Liu Xian set his sights on the Americans among them, because the Civil War of the United States itself was going on.

The war, which began three years ago, was the first large-scale war after the Industrial Revolution, and the vast majority of the 3.5 million people on both sides were volunteers, and the war caused more than a million casualties. Civilians don't know how much they have suffered.

This war established many modern standards of warfare, such as tactics, strategic thinking, and field medicine, and also drained the blood of the United States.

Ten years ago, the Americans, who still had the ability to attack the black ship and break the door of Japan, are now in the East Asian region to the extreme. In China, the 'ability' is limited to the soy sauce level, which is almost equal to that of Portugal in Macau. can only be like a vulture, following behind the butts of Britain and France, eating carrion.

If Liu Xian wants to make contact with the West, the United States, which has a 'low strength', will naturally become the best choice. What's more, at this time, Liu Xian's need for Western imported goods was limited to medical treatment and surgery, but the United States was the best in medical development among the Chinese powers.

As early as the fifteenth year of Daoguang before the First First World War, that is, in 1835, the missionary physician sent by the American Congregational Church opened the "Ophthalmology Medical Bureau" (also known as the Xindoulan Medical Bureau) in Xindoulan, Guangzhou, with a reception room, a diagnosis room, a dispensing room, an operating room, and an observation room, which can accommodate 200 people waiting for treatment. Due to the advanced medical technology and the free treatment of the poor, the number of people seeking medical treatment is increasing day by day, and the influence on the local area is very great. The Guangzhou Ophthalmology Bureau was the predecessor of the later Guangzhou Boji Hospital.

Liu Xian didn't know about the relationship between the Ophthalmology Bureau and Boji Hospital, but there were some things that he only needed to inquire about. During the Second ** War, the medical bureau was burned in the flames of war. Two years later, John Jia, the superintendent, rented a Chinese residence in Zengsha, Nanguan, converted it into a medical bureau, reopened in May of the following year, and officially named Boji Hospital, which can be described as the largest and most influential modern Western hospital in China in this era.

Today, Boji Hospital's scope of treatment has expanded from ophthalmology to medical and surgical, orthopedic, dermatology and dentistry, including oncology, bladder stones, breast diseases and necrotizing bone removal. It has the most advanced medical technology in Western medicine of the same era.

Boji Hospital naturally has no influence among the people and officialdom in the mainland, but its influence and popularity among the Chinese and foreign people are absolutely first-class.

After Liu Xian inquired about this information, he came up with the idea of contacting Boji Hospital through the Americans in Hankou to see if they could get the support of the other party and spread Western medicine in their own army.

Although Liu Xian not only does not reject traditional Chinese medicine, but also highly respects traditional Chinese medicine. However, compared with the rapid effect of Western medicine, the absolute effectiveness of treating external injuries, especially gunshot wounds, it was necessary for him to introduce Western medicine into his troops.

Even Liu Xian was mentally prepared to send someone to Guangzhou to study. If Boji Hospital doesn't agree.

It's just that Liu Xian underestimated the ambitions of the Yankees, and he didn't know who the founder of Boji Hospital was.

"If the Chinese do not obey, they will destroy miè." He vigorously called on the United States to send troops to occupy Taiwan, Zhoushan, and Korea with Britain and France.

Although he was a missionary, a doctor, and a part-time diplomat, he was a representative of the American religious invasion of China.

With such an ambitious founder, how could Boji Hospital be a docile little sheep?

After receiving the letter from Hankow, John was pleasantly surprised. Having dealt with China for nearly a decade, he knows very well the status of the military in China.

This is a purely bureaucratic country, and now there are wars, military attaches are overpowering civilian officials, and the influence of the army is increasing day by day. If your hospital can have a close connection with a general soldier, then its influence will be qualitatively improved.

You must know that because of the Chinese people's ignorance of Western medicine, the fear of 'disembowelment', and the hostility of the Chinese people towards Westerners after the two wars, Boji Hospital has been attacked for 'digging up the liver and disemboweling' in Guangzhou.

Now with Liu Xianam, I feel like I am in the snow for Boji Hospital.

By the time the reply was sent to Hankou, two doctors from Boji Hospital, Berding and Schubert, accompanied by Su Daoming and Liang Xiaochu, two of China's first batch of Western medical practitioners, had already boarded a ship from Guangzhou to Shanghai.

"Thank you, Mr. Bell, for your help. If you need help in the future, don't hesitate to ask. ”

Liu Xian said polite words, but it was also false to say in his heart that he was not grateful to Bell. If it weren't for this person's help, he really couldn't have contacted Boji Hospital so quickly.

Bell was clutching a bag in his hand, and his eyes were about to lose his smile. The mind is full of golden light, a whole hundred taels of gold, just a line. Where in the world is there such a good cheap advantage. "God forbid!"

Liu Xian really doubted his words, whether he heard them.

The American in front of him is the manager of an American foreign firm in Shanghai in Hankou, Maisheng Foreign Company, a small foreign firm that Liu Xian has no impression of. There are only five European and American employees in China.

The beginning of the Civil War not only completely deprived the United States of all its right to speak in East Asia, but also made its commercial interests negligible.

All industrial products must first be close to the country. The United States does not drink Chinese tea, except for raw silk, and now they almost do not import anything from China. Bell is based in Hankow, a non-raw silk producing area, and its only use is to buy bristles. This is one of the few items that the United States now needs for China, other than raw silk.

The industry of the American North, and the fierce wars required large quantities of raw silk. It is by virtue of this business that Maisheng survives in Shanghai. Bristles, is their additional maximum subsidy.

Bell's annual income does not reach 100 taels of gold, and now he holds the gold tightly in his hand, and the excitement and joy of the whole person can be imagined.

Looking at Bell's departing figure, Liu Xian didn't say anything else. Like guns or something. Now is not the time, when the civil war between the United States and the United States is over, according to their super pocket version of the army, I don't know how many guns and artillery to deal with. It's never too late to mention it.

And Liu Xian still remembers that the American Civil War was fought for four years, which means that it will take another year to end. And one year is enough time for him to show again.

By this time next year, maybe he'll already be an admiral.

In late July, Berdin, Schubert, Su Daoming, and Liang Xiaochu arrived in Hankou with a batch of medical equipment and supplies. Liu Xian did not greet him personally, but he sent Huo Guangcheng and Wei Ming to lead a team of two hundred horses. In the first moment, Berdin and Schubert felt his attention.

It's just that he couldn't hide this matter, and immediately made him an alternative to the entire Huguang officialdom.

He even let a foreigner be a military doctor for his own soldiers?

What a ridiculous thing this seems to people at this time.

Many people even predicted that Liu Xian's army would be in turmoil. However, it is clear that Liu Xian has super control over his team.

Not only did the team not make a commotion, but under the urging of Liu Xian, they lined up in front of the camp and greeted the arrival of the new military doctor with the eyes of 7,000 people.

During the whole process, except for a slight commotion in Chen Tianzhu's department, the rest of the soldiers looked calm.