As the days passed, the weather began to warm up.

Even in the Lushunkou area far away in Liaodong, the cold wind is no longer as fierce as before. Although there are still large patches of snow on the ground and large chunks of sea ice still on the outside of the port, overall, it is much better than it was in previous periods.

The already energetic Lushunkou camp has become even more lively because of this. Especially when it's time to eat, most people are usually busy outside, but when it comes to dinner, they have to return on time. The camp established by the Qiong Navy in the port of Arthur is now not only responsible for the livelihood of more than 1,000 Qiong Navy soldiers and tens of thousands of refugee families, but even the food of the Lushun Dongjiang Army - of course, this is not free of charge. Under the leadership of the commander-in-chief Huang Long, the local soldiers of the Dongjiang Army also accepted the dispatch of the Qiong Navy and participated in the hot labor, exchanging labor for food.

The camp has already been built, what else can so many people do - logging! There is nothing else in the Northeast, forestry resources are absolutely abundant, can be called an inexhaustible treasure trove, even after a few hundred years, it is also the country's most important forest production area. On the current Lushun Peninsula, if you look at it from the sky, most of the area is still dense primeval forest, and the site occupied by human development is only a small piece, and as for the road, there is only a narrow line.

The construction of the Weihaiwei base now requires a large amount of timber, and the policy of the Qiong Navy towards refugees is that they must not be idle. With several superimposed, it is only natural that Lushun has become a huge logging site. According to the long-term plan of the staff group, the area around Lushun and Jinzhou will be used as a bridgehead for the development of eastern Liaodong in the future. The reason why we don't occupy this place at the moment is just because the expansion is too fast, and the team really can't take care of it. When they have the ability in the future, the Lushun and Dalian areas will definitely be the priority development and construction goals -- these words are not only used to comfort Xiao Lang, but also part of the strategic planning of the Qiong Navy.

So even if all the primeval forests on the Lushun Peninsula are cut down, it will be fine, and it can be regarded as leveling the land for the future. Of course, with their small number and a short winter's time, they would certainly not be able to achieve such a great feat. But it doesn't matter, Xie Xi has already agreed with Huang Long: after the Qiong Navy leaves, the Dongjiang Army will continue to carry out the logging business, exchanging timber with the Qiong Navy for food, so that even if the imperial court's supply to the Dongjiang River is not in place, the Qiong Navy can make up the rest. The food problem that had plagued the Dongjiang Army for a long time was solved in one fell swoop, and the Qiong Navy could also use this to obtain a long-term supply of timber resources, and gradually draw the Dongjiang Army into its own camp.

The only unhappy person was Hou Jin - Huang Taiji finally found that his "yang scheme" had no effect on this green leather army at all, and the tens of thousands of refugees who had deliberately driven over him had instead given Shorthair a large number of high-quality laborers - and the large number of wooden platoons floating near the port of Arthur and gradually increasing in number seemed to laugh at his stupidity every day. And the idea of counting on this to consume the food of the Joan Navy was ...... It's not that it didn't happen. The food consumption of the Lushun Kouqiong Navy was indeed very large, but they brought more of it. Especially when the transport ship that originally only transported grain and materials can now tow a lot of wooden rafts on the return trip, not only the supply ships of the Qiong Navy, but even the Ming Dynasty merchants in Tianjin have begun to take the initiative to bring grain over to exchange for timber - Wang Pu is building a lot of construction in Tianjin Port, and he also needs a lot of building materials.

As a result, since the beginning of spring, there has been no large number of refugees from the Golden State. It is said that the Houjin side tightened the opening again, and the patrol galloped down the road, slashing and killing all those who dared to run south. Although there are still some young people with both courage and luck who can cross the dense forest and escape Houjin's pursuit to Lushun, there are very few such characters, at most one or two a day, or even a few days, and there are hundreds of them when they don't move like before.

In the past, when there were many refugees, he was often worried, but now that there are fewer people, he is worried again - grandma is easy to straighten out everything on Lushun's side, refugees are no longer a burden but a high-quality resource, but Houjin dares to cut off the road? You must know that blocking people's money is like killing your parents! Under Xiao Lang's instigation, Xie Xi even wanted to lead his troops to the north to attack a wave, just like the Houjin entered the Central Plains to plunder, and grabbed their population resources back. It was only later that he considered that such a rash expansion of the front was indeed inconsistent with the general policy formulated by the committee, and that he forcibly restrained himself.

In addition to strategic considerations, there is another reason for controlling the dismissal - Julie's due date is approaching, and it is within this time. Pang Yu once suggested that he could return to Hainan first, although Xie Xi said that he didn't have to, he still had to bring the three regiments home in a complete way, but it was natural that he didn't want to make another trouble in the process.

And with the birth of his own child, Xie Xi has gradually developed a habit recently - he always likes to go to the children's camp when he has nothing to do.

There are a lot of children in the refugee camps -- when Houjin drove people out, he always used to give priority to the old and weak and children who had no productive capacity, and the old and weak often died on the road, but the children still survived more easily if they were taken care of by adults. When he arrived at the Qiong Navy, because all the adults had to work, and fearing that the children would be in danger if no one took care of them, a children's camp was set up, and all the children who could leave their parents, and who were under the age of twelve, were gathered here during the day, and were led by a few half-grown children of fifteen or sixteen, and then their parents took them back at night.

At first, it was just a matter of letting these children play on their own, without accidents or trouble, but then I don't know when it began, and play gradually turned into education - at first, it was just those girls who were teaching the little dolls to read, and the teaching was full of mistakes, and then the management saw that it was not good, isn't this misleading? So I found a few Confucian students from among the refugees to teach them the Three Character Classic, and the teaching was not bad, so I reported it as a grade. But Xie Xi thought about it after he knew it, it was not right - these children will also be the next generation of our Qiong Navy in the future, how can they let the Confucian students of the Ming Dynasty educate them? So I immediately found some instructors from the army and gave them cultural classes, including Chinese pinyin, simplified Chinese characters and basic mathematics. Later, even "real short-haired" such as Pang Yu and Old Jack would occasionally be pulled over to give a few lectures to teach children some basic astronomical and geographical knowledge and common sense of hygiene, which can be regarded as a certain degree of "quality education".

Today, the curriculum in the children's camp is very formal: literacy in the morning, physical education in the afternoon - in fact, the instructor takes the children to play, but there is a mixture of physical exercise and queue awareness. After dinner in the evening, the children were sent to the camps in order to return to their parents.

Theoretically, joining a children's camp is voluntary, and you may or may not come. But in fact, not only did all the children from the camp run in, but even the Dongjiang Army stuffed their children in. It is said that it is limited to the age of twelve, but in fact, many thirteen or fourteen-year-olds have falsely reported their age, anyway, these children are generally quite short and thin due to malnutrition, and they can't be seen at all if they are underreported one or two years old.

The reason is simple - three meals a day are included in the children's camp. Moreover, the food standard here is even higher than that of Qiong Haijun's own: not only can it ensure that there is meat every day, but later when the supplies are more abundant, according to the nutritional standards set by Wu Nanhai, all children in the children's camp will be given an egg per day per day!

In the first few days, there were a lot of troubles in the camp for this egg -- there were internal bullies who ate their own and then went to rob others, and there were also outsiders who brazenly robbed children and things, but this unhealthy trend was quickly subdued -- the 3rd Regiment of the Qiong Navy had managed tens of thousands of rebel prisoners in Dengzhou in an orderly manner, and had sufficient experience in dealing with such incidents. Shorthair is generous enough, whipping is unceremonious, candy and leather whip are combined to ensure the best educational effect.

Xie Xi himself often picks up meals to inspect and check whether the ingredients and materials allocated to the children's camp are really used for the children. As far as he is concerned, this kind of inspection may have another meaning - every time he sees those children holding the rice bowl and chirping happily, Lao Jie's eyes will show a gentle color, as if he thinks of himself.

"I remember when I didn't come here before, every time I went to my cousin's house as a guest, it was a big project to see them coaxing the little ancestor of the family to eat - the four adults of my father, mother, grandparents, and grandmother circled around, coaxing for a long time before I was willing to enjoy a bite of my face...... Or the children of this era are obedient. ”

"It's natural, let your cousin really go hungry a few times, and he must be honest."

Pang Yu, who accompanied him, responded casually, and at the same time carefully looked at the children's complexions:

"It's not bad, most of them have recovered."

-- The children are indeed the most adaptable, even if they are all yellow and thin when they come here, and some of them are suffering from a certain degree of malnutrition, but after eating a full meal here and having sufficient nutritional supplements, they also look white and fat, and even gradually show the baby fat that a normal child should have.

"They are the future of our Qiong Navy, and they can't be taken lightly."

Xie Xi was boasting triumphantly, when he suddenly heard a cold voice next to him:

"It's a pity that you are obviously capable of saving more 'futures' from the Manchurians, but you only want to escape!" (To be continued.) )