As armies gradually gathered on the border between Qin and Chu, and the atmosphere of war became more and more intense, far away in Xianyang, Guanzhong, Li Xin also completed the ceremony of swearing an oath to go to war.
With bells and drums ringing in unison, Li Xin's horses and chariots crossed Baqiao and began to march eastward. Tens of thousands of Guanzhong's disciples will gather at Hangu Pass to wait for General Li, who is leading an army for the first time.
Among the crowds farewelling Li Xin on the north bank of the Weishui River, Ling Xia Wuqi, the imperial doctor with gray temples, just sat on the carriage and watched the scene from a distance. He did not join in the cheers of the crowd, but because of the occupational disease of a doctor, he looked at the slowly moving people.
Facing away, the noble sons of Guanzhong, full of ambition and pride, shook their heads.
"I don't know how many people died from injuries, wounds, and sores..."
He has been in Qin for thirty years, and this is the first time he has seen the army march eastward. Naturally, he is used to watching the disabled soldiers with broken limbs and feet being loaded on cars and transported back to Xianyang after the war.
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"I have a rest today. I don't have to go on duty in the palace. I just go home. I'm afraid Wu Jiu has been waiting for me at home for a long time."
After telling the coachman to go home, Xia Wuji closed his eyes. I don't know since then, the population of Xianyang City has become more and more popular, the accents have become more and more complex, and the way home from the suburbs has become longer and longer. It seems that people like him
The road traveled over the years is average.
Xia Wuji was not a native of Qin. He was a Korean, but a member of a distant branch of the Queen Mother Xia who married King Xiaowen of Qin many, many years ago.
Although they were descendants of nobles, they had learned medicine, so from the time when Xia Wuqe was young, he wanted to join the Qin Dynasty. The Qin country could not compare with other people in the Central Plains, but it was unique in its medical skills. Over the past few hundred years, famous doctors from the Qin country had emerged one after another.
His skills are close to Taoism and his art is as good as gods. He has left many stories and legends in the history books of princes.
As far as Xia Wuji knew, during the Qin Dynasty Duke Huan's era, the doctors were invited by the Jin State to treat Duke Jinggong and Duke Ping of Jin respectively. At that time, Qin and Jin were no longer the best of Qin and Jin, but were in constant conflict.
As an enemy country, the Jin State could invite doctors from the enemy country to treat its own monarch, which shows that Qin doctors have a good reputation...
In the time of King Qin Huiwen, the doctor also rushed to Qi State to "cut acne" for King Qi Xuan and cured the disease. King Qi Xuan was also very grateful for this.
After the last doctor, Bian Que, died and the family of doctors disappeared, Qin became the region with the most developed medical skills in the world. Xia Wuqi also yearned for it. So he came to Qin when he was twenty years old, and Queen Mother Xia happened to be there.
His son, King Zhuangxiang of Qin, succeeded to the throne, and the Xia family became a relative of Qin. Relying on this relationship, Xia Wuge was able to learn medical skills from famous teachers, and even got a job as an imperial doctor in Xianyang Palace.
The Queen Mother Xia liked him very much, as a member of her family. Whenever the old lady got sick, she would ask Xia Wuqi to come and diagnose her pulse, and then talk about some common things...
But there were some words that Xia Wuqi didn't dare to answer. Not only did he not dare to say them, he wanted to cover his ears and not even listen to them!
For example, there are rumors about Zhao Ji and Lu Buwei, about the young King Qin who succeeded to the throne, about King Qin’s younger brother and the Empress Dowager Xia’s most beloved grandson, Chang’an Jun...
Fifteen years ago, Xia Wuji had a deep memory. In that year, comets visited Qin three times, causing great panic. Many people thought that the world was going to collapse.
In the end, nothing happened. The disappearance of the comet only took away the life of Queen Mother Xia.
Then followed several years of chaos. The last supporter of the Xia family in South Korea, Jun Chengqi of Chang'an, turned against her. Empress Dowager Zhao took the opportunity to instruct Lao Ai to carry out a large-scale liquidation. Xia Wuji was also imprisoned at that time.
It was not until a few years later that the Empress Dowager Zhao and the Lao Ai clique were eliminated because of their rebellion and intent on regicide, and he was released.
Together with many people who were released, he waited with fear for King Qin's judgment.
The King of Qin actually remembered Xia Wuji's name and did not drive him away. Instead, he allowed him to continue working in the Qin Palace.
"Wu Qi is a good pediatrician. When I was young, he diagnosed and treated me, and the medicine cured my illness. Now that I have my eldest son, Xia Wu Qi, you can stay here."
This was the reason why King Qin kept Xia Wuji. Wuji was grateful. Over the years, Xia Wuji had been taking care of his eldest son Fusu conscientiously. Whenever he had a slight illness, he would immediately rush to him with a medicine box. Slowly
, in addition to Fusu, Xia Wuqi was often called by the King of Qin to practice medicine. After the age of thirty, the King of Qin, who was burdened with government affairs, would suffer from ailments from time to time, and there were not many doctors who could reassure him.
When accompanying the king, Xia Wuqie was even more cautious. When he was in the palace, he did not dare to show his anger until the audience two years ago.
The medicine box in his hand hit Jing Ke, the assassin who was chasing the King of Qin! The medicinal materials such as Poria cocos, Angelica dahurica, Tianqi and other medicinal materials in the medicine box fell to the ground, paving a road to wealth for Xia Wuji...
Two hundred yi of gold, and he was promoted to the rank of imperial physician. Xia Wuji became prosperous, and his disciples also improved. Those who could only go to the public to see doctors can now enter the homes of the five doctors. This is all thanks to Xia Wuji.
blessing.
Among Xia Wuji's disciples, Chen Wujiu is considered to have a relatively poor career. Now he can only rely on the golden sore medicine passed down to him by Xia Wuji.
It seems that Chen Wujiu is neither his son-in-law nor has much talent, so his achievements in this life may be limited.
But at this moment, Chen Wujiu gave Xia Wuji a big surprise, which made Xia Wuji look at this incompetent disciple in a new light...
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When Xia Wuji returned home and changed into loose clothes, a servant came to report that Chen Wujiu was indeed waiting in the hall.
Xia Wuji thought for a while and said, "Let him come directly into the inner room to see..."
When Confucianism describes disciples' knowledge, they often describe them as entering the hall or entering the house. Isn't this a reflection of the close relationship between the disciple and the master?
In the past, Chen Wujiu was just an inconspicuous one among Xia Wuji's seven or eight disciples, who could only attend the hall. Now, Xia Wuji directly let him come into the room to see him. This made Chen Wujiu very happy. When he came to the inner room
, he prostrated himself in front of the Master, paused and said: "Have you seen Master, General Li's army has been sent away?"
"Um."
Xia Wuji took the pottery cup and rinsed his mouth with water. He only responded vaguely. Chen Wujiu paused again and said: "So, Master has also written to your Majesty about the proposal, asking General Li to implement it on the front line?"
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Xia Wuji spit the water in his mouth into the copper basin.
"This has never happened before."
He waved his hand and asked someone to hand over a silk book and handed it to Chen Wujiu.
Chen Wujiu took a look at it and realized that this silk book was not the one he had meditated hard on, perfected Hei Fu's advice on "battlefield rescue", and then handed it over to Master Hei, asking him to read it and write to the king? Why is it still here?
Xia Wuji said: "I have already stood in front of the king and General Li with this silk letter in my arms, but after thinking about it, I still haven't submitted it."
Chen Wujiu looked a little anxious and asked puzzledly: "Master specially called me back from Wei and asked me to demonstrate the method of binding wounds and stopping bleeding presented by the little village chief. Didn't I praise him full of praise? He also looked at the discussion between the two of us.
Don’t you also strongly agree with the proposal of battlefield rescue, saying that it is a good strategy to save people and govern the country?”
Xia Wuji nodded: "That advice is very good. In addition to saving lives and healing the wounded, motivating soldiers to fight without worries, it can also greatly enhance the status of our doctors in the Qin State."
The famous doctor of the Qin State, Yihe, once said: The superior doctor heals the country, the second is sick people, and the inferior doctor heals the disease.
It is true that Xia Wuqi is now rich and powerful, and it is inevitable that he has some thoughts of being famous in history. It is not enough to just throw Jing Ke's medicine bag. He also wants to leave his name as a doctor and become a "shanghe doctor".
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This suggestion is a good opportunity. Once implemented, it will definitely be a major reform. The doctor is responsible for training personnel who specialize in emergency bandaging and then assign them to the army. This will undoubtedly increase the power of his imperial physician.
Xia Wuji affirmed the foresight and sagacity of that suggestion, but based on his understanding of his disciple Chen Wujiu, Wujiu probably couldn't come up with such a good idea. It was probably the leader of the small village in Anlu County named "Hei Fu"
Credit.
Chen Wujiu was even more puzzled: "In this case, now that the king has sent General Li to attack Chu, and the war in the east is rising again, it is the time when this proposal can be used, why is it..."
"Because there is not enough time."
Xia Wuji sighed: "Even if the king agrees, it will take at least three months to half a year from the implementation of this policy to the implementation in the army. But the situation is urgent. General Li has already led his army to set off, and the army that previously attacked Wei has also stayed in place.
Wait. I'm afraid this war will start in September or October. Even if we train immediately, we won't have time to arrange it in every village."
It is not difficult to specifically practice the art of wound binding, but it is not easy to organize a large number of people to learn it and promote it to the grassroots level of the army. If you spend money and effort in the end, the people will be trained, but in the end they will not be in this war.
If it comes in handy, wouldn’t it be in vain?
Xia Wuji was worried about more than this. There were some things he couldn't tell Chen Wujiu clearly, that is, he actually didn't have much confidence in Li Xin's attack on Chu this time...
As the saying goes, clothes are not as good as new, and people are not as good as old. In the past ten years, Xia Wuqi has seen old general Wang Jian go on many expeditions, and he always comes back victorious. No matter whether the opponent is the difficult Li Mu or the easy-to-win Yan.
He is cautious when it comes to his army. The more troops he leads, the more cautious he becomes.
But Li Xin is different. This young man has never experienced setbacks, and has never competed with an opponent as powerful as Li Mu. Therefore, there seems to be no problem when deducing military strategies, but when it comes to fighting, no one can say.
Can this little general who is good at riding and riding really lead an army of 200,000 people? Can he really destroy Qin's biggest enemy in one fell swoop?
Therefore, although Xia Wuji did not know the final outcome of this battle, he always felt that during this trip, Li Xin could only gain Huaibei. It would be difficult to destroy Chu.
"No blame, I would like to ask you, how can you become a famous doctor praised by everyone?"
Chen Wujiu raised his head in confusion and said a bunch of clichés that Xia Wuji had taught him back then.
Xia Wuji shook his head and said: "A famous doctor does not depend on how good his medical skills are, but on strictly adhering to five no-treatments. The first is not to treat those who are arrogant, rude, tricky and arrogant; the second is not to treat those who value wealth but not life; the third is not to treat those who are arrogant, rude, and cunning.
, those who are doubtful and undecided will not be treated; fourth, those who are too weak to take medicine will not be treated; fifth, those who are terminally ill will not be treated."
"Given General Li's temperament, he likes to attack quickly by riding on horseback, but does not like to fight steadily. Even if he offers suggestions, he may not implement them on the front line. This is like a doubtful person."
"In addition, once General Li Xin fails to achieve full success, or even returns defeated, the effectiveness of battlefield rescue will not be conveyed to the king's ears. It will neither demonstrate the goodness of treating wounded soldiers nor prove that this strategy can boost the morale of the soldiers.
, What use is it to the country? Just like we treat people but cannot remove the root cause of the disease, not only will we not get rewards, we will even be blamed for it..."
He patted the silk book on the desk and said: "This strategy requires sufficient time to prepare and must be placed in a foolproof battle. However, the battle General Li Xin wants to fight is not safe..."
When a doctor gets a good prescription, he can't prescribe it hastily. He has to brew the medicine slowly and see whether the patient's constitution is suitable for it.
"Let's see and wait! When the most appropriate time comes, I will naturally offer advice to the king!"
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Li Xin traveled very quickly. He only left Xianyang in mid-August and arrived at Yangdi, Yingchuan County in early September.
Garrison soldiers and civilians from several counties in Sanchuan, Yingchuan, Hedong, Shangdang, and Hanoi also gathered here, totaling one hundred thousand. In addition to the one hundred thousand troops already deployed on the border of Qin and Chu, he promised the King of Qin that one hundred thousand
All the manpower has been put in place, and the grain harvested from various places have been loaded into the warehouse. Aocang has accumulated more than 100,000 shi of millet. Corn from Guanzhong is still being sent in a steady stream, which is enough to feed the army...
The Chu State also sensed that the Qin people were not doing well this time. After several unsuccessful negotiations with envoys, the main war faction headed by Xiang Yan was re-appointed by the King of Chu. They also began to prepare for war and deployed heavy troops in Huaibei. Both sides
The sword is on the verge of breaking out.
At the same time, Heifu in Yangcheng learned that the Qin army's coach was really Li Xin, and cursed secretly in his heart.
"I actually boarded a broken ship. This battle looks like it will be a bad one..."
But the captain who was sent to Yangcheng to command Nanjun's five thousand troops gave Heifu some hope again.
The captain and Li Xin were from a distant family, named Li You. This man was the good son-in-law of the King of Qin. He had just married the eldest princess of the King of Qin. He also had another identity.
