Chapter 216 Building a Better Life for the Corps

Guo Changsheng was promoted to regiment commander by Liu Hou because he completed the task in Xuchang, but there were no soldiers, and now the opportunity came, he was incorporated into one of the brigades as the regiment commander. The three brigades were named the 8th, 9th and 10th Brigades.

The numbered numbers are getting bigger and bigger, there is no way, now the first division is no longer a division, it is almost an army group, and it can only continue to name the brigades with larger and larger numbers.

However, these three brigades may not be able to go to the battlefield for a long time, because they are all surrendered troops of the Wei army, and their loyalty remains to be further observed, and there are not so many firearms equipped with them, so they can only symbolically give them some obsolete old firearms, so that they can use them in rotation internally during training.

In other words, these three brigades are actually cold weapon troops, and if they are allowed to go to the frontal battlefield, I am afraid that the casualties will be too great, which Liu Hou does not want to see. However, they are not useless, now that the place occupied by the Shu army is larger, it naturally needs a lot of troops to defend the place, these people are just right, and Zhu Bao's troops have become forward combat troops, and the defense work of the baggage team he originally did also needs someone to take over.

Therefore, Liu Hou asked the Eighth Brigade, that is, the brigade where Guo Changsheng belonged, to follow the large army to continue the Northern Expedition, the Ninth Brigade to defend the line from Maicheng to Xiangyang, and the Tenth Brigade to be responsible for maneuvering to protect the safety of the baggage team. In this way, the vine armor army of the vulture bones could be liberated and continue to participate in the Northern Expedition.

With the escape of Xiahouba's troops, now all the south of Xiangyang has fallen into the hands of the Shu army, and the transportation line from Jingzhou to Maicheng to Xiangyang is no longer like before, and it was attacked by the Wei army at both ends in three days, and the defense pressure on the logistics transportation line has dropped greatly, and I believe that the defense of the ninth and twelfth brigades is enough.

The Wei army that could enter these three brigades was a person with a high affinity for Shu and Liu Hou, and some people with an average affinity of about 50,000, and these people were incorporated into the baggage team, so that most of the people in the original baggage team could be disbanded and returned to their hometowns to cultivate the fields. This is of great benefit to the economic recovery of Shu.

The remaining 100,000 or so people have a worse affinity for Shu and Liu Hou, and some even have a bad feeling, they are not willing to fight for Shu and serve the Shu army, so they only have one way to choose, that is, they are organized into several construction corps, and are assigned to some military farms to cultivate the fields and produce military rations for the Shu army, or they are assigned to various mines to open mines to provide a steady stream of raw materials for the "Ministry of Industry".

What awaits these people will undoubtedly be the hardest heavy labor, as well as the loss of most of their personal freedom. The reason why they say that they have lost most of their freedom, but not all of them, is that they are basically free on their respective farms and mines, but it is impossible to leave.

Of course, their lives were not completely hopeless, and like the previous captives, the Shu army promised that they only needed to work hard for five years, and as long as they were diligent and did not do anything crooked, they would be able to regain their freedom, and they would also be allocated a piece of land.

Moreover, during these five years, they can also pick up their family members to come and live together, as long as their family comes, their lives will be taken care of, there will be a house allocation, and they can also help their family solve work problems.

However, when they arrive at the farm or mine, they will immediately find that although their labor is a little harder, their livelihood is much better than when they were in their hometown. At least, they can eat all-you-can-eat after every day of fatigue, and every once in a while there is still a bit of meat, although they eat a big pot of rice, but it is quite good to get this kind of treatment in troubled times, even better than the food they had in the Wei army.

In addition to food, there are doctors on the farms and mines, and there are health clinics, where they can get help if they are sick or injured, as long as they do some work to compensate for the health center when they are sick, and they don't have to pay a penny for medical expenses.

Even more bizarre is the fact that there are schools on the farms and mines, which everyone can enter in the evenings after work, and these schools are called evening schools and are completely free. Of course, in addition to teaching some cultural knowledge and some techniques, these night schools preach the most loyal and patriotic thoughts.

The loyal monarch is the emperor of the Liu family of the Han Dynasty, and the country of love is the Han Dynasty. These things were originally disdainful in the eyes of these Wei big-headed soldiers, but the surrendered soldiers, who were shocked by the generous benefits of the farms and mines, soon saw their loyalty to the Han Liu dynasty skyrocket. Because they were the direct beneficiaries, they felt the benefits of being under the rule of the Han Dynasty.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about this night school made them feel very emotional. Everyone knows that knowledge can change fate, and when you are a child, you may not like to go to school, but when you grow up, these people often regret that you didn't learn the ability to live in the world when you were a child. Of course, most of these soldiers do not like to go to school, but because their families were poor and could not afford to go to school when they were young.

Who wouldn't want to take advantage of such a great opportunity right now? Who wouldn't want to pursue their childhood dreams back? So, don't let them run away now, even if you take a knife to drive them away, they won't go. They are now very old, and it is too late to study, and it is difficult to say how much they want to achieve, but this still can't stop these big soldiers from learning.

When they wrote their names crookedly for the first time, everyone burst into tears, and when they memorized the multiplication formula, many people even saved a month's salary and bought all the wine to get drunk.

There are no advanced things taught in the night school, most of them are the reading and writing of some common words, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and other courses for children of a few years old, as well as some practical skills, such as practical farming techniques, and some crafts that may be used in some factories of the "Ministry of Industry".

Dong Yun presided over the work of the "Ministry of Industry" for many years, but he also served as the director of the Agricultural Research Institute, and in recent years, with the help of Zuo Ci (in fact, Liu Houtong Guò Zuo Ci conveyed), he has done a lot of research on optimizing agricultural production. Some of these techniques are mature and can be promoted, such as the field substitution method, grafting techniques, how to effectively weed and insect control, and how to breed if fertilized correctly.

Of course, some technologies were invented by the previous generation, but ordinary people did not understand them, and after Dong Yun's practice proved that they were feasible, they were also popularized through night schools like guò.

The purpose of learning the craft is to facilitate their later employment in the factories of the "Ministry of Industry", which is to train industrial workers for the production of large factories in the future.

Many people took over their families, especially those with children at home, who were the most active, and they very much hoped that their children would have the opportunity to study, and that they would not have to be illiterate like themselves in the future.

With the cooperation of the "CIA", many people were able to escape the obstruction of the Wei government and bring their families to Shu, so in the end, these 100,000 troops brought hundreds of thousands of people to Shu, which greatly promoted Shu's economic development and social prosperity.