Chapter 150: Money Money Money - Troubles After Victory
In the afternoon, he came to the field hospital, the war was in full swing, in order to treat the wounded and sick, the Biyun Temple in the north of the city was temporarily changed into a field hospital to help the wounded.
Although there has been no large-scale fighting in the past two days, the chief medical officer Huang Xuemao and more than a dozen medical officers and more than 30 doctors in the city have been busy, but now is the era of alternating use of hot and cold weapons, and there are many casualties on the battlefield.
Hearing a wail from afar, Yang Lin's heart tightened, and he walked into the temple quickly, and everyone saw Yang Lin coming, and some of them endured the pain and struggled to stand up.
Huang Xuemao wiped the beads of sweat off his face again and again, pointed to forty or fifty rooms, shook his head and said: "My lord, this is still a seriously wounded person, and the less seriously injured ones are bandaged by the battalions and brigades, and they are not sent over at all."
These are seriously injured, many people have lost too much blood and fainted, some of their hands and feet can't move, some of their hands and feet are cut off alive, and some of their intestines are exposed, and everyone is rescued and treated by the people in the back.
The shouting is mainly for some hands and feet that have been cut off, or the intestines are exposed, and they can't stand it in the morning and evening, and some even beg for him to be broken. ”
Yang Lin thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Alas, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army are all brave and good, and we have fought against three times the number of rogues, which we never thought of in the past.
In the past, it was said that everyone was brave in private weapons and timid in public fighting, why this is so, because after public fighting, no one cares about injuries and no one takes care of them, and private weapons are completely different.
How many of these serious injuries are there? It's probably too painful to bear, but what medicine can relieve everyone's pain? ”
Huang Xuemao thought for a while and sighed: "My lord, there are more than 30 people who have broken their hands and feet, and their bodies have been hit and shouted that they can't stand it, and most of the others have lost too much blood, or their legs and feet are not flexible, or their bodies have been traumatized.
We're all trying to figure it out, but there's no good way. ”
Yang Lin felt a burst of grief and felt a sour nose, and at this moment, a Lang Zhong next to him came up, blinked his eyes and said, "My lord, it's not impossible to suppress the pain."
Our hospital collected dozens of catties of opium poppies from the Yunnan-Guizhou area, and after drying, a small amount of medicine for those who are mild can relieve the pain, and if the pain is severe, let them smoke a small amount and it will not be painful. ”
Huang Xuemao was furious, pointed at this Lang Zhong and scolded: "He Xideng, you, you, although this poppy can relieve the pain, but after smoking, you can't do without this poppy all year round."
Some people put poppies in tobacco leaves, so that everyone can't stop it, and Sizong (Emperor Chongzhen) once ordered a ban on tobacco smoking.
Look at it, a few days ago, you let some injured patients smoke poppies, and the old man criticized you fiercely, I can't imagine that you will bring up the old things again in front of adults today. ”
Opium poppy is opium, of course Yang Lin knows this, although opium has an analgesic effect, it was a famous drug in the previous life, do you want to open up the use of opium?
At this moment, a nurse next to him (set up by Yang Lin, recruiting a woman from a good family to take care of the injured) hurriedly ran over, claiming that there was a serious injury and fainted again.
Yang Lin was shocked, and regardless of everyone's obstruction, he led everyone to the room. There were four or five wounded people living in the room, and some people were crying in a low voice as they looked at the wounds who had fainted.
He Xideng rushed up, checked the pulse, and said with a sad face: "My lord, Liu Laosan fainted to death, and the day before yesterday he was brought in, Liu Laosan was injured in seven or eight places, the most serious one was the only son, who almost broke his stomach."
A few of us were busy for a long time before we applied the plaster and bandaged it properly, but the injury was quite serious, and the pain was unbearable every day, and I fainted four or five times before and after. ”
Yang Lin sighed: "Everyone, it is a medicine that is poisonous, and this opium poppy is a drug in a drug, if it is consumed for a long time, it will inevitably damage the body and lose people's life."
If you smoke it once you don't smoke it anymore, you will be weak and you can't stop it.
This, this, how do I choose? ”
He Xiden arched his hand and said: "My lord, the lesser of two evils, just like this Liu Laosan, it is not easy to save his life, let alone health and longevity?" ”
Bending down to cover Liu Laosan in person, straightening up again, Yang Lin sighed and said: "A small amount of opium is allowed to be used in medicine, not to set up five medical teams, if a small amount of opium is needed, it needs to be approved by the medical officer."
For particularly serious patients who need to use opium, they must be approved by the Chief Medical Officer or the Assistant Medical Officer.
In addition, it is strictly forbidden to add or smoke opium to the injured without permission.
Those who add opium for medicinal purposes should be observed separately for 30 days before being discharged from the hospital to confirm that they have quit the hidden danger of opium.
If an opium addict recovers and is discharged from the hospital, he or she must be isolated in a room, tied to a pillar, and provided with three meals a day for 30 days, before he can be discharged. ”
This is also a way to do it, just as Chongzhen once quit smoking, the ancients also understood the harm of smoking opium.
After that, Yang Lin finished eating with the injured in Biyun Temple, and felt tears when he saw that the food was poor.
After thinking about it for a long time, Yang Lin decided to improve the food treatment of the injured number, in addition to the full meal, one egg per person per day, and one or two meat per person a day.
In this era, although pork is very scarce, there are many people running in the mountains and swimming in the water, just like a small river when I was a child, as long as I opened a pebble, there were crabs, frogs, fish, etc.
Although everyone loves to eat beef, sheep and pork and does not like to eat these fish, in order to supplement everyone's nutrition, each brigade is sent to the station to fish and supplement nutrition.
Money money, money, money, money is needed to compensate for the seriously injured, and money is needed to reward meritorious personnel........
After returning to Yamen late at night, Tongzhi Qian Bangqi, Fan Wenguang, and Zhao Sixuan found Yang Lin, and the most talked about was money.
It is not difficult to fight a war, but it is difficult to win a war and need money to reward it, Yang Lin has both military and local positions, and after the victory of the army, the most important thing is to raise money and food.
The Ming Dynasty stipulated that 5 liters of rice per mu of paddy field and 3 liters of rice per mu of dry land, and after the additional three salaries, 7 liters and 5 liters per mu of paddy field and 5 liters of dry land, but the actual levy was more.
Due to the income from business and other aspects, coupled with the large increase in the collection of household registration books and identity cards, the actual increase in the income of the field endowment is far from reaching the amount of tax collected by the government.
1 bucket of millet (6 liters of rice) is levied per mu of paddy field, and 5 liters of wheat is levied on dry land, which is even lower than before the three salaries were added.
Shunqing Prefecture (including today's Nanchong and Guang'an) has 5 million mu of cultivated land, including 1.5 million mu of paddy fields and 3.5 million mu of dry land (now Nanchong has 15 million mu of cultivated land), even if you add Dazhou paddy fields, it is only 2 million mu, and dry land is only 4.5 million mu.
According to the adjusted field levy standard, 200,000 quintals of millet (or 120,000 quintals of white rice) and 260,000 quintals of wheat can be collected, and if the income from official fields is added, 150,000 quintals of rice and 300,000 quintals of wheat can be levied every year.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Shunqing Prefecture had a population of 1 million (including today's Nanchong and Guang'an), 250,000 men, and could receive 24,000 taels of Ding (deducting various reductions and exemptions)
In addition to these two traditional tax sources, it also includes 60,000 yuan for business, 10,000 yuan for guan, and other taxes, and theoretically 100,000 taels of silver can be received.
According to the principle of sharing, 20% was reserved for the prefecture and county, and 80% was handed over, and only 140,000 taels of silver could be used by the prefect and yamen, and these included the payment of military salaries, the manufacture of weapons, the compensation for the dead and wounded, and general administrative expenses.
In this way, 80,000 taels of silver, 120,000 quintals of rice, and 240,000 quintals of wheat were available.
(During the Wanli period, the price of a load of rice was from seven dollars to one tael of silver, and in the last year of Chongzhen, due to the failure of the grain harvest, a load of grain exceeded one or two silver (to the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, it was depreciated to 2-3 taels of silver, and to the Republic of China, it was depreciated to 4 oceans.) ))
You must know that when the cannon goes off, there are 10,000 taels of gold, and money can be fought in a war, and if there is no major war, financial balance can still be achieved.
But this time Zhang Xianzhong invaded, and he was overstretched at once, and now everyone got together and sighed.