December.

Clark Town.

Not only Sleeping Bear City, this town is also the territory of the tribe, so every once in a while, Ma Whistle will come here in person to participate in the development of the town.

The development momentum of Clark garment factory is still very strong, jeans as one of the most popular garments in later generations, with the current sales volume of the garment factory, it is still far from touching the bottleneck of development.

It can be expected that the Clark garment factory will maintain good growth for at least the next few years and will become the largest garment factory in the Midwest.

Led by garment factories, the town of Clark has become more and more prosperous, with an influx of immigrants and a steady increase in tax revenue.

Despite this, the financial situation of the town office is stretched.

After all, the town's finances are controlled by the tribe, and in addition to maintaining the daily operation of the town office and the garrison, the rest of the tax will basically be allocated to Sleeping Bear City, and there will be no surplus.

It was only recently that Horse Sentry decided to come up with some money to build a public facility for the town of Clark.

The so-called public facilities are actually health rooms and public elementary schools.

The main reason why Ma Whistle decided to build a health room and a public primary school for the town is that Sleeping Bear City has finally cultivated a group of "modern shamans".

The so-called modern shaman refers to the shaman priest who believes in the spiritual oracle religion and has a certain amount of scientific knowledge, which is different from the old shaman who jumped the great god.

The new shaman no longer dances the gods, nor can he do it without work, but has to engage in all kinds of practical work, mainly mental work, such as doctors, teachers, and so on.

With such a group of shamans, Ma Whistle was able to form a health room and a primary school in the town of Clark...... Or, to a certain extent, it can be said to be a spiritual church dressed in the skin of a health room and an elementary school.

The shaman sent to Clark's town must not only be modern, but also proficient in English and able to communicate with the townspeople.

This condition is still very strict, in fact, Ma Sentry can only find two and a half such people in Sleeping Bear City.

One of them is naturally a rainy day, and the horse whistle will definitely not send a rainy day to the town.

So he sent the remaining one and a half to the town, and the reason why he called it "one and a half" was because although one of them was also a modern shaman, he was not proficient in English, and his daily conversation was acceptable, so he could not do anything to lecture.

"Wu Tongue, you are here to be the principal and teacher of Clark Public Elementary School, and you are also the director of the 'Medical Education Bureau'." The horse whistle commanded, and the black tongue was the shaman who was proficient in English.

Blacktongue is a long-haired young man in his twenties, for some reason, his hair is always as soft and shiny as if it has been added with special effects, and he said, "Is I the only teacher in the school?" ”

"For the time being." "Wait for the branches to speak English enough for white people to take a share of the teaching work for you." In the future, there will be more shamans who know English in Sleeping Bear City, and I will also ask them to come and help you. ”

"Remember your main task – to transform white students into civilized people." He emphasized.

"Yes." The black tongue is a highly conscious shaman, and if it weren't for his lack of precision, he could have been a war shaman.

But he also had doubts in his heart: "But, Great Chief, how can I get the white people in the town to send the children over?" I don't think they'd be willing to let an Indian be their child's teacher. ”

"You're right." Ma Whistle nodded, "The rich really don't, they can find better teachers, and they don't have children - their children are already sleeping in Bear City." ”

The twenty white families whose children were taken to Sleeping Bear are now the richest and most powerful people in Clark Town.

They were originally rich families, and after their children became hostages of sleeping bears, Ma Whistle deliberately supported them, making them a big comprador group in a sense.

These people are white residents of Clark Town, and they control all the important business in the town, but they are deeply attached to Sleeping Bear, and their interests and children are held in the palm of Sleeping Bear's hands.

"But the goal of public elementary schools is not to be for these rich people in the first place." "We are targeting the poor in town, the poor who are not easy to feed themselves. ”

"In the past, in order to raise children, these poor people needed to consume a lot of energy and labor time, and the result of raising them was to create a new poor and illiterate."

"Now that there are public primary schools, they only need to pay a low fee, they can outsource all the troubles of raising children, and by the way, they can also make children literate, and when the children grow up, maybe they will have the opportunity to go to university, do you think they are willing?"

The black tongue nodded thoughtfully, and his eyes gradually brightened.

Ma Whistle: "They must be willing, at least some of them must be willing." When the poor send their children here, we teach them knowledge, but also the mind and even self-identity......"

The black tongue suddenly exclaimed: "This is a win-win cause!" ”

Ma Whistle didn't react for a while: "What three wins?" ”

"The poor have increased their welfare, we have grown believers, and the world has moved closer to light and truth!" The black tongue was a little excited, "This is a great cause!" ”

The horse whistle nodded casually: "Ah, indeed. So, black tongue, do a good job. ”

As if swearing a curse, the black tongue solemnly said, "Don't worry, Grand Chief, I will definitely spread your divine brilliance throughout Clark Town, and even the entire white world!" ”

Ma Whistle looked at him with a somewhat fanatical expression and was silent for two seconds: "Black Tongue, you are one of my earliest students, you should know my point of view very well. Everything should be analyzed from a rational point of view, rather than appealing to the sacred. ”

"I understand." The black tongue looked even more fanatical.

Ma Whistle ignored his expression, and changed his words: "Although you are the only teacher at the moment, you can hire a few female workers to help you take care of those young students, and it is not easy for children to cry." ”

After talking about the public elementary school, he looked at another shaman: "Branches, the work of the health room is entrusted to you, you not only have to practice medicine, but also take advantage of the language environment here to improve your English." ”

"Yes, Grand Chief." Twig replied, and then asked, "Am I the only one in the clinic?" ”

Horse Whistle: "You can recruit a few white doctors." ”

The "white doctor ......" branch is clearly disdainful of white medicine.

This disdain is not entirely blind. Although shamanic medicine is not very good, the medicine of this era is not very good.

What's more, the shamanic medicine of Sleeping Bear City has been transformed by Ma Whistle, deleting all the complicated and useless things, retaining some simple and harmless things such as several placebos with the highest cost performance, introducing a large number of simple and effective first aid methods, as well as basic medical knowledge and scientific thoughts.

As an excellent student of this new set of shamanic medicine, Twig despises those quacks who only know bloodletting therapy are still qualified.

But before Ma Whistle could say anything, the black tongue criticized Shu Zhi's attitude: "Shu Zhi, have you forgotten what the "Good Learning Chapter" says? ”

The Scholarly Treatise is an important chapter of the Spiritual Oracle, which is primarily a treatise on humility and studiousness, and qualified shamans must recite the chapter in its entirety.

The branch hurriedly lowered his head: "I'll review ......"

Ma Whistle waved his hand: "Okay, you don't need to review." I ask you, do you know ether? ”