The departure ceremony was very grand.

Zhang Gongwei, the right governor of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the commander of the Jiangnan Land Division, presided over the meeting, and Xu Hongji, the commander of the left capital and the commander of the Jiangnan Naval Division, Xu Hongji, the commander of the defense of Jinling City, Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong, and the six Shangshu and Shilang of Nanjing were all present.

On the west side of the altar, the Hushan Conservatory of Music and 300 musicians on both sides of the Qinhuai River gathered together to play the majestic and heroic "General's Order" with 12 musical instruments and two chimes.

The melodious and majestic music attracted bursts of applause from the people, and the civil and military officials nodded frequently, and from time to time high-fived and admired the huge lineup of performers and exquisite arrangements.

On the east side of the altar, there are more than 100 flags symbolizing victory and peace presented by representatives from all walks of life and people in Jinling.

Xuanqing Dao, the abbot of Ziyangguan, led 108 disciples to pray for the soldiers on the solemn altar, and the members of the "Jiangnan Times" almost went out of their nests, and the active figures of the editors interviewing the soldiers and representatives from all walks of life can be seen everywhere.

Zhu Daolin, the founder of the Jiangnan New Army and the commander of the Northern Expedition, presented the flag to the Longtan Army, and the sound of the three-way cannon rang out, and the grand ceremony that lasted for an hour ended, and the soldiers with high morale began to embark on the journey.

Three hundred musicians played the music of "Serving the Country with Loyalty", and tens of thousands of people looked at the soldiers who held high the battle flag and lined up to board the ship, waving their arms excitedly and shouting blessings.

For a time, the flags were like a forest, and more than 5,000 soldiers of the Longtan Army sang in unison, and the majestic and slightly sad earth-shaking singing was exciting, extremely moving, and the cheers and cheers were endless.

The officers and men wore black steel helmets inlaid with the silver insignia of the new army, army green wool-collared cardigans, and cross-draped military kettles and bulging satchels on both sides of their waists. Two leather cartridges and sheathed spears were securely tied to the broad belt around his waist, and his feet were comfortably warm thick-soled cotton shoes, and the musket on his right shoulder emitted a black glow.

The officers above the rank of chief were all dressed in silver chain mail, and their waists hung with simple but sharp Tang knives worth thousands of gold. The young drummers and trumpeters behind the officers at all levels, all carrying a shining short-barreled flintlock musket, neat military appearance and sophisticated equipment, aroused bursts of applause from the audience, and even the civilian officials with half a bucket of water were amazed.

The nobles and hundreds of generals who attended the ceremony were so jealous that their eyes were green, and they knew better than anyone how advanced the weapons and equipment of the Longtan Army were, how much silver it needed, and how much combat effectiveness it had.

In addition to the weapons and equipment on the nearly 6,000 officers and men in front of them, there were also 36 cast-steel field artillery pieces and sturdy and fast artillery carriages that were transported to the north bank in advance, 320 fine war horses and thousands of fat and strong pack horses, and 350 military trucks loaded with various materials. The total value of these materials and equipment that will not appear in the ceremony is not less than 500,000 taels of silver.

Once such an army has gone through the baptism of war and won one or two battles, it will definitely be able to quickly become a powerful army of tigers and wolves.

The shrewd businessmen among the representatives from all walks of life made estimates one after another, and in the end they were surprised to find that the cotton coats on their bodies, the iron helmets they wore on their heads, the high-top thick-soled canvas cotton shoes they stepped on, and the Suifa muskets they held in their hands added up to no less than 250 taels of silver. Because money can't buy it.

Only Zhu Daolin's heart was full of regrets.

In the eyes of others, the majestic and extremely luxurious military uniforms and equipment are in his eyes, but in his eyes, they are patchwork and disorganized. However, the army is in the early stage of creation, and everything can only be dealt with immediately, and it will take at least three years before it can initially achieve basic standardization and regularization.

At night, Zhu Daolin led a hundred personal guards. More than 150 boxes of human body and organ models, surgical instruments, various atlases and anatomical classics were loaded into a carriage and sent to the residence of the abbot of the Ziyang Temple.

Daoist Xuanqing and the six deacons who had been waiting in the main hall for a long time hurriedly greeted them, but they were respectfully invited back by Zhu Daolin.

Guo Zhongjun commanded 100 guards to move large and small wooden boxes into the main hall, and then personally led eight guards to disperse the guard. The others quietly left the courtyard.

Zhu Daolin personally opened two 60-centimeter-square pine boxes, and everyone saw that there was a thick cardboard box in the wooden box.

Zhu Daolin tore open the seal on the cardboard box, took out the hardcover book with the title of the traditional gilded book on the top, and placed it on the wide square table among the seniors:

"This is a color "Anatomical Illustration", and the thousands of pages of pictures and texts are all printed on the best eight-open coated paper, so that the master and uncle can see clearly without wearing glasses."

The long-awaited seven Taoist masters were full of praise for the book's extraordinary length and width and exquisite binding, and couldn't wait to open the cover, and a lifelike color image of the human body was immediately displayed in front of everyone.

Daoist Xuanqing was about to reproach Zhu Daolin for cutting out the "Preface" and "Prologue" content on the previous pages, but he was immediately interrupted by the exclamations of the brothers and sisters in unison.

Zhu Daolin had already walked to a pile of thick cardboard boxes, and after carefully inspecting the serial number, he pulled out one of the boxes and opened it easily, lifted the male mannequin that was almost as tall as himself, skillfully installed the stainless steel support seat plate, and hugged it to a group of stunned elders and placed it upright:

"This model is the most common medical mannequin in every regular hospital in Tianshu Pavilion, from head to toe, half of it is the same as the appearance of a normal person, and the other half accurately shows the muscles, blood vessels, muscles and bones, internal organs, etc. under the human skin, which is clear at a glance and very accurate!"

"There are also female models, human skeleton models, as well as models of heads, internal organs, and local skeleton joints in other boxes, and the master and uncle only need to compare the list and the maps on the classics, and they can quickly distinguish the order, type, and use.

"Wait!"

Second Master Bo Xuanji Daoist walked up quickly, took Zhu Daolin's hand and asked excitedly: "Daolin, if you have anything in your heart, say it to us today!" ”

Zhu Daolin hesitated for a moment, and saw that the master and several uncles and uncles were all around, so he had to say what he had hidden in his heart for a long time:

"The importance of these precious classics, atlases and instruments to the revitalization of my Shangqing School and the Divination Sect is self-evident, Master and your predecessors will definitely treasure and keep them secret, and do not show them easily, but I still hope that more doctors can see ......."

"If we are worried that advanced medicine will fall into the hands of foreign races, we can take a safe way, while concentrating our own strength to study secretly, select the basic theories and related legends from the classics such as "Anatomy", "Internal Medicine", "Surgery", "Gynecology", "Pediatrics", "Chinese Medicine" and other classics brought by our disciples, edit and annotate them in the name of Ziyang Guan or Shangqing School of Medicine, and print them in batches from shallow to deep, as teaching materials and internal study materials for the introductory disciples of Ziyang Medical College."

"As long as it does not involve advanced theoretical research, the formulation of special drugs, and the production process of Chinese patent medicines, they can all be selected and gradually published in the world."

Daoist Xuanqing and the others breathed a long sigh of relief, as long as they didn't pass on the precious classics and maps they brought back from the Tianshu Pavilion, everything would be negotiable.

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