Chapter 54: The Eventful Years
My grandfather followed the anti-epidemic medical team to the vast rural areas of all parts of the country to support the prevention and control of schistosomiasis! This work was actually very hard! Many people did not understand the methods of the anti-epidemic medical personnel! Every day, he had to visit many peasant families, and many people did not understand the medical workers!
Once, when I was sorting through my grandfather's belongings, I found a yellowed diary! It recorded the story of my grandfather's time when he participated in schistosomiasis! Some of the stories happened yesterday!
In November 1954, as a young man, I wanted to take a good look at the country's beautiful rivers and mountains. I got on the train to the south and came to this place in Jiangxi for the first time, and in my place in Yujiang County, there was a plague! Many people died! They were skinny and their bellies were as big as if they were pregnant! According to my many years of medical experience, this is "the plague god, the big belly disease!"
This is a tragic situation that I have never seen before! I went to Huangcun, where the village has basically been wiped out! There are corpses everywhere, and bugs breed! Everywhere there is a dilapidated and apocalyptic scene!
I took the only surviving mother and daughter in Huang Village and settled them in the home of a family with early potty belly disease! Fortunately, I had a diagnosis of potty fever before. I prescribed a side prescription, and through my observation, it can effectively treat the exacerbation of big belly disease!
I learned from the town health station that the central government attaches great importance to the plague in Jiangxi and has organized a medical team to rush to our place. I am ready to stay and fight with my medical comrades!
In January 1955, I registered at the blood epidemic prevention station, and Chinese medicine practitioners like us knew how to heal. There is a great need for medical personnel here!
The comrades at the epidemic prevention station received me very warmly, and this was the first time I had contact with the state staff for so many years! They asked me to study and train with me, because there were a lot of medical workers from all over the country! There were Chinese medicine doctors and Western doctors! Each of us was not unified in thinking! There must be a supreme unified method of treatment and prevention!
Theoretically speaking, there are three ways to eliminate schistosomiasis: First, there will be nowhere for schistosomiasis to be eliminated by eliminating snails; second, scientifically treating feces to cut off the way for schistosomiasis to reproduce and spread; third, people and animals cannot be infected with schistosomiasis if they do not come into contact with water and areas where snails are dense.
Our comrades led the nearby villagers to build a canal by the Lion Rock in Yujiang County, and the soil from the new ditch was reclaimed during the construction to fill in the old ditch. Later, it was found that there were no snails in the new ditch at all, and the snails in the old ditch were also empty shells. The first step is to eliminate snails. In the same year, I learned that another experiment was encountered at the Jiangxi Provincial Schistosomiasis Control Institute, and it was found that after three months of burying snails in soil, the number of snails was reduced by nearly three-quarters.
After having a scientific basis, the medical experts took our medical team and the majority of Yujiang people to start a vigorous snail burying project, the main method is to open a new ditch to fill the old ditch. The masses in the county were mobilized, and each person brought a pair of chopsticks and a small bucket to the epidemic area to pick up snails. We had to work until late every day, and we picked up a large number of snails and buried them in concentrated soil! We worked in full swing every day! Our work in Jiangxi made initial progress!
I am still deeply impressed by the spectacular scene at that time, only to see the red flags on both sides of the river, the loud singing on the radio, and the thousands of people wielding iron hoes and shovels to carry out the snail extermination movement in the river.
Although the party and the state spent a lot of financial and material resources to support the prevention and control of trematodiasis, and mobilized the masses to eliminate the root cause of schistosomiasis, snails, due to the relatively backward science and technology at that time, the results of schistosomiasis prevention and control were not satisfactory, and the infection rate of trematosomiasis was still as high as 25.9%. After several years of hard work, the spread of schistosomiasis can only be prevented in Jiangxi, but if you want to completely eliminate it, it still takes a lot of time to study!
In 1956, when I was working and preparing to move closer to the party organization, a telegram came to me from my hometown, asking me to go home quickly! I had no choice but to put down my work, ask for leave from the leaders of the blood station, and return to my hometown!
At that time, the rural areas were vigorously engaged in land reform work! This time the land reform work completely destroyed the cause I loved! The biggest problem in China is the peasant problem, and the biggest problem of the peasants is the land problem!
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the CPC Central Committee put forward the general policy of "eliminating the remnants, spies, and bandits of the Kuomintang, overthrowing the landlord class, liberating Taiwan and Tibet, and fighting imperialism to the end." Therefore, the land reform in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China was an important measure taken to implement this policy.
In those days, land reform was "a fierce class struggle for power from beginning to end", so violence was inevitable in this fierce struggle!
Landlords and rich peasants are available in every village, and there must be a landlord among 10 people, that is, to find out the richest one, if there are three people, among these three people, some have a population of one, some have a population of five, mine is one acre, and I have planted five acres, then I will become a landlord, that is to say, there are landlords in every village. If you have two acres of land, you don't work at all, you rent it to people like us, you don't produce it yourself, and all the people who live by renting it are rich peasants. This is the kulaks. The rich peasants who have less land and more land and more real estate are the landlords. It is the landlord who exploits it by this long labor.
My grandfather's ancestors belonged to the big landlords, but now they belong to the small landlords! They are the only targets of criticism and struggle in this village! Grandpa has not yet returned home! Soon the village organized a poor peasant to participate in the struggle.
After my grandfather came back, he endured it all the time! I completely forgot about my grandfather's ancestors opening a warehouse to release grain to help the villagers, and I also forgot about the people of such a Lu family's courtyard practicing medicine and relief in the surrounding area! At that time, people had already entered a crazy era! Everyone was in a high mood every day! Fighting landlords became a must-do for the peasants at that time!
But grandpa himself knows that he will definitely be recognized by the people in the village, and his life will become better!
When my grandfather was working in the Jiangxi Blood Station, he had already been actively moving closer to the organization, and his heart had never changed!
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