1840Indian rebirth

"I also need to take some young students with me on this trip to Europe." Ma Shao said, "I plan to send them to European schools to study engineering."

He can basically solve most of the important scientific problems of this era, but he doesn't know much about engineering technology.

If you want to obtain a group of outstanding engineers, the best way is still to send people to study abroad, just like what was done in the late Qing Dynasty.

He thought for a while on the rainy day: "We may need to carefully select. Those who are sent to study abroad must have a certain foundation in mathematics and natural sciences, understand some English, and more importantly, be reliable enough."

Ma Shao nodded: "Indeed. I don't want to see the overseas students sponsored by the tribe stay and never come back..."

He was actually not too worried about this issue.

He trusts his students and even more trusts his wallet.

From the beginning to the end, the financial situation of Sleeping Bear City has been very good, let alone after the gold mine was established.

The ample financial situation allows Mashao to spend a large amount of money to support talents, making the behavior of "study abroad without returning" economically uneconomical.

It's not economically worthwhile, so naturally no one is willing to do this kind of thing.

This is a huge victory.

Some backward countries have mines at home, but most of them are unable to contend with the quagmire of the resource curse. The final result is often that the water is too deep to control.

For backward countries without mines, it is even more difficult to catch up. They can only rely on internal squeeze, or "scissors gap".

This is inevitable. Without external supply, if a backward economy wants to support the operation of high-end industries, it must squeeze the blood and sweat of the vast number of workers, and summon high-end industries and talents by sacrificing hundreds of millions of pneumoconiosis and amputating their fingers.

The tighter the pursuit and the fiercer the development, the more acute the social contradictions will be. Just like a person running, when you run fiercely, every cell in your body is screaming, hoping that you will stop.

Chasing and harmony are naturally contradictory, and the balance between them is equally difficult to grasp.

Probably only time-travelers like Ma Shao, relying on various advantages beyond the laws of history, can make pursuit so dilute and peaceful, without the mud of resource curse or the torment of internal oppression.

A few days later, just like the previous westward march, Mashao once again organized a team of about 300 people and set off south.

Naturally, he was not building a new city this time. Logically speaking, he did not need so many manpower, but the war was raging in southern Mexico. To be on the safe side, three hundred people were indispensable.

Most of these three hundred people were soldiers, fully armed.

Before officially heading to Oaxaca, the horse guard first went to Clark Town and stopped here for a while.

There are currently more than 2,000 people in Clark Town, which can be called a "city" in the Midwest.

Clark Town, which has a population of more than 2,000 people, has a much more complicated ethnic composition than Sleeping Bear City.

The main residents here are naturally white people, but white people only account for a little more than half. There are also about 20% black people and 20% Indians in the town.

White people came here as immigrants, mainly because of the development opportunities here, while black people came here as refugees, mainly because there was no slavery here.

The Indians were mainly brought in by Sleeping Bear City to facilitate control here.

Although the composition of Clark Town's residents is quite complex, its prosperous economy and strict law enforcement have kept it stable.

The number of troops stationed here is already a standard "hundred". The more than one hundred well-disciplined Apache soldiers are like the alarm clock in the town, announcing the arrival of a new day with the sound of their training every morning.

This is an army that can give people a strong sense of security.

Arriving in the town, Ma Shao first went to the barracks, town hall, and clothing factory, and then to the public school and hospital.

Just as originally planned, the cheap public schools attracted a large number of poor people, and then became the main propaganda position of the Lingyu Sect, assimilating the residents of the town starting from the children.

Public hospitals have similar effects.

However, Ma Shao came to the public hospital in Clark Town this time to witness something else.

In a hospital built into a two-story building.

"Zhi Zhi, I heard that you have mastered the ether anesthesia technique. I wonder if I have a chance to see it today?" Ma Shao said with a smile.

"Today there is a patient who needs to have his wisdom teeth removed, and we are preparing for it." Zhi said, flanked by two assistants, one Indian and one white.

As they spoke, the three of them were unpacking the tools in front of them. Apart from various pliers and chisels, the most conspicuous one was undoubtedly a glass bottle.

The glass bottle is generally round in shape, with two valves and a mouthpiece.

"This is an ether atomizer." Zhi pointed to the glass bottle and explained, "We put ether into it, let the patient hold the mouthpiece and inhale the ether gas, and then the patient will enter a coma without feeling any pain."

After a while, several people put on masks, and in front of the whistle, Zhi Zhi and two assistants completed a tooth extraction operation.

Just as the branch described, and as Ma Shao expected, the patient who inhaled the ether gas gradually fell into coma and lay motionless on the operating bed, allowing the doctor to remove his wisdom teeth.

After the operation, Ma Shao was talking to the doctors. He looked at the young white doctor and said, "What's your name and where are you from?"

"William Mayo, the great chief," said the doctor.

Mayo said: "I used to work in the UK and came to New York the year before last to work as a pharmacist at Bellevue Hospital and then came here."