Chapter 410: Foresight and Near-term Worries

For the many people of the steppe, and especially for the northern tribes who had come here with trepidation from the north of the Wolf Plain, unlike the rest of the whole camp, there was a place in this area where six huge windmills with three narrow blades had been erected. Looking at the slender bracket of the windmill, which is made up of three not too stout, but strong and stable, everyone knows that this kind of windmill is obviously not used for grinding noodles. Because they had to spend a lot of time on the grassland, although Ye Tao and his party did not have many people, they still transported this kind of wind turbine that was not too portable in advance. Every night, when the rest of the camp could only rely on the faint light of the fire to illuminate inadequately, only Ye Tao's camp always maintained considerable lighting. The tent that Ye Tao used as an office was always as bright as day.

Here, Ye Tao doesn't actually make too many decisions, but he has always maintained his understanding and follow-up of various affairs in Yunzhou. The current governance system of Yunzhou has been completely on the track, and his daily work is getting easier and easier. In the past few years, Golan has completed the transformation of the entire Yunzhou and most of the Zhenzhou from animal husbandry to animal husbandry and planting, although Golan is a tribal leader and has never touched such things as planting before taking over the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, but he attaches more importance to agriculture and is willing to change the pastures with limited production into large farms. The Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau has a large group of experts of all kinds, such as old farmers, tea farmers, fruit farmers, forest rangers, travelers who have traveled all over the Middle Earth, old people from all over the world who know very well about climate change, and even onmyoji, feng shui and landscape architects, horticulturists, etc., etc., the huge team of experts, coupled with Ye Tao's frequent guidance and help, the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau's decision-making ability and execution ability are amazingly strong. The most obvious manifestation of this is that in the past three years, they have combined a series of projects such as water diversion, land preparation, and relocation of peasant households, and built 22 large-scale farms in Zhenzhou at once, making use of the land that had been abandoned because of the war. In just three years, one-tenth of the entire town and state has been turned into farmland. Although most of the fields still need to be further nourished and cultivated, the large amount of money that the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau has spent in the past three years may be fully recovered by next year according to the current situation. After three years of large-scale investment by the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, when Zhenzhou began to be completely self-sufficient in grain from the second year, and even began to hoard some war-ready military rations, the court was shaken. Three years later, Zhenzhou has become an important grain supply area in the north because of large-scale and methodical scientific development, and has also formed a complementary pattern of main agriculture and main animal husbandry with Yunzhou. What's more, after three years of this big investment and output, Zhenzhou was completely subsumed into Dongping, and there was no longer any waves. Even if Xiling wants to fight back, I am afraid that the first to resist are the ordinary people who have already obtained land and have benefited from the governance system of Dongping and Yunzhou. Moreover, it is not so simple for Xiling to fight back. Not to mention the power of the Lei Yin Demon Sect in the local area, even if the Lei Yin Demon Sect, which gets along well with the Xiling Imperial Court on the surface, does not make a move at all, the ordinary people in Zhenzhou who are now conducting military training of a very high quality in the agricultural slack season are enough for the Xiling army to drink a pot. After all, Zhenzhou is a military state, when the construction is carried out, the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau has spent a lot of money, each village has the best simple defense measures, there are centralized storage weapons rooms, in the southernmost and northernmost series of villages, there are even simple catapults and other ordnance. Although these are all things that have been eliminated by the Dongping army, as long as these things can still be used, the threat to the enemy is real.

The development of the Commerce and Trade Bureau was forced out by Ye Tao and Tan Weixin leaving together. Shi Wei, who had always relied on Tan Weixin's wise decision-making, had to take charge of the decision-making himself, after all, Tan Weiran, who was temporarily acting for the affairs of the Jingluo Mansion when Ye Tao was away, and the bigwigs sent by the imperial court to help before and after did not have professional economic and financial knowledge. Due to the relatively more professional decision-making of the Commerce and Trade Bureau, their expert team is relatively small, the core is the president of the Bank of Yunzhou Guan Yinhang and the chief accountant of the Ye Mansion Wei Zhi, and the governor of Zhenzhou Lu Dan, they have formulated a series of measures and regulations from the perspective of economy, operation and financial security to regulate the operation of the market, and with the big knife of Chen Kai of the Third Civil Affairs Department, it is a good job. The series of measures they formulated were all marked as trial before Ye Tao and Tan Weixin came back, and after Tan Weixin came back, she discussed it with Ye Tao, and most of them were approved except for a few regulations. The development of the Commerce and Trade Bureau, and the understanding of the economy in this era, have allowed Tan Weixin to breathe a sigh of relief and focus more time and energy on longer-term planning.

Most of the towns have not had a chance to rebuild to the appearance of Gondor, but those basic ideas to facilitate daily life and improve the cityscape can be applied to other places. In the past three years, the Civil Affairs Department has rebuilt Ningyuan, Suiyuan, Leitingya, Dongjiaji and a number of small towns, and although the complex underground waterway system is costly, the method of combining open ditches and channels can still be used. Not to mention anything else, now that Yunzhou has reached the rainy season, the water situation in the town is much better. Due to the focus on the construction of public health facilities, the incidence of epidemic diseases has also dropped a lot.

In the past few years, there have been no serious disasters and epidemics in Yunzhou. In the whole territory of Yunzhou, even deep into the Benwolf Plain, warehouses to store a large number of emergency supplies were built. The Second Civil Affairs Department is different from other departments, they need to take care of too many aspects, although the budget given to them is not insufficient, but everyone knows that if there is really a big disaster, no amount of money is enough. On the one hand, they are constantly formulating and revising various emergency plans, coordinating drills with garrisons and great families in various places, and on the other hand, they are constantly studying how to reduce the loss of storage and transportation. The achievements of the second civil affairs department's own transportation team and warehouse management team in terms of efficiency and wear and tear control have made other departments dumbfounded. Most of the officials at all levels of the Second Civil Affairs Department were from poor backgrounds, and many of them were not even born in the first place, but the descendants of free peasants hired by landlords, the errands and delivery men in the shops, and the apprentices in the workshops and carriage shops...... When these people were thinking about their poor backgrounds and thinking that their families wanted to do something in the midst of the catastrophe, they came to the Second Civil Affairs Department through various selections, and after rounds of on-the-job training, they were instilled with a stomach of basic knowledge by experts and technicians from Ye's Workshop, FedEx and other institutions, and combined with their original knowledge and background, it suddenly produced a wonderful chemical effect.

As for the command, even this department is now deeply integrated with the lives of the people in Yunzhou. The salary standard of the Yunzhou Zhujun is quite good. Most of the garrison camps were selected from locals, or soldiers who were willing to move to the garrison, and the salary of one person was enough to feed the family. And the officers and men of the main combat battalion, because of the long-term stationing outside, coupled with intense and arduous training, also have a non-local service allowance, and when carrying out some exercises such as exercises, feints, and deterrence operations, there is also a combat service allowance. In fact, the officers and men of the garrison battalion did not care at all whether they were going to leave their homes to serve in other places, and even had to take relatively great risks to carry out various military operations. However, Yunzhou doesn't want to expand the scale of the main battle camp at all, and if you want to enter the main battle camp, you have to show real skills. The high command is not only paying the army to organize the army, but also preparing a set of plans to deal with various situations. Whether it is dealing with Northern Liao, dealing with Xiling, whether it is dealing with the enemy's attack or organizing a large-scale march by himself, or even rushing to Danyang in the shortest possible time, there are all neatly stacked plans in the confidential information room of the headquarters. As soon as the situation requires, these plans will be delivered to all battalion-level commanders throughout Yunzhou in the shortest possible time, usually two days, and put into practice. Yunzhou's current requirement for all main battle battalions is to be able to complete the transition from a garrison state to a marching state within one day after receiving the order. This kind of reaction speed has been constantly trained since the time when he attacked Zhenzhou, and now, it has reached the point where everyone has become accustomed to it. This heavy army group in Yunzhou has always been a hidden trump card in Tan Xiaopei's hands and eyes. It is precisely because Ye Tao's operation in the north is so successful that Tan Xiaopei can be comfortable with the layout of Northern Liao, Xiling, and even Chunnan, who is still an ally.

There are not many idlers in Yunzhou now, and it is difficult for the headquarters to organize basic military training when the farmers are slack.

The most surprising thing is that the high command is still in charge of an organization called "Boy Scouts", so that children can enter the collective and have a preliminary understanding of organization, discipline, and some basic knowledge of field life and travel. Although the "Boy Scouts" are only scratch up, due to the strict organization and the incentive mechanism that is very suitable for children, the third autumn Scout training camp to be organized this year has already made many children hold back their energy to win a golden star that can be pinned to a beautiful uniform. The current high command has also changed from the previous practice of isolating the army from public view, and the garrison battalions in various places are certainly in harmony with the locals, and the camps and training of the main battle battalions are also regularly open to the local gentry and ordinary people. Naturally, the training subjects on the opening day will be specially arranged, and for the soldiers who are visited, it can probably be regarded as a rest. These measures have made the people's support for the army more and more high, as for the surrounding enemies' spying on the Yunzhou army, to be honest, the Yunzhou army really doesn't care now. To learn from the armies of Yunzhou, equipment, training, and tactical thinking cannot be lacking.

However, the current good situation has made Ye Tao, Tan Weixin, Dai Yun and others more and more cautious and walking on thin ice. This time the opportunity to solve the grassland problem in one fell swoop, Ye Tao naturally wanted to come over to take a look, not only that, he also hoped that the integrated grassland could bring Yunzhou a new development opportunity, at least, it should also be able to alleviate the problem, and they would win enough time to solve the problem. Ye Tao didn't want to escort Dongping for many years, this is too long-term and not in his consideration, but in the near future, trouble is already in front of him.