Chapter 353 Doctors and Corrupt Officials
To be precise, there were three people who came back with Sahalian, Zamusu, a Daurtou man and an Oroqen man, both in their forties and fifties.
The three of them were taken outside Zhao Xin's tent and waited for a while, and then they saw the curtains shaking. Two tall young men with no beard on their cheeks walked out.
Sahalian and others bowed to Zhao Xin and Wu Siyu, saluting, which made Zamusu and others stunned. When they heard that Zhao Xin, who had the highest figure, was the leader of the North Navy, they hurriedly knelt down on the ground and begged, "Please help from the king!"
Zhao Xin and Wu Siyu bent down and helped the oldest Zamusu up, looking at Sahalian and said, "What's wrong?"
Sahalian sighed and said, "The food in Heilongjiang City has been out of stock. The officers and soldiers retreated in a hurry, leaving the elderly, weak, women, children and wounded soldiers in the city. There must be more than 2,000 people in total."
After saying that, he pointed at Zamusu and the other two and said, "This old brother ran out from Rafkai to the north to report the news. These two are local village heads, this one is the head of Daur, and this one is the head of Oroqen."
"Ravkay?" Zhao Xin's eyes lit up and he quickly asked Zamusu: "Did you come from Yaksa?"
While talking, Zhao Xin's guard brought a few folding wooden chairs for everyone to sit outside the tent, and brought tea over. Zhamusu and others were worried and were at a loss in front of Zhao Xin. At this time, the nearby kitchen team was preparing lunch, and waves of oil mixed with the aroma of meat floated by; Zhamusu smelled the food, swallowed saliva involuntarily, and his stomach was incompetent "gulp" sounded.
Seeing this, Zhao Xin immediately said to Sahalian: "Are they all hungry? Then take them to have a meal first."
Sahalian smiled and said, "I originally planned to meet you and take them to see the Rakshasa captives."
Zhao Xin said indifferently: "Then go and see after dinner, and let's talk about it after you have something to do."
Sahalian said: "Where is Heilongjiang City?"
Wu Siyu said: "Even if we give food and send people to treat the disease, we have to go into the city. Do you think so?"
Two hours later, when Zamusu and others, who had eaten and drank, had entered the old city of Aihui and looked around, saw Zhao Xin again, they knelt down twenty meters away. Sahalian and his subordinates hurriedly helped them up and complained: "What are you doing? Didn't you tell you all at the time of dinner? The North Hai Army has no rules to kneel down, so they all get up!"
When Zamusu saw Zhao Xin coming, he said to Sahalian with red eyes: "I'm not soft! I'm kneeling for Rafkai and Yaksa, and those who died in battle in Humaer City. The Rakshasa who was killed these days, they don't even let go of women and children!"
The other two Daur and Oroqen heads also echoed: "Yes! When you were not here, we died from Humal to Aihui! When Rakshasa crossed the river two days ago, more than two thousand people died in the morning!"
After saying that, the three old men knelt down again and kowtowed at him three times before Zhao Xin could understand.
Zhao Xin hasn't lived enough yet, so he didn't want to break his life, so he quickly turned sideways away. After the three of them kowtowed and stood up, after listening to Sahalian's translation, he smiled and said to Zamusu and the other two: "You are all relieved now, are you all relieved? Go back and advise your people to open the city gate. I will send someone to bring food to you later."
At dusk, after the persuasion of Zamusu and the other two, the north gate of Heilongjiang City finally opened.
Under the leadership of Sahalian and others, hundreds of Northern Navy soldiers walked into the city with bags of grain teams in their hands and shoulders. Zamusu and others led them through the inner city and to the rice storage warehouse outside the south gate of the inner city, and piled up the grain here.
With the grain transport 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 military uniform with a few long beards under his jaw. This person was Wu Xianning, the son of the Wu family, the three famous doctors in Jiangnan.
Wu Xianning has been in Beihai Town for almost three years. When he and his cousin Wu Xianhou followed Chen Jingdan to Beihai Town, they were soon attracted by the dazzling equipment and treatment methods of Beihai Town Hospital. The two brothers were like beginners who were young, Xiang Hongtao and Liu Siting were ashamed to ask questions, and a few months later they each became outpatient doctors.
At the beginning of spring last year, Wu Xianning returned to Jiangning and brought his wife and children to Beihai Town. The biggest reason for his doing this was due to a chat with Hong Tao.
Speaking of which, Zhao Xin purchased a lot of drugs and equipment from another time and space, but in Beihai Town, these drugs are almost always provided to everyone in a loss-making manner. In addition to these, the expensive Chinese medicinal materials Zhao Xin bought from Guangzhou are not expensive after being prepared into medicine.
The Wu family is a medical family, and has pharmacy business in Jiangning and even in Beijing. If the drug sells like Beihai Town Hospital, coupled with the cost of transportation and procurement, it will definitely be a loss! According to Wu Xianning's own estimate, if the Wu family's pharmacy sells like Beihai Town, it will lose 100 taels of silver in a month.
So after enduring for a while, Wu Xianning finally found an opportunity to ask Hong Tao for his own question: "Director Hong, why do you sell medicine so cheaply? Although the patient's current burden of money has been reduced, he has lost money after all! How long can you last if you do this?"
Hong Tao's answer at the time was: "Mr. Wu, as a doctor, I think no one can make huge profits in life and death matters. Even if the North Navy can enter the world in the future, we will not make money by relying on this."
Wu Xianning was stunned by this. It took him a while before he tentatively mentioned what Zhao Xin thought about this matter. The so-called "eating the king's fortune and loyalty to the king", Zhao Xin gave the Wu brothers a good treatment. Not to mention the free food and accommodation, he also had 100 silver dollars a month, equivalent to 20 taels of silver.
Hong Tao smiled at that time and said to Wu Xianning: "Mr. Wu, if it weren't for his agreement, do you think I could do this?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! After listening to it, Wu Xianning went back to talk to his cousin Wu Xianhou. Both brothers were filled with emotion at the time and felt that such a rebel was truly unprecedented.
Since then, the Wu brothers have been determined to follow Beihai Town. The two returned to Jiangning last year. Not only did they bring their wives and children, but they also brought seven or eight Wu family children, and are now studying at Beihai Town Hospital.
Now Wu Xianhou has been sent to the hospital where he presided over the city of Furdan. Since Wu Xianning found out that the Northern Navy was going north to fight, he has followed him.
As soon as Wu Xianning entered the city, he was most concerned about the patients, so he led by Zamusu and escorted several North Navy soldiers, he took his men to the Great Buddha Temple to the west.
As soon as he arrived at the temple gate, Wu Xianning smelled a strange smell. When he walked around the mountain gate, he saw that whether it was the main hall or the side hall, there were old, weak women and children living here, and a large group of people were crowded with people.
Seeing Wu Xianning and the others suddenly come in, the people in the courtyard were shocked. They wanted to hide but had no place to hide, and were at a loss. Unlike the indifference of the people in the pass, Heilongjiang City is a garrison city, which means that the elderly, weak, women and children in the temple were the families of the Eight Banners who fled here.
Of course, the wealthy and powerful families have all left behind, and the people who are left are the lower-level bannermen. They either died in battle and were unable to leave their hometowns because their families were injured or because their men were injured. They did not know how this Han army that defeated Rakshasa would deal with them.
Zamusu said loudly at this time: "There is food! A pot is being set up outside the rice storage warehouse to prepare porridge!"
What a good guy, as soon as he finished speaking, the people in the yard were coaxed, took their own pots and pans and rushed out, fearing that they would not eat if they were too late. After a while, the whole yard was completely gone.
Afterwards, Zhamusu led Wu Xianning and the others through the main hall to the backyard dormitory. The yard was filled with groaning wounds. Several monks were feeding water or applying medicine to the injured. The odor of excrement, the smell of grass from unknown herbs, the stinking smell of suppuration and rotten wounds, etc. came to their faces.
Seeing Wu Xianning and the others arrive, several monks stopped their actions and looked at the "rebels" in the eyes of the government.
In a corner of the courtyard, a middle-aged man in his forties was shining under a torch, squatting on the ground to call a wounded Qing army. He stood next to him like the family member of the injured. Seeing the middle-aged man shook his head and sighed, and said something in Manchu, the family member's tears flowed down.
The middle-aged man turned around and saw Wu Xianning wearing the North Navy uniform. He was also stunned for a moment. He was about to go forward to speak, but the other party strode over, squatted beside the injured person who had just taken his pulse, and began to check.
The middle-aged man whispered in a mandarin language: "He was hit by the lead bullet of Rakshasa. Now that the lead poison has entered his body, I am afraid that Hua Tuo will find it difficult to be alive."
Wu Xianning untied the gauze on the patient's abdomen, and saw that the wound had become purulent. He checked it and asked the middle-aged man casually: "Has the lead bounce been taken out?"
The middle-aged man said: "The lead bullet has penetrated deep into the abdomen, how can it be taken?"
After hearing this, Wu Xianning hurriedly said to the medical soldiers behind him: "Prepare for surgery right away."
"Surgery?" The middle-aged man on the side was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Can this work?"
Wu Xianning stood up and asked, "Are you a doctor?"
The middle-aged man hurriedly bowed and said, "No, I just understand the art of herbal medicine."
When Wu Xianning heard him speak with a Zhejiang accent, he bowed and said, "Wu Xianning, in Xiajiang Ning, whose courtesy name is Chengping, may I ask me who is?"
The middle-aged man looked happy and hurriedly said, "Li Bi, in Kuaiji, whose courtesy name is Wenshan, is now an assistant teacher in the city's official school."
Wu Xianning was busy saving people and had no time to chat with the other party. He asked Li Bi to discuss with the monks of the Great Buddha Temple and quickly found an empty house. Several monks saw the Northern Navy soldiers holding "muskets", but they did not dare to refuse. After a while, they had a busy life and vacated a Zen room.
While his subordinates were disinfecting the house, Wu Xianning took several nurses to examine the injuries 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 to help.
Seeing that there were too many injuries in the backyard, the severity of the severity was mixed, and it was inconvenient to treat, Wu Xianning asked the monks to help. All the minor wounded people with triangle marks on their clothes were transferred to the school ground north of the Great Buddha Temple, and two more medical soldiers were arranged to follow them.
After finishing all this, the disinfection in the Zen room had been completed and the temporary operating table was set up. Due to the limited conditions, Wu Xianning didn't care about anything else. He put on a mask, changed into a light blue surgical gown and began to treat the wounded. He was busy until late at night, and the surgery was done one after another. When he came out of the temporary operating room, his legs were so tired that he didn't even want to say anything.
By the way, Wu Xianning was busy with surgery, and Li Bi couldn't get into it. He looked outside the operating room for a while, but couldn't tell the reason. When he heard that the rice storage was serving porridge, he felt empty. He had drunk a bowl of rice soup from morning to now, so he hurried there.
Heilongjiang City is a military fortress, and most of the facilities in the inner and outer cities are to meet military needs. The granaries of the garages in the city have always occupied an important position and are used as supplies for the army and the people during wars or special periods.
There are fifteen warehouses in the rice storage warehouse outside the south gate of the inner city, and the barns are as high as 213 warehouses; in addition, there are more than 400 warehouses in the storage warehouse two miles south of the city.
The third line of defense prepared by Eledemubu was located in the rice storage warehouse and barn area, so it was very convenient for the Qing army to take away almost all the food here when they retreated.
When Li Bi came, he saw a bonfire and torches shone in the rice storage warehouse courtyard, which was shining like daytime. More than a dozen large iron pots were lined up, men, women, young and old, holding bowls and basins, and they lined up in more than a dozen lines, and there was no one talking. He felt strange, so he walked over, but he knew that there was still more than twenty steps away from the iron pot, and he heard someone beside him say, "Mr. Li, you can't do it! Those who don't line up will get stuck!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Li Bi turned around and saw that it was a parent of a student in the official school, so he stopped and asked, "What is this?"
The man bowed to Li Bi and then said, "We have to go there first to get the sign, get the sign before queuing up."
Li Bi nodded, then turned around and pointed at the man where he was. The place where he was given the sign was set under a mattress. A guy wearing a North Navy uniform and like a document was sitting there, and there were several North Navy soldiers sitting behind him.
"I'll get the sign." Li Bi bowed and said.
The clerk looked up and said, "Oh, it's really not easy to speak official language. Is the Han people or...?"
Li Bi hurriedly said, "Han people, here are from Zhejiang."
"Oh. What's the matter?"
Li Bixin said how he checked his household registration like Baojia, but he still said that he was teaching in the official school.
After that, the document asked about his age and whether he had family members, and wrote it on a booklet. Then he took out a card card, wrote down Li Bi's name and age, and handed it to him, saying, "Three meals a day, you can only receive twice each meal."
Li Bi took the card in a daze and saw that in addition to his own name and age, he drew squares with black lines below, each row of six grids, and there were a total of ten rows on the card.
"Only ten days?"
The clerk grinned and said, "There is still on the back."
When Li Bi flipped over the card, he realized it suddenly. He bowed and said thanks, turned around and went to queue up. After finally queuing up, it was his turn. The person in charge of serving the porridge saw that he had no bowls, so he took another pair of bowls and chopsticks and served him the porridge. Li Bi originally thought it was just a bowl of ordinary brown rice porridge, but he was surprised.
He was a county magistrate and knew the ways of releasing relief and grain, but in the world, he had never heard of anyone using the best white rice to cook porridge and donate alms.
In the 46th year of Qianlong's reign, the case of eroding grain supervision in Gansu, which was known as the "most major corruption case in the Qing Dynasty", occurred in later generations. The case involved more than 100 Governors, governors and the following roads, prefectures, prefectures, and county officials, and recovered nearly 3 million taels of stolen silver, which affected several provinces such as Zhili, Shengjing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yunnan, and shocked the whole country. Even Emperor Qianlong exclaimed that the case was "a strange and greedy thing that has never happened."
It was because Li Bi had embezzled and divided more than 20,000 taels of silver in this case that he was first sentenced to beheading him. Later, he was re-sentenced in August of the 47th year of Qianlong and exiled to Heilongjiang with 38 accomplices.
Chapter completed!