On the fifteenth day of the first month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the entire Jingbian Fort, whether it is the military or the political circles, has passed the time of the holiday, and the new year has a new beginning.

Schools began to teach, the government began to operate normally, shops opened one after another, the army began to train, and the construction project of Liujiabao began to be in full force.

During this period, because of the powerful officials and soldiers such as Liu Renyu, no thief dared to make waves in Shaanxi, and now in the entire territory of Shaanxi, all those who have the idea of rebellion have crossed the Yellow River east to Shanxi, the paradise of thieves, to expand their business.

Shaanxi was quiet for the time being, and Liu Renyu was happy to be idle, and he began to supervise the preparations for spring ploughing.

Originally, there was commerce as a pillar industry in the area under Liu Renyu's control, and there were still a large amount of strategic grain reserves stored in the treasury, but he believed that Jingbianbao still had to pay attention to agriculture, because agriculture could accommodate the surplus population and cope with daily grain expenses, otherwise it would always rely on imported grain from outside, and first, the price of grain would be high, and second, it would be easy to be controlled by others.

Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, Liu Renyu took Sun Wuzhi and other guards to inspect the settlements under his rule every day to see whether the water conservancy facilities were in place, whether the temporary houses in the settlements were in place, and whether the seeds, cattle, farming tools, and grain lent to the new citizens by the government were in place.

At this time, the government under Liu Renyu's rule was clean and efficient, and the officials in the government did not dare to use the public for personal gain or slack off work under the strict supervision of the Journalism and Investigation Bureau.

Under the guidance of government officials, the new citizens first arrived at the designated settlements, and then set up tents on top of their homesteads as temporary shelters.

At present, Jingbian Fort is making every effort to build Liujiabao, and all the cement and steel bars produced will be used for the construction of Liujiabao, and for the time being, there is no ability to take into account the construction of residential areas, so the new citizens can only use tents to settle down.

When the main project of Liujiabao is completed, Liu Renyu will transfer the produced reinforced concrete to various settlements to build houses for the new citizens.

During this period, in order to ensure the safety of the new citizens, Liu Renyu specially ordered the army's logistics department to distribute a firecrackle to the young and strong leaders of each new citizen's family, and also sent the firecrackers in the army to train these firecrackers to give them a preliminary self-defense ability.

Generally speaking, there is at least one mile in the settlement, that is, ten households, so there is usually a small squad of gunmen, and in the current environment of Shaanxi, this kind of protection is enough to use.

Because the thieves were afraid of the prestige of the Jingbian Fort army, they did not dare to come to make trouble, and the northern captives generally did not come to Jingbian Fort, as for the armed forces such as bandits and horse bandits, not to mention Jingbian Fort, even those who were close to Jingbian Fort were all wiped out.

From this point of view, the safety of the new citizens is actually not a problem, but Liu Renyu considered that these people who know how to use firecrackers are also a reserve force, and if necessary, they can be pulled into the battlefield at any time, so he decided to issue firecrackers to them and train them.

The new citizens who have struggled to survive in the troubled times for a long time are also particularly optimistic about their own safety, they are backed by the Jingbian Fort Army, the strongest army in Shaanxi, and they also have a certain amount of armament, so they are extremely relieved, thinking that their life safety has finally been guaranteed.

After these basic problems were resolved, the staff of the Jingbianbao government took the new citizens to claim their land and divide the land boundaries.

For this matter, the enthusiasm of the new citizens is undoubtedly the highest, because for the traditional Ming people, the land is the fundamental, most of the new citizens received the land, at best, they were happy, and some of the new citizens were particularly exaggerated after receiving the land, they first danced happily, almost crazy, and then cried loudly, making the government staff inexplicable.

Some new citizens, in a moment of excitement, even put the portrait of Liu Renyu in the field, burned incense and bowed down to the portrait, chanting words in their mouths, saying something to thank Liu Bodhisattva for his great kindness and virtue.

While the new citizens were being taken to various settlements for resettlement, He Ergou began to work on recruiting workers in various factories according to Liu Renyu's orders.

Generally speaking, only the eldest son and eldest daughter could inherit the land that Liu Renyu had allocated, so the head of the family who had the right to inherit had the power to evict the second son, who had reached the age of eighteen, and other brothers from the house, leaving them to fend for themselves.

These young people who have no inheritance rights are not selected by the army, so they can only choose to be workers, but fortunately, the treatment of workers is not bad, and they have ten taels of silver a month.

With such good policies in place, the various production departments of the Jingbianbao Industrial Manufacturing Plant were able to recruit 3,000 workers without difficulty.

In addition to the traditional male-based industrial production sectors such as the cement factory, the glass factory, and the carriage factory, Liu Renyu's newly opened quilt factory also began to recruit female workers.

This newly opened quilt manufacturing factory uses a garment artifact sewing machine, which greatly improves the production efficiency, so that the production cycle of a piece of clothing can be directly shortened from a month or more to a week, and the people who make the clothes are still very labor-saving.

The status of women in Jingbianbao has been unprecedentedly improved, so some women who have received preliminary education resolutely decided to work in the clothing factory by recruiting workers, earning some money to supplement their families, and at the same time saving some private money.

After these new workers joined, it took a full month to train them, until a month later, the output of the industrial manufacturing plant was increased several times because of the addition of new workers.

In the case of a sharp increase in output, Du Ruonan's most conservative estimate is that the industrial manufacturing plant in Jingbianbao in Chongzhen's five years can bring nearly 600,000 taels of income, which is already very remarkable, because the annual income of the entire Ming Dynasty is only 4 million taels.

However, this does not explain how powerful the industry and commerce of Jingbian Fort are, because Zheng Zhi Longguang, who was a pirate at sea at this time, could earn more than 10 million taels of silver by collecting a protection fee, so this small business in Jingbian Fort is really not worth mentioning.

In the following two months, after the recruits completed their training period, they were successively assigned to various units for intensive training, and Chen Danqing's young men over the age of 18 and under the age of 20 recruited from the school were also sent to Liu Renyu to receive theoretical training in the Social Democratic Party.

In addition to basic Chinese and arithmetic, the most education these young people have received since they entered Jingbian Fort is the undisciplined praise of Liu Renyu by teachers at all levels.

And because these young people are more or less taken care of by Liu Renyu's various policies in their own families, they themselves also admire and worship Liu Renyu, and this worship is even slightly greater than their admiration for the emperor who is far away in Beijing.

Therefore, when Liu Renyu told them about the ideas of Social Democracy, these young people naturally accepted the theory of Social Democracy.

Liu Renyu, who came from later generations, was not too familiar with this set of theoretical brainwashing, and he issued Liu Renyu's quotations to these political commissars, requiring them to read and memorize them every day, and this quotation was the party program of the Social Democratic Party.

Then there is the bittersweet reminiscence, exposing the suffering and ugliness of the old society, looking forward to the beautiful blueprint of the new world, and then some ideological summaries and collective discussions.

Under the high-density saturation attack of these theoretical educations, almost all the 100 political commissars were brainwashed by Liu Renyu and became the propagators of the democratic ideas of the Social Democratic Party.

After Liu Renyu successfully completed the party class of these people, he gave each of these people an eagle badge and asked them to pin it to their chests as a marker of the identity of the political commissar.

The eagle was taken from the totem of the Hohenzollern family in the Kingdom of Prussia, and was transplanted by Liu Renyu and used as the emblem of the Social Democratic Party.

After graduating from school, these political commissars were assigned to the army by Liu Renyu, and a political commissar was placed next to each hundred presidents.

The job of these political commissars is to instill the ideology of Social Democracy in the soldiers, so that the Jingbianbao Army will become a political army and a super-strong soldier with faith.

Before sending these political commissars to the army, Liu Renyu specially exhorted these young people to respect the military commanders in the army and not to interfere in the command of the military commanders, but if the military commanders were afraid of war and avoided war, they should stand up and resolutely stop them; if the military commanders did not listen to the advice, the political commissars had the power to kill the military commanders and then put the deputy commanders on the throne.

This is equivalent to using the political commissar as a speech official in the court, with a small rank and great power, and also comes with surveillance tasks.

What the political commissar is going to do in the army, Li Jiye and other generals know very well, and of course they can only cooperate with Liu Renyu's work.

In fact, these generals will also go to Liu Renyu to attend Liu Renyu's party class, and Liu Renyu will go back and forth in the party class, and continue to instill democratic ideas in his subordinates.

But these generals have already seen the world, relatively speaking, it is not very easy to fool, on the contrary, those young officers between the ages of fifteen and sixteen and twenty-five or sixteen are very easy to accept Liu Renyu's thoughts.

To this extent, it is enough, because as long as the grassroots officers and soldiers are mastered, a few high-ranking generals are nothing more than marionettes.

When Liu Renyu gave party lessons to senior generals, the political commissars in the army were not idle, and every Sunday they organized the theoretical study of the Social Democratic Party and the study of democratic ideology, and also vigorously engaged in a cult of personality to establish Liu Renyu's absolute leadership over the army.

Of course, the cult of personality is contrary to the democratic ideology, but in these troubled times, it is natural that we will not be able to integrate forces without establishing a strong leadership mechanism.

Later Shina. The SS of pure Germany. The army is so strong, naturally because of the element of faith bonus.

Therefore, with the efforts of Liu Renyu and his gang of political commissars, the army has gradually moved closer to the political army with faith.

Such an army is already the strongest in the world in terms of combat effectiveness and cohesion.