Chapter 682: Money

The medical problem of wounded soldiers has always been the most troublesome problem in the cold weapon war.

The reason why the wounded soldiers are difficult to cure is nothing more than two points: 1. The number of doctors is insufficient; 2. The burden of medicinal materials is too heavy.

Medicine is also a "low-minded career" and is one of the industries that ordinary people are unwilling to engage in. Therefore, the number of doctors in various places is limited, and it may not be enough to be busy even if they are recruited together.

Besides, even if the doctor is barely enough, it is still useless without herbs, and buying medicinal materials requires money.

The minor injury is easy to resolve. After bandaging, you can recover after resting for ten days and half a month. However, serious injuries that are injured are more troublesome.

Veterans who have seen blood have a combat power that is far from comparable to new recruits. They are extremely valuable resources to be able to recover, so generally no prince will give up the slightly injured veteran.

The cost of minor injuries can still be afforded, but the cost of serious injuries will become a burden.

If the disabled wounded man is cut off his hands and feet, his final outcome will definitely be abandoned, because no army can raise waste people.

If you want to completely solve the problem of wounded soldiers, the only way is to keep spending money inside, which can be said to be a bottomless pit that cannot be filled.

But as long as the soldiers can withstand this consumption, the sense of identity and cohesion of the army will reach an unimaginable level, and this army will become a powerful army that cannot be dragged or defeated.

The soldiers had no worries and were fighting with all their might without fear of casualties. The combat power of such an army was undoubtedly terrible.

Qin Hao has always been committed to building such an army, and the reason why the Yanmen Army has such high military pay and benefits is to keep the soldiers from worrying about it.

In addition, during the construction of the Yanmen Army, Qin Hao has been proposing to recruit military doctors.

The Yanmen Army also has its own military doctor, but because it cannot bear the burden of the seriously injured, the treatment rate has not exceeded 50%.

The creation process of the Yanmen Army was much more difficult than that of the Qin Army, but the medical expenses accounted for a considerable proportion. Although the treatment rate was not high and only 50%, it created the unyielding military spirit of the Yanmen Army.

In all previous battles, even if more than half of the casualties in the Yanmen Army had never been defeated. This is the strong cohesion that the Yanmen Army has.

The Yanmen Army and the Jin army now had only 50% of the wounded soldiers, and the troops under other princes were naturally lower. However, Qin Hao’s goal of establishing a medical battalion was to increase the wounded soldiers’ treatment rate to 90%.

The medical camp has been established for two years. Although the study in the past two years is not enough to allow these new doctors to go to the army, it is enough to deal with 90% of the battlefield emergency treatment.

In addition, Qin Hao also made up his mind to acquire medicinal materials, so he agreed so readily to Duanmurong's proposal to purchase a large number of medicinal materials.

There is no shortage of doctors and enough medicinal materials to provide enough medicines. It can be imagined that the mortality rate of the Qin army's wounded soldiers will definitely be reduced to a very small level in the future.

Although it is impossible to reach 90% in a short period of time, as these 3,000 doctors have more and more experience, Qin Hao believes that 90% is definitely a goal that can be achieved.

Looking at Duanmurong, Qin Hao smiled indifferently and said, "Miss Rong, the candidate for the male commander of the medical camp, this marquis will select it as soon as possible."

Duanmu Rong left with satisfaction after hearing this, and after she came to Qin Hao for funds, it was Liu Ye of the Laboratory.

"Lord, our army now has 120,000 people, and the number of troops has increased by six times, but the laboratories are still the same as before." Liu Ye said with a serious face.

Qin Hao saw through Liu Ye's purpose at a glance and said with a smile: "Ziyang, do you want to expand the scale of the industrial plant?"

"Yes, the scale of the laboratories is no longer sufficiently supplied to the army, so it is urgent to expand the scale."

Although the training of the 100,000 new army has been completed, due to the previous financial crisis, the new army's equipment has not been fully in place.

Qin Hao could not let his soldiers fight against the enemy in single shirts, so the equipment must be made.

The ordnances to be built by the 120,000 army were all equipped. The project volume was not something that ordinary people could imagine, so the expansion was completely within Qin Hao's expectations.

"It's really urgent."

Qin Hao nodded and then asked, "Ziyang, what scale do you think the labour industry should be expanded to?"

A trace of deep thought flashed in Liu Ye's eyes, and then he opened his mouth: "Ten thousand craftsmen."

After hearing this number, Qin Hao almost sprayed out the tea he had just drunk into his mouth.

The craftsmanship originally had three thousand craftsmen. It was impossible to expand six times the army, but craftsmen would have to expand five times, right?

"No, there are too many. Even if this Hou agrees, Wen Ruo and the others will never agree."

Qin Hao shook his head and refused. He didn't have to think about it and knew that once he agreed, Xun Yu would definitely come to him and cry every day.

Craftsmen also need to pay salaries. The more people they recruit, the more salaries they receive. They are all money, and weapons can be built slowly.

Liu Ye seemed not surprised at all and continued: "Do you still remember that before you left Nanyang, you proposed a plan to 'Army Armour'?"

"Of course I remember." Qin Hao nodded. He proposed it himself, so how could he not remember it?

‘All-armed armor’ of course does not mean that the entire army is wearing armor, but is constantly working towards this goal to improve the leather armor rate of the army under its command.

Only with money and time can we make a lot of armor, and maintaining and updating armor is also very costly.

If you can't afford it, even if you build the armor, it will still rust and mold in the warehouse.

The cost of creating and maintaining armor is too high, so it is unimaginable for all employees to wear armor, and all Qin Hao has to do is to improve this ranking as much as possible.

The beautiful battles that Qin Hao and Xiang Yu fought with fewer and more were won, which also made the princes from all over the country realize the importance of elite forces.

In order to prevent their territory from being annexed, the princes from all over the country naturally tried every means to improve the combat power of their troops, and equip the army with armor to improve defense is the simplest and most brutal way.

"Lord, the princes in various places are increasing the armored rate of the troops under their command, and the lord said that the lowest armored rate of our army should reach 50%.

Liu Ye looked at Qin Hao and asked back, "Lord, do you know what this means?"

Qin Hao shook his head for no reason. Seeing this, Liu Ye explained: "It means that the manufacturing process needs to be built into 60,000 sets of various armors, plus more than ten kinds of equipment such as weapons, bows and crossbows. Even if you have 15,000 craftsmen, it will take at least two years to complete the work."

After hearing what Liu Ye said, Qin Hao was shocked. He originally thought that there were already many 15,000 craftsmen, but now it seems that it is still not enough!
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