Chapter 32: Saving People and Strife
The Cham people now use Daqi currency, not to mention copper plates, silver coins, and paper money.
When Liu Dafang handed a bill of the same face value to the head of the native woman, and compared and said that the money belonged to all of them equally, these native women immediately thanked them and kowtowed.
Lu Ning waved his hand: "Forget it, let's go back and make a sedan chair." β
Originally, I wanted to walk around the old town of the capital city without an interpreter, but now I see it, and I really lose interest.
At this time, the face of the leader of the native woman changed, hesitated, and suddenly kowtowed again, muttering something, looking at her gesturing, as if asking Master Qiren to go to a place with her.
Lu Ning said to Liu Dafang, "You go and take a look." β
Liu Dafang immediately had a bitter face, but since these local women have the blessing of seeing the face of heaven, and now they are asking for help, and the Holy Son of Heaven is gracious, what kind of hard work is there, of course he wants to rush to the front.
Holding his breath, he followed behind the leader of the native women and turned to the thatched hut behind the straw hut.
Speaking of which, the residences near the Qirengang District are mostly occupied by the powerful in the city.
After a while, Liu Dafang and the weeping native woman turned around.
"Master, there is a seven or eight-year-old girl, it seems to be the daughter of this native woman, she is sick and dying......" Liu Dafang leaned next to Lu Ning and whispered, his face was a little unbearable, it seems that it was the tragic situation of the girl that made him feel pity, speaking of which, it is a great traitor, sometimes it may not be without sympathy, not to mention Liu Dafang, who was only castrated since he was a child, and was released from the palace to contact with normal people, and unconsciously felt inferior in front of the Holy Son of Heaven? There will be no such qualities as self-esteem, backbone, and so on.
Lu Ning frowned slightly? Then he sighed and said, "That's it? Are you going back to the inn? Call the hygienist, and then see who among the five Danjia is there? Call in an interpreter. β
"Hygienist" is Lu Ning's name for the first-class military doctor of the Zhenyi Women's Battalion.
Actually, a doctor with the army? Very early on? It's just that in the history books of the Central Plains, the main body that has always been recorded is a person, and the military and so on are not clear, as for the existence of military doctors? It is even more necessary to look for a scale and a half claw in the words of historical materials.
And the current Central Plains Forbidden Army? At the army level, that is, the 10,000-strong army, a field hospital is a must.
The Zhenyi Women's Battalion is even worse, Qing'e Weizhong, there is a military doctor in each class? The remaining four, each with three military doctors?
In fact, it is impossible for the battalion of virgin women to participate in any battles as a squad? But medical security is extremely important to Yongning, after all, it is possible to go to those barren places with the emperor? Are they all girls? Prone to physical illness? Not to mention, it may also involve taking care of pregnant women and giving births.
Therefore, there are 22 doctors and nurses in the 500 female soldiers of the Zhenyi Women's Battalion, which is much higher than the proportion of the most elite pro-army doctors in front of the palace.
After all, there is a limit to what military doctors can do nowadays, and basically, in the forbidden army, there are only one or two langzhong in each battalion.
Worldwide, for example, compared to the Chula Empire in southern India, the rate of medical care is low.
The Chola Empire, known as a large army of 30,000 people, had two health camps, about 600 doctors, and all horses.
Of course, its health camp has its own unique name, the messenger of the Central Plains, which translates as Langzhong Camp.
However, this was the envoy who listened to the officials of the Chola Empire boast about it themselves, and in fact the truth was not known.
However, in terms of the perception of medicine, there is no Lu Ning, and Zhongyuan Medicine is also leading the world, after all, empirical medicine has been passed down.
And Lu Ning brought a lot of theoretical cognition, which made the Central Plains medicine gradually sprout into modern medicine.
Alcohol disinfection, home-made penicillin anti-inflammatory, etc., these very superficial knowledge, established in Daqi, in fact, caused earth-shaking changes.
Of course, this kind of soju is extremely precious, and no matter how low the purchase price of the East China Sea Baixing is, it cannot lose money, and only the Guards pro-army, not the military expenses of the Ministry of War and the Privy Council, but the royal family bears the cost, in order to ensure sufficient use in wartime, and the same is true for the Zhenyi Women's Battalion.
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"Hygienist" and Jiao Guo followed Liu Dafang in a hurry, Liu Dafang was also flattering and smiling at them, and did not dare to ignore them in a slightest, after all, who knows if these women will be favored by the emperor the next day?
The "hygienist" is a beautiful young woman, surnamed Qian, wearing a dark green officer uniform, showing her delicate and sexy figure.
In fact, nowadays, in the Central Plains, if it is a status woman, showing the curve of her legs, it is still extremely inappropriate, but in addition to the low-level women like this kind of clothing to be convenient for work, there are new classes, such as those accounting female officials, female officials of the imperial village, female school teachers, etc., sometimes they also wear trousers, which also affects the dressing habits of some aristocratic women.
As for the female guards, it is necessary to wear clothes and pants, let alone outside the territory.
Speaking of which, this hygienist Qian's identity was also very noble, Li Yu's elder brother, the wife of Li Hongyi, the prince of the Southern Tang Dynasty who later claimed to be the emperor himself, Li Hongyi was named the king of Zhenjiang after he descended, and she was the last princess.
Five years ago, Li Hongyi was exposed as a conspiracy and rebellion, and his family was imprisoned, but the Son of Heaven was extrajudicially gracious, pardoned his capital crimes, and imprisoned for life, and the rest of his relatives were reduced to slavery.
However, the Qian family is a distant relative of the Qian family, the original royal family of Wu Yueguo, and the Qian Yutang family, the chief physician of the Tai Hospital, is also quite related, so he was sent to the Tai Hospital as a slave.
Qian was originally born in the Qihuang family, and when he was young, he was very well-founded and talented, so he was recommended by Qian Yutang to enter the Zhenyi Women's Camp, and after a period of training, he officially became one of the girls in the Zhenyi Women's Camp.
Her medical skills are also said to be extremely skillful, but it is the first time Lu Ning has officially seen her.
After the "......" Qian and Jiao Guo came in, they all bent their knees.
Speaking of which, Lu Ning was originally going to push for a military salute in front of anyone as long as he was in military uniform.
But then it was rejected by Yongning, Yongning's very vague euphemism means that at least in front of the imperial power, soldiers wearing military uniforms should pay homage, so as to establish the absolute authority of the imperial power in the army, and the world can be stable.
However, between the soldiers and the generals, and between the generals at all levels, there is indeed a kind of military salute that makes the soldiers and generals respect the absolute authority of the officials, while maintaining the dignity of the individual and not becoming the echoes and private soldiers of the officials, so that the entire army is formed except for the royal family as its real master, the rest of the generals and commanders are just ordinary bosses, and the military orders are like mountains, but people are not perfect, unless military operations, the rest of the matters are not unquestionable absolute authority.
Lu Ning listened to what Yongning said, so he followed what she said, and felt that he had actually done more to change the Central Plains world, and many things were still going on according to his own ideas, which might be a little unrealistic, so it was better to go with the flow.
Looking at Qian and Jiao Guo now, they are both heroic female officers in dark green uniforms, slightly bending their knees to perform the blessing ceremony, but they are already used to it, not that they felt ridiculous when they first saw it, and they felt that it was right to perform a military salute before their foreheads, but after seeing too much, they felt quite beautiful.
Lu Ning made a gesture, Qian and Jiao Guo followed the anxious native woman and turned to the back of the grass hut.
Looking at the medical bag that Qian was carrying, Lu Ning knew what was inside, and even the sterilized soju was contained in a glass bottle.
The glassware produced by Baixing in the East China Sea is expensive, and it is only used by the aristocratic and wealthy families, and it is also one of the Daqi commodities that are exchanged for huge wealth from overseas, but when it is used in the military for medical treatment as the most suitable utensils for some special medicines, Lu Ning will not be stingy.
Nowadays, Lu Ning doesn't understand the things that the top Langzhong is researching, such as looking for a stronger strain that produces penicillin, and Lu Ning can't get involved.
Lu Ning hopes that all walks of life will enter areas that he has not set foot in, but obviously this is impossible.
may be those genius students who have entered the school since childhood and studied hard for more than ten years, but their understanding of the world should be far less than that of later generations of upper primary school students.
However, Lu Ning is already very satisfied, and it is not an illusion that if it continues like this, compared to the Western society in history, Daqi entered the modern society hundreds of years earlier.
When Lu Ning was thinking nonsense, it didn't seem to be long, but when he saw that the Qian family had already come to him, he said softly: "Master, she should be fine, it's just a back." β
Lu Ning bowed slightly, back gangrene used to be a common disease that caused death, but now in Daqi, at least the wealthy class has carbuncles, and the mortality rate has been greatly reduced, disinfection and anti-inflammatory plus taking antibiotic drugs, although today's drugs are not very reliable, in terms of later standards, allergies and deaths and other side effects are particularly large, but in this era, it is already very magical.
The native woman followed behind and wiped her tears, thanking her a thousand times, and it was obvious that the child seemed to have vitality in a short time.
Her gratitude, Lu Ning didn't care, but her daughter was seriously ill, and she knew that she might be rescued if she begged for Qi, and it was very gratifying that Daqi had become more and more influential overseas over the years.
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After such a incident, Lu Ning didn't come back to take a sedan chair to hang out in the old city, and not long after he turned around, the post house guard came to report, saying that it was a native named Wang Shengxun who asked to see him.
Liu Dafang and Dou Shenbao lived in the garden gatehouse, and Liu Dafang came to tell him after asking everything clearly.
It turned out that this Wang Shengxun was the husband of the native woman, that is, the father of the seriously ill girl, and now he is in Zhancheng, and he is also a number one.
He converted to Tiandaoism, took a Chinese name, and was one of the tooth people who went to buy local polished rice, specialties and other goods for the service of Qi merchants, which is similar to compradors.
It's just that his daughter is sick, although the local Tiandao Sect also has a medical hall, but after all, it is impossible to have many precious medicines such as the female military doctor of the Zhenyi Women's Battalion.
This Wang Shengxun's wife, who was in a hurry to go to the doctor, saw that this group of Qi people was very imposing, which was completely different from what he had seen before, those Central Plains beauties were like immortals, so they boldly begged for help, and it may be that their daughter's life should not be extinguished, so they met Lu Ning and his party.
Listening to Liu Dafang's confession, Lu Ning gladly ordered Wang Shengxun to come to the pavilion to see him.
Wang Shengxun is a dark and thin middle-aged man, his eyes are bright, and he is more shrewd at first glance.
In the pavilion next to a few incense branches, next to the stone table and stone bench where Lu Ning was sitting, Wang Shengxun stood respectfully and solemnly, answering Lu Ning's question, and Jiao Guo was interpreting on the side.
Speaking of his daughter's illness, Wang Shengxun bowed deeply again: "Fortunately, with the blessing of the Emperor of Heaven, I saved the little girl's life with the help of the master." β
Lu Ning smiled, "Your piety will always be rewarded." β
While speaking, Liu Dacheng hurriedly came, bowed down beside Lu Ning and whispered, "Master, Lord Qu Guowei has caused trouble. β
Lu Ning frowned and told her not to cause trouble, but something still went wrong.
As for her being honored as "Lord Wei", it is because all the female guards of the Zhenyi Women's Battalion were awarded the "Captain of the Imperial Rong".
Nowadays, in the forbidden army of Daqi, officers at all levels have been awarded military medals, similar to the military ranks of later generations, and the rank of martial arts is their preferential treatment, because with the gradual reduction of wars, it is difficult for some outstanding generals to have suitable positions for promotion, so it is a solution to be awarded high-grade medals.
Generally speaking, taking the low-level officers as an example, the head of the capital will be awarded the lieutenant of Yilu, the military attache of the eighth grade, the deputy head of the capital will be awarded the lieutenant of Yilu, the military attache of the eighth grade, the head of the squad will be awarded the lieutenant of Renyong, the military attache of the ninth grade, and the deputy head of the squad will be the lieutenant of Renyong, and the military attache of the ninth grade.
But now, the head of the squad may be the lieutenant of Yilu, who is the military attache of the eighth rank.
There are also veterans who are difficult to promote for a while, and they can be awarded the rank of lieutenant or lieutenant of the lieutenant, who has no rank and is not a military attachΓ©, but the military salary is higher than that of ordinary non-commissioned officers, and it is also a reserve team with vacancies to promote deputy squad leaders and squad leaders.
And the Zhenyi Women's Battalion, as the royal female guard, does not belong to the forbidden army, nor does it follow the rules of the forbidden army, but all female soldiers are awarded the "Imperial Captain", as for what grade is not specified, it is a status symbol.
But the Zhenyi Women's Battalion is very special, such as Liu Dafang and Dou Shenbao, who are both "insiders" of the Eight Grades, and they will also be called "Captain" to the ordinary soldiers of the Zhenyi Women's Battalion.
Liu Dafang stammered especially at these female pawns, and whispered the reason at this time.
But it was Qu Guo who went to visit the butcher's relatives who lived in Xicheng, who knew that it was better to meet the relatives and fall into bad luck.
When a close minister of the king of Champa, Paramita Varman, gave a banquet to the Chenla delegation, the pork tasted so bad that the butcher was blamed for not letting the blood out.
Qu Guo had just recognized his grandfather, in fact, when the other party was still suspicious, the soldiers who came to get people arrived, and there were a few Zhenla envoys who watched the excitement, Qu Guo and the other party had a conflict when they argued, probably using fire guns to intimidate the other party, and as a result, a stray bullet killed a member of the Zhenla mission, and she fled with her grandfather and several relatives when the soldiers were so frightened that they hugged their heads and ran away.
Because she once showed her identity as a Qi person, but because of her appearance, language, etc., she was obviously a member of the northern tribe, and she went to visit relatives and changed into her previous clothes, which was not very convincing, which caused conflicts, but as soon as the fire gun sounded, she was confirmed even if she was not a Qi person, but she was also a Qi person's entourage.
Badra Pata Feast sent a housekeeper to the post house to inquire about the situation, and also told what had happened, of course, it was very critical of the northern slave girl for her misdeeds and killing the messenger of Zhenla.
"Where's Qu Guo?" Lu Ning frowned and asked.
Liu Dafang hesitated for a moment, knowing that he couldn't hide it, and sighed: "I didn't come back." β
Lu Ning frowned, obviously, this guy felt that he was in trouble and didn't dare to come back, and he might have absconded with his relatives in fear of crime.
Moreover, when she went to visit relatives this time, it is impossible to say whether she has any plans to escape from her side.
Theoretically, it is unlikely, after all, so she will cause a monstrous disaster to her relatives, but now that this kind of thing has happened, she and her relatives have absconded out of the city and gone to live far away from the port of Champong, after all, there are many lands around, and the rule of the king of Champa is impossible for every landpiece to be clear, and his relatives may not have no relatives and friends in a certain land, so they can accommodate them.
"What do you say about the natives who came?" Lu Ning asked again.
Liu Dafang gritted his teeth, "The person who came didn't know what to say, it seemed that he knew that Lord Wei didn't come back, and thought that Lord Wei absconded in fear of crime, so he thought that Master should have no identity, and it was only because of the servant that he thought he had caused a big disaster and fled, and he was very aggressive." β
Lu Ning rubbed his nose, after all, he was the closest minister to the King of Champang, and it was indeed not an ordinary Qi person who could crush him.
Moreover, some Qi businessmen will bribe him with a lot of money in order to obtain huge profits here, and they will also bribe him heavily.
"You'd better find the captain first, right?" Liu Dafang looked at Lu Ning's face cautiously.
Lu Ning bowed slightly, just when he saw Wang Shengxun standing aside, he turned his head to Jiao Guo and said, "You tell him, mobilize all the subordinates he can mobilize, and help me find Qu Guo." β
Jiao Guo's expression was slightly relieved, after all, although the relationship with Qu Guo may not have been very good before, if the main family is treated coldly, it will inevitably have a feeling of sadness for the rabbit and the fox.