Act 224 The Red Cross
Sheffield looked up at the stars and wanted to be on Friday, when Friday was free.
Blair was not idle either.
Orders from Doug were broken down with him and then operated.
Doug's recent demand is simple: to expose the ugliness of slavery.
In fact, any system can be photographed with its advantages and disadvantages, even slavery.
If you want to shoot the merits of slavery, how do you shoot it?
Go to the largest plantations, find the most generous plantation owners, and put their faces in the same frame as the sturdy black slaves.
If there is a good crop of wheat in the picture, or a full stack of cotton, of course, it is even better.
However, how could the American newspaper group, as a media in the North, and with the benefit of Doug, take such pictures of masters and slaves living in harmony?
Therefore, Blair's reporters secretly infiltrated the plantation area closest to the north.
Because it's farther north, the water and heat conditions are worse, and because it's closer to the north, most of the planters, and the planters in the heart of the south, live in two worlds.
Since the plantation owners lived in two worlds, the black slaves lived in the third world.
Pitch black and damp grass huts, foul smells, hard and heavy work.
The smaller the plantation, the worse the black slaves became, the more work they worked, and the less they ate.
Because, the more physically fit slaves were bought by those big plantations long ago.
Ordinary small plantations, can only buy some disposal goods.
It is precisely because of the processing of goods that it is necessary to reduce costs even more.
Therefore, when the grassroots reporters of the American newspaper group really touched the small plantation and saw the living conditions of the black slaves, their first action was not to paint or take pictures.
But......
Vomit.
It's disgusting!
As you can imagine, there were more than flies hovering around black slaves. Not only when the wound is purulent, but you can also see white live maggots gushing.
Add to that the fact that many of these black slaves were born with deformities, and they really looked like they were living in hell.
Even, the reporters who came to visit the undercover were wondering if these guys and themselves were the same species?
But even if the reporters vomited right in front of them, they didn't react.
Their expressions stiffened, oblivious to what was in front of them.
I don't hear the sound of vomiting.
They are like inferior machines that die more than when they die in a life without any hope.
Of course, they weren't so insensitive at first.
They, at first, didn't speak just to save the last vestige of their physical strength.
However, the repetition of life every day, the life of pain every day, eventually makes them lose the idea of opening their mouths again.
Reporters took pictures and painted pictures.
I didn't come quietly, and I didn't go quietly.
But no one came out to stop the authors.
Even, in the distant house, the little plantation owner had already discovered these sneaky people, and did not come out to stop them.
Because, he felt that he had nothing to steal here.
He was a plantation owner who could barely survive.
He doesn't care about the production system, nor does he care about the dispute between the north and the south, all he wants is to live.
It's just about living.
More than a dozen reporters broadcast it, and the result of receiving it was a wealth of photos and text materials.
Even a veteran media person like Blair sees these materials and has some doubts about whether these photos were taken in the United States or in hell?
In modern America, there is still such a place?
However, he was also slightly excited.
Even a tough old baguette like him is so shocked, how angry will those guys who are still being fed news and ideas by the American newspaper syndicate be?
Blair knew it was his chance.
If, this time do it yourself.
Although it is unlikely to make a name in the history of the United States, it will certainly make a name in the history of journalism in the United States.
Because, judging from these photographs and written materials, the black slavery system is undoubtedly a reactionary, backward, and evil system.
And as a media person who punctures the veil of hypocrisy of this system, he is not as good as the history of American journalism, who will enter the history of American journalism?
Of course, in addition to this, Blair also smells a strong political connotation.
He even vaguely knew that the current president, Abraham Lincoln, was still hesitant to declare war on the South.
Once, this information was published in the newspapers of the American Press Group and became a report.
Then, President Lincoln will change from an active choice to a passive choice, and even there is only one path to choose.
Blair was a little worried.
After all, no matter how powerful the boss is, he is just an entrepreneur, and he is persecuting the president of the United States.
Even if you force the president to do what he wants, won't there be after-effects?
Actually, Blair got a wrong question here.
It is not the entrepreneur who should tolerate the president of the United States, but the president of the United States who must tolerate the capitalists.
For a capitalist of Doug's size today, what can the president do but endure it?
And Doug, after seeing the draft of a special report on black slaves by the American newspaper group, immediately sent a medical team to help these black people with humanitarian aid.
Doug sent this group for three purposes.
First, in order to make the Claydon Group have a better reputation among the people.
And the reputation of excellence does not come from doing good deeds in a down-to-earth manner, but from how glorious and righteous you are in hot events.
Second, Doug wants to give his team of doctors who have been roughly formed a better space to practice.
Although, in a sense, not only New Haven, but also the nameless corpses of some cities have become the object of practice for doctors.
However, there is still a big difference between a dead body and a living person.
Doug hopes that after treating black patients, they will open their minds and try the most cutting-edge medical treatments.
As for the third, it has to do with Tom and Doug Chemical.
Perhaps, there are still many people who don't realize that dyes are actually a big treasure trove.
Here, not only TNT and picric acid are born, but also all kinds of strange things are born.
And Doug can't tell which of these exotic compounds have the effect of treating diseases.
Although, having been experimented with mice, most of the compounds were screened out.
However, there are still many compounds that need to be tested on humans.
Obviously, once the white man's experiment is discovered, it will definitely explode into a very negative public opinion.
But what if the experiment was directed at blacks?
Even, in a sense, liberated them.
The whites who hold the mainstream discourse still don't treat them as human beings.
Of course, black people, whose brains are obviously not as good as their limbs, will not grasp this for the time being.
Even, even if they realized this, there was no way to resist.
Why?
Because, they don't own what white people have.
At first glance, it is a weapon, but if you think about it, it is called modern.
After all, many of them lived in tribes before they were trafficked to the Americas.
And the reason why they became slaves was also because their tribe lost the tribal war and was captured and sold by a hostile tribe.
There is even a group of white people in Africa who make a living by inciting conflicts among black tribes.
Because, only in this way, there will be a steady stream of black slaves.
And for this era, there is a little bit of an ideal doctor.
It is a gift from God to be able to perform surgery on a living person without caring too much.
When they reached the border between the north and the south, they raised a flag with a red cross of equal length and width, and began their journey to save the dead.
In the beginning, however, plantation owners did not come into contact with these Red Cross members.
Gradually, however, they learned what the Red Cross did.
So they sent some slaves who were on the verge of death, dead horses as live horse doctors.
Doctors who lack enough modern exploratory techniques naturally do not have a very good way to diagnose these people.
However, they are not at all afraid.
The place where the knife should be cut is cut, and the place where it should be cut is cut.
Although, most of the black slaves who went in never came out.
However, there were still a few black slaves who went in lying down and came out standing up.
And in such a composition, the doctors in the operating room, like a slaughterhouse, also gain more experience.
However, the human body is an overly complex structure.
Even if so many people have been vivisected, they are still only ignorant of most diseases.
And all this information was gathered in Doug.
Doug watched the gradual progress of modern medicine and felt relieved.
At the very least, after some exercise, they don't have to be too scared if they catch a cold.
Although it is said that the cold is a disease that is theoretically cured for seven days, but not for a week.
But if the week is not good, a large number of complications are enough to kill a person in this age.
Doug felt that he had only one life, so he was in the new order against the Red Cross.
They were ordered to pay attention to the hygiene of the operating room, that the surgical knives should not rust, that the hemostatic gauze should be boiled before it could be reused, and that a large amount of alcohol should be used for disinfection.
However, in the early days of the practice, alcohol was used, but it was industrial alcohol.
Let a large number of patients be poisoned with methanol and lose their light.
After that, it took a short time to replace it with the more expensive ethanol alcohol, which is brewed from pure grains.
Of course, no matter what it is used, this Red Cross organization is a purely money-consuming organization.
Even, it is still a big money-burner.
Even, those plantation owners who sent their slaves here were a little puzzled by whether the Yankees were crazy.
Throwing money around like this?
Of course, when everyone else thinks it's charity.
The three goals set by Doug are being achieved at different paces.
First of all, the fame of the Claydon Group, in an orderly rise.
Secondly, the technical level of doctors is also steadily improving.
Thirdly, there are a large number of dyes produced by Tom and Doug Chemical Company, which have been confirmed to be effective for certain diseases.
And these dyes, too, have changed from cheap dyes to drugs that can be sold at a higher price.
After all, your dye is expensive, and I can change it to a cheap dye.
However, if I have this disease, I will die if I don't take this medicine, will I still wait to die?
And this is also the last step in Doug's foreshadowing for the Civil War.
On the battlefield, in any case, a large amount of medicine is needed.
Now, every time you have one more drug, it means more market share and more profits in the future.
Of course, a large number of people will die during this period.
But isn't the economic crisis solved when the population is massively consumed?
Lincoln in Washington saw Doug's every move very clearly.
He thought he had a chance to stop it, but at the last minute, he gave up on the idea.
Originally, before he became president, although he knew that the capitalists were rich and could use them to fulfill his long-cherished wish to become president.
However, when he actually became president, he found that he could not get rid of them as he imagined.
Even, without their cooperation, his own orders as a president would not have been able to get out of Huasheng (Harmony).
That's ......
It made him uncomfortable.
Therefore, every move of Doug stimulates his nerves.
However, there was nothing he could do to stop it.
It's not that I can't, but I don't dare.
He was afraid that without Doug's support, his reputation would plummet, and his illusion that he would remain in American history would be shattered.
Therefore, he had to compromise, compromise, and compromise.
Lately, however, he has become more and more aware that he should do something about it.
Lincoln picked up the Emancipation Proclamation on the table, and he made a decision, and he began to organize the sentences on it, according to his diction.
As long as this declaration is issued, you will leave your name in history!
And when Lincoln made the changes, Doug knew it right away.
Don't think how well defended the presidential palace is.
In fact, even if Lincoln had changed everyone ten times, it would still be like a sieve.
Not only Doug, but also other big capitalists, it is very easy to know the news here.
After all, loyalty has a price.
And for people like Doug, they don't lack this money.
Even if they loosen some fingers a little, the profits flowing out are enough for ordinary people to spend their lives in luxury.
It's a pity that as a capitalist, you have to be stingy enough.
Because, the more capital, the faster the snowball.
in order to get more capital.