The temporary settlements for the Jews were set up on the borders of western Xinjiang, Central Asia and Siberia, which were sparsely populated but relatively humid enough to accommodate millions of people.

More importantly, if you want to ensure that Siberia is more closely connected with the interior of the Great Zhou, there must be enough villages and towns between Western Xinjiang and Siberia to provide a place for merchants to rest.

If not, it would be unreasonable to rely on the imperial court's support for Siberia, not to mention that the time is too long, and from the perspective of economic development.

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang planned to set up a lot of villages along the way, which were naturally used for the temporary resettlement of Jews in the early stage. And once the Jews left, and then moved some people from the interior, from the western frontier to Siberia, it would be less desolate.

What's more, this investment was funded by the Jewish consortium and did not cost a tael of silver in the imperial treasury, so the military officials of the imperial court were also very supportive of it.

In fact, the Jewish consortium did not spend much money on the construction of these villages. This is mainly due to the fact that the timber needed to build the village is supplied by Siberia, which is not short of timber.

On the other hand, the 100,000 Jewish soldiers stationed in the western Xinjiang region for training were all arranged by Zhang Lingyang to build villages.

Originally, they built a settlement for their own people, and the Jewish soldiers naturally did not cheat and cheat, and they worked very hard. Moreover, in order to provide a stable settlement for their people, the Jewish soldiers built the houses there very strongly, and the layout between houses and villages was also very reasonable.

This is largely due to the high number of skilled Jewish soldiers.

The Jews were probably the most educated group in the world at this time, and despite their previous social status in Europe, they were very hard at education.

Therefore, among the 100,000 Jewish soldiers, there are many who understand architecture, and it is not unusual to be able to plan a very reasonable layout.

In this regard, whether Zhang Lingyang admits it or not, Da Zhou is indeed inferior in this regard.

Because even if Zhang Lingyang already attaches great importance to education, he has been working hard to strengthen national education in various places over the years, but the population base of Dazhou is too large.

By the end of the 14th year of Tai'an, the number of people who could read and hyphenate in the Great Zhou Dynasty was less than one-tenth of the total population.

In the army, what Zhang Lingyang can ensure is that the most basic officers can read and break words, and as for those soldiers, there are still many people who can't read a single big character.

This is the result of the large-scale promotion of education in the military after the establishment of the military cabinet.

According to the past, even if it is a mid-level and middle-level officer in the army, there are many people who are illiterate.

Even now, there are still many middle- and lower-ranking officers who are dissatisfied with the mandatory study program stipulated by the imperial court. In their opinion, they only need to work the battlefield, and what is the use of learning so many words and truths, it is a waste of time.

But the times are different in the end, and now we have entered the era of science and technology. If even the officers do not know the knowledge and have no culture, then how can the combat effectiveness of this army be ensured?

Therefore, even though there is a lot of opposition in the military, compulsory education is still strongly enforced.

In addition, the military cabinet has made a new regulation that in the next five years, all generals above the middle level of the army must enter the Royal Military Academy for systematic study, and only after passing the examination can they return to their original positions in the army.

If not, then they will be able to spend it at the Royal Military Academy, and the imperial court will not be short of their food expenses and subsidies anyway.

Even, the military cabinet has also made a more long-term plan, planning to use 20 years, that is, a generation, to popularize basic education in the army, so that all soldiers can read and write.

Not only that, but after 20 years, even the most junior officers had to pass the examination of the Royal Military Academy before they could take up actual positions in the army.

The military cabinet did not make these plans blindly. Because according to the estimates of the Ministry of Rites, in twenty years, more than 30 percent of the population of the Great Zhou will be educated.

Among them, more than 80 percent of the educated group under the age of 30 will be educated.

In other words, at this stage, the education promotion of Da Zhou is mainly aimed at young people. As for those who are old, the imperial court has actually given up.

If this plan can be completed, the national strength of the Great Zhou will surely rise to a new stage. When the time comes, there will be no longer any need to be afraid of the challenges of any one country or group.

The conversation turned back to the western frontier.

After a long journey, the Jewish settlers arrived at the settlements that had already been built, before the first heavy snow fell after the beginning of winter in the fourteenth year of Tai'an.

There, there was plenty of grain, grass and various daily necessities that were continuously transported from the interior by the merchants of the Great Zhou Dynasty. In addition, the Jewish soldiers prepared enough wood for each family to use for the winter.

On the border between Western Xinjiang and Siberia, the winters were very cold, which made the Jews who migrated very unaccustomed.

Especially after heavy snowfall, the doors and windows of the house are blocked by two or three feet of snow.

Protecting the whole body, it is difficult to open the door, people go out to see, the world is white, and even people can't distinguish between southeast and northwest.

Two or three feet of snow is at least up to the waist of a person, and people can't walk normally in the snow.

However, the Jewish people are also accustomed to living a hard life, and after going out, they will remove the snow from the yard little by little without saying a word.

The main thing for residents is to clear the snow from the roof. Although the house is very strong, it is a wooden structure, and if there is too much backlog, there is a high risk that the roof will collapse.

After the heavy snowfall, all roads were blocked, and merchants from all over the country stopped coming here long before winter.

Fortunately, all kinds of winter life for each family have been prepared, so there is no need to worry about anything.

That being said, in several nearby Jewish barracks, the officers organized the soldiers to open a road to several nearby villages to check what was going on.

Fortunately, the house was built firmly enough, and there were no major problems.

The only thing that is a little troublesome is that it is very painful to get sick during this period.

This is because although the residents of each village have already made corresponding arrangements, there is no guarantee that there will be a doctor in each village.

Even, in some places, there is no guarantee that a doctor will exist in three or five villages. Coupled with the heavy snow blocking the road, it is not so easy to find a doctor in another village......