 300 people.

When Yang Chao went in, it was Wu Yi who was giving a needle to a soldier.

The soldier was grimacing. In front of him was a table with a porcelain bowl on it.

There was blood at the bottom of the bowl, and Wu Yi was looking down.

"Okay, another Type A! You're my man—"

Wu Yigang raised his head excitedly to look at the soldiers, but found Yang Chao, and couldn't help saluting.

"No. What's the matter?"

"My lord, my subordinates are testing the bloodiness of this soldier, he is a type A!"

Yang Chao nodded and finally understood.

Blood transfusions save lives.

Yang Chao once saved the names of two soldiers, Zhang Dun and Li Liang, with blood transfusions, so how could he forget to promote blood transfusion technology in the army.

It's just that judging the blood type is a trouble, and it is difficult to do it without test strips.

Yang Chao just told Wu Yi that people have four blood types. For the convenience of Wu Yi's understanding, he divided them into Type A (Type O), Type B (Type A), Type C (Type B) and Type D (Type AB).

Obviously type A is the universal blood transfusion recipient, and type D is the universal recipient of blood. Yang Chao told Wu Yi about this result.

So Wu Yi's job is to find out the four blood types. The way he found is to test with a drop of blood to see if they can be combined.

This method is also considered scientific. First find a person with a fixed blood type, take more blood from him, and then drip blood from other people. If this drop of blood can be integrated into the test blood, it means that it is the same blood type. If not, then The description is another blood type.

This applies the phenomenon of hemolysis, when different types of blood are mixed, and then hemolysis will occur, and the antigen will reject and swallow the heterogeneous blood, and the appearance will appear like yellow sediment, so it is easy to judge.

But Yang Chao only knows that he has type O blood, and this method is very troublesome. He needs to take a lot of blood for the experiment, so he finally decided to only pick out type O blood from the army. After all, this blood type can basically be regarded as universal blood. To lose, as long as the chance is not one in tens of thousands, it can save people.

Wu Yi has been obsessed with this kind of experiment for the past few months. He picked out more than 300 soldiers with blood type O and was approved by Yang Chao. These soldiers were handed over to him as medical soldiers, and Wu Yi obviously planned to take these soldiers as his apprentices Let's deal with it, because he only selects those who are literate, otherwise, with the large proportion of O blood, it is not uncommon to pick 10 out of 1 people.

Fortunately, Yang Chao recruited more than 1000 scholars, otherwise it would not be enough for him to choose alone.

Three hundred medical soldiers, three hundred blood type O who can save lives, should be enough for a big battle.

But not safe.

"Martial art, you don't need to see it for yourself. Didn't you bring so many apprentices? Find a way to mark out the other blood types. In the future, every soldier's waist tag will indicate the blood type. In case there are too many injuries in the future , the same blood type is the best blood transfusion recipient.”

"The subordinates understand. It's just that the soldiers are not very cooperative."

"Don't worry, this is a military order. You tell Huangfeng's mansion, tell him what I said, and let him cooperate with you. If any soldier doesn't cooperate, just let Lu Mo pull out to fight the army stick!"

Walking out of Wu Yi's room, there is a playground outside. Zuo Si used to have a vegetable field in the playground, and now there is still a piece of green.

It's not that Li Fu is allowed to grow vegetables again, it's just that the most central part of the land is reserved as a green appreciation.

But the green at this time is not a vegetable, but a seedling.

Li Fu happened to be busy up there, and he was helped by an acquaintance, Chen Baodi, an officer under Yang Chao in the past.

Chen Baodi's family also makes a garden, but instead of growing vegetables, they grow flowers.

Yang Chao has already inquired about the situation of the Chen family.

Chen Baodi's father was his only son, but this was not the reason why Chen Baodi refused to go north with Yang Chao. If he didn't want to fight, then he shouldn't join the army.

The real reason is that the Chen family is very strange, especially Chen Baodi's father, whose name is Chen Cai and whose nickname is seeking money.

This person is really good at making money. He was originally a small military household, but by renting the land of a hundred households to grow flowers, his family's wealth is more than that of a hundred households.

Moreover, this person wanted to take advantage of the advantages. At that time, he saw several neighbors sending their sons to the military camp. He thought it was a bargain, so he sent his sons to Yang Chao's army to make a living.

Obviously, it is impossible for such a person to let his son go to the battlefield, so when Yang Chao went north, Chen Baodi, who had already become the head of the banner, pretended to be sick and went home quietly. He was the only officer who refused to go north at that time, and he was a core officer.

I don't know if Chen Baodi regrets seeing Lu Mo and the others as lieutenants now.

Yang Chao didn't know if he didn't regret later, Yang Chao only knew that the soldiers thought he should regret it, so when Chen Baodi stayed in the barracks and used the excuse of helping Li Fu grow flowers, Yang Chao didn't refuse, he also wanted the soldiers to watch, The end of such a person who gave up following himself.

But Chen Baodi is good at growing flowers. With his help, Li Fu finally solved the technique of growing flowers in the greenhouse.

Last year, a shed of flowers earned him more than 2000 taels of silver, and the cost was recovered in just one winter, which greatly boosted Li Fu's confidence. He has already begun to consider building a shed on the ten acres of land in the main barracks.

There is a saying in Song poetry that "a flower for the idler, half a year's food for the poor".

The Ming Dynasty was the same as the Song Dynasty. Not only women liked flowers, but even men were fashionable to wear flowers on their heads. Therefore, the flower market was very good, but in winter, the production of flowers was scarce, and it was not uncommon for a flower to buy a tael of silver.

Last winter Li Fu made a fortune just by spending one tael per branch on average.

That's why I planned to expand the scale. Only someone like him who can grow flowers in the military camp dares to build a greenhouse with confidence. If it is replaced by someone else, no one is willing to put a greenhouse of more than 2000 taels in the wild, even if they are looking for someone Looking at it, he is definitely not at ease, after all, the price of the tiles makes him very attractive.

But in Yang Chao's barracks, no thieves would dare to worry about it.

For this, Chen Baodi was very jealous, but unfortunately his family's flower garden did not dare to play in the greenhouse.

It was getting late, but Yang Chao didn't want to go back, and planned to give the princess a few more days to think about it.

After all, it is not easy for a princess to accept a concubine as a concubine has no right to accept a concubine.

Just look at Chen Shimei. To be a princess, you have to give up your bad wife. The son-in-law must serve the princess wholeheartedly.

(End of this chapter)