After a while, Lin Qirong and Yao Yuan arrived with two generals, but the two generals were Chen Zhiming and Li Tianxi. The two of them survived the battle with Hong Yuner in the ruined temple. After many battles, they then stayed in Jiujiang with Lin Qirong and had been promoted to the commander of the division. This time, the troops in the West Hall advanced eastward. Lin Qirong led the two generals to 10,000 troops to advance eastward. Jiujiang left 5,000 troops to defend, and then handed over to the East Hall. After Lin Qirong arrived in Wuxi, he left 5,000 troops to follow Chen Yucheng to guard Wuxi. He went to Suzhou with Hong Yuner and Yao Yuan to reinforce. After arriving in Suzhou, he heard that the King of the West led a partial army to attack Shanghai. Zuo Zongtang was worried that the King of the West was weak, so he asked Hong Yuner and Lin Qirong to lead troops to Shanghai to support.

Chen Zhiming and Li Tianxi both joined the Taiping Army in Hunan. After several wars, especially in the battle with Hong Yuner in the ruined temple, the two and Yao Yuan fought to the death and swear to guard the Western Princess to the death. Their loyalty and will were greatly tested, and they were naturally reused after surviving.

Since conquering Changsha, the West Palace’s troops have expanded rapidly from thousands to 100,000. The original Guangxi brothers and many new recruits joined by Hunan have become the backbone of the West Palace’s troops. There are many people like Li Tianxi who are promoted very quickly. After Li Tianxi was tempered in the war, he was no longer the commoner who was worried about promoting rice and grain, but became the commander of more than 2,000 people...

Yao Yuan was promoted to the position of Zhengwei Officer of the West Palace, and was in charge of the same position. According to the understanding of later generations, he was the director of the General Hospital of the Army Logistics. Every time he went to Yao Yuan, he visited local famous doctors and doctors from all over the country, and invited famous doctors and doctors from all over the country to join Zhengwei. In the past few months, Zhengwei Office has sent a large number of Zhengwei Jun to the army and served as the responsibilities of field doctors and nursing staff, which greatly developed the medical system of the West Palace and rescued the wounded soldiers on the battlefield. The proportion of wounded soldiers in the West Palace died of serious injuries was greatly reduced. Yao Yuan made great contributions to this.

The development of Zhengweiguan was also inseparable from the abundant funds. As early as after Xiao Yungui made a fortune in Yuezhou, he allocated more than 100,000 taels of silver to Zhengweiguan. Every time he went to the Taiping Army, he searched for famous doctors and doctors, invited them to join the Taiping Army with high salaries. At the same time, he actively purchased medicinal materials, medical books, and various prescriptions, which greatly improved the medical level of Xidian Zhengweiguan.

After the four of them entered the tent, they gave a big gift to the King of the West. Xiao Yungui smiled and ordered the four to sit down. Before Xiao Yungui could speak, Yao Yuan rushed to say, "The King of the West. I just saw the Queen of the West leading a dozen foreigners around the camp. Do you dare to ask if they are foreign missionaries?"

Xiao Yungui Head, Yao Yuan was overjoyed, "West King, can you let your subordinates talk to those foreigners? I heard that Western medicine is very different from our Middle-earth medical skills in Wuxi, and these foreign missionaries also opened hospitals in Shanghai. My subordinates want to talk to them about Western medicine."

Xiao Yungui, Lin Qirong and others laughed. Everyone knew that Yao Yuan was addicted to saving dangerous officials. He was obsessed with medical skills. Seeing novel medical skills, he often couldn't wait to come forward to seek advice. Generally speaking, in addition to preaching, foreign missionaries also established modern schools and hospitals, such as Luo Weilin, who also opened hospitals in Zhoushan. The missionaries' practices were similar to those of the Yellow Turban Army uprising in the past. Zhang Jiao also gave medical treatment while spreading his teachings. However, Western medicine was too radical compared to Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine paid attention to treating the root cause, and by regulating the human body, the body's own resistance was improved, thereby curing diseases. Western medicine paid attention to treating the symptoms and directly prescribed the right medicine, and relieved the patient's pain through drugs and surgery. Although it was effective quickly, it also had side-injury to the human body.

When Yao Yuan was in Wuxi, he heard that there were foreign missionaries in Shanghai who could cure diseases, so he made up his mind to come to Shanghai to see Western medical skills. Seeing that everyone laughed, Yao Yuan said seriously: "The King of Western Medicine is very serious. The depth of medical skills lies in constantly asking for advice from famous teachers and experts. Since those foreign brothers understand medical skills, their subordinates naturally want to ask for advice from them. What's ridiculous about it?"

Xiao Yungui held back his smile and said, "I am not laughing at you, but I am happy. Our Yao Yuan is obsessed with medical skills. That is a blessing for all of us. If you have any illness in the future, you will not be able to deal with you. Then we will feel more at ease when we kill the enemy in front." Xiao Yungui thought about this. Yao Yuan is not leading troops to fight now. He asked him to stay and discuss military affairs. He must have flew out of the tent. He coughed lightly and said, "Let's do this, I agree to you go out to consult with foreigners for medical skills. You can discuss it. After we conquer Shanghai, can we open several more hospitals in Shanghai, including Chinese medicine and Western medicine. At the same time, ask them if they can open some pharmaceutical factories together to make our Chinese herbal medicine into medicines, which is convenient for marching and fighting, and for the people."

In fact, the earliest pharmaceutical factory in history was the famous Hui merchant Hu Xueyan. The Hu Qingyutang Pharmacy No. He opened a mature pharmacy bureau in Hangzhou in 1872, which is the pharmaceutical factory. After Hu Xueyan received a lot of money from the folk medicine, he refined it into medicine and became very popular. Drugs such as Hu's vermicelli, Zhuge Xingjun San, Babao Red Spirit Pill, and Xiao Chaihu Pill have always been the Qing Dynasty.

Essential medicines for military marching, many medicines such as Chaihu Pill have been circulated and still used in later generations. Hu Xueyan promoted China's medical industry and was also known as the King of Medicine in Jiangnan.

But now it’s different. Xiao Yungui has Yao Yuan under his command, and the medical system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is also very complete. He must be promoting the construction of pharmaceutical factories. It is really inconvenient to carry Chinese herbal medicines during the march. After arriving at a place, he sometimes encounters shortage of stocks. It’s better to open a pharmaceutical factory yourself and make Chinese herbal medicines into finished products. First, it’s easy to carry during the march, second, it’s also a commodity that can make money in the future, and third, it’s to promote the development of China’s pharmaceutical industry to modern times. This is very necessary. So Xiao Yungui handed over this matter to Yao Yuan, and this kid likes to do this anyway.

Yao Yuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and got up and fisted to take the order and was about to leave. Zhou Lichun and his daughter and several Qingpu rebel generals came in. Xiao Yungui called Yao Yuan again and said, "The Qingpu rebel army has newly joined our heavenly kingdom. The army lacks medical code officers and Zheng in danger. How many people do you bring? First divide half of the people into the Qingpu rebel army and treat the injured and sick rebel brothers."

Yao Yuan immediately received the order, and Zhou Lichun and others were moved when they heard this. They were all from peasants. They would treat any illnesses and pains themselves with the countryside, or endure them. Unexpectedly, there were special military doctors in the Taiping Army, and as soon as they came, the King of Xi assigned half of the military doctors to the rebel army. They were naturally grateful for the Qingpu rebel army.

Zhou Lichun and others thanked the Queen of the West. Yao Yuan and Zhou Lichun agreed to send someone over later. After that, Yao Yuan hurriedly left the tent and chased Hong Yuner and the missionaries.

After Yao Yuan left, Xiao Yungui generals Lin Qirong, Chen Zhiming, Li Tianxi, Zhou Lichun and others introduced each other. After a few words of politeness to each other, they sat down to discuss military affairs.

Zhou Xiuying didn't know whether it was because of the pain in her buttocks after being beaten or because of Zhou Lichun's family tutoring. She just stood behind Zhou Lichun. Seeing Xiao Yungui's unintentional glance at his buttocks, Zhou Xiuying couldn't help but lower her head and her face turned slightly red.

"Tonight, Suzhou reinforcements arrived. Our army had nearly 10,000 troops, artillery, equipment, and food and grass. Since the army is good and sufficient, I want to change the deployment, encircle Shanghai City, and then capture Shanghai." Xiao Yungui's eyes were taken back from Zhou Xiuying's buttocks, and he coughed lightly and said slowly: "At present, we occupy the south and west sides of Shanghai City. I want to divide our troops east and north, attack Wusong and Baoshan lines, attack Minhang, Zhoupu, Chuansha, Gaoqiao and other places. The two armies finally met across the river at Wusongkou of the Huangpu River to establish artillery formations, and complete the blockade of the Huangpu River, so that the Qing army's ships could not enter the Huangpu River!"

Xiao Yungui had no troops and could only barely divide his troops to attack the south and west of Shanghai due to insufficient troops. Although the Qingpu Rebel Army had five or six thousand people, after looking at their array during the day, he found that the combat effectiveness of these rebels was similar to that of the Qing army and could only strengthen the Taiping Army. Later, after Hong Yuner and Lin Qirong brought reinforcements, Xiao Yungui immediately became generous. After looking at the map of the current Shanghai area, Xiao Yungui knew that to capture Shanghai, it was necessary to cut off the traffic between land and water, so that Shanghai would be isolated. Especially the waterways of the Huangpu River, there were many sand ships and merchant ships shuttled through it. Wu Jianzhang would definitely ask the Qing army in Jiangbei, Fujian and other places for help. If the Qing reinforcements from these places came to Shanghai to support through water, then the soldiers, firearms, and money would continue to reach Shanghai from the Huangpu River.

Moreover, the Guangdong Navy had arrived in Xiamen and might one day drive to Shanghai. Xiao Yungui didn't want to suddenly arrive when the Qing army reinforcements arrived, resulting in the failure of the siege. The best way is to block Wusongkou with artillery formations from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Before the opening of Shanghai, the Suzhou River was always called Wusong River. However, after the opening of Shanghai, foreigners found that they could take a boat to Suzhou, so they called it Suzhou River. However, the Chinese official always called this river Wusong River, so the name Wusong River has not changed. Before the Ming Dynasty, the Wusong River was the main seaport of Taihu Lake, and the Huangpu River was its tributary. At that time, the lower reaches of the Wusong River roughly ranged from Beixinjing through today's Caoyang Xincun to Tanziwan to northeast connect to Qiujiang Road to Qiujiang Wharf, and then along the section north of today's Fuxing Island, the Dachapukou (later renamed Wusongkou) flowed into the Yangtze River. At that time, Huangpu originally flowed into the Wusong River near the Jiaxing Road Bridge (it was once called Huangpukou here).

In the early Ming Dynasty, due to the severe shallow silt of Wusong River and the Huangpukou entrance was blocked. Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Revenue at that time, dredged the tributaries of the north and south banks of the Wusong River, and diverted Taihu water into the Liu River. Baisong rushed directly into the Yangtze River (Zhusong into Liu), and dredged Fanjiabang in the northeast of Shanghai County, causing Huangpu to flow northwest from Fuxing Island to Wusongkou into the Yangtze River. After that, Wusongkou actually became Huangpukou, so there was a saying that "Huangpu seized Song". After that, Wusong River gradually became the secondary position.

When the generals heard this, they all agreed. Zhou Lichun was a local native of Shanghai and was familiar with Wusongkou. They stood up and said, "West King, our Qingpu Rebel Army is familiar with all parts of Shanghai and is willing to be the leader." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!