At the same time, Akonia and Guo Najue have another task, which is to quickly establish a preliminary medical system in Muling Pass. They also have to accompany a group of military doctors to participate in this battle south.
Although in later generations, the medical community had great controversy over the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, in ancient times, the level of Chinese medicine based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine was much higher than that of the West for a long time.
The yin-yang and five-element system has also enabled Chinese medicine to form a fairly successful theory, and full-time doctors and professional treatment programs appeared very early. In the West, before the fifteenth century, medical care was basically provided part-time by the church.
, most of the treatments are prayer and chanting.
But after the 16th century, Western medicine made great progress, shortening the gap with China. In 1543, the Dutchman Salius completed the book "On the Structure of the Human Body". At the same time, the Spanish
Servetus discovered the small blood circulation between the heart and lungs, which made European medicine begin to move in the direction of human body research and blood circulation theory. In 1628, the Englishman Harvey wrote the book "The Theory of Cardiovascular Movement", which systematically
Elucidated the theory of blood circulation, thus ushering in a new era of physiology and medicine.
Although at about the same time, Li Shizhen of China also wrote a great medical work [Compendium of Materia Medica], the essence is still traditional medicine and has not been able to break through the limits of traditional medicine. However, European medicine has broken through the medieval times with its classics.
The restrictions are gradually approaching modern times and modern medicine. However, generally speaking, in the mid-17th century, the medical level of Eastern and Western medicine was almost at the same level.
In ancient times, the medical technology level in the army was very poor. On the one hand, the overall medical level of the era was not high, and on the other hand, it was also because high-level doctors were unwilling to join the army. After several wars with the Qing army, Shang Yi
After discovering this problem, the recovery rate of the sick and wounded is extremely low, generally only about 30%. In fact, most soldiers are not seriously injured. With the medical level of this era, as long as they have sufficient medical conditions and have received
Professionally trained medical personnel can save the lives of many soldiers. Because every soldier is an experienced veteran, saving one more is a valuable asset.
But now the technical personnel with the biggest shortage under Shang Yi are doctors. Because the more troubled times are, the more popular doctors are. Because they are capable and experienced doctors, they can make a good living wherever they go, without having to be like other ordinary doctors.
Like ordinary people and craftsmen, they have to work under Shang Yi to make a living. Although Shang Yi currently has more than 60 doctors under him, most of them are walking around the streets selling Dali Pills.
There are only two Mongolian doctors who are capable of conducting consultations in court. However, Shang Yi urgently needs to improve the medical technology under his care, so he can only rely on the power of missionaries for the time being.
However, at this stage, Shang Yi's requirements for military doctors do not require them to have superb medical skills, as long as they can handle the most basic knife and gun wounds, disinfect, blur, bandage, and avoid wound infection. In this regard, Shang Yi himself
He is an expert, because emergency treatment itself is one of the techniques that special forces must master. As long as there are enough trauma medicine and disinfectant, it is enough. You can buy medicinal materials in Qingzhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou and other places, and ask Zeng Hualong and others for help.
Sex should not be a big problem, and although there is no disinfectant in this era, salt water can be used instead.
Shang Yi first selected ten smart doctors and taught them how to stop bleeding, clean wounds, apply medicine and bandages, and other precautions. Fortunately, these techniques are not complicated, and you can master them after a few times. To show proficiency, everyone should practice slowly. Then these people will teach it to other doctors.
The medicinal materials used are all finished herbal medicines, which are mainly used to treat injuries from bruises, wounds from swords and guns, remove blood, relax muscles and activate collaterals. Shang Yi even thought about formulating his own Yunnan Baiyao. Although in later generations, Yunnan Baiyao It is a secret in China, but the formula of Yunnan Baiyao has been disclosed in the United States, and Shang Yi naturally kept a copy. The ingredients of Yunnan Baiyao in a dosage of one minute and 500 ml are 85 ml of Sanyucao, 30% of Liangjiang. Ten milliliters, thirty-six milliliters of geranium, twenty-five milliliters of white ox bile, two hundred milliliters of Pangasius, fifty-seven milliliters of Pangolin, and sixty-six milliliters of Chinese yam. These are not precious medicinal materials. But the current time does not allow for commercialization. Yi had to prepare a large amount of the medicine, so he could only give up this plan temporarily and focus on purchasing existing finished drugs.
At the same time, the weather in the south is hot and humid, and it is midsummer when troops are dispatched. Shandong soldiers are easily acclimatized, so they have to prepare a large number of medicinal materials to escape the heat, relieve fire, clear away heat and detoxify. Of course, such medicinal materials have long been available in China, and that is the famous Zhuge marched and dispersed.
Fu Fanji was given a difficult task by Shang Yi - mining.
Shang Yi knows that Shandong is a large province rich in mineral resources. It contains a variety of metals and non-metallic minerals, among which coal, iron and oil reserves are the largest. In later generations, oil ranked second in the country, and coal mines ranked third in the country. iron is ranked sixth in the country. For Shang Yi now, coal and oil are temporarily unavailable resources, but iron ore is in great need, and the more the better. Shang Yi checked the computer and found out that the famous Shandong Jinling Iron Mine is located in the northeast of Zibo at the junction of Qingzhou Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture. It is only more than a hundred miles away from Muling Pass. Jinling Iron Mine has been opened since the Spring and Autumn Period until Shang Yi crossed it. , and still continue to work.
At present, Mulingguan has to produce its own artillery and muskets, so the demand for pig iron is huge. A considerable part of the expenditure budget is used to purchase pig iron, and it is basically purchased from Jinling Iron Mine. If it can Exploring and smelting the Jinling Iron Mine by oneself will save Guancheng a lot of money. Naturally, this task will be handed over to Yang Manuo. Who thinks he has worked as a miner before?
While Shang Yi was searching for iron mines in Shandong, he also found out that there was actually a large amount of rich sapphire mines near Changle County in Qingzhou Prefecture. This was the famous "Hometown of Sapphires" in later generations.
This unexpected achievement also made Shang Yi overjoyed. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "Now we are so prosperous."
Of course, this does not mean that Shang Yi expects to make money by mining large quantities of sapphires, because although sapphires belong to the category of precious jewelry, they are particularly precious because of the small quantity. Excessive mining will only increase the price of sapphires. If the price of sapphire drops, it will become less valuable, and if there is less mining, although the price of sapphire can be maintained, it will not make much money. Therefore, sapphire cannot be used as a way to make money. What Shang Yi actually likes is that sapphire is in Industrial use.
By searching for information, Shang Yi knew that the mineral name of sapphire is corundum, which belongs to the corundum family of minerals. It is a natural mineral with extremely high hardness, only slightly worse than diamond. It can be used to make core components of machine tool tools, drill bits and other machinery. , which is very useful for the development of the steel machinery industry and will enable large-scale production of relatively precise products.
In particular, the craftsmen's workshops in Mulinguan currently use the drilling process to make musket barrels. However, the current drill bits are all made of pendant steel, which is very hard and brittle. A drill bit can only Six blunderbuss tubes can be drilled, and sometimes only three or four blunderbuss tubes can be drilled. This has also become the biggest bottleneck restricting the development of Mulinguan musket manufacturing. If corundum, which is much harder than pendant steel, is used as a drill bit, production will naturally be reduced. The efficiency is greatly improved. At the same time, after adding corundum, other machine tools can be manufactured, which plays a very important role in promoting the machinery industry of Mulingguan.
Shang Yi couldn't help but find it funny to think that every drilling machine in his workshop would use sapphire as the drill bit. This must be too extravagant.
But after receiving the mission, Fu Fanji was at a loss. It would be better to open the Jinling Iron Mine. After all, the mine had been proven before. He could just find a suitable place to open it, but the order Fu Fanji was puzzled as to how Shang Yi could conclude that there would be a sapphire mine near Changle County? Could it be that he had also learned how to mine?
However, although he was puzzled, Fu Fanji still obeyed Shang Yi's order, organized people, and started prospecting. Because this time he just went to explore the way first, so Fu Fanji did not bring more people, only one person Chinese missionary Li Lin and two Catholics who developed in Mulingguan, Shang Yi sent Cheng Jin and Cheng Gang's father Lao Cheng with them, bringing 500 taels of silver with them. Although Lao Cheng did not know how to mine, But he is shrewd and eloquent. If he encounters a suitable place, he can make some preparations there in advance. At the same time, he also sends a squad of soldiers to protect them.
The last foreign monk, Yang Manuo, was thrown by Shang Yi to work in Sun Heding's Arms Department. Although the overall technological levels of the East and the West were similar at this time, the metal processing machinery manufacturing level of the West was obviously higher than that of China. Since then, relatively simple turning machines, drilling machines, grinding machines, wire drawing machines, calenders, cranes, and even gravity clocks of one to two tons have appeared, which can produce gear clocks with hammers and pump iron and copper into Silk.
Although Shang Yi does not require Yang Manuo to immediately manufacture the mechanical equipment that appears in Europe for him, it is still possible to ask him to transform and upgrade the existing machinery and equipment in Mulingguan to at least increase the production efficiency by one level. In addition, you can also selectively manufacture one or two times the available mechanical equipment to improve the production efficiency of Mulingguan.