"Okay, but don't expect much support. The Executive Committee is very stingy in allocating funds and manpower for our religious offices. The Catholic Church is now spending almost all the money of the Jesuits."
"I don't need many resources." Zhang Yingchen said modestly, "As long as I am allocated the necessary manpower - a dozen orphans. As for funds, the current demand is limited, so I can cover it myself first."
"Manpower is very difficult to manage. All aspects are competing for it." He Ying said, "You still want orphans. Do you know that orphans are a scarce commodity?"
"It's always possible. I don't have high requirements. Ten people are enough. They all need boys - 11 to 16 years old, preferably thirteen or fourteen years old. They want the kind with handsome features. I will train them myself."
"People think about raising lolita all day long. Your taste is really unique." He Ying said.
"Where, where," Zhang Yingchen coughed a few times, "I also have requirements! I don't want orphans who are tainted by the three sects of Jianghu, and I don't want orphans who are too honest and don't know how to adapt. It's best to be someone who has been in a theater troupe or something like that.
Those who have been trained locally and know how to play musical instruments. It is best to have a high hatred value. The more hatred they have for this era, the more they meet our requirements."
"After the hearing is passed, a report will be made first." He Ying said, "It is purely a queuing nature, so 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 approved by the Executive Committee. As for the Daosheng he wanted, he did not have it yet. As He Ying said: Orphans are a scarce material and are in great demand in all aspects.
This application will be useless if you wait for a few months.
Zhang Yingchen decided not to wait any longer. He decided to use the Sanya area under development as his first missionary experimental field. There were a large number of workers there who needed comfort from religion. And starting missionary work directly in Lingao would easily conflict with Lao Wu Qi. Although Lao Wu was not
What a crusader, but this kind of direct intrusion into other people's territory should be avoided as much as possible.
He decided to make full use of his medical skills to spread his teachings. To this end, he asked He Ying to second his personnel relations to the Ministry of Health and prepared to rush to Sanya to perform health services. To be cautious, he also asked He Ying to open a religious card.
The letter of introduction from the office was also stamped with the seal of the Government Affairs Council. Among the local elders in Sanya: Wang, Xi, Zhuo, Li and others, none of them were good men or women. If they thought he was engaged in some kind of "evil cult" and caught him, it would be a big embarrassment.
After getting this precious letter, Zhang Yingchen brought very simple things. He wanted to imitate those missionaries who went through all the obstacles and went deep into the barren country. He only carried the most necessary daily necessities and tried to live and preach in the simplest way. Not only to ensure that
The simple and humble appearance that a religious person must have also laid the foundation for future missionary activities in remote areas.
In addition to the homemade robes on his body, he only brought a backpack made of rattan made by the Lingao Quilt Factory, which contained a few pieces of coarse cloth for workers to wear; he also carried towels, enamel, etc. for aboriginal workers.
cup; a tin lunch box, an oilcloth raincoat, two spare pairs of leather-soled cloth shoes, army cloth leggings; the Swiss Army knife he brought himself is the only modern equipment. In addition, there is a standard medical kit.
Except for a few home-made antibiotics, they are mainly various Chinese patent medicines developed under the leadership of Liu San.
Zhang Yingchen decided to use such equipment to train himself in Yulin this time. For this reason, he also went to the remote exploration team and participated in a field survival training around him. He learned to identify directions, choose roads, find food, etc.
Skills. I also started to learn several local dialects, including the most popular local Hainanese vernacular and military dialect. As for Li language, I will have no place to learn it for a while.
When the hippo returned, he brought a fumigation cage, medicine, food, more nurses and this doctor who suddenly appeared.
In the headquarters office, Wang Luobin and others had already left, and only Zhuo Tianmin stayed behind at the headquarters. He suffered a lot during the attack, so he stayed behind at the headquarters for the time being.
Zhuo Tianmin looked at this person's dispatch certificate, and then looked at this strange person, his strange clothes, and hair. He was carrying a rattan box on his back, a Ministry of Health standard medicine box on his shoulder, and a Type 29 Jungle hanging on his belt.
A machete, a bamboo hat on his shoulder, and five or six bamboo tubes filled with water hung around his neck.
With such an appearance, he doesn't look like a senator but like an ordinary native.
"you are a doctor?"
But the tall Taoist priest smiled and extended his hand to him: "I am Zhang Yingchen. I heard that Sanya Development Zone requested to send more medical personnel, so I came to you first. I will need your help in my work in the future."
"Oh, you look like this-" Zhuo Tianmin looked at him.
"This is original ecological equipment," Zhang Yingchen said. "I plan to go deep into the inland areas to explore and collect herbs, and by the way, I will contact the local Li and Miao indigenous people to see how well they accept the teachings."
"I see." Zhuo Tianmin nodded, "But the equipment is too crude."
"It's okay," Zhang Yingchen said with a gentle smile, "The natives are just like me when they travel, maybe far worse. If they can do it, I can do it too."
Zhuo Tianmin was not interested in his weird hobbies, but he had doubts about his mission. This man kept saying that he came to be a doctor, but the letter of introduction and dispatch certificate had the official seal of the Religious Affairs Office.
Wang Luobin was not interested in whether the medical staff temporarily supported by Bairencheng were Taoist priests or priests. When the Taoist priest who claimed to be a medical staff produced a certificate from the attending doctor of Bairencheng Medical System, he was directly released to assist in the work at the health center.
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Zhuo Tianmin was a little worried about this guy who looked more like a magician than a doctor.
In his opinion, the appearance of such a strange doctor in Sanya, which was already panicking due to frequent work-related accidents, was itself an uncertain factor. Zhuo Tianmin, who had personally experienced the turmoil of Chief Li, had to raise his suspicions to Wang Luobin
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Wang Luobin disagreed with this. In his opinion, this Zhang Yingchen had a formal academic background. His medical skills were much better than those of veterinarians and nurses who had received surprise training in Chuanzhongli, and the appearance of the clergy was a good time for the indigenous workers.
Mood stabilizer.
"The Portuguese and Spaniards brought priests with them in America and Southeast Asia," he replied without raising his head while looking at the project report. "Religious religion is an indispensable magic weapon for the colonists. Step back.
Wan Bu said, Lao Zhang is one of us and a veteran, are you worried that he will carve a one-eyed stone man and bury it on the construction site in the middle of the night and then organize these natives to rise up and make a revolution?"
The discussion about the new Taoist doctor came to an end. Zhang Yingchen, who was busy treating patients and promising the dying people guaranteed salvation for their disciples, had no idea that around him, two colleagues who were developing Sanya had an affair.
An unpleasant argument.
However, he soon tasted the hostility of his colleagues towards his missionary activities. That day he was working with Guo Fu, and he took advantage of the opportunity to preach some doctrines to Guo Fu. The next day, Hippo called him for a serious talk:
"I know that you came to Sanya to undertake experimental missionary activities. This was approved by the Central Government Administration Council." Hema said, "But you have to know that according to the provisions of the Executive Committee's Document No. 161, nurses like
Category 1 employees cannot be targeted for missionary work.”
“Document No. 61 issued by the Ministry of Justice only said that proselytizing is not allowed in schools, institutions and the military, but it did not say that preaching to nurses is not allowed…”
"At this stage, hospitals and clinics are just institutions, and nurses are public officials and cannot preach." Hippo doesn't like its nurses to have religious tendencies - even though hospitals run by religious systems are common around the world.
Zhang Yingchen seemed to think that this was unreasonable interference. But he did not argue. If he wanted to gain a foothold here, he had to get the support of the local elders. Arguing about these would not help, but would affect his foothold here.
So he turned his missionary target to ordinary workers. He believed that the management would not interfere with such missionary behavior. Moreover, after the revolution, the bosses of the Sanya Military Commission would definitely be eager to find a way to appease the masses.
The spiritual opium of the soul.
Zhuo Tianmin felt uneasy after receiving Hippo's report. After a conversation with Wang Luobin, Xi Yazhou was ordered to "keep an eye on the Taoist priest."
According to various reports, Zhang Yingchen is not very interested in traditional Taoist alchemy and ascension to immortality. To Zhuo Tianmin, his missionary theory looks like a variant of Taoism.
Putting aside his abstract explanation of "Tao", the highest object of belief in Taoism, what this short-haired Taoist priest always talks about is "Old Master felt sorry for the hardships of the world, so he sent five hundred real people on an iron ship to land in the South China Sea. Now,
The Holy King teaches and educates the people, waiting for the arrival of the Paradise of Peace. Those who follow the teachings are the chosen people, and will surely have a place in the Paradise of Peace. Even if they die unfortunately, they will ascend to the heaven of the chosen people.
This is simply nonsense, Zhuo Tianmin thought. But he also admitted that under the current difficult conditions, it is a good thing to give the indigenous workers some spiritual sustenance. People will be braver when facing death knowing that they can go to a good place after death.
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Thanks to the joint efforts of a group of people, especially the dual effects of widespread distribution of compound antimalarial tablets and a substantial increase in nutrition, the malaria craze suddenly subsided after reaching its climax, and the mortality rate plummeted. By the end of the second month
By that time, there were no more new cases of illness and death. Sanya Development finally passed the first hurdle.
Although work-related injuries and casualties still occur from time to time, the elimination of the fear of epidemics has greatly calmed people's hearts. In addition, Zhang Yingchen spared no effort to publicize that those who died from epidemics and accidents are the chosen ones. Under the dual effects of material and spiritual factors, the originally fearful indigenous people
The workers finally settled down. As the environment was further transformed and sanitation campaigns were carried out, the living environment of mosquitoes, flies, locusts and various parasites deteriorated, the density continued to decrease, the number of sick people dropped significantly, and the progress of the project was greatly accelerated.
On April 20, amidst the crackling of firecrackers, the railway was finally laid to the location of the Tiandu Iron Mine. Wang Luobin, Zhuo Tianmin and others symbolically moved the last few lines amidst the warm cheers of the road construction workers.
The nails were installed into the track. The Yulin-Tiandu Railway was officially opened. This was the first officially operational railway line in the crossing area, rather than the track used to transport raw materials in the Lingao Industrial Zone. The total length of this railway is less than 2
The ten-kilometer railway line was called a "bloody road" by some people in later generations: hundreds of people died from various work-related accidents and infectious diseases. A famous political scholar said in his book "The Bloody Giant Under the Veil of Modernization" (herein)
The book has been banned) wrote:
"...According to statistics, in the early stages of the implementation of the "Giant Plan", the construction of railways, highways, and communications were the basic projects of the entire development work. Because the climate and living conditions along the construction line of the entire project were very harsh, coupled with the outstanding
Nearly a thousand workers died from technical safety accidents, overwork, disease and malnutrition due to the inhumane forced labor of XX, Wang XX, Pan XX and others. Because of this, this section of the project was later called '
Road to Death'."
However, for the veterans who presided over the development of Sanya, the completion of this line meant a decisive victory. The railway was like a huge blood vessel, finally able to continuously transport construction materials and labor to the front line of construction. Wang Luobin
In his memory article, he wrote: "...if we were still worried about the future before this, then the moment the railway is completed, I believe that the success of Sanya development is only a matter of time."
The Meteor No. 2 locomotive - the Meteor No. 1 locomotive was completely damaged due to insufficient strength of some parts, and lost its repair value and was taken back to Lingao for dismantling and recycling - amidst the sound of firecrackers, it emerged from the wooden platform of the simple Yulinbao Station.
Set off. Meteor 2 uses a Mozi III steam engine with an output of 500 horsepower. The huge boiler consumes high-quality Hongji anthracite and burns thousands of liters of water into powerful steam, driving the piston and
The lever and the black iron wheel slowly rotated. The entire train, loaded with construction materials, drove faster and faster, and finally headed towards Tiandu Station at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.
The elders laid a foundation stone on the original site of Tiandu Town, announcing the official start of the development of Tiandu Iron Mine. A labor team using steel tools, supported by bulldozers, explosives and purple electric modified trolleys, destroyed the iron ore here.
Vegetation and original landforms were completely destroyed: the wetlands were buried in waste soil and gravel, and the grass and trees were completely cleared. Large areas of shrubs were directly cleared by setting fire. Most of the river valleys that were originally full of tropical vegetation have now become barren wasteland.
The Tiandu River has also dried up - the upstream has been temporarily blocked by a dam, and the river bed 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
If the amount of water is large enough, consider using a small hydropower station as a supplementary energy source.