Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 568 Breakthrough
"Okay, but don't expect much support. The Executive Committee is stingy with the money and manpower rationing for our religion. The Catholic Church is spending almost all Jesuit money these days."

"I don't need many resources." Zhang Yingchen said very modestly, "Just allocate the necessary manpower to me—a dozen orphans. As for funds, the current demand is limited, so I can pay for it first."

"Manpower is very difficult to deal with, and all parties are competing for it." He Ying said, "You still need orphans. Do you know that orphans are a scarce commodity?"

"I can have them. I don't ask too much. Ten people are enough. All boys are 11 to 16 years old, preferably [-] or [-] years old. The kind with good looks. I will train them myself."

"People think about raising loli all the time, your taste is really different." He Ying said.

"Where, where," Zhang Yingchen coughed a few times, "I also have a request! I don't want orphans who are contaminated with the atmosphere of the three sects of the underworld, and I don't want orphans who are too honest and don't know how to adapt. It's best if they used to be in theater troupes or the like. The place is trained and knows how to play musical instruments. It is best to have a higher hatred value. The more they hate this era, the more they meet our requirements."

"After the hearing is passed, make a report first." He Ying said, "Purely due to the nature of queuing, it is unlikely that people will be assigned immediately."

In the end, Zhang Yingchen's proposal passed the hearing of the Standing Committee and was also approved by the Executive Committee.As for the Daosheng he wanted, he didn't have it yet.As How Ying said: Orphans are a kind of scarce material, and there is a great demand in all aspects.Waiting a few months for this application is useless.

Zhang Yingchen decided not to wait any longer.He decided to use the developing Sanya area as his first missionary test field.There are masses of laborers who need the consolation of religion.Moreover, starting to preach directly in Lingao is easy to conflict with Old Wu.Although Lao Wu is not a crusader, such things that directly infringe on other people's domains should be avoided as much as possible.

He decided to use his medical skills to spread his teachings as much as possible.For this reason, he asked He Ying to second his personnel relationship to the Ministry of Health, preparing to rush to Sanya to perform health services.To be on the safe side, he asked He Ying to write a letter of introduction from the Office of Religious Affairs, and stamped the seal of the Government Affairs Council.The local elders in Sanya: Wang, Xi, Zhuo, Li and others are not a good man or a believer. If they think he is running some kind of "cult", they will be embarrassed if they are caught.

After issuing this precious letter, Zhang Yingchen brought very simple things.He wants to follow the example of those missionaries who went deep into the barren, carrying only the most necessary daily necessities, and trying to live and preach in the simplest way of life.Not only to ensure the simple and humble appearance that a religious person must have, but also to lay the foundation for future missionary activities in wild areas.

In addition to the self-made Taoist robe, he only brought a double-shouldered rattan backpack made by the Lingao quilt factory, which contained a few coarse cloth underwear distributed to the laborers; towels and enamel cups distributed to the indigenous laborers were also distributed; A tin lunch box, an oilskin raincoat, two spare pairs of leather-soled cloth shoes, and army cloth leggings; the only modern equipment was the Swiss Army knife he brought himself.In addition, there is a standard medicine box, which contains various proprietary Chinese medicines developed by Liu San, except for a few home-made antibiotics.

Zhang Yingchen decided to use such equipment to train himself in Yulin this time.For this reason, he also specially went to the remote exploration team and participated in a field survival training for four weeks.Learn various skills such as identifying directions, choosing paths, finding food, and more.He also began to learn several local dialects, including the most popular Hainanese vernacular and military dialect.As for Li language, there will be no place to learn it for a while.

Hippo returned with smoke cages, medicines, food and more nurses and this doctor who appeared out of nowhere.

In the headquarters office, Wang Luobin and others had already gone out, only Zhuo Tianmin stayed behind at the headquarters.He suffered a lot during the riot, so he stayed in the headquarters for the time being.

Zhuo Tianmin looked at this person's dispatch certificate, and then at this strange person, his strange clothes and hair.Carrying a rattan box, a standard medicine box of the Ministry of Health, and a Type 29 jungle machete hanging on his belt.A hat was slung over his shoulders.Around the neck are five or six bamboo tubes filled with clean water.

With such an appearance, he looked like an ordinary native rather than a senator.

"you are a doctor?"

But the tall Taoist smiled and extended his hand to him: "I am Zhang Yingchen. I heard that the Sanya Development Zone requested to send more medical personnel, so I will come to you first. I will need your help in work in the future."

"Oh, you look like this—" Zhuo Tianmin looked at him.

"This is the original ecological equipment," Zhang Yingchen said, "I plan to go deep into the inland area to explore and collect herbs, and by the way, get in touch with the local Li and Miao aborigines to see how much they accept the teachings."

"I see." Zhuo Tianmin nodded, "But this equipment is too crude."

"It doesn't matter," Zhang Yingchen said with a gentle smile, "The natives are just like me when they travel, maybe not as good. If they can do it, I can do it too."

Zhuo Tianmin is not interested in his weird hobby, but has doubts about his mission.This person kept saying that he came to be a doctor, but the letter of introduction and dispatch certificate bore the official seal of the religious office.

Wang Luobin was not interested in whether the medical staff temporarily supported by Bairen City were Taoist priests or priests, but when the Taoist priest, who claimed to be a medical staff, produced the certificate of attending doctor of Bairen City's medical system, he was directly let go to the health center to assist in his work .

Zhuo Tianmin was a little worried about this guy who was not a doctor but more like a magician.

In his opinion, the appearance of such a strange doctor in Sanya, which is already in panic due to frequent industrial accidents, is itself an uncertain factor.Zhuo Tianmin, who had personally experienced the riots of Chief Li, had no choice but to raise his doubts to Wang Luobin.

Wang Luobin didn't take it seriously.From his point of view, this Zhang Yingchen came from a regular academic background.The medical skills are much better than the veterinarians and nurses who have been trained for surprise in the cross-country, and the appearance of the clergy is a timely emotional stabilizer for the aboriginal workers.

"The Portuguese and the Spaniards brought priests with them in America and Southeast Asia," he replied without looking up while looking at the engineering report. "Religious brainwashing is an indispensable magic weapon for the colonists. Take ten thousand steps back." Said, Lao Zhang is one of us and a veteran, are you worried that he will carve a cyclops man and bury it on the construction site in the middle of the night, and then organize these natives to start a revolution?"

The discussion about the new Taoist doctor ended here. Zhang Yingchen, who was busy treating the sick and promising the dying that he would save them from heaven, had no idea. Around him, two colleagues who developed Sanya had A not-so-pleasant argument.

Yet he soon tasted the hostility of his colleagues towards his missionary activities.On that day, he worked with Guo Fu, and he took advantage of the gap to preach to Guo Fu.The next day, Hippo took him to have a very serious conversation:

"I know that you came to Sanya to undertake experimental missionary activities. This was approved by the Central Government Affairs Council." Hippo said, "But you must know that according to the Executive Committee's document No. 61, such as nurses A class of employees cannot be used as missionary targets."

"Document No. 61 of Zhifa No. [-] only says that you can't preach in schools, government agencies, and the army, but it doesn't say that you can't preach to nurses..."

"At this stage, hospitals and health centers are institutions, and nurses are public servants and cannot preach." Hippo doesn't like his nurses to have religious tendencies—even though hospitals run by religious systems are common all over the world.

From Zhang Yingchen's point of view, this was unreasonable interference.But he didn't argue.If you want to gain a foothold here, you must get the support of the local elders. Arguing about these will not help, but will affect your foothold here.

So he turned the missionaries to ordinary laborers.He believes that the management will not interfere with such missionary behavior, and after the riots, the bosses of the Sanya Military Commission must be eager to find a spiritual opium that can soothe the hearts of the masses.

After Zhuo Tianmin got the report from Hippo, he felt uneasy. After talking with Wang Luobin, Xi Yazhou got an order to "look at that Taoist priest".

According to various reports, Zhang Yingchen was not very interested in traditional Taoist alchemy and ascension to immortality. His missionary theory looked like a variant of Christianity to Zhuo Tianmin.

Aside from his abstract explanation of "Tao", the highest object of Taoism's belief, what this short-haired Taoist priest always talks about is "Old Lord sympathized with the hardships of the world, so he sent five hundred real people to land in the South China Sea on an iron boat. The sage-king enlightened the people and waited for the arrival of the Paradise of Peace. Those who obey the teachings are the people chosen by heaven, and they will surely have a place in the Paradise of Peace. Even if they die unfortunately, they will ascend to the Heaven of Chosen People.

This is simply nonsense.Zhuo Tianmin thought.But he also admitted that under the difficult conditions at this stage, it is a good thing for the indigenous workers to have some spiritual sustenance.People will be braver when they know that they can go to a good place to face death after death.

Thanks to the joint efforts of a group of people, especially the double effect of widely distributing compound antimalarial tablets and greatly increasing nutrition, the frenzy of malaria suddenly ebbed after reaching its climax, and the death rate plummeted. At that time, there were no new cases and deaths.Sanya Development finally survived the first hurdle.

Although work-related injuries still occur from time to time, the relief of the fear of the epidemic has greatly stabilized the hearts of the people. In addition, Zhang Yingchen spared no effort to publicize that those who died from the epidemic and accidents are the voters.Under the dual effects of material and spiritual, the originally panic-stricken native laborers finally settled down. With the further improvement of the environment and the implementation of sanitation campaigns, the living environment of mosquitoes, leeches and various parasites deteriorated, and the density continued to decrease. The number of patients has dropped significantly, and the progress of the project has been greatly accelerated.

On April [-], amidst the sound of crackling firecrackers, the railway finally reached the site of Tiandu Iron Mine.Wang Luobin, Zhuo Tianmin and others symbolically put the last few spikes into the track amidst the warm cheers from the road builders.The Yulin-Tiandu Railway was officially opened. This is the first officially operated railway line across the country, not the track used to transport raw materials in the Lingao industrial zone.This railway line with a total length of less than [-] kilometers was called "Blood Road" by some people in later generations: hundreds of people died of various industrial accidents and epidemics before and after.Monologue, a famous independent scholar, writes in his book "The Bloody Giant Under the Veil of Modernization" (which has since been banned):
"...According to statistics, in the initial stage of the implementation of the "Giant Project". At that time, the construction of railways, highways, and communications was the basic project of the entire development work. Because the climate and living conditions along the construction of the entire project were very bad, and the outstanding Due to the inhumane forced labor of XX, Wang XX, Pan XX and others, nearly a thousand laborers died of technical safety accidents, overwork, disease and malnutrition. Because of this, this section of the project was later called " Death Road'."

However, for the veterans who presided over the development of Sanya, the completion of this line means a decisive victory.The railway is like a huge blood vessel, finally able to continuously transport construction materials and labor to the front line of construction.Wang Luobin wrote in his reminiscence article: "...If we were still worried about the prospect before this, then the moment the railway was completed, I believe that the success of Sanya's development was only a matter of time."

Meteor No. 20 locomotive—the No. [-] Meteor locomotive was completely damaged due to insufficient strength of some parts, lost its maintenance value and was taken back to Lingao for dismantling and returned to the furnace—from the simple wooden platform of Yulinbao Station amidst the sound of firecrackers Get on the train.Meteor II used the Mozi III steam engine with an output power of [-] horsepower.The huge boiler swallowed high-quality Hongji anthracite, burned thousands of liters of water into scorching steam, pushed the piston and lever, and the black iron wheel slowly rotated.The entire train was loaded with construction materials and drove faster and faster, and finally headed for Tiandu Station at a speed of [-] kilometers per hour.

The veterans buried a cornerstone on the original site of Tiandu Town in later generations, announcing the official start of the development of Tiandu Iron Mine.With the support of bulldozers, explosives and Zidian-modified trolleys, labor teams using steel tools destroyed all the vegetation and original landforms here: the wetlands were buried with waste soil and rubble, and the vegetation and bushes were completely cleared.Large areas of shrubs are cleared directly by setting fire.Most of the river valley, which was originally full of subtropical vegetation, has now become barren wasteland.The Tiandu River has also dried up—the upstream has been temporarily blocked by a dam, and the riverbed will be dredged and deepened. Wang Luobin also plans to build a small reservoir nearby to provide domestic and industrial water for Tiandu Town and the mining area.If the water volume is large enough, consider using a small hydropower station as an energy supplement.

(End of this chapter)