Chapter 267 establishes Unit 531

"You mean to set up an integrated infectious disease service center in North and South Akachu? Do you know how much budget it costs? ”

"This is a lowly budget request report, please take a look at it."

Wang Xinyu felt a headache when he looked at the documents submitted by his proud protégé. Dig a hole for yourself, when I taught them, I said that in order to achieve the goal, we must consider all possible problems, especially when dealing with people, we must prepare all the countermeasures in advance, and as a result, these rabbit cubs always have their own army.

Wang Yide, as an elite staff officer at the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Strategic Planning Institute, is a rare protégé of Wang Xinyu, but the strategic plan drawn up is either bacteriological warfare or chemical weapons warfare, and he always has problems to make things difficult for the Military Commission. What made Wang Xinyu difficult this time was a brand-new application for the establishment of a unit, requiring the establishment of a unit similar to the 731 unit in the old time and space Japanese war of aggression against China in the north and south of Chizhou to develop weapons and equipment, lethality and new tactics. Although this proposal meets the needs of the national strategy, it still gave him a great impact when it appeared in front of Wang Xinyu.

For a while, Wang Xinyu fell into deep thought.

"Why did you come to me directly after the three levels of directors, and no one from your dean, the Ministry of Defense, or the Military Council helped you?"

"You know, there's a 90% chance that this proposal will go straight to the sea, so how can I waste that time waiting for those processes to be completed? None of those predecessors are fuel-efficient lamps, and this proposal must be completed according to the process. Regardless of whether it will be passed, even if it is passed, the budget will be at least ten times higher than mine, and the size of the troops will at least double and double. ”

Wang Xinyu smiled all of a sudden: "How can you arrange your predecessors like this." I know, this proposal can't be discussed at the meeting now, so you should die. The budget report in his hand was thrown back directly, looking at Staff Officer Wang's sunny and cloudy face, Wang Xinyu could only shrug his shoulders and say that he couldn't help.

"But this idea doesn't seem to be your style, you confess honestly, who gave you the idea to do this secret project?"

"There's nothing secret about it. It was my brother-in-law, who spent some time in Chizhou and was a doctor. My suggestion was to build a hospital for those who were seriously ill with Indigenous disease and to find out why they were immunocompromised. I came up with this idea, after all, the barbarians must be guarded against before they are subdued, in case there is a Qizhou incident (the robbery of the Malay aborigines near Manila. The cause was simply the looting of local market supplies by the Malay Budans. As a result, it turned into the largest imperial war against the aborigines since the founding of the country) Something like this happens, and we can be prepared for both. ”

"In this way, you go back and revise this proposal, and on the surface make a set of research institutions that establish a comprehensive hospital for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases to treat diseases and save people, and secretly use aboriginal death row criminals and critically ill patients to do pharmacological experiments and other experiments, we don't deliberately kill people and spread the plague, and we can still get support by doing more clinical research to accumulate data and experience." It's time for your style to change, there's no way we're going to promote a murderer to be a general. ”

Wang Yide understood Wang Xinyu's words, and the voice-over said, "Thank you, teacher, thank you, principal." I'll go back and change the report right away. It will be formally submitted to the process in the near future, and I hope you can urge the committee. We should be able to discuss it next month. ”

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American economic historian Gunde. In his book "Silver Capital", Frank says that in the century after the colonists arrived in the Americas, the local population was reduced by 95 percent. Among them, the Indian population of the Mayan civilization in Central America decreased from about 25 million to 1.5 million, the Indian population of the Inca civilization decreased from about 9 million to 600,000, and the Indian population in the United States today decreased from 5 million to 60,000. This is only a relatively conservative estimate. And according to Crosby and Levy. Scholars such as Bassi estimate that the population of the New World has shrunk from 100 million to 5 million.

British scholar Ian Brown. Jennifer. Graynn's epidemiological book, The History of Smallpox, cites the UK's first public health officer, John Smallpox. Simon's report says that the population of Mexico alone plummeted by 35 million after Europeans began their westward expeditions.

In short, it is a recognized fact in the historiographical community that the population of Native Americans decreased by tens of millions or even nearly 100 million under the colonial conquest and colonial rule of Europeans and their descendants. This genocide, unprecedented in human history, far outweighed the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany in the massacre of 6 million Jews. The American scholarly work "The Road to Domination," which describes the rise of the United States, also acknowledges that the Puritans did not inherit the empty continent that God promised them, but that they made it empty.

It was the people who knew about this terrible nightmare and tried to avoid premature contact with the aborigines, and tried to develop the New World after the medicines and vaccines were ready. Unfortunately, the progress had to be advanced under the strong demands of domestic industrial capital, such as the need for profits and the demand for trade.

At a time when the Maya and Chimu kingdoms were suffering from smallpox, measles, diphtheria, typhoid, mumps, influenza and other diseases from the Old World, two makeshift hospitals in the Sonoran Desert and the Acatama Desert were stationed with thousands of imperial soldiers. Two hospitals in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of nowhere, are located for Unit 531 to maintain secrecy and facilitate the isolation of patients. In the agrarian era, it would have been a foolish feat, and it would have been impossible to pass the Senate of the Empire, but in the industrial age, the plan became a very profitable move for the benefit of the country and the people.

The Horhocam people of the Sonoran Desert became the main nationals of the Empire's largest third-class territory in Chizhou, and the huge copper and saltpeter mines in the Acatama Desert were given free gifts by the Chimu people because of their remote location.

After the ports in the coastal zone have initial shipping capacity. These two hospitals, built not far from the sea, became a mecca for all the patients on the west coast of Chizhou. Thousands of Indians arrive at the two centers each month from the affected tribes, and most of the cured patients are left behind to join the construction of the local projects.

The full name of Unit 731 in the old time and space was Unit 731 in Manchuria, which was the code name of the Japanese invading army's bacteriological warfare agent factory. In order to hide people's eyes and ears. It has successively called the "Kamo Force", "Dongxiang Force", and "Kwantung Army Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Headquarters". Unit 731 disguised as a water purification unit. Unit 731 built its base in a bungalow area near Harbin in northeastern China, and built a large-scale bacteriological factory covering an area of 300 acres. This area was then part of the puppet regime of Manchukuo. Some researchers believe that more than 10,000 Chinese, North Koreans, and allied prisoners of war were killed in the Unit 731 trial, but the number is disputed.

And the full name of this Unit 531 is Chizhou Unit 531, which is the code name of the Empire's genetic weapons research and development base in the New World. In order to cover people's eyes, they have successively called the 'Cactus Troops', 'Scorpion Troops' and 'New World Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Headquarters'. Unit 531 was disguised as a water supply and water purification agency. Later, it became a medical institution and it was also a reason to expand. Both of these places are deserts, and if you want to develop them, you must first find water and establish a water supply system, and the Sonoran Desert in North Chizhou has better underground water sources and water and soil conditions. Coupled with the irrigation techniques of the Hohokam people, it soon established a small town that could accommodate thousands of people. The Acatama Desert in South Chizhou is a new type of town with nearly 1,000 people built with the support of fog net water harvesting technology. The purpose of this unit is very different from that of 731, which is to manufacture bacteriological weapons and conduct part-time human live medical experiments, and 531 is to produce vaccines and part-time medical clinical data collection. One is killing people and the other is saving people, so naturally it is impossible to compare. But due to the need for secrecy and isolation. Both units evoke mysteries and the possibility of an intrinsic conspiracy.

Just as 731 cannot kill all the detainees, 531 cannot save all the sick, some very serious patients leave the tribe and die on land, some just arrive and die, the most unfortunate naturally belong to the old and weak women and children who died in the hospital bed. Almost every Indian who came in was the best experimental observation subject, and all kinds of pharmacological and pathological data needed from near death to recovery were valuable information for the study of medical science. This kind of operation, which is almost the opposite of 731, has naturally won the hearts of the people. The growing image of the empire was not offset by the fact that the cured patients were forced to sign a debt contract for 20 to 30 years due to expensive drugs and medical expenses.

Some of the recovered people who have returned to their home tribes will also become responsible for the guidance of epidemic prevention and public health, and become new tribal witch doctors and patriarchs. This group of patients who were carefully selected in the hospital were not only healed physically, but even their souls were washed many times, becoming the most staunch supporters and downlines of the Empire. Just like pyramid schemes, these recovered people who returned home not only possessed immunity, but also possessed special knowledge beyond that of their clansmen, bringing their relatives and friends not the commodities and poverty of pyramid schemes, but health and new hope of prosperity. The development and operation of various parts of Chizhou required a large amount of labor, and after the price of the local labor of the empire plus the resettlement fee, it was obvious that the various companies of the colonial development would not choose this employment method that could lose money, but chose the plan of hiring local labor 100 times cheaper. Due to barriers such as language, folklore, and labor skill proficiency, this program is also very difficult, so Unit 531 has become the favorite headhunter of various development companies.

In addition to injections and medicines and waiting for recovery, every cured Indian is in the hospital to learn the language and various skills. A critically ill patient who has been hospitalized for about 70 days can learn the most commonly used Chinese and 100 commonly used Chinese characters, understand the living standards of the empire and the use of various common production and life tools, and should have no problem acting as a qualified junior migrant worker. This contributed a huge labor force and influence to the expansion of the empire, and officers at all levels of the army and soldiers who served as medical personnel were promoted and made a fortune in the triennial evaluation, at least one rank and one level of salary, and they also won the gold medal for the imperial colonial service, the purple medal for bravery, and even the imperial medal (the highest level of military medal awarded by the emperor himself).

This multi-functional force, which combines water supply and purification, epidemic prevention, medical care, medical research, vaccine production, warehousing and logistics, cultural propaganda, common sense education, vocational training, immigration and education, human resources intermediary, and other ordinary national defense and military functions, is not large in scale, but its importance in Chizhou is even higher than that of all other units. In the 100 years before it was declassified, the medical system was created for the empire (to save birth rates, to raise birth rates, to promote maternity, child health, and medical care) and to save the lives of 100 million Indians. In other words, the plague that was introduced from the Old World to the New World was like SARS, and it was controlled at the same normal level as the Old World just by causing millions of deaths and injuries, and there was no catastrophe that reduced the local population by 95% like the old time and space that traveled through the old world. The establishment of Unit 531 has become a highlight of the legitimacy of the empire's future rule over Chizhou, and it has also become a legendary unit that will forever go down in history. (To be continued......)