Lu Ming

This large bastion full of irregular lines is the confidence of the Portuguese.

Chapter 547 Preparations for the Ming military and civilians ([-])

While the Portuguese gentlemen were actively preparing for the battle, a group of Ming gentlemen were doing the same thing with their French counterparts.

On the pier at the foot of the lotus gate, Bai Shenbai and more than a dozen "progressive" people got off the boat.

It is said that since the establishment of the lotus stem gate, this primitive customs in the [-]th century, like the later generations, has gradually formed a lively market inside and outside the gate.

After all, there are goods and daily necessities, as well as food, vegetables, and people who have to pass through the customs every day, so the military master at the gate will naturally take time to do random inspections.In this way, tea stalls and sheds for cattle and horses naturally appeared behind the gate for people to rest.

Then gradually there were some small hotels and private houses, as well as fish pens and vegetable farms, and later, there were even fighters in the service industry such as half-closed doors.

However, after Master Bai and his party came to the gate today, they found that the inside and outside of the city gate had been controlled by the military, and all the idlers had disappeared.Instead, there are soldiers and a large number of migrant workers wearing indigo tanks, canvas shoes, holding various tools, and wearing straw hats with bald heads.

The bald migrant workers are busy at the moment.They quickly knocked down the houses one by one, and then pulled the wreckage away with a cart to clear the open space in front of the city gate.

The demolition of these illegal buildings is very fast, because most of them are temporary sheds built with grass and trees, and the best quality of them is nothing more than board houses with bricks and stones on the foundation.So the migrant workers only spent one morning bulldozing all the buildings inside and outside the gate.

When Bai Juren and the others came to the lotus stem to close the gate in the afternoon, the low city gate building had returned to its desolate scene when it was first built.Except for the wharf behind the customs, the rest of the land before and after the customs is a piece of white land.

Afterwards, Bai Juren and the others, accompanied by several young officers, boarded the gate.

Before this, the Ming court set up a guard at the gate and led officers and soldiers to guard it.But at the gate at this moment, the Ming soldiers carrying spears had disappeared, replaced by new-style soldiers wearing military uniforms of later generations and holding rifles.

The view from the tower is wide, and you can clearly see the small island that is about to fall into the flames of war on the opposite side.However, as far as the field of vision is concerned, except for a piece of tranquility, the naked eye cannot observe any atmosphere of war.Fortunately, viewing the scenery on the tower was originally a cutscene show. After a cursory view of Haojingao, and then overlooking the white land after demolition, Staff Officer Xiao, who was in charge of the reception, invited the gentlemen down from the tower.

The observation group came here today, of course not to see how the migrant workers demolish the house.

For the upcoming war, "Military stage, political drama, showcasing hard and soft power, deterring indigenous elites" is the expected goal of the cross-country.

People from the future understand the power of the word "propaganda" all too well.

Since Guangdong is the next step, how to use the least costly method of propaganda to eliminate the indigenous will to resist, this war is an excellent opportunity.

Just like someone Cao went out to sea from Baietan to wipe out Liu Xiang before, and the people of Guangzhou knew that there was a Marshal Cao. This time, it was a more large-scale publicity activity.

As for the little Macau... If you only talk about it from the military level, there are many ways to get through the crowd in seconds.It's just that in that case, it would be a waste of this opportunity to show at the door of the house.

It is against this background that today's observation group and the war propaganda that recently appeared among the people in Guangzhou Prefecture came into being.The cross-country people hope that the natives who have the conditions will come to watch the war at that time, so as to strengthen the unspoken hint to the people of Fujian and Guangdong regions-choose sides carefully, and the future court will not be enough.

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After coming down from the Guanlou, Staff Officer Xiao, with his seniority badge pinned to his chest and wearing an olive green regular lieutenant's uniform, smiled and motioned the visiting men to walk behind the Guanlou.

Xiao Qiqian, Staff Officer Xiao, was thin, fair and clean, with a cheerful face in dealing with people, quite the demeanor of receiving a manager.However, this person seems ordinary, but he is a genuine military officer born as a child. He is currently affiliated to the Army Staff Headquarters. He is the "son of the family" of the Army and has a bright future.

Speaking of which, the concept of "family birth" actually existed widely in all walks of life of the time-traveling forces as early as the development period of Yizhou.

As soon as I got a piece of land, I was ready to let go of my shoulders, planted fields for several years, and then went out to hang and beat all kinds of ghosts and ghosts. Soon, I discovered a cruel fact in daily production: there are no grassroots cadres.

The migrant workers who dig the soil and build the houses are sent by boats. These people can start work in three days, but there is a lack of foremen who can understand the blueprints of house construction in the crossing.

The clumsy young workers can also start cutting logs with woodworking machines after a week of training.However, the most lacking thing among the cross-travelers is the section chief and workshop director who can understand the process documents.

Grassroots cadres are the backbone of a regime.

If the Turkish Communist Party hadn't vigorously trained grassroots cadres during the Yan'an period, it would not have been so smooth to take over later.

This kind of difficulty, which is completely unexperienced in later generations, almost took the lives of ambitious cross-travelers... What, can't even find a contractor?Didn't it mean that there are so many college students to clean public toilets?

Nothing can be promoted without the backbone of the middle class, even the people who have infinite wealth and knowledge-the wealth they pile up in the warehouse and the knowledge hidden in their brains lack a suitable talent chain to realize it.

In the end, some people who were slapped in the face by reality could only start from the beginning honestly, go all the way, and train grass-roots cadres by themselves.

The grassroots cadres mentioned here naturally include the grassroots officers of the army.

In fact, the military has a greater need for junior officers than any other industry.There are only a few military talents who have traveled through time. It is impossible to train a modern army with an increasing number of people without educated and low-level officers.

Looking at those "future flowers and bones" who are still studying courses in military academies and elementary schools, the travelers who know that the long-distance water will not quench their thirst, so they have to pick up the ancient training method of "master leads apprentice".

From all walks of life, including the army, all traversers selected some adult natives in the early days, and brought them with them as accomplices and orderlies. They went to work during the day and made up lessons in person at night. With the first batch of quick social backbones of the time-traveling forces.

Staff Officer Xiao was also one of these people.

As one of the earliest orderlies around Han Xiaobo, commander of the army, Xiao Qiqian, who was born as a child, is the "student of the son of heaven" in the army.He not only has a strong foundation, but also has a strong learning ability. He has mastered many new military theories brought by the traversers in a short period of time.

This time he was sent to serve as the guide of the tour group, which is also the meaning of "upper" training.After all, there is no position of military attache stationed abroad. To improve the comprehensive ability of outstanding military officers, we must find some tasks for them to do in various aspects.

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The observation group passed through the city gate and returned to the Ming side.After that, everyone walked north along the temporarily rammed cinder road for less than half a mile, and saw today's main target: the field hospital.

The field hospital is a unique product through the leading era.Compared with cannons and the army, many natives who don't understand the military are actually more likely to see the reality of an army in terms of logistics, and this is exactly the purpose of the observation group formed by the traversers.

In the [-]th century, the land was sparsely populated, and half a mile away from the gate, there were miscellaneous forests and bushes.Now that the vegetation has been cleared, the location of the field hospital is located here.

The entrance is first of all a neat green canvas tent and guards with live ammunition.

The tents are very spacious, with a total of about twenty seats, neatly divided into four squares by the lime lines under their feet.According to the custom of later generations, each tent has a big red cross pattern on a white background in front of the door.

When Bai Shen understood that the master stepped into the "medical hall", he immediately noticed his feet.

The fine buffalo leather shoes Mr. Bai put on are like a layer of black felt.But it is cloth, but it is slightly shiny, as if tung oil has been applied to it.

Seeing Master Bai paying attention to his feet, Staff Officer Xiao beside him smiled slightly and said: "According to the regulations, in order to prevent insects and moisture, the ground of the temporary field hospital is first covered with a layer of lime, and then covered with cow felt. This thing is light and not heavy. It also has the function of preventing water and insects, because the thick paper is covered with a layer of asphalt produced in Yizhou."

"Hey, so this thing can go up to the roof?"

As expected of Mr. Bai, he was in the grocery business. When he heard that the cow felt was lightweight and waterproof, he immediately thought of other places.

Staff Officer Xiao couldn't help but stick out his thumb: "Master Bai is brilliant! It's rainy and humid over there in Taiwan. The proper use of this thing is on the roof!"

Master Bai was full of smiles when he heard the words, and he said that Staff Officer Xiao was absurd, but he had already decided in his heart that he would first buy a batch of cow felt and sell it in his shop...

Just as Master Bai was looking for a place to feed his family, the rest of the gentlemen were already wandering around in the big tent.

Since there is no official "pick-up" yet, only two male nurses in green robes and cotton masks are sorting out instruments and equipment in the tent.Even the masters couldn't understand the shiny instruments. The only things they could understand were probably the two mobile operating beds placed on the ground.

However, there is a saying that goes well: There is no book without a coincidence.

Just when the gentlemen were a little bored, the show came: a group of migrant workers ran over from the main road carrying a blood-stained worker, and they shouted loudly from afar: "Help me, doctor! Someone has been beaten with a rope!"

With this noise, the originally quiet field hospital suddenly boiled like a pot of boiling water and entered the working mode.

Soon, several male nurses who heard the shout rushed out of their respective tents, and hurriedly carried the injured onto the bed cart and pushed them into the tent.

Seeing that the field hospital had successfully accepted a poor migrant worker, the gentlemen of the visiting group all became energetic.As activists, everyone has more or less heard of the ability of the genius doctor in Yizhou to disembowel him. Looking at the situation today, maybe we can see it with our own eyes?

The next moment, the curtain opened, and Dong Qiang, the director of Chikan Hospital, led a group of male and female students into the tent.

Chapter 548 Preparations for the Ming military and civilians ([-])

Dr. Dong, who lifted the curtain and entered the door, seemed to have a halo of disinfection. The Ming people in the tent who had been watching the excitement were instantly silent, and for a while, only the screams of the wounded were left in pain.

Although the speed of information flow was slow in ancient times, it was due to technological reasons.In fact, the ancients were not at all less sensitive to various personnel changes in the court than later generations.

Taking the records such as "Jin Shen Lu" and "Ding Jia Chu" that were publicly sold in bookstores during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this is essentially a list of officials that is updated in real time.Especially the Jishenlu from Liangjing Bookstore, the release time is almost synchronized with the official department, which can be called dynamic real-time offline update, and the speed is as fast as flying.

There is also an anecdote here: at that time, paper was expensive, so there were sometimes "patches" in the records of gentry sold in bookstores.That is to say, when only a few officials adjusted their positions, in order to save costs, the bookstore directly smeared a few new names on the original book and dug it up and sold it as a new book... Customers expressed their understanding and their emotions were stable.

And in the plane of the traveler, when the tyrannical forces represented by the Cao family invaded Guangzhou City, the economic and cultural center of southern China, the fog that had been far away in Yizhou dissipated overnight.

After the indigenous Ming people, at least the indigenous elites, became aware of the current situation in Guangdong and had close contact with the traversers, the origins and names of these legendary rising figures were quickly collected and summarized by interested people.

Although it is impossible to give a gentry title to a transmigrator who appears to have no fame, this does not affect the "hero spectrum" that is equivalent to the aboriginal publication and the gentry record.At the same time, according to some crude explanations about their own origins released by the traversers in the early days, a generally accepted story of the Great Ming version of Romance, which was spontaneously completed by the natives, also began to become popular in the market.

Of course, the template of the story cannot be separated from the pattern of storytelling that Mingren likes.The general content is: when Cao Zongbing was still Cao Haishang, he had long had great ambitions.So on a certain day in a certain year, 360 heroes (responsible to the number of stars in the sky) met on Nanyang islands to gather together.At that time, people regarded Cao Chuanxiong as talented and righteous, so they elected Brother Cao as the leader, and took the top spot, and so on...

Collecting information on traversers is an inevitable social phenomenon.

Regardless of the name, the fact is that a small number of time travelers wield great wealth and power.This has to attract people's attention, in other words, the society has a demand.

Today, except for some technology nerds who are far away in Taiwan and are usually unknown, most of the rest need to deal with Ming people, especially the traversers who have come to Guangzhou one after another. Many of them have already been known by Ming people.

Therefore, in the eyes of Bai Juren and other friendly people who have already boarded the ship, Dong Qiang, who is in charge of curing diseases and saving lives, is not a stranger... Anyway, he is also a hero of the level of the genius doctor An Daoquan, and the standard doggerel for the characters is also mixed together.

Not to mention the Mingren-style doggerel, it is Bai Juren and his family who are sick now, and that is the first time to go to the New District Hospital to "seek medicine". So today, when Director Dong Qiang entered the tent, the scene suddenly became quiet .

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After entering the door, he glanced inside the tent, seeing so many people, Dong Qiang could not help but slightly frowned.However, as a high-level traveler who single-handedly established the Fujian-Guangdong medical system, he has already looked at the problem with the eyes of a superior.So apart from frowning, Dean Dong simply asked a few words about his injuries, and then kicked out all the workers who gave them away.As for Bai Juren and the others, just pretend they didn't see it.

After cleaning up the "idle people and others", Mr. Dong waved his hand, and the next step was the work of the medical students.The young students surrounded him with a "hula" and fiddled with the wounded.

To say that medical students in this era are quite happy.They don't have to be like their counterparts in later generations. After a few years of medical school, they don't have to go to the hospital for internships, and they can't even get a belly sew job.

As students under the hands of the traversers, some of them are living and dead for everyone to practice.And no matter what the technique is, patients and their families will never make trouble in the doctor.Students who have only studied theoretical knowledge for one or two years are already veterans in terms of actual combat experience. At least the daily minor surgery is not difficult for them.

However, today the wounded man's injury is relatively serious, obviously exceeding the healing ability of the students.So after finishing the cleaning work on the periphery, the boss needs to step in: "Dean, the wounded patient has a deep wound on his abdomen and hemorrhages profusely."

"Well, injection of morphine, preparation for surgery and blood test."

By this time, Dong Qiang could only roll up his sleeves and go out on his own.

Speaking of which, the wounded man was an unlucky ghost. After being thrown by the broken steel cable on the construction site, he forcefully pulled open his abdomen and cut a [-]-centimeter wound.So when the cloth towel that stuffed the stomach was removed, the wounded's abdomen began to bleed a lot, and even the blue intestines flowed out.

This kind of injury, in the eyes of those silent gentlemen beside him, is basically hopeless: don't care if it was cut by a knife or pulled by a wire rope, isn't this just a gut piercing?

However, this kind of injury is really not a big deal in later generations.Compared with various heart surgeries and brain surgeries, emergency surgeries for abdominal wounds are not of a high standard in regular hospitals.With Dong Qiang's surgical skills, it's really not difficult to do this, even if it was in the seventeenth century.At least Dong Qiang has far exceeded Comrade Bethune's conditions at that time with the instruments, medicines and knowledge he possesses when performing surgery today.

Next, I saw Miracle Doctor Dong start the operation step by step.He first searched for the bleeding point in the abdomen of the wounded, then stopped the bleeding in sequence, then searched for the damaged intestine, debrided and removed it, and then stitched it up, step by step and methodically.

Throughout the operation, the "blood donors" prepared in advance by the field hospital also came in handy.

The identities of these people whose blood types have been tested in advance are all workers.They don't have to go to work recently, and they are all supported by good food and drink.Once the war starts and the hospital is officially in operation, they will be responsible for providing immediate blood transfusion services to wounded soldiers.So the wounded man was lucky today. He accidentally became a guinea pig for testing the operation of the field hospital and received high-quality medical services.

In today's operation, a total of three blood donors took turns to provide more than 1000 CC of the same type of blood to the injured.After donating blood, each blood cow can receive a few pieces of Cao Datou, two chickens and two ducks to make up for the body, and a week of paid leave.So other people who didn't have their turn all looked enviously at the lucky one carrying the chickens and ducks and leaving...

The gentlemen of the visiting group blinked their eyes and smacked their tongues.

Whether it is the "Mabosan" that makes the wounded no longer struggle, or the surgical operation that is like sewing clothes, or the "blood transfusion" that seems to understand but is not so simple, it is an eye-opener for the gentlemen. .

"Jiang Adi, what is the most important thing in this operation?"

"Teacher, it is the first time to find the bleeding point."

"And what about after surgery?"

"Prevent abdominal infection."

"Well, yes, you come to shut down the abdomen. After finishing the work, give an injection of sulfonamide and closely observe the infection."

40 minutes later, the wound, which was supposed to be fatal in the eyes of ordinary people, has completed the operation process under the ingenious hands of Dean Dong, and only the small work of sewing the belly is left, which has become a gift from the boss to reward the students.

But Bai Juren could no longer hide his admiration, and cupped his hands to Dong Qiang who was taking off his gloves with a look of admiration, "Gao Ming, really is a smart man! Life and death are human flesh and bones. Needless to say, Miracle Doctor Dong, I am in admiration!"

"Well, let's see the prognosis, there is still infection to pass."

Although Boss Dong said he was flattered every day, no one thought too much of it.So he smiled and talked to Master Bai, and then led the observation team to several other tents, inspected all kinds of medical supplies that had been prepared, and did a science popularization along the way.

Ming people don’t know much about the value of wounded and recovered veterans, so after visiting the hospital, most of them still feel that this is a place that invites people’s hearts. consensus.

But looking at the boxes of medical supplies piled up in boxes, the rows of clean and tidy beds, and the mobile kitchen that keeps making hot water with black smoke outside, the old man really felt it again. Cao's monstrous strength hidden in an inconspicuous place.

Strength is the most unfaithful thing.There is no need to put up thousands of soldiers, and sufficient supplies of materials are in themselves a unique advantage ahead of this era, which is enough for those who are interested to figure out.

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As the sun set, the observation group left here before the gate was locked and boarded the brightly lit ferry.The ship slowly went up the Pearl River, where the sailing conditions had been greatly improved, and went to the nearest Ming city: Xiangshan County.

Naturally, the guests of the observation group will not come all the way and then go home.To put it bluntly, today's event is just a foreplay. Everyone knows that in a few days, there will be a real battle. At that time, these people will return to the gate again.

As the "city" of the Ming Dynasty closest to Macau, a large number of soldiers mobilized by traversers have gathered around Xiangshan County recently.Several original military camps and school grounds outside the city have now been requisitioned, and materials including massive military supplies have been hoarded in Xiangshan. Xiangshan County has become the de facto base camp for the war against Australia.

So when the observation group came to the Guanxiang Wharf in the county seat at night, they found that the place was brightly lit and people shouted and neighed like daytime. There were young soldiers in new military uniforms and civilian husbands who were busy all night.

Soon, under the leadership of Staff Officer Xiao, the gentlemen walked through the new army and came to the newly built Xiangshan Hotel to rest.

And in the early morning of the second day, the Ming Dynasty officially blocked the lotus stem gate, Macau has become an isolated island, and the war is about to break out.

Chapter 549 Ming-Portuguese War ([-])

On April 1631, 4, on the morning of the eighth day after the ultimatum from the Ming Dynasty was issued, the Ming and Portuguese sides officially started war.

Standing in front of the gate, Andrade, the clerk of the Macau City Council, couldn't help but heave a long sigh when he saw the tough scene.

As the last envoy, he came to the front of the two armies to receive the war documents.

At this moment, in front of the gate of the formerly prosperous Lotus Stem, the guards have become heavily guarded, and there are Ming soldiers with guns on their backs and short jackets and shorts everywhere.Barbed wire, antlers, and circular strongholds made of sandbags were erected around the gate.

The lush vegetation nearby has also been cleared away, exposing a flat land, which is green and black, as if it indicates that the ominous is coming.