1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 29 Labor Export

The sky is getting brighter, birds are chirping in the forest, and the air seems to be filled with the aroma of rice wine and barbecue.The bearded Johnson, who was on duty all night, stood up from the embers of the fire, stretched a lot, and then looked at Morgan, who had also slept all night, with a wry smile.

They are the only two medical workers in the special working group that came to Fushantong this time, and they have maintained very good professional habits - not drinking.As doctors who are on the operating table at any time, alcohol can greatly affect their neural responses, so they will actively keep their distance from alcohol in any situation.Even when Lord Fudong invited the wine yesterday, Zhou Hengxing explained the situation and asked others to drink it instead.However, Master Fu Dong was not angry because of these two blond and blue-eyed barbarians who are doctors only found in a "big place" like Yacheng. This is definitely a distinguished guest for Li Dong, who lacks doctors and medicines. .But it is precisely because the two doctors do not drink alcohol, and they are also members of the military and police department, so the duty after the banquet has to be handed over to them.

Seeing that it was five o'clock in the morning, the two went to the tent to wake up the members of the shift, and they had to seize this precious time to sleep for a while.Although it is very hard to work at night, I am afraid that there will not be too much rest time for them today. According to the plan of the working group, the application of medicine in the free clinic in Lidong is also an important link to bring the relationship between the Lidong people, and the two of them must be the protagonists. A foreign doctor.

With the trading and banquet on the first day as a foreshadowing, the inspection work that started the next morning went much smoother. Master Fu Tong agreed to Zhou Hengxing's request and specially arranged a few guides to accompany these curious foreign guests around.Of course, he did not understand that the so-called "Zuanyizhuan" of these people is not touring the mountains and waters, but to investigate the development of agriculture, forestry, minerals and other resources here.

Two foreign doctors set up a battle in the village to provide free clinics for local residents who were sick and injured.It's just a little more troublesome. Zhou Hengxing, who knows the Li language, is not fluent in English, and the Chinese of the two Yankees is still in the primary stage of "hello", "thank you" and "goodbye", and they can't communicate at all.As a last resort, an interpreter who understands English has to be provided, so the communication between the doctor and the patient can only be carried out through at least two interpreters, and only one of the doctors can translate the words of the doctor at a time, so the efficiency of medical treatment is reduced. to an amazing level.According to Morgan's chat afterwards, when he was performing humanitarian relief missions in Liberia, West Africa, he had never had such trouble communicating with those black people who did not speak the same language.

Ning Qi took the time to find Fu Nuo and planned to discuss the labor export.Fu Nuo was obviously not finished drinking. When Ning Qi found his house under the leadership of the villagers, the old man was sitting motionless on the bamboo bed in a daze.But when he looked up and saw Ning Qi standing at the door, there was still a smile on his face: "Please come in, my guest."

Ning Qi's Hainanese accent is not proficient in Cantonese. Last night, he took Zhou Hengxing to crawl for a while. Although the effect was not obvious, he could barely communicate with Fu Nuo: "Master Fudong, thank you and the villagers. Our hospitality last night. In addition to salt and iron, we actually have other deals to discuss with you this time."

"What do you want?" Fu Nuo clearly pointed out the core problem before his eyes were dim.

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

The smile on Fu Nuo's face disappeared: "You want my villagers to go to your place to serve in labor and military service? That's not possible. We still have to serve Mingren every year, and we can't serve you any more."

"Our approach is different from Akito. First of all, we will not force you to do anything. This is not military service, but we pay you to do things. Second, we will not conscript your young people to serve in the military, even if we will later If you want to recruit soldiers, you will only accept those who volunteer to be soldiers, instead of forcing you to send out as many young men as you need in a village." Ning Qi patiently explained to Fu Nuo: "This is a transaction, we will use money and food to use you. In exchange for anything you need, all you have to do is labor."

"Even if there are a lot of ironware?" Fu Nuo asked in disbelief.Since the riots of the Li people in the Yuan Dynasty, the subsequent government has been extremely strict on ironware in the Li people's area, lest they get pig iron and use it to make weapons.In a place like Fushandong, there are more than 300 households in the entire cave, and there are not even a few iron pots. Almost all the little pig iron is used to make hooks and knives on men's waists.If it weren't for this situation, most of Lidong's farming level would not have remained in the Stone Age.

Ning Qi nodded solemnly: "Yes. And we will teach you how to grow crops and how to get a better harvest on the land, so that you will no longer worry about food, so that young people can dress beautifully. , so that children can read and read!"

"How is this possible!" Fu Nuo's drunkenness was completely awake. These are the dreams of Li people for generations. It's just that 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 saviors of the world, and we came to this place to save the hard-working people 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 welled up in his heart - come Isn't one of the purposes of coming to this world to be worshipped as a savior one day?Ning Qi looked at the excited Fu Nuo with a smile on his face, waiting for him to continue asking himself questions.

"After that, every household in Dongli will be able to use an iron pot?" Fu Nuo's lips trembled for a long time, and finally asked.

"Must be!" Ning Qi immediately answered him in a positive tone, and gestured with a pair of scissors: "Two for each family, one for cooking and one for cooking!"

Fu Nuo swayed, and Ning Qi quickly supported him, for fear that he would faint, but after the old man stood firm, he asked, "In the future, the children in our cave can go to the Han people to study and read?"

"Not only is it possible, but it's free without any money!" Ning Qi continued to tempt without hesitation: "The literacy class we run is located in the lower reaches of the river, you can ask the villagers to take a look first, and then decide whether to let your children or not. Come and read."

Fu Nuo sat back tremblingly back on the bamboo bed, reached out and wiped his face: "I never thought that before I die, there is still hope to see the Li people in their early days..."

Ning Qi smiled slightly, secretly thinking that the big event had been accomplished.

At the same time, several inspection groups of Agriculture, Forestry and Mine also achieved different results.The agricultural team found a large number of native rice seeds in the fields cultivated by the Li people, and the basis for high-yield hybrid rice is the rich gene pool. According to Gao Huan, the variety of rice seeds here is enough for his specializing in food crops. The teacher woke up laughing from her sleep.There are also a lot of poultry and livestock on the hillside, but this is not Gao Huan's specialty, so he can only take some pictures with a camera, and then show it to his senior brother Yuan Qiuye for identification after returning.

Of course, Gao Huan also found his target - a lot of wild ramie.The stem bark fiber of ramie is an important weaving material. This fiber has high strength and small elongation. In modern industry, aircraft wing cloth, rubber interlining, wire wrapping, fishing nets, rayon cotton, etc., are all made of ramie. made.Ramie leaves, rich in crude protein and vitamins, can be used as livestock feed after drying, and the entire aerial part of ramie can be used to extract ethanol.Ramie hemp bones can be used for papermaking, and hemp husks can extract furfural, an extremely important refining solution in the chemical industry.Even ramie root has medicinal values ​​such as hemostasis, dispersing blood stasis, detoxification, and tocolysis. It can be said that ramie is a treasure all over the body, and it is an economic crop with great development value.

It's just that the Li people obviously don't realize the economic value of this kind of thing. Of course, it's also very likely because they don't know how to use this humble plant.But this ignorant situation won't last long, because the saviors headed by Ning Qi have already arrived here.The people of Li will soon learn some basic agricultural knowledge from the crossing crowd, enough to allow them to step from the era of slash-and-burn farming to the level of productivity at least two or three hundred years later.

In terms of forest resources, what surprised the working group most was the fruit resources here.Although they are all wild, the successive discoveries of plantain, lychee, longan, betel nut, jackfruit, etc., still dazzled everyone.The fruit resources here are so abundant that they can be used as food supplements by the local Li people.Immediately, some people communicated with the guides who were traveling with them, trying to persuade them to regularly transport these fruits to the No. [-] base for trading.But the people from the Ministry of Agriculture are obviously much more practical. They directly picked some fruits and prepared to bring the seeds back to the base for cultivation.

The main work in mining exploration is to conduct on-the-spot investigation on the location of the future Damao Phosphorus Manganese Mine that will be developed in the long-term plan according to the information prepared by the Ministry of Information Industry, and to evaluate the difficulty of development, and then make a corresponding decision. The report is submitted to the Executive Committee for reference.

After several hours of negotiation and negotiation that day, Ning Qi and Fu Nuo, the master of Fushandong Cave, finally reached an agreement that he called the "Savior No. [-] Project" in his later report.Although this name was ruthlessly ridiculed by the vast majority of the transmigrants, it didn't stop Ning Qi from being complacent about it. At least from the results, he did satisfactorily and exceeded the predetermined task assigned by the Executive Committee.The cooperation agreement that he formulated, covering agriculture, economy, military, mining, human resources, culture and education, etc., was later used as a model for the executive committee to do mass work in minority areas.Even after the expedition fleet arrived in the Americas a few years later and reached the first cooperation agreement with the native Indians, most of them still refer to Ning Qi's samples.

(End of this chapter)