The Great Qin Empire---Qin Li

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the military of various countries already had the prototype of military doctors. In the army of Qi, there were "two alchemists who were in charge of hundreds of medicines to treat wounds and cure all kinds of diseases". The same was true in Qin. Chen Wujiu was the person in charge of medicine in this army. It was said that he was from Xianyang, spoke with a strong Guanzhong accent, and had a close relationship with Yang Xiong's family.

Although Chen Wujiu had been urging Heifu to quickly demonstrate the bandaging technique for Dongmen Bao to him again, Heifu did not immediately agree to obey.

He insisted on visiting Dongmen Bao first.

Chen Wujiu could not persuade this stubborn captain, so he had to take him there.

Dongmen Bao was lying on a couch in a tent. The conditions here were relatively good. At least it was clean, there was no sewage flowing, and there was no pus, blood and dirt all over the ground. But if you look carefully at the wounded and sick lying here, it is not difficult to find that there are some generals and garrison commanders on both sides. The garrison commander Huaimu who first entered the garrison is also here, but there is only one sergeant, Dongmenbao...

Heifu immediately understood that this place does not accept all the wounded and sick, but gives priority to treating the wounded and officers with titles. Ji Ying just told him quietly that he had brought people to carry Dongmenbao here before. If Chen Wujiu had not seen the bandage technique on Dongmenbao's body and was impressed, he would probably not let them in.

This cannot be blamed on Chen Wujiu himself, because although he is a doctor accompanying the army, he is mainly responsible for treating the officers and officials, and he is not obliged to rescue all the soldiers. After all, in a troop of one or two thousand people, there are only Chen Wujiu and his apprentice, two doctors...

After finding that Dongmenbao was indeed not dead, and was half asleep and half awake, he just frowned and cried in pain. He tested his skin and found that there were signs of fever.

"How can you say that you are safe? The real danger is still to come!"

Hei Fu sighed in his heart, and after going outside, he bowed to Chen Wujiu.

"Doctor Chen asked me to demonstrate the technique of bandaging wounds, but it is difficult for me to do it, because I got this skill by chance when I was young..."

Hei Fu's mysterious words immediately aroused Chen Wujiu's interest, and he began to ask who taught Hei Fu the bandaging technique.

Hei Fu made up a story and sketched out the image of an old man who passed by Anlu and had a fairy-like appearance. He also said that when he was young, he injured his legs and feet while chopping wood, and it was the old man who treated him and taught him the technique of bandaging wounds...

Chen Wujiu was amazed: "Is this a doctor who travels around the people to practice medicine?"

Doctors were also one of the hundreds of schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, specializing in studying medical skills and curing diseases and saving lives.

The most famous figure in the medical field is Bian Que. However, Bian Que is not a person, but a title. Like the "giant" of Mohism, it is the title of the leader of the medical field.

These people were named "Medical Bian Que" and passed down from generation to generation, so the deeds of the people continued from the Guo State in the early Spring and Autumn Period, Zhao Xiangzi in the late Spring and Autumn Period, Tian Qi Huanhou in the early Warring States Period, and continued to the Qin Wuwang era, spanning more than 400 years. The footprints of "Medical Bian Que" were all over Sanjin, Qin, Qi, Cai, and Chu.

However, ninety years ago, the last medical doctor Bian Que was assassinated in Xianyang by the Qin imperial physician who was jealous of his talents, and the medical field lost its inheritance. Most famous doctors entered the palace and depended on the powerful. Only some disciples who insisted on the ideal of Medical Bian Que were scattered in various countries and continued to treat diseases among the people.

So Chen Wujiu guessed that if what Hei Fu said was true, the old man might really be a rare heir of the medical field in the world.

Because the way Heifu bandaged Dongmen Bao would be a common battlefield rescue in later generations. But this is the essence summed up by countless medical staff in countless wars in modern times, and it is already extremely mature. In ancient times when medical skills were still in their infancy, wouldn't it make doctors of this era astonished?

So Chen Wujiu was fascinated when he saw the wound bandage for the first time. In this era, there was already a saying of "wrap the wound and fight again". When treating the wound, it would be wrapped with cloth, but it was very rough and casual, whether it was a triangular bandage, an eight-shaped bandage, or a twisting stick. Where had he seen such a perfect treatment method?

A doctor named Bian Que said: "People are sick of many diseases; doctors are sick of few ways to treat diseases." It means that ordinary people are worried about too many types of diseases, while doctors are worried about too few ways to treat diseases.

Knowing one more way to bandage a wound should be a huge gain for doctor Chen Wujiu.

However, just as Chen Wujiu was becoming more and more interested, Hei Fu's next words poured cold water on him.

"The old man who taught me said that this method should be kept in mind and used for self-help, but it must not be passed on to others..."

"It is so..."

Chen Wujiu was disappointed, but he could understand it in his heart, because the profession of doctors pays the most attention to the inheritance of teachers. After the last doctor Bian Que died of Qin Taiyi's jealousy, doctors scattered and existed in name only. Different schools were wary of each other and cherished their own secrets.

Especially the secret recipe, which must not be passed on to others!

You know, it is said that the first generation of doctors Bian Que also went through more than ten years of testing when he worshipped Changshangjun as his teacher. Then Changshangjun was willing to teach him and told him: "I have a forbidden recipe. I am old. I want to pass it on to you. Don't leak it!"

So it is understandable that the "old man" asked Hei Fu to keep it secret.

This is the industry rule, and Chen Wujiu did not want to force it.

However, when he was about to give up, Hei Fu pretended to hesitate and said, "That being said, almost ten years have passed, and I don't know if the elder is still alive. I think this method of wound wrapping is useless if only I know it. It should be spread, especially to doctors, so that more people can benefit."

Hei Fu bowed to Chen Wujiu, who was full of surprise, and said, "Hei Fu is willing to demonstrate this method to Doctor Chen, but there are two conditions..."

"Another condition?"

Chen Wujiu frowned and looked Hei Fu up and down. He thought he wanted to use this method to exchange for some benefits and money, so he looked down on Hei Fu in his heart, but nodded, "You tell me first."

"First, in exchange for my demonstration of the wound wrapping technique, I hope Doctor Chen can use the best wound medicine for Gong Shibao! Make sure he survives, what do you think?"

Golden wound medicine is a special Chinese medicine for treating sword wounds. Yunnan Baiyao, which is common in later generations, is a kind of golden wound medicine, but it can only stop bleeding and relieve pain, which is far from the magical description in some martial arts novels.

After hearing Heifu's "conditions", Chen Wujiu was stunned, and then laughed: "So that's it, Heifu, you have been talking for a long time, and it turns out that you are planning to take the "Thousand Gold Medicine" in my hand!"

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When Heifu was in Anlu County, he knew that doctors in this era had been divided into several professional categories.

There are food doctors, which are equivalent to nutritionists in later generations. They are only available in the palace or the homes of great nobles. They are responsible for adjusting the diet for the princes and nobles, and by the way, they treat their indigestion and gastrointestinal diseases after eating too much fish and meat.

There are disease doctors, which are the most common, treating headaches and fevers.

There are veterinarians, as the name suggests, who specialize in treating livestock diseases.

There are pediatricians and leucorrhea doctors, corresponding to pediatrics and gynecology respectively.

There are also yang doctors, who treat swelling, ulcers, wounds, fractures, and sores with medicine, scraping, and killing... To put it bluntly, they are ancient surgeons. Among the yang doctors, those who specialize in treating wounds, that is, sword wounds, are also called wound doctors, and Chen Wujiu in front of us is one of them.

Wound wrapping, acupuncture, medication, and scraping are the four healing methods of wound doctors, but Hei Fu only knows a little battlefield rescue and bandaging wounds to stop bleeding, which can only prevent Dongmen Bao from dying from excessive blood loss. If he wants to recover, he has to rely on the treatment of wound doctor Chen Wujiu.

However, when visiting Dongmen Bao just now, Hei Fu understood that in this army of more than a thousand people, there are only two doctors, Chen Wujiu and his apprentice, who must not be able to take care of dozens or hundreds of wounded. They are only responsible for treating the wounds of generals and military officers. As for the others, just deal with them casually.

And depending on the rank of the military officer, the degree of care provided by the doctors is also very different. Hei Fu can guess that Yang Xiong, Zhang Yi, and Chen Wujiu will definitely take good care of them and use the best medicine for wounds; for generals and garrison commanders, ordinary medicine will be used; as for the squad leader Dongmen Bao? Whether he is willing to use medicine is another matter...

So Hei Fu is a little worried. Although Dongmen Bao's bleeding stopped and he survived, his injuries were not light, and he might die of carbuncle one day!

In ancient times, there was no way to fight infection and tetanus. Once the wound was infected, the only way was to rely on the wounded's own resistance to survive the infection period. The so-called "death from carbuncle" was actually death caused by complications caused by wound infection. Therefore, in the era of cold weapons, the mortality rate of the wounded was very high. Severe injuries basically meant waiting to die, and minor injuries could only be left to fate. No one could save them when they were unlucky.

But there are exceptions.

When Heifu was chatting with Yang Xiong's old subordinates in the army, he heard from them that Yang Xiong was a son of a general, and his father was the famous Zuo Shuzhang Yang Duanhe!

Yang Duanhe had followed Wang Jian to attack Wei and Zhao, and captured Yecheng, with great military exploits. But a few years ago, Yang Duanhe was injured in a battle with Zhao's general Li Mu, "with more than ten serious wounds on his body, but there was a thousand-dollar good medicine, so he was not dead." The one who treated Yang Duanhe and used the "thousand-dollar good medicine" for him was the doctor Chen Wujiu from Xianyang in front of him...

Therefore, Chen Wujiu must have a secret recipe passed down from master to apprentice! Although this thing cannot be compared with the special medicine of later generations, it may greatly increase the chances of Dongmen Bao's survival.

After Heifu finished his conditions, he looked at Chen Wujiu steadily. He hoped that Chen Wujiu was not a short-sighted person and could accept this condition. Using the hemostatic bandage method of later times, in exchange for his careful care for a 10-year-old official and the use of expensive wound medicine to save his life, this deal was not a loss at all.

Chen Wujiu put his hands behind his back and thought for a moment before saying, "It's okay. I can give the soldier medicine to keep him alive, but I want to hear the second condition from the captain!"

Hei Fu had been thinking for a long time and said immediately, "Although this is Hei Fu's first time on the battlefield, he saw that many soldiers were injured in the attack and capture of the city, but there was a shortage of military doctors in the camp. There were only two doctors for every thousand soldiers, and it was difficult to rush to the battlefield in time to treat the wounded. So Hei Fu had an idea."

He bowed and said, "The bandaging method that Hei Fu learned is actually not difficult. If one soldier in each garrison or every hundred people can learn this method, he can stop the bleeding of the wounded in time on the battlefield, and perhaps save their lives!"

Hei Fu bandaged the people in this garrison and other garrisons today, winning their admiration and gratitude. Many people even bowed to him to thank him for saving their lives. After this incident, Hei Fu suddenly thought that if the medical soldier system of later generations could be brought to Qin, could more lives be saved?

"Mrs. Hei's influence is not important, but I heard that Doctor Chen is a famous doctor in Xianyang, and has been a medical officer for generations. Maybe he can submit this method together with Hei Fu's idea to Xianyang to reach the emperor..."

After that, Hei Fu bowed deeply to Chen Wujiu: "This is Hei Fu's unwelcome request!"

Chen Wujiu was a little stunned. If he could guess Hei Fu's first condition, then the second condition was something he had never thought of.

"Let every hundred and every village learn how to bandage the wound and stop the bleeding in time?"

The idea was indeed good, but Chen Wujiu neither clapped his hands and praised it, nor did he call it a genius.

He just wanted to laugh, laugh at Hei Fu's naivety.

"Even if the wounded are saved on the battlefield, so what?"

Chen Wujiu spread his hands helplessly and said: "There are still only one or two wound doctors in the camp. How can we take care of hundreds of wounds? We can only try our best to save the lives of soldiers. As for most people, they will still die. This is fate. How can we change it?"

Different from the bandaging that ordinary people can master after a few days of training. Acupuncture, medication, scraping, these professional techniques must be trained for several years or even more than ten years. Moreover, the treatment efficiency is very low and slow. Although the medicine of Qin is the top of its time, it can't find so many doctors to be military doctors!

Besides, good wound medicine is as expensive as gold. How can it be popularized to every wounded?

However, Hei Fu's next words made Chen Wujiu amazed.

"The doctor is right. After the rescue, the military doctors cannot take care of all of them. They may die in the end. Perhaps, this is the fate..."

Hei Fu has no choice. He is not a professional medical staff. He is just a half-baked person who has learned battlefield rescue for a few days. He can popularize some common sense of disinfection in the future. Let him wear a white coat and perform surgery to treat diseases and save lives? Let the wounded come back to life and jump around? Don't joke.

Even if he is given a Baidu system, he can't do it. Before entering the modern era, before having various special medicines, the life and death of the wounded can only be said to be a matter of days, disinfection and bandage, and then whether they can survive depends on luck.

Hei Fu emphasized: "But whether to save or not on the battlefield is a human matter!"

"I heard that in the past, when King Gou Jian of Yue was sick and could not follow the army, he gave them medicine and porridge and ate with them."

"General Sima Rangju of Qi also asked about the illnesses of soldiers and carried them on his back."

"General Wu Qi of Wei shared the fatigue with the soldiers. When a soldier had carbuncle, he sucked the pus and blood himself."

"These three were all heroes and famous generals of the time. Don't they understand that it is impossible to save all the soldiers with only one person's strength and only a few medicines?"

"But timely rescue on the battlefield is not just as simple as saving the lives of injured soldiers, but also reassuring the uninjured soldiers, making them feel that even if they fight hard and get injured, they will not be abandoned!"

Later generations have realized that the key to maintaining vigorous combat effectiveness lies not only in the military's military strength, but also in the logistics and health support of the army. In battle, the army needs sufficient medical support to serve the wounded and sick, just like the movie "Hacksaw Ridge", a medical soldier who is active in the front line to save lives can greatly boost morale.

Chen Wujiu was really shocked this time. If it was Yang Duanhe or Yang Xiong who said this to him, he would not be too surprised.

But Hei Fu is just an ordinary little village chief! Not only does he know the deeds of Gou Jian, Sima Rangju, and Wu Qi, but he can also say such a wonderful truth.

Hei Fu continued: "The doctor just said that the establishment of military medical doctors is specially for generals and officers, in order to save the lives of the generals of the state."

"Then, the medical staff who bandage the wounded are specially for ordinary soldiers! Eliminate the fear of the soldiers dying if they are injured, and make them more courageous in fighting! This matter is beneficial to the country, the army, and the individual! I hope Doctor Chen will think about it!"