Chapter 29 Labor Export
The sky is getting brighter, the chirping of birds can be heard in the forest, and the aroma of rice wine and barbecue seems to be filling the air. The bearded Johnson, who was in charge of the overnight duty, stood up from the fire with lingering embers and stretched. Then he looked at Morgan next to him who had also not slept all night and smiled bitterly.
Among the special working groups that came to Fushandong this time, they were the only two medical workers, and they maintained very good professional habits - not drinking. As doctors who are on the operating table at any time, alcohol will greatly affect their neurological reactions, so they will actively keep their distance from alcohol under any circumstances. Even when Master Fu Dong invited him to drink yesterday, Zhou Hengxing explained the situation and asked others to drink on his behalf. However, the master of Fudong was not angry because of this, because these two blond and blue-eyed Yi people were actually doctors that could only be found in "big places" like Yacheng. They were definitely distinguished guests for Lidong, which lacked medical treatment and medicine. . But precisely because the two doctors did not drink alcohol, and because they were members of the military and police department, the duty work after the night banquet had to be left to them.
Seeing that it was already five o'clock in the morning, the two went to the tent to wake up the members who were changing shifts. They had to seize this precious time and get some sleep first. Although the night shift is very hard, I'm afraid there won't be much rest time for them today. According to the working group's plan, administering medicine at the Li Dong Free Clinic is also an important part of bringing the Li people closer, and the two of them will definitely play the leading roles. A foreign doctor.
With the transactions and banquets on the first day as preparation, the inspection work that started the next morning went much more smoothly. Lord Fudong agreed to Zhou Hengxing's request and specially arranged a few guides to accompany these curious foreigners around the area. Of course, he didn't understand that what these people meant by "turning around" was not to tour the mountains and rivers, but to investigate the development status of agriculture, forestry, minerals and other resources here.
Two foreign doctors set up a position in the village to provide free medical treatment to local sick and injured residents. The only problem is that Zhou Hengxing, who understands Li dialect, is not very fluent in English, and the Chinese of these two Americans is still at the primary stage of "hello", "thank you" and "goodbye", and they cannot communicate at all. As a last resort, we had to hire a translator who knew English, so the communication between doctors and patients had to go through at least two translators, and only one of the doctors could be translated at a time, so the efficiency of medical treatment was reduced. To an astonishing level. According to Morgan's chat afterwards, he had never had such trouble communicating with black people who did not understand the language when he was performing humanitarian relief missions in Liberia, West Africa.
Ning Qi took the time to find Fu Nuo and planned to discuss labor export. Fu Nuo was obviously still drunk. When Ning Qi found his home under the guidance of the villagers, the old man was sitting motionless on the bamboo bed in a daze. But when he looked up and saw Ning Qi standing at the door, he still had a smile on his face: "Please come in, my guest."
Ning Qi is not proficient in Cantonese with a Hainanese accent. Last night, he asked Zhou Hengxing to practice temporarily. Although the effect was not obvious, he could barely communicate with Fu Nuo: "Master Fu Dong, thank you and the villagers. Thank you for your warm hospitality last night. In addition to salt and ironware, we actually have other transactions to discuss with you.”
"What do you want?" Fu Nuo obviously hadn't reached the stage where his eyes were dim, so he immediately pointed out the core issue.
"People. We need the help of the Li people." Ning Qi did not intend to hide anything, and said it bluntly: "Your villagers do things for us, and they will get corresponding rewards from us later."
The smile on Fu Nuo's face disappeared: "You want my villagers to go to your place to perform labor and military service? That won't work. We have to serve the Ming people every year, and we can no longer serve you."
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"Our approach is different from Akito. First of all, we will not force you to do anything. This is not military service. This is us paying you to do things. Secondly, we will not conscript your young people to serve in the military. Even if we do it in the future If we want to recruit soldiers, we will only accept people who volunteer to serve as soldiers, instead of forcing you to send out how many young men you have for each village." Ning Qi patiently explained to Fu Nuo: "This is a deal, we use money and food to use you. In exchange for anything you need, you just need to work.”
"Even a large amount of iron tools are enough?" Fu Nuo asked in disbelief. Since the Li people's uprising began in the Yuan Dynasty, subsequent governments have been extremely strict in controlling iron in Li people's areas, lest they obtain pig iron and use it to make weapons. In a place like Fushandong, there are more than 300 households in the whole cave with a thousand people, and there are not even a few iron pots. The little pig iron is almost used to make hook knives on the men's waists. If the situation had not been like this, Li Dong’s farming level would not have remained mostly in the Stone Age.
Ning Qi nodded seriously: "Yes. And we will also teach you how to grow crops and how to get better harvests on the land, so that you no longer have to worry about food, so that young people can dress beautifully. , so that children can read and write! ”
"How is this possible!" Fu Nuo was completely drunk. These have been the dreams of Li people for generations. However, countless years have passed and no one has been able to come up with a way to change the current situation. He struggled to get up and grabbed Ning Qi's shoulders: "Why are you helping us like this? Why?"
"We are the saviors, and we are here to save the hard-working people like you who are in dire straits!" Ning Qi shamelessly said the lines that had flashed through his mind countless times, and at the same time, a strange sense of satisfaction came to his heart - come Isn’t one of the purposes of coming to this world to be worshiped as a savior one day? Ning Qi looked at the excited Fu Nuo with a smile, waiting for him to continue asking questions to her. "Then every household in the cave will be able to use an iron pot?" Fu Nuo's lips trembled for a long time before he finally asked.
"A must!" Ning Qi immediately answered him in an affirmative tone, and made a scissor hand gesture: "Two from each family, one cooks and one stir-fries!"
Fu Nuo swayed, and Ning Qi quickly supported him, fearing that he would faint. However, after the old man stood firm, he asked again: "Can our children in the cave go to a Han place to study and learn literacy in the future?"
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"Not only is it possible, but it's free and free!" Ning Qi continued to offer temptations without hesitation: "The literacy class we run is just downstream of the river. You can ask the villagers to take a look first, and then decide whether to let your children Come and study.”
Fu Nuo sat back on the bamboo bed tremblingly, stretched out his hand and wiped it on his face: "I never thought that before I die, I still hope to see Li Ren come out..."
Ning Qi smiled slightly, secretly thinking that great things had happened.
At the same time, several inspection groups in agriculture, forestry and mining also achieved different gains. The agricultural team discovered a large number of native rice seeds in the fields cultivated by the Li people, and the basis for high-yielding hybrid rice is a rich gene pool. According to Gao Huan, the diversity of rice seeds here is enough for his specialist who specializes in food crops. The teacher's wife woke up from her sleep with a smile. There were many poultry and livestock scattered on the hillside, but this was not Gao Huan's specialty, so he could only take some hasty photos with his camera and show them to his senior brother Yuan Qiuye for identification when he returned.
Of course Gao Huan also found his target - a large amount of wild ramie. The stem fiber of ramie is an important weaving material. This fiber has high strength but low elongation. In modern industry, aircraft wing cloth, rubber interlining, wire coating, fishing nets, rayon cotton, etc. are all made of ramie. made. Ramie leaves are rich in crude protein and vitamins and can be used as livestock feed after drying. The entire above-ground part of ramie can be used to extract ethanol. Ramie bones can be used to make paper, and ramie shells can be used to extract furfural, an extremely important refining solution in the chemical industry. Even ramie roots have medicinal values such as hemostasis, dispersing blood stasis, detoxification, and fetal protection. It can be said that ramie is a treasure all over the body and is an economic crop with great development value.
It's just that the Li people obviously didn't realize the economic value of this kind of thing. Of course, it's most likely because they didn't know how to use this inconspicuous plant. However, this ignorant situation will not last long, because the saviors headed by Ning Qi have already arrived. The Li people will soon learn some basic agricultural knowledge from Chuanzhong, enough to allow them to step from the slash-and-burn era to the level of productivity that will be at least two to three hundred years later.
In terms of forest resources, what surprised the working group the most was the fruit resources here. Although they were all wild, everyone was dazzled by the bananas, lychees, longans, betel nut, jackfruit, etc. that were discovered one after another. The fruit resources here are so abundant that they can be used as food supplements for the local Li people. At that moment, someone started to communicate with the guides who were traveling with them, trying to persuade them to regularly transport these fruits to the No. 2 base for trading. But people from the Ministry of Agriculture were obviously much more practical. They directly picked some fruits and prepared to bring the seeds back to the base for cultivation.
The main work carried out in mining exploration is to conduct an on-site inspection of the location of the Damao phosphate manganese mine that will be developed in the long-term plan according to the information prepared by the Ministry of Information Industry, and to evaluate the difficulty of development, and then make corresponding plans. The report is submitted to the Executive Committee for reference.
After several hours of negotiations that day, Ning Qi and Fu Nuo, the leader of Fushan Cave, finally reached an agreement that he called the "Savior No. 1 Plan" in his later report. Although this name was ruthlessly ridiculed by most of the people who traveled through time, it did not stop Ning Qi from being complacent about it. At least judging from the results, he had indeed successfully and exceeded the scheduled tasks assigned by the executive committee. The cooperation agreement he formulated covering agriculture, economy, military, mining, human resources, culture and education, etc. was later used as a model for the executive committee's mass work in ethnic minority areas. Even when the expedition fleet arrived in America a few years later and reached the first cooperation agreement with the Indian natives, most of them still relied on Ningqi's samples.
(End of chapter)