After eating, the two did not delay any longer, and Liu Jilu directly pulled Zhou Dahe to the township government compound. It was a small two-story building with a courtyard, and at the entrance was a large iron gate, and four policemen sat in the guardhouse next to the iron gate. Outside the big iron gate, there are also several wooden signs, on which are written "Zhenyuan Township Government of Dongfang County, East Coast Republic of China", "Zhenyuan Agricultural Technology Station of Animal Husbandry Bureau", "Zhenyuan Police Station of the Ministry of Internal Affairs", "Zhenyuan Branch Office of Northwest Reclamation Bank" and so on.

It seems that Surgeon Liu Jilu is right, in the small place of Zhenyuanbao, so many institutions are crowded together to work, which is convenient and does not seem to be extravagant and wasteful.

After handing over his documents to the police for careful verification, Zhou Dahe successfully entered the courtyard. In a row of bungalows on the west side of the compound, Zhou Dahe hesitated for a moment, and then came to the door of the bank supervision office under the guidance of Liu Jilu. I was about to knock on the door, but I saw the door being opened from the inside, and a man about thirty years old with a young man who looked like a teenager of fifteen or sixteen appeared in front of the door.

Zhou Dahe was stunned for a moment, and then he quickly reacted: "May I ask if you are Supervisor Wang?" I'm new here......

"New loan officer?" Supervisor Wang unceremoniously interrupted Zhou Dahe's words, and then stretched out his hand: "Bring me the registration card!" ”

Zhou Dahe hurriedly handed his ID card, registration card and letter of introduction to Supervisor Wang. Supervisor Wang first took a cursory look at the documents, and then carefully looked at the description of Zhou Dahe's physical characteristics on the letter of introduction, and then carefully returned the documents to Zhou Dahe, and said, "You are welcome to join our branch office, come." Let me introduce you to it. This is another loan officer in my office, Anderson. Anderson. Come and get to know Zhou Dahe. ”

Anderson is a shy teenager, which reminds Zhou Dahe of his former self. I saw him take the initiative to step forward and hold Anderson's right hand, and said with a smile: "Anderson, you can become a loan officer at such a young age, but you are much more powerful than me, and I will have to ask you for advice on many things in the future." ”

The boy just whispered hello, and then stood aside and didn't speak. Zhou Dahe carefully noticed that Anderson also had a statue of Maitreya Buddha carved from ivory hanging around his neck.

"Ahem......" Supervisor Wang coughed. Then he said: "Anderson came to the East Coast a few years ago from Gotland with his father, a corporal in the 4th Company of the Army, who died in South Africa last year. In order to take care of the children of the martyrs, the branch was entrusted by the superiors to recruit Anderson as a trainee loan officer. ”

Zhou Dahe let out an "oh", and then stopped talking.

Supervisor Wang said very simply at this time: "Xiao Zhou, you came just in time, come with me to the countryside, there are some things to deal with." After speaking, he didn't wait for Zhou Dahe to agree. He walked towards the door by himself, and Zhou Dahe hurriedly followed.

A few people didn't get in the car after they went out. Because the place is not far away. The perimeter of Zhenyuan Fort is only more than 700 meters, and a lonely castle stands on the prairie, surrounded by a dense grassland. Several rows of typical east bank dwellings of red bricks and green tiles are scattered along several small rivers, and the annual precipitation of the steppe on the east bank is basically about 1,000 mm, so the aquatic grass is relatively abundant, which is essentially different from the arid and semi-arid grassland of Mongolia in later generations.

The warm breeze of early summer blows on the face, making people feel extremely comfortable. Several people walked silently on the grass, and Anderson pulled a horse, and in the saddle bag under the horse's belly were large bundles of information documents, as well as dry food and drinking water for several people. Zhou Dahe once tried to lead the horse instead of Anderson, but was quickly rejected by the shy and stubborn teenager.

From time to time, there were some herdsmen driving their flocks out to graze their sheep on the side of the road. Dressed in the usual East Coast jeans and wide-brimmed hats for sun protection, these men drove the dirty flock. Zhou Dahe found that Supervisor Wang could name almost most of the herdsmen he met, and their attitude towards Supervisor Wang was all respectful, careful, and flattering.

"I used to work in the branch office of Ranch Township for a while, and it was growing very fast." Supervisor Wang, who was walking in the forefront, chatted with the two while walking: "The same is the development of animal husbandry, the same is the three-year interest-free loan of the Northwest Reclamation Bank, as of November 1640, it has more than 1,200 military horses, more than 2,000 horses, more than 1,500 beef cattle, 900 dairy cows, and more than 2,000 pigs. A leather processing center has been established in the local area, which uses soda ash and dyes transported from the north to tanning, processing and dyeing leather goods for export. Of course, this industry is labor-intensive, and what is currently lacking on the East Coast is population, so they are not growing very quickly, but their scale is not to be underestimated. The income level and living standards of the local herdsmen are far higher than those in poor and remote places like Zhenyuan Township, and the business of the local branch office is far beyond ours. ”

Zhou Dahe and Anderson listened in silence, neither of which spoke.

Supervisor Wang ignored them, and still walked in front and said to himself: "At the end of 1638, when the Zhenyuan Branch of the Northwest Reclamation Bank was opened, a total of 2,688 sheep were allocated to me at that time, and the local township government cooperated with me to distribute these sheep to each farmer. At that time, there were less than 1,000 people here, and each of them was given two or three sheep to raise, which was not enough to live. There was no way, and later many people went home and opened up some farmland to grow potatoes and soybeans to make a living, and life went on like this. By this year, I estimate that the number of sheep has exceeded 6,000, of which no less than 4,000 sheep can be sheared. As a result, the amount of wool harvested this year almost confirmed my suspicion, and the statistics of the wool purchasing station of the General Administration of Textile Industry came out a while ago, and a total of about 1,800 bags (10 kg per bag) of wool were harvested. This, together with the 1,600 bags of wool sent to the central government this year, is almost enough to support 30% of the raw material needs of the woolen textile industry, which is not yet developed. ”

"The guide purchase price of each bag of wool is 6 yuan, and 1,800 bags of wool are spread evenly on the heads of each herdsman in Zhenyuan Township, which is not much, and each person has earned an average of less than 11 yuan this year." Supervisor Wang laughed self-deprecatingly, "The average monthly income is less than one yuan, Ha Luha, now it is estimated that it is difficult to find a job with a monthly salary of less than two yuan in China, right?" Isn't it funny that you can only buy one pig a year? If it weren't for the fact that I managed to get a batch of goats to raise them, and asked Lao Liu from the agricultural technology station to guide them in planting potatoes, soybeans and corn, I am afraid that the people here would have starved to death. Even those who didn't starve to death went to work in the south, and who would raise sheep! ”

Zhou Dahe smiled dryly and did not speak.

Supervisor Wang glanced back at them, and then said with a smile: "I don't mean to break your confidence by saying this, but I just want you to know the current living conditions of the herdsmen and people here. But then again, if nothing else, the number of sheep that can be sheared next year will probably reach seven or eight thousand, and many of these herdsmen can harvest ten or twenty yuan just by selling their wool at the purchasing station. I'm afraid that there will be more in the next year, but I estimate that by that time, most of the guys in the General Administration of Textile Industry will have to reduce the purchase price of wool, and I still know the urine sex of these grandchildren, haluha. ”

The place was soon there, and it was a small village of about a dozen households. This is the case in Zhenyuan Township, where herders generally live scattered because they need enough pasture to graze their sheep. At this time, there were already several people standing at the entrance of the village, who seemed to be the village chief and militia chief of the village, as well as a police officer from the police station.

"Eunuch Wang, I'm waiting for you to come." The village chief from Tatan, speaking a strange Chinese, said, "I've already had people tie up those two unsuccessful fellows, so I'll leave it to you now." ”

Supervisor Wang nodded, did not speak, but walked straight to the two Charuya who were tied into zongzi, kicked one over, and asked loudly: "I ask you again, where are all the sheep sent to you?" Did you eat it? ”

"I didn't ...... Ate and ran. A Charuya said in half-baked Chinese.

"Fuck you!" Supervisor Wang kicked it up again, and scolded viciously: "Ran away? Where did you go?! Why do they find bloody sheepskins under your beds, I call you hard-mouthed! Damn, I can't kick you! ”

The Charuya looked at Supervisor Wang with hateful eyes, and refused to give in to his mouth: "That's it...... Ran. You guys...... Outsiders...... Discriminating against us...... Get out of here! ”

"Damn, still looking at me like that? Believe it or not, I'm going to kill you both? When Lao Tzu was fighting the Spaniards in the Caribbean, you two were still playing ostriches in the western grasslands! Damn, I'm going to kill you! Supervisor Wang kicked the two of them a few more times, and then turned around angrily and said to the village chief and the others: "These two guys are still hard-mouthed, no matter what, just do what you discussed before!" It's the first time I've seen someone who owes money to our bank so justifiably and so arrogantly. Let's go through the formalities now, and then send them to Changshan Fort, where they can work as miners to pay off their debts! Damn, it's not appropriate for a good person, you have to go to that 'black shop' in Changshan Iron Mine to be a slave. Hmph, this is what they asked for, and they can't blame me. ”

The village chief and the others naturally had no opinions, and Supervisor Wang quickly went through the formalities with the village chief, the militia director, and the people from the police station. As several of the people present stamped their seals on a form of disposition opinions brought out by Supervisor Wang, the fate of the two Charuya was sealed - they were sent to serve three years of hard labor in the Changshan Iron Mine to repay the loan (four sheep) owed to the Zhenyuan branch of the Northwest Reclamation Bank.

"Xiao Zhou, you go back and pack your luggage in a while, and tomorrow I will accompany the comrades from the police station to escort these two people to Changshan Iron Mine, and then go through the formalities with the people from Changshan Iron Mine." Supervisor Wang suddenly said to Zhou Dahe, who was standing aside.

"Huh? Oh yes! Zhou Dahe hurriedly nodded yes. (To be continued......)