Chapter 169: Revival Society's Foreign Aid 1
86_86695 "The revolutionary cause led by the Revival Society must pay attention to the work of uniting the progressive forces. The way to distinguish these progressive forces is simple. Whoever sincerely defends the interests of the nation, we must unite with him! Whoever sincerely opposes national separatism, we must unite with him! Whoever is sincere in resisting foreign invasions, we must unite him! ”
"In order to build a revolutionary united front, the Renaissance Society must have this discernment, and it must unite a progressive force that can be united. We must promote the development of the revolutionary cause in all aspects, and the establishment of a revolutionary united front is an important link. ”
-- 1621, Wang Shuhui, "To Establish a United Front for the Revival of the Revolution"
Wang Shuhui's favorite characters in the late Ming Dynasty have two. One is Qin Liangyu, the commander of the White Pole Army, and the other is Lu Xiangsheng, the commander of the Tianxiong Army. From the perspective of their establishment achievements, Wang Shuhui's favorite among the two is Qin Liangyu, the only female general officially certified by the government in Chinese history.
Although Qin Liangyu is subjectively loyal to the Ming Dynasty, it reflects that she is not progressive enough in her thinking. However, objectively, whether she led the white pole soldiers to resist the invasion of the Qing army, or she led the white pole soldiers to quell the rebellion of Lu'an, they were all safeguarding national interests and national unity. From this point of view, Wang Shuhui feels that Qin Liangyu is a very progressive force that can be united.
Although Wang Shuhui does not think that in feudal society, there will really be a real sense of progressive power. However, both subjectively and objectively, Wang Shuhui felt that it was necessary for the Revival Society to "pull out the big one" in the historical environment of the late Ming Dynasty, select some "relatively progressive" forces, unite and support, and establish a united front.
In this way, Qin Liangyu, the stone pillar and Tusi who is famous and good in history, has become the object of Wang Shuhui's united front and support.
As early as the end of 1621, Wang Shuhui sent personnel to establish a relatively good relationship with Qin Liangyu, the stone pillar toast. Between 1621 and 1622, the Fuxing Society had successively provided Qin Liangyu with nearly 100 tons of military rations (grain bricks).
Although Qin Liangyu has not met Wang Shuhui yet, even she doesn't know much about the Fuxing Society. However, in her correspondence with Wang Shuhui, the two have become intimate to the point that their aunts and nephews are commensurate.
Of course, Wang Shuhui couldn't just give food aid to Qin Liangyu. Technicians from the Agricultural Division of the Renaissance Society have helped establish several important industries in the Shizhu area.
The first industry is that the Department of Agriculture leads the people of Shizhu to promote the cultivation of alpine potatoes and cold-tolerant corn in the Shizhu area.
The Shizhu area is located at the junction of Hubei, Sichuan and Hunan. The mountains are high and the terrain is rugged. The area of arable land is small, the soil is poor, and the grain production is low.
In order to fundamentally enhance the strength of the Shizhu area itself, Wang Shuhui has introduced a lot of high-quality varieties that have been popularized in the modern Shizhu area and adapted to the natural environment of the Shizhu area. Alpine potatoes and hardy corn are one of the most important projects.
After a year of practice, with the strong support of Qin Liangyu and the joint efforts of the people of Shizhu, the cultivation of alpine potatoes and cold-tolerant corn has been promoted. In that year, the Shizhu area ushered in an unprecedented bumper harvest. Although, due to the lack of chemical fertilizer, the actual yield of alpine potatoes and hardy corn is not as high as in modern society. However, the yield of corn per mu has also reached about 300 catties, and the yield of alpine potatoes has also exceeded 500 catties.
Although in the general environment, Qin Liangyu still has to be constrained by the civilian clique. However, because of the leapfrog increase in grain production in the Shizhu area, the military supply of the white pole soldiers has become very sufficient. Although the civilian clique's supply of white pole soldiers is still "drifting", due to the lack of military supplies, the non-combat attrition of the white pole soldiers has been greatly reduced compared with the historical situation.
The second industry is that the Department of Agriculture has established a grain-saving animal husbandry in the Shizhu area by using the excellent rabbit breeds introduced by Wang Shuhui from modern times.
Shizhu long-haired rabbit industry, is the later Shizhu in 1984 Shizhu County established an autonomous county, Shizhu from the county conditions, scientific decision-making, adjustment of rural industrial structure, the establishment of the development of long-haired rabbit as the main body of the food-saving animal husbandry.
In modern society, the Shizhu long-haired rabbit industry, after more than 20 years of development, has experienced from scratch, from sporadic breeding to large-scale production. From less to more, from intensive management to industrialization. By 2004, 241 long-haired rabbits were stored in Shizhu County. 20,000, maintaining a scale of more than 2 million for 13 consecutive years.
In modern society, 80% of the townships in Shizhu County raise rabbits. Rabbit farmers reached 6. 890,000 households, accounting for more than 60% of the total rural households in the county. The annual output of rabbit hair reaches 1,200 tons, and the annual cash income of farmers raising rabbits is 1. More than 700 million yuan. The average annual income of rabbit raising in Shizhu County is more than 80 million yuan. The long-haired rabbit breeding industry alone generated 1.5 million yuan for the county finance, and the highest year reached 3.92 million yuan.
The technical staff of the Agricultural Division of the Renaissance Society have adopted the method of joint development of two forms of unified farming and decentralized farming in the Shizhu area. At the same time, three large-scale long-haired rabbit farms were established, and 5,000 rabbits were donated free of charge to the families of the white pole soldiers.
With the efforts of the technical staff of the Agricultural Department of the Fuxing Association and the great influence of Qin Liangyu on the people of Shizhu, the promotion of Shizhu long-haired rabbits is extremely fast. In that year alone, the Shizhu area sold more than 30,000 catties of rabbit fur to the Fuxing Association. The three farms and all the farmers have made a lot of profits.
The Fuxing Textile Factory specially used these rabbit fur to process a batch of wool, and the market response was quite good. The wealthy families in the Jiangnan area bought a large number of this kind of rabbit fur, reaching a situation where supply exceeded demand.
The third industry is the medicinal herb processing factory invested and built by the Fuxing Society in Shizhu County. Shizhu County has always been rich in two kinds of medicinal materials, gastrodia and coptis. However, for these two kinds of medicinal materials, the local people are simply engaged in the collection work, and then sell the collected medicinal materials at a low price to the medicinal material dealers who come to collect the medicine.
After the Fuxing Society established a medicinal herb processing factory in Shizhu County, on the one hand, it absorbed a lot of idle local laborers, and on the other hand, it also increased the purchase price of medicinal materials, which further increased the income of the local people.
The Fuxinghui Medicinal Material Processing Factory uses gastrodia and Coptis chinensis as raw materials and uses advanced modern equipment to process and make more than 10 kinds of Chinese patent medicines. These proprietary Chinese medicines are not only easy to use, but also have obvious efficacy. It is a lot of big pharmacies in the north and south of Beijing, and also through the Guò Zhijiang Business Alliance and the Fuxing Association in the Jiangnan area, buy a large number of shops.
After the establishment of these three industries in the local area, the Fuxing Society has greatly strengthened the economic strength of the Shizhu area. Not only has the living standard of the people of Shizhu improved in an all-round way, but as the ruler of the Shizhu region, Qin Liangyu's Shizhu Tusi has also gained huge benefits in these three industries and strengthened his strength.
The Renaissance Society's support for Qin Liangyu in these aspects is only implicitly enhancing the strength of Qin Liangyu and the white pole soldiers. The other two aids provided by the Revival Society to Qin Liangyu directly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the white pole soldiers.
At the same time as the Revival Society carried out agricultural support in the Shizhu area, the Health Department of the Revival Society began to help the white pole soldiers to establish a modern military medical system.
In the process of Qin Liangyu leading the Baipole soldiers to quell the rebellion of Lu'an, the Fuxing Society assisted the Baipole soldiers, with a total number of 200 military medical personnel, which not only directly undertook the treatment of the wounded and sick of the Baipole soldiers on the battlefield, but also trained hundreds of military doctors who could reach the level of military hygienists.
By June 1622 (Gregorian calendar), more than 500 white-pole soldiers had mastered the basic knowledge of military medicine. They can already take on the work of field medicine on the battlefield.
Of course, without the medical equipment and various medicinal materials that Fuxing would provide to the White Pole Soldiers, they would have been in vain. However, they have mastered skills such as sterilization, wound suturing, and simple surgery.
The Revival Society also specially selected more than 30 intern doctors and established a people's hospital in the Shizhu area (the intern hospital of the Revival Society's medical system, hehe).
If it is said that helping the white pole soldiers to establish a health and medical system has not directly improved Qin Liangyu's combat ability, the black powder grenade factory established by the Fuxing Society in the Shizhu area will be of great help to Qin Liangyu.
In the past, without the help of the Revival Society, the White Pole Soldiers could only be called White Pole Soldiers. However, after the revival association helped Qin Liangyu establish a grenade factory, the white pole soldiers who popularized grenades can be called white pole bomb soldiers.
Although the craftsmanship is rough and the simple black powder grenade is nicknamed "wooden handle shock grenade" by many people in modern society, the reason why this kind of grenade is not powerful is because everyone was facing an industrialized little devil at that time.
The black powder grenades produced by the Revival Society exerted great power in the hands of well-disciplined and relatively well-trained white-pole soldiers. In the battle between the white pole soldiers and the rebellious Tusi soldiers, it is often the case that if there is a slight stalemate on the battlefield, specially trained grenadiers from the white pole soldiers will appear and throw grenades at the enemy.
Not to mention that the toast rebels were terrified by the ferocity of the white pole soldiers. Even the Sichuan soldiers who fought with the white pole soldiers also looked sideways at the white pole soldiers. It is really a modern weapon like a grenade, and the pressure on the ancients is very great.
In April 1622, steam cranes on the wharf in Gaojiazhen were billowing white smoke and lifting a large number of goods from steamers that were also emitting white smoke.
A Tujia man wearing a blue turban is trying to load a large amount of goods. When many people saw the soldiers of the Fuxing Army wearing gray military uniforms and helmet-style canvas military caps (overseas Chinese hats), they would immediately put down their work and greet them warmly.
Qin Liangyu's son Ma Xianglin inherited his mother's tall stature. Standing in the middle of a group of Tujia soldiers in dark blue shirts, he stood out from the crowd.
"Brother Lu, if you come a few days later, you won't be able to see me."
Ma Xianglin grabbed the shoulders of Lu Yue, the political commissar of the Yangtze River Marine Corps of the Fuxing Association, and said to him happily