"After the end of the Second East-West War, the Republic of China on the east coast of China obtained the rights to the Southern Cone Interoceanic Railway and its dependencies in the southern Patagonia region. In that year, the Southern Cone Railway Company was established with the Ministry of War as the main body and the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Communications as the joint participation, and began to build the Xingnan Highway before the end of the year, and the construction of the Liangyang Railway began the following year. In the castle, an older cadre of the regimental fort gushed endlessly to Mario of the Doria family, the envoy of the Republic of Genoa, who came to inspect the company: "According to the articles of association of the company, the executive committee of our country has given the company many privileges, mainly to operate the land and houses attached to the railway; Later, local administrative tasks such as civil engineering, education, health, and commerce were added to the subordinate areas of the Southern Railway. In 1649, President Mo gained an important channel for the company to trade in Peru, and the prospects for the development of the Southern Railway were unprecedentedly broader......

"The legal basis for the administrative power of the dependent territories is based on the Peace of Valladolid and the Outline and Concise Statutes for the Establishment of the Southern Railway promulgated by the National People's Congress, which clearly states that 'in order to obtain the land, minerals, building materials, etc., necessary for the construction, operation and maintenance of the railway, the land within one mile (approximately six thousand kilometers) on each side of the railway must be surrendered, and the Southern Railway Company must have absolute administrative power over these lands.' -- The above is the origin of the railway dependencies, which were also recognized by the Kingdom of Spain, that is, the railway dependencies were the legal territory of the Republic of China on the east coast of China, and in order to manage these lands, the Southern Railway Company set up a special local ministry in early 1649 to manage the dependent territories in accordance with the laws of the east coast and the articles of association of the Southern Railway Company. ”

I listened to the introduction of a cadre specially sent by the Qingniwa Castle. Mario had a polite smile on his face. But as a core member of a Christian and merchant family, he was in his stomach and slandered: Southern Railway was nothing more than a chartered company established under the protection of East Coast law. However, it exercises local administrative powers that only the government has, which is very undeserved. Of course, he also knew very well that in the Old World at this time, there were more companies with more power than the Southern Railway Company, such as the British merchant adventure company, the East India Company and other concession companies in various countries.

In addition, there is another point that is not very clear to the Southern Railway Company, that is, what is the nature of the railway annex? Is it a territory, a franchise residence, a leased land, or something else? It's a pity. As a witness to the Valladolid Peace Treaty, Mario had gone to the archives of the Republic of Genoa to examine the terms of the treaty, but he still did not understand the nature and legal status of the railway annexes - because the peace treaty itself was vague.

However, the lack of clarity is not a big problem, and in Mario's opinion, if there are no major changes in the international form in the future, then the Southern Railway and its dependencies will probably never return to the hands of the Kingdom of Spain. The people of the East Coast built high-grade roads, factories (branches of building materials companies), breathtaking docks, "railways" that were rumored in Europe, and planned reservoirs and farmlands, so much to pay back to the Spaniards? Can you believe it?

Mario bet that, according to the addendum to the Treaty of Peace with Spain, the Easterners would never have returned the railroad to the Spaniards before 1700 AD. Not only would the railroad not be returned, but neither would the 10-year fishing, mining, and deforestation rights in Southern Patagonia that the Spaniards had betrayed - and Mario did not expect the East Coasters to return these rights to the Spaniards by January 1, 1659. In that case, what is he doing here? Come and eat sand?

In the previous two weeks, he had gone to Tierra del Fuego to investigate carefully. The details were carefully consulted with the people of the East Coast on their proposed offer for the sale of sea animal skins, whale skins, and high-grade oils. There must be no doubt that this was an extremely lucrative business in the Old Continent, and a closer look at the whaling of the Dutch, Danes, and Spaniards in the North Sea, as well as the fur business of the French in North America, shows how tempting this offer of the East Coasters was. Is this all about giving them money, maybe it's a disguised compensation from the East Coasters to their old friends? - For their Genoese friends, whose interests in the Peruvian smuggling trade have been greatly damaged.

After happily finalizing the details of the fur and oil trade with the people of the East Coast, Mario was invited to visit the Southern Railway, and at this moment he visited the Green Mudhole Fort. While the visit was mostly a sight to behold, it was enough to enlighten Mario - he now really believes that the East Coast is the best building group in the world.

For example, in the main urban area of Qingniwabao, a settlement that has been established for a few months, the people of the east bank have built 17 brick buildings (covering an area of 636 square meters), a duck farm (a duck shed woven with reeds), and a livestock pen (a total of more than 100 cattle and sheep). Most of the other area has been distributed to more than 2,500 new immigrants in the form of homesteads and arable land, except for the area reserved for the construction of military camps, warehouses, and company offices in the future.

What is even more exaggerated is that I don't know whether it was the special hobby of the officials in charge of the local area or the instructions of the superiors, but the people of the east coast actually used local resources to build a large-scale retreat outside the city in this wetland-wide Gobi oasis: there are parks, sports fields and walking places. Of course, at this time, these retreats were still relatively rudimentary, just a rudimentary form. However, it is believed that with the passage of time and the improvement of the financial situation of the Southern Railway Company, the construction of these places will begin to gradually deepen and eventually become an indelible memory in the minds of local residents.

But what Mario didn't know was that the construction of a place for people to exercise in the green mud valley was just the beginning, and in the planning of the Southern Railway Company, on the other side of the wetland, a larger building had already been built: the "Southern Railway Sanatorium" and a "Southern Railway Hospital". Needless to say, the Southern Railway Company attached great importance to all kinds of diseases, especially infectious diseases, and they did not want to let the railway dependencies become like the local epidemic that broke out from time to time and cause a large loss of population.

Probably one of the most important departments in the Nantetsu Sanatorium is the Tuberculosis Nursing Department (13.5% of all patients have tuberculosis). In the past, many patients who suffered from tuberculosis in the Southern Railway area were sent to ordinary rural medical clinics and roving medical teams, and there were few diagnosis and treatment methods - most of them were conservative treatments of traditional Chinese medicine, and there were also not many preventive measures, which caused a relatively large number of dangers.

As soon as the settlement of Qingniwabao was established, the construction of the Nantie Sanatorium was almost at the same time, and it was completed before the main urban area of Qingniwabao, with a total cost of more than 6,500 yuan. As far as the perfection of this sanatorium and the novelty of its design are concerned, there is no second one on the east coast at this time other than the Oriental sanatorium in the capital.

In just two or three months, all 108 beds in the tuberculosis sanatorium have been occupied by patients, and there is no vacancy, and there are even dozens of patients waiting to be admitted to the hospital for recuperation. It is a sad fact that very few of the tuberculosis patients admitted to the nursing home have improved, and even fewer have recovered their ability to work, and most of them have died one after another. The significance of the preservation of the Southern Railway Sanatorium is only to make these people who unfortunately fell ill for the construction of the Southern Railway more comfortable in the last journey of their lives.

In order to avoid a recurrence of the tragedy, in addition to spending a huge amount of money to build the Southern Railway Hospital in Qingniwabao and carrying out special research on tuberculosis prevention and control, the Southern Railway Company also made requirements for tuberculosis prevention in various settlements - that is, to lower the room temperature, increase outdoor activities, maintain good indoor ventilation, regular health checks, etc., and organize roving propaganda teams to publicize the disease and preventive measures to the settlers.

As for the cultivation of vaccines to prevent and treat tuberculosis, it is the top priority of the Southern Railway Hospital, which is currently in the preparatory stage. The Dutch mirror technicians recruited by the Tuohenan Glass Factory at a high price have now built lenses with extremely high magnification, and have initially applied them to the field of microorganisms. The only few doctors at the Southern Railway Hospital (hired at a high price from the capital) are currently working to isolate the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and are believed to have made considerable progress.

In the next step, they will use the ancient Chinese method of testing on animals using the ancient Chinese method of "animal yàn", which is similar to cowpox, trying to find a low-toxic or non-toxic germ, and then inoculate it into the human body, so that the human body can successfully produce antibodies without causing much danger to the human body, so as to effectively prevent the terrible epidemic of tuberculosis. Mo Mingmo, president of the Southern Railway Company, attaches great importance to the work of the Southern Railway Hospital, and asks for money and goods, except for the fact that the manpower is not very abundant, and the other conditions even exceed those of the local area, in order to overcome such diseases as soon as possible, benefit the more than 200,000 people on the southern railway and even the east coast, and keep them away from the threat of disease.

Of course, when it comes to such advanced and high-end medical knowledge, the Southern Railway Company will naturally not be selfless and generous enough to show this to the Genoese people. As a result, Mario was able to visit the Green Mudhole Fort, but he was not able to visit the Southern Iron Sanatorium and the Southern Railway Hospital, which had become almost a military restricted area. As an old friend who has worked together for many years, we can vaccinate you for a fee or even free of charge in the future, but when it comes to the specific mysteries of this, it is not enough for outsiders. (To be continued......)