After the Thor returned from Urup Island, Markarius and Ferapontov caused a great sensation in Beihai Town.
For the refugees in Beihai Town who come from the northeastern region of the island country, how have they never seen Westerners? After hearing the news, even Tang Xiao and the others hid in the crowd and watched secretly.
It has been some time since dozens of girls came to Beihai Town, and they began to gradually adapt to the living habits here. Under the deliberate guidance and control of Zhao Xin and others, Beihai Town did not have the feudal and patriarchal rules of the Qing Dynasty; both men and women would go out to work. After all, everyone was still hungry half a year or even a year ago.
The residents' initial curiosity, envy and jealousy towards Tang Xiao and others gradually turned into respect; because these young teachers are responsible for teaching their children to read and read.
In order to walk more easily, Tang Xiao and the others also took off their pointed embroidered shoes and put on small-sized labor protection shoes "for oil fields". Some very courageous girls saw that none of the island women in Beihai Town had their feet bound, so they secretly let their feet go. After Liu Siting discovered this situation, she brought a large bag of cotton to the girls and asked them to stuff the cotton into their shoes.
After the two Orthodox priests were baptized by the modern facilities on the Thor, they were already numb when they saw everything in Beihai Town after getting off the ship. Zhao Xin asked Chen Qingsong to arrange a separate residence for the two of them, with several security policemen responsible for guarding and monitoring them.
What Markarius and Ferapontov didn't know was that surveillance equipment would be installed in the room that Zhao Xin arranged for them so that their every move in the room would be closely watched.
Since Ferapontov's Chinese proficiency is very poor, he will be assigned to school to learn Mandarin with the children. After he can communicate fluently, Zhao Liang will take over and be transferred to the workshop.
After being held in solitary confinement for two days, Markarius was brought to the square in the center of the town by Zhao Xin. He saw a very familiar cross at a glance. So he happily said to Zhao Xin: "Your Majesty, why didn't you tell me earlier? It turns out there is a church here too!"
Zhao Xin was stunned when he was told that he was not alone. He thought to himself: Where did the church come from?
But he soon realized that the other party had mistaken the red cross on the hospital's exterior wall for the church's cross.
On the other side, after getting excited, Macarius also muttered, why should the cross here be painted red? He recalled carefully and found that no sect seemed to paint the cross red.
Historically, the Red Cross representing rescue was not born until 1863, so the Red Cross can only be seen in Beihai Town in the world.
Hong Tao and Liu Siting, wearing brand new white coats with stethoscopes hanging around their necks, walked out of the hospital with a group of female nurses.
Macarius's head was spinning. Why was there only a priest here? The rest are all nuns? And what is this thing hanging around the necks of the priest and the nanny?
Zhao Xin smiled and introduced to Macarius: "Father Ma, these two are Dr. Hong and Dr. Liu, the heads of the medical and health system in Beihai Town. These ladies are all nurses in the hospital. As for this red cross, What we here represent is saving lives and helping the wounded, and it has no religious significance.”
Only then did Macarius realize that these people opposite were not priests and nuns at all. But he was a little confused about what Zhao Xin said. As a church doctor himself, he understands the words "medical treatment", "doctor" and "hospital", but what does "hygiene" mean? And what is a “nurse”?
(The word "hygiene" existed in ancient Chinese culture, but its meaning has nothing to do with the meaning of modern hygiene. As for the "Jing of Hygiene" mentioned in "Zhuangzi", it refers to health preservation. The modern Chinese word "hygiene" actually means It is the "health administration" originating from the island country.
As for the word "nurse", history has to wait until more than a hundred years later, when Zhong Maofang from Tianjin Beiyang Women's Medical Hall proposed to officially translate the word "Nurse" into "nurse" and it was unanimously approved. The law was officially used. )
Macarius hesitated for a moment and asked Zhao Xin: "Excuse me, your Excellency, what is 'hygiene'? What does this have to do with medical care?"
Zhao Xin shrugged and said, "Let Dr. Hong and others answer this question for you. Father Ma, I still have things to deal with. See you later."
After saying that, he winked at A Miao who was standing behind Liu Siting, turned around and left.
Looking at Zhao Xin's hurried away figure, Macarius said helplessly to Hong Tao and Liu Siting: "This Lord Zhao always comes and goes in a hurry."
"Lord?" Hong Tao and Liu Siting looked at each other and dared to give Zhao Xin another title.
"Father Ma, is that what you call me? You speak Mandarin very well. My name is Hong Tao. Please come with me and we'll chat while we walk. We have many people coming here to see us every day. You can stay aside first." Watch, if you have any questions, wait until the patient leaves."
Macarius nodded and followed Hong Tao and Liu Siting into the hospital with a sullen expression; behind him, a security policeman from Beihai Town never left.
Before entering the hospital, Father Macarius had always thought that in such a remote seaside town in the Far East, what kind of modern medicine could there be? ! However, his suspicion disappeared without a trace as soon as he opened the two doors of the hospital.
Use your imagination. What is the style of XX hospital in another time and space? What is the central hospital in Beihai Town like? In order to build this hospital, Zhao Xin spent a lot of money to develop a set of construction and decoration drawings for XX hospitals; Chen Qingsong, at the request of Hong Tao and Liu Siting, tried his best to decorate according to the requirements on the drawings.
The entire hospital is planned to cover an area of 30,000 square meters. In the first phase, more than 8,000 square meters were built, including a two-story reinforced concrete building and six large wood-carved rooms. The current daily outpatient volume ranges from 50 to 80, and the hospital has 50 inpatient beds.
If the construction is completed according to the planned area, a residential area to the west of the square will have to be relocated as a whole.
The current departments on the first floor include a guard room, two outpatient rooms, a rescue room, an intravenous injection room, a blood drawing room, a warehouse, a nurse station, and several vacant rooms. The second floor is dedicated to VIP private rooms and VIP wards for modern people to see doctors, as well as ultrasound, X-ray, electromyography, electroencephalography, and electrocardiogram examination rooms. Among the five large wooden-carved rooms outside the building, five are set up as wards on a scale of two people per room, and the other one is an operating room. The energy supply for the entire hospital is currently provided by two 1MW diesel silent generators, which are used on a rotating basis.
In order to provide patients with a comfortable and warm environment and relieve negative emotions, at Hong Tao's strong request, a large number of energy-saving lighting sources were used in the hospital.
Smelling the strong smell of disinfectant in the air, looking at the bright corridors and rooms in front of him, the blue and white walls, and the spotless floors, Father Macarius was completely stunned! He didn't even dare to move his feet. Is this a hospital? !
Imagine the most “advanced” hospital in Europe in the eighteenth century.
As population surged, especially in rapidly growing cities and industrial towns, many hospitals developed a reputation for being infested with vermin, filthy, and with high mortality rates. These hospitals are also known as "passages to death."
Someone once described the Palais-Dieu Hospital in Paris this way. "This is the largest hospital in Europe, with the most rooms, the richest, and the most terrifying. All kinds of patients are mixed together. Sometimes, 3, 4, or 6 people are crammed into one hospital bed. The dead and dying lay beside people, the air was polluted with the smell of the sick' bodies, and disease-causing microorganisms were passed from one person to another... The sight of human suffering and misery was vivid."
Macarius himself was introduced to medicine while studying in a monastery. The monastery hospitals in Tsarist Russia in the 18th century were not used to treat patients, but to care for homeless elderly and disabled people, including lepers and syphilis patients. Even though he later studied under a famous doctor from England, Father Ma's level of medical knowledge can be imagined based on the situation of Western medicine in the 18th century.
For example, a famous British doctor performed an autopsy on a patient who died of puerperal fever and removed his pelvic organs. The most terrifying thing is coming! The doctor carried these organs in his coat pocket! Then I went to deliver babies to several women. Needless to say, the women died one after another.
Let's imagine another picture. Romeo has yellow teeth and his boots are full of traces of feces; Juliet, who has never had a bath several times in her life, has a greasy head. Are the boys and girls who yearn for free love still yearning for it?
In the eighteenth century, every major European city was equally dirty and smelly. In fact, using forks as tableware only became popular after the mid-18th century. Before that, Europeans used knives to cut food and then eat it with their hands. The use of separate cutlery, plates and cups only began in the mid-to-late 18th century; people often shared a vessel when drinking soup and drank from a wine glass.
So you know why Father Ma is reluctant to let go of life in Beijing, right? Even though the city of Beijing in the Qing Dynasty became muddy when it rained and snowed, at least every household had an independent hut in the yard, and someone would come to clean it every ten and a half days. No one drinks soup from the same bowl as others, and no one eats with their hands.
Macarius was taken into a room by the doorman and security police. When he sat on the chair in confusion, he saw the little doorman taking out a pair of shiny scissors and a pair of scissors from a drawer. Folding knife.
"What are you doing?!"
"Cut your beard!"
"No!" Father Ma, who finally woke up, began to roar.
It is said that the Holy See has been promoting the policy of shaving since the Middle Ages. The purpose of this is just to distinguish mortals from clergy. The Orthodox Church’s tradition of growing beards was considered a “heresy” by the Roman Church.
However, according to statistics, of the 266 popes in the history of the Catholic Church, 188 have had beards! In the life of Tsarist Russians, beards symbolize courage, maturity, loyalty, positivity and energy.
Hong Tao outside the door heard the quarrel in the locker room. He opened the door and explained to Father Ma for a long time, trying to make him understand that there were too many parasites in his beard, which was absolutely not allowed in the sanitary environment of Beihai Town Hospital. .
"Father Ma, don't you want to know what hygiene is? These are all part of hygiene."
Father Ma argued: "I showered every day on the boat! I'm very clean! Me, I'm very hygienic!"
During the two days on board the Thor, Zhao Xin had soldiers point guns at Markarius and Ferapontov and forcibly ordered them to take a shower in view of the stench on their bodies. The two priests felt extremely humiliated by stripping off their clothes in front of everyone.
"Cut it off!" Seeing that his persuasion for a long time still had no effect, Hong Tao had no choice but to force it. Then his expression changed and he nodded to the security police. The security policeman then took out a revolver from his waist and put it on Father Ma's head.
Father Ma had seen the power of this small musket on the ship, and Zhao Xin specially asked someone to demonstrate it to him and Ferapontov. He knew that as long as the other party pulled the trigger, his head would be torn apart.
Death was not scary to him. However, he remembered the matter that he and Ferapontov quietly discussed, all for the sake of Her Majesty the Queen and the Church! Well, then just bear with it!
So out of desperation, Macarius's face was shaved clean. There was a small cut left on the blue chin.
He was forced to take off his shabby black robe and worn boots, and put on a white coat, a pair of white canvas shoes, and a large mask. Then he was taken to the sink and washed his hands three times with disinfectant soap according to Hong Tao's instructions.
After all this was done, Hong Tao took out another bottle of alcohol gel and squeezed it on Father Ma's hand, telling him to rub the gel all over the palms and backs of his hands.
At this time, in Father Ma's eyes, these people in Beihai Town are more hateful than devils! And the smiling Hong Tao, Liu Siting, and those female nurses have all become heretics at this moment!
When he was led by Hong Tao, he visited each department one by one. The expression on Father Ma's face changes rapidly and is wonderful.
Everything here was something he couldn't see in any hospital in Russia. Everything is so neat and clean, and young female nurses wearing nurse caps are smiling and walking through the corridors.
But when he visited the B-ultrasound equipment and saw his own gastrointestinal images through personal experience. Father Ma firmly believes that people like Zhao Xin and Hong Tao are devils from hell.
"Lord Zhao, Devil Zhao" left in a hurry because he really had something to do.
Lu Shoushan and the others will board the ship and set off tomorrow. Before leaving, Zhao Xin still has some things to tell him and Xu Dayong. When he saw Lu Shoushan, Xu Dayong and his party, these dozen people had already returned to the appearance of Qing subjects.
She has money-tailed pigtails, a dark gray cotton robe, thick Burmese crotch cotton trousers, a cotton-woven silk belt, and a pair of brand-new thousand-layer cloth shoes on her feet.
These cotton robes, Burmese crotch cotton trousers and silk belts were made with the help of the girls at Tang Xiaoxiao. The thousand-layer cloth shoes were provided by Zhao Xin.
"Sir." When Zhao Xin entered the room, Lu Shoushan and Xu Da saluted with their fists clasped.
"Not bad, you got into the role so quickly. Have you received all the weapons and ammunition?"
"Already received." Worried that the weapons might be lost or seized by the Qing court, Zhao Xin equipped Lu Shoushan and others with 0.45-caliber M1911s, and the number of bullets for each person was two hundred rounds. With the industrial level of the eighteenth century, even if the weapons were seized, no one could imitate them.
Zhao Xin glanced at the dozen or so people in the room, smiled at one of the men and said, "Your name is Wang Changsheng, right?"
"Yes, he is a villain." Wang Changsheng did not expect that Zhao Xin actually recognized him. His knees softened and he almost knelt down. But then he straightened his back and bowed to Zhao Xin in an extremely awkward posture.
"Don't be nervous." Zhao Xin stepped forward and patted Wang Changsheng on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Dayong Changsheng, your two names are really unique. How about you, are you familiar with the weapons?"
Wang Changsheng puffed up his chest and replied respectfully: "I have been practicing every day these days. Master, no! Brother Xu and Master Lu have taught me a lot."
"It's okay, just keep calling me the boss."
Zhao Xin and others present also said hello, and then took Lu Shoushan and Xu Dayong to a secluded area outside the house. He took out an envelope from his coat pocket, handed it to Lu Shoushan and said: "Here is a letter to Boss Huang Maocai. After you meet at Flower and Bird Island, give the letter to him. After landing, he will give the activity funds to You guys. As for the salt, it will be sent to his warehouse first; you discuss with him how to transfer it. Remember, after you get the banknotes and salt, you have to start acting alone, and don't contact Boss Huang again. "
"Yes, sir."
"Remember, even if you don't have enough funds, you can't go to Boss Huang. At two o'clock in the night on New Year's Eve, which is the ugly time, I will wait for you at the gate of Tianning Temple in Yangzhou. I only have a quarter of an hour. time."
"Understood. On the 29th day of the Lunar New Year, at the gate of Tianning Temple in Yangzhou."
Zhao Xin patted Lu Shoushan and Xu Dayong on the shoulders, and said with a serious face: "Whether hundreds of thousands of people in Henan can survive depends on you."
"I will definitely live up to your trust!"
(End of chapter)
