Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 174 Father Ma's Hospital Journey
After the Thor returned from Urup Island, Makarius and Ferapontov caused a great commotion in Beihai Town.

For the refugees from Beihai Town, who came from the northeastern part of the island country, they had never seen Westerners!Even Tang Xiao and the others hid in the crowd and watched secretly after hearing the news.

Dozens of girls have come to Beihai Town for some time, and they are gradually adapting to the living habits here.Under the deliberate guidance and control of Zhao Xin and others, Beihai Town did not have the feudal patriarchal rules of the Qing Dynasty; both men and women would come out to work. After all, everyone was hungry half a year or even a year ago.

The residents' curiosity and envy towards Tang Xiao and others gradually turned into respect; because these little teachers are responsible for teaching their children to read and write.

For the convenience of walking, Tang Xiao and the others also took off their pointed embroidered shoes and put on small safety shoes "special for oil fields".A few very courageous girls saw that none of the island women in Beihai Town had their feet bound, so they secretly let them go.After Liu Siting discovered this situation, she brought a large bag of cotton to the girls and asked them to stuff the cotton into their shoes.

After the two Orthodox priests experienced the baptism of the modern facilities on the Thunder God, when they disembarked and saw everything in Beihai Town, they were already numb.Zhao Xin asked Chen Qingsong to arrange a separate residence for the two, and several security policemen were in charge of guarding and monitoring them.

What Makarius and Ferapontov didn't know was that the room Zhao Xin arranged for them would be equipped with monitoring equipment so that their every move in the room would be closely watched.

Since Ferapontov's Chinese level is very poor, he will be assigned to the school to learn Mandarin with the children. After he can communicate fluently, Zhao Liang will take over and be transferred to the workshop.

After being held incommunicado for two days, Makarius was brought to the square in the center of the town by Zhao Xin, and he saw a very familiar cross at a glance.So he happily said to Zhao Xin: "Your Excellency, why didn't you say earlier that there is also a church here!"

Zhao Xin was dumbfounded by the sudden comments, thinking where did the church come from?

But he immediately realized that the other party had mistook the red cross on the outer wall of the hospital for the cross of a church.

On the other side, after the excitement, Makarius muttered, why is the cross here painted red?He recalled it carefully, and found that no religious sect seemed to paint the cross red.

Historically, the Red Cross representing rescue would not be born until 1863, so only Beihai Town in the world can see the Red Cross.

Hong Tao and Liu Siting, wearing brand new white coats and stethoscopes around their necks, walked out of the hospital with a group of female nurses.

Macarius's head was dizzy, why is there only a priest here?The rest are all nuns?And what is this priest and nun hanging around their necks?
Zhao Xin smiled and introduced to Makarius: "Father Ma, these two are Dr. Hong and Dr. Liu, the heads of Beihai Town's medical and health system. These ladies are all nurses in the hospital. We are here to represent saving lives and healing the wounded, there is no religious significance."

It was only then that Macarius realized that the people opposite him were not priests and nuns at all.But he didn't understand what Zhao Xin said.As a church doctor himself, he understands the words "medical", "doctor", and "hospital", but what does "hygiene" mean?And what is "nurse"?
(There is the word "health" in ancient Chinese culture, but its meaning has nothing to do with the meaning of modern hygiene. As for the "Book of Hygiene" mentioned in "Zhuangzi", it refers to health preservation. "Health" in modern Chinese is actually It is derived from the "health administration" of the island country.

As for the word "Nurse", in history, it was not until more than 100 years later that Zhong Maofang from Tianjin Beiyang Women's Medical School proposed that the word "Nurse" be officially translated as "Nurse" and was approved by a unanimous vote. is officially used. )
Makarius hesitated for a moment, and asked Zhao Xin: "Excuse me, what is 'hygiene'? What does it have to do with medical care?"

Zhao Xin shrugged and said, "Let Dr. Hong and the others answer this question for you. Father Ma, I still have something to attend to. See you soon."

After speaking, he winked at A Miao who was standing behind Liu Siting, turned around and left.

Looking at the back of Zhao Xin leaving in a hurry, Makarius said helplessly to Hong Tao and Liu Siting: "This Lord Zhao always comes and goes in a hurry."

"Lord?" Hong Tao and Liu Siting looked at each other, and Zhao Xin had another title.

"Father Ma, is that how you call it? Your Mandarin is really good. My name is Hong Tao. Please come with me. We will talk as we walk. There are many people here who come to see the doctor every day. You can stay on the sidelines first." Look, if there is any problem, we can talk about it after the patient leaves."

Macarius nodded, followed Hong Tao and Liu Siting into the hospital with a sad face; behind him, a security policeman from Beihai Town kept walking.

Before entering the door, Father Macarius always thought in his heart, what kind of modern medicine can there be in such a remote seaside town in the Far East? !However, his suspicion disappeared without a trace after pushing open the two doors of the hospital.

Let's use our imagination, what kind of style is the XX hospital in another time and space, and what kind of style is the Central Hospital in Beihai Town.In order to build this hospital, Zhao Xinhua spent a lot of money on a set of construction and decoration drawings of XX Hospital; Chen Qingsong, at the request of Hong Tao and Liu Siting, did his best to carry out the decoration according to the requirements on the drawings.

The entire hospital is planned to occupy an area of ​​3 square meters. The first phase of construction covers more than 8000 square meters, including a small two-story reinforced concrete building and six large wood-carved rooms.The current daily outpatient volume is 50-80 person-times, and there are 50 inpatient beds.

If the construction is completed according to the planned area, a residential area on the west side of the square will have to be relocated as a whole.

At present, the departments on the first floor include the guard room, two outpatient rooms, emergency room, intravenous injection, blood drawing room, warehouse, nurse station, and several vacant rooms.The second floor is dedicated to VIP private rooms and VIP wards for modern people, as well as ultrasound, X-ray, EMG, EEG, and ECG examination rooms.Among the five large wooden carved rooms outside the building, five are set up as wards according to the scale of two people per room, and the other is an operating room.The energy supply for the entire hospital is currently provided by two 1 MW diesel silent generators, which are used in rotation.

In order to bring patients a comfortable and warm environment and relieve bad emotions, under the strong request of Hong Tao, a large number of energy-saving lighting sources were used in the hospital.

Smelling the strong smell of disinfectant in the air, looking at the bright corridors and rooms in front of him, the blue and white walls, and the spotless ground, Father Macarius was completely stunned!He dared not even take a step.This is a hospital? !

Imagine the most "advanced" hospital in Europe in the [-]th century.

As populations swelled, especially in rapidly growing cities and industrial centers, many hospitals gained a reputation for being vermin-infested, filthy, and deadly.These hospitals are also known as "the passageway to death".

Someone once described the Palace Hospital in Paris in this way. "This is the largest hospital in Europe, with the most rooms, the richest money, and the scariest hospital. There is a mixed bag of patients. Sometimes, 3, 4, or 6 people are crammed into a hospital bed, alive. The dead and dying lay beside people, the air was fouled by the smell of sick bodies, and disease-causing microbes were passed from one person to another... The images of human pain and misery are vivid."

Macarius himself came into contact with medicine while studying in a monastery.In the [-]th century, the monastery hospitals in Tsarist Russia were not used to treat patients, but to care for the homeless elderly and the disabled, including leprosy patients and syphilis patients.Even though he later studied with a famous doctor from England, Father Ma's level of medical knowledge can be imagined in terms of the situation of Western medicine in the eighteenth century.

For example, a famous English doctor performed an autopsy on a patient who died of puerperal fever and removed his pelvic organs.The most terrible thing is coming!This Doctor Carried These Organs In His Coat Pocket!Then went to deliver several women.Needless to say, those women died one after another.

Let's imagine another picture.Romeo with yellow teeth, his boots are full of excrement marks; Juliet, who has never bathed several times in her life, has greasy hair.Are boys and girls yearning for free love still yearning for it?

Every major city in Europe in the eighteenth century was equally filthy and smelly.In fact, the use of forks as tableware did not become popular until the mid-eighteenth century. Before that, Europeans used knives to cut food and then ate it with their hands.The use of separate cutlery, plates and cups also began in the middle and late 18th century; people often shared a utensil and drank from a wine glass when drinking soup.

So you know why Father Ma is reluctant to part with life in Beijing, right?Even though the city of Beijing in the Qing Dynasty became muddy when it rained and snowed, at least every household had its own hut in the yard, and someone would come to clean it every ten and a half months.No one will drink soup from the same bowl as others, and no one will eat with their hands.

Macarius was taken into a room by the guard and security police, and when he sat on a chair in a daze, he saw the little guard take out a pair of shiny scissors and a pair of scissors from a drawer. pocket knife.

"What are you guys doing?!"

"Cut the beard!"

"No!" Father Ma, who finally woke up, began to growl.

It is said that the Holy See has been implementing a shaving policy since the Middle Ages.The purpose of doing this is nothing more than to distinguish mortals from priests.The Orthodox Church's tradition of growing beards is regarded as "heretical" by the Roman Church.

However, according to statistics, among the 266 popes in the history of the Catholic Church, 188 had beards!In the lives of the Tsarist Russians, beards symbolize courage, maturity, loyalty, positivity and energy.

Hong Tao outside the door heard the quarrel in the locker room. He opened the door and explained to Father Ma for a long time, trying to make him understand that there are too many parasites in the beard, which is absolutely not allowed for the sanitary environment of Beihai Town Hospital. .

"Father Ma, don't you want to know what hygiene is? These are all part of hygiene."

Father Ma argued: "I take a shower every day on the boat! I am very clean! I am, I am very hygienic!"

During the two days on the Thor, in view of the stench on Makarius and Ferapontov, Zhao Xin asked soldiers to point guns and ordered them to take a shower.The two priests felt extremely humiliated by stripping naked in full view.

"Cut it!" Hong Tao saw that persuasion for a long time still had no effect, so he had to force it.So his face changed, and he nodded to the security police.The security police immediately took out a revolver from his waist and put it on Father Ma's head.

Father Ma had seen the power of this small musket before on the boat, and Zhao Xin specially had someone demonstrate it to him and Ferapontov.He knew that if the other party pulled the trigger, his head would be torn apart.

Death is not scary to him.However, he remembered the matter he and Ferapontov had secretly discussed, all for Her Majesty the Empress and the Church!Well, then bear with it!

So in desperation, Makarius' face was shaved smooth.There was a small gash on the blue chin.

He was forced to take off his old black robe and boots, and put on a white coat, a pair of white canvas shoes, and a big mask.Then he was taken to the sink, where he washed his hands with antiseptic soap three times as requested by Hong Tao.

After all this was done, Hong Tao took out another bottle of alcohol gel and squeezed it on Father Ma's hand, telling him to wipe the gel on the palms and backs of his hands.

At this moment, in the eyes of Father Ma, these people in Beihai Town are worse than devils!Hong Tao, Liu Siting, and those female nurses, who were all smiling, have become heretics at this moment!
When he was led by Hong Tao, he visited each department one by one.The expression on Father Ma's face changed rapidly and brilliantly.

Everything here is something he couldn't see in any hospital in Russia.Everything is so tidy and clean, and the young female nurses wearing nurse caps are smiling and walking around the corridor.

But when he visited the B-ultrasound equipment and saw his own gastrointestinal images through personal experience.Father Ma firmly believes that people like Zhao Xin and Hong Tao are demons from hell
"Lord Zhao, Devil Zhao" left in a hurry because he really had something to do.

Lu Shoushan and the others are going to board the ship tomorrow, and before leaving, Zhao Xin still has some things to tell him and Xu Dayong.When he saw Lu Shoushan and Xu Dayong's group, these dozen or so people had already returned to their appearance as subjects of the Qing Dynasty.

Pigtails with money rat tails, dark gray cotton tunics and thick Burmese crotch trousers, a belt woven with cotton thread, and a pair of brand new mille-soled cloth shoes on the feet.

These cotton short robes, Burmese crotch trousers and belts were made with the help of Tang Xiao's girls, and Zhao Xin provided cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles.

"My lord." When Zhao Xin entered the room, Lu Shoushan and Xu Da clasped their fists together to salute.

"That's right, I've entered the role so quickly. Have you got all the weapons and ammunition?"

"I have already received it." For fear that the weapons would be lost or seized by the Qing court, Zhao Xin equipped Lu Shoushan and the others with .With the industrial level of the 0.45th century, even if the weapons were seized, no one could imitate them.

Zhao Xin glanced at the dozen or so people in the room, and smiled at one of the men, "Your name is Wang Changsheng, right?"

"Yes, it's a villain." Wang Changsheng didn't expect Zhao Xin to know him, his knees softened, and he almost knelt down.However, he immediately straightened his waist and bowed to Zhao Xin in an extremely awkward posture.

"Don't be nervous." Zhao Xin stepped forward and patted Wang Changsheng on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Dayong Changsheng, your two names are really unique. How are you, are you familiar with the weapons?"

Wang Changsheng straightened his chest, and replied respectfully: "I practice every day these days, master, no! Brother Xu and Lord Lu taught me a lot."

"It's okay, just go ahead and call the master."

Zhao Xin and other people present also greeted each other, and then took Lu Shoushan and Xu Dayong to a secluded place outside the house.He took out an envelope from his coat pocket, handed it to Lu Shoushan, and said, "Here is a letter to Huang Maocai, boss Huang. After you meet at Flower and Bird Island, give the letter to him. After landing, he will give the activity funds to the owner." You. As for the salt, it will be sent to his warehouse first; you can discuss with him how to transfer it out. Remember, after you get the banknote and salt, you have to start acting alone, and don’t contact Boss Huang again.”

"Yes, my lord."

"Remember, even if you don't have enough funds, you can't go to Boss Huang. At two o'clock on the night of New Year's Eve, which is the time of ugly, I will wait for you at the gate of Tianning Temple in Yangzhou. I only have a quarter of an hour. "

"Understood. On the 29th of the New Year's Eve, at the gate of Tianning Temple in Yangzhou."

Zhao Xin patted Lu Shoushan and Xu Dayong's shoulders, and said solemnly, "Whether the hundreds of thousands of people in Henan can survive depends on you."

"I will live up to my lord's entrustment!"

(End of this chapter)