The distance between Wang Zhi's camp and Yanchang County was about thirty miles, and in this era, many armies could only march in a day.

However, the displaced people, who did not have baggage, were driven by the county officials to complete this journey before dark and were driven to the front of Wang Zhi's camp.

More than 1,000 homeless people, mostly strong men, old and young women, just reached Yicheng, when they saw the heavily armed Wang Jiajun, they thought it was an official army, and some of them were immediately frightened and turned around and ran, but most of them were still standing in place, in their opinion, even if they were caught in the barracks as coolies, they would at least stutter, it was better than starving to death outside.

"Go get the one who ran away."

Wang Zhi instructed the soldiers that if so many strong men escaped and hid in the mountains and forests, it would always be an unstable factor.

Wang Zhi ordered, and immediately a company of soldiers went after those who had escaped, and the hungry people, who had been walking all day, and whose physical strength was comparable to that of the stronger soldiers, soon caught up and were driven back to the ranks of the homeless.

Seeing that everyone gathered together and quieted down, Wang Zhi took the electric horn and began to speak: "My name is Wang Zhi, I am the master of this place, you all came here from other places when you heard about Yanchang County's recruitment of displaced people, I am the one who wants to recruit displaced people, as long as you swear allegiance to me and work for me, I will give you food, if you are willing, you can have dinner immediately, if you don't want to, you can leave, I will not embarrass you." ”

How can anyone be unwilling, for the homeless people who are about to starve to death, as long as they are given a bite to eat, even if they are allowed to rebel now, there is no problem.

"Good. Since none of you have chosen to leave. It's allegiance to me. Someone will bring it to eat immediately, one bowl per person. ”

Wang Zhi immediately asked people to carry the compressed biscuit paste, and soon the laborers carried several large buckets of paste, and when they saw the food, the homeless people suddenly rioted, and rushed to the food point, and the soldiers guarding them immediately rushed up, shouting and lining up. While beating the crazy homeless with the shaft of the spear in his hand.

Under the education of the stick, the homeless people quickly learned to line up, and some tried to cut the line, but were immediately stabbed to death by the soldiers.

The main reason for stabbing them to death is that they cut in line, and this crime does not lead to death, mainly because Wang Zhi feels that it is a waste of food for brainless people to live -- there are heavily armed soldiers next to them to maintain order, and they dare to cut in line, not because they have no brains.

After stabbing a few people to death, the rest are much more honest, and the cooking is going on in an orderly manner. The soldiers were also methodically snatching people from the lines of homeless people - but those who looked good-looking, and were not as hungry as the rest of the homeless people. Catch them all.

As for these people who will raise a good complexion, they either rely on eating people or robbing other homeless people of food, they are all bad people, all of them are innocent, they will be arrested first and then tried, but there are not many such people, just dozens, two of them resisted and were killed on the spot when they were caught, and the rest were also stabbed to death after interrogation, and there is indeed no good person.

After eating, the mood of the displaced people was much better, Wang Zhi immediately announced that he was going to start the epidemic inspection, the displaced people have no human rights, so they have no right to object, and they are pressed by the soldiers to line up for registration, which will all line up honestly.

After registering their names, ages, places of origin, specialties and family information, they followed the people in front of them into the two large sheds behind the registration office, where there were quarantine personnel wearing masks, and asked them to take off their clothes and jump into the pool with disinfectant, and give them a hair brush, so that they should rub their whole body and hair clean, but if they wash too slowly or uncleanly, the quarantine personnel will beat them down with a wooden stick, so many homeless people want to take a bath, but there is no time to delay.

-- The two bathing sheds were supposed to be used separately for men and women, but there were too few women among the homeless people, less than 100 people, so they were arranged for men to use first, and then women were registered when the men were almost registered.

Afterwards, Wang Zhi learned why there were so few women in the ranks of the homeless people, some of them were snatched by thieves on the road, and the other part were sold or sold when passing through towns or county towns or when they encountered caravans, just to exchange for a mouthful of life-saving food for children or men.

After the displaced people scrubbed their bodies in the disinfection pool, they then entered the next washing pool, and after a little washing, they were told that they could go out to get new clothes, and almost everyone tried to take away the clothes they had taken off before, and finally they were beaten by the quarantine personnel in front of the people who distributed the clothes, "You poor ghosts, you have said that you have new clothes, and you are still worried about the original torn clothes." ”

Naked and dressed in the new clothes that had been made by the sewing battalion during these years, the displaced people who had completed the simple quarantine walked out of the quarantine shed, and were then herded into an open field by the soldiers, and the quarantine was still one last step - disinfecting them with disinfection guns.

After completing this step, Wang Zhi will arrange departments for them according to their specialties, and then be led back by the ministers of each department.

After disinfecting all the displaced people collectively with a disinfectant gun, Wang Zhi told them about the system and the level of occupation and the difference in treatment, and then announced the recruitment.

Because the soldiers enjoy the first-class treatment, which is the treatment that the homeless people usually can't dream of, so when recruiting the army, all the homeless people of the right age signed up, but because their physical foundation is too poor, only about 100 people passed the test, and the rest were assigned to the logistics department, the human resources department and the engineering department by Wang Zhi according to their strengths.

Wang Zhi's original training method was to directly stuff new recruits into the army for veterans to train, and this method could only be used as an expedient measure to expand the army when the number was small. Because the army is a whole, and cooperation is also emphasized in peacetime operations, directly stuffing recruits who do not know anything and have no training at all into the barracks is tantamount to stuffing a handful of sand into the whole, which will reduce the combat effectiveness of the army.

Now that we have two battalions of troops, there is no need to do this anymore, and the training of new recruits must be regularized. Wang Zhi transferred 10 captains and platoon commanders who usually performed well in training to form a special team of instructors, who were specifically responsible for training recruits. Wait until the recruits have completed platoon training and weapons training. will be integrated into the regular army.

Call in ten instructors. Wang Zhi did some ideological work for them. After all, they were originally officers at the level of captain and platoon commander, and now they were suddenly pulled out of the army to be responsible for training recruits, and with the values of people in this era, they would definitely have ideas.

After doing the ideological work of the instructor team and instructing them to train the recruits well, Wang Zhi asked a clerk to call Zhang Youyu over.

As soon as Zhang Youyu came, Wang Zhi asked: "How is the situation in the brick kiln, how many bricks have been burned?" ”

"General Hui. Because of the lack of manpower in the brick kiln, the kiln was built only three days ago, and the kiln was only fired yesterday, and only one kiln brick has been burned at present, and it is estimated that 800 green bricks will be produced. ”

The history of burning bricks, in our country, can be traced back to the era of the commune, different from the current red bricks, in ancient times, better quality green bricks were generally used, and the firing of green bricks and red bricks, in essence, there is not much difference. The only difference is that there is an additional process of burning green bricks, and the water is applied. What is burned is a green brick, and if it is not burned, it is a red brick.

Wang Zhi has been staring at the matter of burning bricks, because bricks are indispensable for construction, and he did not pay much attention to it before, because the machine for burning bricks has not yet arrived, and burning bricks requires a large amount of raw soil and fuel coal, which requires people to dig, and the manpower of the infrastructure is not enough, and there are still superfluous people sent to burn bricks, so this matter has been shelved.

But now that the steam engine and the steam engine that can be driven by the steam engine have been delivered, new displaced people will also arrive one after another, and the manpower has been greatly replenished, so the matter of burning bricks can be picked up.

"Go and call the brick-burning craftsman, I have something to announce."

Zhang Youyu went to call the brick-burning craftsman in Yiyan, and looked at the six middle-aged men with dark upper bodies in front of him, Wang Zhi said, "Take me to the brick kiln to have a look." ”

"General, the brick kiln is dirty, I'm afraid it's a surprise general." A potter said.

"Oh, then don't look at it, I called you here this time to inform you that you don't need to burn bricks for the time being, your brick kiln is too backward, I know a kind of tunnel kiln ......" Wang Zhi explained to them in detail the structure of the tunnel kiln.

Several potters are professionals, Wang Zhiyi said, they understood: "If this method is used, it is much more convenient and faster to install the kiln and get out of the kiln, and the speed of brick production has also been greatly increased." ”

In the traditional brick kiln, the kiln loading and leaving the kiln are carried out in the kiln, the labor intensity is very large, and the conditions in the hot and narrow brick kiln are also very bad; The tunnel kiln has an extra kiln car, and the kiln loading and kiln leaving are carried out outside the kiln, not to mention the difference in other structures, and this change alone saves half of the time. Because of this change, the tunnel kiln can be burned all the time without stopping the fire, while the traditional brick kiln must stop the fire after the bricks are calcined to let the kiln cool down and then take the bricks, which not only saves time, but also saves fuel.

"You first go to a suitable place near the coal mine to build a brick factory, don't rush to build a kiln, this is a structural model of a tunnel kiln, you take it and study it carefully." Wang Zhi took out a model of a tunnel kiln made of wood and handed it to several potters, asking them to touch the structure of the tunnel kiln first, without modern refractory materials, the tunnel kiln could not be built, and the construction of the kiln could not be started until at least modern materials were sent.

Taking the model like a treasure, several potters left excitedly, and then Wang Zhi asked Zhang Youyu to call Zhong Yicai over.

"Zigui, how many people are there in the Ministry of Human Resources?" Wang Zhi asked.

"There are more than 1,600 people registered with the Ministry of Manpower." Zhong Yicai replied that at first, when it was still a work camp, there were about 1,000 people in the Ministry of Manpower, and then more than 100 people were transferred by Wang Zhiqian, which was once less than the number of people in the military department, but after this group of new refugees came, the Ministry of Manpower added seven or eight hundred people, and it was once again listed as the department with the largest number of people in the camp.

"Zhang Youyu, how many people do you need to build a shed in your Ministry of Industry?" Wang Zhi asked Zhang Youyu again.

After thinking about it, Zhang Youyu replied: "There are nearly 200 people in the Ministry of Industry, and about 400 people are needed. ”

"You ask the people from the Ministry of Labor to go to the Ministry of Human Resources to pick two people as apprentices, and usually give the master a hand, and these people will be incorporated into your Ministry of Industry in the future, remember to tell those craftsmen that under me, don't worry about the apprentices starving to death of the master, don't deliberately hide it."

"Yes, yes, my subordinates will make it clear to them." Zhang Youyu hurriedly said.

"Zigui, you first let the people from the Ministry of Engineering pick people, and then take the rest to build a road from the coal mine to the camp."

The section from the coal mine to the camp is the industrial area planned by Wang Zhi, and the brick factory is planned to be built next to the coal mine, so in order to facilitate the transportation of bricks to the camp for construction, the road from the coal mine to the camp must be built first.

In the next few days, one after another, the homeless people were escorted by the officials in the county town and driven over, with a large number of several hundred people and a few dozen small people.

For these people, excluding those who are not like good people, Wang Zhi accepted all the others, and within a few days, the number of people in Wang Zhi's camp doubled, and the population exceeded the 5,000 mark.

In the morning, sitting on the top of the warehouse, Wang Zhi looked at the people carrying long logs and people coming and going below, and showed a pleased smile, after working for so long, the camp finally had the appearance of a town, and it could already run on its own.

While Wang Zhi was enjoying this rare quiet time, two soldiers hurriedly ran in from outside the camp, went straight to the warehouse, and told Wang Zhi a very unhappy news.

"Go and inform the company commanders and Commander Zhong to come to the conference room for a meeting, and the barracks will suspend training." (To be continued.) )

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