With their permission, I rented a small second-floor building in the headquarters and opened a "maternal and infant" medical clinic for them specifically to treat women, named Jikun Tang. Similar to a maternity hospital in modern society, the first floor is a place for receiving patients and taking medicine, and the second floor is a consulting room. There are two independent consulting rooms. I asked the decoration team to help with soundproofing.
They recruited two more apprentices, girls aged twelve or thirteen.
There is another small room in the clinic where further examination is required.
The hospital also has a delivery room and a nursing room. In the backyard of the small building, a row of bungalows was newly built in the backyard, which can be regarded as the "inpatient department".
The money to build the hospital came from the Demonic Cult, and the people who built the hospital were responsible for the construction.
In this world and this era, giving birth to a child is like entering a ghost gate.
Maternal mortality and neonatal mortality rates at the previous headquarters were very high.
Now that there are doctors and they have money, I hope this situation can be improved.
For the deputy leader who works hard to improve the living conditions for women, the women in the headquarters are 100% supportive, and they were particularly enthusiastic when they met me.
As for men, most of them are willing to accept change, but a few people don't accept it, but they only dare to scold me behind my back.
Even if they are still unconvinced and are stepped on by a woman, with my strength on display, none of them dare to stand up and challenge me.
Ximen Wuhen has newly established the position of deputy leader, and it is held by a woman. There are many people who have objections.
It's just that no matter what attitude they hold, no one dares to stand up and say it clearly.
One is that he is afraid of Ximen Wuhen, who is the leader of the cult.
The second is that you are afraid of me, because I am invincible in martial arts.
Some of these people gradually changed their original views after the conditions at the headquarters improved.
Some people still firmly believe that "women can't do anything", and the devil's sect will be finished sooner or later under my leadership.
One person cannot speak to the hearts of a hundred people, and no one speaks behind his back. They just scolded me in private. This little thing is not worth taking to heart.
As long as they talk but don't do anything, everyone is still in the same boat.
If someone is dissatisfied and does something that harms the development of the demon sect and makes everyone rich together, then I can't ignore it.
What others think of me and my attitude are all collected and spread by those few people.
I know they can't bear to hear other people say bad things about me, and they go to great lengths to build a positive image of me.
But they themselves thought I was evil and couldn't understand why they were still going against the current trend. Maybe people have the spirit of not turning back until they hit the wall.
When I came to this world, my original intention was to farm. Naturally, I had no reason to ask others to farm without doing it myself.
Therefore, when the farming areas are allocated in winter, there is also a piece of land for me to cultivate.
When I was busy before, I hired someone to help me plant the seeds first. Now that I have some free time these days, I am ready to do it myself.
After leading Yunzhou to buy pastries, we went straight to my place.
I thought that the land in the Demon Sect's territory was all the same, but after actually cultivating it, I discovered that the land within the mangroves was only fertile.
The mangrove area and the surrounding land are simply "black technology" land.
Due to the cold climate, Tengxue Country can only produce one season of food a year.
Sow in spring and harvest in autumn, this happens every year, unchanged through the ages.
But in the area occupied by mangroves, crops began to grow wildly, which frightened the experienced farming experts.
They come from all over the world, and they are all refugees from various places. They either defected or were bought, and came to the Demon Sect to make a living.
They had never seen anything like this in their respective hometowns.
The temperature remains unchanged, the humidity remains unchanged, the planting process and the techniques used are the same as before, everything is normal, but the growth rate of the crops has changed.
The first grain seeds planted in the spring are harvested in the summer.
They quickly planted another batch and expected to harvest another batch in late summer.
If they are lucky, they can plant another crop before winter, such as vegetables with a short growth cycle.
Spring comes late in Tengxue Country. Normally, planting is done at the end of April and harvesting is done at the end of September.
The land of the Demon Sect's headquarters is obviously different from other lands in Tengxue Country.
It’s no wonder that it is called a “treasure land”. I remembered the “desert country” I saw in my travel notes.
The population growth of the desert country is inseparable from a good harvest of food, otherwise it would not be able to feed so many people.
The headquarters of the Demonic Cult was built on the ruins of the Desert State. Since the ornamental plants were first planted, no one has touched them again.
Use landscape plants to cover up its special features.
Originally, I thought it was because the people of the Demon Sect liked flashy things, but now it seems that maybe the founders of the Sect had other plans.
The food is growing like crazy. For those who love farming, it is equivalent to getting a double card, which is a great thing.
With enough food, they can grow crops with a long growth cycle. Generally, crops with a long growth cycle are more expensive and can be sold for more money.
Because it is not easy for ordinary farmers to find food and clothing, they will not grow these things on a large scale.
I did not sell the first batch of harvested grain, but had it stored in the granary.
During the harvest meeting, Elder Gongsun asked me why I didn’t sell the grain?
Since you invested so much money in the early stage, you have to get your money back as soon as possible, right?
I shook my head and said, the Demon Cult's farming business has just started, so it's best not to let the "treasure land" leak out.
There are patrols in the grain field area to prevent outsiders from approaching, so the outside world does not know when the grain will be harvested.
Because some people came to cause trouble before, they only saw when we sow.
Fortunately, after teaching several waves of people, no outsiders came to pry or cause damage until harvest time.
As soon as I said this, everyone understood.
The Demon Sect guards a treasured land but does not have enough ability to protect itself. If others know that this is a treasured land, can the headquarters still live a stable life?
Agree on the general direction, and let others handle the details.
For example, issuing a "secrecy order" requires the church members to keep secrets about the crop growth cycle, or the records of the granary are top-secret documents and need to be stored in secret compartments, etc. Each church leader and person in charge has to do this.
The first wave of grain has just been harvested, and new seedlings have been planted in other people's fields. The second crop has not yet been planted on the land I contracted. I plan to use it as an experimental field and try growing some fruits.
I had bought the seeds a long time ago and brought them to the headquarters.
Yunzhou ate all the pastries on the way, so I gave him some watermelon seeds.
Wan'er brought him clothes for work. There was a small shed on our land for storing farm tools. Yunzhou changed into coarse cloth clothes and shoes in the shed, and ran in with a small basket of seeds on his shoulders. The fields are waiting for me to start working together.
I attended several agricultural training classes and borrowed other people’s notes to copy.
The knowledge they teach is easy to understand and is all in popular vernacular.
I followed the steps taught above to dig holes and sow seeds. Wan'er dug the holes and Yunzhou put the seeds.
In the end, we watered the water together. Yunzhou was really happy and called "Madam" eight hundred times.
After sowing the seeds, I took him to play in his field. In summer, the roadside was full of wild flowers. He picked a handful of foxtail grass and gave it to me. None of the flowers were picked.
Dare to admit that he is still a person who cherishes flowers, Wan'er covered her mouth with joy, and lamented that her son's life was too difficult and too bitter when he was smart in the past, but she did not expect that after all the hardships, he would have to pay the price of his IQ.
I said to myself that IQ is good, and the price for the original person's freedom is his life.
Two people who were reborn in different senses went home after planting, took a shower, and ate at a newly opened restaurant.
The owner of this restaurant is also a woman and specializes in home-cooked dishes. The steamed buns and buns she steams are simply amazing.
It's the kind that you can eat every day, three times a day, and you won't get tired of it.
His cooking skills were slightly inferior, but the stew was particularly fragrant and paired with freshly cooked steamed buns. Yunzhou ate two large pots of stew and six steamed buns.
Wan'er entered the deep house as a maid when she was very young. She was also neglected since she was a child, and later entered the secret guard camp for training. The two of them probably don't know what "home" feels like.
I fell into deep thought and planned to learn from my boss
If you have some free time in the future, it would be nice to cook at home.
I originally wanted to learn only a few things, but I couldn't learn all the skills that other bosses use to make a living.
Unexpectedly, the boss wrote down her cooking experience in a booklet and gave it to me as a gift.
She is also a woman who has a hard life. To be honest, a woman who does not have a hard life is unlikely to come to the Demon Cult.
Unless they are the family members of a certain elder or church leader, women at the bottom of the church are generally in a bad situation.
Some families were so poor that they had no food to eat and were sold, while others fled with their husbands or family members.
These two are not the worst, restaurant owners are even worse.
Not only did she flee with her husband, the man was also a violent maniac.
Moreover, she was under strict supervision. When she suggested that she wanted to work as a cook or servant in a wealthy family, her husband beat her up and suspected that she wanted to escape from him.
There was someone who wanted to be the "aunt" for the big pot. She wanted to go again, but this time she was beaten even harder.
Because all the workers were men, her husband suspected that she wanted to cheat on her and ran away with a wild man.
In short, whenever she wants to work and support the family, she will attract punches from her husband.
On the way to escape from famine, her mother-in-law fell seriously ill. Her husband finally let her go and sold her to the Demon Cult in exchange for money to treat her illness.
She didn't know what the Demon Cult did at the time, and thought she came in as a sacrifice. She thought she would die happily, so she wasn't too sad.
After joining, she used her good sewing skills to make shoes in the garment department.
She was beaten by her biological parents when she was a child, and was beaten by her husband when she got married. She is full of fear of "family."
The days when she was sewing shoes in the Devil's Cult were also miserable.
It wasn't until last fall that I started paying salaries to all members of the Demon Cult, and she got her first "income" in her life.
The stagnant water in her heart was slightly rippled. This spring she saw several women with skills succeed in starting their own businesses, and the ripples became even bigger.
So with the encouragement of her good sisters, she also used the money she saved to rent a shop.
She doesn't know anything else but is good at cooking. The store she rented is not big and it is not a store facing the street.
But there was no such place for consumption in the headquarters, but suddenly there was one. Even if it was out of curiosity, people would come.
As the saying goes, the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, and the food she cooks is delicious and not expensive. Those who want to work more at night and have no time to go home and cook, come to her to have a bite.
The first grain harvest in spring is a bumper harvest, and you can just grow some vegetables at home. There are plenty of ingredients in the headquarters.
The boss raised chickens and ducks in the backyard, and his mother, who was close to her, asked her children to catch some insects while playing and feed them to her chickens.
There is a river outside the headquarters, with a branch branching off from it. The water is shallow and clear, and there are small fish and shrimps.
Because it was too young to eat, the children caught it and gave it to her to feed the ducks.
The boss felt like she was alive again. To thank me, she wrote down her cooking experience and thoughts and gave it to me.
I was surprised that she could write. She shyly said that when she was a child, she had a childhood sweetheart, the son of the village chief, who was a scholar. He would come back to her and teach her whatever was taught in the school. Again.
As childhood sweethearts, secretly studying together has become the best memory of childhood.
Naihe grew up to a teenager and reached the age of marriage.
The village chief looked down on her family and arranged for his son to get married to a well-matched family.
She was also "sold" by her parents to an old bachelor who was fifteen years older than her.
Perhaps that memory was too beautiful and precious. She clearly remembered every word and article that man taught her.
It will be easier if she is literate, and it will be much easier for people with no basic skills to learn.
I sent people to clean up the resort left by the former elders, clean out a courtyard, and build a library.
There is no need to put books that are too difficult to understand, just some knowledge books, common sense books, and basic medical books.
I will leave this task to the person responsible for buying things, and the standards will be based on what he can understand.
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The person responsible for purchasing has some cultural background, but not many.
The school opened last year has achieved good results, and a batch of students have graduated from the literacy class.
There are always differences between people. Those who are smart and eager to learn graduate early, while those who fail to pass the exam continue to study.
You can give up at any time if you want to. The free school does not force people to study.
When summer was in full swing, several elders and hall masters mentioned in a meeting that they wanted to build the city wall in autumn.
They are not afraid that someone will come to challenge them, but they are afraid that someone will come to burn or steal food.
"But this scope is too broad. People like us can't cultivate it even after a thousand years of cultivation."
The headquarters is full of resources, and including the newly born and part-time workers, there are about 3,000 people.
And to enclose the grain fields with a wall, the wall must be at least five meters high, which is equivalent to enclosing all the land in the big city and surrounding suburbs.
Some people even proposed not using stones, but using metal smelted from magic stone mines to make bricks and build city walls.
Once the project is completed, the city wall may be able to stand for thousands of years.
But for those of us, it would take a thousand years to build it.
After much discussion, the merchant general manager spoke up and suggested building a house outside the grain fields.
Using "residences" and "villages" as walls can not only solve the problem of 24-hour guarding, but also serve as a buffer zone.
If something goes wrong in the village, they will immediately alert the villagers, and the headquarters will immediately send people to support them to prevent the intruders from entering the grain field area.
This idea is accepted by most people, but living outside the grain fields is very dangerous.
I'm worried that no one will be willing to move there. Manager Zhang believes that there must be brave men under the heavy reward.
As long as there are enough benefits, some people will be willing to take risks.
Oh no, it’s to contribute to the Demonic Cult.
Of course, each village also has towers to protect the village.
The church members in the village are not ordinary people without skills, and are trained according to the standards of the militia.
I have no problem with anyone wanting to go, a human wall can be built faster than a metal wall.
