At the previous night's meeting, the competition for labor was almost at a fever pitch, and the heads of several departments were black-faced in the back, but in the end the Executive Committee arranged for the prisoners to work in a place that was neither a pit nor a lumber yard, but a farm area planned by the Ministry of Agriculture. This is not that the Executive Committee deliberately favors the Ministry of Agriculture, and such an arrangement is really a last resort.

Several construction sites in the Ministry of Industry's planning are close to the wooded mountainous areas, and in this case, the need for more than 30 prisoners to guard cannot be too small, but if the number of people is too large, it will be contrary to the original intention of the Executive Committee to use prisoners to supplement the shortage of labor. The farm planned by the Ministry of Agriculture on the east bank of the Tiandu River is flat and easy to monitor the work of the captives, and only a few people need to be arranged to guard it from afar. Take 10,000 steps back and say that even if some of the captives want to escape, the west is the Tiandu River, and to the east and south must climb over the desolate mountains, and then they will face the endless ocean, and it is more dangerous to go north and go deep inland, because it is a strong Li settlement, and there will be no more treatment of white rice porridge in the hands of the Li people who are still in a semi-barbaric state, and it will be thankful that it will not be roasted on the fire to eat. There is no need to say much about the truth in this, and these Shuizhai soldiers who are familiar with the local situation naturally understand.

The captives honestly boarded the "Feisu" under the armed escort of the military police department, and although the more than 30 people standing on the foredeck seemed a little crowded, the wind and waves near the mouth of the Tiandu River were calm, and the stable structure of the catamaran did not worry about turning people off the boat. The sailboat set out from Shengli Port, made a small circle on the sea, turned around and sailed straight to the east bank of the Tiandu River, and soon arrived in the area of Luoyu Village in later generations.

People from the Ministry of Agriculture have already visited this place yesterday, and they are very satisfied with the soil structure and topography of this narrow strip of land, if fully developed, it will be enough to open up more than 1,000 acres of cultivated land here, and the distance between this place and the No. 1 base is close enough that you can send a boat across the river to reach it. After discussion by the Executive Committee, it was decided to use it as a labor camp under the camp. The labor camp is under the joint responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Military Police Department, and if the prisoners are better, then the next step may be to build the barracks of the labor camp here. Of course, if you want to move from the smelly barge hold to the barracks on the shore, you have to redeem your points for huàn.

After the "Feisu" docked, a group of prisoners were driven by bayonets, jumped directly from the deck into knee-deep water, and after arriving on the shore, Luo Shengdong and the four team leaders temporarily appointed by him shouted at the top of their throats for a long time, so that the rabble lined up in groups, which made the members of the military police department who stood on the sailboat and witnessed the whole process very disdainful.

Luo Shengdong noticed that the short-haired leader who led the team today was not the short-haired leader who interrogated him yesterday, but a big black and strong man, with green pants and black leather boots on his lower body, and only a close-fitting green gown on his upper body, and a body of muscles like King Kong as if he was about to break the gown. The big black man walked to the bow of the boat, opened his voice and shouted: "Stand up straight for Lao Tzu!"

A group of captives on the shore were frightened by the thunderous sound, and quickly gathered themselves to stand, but their eyes looked at the bow of the ship with some cringe. The big black man looked around at everyone for a while, and then he spoke again: "My surname is Gu Mingwei, and I will be your top boss in the future! You scumbags will listen to me clearly, only those who work hard can have food, and those who don't work well and want to play tricks with Lao Tzu, I will personally teach him how to write the word 'bitter'!"

Gu Wei, as the representative sent by the Military Police Department to manage the labor camp, was not a task assigned to him by Yan Chujie, but he applied for it on his own initiative. Before the crossing, Gu Wei also used to be a soldier, and after transferring to the local area, he worked in the Ministry of People's Armed Forces, and the specific affairs he was responsible for were militia training. The military police department conducted several large-scale basic military skills training before the crossing, and the plans were basically done by him and Yan Chujie. When it comes to training people and soldiers, Gu Wei can be called an expert among the traversers. According to his own plan, even if he can't be a general who leads troops to fight after the crossing, he must at least get an official such as the principal of the army military academy of the new regime, but there are obviously no conditions to realize his dream in the short term after the crossing, and the military academy will definitely not be able to count on it for the time being, but the prisoner of war labor camp seems to be a place where he can give full play to his abilities, so Gu Wei took the initiative to ask Ying to manage these dozens of prisoners.

The Military Police Department took into account the particularity of the labor camp, and specially matched him with a young deputy named Ren Liang. Although Ren Liang has no experience as a soldier, he is a serious graduate of the Fujian Police Academy majoring in prison management, and then assigned to work in the West Fujian Prison in Longyan City, Fujian Province for three or four years.

The representative from the Ministry of Agriculture is Gao Huan, who is mainly responsible for agricultural technical guidance. Originally, his wife Zhu Ping wanted to come in person, because Zhu Ping's professional direction was food crops, and Gao Huan's professional direction was cash crops like his master Yuan Ruoxiu, but the executive committee did not plan to plant food crops in the area of the labor camp, so they rejected the old lady's kindness. In fact, the reason is very simple: You must know that if the Executive Committee dares to put these people out to work in the field, it is sure that it will be able to get their necks around the food and let them have nowhere to escape, but if they plant grain in this place, these prisoners will wait until the grain harvest season to quietly hide some of them, and then they will have a chance to escape from the labor camps? This kind of low-level mistake of lifting a stone and shooting itself in the foot will naturally not be made by the shrewd Executive Committee.

In view of the current shortage of labor, the management personnel of the labor camp have to be reduced to a minimum of five people from the military and police department, one from the Ministry of Agriculture, and Yu Xiaobao, a local leader who can already understand seven or eight percent of Mandarin. His salary is to crowdsource two meals, and he can also receive one pound of rice a day, and if he works more than 28 days a month, he can also receive an additional three taels of refined salt at the end of the month. Gu Wei couldn't see Xiaobao's tattered clothes, and applied for a set of camouflage training uniforms and a pair of rubber shoes from the inventory materials for him, so this little guy is now only left with the bun on his head and still maintains the characteristics of the Ming people, according to this momentum, he will undoubtedly become the first naturalized citizen to pass through the area under the rule of Zhong.

The four labor camps were divided equally into two teams by Gu Wei, one group was taken by Gao Huan to clear the wasteland, and the other team was left on the riverside under Gu Wei's personal command, and they were to build a small wooden trestle bridge to facilitate the docking of ships between the two sides of the river every day.

However, the person who actually commanded the construction work was not Gu Wei, he trained the soldiers well, and if you want to say how to build a dock trestle bridge from scratch, it still has to be a professional. In the morning, Gu Wei specially found Bai Kesi and specially asked Cai Hongzhan, the leader of his logging team, to come over. Cai Hongzhan has worked in Bai Kesi's furniture factory for many years, and can be regarded as the number one carpenter among the crowds.

The captives first dragged ashore more than 20 thigh-thick logs tied to the back of the sailboat, which were the fruits of the first two days of labor of the logging team. Cai Hongzhan then distributed hand saws, small axes and other tools to prepare wood according to the dimensions he had marked.

Gu Wei was still a little worried about whether the captives would have bad intentions after getting these metal tools, and his hands kept pressing on the holster on his waist and did not let go. However, Cai Hongzhan later noticed this detail and comforted him with a smile: "I said Lao Gu, don't be so nervous, these captives won't mess around." ”

"That's hard to say, who knows people and faces, who knows what calculations these guys have in their hearts...... Lao Cai, don't get too close to them!" Gu Wei still refused to let his guard down.

Cai Hongzhan shook his head with a smile and said, "Old Gu, although you have been a soldier before, I am afraid that you have not been able to understand the minds of these people before me. ”

"Oh, then tell me about it?" Gu Wei was also interested.

"These Ming army captives have a scumbag will to fight, and now they know that they will not die, do you think they still have a little desperate mind left? Not to mention that even if they kill me, it is useless, can they still fly back to Yacheng from here? You must know that they have now taken off their military uniforms and are no longer soldiers, since they can live well, why should they die?"

Cai Hongzhan walked to Gu Wei's side, took out a pack of "Yuxi" from his coat pocket, and handed one to Gu Wei: "Relax, I have calculated the amount of labor in advance, and I guarantee that these guys will not stop at all...... You see, the one at the head is said to be a hundred presidents, right? You see how fast he works, he is definitely a good guy!"

Cai Hongzhan's voice was not small, and Luo Shengdong, who was immersed in work, actually heard it in his ears, but he didn't have the face to raise his head to refute anything, so he could only put all his anger on the wood.

Although Luo Shengdong felt a little ashamed, he also understood that what this short-haired carpenter said was right, if he escaped now, where could he run away without food or drink? Even if the Bodhisattva really blessed and escaped back to Yacheng, what could he do, he even lost his boat and people, and he would probably be charged with a crime such as "escaping from the battle", and he would be beheaded as a scapegoat. Since you can live well now, let's survive first.

Luo Shengdong raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, remembering that when he was still a disciple of Juntun, he was chopping firewood at the chief master's house in the hot sun, and he seemed to have felt this kind of resentment and shame intertwined. At that time, I was chopping firewood day after day, and I couldn't see the future at all, if it wasn't for my father's luckily and meritoriously transferred to Yazhou Water Village, I don't know if I am still chopping firewood for that damn king. Why did I go back to the original track of life after going around and around for so many years?

These life philosophies are too complex and profound, Luo Shengdong can't understand them, and he doesn't have time to think about them. Today's labor tasks are very heavy, if these two groups of them can't build the trestle bridge before the sun sets, then all of them can only get half of the two points, and he, as the leader of the labor camp, will have to bear the consequences of being deducted points because of this.

"We must finish it before the sun sets!" Luo Shengdong thought silently, leaving all other distractions behind, and shouted loudly for people to hurry up and bring the next piece of wood to be processed.