Chapter 400 To enter the village or not to enter the village?
After coming out of the brick factory, Li Zheng felt a little heavy and unspeakably depressed.
The phenomenon of child labor here cannot be eradicated at all. For the employees, having a job is good, as they can make a living and support their families; while for the bosses, this can lower operating costs and allow them to make money.
Even the local government turns a blind eye to this kind of thing and cannot prohibit it.
For college students like Li Zheng, they can actually understand the practical implications of this. Thirty years ago, even in China, common phenomena were banned repeatedly. Child labor was the most common phenomenon in some private enterprises, individual merchants, and even small workshops in remote areas.
serious.
It was not until the relevant laws were promulgated in 2003, and with social and economic development and the enhancement of people's legal awareness, that this phenomenon gradually faded out of people's sight.
People have many rights, and the right to survival is the most basic right among them. Without the right to survive, other rights are like flowers in the mirror and meaningless.
Therefore, without a stable social environment and education based on a stable foundation, the development of a country is impossible.
Due to poverty and backwardness in country L, the illiteracy rate reaches 73.8%. Here, many vendors cannot understand the simplest math problems for primary school students.
So the things in the market here are bought in terms of "pieces" or "pieces".
For example, how much does one cabbage cost?
How much does one carrot cost?
Melons and fruits are calculated this way.
If you ask them to calculate by kilogram, once there is a decimal point, the merchant will not be able to calculate it anyway.
One time, the security team bought a Coke, always paying 2,250 francs to the boss. As a result, the boss scratched his head and counted for a long time. He calculated and found the money every time.
In the end, Shen Jun discovered that the shop owner had charged him a total of 9,500 xifa, which meant that he only received 500 xifa.
Shen Jun then told the boss that you had changed the wrong money.
The boss looked unhappy when he heard this and was very angry. He felt that the Chinese peacekeeping soldiers in front of him were dishonest.
As a result, Shen Jun bit the bullet and did the calculations for him several times, repeatedly, one hundred and fifty times, and finally figured it out.
The boss finally figured out that it was his miscalculation and not the dishonesty of the PLA peacekeeping soldiers in front of him. The one who laughed was called Huanshi...
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Bulma's grandfather was discharged from the hospital and went to work as a cleaner in Camp H. Bulma also went to school. The tuition fee was donated by Li Zheng and his comrades.
Li Zheng felt that this matter was very meaningful, at least to himself.
He will stay here as a commander for eight months, and then he will leave. Putting aside high-level things like establishing an image, at least Li Zheng feels that he has done something very meaningful.
But Li Zheng also knows that even if he can help one Bulma, there are still many Bulmas in Country L, and there are many things that he cannot do. Whether Country L can truly achieve peace and finally prosper depends on the people of Country L themselves.
In fact, not only Li Zheng felt powerless, but the situation on the medical team was also not optimistic.
The secondary hospital has been built, and the medical team has arrived and is stationed.
However, most of the patients treated are either officers and soldiers from various peacekeeping camps, or a small group of well-connected people in the city. Villagers from the surrounding countryside rarely come here to see a doctor.
In fact, compared to residents in urban areas, villagers in the countryside are in greatest need of medical assistance.
But they just didn't come.
I would rather trust the witch doctor in the village than come.
The medical team's regular free clinics are still going on, but the front door of the medical center is crowded. Even if the stall is set up for a day, the number of people who dare to come and be treated by these black-haired and dark-eyed doctors can be counted on the palm of a hand.
No matter what others think, you still have to do what you have to do.
As Xia Zhiguo said, trust is built bit by bit.
There is an old Chinese saying, "A drop of water will penetrate a stone, but where there is sincerity, a stone will open."
On this day, Li Zheng's security team received another mission to escort the medical team's patrol team to the countryside to conduct free clinics.
And this time the destination is the village called Sambu where Bulma is located.
This is the third time the medical team has been to Sambu Village.
The first two times yielded no results. The medical point was set up at the entrance of the village but the water was still and the doctors were sitting there swatting flies out of boredom.
Captain Li Li always took two doctors and two nurses and asked the brothers from the security team to escort them into the village. They walked around the village and asked questions, hoping to find a patient to see a doctor.
As a result, no one paid any attention.
Everyone avoids the members of the medical team like the plague.
There are people who dare to approach. Those children who are begging for sweets are the most active. From the time the medical team enters the village to the time they leave, they follow them all the time, stretching their hands as long as they can and shouting "sugar, sugar, sugar"——
They even learned to say "sugar" in Chinese.
Apart from this, no patient is willing to contact the medical team.
"It's hot today, bring more water!"
Before departure, Fatty Wei said to Li Zheng while packing his equipment.
"If I go there today, I'll probably spend another day steaming."
What he meant by "dry steaming" was that after arriving at Sambu Village, no one would come to see a doctor, and everyone would have to stand there for the whole day.
"Bring them all together!"
Tong Zhi is always so serious.
Hearing Fatty Wei say to bring more water, he reminded everyone.
"Check everything carefully, don't miss anything."
After Tong Zhi left, Fatty Wei started talking nonsense again: "Look at our deputy platoon leader, he is so nervous every day."
Li Zheng said: "I think the deputy platoon leader is right, everything must be done with caution."
Fatty Wei packed up his equipment, stood up and moved around a bit, jumped twice more, and felt that everything was fine. He looked around, looked at his watch, and suddenly said, "Why haven't you set off today?"
In the past, the departure time for medical rounds was usually 8:40 in the morning.
This time it has been ten minutes and I still haven’t been notified to go out and gather to board the train.
After waiting for a while, Shen Jun finally appeared at the door of the row house.
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Squads 1 and 2 rushed out of the row house with a roar, quickly ran to the open space in front of the building to assemble, and boarded the infantry fighting vehicle as quickly as possible.
After the camp was completed, the current medical team was also stationed here. There was no need to go to the city to pick up people. They boarded the warrior vehicle and the medical vehicle directly. After ten minutes, they left the camp and drove towards Sambu Village.
When entering Sambu Village, what was different from before was that the villagers here always avoided it when they saw the convoy coming. Maybe it was the third time, but this time the villagers didn't even notice the medical convoy coming from the peacekeeping camp.
He ran away and stood directly on the roadside watching the excitement.
Li Li, who noticed this change in the car, was very happy and said to deputy commander Han Jiangyuan who came with him: "Look, they are not afraid of us anymore. This is a very positive sign."
Han Jiangyuan looked out through the car window.
As expected, I saw some women standing on the roadside with baskets on their heads, looking intently at the vehicles. This was something I had never seen before.
In the past, when women in the village saw this kind of armed convoy coming in, they would always run down the roadside into the grass and disappear after a while.
"Yes, it seems that the villagers are no longer afraid of us."
The motorcade stopped at the entrance of the village.
Li Li said: "Deputy commander, I think this time we will not set up a point in the open space at the entrance of the village. We will go into the village and set up a point in their square."
The square Li Li mentioned is actually the open space in the center of the village.
Most of the houses in the village are built around that square, where the population is most concentrated.
"Okay. I can take a look there." Han Jiangyuan nodded in agreement.
The convoy could not move forward because the road into the village was very narrow, making it difficult for warrior vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles to drive in.
Li Li wanted to go in on foot, but Shen Jun, the commander of the rapid reaction platoon, raised objections.
"If the convoy cannot enter, there is a security risk and I don't agree with that."
His worries are normal.
If there is a machine gun on the roof of the infantry fighting vehicle at the entrance of the village, it can be used as an armored firepower point for anything.
If you enter on foot, it means that the surrounding defenses can only rely on manual labor and light weapons. Without the protection of an armored convoy, the defensive capabilities will be greatly weakened.
Moreover, the medical point is set up at the entrance of the village, so it can be evacuated very quickly if something happens. If you enter the village, you have to wait for the medical team to withdraw before driving away, which takes time.
Li Li said: "This village has always been safe, should everything be fine?"
Han Jiangyuan did not answer immediately. In fact, he did not want to tell Li Li that this was an active area of the KLM armed organization. Although there was no recent intelligence indicating that there was a risk here, it was still a sensitive area.