1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 97 [Modern Shaman]

12 month.

town of clark.

Not only Sleeping Bear City, this small town is also the territory of the tribe, so the horse sentry will come here every once in a while to participate in the development of the town.

The development momentum of the Clark garment factory is still very strong. Jeans are one of the most popular garments in the future. With the current sales volume of the garment factory, it is still far away from touching the bottleneck of development.

It can be expected that, at least for the next few years, Clark Garment Factory will maintain good growth and will become the largest garment factory in the Midwest.

Driven by the clothing factory, Clark Town is becoming more and more prosperous, immigrants are constantly pouring in, and tax revenue is also increasing.

Despite this, the financial situation of the town hall is stretched.

After all, the town's finances are controlled by the tribe. In addition to maintaining the daily operations of the town hall and the garrison, the remaining taxes will basically be allocated to Sleeping Bear City, and there will be no surplus.

Only recently has Horse Whistle decided to spend some of its money building public facilities for Clark Township.

The so-called public facilities are actually clinics and public primary schools.

The reason why Mashao decided to build a clinic and a public primary school for the town was mainly because Sleeping Bear City had finally cultivated a group of "modern shamans".

The so-called modern shaman refers to a shaman priest who believes in spiritual teachings and has certain scientific knowledge, which is different from the old shaman who danced to the great god.

The new shaman no longer dances to the big gods, nor can he get something for nothing, but has to engage in various practical jobs, mainly mental jobs, such as doctors and teachers.

With such a group of shamans, Mashao was able to set up clinics and primary schools in Clark Town...or to a certain extent, it could be said to be a spiritual church in the skin of clinics and primary schools.

The shaman sent to Clark Town must not only be modern, but also be proficient in English and be able to communicate with the townspeople.

This condition is still very strict. In fact, Mashao can only find two and a half such people in Sleeping Bear City.

One of them is naturally rainy days, and Horse Whistle will definitely not send rainy days to the town.

So he sent the remaining one and a half to the town. The reason why it is called "one and a half" is that although one of them can be regarded as a modern shaman, he is not proficient in English. .

"Wu Tong, you will be the principal and teacher of Clark Public Primary School, and also the director of the 'Medical Education Bureau'." Ma Shao ordered, Wu Tong is the shaman who is proficient in English.

Wu Tong is a long-haired young man in his twenties. For some reason, his hair is always soft and shiny like special effects. He heard the words and said, "Am I the only teacher in the school?"

"For the time being." Horse Whistle said, "When the branch's English level is good enough to teach white people, I can share part of the teaching work for you. In the future, there will be more English-speaking shamans in Sleeping Bear City, and I will let them come. help you."

"Remember your main task—to transform white students into civilized people," he added emphatically.

"Yes." Wu Tong is a shaman with a high level of consciousness. If he is not good at riding and shooting, he can also be a war shaman.

But he also had doubts in his heart: "However, chief, how can I ask the white people in the town to send the children here? I don't think they would be willing to let an Indian be their child's teacher."

"You're right." Ma Shao nodded, "The rich really don't, they can find better teachers, and they don't have children—their children are already in Sleeping Bear City."

The twenty white families whose children were sent to Sleeping Bear by the horse sentry are now the most wealthy and powerful people in Clark Town.

They were originally wealthy households, and after their children became hostages of Mianxiong, Ma Shao deliberately supported them, turning them into a group of big compradors in a certain sense.

These people are white residents of Clark Town, and they control all the important businesses in the town, but they are deeply attached to Sleeping Bear, and their interests and children are held in the palm of Sleeping Bear.

"But the target of the public primary school is not these rich people." Ma Shao continued, "Our target is the poor in the town, those poor people who can't easily support themselves."

"In the past, in order to raise children, these poor people needed to consume a lot of energy and take up a lot of labor time, and the result of raising children was nothing more than creating a new poor and illiterate."

"Now that there are public primary schools, they only need to pay a low fee, and they can outsource all the troubles of raising children. By the way, they can also teach children to read and write. When they grow up, they may have the opportunity to enter a university. Do you think they Do you want to?"

Wu Tong nodded thoughtfully, his eyes gradually brightened.

Ma Shao: "They must be willing, at least some of them must be willing. The poor send their children here, and we will teach them knowledge, ideas and even self-identity..."

Wu Tong suddenly exclaimed: "This is a win-win business!"

Ma Shao didn't react for a moment: "What three wins?"

"The poor have increased their welfare, we have increased believers, and the world is one step closer to light and truth!" Wu Tong was a little excited, "This is a great cause!"

Horse Whistle nodded casually: "Ah, indeed. So, Wu Tong, do it well."

Wu Tongue solemnly said as if swearing, "Don't worry, Great Chief, I will definitely spread your holy brilliance throughout Clark Town, and even the entire white world!"

Ma Shao looked at his frenzied expression, and was silent for two seconds: "Wu Tong, you are one of my earliest students, you should understand my point of view very well. Everything should be analyzed from a rational point of view, rather than complaining. All the gods."

"I understand." Wutong looked even more fanatical.

Ma Shuo ignored his expression, and changed the topic: "Although you are the only teacher at present, you can hire a few female workers to help you take care of those young students. It is not easy to deal with the crying of children."

After talking about the public elementary school, he looked at another shaman: "Twig, I will leave the work of the clinic to you. You not only need to practice medicine, but also use the language environment here to improve your English."

"Yes, Great Chief." Branch replied, and then asked, "Am I the only one in the bathroom?"

Horse whistle: "You can recruit a few white doctors."

"White doctors..." Branch obviously held a contemptuous attitude towards white people's medical skills.

This contempt is not entirely blind.Although shamanic medicine is not very good, the medicine of this era is not very good.

What's more, the shaman medicine in Sleeping Bear City has been transformed by the horse sentry. All the complicated and useless things have been deleted, and some simple and harmless things have been kept, such as the most cost-effective placebos. Effective first aid methods, as well as basic medical knowledge and scientific thinking.

As an excellent student of this new set of shaman medicine, Twig is still qualified to despise those quack doctors who only know bloodletting therapy.

But before Ma Whistle could say anything, Wu Tong criticized the attitude of the branch: "Twig, have you forgotten what it said in "Hao Xue Pian"?"

"The Piece of Learning" is an important chapter of the "Lingyu", which is mainly about the discussion of humility and studiousness. A qualified shaman must recite this chapter in its entirety.

Branch hastily lowered his head: "I will review..."

The horse whistle waved his hands: "Okay, you don't need to criticize. Let me ask you, do you know ether?"

(End of this chapter)