Personnel arrangements for the prisoner camps and settlements continued, and for a whole day, everyone was in place, with stewards and workshop soldiers to work.

After the children were registered, they were all sent to the special place built in Laozhutian Village to take care of the children, except for some who were really young, and were taken by their own mothers and moved to several empty houses in the settlement.

Meng Ying took the children to Lao Zhutian, and looked at the place where the children were taken care of, the environment was not bad, and there were special people to take care of them, so she returned to the workshop and looked around, and the stewards everywhere also introduced the situation to her.

"Mrs. Dongjia, this is the farm of our cement workshop, and now it is completely independent, and it is regarded as the owner's own industry, unlike the cement workshop, which has to be shared with others."

"Is this all our family, it's so big, you can eat as much meat as you want in the future." Luoluo said in shock.

"How big is here, I didn't expect such a large farm to be built here in such a short period of time."

"This farm covers an area of more than 20 acres, not counting the hill where there are many chickens, many of us have to work here, and the feed we buy is not enough." The female steward of the farm introduced to Meng Ying.

"And what do so many animals eat?"

"There is a lot of hay prepared in advance, and there are several large cement pits over there, which are also fodder for these animals, and after a batch of mature animals are slaughtered, the preserved fodder will almost allow the rest of the animals to survive this winter."

"Luoluo, the pigs here are much bigger than yours, and the piglets, black, one, two, three......" Xingxing said to Luoluo.

"There are fourteen piglets in this barn, a lot, are they suckling?" Luoluo took over and said.

"Yes, Miss, there are a total of four sows in our pig house who have just given birth for a month, and after a while we will have to separate these piglets and keep them alone." The steward said with a smile.

"Next year, the pigs raised by the family can come here to catch a few and raise them back, you take care of them very well." Meng Ying nodded and said.

Meng Ying came from a farmer's family, although she no longer has to take care of the livestock herself, but when she saw such a large farm here, she was still happy in her heart, especially knowing that these are her own.

"What's over there, is it a fish pond?" Walking out of the farm, Meng Ying looked at the downstream piece and asked.

"The owner didn't let us throw the manure directly into the Xisha River, saying that there are still people downstream who want to eat the water in the Xisha River, and the manure will be transported to the field for fertilizer when the spring ploughing is due, and people from Laozhutian and Yakou Village will also come to us to pick some of them."

"Oh." Meng Ying nodded, a little strange why there was no animal dung here to raise earth dragons.

……

Looking around around the cement workshop, Meng Ying also returned to the barracks house with the four little ones, and found that Zhao Yuan had returned and was writing in the study.

"Uncle, uncle, why didn't you come to us when you were done, we helped do a lot of things." Luoluo came back and saw Zhao Yuan, approached the arm holding Zhao Yuan and said.

"Uncle is a little tired, so he came back to rest, Luoluo, are you tired, and Xiaobao, Xiaoya, and Xingxing?" Zhao Yuan wrote for a long time, and his mood had calmed down a lot.

"You're not tired, uncle, what are you busy with?"

"This time, the uncles and brothers of the Workshop Army went outside, and two brothers and one uncle died, and the uncle went to hold a funeral for them." Zhao Yuan thought about it and told Luoluo them directly.

"Brother Yuan, are you feeling uncomfortable?" Meng Ying stepped forward and said with Zhao Yuan's big hand.

"Well, among the three people, only Li Peng has a family, his wife and children are very sad and heartbroken, I really don't know how to face them." Zhao Yuan felt Meng Ying's somewhat cold little hands, shook his head and said.

"Uncle, which three brothers and uncles are they, do I know them?" Luoluo heard Zhao Yuan's words and asked.

"One of the brothers is one you know, that is, Brother Zhou Xing, who you came here here before and played with you." Zhao Yuan said.

"Ah, Brother Zhou Xing......" Luoluo, who was still a little excited, suddenly lowered her head when she heard the news.

promised to take the little girl to incense Zhou Xing tomorrow, and after a while, Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying coaxed the little girl and took a few children to look around in the barracks, diverting Luoluo's attention.

The training in the barracks has ended, and it is the time for the daily cultural class, and on the cold school field, the soldiers of the workshops are sitting neatly on small benches, learning to read and write with the instructors in front.

From time to time, soldiers will be drawn up to test the words they have learned in school, and if they can't answer them, they will be punished to run around the school field, and there is a lot of competition between squads and teams.

"I'll tell you a good news, starting tomorrow, everyone will train for another ten days, except for those on duty, everyone else will have a twenty-day holiday, and here in the cement workshop, you are working in the workshop, because there are a large number of personnel replenishment this time, and there will be a holiday in turn."

Zhao Yuan's family walked around the barracks and did not disturb the sergeants' studies, except for Luoluo who went up to become an instructor. When the study time was completed, Zhao Yuan stepped forward and announced the holiday for everyone, which made the soldiers cheer.

The workshop army has been established for more than half a year, has been implementing a full-time military system, the sergeants rarely go home once, now the situation has stabilized, the soldiers have gone through such a long time of training, the ideology has changed, the people's hearts are cohesive, in this is about to celebrate the New Year, it is time for them to rest and rest.

Starting next year, Zhao Yuan is going to discuss with Wan Yunjun and Zhang Xucong, take out a part of the shares they occupy, and allocate the corresponding cement workshop shares to everyone according to the years, positions and meritorious service of the workshop soldiers.

Of course, this is just Zhao Yuan's expectation, and he hasn't revealed anything to everyone yet, but it's not a big problem.

Next year, the cement workshop will be further expanded, and other places in Danling will also send people to find suitable mines, take land to build new cement workshops, and slowly expand to Tongyi.

"My lord, we don't have a home here, can we stay in the barracks all the time on vacation?" Some of the soldiers asked aloud, some of them alone, some of them who had gone up to the mountains to be bandits and had no face to return home.

"Yes, but stay in the barracks, that morning training can't be left behind, in fact, you are more familiar with all the places in the workshop, you can go to the various stewards of the workshop to ask, see if there is a shortage of manpower, go to help with the work, I will let the steward calculate a salary for you alone." Zhao Yuan said after thinking about it.

"Great, my lord, can we get paid for our work?" The monkey asked aloud.

"Yes, you are all on vacation, and of course you have to get paid for your work." Zhao Yuan nodded in confirmation.

The guys in the barracks are vigorous, and they have nowhere to go during the holidays, so Zhao Yuan has to find something for them to do.

When the other sergeants in the barracks heard Zhao Yuan's words, they were also quite moved, they could get paid for working in the workshop during the holidays, so should they also go to work.