Chapter 069: Willing but Powerless

The centralized treatment area was not far from Tiezha Mountain and it took only a moment to reach it.

Two yamen runners were on duty at the door. The chief clerk gave some instructions, and soon an old man came hurriedly.

"Your Highness, this is Doctor Cui, the mine's medical officer. He is also responsible for the centralized treatment of the injured this time."

The old man pulled the linen cloth on his face and bowed hurriedly.

There were very deep marks on both sides of his nose, indicating that he wore it regularly. These marks looked very familiar to Qin Zhaoyue.

"Take me to see it, and tell me about the treatment plan."

"yes!"

Doctor Cui thought it was just a routine inspection by the court, so he led people in while explaining the situation.

"The treatment area has three sections: the dirty disease section, the recovery section, and the clean section, which respectively house patients with severe illness, those with mild illness, and those under observation.

Each block is thirty steps apart, and the middle is often paved with lime to mark the boundary..."

Unlike Mingyan County, the resettlement and treatment here are quite organized.

Normally, county offices did not have medical officers, but Chiyan County was an exception.

Iron mines are the government's livelihood, and casualties are commonplace, so an exception was made to set up an official position.

Qin Zhaoyue had occasionally heard of mine collapse accidents in his previous life, let alone now.

I heard that the mining method used is blasting, which is to burn the rocks with fire and then pour water to break the veins. You can imagine how dangerous it is.

Tea poisoning is not even recorded in medical books, but injuries in mines are very common and there are certain patterns to follow.

The wound was cleansed using the metal wound treatment method, which involved soaking a fine linen cloth in a solution of three salts and seven waters, and then gently wiping the wound to remove the attached slag.

For minor injuries, melt alum in a clay pot, add beeswax and mix well. Apply to the wound when it is slightly warm. After solidification, it forms a protective film.

For more serious cases, use Sanhuangni, which is made by grinding Phellodendron chinense, Coptis chinensis and Rhubarb into powder and mixing it with bitter wine;

Then use three grams of Coptis chinensis, two grams of Scutellaria baicalensis, two grams of Phellodendron amurense, and three Gardenia jasminoides to boil into Coptis chinensis Detoxification Decoction for oral administration.

Severely injured patients are very troublesome, and general debridement is not effective.

It is necessary to use a mixture of mercury, alum, and saltpeter to refine Baijiangdan, and then use mulberry paper to twist strips, dip the medicine in it, and insert it into the rotten flesh to draw out the pus.

After the dead flesh falls off, apply Shengji Yuhong ointment.

This is where the problem lies.

"The Baijiang Pill's effect in removing pus is average. If the rotten flesh isn't removed and external evil invades, the chances of recovery are... only two or three out of ten."

Qin Zhaoyue understood that this meant that the secondary infection was serious.

Medical books should have the idea of ​​cutting out the dead flesh to heal injuries, but under the current sterilization conditions, she couldn't tell whether removing the dead flesh or not would cause more harm.

After listening to the doctor's introduction, I found that if the treatment was not done properly and there were no antibiotics, death... would be inevitable.

Qin Zhaoyue did not waste time in the face of a situation where he felt powerless. After a round of inspection, he found that it was indeed as the medical officer said, so he planned to leave.

Before getting on the carriage, she thought about it and mentioned it.

"Doctor Cui, have you ever heard of a kind of maggot that only eats rotten meat and not fresh meat?"

"this……"

Qin Zhaoyue just gave it a reminder, she only vaguely remembered that a lame doctor in an American TV series used this method.

It is unknown whether these maggots can be found and whether they can be disinfected and used on injured patients.

"If there is no cure, Dr. Cui might as well give it a try."

Without waiting for a response, Qin Zhaoyue had already lifted the curtain and stepped into the carriage.

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In an abandoned mine, Jiang Mingyuan suddenly pulled out the dagger from his waist and stabbed forward without even looking.

But the next moment, the dagger was clamped between two fingers and could not move forward an inch.

In the dim light of the fire starter, Jiang Mingyuan saw the appearance of the person opposite him clearly, but was stunned on the spot.

The woman, the veil, was completely different from what I had imagined.

"Who are you?"

The woman let go of the dagger and took out a token from her bosom.

The three-inch black iron was cold-forged into a narrow willow leaf shape, with serrated dark patterns on the edges, giving it a matte blue-gray luster, and a pattern of the Big Dipper engraved on the front.

Jiang Mingyuan took a deep breath, "This is... the Xuanji Guard Token!"

"Yinzhe"'s eyes darkened slightly. He could recognize the style of the token at a glance, so he must be no unknown person.

"Who are you, and why do you want to get close to the princess?"

Jiang Mingyuan's eyes switched back and forth between the token and her face, and finally she chose to answer:

"Chiyan County Constable, Jiang Mingyuan."

Xuanji Guard was the pinnacle of her ideal, so she recognized the style of the token at a glance.

"As for why you approached the Princess...you still need to prove your identity."

A token doesn't mean anything. Maybe it's a trick used by the person behind the scenes to trick people into believing something.

As soon as he finished speaking, the sword pointed at the center of Jiang Mingyuan's eyebrows.

She subconsciously wanted to dodge, but found that her body could not move at all, and she could only watch the sword approaching.

The moment the fingertips touched his brow, a storm immediately emerged in Jiang Mingyuan's mind.

Her consciousness turned into a small boat, as if it would be completely submerged by a wave.

The sword finger withdrew, and Jiang Mingyuan's body resumed movement, but he couldn't help swallowing, "This... What kind of realm is this."

"Third Rank, is that enough?" The cold voice seemed to be telling a very ordinary little thing.

Third rank... Although Jiang Mingyuan had never seen it before and it was too far away from her, the power that just emerged in her mind made her believe it.

Although she had some evidence, Jiang Mingyuan felt that it was not enough to allow a master of the third level to interrogate her in person.

It is reasonable for the eldest princess to be secretly protected by the Xuanji Guards when she travels.

After a quick weighing of the pros and cons, Jiang Mingyuan revealed the truth directly: "I want to get close to the princess because I suspect someone is illegally mining iron ore!"

The expression on Yinzhe's face behind the veil finally changed, and her lips were pursed into a line.

There was a clue in Mingyan County, and I just came across it when I arrived in Chiyan County.

The timing was too coincidental, and she instinctively became suspicious.

"What evidence?"

"There are two pieces of evidence," Jiang Mingyuan had already determined the identity of the woman opposite him, Xuanjiwei, and immediately chose to reveal everything.

"First, during the flood, many bodies of miners were washed out of the mine tunnels.

I discovered that one of them died in a strange way; he didn't drown, but was killed by a hidden weapon."

As she spoke, she took out a small linen bag from her bosom, unfolded it to reveal one of the nails, and held it in front of the other person.

"This was a copper nail specially made by the iron smelter, used to reinforce the mine beam, but it pierced the pitman's solar plexus.

I've performed an autopsy. Apart from this nail, there are no signs of blunt force trauma or violent impact on the body. It's definitely not an accident.

No one would use such a skill to kill an innocent soldier, especially during a flood, and the man who died was a close friend of one of my informants."

Yin Zhe said coldly: "Not enough."

Words are not enough to prove anything. Even if what she said is true, the evidence is still far-fetched.

Jiang Mingyuan nodded. She knew that this was not enough.

"The second piece of evidence is the informant I mentioned. He revealed a piece of information to me before the flood: the invisible tunnel..."

At this moment, Yinzhe's eyes were cold, and he struck Jiang Mingyuan's Shenmenxue with his finger like lightning.

Before she could react, she fell asleep again.

He put the dagger back in place, extinguished the fire stick, and waited for about twenty breaths. Then he heard two footsteps approaching from afar.

Under the light of the torches, the two men held Jiang Mingyuan on their left and right, and dragged her out without saying a word.