Although there is some contempt for the style of Skerst, Li Yongji also understands that he should still be encouraged and supported for this kind of traitor who is willing to take the initiative to surrender and has a certain status.

In order to show his sincerity, Li Yongji not only treated Skerst with kindness and changed him to a better place to live with color steel houses, but also adopted his idea and abolished the priority of material distribution and changed it to the principle of equal distribution according to military ranks.

That is to say, in terms of cold materials, we no longer give priority to Chinese, mercenaries of the Allied countries give second priority, and the final division of US prisoners, but treat our soldiers and prisoners equally and distribute cold materials equally.

Moreover, Li Yongji's equal distribution is really evenly distributed, and he did not make any small moves, that is, what Scist said about being fair on the surface, but really giving his subordinates the same treatment as the prisoners, and everyone distributed those cold-resistant materials according to the average.

Not only that, Li Yongji also deducted this credit on Skerster, claiming to the outside world that it was General Scester's painstaking persuasion that gave such preferential treatment to those American prisoners, so as to increase Skerster's status in the eyes of American prisoners.

After the so-called striking while the iron was hot and announced that the priority distribution system would be abolished and replaced with equal distribution, Li Yongji also asked Skerst to personally come to the captives to give a speech accompanied by several Chinese soldiers.

The main content of the speech was arranged in advance, that is, to tell those US prisoners that you have done your duty for the country, you do not owe anything to the United States, and the most important thing now is to save your life, so we call on everyone to obey the arrangements of the Chinese, do not resist, do not make trouble, the war will always end, life will continue, good days are still to come, do not lose your life because of some people with ulterior motives.

Not to mention, this trick is quite useful, the American prisoners heard that it was General Scester who fought for them to fight for the right to distribute cold materials equally, and they were very grateful to him, plus everyone was indeed war-weary, and was expressed and called on by Scister, so that some of the resistance forces that had been accumulated in the army quickly dissipated into the non-mainstream, and they could no longer make any waves, because most people would not listen to them anymore.

It is from this incident that Li Yongji saw the benefits of high-level American traitors, because since Skerst went to the prisoner camp from time to time to appease people's hearts, the US prisoners have recently been more safe than in the past, which makes the management of prisoners of war of the expeditionary force much easier, not to mention, and even these prisoners can take on more civil engineering work of digging ditches and building houses, and the work efficiency has been greatly improved, which is simply a world of difference from the previous situation of passive sabotage.

It can be said that it is precisely because the work efficiency of these American prisoners has been greatly improved that the construction progress of the Diwozi and the color steel plate houses has been greatly accelerated, which has greatly reduced the workload of the expeditionary force, so that a large number of expeditionary forces and mercenaries of the alliance army can get rid of civil engineering work such as digging ditches and building houses, and restore them to a state of combat readiness.

In other words, just supporting a traitor and announcing a seemingly fair principle of equal distribution made a large number of American prisoners who were originally passive and extremely uncooperative turn into a group of hard-working and obedient good sappers, which was really earned.

After comparing this before and after, Li Yongji immediately realized that his previous methods had many shortcomings, especially in treating American prisoners, which were too simple and crude.

For example, after capturing these American prisoners at the beginning, Li Yongji completely circled them apart except for the most basic treatment, and kept Skerst, the supreme commander, in solitary confinement and did not let them be together.

As everyone knows, this will cause panic among the US prisoners, especially after there is no commander as a leader, the army will lose its unified leadership, and various trends of thought will begin to spread.

Because of the panic about the future, rumors are easy to be born, and later Li Yongji actually openly engaged in a priority system for cold materials, which made those US prisoners feel lost and dissatisfied, so naturally they dare not speak out against the Chinese guarding them, and it is already quite good to engage in non-violent non-cooperation.

Li Yongji had no doubt that as time went by, if the supply of materials continued to be insufficient, or even reduced, these American prisoners would definitely riot, and there were many signs of this tendency, and more than one person had told him to strengthen his vigilance and be careful of the riots of American prisoners.

In fact, Li Yongji didn't care much about these American prisoners at that time, and didn't let them participate in the labor, because Li Yongji at that time only wanted to go back quickly, and then transport these prisoners in batches to Western Hollywood in the form of labor, so as to enrich the local labor resources, and did not expect to continue to stay here.

Since everyone has to be carried away, then naturally there is no need to consider their feelings, as long as they don't have the strength to rebel.

As for the sudden arrival of the snowstorm later, Li Yongji's announcement of the priority distribution principle was Li Yongji's instinctive response, because in his opinion, his own talents are the most important, and those prisoners, although they are also more important assets, are insignificant compared to the lives of his own soldiers.

It is precisely because of this view that Li Yongji gave priority to supplying cold materials to his own people, so that his people would have no problem at all, and give a little benefit to the prisoners, but he did not expect that in the actual situation, the kind Chinese actually secretly lent some of their spare cotton clothes to the American prisoners.

To tell the truth, it was quite strange for Li Yongji to hear this at that time, because in his impression, didn't the Chinese always hate or hate foreign devils, how could they see that these American prisoners were unlucky, but they spontaneously sent them cotton clothes and quilts with kindness?

Later, I found someone to investigate, and I found out some real inside information.

It turned out that most of the soldiers of these expeditionary forces were soldiers trained by Li Yongji in Hollywood, and most of these people were the first batch of immigrants in Los Angeles, and they actually had a lot of contact with the local Americans.

Los Angeles was only a small town with a small population at that time, and most of the Americans who could come to Los Angeles were going to San Francisco to pan for gold, or Americans who couldn't pan for gold immediately, to put it bluntly, most of them were grassroots at the bottom.

Of course, these Americans have various problems, but based on the commonality of small people, that is, the ability to observe words and colors is very good, so they are very awe and envy of powerful outsiders, that is, Chinese.

Therefore, unlike those Americans who discriminated against Chinese in San Francisco, when facing the Chinese with strong force and abundant materials, they always showed their kindest side and tried their best to do things for the Chinese, in exchange for Chinese Chinese dollar banknotes and various special products, such as special drugs and steel products that are commonly available in immigrants.

Over time, the surrounding Americans, such as the poor Americans in San Francisco, also began to abandon the unrealistic fantasy of gold panning and went to Los Angeles instead, no, it should be said that the Red Fort in Hollywood, serving the rich Chinese. For example, being a servant, being a guide, being a hired laborer, anyway, all kinds of people who have cut their heads want to get in touch with the Chinese.

Therefore, there are actually many Americans in the Red Fort in Hollywood, and most of them are very kind to the Chinese, and the reason is that the Chinese here are not only numerous and powerful, but also outrageously wealthy compared to most Americans.

If nothing else, it is enough to make those Americans crazy from the fact that the Chinese here can buy those special drugs that are more expensive than gold in the United States at surprisingly cheap prices.

It can be said that most of the Americans who serve the Chinese eat those special drugs, and some go to China's steel products, after all, when Chinese buy special drugs and steel products, they go to the internal price, and the price difference with the foreign trade market is too far.

Generally speaking, Chinese are also happy to use their inexhaustible special drugs as wages to hire these white Americans to serve themselves.

Even, because at the beginning, Hollywood Red Fort Yang was in decline, Yan zhòng lacked women, so many American women filled in, either marrying Chinese, or doing local prostitution, relatively speaking, there are more American women who do prostitution, and hard currency is always a variety of Chinese-made special drugs, and can buy cheap Chinese products within the Red Fort Huayuan!

This has formed a phenomenon, that is, in the Red Fort in Hollywood, the Chinese have become first-class citizens, and the Americans have become second-class citizens, or a group of people who specialize in serving the Chinese, and naturally flattering Chinese like the uncle.

To make an analogy, those Americans in the Red Fort in Hollywood are like the puppet army or good people in the occupied area during the Anti-Japanese War, and the Chinese are the Japanese imperial army, and the puppet army and good people in the occupied area see the imperial army, no matter what they think in their hearts, at least on the surface, it is all kinds of nodding and waist, all kinds of Taijun hello.

On the other hand, Hollywood's American cousins have also influenced local Chinese, especially the newly moved Chinese.

You know, the previous Chinese, especially when the Qing Dynasty ruled, were more afraid of foreigners, and foreigners were more terrible than officials in a great way.

Although Li Yongji implemented the policy of opening up the country after the establishment of the new dynasty, coupled with the production of various scarce materials in China, more and more foreigners came to China, so that in the eyes of Chinese in coastal areas, especially in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin and other places, foreigners are no longer a rare thing.

However, after all, the time is still too short, even if the impact is violent, but many people have some deep-rooted things, which are not so easy to change.

In addition, after all, the transportation at this time could not be compared with later generations, and ocean voyages were still very expensive, and it was impossible for the poor people in Europe and the United States to buy Chinese ferry tickets, so most of the foreigners who came to China were rich trade merchants, and their main purpose was to purchase scarce materials in China.

Because of this, foreigners who come to China, in the eyes of Chinese, are mostly local tycoons who buy around wielding real money, so most Chinese feel that foreigners are very powerful, very rich, and there are no poor people among foreigners.

However, when these Chinese came to Hollywood, they suddenly found that they had also become local tycoons, and the things they usually used were not particularly expensive, and they were all fragrant in the eyes of local Americans, so that foreigners became poor people who befriended themselves, and they became masters themselves.

This contrast of consciousness not only makes the Chinese who go to Hollywood more proud, but also makes them feel good about those Americans.

Especially those officers and soldiers who participated in the Dream Division troops, because of the high salary, most of them had a white maid, or had gone to prostitute female foreigners, plus they had to learn English during training, and many of the English classes taught were Americans, which deepened their good impression of ordinary Americans.

Of course, just this kind of Cheng Dù's favor is not enough to let those Chinese soldiers give their spare quilts to those prisoners, after all, those prisoners are all men, and the Chinese are not popular to engage in foundations, so there are other reasons for this.

The reason for this is that most of these quilts and cotton clothes are not given for free, but in exchange, in other words, those soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force used spare quilts and cotton clothes that they did not need to exchange things with those American prisoners.

As for the things exchanged, they were not complicated things, most of them were small things that the American prisoners carried with them, such as tin kettles, dollar coins, Mexican eagles, medals, badges, and even buttons and pocket watches.

You must know that after capturing these American soldiers, Li Yongji only ordered their weapons to be confiscated, such as guns and daggers, but their belongings were not moved, and they did not engage in body searches.

It is precisely because they did not loot the personal belongings of the US prisoners that they would be so honest, and if they had looted, they would have rioted a long time ago.

Of course, Li Yongji didn't stop looting their belongings in order to make them quiet, but Li Yongji didn't look down on their tattered things at all, plus these people were going to be sent to the rear as laborers anyway, so naturally there would be relevant personnel to loot their belongings at that time, so they couldn't do this now.

However, what Li Yongji did not expect was that Li Yongji did not look down on the tattered belongings of these US prisoners, which did not mean that the officers and soldiers under his command also looked down on them.

In fact, most Chinese officers and soldiers are still very interested in the bits and pieces of American prisoners, but in addition to the money factor, they are also interested in a reason to get souvenirs.

In the Dream Division, because of the super high salary, no one is allowed to hide the seized materials privately, that is to say, the three major disciplines and eight points of attention must be strictly enforced, and all the seized materials will be returned to the public.

This policy strictly enforced military discipline and also made the soldiers' idea of making a small fortune by war disappear, and every one of them spoke with real military merits, which was also one of the important reasons why the Dream Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force had strong combat effectiveness and strong organizational ability.

However, in terms of specific implementation, there are still a lot of tricks to go.

For example, the quilt and cotton clothing are issued for public use, although they do not belong to themselves and cannot be taken home by themselves when they retire, but if they are lost or damaged during the service, they can be reimbursed.

As for those US prisoners, after they have been captured, they will not be captured, so using their "damaged" and "scrapped" public goods to exchange for souvenirs of the prisoners will not violate any military law, and it is a shortcut to make a small fortune.

In this way, the public quilts and cotton clothes were sent out in the name of scrapping, and the silver coins, water bottles, pocket watches and other things in exchange were all put into their own pockets, and everyone was willing to do so without a clear order to stop them.

Originally, this was just the private behavior of some people, and the excuse was also in the name of not being able to see it and Dafa's kindness, and as for accepting small gifts from the other party, they either never mentioned it, or they said that it was a thank you gift from the Americans.

As a result, although this matter was concealed from the above, the following quickly learned from the above, and they all began to secretly engage in it, and after a long time, when the total number reached a certain level, the above would know what was going on.

In particular, it should be noted that the fact that this kind of exchange can be widespread is also related to Li Yongji's fear that the American prisoners will make trouble, so he has strengthened his guards.

Just for fear that they would make trouble, Li Yongji transferred two additional battalions to guard the prisoners, plus the original one battalion, a full three battalions!

Moreover, the most important thing is that the guards are not fixed, but mobile, that is to say, the guards are not fixed guards, but after watching for a while, they will be transferred to other posts and replaced by others to continue guarding.

Li Yongji's original intention of doing this was for fairness, after all, the work of guarding the prisoners was relatively easy, while those who needed to dig pits, shovel snow, chop firewood, build houses and make supplies were generally poor, so letting the officers and soldiers of the army take turns to guard them could be regarded as giving them a rest.

Who knew that this would expand the channels of communication between Chinese and US military prisoners, so that more Chinese soldiers could follow the example and exchange their unused quilts and cotton clothes for the belongings of US prisoners.

After finding out, Li Yongji did not want to be too harsh on the officers and men of the troops, not because the law does not hold the people accountable, but because the key to this matter is that there are loopholes in military law and military discipline, and we cannot overturn everyone with a single rod just because there are loopholes and others have exploited loopholes.

Of course, the reason why Li Yongji is willing to listen to Skerster's words and is willing to play average is also because the intensity of the snowstorm in the past two days has become smaller and smaller, and the temperature has basically remained at about minus 20 degrees.

At the same time, the cold materials of modern society are constantly being sent, and Li Yongji's transmission tonnage is used up every time, so when Scist went to the prisoner camp to give a speech, Li Yongji's cold materials, at least cotton clothes and cotton clothes, can be fully guaranteed.

Relatively speaking, those color steel plate houses need to be built completely, the manpower required is not ordinary, if all Chinese or those alliance mercenaries are used, they will strictly occupy their own manpower, if these prisoners are used as labor, it is a good way.

In this way, under the continuous supply of modern materials by Li Yongji, and with the cooperation of the officers and men of the expedition, the mercenaries of the Alliance Army, and the prisoners of the American army, it took less than three days for this armed group that was forcibly stranded in the local area by the blizzard, and on the land of Smithland, against the wind and snow, abandoned prejudices, and jointly built a large area of color steel buildings with a nest of ground, and then began to nest peacefully in this color steel building complex to avoid the wind and snow and the cold, waiting for the weather to clear again. R1152