Although Wuzhou was the seat of the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty and had prosperous industry and commerce, considering the future control of the Guangdong and Guangxi regions and military strategic issues, Li Xuan always regarded Zhaoqing as his first choice for the capital, and Wuzhou was only an alternative.
Therefore, Li Xuan did not intend to build a large-scale construction project in Wuzhou and then put all his efforts into building a temporary capital. He just settled the civil and military officials he brought here and left it alone.
He didn't even bother to repair the Governor's Mansion of Guangdong and Guangxi, which was destroyed by the war and turned into half rubble. Repairing it would be extremely troublesome and time-consuming and cost a lot of money.
The financially strapped Tang Dynasty did not have such luxury, wasting money and food to repair a place that most likely would not last long.
Even the other members of his cabinet who stayed in Liuzhou, such as Liu Bagou and others, as well as members of the royal family, are still in Liuzhou.
However, although we are not planning to carry out any major construction work on our residence, there is still quite a lot that needs to be done to capture Wuzhou City.
For example, the two sections of the city wall that were blown up by themselves were easy to blow up. The wall collapsed after a loud noise, but it was also extremely troublesome to repair.
The city walls these days still play a considerable defensive role, especially when the opponent does not have powerful artillery.
While repairing the city wall, many buildings in the city that were damaged in the war were also cleaned up one by one. Then there was the sanitation issue that the Tang Dynasty was most concerned about. Especially in the Battle of Wuzhou City, the two sides combined for more than 10,000 war dead.
There are many people. If these corpses are not cleaned up in time, it can easily cause a large-scale plague.
Although it is still early spring and the weather is still relatively dry and cold, it will not be long before we enter the rainy season with heavy spring rains. The wet period makes it easier for germs to multiply.
For this reason, Li Xuan personally ordered that all the corpses in the city must be cleared out in time. At the same time, the wounded should not be left alone, but should be treated in a timely manner. Military hospitals must be thoroughly disinfected with white lime, etc.
, the wounded were placed at intervals, and their wounds were disinfected with high-concentration alcohol to prevent infection.
The other measures are basically nothing special, but the use of alcohol for disinfection is the first initiative of the Tang Dynasty King, or it can be said to be another great innovation of the eternal sage Li Xuan!
The alcohol of King Master of the Tang Dynasty is directly purified from the fire!
As for fire cooking, liquor also began to be introduced into China in the Yuan Dynasty and developed on a small scale. However, this development was basically limited to the poor people. Well, the so-called Moutai in later generations would have been right if it had been placed in the Ming Dynasty.
Bajing diaosi use wine: they can only drink rice wine if they can’t afford rice wine, but they are addicted to alcohol and don’t have a lot of money in their pockets.
If you travel to the Ming and Qing dynasties, or simply any ancient peaceful period, and then brew high-altitude liquor to sell, don’t expect to get a good price, because these liquors can only be sold to those with the highest standards in society.
The poor people at the bottom, as well as those with a few big bucks in their pockets, disdain to drink fire because it is really degrading and they cannot afford to lose face.
For thousands of years in China, the mainstream of China's traditional wine culture has always been rice wine, even during the Republic of China. However, later, Huoshao ascended to the elegant hall and became the national wine, and the traditional wine with thousands of years of tradition
The rice wine culture is gradually disappearing.
Just like a low-class actor becoming a wealthy socialite, this is a trampling on the five thousand years of Chinese tradition!
The beginning of the Tang Dynasty was the typical Diaosi Dynasty. A group of bandits liked it, or they had no money and could only drink it. But later, when they became a little richer, those bandits also drank rice wine with the civil servants to pretend to be elegant.
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As a result, a group of bandits who were accustomed to drinking high-alcohol fires became drunken masters one by one.
Li Xuan doesn't like drinking, and occasionally he only drinks a few cups of Meiren's warm rice wine, but he is still very interested in this fire.
Naturally, he is interested not because he likes to drink, but actually hates drinking this thing. He values it more. If this fire is purified, high-concentration alcohol can be obtained, and what can alcohol be used for?
Most people in future generations will know: Disinfection!
So very early on, Li Xuan tried to repeatedly purify the existing fire, and finally came up with a high-purity fire that he didn't even know the degree of. Anyway, the degree was so high that even people with a super drink capacity could drink it.
Even a small sip is said to be unbearable.
In Li Xuan's opinion, even if the purity of this alcohol is not as good as the medical alcohol of later generations, it should be almost the same!
So this high-purity fire that was repeatedly purified was used to disinfect wounded soldiers, and it was called alcohol.
Using alcohol to disinfect the wounds, coupled with Li Xuan's forced marching hospitals to maintain hygiene, cleanliness, ventilation, and frequent disinfection, the survival rate of the wounded soldiers of the Tang Dynasty King's Division was greatly increased.
Nowadays, when medical conditions are extremely scarce, the mortality rate of wounded soldiers on the battlefield is quite high. Why are there no seriously wounded soldiers in the previous battle reports of the Tang Dynasty? Because most of the seriously wounded soldiers died in the end, and those who did not die naturally became
Became a lightly injured person.
There are many ways to reduce the mortality rate of the wounded, such as performing surgical operations as soon as possible. But for today's Tang Dynasty, more complicated surgical operations are basically a luxury. At most, they can amputate your limbs or something.
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Therefore, in order to improve the survival rate of wounded soldiers under the existing medical conditions, Li Xuan believes that there is only one way, disinfection and prevention of infection!
As long as the wounded soldiers can sustain their injuries without dying immediately, and as long as they prevent wound infection in the future, they have a high chance of surviving.
In an era without various antibiotics, the only thing you can do to prevent infection is active disinfection to avoid bacterial invasion.
This Battle of Wuzhou was also the battle in which the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty received the largest number of wounded. It was also the first time alcohol was used on a large scale to disinfect people. In the past, because the production of alcohol was not large enough, it had always been a small fight.
Now that production has been ramped up and supplied to the Wuzhou front line, the military hospital has also been supplied with a large amount of alcohol.
In addition to improving various sanitary conditions and alcohol disinfection, Li Xuan put a lot of thought into improving the survival rate of wounded soldiers, especially those with minor injuries.
Very early on, staff were transferred from the Imperial Hospital to establish a military hospital, which was later renamed the Royal Military Hospital.
Later, several military hospitals were established successively, including Guizhou Military Hospital, Guangxi Hospital, and the Royal Military Hospital that followed Li Xuan to Wuzhou. There were three relatively large-scale medical institutions in total.
However, these three medical institutions can be regarded as relatively standard field hospitals built by Li Xuan in this era. The staff they have are basically doctors and nurses recruited from various states. These doctors have volunteered to treat the injuries of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
Because if they don't volunteer, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty King's Division will use bayonets to make them change their minds and become willing!
These three field hospitals use traditional Chinese medicine as the main treatment method, and concepts such as disinfection are also directly introduced, which can be regarded as a combination of Chinese and Western. Anyway, Li Xuan feels that this is already pretty good. I can’t say how good the medical skills are, but it definitely has what it is today.
The best sanitary conditions in the world, so it also admitted a large number of wounded soldiers. For example, the Royal Military Hospital treated nearly 4,000 wounded soldiers in Wuzhou, including the wounded soldiers of the Tang Dynasty King's Division and those who later became
The Ming army's lightly wounded prisoners of war.
The entire Royal Military Hospital directly requisitioned a large number of private houses to house the wounded. In order to treat these wounded soldiers, in addition to the original medical staff, almost all doctors from Xunzhou Prefecture and Wuzhou Prefecture were recruited. Currently, the hospital has dozens of senior doctors.
There are 200 young apprentice doctors and hundreds of ordinary labor force caregivers.
Of course, most of them are temporary, and they will have to be released when manpower is no longer so tight.
In the huge eastern Guangxi, all doctors cannot be concentrated in the Royal Military Hospital. Some doctors must be left in the private sector, otherwise the people will not be able to find doctors to treat them when they get sick.
In addition to these three relatively large-scale military hospitals, the Tang Dynasty King Division also directly set up treatment institutions in the troops at all levels. There is a health battalion at the military level, which is required to be able to treat 500 people with minor injuries at the same time.
As for the manpower needed for officers, each army can just find its own way to find them. There are still private doctors, and you can always find them if you look for them.
Each battalion sets up a health platoon, which requires at least one doctor and five apprentices. It mainly rescues the wounded on the battlefield and provides simple care. After initial treatment, the wounded will be sent to higher-level medical institutions.
Each company has two medical soldiers, who are mainly responsible for temporarily rescuing the wounded on the battlefield.
As for the two levels of regiment and brigade, there is no clear fixed organization, because some of the regiments and brigades in the Tang Dynasty fought together, and some fought independently. The wounded of the troops who fought together could be sent directly to
Military field hospitals provide treatment, but some regiments and brigades fight independently in a certain area, so they need more medical staff. It is thought that they cannot transfer the wounded to military-level hospitals.
Therefore, temporary medical staffing is adopted at these two levels. Usually there is only one health team with not many medical staff. However, if it is an independent operation, personnel will be temporarily transferred from military-level hospitals to strengthen it.
Except for military-level field hospitals, medical personnel in other units are all awarded military ranks and treated as active-duty soldiers, while ordinary medical personnel are directly trained active-duty soldiers.
Li Xuan strives to establish a complete treatment system in the army. Even if the current treatment level is very low, he must save even if the level is low!
Especially those wounded who are in ordinary condition. After being revived, it means that the Tang Dynasty can save a veteran with combat experience.
One veteran is worth more than five or even ten recruits!
In the Royal Military Hospital in Wuzhou, in addition to ordinary wounded soldiers, there is also a small group of special people. They are the injured and captured mid- to high-level officers of the Ming Army, and Guangdong Deputy Commander-in-Chief Shen Xiyi is one of them!
Now he was lying on the white hospital bed, with a pale face with a sad look. At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside. He glanced and saw a young officer wearing a dark blue military uniform and several men. A thief army officer wearing the same dark blue military uniform and the Confucian robes unique to civilian officials in the thief army walked in.
When he saw these people, he immediately frowned, because he recognized the people behind them. Not long ago, they were all his colleagues, senior civil and military officials in the Ming army!