Section 70: Before the War (2)

But the bad news that followed one after another, first of all, the Gao Guang Ship Company under the Wei Dart Bureau was seized, and all the more than 20 brigs under it were requisitioned by the government; This is not only the problem of losing the ship, the regular route between Lingao and Guangzhou is the preferred mode of transportation for many small traders who come to Lingao, and it is also the main transportation route in Lingao, Qiongshan and the Pearl River Delta region.

Then came the news that Tang Yunwen had intercepted civilian ships near the Qianhu Institute in Haikou and did not allow them to enter the Qiongzhou Strait. Subsequently, a ban was issued prohibiting all ships from sailing to Lingao, which not only cut off the channels for importing materials from the Pearl River Delta region, but also completely interrupted the export of coking coal from the Jiazi Coal Mine.

"Fortunately, there is no source of coking coal." Wude knew that coking coal was not a much-needed material - iron ore was not yet in sight - but that it was chemical and power coal that was the main focus. The latter was brought from Vietnam and Leizhou, and Tang Yunwen's order to blockade the Qiongzhou Strait was half-cut -- his ships and manpower were only enough to blockade the east entrance of the strait, and he could not control the west entrance, and he was even more unwilling to take care of the affairs in the strait.

The navy said that it would be easy to break Tang Yunwen's naval blockade -- it was just a gesture to immediately take over the old nest of Baisha Water Village. As long as He Ming gave an order, the fleet set off immediately. He Ming thought about it again and again, and felt that it would be inappropriate to show the great power of the Crossing Group at sea. If the Ming army was frightened, it would be in vain if they didn't come at all. In the end, he decided not to break Tang Yunwen's naval blockade for the time being -- after the Guangzhou Station and the Gaoguang Shipping Company were seized one after another, trade with the Pearl River Delta region became stagnant, and many traders temporarily stopped their plans to buy and sell goods in Lingao, and were on the sidelines. As a result, the volume of trade has also dropped significantly, and this line of communication will become less important for the time being.

When Shi Yuanren returned to the office, he was already exhausted - this Lao Shizi's full military training was almost killing him. Shi Yuanren's physical strength is actually very good, but the health department has been too busy recently, and he hasn't slept for six hours for several days.

The health sector is understaffed, and even indigenous nurses are not enough, some of them have gone to Sanya, while the rest are not only responsible for basic health care, but also have to step up the training of indigenous health workers. Shi Yuanren was so busy that he couldn't touch the ground, and yesterday Ma Qianzhuo asked him to come up with an anti-encirclement and suppression operation medical guarantee implementation plan.

He has already formulated this set of plans, and he has constantly revised them according to his own conditions. At that moment, he talked about the specific implementation measures. These include the organization of health care in the army, the establishment of field bandaging, evacuation systems and the opening of field hospitals.

He is ready to divide the work into two phases. The first section is under the responsibility of the military health officer, which has now been initially guaranteed to the level of one person per company, and the militia and army laborers who have been mobilized do not have a health officer.

"The crash course for hygienists is still running, and it will be all available in a month."

The hygienist is responsible for the basic hygiene and health care of the army on weekdays, and directs the militia stretcher bearers accompanying the army to receive the wounded during the battle. The wounded were first debrided and bandaged in the front-line bandaging facility, and were sorted according to their critical condition. Treatment and evacuation are taken depending on the condition.

Because the overall personnel of the health department is limited and the transportation liliang is weak, the three-pole evacuation method is not used, and the field hospital is deployed directly at the location of the field army headquarters. The wounded were bandaged on stretchers or on foot to field hospitals for further treatment.

"Of course, Zuihou still has to send them to Lingao - after all, Lingao has all the facilities and it is easy to mobilize medicines. Our Ministry of Health intends to open a hospital in Ma Yuan as a military hospital. "The scale is 300 beds. In addition to treatment, it is also used for rehabilitation. He added, "It's just that there aren't enough medical staff." ”

"There are too few beds." Ma Qianzhuo commented.

Three hundred beds is not enough? Shi Yuanren was a little surprised. According to his estimates, the army suffered a maximum of one or two hundred casualties, and the preparation of 300 beds was already taking into account the situation after the expansion of the army's long-term prospects.

"Let's put it this way, the focus of the health work in this operation is how to treat the Ming soldiers." Ma Qianzhuo said, "Try to save people." Got it? People worked hard to take a boat to Hainan Island, and they were injured by us, as long as they were not saved, they tried to save them as much as possible. Even if you are crippled, you don't care, you can work without arms and legs - we are short of people."

Shi Yuanren suddenly realized that there were not enough beds. However, he did not think about the treatment of the captives. He thought for a moment and asked:

"I can't really estimate that. What was the combat effectiveness of the Ming army? Whether they will collapse at the touch of a button or will fight us to the death is a big difference here, and it is difficult to estimate how many wounded will have to be treated. ”

According to He Ming's estimate, he will probably be able to catch more than 12,000 captives in the end. There should not be too many wounded, and there are always more than 1,000 light and serious injuries. We mainly use firearms, and it is estimated that the seriously injured will not survive, so you should mainly consider the minor injuries. ”

"Okay, then I'll go back and work on a special treatment plan for the prisoners and wounded."

"You have to discuss this matter with Yanghe. He was preparing a prisoner of war camp to house prisoners. Even if there weren't too many wounded, the clean-up and health care of so many captives was a big deal. Everything has to be prepared for a rainy day. ”

"Okay." Shi Yuanren just nodded, of course he didn't have time to talk about things with Yanghe, this matter was handed over to He Ping, the director of the office of the Ministry of Health, "Where is the prisoner of war camp?" ”

"It's also on the horse's side." Ma Qianzhu said, "The Mayuan Peninsula is now our forward base. He Ming moved the headquarters to him. ”

It seemed that he was going to send people to Ma Yuan as soon as possible, Shi Yuanren thought to himself, not only to deal with the affairs of the prisoner of war camp and the field hospital, but also because thousands of people had been gathered there, and the laborers and militia recruited by the county were still driving there in a steady stream. Wan people are eating, drinking, and Lazar in such a place, and the weather is hot, which is a critical moment for epidemic prevention.

Several sets of water purification equipment must be installed, otherwise tens of thousands of horses will gather in the horse, and without clean drinking water, there will be an outbreak of epidemic enteritis and even cholera immediately. Shi Yuanren thought, since Ma Dugong said that Ma Yuan would be a base, it would be better to directly put on a set of large-scale fixed water purification equipment.

He thought that the training course for doctors was still two months away, and he wondered if they would be able to catch up with this battle. Regardless of whether he could catch up or not, Shi Yuanren decided to pull all the trainee doctors and nurses to Ma Yuan at that time, and come up with a policy of replacing learning with actual combat.

Lingao's traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have now all been centralized, and a few can be selected to serve in Mayuan.

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Shi Yuanren was originally a little sleepy, but after thinking about things too much, his spirit came. He thought about it again and again, and felt that he should simply let He Ping not come back, and leave all the things about Ma Yuan to him. It is responsible for the overall health coordination of this operation. Although he does not know medical skills, he is very familiar with the situation and work process of the Ministry of Health, and it will be easier to coordinate things.

Thinking about this, Zhao Yanmei came to him to discuss the increase in production of the pharmaceutical factory

In terms of medicines, the Ministry of Health has a fairly sufficient stockpile, and a stable supply of crude sulfonamides has gradually formed since the coal chemical plant was put into operation. Pharmaceutical factories use crude sulfonamides as raw materials for further purification and processing into oral agents and anti-inflammatory powders for external use. The local manufacturing of Chunleimycin and oxytetracycline has also begun to take shape, which makes the supply of the most important antibiotics have been initially guaranteed.

Because of the war, Zhao Yanmei intended to divert a considerable part of the factory's production capacity to the manufacture of medical equipment and first-aid medicines. Surgical emergency supplies such as cotton wool, gauze, tourniquets, bandages, splints, etc., will be in high demand. Stockpiles of alcohol, disinfectants and saline must also be increased.

"Although these things are easy to build, they consume a lot of money, and there will be a gap when there is no certain reserve." Zhao Yanmei said, "At least we must prepare according to the standard of 3,000 people who have treated both the enemy and us, and there are also first-aid kits for the expanded troops -- this is also a large number." ”

"What are the troop holdings now? How much stock is left? ”

"The army has about 10,000 first-aid kits. We have less than a thousand in stock ourselves. Zhao Yanmei said, "In fact, some first-aid kits were made early and were not up to standard. It's been a long time, and it's best to recycle and dispose of it. ”

It's in too little. Shi Yuanren has never been a soldier, but he still knows mathematics: this is equivalent to only two people in the army.

"He Ming told me that the first aid kit is very expensive to use. The matter of scrapping and recycling has to be slowed down until the battle is over. I will inform the Army to tell them to prioritize the use of new products. The old one has to be saved for an emergency. ”

"Okay." Zhao Yanmei nodded, "My documents for adjusting production capacity and applying for raw materials—"

"How to arrange production, you look at it and do it, you don't have to go through me anymore." As he spoke, he signed the documents sent by Zhao Yanmei - she also applied for a lot of materials and raw materials controlled by the Planning Institute.

Zhao Yanmei was very happy to have full powers as a minister. She already had a lot of ideas about the production of pharmaceutical factories, and with his support, she felt that she was much more energetic.

"One more thing, this is the latest version of the hygienist medicine kit." She put the medical kit she had brought with her on the table, "Do you see if there's anything else to add?" If it's okay, I'll take care of the finished product in batches. ”

Shi Yuanren opened this medicine box reinforced with four corners - this is the box used by the hygienist, which is lightweight, so it is no longer made of wood, but made of multi-layered old cowhide or horse and donkey skin, which is very scientifically divided, and various objects are classified. Wooden stethoscopes, improvised surgical instruments, antiseptics, first-aid medicines, antibiotics and dressings. All of them are manufactured by the Ministry of Health's pharmaceutical factories. No wonder Zhao Yanmei had to show him a proud look when she showed him.

Compared to two years ago, the first batch of medicine boxes for nurses contained almost nothing except alcohol, stethoscopes, dressings and several proprietary Chinese medicines made by local methods. And now even painkillers and antibiotics are available.

"With this, the hygienist is a miracle doctor in this time and space." Shi Yuanren is half joking and half sighing.

"It's just the lack of syringes -- if you have a syringe, you'll be able to live."

"Soon, although the needle is a jishu life, it is not high-tech in the end, and when the battle is over, it will definitely produce energy." Shi Yuanren checked the medicines in them one by one and thought that some medicines for common diseases needed to be added.

"There are still a few more Chinese patent medicines with real curative effects such as Zhuge Xingjun San. Hygienists can't just think about the time of war, and they also have a headache and brain fever on weekdays when they are soldiers. ”

After talking about things, Zhao Yanmei was just about to say goodbye, but Shi Yuanren stopped her: "Your husband, I have to borrow him for a few days and go on a business trip." ”

Zhao Yanmei became nervous: "Do you want him to go to the mainland?" ”

"Of course not, I want him to be a representative of the Ministry of Health to inspect Ma Yuan's base."

"Then you can send him, we are not newlyweds. You have to get tired of being together every day. Zhao Yanmei said with a smile. As soon as she said goodbye, she got on the battery car and rode back to the pharmaceutical factory, where there were still a lot of things waiting for her.

The pharmaceutical factory tried to produce a batch of new drugs for the sake of the war, and she used up all the opium purchased from Macao. She used the opium to make cough drops, pain relievers, and astringents for diarrhea. Very popular with all parties. This time, for the sake of the war, she refined most of the remaining opium into salt/acid/morpho/brown and made it into injections. In order to make it easier for hygienists who did not have syringes, oral painkillers were also made from opium.

But she was worried about making morphine, which was much more addictive than the coca leaf and opiate currently used by the Ministry of Health, and that the drug would be distributed into the health workers' medicine boxes - Zhao Yanmei was skeptical that these hastily trained health workers would be able to recognize the terrible nature of the drug.

She has been in this time and space for a long time, and she understands that the lack of medicine in this time and space is amazing, although there is a Runshitang pharmacy in the county, and there are several herbal doctors in the county, but the vast majority of people have no medicine after they are sick, forming a situation of worshipping witch doctors, but all characters such as witch doctors are a kind of elixir to cure all diseases. Therefore, drugs such as opium and morphine, which have a quick effect, are easily abused as a panacea.

Whether the hygienists can realize the potential harm of the drugs in their hands, Zhao Yanmei really feels uncertain.

The factories were very lively, and in order to expand the relations of production, not only did they increase the number of regular workers, but also many women were recruited from the villages and communes as temporary laborers. Under the newly built mat shed, a pot is boiling cotton with caustic soda to defatt it. The smell was very strong, and the female workers wore masks and kept taking out the boiled haode cotton, rinsing it in clean water, and then drying it.

After degreasing and drying, the cotton and rolls of gauze taken from the textile factory are then taken to the disinfection workshop for disinfection and packaging. There are also some bandaging materials that do not need to be disinfected, and are washed and bleached in the mat shed and then dried directly in the yard. The shelves were littered with bandages and triangular scarves, fluttering in the sun.

When the female workers saw her come in, they all looked respectfully and respectfully. Not long after they arrived at the factory, they were amazed that a young daughter-in-law like Zhao Yanmei was actually presiding over such a big medicine number that could make many "miracle medicines".

Zhao Yanmei has turned a blind eye to such onlookers. She frowned at the pungent smell of the yard. This dressing workshop has to be expanded, and open-air production is unhygienic and polluting.

She asked a technician who was in charge of production at the scene, and the technician said that the production did not encounter any jishu problems, that is, the raw materials were intermittent. In particular, the supply of cotton is on the tight side. If the production continues at this rate, the absorbent cotton will be discontinued.

"Didn't the Planning Institute approve the cotton quota?" Zhao Yanmei was puzzled.

The mechanic shook his head. Zhao Yanmei thought that the technicians were only in charge of production, so where did they know about the allocation of materials. She hurried back to her office

On her desk are several new medicines, all of which have been newly made recently, including belladonna injection for first aid, and a new ginseng injection, which is said to have a very good effect on the recovery and rebirth of the wounded, but unfortunately the pharmaceutical factory does not have much ginseng in stock. The ginseng was also borrowed from Runshitang. Liu San's traditional Chinese medicine factory also provided several new Chinese patent medicines, all of which were drugs to stop bleeding and remove blood stasis, especially a gold sore medicine, which was said to be copied from an ancient book to get a house, Liu San himself didn't know if there was really such a god, but he still made a batch of them ready to be tried on the battlefield.

Zhao Yanmei didn't have time to look more, so she called her secretary to ask about the allocation of materials. When I asked, I found out that the cotton quota allocated by the Planning Institute was not only used to make absorbent cotton, but also to make gauze. Gauze, V-belts, bandages. These things are produced by commissioned textile mills.

"Minister Mo said: If textile mills want to produce these orders, they must have a cotton quota to produce, otherwise they will not have cotton to use."

"Cotton supply is getting tight to this point?" Zhao Yanmei was a little surprised. Although the crossing does not grow cotton, but the sporadic cotton planting on the island is not too small, the main product exported by the Li District is cotton, and most of the cotton cloth of the crossing group depends on imports, and does not need much cotton. Cotton spinning in textile mills is mainly for the manufacture of various knitted cotton fabrics, and the demand for cotton itself is not very large.

"And the chemical disinfectants are not enough," the secretary reported.

"Okay, you first set up a list of the gap materials that affect production, and I will solve them one by one." Zhao Yanmei thought that the new oxytetracycline fermentation tank in the workshop had not yet been checked, so she hurriedly went to the workshop to see the mycelial development of oxytetracycline.

When Zhao Yanmei was very busy, He Ping received the task of going to Ma Yuan to inspect. In addition to checking hygiene, he was also responsible for opening a hospital in Mayu.

Shi Yuanren gave him the title of "Plenipotentiary of the Ministry of Health". He Ping spread his hands; "It's good to put me in charge of this, of course, but what about the doctor? I don't know how to do medicine, let alone be a doctor. ”