In order to meet the comprehensive monitoring of the urban area and adjacent customs, at least five to six hundred quarantine personnel are required. For the army, the burden is too heavy.
Originally, the garrison in Guangzhou was very limited. If it weren't for the Navy's Pearl River Detachment stationed just outside the city, with a large number of rotating sailors stationed there, Guangzhou would really be a bit of an "empty city".
The army can be used to undertake security work such as martial law and control, but if a large number of manpower is to be continuously allocated for epidemic prevention, it is beyond its capabilities.
As for recruiting through civil service examinations - although the Cadre Office has given Guangzhou the power to recruit local civil servants on its own, it is ridiculous to recruit four to five hundred cadres for health clinics at once.
It was Lin Baiguang who had an idea. He proposed to use former Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers who were currently training on Hong Kong Island.
After the liberation of Guangzhou, all the Ming troops in the original Guangzhou Prefecture, whether they were "caojun" from local military households or recruited battalions, were all sent to Hong Kong Island for training. Not only them, they also surrendered and surrendered one after another throughout the entire battle to liberate Guangdong.
The captured Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers were also sent to Hong Kong for screening and training.
"These ruffians are not necessarily good at what they do, but they are top notch at causing harm to the people..." Lin Motian's head was already shaking.
"No, my suggestion is to use soldiers from local military households." Lin Baiguang said.
Because these military soldiers were all from the local area and had their families in the local area, they were different from the foreign "guest army" soldiers who had no worries. They did not dare to be too unscrupulous and did less evil.
"...Most of them are locals, familiar with local conditions, can speak Cantonese, and can communicate much more easily than us. Most of their family members live outside Guangzhou, so they have to do whatever they are asked to do. They cannot help but disobey the rules!" Lin Baiguang
road.
Lin Motian felt that this was also a method, and since these people had been in Hong Kong since the beginning of the year, it was impossible for them to be infected with the plague. It was more reliable to use.
In order to facilitate command and expenditure, with Liu Xiang's consent, after reporting to Lingao, an epidemic prevention brigade directly under the Guangdong Corps of the National Army was established based on these soldiers. In order to "strengthen leadership", another fifty soldiers were transferred from the National Army.
Sergeants and soldiers are appointed as captains of various squadrons and squads.
It only took three days to form the epidemic prevention brigade. Early on the third day, the newly formed epidemic prevention brigade went to the Wanshou Palace Training Center to be taught by Lin Motian himself.
The use of quarantine officers without any medical knowledge background will inevitably affect the misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis rates in the process of screening plague cases. Therefore, in order to ensure the quality of quarantine, he personally hosted relevant training courses. In addition to teaching the epidemic prevention brigade, he was also prepared to take the trouble to
Stressing the necessity of quarantine and isolation to front-line administrative staff and police. As for their isolation measures, he cannot yet come up with a very effective method. All he can guarantee is that everyone on the front-line staff wears a mask, which is better than nothing at all.
Be strong.
Normally, plague prevention and protection measures require full-body isolation gowns and goggles. They have some of these, but they can only be allocated to front-line workers who need to come into direct contact with patients, diseased corpses, and objects.
A shipping isolation and quarantine area has been set up on Cheung Chau Island. All sea-going ships coming from the north must undergo 10 days of mandatory quarantine at the quarantine berth on Cheung Chau Island. After the quarantine is over, they can sail to Guangzhou to unload and disembark. All
Fur goods are not allowed to be unloaded in Guangzhou and must be unloaded at the quarantine warehouse on Changzhou Island. If the goods are unloaded privately in Guangzhou, once they are seized, they will be disposed of as an epidemic ship and the cargo will be burned on the spot.
Lin Motian hesitated again and again, but still did not put forward the request for comprehensive martial law. Since the pneumonic plague has not yet appeared, the spread of the plague is still at a relatively slow stage. These policies that have been issued will inevitably affect the circulation of goods to a certain extent, and
Comprehensive martial law requires more quarantine personnel and troops. When various departments are short of personnel, even the health department cannot block the flow of people.
Rumors against him have already appeared among the elders. It is said that one elder once said in private that he was "making a fuss out of a molehill! There were not many infectious diseases in Guangzhou in that year, so he came here like this. I think he just deliberately took a few."
The patient made a big fuss and used it as a stepping stone for his promotion!"
Lin Motian put his martial law application back on his desk:
"I hope this thing will be used later - no, I hope it will never be used." He looked out the window at the quarantine officer wearing a red sleeve band and sighed silently in his heart.
Lai Xiao stood beside the boat, looking at the increasingly gloomy sky and the rolling river water, thinking in his mind.
He has been thinking about the idea of escape for a long time, but now, the idea of "escape" is becoming more and more determined.
At the beginning of being taken into custody, Lai Xiao still had the idea of taking things easy. Although it was not a good thing to work as a coolie for the Australians, at least he had a bowl of food to eat, which was a way to survive. It was not too late to wait and see the situation before making any calculations. However,
Ever since the old man suddenly fainted on the dock and later heard that he "died of a sudden illness", the situation suddenly changed.
Their group of people failed to leave, but stayed on the pier all day. The ships that had already docked hurriedly unanchored, and then, another group of "National Army" came and surrounded the pier.
No one is allowed to enter or leave the three outer floors.
The originally noisy and busy dock suddenly became extremely deserted. Apart from them, the beggars waiting to board the boat, there were a few maskers who were responsible for guarding and escorting them. Although they tried their best to stay calm, they hurriedly put on that thing called a mask.
With anxious and uneasy eyes, Lai Xiao knew something big was going on here!
Based on Lai's experience of begging in the past few years, it is not difficult to guess that the old man who died suddenly must have contracted a "temporal disease", which is not uncommon among beggars. From the time he returned to Nantian and throughout the summer and autumn, he was infected with various "
It is common for old, weak, sick and disabled beggars to die suddenly and violently.
However, Kun Thief took this "current disease" so seriously that he closed the dock and put a mask on the fake Kun - he knew about these things. All of Kun Thief's doctors wore this, and it was said that it could "
epidemic prevention".
This is an epidemic! Lai Xiao's scalp suddenly exploded.
He knew a thing or two about the horror of the epidemic. There had also been a smallpox outbreak in Lingao. While begging in Guangzhou, the beggars "boiled water" on each other. Beggars who had experienced it said that the horror of the epidemic was "nine rooms in ten rooms are empty."
"Thousands of miles without human habitation". In the past few years, Guangzhou has also seen epidemics every year, and hundreds or even thousands died at a time. Beggars are often called to work as slave laborers to carry corpses - this work can strip the dead of their belongings and clothes.
Many beggars are willing to go, and every year many people die from diseases caused by carrying corpses.
Isn’t he also infected? Lai Xiao was in panic all day long. When they were finally caught on the boat, a rumor had spread among the crowd. All the people on the dock that day, whether they were beggars or fake
The kuns were all sent to a small island to "wait to die" to prevent them from spreading the disease to others. The reason was that the fake kuns who were supervising them on the dock were also on board the ship.
"Thief Kun really deserves to die!" Lai Xiao secretly cursed, "Everyone must die of the plague before they can be clean!"
Thinking about how I was working as a servant for the second young master in Goujiazhuang, I had no worries about food and clothing, and I was very impressive when I went out. No matter whether I was teasing the maids or the wives and daughters of the tenant farmers, no one dared to say no, even in the county town.
, he is also a domineering master, and he will not bring any money even if he eats a watermelon.
Who could have imagined that he would end up like this! Not only could he not become a beggar, but he would also be sent to a desert island to "wait for death."
Don't wait to die, you must run!
Although the river here is wide, Lai Xiao boasts that the water quality is excellent. You can come and go freely in the bay, not to mention the Pearl River, which is much quieter than the sea!
As long as he could climb out of the cargo hold and jump into the river, Fake Kun would never be able to catch him.
Thief Lai looked around secretly. The ship that transported them was the so-called "Australian barge". The ship was not too big, and there were more than a hundred beggars crowded in the open-air cargo hold. The bulkhead of the cargo hold was as high as one person, and the ones at the bow and stern were
There are fake kuns on the deck who are on guard. They are condescending, and they can see every move in the cabin clearly. If you want to sneak up and jump into the river, you can't do it - the fake kun raises his hand and shoots, and he has to be transparent.
There are no holes.
The sky was gloomy, and waves of dull thunder could be heard in the distance. The beggars on the boat couldn't help but shrink their necks. In the dark clouds in the distance, there was a faint flash of lightning, and the wind on the river began to get stronger and it was chilly.
A heavy rain was coming. People on the barge began to make a fuss. As the wind strengthened, the ship began to bump.
The pretenders who were on guard on the front and rear decks tightened their rifles in their hands and kept yelling: "Don't move, don't move, everyone squat down!"
A gust of wind passed, and suddenly a drop of water fell on Lai's head. Then he heard a rapid crackling sound, and as lightning passed over his head, thunder seemed to explode in his ears. Almost at the same time, a straight rain channel
, the earth-shattering fall, one cannot be seen clearly, just one piece, falling towards the river surface, and countless ripples are shot out on the river surface, and then it is swallowed up by the waves in an instant.
Within a moment, thousands of waterfalls fell from the bulkhead of the cargo hold, and the rain curtain drenched everyone in the cabin in an instant. Lai Xiao squatted next to the bulkhead and looked at the sky nervously. At this time,
The sky and the earth are no longer separated. The river in the sky is falling, and the river on the ground is flowing horizontally. It is gray and yellow, but sometimes it is white and bright. It is a world full of water.
The pretenders on the ship were also overwhelmed by the heavy rain. Some people rushed to get their raincoats, while others hurriedly arranged their raincoats that were messed up by the wind and tied ropes to their bamboo hats. In this brief chaos, they flawlessly paid attention to the cargo hold.
In a moment, Lai Xiao had already used his hands and feet to climb up the side of the ship, stepping on the body of a beggar who was lying limply in the bottom cabin. A burst of thunder rolled past, and he jumped into the turbid water of the Pearl River...