This calamity is: the plague!

As the saying goes: after a catastrophe, there will be a great epidemic, this sentence is very reasonable, especially the disaster of the flood, the water flow will bring pathogens in the no-man's land to the drinking water, causing a pandemic of infectious diseases, these pathogens enter the human body through the digestive tract, so it usually causes digestive tract infectious diseases.

Digestive tract infectious diseases, to put it simply, are diarrhea, but this diarrhea is very powerful, and there is an infectious disease called cholera, which is a virulent infectious disease on the same level as the plague.

In modern society, after the flood, there will be epidemic prevention personnel to distribute disinfection items in the water source, but in this era, there is not, if the epidemic prevention items are transferred from the Beijing ship, all the disinfection supplies on the Beijing ship will be used up in a few days! So Lin Yuan came up with a more reliable method, that is, it is strictly forbidden to drink water that has not been boiled!

For modern people: it is already common knowledge not to drink raw water, but this is not the case in ancient times, drinking water without boiling is a commonplace thing, when the water is boiled, the high temperature will destroy the cell structure of the bacteria, making it lose its pathogenicity.

The typhoon continued to move north after raging on the Shandong Peninsula for a while, but its energy has weakened a lot, only causing some scattered drizzle in the north of the Shandong Peninsula.

After a few more days, under the protection of the ministers, Lin Yuan finally got the position of governor of the three eastern provinces, which means that all his plans have a foundation for implementation.

After Lin Yuan learned the news, he found Zhang Hua and asked, "What is your public identity outside?" ”

Zhang Hua said with a smile: "I am a diplomat of the Ryukyu Kingdom, but I always say that my ancestors are Chinese. ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "That's good, I hope to start a company in your name." ”

Zhang Hua asked, "Start a company?" What company? ”

Lin Yuan said: "Your company is temporarily responsible for the production of light industry. ”

Zhang Huayi frowned and said, "I'm not very good at these, can't I start a company in your own name?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "If a lot of things are related to me, it will definitely be inconvenient in the future, we will use advanced technology in the future to bring down foreign companies in China, there are a lot of things that need to be done, if the company is in my name, foreigners will definitely be on guard, and finding an irrelevant person will save a lot of trouble." ”

Zhang Hua smiled helplessly and said, "Okay, but I don't even know what light industry is......

Lin Yuan interrupted him and said: "The things produced by light industry are directly related to people's clothing, food, housing and transportation, such as the food industry......

This time it was Zhang Hua's turn to interrupt Lin Yuan, he made a "stop" gesture and asked, "Is there still a food industry?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Of course food needs industry, if you think about the flour we eat, where does it come from, most of the flour eaten by people in this era is manually milled, but the efficiency of this is very low, and it also takes up a lot of labor, if we switch to industrial production methods, the efficiency will be much higher." ”

Zhang Hua smiled: "I understand, do you remember the fifth master who made compressed biscuits for us, does the food industry do that kind of thing?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "There is still a difference between what the fifth master does, we make raw materials for the fifth master." ”

Zhang Hua asked, "Then what is the name of our company?" What do you think of calling it Zhonghua Industrial Company? ”

Lin Yuan said: "That's too high-profile, in my opinion, it's called Zhang's Industrial Company." ”

Zhang Hua let out a long sigh and said, "Okay, this name is really not good, so what does my company do in addition to the food industry?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "You have a lot to do, such as hemp spinning project, which can produce a large number of woven bags, and we can use these woven bags to send chemical raw materials; There are also like papermaking projects, we need to educate talents in the future, then we need to use a lot of paper to print books, and now the paper production in this era is still too slow to meet our needs, and there are many other industries, such as sugar, tanning, etc., these now have small workshops, but they have not yet formed a large-scale industry. ”

Zhang Hua said: "I don't understand these things anymore, what do I need to do?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Now limited by our industrial base, there are many things we can't do, such as papermaking engineering, in the final analysis, chemical engineering, what you have to do is not to help these existing workshops improve the process, but to unite them, investigate their business conditions, and improve the process later." ”

Zhang Hua said: "This matter sounds very simple, you make a list for me in a while, and I will send someone to investigate these small workshops." ”

Lin Yuan said again: "I have already said hello to the people in the court, you just need to find a good place to hang the sign out, Zhang Shiliang and Zhang Jian's two textile factories are attached to the name of this company." ”

People familiar with modern history know that China's heavy industry in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China was extremely backward, so that it suffered a big loss in the later war, and many people do not know that China's light industry in this era is also backward, most of the factories are established by foreigners, Chinese can only work in them, and most of the profits are taken by foreigners.

Marx's theory of surplus value reveals how the capitalists extract profits from the workers, and in this era when science and technology are not developed, labor productivity cannot be improved, and the only way for the capitalists to obtain the greatest profits is to extend working hours, so the Chinese workers have to work more than ten hours a day under poor conditions.

Lin Yuan established this company as a base in the field of light industry, so as to counter foreign factories in this field, and light industry can provide a large number of industrial jobs, which will remove a large number of farmers from agricultural production, which will bring earth-shaking changes to today's Chinese society.

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It has been several days since the Ryukyu Fleet defeated the Japanese fleet with missiles, and this matter has almost fermented, so it's time to make a show." ”

Lin Yuan went to the newspaper office to see the reaction of foreigners to this matter, he came to the newspaper office, nodded and smiled with the old man who guarded the door, and went in, I don't know what Lu Dao was for, Shen Wanqing and Tang Fan were not there in the newspaper office, and the huge room was empty.

Just when Lin Yuan was wondering, a girl's voice came from behind him: "What are you doing?" ”

As soon as Lin Yuan turned around, he saw a young girl standing in front of him, wearing a Western-style dress and holding a few books in her hands, although her appearance was delicate and moving, but there was an awe-inspiring heroic spirit between her eyebrows and eyes.

The newspaper office is not full of people from the Beijing ship, there are also some people from the capital, these people Lin Yuan knows, but he doesn't know the girl in front of him, Lin Yuan hurriedly said: "I'm here to find Shen Wanqing." ”

The girl frowned and said, "Do you have anything to do with her?" ”

This was not a simple question, because Lin Yuan read a strong hostility from the tone and the girl's demeanor, Lin Yuan thought to himself, "Who is this girl?" Why do you want to do this to me? ”