After a year of intense construction, Gushan Town has begun to take shape, with tall and thick city walls and a perfect city defense system giving people a considerable sense of security. Returning to Chengwu County from Haizhou, Li Mao contracted a cold, took a few doses of bitter decoction and went down, but did not get better, his body became weaker and weaker, and when people were weak, he especially needed a sense of security, and always wanted to find a safe corner to hide, and the tall and thick city wall gave him great comfort.

Gushan Town is a military town, the military town is a military stronghold, its main role is the garrison, so the military academy occupies the upper wind of the city and nearly one-third of the area, the geographical feng shui of the military supervision institute is also good, but the area is much smaller, and it is the city bureau again.

Because of his weak health, Li Mao attached great importance to the word stability, and he tried his best to set up the city bureau in the southwest corner of the city, which is said to be not very good in feng shui, but the geographical location seems to be very stable, occupying a whole square, and the name of this square was changed to the city bureau square.

The military court is in charge of the military horses, the military supervision court supervises the punishment and reward, and the city bureau manages the civil affairs of the military city. Military towns in various places have city bureaus, and their positions are different, and the actual power they have is also different, and secondly, the personal ambitions and ambitions of the city bureau envoys are also important factors in determining the power of the city bureau.

During that time, Li Mao was weak, very lonely, and especially needed a sense of security, so he changed his usual virtuous and frugal manners, and showed an aggressive posture in the division of power in Gushan Town.

In the eyes of those who are interested, this change in him is another taste, Zhao Hede is the father of the Qing Navy, and his qualifications are very old. But because of the problem of birth has been rejected by the public, over time in the Qing Navy in its own line, his strength is not strong, the ambition is not big, but the heel is very strong, has always been the object of the faction.

Li Mao, who returned from Haizhou, has been deeply branded with Zhao Ji, which can be seen from Zhao Hede's many incomprehensible actions and aggressive posture after he recommended him as the envoy of the city bureau and became the envoy of the city bureau.

Or because of Zhao Hede, Yu Hualong decided to give Li Mao, the new city bureau, a face, and authorized him to form the city defense battalion on his own for the first time, and put the city defense battalion under the name of the city bureau.

The city defense battalion has the duties of pressing the streets, picketing treacherous and hypocrisy, assisting in the security of the city, guarding the four gates, etc., and has great power, most of the military towns have this institution and are hung under the name of the military court, and occasionally there are hanging under the name of the city bureau, and they are also in charge of the military and directly obey the orders of the highest commander of the military town.

Li Mao was stunned for a moment when he heard the news, and asked Qingmo, who was serving the decoction beside him: "I heard it right, I will form the city defense battalion, this ...... Did I hear me right? ”

Qingmo took the warrant from Hualong, cleared his throat and read it seriously, and put the warrant in Li Mao's hand, and then said mysteriously: "I heard that Yin, Zhang, Zhao, and He all want to get involved in the city defense camp, fight openly and secretly, and make a lot of trouble, and they are about to turn their faces, General Yu said, 'Li Maohua has earned face for our Qing Navy under the East China Sea City, and his merit is not paid, how can he serve the public?' He has the talent to lead the army and has the experience of managing civil affairs, and I can rest assured that the city bureau will be handed over to him. And so it befell us. ”

Li Mao said: "Hearsay is not enough to rely on. He said this, but in his heart he believed seven or eight points. Whether he wants to or not, now his body has been branded with Zhao and the German system, and the Qing Navy is full of mountains, huge factions, no mountains and no factions, and the end can only be squeezed out.

"I wasn't going to go on this trip to the muddy waters......"

In the dead of night, Li Mao said to himself that this was his true words. The wind chill caused a high fever, the head was hot like a stove, and more than a dozen decoctions went down, and the condition not only did not improve, but also worsened.

"People are in a hurry for decades in this life, fighting for power and profit, what's the point. If possible, it is better to live a small life in peace. ”

Li Mao muttered in a daze and fell asleep groggyly.

By mid-December, Li Mao's condition had not improved, but had deteriorated day by day, and he had fallen into a deep coma. After Yu Hualong came to visit him, he secretly asked the people around him to prepare for the future.

This aftermath included a dignified funeral and a reserve candidate for the city envoy. Just when everything was ready, Qin Niang went to Gushan Town accompanied by Zhang Xuan, accompanied by an overseas miracle doctor - Feng Xiu.

The miracle doctor has a strange appearance, a protruding forehead, a chest-length white beard, and a pair of dragon head crutches, you can pretend to be a birthday star, he not only looks strange, but also has a big and scary temper, looking at everyone is a stinky face, it seems that people owe him 800 yuan. However, the miracle doctor is indeed a god, and his medical skills can be called superb.

After a dose of decoction, Li Mao woke up from a deep coma, and recognized the tearful Qinniang who was kneeling in front of the bed and crying on the spot, Li Mao reached out with difficulty, touched her face, and said, "I...... Still...... Not dead. ”

After taking the second dose of decoction, Li Mao was able to sit on the bed and talk and laugh with his colleagues who came to visit.

After the three doses of decoction were used up, Li Mao completely returned to normal.

The body is still weak, but he is deaf and clear-sighted, and he is completely a nobody.

Divine doctor Feng Xiu left after Li Mao took the first dose of decoction, according to his temperament, he diagnosed Li Mao's condition, and he was about to leave after prescribing the prescription, and it was Qin Niang who kept him in tears.

After Li Mao sobered up, his first order was to detain this miracle doctor, but unfortunately he was a step too late. Qin Niang heard that Li Mao was going to detain the divine doctor, and she blushed with Li Mao rarely. Li Mao felt that he didn't pay attention to it, so he had to explain with a smile: "I'm not revenge, but this miracle doctor is really too godly, if I can keep this person, how many lives can I save in the future?" ”

Qin Niang said: "This thought, I advise you to dispel it, he is a master of the world, a fairy-like figure, how can he stay in this world." Li Mao lovingly stroked Qin Niang's red eyes crying, and said with a smile: "What method did my wife use to move the gods to come down to earth to treat her husband." Knowing that Li Mao was joking, but these words were still very useful in Qin Niang's ears, and all the grievances he experienced in order to invite the gods to go down to earth disappeared in an instant.

She wiped her tears and said: "Although the old immortal refuses to enter the world, I think that his two disciples have the heart to go down the mountain to do a career, and they are not as good as the old immortal in terms of medical skills, but they are also first-class masters." ”

Li Mao jumped up, jumped out of bed, stayed in bed for a long time, his body balance was a little poor, and he stumbled and almost fell. Qin Niang was startled, and hurriedly stopped Li Mao, her voice changed tone: "Where are you going?" ”

"Go and invite the immortal disciples."

"You're recovering from a serious illness and can't ride a horse."

"Don't ride a horse, I'll let them carry me."

The first thing the new city bureau envoy of Gushan Town did was to go to Laizhou Island and pay a lot of money to hire Ge Rixiu, a miraculous doctor who lived in seclusion overseas, to help the world, which cost a total of 1,320 yuan of public money. Seeing that the couple were dressed simply, living a simple life, eating two meals a day, and not seeing any meat stars, the good deeds suspected that their salaries were not high, so the rumors about Li Mao's embezzlement of public funds disappeared.

When Qingmo heard this, he snorted angrily and said: "The fairy couple is not a cannibal fireworks, sackcloth and clothes, they are comfortable, but it costs money to run a medical school, and it costs money to recruit students, what can you do without money?" ”

The term "medical school" was not coined by Li Mao, he just gave it a new meaning.

Li Mao went to Laizhou Island, and was able to persuade the Ge couple to go out of the mountain to help, not by money, nor by a smiling face and full of enthusiasm, money and smiling faces Ge and his wife can be seen anywhere, not rare, what really moved the two of them out of the mountain was Li Mao's idea of establishing a medical school, which was not considered a clever idea of running a school in later generations, but it deeply moved the Ge couple and prompted them to leave the island where they had lived in seclusion for more than 30 years without hesitation, and to help the world.

The establishment of the medical school was Li Mao's temporary idea, and without this serious illness, he would not have such an idea. A common cold that could have been solved in a small clinic in later generations almost killed him. This shocked Li Mao and had to think deeply about some questions. Miracle doctors are common, but not everyone can enjoy them.

For the sake of benefiting all sentient beings, for himself and future generations, Li Mao feels that it is worthwhile to do such a thing.

From Zhang Xuan's mouth, Li Mao learned what kind of hardships Qin Niang had paid in order to ask the divine doctor to seal and repair the mountain.

Since she landed on the island, one step at a time, it took a full nine hundred and eighty heads to see the divine doctor, and it was actually a fluke to persuade the divine doctor to go down the mountain, if it weren't for the fact that the divine doctor won a game of chess with an old friend that day, and she was in a good mood, even if she knelt in front of the divine doctor's stone house, she might not be able to impress him at all, the divine doctor is the divine doctor, and the persistence of the laity is worthless in their eyes.

The city bureau allocated a piece of land to the medical school, and Li Mao took out the gold and silver donated by Que Yi to build a house to buy medicinal materials and diagnostic tools, and used the old relationship in Chengwu County to help the Ge couple carefully select 20 handsome young men.

Before the school building of the medical school was completed, the Ge couple officially opened the class according to the teaching model planned by Li Mao. The two have taught countless apprentices in their lives, and they are a little unaccustomed to this way of apprenticeship, but they are not repulsive. According to Li Mao's plan, the students of the medical school implemented a tutor system, Ge Rixiu and his wife each brought ten students, Ge Rixiu sat in the clinic every time and taught on a single day, and Mrs. Ge did the opposite.

Some of the twenty students selected were originally students of the state and county medical halls, and some were born in medical families, all of whom had a certain foundation, and they admired the disciples of Ge Rixiu and his wife, and they learned faster than ordinary people.

Feng Xiu is known as the miracle doctor, the reputation is great, the Ge family and his wife are their disciples, and they are also famous.

Li Mao was born in a civilian family, and he knows that money is expensive, and he knows that it is easy to do things with money, and it is difficult to move an inch without money. After serving as the envoy of the city bureau, how to use his position to seek public and private interests became his top priority in addition to the formation of the city defense battalion.

With the help of the reputation of the Ge couple and the medical concept, Li Mao founded two inns, a restaurant and a large crude medicine shop in the city in the name of the medical school, and the profits were handed over to the city bureau in addition to the normal expenses of the medical school.