Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 401: Retained Oil and Normal Loss

Soon, someone else came in to report.

"Commander, the results of our battle have been counted."

"Please have a look, Master!"

As he was speaking, the clerk who came to report handed a report in his hand to Zhang Lexing.

Zhang Lexing took the military newspaper and began to read it.

The Tang army achieved great results in this battle against the Sunite tribe.

As prisoners alone, nearly 20,000 people were captured.

Among them, there are about 4,000 young and strong men, 7,000 women of childbearing age, and the rest are children who have not yet grown up and the elderly.

The reason why there is such a big difference in the number of young and strong men and women in the Sunite tribe is mainly because of the war.

The Sunite tribe was defeated in a battle with other tribes on the grassland last year and suffered heavy losses.

At the beginning of this year, the city was defeated by the Tang army again, with heavy casualties.

Two consecutive defeats resulted in serious casualties among the young and strong men in the Sunite tribe.

Therefore, the male-female ratio is so different.

Looking at the number of captured prisoners of war, a smile involuntarily appeared on Zhang Lexing's face.

These days, population is the primary productive force, and prisoners of war are in great demand.

He captured so many prisoners in this battle, although the prisoners would eventually be sent to prisoner-of-war camps for labor reform.

But as the saying goes, fat meat will retain its fat after being handled, and Zhang Lexing can also make some money from it.

For example, in today's Tang Dynasty, with Li Yi's order to build a northern heavy industrial center with Shanxi and Zhili as the core, it will develop iron and steel smelting, military equipment production, industrial equipment manufacturing and other industries.

After the order was issued, many large-scale mines suddenly appeared in Shanxi and Zhili, and these mines are now short of manpower.

The prisoner-of-war labor camps in the two places often argued in the Military Affairs Council in order to snatch away people.

As the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition, Zhang Lexing could have a say in the distribution of prisoners of war captured in this battle, although he could not have the final say.

When the time comes, there will be some discussion on who to give it to and who not to give it to.

In addition to these prisoners of war, the Tang army also seized a large number of cattle, sheep and other livestock.

Among them, there were 6,400 cattle and 52,000 sheep.

In addition, there were also horses captured. After this battle, the Tang army captured a total of about 20,000 war horses and steeds.

Although these cattle, sheep and horses have lost a lot of weight after enduring the winter.

But as long as you take care of it a little, you can grow the flesh back, so it is naturally valuable.

Apart from the prisoners of war and cattle, sheep and horses, the rest of the spoils were not worth mentioning.

The Mongols on the grassland were very poor. Apart from their cattle, sheep and their lives, which were worth a little, they had nothing valuable.

The smile on his face faded slightly, and Zhang Lexing turned to give instructions to a personal soldier beside him.

"Go, pass on my military order!"

"Our army won a great victory in this battle and captured a lot of spoils. Let the brothers kill cattle and sheep and eat and drink as much as they want."

In this battle, the Tang army seized a large number of cattle, sheep and horses.

In this case, Zhang Lexing naturally would not be polite when it came to food and drink, and directly let everyone eat and drink to their heart's content.

Well, the Tang army seized so many cattle and sheep in this battle. As long as no one sells the captured spoils on a large scale for profit behind the back of the court and the army only eats some of them, no one will take it seriously.

In other words, this is called reasonable loss during transportation.

Even if Li Yi knew, he would just laugh it off, or even order someone to send some wine to the army.

It was not easy for the Tang cavalry to raid the grassland. They had to endure hardships and hardships for more than ten days, sleeping in the open air and marching day and night, before they won such a victory. What's wrong with eating and drinking?
Li Yi always understood that a boss who was stingy with his subordinates would never achieve great success!
As soon as Zhang Lexing finished speaking, his personal soldiers clasped their fists and went to pass on the order.

Soon, cheers rang out throughout the Sunite tribe's camp.

"Long live the Tang Dynasty!"

"Master, you are wise. Long live His Majesty..."

You know, in the interior of the country, cattle and sheep are really rare animals.

Even with Li Yi's generosity towards the army, they rarely ate beef or mutton.

Now we can eat as much as we want for once, how could anyone not be happy?

Soon, the sun sets in the west.

Late at night!
The Tang army soldiers sat around the campfire, eating barbecue, drinking broth and kumis, with excitement on their faces.

Someone in the crowd stood up and recited poetry loudly.

"Why don't men take Wu Gou and conquer fifty states? I invite you to the Lingyan Pavilion for a while, and you will be a scholar and a marquis."

"Although we are not scholars, we also have the ambition to kill the enemy and serve the country, and to recover the territory. We will definitely be able to be granted a title of nobility in the future!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the people around began to cheer and applaud loudly.

It has been four hundred years since the Ming Dynasty Xuande reduced its borders!
They were also the first Han army able to reach the grassland!

My blood is boiling!

……

Capital, Old Summer Palace!

Kyushu Qingyan!

After the coronation ceremony, Li Yi moved into the Old Summer Palace.

Jiuzhou Qingyan is Li Yi's residence.

"Your Majesty, the Xin Guogong Mansion reported that the Xin Guogong is critically ill. I'm afraid he won't make it..."

"Do you want to go and take a look?" Zhang Zhidong came to Li Yi and reported.

Hearing this, Li Yi couldn't help but frown, feeling a little worried.

The Duke of Xin mentioned by Zhang Zhidong refers to Luo Dagang.

After Li Yi ascended the throne, Luo Dagang was promoted to the title of Duke for his merits and concurrently served as the Minister of Military Law of the Military Affairs Council. His title was Duke of Xin.

It’s a pity that although Luo Dagang holds a high position of power, his health is not very good.

When Li Yi led his army to the Northern Expedition, Luo Dagang, as a senior member of the General Staff at the time, always accompanied the army.

At that time, he was in poor health due to unfamiliar climate and overwork, and he always had a cough.

Since the Tang army entered the capital, Luo Dagang's health improved for a while.

But as winter approached and the temperature dropped, Luo Dagang's condition relapsed.

Recently, he has been staying in his house to recuperate.

Originally, Li Yi thought that with the coming of spring, Luo Dagang's health would improve.

Unexpectedly, this is the result now!
Li Yi took a deep breath and said with a serious expression.

"Has Duke Xin's health really reached this point?"

Zhang Zhidong nodded, then handed another report to Li Yi.

"Your Majesty, this is the diagnosis report issued by the First Imperial Hospital of the Tang Dynasty. It contains the diagnosis opinions and signatures of several attending physicians."

Upon hearing this, Li Yi took the report and started reading it.

After moving the capital to Beijing, Li Yi immediately ordered the mobilization of famous doctors from all over the world, and established the Tang Dynasty Royal First Hospital based on the hospital organizational structure of later generations.

It was planned to use a royal hospital to replace the functions of the traditional Imperial Medical Bureau.

In Li Yi's design, not only will doctors in this royal hospital be recruited through competition, but they will also have monthly and annual assessments.

Not only did it admit members of the royal family, it was also open to noble ministers in the court, as well as common people and merchants from all over the world.

Although the hospital has a limited number of medical places available each day, if you want to receive medical treatment at the Royal Hospital, you must first make an appointment and get a place.

It is almost impossible for ordinary people, even those who have money but no connections, to get a place in the hospital.

Of course, it was just a medical treatment quota, which was not a problem for a big shot like Luo Dagang, who had three identities: royal relative, nobleman, and important official in the court.

The reason why Li Yi wanted to use the Royal Hospital to replace the Imperial Hospital.

To put it bluntly, I'm still afraid of death!

Competitive recruitment and monthly and annual assessments are designed to ensure that doctors have sufficient capabilities and are truly capable.

The purpose of opening up medical quotas to the public is to ensure that doctors have sufficient experience in treating various diseases.

If you want to become a qualified doctor, it is useless to just memorize medical books.

Doctors must have sufficient clinical experience to be able to come up with appropriate treatment plans after seeing the patient.

Otherwise, what do hospitals need doctors for?
Why not just put out two medical books and let the patients flip through the books according to their symptoms when they are sick?

The most typical example is the Imperial Medical Service.

In Li Yi's opinion, the biggest problem of the Imperial Medical Service was not the hereditary nature of the official position, but the lack of clinical experience of the imperial doctors.

To put it simply, imperial physicians are people who serve the royal family.

Generally speaking, apart from the emperor, the only people who can use them are some important officials in the court.

This meant that most of the so-called imperial doctors were green hands who had memorized medical books and had little clinical experience in treating patients.

Just like those interns who just graduated from medical school in later generations.

They must have memorized similar medical books.

After all, when you just graduate, it is the time when you have the most profound memories.

But as for actual medical skills, it depends on personal opinion.

Without sufficient clinical experience, when they encounter patients, they have no idea how to deal with them.

By the same token, many times, the imperial physician did not actually want to cure the emperor.

Instead, a group of green hands do not have enough clinical experience, and when they encounter a problem they have no idea how to treat it.

To be on the safe side, they only dared to prescribe mild and harmless tonic medicines to the emperor.

However, this kind of tonic medicine may be able to nourish the body and replenish qi, but it definitely cannot cure the disease.

In this way, it is easy for a minor illness to develop into a major illness and eventually take the emperor's life.

In later generations, when medical school interns run into trouble, they can just make a phone call to get help on the spot.

But even if these imperial doctors wanted to mobilize people, they had nowhere to go.

Unless, they really would ask the gods to let their ancestors take over their bodies and fight for them...

It is for this reason that Li Yi ordered the Royal Hospital to be opened to the public.

In addition to allowing all the imperial doctors to practice and accumulate experience, the purpose is also to provide convenience to the people.

In this way, when Li Yi really needs an imperial physician, he can be sure that the ones who come are not a group of greenhorns, but imperial physicians with truly superb medical skills and rich experience.

After a while, Li Yi finished reading the report.

He frowned. According to the report from the Royal Hospital, the disease Luo Dagang was suffering from was tuberculosis.

That's called pneumonia!

At the beginning, Luo Dagang might have just caught a cold, but as time passed, the cold did not get better and it worsened into pneumonia.

It is very difficult to treat him now!

With today's medical conditions, pneumonia can be considered an incurable disease.

(End of this chapter)