A great project destined to go down in history has begun.

Just as war is never as simple as soldiers fighting on the battlefield, this massive project also requires the joint efforts of all parties to complete.

The center of the entire project is still in Nanshan Temple, but the single engineering command center in the temple has become several departments.

At the core is the flood control command center composed of Zhao Shouzheng, Pan Jixun, He Wenwei, Xiong Xiasheng, Zheng Ruozeng and others.

The command center is the decision-making body for flood control in Kunshan County and is fully responsible for the entire project.

The center is responsible for everything from the preparation and modification of design drawings, the assignment of construction tasks, the scheduling of construction periods, to project quality supervision.

In addition, there is a Kunshan Development Company in the east side hall of the temple. All construction tasks issued by the center are specifically assigned and executed by Kunkaisi.

In the west side hall, Jiang Xueying, vice chairman of Jiangnan Investment Company and young master of Wuji, was personally in charge of allocating all material support.

This is a huge project involving almost the entire county. The amount of materials needed is terrifying, and the allocation of them is like a nightmare.

Fifty thousand civilians worked hard on the levee, and Kunkaisi arranged another ten thousand civilians to go to Xishan to help quarry stones. The daily food supply for the sixty thousand people in these two places must be guaranteed.

In addition, there are almost the same number of elderly people, women, children and teenagers who are weaving baskets, twisting ropes, making sacks, rowing boats and sifting sand for the construction of the levee, providing equally important labor. The food for these people must also be guaranteed.

The food supply for such a scattered group of more than 100,000 people was a real headache for the quartermaster.

Moreover, Zhao Shouzheng issued a strict order that not only must everyone be well fed, but they must also eat well, and their families must also be well fed.

Does Mr. Zhao's order make sense? Yes.

Because from another perspective, the people of the whole county are actually working for Kunshan Development Company for nothing without receiving any wages. If you still skimp on food, can you still call us human beings?

But this put a lot of pressure on logistics.

To this end, Jiang Xueying used the power of Wu Ji and Dongting Chamber of Commerce to purchase grain, non-perishable vegetables, and pickled and dried meat from all over Suzhou Prefecture. He also purchased salt directly from Yangzhou at cost price, transported it back continuously, and distributed it in an orderly manner to feed more than 100,000 people.

In addition, she also placed orders with blacksmith shops throughout Suzhou and even in Changzhou, Zhenjiang, Nanjing and other places, customizing unlimited quantities of tools and consumables such as hammers, chisels, pickaxes, nails, etc.

In order to ensure the quality of the tools, Jiang Xueying directly sent people to Wuhu County, Taiping Prefecture, to purchase a large amount of Sugang wrought iron... and so on.

There were many complicated things to do, but Jiang Xueying was able to sort them out in an orderly manner. Not only did she never make mistakes, but she was also able to save materials to the greatest extent possible, keeping the inventory always hovering between being sold out and having a little surplus.

This made Liu Zhengqi, who was helping her, feel inferior, thinking that it was true that the waves behind pushed the waves in front, and each wave was higher than the last.

Yes, although the alarm had been lifted, Mr. Liu still shamelessly stayed in Kunshan to help, even if it meant helping a little girl.

I don’t know what he is trying to do?

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There is also an "Engineering Security Department" in the front hall of Nanshan Temple, which is headed by Xiong Dianshi and Zheng Xunjian.

The two men led the county's archers, soldiers, and postmen, a total of about one hundred people, to manage the security of a sixty-mile levee and one hundred and twenty water transportation lines, which was really a huge pressure.

Fortunately, the guarding of Xishan Island is under the charge of the rifle battalion directly under the county magistrate, so they don't need to worry about it.

In addition, a new "Jiangnan Hospital" covering an area of ​​100 acres was built on the bank of the Xiaozhen River, two miles away from Nanshan Temple, to provide medical services to the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who participated in the dike construction.

Jiangnan Hospital was a newly built hospital in the true sense of the word - the ten ships of building materials that Zhao Hao transported from Xishan were used to build this hospital.

In addition to the cement brick buildings that are very different from traditional wooden structures, Jiangnan Hospital also has easy-to-wash cement floors and strictly separate water supply, drainage and sewage systems.

They even luxuriously set up a boiler room that supplies hot water all day long, and an alcohol room specifically for distilling spirits!

In addition, there are departments including surgery, internal medicine, and the busiest orthopedics department, as well as the infectious disease department for treating patients with infectious diseases and a specialized epidemic prevention department.

Human life is at stake, and at Zhao Hao's repeated request, Mr. Wan Mizhai was appointed as the hospital director and director of internal medicine.

Li Shizhen is the vice president and director of the epidemic prevention department.

Zhao Hao also invited Li Lunming, a famous doctor from Nantong Prefecture, through the Yangzhou salt merchants to serve as the director of surgery and orthopedics.

The doctors in the hospital were students of the three famous doctors. As for the medical officers in the county, they were only able to assist the students of the three great doctors.

In fact, the reason why the three famous doctors of the time were willing to work in this small Jiangnan Hospital was not because of how attractive the conditions offered by Zhao Hao were.

With their fame and strength, they can earn unimaginable wealth for ordinary people by practicing medicine.

In their later memoirs, they all insisted that they were deeply attracted by the bright prospects described by Mr. Zhao...

The truth is that they lost the bet.

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Many years later, Li Shizhen still remembered the second day he and Wan Mizhai arrived in Kunshan.

That was the afternoon of the day of the mobilization meeting. After the two of them and Li Lunming visited the newly completed Jiangnan Hospital, they listened to Zhao Hao talk about the causes of schistosomiasis in the epidemic prevention department's clinic, which still smelled of cement.

Yes, three famous doctors of the time were listening to a young layman explaining the cause of the disease.

It can be as ridiculous as it can be.

At first they also found it ridiculous, especially when they saw Zhao Hao wearing a mask and gloves made of Eucommia rubber, picking up a snail from the glass container as if facing a great enemy, and then telling them that this was the thing that transmitted schistosomiasis.

Wan Mi Zhai showed a polite but helpless smile. The elderly are always tolerant of young people, and Zhao Hao's hospital is very innovative and has given the old man a lot of inspiration.

Li Lunming kept shaking his head. If Mr. Zhao hadn't given him so much, he would have just left.

Li Shizhen had a blank expression on his face, with disbelief written all over his face.

But he had no intention of leaving. As long as someone could fund him to complete and publish the Compendium of Materia Medica, he would not care even if that person announced that "snails can transmit schistosomiasis" or even said that "humans are evolved from monkeys."

"Mr. Zhao, what you mean is that if people eat snails, they will get a big belly disease?" Li Lunming asked with a smile.

"It's not because I ate snails that I got a big belly disease, but because the snails were infested with larvae of schistosomiasis!" Zhao Hao was wearing a big mask, but from his squinting eyes, you could tell that he was smiling.

"And Oncomelania snails are the only intermediate host of schistosomiasis. So as long as we eliminate the snails, we can eliminate the big belly disease!"

"It seems that you believe this statement very much." Li Lunming couldn't help but laugh when he heard him speak so decisively, "But no one can see what the poisonous insect looks like when it is young. You can't prove your guess, right?"

"Of course I can prove it." Mr. Zhao smiled faintly and snapped his fingers.

Zhao Shizhen walked into the clinic carrying a wooden box.

ps. I lay down and got up again to finish writing this chapter. What kind of sense of responsibility is this! Please give me a monthly ticket!!!