Chapter 385: The Age of Resources (4)

Mu Tianhua, a third-level soldier, took out a small Jiangnan from Bai Sè's box, carefully lit it with a match, and took a deep breath.

Smoking is the way of life of the "Jiangning people", and the Jiangning people in the western continent, whether they used to smoke or not, have now become smokers. Under the influence of hearing and seeing, the aborigines of Xijiang Water Village also began to learn to smoke.

Xiao Jiangnan was specially supplied to indigenous soldiers. The Wuguan Port Purchasing Department customized it in the Jiangnan Cigarette Factory, with a cost price of 3máo money for a pack, no filter, hard box, and B-grade military supplies.

The purchasing department orders 1,000 pieces in two months, which is equivalent to 50,000 pieces and 500,000 packs, which are sold in Xijiang Shuizhai and other areas, and the price is of course 3máo money.

The three máo coins here are the three máo coins of RMB, and they are also three iron coins.

Since Kim Doona became the financial officer of Xijiang Water Village, in addition to strengthening the financial expenditure verification system, her main job has been to reform the wage system, more precisely, the monetary system.

A copper coin is equivalent to a copper coin, equivalent to one yuan, this exchange rate is a fixed exchange rate system, and the credit union specially established by Xijiang Shuizhai is responsible for the exchange. The "Jiangning people", including Yu Weichao, as well as all the natives affiliated with the Xijiang Water Village, will receive a salary on a RMB basis.

Among them, soldiers' salaries are paid according to the Chinese soldiers' allowance figures. The third-class soldier belongs to the highest rank of soldiers, with a monthly allowance of 45 yuan, or 45 copper coins, paid weekly, and 11 pieces each time, which is 10 times the daily income of civilians in Mara City.

Although this figure is high, considering the huge gap between the rich and the poor in the Western Continent, the income of 11 copper coins a week only brings the indigenous soldiers into the middle class.

If you become an indigenous non-commissioned officer, it will be awesome. In the reformed soldier system, a fourth-class soldier is equivalent to a first-class non-commissioned officer, and the allowance is paid at 300 yuan per month, which is an instant increase of seven times. This is actually the salary model for officers. The work they do is also basically military officers, and in the future direction of development, half of the officers below the platoon level will be carried out by indigenous officers. Thanks to China's compulsory military system, there are many veterans born in Jiangbei, and they have no problem being pulled out to serve as low-level officers or non-commissioned officers, while technical positions continue to be filled by "Jiangning people", supplemented by some South Americans.

In front of Mu Tianhua, who was working as a computer in the Humvee, was the South American uncle Tinoronia, a name that is difficult to remember. His job was to sort and photograph the ore collected by the soldiers, label it, and mark the location on an irregular temporary electronic map. This kind of work is done by the indigenous soldiers, and they must be worried, considering that there is no nine-year compulsory education in the local area, in fact, the natives who can quickly count to 21 are all smart and gifted young people.

Many young people in poor South American countries are not much better, but after all, many of them are highly educated. For example, Uncle Tinoronia finished high school in Brazil, hoping to go to the United States to find a good job, and then return to his hometown with a large sum of money to marry a beautiful woman......

Now it seems that it will not work. The salaries of South Americans have not yet been discussed - in the past few months, gentlemen from South America have experienced all sorts of troubles that a Jiangning man has not experienced in more than a year. They first planned several escapes, and after receiving the stick bāng education, they turned to group resistance, and were again educated by the stick bāng, followed by strikes and hunger strikes, and still the stick bāng education.

Today, about half of South Americans are working in a regular manner, while the rest continue to go on a semi-hunger strike, starving to death, in She's words. There are different opinions in the rhombic office, and in the case of unification, they can only be left to their own devices, that is, those who starve to death during this period are considered to have died in vain.

It will not be until the next time Chen Yi comes to the Western Continent that Yu Weichao and others will ask for instructions on this matter.

"It's lunchtime, it's time for lunch!" An indigenous soldier shouted in half-baked "Jiangning dialect" that those who can enter the indigenous platoon must be smart and hard-working natives, otherwise why should they get 10 times the salary of ordinary people. Learning Chinese is one of the standards, and you don't even know how to eat.

Li Changning, who is in charge of popularizing education, wondered at first why the indigenous soldiers were learning the language so quickly. Later, I learned that the temples in various places will select intelligent natives to study in the temple every year, which belongs to the compulsory education in the Western Continent, but the popularity is very weak. But after tens of thousands of years of inheritance, the talent for learning languages quickly is almost deep in the bone marrow, as if it was genetically selected, so their language ability is not half a star stronger than that of earthlings.

There are still many students who don't understand the lingua franca of the Western Continent at all.

Mu Tianhua, a third-level soldier, bit the cigarette holder, took a deep breath, and smoked the cigarette as much as possible, before leaning over to pick up the M2 heavy machine gun and return to the queue. This is something that only soldiers in the Western Continent can do, and the Browning M2 has an empty gun of 38 kg, and if it weren't for safety and convenience, the remaining 20 kg tripod and a fairly heavy cartridge box would have hung on the same soldier. The 12.7 mm heavy machine gun has a noticeable stationary effect and is far enough away to be much more effective than an automatic rifle. Now as long as the field soldiers with heavy machine gun licenses, almost all will choose the M2 Browning, once a batch of lighter Type 95 and M60 general-purpose machine guns were sent, almost no one used them, because the distance is too close, against heavy cavalry and saber-toothed beasts and other thick-armored fast targets, the effect is greatly reduced.

The extensive use of the M2 Browning, in addition to making the arms broker Medrow happy, greatly increased the logistical pressure on the Xijiang Water Village. However, no matter how high the logistics requirements of the two companies are, the novices can still complete the deployment of materials within a radius of tens of kilometers. This also promotes the construction of the road network in another aspect. Today, apart from Mara City itself, its surroundings are filled with makeshift roads, like those of a Chinese township in the 80s.

"Brother Mu will come first."

As soon as Mu Tianhua arrived at the gang, the soldiers all let out.

The strict hierarchy of the Western Continent was naturally inherited from the indigenous soldiers, and the senior soldiers had absolute priority, including food, changing weapons, purchasing and exchanging scarce supplies, and so on

No one had an opinion on this, and He Qun and others, who were born in the regular army, wanted to create a set of equality for everyone in the army, but no one responded at all, so they gave up.

Mu Tianhua was completely unaware of this and didn't feel it, his eyes were now full of white swaying rice, and he shouted happily: "Rice, rice." And rice today? ”

"Didn't you say it, as long as you enter the war zone, or in a combat state, you will have good food every day." The answer was Li Yizhuang, a veteran who was a smiling veteran. Like most Chinese soldiers who have never been on the battlefield, Li Yizhuang has been a volunteer for 12 years, and after returning home, he is still poor and cannot afford to support his wife and children, so he can only come to "abroad" as a mercenary, because he has been an old squad leader in the army for many years, so he has become a ready-made candidate for a low-ranking officer, and directly led an indigenous platoon of 30 people.

"Eating rice every day, I really want to stay in the war zone for the rest of my life." Another third-class soldier, Makiyama, smiled. Their platoon is all from the herding village, and compared with the dismantled platoon, the combat effectiveness is stronger. And coming out to look for minerals also requires their survival skills.

"If you eat rice every day, you will get tired of it." Li Yizhuang smiled and added a spoonful to him.

Mu Shan grinned and said: "Impossible, you see that the noble lord in the city specially built a Zhuangzi just to eat rice." ”

"If you eat ròu, you want to eat rice, and if you eat too much rice, you want to eat ròu."

"The forest is full of ròu, what is rare. The rice is good, but unfortunately I can't take it home. Mu Shan stood next to the rice bowl, put half a catty of rice into his mouth, and stretched out his hand: "Platoon leader, have another one." ”

Li Yizhuang filled him with a smile and said with a smile: "Isn't the credit union selling rice tickets?" Just take it and exchange it. ”

"It's expensive, it's not cost-effective." Makiyama didn't eat any ròu or vegetables, so he desperately shaved rice, as if he wanted to earn it back.

Li Yizhuang shook his head helplessly, and gave himself a box of heavy curry rice, accompanied by a box full of Cangniu ròu, and ate it fragrantly. After staying in the army for a long time, I have long been tired of eating pickled vegetables and radish rice, and things like curry and grilled ròu are more attractive.

After coming to the Western Continent, Li Yizhuang felt that the happiest thing was to be able to eat food from all over the world that he had never thought of before, and that the Xijiang Water Village was in sufficient supply -- it was actually equivalent to a small town on the edge of Jiangning -- and in order to satisfy the spiritual life of the people of the earth, the first thing to satisfy was their appetite.

If it weren't for the fact that the travel between the Western Continent and Jiangning was too restricted, Li Yizhuang would have wanted to bring his wife.

Living in the corner of the county, working at sunrise every day and sleeping at sunset, I really didn't have a taste in the Western Continent.

A few second-class soldiers silently filled their meals and hid in the corner of the table to whisper. Soldiers of the second class are mostly heavy machine gun deputies, or are responsible for carrying combat materials such as bullet boxes, and are not qualified to talk and laugh loudly in front of the soldiers of the third class. However, they have their own small circle, and apart from being in public, they don't need to salute or anything when they talk to third- and fourth-class soldiers, which is the privilege of officers.

The gurgling sound of shaved rice, like a hymn to a starving ghost, sounded by the empty lake.

In the woods by the lake, the villagers of the three iron mills hid in the bushes, staring wide-eyed.

"How many people are from Jiangning?" The leading villager was neatly dressed and not even uncertain, and he was a resident of the city of Mara.

It was not easy to get out of the ring road, and the young man next to him was wearing a pigtail and carrying a basket-like container, which was full of heavy objects, and his waist collapsed. He leaned against the tree and said, "The third team is here, they have to find the mine." ”

"It seems so. It is said that none of them had more than a thousand soldiers. ”

"That bullet of theirs, I heard that it is all pure copper, why rob us of our livelihood."

"No, let's nest for two more days, and when they all disperse, we'll go back."

The three of them talked to themselves, but they didn't notice that the direction in which Li Yizhuang's team was preparing to march was the woods by the lake where they were hiding.

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