Chapter 682: Money Money Money

The medical treatment of wounded soldiers has always been the most troublesome problem in the cold weapons war.

There are only two reasons why wounded soldiers are difficult to treat: 1. The number of doctors is insufficient; 2. The burden of medicinal materials is too heavy.

Medicine is also a 'cheap industry', and it is one of the industries that ordinary people are unwilling to engage in, so the number of doctors in various places is limited, and it may not be busy enough to recruit all of them.

Moreover, even if the doctor is barely enough, it is still useless to treat without medicinal herbs, and it costs money to buy medicinal herbs.

Minor injuries can be easily resolved, and they can recover after ten days and a half of rest after bandaging, while seriously injured people with broken muscles and bones are more troublesome.

Veterans who have seen blood are far from being comparable to new soldiers, and they are extremely valuable resources if they can recover, so generally no prince will give up on veterans who have been slightly injured.

The cost of treatment for minor injuries can be afforded, but the cost of treatment for serious injuries can become a burden.

If it is a disabled wounded with severed hands and feet, the final fate must be abandoned, because no army can support the disabled.

If you want to completely solve the problem of wounded soldiers, the only way is to keep throwing money into it, which can be said to be a bottomless pit of dissatisfaction.

But as long as it can withstand this kind of attrition, then the sense of identity and cohesion of the soldiers under his command to the army will reach an unimaginable level, and this army will also become a strong army that cannot be dragged over or broken.

The soldiers had no worries and fought with all their might without fear of casualties, and the combat power of such an army was undoubtedly terrifying.

Qin Hao has been advocating to build such an army, and the reason why the Yanmen Army has such a high salary and welfare is to let the soldiers have no worries.

In addition, in the construction of the Yanmen Army, Qin Hao has also been proposing to recruit military doctors.

The Yanmen Army also has its own military doctors, but because they cannot bear the burden of the seriously wounded, the treatment rate has not been able to exceed 50%.

The creation process of the Yanmen Army was much more arduous than that of the Qin Army, but the medical expenses also accounted for a large proportion, and although the treatment rate was not high, only fifty percent, it cast the unyielding military soul of the Yanmen Army.

In all the previous battles, even if more than half of the Yanmen army was killed or wounded, it was not defeated, which is the strong cohesion that the Yanmen army has.

In the past, the Yanmen Army and the current Jin Army only had a treatment rate of fifty percent for wounded soldiers, and the armies under the command of other princes were naturally lower, but Qin Hao's goal of creating a medical battalion was to increase the treatment rate of wounded soldiers to ninety percent.

The medical battalion has been established for two years, and although the two years of study are not enough for these new doctors to become teachers, they are enough to deal with ninety percent of the battlefield emergencies.

In addition, in terms of the acquisition of medicinal materials, Qin Hao was also ruthless, so he so readily agreed to Duanmu Rong's proposal to purchase a large number of medicinal materials.

There is no shortage of doctors, and there are enough medicinal materials, so it is conceivable that the mortality rate of the wounded soldiers of the Qin army in the future will be reduced to a very small level.

Although it is impossible to reach ninety percent in a short period of time, as the experience of these three thousand doctors becomes more and more abundant, Qin Hao believes that ninety percent is definitely a goal that can be achieved.

Looking at Duanmu Rong, Qin Hao smiled indifferently and said, "Miss Rong, the candidate for the male leader of the medical battalion will be selected by Benhou as soon as possible." ”

Duanmu Rong left satisfied, and after her, it was Liu Ye of the Industrial Engineering Institute who found Qin Hao to ask for funds.

"My lord, our army now has 120,000 people, and the number of troops has expanded sixfold, but the industrial construction institute is still the same size as before." Liu Ye said with a serious face.

Qin Hao saw through Liu Ye's purpose at a glance, and said with a smile: "Ziyang, you want to expand the scale of the Industrial Manufacturing Institute, right?" ”

"That's right, the scale of the current engineering institute can no longer fully supply the equipment for the army, so it is urgent to expand the scale."

Although the 100,000 New Army has completed its training, due to the previous financial crisis, the New Army's equipment has not been fully equipped.

It is impossible for Qin Hao to let his soldiers wear single shirts to fight the enemy, so the equipment must be created.

The ordnance to be built by the Institute is all the equipment of the 120,000 army, and the amount of work is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, so the expansion of the scale is completely within Qin Hao's expectations.

"It's really urgent."

Qin Hao nodded, and then asked, "Ziyang, what kind of scale do you think the Industrial Institute should be expanded?" ”

A hint of deep thought flashed in Liu Ye's eyes, and then he opened his mouth and said, "Fifteen thousand craftsmen." ”

After hearing this number, Qin Hao almost didn't squirt out the tea he had just drunk in his mouth.

Originally, there were 3,000 craftsmen in the factory, so it can't be expanded by six times because the army is expanded by six times, and the number of craftsmen must be increased by five times, right?

"No, it's too much, even if Ben Hou agrees, Wen Ruo and they will never agree."

Qin Hao directly shook his head and refused, he didn't have to think about it and knew that once he agreed, Xun Yu would definitely come to him every day to cry poor.

Craftsmen also have to pay money, and the more people recruited, the more money they will pay, and it's all money, and weapons can be built slowly.

Liu Ye didn't seem surprised at all, and continued: "Does the lord still remember that before you left Nanyang, you proposed a plan of 'full armament'? ”

"Of course I do." Qin Hao nodded and said, this was proposed by him personally, how could he not remember.

Of course, 'all-armament armor' does not mean that the whole army wears armor, but that it is constantly working towards this goal to improve the leather armor rate of the army under its command as much as possible.

If you have money and time, you can make a lot of armor, and it costs money to maintain and update it.

If you can't afford it, even if you build armor, it will still rust and rot in the warehouse.

The cost of building and maintaining armor is too high, so it is simply unthinkable for all of them to wear armor, and all Qin Hao has to do is to try to increase this ratio as much as possible.

Qin Hao and Xiang Yu fought a few beautiful battles with fewer victories, which also made the princes everywhere realize the importance of elite.

In order to prevent their territories from being annexed, the princes of various places naturally tried every means to improve the combat power of the army under their command, and equipping the army with armor to improve the defense was the most simple and crude way.

"My lord, the princes everywhere are increasing the armor rate of the army under their command, and the lord has said that the armor rate of our army should reach at least fifty percent."

Liu Ye looked at Qin Hao and asked rhetorically, "Do you know what this means?" ”

Qin Hao shook his head inexplicably, and Liu Ye explained when he saw this: "It means that the industrial construction needs to be made into 60,000 sets of various armors, plus more than ten kinds of equipment such as weapons and bows and crossbows, even if there are 15,000 craftsmen, it will take at least two years to complete the forging process." ”

After listening to what Liu Ye said, Qin Hao's whole person was stunned, originally he thought that 15,000 craftsmen was already a lot, but now it seems that it is still not enough!