Kaiyuan 4238, the fourth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty.
The eighth day of December.
The Laba Festival represents that the year is coming to an end and the New Year is coming.
From this day on, people prepare to celebrate the festival.
The last day of the New Year's Eve and the New Year's Day on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
These two festivals are the most important festivals of the year.
During the Laba Festival, people in previous years will prepare New Year's goods starting today to welcome the arrival of the New Year.
Now the people of Hanzhong have noticed the smell of gunpowder smoke.
Troops were constantly gathering in Hanzhong and going to various places.
A commoner who opened official warehouses and transported large amounts of grain.
Hanzhong City has stepped up patrols and enforced curfew.
All kinds of abnormal signs filled the hearts of the people with doubts.
Until "Hanzhong Weekly" published the news of the war, calling on all the people under the Qin Palace to unite as one to resist the brutal Ming army.
All the people under the Qin Palace knew that the Ming army had gathered heavy troops to attack here.
The solemn atmosphere before the war prevented them from preparing for the festival.
The people are prosperous and suffer. If they die, the people will suffer.
When the world rises and falls, ordinary people are the most seriously injured.
They did not suffer much harm when they took over Hanzhong in Suhe, but they also saw the fate of ordinary dignitaries, local tyrants and gentry.
The people have not forgotten the brutality of the Ming army.
If the Ming army really invades, they will definitely cut off their heads, call them thieves in yellow clothes, and use them to perform meritorious deeds.
Different people have completely different attitudes.
Farmers protect their assigned fields.
They sent their husbands and sons to the battlefield and told them that they must win the war and protect their own land.
The farmers tried their best to help King Qin win the war.
The small citizens in the city collected fine things, and when they saw something was wrong, they were ready to run away.
Smart businessmen look for business opportunities. The more chaotic the situation, the more opportunities they have.
There are also some hidden Ming Zhongliangs who are gearing up to welcome the Ming Dynasty soldiers into the city and destroy the hateful yellow thieves.
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Su He was in the back hall of Prince Qin's palace, looking at several small boxes placed in front of him by Wang Wenjun.
“In such a short period of time, you have developed all the medicines I mentioned.
This is so amazing, I thought only one or two pills would work. "
"Husband, how could these medicines be developed by us?
In addition to Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, you provided a more detailed prescription. This medicine was prepared by me and the doctors after many experiments. "
Wang Wenjun directly denied that it would take a very long time to develop a prescription with outstanding effects, and it would be impossible to do it in a short time.
"Husband, the many policies you provided attracted some people with exclusive inheritance and contributed their own unique recipes."
Wang Wenjun introduced to Su He the origin of these drugs.
After listening to Wang Wenjun's narration, Su He felt that his preparations were very correct.
He asked Wang Wenjun to gather many doctors to develop some medicines that impressed Su He.
He knew that researching unfamiliar drugs would take a lot of time, and he might not be able to catch up with the war.
Su He thought that many Chinese treasures had been lost in history, and unique prescriptions were one of them.
Every time there is a war, a large amount of precious information disappears.
Especially in the late Ming Dynasty and the late Qing Dynasty, these two turmoils took a very long time and had a huge impact, causing hundreds of millions of casualties.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army slaughtered the population of a province in Sichuan and put the blame on Zhang Xianzhong.
A large number of people who mastered the technology died with their unique technology before they had time to pass it on.
We have not experienced large-scale wars yet, and Chinese medicine is at its peak, and there should be many prescriptions that have not been lost.
Su He issued an edict, as long as someone presented a useful formula.
A title and a large amount of silver coins will be directly rewarded. Those who understand medical skills can also enter the Ministry of Health and become an official.
This formula patent belongs to Xianfang personally. During the validity period of the patent, he will receive a substantial patent licensing fee every year.
This policy is very attractive to some children from traditional Chinese medicine families whose ancestors were generous but whose descendants failed to live up to their expectations and fell into poverty.
Wang Wenjun picked up a dark black powder and introduced: "Husband, this kind of medicinal powder is very effective for trauma.
It is used in conjunction with penicillin to allow rapid recovery from severe trauma.
Except it doesn’t have the life-saving effect of Yunnan Baiyao.
For the treatment of trauma, it is more effective than the Yunnan Baiyao you mentioned.
This medicine has no name. Based on the color of the medicine, I named it black medicine. "
After Wang Wenjun finished the introduction, he picked up another paste medicine.
"Husband, this is Salvia miltiorrhiza ointment. It has a strong effect on physical weakness, heat stroke and other symptoms.
It can replenish the body's vitality and help people recover as quickly as possible after being injured. "
Su He looked at Wang Wenjun and took out more than a dozen medicines in succession.
These are all drugs for special diseases, and they can be selected by Wang Wenjun, and their effects are very powerful.
There are several special medicines specifically designed to treat snake venom and poisonous insect bites.
The emergence of these drugs has filled the dilemma of military doctors who have no cure for many diseases.
Sickness that can be cured and death that affects soldiers are completely different.
After Wang Wenjun finished speaking, he said with emotion: "Husband, your policy is really excellent.
I got to know these people, and there are many of them whose family-traditional medical skills have been lost.
These prescriptions are all unique and are not recorded in the classics at all.
Without this policy, these prescriptions would be easily lost in one or two generations.
There are many rare prescriptions in history that were lost like this. "
When Su He heard Wang Wenjun say this, he came up with an idea that would benefit the present generation and benefit the future.
"Wenjun, you should know "Compendium of Materia Medica", which is a medical book written by the famous doctor Li Shizhen.
There are many classics here, but there are also some folk remedies that may not suit everyone.
I think we should use the excellent platform of Hanzhong Hospital to compile a comprehensive pharmacopoeia.
Record in detail how each disease should be treated.
This can point the way for future doctors and allow more classic prescriptions to be passed down.
A comprehensive pharmacopoeia would be too complex and would require a lot of time and manpower.
I suggest that you first compile a book on treatment points for common diseases and let the township health center promote it to see if it is effective. "
Su He believes that the biggest effect of this pharmacopoeia is to facilitate the training of rural doctors.
Rural doctors do not need to know too much. As long as they can read and understand the properties of medicines, and can prescribe medicines according to prescriptions, they are qualified rural doctors.
This is mainly to alleviate the problem that there are basically no doctors in rural areas.
Now the average life span of ordinary people is only over 30 years old, which is too low.
Thirty years old is the prime of life, but he died of some common diseases.
This is very detrimental to the development of society.
Cultivating a large number of rural doctors can at least increase the average life expectancy in rural areas to forty or fifty years.
It can also reduce many rural infant deaths.
Wang Wenjun's eyes lit up and he said in surprise: "Husband, this is really a good idea. If this book is written, it can save many people's lives."
Boom, boom, boom.
There was a knock on the door, and the female guard opened the door at Su He's signal.
Qu Qingyi walked in, stood next to Su He and said respectfully: "His Royal Highness King Qin, Director Niu of the Institute of Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences sent someone to convey the news that the extraction of artemisinin has been completed and has been proven to be able to treat malaria."
When Su He heard the news, he cheered up.
Once artemisinin is developed, there will be no obstacles to its expansion into the southwest region.
He immediately rushed to the Institute of Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences.
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Niu Ben, director of the Institute of Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences, saw Su He arriving.
He held a small glass bottle and said in surprise: "Teacher, under your guidance, our Institute of Chemistry finally extracted artemisinin.
And after detailed experiments, it can cure the disease you say is called malaria.
The effect is very good, just like the special medicine you said. "
Su He looked at the small bottle of medicine in front of him. This was a special medicine for treating malaria.
He received a letter from Qu Tian and realized that non-combat attrition in the southwest was too serious.
It brought back thousands of mosquito-bitten soldiers from the southwest.
Let Qutian and the others use glass bottles to fill a lot of sewage from around the camp. There are mosquito larvae here, and they carry malaria parasites.
At the same time, let the troops in the southwest strengthen mosquito prevention and control.
He ordered the Sichuan Governor's Mansion to provide every soldier with a mosquito net.
The army also cleaned ditches around the camp to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds.
Malaria has a certain incubation period, and these seemingly healthy soldiers may have been infected with Plasmodium after being bitten by mosquitoes.
The soldiers who are sick now have no way of walking back to Hanzhong from the southwest.
Some soldiers in this group developed malaria symptoms halfway through.
After they came to Hanzhong, Hanzhong Hospital cooperated with the Institute of Chemistry, plus advanced instruments such as microscopes.
Doctors in Hanzhong have figured out the culprit of malaria.
Several brave critically ill soldiers asked for an autopsy on their bodies after death, and Niu Ben and others found the malaria parasite.
They compared it with malaria parasites found in sewage and found that they were the same parasite.
There has been great progress in the extraction of artemisinin, and these sick soldiers were just in time to test the effect of artemisinin.
After proving the effectiveness of artemisinin, Niu Ben immediately informed Su He.
“Teacher, our Institute of Chemistry has developed technology for industrialized extraction of artemisinin.
We transfer these patents to pharmaceutical companies, which are responsible for producing artemisinin.
We are working with doctors from Hanzhong Hospital to figure out the dosage and usage of artemisinin for malaria treatment. "
Niu Ben is very happy. He is engaged in chemical research that he likes and can save many soldiers.
Registering a patent on artemisinin can also bring huge amounts of money to all researchers at the Institute of Chemistry.
They only need to concentrate on scientific research, and they will not lack titles, fame and money.
Su He told Qian Mingyi next to him: "Mingyi, you must personally supervise the pharmaceutical factory to list artemisinin, penicillin, and allicin as the most important drugs and manufacture them with high quality and quantity.
There are also some medicines that will be given to you today.
You urge pharmaceutical factories to establish industrial production as soon as possible. "
Qian Mingyi immediately responded: "Your Highness, King Qin, please rest assured that penicillin and allicin are already mass-produced by pharmaceutical factories.
For artemisinin and other drugs, pharmaceutical factories have also prepared enough workers and raw materials.
We will immediately design the production line and try our best to get these drugs into mass production. "
Su He nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "Put the medicine into production as soon as possible, produce a part of artemisinin, and send it to Sichuan and other places immediately.
The malaria outbreak there was so severe that it had to be contained with drugs. "
Qian Mingyi took out his notebook and wrote down Su He's instructions. He would urge the pharmaceutical factory to produce these drugs as soon as possible.
Su He inspected the Academy of Sciences for a while and told Niu Ben to continue studying various chemical reactions and triggering drugs such as mercury fulminate.
He left the Academy of Sciences and went to the arsenal to inspect the production of firearms.
Whether rifled guns, rifled cannons and their ammunition can be supplied to the army's consumption.
Whether the logistics support can keep up is an important factor in whether this war can be won.
They rode a carriage and walked on the south bank of the Han River.
Along the Han River is a row of drainage trucks and their factories.
In order to provide sufficient power, some waterwheels are driven as fast as the center of the river.
These waterwheels drive the transmission shafts to rotate, drive large and small machines, and produce a variety of products.
The convoy was approaching the arsenal when suddenly there was a noise ahead.
“The Han River belongs to everyone, how can you build dams to store water privately?
Your arsenal needs water, but our steel plant doesn’t use water.
Without the steel produced by our steel plant, can your arsenal still produce weapons? "
“His Royal Highness the King of Qin issued a strict order to ensure the production of weapons.
We produce weapons in five shifts, and the flow rate of the Han River changes all the time, and sometimes even stops.
It is necessary to build a dam to store water to ensure the operation of the machine, so you guys get out of the way quickly.
You dare to interfere with the start of work in our arsenal. If you go to the Secretariat to cause trouble, you, the general manager, will be kicked off. "
"Qi Minggui, it's not like you have a good teacher, and it's not like I don't have anyone to support me.
You go and ask about me, Su Erbao. I was also the number one person in Sujia Village back then. "
Su He listened carefully for a while and found that it was Qi Minggui, the general manager of the arsenal, and Su Erbao, the general manager of the coal and steel company, arguing.
"Qian Mingyi, call the two of them over and let the other workers go back to production.
What are you doing here? If you have the energy, produce more products. "
Qian Mingyi quickly brought Qi Minggui and Su Erbao to Su He's carriage.
"What's going on with you? As the heads of arsenals and steel plants, you two don't organize factory production, so why are you still quarreling here?"
Su Erbao said aggrievedly: "Your Highness King Qin, it's really not my fault. The arsenal is really bullying people.
I also want to smelt more steel so that the front line will not be short of weapons due to lack of steel.
The arsenal sent people to build a dam upstream of our factory to store water, causing the water flow near our factory to be too slow.
There is no way to drive machinery, so we can only rely on manpower to keep the factory running.
The machine efficiency is insufficient, which greatly affects the operation of the factory. I am here to find an explanation. "
Qi Minggui spread his hands and said helplessly: "Your Highness King Qin, it is winter now, and the precipitation this year is less than usual.
It was originally the dry season, but precipitation decreased again.
The Han River now has less water flow, in order to ensure the normal production of the arsenal.
We can only build dams to store water and let the water tankers run at full capacity. "
Su He understood what happened to these two people, and he had no way to solve it.
Affected by the weather, the flow rate of the Han River is weakened, resulting in lower factory efficiency.
This is the natural shortcoming of hydraulic machinery, which is limited by location and environment.
It rained less in autumn and winter this year. He received a report from the secret guard that there was also very little rainfall in the upper reaches of the Han River.
Based on past experience, next year will be another drought year.
Tian Jiapeng and others calculated that the flow rate of Hanshui River is even lower than it is now.
This is also consistent with his memory. In recent years, the phenomenon of small glaciers has intensified, and droughts have occurred in various parts of the north.
Su He looked at the industrial area with many factories, and he had to make preparations in advance.
There is no way for these factories to be moved to Sichuan.
Sichuan's outstanding areas have already established a basic industrial system.
If these factories are transferred there, they will be duplicating construction and will not improve much industrial strength.
Many rivers in Sichuan are too turbulent and are not suitable for building factories.
Hanzhong is his ruling area and de facto capital.
Hanzhong must also retain strong industrial strength so that other places can imitate and promote the industrial system.
When Su He saw this situation, he knew that the research and development of steam engines was now on the agenda.
A usable steam engine must be developed before the dry season next year.
The emergence of boring machines can process rifled guns and rifled cannons, and the processing of steam engine cylinders has become easy.
Su He knew the principles of steam engines and the simple structure of steam engines, so it was not difficult to build a steam engine.
“You two should not beg your neighbor and build a dam privately to let the factories downstream do what you want.
There is no way to solve the lack of power in the Han River. We can only arrange workers in advance to speed up production during the peak flow period. "
Suhe had no good way to control the flow of Han River.
These factories can only be allowed to adjust their production capacity in a timely manner according to changes in water flow.
It is simply unrealistic to find a place to build another factory.
For example, an arsenal requires the cooperation of a huge upstream and downstream industrial chain.
After leaving Hanzhong Industrial Zone, all raw materials and semi-finished components are transported elsewhere.
The cost of manufacturing a rifled gun has skyrocketed, but the production efficiency has become extremely low.
Su He inspected the arsenal and the nearby steel plant.
These two factories are the most important core factories.
After Su He visited these two factories, he became more confident in this war.
The workers in the factory are highly motivated, and the workers in the companies directly operated by the Qin Prince's Mansion are treated very well.
The worker's salary is comparable to that of a petty official, and he has the opportunity to be promoted.
Factory work is easier than heavy farming work.
Suhe set limits on the minimum wage for workers and the maximum time and intensity of labor through the "Laws of the King of Qin".
The labor intensity in these factories is very high, but it will not be as bad as during the British Industrial Revolution, when every worker would die of exhaustion in less than five years of work.
The Suhe uprising overthrew the Ming Dynasty and the gentry. He wanted the people to live a good life, not to exploit them in another way.
The Ministry of Household Affairs, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Punishment will all conduct inspections of factories.
The pervasive newspaper reporters will also keep an eye on the situation in the factory.
Workers also join the ancestral temple, and there will be blessings to unite the workers and reflect their situation.
In arsenals and steel plants, machines are very efficient.
With the improvement of the patent system, craftsmen can improve machines and obtain benefits that they could not obtain in previous lifetimes.
This completely stimulates the creativity of craftsmen.
There are many craftsmen who don’t even know the words, so they rely on their work experience.
Created many practical machines and improved factory efficiency.
Qi Minggui told Su He that the efficiency of these machines had not reached its peak due to the slow operation of the water wheel.
When the Hanshui flow rate is stronger, the machine operates more efficiently.
Su He has realized that power is the biggest lock limiting the current industrial development of Hanzhong.
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Su He came to the Logistics Department of the Dudu Mansion.
Jiang Zhiyu has led his subordinates to establish a complete military logistics system.
Su He held a rough-made smoothbore musket in his hand.
Its barrels are not drilled out with drills, but rolled from iron plates.
"Jiang Zhiyu, guess how much this musket is worth."
Jiang Zhiyu carefully watched the musket in King Qin's hand.
"Your Highness King Qin, the workmanship of this musket in your hand is a bit rough.
It has an engine structure, and there is a bayonet on the gun. It looks like the musket we equipped before.
It's just that the quality of the barrel is too low, it's rolled by craftsmen, and it's still made of pig iron.
Looking at the luster and color of the pig iron, the phosphorus content is somewhat excessive, making the pig iron very brittle.
If its charge is similar to our previous muskets, it will be very easy to explode.
Our factory here no longer has such inferior products.
Your Highness the King of Qin, this musket should be a musket produced by Ming Dynasty.
The ex-factory price of muskets in our arsenal is five taels of silver coins, and the ex-factory price of rifled guns is eight taels of silver coins.
This price has left enough profit margin for the arsenal.
This gun is inferior to our musket in every aspect. The most I can offer is three taels of silver coins, and any more will be taken advantage of. "
Su He smiled and said: "Three taels of silver coins, you underestimate it. This musket is a musket made in the Ming Dynasty.
For such a musket, the Ming Dynasty paid sixteen taels of silver. "
Jiang Zhiyu said in shock: "This musket is worth sixteen taels of silver."
Su He threw the musket aside like garbage.
“The industrial system is different. The Ming Dynasty is still dominated by handicraft industry.
This is still the case when Chongzhen was replaced by Xu Guangqi and his team, and the corruption was not that serious.
The Ming Dynasty had no way to obtain cheap steel and used hand-made muskets.
Their cost is very high, each musket costs more than ten taels of silver.
Just relying on the difference in the price of firearms between our two sides, we will win this war. "
When Su He saw this musket, he determined that this war would be won.
What the war is about is comprehensive national strength. Ming Dynasty is weak in some aspects, and they make up for their shortcomings in some aspects.
The continuous accumulation of such weights will affect the balance of victory.
"Minister Jiang, you are in charge of the army's logistics, how are you preparing now?
The key to victory in this battle lies with your logistics department. "
The last unit in Hanzhong, the Guards led by Li Dazhuang, set off.
The countdown to their war with the Ming Dynasty has begun.
Jiang Zhiyu heard King Qin say that their logistics department affects the outcome of the war.
He felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavier, and he was even more proud that his department was valued so much by King Qin.
"Your Highness King Qin, we have established contacts with major factories and grain storage bureaus.
The entire logistics system is divided into internal and external lines.
The transportation speed on the inner line is faster. We use our cement roads extending in all directions to quickly transport materials to the front line through four-wheeled carriages.
The outer line mainly recruits civilian laborers to transport supplies via horse-drawn carriages and wheelbarrows.
Every transport team is protected by an army. "
While Jiang Zhiyu was speaking, he unfolded the logistics transportation map and introduced to King Qin in detail the entire logistics system planned by their logistics department.
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