Breakthrough in the twelfth quarter
"Okay, but don't expect much support. [Read full text] The Executive Committee is very stingy in allocating funds and manpower for our religious offices. The Catholic Church is now spending almost all the money of the Jesuits."
"I don't need many resources." Zhang Yingchen said modestly, "As long as I am allocated the necessary manpower - a dozen orphans. As for funds, the current demand is limited, so I can cover it myself first."
"Manpower is very difficult to manage. All aspects are competing for it." He Ying said, "You still want orphans. Do you know that orphans are a scarce commodity?"
"It's always possible. I don't have high requirements. Ten people are enough. They all need boys - 11 to 16 years old, preferably thirteen or fourteen years old. They need to be good-looking. I will train them myself."
"People think about raising lolita all day long. Your taste is really unique." He Ying said.
"Where, where," Zhang Yingchen coughed a few times, "I also have requirements that I don't want orphans who are contaminated by the atmosphere of the three sects in the world, and I don't want orphans who are too honest and don't know how to adapt. It's best if they have been in a theater troupe or something like that. Those who are trained and know how to play musical instruments. It is best to have a high hatred value. The more hatred they have for this era, the more they meet our requirements."
"After the hearing is passed, a report will be made first." He Ying said, "It is purely a queuing nature, so it is unlikely that people will be assigned immediately."
In the end, Zhang Yingchen's proposal passed the hearing of the Standing Committee and was approved by the Executive Committee. As for the Daosheng he wants, he doesn't have it yet. As He Ying said: Orphans are a scarce commodity and are in great demand in all aspects. There is no chance of this application waiting for a few months.
Zhang Yingchen decided not to wait any longer. He decided to use the Sanya area where he was developing as his first missionary experimental field. There are large numbers of laborers out there who need the solace that religion can provide. Moreover, starting to preach directly in Lingao would easily conflict with Lao Wu Qi. Although Lao Wu is not a crusader, he should still try to avoid such things that directly infringe on other people's territory.
He decided to use his medical skills as much as possible to spread his teachings. To this end, he asked He Ying to second his personnel relations to the Ministry of Health and prepared to rush to Sanya to perform health services. To be cautious, he also asked He Ying to open a letter of introduction from the Religious Affairs Office and stamp it with the seal of the Government Affairs Council. None of the local elders in Sanya: Wang, Xi, Zhuo, Li and others are good men and women. If they thought he was involved in some kind of "evil cult" and arrested him, it would be a big embarrassment.
After getting this precious letter, Zhang Yingchen brought very simple things. He wanted to imitate those missionaries who went through all the obstacles and went deep into the barren country. He only carried the most necessary daily necessities and tried to live and preach in the simplest way of life. Not only to ensure the simple and humble appearance that a religious person must have, but also to lay the foundation for future missionary activities in wilderness areas.
In addition to the homemade robes on his body, he only brought a backpack made of rattan made by the Lingao Quilt Factory, which contained several pieces of coarse cloth underwear for workers; towels and enamel cups for indigenous workers; and an iron sheet. A lunch box, an oilcloth raincoat, two spare pairs of leather-soled cloth shoes, and cloth leggings used by the 6th Army; the Swiss Army knife he brought himself was the only modern equipment. In addition, there is a standard medical kit, which contains various proprietary Chinese medicines prescribed by Liu Sanzhu, except for a few home-made antibiotics.
Zhang Yingchen decided to use such equipment to train himself in Yulin this time. To this end, he also specially went to the remote exploration team and participated in a field survival training for his surroundings. Learn various skills such as identifying directions, choosing paths, and finding food. He also began to learn several local dialects, including the most popular local Hainanese vernacular and military dialect. As for Li language, there will be no place to learn it for a while.
When Hippo returned, he brought a fumigation cage, medicine, food, more nurses and this doctor who suddenly appeared.
In the headquarters office, Wang Luobin and others had already left, and only Zhuo Tianmin stayed behind at the headquarters. He suffered a lot from the violence and stayed in the headquarters for the time being.
Zhuo Tianmin looked at this person's dispatch certificate, then looked at this strange man, his strange clothes, and his head. He was carrying a rattan box on his back, a Ministry of Health standard medicine box on his shoulder, and a Type 29 jungle machete hanging on his belt. A bamboo hat was slung over his shoulders. Five or six bamboo tubes filled with water hung around his neck.
With such an appearance, he looked more like an ordinary native than a senator.
"you are a doctor?"
But the tall Taoist priest smiled and extended his hand to him: "I am Zhang Yingchen. I heard that Sanya's opening of the district requires the dispatch of more medical personnel, so I came to you first. I will need more help from you in my work in the future."
"Oh, you look like this-" Zhuo Tianmin looked at him.
"This is original ecological equipment," Zhang Yingchen said. "I plan to go deep into the Neilu area to explore and collect herbs, and by the way, I will contact the local Li and Miao indigenous people to see how well they accept the teachings."
"I see." Zhuo Tianmin nodded, "But this equipment is too crude."
"It's okay," Zhang Yingchen said with a gentle smile, "The natives are just like me when they travel, maybe far worse. They can do it, and so can I."
Zhuo Tianmin was not interested in his weird hobbies, but he had doubts about his mission. This person kept saying that he was here to be a doctor, but the letter of introduction and dispatch certificate had the official seal of the religious office.
Wang Luobin was not interested in whether the medical staff temporarily supported by Bairen City were Taoist priests or priests. When the Taoist priest who claimed to be a medical staff produced a certificate from the attending doctor of Bairencheng Medical System, he was directly released to assist in the work at the health center. .
Zhuo Tianmin was a little worried about this guy who looked more like a magician than a doctor.
In his opinion, the appearance of such an eccentric doctor in Sanya, which is already panic-stricken due to frequent work-related accidents, is itself a factor of uncertainty. Zhuo Tianmin, who had personally experienced Boss Li's turmoil, had to raise his suspicions to Wang Luobin.
Wang Luobin disagreed with this. In his opinion, Zhang Yingchen had a formal academic background. The medical skills are much better than those of the veterinarians and nurses who were trained unexpectedly in the travel group, and the appearance of the clergy is nothing more than a timely emotional stabilizer for the indigenous workers.
"The Portuguese and Spaniards brought priests with them in America and Southeast Asia," he replied without raising his head while looking at the project report. "Religious brainwashing is an indispensable magic weapon for the colonists. Take a step back. Say, Lao Zhang is one of us and an elder, are you worried that he will carve a one-eyed stone man and bury it at the construction site in the middle of the night and then organize these natives to rise up and cause riots?"
The discussion about the new Taoist doctor came to an end. Zhang Yingchen, who was busy treating patients and promising the dying people a guarantee that they would be able to go to heaven as holy disciples, had no idea that around him, two colleagues from Sanya had an affair. A not so pleasant argument.
However, he soon tasted the hostility of his colleagues toward his missionary activities. He was working with Guo Fu that day, and he took advantage of the opportunity to preach some teachings to Guo Fu. The next day, the hippopotamus went to him for a serious talk:
"I know that you came to Sanya to undertake experimental missionary activities. This was approved by the Central Government Administration Council." Hema said, "But you have to know that according to the Executive Committee's Document No. 61, nurses like nurses Employees of this category cannot be used as missionary targets.”
“Document No. 61 of Zhiyi only said that proselytizing is not allowed in schools, institutions, and the military, but it did not say that proselytizing to nurses was not allowed…”
"At this stage, hospitals and clinics are just institutions, and nurses are public officials and cannot preach." Hippo doesn't like its nurses to have religious tendencies - even though hospitals run by religious systems are common around the world.
Zhang Yingchen seemed to be interfering without any reason. But he didn't argue. If you want to gain a foothold here, you must get the support of the local elders. Arguing about these will not help, but will affect your foothold here.
So he turned his missionary target to ordinary workers. He believed that the management would not interfere with such missionary behavior. Moreover, after the violence, everyone at the Sanya Military Commission must be eager to find a spiritual opium that can soothe the hearts of the masses.
Zhuo Tianmin felt uneasy after receiving Hippo's report. After a conversation with Wang Luobin, Xi Yazhou was ordered to "keep an eye on the Taoist priest."
According to various reports, Zhang Yingchen was not very interested in traditional Taoist alchemy and ascension to immortality. To Zhuo Tianmin, his missionary theory looked like a variant of Christianity.
Putting aside his abstract explanation of "Tao", the highest object of belief in Taoism, what this short-term Taoist always talks about is "Old Master, pitying the hardships of the world, sent five hundred real people on an iron ship to land in the South China Sea. Now, The Holy King teaches and educates the people, waiting for the arrival of the Paradise of Peace. Those who obey the teachings are the chosen people, and will surely have a place in the Paradise of Peace. Even if they die unfortunately, they will ascend to the chosen heaven.
This is simply nonsense. Zhuo Tianmin thought. But he also admitted that under the current difficult conditions, it is a good thing to give indigenous workers some spiritual sustenance. People will be braver when facing death knowing that they can go to a good place after death.
With the joint efforts of a group of people, especially the dual effects of a wide range of divided compound anti-malarial tablets and a substantial increase in nutrition, the malaria craze suddenly subsided after reaching the peak, and the mortality rate plummeted. By the end of the second month By the time, there will be no new cases of illness or death. Sanyakai finally passed the first hurdle.
Although work-related injuries and casualties still occur from time to time, the elimination of the fear of epidemics has greatly calmed people's hearts, and Zhang Yingchen spared no effort to promote that those who died of epidemics and accidents are in the electorate. Under the dual effects of material and spiritual factors, the originally fearful indigenous workers finally settled down. As the environment was further transformed and a large-scale sanitation campaign was carried out, the living environment of mosquitoes, flies, locusts and various parasites deteriorated, and the density continued to decrease. The number of patients has dropped significantly and the progress of the project has been greatly accelerated.
On April 20, amid the crackling of firecrackers, the railway finally reached the location of Tiandu Iron Mine. Wang Luobin, Zhuo Tianmin and others symbolically installed the last few spikes into the track amid warm cheers from the road construction workers. The Yulin-Tiandu Railway was officially opened. This is the first officially operational railway line in the crossing, rather than the track used to transport raw materials in the Lingao Industrial Zone. This railway line with a total length of less than 20 kilometers was called the "bloody road" by some people in later generations: hundreds of people died from various work-related accidents and infectious diseases. The famous independent scholar Monologue wrote in his book "The Bloody Giant Under the Veil of Modernization" (this book has been banned):
"...According to statistics, in the early stages of the implementation of the "Giant Plan". At that time, the construction of railways, highways, and communications was the basic project of the entire project. Because the climate and living conditions along the construction line of the entire project were very harsh, coupled with the outstanding Nearly a thousand workers died of technical safety accidents, overwork, disease and malnutrition due to the inhumane forced labor of XX, Wang XX, Pan XX and others. Because of this, this section of the project was later called ' Road to Death'."
However, for the veterans who presided over the opening of Sanya, the completion of this line meant a decisive victory. The railway is like a huge blood vessel, finally able to continuously transport construction materials and labor to the front line of construction. Wang Luobin wrote in his memory article: "...if we were still worried about the future before this, then the moment the railway was completed, I believed that the success of Sanya was only a matter of time."
The No. 2 Meteor locomotive - the No. 1 Meteor locomotive was completely damaged due to insufficient strength of some parts, and lost its repair value and was taken back to Lingao for dismantling and recycling - amidst the sound of firecrackers, it emerged from the wooden platform of the simple Yulinbao Station. boarding. Meteor 2 used a Mozi III steam engine with an output of 500 horsepower. The huge boiler swallowed high-quality Hongji anthracite, burned thousands of liters of water into hot steam, pushed the piston and lever, and the black iron wheel slowly rotated. The entire train, loaded with construction materials, drove faster and faster, finally heading towards Tiandu Station at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.
The elders buried a foundation stone on the original site of Tiandu Town, announcing the official start of the Tiandu Iron Mine. Teams of workers armed with steel tools, backed by bulldozers, explosives and purple electric wheelbarrows, destroyed the vegetation and pristine landscape: the wetlands were buried in waste soil and gravel, and the grass and trees were completely cleared. Large areas of bush were cleared directly by setting fire. Most of the river valley that was originally filled with tropical vegetation has now turned into a barren wasteland. The Tiandu River has also dried up - a dam has been temporarily built upstream to block it, and the river bed will be dredged and deepened. Wang Luobin also plans to build a small reservoir nearby to provide domestic and industrial water for Tiandu Town and the mining area. If the amount of water is large enough, consider using a small hydropower station as a supplementary energy source. e! ~!
