Twelfth Quarter Breakthrough

"Okay, but don't expect much support. The Executive Committee is very stingy with the allocation and manpower rationing for our religious office. The Catholic Church is now spending almost all of Jesuit money. ”

"I don't need many resources." Zhang Yingchen said very modestly, "As long as the necessary manpower is allocated to me - more than a dozen orphans." As for the funding, the current demand is limited, so I can pay for it myself. ”

"Manpower is very difficult to manage, and all sides are fighting for it." He Ying said, "You still want orphans, do you know that orphans are scarce materials." ”

"There can always be, I don't ask for much, ten people are enough. All boys - 11~16 years old, preferably thirteen or fourteen years old. The kind that wants to be clear-eyed. I came to nurture them myself. ”

"People think about raising Lori all day long, your taste is really different." He Ying said.

"Where, where," Zhang Yingchen coughed a few times, "I also have a request not to be an orphan who has been contaminated with the atmosphere of the three gates under the rivers and lakes, and not to be an orphan who is too honest and does not know how to be flexible." Preferably, you have been trained in a place such as a troupe and know how to play a musical instrument. It's best to have a high hatred rating. The more they hate this era, the more it meets our requirements. ”

"After the hearing is passed, I will make a report." He Ying said, "Purely in the nature of queuing, it is unlikely that you will be assigned someone immediately." ”

Zhang's proposal passed the hearing of the Standing Committee and was also approved by the Executive Committee. As for the Taoist life he wanted, he didn't have it for the time being. As He Ying said: orphans are a scarce commodity, and they are in great demand in all aspects. It's a no-brainer if you don't wait a few months for this application.

Zhang Yingchen decided not to wait any longer. He decided to make the Sanya area, which was being developed, his first missionary field. There was a large number of laborers there who needed religious comfort. Moreover, it is easy to clash with Lao Wu when he starts preaching directly in Lingao. Although Lao Wu is not a crusader, this kind of direct infringement on other people's territory should be avoided as much as possible.

He decided to use his medical skills as much as possible to spread his teachings. To this end, he asked He Ying to seconded his personnel relations to the Ministry of Health, preparing to rush to Sanya to perform health services. For the sake of prudence, he also asked He Ying to open a letter of introduction from the Religious Affairs Office, and also stamped the seal of the Government Affairs Yuan. The local patriarchs of Sanya: Wang, Xi, Zhuo, Li and others do not have a good man or woman, and if they think that he is engaged in some kind of "evil cult", it will be a big shame to arrest him.

Out of this valuable letter, Zhang Yingchen brought things very simply. He wanted to emulate those missionaries who had overcome all obstacles and penetrated into the barren past, carrying only the most necessary necessities and trying to live a missionary life with the simplest way of life. Not only to ensure the simplicity and humility necessary to be a religious person, but also to lay the foundation for later missionary activities in the wilderness.

In addition to the homemade Taoist robe on his body, he only brought a double-shouldered rattan backpack made by the Lingao Quilt Factory, which contained a few coarse cloth underwear issued to laborers; Towels and enamel cups were also issued to indigenous labourers; a tin lunch box, an oilcloth raincoat, two spare pairs of leather-soled cloth shoes, and cloth leggings for the army; The Swiss Army Knife, which he brought himself, was the only modern piece of equipment. In addition, there is a standard medicine box, which is mainly a variety of Chinese patent medicines developed by Liu San, except for a few home-made antibiotics.

Zhang Yingchen decided to use such equipment to train himself in Yulin this time. For this reason, he also went to a long-range exploration team to participate in a wilderness survival training for his four weeks. Learn a variety of skills such as identifying directions, choosing a path, and finding food. He also began to learn several local dialects, including the most popular Hainan vernacular and military dialect in the region. As for the Li language, there will be no place to learn it for a while.

The hippo returned with a smoker, medicine, food, and more nurses and the doctor who popped up.

In the headquarters office, Wang Luobin and others had already gone out, and only Zhuo Tianmin stayed at the headquarters. He suffered a lot during the violence, and stayed in the headquarters for the time being.

Zhuo Tianmin looked at this person's dispatch card, and then at this strange person, his strange clothes, and hair. Carrying a rattan box on his back, he carried a standard medicine box of the Ministry of Health, and a Type 29 jungle machete hung from his belt. A hat is carried on the shoulder. There are five or six bamboo tubes of water hanging around his neck.

Such a look, not like the patriarch, but like an ordinary native.

"You're a doctor?"

The tall Taoist priest smiled and stretched out his hand to him: "I'm Zhang Yingchen, I heard that the Sanya Development Zone requires additional medical personnel, so I came to you first, and I need your help in my work in the future." ”

"Oh, you look like this—" Zhuo Tianmin looked at him.

"This is the original ecological equipment," Zhang Yingchen said, "I plan to go deep into the inland areas to explore and collect medicines, and by the way, I will contact the local Li and Miao aborigines to see how well they accept the teachings." ”

"I see." Zhuo Tianmin nodded, "But this equipment is too rudimentary." ”

"It's out of the way," Zhang Yingchen said with a gentle smile, "When the natives travel, they are the same as me, maybe not as good as me." They can do it, and I can do it. ”

Zhuo Tianmin is not interested in his quirky hobbies, but he is suspicious of his mission. This person kept saying that he was here to be a doctor, but the letter of introduction and dispatch card were stamped with the official seal of the religious office.

Wang Luobin was not interested in whether the medical staff who were temporarily supported by Bairen City was a Taoist priest or a priest, and when the Taoist priest who claimed to be a medical staff took out the certificate of the attending doctor of Bairen City's medical system, he directly let him go to the health center to assist in the work.

Zhuo Tianmin was a little uneasy about this guy who was not like a doctor and more like a magic stick.

In his opinion, the appearance of such an eccentric doctor in Sanya, which is already panicking because of the continuous work-related accidents, is itself an uncertain factor. Zhuo Tianmin, who had experienced the riots of Leader Li, had to raise his suspicions to Wang Luobin.

Wang Luobin disagreed. In his opinion, this Zhang Yingchen is a regular professional background. The medical skills were much better than those of the veterinarians and nurses who had been trained by the crowd, and the presence of the clergy was a timely emotional stabilizer for the indigenous workers.

"The Portuguese and the Spaniards brought priests with them in the Americas and Southeast Asia," he replied, looking at the project report without raising his head, "and religious brainwashing was an indispensable weapon for the colonists. Take 10,000 steps back and say, Lao Zhang is one of us and a patriarch, are you worried that he will carve a one-eyed stone man in the middle of the night and bury it at the construction site and then organize these natives to rise up and make trouble? ”

The discussion about the new Taoist doctor was over, and Zhang Yingchen, who was busy treating the sick and promising the dying that they would be able to surpass their holy disciples, had no idea that around him, the two colleagues who developed Sanya had an unpleasant argument.

However, he soon tasted the hostility of his colleagues towards his missionary activities. On the same day, he and Guo Fu took a class, and he preached some teachings to Guo Fu during the gap. The next day, Hippo sent him for a very serious conversation:

"I know that you have come to Sanya to undertake shiyan missionary activities. This was approved by the Central Government Council. "But you have to know that according to the Executive Committee's Document No. 61, workers such as nurses cannot be proselytized. ”

"Document No. 61 only says that it is forbidden to proselytize in schools, institutions and the army, but does not say that nurses cannot be proselytized......"

"At this stage, the hospital clinic is an institution, and the nurse is a public official, not a missionary." Hippos disliked the religious inclination of their nurses, even though religious systems were common throughout Shijie.

Zhang Yingchen seems to be an unwarranted interference. But he did not argue. If you want to gain a foothold here, you have to get the support of the local patriarchs, and arguing about this will not help, but will affect your foothold in this place.

So he turned his mission to ordinary laborers. He believed that the management would not interfere with such a missionary act, and after the violence, the bosses of the Sanya Military Council would definitely be anxious to find a spiritual opium that could soothe the hearts of the masses.

Zhuo Tianmin felt uneasy after receiving the report from the hippo, and after talking to Wang Luobin once, Xi Yaya was ordered to "look at the Taoist priest".

According to various reports, Zhang Yingchen was not very interested in traditional Taoist magic and ascension to immortality, and his missionary theory seemed to Zhuo Tianmin to be like a variant of Christianity.

Aside from his abstract explanation of "Tao", the highest object of Taoist belief, this short-haired Taoist priest always said that "Lao Jun took pity on the difficulties of the world, and sent 500 real people to take an iron boat and descend in the South China Sea. Those who follow the teachings are the chosen ones, and they will have a place in the peaceful and happy land, and even if they die unfortunately, they will also ascend to the heavens of the elect.

This is nonsense. Zhuo Tianmin thought. But he also acknowledges that in the difficult conditions at this stage, it is good to give indigenous workers a little spiritual sustenance. People know that they can go to a good place after death, and they will be brave when they face death.

Thanks to the joint efforts of the whole group, especially the dual effect of the extensive distribution of compound antimalarial tablets and the substantial increase in nutrition, the malaria frenzy suddenly ebbed after reaching the first level, and the mortality rate plummeted, and by the end of the second month, there were no new cases of morbidity and death. Sanya Development has finally survived the first hurdle.

Although work-related injuries and deaths still occur from time to time, the lifting of the fear of the epidemic has greatly calmed people's hearts, and Zhang Yingchen has spared no effort to publicize that those who die from epidemics and accidents are on the electorate. With the further transformation of the environment and the large-scale sanitation campaign, the living environment of mosquitoes, flies, locusts and various parasites has deteriorated, the density has been decreasing, the number of sick people has dropped significantly, and the progress of the project has been greatly accelerated.

On April 20, amid the crackling sound of firecrackers, the railway was finally laid to the site of the Tiandu Iron Mine. Wang Luobin, Zhuo Tianmin and others symbolically loaded several road studs into the track amid the enthusiastic cheers of the road construction workers. The Yulin-Tianduku railway was officially opened, which was the first railway line to cross Zhongzhong, instead of the track used to transport raw materials in the industrial zone of Lingao. The less than 20-kilometre-long railway line was later referred to by some as the "Blood Road": hundreds of people died in various work-related accidents and epidemics. In his book The Bloody Giant Under the Veil of Modernity (which has since been banned), the famous independent scholar monologue wrote:

“…… According to statistics, at the initial stage of the implementation of "Giant Jihua". At that time, the construction of railways, highways, and telecommunications was the basic project for the entire development work. Because of the very bad climate and living conditions along the construction line of the entire project, coupled with the inhumane forced labor of Zhuo Moumou, Wang Moumou, Pan Moumou and others, nearly 1,000 laborers have died of technical safety accidents, overwork, disease and malnutrition, and because of this, this section of the project was later called the 'Road of Death'. ”

However, for the veterans who presided over the development of Sanya, the construction of this line meant a decisive victory. The railway is like a huge blood vessel, which can finally transport construction materials and labor to the front line of construction. Wang Luobin wrote in his reminiscences: "...... If we were worried about the prospect before that, then I believe that the success of the Sanya development will only be a matter of time when the railway is completed. ”

The No. 2 Meteor locomotive -- the No. 1 Meteor locomotive, which had been completely damaged due to the lack of strength of some parts, lost its repair value, and was pulled back to Lingao to dismantle and return to the furnace -- set off from the wooden platform of the humble Yulinbao Station amid the sound of firecrackers. The Meteor 2 used a 500-horsepower Mozi III steam engine. The huge boiler swallowed the high-quality Hongji anthracite, burned thousands of liters of water into scorching steam, pushed the pistons and levers, and the jet-black iron wheel slowly turned. The train was loaded with construction materials and drove faster and faster, and finally headed for Tiando Station at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.

The patriarchs laid a cornerstone on the original site of Tiandu Town in later generations, announcing the official start of the development of Tiandu Iron Mine. Supported by bulldozers, explosives and purple electric wheelbarrows, steel tools and labor teams destroyed the vegetation and pristine landscape: the wetlands were buried with waste soil and rubble, and the vegetation and trees were completely cleared. Large areas of shrubs were removed directly with arson. Most of the river valleys, which were once full of tropical vegetation, have now become wasteland. The Tiandu River has also dried up - the upstream has been temporarily dammed and the riverbed will be dredged and deepened, and Wang Luobin has built a small reservoir nearby to provide water for domestic and industrial use in the town of Tiandu and the mining area. If the amount of water is large enough, consider a small hydropower as an energy supplement.