Chapter 70 Before the War (2)

But bad news came one after another. First, the Gaoguang Shipping Company under the Wei Escort Bureau was seized, and all its more than 20 two-masted ships were sealed and requisitioned by the government. This was not only a matter of losing ships, but also

Gaoguang Shipping Company operates the Lingao-Guangzhou regular route, which is the preferred mode of transportation for many small traders who come to Gao to purchase goods. 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 Qianhu Station in Haikou and prevented them from entering the Qiongzhou Strait. Subsequently, there was a ban on all ships sailing to Lingao. Not only was the channel for importing materials from the Pearl River Delta region blocked,

Coking coal transportation from Lianjiazi Coal Mine was completely interrupted.

"Fortunately, it's just coking coal that has lost its source." Wu De knew that coking coal was not an urgently needed material - there was no trace of iron ore - but rather chemical and power coal was the highlight. The latter was shipped from Vietnam and Leizhou, and Tang Yunwen executed

The order to attack the Qiongzhou Strait was half-hearted - his ships and manpower were only enough to attack the east entrance of the strait, but he could not control the west entrance, and he was even less willing to control the affairs inside the strait.

The navy said that it would be easy to break Tang Yunwen's naval power - it would be a simple matter to immediately take over the base of Baisha Water Village. As long as He Ming gave the order, the fleet would set off immediately. He Ming thought twice and felt that this would show

The huge power of the crossing group at sea may not be appropriate. If the Ming army was frightened and just didn't come, it would be a waste of effort. In the end, he decided not to break Tang Yunwen's maritime attack - Guangzhou Station, Gaoguang Shipping Company was sealed off one after another

After that, trade with the Pearl River Delta region became stagnant. Many traders temporarily stopped planning to buy and sell goods in Lingao and were on the sidelines. The trade volume also dropped significantly, and this transportation line would temporarily become unavailable.

So important.

Shi Niaoren was already exhausted when he returned to the office - Lao Shizi's military training for all employees was almost killing him. Shi Niaoren's physical strength is actually very good, but the health department has been too busy recently, and he

It has been several days since I slept for six hours.

The health department is short of manpower, and even there are not enough indigenous nurses. Some people have gone to Sanya. The remaining people are not only responsible for basic health care, but also to step up the training of indigenous medical staff. Shi Niaoren is so busy that he can't move, but yesterday

Ma Qianzhu went to him again and asked him to come up with a medical guarantee implementation plan for the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.

He has already formulated this plan, and has constantly revised it according to his own changing conditions. Now he talked about the specific implementation measures, including the military's health care organization, the establishment of field dressing and evacuation systems, and the opening of field hospitals.

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He plans to divide the health care work into two stages. The first stage will be provided by the army health workers, and now it has been initially provided to the level of one person per company. The militiamen and army laborers to be mobilized do not yet have health workers.

"The crash course for hygienists is still being held, and it will be all available in another month."

Health workers are responsible for the basic hygiene and health care of the army on weekdays. During combat, they direct the militia stretcher members accompanying the army to take in the wounded. The wounded are first debrided and bandaged in the front-line dressing station, and are classified according to the critical condition of the injury. Treatment is given according to different conditions.

and evacuation.

Because the overall personnel of the health department is limited and the transportation force is weak, the three-level evacuation method is not adopted. The field hospital is directly deployed at the location of the field army headquarters. The wounded who have been bandaged take stretchers or walk to the field hospital for further treatment.

Treatment.

"Of course, we have to evacuate them to Lingao in the end - after all, Lingao has complete facilities and it is easy to assemble medicines. Our Ministry of Health plans to open a hospital in Ma Niao as a military hospital." Shi Niao Ren.

He said, "The scale is 300 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 Qianxu commented.

Three hundred beds are not enough? Shi Niao Ren was a little surprised. According to his estimate, the army's casualties would be one to two hundred at most, and the preparation of three hundred beds had already taken into account the future expansion of the army.

"Let's put it this way, the focus of health work in this battle is how to treat soldiers who surrendered from the Ming Dynasty." Ma Qianzhu said, "Save as many people as possible. Do you understand? They worked so hard to get to Hainan Island by boat, and we beat them

If you are injured, as long as it is not hopeless, try to revive it. Even if you are disabled, it does not matter, you can still work if you are missing arms or legs - we are short of people!"

Shi Niaoren suddenly realized that there were not enough beds. However, he did not think about the treatment of prisoners. He thought for a while and asked:

"I really can't estimate this. What is the combat effectiveness of the Ming army? Will they collapse at the first touch or will they fight to the end with us? There is a big difference here. It is difficult to estimate how many wounded people will be treated."

"According to He Ming's estimate, we will probably capture more than 12,000 prisoners in the end. There shouldn't be too many wounded, there are always more than 1,000 people with minor or serious injuries. We mainly use firearms, and it is estimated that the seriously injured people will be alive.

If it doesn’t work, you should mainly consider the number with minor injuries.”

"Okay, then I'll go back and come up with a special treatment plan for the wounded prisoners."

"You have to discuss this matter with Yang He. He is planning a prisoner of war camp and preparing to take in prisoners. Even if there are not too many wounded, the purification and health care of so many prisoners will be a big deal. Everything must be prepared for a rainy day.

good."

"Okay." Shi Niaoren just nodded. Of course, he didn't have time to discuss the matter with Yang He. He left the matter to He Ping, the office manager of the Ministry of Health. "Where is the prisoner of war camp?"

"Also over Ma Niao." Ma Qianxu said, "Ma Niao Peninsula is now our forward base. He Ming moved all the headquarters there."

It seems that people need to be sent to Ma Niao as soon as possible. Shi Niao Ren thought, not only to deal with the prisoner of war camp and field hospital, but also because thousands of people have gathered there, and the laborers and militiamen recruited from the county are still coming.

Keep driving there. Thousands of people are eating and drinking 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 people will gather in Ma Niao without clean drinking water, and epidemic enteritis or even cholera will break out immediately. Shi Niao Ren thought, since Ma Du Gong said that Ma Niao will be a base, he might as well

Just install a set of large fixed water purification equipment.

He also thought that the medical training class would not graduate for two months. He wondered whether they would be able to catch up with this battle? Regardless of whether they could catch up, Shi Niaoren decided to pull all the trainee doctors and nurse students to Ma Niaoren by then.

Go ahead and come up with a policy of replacing learning with actual combat.

All the traditional Chinese medicine doctors in Lingao have been gathered together, and a few can be selected to serve in Ma Niao.

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Shi Niaoren was a little sleepy at first, but he became more energetic after thinking too much about things. He thought about it again and again, and decided that he should simply ask He Ping not to come back and leave all Ma Niao's affairs to him. He would be responsible for all the health coordination work of this battle.

.Although he does not understand medical skills, he is very familiar with the situation and work procedures of the Ministry of Health, so it will be more convenient for him to coordinate the work.

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

In terms of drugs, the Ministry of Health's inventory is quite sufficient. Since the coal chemical plant was put into operation, crude sulfonamides have gradually formed a stable supply. Pharmaceutical factories use crude sulfonamides as raw materials to further purify and process them into oral preparations and anti-inflammatory powder for external use. Kasugamycin and

The local manufacturing of oxytetracycline has begun to take shape, which has initially ensured the supply of the most important antibiotic.

Because of the war, Zhao Yanmei decided to convert a considerable part of the factory's production capacity into the manufacture of medical equipment and first-aid drugs. Surgical first-aid supplies such as cotton wool, gauze, tourniquets, bandages, splints, etc. will be in great demand. Alcohol, disinfectant drugs

and saline reserves must also be increased.

"Although these things are easy to make, they consume a lot of money. 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 3,000 people from both sides, as well as first aid kits for the expanded troops -

It’s also a big number.”

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

"The Army's inventory of first aid kits is about 10,000. We have less than 1,000 in stock." Zhao Yanmei said, "In fact, some of the first aid kits were manufactured in the early days and were substandard. After a long time, it is best to recycle them.

Lose."

This is too few. Shi Niaoren has never been a soldier, but he can still do math: this is equivalent to one person in the army can spread two.

"He Ming told me that first-aid kits are very expensive to use. The scrapping and recycling matter must be postponed until the war is over. I will inform the Army and ask them to prioritize the use of new products. The old ones should be reserved for emergencies.

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

"You can figure out how to arrange the production. You don't have to go through me for everything anymore." As he said that, he signed the documents sent by Zhao Yanmei - she also applied for many supplies and raw materials controlled by the Planning Institute.

Zhao Yanmei was very happy to have the full power of the minister. She originally had many ideas about the production of pharmaceutical factories, 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 kit." She put the medicine kit she brought with her on the table. "Do you have anything else to add? If there is no problem, I will help you batch produce the finished product.

Already."

Shi Niaoren opened the medical box with reinforced corners - this is a box used by hygienists. It is lightweight, so it is no longer made of wood, but made of multi-layered old cowhide or horse and donkey skin. The inside is divided very scientifically.

, various objects are divided into categories. Wooden stethoscopes, simple surgical instruments, disinfectants, first-aid drugs, antibiotics and dressings. All of them are manufactured by the Ministry of Health Pharmaceutical Factory. No wonder Zhao Yanmei looked proud when she showed them to him.

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Compared to two years ago, the first batch of medical kits for nurses contained almost no medicine except alcohol, stethoscopes, dressings and several indigenous Chinese patent medicines. But now there are even painkillers and antibiotics.

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"With this, the hygienist will be a miracle doctor in this time and space." Shi Niaoren sighed, half jokingly and half sighing.

"It's just a lack of syringes - if you have a syringe, you'll be fine."

"Come on. Although needle rolling is a technical job, it is not high-tech. We will definitely be able to produce it after the war." Shi Niaoren checked the medicines inside one by one and thought that some more medicines for common diseases need to be added.

"It is better to prepare more proprietary Chinese medicines such as Zhuge Xingjun Powder with proven efficacy. Health workers can't just think about the war. Soldiers also have headaches and fever on weekdays."

After talking about things, Zhao Yanmei was about to leave when Shi Niao Ren stopped her and said, "I have to borrow your husband 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 be the representative of the Ministry of Health to inspect Ma Niao's base."

"Then just send him. We are not newlyweds. We have to be together every day." Zhao Yanmei said with a smile. After saying goodbye, she immediately rode the battery car back to the pharmaceutical factory - there were still a lot of things waiting for her in the factory.

Hold her.

The pharmaceutical factory trial-produced a batch of new drugs for the purpose of fighting the war, and she used up all the opium purchased from Macau. She used this batch of opium to make cough drops, analgesics, and astringents for diarrhea. It was very popular with people from all walks of life.

Welcome. For the purpose of fighting this time, she refined most of the remaining opium into salt/acid/morphine and made it into injections. In order to facilitate the use of health workers without syringes, she also used opium to make oral painkillers.

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But she is very worried about making morphine, which is much more addictive than the coca leaves and opiates currently used by the Ministry of Health, and this drug will be distributed in the health workers' medicine cabinets -

Zhao Yanmei was quite doubtful whether these hastily trained health workers could realize the horror of this drug.

She has been in this time and space for a long time, and has learned that the lack of medical treatment and medicine in this time and space is astonishing. Although there is a Runshitang pharmacy in the county and there are several herbalists in the county, the vast majority of people have no medical treatment or medicine when they get sick.

, formed a situation of worshiping witch doctors, and witch doctors and other figures are a kind of elixir to cure all problems. Therefore, drugs such as opium and morphine that have quick effects can easily be regarded as a panacea and be regarded as a panacea.

abuse.
To be continued...