Chapter 1069 Scientists are the Great Scholars of the Time (First Update, Please Subscribe)
The Governor's Office of the Special District is a Chinese-style government office. There is always a strict security outside the gate, and guards with live ammunition stand outside the door.
In the Governor's office, an Army brigadier general was on the phone.
"Remember the Empire's attitude towards rebellion. No matter what the reason is, it will never be accepted. Send the Third Mixed Brigade there and eliminate them once and for all."
The Commodore said, mumbling to himself as he hung up the phone.
"They came at the right time. The second line is in need of a large number of workers."
As the governor of the Bechuanaland Special District of the Empire, Brigadier General Lu Anguo's ruling skills can be described as tough. In the past, there were five large tribes in the special district. Because coal mining and railway construction required the requisition of a large amount of tribal land, the tribal indigenous people had used force to oppose the requisition of land and had launched a rebellion. In response to this, Brigadier General Lu Anguo responded directly and quickly, and he directly dispatched his most elite troops to quickly quell the riots.
When everything was over, only three tribes were left. As for the other two... no one cared about their fate. After all, in this era, the mainstream of the world did not regard those people as...
Thanks to his iron fist, the Special Zone has developed rapidly. Hundreds of thousands of indigenous people work in the mining area, and large tracts of land have been handed over to immigrants. The immigrants brought advanced agriculture and animal husbandry, making the area not only dependent on mining.
In fact, this is also the biggest change that the immigrants have brought to this land. They have turned this wild land into a rich land of fish and rice!
He glanced at the clock, it was past five in the afternoon, and looked at the empty official mail basket on the desk. Lu Anguo looked at the letters in the file basket next to him. Those were letters from immigrants. They were placed on his desk by his adjutant.
His iron fist was only limited to the indigenous people. When it came to immigrants, he suddenly changed himself and became a people-friendly official. Not only was he very lenient towards the immigrants under his rule, he also often helped them solve various problems.
"Penkovo Surgery Clinic..."
Seeing the name on the letter, Lu Anguo raised his brows slightly. He was not unfamiliar with this Dr. Peng Kefu.
Peng Kefu graduated with honors from Nanhua Medical College in the second year of Shengde. That college was not only the most famous and prestigious medical school in Ming Dynasty, but also the best in the world - especially in surgery and medicine, which were the best in the world.
Thanks to the golden finger of Emperor Zhu, as early as 1861 when Nanhua was first established, a number of new surgical instruments including hemostatic forceps were manufactured under the guidance of Emperor Zhu. In addition, preoperative disinfection and the first blood type transfusion broke through the three major problems that had restricted the development of surgery for thousands of years: pain, infection, and blood loss.
When Nanhua Medical School was founded in 1862, it attached great importance to the development of anatomy and the application of anesthesia and aseptic methods, which played a decisive role in the development of surgery. Coupled with the application of equipment such as shadowless lamps, Nanhua's medical level in this era can be said to be the best from the start.
In this era when medicine is still in its infancy, Nanhua Medical College combines traditional Chinese medicine with modern chemistry, science with surgery. After 20 years of development, Nanhua Hospital has long become the most famous medical school in the world. It is definitely the king of glory of this era.
After the students there graduate, even the major medical hospitals in Zhongdu, Nanhua and Yingtian compete to recruit people from there, and some hospitals in European countries also welcome their students very much.
Under such circumstances, few graduates from Nanhua Medical College would come to the colonies, and most of those who came to the colonies were graduates from second-rate medical schools. Peng Kefu not only graduated from Nanhua Medical College, but his resume was also very eye-catching.
After graduating with his degree, he first worked in the Affiliated Hospital of Nanhua Medical College, and then went to Yingtian Renji Hospital, where he became the director of surgery. At that time, he was already the most famous surgeon in the country.
According to the normal development path, his future is limitless. Even if he is tired of working in other people's hospitals, as long as he shows his ideas, many people will offer him money to open a hospital.
But who would have thought that such a famous doctor would come to Bechuanaland, to this colony? A few years ago, when he first arrived here, the mining company tried to hire him to work in the company hospital with a very generous salary, but he refused and then he built his own clinic near the mine.
And then what?
It was not until a long time later that Lu Anguo knew what Dr. Peng was doing.
He treated patients here, but this was secondary. He dissected corpses here.
Two years ago, Lu Anguo had been to his clinic, where corpses were placed like raw pork in a vegetable market. He performed extremely detailed dissections on the corpses, and then the painters drew pictures of various organs, blood vessels, etc.
Even now, Lu Anguo still remembers the shock he felt when he first entered the autopsy room. Even as a soldier, accustomed to seeing death, he was deeply shocked by that scene.
"…Through meticulous dissection, mankind has gained a deep understanding of blood vessels, tissues, nerves, etc. for the first time. Through the painter's exquisite depiction, every doctor will benefit from it in the future! If this cause is accomplished, thousands of people will be saved. Your Excellency the Governor, I am now facing a difficult problem…"
What kind of problem?
Of course it’s funding. Seeing the funding problem raised by the other party, Lu Anguo was stunned at first, then Xuanhe smiled again, he knew that the opportunity had come.
As a soldier, Lu Anguo is well aware of the importance of surgeons. The most important doctors on the battlefield are not those who can take pulses, but those who can perform surgery. Any surgeon needs to have a full understanding of the human body.
In fact, the people who were least averse to Western medicine or modern medicine in the Ming Dynasty were soldiers. Unlike many Chinese people who gave priority to traditional medicine, soldiers received modern medical treatment when they were injured, whether in training or on the battlefield.
Having witnessed surgery, blood transfusions, and modern medicines saving many soldiers' lives, soldiers like Lu Anguo would not reject modern medicine or regard anatomy as heresy.
“This should be an opportunity.”
After thinking about it, Lu Anguo picked up the phone and asked the operator to call the head of the Health Department.
"Do you know Dr. Peng's clinic?"
He asked straight to the point, and after receiving an affirmative answer, he continued.
"He has run into some problems and needs financial support. I have decided that the Governor's Office will provide him with 20,000 yuan per year, but there is a condition. He needs to help us build a medical school. Yes... a medical school to train surgeons. We can start by training doctors in hospitals."
Before hanging up the phone, Lu Anguo read the letter again and talked to himself.
“Is anatomy really that important to surgery?”
As he spoke, he looked at his hand, looked at the skin on the surface of his hand, then touched it with his hand and continued speaking.
"Well, it should be very important. At least after the autopsy, we can see clearly what is inside. In this way, if there is pain, we can perform targeted surgery, right? Besides, medicine is also a science. If we can achieve something, then Mr. Lu will have done his job well!"
Almost all officials in the Ming Dynasty highly respected science. Although this promotion was partly due to the influence of the upper level, the more important thing was that they had witnessed the tremendous changes that science brought to life, production, and the military.
It is precisely because they have suffered the impact of science that they are in awe of science, just like the respect for great Confucian scholars in Chinese tradition, except that in the current Ming Dynasty, the great Confucian scholars are those scientists and scholars...
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