As the sky gets brighter, birds chirp in the woods, and the air seems to be filled with the aroma of rice wine and barbecued meat. Johnson, the bearded man who was on duty all night, stood up from the embers of the fire, stretched a big lazy waist, and then looked at Morgan, who was also ** not asleep, next to him, and smiled bitterly.

They were the only two medical workers in the task force who came to Fu Shan Tong this time, and they maintained very good professional habits and did not drink alcohol. As doctors who are ready to go to the operating table, alcohol can greatly affect their nervous response, so they will actively keep their distance from alcohol in any situation. Even yesterday, when Lord Fu invited for wine, it was Zhou Hengxing who explained the situation and asked others to drink it on his behalf. However, Lord Fu Yu was not angry because of this, because these two blonde and blue-eyed Yi people were actually doctors who were only available in a "big place" like Yacheng, which was definitely a distinguished guest for Li Dong, who lacked medical treatment. But it was precisely because the two doctors did not drink alcohol, and because they were also members of the military and police department, that the duty after this night banquet had to be completed by them.

Seeing that it was already five o'clock in the morning, the two went to the tent to wake up the members of the shift change, and they had to seize this precious time to sleep for a while. Although the night is very hard, but today I am afraid there will not be too much rest time for them, according to the plan of the working group, the free clinic and medicine in Li Tong is also an important part of the relationship between the Li people, and the two foreign doctors must be the protagonists.

With the trading and banquet on the first day as a foreshadowing, the inspection work that began the next morning was much smoother, and Lord Fu agreed to Zhou Hengxing's request and specially arranged for a few guides to accompany these curious outsiders around the neighborhood. Of course, he did not understand that the so-called "turnaround" of these people was not to visit the mountains and rivers, but to investigate the development of agriculture, forestry, minerals and other resources here.

Two foreign doctors set up a position in the village to provide free medical treatment for local sick and injured residents. It's just a little troublesome, Zhou Hengxing, who knows Li language, is not fluent in English, and the Chinese of these two Yankees is still in the initial stage of "hello", "thank you" and "goodbye", and they can't communicate at all. As a last resort, there was an interpreter who could understand English, so that the communication between the doctor and the patient had to be carried out through at least two interpreters, and only one of the doctors could be translated at a time, so the efficiency of the consultation was reduced to an astonishing level. According to Morgan's later chat, when he was on a humanitarian mission in Liberia, West Africa, he had never had such trouble communicating with black people who didn't speak the language. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

Ning Qi seized the time to find Fu Nuo and planned to discuss the export of labor. (.) Fu Nuo obviously had not finished drinking, and when Ning Qi found his house under the leadership of the villagers, the old man was sitting motionless on the bamboo ** in a daze. However, when he looked up and saw Ning Qi standing at the door, a smile appeared on his face: "Please come in, my guest." ”

Ning Qi's Hainan accent is not proficient in Cantonese, and he pulled Zhou Hengxing to practice last night, although the effect is not obvious, but he can barely communicate with Fu Nuo: "Lord Fu Dong, thank you and the villagers for your hospitality last night." In addition to salt and ironware, we have other deals to talk to you about. ”

"What do you want?" said Fu Nuo, who was clearly not yet at the stage of getting old-eyed, immediately pointed out the core problem.

"People. We need the help of the Lebanese. Ning Qi didn't intend to hide anything, and said bluntly: "Your villagers do things for us, and they will get the corresponding remuneration from us later." ”

The smile on Fu Nuo's face disappeared: "Do you want my villagers to go to your place to serve in labor and military service? That's not good, we still have to serve the Ming people every year, and we can't serve you anymore." ”

"Our approach is different from the Ming people, first of all, we will not force you to do anything, this is not service, this is what we pay you to do. Secondly, we will not conscript your young men to serve in the military, and even if we are going to recruit soldiers in the future, we will only accept those who volunteer to serve in the army, and not force you to have as many young men as you have to send in a village. Ning Qi patiently explained to Fu Nuo: "This is a transaction, we will exchange money and food for whatever you need, you only need to pay for labor." ”

"Even a large number of iron tools are enough?" Fu Nuo asked in disbelief. Since the beginning of the Li rebellion in the Yuan Dynasty, the government has been extremely strict with the iron weapons in the Li area, lest they obtain pig iron and use it to make weapons. In a place like Fushantong, there are more than 1,000 people in more than 300 households in the entire mountain, and there are not even a few iron pots, and the only bit of pig iron is almost used to make the hook knives on the waists of the men. If this were not the case, most of the farming level of Li Tong would not have remained in the Stone Age.

Ning Qi nodded very strictly: "Yes." And we're going to teach you how to grow crops, how to get a better harvest on the land, so that you don't have to worry about food, so that young people can dress nicely, and children can read and write!"

"How is this possible!" Fu Nuo's drunkenness completely woke up, these are the dreams of generations of Li people, but countless years have passed, and no one has been able to come up with a way to change the status quo. He struggled to get up and grabbed Ning Qi's shoulder: "Why are you helping us like this? Why?"

"We are the savior, and we have come to this place to save the toiling masses like you!" Ning Qi shamelessly said the lines that flashed in his heart countless times, and at the same time, a strange sense of satisfaction surged into his heart, one of the purposes of coming to this world, isn't it to be worshiped as a savior one day? Ning Qi looked at Fu Nuo with an excited face with a smile, waiting for him to continue to ask him questions.

"Then every household in the mountain can use an iron pot?" Fu Nuo's lips trembled for a long time, and finally he asked.

"It's a must!" Ning Qi immediately replied to him in an affirmative tone, and gestured with a scissor hand: "Two for each family, one for cooking rice, and one for stir-frying!"

Fu Nuo's body shook, and Ning Qi hurriedly supported him, for fear that he would faint, but after the old man stood firmly, he asked again: "Can our children in the mountains go to the Han place to study and read in the future?"

"Not only can it, but it's free and doesn't cost money!" Ning Qi continued to throw out ** without hesitation: "The literacy class we run is in the lower reaches of the river, you can let the villagers go and see it first, and then decide not to let your children come to study." ”

Fu Nuo sat back on the bamboo ** tremblingly, stretched out his hand and wiped it on his face: "I can't imagine that there will be a day when I hope to see Li people come out before I die......"

Ning Qi smiled slightly, and secretly said in his heart that something big had been accomplished.

At the same time, several investigation teams of agriculture, forestry and mining have also made different harvests. According to Gao Huan, the diversity of rice varieties here is enough to wake up his wife, who specializes in food crops, to wake up from her sleep with a smile on her face. There are still a lot of poultry and livestock on the hillside, but this is not Gao Huan's specialty, so he can only take some photos with his camera hastily, and then show them to his senior brother Yuan Qiuye for identification after he returns.

Of course, Gao Huan also found his target, a large number of wild ramie. The stem bark fiber of ramie is an important weaving material, this fiber has great strength and small extension, in modern industry, aircraft wing cloth, rubber interlining, wire covering, fishing nets, rayon cotton, etc., are made of ramie. Ramie leaves are rich in crude protein and vitamins, which can be used as livestock feed after drying, and the entire aerial part of ramie can be used to extract ethanol. Ramie hemp bone can be used as paper, and hemp husk can be used to extract furfural, an extremely important refining solution in the chemical industry. Even ramie root also has medicinal value such as hemostasis, stasis, detoxification, and fetal stability, and it can be said that ramie is a treasure all over the body, and it is a cash crop with great development value.

It's just that the Li people obviously didn't realize the economic value of this kind of thing, and of course, it was most likely because they didn't grasp how to use this humble plant. However, this ignorance situation will not last long, because the saviors led by Ningqi have already arrived here. The Lebanese will soon learn some basic agricultural knowledge from the Traders, which will allow them to step from the era of slash-and-burn farming to the level of productivity that will be at least two or three hundred years later.

In terms of forest resources, the most surprising thing for the Working Group was the fruit resources. Although they are all wild, the plantains, lychees, longans, betel nuts, jackfruits, etc. found one after another still dazzled everyone. The abundance of fruit resources here has reached the point where the local Li people can supplement their food. Someone immediately communicated with the guides who were traveling with them, trying to convince them to regularly ship the fruits to Base 2 for trading. But the people from the Ministry of Agriculture were obviously much more practical, and they picked some of the fruits directly and prepared to take the seeds back to the vicinity of the base for cultivation.

The main work carried out in mining exploration is to conduct an on-site investigation of the location of the Damao phosphate-manganese mine that will be developed in the long term according to the information prepared by the Ministry of Information Industry, assess the difficulty of development, and then make a corresponding report and submit it to the Executive Committee for reference.

After several hours of negotiation and consultation, Ningqi and Fu Nuo, the lord of Fu Shan Mountain, finally reached an agreement that he later described as the "Savior No. 1 Plan". Although the name was mercilessly ridiculed by most of the traversal, it did not stop Ning Qi from becoming smug about it, at least judging from the results, he did successfully and exceed the scheduled tasks assigned by the Executive Committee. The cooperation agreement he formulated, which covered agriculture, economy, military, mining, human resources, culture and education, was later used as a model for the Executive Committee's mass work in minority areas. Even when the expeditionary fleet arrived in the Americas a few years later and reached its first cooperation agreement with the Native Americans, most of it still relied on Ningqi's sample.