Chapter 527: The Royal Military Hospital

Although Wuzhou is the seat of the Liangguang Governor's Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, and the industry and commerce are prosperous, considering the future control of the Liangguang region and military strategy issues, Li Xuan has always regarded Zhaoqing as the first choice of the capital, and Wuzhou is just an alternative.

Therefore, Li Xuan didn't plan to build a large number of buildings in Wuzhou, and then go to great lengths to do something about the temporary capital, but he just didn't care about the civil and military officials he brought over after settling down at will.

He didn't even bother to repair the Liangguang Governor's Palace, which was destroyed to half-rubble by the war, and it would be extremely troublesome and time-consuming to repair.

The financially strapped Tang Dynasty was not so extravagant, wasting money and food to repair a place that would most likely not live for long.

Even the rest of his cabinet who stayed in Liuzhou, such as Liu Bagou and the royal family, were still in Liuzhou.

However, although he is not prepared to build a large amount of construction on the residence, there are still quite a few things that need to be done to capture the city of Wuzhou.

For example, the two sections of the city wall that were blown up by themselves were easy to blow up, and the city wall collapsed after a loud bang, but it was also extremely troublesome to repair.

In these years, the city walls still had a considerable defensive effect, especially when the opponent did not have powerful artillery.

At the same time as repairing the city wall, many buildings in the city that were damaged in the war were also cleaned up one by one, and then there were the health problems that the Tang Dynasty was most concerned about, especially in the battle of Wuzhou City, the two sides combined, more than 10,000 people died in the war, and these corpses were not cleaned up in time, it was easy to cause a large-scale plague.

Although it is still in early spring, and the weather is still relatively dry and cold, it will not be long before the rainy season of spring rain, and it is easier for germs to multiply during wet periods.

For this reason, Li Xuan personally ordered that the corpses in the city must be cleaned out in time, and at the same time, the wounded should not be thrown aside, but should be treated in a timely manner, the military hospital should be thoroughly disinfected with white lime, etc., the wounded should be placed separately, and the wounds of the wounded soldiers should be disinfected with high concentration of alcohol to prevent infection.

The other measures are basically nothing special, but this disinfection with alcohol is the first initiative of the Tang Dynasty, or another great innovation of Li Xuan, the Holy Monarch of the Ages!

The alcohol of the Tang Dynasty is purified directly from the fire!

As for the fire, liquor also began to be introduced into China in the Yuan Dynasty and developed on a small scale, and this development is basically limited to the poor people.

If you travel back in time to the Ming and Qing dynasties, or simply any ancient period of peace, and then brew a high number of liquor to sell, don't expect to sell it for a good price, because these liquors can only be sold to the poorest strata of society, but anyone who has a few big sons in their pockets disdain to drink fire, because that is really undignified and can't afford to lose that face.

For thousands of years in China, the mainstream of China's traditional wine culture has always been rice wine, even during the Republic of China, but later, the fire was on the elegant hall to become the national wine, and the rice wine culture with thousands of years of tradition has gradually disappeared.

Just like the ninth-rate drama has become a celebrity, this is a trampling on the 5,000-year-old tradition of China!

The Tang Dynasty started as a typical Dick Silk Dynasty, a group of bandits liked it, or they had no money to drink this thing, but later became a little richer, and those bandits also followed the civil officials to drink rice wine and pretend to be elegant.

So a group of bandits who were used to drinking a high number of fires became a thousand cups of drunken wine fairies.

Li Xuan doesn't like to drink, and occasionally he only drinks a few glasses of rice wine cooked by beauties, but he is still very interested in this fire.

Naturally interested not because he likes to drink, in fact he hates drinking this thing, he attaches more importance to it, if this fire is purified again, you can get a high concentration of alcohol, and what can alcohol be used for?

Most of the later generations know: disinfection!

So very early on, Li Xuan tried to purify the existing fire repeatedly, and finally came up with a high-purity fire that he didn't know how many degrees, anyway, the degree was very high, and even people with super good alcohol couldn't stand it when they drank so little.

In Li Xuan's opinion, even if the purity of this alcohol is not as good as the medical alcohol of later generations, it should be much better!

Therefore, this high-purity fire after repeated purification is used to disinfect the wounded soldiers, and it is called alcohol.

The use of alcohol to disinfect wounds, coupled with Li Xuan's forced march to the military hospital to maintain hygiene, cleanliness, ventilation, and frequent disinfection, greatly increased the survival rate of the wounded soldiers of the Tang Dynasty's division.

In the extreme lack of medical conditions now, the mortality rate of wounded soldiers on the battlefield is quite large, why are there no seriously wounded in the previous war reports of the Tang Dynasty, because most of the seriously wounded died in the end, and those who did not die naturally became lightly wounded.

To reduce the mortality rate of the wounded, there are many means, such as surgery at the first time, but for today's Tang Dynasty, a more complicated surgery is basically a luxury, at most you will have an amputation or something.

Therefore, in order to improve the survival rate of the wounded soldiers under the existing medical conditions, in Li Xuan's opinion, there is only one way, disinfection, and prevent infection!

As long as the wounded soldiers can survive their injuries and do not die in the first place, then as long as the wound infection is prevented, then there is a great chance of surviving.

In the era when there are no antibiotics to prevent infection, the only thing that can be done is to actively disinfect to avoid the invasion of germs.

This battle of Wuzhou, but also the Tang Dynasty division received the most wounded in a battle, but also the first large-scale application of alcohol to disinfect the people, in the past because the production of alcohol is not large enough, so it has always been a small fight, now the output is raised, and after the supply to the Wuzhou front, the military hospital has also been supplied with a large amount of alcohol.

In addition to the improvement of various sanitary conditions and alcohol disinfection, Li Xuan put a lot of effort into improving the survival rate of wounded soldiers, especially those with minor injuries.

Very early, it was transferred from the Tai Hospital to establish a military hospital, which was later renamed the Royal Military Hospital.

Later, several military hospitals were set up successively, including Guizhou Military Hospital, Guangxi Hospital, and the Royal Military Hospital that accompanied Li Xuan to Wuzhou, so there were three relatively large medical institutions in total.

However, these three medical institutions are relatively standard field hospitals that Li Xuan has made in this era, and the manpower they have is basically doctors and nurses recruited from various state capitals, and these doctors are all willing to treat wounded soldiers for the Tang Dynasty, because if they are not voluntary, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty Division will use bayonets to make them change their minds and become voluntary!

These three field hospitals use traditional Chinese medicine as the main means of treatment, and the concept of disinfection is also directly introduced, which can be regarded as a combination of Chinese and Western, anyway, Li Xuan feels that this can be regarded as good, I dare not say how good medical skills are, but it definitely has the best sanitary conditions in the world today, so it also accommodates a large number of wounded soldiers, such as the Royal Military Hospital, which has treated nearly 4,000 wounded soldiers in Wuzhou, including the wounded soldiers of the Tang Dynasty and the lightly wounded soldiers of the Ming army who later became prisoners of war.

In order to treat these wounded soldiers, in addition to the original medical personnel, almost all the doctors in Xunzhou and Wuzhou were recruited, and at present the hospital has dozens of senior doctors, 200 young apprentices, and hundreds of ordinary labor nurses.

Of course, most of them are temporary, and when the manpower is not so tight, he has to let people go home.

In the huge eastern part of Guangxi, all the doctors must be concentrated in the royal military hospital, and some doctors must be left in the people, otherwise the common people will not be able to find doctors to see when they are sick.

In addition to these three relatively large-scale military hospitals, the Tang Dynasty Wang Division also directly set up treatment institutions in the troops at all levels, and organized a health battalion at the military level, requiring the ability to treat 500 lightly wounded people at the same time.

Each battalion has a sanitary platoon, which needs to have at least one doctor and five apprentices, and is mainly used to rescue the wounded on the battlefield and provide simple care, and after the initial treatment, the wounded will be sent to a higher medical institution.

Each company has two medical soldiers, mainly to temporarily rescue the wounded on the battlefield.

The two levels of regiments and brigades are not clearly fixed, because some of the regiments and brigades in the Tang Dynasty are concentrated in fighting together, and some are fighting independently, and the wounded of the troops fighting in a concentrated manner can be directly sent to the military field hospital for treatment, but some regiments and brigades are fighting independently in a certain area, so they also need more medical personnel, thinking that they cannot transfer the wounded to a military-level hospital.

Therefore, at these two levels, a temporary medical establishment is adopted, and only one health team is formed in peacetime, and there are not many medical personnel, but if it is an independent operation, personnel will be temporarily transferred from military-level hospitals for reinforcement.

With the exception of the military-level field hospital, the medical personnel in the rest of the units are given military rank and treated as active duty soldiers, while the general medical staff is directly served as trained active duty soldiers.

Li Xuan strives to establish a perfect treatment system in the army, even if the current level of treatment is very low, but even if the level is low, he must be saved!

Especially those who are generally injured, after this rescue, it means that the Tang Dynasty can keep a veteran with combat experience.

A veteran is worth more than five or even ten recruits!

And in the Royal Military Hospital in Wuzhou, in addition to ordinary wounded soldiers, there is also a small group of special people, they are the middle and senior officers of the Ming Army who were injured and captured, and Shen Xiyi, the deputy chief soldier of Guangdong, is one of them!

Now he was lying on the white hospital bed, his pale face with a sad look, at this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside, he glanced at it, but saw a young officer wearing a dark blue military uniform pseudo-Tang Dynasty with a few thieves officers wearing the same dark blue military uniforms and the kind of Confucian official robes unique to civilian officials in the thief army walked in.

Seeing these people, his brows immediately furrowed, because he recognized the people behind him, they were all his colleagues not long ago, senior civil and military officials in the Ming army!