Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 621 Before the War ([-])

But the bad news followed one after another. First of all, the Gaoguang Shipping Company under Weiwei Escort was seized, and all the more than 20 brigs under it were sealed off by the government for requisition; The Lingao-Guangzhou regular line operated by Guangzhou Shipping Company is the first choice of transportation for many small traders who purchase goods in Lingao, and it is also the main transportation route between Lingao, Qiongshan, and the Pearl River Delta region.

Then came the news that Tang Yunwen intercepted civilian ships near Qianhusuo in Haikou, preventing civilian ships from entering the Qiongzhou Strait.Later, there was a ban on all ships sailing to Lingao. Not only was the channel for importing materials from the Pearl River Delta cut off, but even the export of coking coal from Jiazi Coal Mine was completely interrupted.

"Fortunately, there is no source of coking coal." Wu De knew that coking coal was not an urgently needed material - iron ore hadn't been seen yet - but chemical and power coal was the most important thing.The latter was shipped from Vietnam and Leizhou. Tang Yunwen's order to block the Qiongzhou Strait was half-assed-his ships and manpower were only enough to block the east entrance of the strait, and he couldn't control the west entrance, let alone the affairs in the strait. Willing to manage.

The navy stated that it would be easy to break Tang Yunwen's naval blockade-it would be easy to take over the old nest of Baisha Shuizhai immediately.As long as He Ming gave an order, the fleet set off immediately.He Ming thought over and over again, thinking that this might not be appropriate to show the great power of the Transmigration Group at sea.Wouldn't it be a waste of time for the Ming army to simply not come if they were scared out of their wits?In the end, he decided not to break Tang Yunwen's sea blockade for the time being. After Guangzhou Station and Gaoguang Shipping Company were sealed up one after another, the trade with the Pearl River Delta region became stagnant. Many traders temporarily stopped their plans to buy and sell goods in Lingao. Waiting and watching.The trade volume has also dropped significantly, and this line of communication will temporarily become less important.

When Shi Yanren returned to the office, he was exhausted—this military training for Lao Shizi had killed him.Shi Yanren's physical strength is actually very good, but the health department has been too busy recently, and he hasn't slept for six hours for several days.

The health department is short of manpower, even the indigenous nurses are not enough. Some of them have gone to Sanya, and the rest are not only responsible for basic health care, but also step up the training of indigenous medical staff.Shi Yuren was so busy that his feet were on the ground, and yesterday Ma Qianju asked him to come up with a medical guarantee implementation plan for the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign.

He has made this set of plans a long time ago, and has constantly revised it according to his own conditions.Now he talked about specific implementation measures.This includes the organization of the military's health care, the establishment of field dressing and evacuation systems, and the opening of field hospitals.

He plans to divide the health service work into two phases.The first section is in charge of the military health workers, and now it has been initially guaranteed to the level of one person per company. The militia and military laborers who have been deployed have no health workers.

"The crash course for hygienists is still going on, and all the staff will be ready in another month."

Health workers are responsible for the basic sanitation and health care work of the army on weekdays, and command the militia stretcher members accompanying the army to take care of the wounded during combat.The wounded are first debrided and bandaged in the front-line dressing station, and are classified according to the critical condition of the injury.Take treatment and evacuation according to different conditions.

Because the overall staff of the health department is limited and the transportation force is weak, the three-level evacuation method is not adopted, and the field hospital is directly deployed at the headquarters of the field army.The wounded treated by the bandages took stretchers or walked to field hospitals for further treatment.

"Of course, in the end we have to send them back to Lingao—after all, Lingao has complete facilities and it is easy to collect medicines. Our Ministry of Health plans to open a hospital in Mayao as a military hospital." Shi Yanren Said, "The scale is [-] beds. In addition to treatment, it is also used for rehabilitation." He added, "There are not enough medical staff."

"There are too few beds." Ma Qianzhu commented.

Three hundred beds are not enough?Shi Yanren was a little surprised.According to his estimate, the army's casualties are at most 200, and the preparation of [-] beds has already taken into account the situation after the expansion of the army's prospects.

"Let's put it this way, the key point of health work in this battle is how to treat the Ming soldiers." Ma Qianju said, "Try to save people. Do you understand? They came to Hainan Island by boat and were beaten by us." Injured, as long as it is not hopeless, try to revive it. It doesn’t matter if you are disabled, you can work without arms or legs—we are short of people!”

Shi Yanren suddenly realized that the lack of beds meant that.However, he did not think about the treatment of the prisoners.He thought for a while and asked:

"I really can't estimate this. What is the combat effectiveness of the Ming army? Whether they will be defeated at the first touch or will fight to the death with us, there is a big difference here, and it is difficult to estimate how many wounded people will be treated."

"According to He Ming's estimate, more than 1000 captives will be captured in the end. The wounded should not be too many. There are always more than [-] people with light or severe injuries. We mainly use firearms, and it is estimated that the seriously injured will not survive. Now, you should mainly consider the number of minor injuries."

"Okay, then I'll go back and work out a treatment plan for prisoners and wounded patients."

"You have to discuss this matter with Yanghe. He is preparing a prisoner-of-war camp to accommodate prisoners. Even if there are not too many wounded, the purification and health care work of so many prisoners is a big deal. Everything must be prepared for a rainy day it is good."

"Okay." Shi Yanren just nodded, of course he didn't have time to discuss things with Yanghe, this matter was left to He Ping, the office director of the Ministry of Health, "Where are the prisoner-of-war camps selected?"

"It's also on Ma Niao's side." Ma Qianju said, "Ma Niao Peninsula is now our forward base. He Ming moved the headquarters."

It seems that we need to send people to Ma Niu as soon as possible, Shi Yuren thought, not only to deal with the affairs of the prisoner-of-war camp and field hospital, but also because thousands of people have gathered there one after another, and the laborers and militia recruited by the county are still pouring in. Keep going there.Tens of thousands of people eat and drink in such a place, and the weather is hot. It is a critical moment for epidemic prevention.

Several sets of water purification equipment must be installed, otherwise tens of thousands of horses gather in Ma Niao, without clean drinking water, epidemic enteritis and even cholera will break out immediately.Shi Niaoren thought, since Ma Dugong said that Ma Niao would be a base, he might as well install a set of large fixed water purification equipment directly.

He also thought that the medical training course will be completed in two months, and wonder if they can catch up with this battle?Regardless of whether he can catch up or not, Shi Yuren decided to pull all the trainee doctors and nurses to Ma Yao at that time, and come up with a policy of replacing learning with actual combat.

The Chinese medicine practitioners in Lingao have all been centralized now, and some of them can be selected to serve in Ma Niao.

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Shi Yanren was a little sleepy at first, but he became more energetic after thinking about things too much.He thought over and over again, and decided that He Ping should not come back at all, and handed over all the matters of Ma Niao to him.Responsible for all health coordination for this operation.Although he doesn't know medical skills, he is very familiar with the situation and work flow of the Ministry of Health, so it will be easier to coordinate and handle affairs.

While thinking about this matter, Zhao Yanmei asked him to discuss the production increase plan of the pharmaceutical factory

In terms of medicines, the stock of the Ministry of Health is quite sufficient. Since the coal chemical plant was put into operation, the crude sulfonamide has gradually formed a stable supply.Pharmaceutical factories use crude sulfonamides as raw materials for further purification and processing into oral agents and anti-inflammatory powders for external use.The indigenous manufacturing of kasugamycin and oxytetracycline has also begun to take shape, which makes the supply of the most important antibiotics already preliminarily guaranteed.

Because there was going to be a war, Zhao Yanmei wanted to shift a considerable part of the factory's production capacity to the manufacture of medical devices and emergency medicines.Surgical first aid supplies such as cotton wool, gauze, tourniquet, bandages, and splints will be in great demand.Stockpiles of alcohol, antiseptics and saline must also be increased.

"Although these things are easy to build, they consume a lot of energy. If there is no certain reserve, there will be a gap." Zhao Yanmei said, "At least we must prepare according to the standard of treating 3000 people from both the enemy and ourselves, as well as the first-aid kits for the expanded troops—— A big number."

"How many troops are there now? How much is left in stock?"

"The army's stock of first aid kits is about 1. We only have less than [-] in stock." Zhao Yanmei said, "Actually, some of the first aid kits were manufactured in the early days and are not up to standard. It's been a long time, so it's best to recycle them." Lose."

This is too little.Shi Youren has never been a soldier, but he can still do mathematics: this means that only one person in the army can share two.

"He Ming told me that first-aid kits are very expensive to use. The scrapping and recycling should be postponed until after the war. I will inform the army to ask them to give priority to using new products. Old ones have to be saved for emergencies. "

"Okay." Zhao Yanmei nodded, "My documents for adjusting production capacity and applying for raw materials—"

"You can see how to arrange the production. You don't need to pass everything through me." He signed the documents sent by Zhao Yanmei—she also applied for a lot of materials and raw materials controlled by the Planning Institute.

Zhao Yanmei was very happy to have the full authority of the minister.She originally had a lot of ideas about the production of the pharmaceutical factory, and with his support, she felt that she would be more energetic in her work.

"One more thing, this is the latest version of the hygienist's medicine box." She put the medicine box she brought with her on the table, "Can you see if there is anything else to add? If there is no problem, I will take care of the finished products in batches." gone."

Shi Niaoren opened the medical box with four reinforced corners—this is a box used by health workers. It is light and lightweight, so it is no longer made of wood, but made of multi-layered old cowhide or donkey leather. The inside is very scientifically divided , various objects are categorized.Wooden stethoscope, simple surgical instruments, antiseptic medicines, first aid medicine, antibiotics and dressings.All kinds of things are made by the pharmaceutical factory of the Ministry of Health.No wonder Zhao Yanmei showed pride when she showed him.

Compared with the first batch of medicine kits for nurses two years ago, there were almost no medicines except alcohol, stethoscopes, dressings and several Chinese patent medicines made by local methods.And now there are even painkillers and antibiotics.

"With this, the hygienist is a miracle doctor in this time and space." Shi Yanren was half joking and half sighing.

"It's just the lack of a syringe—if there's a syringe, that's all there is to it."

"Come on, needle rolling is a technical job, but it is not high-tech. It will definitely be produced after the war." Shi Yuren checked the medicines inside one by one, thinking that some medicines for common diseases need to be added.

"It's better to prepare a few more Chinese patent medicines such as Zhuge Xingjun Powder that have proven curative effects. Health workers can't just think about the time of war, as soldiers also have headaches on weekdays."

Just as Zhao Yanmei was about to leave after talking about things, Shi Yanren stopped her: "Your husband, I have to borrow him for a few days for a business trip."

Zhao Yanmei became nervous: "Do you want him to go to the mainland?"

"Of course not. I want him to inspect Ma Niao's base as a representative of the Ministry of Health."

"Then you can send him there. We are not newlyweds. We have to get tired of being together every day." Zhao Yanmei said with a smile.After taking her leave, she immediately rode back to the pharmaceutical factory on a battery car—there were still a lot of things waiting for her in the factory.

The pharmaceutical factory trial-produced a batch of new drugs for the sake of the war, and she used up all the opium purchased from Macau.She had used this opium in the past to make cough drops, pain relievers, and astringents for diarrhea.Very popular with all parties.This time, for the sake of the war, she refined most of the remaining opium into salt/acid/morphine/phine, which were made into injections.Oral painkillers were also made from opium for the convenience of hygienists who did not have syringes.

But she is worried about making morphine, which is much more addictive than the coca leaf and opiates currently used by the Ministry of Health, and this drug will be distributed in the health workers' medicine cabinets- Zhao Yanmei doubts whether these hastily trained hygienists will realize the horror of this medicine.

She has been in this time and space for a long time, and she knows that the lack of doctors and medicines in this time and space is astonishing. Although there is a Runshitang pharmacy in the county town, and there are several herbal medicine doctors in the whole county, most people have no medical treatment or medicine when they get sick. , forming a situation of worshiping witch doctors, but all witch doctors and the like are a kind of elixir to cure all problems.Therefore, drugs such as opium and morphine, which act quickly, are easily abused as panacea.

Whether the hygienists are aware of the potential hazards of the medicines in their hands, Zhao Yanmei really has no idea.

The factory was very lively. In order to expand the relationship of production, not only increased the number of regular workers, but also mobilized many women from various villages and communes as temporary labor.Under the mat shed that has just been built, cotton is being degreased with caustic soda in pots.The smell is very strong, and the female workers wear masks, constantly fish out the boiled cotton, rinse it in clean water, and then dry it.

The degreased and sun-dried cotton and the rolls of gauze brought from the textile factory are then sent to the disinfection workshop for sterilization and packaging.There are also some dressing materials that do not need to be disinfected. They are washed and rinsed with soapy water in the mat shed and then directly hung in the yard.Bandages and triangular bandages were strewn all over the shelves, fluttering in the sun.

When the female workers saw her coming in, they all stopped respectfully.Not long after they arrived at the factory, they were amazed that a young daughter-in-law like Zhao Yanmei was in charge of such a big medicine shop that could make many "miracle medicines". Seeing her rushing directly on a robotic mule made the female workers stretch out With a long neck, it looks like looking at a diorama.

Zhao Yanmei has already turned a blind eye to such spectators.She frowned when she smelled the pungent smell in the yard.The dressing workshop needs to be expanded, since open-air production is both unsanitary and polluting.

She asked a technician who was in charge of production at the scene, and the technician said that the production did not encounter any technical problems, but the raw materials were intermittent.In particular, the supply of cotton is tight.If the production rate continues at this rate, the production of absorbent cotton will be discontinued.

"Didn't the Planning Institute approve the cotton quota?" Zhao Yanmei was puzzled.

The mechanic shook his head.Zhao Yanmei thought that the technicians only focus on production, so they don't know about the allocation of materials.She hurried back to her office

There are several new medicines on her desk, all of which are newly trial-produced, such as belladonna injection for first aid, and a new ginseng injection—it is said to be beneficial to the recovery and regeneration of the wounded. It has an excellent effect, but it is a pity that the pharmaceutical factory does not have much ginseng reserves.Ginseng was borrowed from Runshitang.Liu San's traditional Chinese medicine factory also provided several new Chinese patent medicines, all of which are used to stop bleeding and remove blood stasis. In particular, there is a kind of gold sore medicine, which is said to be copied from an ancient book. Liu San himself does not know if it is really so magical. , but still made a batch ready for trial on the battlefield.

Zhao Yanmei didn't have time to read more, so Guan Zhao called her secretary to ask about the distribution of supplies.After asking, I found out that the cotton quota allocated by the Planning Institute was not only used to make absorbent cotton, but also used to make gauze.Gauze, triangle tape, bandages.These things are commissioned from textile factories.

"Minister Mo said: To produce these orders, textile factories must have cotton quotas to produce, otherwise they will have no cotton to use."

"Is the cotton supply so tight?" Zhao Yanmei was a little surprised.Although Transit Group does not grow cotton itself, there are not too few sporadic cotton plantations on this island. Cotton is the main product exported by Li District, and most of the cotton cloth of Transit Group is imported, so it does not need much cotton.Cotton spinning in textile mills is mainly used to manufacture various needled cotton fabrics, and the demand for cotton itself is not very large.

"There are also not enough chemical disinfectants," the secretary reported.

"Okay, please give me a list of the missing materials that affect production first, and I will solve them one by one." Zhao Yanmei thought that the new oxytetracycline fermenter in the workshop hadn't been checked yet, so she hurried to the workshop to have a look. Hyphal development of oxytetracycline.

When Zhao Yanmei was so busy, He Ping accepted the task of inspecting Ma Niao.In addition to checking hygiene, he is also responsible for opening a hospital in Maniao.

Shi Youren gave him the title of "Plenipotentiary Representative of the Ministry of Health".He Ping spread his hands; "It's good to let me take charge of this matter, but what about a doctor? I don't know medical skills, let alone be a doctor."

(End of this chapter)