Chapter 1189: The Place Where Miracles Birth

Fortunately, silkworm farmers have been dealing with moths for half their lives and can still distinguish between male and female moths.

Female silkworm moths are usually larger in size, with a very swollen abdomen, relatively small wings, slow movements, and almost no ability to fly.

The male silkworm moth is smaller in size, has a slimmer belly, and relatively large wings. Its antennae have beautiful feathery branches and it can fly.

Therefore, silkworm farmers will scare the silkworms and use nets to catch those that fly up, which are basically male moths. Those that don't fly away no matter how they scare them are female moths...

It's easier said than done. They couldn't hurt the moths, so they spent a lot of effort to sort and catch the moths in the silkworm room. Then they moved them to a disinfected room and waited for testing.

The silkworm houses were cleaned and disinfected according to the three counties in Jiaxing...

The medical students carried wooden boxes on their backs and went to the silkworm farmers' homes. Then they opened the boxes, took out microscopes, put on large masks, and began to examine moths one by one with bamboo tweezers.

All moths with black particles on their abdomens under a microscope were sent to a boiling iron barrel for humane destruction. Healthy silkworm moths were placed in a separate cage to lay eggs and then die...

At first, Ma Yilong was worried that this method of putting sick moths and healthy moths together would result in a situation where there would be no symptoms during testing but the disease would only occur after testing.

Fortunately, the medical school's previous research found that silkworm rust is not only inherited, but also transmitted through food, not through contact. As we all know, after the moth breaks out of the cocoon, it stops eating and drinking, so that even its mouthparts and stomach have degenerated... So after becoming a moth, it will not get rust.

Moreover, before becoming moths, silkworms have to cocoon themselves for more than ten days, and any symptoms will definitely appear after they break out of the cocoon and become moths. Therefore, there is no possibility of missing detection during the incubation period...

In this regard, Mr. Zhao called it lucky and the silkworm farmers thanked God.

But this does not make the work of the medical students any easier. They squint one eye at the microscope and widen the other eye as they desperately search for black or gray spots on the moth's belly.

Even if someone helped them catch moths and put them in front of the camera, they were still exhausted. They felt dizzy and had to quickly change their eyes...

After a busy day, one person can't even see 20,000 moths. And every household has tens of thousands of moths fluttering around!

As a result, 300 medical students could only complete testing in two villages in one day.

And there are more than 400 villages and nearly 100,000 silkworm farmers in the three counties of Huzhou, which means hundreds of millions of moths. Oh my god!

Li Shizhen saw that this wouldn't work. Even if the female moth didn't mate, it would still lay eggs after seven or eight days, but unfertilized eggs were useless!

At this time, two days have passed!

It’s no use testing only a dozen villages!

Li Shizhen was so anxious that he swore and rushed to Wuzhen overnight to discuss countermeasures with Zhao Hao, Wang Mengxiang and others.

After a night of emergency consultation, the Spring Thunder Operation Leading Group issued four more orders:

1. The precision instrument factory must rush to produce one thousand simple microscopes and send them to Huzhou within three days.

2. The Xishan Island Research Center will rush to produce 1,000 newly developed methane lamps and send them to Huzhou within three days for the night work... In fact, how could the research center have such production capacity? Zhang Jian knew at a glance that this was an order from the master to the arsenal!

3. Emergency dispatch of 500 employees of the group and 200 researchers from the Xishan Island Research Center to reinforce the three counties of Huzhou overnight. Teachers from the medical school were also asked to accompany them and teach them how to use a microscope to identify diseased moths.

4. Silkworm farmers in the three counties of Huzhou conducted a preliminary selection of their own silkworm moths, keeping only one-tenth of the male silkworm moths and one-third of the female silkworm moths, and destroying the rest.

This number is very particular. According to silkworm farmers, a male silkworm can mate with two or three female silkworms before dying. Particularly strong silkworms can even mate with four or five before dying of exhaustion, so the number of male moths can be one-third of the number of female moths.

Although large-scale testing of silkworm moths revealed that the number of diseased moths accounted for one-third of the total, the quality of silkworms mainly depends on the female silkworm moths. Strong female silkworm moths lay the best eggs and have a much higher survival rate, so only one-third of the female moths need to be kept.

The number of male moths will naturally be reduced to one tenth.

Because most sick moths are weak and dormant, they can be distinguished from healthy female moths that are too fat to fly with the naked eye. Not to mention the strong male moths that have nowhere to vent their energy and fly around randomly...

In addition, some diseased moths have gray bodies, which are clearly different from white silkworm moths. Some diseased moths have curled wings that cannot be spread out. Some diseased moths are wingless, some have pupae skins stuck to their tails that are difficult to shed, and some have burnt yellow tails... In short, because of the rampant pathogens in their bodies, they will show various unhealthy conditions.

Therefore, experienced silkworm farmers can select healthy silkworm moths with their naked eyes. In this way, inspectors only need to check and select out the diseased moths that have slipped through the net.

"This is a good thing." Young Master Zhao concluded, "It can be considered as a second-rate selected fine variety. The quality of Huzhou's raw silk may improve in the future!"

Of course, at this critical juncture, everything is done to reduce the workload of medical students.

One-fifth of the workload is not enough to make people too desperate.

We can test ten villages a day...

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Two days later, 700 reinforcements arrived, and they took turns with the medical students, who were already blinded by the virus, to speed up the testing process. The daily testing rate was increased to 20 villages.

The next day, gas lamps and microscopes were delivered. One thousand inspectors worked tirelessly and increased the daily inspection speed to 60 villages!

Their hardworking spirit moved the silkworm farmers so much that they all cried and told them to take a rest. The worst that could happen was that they would just have to raise fewer silkworms...

However, the employees and medical students of Jiangnan Group showed impressive qualities of hard work and dedication to benefiting Jiangnan, and they actually persevered!

This noble fighting spirit is very contagious. As soon as the disinfection work in Jiaxing came to an end, Ma Yilong immediately brought reinforcements to improve the detection capacity again, and also allowed the staff and medical students who were about to break down to breathe a sigh of relief.

On the fifth day, the precision instrument factory sent another 200 microscopes, all of which were ground by the lens grinder and his apprentices day and night... The glass produced by the glass factory cannot be used in microscopes at present. These lenses are all ground from high-purity natural East China Sea crystal. In order to support the fight against the epidemic, the factory has used up all the consumables in the warehouse...

The unnamed arsenal on Xishan Island was able to add two hundred new gas lamps every day when they were refilled, so that all the inspection rooms could be brightly lit all night long. After all, they made guns and cannons, so they were very capable and powerful!

Before dawn on the seventh day, the last seven villages in Meixi Town, Anji County, announced that they had completed the testing. This impossible miracle was actually accomplished by these passionate men!

Deafening cheers echoed throughout the town.

Mr. Zhao rushed here from Wuzhen yesterday, not to supervise the battle, but to pay tribute to the unsung heroes of these groups.

Students of the executive class of Jiangnan Technical School, as well as executives from various companies in the group, followed Mr. Zhao to a testing point in Hongmiao Village.

Snoring could be heard from the land temple in the distance. Zhao Hao raised his hand to signal everyone to stop. He walked forward alone and peeked inside through the crack in the door.

The inspectors, feeling relieved, were lying on the table, on the bench, or even on the floor, and they were all in a deep sleep...

Zhao Hao tiptoed back and waved to everyone to follow him and leave quietly without disturbing them.

Although the press release of "Mr. Zhao and the group's top management visit the front-line testing personnel" is very important, what is more important now is to let them have a good sleep.

After he walked out of the village, he breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the gorgeous morning glow, and said to the people standing behind him: "Everyone, after witnessing the birth of a miracle with your own eyes, what do you think?"

"It's all thanks to your wise leadership, you and the leadership team have made great contributions!" Creatures like fart spirits have extremely strong survival abilities and can appear in any team.

"Forget about the flattery." Zhao Hao waved his hands and scolded with a smile: "You said this in front of Dean Ma and Dean Li. If you are not embarrassed, I am embarrassed."

Everyone chuckled, but they knew that the young master would not be really angry.

"Is this the 'corporate culture' that you mentioned, young master? "One of the students in the executive class said, "You have enhanced the cohesion and centripetal force, sense of mission and responsibility of the employees through the shaping of corporate culture. Only then will they be willing to devote everything they have to the goals of the group..."

"There has been progress." Young Master Zhao nodded with satisfaction, feeling that his painstaking efforts in teaching were worthwhile.

"Young Master always emphasizes the importance of propaganda and education, and requires the company to organize newspaper reading and ideological classes for employees." Wang Mengxiang smiled and said, "People who didn't quite understand it before must have been shocked in the past few days. Without daily ideological work, how can we inject spiritual strength into employees!"

"Uncle, what you said is right." Zhao Hao nodded with a smile, and instructed Secretary Ma and the group's publicity director: "The series of reports on the Spring Thunder Operation should be done well, dig deep into several representative figures, and publicize their glorious deeds in a vivid way! We must set off a wave of learning the 'Spring Thunder Spirit' in the group and various companies!"

The two of them quickly agreed.

"Of course, we can't just come here for nothing. The employees who have performed outstandingly this time should be commended and promoted. We should promote these motivated Jiangnan people and let them train more employees like them!"

"Understood." The senior executives responded one after another, thinking that those guys who made excuses when signing up to support the epidemic area must be regretting it now.

"Everyone, you must trust our employees and rely on our employees." Young Master Zhao emphasized his tone, and his eyes slowly swept across the crowd and said, "People's hearts are united and even mountains can be moved. As long as we win the hearts of all the employees of Jiangnan Group, we will be invincible!"

"Yes, I will follow your instructions!" Everyone looked at Master Zhao bathed in golden light, as if they were looking at a god. The belief in their hearts that 'following him, we will never fail' became stronger.

(End of this chapter)