At this time, more than 120,000 civilians had returned to Tianjin, but Tianjin was not a predominantly agricultural city, so only half of the people who returned to Tianjin were peasants, and the other half was taken in by Tianjin and its surrounding areas.

Although a large number of houses were destroyed in Tianjin and its surrounding areas during the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, a considerable number of unmanned houses were still preserved, so the residents of the city were basically accommodated, and there were still a considerable number of vacant houses, which could accommodate about 100,000 people.

In the rural areas, a considerable number of people are now homeless, and the crossing group has prepared a large number of tents and sheltered homeless peasants, at this time, about 15,600 people have been sheltered, divided into six temporary settlements to live, and the crossing group provides them with food, but requires them to help build a new countryside to work, in exchange for work. And these farmers are also willing to help, because Li Songchen has already announced that the houses built are provided for them to live in, and when housing is allocated in the future, it will be directly linked to everyone's work, and everyone's workload will be accurately recorded, and it will be open and transparent, and after the houses are built, according to the level of work, housing can be allocated first.

Of course, the most priority in the distribution of housing is the soldiers of the new army, but if they are single soldiers, they are arranged to live in the barracks, and the army will be responsible for arranging their housing in the future, and most of them will settle down in the cities in the future, rather than in the rural areas, and the new army soldiers who have families, the army also tries to advise them, it is best to wait for the army to arrange for them to settle in the city in the future, and the army can arrange work for their relatives, but also respect the personal choice of the soldiers, if someone insists on settling in the countryside, the army is not unavoidable, and at the same time can also give priority。

Most of the first batch of people who signed up for the army were single and had no relatives, because they were alone anyway, and if they died on the battlefield, they would die, and they could still eat in the army. In addition, there are not many soldiers with family members, only one or two people, and one person can support his family as a soldier.

And the vast majority of the soldiers of these new armies have heeded the advice of the army and are ready to listen to the arrangements of the troops. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that the work of the crossing soldiers is in place, and on the other hand, although these soldiers have not been in the army for a long time, they can clearly feel that this army is completely different from the Qing army. insulting the soldiers, not to mention being harsh on the soldiers' salaries, and even when they were fighting, the officers were at the forefront, and they also taught the soldiers to read and write, and taught them many truths that they had not heard of before, knowing that they joined the army to fight not to earn a salary and support their families, but also to defend their families and homes. Therefore, although the soldiers did not know that the ultimate goal of this group of overseas Chinese was to replace the Qing court, they also vaguely felt that following this group of overseas Chinese would have a bright future, and some people with certain insight even thought that this group of overseas Chinese was re-following the path of the rise of the Hunan Army and the Huai Army.

In the end, there were less than 300 soldiers of the New Army who decided to choose housing in the rural areas, and the first batch of rural areas that were built could be completely accommodated, and at the same time, this group of people could be used to set an example for military families in the new rural areas, thus attracting more peasants to join the army.

However, the peasants who returned to Tianjin were not all people with family members, although most of the single people chose to join the army, but a considerable part stayed in the rural areas, and there were also many families with only two or three people, and if such a large house only lived in two or three people, it was obviously too few, and it was also a waste of resources, after all, there are now more people and fewer houses, and more peasants will return in the future.

So Li Songchen and the team discussed and decided that only families with more than five people can be allocated a single house, while families with less than five people must share a house with others, and only when there are more than five people can they be allocated a house, so as to ensure that the house can be used to the fullest, of course, when all the houses are built in the future, they can be redistributed.

After lunch, Tang Songlin took a few people to another nearby village to survey the geology and prepare to open a new construction site. According to the current progress, in about 10 days, the two new villages can be largely completed, and all that remains is the installation of doors and windows, paving the road, and the finishing works such as the reserved pipe covering panels. And these projects only need to leave a small number of people, and others can be transferred to the next construction site to work, which is also a very reasonable arrangement from the perspective of arranging flow construction.

Tang Songlin has been engaged in management for more than 20 years, and of course he knows how to arrange flow construction, so he has to think about the next construction site now. And in the next few days, some construction furniture, building materials, etc. will be transferred to the new site.

After Tang Songlin left, Li Songchen also left the office and went to another construction site to inspect. Although Li Songchen is not an engineer and technician, he will spare part of his time every day, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, to inspect various construction sites, understand the construction progress of each construction site, and solve the problems that occur in the coordination of construction.

In addition, there will be a variety of problems in the construction, some things can be solved at the construction site, but some things can not be solved by the construction itself, such as progress payment, materials provided by Party A, equipment and various requirements, as well as local forces, sand and stone tyrants, and even environmental protection organizations, etc., so the general large-scale project, there will be a special person responsible for coordinating various relationships, and the person who takes this task usually has a low position.

Of course, there are not so many complicated things in the current project, most of the materials, and labor are free of money, and there are no local forces, sand tyrants, and no environmental protection organizations, but there are no troubles in these old time and space, but new problems are coming, and the first thing is the contradiction between local farmers and captive laborers.

It turned out that as more and more farmers returned, the number of locals involved in the construction gradually increased, so there were locals and foreigners working together on every construction site. As victims of the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China, the peasants in Tianjin naturally have no good impression of foreigners, but in the past, foreigners were powerful in China, and of course they dared to be angry and dare not speak, but now it is different, foreigners have become prisoners of the ranks, and they are actually driven to build houses for themselves, although this is the credit of overseas Chinese, and they actually have nothing to do with it, but this group of overseas Chinese are all self-Chinese, so it has a relationship, at least these foreigners are very honest in front of the villagers, but there is no arrogance。

As a result, some peasants who had long seen that foreigners were not going well, or peasants who had relatives killed in the Eight-Nation Alliance, began to provoke foreigners, and at first they only pointed fingers and scolded foreigners, but foreigners did not understand Chinese first, and secondly, they had the consciousness of being prisoners, so they did not pay attention. This has also fueled the arrogance of some people, and finally developed to the point of moving their hands and feet.

Among the captives, except for the third brother of India, who has a good temper and can be submissive, the captives of other countries do not have such good patience, because they are all from military backgrounds, and most of them are young people, and they are strong in blood, and it doesn't matter if they are scolded twice, but if they want to move people to beat people, they will not do it, and they will naturally fight back, so there have been several conflicts between farmers and foreigners, and one time even developed into a group fight with a total of more than ten ginseng on both sides, and several people on both sides were injured, but fortunately, no one was killed.

These things immediately aroused the great attention of Li Songchen, Tang Songlin and others, because if the contradictions between China and foreign countries were not resolved in a timely manner, it was likely to lead to large-scale arms fights in the future, and there were a lot of furniture that could be used to fight on the construction site. Therefore, decisive measures were immediately taken, as far as possible to separate the construction of the prisoners and peasants, and to strengthen the supervision, since it is the two sides of the cross-construction, will be sent enough manpower to supervise, even if the two sides of the fight can not be stopped, but to understand the cause of the fight, which side initiated, to provide a basis for the aftermath of the treatment.

Another important measure is to strengthen persuasion and education among the peasants, because almost all fights and conflicts are provoked by the peasants, so in order to resolve the contradictions, it is necessary to start with the peasants.

Li Songchen also tried his best to patiently explain the reasons why the prisoners could not be bullied with the principles that the peasants could understand, such as that they were already prisoners, bullying the prisoners was not considered heroes, or that the prisoners were injured, who would work for us, and so on.

Of course, Li Songchen also knew that blind persuasion and appeasement had little effect, and he had to use both grace and power, so after persuasion, Li Songchen also solemnly announced that if there were any more people who bullied and provoked the captives for no reason in the future, they would be severely punished. Of course, it also issued a warning to the captives that when they encountered the provocation of the peasants, they were not allowed to fight back, but immediately reported to the traverser, and the traverser dealt with it, otherwise they would be severely punished regardless of whether they were in the wrong or not. After all, when you are a prisoner, you have to be a man with your tail between your legs, and you want to talk about equality, but there is no door.

It should be said that at this time, the crossing group still had a very high prestige in the eyes of the peasants, and the vast majority of Chinese peasants were still honest people, so they were also much more restrained. Of course, there are no conflicts on the surface, but there are still cases of beating people behind the back, playing black hands, or throwing stones, but they have finally suppressed the contradictions between China and foreign countries within a very small scope and will not affect the overall situation.

And this incident also reminded Li Songchen that every era has special circumstances in each era, and he can't be careless at all, if a major accident occurs, then his hard work these days will be in vain.