Chapter 2274 The Countryside of the Republic of China

Next, they began to investigate the situation in the countryside, and the data they got was even more surprising. Eighty percent of the 400,000 people in the county were illiterate. Those who do not know are blind, but those who know a few words are not considered illiterate.

There is only one middle school in the county. The school originated from the Dingwu Academy established in the third year of Qianlong. In 1902, it was changed from the current Provisional Government of the Republic of China, Gu Zhongxiu and others, to the Dingzhou Government Middle School of Zhili Province. It was just renamed Dingxian County this year. In the public middle school, Shen Long and the others visited the school. In the future, the key middle school in Hebei Province, the top 100 middle schools in China, and the top 50 high school education in China, now only have 100 students and a few teachers.

It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of school-age teenagers in Ding County, and only one percent or even a few thousandths of the students are eligible to receive middle school education. Only students can study here, and this is only middle school education, and even fewer can go to college.

The public transportation here is also poor. There are only small trails leading to the countryside, and there is no way for horse-drawn carts to pass. They can only buy a few donkeys and ride them to various villages and towns to investigate. Murong Wu and Yuan Xiaoyan are still very good at learning how to ride donkeys. It took some time and I fell off the donkey several times.

Bai Jingye performed better than them. After all, he was taught by Shen Long himself. Naturally, his skill is not comparable to these scholars. They have visited almost every village in Ding County, and only half of the nearly 500 villages in the county have The per capita income of small traditional herbal medicine shops and a small number of traditional doctors is even more pitiful, and the per capita medical expenses are only three silver dollars.

Note that this triangular silver dollar also includes medical expenses for the big families in the county town and landlords in the village. In fact, when most people get sick, they either fight hard or find some folk remedies and go to the mountains to get some herbal medicine to eat, unless If they are seriously ill, they will not go to the doctor easily.

Shen Long and the others chose a village as a research base, and rented the house of the landlord of the village as a place of daily life. Although he is a landlord, his house is also in a rather simple condition, with a straw roof on the rammed earth wall and small openings on the wall. The windows are small, and a few thick pieces of wood are used in the middle of the window to prevent people from touching them. There is no window paper to keep out the wind and rain.

The light in the house was too dark, they could only stay in the main room, and if they lit the oil lamps, the smoke would not be able to escape because of the narrowness of the house, and it would make people cry in a short while, so they could only Open the door, use this light to work, and don't light the oil lamp until the sun goes down.

"Everyone has been traveling a lot these days, let's talk about your own ideas, Jingye, you take the minutes of the meeting!" Shen Long sat on a bench, surrounded by students, and Bai Jingye took the A small Maza, took out a pen, put the notebook on the small table and prepared to record.

"Let me say first, the people here are really ignorant, especially the peasants, not only lack of knowledge,

They are illiterate, and what's more serious is that they generally think that reading is only for scholars and has nothing to do with themselves. When asked, they say that we are all Wenqu stars in the sky. How to master scientific knowledge to change your own destiny? "Murong Wu said.

"In my opinion, the reason for not going to school is because of lack of money, and the reason for not seeing a doctor is because of lack of money. But any family with a little money will let their children read and read. In the words of the landlord who rented our house, it means that if the children go to school, At least we can settle accounts in the future, and the rent collectors will not be deceived by these unscrupulous people." Yuan Xiaoyan added.

"Yeah, the people here are really poor. Even eating is a luxury for them. Many people don't even eat a few meals a year. Why are they talking about studying and seeing a doctor? Many people are living and dying. Struggling on the edge, survival has become what they care about most or even the only thing they care about." Another student said.

"From a medical point of view, due to long-term lack of nutrition and heavy physical labor, the local people's physical fitness is very poor, and they lack basic hygiene knowledge. Life and death are often fate, and public health is not at all possible." Dai Dai said the student with glasses.

"There is also selfishness. I originally thought that farmers are very simple. I didn't know I was wrong until I got here!" When Murong Wu said this, there were a few chuckles around him. After he, a college student, came to Ding County But he was cheated several times, and those who cheated him were those farmers who seemed to be honest and honest.

Murong Wu blushed, but he ignored them and continued, "The local people are mostly self-centered, unable to unite, unable to cooperate, lacking moral cultivation and civic common sense. They become enemies, and they don’t say hello when they meet in the village, and sometimes they even fight!”

"This is because they have so little. An egg and a few fruits are not worth mentioning to us, but to them, they can be exchanged for enough salt for their families to eat for several meals. Salt can sometimes determine whether the family can raise another child." Yuan Xiaoyan sighed.

"Also... Also, the burden on them is too heavy. Not only do they have to hand over more than half of the harvest in the field to the landlord, but they also have to bear all kinds of exorbitant taxes..." Oh, your thinking is very dangerous.

"Okay, let me sum it up." Shen Long quickly interrupted him. I am here this time to investigate rural public health, not for that. There are four major diseases of ignorance, poverty, weakness, and selfishness, and these four diseases are intertwined with each other, and it is difficult to simply separate them."

This is the conclusion that Yan Yangchu came up with in Dingxian County, and Shen Long used it directly. This summary clearly outlines the problems faced by the farmers. It can be said that he has a unique vision, but he can't find a way out for the farmers like the teacher.

Yuan Xiaoyan, Murong Wu and others nodded after hearing this, and they all felt that Shen Long's summary was well done, "Then, teacher, how should we solve these problems?"

"It's hard to solve these problems!" Shen Long sighed. History has proved that there is only one way out for these peasants. Hey, I don't know what the minds of those who miss the Republic of China are thinking? If you travel to the Republic of China, don't expect to become a Shanghai socialite like Tang Ying, most likely you will be a Cuihua dog egg in the village, and you might die that day.