Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 91

"Where is the military doctor?" Yang Menglong called out loudly.

Several middle-aged men with sad faces, dressed worse than beggars, stood up: "Sir, we are military medical officers."

Yang Menglong looked at these guys: "How is your medical skill?"

These guys looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.Like military households and craftsmen households, in the guardhouse, the position of military doctor is passed down from generation to generation. If you become a military doctor, your son, your son's son, and your grandson's grandson can only serve as military medical officers until the death of the heir or Until the entire guard was abolished.Officials don't care whether you can treat illnesses and save people. Anyway, as long as you collect enough people, they won't take the medicine you prescribe. As for how many soldiers died due to medical accidents, they don't care.None of these people know which generation of their families started working as military doctors. Anyway, it has been passed down from generation to generation. The history is getting longer and longer, but the ability to treat diseases and save lives is becoming more and more rare.The oldest military doctor said hesitantly: "If you talk about adults, there is no law to treat serious illnesses and villains, but minor illnesses can be cured..."

Yang Menglong waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I will issue a new uniform to each of you in a few days, open two clinics, and then you will work in those two clinics. People in the clinic will go to the clinic when they are sick. When you see a doctor, bring the receipt to me for reimbursement after seeing the doctor. Minor illnesses are free, but for serious illnesses, [-]% of the reimbursement is fine. You just need to pay [-]% of the medicine fee, and I will pay for the rest. As for your treatment, Let's talk about it later." The voice raised eight tones: "Have you heard clearly? If you get sick, you can go to the clinic to see the doctor. The money spent on seeing the doctor can be reimbursed. Don't procrastinate, and let the minor illness turn into a serious illness! "

Can I still see a doctor for free?

Everyone was completely dumbfounded, stunned for a long time, no one knew who uttered a cry: "Little General Yang, you are a good man!" The words awakened the dreamer, and everyone fell to the ground in a clatter, and some even cried aloud.Yang Menglong frowned, hell, he made him worship like a dead man again.Don't pray, okay, I'm not dead yet!

At this time, Xu Gong said: "Little General Yang, you are so kind to us, you are really a bodhisattva! But these things are free, and there must be many people who will be jealous. If they also flood into the guard Free bathing and medical treatment, what should I do? No matter how rich you are, you can’t afford such a torment?”

As soon as they heard that these benefits might be used by outsiders, everyone immediately jumped up and looked at Yang Menglong nervously, fearing that this cute baby-faced man was really a Bodhisattva with overflowing compassion. If ordinary people also enjoy these benefits, what would happen to them? It's a shame.Yang Menglong waved his hand and said: "This is easy to do. Only with military status can you enjoy the above benefits. If you don't have military status, I'm sorry. We welcome you, but please pay the money first!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and grinned. For the first time, they realized that being a military household is not a bad thing, at least it is not a bad thing to be a military household under Yang Menglong...

Yang Menglong saw through their thoughts at a glance, sighed, and said: "You don't need to thank me, you deserve this, it was your husband, son, father, and brother who fought with Jiannu in Wuyang." What came out is that they exchanged their lives for these benefits for you, so you have to live well and don't let their blood flow in vain."

It was only then that everyone remembered that more than 400 of them died in Wuyang, and most of them came back with injuries.

Yang Menglong raised his voice: "We fought a fierce battle with the Jiannu slaves, captured a lot of trophies, and received a lot of silver rewards. At that time, everyone proposed to divide the money. I didn't agree. I think it would be better to pool the money together. Do more things. Of course, there are many families of the fallen here who don’t know this is happening. Now I’m telling you the truth. It’s up to you to choose. Should the money be divided or not?”

Everyone looked at each other, and thousands of voices shouted in unison: "No distinction!"

Yang Menglong smiled: "This is a lot of money, each household can get more than ten taels!"

Everyone shouted even more fiercely: "Whoever divides is an idiot!"

It is true that whoever is divided is an idiot.After dividing the money, where can I get free cloth to make new clothes for the mother-in-law and doll?Where can I find a school that is free and provides lunch by the way?Where can I find a free bathhouse?Where can I go to see a doctor for free?A dozen taels of silver sounds like a lot, but now that the price of goods is soaring, I am afraid that it will be spent in less than a year. What can I do in the future?It's different if it's concentrated in Yang Menglong's hands. These free benefits can be enjoyed for life—at least for decades. This account can be settled by individuals.

Free things are always the most popular, who said ordinary people are stupid?The common people are very smart.

Yang Menglong said: "Then it's settled. Go back and register with me with your military status, so as not to be fished in troubled waters."

Everyone readily agreed.

Yang Menglong waited for everyone's excitement to subside a little, then continued: "Okay, now that's done, everyone is very excited, right? What I'm going to say next may not make you excited anymore."

Everyone immediately quieted down.

Yang Menglong pointed to the outside: "I saw that the crops in our army fields are in bad shape. They either withered or were eaten up by pests. If this continues, everyone will have to drink the northwest wind!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone's expressions changed immediately.An old military household with white hair in his 50s said in a crying voice: "My lord, we have tried our best to protect the crops, but God, this thief insists on not letting any rain, and there are so many insects." , we have nothing to do! General Xiao Yang, you are a good man, please save us!"

Yang Menglong shook his head: "I can't save you, you are the only ones who can save you... Where are the craftsmen? Come out!"

Three NO.40 The craftsman whose clothes were as rotten as a fishnet stood up tremblingly. The leader was an old man with wrinkled face. It seemed that he was the leader of the craftsman.The leader wanted to kneel down, but Jiang Zheng quickly grabbed him with his eyes and hands. Didn't you see that Yang Menglong's eyebrows were furrowed? If he knelt again, he would lose his face.The old craftsman didn't know why, so he said in fear: "Master Yang, the villain Li Lin, is the general banner of the craftsman, what orders do you have?"

Seeing his shabby appearance, Yang Menglong frowned and asked, "Can you make a waterwheel? It's the kind that's driven by the current and lifts the river water up the canal."

Li Lin nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, we have been making a living by blacksmithing and carpentry for generations, this can't be hard for us!"

Yang Menglong said: "Okay, I will give you three days to investigate clearly, how many water trucks are needed to irrigate all the military fields, what kind of water trucks are needed, and how much each water truck costs. After the investigation is clear, we will do it." Give me a plan, and I will give you money and manpower to drive out the water truck as soon as possible..."

Li Lin was quite surprised: "A water truck costs a lot of money..."

Yang Menglong said: "The money matter is not your business, you just need to complete the tasks I entrusted to you, and you shouldn't worry about it, don't worry about it!"

Li Lin shook his heart and said: "Returning to the adults, the villain often goes to the military fields, so he knows a little about these situations. If you want to irrigate so many military fields, you have to rush to build a dozen large water trucks." It will work. Now that the water level of the river has been dropping, ordinary water trucks are no longer able to lift the river water up the canal, so we must use a large water truck that is four or five feet high!"

Yang Menglong said: "Okay, you can calculate how much it will cost to build so many water trucks and what materials will be used. Then sum up and make a report and submit it to me. I will allocate funds to you. Half a month at the latest. I will see the first waterwheel turning by the river. If you can do it, you will be rewarded. If you can't, I will hang you on a big tree by the roadside!"

Start work without even asking the price?Tyrant!
Yang Menglong smiled and said to all the military households: "Every household can water their fields with water trucks. As for who will water first and who will water later, we will discuss slowly, and we will talk about building the water truck first."

As soon as they heard that the waterwheel could be used by everyone, everyone's eyes were brighter than light bulbs, and they cheered loudly!Li Lin wanted to say that the first water truck was built within half a month, and the time was too tight, but seeing a few stern military households looking at him with ill intentions, their knuckles were crackling, He quickly swallowed the words on his lips.Now everyone is excited, if he tells them that he can't make it within half a month, he will just wait for everyone to smash the rice!He had no choice but to say: "Even if we can build waterwheels, it's useless, the canals are rotten, at most they can irrigate the fields closer to the river..."

Yang Menglong was upset: "I told you not to worry about things that are not in your control, just do your own thing well, don't you understand?"

Li Lin shut up quickly, if he didn't shut up, he would be beaten.

Chen Baihu said: "Old Li is right. If we can't repair the canal within half a month, the water brought up by the water truck will be in vain..."

Yang Menglong asked: "Are there many moso bamboos in Wuyang?"

Chen Baihu was stunned and said, "A lot, a lot, what's wrong?"

Yang Menglong said: "Then what's the point of being polite? I'll give you 100 people to cut down the moso bamboos! Can't the canals be dredged in a short time? We'll use moso bamboos to pave a few canals that are more convenient for water diversion!"

Chen Baihu was dumbfounded: "Use... use bamboo to pave the canal? Will this work?"

Yang Menglong said: "Just do as I say!"

Chen Lei said: "But even if we can use bamboo to pave canals, there are still many fields that cannot be watered. Those fields are too high and there is no way to divert water..."

Yang Menglong said: "Then we have to sacrifice a few fields for this year's harvest, and organize manpower to dig wells. Chen Lei, go to the county town to find some people who are good at finding well locations, and come back and dig some wells to irrigate the wheat fields with well water. Although it is dry, I believe there is still water in the ground."

Now everyone has once again tasted the sweetness of pooling money together.Building waterwheels, repairing canals, and digging wells, how can these things be done by a few families?But when the money was handed over to Yang Menglong, things became a piece of cake.

Chen Baihu said: "If we can really build waterwheels, pave canals with bamboo, and dig wells on slopes, then the water problem will be solved. But those annoying insects are too fierce, even if we rescue them If the crops are alive, they will eat them all!"

Yang Menglong said: "This is the last thing I want to say. I have developed a medicine specifically to deal with these bugs. Please go to the warehouse to collect it later. If you use it according to the method I told you, it should be able to deal with those bugs. .”

After a while, everyone jumped up and shouted in confusion: "Little General Yang, do you really have a way to deal with those bugs?"

Yang Menglong said: "I have a solution, but I don't know if it works or not..."

The military households were so excited: "It's better to have a solution than no solution, tell us how to deal with those bugs, hurry up!" They couldn't wait to lift Yang Menglong upside down and pour out his method from his stomach.

The hateful Yang Menglong played tricks: "Don't worry, if my method is correct, those little bugs are easy to deal with. What we have to worry about is not them, but locusts."

As soon as they heard the word "locust", everyone's expressions changed immediately.Locust plagues occur from time to time in North China. Hundreds of millions of locusts covered the sky and covered the sun and crossed states and counties. Wherever they went, all green things were swept away. This scene has become a nightmare for farmers in North China.After a long drought, there must be a locust plague. Every farmer knows this. Many people have seen the signs before the locust plague is coming, but they are helpless. They can only lament that God does not allow people to live.

Yang Menglong said: "I dug up a lot of locust eggs in the field, so many that my scalp went numb. If these locusts are allowed to grow, our crops will not be enough to fill their teeth!"

Chen Lei muttered helplessly: "We also know this, but what can we do? The locusts are sent down from the sky to punish us. When we meet them, we can only consider ourselves unlucky!"

Yang Menglong said: "I think I am unlucky? I think I am your sister! I will never admit that I am unlucky. Whoever dares to make me unlucky, I will let him be unlucky! Chen Lei, Xu Gong, you two are idle Hurry up and go to the surrounding counties to buy some chickens and ducks, don’t ask the price, just ask for as much as you have, we will rely on them to deal with the locusts!”

Chen Baihu's complexion changed, and he shouted, "Locusts are gods, we can't hurt them, or we will incur even more terrible punishment!"

Yang Menglong said coolly: "It's the chickens and ducks that hurt them, and it's not me, I'm afraid of wool! That's it, buy more chickens and ducks, and we will use those damned locusts to feed the chickens and ducks to fat, so that they will grow fat during the New Year." Make soup for everyone!"

When everyone heard that chickens and ducks were going to be used to deal with locusts, they couldn’t help being afraid, but they heard that these chickens and ducks would be distributed to them as welfare during the Chinese New Year, and their courage value immediately soared to [-] points. I agreed with both hands... Fuck you, even if God wants to punish me, I have to wait until I have had chicken soup and roast duck before punishing me, right?Having grown so big, we still don't know what chicken and duck taste like...

Han Peng, who was listening, rubbed his nose and smiled wryly: "There are free new clothes, free bathhouses, medicine halls, schools, and chickens and ducks during the Chinese New Year...I want to be a military household in the Wuyang Thousand Households!"

(End of this chapter)