I practiced magic in the Three Kingdoms

Next, Wang Jing told Hua Tuo everything he knew without reservation, explaining the concepts of modern medicine, especially surgical operations, sterilization, wound suturing, how to effectively avoid infection and other valuable knowledge and experience.

Then they talked about medical schools, hospitals, field doctors, and medical institutions specializing in medical skills and pharmaceuticals, presenting a complete modern medical system in front of Hua Tuo. His eyes lit up as he listened to them, and he wished he could find a piece of land to build a house, hang up a medical school sign, and start business right away.

The two talked about the topic of the medical system until late at night and reluctantly parted. Although Hua Tuo did not surrender on the spot before leaving, he also stated that he would not leave Xu Du for some time.

To put it bluntly, he is waiting to see Wang Jing's performance. If Wang Jing can really build the medical school as promised, he will stay to teach. If he cannot build it, then he will naturally do whatever he needs to do.

Today's meeting was not a sudden idea or whim of Wang Jing, but the result of careful consideration.

On the way back from Chenliu County, he kept thinking about how to establish a battlefield medical system in the future to reduce the casualties of soldiers.

In ancient wars, the most terrifying thing was the loss of wounded soldiers after the war. Wang Jing had an idea in his mind that was enough to stun the heroes of the Three Kingdoms, and that was he wanted to unify the world.

Wang Jing even began to wonder whether he should wait until he unified the Han Dynasty and then send Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other heroes to America, Africa, and Europe, so that they could make trouble abroad and avoid being restless in the Central Plains.

If it can really be done, maybe after dozens of generations, the earth can be unified like the original Xian Qin Dynasty.

The biggest constraint to achieving this grand ideal is actually insufficient population.

In ancient times, especially among the common people, there were actually very few entertainment activities. After dark, they could basically only have children for fun. Moreover, due to the lack of contraceptive measures, a woman would continue to have children from the moment she got married at the age of sixteen. Having five or six children was not a big problem.

But why did the Han Chinese population never exceed 100 million during the Han Dynasty?
In addition to the problem of food production, the most important problem is the shortage of medical resources. In this backward era, a slightly serious influenza may cause a terrible plague, claiming the lives of millions of people and killing entire villages and counties.

The mortality rate from injuries and illnesses on the battlefield is even more alarming. Once tetanus occurs, the disease will be incurable even two thousand years later, not to mention in this era when people don't even know how to prevent it.

For ordinary people, even if a family has seven or eight children, it is a blessing from God if one-third of them can survive to adulthood.

Cao Cao’s father, Cao Song, was a wealthy man. The Cao family was rich enough, right?
However, Cao Cao's son Cao Shao died young. Even none of Emperor Ling of Han's sons survived before Liu Bian. This shows how terrible the medical and health conditions were in that era.

Even Cao Cao, a member of a wealthy family, could not cure his sick son, let alone children from ordinary families who lack medical care and medicine. One can imagine how difficult it was for them to survive.

Whether an ordinary person can survive these days depends entirely on whether you have a strong enough life.

Therefore, if Wang Jing wanted to realize his great ideal of unifying the world, the most important thing he needed to do was to improve the medical system of the Han Dynasty, or at least reduce the infant mortality rate.

It is for this reason that if Wang Jing really wants to realize his ambition of unifying the world, the most important thing he needs to do is to improve the medical system of the Han Dynasty and increase the survival rate of children.

Hua Tuo, who was highly skilled in medicine and was known as the master of surgery in ancient China, was undoubtedly his best helper.

After the medical school is on track, I will also find Zhang Zhongjing and Dong Feng, two of the three famous doctors in the Jian'an era. By then, my plan will have taken the first step in a long march.

The biggest problem now is not people, but... money.

Without money, everything is difficult. Without start-up capital, he can do nothing.

The sound of a cannon is worth a fortune. Although Wang Jing is not yet at that stage, foreign wars will cost a lot of troops, money and food.

In order to occupy Yanzhou, Wang Jing squandered all his savings from farming in Luoyang in the past two years, including the income from robbing Queen Mother Dong and seizing Emperor Ling's inheritance, and even the income from selling salt and ironware.

Now, in order to build a medical camp specifically for training medical staff for Hua Tuo, the cost is much higher than training ordinary soldiers.

Even Wang Jing wanted to pawn Emperor Ling's West Garden for money.

"If it doesn't work, just print paper money."

Wang Jing began to think about how to promote the currency reform of the empire. In terms of various hidden means of exploitation, modern society can be said to be far superior to ancient society.

"It seems that we have to push for the use of paper money. Otherwise, we will continue to use copper coins, which will not only be costly, but will also be a constraint on economic development."

Wang Jing despised such a simple and crude method of taxation as extortion. In comparison, devaluing the currency by limiting the over-issuance of paper money to reap the wealth of the people was much more efficient than levying heavy taxes and levies. The court did not have to take the blame for the people below, it was simply perfect.

Once an ancient dynasty reaches its final stage, the first problem to arise is bound to be finance.

Suppose the imperial court needs one thousand coins and issues a decree to let the officials below collect it. Then when it reaches the grassroots level, after being passed down through many levels, the people often have to pay tens of thousands of coins.

After all, it is very tiring for county officials to go to the countryside to collect taxes. Who would do it if there is no benefit?
Besides, if the county clerk doesn’t take it, how can the county magistrate take it?
If the county magistrate doesn’t take it, how can the prefect take it?
If the prefect doesn't take it, how can the governor take it?
If the governor doesn’t get it, how can we make progress?

In the end, the imperial court collected a thousand coins but was criticized for tens of thousands of coins. It took the blame for officials at all levels and local tyrants, and lost the support of the people.

Wang Jing naturally wanted to avoid this kind of thing, so now that he needed money, he could only think of other ways and must not follow the old path of the feudal dynasty.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that taxation was a systemic problem, and I couldn't think of a perfect solution for the moment.

"Forget it, let's build the medical camp first. If you don't have money, let the nobles and wealthy families suffer, or let the heroes of the world like Tao Qian suffer. I will bear the blame."

Currency reform and tax reform are both major issues that affect the entire body and require long-term consideration. Before that, we have to give in to the vested interests of the dynasty.

Wang Jing has never felt any psychological pressure when it comes to things like robbing the rich to help the poor, since it's not his own money anyway.

The next day, at Ji time, which was just before ten in the morning, all the more than 2,000 new recruits arrived at the Rencheng camp without missing a single one.

These people are the medical soldiers that Wang Jing wants to recruit. He will build a new medical training center in the village next to the Rencheng camp.

Because Dian Wei was injured and resting, poor Liu Xun had to relocate the people nearby. Hua Tuo was very anxious about the medical soldiers and had no choice but to go find Wang Jing who had not yet gotten up.

At this time, Wang Jing was sleeping soundly. Hearing this, he said impatiently, "Let them stay first. If there are not enough rooms, set up tents. The rest can be dealt with after I wake up."

Then he turned over and had another sound nap.

Such lazy behavior made Hua Tuo so angry that he wanted to grab Wang Jing by his ears, but there was nothing he could do. Wang Jing was now the boss, both financially and physically.

We finally made it to noon. After eating something that was either breakfast or lunch, we gathered everyone in the open space outside the village.

Among these people, there were 500 elite soldiers drawn from the new recruits in Hedong, more than 2,000 soldiers newly recruited from various places, and more than 300 people who were just filling in the numbers in the road construction team. The total number was nearly 3,000.

The common characteristic of these people is that they have relatively weak physical fitness but flexible brains, and they have outstanding performance in the literacy course started by Wang Jing.

So instead of letting them go to the battlefield and die, it is better to bring them over and train them to become special soldiers such as medics.

After waking up, Wang Jing moved the table and stood in front of everyone. "Everyone, I am Qi Hou Wang Jing. It is an honor to meet you all here. What I want to say is that the medical battalion is not recruiting ordinary soldiers, but medical soldiers. Saving the dying and healing the wounded will be your bounden duty."

"After being selected, you will receive three months of training. I promise that after three months, you will be the most special army in the world, no doubt about it!"

"If anyone wants to quit, please stand up, get a pound of food from the quartermaster, and get out."

The crowd was in an uproar, and whispers suddenly broke out.

Some of them came from the road construction team and knew a little bit of reading and writing. They signed up when they heard that there was a chance to learn medical skills and make a living. As for joining the army, they were not mentally prepared.

"I'll give you half an hour to think about it. If you don't make a decision after half an hour, I'll assume that you're willing to stay. If you want to leave, there's no way."

Half an hour passed quickly, and more than a hundred people stood up. They were all workers of the road construction team. Wang Jing did not make things difficult for them. He just gave them food and sent them home.

Then Wang Jing shouted to the remaining people: "I am very pleased that you can stay. Now let's measure your body size. After the measurement, everyone will disperse and gather here early tomorrow morning." Wang Jing looked at the more than 2,000 medical soldiers who had been gathered with great difficulty, and thought that there were too few people who could read these days. However, the situation must be better in the future. At least with the printing technology, the cost of books has been reduced, and the large-scale dissemination of knowledge has become possible.

Wang Jing established a medical camp but did not train combat skills and spent a huge amount of money, which caused many people to be very puzzled.

Even Xun You and Guo Jia came to ask.

"My Lord, what is the purpose of establishing this medical camp?"

"The medical soldiers' food and wages are twice that of ordinary combat soldiers. This matter has spread among the army and caused a lot of resentment. If it is not dealt with as soon as possible, I am afraid that chaos will arise."

Xun You and Guo Jia were not only puzzled by this matter, but also worried.

What the military attaches most importance to is military discipline. How to maintain military discipline?

There is no other way except fair rewards and punishments. Strict discipline never comes out of thin air. If you want your soldiers to obey your orders, you must make them convinced. Otherwise, no matter how strict the military law is, you cannot train a strong army that is as easy to use as your fingers and arms. Blind oppression will only lead to mutiny.

Medical soldiers do not have to fight on the front lines, nor do they have to risk their lives, but they are paid higher than regular soldiers, which naturally causes dissatisfaction among many soldiers.

Wang Jing was also helpless and spread his hands: "Scarcity makes things valuable, what can I do?"

Wang Jing had no idea how much effort he had put into recruiting these 2,000-plus medical soldiers. Just recognizing a thousand commonly used characters was enough to eliminate more than 90% of the population. Even the workers from the road construction team were brought in to make up the numbers.

You have to know that medical soldiers are a technical type of soldier. This alone means that the training and maintenance of medical soldiers can never be cheap.

But right now, there are only so many people in the entire medical camp, and Wang Jing still complains that it is not enough.

Therefore, he said directly to Xun You and Guo Jia: "This battalion of medical soldiers is only the first batch. Once they complete the training, they will be assigned to various war zones for use. The more people the better. You can pass on my military order. Anyone who wants to become a medical soldier can come and sign up as long as they pass the assessment."

In order to promote writing and let soldiers in the army read, Wang Jing worked very hard.

Even the workers of the road construction team would gather together at night when they were not working to carry out political propaganda and teach cultural courses. Even if they could not understand the Four Books and Five Classics, they would at least learn basic arithmetic and literacy.

If you let someone who has no basic education become a doctor, it would be a disaster.

Killing a pig requires experience and skills, not to mention post-war surgical emergency treatment.

Therefore, if we want to establish a complete battlefield medical system, we will only realize how difficult it is and how high the cost and threshold are after we actually implement it.

But the more difficult it is, the more you should do it.

Wang Jing knew that he was doing the right thing, so he simply ignored all the voices of opposition. However, there was no point in explaining more before the results came out.

Seeing that Wang Jing was so persistent, Xun You and Guo Jia did not try to persuade him any further and decided to wait and see for a while.

Jibei State, Heihu Mountain in the eastern suburbs of Feicheng County.

Dozens of riders galloped past. They were wearing gray-black armor on the outside and bright red battle robes on the inside. They were obviously Han soldiers. Each of them had a strong breath and sharp eyes. It was obvious that they must be elite soldiers in the army.

The leading general, with slender arms like an ape, carrying a longbow on his back, and a resolute and courageous face, was none other than Taishi Ci, who had been recommended by Wang Jing not long ago as the commander of the Eagle Guard.

Taishi Ci was leading his cavalry on patrol along the official road when he soon discovered a broken cart shaft and more than twenty corpses on the side of the road.

"Sir, it's a merchant from Qingzhou."

"This is already the fifth robbery and murder of a passing merchant this month. Who on earth could have done this to be so bold?"

Beside Taishi Ci, several cavalrymen who also came from Qingzhou had angry looks on their faces, and the veins on their arms holding spears were exposed, and they wished they could kill the bandits right now.

Seeing the tragic death of the victim at the scene, Taishi Ci's expression was equally grim: "This case must be thoroughly investigated!"

Now is a time of chaos, especially after Dong Zhuo's chaos in the capital, the imperial court has long lost its authority and is unable to control the states and counties across the country.

The attack of the Yellow Turban Army from Qingzhou led to the collapse of Yanzhou's original ruling order, and the area fell into chaos.

The wealthy and powerful families set up checkpoints privately to extort passing merchants and civilians, and many refugees lost their livelihoods, or could not bear the exploitation of the government and the powerful, so they chose to become bandits.

Although Wang Jing took over Yanzhou, many problems actually already existed and it was not easy to solve them.

However, public security issues are by no means trivial. Bandits, roadblocks and checkpoints along the way affect Yanzhou's business environment. Wang Jing still hopes to make money by relying on Yanzhou's well-connected geographical advantages.

Therefore, such things will never be tolerated.

Taishi Ci went to the Rencheng camp, met with Wang Jing, and reported all the problems he encountered along the way.

"This is really unreasonable!"

Wang Jing was furious and immediately issued an order as the governor of Yanzhou: "Pass on my order. From now on, anyone who dares to set up a roadblock will be punished for treason, and their property will be confiscated and their family will be exterminated!"

"To govern a chaotic world, use severe punishments, and I will support your proposal."

Guo Jia naturally understood Wang Jing's policy ideas. Based on the current business operation model seen in Luoyang, trade routes are a very important source of financial resources for Wang Jing's army.

There are workshops everywhere in Luoyang. Every day, every hour, and even every cup of tea, a large number of products are produced. These products must be transported to other states by merchants for sale in order to be exchanged for real gold, silver, food, and various mineral resources.

Therefore, for Wang Jingjun's forces, trade routes are like arteries, transporting blood and nutrients to them and promoting the development and growth of Wang Jingjun's forces.

Anyone who dares to go against this major policy would be like cutting Wang Jing's aorta with a knife. It is not an exaggeration to accuse him of rebellion.

As the saying goes, seeking wealth is like killing one's parents. You are about to kill my parents, so isn't it reasonable for me to wipe out your entire family?
On the official roads of Feicheng County, merchants and travelers passing through were frequently robbed and murdered, and this case was regarded as a typical example. Wang Jing immediately ordered Ye Zhao, the magistrate of Feicheng County, to conduct a thorough investigation.

Feicheng County, the county government residence.

"Your Excellency, disaster has come. Come up with a solution quickly, or we will both lose our lives."

"What's the rush?"

Ye Zhao was at home, leisurely listening to his concubine playing the guzheng for him. His life was so happy.

County lieutenant Huan Zhi was very distressed: "Marquis Qi ordered us to thoroughly investigate the murder case on the official road today. What should we do?"

"Just check it out, just deal with it casually as usual."

Ye Zhao disagreed. The Pingqiu Ye family he belonged to was one of the prominent families in Yanzhou, and he, Ye Zhao, had made many connections by relying on his status as a filial and honest official.

The reason why County Lieutenant Huan Zhi was so panic-stricken was not because they didn't know who the murderer was, but because they knew it, and knew it very clearly.

Huan Zhi didn't have Ye Zhao's background. He was worried that once the case was solved, he would lose his head. Therefore, he was restless and looked terrified: "County Master, you have made a lot of money in the past two years, you have to help me."

"Why are you panicking? Even if Marquis Qi came in person, what can he do to me without evidence?"

Ye Zhao obviously didn't take this matter to heart. He was born in a rich family and held an official position. What's wrong with making some money? It was just some lowly merchants who died, and he didn't do it himself, so what's the big deal? (End of this chapter)