The visitors in the distance were discussing in a low voice, but the queue that was training suddenly broke out into noise.
"It's raining!" Chen Zixin raised his head suddenly. First, his face felt cool, and then the sea breeze blew past, and the chill slowly invaded his body.
The weather in midsummer can change at any time, especially at sea.
The wind suddenly appeared, then roared immediately, and the sky quickly darkened. Large dark clouds that seemed to be hidden among the waves in the distance suddenly rose up and pressed on the island. The strong wind on the sea surface was even more violent and exciting. The waves rolled and hit the rocks on the edge of the island one after another, making bursts of roar.
Chen Zixin stood in the rain, his clothes quickly got soaked, and he shivered violently.
"Damn..." Old Ding, another doctor beside Chen Zixin, cursed: "It rains on a hot day, which is a good thing. Why is the wind so cold that it feels like a knife? Last winter, the roads in Zhejiang Province dripped water and turned into ice. It felt like it was freezing. It’s not like this! This damn place!”
Behind Old Ding, someone sneered. It was still a doctor, surnamed Dai. Because of his short stature, he was completely blocked by Old Ding. Only the sound of the rain came out along with the sound of rain: "The dripping water on the two Zhejiang roads turned into ice, so it counts." What? When the training is over, we people will be assigned to various places. Those of us who are unlucky will only know what cold means when we go to the Northeast!"
Chen Zixin sneezed violently and asked: "Last year and the year before last, the weather in the Song Dynasty was not right and it was terribly cold. I heard that when the cold wave came, the West Lake was frozen. Of course I know that it is cold in the north, but is it still possible? Could it be worse than freezing a large lake overnight?”
Doctor Dai laughed loudly: "You guys, you really have never seen what it means to be cold. Well... let me put it this way, you arrived in the Northeast, braved the cold wind in the twelfth lunar month, and went out to pee. The urine has not yet fallen. On the ground, the whole thing was frozen into a curved stick, with one end touching the ground and the other end penetrating..."
"This..." Chen Zixin shuddered violently and felt that his legs were weak.
At this time, Xu Zhuer came over and waved to them: "You gentlemen, please don't be too insistent. Go and take shelter from the rain."
Chen Zixin staggered a few steps before following the others and running to the empty space under the corner tower of the barracks.
The cohort they were in were all doctors from all over the world.
According to the system of the Great Zhou Dynasty, whether in the army, in military households' farming areas or in caravansaries, there are a large number of doctors, and their status and treatment are higher than those of clerks, accountants, etc. The training requirements for them are higher than those of other doctors. People are much lower.
There are twenty people in the queue, most of them are good at knife wounds, metal wounds and bone injuries, and some are good at maintaining health and preventing diseases. For example, Lao Ding is a famous doctor in Yi County and is proficient in many prescriptions for replenishing qi and conditioning. However, he offended a noble man and almost died last year. In anger, blood stasis entered the brain, and his hands and feet shook. Even though he drank medicine at home every day, he has not been able to recover.
With a physique like Dr. Ding's, he couldn't withstand too much training. When he learned that everyone was going to participate in the training, he turned pale with fright and complained with tears that he was afraid that he would die on the island and his body would be thrown into the sea. Feed the fish.
Most of the Song people who would respond to Zhou's recruitment could not survive in the local area and had to do so due to insurmountable difficulties. And the choice in desperation was so terrible, which really hit him hard.
At that time, Chen Zixin had the courage to come forward. On the first day he came to the island, he went to beg Xu Zhuer, the instructor who led the team. He said that the people who came here were all good doctors, but good doctors may not be able to heal themselves. Each person's physical condition,
In fact, he is not considered strong. If something happens during training, it will be difficult to end.
It was the first time that Xu Zhuer took on such a responsibility, and he was afraid that something would go wrong, and medical officers did have a special status in the military and commercial system of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He was quickly persuaded by Chen Zixin, and he immediately raised his hand. Therefore, most of the time thereafter,
The entire team of doctors is just making up stories and just coping with the situation.
Chen Zixin took such initiative, not because he had become bolder, but because he saw that Dr. Ding had a generous personality and was a man who would repay kindness. As expected, because of this move, Dr. Ding had always cared about Chen Zixin and reminded him several times in private.
He asked for some common sense about medicine, so as to prevent this layman who had practiced family medicine for less than two months from revealing his secrets.
Although Chen Zixin is not good at studying literature and medicine, he follows his cousin to learn from his ears and eyes. His basic skills are not bad and he is also smart. The medical profession itself also has a comprehensive system. With the advice of famous teachers, he memorizes the medical skills every night, and learns
Soon, by this time, everyone regarded him as a peer. No one noticed that he was a dabbler. They only thought that he was weak in surgery and preferred pediatrics and gynecology.
The reason why I chose pediatrics and gynecology is that Chen's family medicine in Sichuan is indeed based on these two items. Secondly, it is also due to Chen Zixin's little calculation. Warriors on the battlefield talk with swords, guns, swords and halberds, and doctors treat
Jin Chuang is also the main one. Since Chen Zixin cannot use his talents, it is impossible for him to be put into the army. Most likely, he will choose a caravan to stay like his elder brother.
Several doctors were envious of this. Some of them complained privately several times, saying that they were too showy and eager to show off their abilities, and as a result, they were about to be involved in a dangerous battle.
Doctor Dai is one of them.
He laughed at Chen Zixin's short-sightedness, and then thought that he was more likely to be sent to the northern army than Chen Zixin, and was frustrated. He stood under the eaves and looked at other people through the thousands of rain lines.
The man continued to practice despite the heavy rain, and couldn't help but whisper:
"These warriors in the north are really ruthless. They have to practice when the sun is scorching hot, they have to practice when it rains heavily, they have to fight if they don't practice well, and they have to practice after the fight is over! Look at the two teams at the back, they are all scholars, when
Have you ever endured such hardship? Are there so many officials in the Zhou Dynasty who have been trained in this way? How gentle and polite!"
Perhaps it was because the rain was so loud that it muffled the voices and prevented the words from reaching the ears of the soldiers on duty nearby. Everyone became bolder and all agreed.
Chen Zixin didn't bother chatting.
He listened to the drumbeats that prompted the rhythm of his steps and kept on amidst the sound of rain. He saw many of his companions who came to the island in the same batch, stepping forward and left and right in the rain in accordance with the drumbeats. The soldiers responsible for commanding and supervising the training also stood in the rain.
, the shouting conductor.
A little further away, the person in charge with the highest status on the island, Zhao Bin, who had gray hair on his temples and an iron hook in his left hand, was also standing in the rain with his subordinates. Zhao Bin and his left and right were all high-status warriors.
They were not as noisy as ordinary soldiers, but they watched the training and from time to time issued instructions to Xu Zhuer, who was responsible for the specific command, and Xu Zhuer led his subordinates to execute them.
In the heavy rain, the queue marched, stopped, spread, gathered, marched, and then retreated. The flat land on the island was not large, so the queue could not perform to its fullest. It had to stop and change direction after it could not go far, which was not impressive. The queue was not impressive.
Many people's bodies were mixed with rainwater and mud, making them a little embarrassed.
But Chen Zixin kept watching, and gradually felt a strange feeling in his heart.
Facing military training, he once felt it was humiliating, and he once felt it was vulgar and ridiculous, but now he thought of something else.
In the final analysis, a political power needs people who know how to obey and be loyal. Whether it is the military training in the Northern Dynasty or the reading and literacy in the Southern Dynasty, they are actually for this purpose. Of course, there are superiorities and inferiorities between the two paths. Chen Zixin still feels that a mere warrior fight is
It is absolutely impossible to compare his ability with the flourishing culture and education of the Song Dynasty; but if we consider the specific results of employing people to do things, there may not be an essential difference.
Obviously, a loose group of scholars can never achieve anything. But after they have gone through a period of training, if nothing else, being able to stay neat and orderly in the rain is enough to show great obedience and execution.
If you do things with such energy, you will definitely achieve considerable results.
When Chen Zixin thought of this, he felt ridiculous.
Fortunately, he is a doctor, and doctors have immediate things to do, so they don't have to invest their energy in such illusory measurements.
He shook his head, walked to the other side of the eaves, and said to a soldier standing with a gun: "Mr. Xu brought some extra ginger when he was delivering food the day before yesterday. I remember that it was placed in the southeast corner of the warehouse.
We are training in the rain today. No matter the soldiers, civilians or officials watching, it is inevitable that some will catch cold. You might as well boil a few pots of ginger soup and drink it in a while to avoid getting sick."
The soldiers reported it quickly and came back after a while to send a message: "General Xu Du said that your idea is very good, and you should go and implement it."
"good."
Chen Zixin responded and went to summon his fellow doctors.
He was not active in training, so he didn't even realize it. In just one month, he had adapted to a strict and orderly life. His will and body had become tougher, bolder, and he was far more active than before.