So far, the Republican Army has not opened a good trade route. After all, not many local forces have entered the state of hegemony, and the expansion of armaments is naturally very limited. As for the rest, their situation does not seem to be too favorable.

The subsistence small-scale peasant economy did not have a great need for greater trade, and it seemed difficult for the IRA to open up the situation.

Zhongmu County.

A large number of bankrupt peasants, displaced people were concentrated by the government. Then they were uniformly arranged to be organized and sent to Luoyang. There may be employment opportunities there, at the very least, without starvation.

Cao Ang is also doing his best to organize these bankrupt peasants and displaced people.

For example, in terms of tough measures, he mobilized a regiment of troops to arrest them, and as long as they could not prove that they were propertied people, they were all imprisoned and sent to Luoyang. Such a move naturally aroused the resistance of many people, who believed that the government was too brutal.

But now Cao Ang can't care about that. Because some contracts have already been signed. Some handicraft factories in Luoyang say they need this much labor.

Many displaced people, bankrupt peasants, are panicked, and they feel that they may have too much, too many unfavorable situations, and put themselves in a very bad state. But in such a situation, they themselves are not easy to say anything.

After all, their measures are too tough.

In order to appease these displaced people. Cao Ang could only provide some food. At the same time, find some people who are able to convince and preach to those who are "concentrated". They are going to be sent to Luoyang, where there will be a job waiting for them, they can have enough to eat, clothes to wear, and a certain salary. They were paid no less than if they were working in the fields.

Some homeless people chose to believe, after all, they had to. But more people are skeptical, and they are very uneasy about it. If it was really that good, it wouldn't have happened, and the government would have sent troops to arrest them. A lot of force is used in the process of arrest. Extremely unkind to them. They also have no way. In such a situation, their situation will be in a very disadvantageous situation. So, in such a situation, they still choose to be skeptical.

But these are no longer important. Because they will inevitably be sent to Luoyang, although it is not too far, but for these people, it is already considered to be uprooted.

"Sir, don't you believe these people?" A second lieutenant officer said helplessly to Cao Ang. Let them arrest people every day, and they also feel that they can't go. It doesn't seem like everything is as good as it seems.

"This is the only way to do this. When the first batch of people have jobs and salaries, they will also believe it. Maybe then things will be much better. Cao Ang said.

What Cao Ang needs to do now is to start cooperation with the Republican Army as soon as possible, and they have abundant labor resources for exchange, and such an exchange is a good thing for them. Only by providing more jobs can they stabilize and everything can develop in the direction they think is beneficial.

And Luoyang is also actively preparing.

"On the surface, we are all very well prepared. But in reality, with fewer and fewer jobs available. And with more and more labor being offered, I fear that this will change severely. Shang Wu was worried about Jia Xu said.

"This kind of thing does happen." Jia Xu nodded in acknowledgement. The kind of thing that Jia Xu is talking about is the change of the current situation.

At present, the number of labor jobs that the Republican Army can provide is only a little over 50,000, and if you exclude some jobs in which locals participate, there may be only more than 30,000. And these more than 30,000 jobs have to face competition from more than 60,000 people, or even more. Although business activities in Luoyang are recovering. However, the number of jobs available is still very limited.

In the face of such great competitiveness. The situation of the displaced people is very unoptimistic.

"This will exacerbate our security, and at the same time, those factory owners will also take some measures to exploit them, and we should all know their morality." Shang Wu said.

"I'm more worried about the future, which is still happening and changing." Jia Xu said.

The number of jobs offered is small. The supply of labor will inevitably increase, and this state of imbalance will inevitably continue for a long time, and any state of imbalance will inevitably exacerbate the development of various situations. For example, all kinds of public security, exploitation of workers, and laborers cannot guarantee their rights and interests. Shangwu is quite justified in worrying about this.

But Shangwu also knows very well that in this case, they can't change it, because many things are not balanced all at once they appear, and in such a situation, it is not a very realistic idea to want to turn it around all at once.

"Okay. We can only acquiesce to the existence of this situation. Shang Wu reluctantly accepted such a situation.

Handan, Gao Shun looked at the five-story building, as well as the elongated carriages, and the steam cars. It was a tram bus built by the Republican Army in Handan to meet people's needs for commuting and public transportation.

From Luzhou, there is no shuttle bus that passes through Lijiazhuang all at once. They need to reverse from Handan to get there.

But this also gives Gao Shun an important need to understand Handan.

The streets are clean and tidy. In the busy section, there are also erected poles, some have street lights, and there are cables on them, which are important communication lines.

The Republican Army has a lot of facilities that are not available in Luoyang, and the streets here look cleaner, but at the same time busy with people. A lot of people looked like they were in a state of rapid marching, and they were busy. It gives you the feeling that you're here, and before you know it, the feeling will quicken.

On the outskirts, there are a large number of industrial areas. There was billowing smoke. There were black, white, in short, there was a fog in it. This leaves a lot of people unable to cope with the situations they need to face.

But later Gao Shun learned that it was the main arms production of the Republican Army, and a large amount of pig iron and cast iron were produced there, although he did not know what kind of production method was used, but he knew that the amount of iron produced was amazing, and the iron output was more than 500,000 stones. Probably the numbers will be more.

It is also clear why the IRA has so many iron tools in use. And such an iron factory, the Republican Army has it in Luzhou, and even re-established one in the Jinyang area, where the output may be even more amazing.

This made Gao Shun feel extremely terrified.

But what worries Gao Shun the most is that Handan is so close to the border. In Gao Shun's opinion, even the smoke from those iron factories can drift to the border. And the Republican Army is only stationed here with some troops, most of whom are dissatisfied.

But this worry, soon, made Gao Shun dispel his doubts. Because the Republican Army can still organize a large number of militias in the factory areas of the suburbs.

The workers in the factories became the best reserve military force. The mode of workshop management makes the organizational unit of the workers more rational, and if this organizational unit is used a little, it can soon be put into military organization and utilized.

As for weapons, this was originally a military factory, and every worker's family had their own weapons, and it had become a hobby for workers to collect weapons, and in this situation where all the people were soldiers, it seemed that it would be difficult for the enemy to occupy Handan.

Handan itself may have been a huge bunker.

Because Handan does not have any fortifications, it is said that Handan has a special plan to use street fighting to consume the enemy to the greatest extent.

Gao Shun is very powerful, which fully shows that the organizational strength of the Republican Army is very strong, in the face of such a strong organizational ability. It is simply impossible to occupy, there is no war on it. This is Gao Shun's first impression.

But Handan also has bad points. For example, their factories are built on the upwind. This is fully taken into account the proximity to the coal-producing areas, as well as the safety, after all, the plant can provide greater productivity, as well as munitions products. And as soon as the war starts, it will be struck down and occupied, which is very bad. So, the factory was placed in the north, upwind direction. But this is not a good thing for the development of the city, the whole Handan looks gray, not a very suitable place for people to live.

This is Gao Shun's first impression of Handan, of course. If he has the opportunity, he still has to move around more, after all, this kind of place is still very important to him, he has not stayed in Handan for too much time this time, he thinks, he has not fully understood the important situation in Handan.

Just when Gao Shun set off. Zhang Liao had just arrived in Luzhou. But in Luzhou, he heard a shocking news.

In the area north of Yanmen Pass, coal seams were discovered by accident. This is what some daring miners have discovered. But I don't know why, but I was reported by the newspaper all of a sudden.

Seeing such news, Zhang Liao knew that this might pull the strategy of the Republican Army to the north again.

In the past, the war in the North has not been going very smoothly, and the key is that the economy of the North is difficult to absorb effectively, and not only that, but there is also a great interest in allowing the Republican Army to launch a larger offensive. But now, the strategic situation in the north has changed. Resource. Coal resources have become even more important. How could the Republican Army dislike the lack of coal. Under huge coal profits. The demand is going to get even crazier.