Chapter 85 Opening a Hospital
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There have been frequent sounds of thunder around the capital these days, but the sky is clear and it is winter, so it doesn't look like thunder in the sky at all.
There were also rumors that the imperial court had allocated a piece of land specifically for Lin Baige's students and sent soldiers to guard it, forbidding anyone from approaching.
There have been rumors among the people that Lin Baige is a god who has descended to earth. Now that his students can set off thunder, it further proves the speculation that he is a god.
Some people also said that he only accepted female students, and there was a reason for this. Men were turbid and could not practice immortal arts. Only women, as pure as water, could practice without distractions.
Maybe Lin Baige is not a man, he is an immortal with androgynous body.
When Lin Baige heard this folk rumor, he was drinking water and almost choked to death. "Why are they saying I'm bisexual? This doesn't make sense."
However, the modification of explosives was completed faster than he expected, and the blueprints of the coal mine were also drawn up. The project was not handed over to the private sector, but to people sent by the court. Lin Baige was worried about handing it over to others, so he recommended Senior Brother Lin to Fu Jiangyu, asking Fu Jiangyu to arrange an official position for Senior Brother Lin, and let Senior Brother Lin choose the rest of the personnel.
This was the first time that Lin Baige recommended someone to Fu Jiangyu, and it was for such an important position. If this Senior Brother Lin was handsome or well-proportioned, Fu Jiangyu would most likely become suspicious and have the man castrated. However, with Senior Brother Lin's age and appearance, standing next to Lin Baige, he looked like an older brother, and Fu Jiangyu's doubts were dispelled.
However, the outside world thinks that Senior Brother Lin and Lin Baige both have the surname Lin, and suspects that they are relatives. However, relatives of gods are also gods, especially Senior Brother Lin, who has a goatee and is thin, giving people the appearance of an immortal.
Senior Brother Lin gave people a very reliable feeling. Lin Baige confidently and boldly handed all the matters to him. He received written reports from Senior Brother Lin every month, and the progress was very smooth.
While Senior Brother Lin was working in a coal mine, he opened a medical school in the capital, gathered a group of students, taught them the medical skills he had learned, and opened the first hospital in the capital.
Lin Baige made a sign with pictures and text explanations on it, explaining what diseases the hospital can treat, some scientific knowledge on disease prevention, and popular science on paying attention to personal hygiene.
The medical level in their time was very low. Not to mention ordinary people, even nobles could die if they caught a cold, not to mention ordinary people.
But at his hospital, a common fever or cold can be cured in a day or two with medication and injections, or even a week or so at best. They can also sew up cuts and lacerations. With the anesthetic, you can't feel any pain; you can only feel the needle moving through the flesh. They can treat any inflamed or ulcerated wound. I used to be dying at home, but now I get a prescription and it's cured. This must be some magical medicine Lin Baige brought down from the heavens. Who knows, he might be practicing alchemy every day in the palace.
At the beginning, there was a group of old-fashioned people who thought that the hospital was full of female doctors. On the one hand, they thought that they were incompetent, and on the other hand, they thought that there should be a strict separation between men and women, and that women should not treat men, let alone show their faces in public.
However, the doctors did not care and even spread the word that if you men are unwilling to come for treatment, you can just wait to die. Only women will be treated.
But there is only a group of old-fashioned people. Most of them care more about their lives than staying alive. They say to others that they will not go to the hospital, but when they are sick or injured, they go there faster than anyone else. They think that Lin Baige will not stay in the world forever. These pills are limited and first come first served. There is no need to give up their lives for those old rules. Now women can open factories, be husbands, and become officials, so why can't they be doctors?
With more people going to the hospital, not many people care about the old rules anymore.
After Lin Baige traveled through time, people in the State of Jin gradually began to use a week as a unit of measurement. Later, influenced by him, they stopped using twelve hours in a day and started using twenty-four hours instead.
Everyone thought he was a god who had descended to earth, and the time units he used were all heavenly time units.
Just as he had just opened the first hospital and dug the coal mine, he also met the task's production capacity requirements. The task rewarded him with five times the amount of medicine, and each doubling was based on doubling.
The first mission doubled the amount of medicine given in the clinic, the second mission tripled it, which was actually a threefold increase on the basis of doubling, and the third mission quintupled it, which was also based on the previous doubling, and it just kept increasing.
Only when the amount of medicine increased did he dare to open this hospital. It is called a hospital, but it is just a bigger clinic than his. It cannot be compared with the regular large hospitals in the future. It lacks many equipment. But compared with ancient times, it is already very advanced. Many diseases that could not be cured in ancient times can be treated in this clinic.
He also sent a class of students into the military camp to serve as military doctors and nurses. Although there has been no war yet, it is better to be prepared by having professionals to help them adapt first.
His next task was to make explosives, as well as cement and pave the road.
Lin Baige had long wanted to pave the road. Every time he went out, the carriage would shake him to death. Cement was easier to make than dynamite. His academy expanded its enrollment and this time recruited many children from ordinary families.
The people thought that if they entered the academy, they would have the opportunity to become an official, no matter whether they were boys or girls in the family, as long as they could become an official, it would be fine.
The parents, who used to not pay much attention to their daughter, immediately changed their attitude 180 degrees as long as their daughter could enter Lin Baige's academy.
With more students, Lin Baige has more opportunities to screen. The geniuses are placed in one class and trained intensively to do research, become factory managers, or deans. The rest go to the factory as managers, or stay in school to help him teach students. If that doesn't work out, they go to the factory as ordinary employees. In short, everyone has her place.
After the explosives were mass-produced, he had them carried into the military camp and had them practice using them. He also had Fu Jiangyu select a group of people to specifically learn this.
Fu Jiangyu went to the military camp in advance to tell the soldiers that Lin Baige was going to bring people over to practice with them on the new weapons.
Fu Jiangyu had seen this weapon beforehand. Lin Baige took him to see it. It was so powerful that it almost deafened Fu Jiangyu's ears. When he returned home at night, the sound was still buzzing.
Lin Baige was so angry that he kept scolding him: "I told you to cover your ears, but you didn't. All you do is try to look cool. Don't you believe that what we made is powerful, or do you trust yourself too much?"
Fu Jiangyu: "I can't hear what you said."
After he finished speaking, he hugged Lin Baige and kissed him on the mouth: "Your mouth is so beautiful."
Lin Baige: "...You're deaf and you still want to kiss me? What if I see you're really deaf next time?"
"Since you are deaf, learn sign language to talk to me." Fu Jiangyu teased him, telling him not to be so nervous.
"Why do I love you so much?" Lin Baige was so angry that he laughed, "Can you hear me?"
"You're not really deaf." Fu Jiangyu pinched his face, "You've been a bit nagging lately."
"I..." Lin Baige pointed at himself, "Are you tired of my nagging? Don't you love me anymore? I heard your mother brought a woman back from outside, trying to match you two up. Have you forgotten the old one because you have a new one?"
"She wasn't brought back for me. She was her adopted daughter." Fu Jiangyu checked everyone around the empress dowager some time ago and secretly eliminated the suspicious ones. Although the empress dowager found that there were fewer people around her, she had no evidence that Fu Jiangyu had eliminated them, so she could only keep it in her heart.
But when the empress dowager became quiet, Fu Jiangyu felt something was wrong. Sure enough, not long after, the empress dowager brought in a woman. This woman was similar to Lin Baige's poor wife. Both were descendants of meritorious officials. Lin Baige's parents died saving the late emperor, while this woman's parents died saving the empress dowager.
Everyone knew the purpose of her bringing this woman into the palace. If the Queen Mother forced her into his bed, he would have plenty of ways to deal with it. But the Queen Mother didn't make any movement, so she must be planning a big move.
Lin Baige's worries were not without reason. Recently, he had sent more people to protect Lin Baige and carefully checked his diet and daily life, including his own diet and daily life. He could not give the Queen Mother any chance.
Now seeing Lin Baige’s jealous look, he actually likes it and pretends to be stupid and says he doesn’t know.
"It seems that you pay a lot of attention to her. You even know that she is the empress dowager's goddaughter. And you didn't deny that I said she is very beautiful. Do you also agree that she is beautiful?" Lin Baige asked him.
Fu Jiangyu patted his ears: "My ears are a little deaf, I can't hear what you say clearly."
Seeing that he was about to leave, Lin Baige wrote down the words on a piece of paper and brought it to Fu Jiangyu: "You may be deaf, but you are not blind, right?"
"Come to think of it, how do you know she's beautiful? Are you attracted to her?" Fu Jiangyu asked him back.
Lin Baige: "...Don't change the subject. This is what the Queen Mother prepared for you, not for me."
Fu Jiangyu hugged him and said, "Okay, I will take care of it."
Lin Baige felt relieved every time he heard him say that he would solve the problem. Fu Jiangyu never made empty promises. If he said he would solve the problem, he would solve it.
The next day, they went to the military camp for training. When the soldiers in the camp heard that the imperial concubine was leading her students to train with the newly invented weapons, they all felt it was a bit magical. They all heard that His Majesty doted on the imperial concubine, but she couldn't make trouble in the military camp either.
When Lin Baige appeared, everyone couldn't help but take a peek. What kind of stunning beauty could make His Majesty love her so much? They were almost out of their minds and had no bottom line. His Majesty would listen to whatever the imperial concubine said.
"Stay away. His Majesty almost went deaf yesterday. You should cover your ears for a while." Lin Baige said to them.
They were all disdainful in their hearts. No matter how powerful the weapon was, could it hurt them?
The emperor was injured yesterday. Will the two of them continue to practice in bed?
The emperor was here, so they didn't dare to laugh and could only hold it in.
After the crowd dispersed, Lin Baige left and let his students operate. Today's drill was to give his students a chance to perform, so that everyone could see their abilities and not underestimate them.
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