1840Indian rebirth

December.

Clark Town.

Not only Sleeping Bear City, this town is also the territory of the tribe, so Mashao will come here in person every once in a while to participate in the development of the town.

The development momentum of Clark Garment Factory is still very strong. Jeans are one of the most popular garments in later generations. With the current sales volume of the garment factory, it is still far away from touching the bottleneck of development.

It can be expected that, at least in the next few years, Clark Garment Factory will maintain good growth and will become the largest garment factory in the Midwest.

Driven by the clothing factory, Clark Town became increasingly prosperous, immigrants continued to flow in, and tax revenue continued to increase.

Despite this, the town office's financial situation is stretched thin.

After all, the town's finances are controlled by the tribe. In addition to maintaining the daily operations of the town office and the garrison, the remaining taxes will basically be allocated to Sleeping Bear City, and there will be no surplus.

It was only recently that Mashao decided to spend some money to build public facilities for Clark Town.

The so-called public facilities are actually clinics and public elementary schools.

The main reason why Ma Shao decided to build a clinic and a public primary school for the town was because Mianxiong City finally cultivated a group of "modern shamans".

The so-called modern shamans refer to shamans who believe in the spiritual religion and have a certain level of knowledge. Those sent to Clark Town must be proficient in English and be able to communicate with the townspeople.

The conditions for being a modern shaman and being proficient in English are still very strict. In fact, Mashao can only find two and a half such people in Mianxiong City.

One of them is naturally a rainy day, and the horse whistle will definitely not be sent to the town on a rainy day.

So he sent the remaining one and a half to the town. The reason why he was called "one and a half" was because although one of them was considered a modern shaman, he was not proficient in English. His daily conversation was acceptable, but he could not do anything in giving lectures.

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"Wu Yan, you will be the principal and teacher of Clark Public Primary School, and you are also the director of the Medical Education Bureau." Ma Shao ordered, Wu Yan was the shaman who was proficient in English.

Wu Yan is a long-haired young man in his twenties. For some reason, his hair is always soft and shiny as if special effects have been added. When he heard this, he said, "Am I the only teacher in the school?"

"That's it for the time being." Ma Shao said, "When Zhi Zhi's English is good enough to teach white people, I can share some of the teaching work with you. In the future, when there are more shamans who know English in Mianxiong City, I will also let them come over.

help you."

"Remember your main task - to transform white students into civilized people." He emphasized again.

"Yes." Wu Yan is a very enlightened shaman. If he were not good at riding and shooting, he could have become a war shaman.

But he also had doubts in his mind: "But, Chief, how should I ask the white people in the town to send their children over? I don't think they would be willing to let an Indian be their child's teacher."

"You're right." Ma Shao nodded, "The rich really don't know how to do it. They can find better teachers, and they don't have children either - their children are already in Sleeping Bear City."

The twenty white families whose children were taken to Sleeping Bear by horse whistles are now the most wealthy and powerful people in Clark Town.

They were originally wealthy, but after their children became the hostages of Mian Xiong, Ma Shao deliberately supported them and made them a large comprador group in a sense.

These people are white residents of Clark Town and control all the important businesses in the town, but they are deeply attached to Mian Xiong. Their interests and children are all held by Mian Xiong.

"But the target of public primary schools is not these rich people." Mashao continued, "Our target is the poor in the town, the poor who have difficulty supporting themselves."

"In the past, in order to raise children, these poor people needed to expend a lot of energy and take up a lot of working time, and the result of raising children was just to create a new poor and illiterate person."

"Now that there are public primary schools, they only need to pay low fees, and they can outsource all the troubles of raising children. At the same time, they can also make their children literate. When the children grow up, they may have the opportunity to enter college. Do you think they

Are you willing?"

Wu Yan nodded thoughtfully, his eyes gradually becoming brighter.

Ma Shao: "They must be willing, at least some of them must be willing. The poor send their children here, and we teach them knowledge, ideas and even self-identity..."

Wu Yan suddenly exclaimed: "This is a win-win enterprise!"

Ma Shao didn't react for a moment: "What three wins?"

"The welfare of the poor has increased, we have increased believers, and the world has been one step closer to light and truth!" Wu Yan was a little excited, "This is a great cause!"

Ma Shao nodded casually: "Ah, indeed. So, Wuyu, do your best."

Wu Tongue solemnly said as if he was swearing: "Don't worry, Chief, I will definitely spread your sacred glory throughout Clark Town and even the entire white world!"

Mashao looked at his somewhat fanatical expression and was silent for two seconds: "Wuyan, you are one of my earliest students. You should know my point of view very well. Everything should be analyzed from a rational perspective rather than complaining.

All holy ones.”

"I understand." Wu Yan looked even more enthusiastic.

Ma Shao ignored his expression and changed the subject: "Although you are the only teacher at the moment, you can hire several female workers to help you take care of those young students. It is not easy to deal with the crying children."

After talking about the public elementary school, he looked at the other shaman: "Zhi Zhi, I leave the work of the clinic to you. You not only have to practice medicine, but you also have to make use of the language environment here to improve your English."

"Yes, Chief." Zhi replied, and then asked, "Am I the only one in the health room?"

Ma Shao: "You can recruit a few white doctors."

"White doctor..." Zhi clearly had a disdain for the medical skills of white people.

This disdain is not completely blind. Although shamanic medicine is not very good, the medicine of this era is not much better.

What's more, the shamanic medicine in Sleeping Bear City has been transformed by Ma Shao, deleting all complicated and useless things, retaining the most cost-effective placebo, and introducing a large number of simple and effective first aid methods, as well as basic medical knowledge

and scientific thinking.

As an outstanding student of this new shamanic medicine, Zhi Zhi is qualified to despise those quack doctors who only know bloodletting.

But before Ma Shao could say anything, Wu Yan criticized Zhi Zhi's attitude: "Zhi Zhi, have you forgotten what "The Good Study" says?"

"The Love of Learning" is an important chapter in the "Linghu", which mainly discusses the humility and love of learning. Qualified shamans must recite the entire chapter.

Zhi quickly lowered his head: "I'm reviewing..."

Ma Shao waved his hand: "Okay, you don't need to review it. Let me ask you, do you know ether?"