After a while, Lin Qirong and Yao Yuan arrived with two generals, but these two generals were Chen Zhiming and Li Tianxi, these two people had survived the battle with Hong Yuner in the broken temple, and after previous wars, and then stayed in Jiujiang with Lin Qirong, and the merit has been promoted to the division commander, this time the West Temple soldiers and horses marched eastward, Lin Qirong led the two generals to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to the east, and Jiujiang left 5,000 soldiers and horses to guard, and then handed over to the East Palace. After Lin Qirong's troops arrived in Wuxi, he left 5,000 soldiers and horses to follow Chen Yucheng to defend Wuxi, and he rushed to Suzhou with Hong Yuner and Yao Yuan to reinforce.

Chen Zhiming and Li Tianxi both joined the Taiping Army in Hunan, and experienced several wars, especially in the battle with Hong Yuner in the broken temple, the two and Yao Yuan fought to the death and did not retreat, swearing to defend the West Wangniang, loyalty and will have been greatly tested, and they were naturally reused after surviving.

Since the conquest of Changsha, the West Hall of men and horses from thousands of people swelled sharply to 100,000, the original Guangxi brothers and many Hunan to join the recruits have become the backbone of the West Hall of soldiers and horses, like Li Tianxi is promoted very quickly, Li Tianxi in the war tempered, has long been no longer the former for the sake of the rice and grain worried about the small people, but become the commander of more than 2,000 people.

And Yao Yuan was promoted to the chief life-saving officer of the West Palace, with the same post as the inspection point, according to the understanding of later generations, he was the president of the military logistics general hospital, and Yao Yuan visited the local famous doctors everywhere, and invited famous doctors and Lang Zhong from all over the country to join the life-saving hall. In the past few months, the Rescue Hall has sent a very large number of life-saving personnel to various armies to serve as field doctors and nurses, so that the medical system of the West Hall has been greatly developed, so that the wounded soldiers on the battlefield have been amended, and the proportion of wounded soldiers dying due to serious injuries in the West Hall has been greatly reduced. Among them, Yao Yuan's contribution is great.

The development of the life-saving hall is also inseparable from the abundant funds, as early as after Xiao Yungui made a windfall in Yuezhou, he allocated more than 100,000 taels of silver to the life-saving hall, and every place the Taiping army searched for famous doctors and Langzhong, and invited them to join the Taiping army with high salaries.

After the four of them entered the tent, they bowed to the King of the West, Xiao Yungui smiled and ordered the four of them to sit down, and before Xiao Yungui could speak, Yao Yuan rushed to say, "King of the West." The subordinates saw that Xi Wangniang was leading more than a dozen foreigners around the camp, and dared to ask them if they were foreigner missionaries? ”

Xiao Yungui nodded, and Yao Yuan said happily: "King Xi, can you let your subordinates talk to those foreigners?" I heard in Wuxi that Western medicine was very different from our Chinese medicine, and these foreign missionaries also opened a hospital in Shanghai. My subordinates wanted to talk to them about Western medicine. ”

Xiao Yungui, Lin Qirong and the others all laughed, and everyone knew that Yao Yuan was addicted to being a life-saving officer. Obsessed with medical skills. When they see new medical skills, they often can't wait to come forward to seek advice. Generally speaking, in addition to preaching, foreign missionaries also established modern schools and hospitals, such as Luo Weilin, who also opened a hospital in Zhoushan. The missionaries' practices were similar to those of the Yellow Turban uprisings in the past, and Zhang Jiao also gave medicine while spreading his teachings. It's just that Western medicine is too radical compared to Chinese medicine, and Chinese medicine pays attention to the root cause, and improves the body's own resistance by conditioning the human body. Thus curing the disease. Western medicine pays attention to the treatment of symptoms, directly prescribes medicine to the symptoms, and relieves the patient's pain through drugs and surgery, although the effect is fast, but there are also side effects on the human body.

When Yao Yuan was in Wuxi, he heard that there were foreign missionaries in Shanghai who could also cure diseases, so he made up his mind to come to Shanghai to see Western medicine. Seeing that everyone laughed, Yao Yuan said seriously: "King Xi, medical skills are very serious, the profundity of medical Taoism lies in constantly asking for advice from famous teachers and masters, since those foreign brothers understand medical skills, their subordinates naturally want to consult with them, what's so ridiculous?" ”

Xiao Yungui couldn't help but smile and said: "This king is not laughing at you, but happy, our Yao Yuan is obsessed with medical skills, that is a blessing for all of us, any illness in the future will not be difficult for you, then we will be more at ease to kill the enemy in front." Speaking of this, Xiao Yungui thought about it, Yao Yuan didn't lead the troops to fight much at the moment, and it didn't have much effect to ask him to stay and discuss military affairs, his mind must have flown out of the tent, and he coughed lightly at the moment: "In this way, this king agrees that you go out to ask foreigners for medical skills, you can discuss with them, and after we capture Shanghai, can we open a few more hospitals in Shanghai, which have both Chinese medicine and Western medicine, and ask them if they can open some pharmaceutical factories together to make our Chinese herbal medicines into medicines, which are convenient for marching and fighting, It is also convenient for the common people to use. ”

In fact, the earliest to open a pharmaceutical factory in history was the famous Hui merchant Hu Xueyan, who opened Hu Qingyutang Pharmaceutical in 1872 in Hangzhou to open a pharmacy, that is, a pharmaceutical factory. After Hu Xueyan collected a lot of folk prescriptions, refined into medicines, very popular, such as Hu's Pill of the Plague, Zhuge Xingjun San, Babao Red Pill, Xiao Chai Hu Dan and other drugs have always been the necessary drugs for the Qing army to march, many drugs like Xiao Chai Hu Dan have even been handed down to later generations are still in use. Hu Xueyan promoted China's pharmaceutical industry and is also known as the king of Jiangnan medicine.

But now it's different, Xiao Yungui has Yao Yuan under his command, and the medical system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is also very complete, he must promote the construction of pharmaceutical factories, Chinese herbal medicine is really inconvenient to carry in the process of marching, and the current procurement will sometimes encounter a shortage of goods after arriving in a place, it is better to open a pharmaceutical factory by yourself, and make Chinese herbal medicines into finished products, which is easy to carry during the march, and second, it is also a commodity, which can make money in the future, and third, it is very necessary to promote the development of China's pharmaceutical industry to modernization. So Xiao Yungui handed over this matter to Yao Yuan, anyway, this kid likes to do this.

Yao Yuan was overjoyed when he heard this, got up and hugged his fists and was about to leave, just as Zhou Lichun's father and daughter and several Qingpu Righteous Army generals came into the tent, Xiao Yungui stopped Yao Yuan again: "The Qingpu Righteous Army has newly joined my heavenly kingdom, and there is a lack of medical wardens and life-saving officers in the army, how many people have you brought?" First divide half of the men to the Qingpu Rebel Army to treat the injured and sick rebel brothers. ”

Yao Yuan immediately received the order, Zhou Lichun and the others were moved in their hearts when they heard this, they were all from farmers, and any diseases on weekdays were treated by themselves with the countryside earthwork, or they could just endure it, they didn't think that there were special military doctors in the Taiping Army, and as soon as they came up, the king of the West allocated half of the military doctors to the righteous army, and there was no difference between relatives and aliens in the Qingpu Righteous Army, and they were naturally grateful.

Zhou Lichun and others thanked the Queen of the West, Yao Yuan and Zhou Lichun agreed to send someone over later, and after finishing speaking, Yao Yuan hurriedly left the tent to chase Hong Yun'er and those missionaries.

After Yao Yuan left, Xiao Yungui introduced Lin Qirong, Chen Zhiming, Li Tianxi and Zhou Lichun to each other, and the generals of the Taiping Army and the Qingpu Righteous Army exchanged a few polite words, and then sat down to discuss the military.

Zhou Xiuying didn't know if it was because of the pain in her buttocks after being beaten or because of Zhou Lichun's tutor, so she didn't sit down, but stood behind Zhou Lichun, and when she saw Xiao Yungui inadvertently glancing at her buttocks, Zhou Xiuying couldn't help but lower her head, and her face was slightly red.

"Tonight, Suzhou reinforcements arrived, our army reached nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, artillery, equipment, grain and grass are sufficient, since the current soldiers are full of food, this king wants to change the deployment, besiege Shanghai City, and then capture Shanghai." Xiao Yungui's eyes retracted from Zhou Xiuying's buttocks, and he coughed lightly and said slowly: "At present, we occupy the south and west of Shanghai, this king wants to divide his troops to the east and north, all the way to attack Wusong, Baoshan line, all the way to attack Minhang, Zhoupu, Chuansha, Gaoqiao and other places, the two armies Zuihou in the Huangpu River Wusongkou across the river, set up an artillery array, complete the blockade of the Huangpu River, so that the Qing army's ships can not enter the Huangpu River!" ”

Xiao Yungui had not enough soldiers and horses before, so he could only reluctantly divide his troops to attack the south and west of Shanghai, although the Qingpu Righteous Army had five or six thousand people, but during the day, after looking at their arrays, he found that the combat effectiveness of these righteous troops was similar to that of the Qing Army, and they could only strengthen the Taiping Army. Later, after Hong Yuner and Lin Qirong brought reinforcements, Xiao Yungui immediately became rich, and after reading the map of the current Shanghai area, Xiao Yungui knew that in order to capture Shanghai, it was necessary to cut off land and water transportation, so that Shanghai was isolated. In particular, the waterway of the Huangpu River, where there were a lot of sand boats and merchant ships shuttling back and forth, Wu Jianzhang would certainly ask the Qing army in Jiangbei, Fujian, and other places for help, and if the Qing army reinforcements from these places came to Shanghai by water, then soldiers, firearms, money, and grain would continue to reach Shanghai from the Huangpu River.

And the Guangdong naval division has arrived in Xiamen, maybe one day it will be driven to Shanghai, Xiao Yungui does not want to be in the siege of the city, the Qing army's reinforcements suddenly arrived, resulting in the failure of the siege battle, the most haode way is to block Wusongkou with artillery arrays on both sides of the strait.

Before the opening of Shanghai, Suzhou Creek has always been called Wusong River, but after the opening of Shanghai, because foreigners found that they could take a boat from this river to Suzhou, so it was called Suzhou Creek. But Chinese officials have always called this river Wusongjiang, so the name Wusongjiang has not changed. Before the Ming Dynasty, the Wusong River was the main channel of Taihu Lake, and the Huangpu River was its tributary. At that time, the lower reaches of the Wusong River roughly ran from Beixinjing through Caoyang Xincun to Tanziwan, northeast to Qiujiang Road to Qiujiang Wharf, and then along the north section of the Huangpu River to the north of Fuxing Island, out of Dajiapukou (later renamed Wusongkou) into the Yangtze River. At that time, Huangpu originally flowed into the Wusong River (formerly called Huangpukou) near the present-day Jiaxing Road and Bridge through Shanghai Pu (now Hongkou Port).

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because the Wusong River was shallow and serious, the Huangpu Mouth was blocked and impassable, Xia Yuanji, the head of the household at that time, dredged the tributaries on the north and south banks of the Wusong River, led the water of Taihu Lake into the Liuhe River, and Baimao directly injected the Yangtze River (掣淞入Liu), and dredged the Fanjiabang in the northeast of Shanghai County, so that the Huangpu flowed northwest from the present Fuxing Island to the Wusongkou into the Yangtze River, after which Wusongkou actually became the Huangpu Mouth, so there is the saying of "Huangpu seizing Song", and then the Wusong River gradually became in a secondary position.

The generals nodded in agreement when they heard this, Zhou Lichun was a native of Shanghai, and he was also familiar with Wusongkou, so he got up and said: "King Xi, our Qingpu Righteous Army is familiar with all parts of Shanghai, and we are willing to be the forerunner. (To be continued.) )