Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 565 Riot
"There is no cure for this disease," said Hippo, "only quinine. We brought a lot. If not enough, Lingao still has a large stockpile. So I don't worry about the death rate—with quinine, you can survive. But once there is an outbreak of the epidemic, I am afraid that there will be gaps in both beds and nursing staff, which will seriously affect the recovery of patients."

"We listen to you on this matter, and do whatever you say." Wang Luobin said, "In short, there must be no outbreak of epidemics!"

The loss of labor force caused by the epidemic is a very serious matter, whether it is death or illness.From a ruthless pragmatism point of view, the dead are better off than the sick, given that there is ample supply of new labor to fill them, and the sick take far more resources than the healthy.Not only can't work, but manpower and material resources are needed to take care of them.

The time-traveling group has not yet reached such a level, and labor is still quite precious.It takes up to 90 days for each basic labor force to start being put into use in Guangzhou, and the cost of food, medicine, and manpower consumed during these 90 days is a huge expense.

"Besides taking medicine, we should focus on prevention. In particular, we need to increase the supply of mosquito nets," Hippo said, "to make sure that each person has one. If you can't make up enough at this stage, at least all the windows should be covered with gauze."

"As for burning Artemisia annua to repel mosquitoes, I have reported to the Executive Committee. Director Liu said that dried Artemisia annua can be supplied openly, and if there is not enough, we will go to the mainland to purchase it. It is best to send a special person to handle this matter."

"Is there any preventive effect of making Artemisia annua soup for everyone?" He Fang interjected, "Isn't it said that artemisinin is a new generation of antimalarial drug?"

"Artemisia annua has no killing effect on malaria parasites. What is effective is Artemisia annua. Secondly, even if there is Artemisia annua, it is still very difficult to extract the active ingredients at the current level of our pharmaceutical factory. Honestly give patients Take quinine." Hippo said, "For the sake of caution, all elders will also take preventive medicine from today."

Afterwards, the Traveling Group launched a vigorous sanitation campaign to clean up buried garbage, fill up low-lying areas, remove stagnant water, and install window screens. They were extremely busy.A large amount of dried Artemisia annua was transported from Lingao and a special pottery fumigation cage—with the fumigation cage, it is not easy to cause a fire.The dormitories in the camp are all wooden houses, and a careless use of fire would be a catastrophe.

The entire camp was filled with smoke of Artemisia annua day and night. In fact, there were very few mosquitoes on the beach. He complained endlessly.

But this set of measures did not seem to have much effect. After a few days, malaria began to enter a large-scale outbreak period.At the beginning, there were a few people every day, and later it became more than a dozen or dozens of people every day. The hospital soon couldn't accommodate them. Hippo immediately vacated some independent barracks and dormitories as special isolation wards. There were not enough health workers, so the immigrants were sent to the hospital. The women in the village were all mobilized to act as temporary caregivers.

Anti-malarial drugs are distributed according to different conditions. The malaria parasites in this time and space are not yet drug-resistant, and the effect is almost immediate after taking the drug. But even for such a person, it takes at least ten days from the onset of the disease to the return to work.As more and more workers fell ill, hippos began to go crazy-there were not so many antimalarial drugs prepared!
The health department did not estimate the seriousness of malaria in Hainan, and the antimalarial drugs they carried were mainly prepared for landing in Taiwan and developing Southeast Asia in the future.After arriving in Lingao, malaria only happened occasionally in most areas of Lingao, and it was more common in places close to Li District.This gave them a wrong estimate of the severity of malaria in Hainan.

In this way, to ensure that workers can work effectively, it is necessary to give each worker preventive oral antimalarial drugs, which greatly exceeds their reserves.The mass production of quinine has to wait for several years, so what if all the reserves are exhausted?And for malaria, the effect of quinine is not the best, and it is far inferior to chemically synthesized chloroquine and primaquine in terms of therapeutic effect and curative effect.

But this hippopotamus has no choice, and the number of people suffering from the disease is increasing day by day. Many people have poor resistance due to poor physical fitness and overwork in the previous stage. Even if they use specific drugs, they cannot survive.The death rate climbed all the way.From the beginning, no one died, and it developed to three or four people dying every day, followed by seven or eight people, and a dozen people.The bodies of the dead were carried to a remote beach and cremated on a pyre.At its height, more than twenty bodies were cremated on the beach every day.As a result, the newly developed cemetery was full in less than a week, and He Fanghui had to urgently develop the second phase.

The smoke from the non-stop burning of corpses every day caused great panic among the laborers.Rumors spread that people would be infected with miasma if they went to work on the roadbed (in fact, it was not a rumor, the infected people were mainly road workers), morale in the camp continued to drop, and an atmosphere of fear permeated the camp.Although no one dared to raise objections in the face of the strong force of the crossing group, they knew from the reports of the internal work network members that the resentment and fear of the workers were increasing.

However, the construction progress remained unabated. Shan Daoqian went to the front-line construction site with the engineering team every day in order to show that he would lead by example.He has been taking the medicine on time and is full of confidence in the prevention and treatment effect of the medicine.

But the laborers don't see it that way, they are full of fear and resentment about continuing to work in the "disease".Netizens began to issue orange warnings: There will be riots soon!

The people in the construction headquarters held an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures.Three resolutions were made: from now on, regardless of their position, the veterans will lead by example and go to the front-line construction site in shifts. They don’t need to work but just sit and set an example to calm people’s hearts; secondly, greatly improve the standard of food supply, relieve complaints and strengthen The constitution of the laborers; thirdly, the compound antimalarial tablets that were originally only distributed to the veterans and soldiers were distributed to the workers who entered the inland areas to work.At the same time, send hippos back to ask for more anti-malarial tablets, so that everyone can take the medicine.

However, the incident happened earlier than they expected.A strike broke out in the camp on this day, and a labor team sent to the road construction site refused to work under the leadership of the captain.Several other teams also expelled or directly detained the captains and team leaders who wanted to take them to work.

Zhuo Tianmin was in the mansion of the labor camp when he heard the commotion and came out to talk to them. What greeted him was a smoked cage made of tiles and other sundries.

"We're not going to work!" the laborers shouted at him. "We're not here to die!"

Zhuo Tianmin knew that the problem was becoming serious minute by minute: although many labor teams did not explicitly call for a strike*, they were also on the sidelines and refused to leave the camp to go to work.

Wang Luobin used the walkie-talkie to contact Zhuo Tianmin: "How is the scene?"

"No, they don't want to go to work." Zhuo Tianmin touched the sweat on his head, and said disheveledly, "I will work harder..."

Zhuo Tianmin continued to earnestly ask them to give up confrontation and continue to work, and promised that as long as they took the medicine on time, they would not get sick.The current patients are all infected in the past.

"...Take this pill, you won't get malaria, I take it too, I can accompany you to the construction site..." Zhuo Tianmin didn't have a metal horn, so he could only shout at the top of his voice.

"Fuck your medicine!" The laborers stuck in the barracks threw out the pills distributed to them, "Keep the medicine for yourself, we want to live!"

"Everyone, don't be afraid—" Zhuo Tianmin hadn't finished speaking.A few people who couldn't bear it for a long time rushed up and punched him. He was knocked down to the ground with a punch, and then a dozen hands crowded over, grabbing him one by one.Someone was shouting "Kill him!" In an instant, he had received several punches and kicks.Zhuo Tianmin was so grabbed that he couldn't move, a great fear welled up in his heart: he was going to be beaten to death!
When he was knocked down, there was an instant riot in the labor camp. Some people set fire to looting items in the public house, and began to beat the hygienists, labor team leaders, captains and other "running dogs". Several female hygienists were distributing medicine and did not escape for a while After being raped, Zhuo Tianmin's clerk escaped from the camp in the chaos and rushed to report to Yulinbao.Those labor teams that were not involved in the riot were quickly taken away from the scene by the captains, and the infantry squad that was in charge of security tasks outside controlled the main points in time according to the plan, preventing the further expansion of the riot.

Wang Luobin had already received the news of the riots in the camp. He was surprised to hear that the office was burned and Zhuo Tianmin was arrested by the laborers. Riot? !
Xi Yazhou has arrived, he is fully armed.Waving a pistol in his hand.

"I think it's better to send out the army."

"Zhuo Tianmin is stuck inside, will rushing in hastily..." Wang Luobin hesitated.

"The people inside have not reacted yet. When they react, they will take Zhuo Tianmin seriously and take him as a hostage to bargain with us. It will be difficult to save people. Now that the inside is in chaos, it is a good opportunity." Qian Shui The association also favored an immediate assault.

"Okay, let's make a surprise attack. Zhuo Tianmin must be rescued intact." Wang Luobin gave the order, "Try not to cause casualties."

"Let's get started." Xi Yazhou ordered the messengers around him.

The infantry companies put on explosion-proof equipment lined up and marched into the camp.The raindrops of stones were thrown on the rattan plate and the steel helmet, making a crackling sound.The infantry lowered their heads and held up their shields, advancing forward without hesitation.The few who tried to resist were soon crushed under the club.After a few minutes the infantry took control of the situation—the laborers were neither armed nor organized, and didn't even know what they wanted to do. A few tried to organize, but they were broken up before they had time to organize.

The workers who participated in the strike were driven out, sat in the open space and were not allowed to move around, waiting to be dealt with.

Zhuo Tianmin's nose was bruised and his face was swollen, but his life was safe. Someone thought of taking him as a hostage, so he escaped.

"Old Zhuo, you have suffered." Seeing Zhuo Tianmin being carried out on a stretcher, Wang Luobin comforted him.

"I'm fine." Zhuo Tianmin raised his body and raised his hands, "This is not a big deal, don't make a fuss..."

"Okay, okay, take a good rest first." Wang Luobin comforted him, "We will take care of it."

Zhuo Tianmin wanted to say something else. At this time, several limping female health workers in tattered clothes walked past while supporting each other, and then carried several stretchers. Some of them were groaning in pain. Hmph, some of them have already covered their faces and are silent.

He sighed and lay down without speaking.

Wang Luobin instructed to move Zhuo Tianmin back to Yulinbao's bedroom, and asked Colgate to wait on him.Zhuo Tianmin's briefcase, documents and pistol were all recovered.These things are all in the cement safe in the public office, and escaped unharmed.

The smoke from the office had dissipated, and the office in the labor camp had been burned down to a pile of scorched black wooden frames.If the fire was not put out in time, I am afraid that the fire will be delayed, and the consequences will be disastrous.

Ten people were killed in the riot, three health workers, five labor team leaders and captains, and two clerks.Those who died were all trained by the time travel group.Such a loss of personnel made Wang Luobin very heartbroken.The burning of the public office caused a batch of files that had not been backed up to disappear forever.

Punishment is swift and severe.Everyone agreed that such beating of elders, burning of buildings, and beating of native clerks to death had gone beyond the scope of strike*, and the Traveling Group had never acknowledged that the natives had the right to strike*.Taken together, the senators considered this to be tantamount to rebellion.

"This matter must be dealt with in the bloodiest way!" Xi Yazhou said excitedly, "Beating the elders! How can we let them know that the elders are inviolable if we don't kill a group of them?!"

"If you don't kill them, you can't do it." He Fanghui also firmly supported, "If there is a disturbance, many aborigines are killed. How can the aborigines who serve us feel at ease if they don't punish them severely? We must find out the murderer and execute them in public!"

The Qianshui Association disagrees.In his view, it is normal for workers to strike for power.It's just that the means were a bit extreme-but he wisely didn't raise any objections.However, no approval was given.

All the laborers stopped working that day and gathered at the gate of the labor camp. All the troops that could be used by the army and navy were gathered here, and there were many gunshots.It looked very solemn and coercive.The natives knew from this atmosphere - they were going to kill people.

A cremation pyre had already been piled up on the beach facing the gate of the labor camp, with eleven corpses wrapped in white cloth placed on it.Several carpenters were installing the gallows not far away.

A brief trial took place before the funeral pyre.Those who were accused of participating in beating and attacking elders; those who killed labor captains and health workers; and those who raped female health workers were all sentenced to death.One after another, they were dragged to the gallows and executed under the brief sentence of "in the name of the Senate and the people, to death".The funeral pyre was lit as the hangings were carried out, and the soaring flames reflected the bodies dangling on the gallows - 25 people were hanged by the end of the trial.

(End of this chapter)