Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1589 Beining ([-])

On December 1670, 9, light rain.

"...In the whole village, there is no one who can eat fish and meat regularly. If there is, then he must be a landlord or nobleman. They also rely on the labor of others to enjoy such a life. Peasants who eat meat in summer are like How rare are the gold flakes in the pebbles of the river bed. In the village where I lived for many years, there were 111 people. Of these people, only 59 people can eat enough all the time, and some of them can only eat rye bread or other poor food. ; of the remaining 52 persons, 2 were idiots who did not work at all or poorly, 2 deformed persons, 5 sick persons, 6 emaciated and severely malnourished persons; To add an eccentric man who is mildly religious, but does not interfere with the work very much."

"... There is only one landlord and one rich peasant in our village, but their economic strength or living standards are not even as good as our ordinary peasants on the east bank. How poor are they? The wealthiest families in the two villages combine for one year. I only sold grain for less than 150 yuan, which is really pitiful. May I ask which farmer on our east coast can’t sell more than 70 yuan of grain a year? I used to be a non-national laborer, and when I was working somewhere in Xihu County The richest peasant family in the village has 60 acres of fertile and oily land and a very large bee farm, which is more than the beehives of all the farmers in my hometown village combined; during the mowing season, he can Hire 10 lawnmowers at a time and pay them with dignity."

"...on my native land, all land that could be cultivated or pastured has been divided up. The vagabond kneels and bows to every landowner, or sacrifices his wife and daughter, for a piece of land to lease In many cases, the nobles would rather keep their land barren than lease it out for farming, because they think it is more profitable to use it for grazing. But on the east coast, land is really a cheap resource, as long as you If you have seven or ten yuan, you can buy an acre in the border area. For example, here in our Gaoguo Township, the land is vast and the population is very sparse. If you drive along the grassland for dozens of kilometers, you may not be able to meet a village. See Look at these vast meadows where birds of prey fly in the sky, where the sun only occasionally shines on people's faces, where any seed that falls on the land bears good fruit, so what can we complain about? No , Not at all! What we need to do now is to quickly take money to buy the land we rely on to inherit our family, and then work hard until it can stably produce things that can support ourselves and our families."

The high-pitched and loud voice continued, and a group of dignitaries on horseback slowly approached in the distance. The nearby villagers knew that they were the district commissioners who came to inspect the area.As for how big an official the district commissioner is, I'm sorry, they don't have this concept yet, but they just think it's too big.

"Where did you find this joker? It sounds like that." After listening to it for a while, Beining District Administration Commissioner Xu Yu pointed at the village entrance who was still standing on the haystack and was hoarse. The man promoting it asked with a smile.

"It was recruited by the local cadres. According to their tone, they should be from non-national laborers, but now they have become our nationals. I guess, they were probably Irish or Russians before, um, maybe Russians There are many such people in our country." A cadre from Bingtuanbao looked over there carefully and said in an uncertain tone.

"Without the construction of non-nationals, how can our transportation facilities be improved? And if the transportation facilities are not improved, how can the people open up wasteland in the inland areas?" Xu Yu looked at the surging river in the south (Ba Lana River), said with emotion: "It is a good way to let these non-citizens speak out. Didn't you see that there are many non-citizens from Italy on the construction site where the river is dug over there? If these words can make them empathize, let them The more they identify with us, the harder it is to make them work harder, and then it's all worth it."

The "here" mentioned by Xu Yu is Gaoguo Township, which is located near the small town of Andradeina in later generations and is temporarily under the jurisdiction of the Beining District Administrative Office.There are several towns with similar conditions, namely Yanfu Township (located near the later town of Dracena), Aling Township (located near the later town of Mirandopolis), Changfeng Township (located in the later Aracatuba Township) City) and Renfeng Township (near the later Adamantina Township), together with Gaoguo Township and five townships, about 7000 people have been resettled. At present, grain planting, logging and animal husbandry have become pregnancy.

Unlike the east side, the immigrants and supplies in these settlements were all transported from the south via the Parana River. Relatively speaking, they are happier than the core area of ​​Beining, which has inconvenient transportation, because life will be much better.Especially the food needed to survive the early difficult period, because the southern counties of Iguazu, Ganyi, and Shancha have all developed successively, and the nearby transportation is very convenient and the cost is very low, which undoubtedly strongly supports their development. Open up a career.

Compared with material assistance, a traveling medical team transferred from the Hejian area can help the residents more than food, clothing, and tools in many cases. Such is the case with a surgical operation in progress.

This surgical operation is very simple to say, that is, a resident's finger was smashed by the prefabricated cement board during collective labor, and then the traveling medical team wanted to amputate his finger.In fact, this operation is not uncommon on the east coast. In recent years, the health system has not only trained a large number of medical talents through the Dayuhe Medical College, but also has only [-] hospitals in China (twelve of which are located in ten veteran hospitals in the east) Two counties, two affiliated to the Army and the Navy respectively, one affiliated to the Taoist Federation, and one affiliated to the Nantie Women's and Children's Hospital privately invested by Mr. Greatly expand the scope of medical services, so that medical treatment is no longer just an exclusive service for various privileged groups and rich people, especially this kind of surgical operation that is rarely seen in the old continent except on the battlefield.

There is no doubt that surgery on the East Coast is much more "enjoyable" than in the Old World.Because people from the east coast don’t have that kind of extremely wrong medical cognition, such as the theory of life mechanics and body fluids, etc. that are popular in Europe at this time; they also don’t like to recruit surgeons from carpenters and barbers, because it seems not enough Professional, but also very dangerous, they prefer to train professional surgeons who have contacted countless times, this is from "Pathological Anatomy"; finally, they have specially designed and made surgical equipment (and the number and types of equipment are also Slowly increasing), there are also strict disinfection procedures, although it is hard to say whether it is effective or not.

Generally speaking, in the world at this time, severe damage to limbs or the appearance of jaundice are the main indications for amputation.After years of practice—this kind of dissection of cadavers is seriously frowned upon by public opinion, whether in Europe or the East—the doctors on the East Coast have now learned in the process of resecting more while preserving the most soft tissue. the bone, so that the skin can cover the bone so that it can over time form a usable stump of the injured limb to which it can attach; the East Coasters also learned more methods of hemostasis during surgery through dissection, such as Vascular ligation, etc., instead of using the traditional method of boiling oil and cauterizing the wound with a soldering iron to stop the bleeding, although these two methods are also used by people on the East Coast.

From the above two points, we can see what a lot of anatomical practice means to a surgeon.Only through a lot of study and practice can people fully understand the structure of the human body. Recruiting barbers and carpenters as surgeons (usually part-time) like in the Old World is simply a kind of nonsense. strictly prohibited.

In addition, as a country with a relatively strong anti-corruption atmosphere, the doctors of the East China Republic have also conducted in-depth research on "war trauma".Especially after gunpowder became more and more widely used, war began to "provide" a large number of different types of injuries for people, that is, the wound characteristics of wounded soldiers were greatly changed, and the experience accumulated in the past was often no longer useful, which made many People are helpless.

For example, buckshot and other projectiles penetrated muscle, shattered bone and implanted foreign matter deep in the wound, with ensuing infection becoming a major concern.People on the east coast have done a lot of research on this, unlike the old continent who still simply use "gunpowder poison" to understand it.But even so, people on the east coast are still lacking in how to disinfect and eliminate postoperative infections. They are as helpless as people in the Old World to deal with infections. They can only disinfect over and over again, and at the same time use some that look good Ointment—such as the ointment invented by the English made of egg yolk, rose oil and pine resin, which was bought by the people on the east coast with a lot of money, the effect can only be said to be mediocre—treat the wound, and then leave everything to God , to see everyone's luck!

The finger amputation performed by Gao Guoxiang seemed to be relatively smooth. The chief surgeon—a guy who looked too young, which somewhat disturbed the patient—successfully removed the bloody, The bad limb was rotten, so he put down the surgical instruments and asked the assistants to stop the bleeding, disinfect the wound, apply ointment, and finally tie the bandage.The whole process was busy but not chaotic. Everyone seemed to be well-trained, obviously because they practiced too much on weekdays.

Of course, this kind of practice mainly exists during the study period. Gein’s entire itinerant medical team does not have many opportunities to perform operations. The most work they usually do is to popularize disease control knowledge, distribute medicines, extract teeth, and treat wounds. Wait, during the entire half-year touring process, they only performed a caesarean section on a pregnant woman with dystocia in Iguazu County in the south under unavoidable circumstances-the result of this difficult operation was naturally It is tragic. In fact, the medical system of the East Coast Republic of China has not had a successful cesarean section for decades to ensure the survival of the mother.

But then again, in order to improve the medical and health conditions across the country on the east coast, it is useless to rely solely on this temporary itinerant medical team.What the East Coast people really want to do is to expand the number of hospitals and train more medical staff. There are only 88 large hospitals in the country, which is a shame to the image of Wei Guangzheng of the Executive Committee!You know, there are currently 86 counties in the country—Fuxing County (the 87th county) was just established last month, under the jurisdiction of Fuxing Township, Zhenhua Township, Xinjian Township, Zhendong Township, Yongjing Township, Yelu Township Township, a total of six settlements), Nansheng County (the 88th county, under the jurisdiction of Nansheng Town, Tuandang Township, Liqiu Township, Banpu Township, Liancheng Township, Yuntai Township, a total of six settlements), Xinba County (the [-]th county, under the jurisdiction of Xinba Township, Huayuan Township, Yanwei Township, Liku Township, and Luduiji Township, five settlements in total)—only a dozen or so counties have formal hospitals, and the rest There are only some small infirmaries, clinics, and even township doctor's appearances in the place. This is simply unacceptable to the travelers who are accustomed to the medical density of later generations, although the medical system as a whole is much better than that of the old continent countries. up.

To build more hospitals and train more medical personnel, with the attitude of the people on the east coast who strive for perfection and prefer lack of excess, it is estimated that it will not be something that can be accomplished overnight in a short period of time.Don't you see, it has been decades, and they have only roughly established a medical system that looks very poor, two state-owned pharmaceutical factories (Northern Pharmaceutical Factory and Brazilian Pharmaceutical Factory) that are barely sized, a Specialized medical schools (of course we must not forget that Bingtuanbao is also cultivating medical talents), two sanatoriums, and two medical research institutes (South Railway Institute of Pathology and Capital Medical Research Institute), produced dozens of drugs, but It is still far from enough to meet the needs of the whole society.You know, the East China Republic is already a "big country" with a population of 300 million, and with the increasing middle class, they will inevitably propose higher medical services after they have passed the stage of food and clothing. How this is dealt with is up to the bureaucrats of the healthcare system.

Xu Yu and the others did not go over to disturb the medical workers who were operating on the next patient in the room—this time it was a very simple tooth extraction operation—but rode their horses forward towards the The construction site of the small inland wharf expansion project is galloping away, which is the lifeline of external traffic for many settlements in the western half of the Beining area. Every time Xu Yu comes to inspect the first stop here.

I had an extra day of work today, so I hurriedly coded it out.There is another dinner tomorrow night, so it may not be updated in time. Anyway, try your best, everyone forgive me.

By the way, the friendly recommendation is here again, "Three Kingdoms System Version", I haven't watched it yet, you can watch it when you have time.

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