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    Yuan Tiangang, who was concentrating on drinking soup, was so frightened by Li Min's voice that he almost drank the soup into his trachea. When he wiped the soup from his beard with a towel, he saw Li Min standing up and walking quickly.  He walked to the wall, stretched out his hand and wiped the area darkened by candles a few times, and then ran back with a surprised look on his face.

    "Taoist Yuan, please see, if I remember correctly, adding this thing to the gum should increase the wear resistance of the gum!" Li Min said to Yuan Tiangang excitedly, holding up his black palms.

    "Is it black?" Yuan Tiangang glanced at Li Min in confusion. He knew that this thing could be used to make ink, but he really didn't expect that this thing could be combined with gum.

    "Yes, this thing can also be called carbon black. When you make gum, don't you have to add sulfur and the like? The same goes for carbon black, but the amount required is relatively large. I don't know the specific amount.  , you can just do your own experiments then!" Li Min thanked the bald chemistry teacher from the bottom of his heart. Thanks to his harsh education, he finally remembered something useful.  Yuan Tiangang was very convinced of Li Min and said that he would definitely test this thing.

    After dinner, Li Min arranged for Yuan Tiangang to stay in the mansion. Early the next morning, he and Yuan Tiangang rushed to the Duke of Wei's mansion to finish the things they promised Li Yexu yesterday.  However, Li Min obviously underestimated Li Jing's stubbornness. Even after hearing Yuan Tiangang's explanation, he still refused to let Li Yexu enter the military academy. Now Li Min's temper got worse. When he saw that he couldn't say anything, he simply  Enter the palace to ask for Li Shimin.  In the end, Li Shimin came forward and had a secret conversation with Li Jing in the study for a long time.  Only then did he persuade the other party, but from then on, Li Jing looked at Li Min with a somewhat strange look.

    Li Min spent the whole of August busy. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, September soon came. The foundation of the military academy had been laid, and the construction of the main project began.  In addition, not far from the military academy, the Datang Medical College, with Sun Simiao as its president, has also begun to break ground.

    But compared to the grand scale of the military academy.  The medical school is much stingier. It's not that Li Shimin and others don't value medicine, it's just in comparison.  The medical school is not what the Tang Dynasty urgently needs, so the civil and military officials of the DPRK and China don¡¯t want to allocate funds. Fortunately, Li Min still has the ace card of medical soldiers. Under the guise of training medical soldiers for the Tang army, he finally passed the medical school.  There is a budget for the hospital, but the allocation is not very large.

    Li Min sneered at the short-sightedness of Li Shimin and the Manchu civil and military forces. It didn't matter that they were unwilling to pay, since he didn't lack the money anyway.  So he added nearly double the amount of funds allocated by the court.  However, these funds are specifically used to train civilian medical personnel and are taught separately from medical soldiers.

    As for Yuan Tiangang¡¯s Taoist Academy, Li Min didn¡¯t have to worry about it. The other party was leading a group of Taoist priests around Chang¡¯an in order to choose a beautiful site for the Taoist Academy.  Because of Li Min's reminder.  Yuan Tiangang and a group of Taoist priests who made alchemy added carbon black to the gum, which indeed greatly increased the wear resistance of the gum. Now all that remains is to find a suitable formula. This is only a matter of time, so the Taoist Academy has already begun preliminary preparations.  .

    The three colleges are all related to Li Min, and even all of the Taoist College and half of the medical school are funded by him.  Although in his opinion, as long as the college can be built, no matter how much money he spends, it is worth it, but this caused Xijun's great dissatisfaction. In her words, the money was all given to her future son, even if it was  Li Min, as a father, cannot spend his son's money carelessly!

    It seems that Xijun has been pregnant for more than three months. The initial dangerous period has passed, and her belly is obviously bulging. When she usually goes for a walk in the garden, she is surrounded by a group of maids and women.  This is not because Xijun is coquettish, but because as a princess, Wenxin has a destiny. No matter where Xijun is, he must be accompanied by at least four maids, for fear that something will happen to the child.

    Compared with Xijun, a young pregnant woman who is less than 20 years old, Concubine Yang, who is already in her thirties, can be said to be an out-and-out senior mother, and her delivery date is in September. For Concubine Yang, mother and child are in danger.  Naturally, both Li Shimin, Li Ke and Li Min took this matter very seriously. No matter how busy Li Shimin was, he would spare some time to accompany Concubine Yang every day. As for the two brothers Li Ke and Li Min, as long as there was nothing urgent  Things happened, and he stayed in Wangyun Palace almost all day.

    But Li Min was not idle. Concubine Yang was one of the four principal concubines, and childbirth was naturally a big deal in the palace, so the maternity pavilion for delivery was prepared early.  However, when Li Min saw the birth pavilion, he was angry and angry. Because ancient medicine was underdeveloped, coupled with the influence of feudal superstition, there were many taboos for mothers during childbirth, such as not handling sharp objects.  Can't hear metal sounds, can't see wind or light, etc.

    That¡¯s all. But Li Min couldn¡¯t figure out why pregnant women couldn¡¯t see the light of day?  Because of this taboo, the entire property pavilion was decoratedIt was airtight, and all the windows were sealed. The room was pitch dark, and you had to turn on a light to see clearly what was going on inside.

    Although Li Min didn't understand women's childbirth, he at least knew the basic medical knowledge. The birth pavilion was prepared when Concubine Yang was seven months pregnant. During this period, the whole room had no light or ventilation. You can imagine what would happen inside.  No matter how many bacteria and viruses breed there, the risk of infection for a woman giving birth in this kind of house is naturally much greater.

    It was seeing this delivery room that made Li Min deeply suspicious of Datang's midwifery skills. Fortunately, it was still some time before Concubine Yang gave birth, so he simply called in the midwife Wen Po and asked her to give birth.  He told himself the process of delivering a baby.

    The Wen woman who delivered Yang Fei¡¯s baby was named Liu. She was over sixty years old this year. I heard that she had been in the industry for nearly forty years and was the Wen woman in the palace. Most of Li Min¡¯s brothers and sisters were Liu.  Even Li Min was delivered by her mother-in-law. Because of this, both the palace officials and the concubines respected her very much.

    When Grandma Liu heard Li Min's strange request at first, she naturally refused to agree. After all, women's childbirth was considered very unclean and taboo in this era. Men were not allowed to participate at all, let alone someone as upright as Li Min.  asked about it.

    However, for the safety of Concubine Yang, mother and child, Li Min forced herself to use her status to pressure others, and finally asked Granny Liu to explain the delivery process. As a result, when he heard this, he was so frightened that his whole body went numb, because this Liu  The mother-in-law's delivery process is simply a mixture of medical skills and witchcraft. What kind of bed god do you have to worship during the delivery? There are many inexplicable links. Some of them are not even clear to Grandma Liu herself. She only said that this is what the master taught her.  Yes, they are all things from our ancestors, so there must be nothing wrong with them!

    Now Li Min couldn't sit still anymore. He pulled Sun Simiao back from the construction site of the medical school and found a group of doctors who were proficient in gynecology, a dozen Wen Pos who were as proficient in midwifery as Granny Liu, and several responsible persons.  The doctor who took care of the pregnant woman's body and a group of miscellaneous people formed a delivery technology commando team, and in the shortest possible time, they developed a set of delivery technology that met the medical and health conditions of future generations.

    ¡°However, in the process of researching delivery techniques, I don¡¯t know who brought this matter to Li Shimin.  Although Li Shimin loved Li Min's son very much, it was related to the lives of Concubine Yang and the child, so Li Min could not be allowed to mess around, so he gave him a severe punishment no matter what.  Fortunately, Concubine Yang knew that her son would definitely not harm her, so she supported him very much. She also personally persuaded Li Shimin, and with the guarantee of Sun Simiao's group of doctors, she finally made him agree to Li Min's continued research on new delivery techniques.

    It is precisely because of Concubine Yang's support that the research on new delivery techniques went very smoothly, and several stable women also used this technique to deliver babies outside the womb. As expected, the risks were greatly reduced, and even several pregnant women with difficult labors were able to successfully deliver babies.  Give birth to a fetus.

    With these living examples and Concubine Yang's persuasion, Li Shimin finally agreed to let Concubine Yang use new delivery techniques, and also assured Sun Simiao and the others that as long as Concubine Yang gave birth to the child successfully, the court would  This technology will be vigorously promoted, and all those who study delivery technology will also receive heavy awards.

    With Li Shimin¡¯s guarantee, not only did Li Min let go, but Sun Simiao and others in the delivery team were also very excited and very motivated.  The sealed maternity pavilion was dismantled, and all the windows were covered with glass by Li Min, making it bright and airy. Moreover, the whole room was sprinkled with quicklime to disinfect. If it weren't for the fear that alcohol would be too irritating, Li Min would have wished to use alcohol on the entire room.  Soak several times.

    As for the instruments used in delivering babies, they are all sterilized by high temperature and then soaked in alcohol. Mother Wen, who is responsible for delivering babies, must also maintain hygiene. Especially in the days when Concubine Yang is about to give birth, Mother Liu and the others have to wash their hands almost everything they do. Sometimes  They even had to use alcohol to disinfect, which resulted in a lot of trouble for a few elderly people.

    Just when Li Min, the elder brother, had almost prepared everything, the little one in Concubine Yang¡¯s belly, who didn¡¯t know whether he was a brother or a sister, finally became impatient.

    At noon on September 28, the twelfth year of Zhenguan, two brothers, Li Min and Li Ke, were playing chess with Concubine Yang. Originally, Concubine Yang was the best at chess, but because she was pregnant, Sun Simiao told her not to worry about it, so she played chess.  After a few games, her two sons were allowed to play while she watched the game.

    Li Min was a bad chess player and was no match for Li Ke. He lost seven or eight games in a row. In the last game, he finally had hope of winning. However, Concubine Yang's stomach reacted. At first, it was a dull pain, but then it gradually became more painful.  The pain became more and more severe. The doctors around her who had been prepared immediately asked Concubine Yang to be carried into the delivery room. Granny Liu and a group of stable women were immediately in place. Sun Simiao and other doctors with superb medical skills were also waiting outside the delivery room.

    By the time Li Shimin hurried over from the front hall, all the personnel were already in place, waiting to welcome the birth of a new member of the royal family.

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