Liaozhong Hall, is a new official hall on the bank of the Liao River, not so much the official hall is not a small market, it is not much prosperous at all, the seemingly straight middle street is only two arrows away, although the market is not big, but this is not a spacious street but bustling with people, it is no wonder that there are more than 100 miles of land around, there is only such a town, naturally it seems to be very lively, the shops on both sides are lined up one after another, grocery stores, cloth shops, tea shops, ironware shops, livestock shops...... There are no worse shops like coffin shops, with banners hanging in front of the shops, lazily fluttering over the heads of passers-by. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It was almost noon, and the shouting of the vendors in the bazaar was sudden, and they looked at the tall horse that was being led, and it was no wonder that this horse attracted their attention, which was not only taller than the horse in the bazaar, but also extremely stout, and the horse next to it was like a foal.

When passing by the cattle shop, several people with good horses seemed to have some hot eyes, but after taking a look, they immediately dispelled this idea - the man who led the horse carried a spear on his back, and it was common for a man to carry a gun and a knife in this Kanto, but this man was still wearing a military uniform, although the military uniform was less red plate and the copper bean on the collar than the military uniform of the policeman and the soldier, but others could see the identity of this person at a glance - this person was a retired soldier!

The retired soldiers of the Northeast Army are not the defense army of the past, and no one takes them seriously when the defense army leaves the camp, but the retired soldiers of the Northeast Army are different. Not to mention the status of this armor chief. And it is directly under the command of the police. In addition to being jointly and severally responsible for public security, Baojia is also responsible for lower-level administrative matters such as household registration surveys and tax collection, and Baojia recruits men between the ages of 17 and 50 from among its residents to form a strong group responsible for preventing bandits and robbers and fire, wind, floods, etc., which is why this retired soldier who is the chief of Baojia will be issued a spear as an arm when he retires. Although this spear is just an old Remington needle gun, it is local. This foreign gun also means status, means its superior status.

When Wu Mantun, who led the horse, came to the civil affairs hall that was converted into a temple, the old temple looked very dilapidated, but the courtyard of the old temple was not small.

"You were a soldier last year?"

Sun Yelin looked at the soldier in front of him, he knew how it was not because of local needs, a veteran like this would never retire this year.

"Back to the chief's words. It's been exactly one year now! ”

Wu Mantun's tone was as high as in the army, and he was extremely respectful of the officer. In fact, he himself did not expect to retire so early, when the commander told him that he was allowed to retire, he only felt like a dream, and in the following month, he stopped his normal training in the army, and began to work with other veterans who had chosen to be placed in the countryside, in the agricultural regiment to carry out training in the operation of farm tools, learning how to use a two-wheeled double-plough, how to pull a cart, how to use a horse-drawn seeder, as for raising horses and accumulating fertilizer, it was necessary to learn things.

According to the commander, in the local area, a veteran like him wants to be a security chief, and his subordinates are in charge of more than 100 households, and the prestige of this security chief is like the prestige of the commander in the army, and he must first be proficient in farming, not to mention that he still has dozens of acres of land to manage, so he is extremely serious in learning.

After a few simple polite words with the chief of civil affairs, Wu Mantun took the resettlement card to the agricultural cooperative to collect farm tools, according to the large agricultural tools provided by the Refugee Relief Agency, such as two-wheeled double-share ploughs and horse-drawn seeders, were all received by the chief of the security department and the chief of A, after all, this kind of double-wheeled and double-ploughed plough weighing hundreds of pounds is not something that ordinary people can afford.

Compared with the light walking plow, the large double-wheel double-plough is more suitable for field use, and the walking plough can only open more than two acres of wasteland a day, while the double-wheel double-plough pulled by two horses can reclaim nearly ten acres of land. If it is used as a plough, a person can plow twenty acres of land a day, far from being comparable to the iron foot plow, but the price of the double-wheel double-plough is too expensive, a plough costs more than a dozen taels of silver, precisely because of its high price, it will be received by the armor chief, and then used uniformly, after all, the use of the double-wheel double-plough itself requires a certain amount of technology.

After the ploughshares, seeders and other farm tools were carried onto the carriage, looking at the brand-new iron-wheeled carriage, Wu Mantun's heart did not know whether to be happy or sad for a while, happy that now the family of this kind of field has been completed, but the worry is that this full cart of farm tools is worth more than 100 yuan, although it is reasonable to say that when it comes to the land, it is inseparable from these things, and it can also be rented to the people of Baoli to earn a little rent.

But after all, for him, this is all money bought with money. Although it is only 30% of the money, the rest of the money has to be repaid slowly, can the arrears of these families be paid off by rent?

"Hey, let's take one step at a time!"

When putting on the harness for the horse, Wu Mantun secretly said to himself, his horse is the Alden heavy horse he bought from the agricultural reclamation regiment when he retired, although this horse has a lot of food, it can work with two or three horses on top of one head, and it is because it can work, Wu Mantun will buy this horse, not the common pony in the Northeast.

After a while, when the tall heavy horse led the carriage out of the street of the Liaozhong Hall, at the door of the Civil Affairs Hall, Sun Yelin saw the sad look on Wu Mantun's face in the carriage, and a smile broke out on his face.

"Hey, this person, that's it, they don't know at all, what it means to them to spend some money to buy some farm tools now, which from ancient times to the present, who will buy all the farms? There are some things, small families are not cost-effective to buy, not all of them are rented, this steel plough is expensive to buy, but if he rents it, ten families can collect a few yuan a year, and there are other household goods, this year can get a dozen yuan......

When he said this to the sheriff next to him, Sun Yelin couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the Governor's Mansion took care of these soldiers in the township, not only giving them the best land, but also providing them with farm tools in the form of subsidies, compared to the farm tools borrowed from the settled refugees in the Guannai. It's just basic farming tools like sickles and hoes.

In the end, whether it is farming or harvesting grain. Even grain shipments. The people in Baojia will be inseparable from Baojia for at least the next few years. Sun Yelin, who came from the administrative school, knew that this kind of production dependence would inevitably lead to psychological dependence, and the monopoly of production tools would lead to the enhancement of the authority of the local authorities.

In the planning of migrant settlements, the Immigration Department always goes through some clever "resettlement". In order to establish the authority of the Baojia Governor, this was the requirement of the prefecture, and according to the plan of the prefecture, the settlements, which were mainly immigrants from the Kannai, would be the most reliable basis for the governor's office, and the reason for its reliability was its dependence on the public power that extended to the settlements.

"It doesn't matter if they don't understand, they just need to understand the responsibility of being the armor chief,"

Looking at the western-style carriage that was far away. The sheriff's words made Sun Yelin's expression a little solemn.

What are the responsibilities of the armor chief?

Just according to the provisions of the "Regulations on the Protection of Armor", then the chief of the armor is not only responsible for the joint and several liability of public security. He is also in charge of lower-level administrative affairs such as household registration surveys and tax collection. But this is only the superficial power of the chief of the armor, and the reason why the government spends a lot of money on training immigrants is for what.

"How do the refugees from Kannai maintain their habits after the training period? To take the simplest example, in winter, it is very common for people not to take a bath in a season, and their habits must conflict with the hygiene requirements...... I'm afraid there will be a backlash......"

In fact, the backlash was not what the Governor's Office feared, after all, the people are now far more obedient than originally thought, but even the establishment of a health police to supervise the development of good hygiene habits in the Northeast has not yet been implemented. However, the absence of a health police does not mean that it is impossible to change the hygiene habits of the people, at least the chief of the armor has this responsibility and obligation.

Of course, for the Governor's Palace, hygiene is not the most important, and the most important significance of establishing the armor is probably the control of the people, more precisely, the control of a group of people loyal to the Governor's Palace. There is no need to even doubt the loyalty of those new immigrants, after all, they cultivate the fields of the Governor's Office, and if there is no Governor's Office, there will be no tomorrow for those new immigrants, and the common interests will drive the new immigrants to become the champions of the Governorate together with the retired soldiers in the next ten years.

The common interest is not limited to the new immigrants, but is also linked to the chief of armor served by the retired soldiers, who serve as the chief of the army in the township, and their wealth, power and status are linked to the governor's office, and even the annual training of the soldiers in the township will become a status symbol in the countryside - only the "officials" such as the chief of the armor can participate in the training of the soldiers in the township.

It is precisely under the impetus of these interests that the real core of the future Tohoku will be the cities and the tens of thousands of settlements scattered over millions of square kilometers in the Tohoku, and the old-style villages and towns will be forcibly incorporated into the Tohoku group in the process, either actively or passively assimilated, and at that time, a new Tohoku will truly stand in the land of Kanto.

"According to the "Armor Protection Ordinance", this household is one ding, and a strong ding regiment is formed to be trained by the chief of the bao, and the chief of the armor is trained ......"

Training the people, this is the responsibility of the chief of the armor, and it is also the responsibility of the Civil Affairs Department, and as the chief of civil affairs, Sun Yelin naturally bears this responsibility, and the organization of the Zhuangding League is also one of the assessments.

"Sheriff Wang, our Xinmin Department has set up 132 guarantees, what are you going to do then?"

132 regiments, that is, 13,200 regiments, in fact, after all the armor is completed, the number of regiments is only a lot more, how to train these regiments, so that they can be used as reserve forces under the command of the governor's office, this is the most concerned thing of the governor's office, after all, there is only less than one division of troops stationed in the entire Fengtian territory.

Under these circumstances, how to mobilize the armed forces of the people to the maximum extent and incorporate them into their own use is a matter that the Governor's Office has to consider, and even the "Armor Protection Regulations" were formulated on this basis, and the so-called maintenance of law and order is only an excuse.

"What to do? There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain! ”

Wang De complied, and couldn't help but feel a little sad on his face. If one is guaranteed and one is guaranteed, it runs down. It will take half a year anyway. But he is a sergeant, although the Zhuang Ding Regiment is under his command, but in the final analysis, this Zhuang Ding Regiment is still in charge of the civil chief.

Now that retired officers and soldiers like this are being enriched into the various reclamation sites, can this kind of reclamation with the assistance of soldiers and civilians succeed? Or even if the armor protection system can be successful?

"Governing the people with the military" is the management model of the resettlement reclamation site formulated by the commander, that is, through the retired soldiers as the chief of armor, so as to continue the management of the immigration training camp, and in order to support this management method of "using the army to unify the people", the commander specially instructed the military command department to allow the soldiers to retire early. But how effective is the method of "using the army to unify the people"?

No one knows, no one can tell, but as a subordinate all they need is obedience, just like for thousands of retired soldiers like Wu Mantun, as a soldier in the township, when they chose to settle their family in the Northeast, they didn't know what their mission was, for them, this was just the beginning of a way of life, and even the beginning of a new life.

The half-man-tall dead grass of the savannah was caressed by the cold wind. It undulates like a flowing desert, and in that undulating dry grass. A continuous field is distributed in the middle, standing next to the carriage, Wu Mantun looked at the land in surprise in surprise, is this his home?

More precisely, is the land in front of him the land he passed on to his descendants? Bending down, Wu Mantun grabbed a handful of soil in the field, the soil is fertile black soil, when it is reflected by the sun, the oil is vigorous, the best black soil, the best field. If it was in the Guannai, such a high-grade field would be worth at least a dozen taels of silver per acre, but now these lands are all his land!

"This is my land!"

Muttering softly, Wu Mantun walked around in the field, in front of him, there was an area of more than 100 acres of open land, that open space is the future settlement of immigrants, there is not a single resident there, but soon, a house will be built there, and as the chief of the security, he will not only shoulder the next resettlement work, but also take on the construction of the small town, of course, more importantly, he will also settle his home here.

"The primary school hall and the Baogong Office were built together, and the primary school was built in this place, well, this is a small market street, and it is necessary to set aside the funds of the store, and in the future, the funds of the Baoli will depend on the store fees......

Holding the "drawings" in his hand, and holding the oil lamp in the tent, Wu Mantun once again imagined the future of this small village with more than 100 households, the so-called drawings are the "new village drawings" issued by the Immigration Bureau, the area of the new village is the same, the population is the same, and even the various facilities are the same, and Wu Mantun, as the chief of security, must guide the construction of the settlement according to the plan on the drawings, fortunately he is no stranger to the map, and even in the afternoon, he has preliminarily determined the planning of the village through the way of steps.

"This year, when we are idle in winter, we should organize immigrants to build water canals......

Wu Mantun whispered on his lips, although the immigrants have not yet been allocated, but he has planned everything, building houses, establishing village markets, and of course, more importantly, the canal, this kind of land depends on water and fertilizer, the latter can raise pigs and cattle, as for the former, it needs to be led by the canal, which is directly related to the future of the village, and Wu Mantun, as the "founder" of the village, naturally will not ignore this, in fact, he will not ignore it, Because there are already corresponding institutions that have planned the construction path and quantity of the canal, this is precisely due to the use of Western-style surveying of land surveys -- while surveying and mapping the land, the canal and other water conservancy facilities are also planned according to the topography, hydrology and other conditions.

This is precisely the biggest difference in the organization of resettlement by the Governor's Office -- through scientific planning, the scientific use of land, forests and rivers is carried out, so as to ensure that the resettlement will not be "destructive" in the first place. If it is an ordinary security chief, it may ignore the resettlement plan, but for a security chief like Wu Mantun, the habit of "obedience" cultivated in the army will make him obey orders and build towns and water conservancy facilities according to the requirements of the drawings. This is precisely the biggest difference between soldiers and civilians, and in the process of organizing the construction of immigrants, he will also pass on good habits such as discipline to immigrants, and eventually the living habits of immigrants will undergo fundamental changes in the process.

However, Wu Mantun didn't know that he was just used to obedience as in the army, and he didn't know anything about the deep meaning behind all this, and his heart was just full of expectations for the future at this time.

"Wait a few years......"

Walking out of the tent, under the starry sky, Wu Mantun once again looked around the surrounding land, and a thriving small village appeared in front of his eyes, and he was the founder of this village, and even as the founder, he also had the right to name this village.

"It's all a brick house, and when the time comes, it's going to be ......."

Fantasizing about his future life, Wu Mantun did not have any dissatisfaction because of the emptiness around him, but was full of expectations for the future, looking forward to groups of immigrants enriching the village...... At this moment, Wu Mantun felt the slightest coolness on his face, stretched out his hand to feel it, and found that it was snowing, and the snowflakes were falling in the air......

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