Chapter 312: The Disease of Scabies
Although the industrial construction of Jiameiya and Cheng Penghan is very important, it is still ranked after the military and cantonment construction. In order to speed up the development of these two undertakings, and also to integrate and develop with Chongzhou and Qiong and other former districts, the Perak Army has sent a large number of grassroots management personnel to the newly incorporated areas under its rule, and has widely posted notices to recruit young talents to study in county and state schools. At present, the county school and the state school of the Perak Army have been renamed "Confucius Institute", but a prefix has been added to the front, such as Dayi County School renamed "Dayi Confucius Institute", and Qiongzhou State School changed its name to "Qiongzhou Confucius Institute". The Confucius Institute does not just teach literature, but teaches all subjects except military affairs, politics, physics, chemistry, medicine, .......
The Perak Army has a graded education system, and each entry to the next level of the education system requires an examination and selection. The most basic village schools implement compulsory education, mainly the education of literacy and basic knowledge, and mainly to open up the wisdom of the people; At the township level, primary politics, mathematics, history, geography, and biology courses are offered, mainly to cultivate practical talents at the grassroots level. The content of the Confucius Institutes at the county level is more advanced, and courses such as physics and chemistry have been added, mainly to cultivate talents in industry, agriculture and business. The content of the Confucius Institutes at the state level is not only profound, but also all-encompassing, mainly to cultivate intermediate technical and managerial talents. As for the professional colleges such as the Normal College, the Medical College, the Political Science College, and the Industrial College located in Chongqing Province, it is a specialized school for training high-level technical personnel. The Military Academy was reorganized from the Teaching Brigade and did not belong to the Confucius Institute sequence, but was directly managed by the General Staff Department, with the Chief of Staff serving as the president.
In order to ensure the progress of industrial construction, the Perak Army is ready to go all out after the autumn harvest, and has made many preliminary preparations for this, such as starting the planning and design of factories in advance, building workers' accommodation, etc., and even transporting some machinery and equipment and production raw materials to Pengzhou and Hanzhou before the water dries up. Jiading Mansion is located in the main stream of the Min River, and it is not greatly affected by the dry water in winter. However, after the autumn harvest, two new threats affected the reclamation of wasteland and the construction of industrial sites, which made the people in the reclamation areas panic and even dare not go out of the reclamation sites alone. This unexpected variable made Ouyang Xuan and other high-ranking Thunderbolt Army leaders very annoyed, and even Lu Dezhi, who had always been good-tempered, shouted that it must be completely exterminated.
The first threat is bestiality. When the Thunderbolts first formed, there were also many wild beasts in the Cockscomb Mountain, which posed a serious threat to the villagers and injured the Thunderbolt troops. On the one hand, in order to prevent wild beasts from destroying crops, and on the other hand, to eat meat and sell animal skins to obtain funds, Ouyang Xuan organized a huge hunting campaign at that time, and also used it to train troops. After descending the mountain, the Thunderbolts also continued to carry out large-scale hunting operations, where the wild beasts withstood the round-up and died under firearms, or fled far away, and there was no longer a beast plague. But the rest of the place outside the jurisdiction is another matter, the situation next to the city of Meizhou in Jiading is slightly better, but there are often herds of wild boars in the mountains and forests, especially in remote places, and even wolves, jackals, tigers and leopards and other fierce beasts frequently hurt people. The situation was even more serious in Chengdu, Peng, and Han prefectures, where the swamps and forests were dense and the terrain was quite complicated, and even the Mongol cavalry, who liked to hunt for safaris, was not willing to hunt on a large scale. In their opinion, robbery is more cost-effective than hunting wild beasts. The corpses of the people killed by the Mongols fed the beasts even fatter and stronger.
The second threat is banditry. Although Liu Heima was in charge of the government affairs of western Sichuan, he could not control the raiding behavior of the Mongol cavalry. Kublai Khan, who was relatively enlightened among the Mongols, listened to Lian Xixian's advice and issued an edict prohibiting indiscriminate killings such as the slaughter of cities and villages, but this edict was not implemented at all. The tyranny of the Sichuan Ximeng army has caused many people to fall into bandits, and many ruffians and hooligans have turned into new annexed troops, doing the work of both soldiers and bandits. After Qin Mazi, the defender of Pengzhou's new annexed army, was defeated and died, his subordinates returned to Jiufeng Mountain, which was more than 100 miles away from the state city, as bandits. They not only occupied the copper mines in the mountains, frequently burned and looted everywhere, and even killed all the 30-member escort team of the Perak Army, but also burned a cantonment point, killing and wounding more than 70 cantoners.
The bandits in the direction of Jiading Yazhou are even worse than those in Chengdu and Penghan. In addition to the desperate people who fell into the grass and became bandits, there were also many defeated soldiers under Liu Daer, but these bandits were just making small fights. Compared to the Yimin bandits who came out of the Rollos region in the west, that is, the Liangshan area, these are itches of scabies. After the Perak army descended from the mountain, many preferential policies were introduced to attract displaced people, and the policy of ethnic equality was used to attract the people of the Yibo tribe to settle down, among which there were many slaves who escaped from the Rollos area, which caused the dissatisfaction of the slave owners. However, the western Sichuan Plain was far away, so they set their sights on the neighboring Jiading, Meizhou and Yazhou, and even went deep into the vicinity of the proposed industrial site near Jiading. These slave owners were as brutal as the Mongols, and after they conquered the villages, they burned them all, killed them all, and left no chickens and dogs behind.
It was late September, and the temperature and river water level dropped a lot, which was also the peak season for the Mongol invasion. According to the practice of previous years, most of the regular army of the Perak Army will be transferred to the fortresses and strongholds bordering the Mongolian army, while the people are either building water conservancy to reclaim wasteland, or building factories, roads and forts. This year, in order to completely solve these two internal hidden dangers that affect development, the Thunderbolt Army has deployed part of the regular army and a large number of militia to deal with these two threats. According to Ouyang Xuan's order, in addition to dealing with the possible surprise attack of the Mongolian army, the whole Thunderbolt army must fully cooperate with these two things, and it is necessary to eliminate all evil.
It's not hard to deal with the beasts in the mountains and forests. Although tigers and leopards are fierce, most of them move alone, and a team of 50 people equipped with firearms can easily deal with them, and they can also be entrapped, trapped, bait, etc. Wolves and jackals are also very cunning in packs, and some populations even have hundreds, and they can only be hunted with large-scale cooperation. Huang Dagen and others first used hunters to find out where the beast's nest was, and then mobilized manpower to encircle and burn the mountains and forests. In the process of evolution, these beasts have carved fear of humans into their genes, and now they have awakened to the sound of fire and explosions, and the undestroyed have fled deeper into the mountains.
Slightly more difficult to deal with are wild boars, which have higher IQs than wolves, jackals and tigers, and are also more combative, and they come in packs. Faced with the slaughter of the Thunderbolts, they fled to the depths of the swamp, which can be regarded as their home field, and the word "Zhu" comes from the water area where they live. There are many marshes in the western Sichuan Plain, and many of them are within a radius of several miles. It is autumn, there are many wild lotus roots, taro and aquatic plants with seeds in the swamp, and there are also many river mussels, fish and shrimp, loaches, eels and other small animals. They hid in the swamp and couldn't get out, which made it take a lot of effort for the Thunderbolts to clear them up.