Some people say that money can bring a sense of security. The more money you have, the stronger your sense of security will be.
Yaoji just wanted to say something - what a pure dog fart!
I have tens of millions of taels of silver here, but the coverage area of my sense of security is smaller than that of nail pants!
People are thinking about me every day, fighting each other, assassinating, setting fires, mutinies, all it takes is a meteorite to fall from the sky and kill me!
Don't say that you are not yet an adult. Even if you become an adult, those people will continue to act like this.
Otherwise, Mr. Zhengde and Mr. Tianqi Tank would not have died as quickly as they were funny...
Originally, he wanted to collect some taxes and fees from the merchants in the capital, but now the stupid people in the capital got in trouble.
Not only can I not reach out for money, but I also have to take money out of my pocket to help the poor. Thinking about this kind of thing makes me depressed!
If we think about it the other way around, there are 24,000 combat soldiers and 16,000 handymen in the Beijing camp. Each of the combat soldiers will receive a pension of 200 taels of silver, and each of the handymen will receive a pension of 100 taels, for a total of 640 Ten thousand taels, if reduced by half, it would cost more than three million taels.
If they were all allowed to die, for example, if they were directly KO'd by Braid on the battlefield, he would still have to accept them all.
Now after being messed with by them, I don't have to take the money myself at all. I didn't expect this benefit.
If the Beijing camp launches a rebellion, its establishment can be directly banned, and there will be no need to pay in the future.
Otherwise, nearly 600,000 taels of silver and more than 170,000 shi of rice would still have to be allocated every month, and the annual consumption would be over 700,000 taels of silver and 2 million shi of rice.
Including the consumption of weapons, war horses, fodder, ammunition, etc., if all were converted into silver, the imperial court would spend about six million taels of silver every year just to support the great men of Jingying.
It's just a waste of money. Someone like Guan Ningjun can be used to some extent, at least to resist Shanhaiguan for a while.
But for the three major battalions, the huge sums of money allocated by the court will not get any return at all. It will only produce the result of erosion year by year, just like rotten meat on the body.
Regarding this mutiny and the subsequent punishment, a certain prince could only comment with trepidation - a dead Jingying camp is a good Jingying camp!
"Your Highness, all the necessary soldiers are ready to go. The general is here to request orders!"
Entrusted by the prince, Zhou Yuji organized more than 2,000 combatants and planned to work with Huang Degong's men to regain the outer city.
There are more than 500 people in the Yongwei camp, more than 700 Han generals, more than 200 eunuchs in the inner factory, more than 600 imperial horse guards, and about 300 Jinyi guards, for a total of about 2,500 people. .
Huang Degong had previously reported that he had sent his deputy general Song Ji to command more than a thousand people to attack from the inner city, trying to eliminate the bandits who were burning, killing and looting all over the outer city.
However, Yaoji believed that the number of infantrymen in the Beijing camp was huge, and it would inevitably be difficult to recapture the outer city with only more than a thousand people in the face of an enemy several times their own.
Now that the siege of the inner city has been lifted, a certain prince asked Li Fengxiang, the eunuch in charge of the inner factory, to take charge of the security of the imperial city, and asked Zhou Yuji to lead the troops to assist in the battle.
"I am here to wait for the good news. I wish you a triumphant return. Please pay attention to your own safety!"
After increasing the strength of the troops, we can minimize our own casualties. After all, the Yongwei Battalion is the same as the Jingying Battalion. If one dies, one will be lost. But Yaoji does not want such direct troops to be consumed in counterinsurgency matters.
The Han generals usually only use them to pose for photos, and Yaoji doesn't intend to let them continue to be clothes racks. If the attack goes unfavorably this time, they can be eliminated on a large scale in the future. Keeping them will be a waste of food.
"The last general will definitely take the lead, kill the enemy and put down the rebellion, and he will not disgrace the sage!"
Zhou Yuji was extremely grateful after hearing the prince's advice. Sun Yingyuan was seriously injured by the group of exposers and is still unconscious. He must avenge him.
Although the components of this piece are complicated and difficult to coordinate, fortunately, the enemy is not too powerful. As long as they attack first, they can boost their morale and the rest will fall into place.
"Okay! Let's go!"
Yao Ji also felt that there was no need to say anything more. Although the motley crew put together temporarily was not very good, and could even be said to be a mess, it was obvious that the group of idiots opposite were even more scumbags. Even with this, What can you expect them to do if you can't beat them?
A more important issue is that after this battle, there will inevitably be thousands of casualties. In this era, as long as the wound is infected, even if you take Chinese medicine, you have to fight it with your life. If you can't fight it, you will die. This is also One of the main reasons why many people died in ancient wars.
In order to reduce the occurrence of deaths due to wound infection, it is necessary to develop symptomatic antibacterial drugs. The first choices are sulfa and penicillin.
The antibacterial ability of penicillin is unquestionable. It has been a mainstream antibacterial drug since its birth. It is not only powerful but also has wide coverage.
Natural penicillin can be produced through artificial culture. First, culture Penicillium chrysogenum at a constant temperature for about seven to ten days, then culture the resulting Penicillium spore culture for 24 hours, then culture the seed culture solution for seven days, and then extract it. , decolorization, distillation and other steps can be obtained.
In other words, from now on, it will take at least half a month to obtain penicillin.
But this is theoretical penicillin. Since sterile cultivation cannot be achieved, it is unknown what the final product is.
Yaoji doesn’t know what dose of injection is needed for people in the Ming Dynasty to be effective. They generally have little resistance to drugs. If they are given too much, they will be easily killed. If they are given too little, it will not be effective. Clinical experiments must be done in advance to determine.
There is also an indigenous method. It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, tailors would apply the green hairs from oranges on their scratched fingers to help heal the wounds.
This green hair is patulin, a poison that is capable of killing fungi and bacteria. Theoretically, it can save people and kill people in a single thought.
Yaoji would not dare to use long-haired oranges to treat his own wounded. It is estimated that except for a few lucky ones, most of them will be "snapped" by oranges.
And once this matter spreads, all over the world, whether quack doctors or ordinary people, may use hairy oranges to treat diseases, then you will really be killing people invisible.
The cultivation of penicillin is the top priority in the future, but it cannot keep up with the current operations to treat the wounded, so it can only be temporarily replaced with sulfa.
Sulfonamide is also a poison, and its efficacy is much weaker than penicillin. However, because the ancients did not have strong resistance to antibiotics, Yaoji believed that sulfonamide could also have a better antibacterial effect.
The preparation of sulfonamide does not require a sterile environment. It can be prepared from acetanilide through chlorosulfonation, amination, hydrolysis, and neutralization. It requires raw materials such as acetanilide, chlorosulfonic acid, liquid ammonia, and liquid alkali.
But when Yaoji thought about how to obtain these raw materials, he suddenly felt that his head was getting bigger...
To make acetanilide, you need aniline and glacial acetic acid. To make aniline, you need to react nitric acid with benzene to form nitrobenzene, and add hydrogen to make it.
Glacial acetic acid is produced from acetic acid, which is obtained by treating coal tar with calcium hydroxide and then acidifying the calcium acetate formed with sulfuric acid.
Then how to prepare nitric acid, sulfuric acid, calcium hydroxide...
Just to make acetanilide, I checked it again after Yaoji finished writing, it requires at least twelve reaction processes, and this is just to create one raw material.
If the manufacturing processes of chlorosulfonic acid, liquid ammonia, and liquid alkali are all included, it takes about twenty-seven steps to obtain sulfonamide.
As long as there is an error in one of the links, you will not know what the final thing is. It will be the same as the result of soilless culture with penicillin!
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that one tael of sulfonamide is worth one tael of gold, because the manufacturing process is too cumbersome and difficult to effectively control.
There were only a handful of people proficient in chemistry in the Ming Dynasty, and most of the indigenous scientists were good at physics and mathematics.
After Yaoji finished writing about the preparation process of sulfa, he felt like he could publish a professional book on chemical engineering.
If I had personally demonstrated and supervised the entire preparation process of sulfonamide, I would have either been exhausted or smoked to death within a week.
It's not impossible to let the eunuchs do it all, but in this case, I will be too worried. They know almost nothing about most of the chemical knowledge.
"Alas~!"
Looking at the pile of drafts he had written on the desktop, Yaoji lay paralyzed on the small chair, thinking in his mind whether he should pretend to be a witch doctor from the continent of Azeroth and let the soldiers taste the green-haired cantaloupe he made. …
I'm afraid that if this fruit falls into my hands, it will eventually turn into a quasi-biochemical weapon that can kill hundreds of people. Its efficacy is even more mysterious than Ming Dynasty sulfa.
After thinking about it, let's slowly make sulfa. This thing is at least more reliable than artificial penicillin.
But we have to make fruit medicine. What if the blind cat encounters a dead mouse and succeeds? Didn’t you pick it up yourself?
The obstacle to preparing penicillin is temperature control. A temperature difference of a few degrees will cause extremely serious consequences. Sulfonamides generally do not have such stringent requirements, and the development of penicillin also requires a microscope.
I heard that Bo Jue is very researched in optical instruments. It is said that he was the first person to make a telescope in the Ming Dynasty. When he comes to the capital, I will ask him to make a microscope for himself. I believe the effect will not be much worse.
If it didn't work, they asked Warlock Tang to join the R&D team. Yaoji didn't believe that a group of foreign scientists could not build a microscope.
As long as the principle is explained clearly and the sketch is clear, the thermometer should be easily built to ensure constant temperature.
The most difficult thing is to ensure that the laboratory is sterile. For Daming at the moment, the subjective and objective conditions are not met. The most it can do is to allow scientific researchers to take more showers, change clothes and wash hands frequently.
"Your Highness, Sun Chuanting is waiting for orders outside!"
"Xuan!"
This should mean that the fighting outside the city has almost finished. As I said before, the Qin soldiers will return to the outside of the city, and the Yongwei camp will return to the city. The Qin soldiers did not dare to enter the city to snatch heads. Only then did Lao Suntou enter the palace to report the battle situation.
"Your Majesty, Sun Chuanting, came late to rescue you. I hope your Highness will..."
"Without any courtesy, there is no need to say anything else. Sun Aiqing led his troops to serve the king with meritorious service. When the war is over, I will reward the soldiers under my command!"
If Jingying is a ruffian, then Qin Bing is a bandit bully. Let them clean up Jingying.
Qin soldiers have many shortcomings, but as long as they can still fight and win, are loyal to the court, and listen to their orders, they can be reused and receive sufficient supplies of weapons, military pay, and food and grass.
Since Zuo Guangxian had already sent Tao Dinglin's body, which was the first lieutenant among the three major battalions to be killed, Lao Suntou did not come empty-handed, so this meeting gift was quite good.
"On behalf of the officers and men of this headquarters, I would like to thank His Highness for his holy grace!"
"Okay! Get up and talk. I am very concerned about the war situation outside. Please give me a seat. Sun Aiqing wants to explain it in detail!"
The fact that Lao Suntou can enter the palace means that the overall situation outside has been decided, and the Beijing camp's plan to seize power has been completely shattered.
The four generals under his command should be mopping up the remnants of the three battalions and defeated generals. After all, both soldiers and generals are moving money, and you can earn a share of money by killing one of them.
Sun Chuanting's butt touched half of the chair. After he sat down, he paused his throat, and then reported gently: "Your Highness, this morning I received His Majesty's Holy Order and led the army from the northwest camp outside the city to attack the capital in two ways. The camp was commanded by General He Renlong in the west and led by Chen personally in the east. They first repelled hundreds of enemy cavalry that left the city, but failed to intercept the Shenshu camp. However, the cavalry under Chen's command and the supervisor Lu Jiude The cavalry sub-battalion of the Yongwei Battalion then pursued, but so far no timely battle report has been received! He Renlong is intercepting the enemies leaving the city from Guangning Gate, You'an Gate and Yongding Gate. According to the report from Tan Ma, most of the thieves have been annihilated. Clear out the remaining troops, and this is what I know about the current situation of the war."
Since there are no modern communication tools, it is not easy for even the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces to know within an hour where his subordinates are, who they are fighting, whether they are winning, and what they are doing.
If you want to know more deeply, then you can use the trinity of metaphysical techniques of drawing lots, counting and astrology...
Seeing that the prince was thoughtful, Sun Chuanting added: "According to the news sent by the Governor of Water Transport Shi Kefa, his deputy general Liu Liangzuo participated in the rebellion and his whereabouts are unknown. I have sent elite cavalry to pursue him!"
Lao Suntou could only judge from his actions that Liu Liangzuo had colluded with the Beijing camp generals, otherwise he would not have launched a rebellion at the same time. According to Shi Kefa, Liu Liangzuo also fled to the Beijing camp after the rebellion.
"Hmm~! Liu Liangzuo! Very good! Thank you, Sun Aiqing, for taking the trouble!"
Yaoji had previously wanted to find an excuse to kill this one of the four towns in Nanming. Now he doesn't have to go to so much trouble. He can just catch up and kill him.
However, Yao Ji was very worried about whether his order to send all warships and merchant ships out to sea in Dagu Port would reach their destination faster than Liu Liangzuo's cavalry.
A certain prince did not believe that Liu Liangzuo would lead his troops south and become the second Zhang Xianzhong, which would be seeking death. There were still many troops in the imperial court in Shandong, Henan, Nanzhili and other places.
Judging from the map, Liu Liangzuo had to pass through at least four or five defense zones of the General Army before he could reach the area south of the Yangtze River. If he could cross the border unscathed, then the chickens would really look at him differently.
Yaoji even believed that Liu Liangzuo would give up most of his war horses and choose to go to sea on a ship. Just like Kong Youde, he went to Huangtaiji to save a brand-new chicken thigh, and then joined the "King of the Qing Dynasty".
Sun Chuanting didn't know whether the prince would order Shi Kefa to be punished for the rebellion launched by Liu Liangzuo's troops in Tongzhou, so he couldn't say much about the governor of water transportation.
Judging from the prince's expression, his attention was focused on the map, analyzing Liu Liangzuo's possible escape route.
Yao Ji will not do anything to Master Shi. Huama Liu is Huama Liu, and Shi Kefa is Shi Kefa. Under his rule, the water transportation situation is better.
If it were anyone else, a certain prince would still be very worried. He must ensure that the food from Jiangnan reaches Tongzhou as usual, and the throughput must not fluctuate significantly. Mr. Shi should continue to be his water transport governor.
