Taking advantage of the vacation days, Bian Chunsong led people to run around the Xingxing Lake Ranch, assisted the government department to drive boundary posts, clarify the scope of the ranch, and visited some neighbors around the ranch.

In terms of speed, he is obviously slow.

Many surrounding pastures have been fully staffed, large herds of cattle and sheep have been purchased for grazing, and at the same time, wasteland has been reclaimed and vegetables and grain have been planted.

These cattle and sheep are all trafficked from Queensland by sea vessels, and most of them are ewes and cows, and most of them can be carried by the end of the year, and when the lambs are born next year, the size of the herd will expand rapidly.

Because of the war

The agricultural and animal husbandry production in Victoria and New South Wales has been severely damaged, hundreds of thousands of troops have crossed the border, many excellent breeds of beautiful slave sheep have been killed for meat, and the size of the sheep has fallen off a cliff, and it will take at least two or three years to return to its original size.

The price of wool in the international market rose in response, rising by more than 4% compared with before the war, which in turn made the small pastures in Queensland make a lot of money and reap a wave of war dividends.

This afternoon

Bian Chunsong rode back to Xingxinghu Ranch with several battalion guards, and his mother, Aunt Ah Fen, took over the place with several hired workers from the family's farm, standing under the porch to welcome her son's return, with an irrepressible look of satisfaction on her face.

When the horse came to the door and turned over and dismounted, Bian Chunsong threw the reins of the horse in his hand to the guard, walked forward quickly and bowed to Aunt Ah Fen, and said; "My mother has been working all the way, why did she run to the door to meet me."

"Songzai, my mother is not yet seventy or eighty years old, what is it to walk a few steps? My family is out of business, and with such a big family business, my mother is really going to wake up with a smile in her dreams. ”

"Where's my dad?" Bian Chunsong stepped forward and grabbed Aunt Ah Fen's arm and walked towards the house together.

"Don't worry about that old guy, he can't leave the farm at home for the time being, and you can't just throw it away, after all, it's also the hard work of more than ten years of operation, so I brought the two big tigers and the two tigers over to help you, and first prop up the shelves of the ranch."

"Such a large ranch can't open for a while, so that's fine."

Bian Chunsong helped his mother to sit down, and he also sat on the chair next to him, and several domestic employees who came with Afen's sister-in-law all came up to salute, including Bian Dahu and Bian Erhu, all of whom were from the local tribe.

After a few pleasantries

Bian Chunsong arranged them one by one, Bian Dahu has been working with the family for more than ten years, and he is proficient in the work of the ranch and the work in the field, and he is old and persistent, so he was appointed as the steward of the ranch, responsible for grazing and cultivating the fields.

Although there is a shortage of manpower and no shadow of the herd, the preparations can be done first, and some helpers can be hired to repair the fences, repair the barn, and find a way to sell the large number of hoarded wool in the barn, and there is a lot of miscellaneous work.

Bian Dahu's daughter-in-law was in charge of internal affairs, and took several white servants to wash and cook, clean, feed the chickens, feed the ducks and milk the cows, take care of the old lady's daily life, and take care of the two young and beautiful concubines by the way.

Bian Erhu made other arrangements, Bian Chunsong stayed at home for two days and then planned to take him back to Melbourne, and then buy a ticket to send him on a cruise ship and return to his hometown in the mainland to shake people.

With such a large volume of Star Lake Ranch, not to mention one or two hundred employees, it can accommodate more.

When there are few people, they graze, and when there are many people, they cultivate.

It's not far from Melbourne, there's a market for growing anything, the wasteland is reclaimed to grow a season of rice, a season of wheat is absolutely fine, you can also grow soybeans, the ranch builds its own mill to extract oil, and soybean meal is the best concentrate for raising large livestock, mixed with some wheat bran and soybean bran is nutritious, and your own pasture can be completely digested.

The surplus can also be sold, and there is no worry about selling it at all.

How to run a ranch is a very deep knowledge, Bian Chunsong is a top student of Red River Valley University, a rare elite intellectual in today's era, and a participant in the design of crawler tractors, a tank battalion commander, has his own ideas for running a ranch;

That is, the use of crawler tractors for large-scale farming, ploughing and ploughing can do everything, and the efficiency is hundreds of times that of manual farming, so why worry about not making money?

Arranged for everyone to go to work, Bian Chunsong and his mother Afen's sister-in-law sat down alone to gossip about homely things, a cup of tea, and the chatting was filled with a warm family atmosphere.

"Songzai, you will be 25 in the New Year, have you fancied any girl, and the matchmaker will come to the door to ask for marriage."

"Mother, I have a lot of things to do in the army, and I can't keep busy!"

"Good boy, don't fool your mother, your father was a person in the army back then, and now the saint is wise, there has never been a reason not to let people start a family, how can marriage be a child's play? You are also a prominent chief now, but you can't mess around with these yellow-haired and blue-eyed ghost women, you always have to marry a lady who is the right person, if you are not in a hurry, then your mother will have to do it for you. ”

"Mother, I also have a girl I like, I don't know what people think?" Bian Chunsong was forced to have no choice but to tell what he thought.

Aunt Ah Fen is now full of confidence, and snorted when she heard this; "Although you clearly said which girl you are, the mother asked someone to come to ask for marriage, now my Songzi is a great young man, no matter how high the lintel we can afford, we will let you get your wish."

"Hmm...... Is that the ...... He Pannan. Bian Chunsong replied with a whimper.

"Which family's He Pannan?"

"Mother, it is He Pannan from Hejia Town, the second daughter of Earl He Fang."

"Who?"

Aunt Ah Fen almost poured a cup of hot tea into her nostrils, how could she not know the famous Earl Hefang?

That is the number one celebrity around the saint today, one of the top ten earls of the founding of the country, and the top nobleman of the kingdom, and his status is not something that ordinary people can climb.

Aunt Ah Fen is a family member of a soldier, and she has some points for this set in the army, the old man in the family was retired from the rank of lieutenant due to injury, and with the grace of today's saints, he set up a small-scale farm, which is considered a middle-class civilian.

His son Bian Chunsong is amazing, and now he is a major principal, and his future is unlimited.

With such a large ranch purchased by military merits, it can be said that he is a young and promising young man, and he is a well-known golden beetle son-in-law!

But anyway, Songzai is a civilian officer after all, and there is still a long way to go from the nobles, and the small nobles are not the same as the big nobles, and the lintel of the nobles like the baron can still be climbed to some extent, but the big nobles like the earl ......

Seeing his mother's surprised expression, Bian Chunsong couldn't help but smile bitterly, and the image of the heroic and beautiful girl appeared in his heart again, and he couldn't let go of it for a long time.

"Songzai, how old is Lord He's second miss this year?"

"Well, it should be 20."

"Does she mean anything to you?"

"It feels okay, when I was in Red River Valley City, I once asked Miss He to come out to play, and the two of them could talk about it."

"That's it, that's ...... Niang asked someone to talk to the matchmaker. "Aunt Ah Fen is also a very decisive woman, and it is not ashamed to ask someone to say that the matchmaker is not ashamed, it is just a big deal to be rejected, she has a hundred times more confidence in her son, and it is their loss that He Fu does not do such a kiss.

Since ancient times, the marriage of a man and a woman is the order of their parents, and the words of the matchmaker.

Bian Chunsong is also a very traditional person in this regard, and when he heard that Aunt Ah Fen had made a decision, he inevitably felt a burst of joy in his heart.

After a few days of leave, Major Bian Chunsong returned to Melbourne and received an order from his superiors to reorganize.

The original tank squadron was abolished and changed to a tank company.

The tank company has three tank platoons, each tank platoon has three tanks, plus one tank at the company headquarters, for a total of ten tanks.

The tank battalion has three tank companies under it, plus two tanks at the battalion headquarters, for a total of 32 tanks.

Due to the end of the war quickly, the allocation received by the Dongfanghong Agricultural Machinery Company, which was massively expanding its production capacity, came to an abrupt end, and the subsequent semi-finished tanks in the production workshop stopped continuing to be built, and after the tank battalion of the 1st Red Division was replenished with new tanks, the follow-up large orders were cancelled.

It has been rigorously tested by the government

As an emergency product, the Wolf light tank had poor load capacity, narrow space, weak firepower and defense capabilities, and poor survivability in high-intensity confrontations, so it did not have the potential for continued development, and the military's appropriation was terminated.

This product has also been declassified, which means that Dongfanghong Agricultural Machinery Company can return to the original path and produce agricultural crawler tractors to the market.

This is not a bad thing for Dongfanghong Agricultural Machinery Company, because the equipment purchased by the military and the reliability improvement carried out by the centralized personnel have made this crawler tractor mature quickly, and has the ability to produce 60 sets per month.

As long as the bulletproof armor and heavy machine gun are removed, this Dongfanghong 1 tractor returns to its original appearance and can be sold to the vast international market.

The original plan to allocate funds to the 1st Red Division, and the plan to equip tanks and armored vehicles on a large scale was completely terminated, and the 1st Red Division, which had the hope of becoming the first armored division in history, was completely shattered.

Under the vigorous efforts of the division commander Li Xuanzhu, only one armored regiment was restored and replenished, and the remaining two regiments were converted into mule-horse infantry regiments, which could follow the tank battalion and armored regiment for long-distance rapid assaults, and the striking power was second to none in the B Corps.

With the gradual retirement of militia divisions, through the vigorous efforts of the Army General Staff Headquarters, four new active-duty infantry divisions will be formed by selecting elite soldiers with rich war experience, namely the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Divisions, and the whole army will be reorganized in sequence.

The 1st Division, the Red River Valley Division, referred to as the 1st Red Division, was stationed in Melbourne.

The 2nd Division, the Beilun Division, was stationed in Beilun City.

The 3rd Division, the Songjiang Division, was stationed in the city of Wulongong.

The 4th Division, the Qingdao Division, was stationed in Sydney.

The 5th Division, Brisbane Division, was stationed at Ballarat.

In addition, the 6th Division, the Shangri-La Division, is based in Newcastle and will return to its original position on Shangri-La Island in the near future.

The 7th Division, formerly the 1st Kalimantan Division, was stationed in Samarinda

The 8th Division, formerly the 2nd Kalimantan Division, was stationed in Mazen

The regular army also has four cavalry divisions, Dragon, Tiger, Leopard, and Wolf, the First Heavy Artillery Division and the Second Heavy Artillery Division, plus the mobile division of the African Expeditionary Force, a total of 13 division-level units.

Taking advantage of the victory in this war, the General Staff Headquarters of the Army successfully realized the plan to expand the size of the army through the reorganization of the army, and the army establishment doubled from less than 60,000 to 122,000.

Normally

An infantry division has an establishment of 8,600 people, a cavalry division of more than 6,600 people, a heavy artillery division of more than 3,700 people, and the number of front-line combat troops is close to 110,000.

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