Although in the form of traditional Chinese dispatching, there are such sayings as one for every fifth child, one for every third child, and no one for an only child, in actual operation, it often happens that large families pass on the burden to the poor. [Full text reading] Not only do missionaries receive no remuneration, but they also have to provide their own food and clothing. Small poor families often lose their families due to the huge burden of missions and the loss of the family's main labor force.
The beginning of spring is the arrival of the traditional busy farming season. The occupation of labor force is a serious matter for both large and small households.
Therefore, from the beginning, Wu De believed that free labor was inappropriate and might even intensify conflicts with the local people in Lingao. In contrast, it is more appropriate to hire servants.
Now their labor team is actually hired, but they are all volunteers. If it were only voluntary, then cross-bloc labor would never be able to meet the needs. Now it is much more convenient to let each village provide it through administrative means. When using labor, you can also accurately estimate how much labor can be used.
At present, it was agreed with each village that all villages would be divided into three categories: large, medium and small according to population. The first-class village would be assigned ten people, the middle-class five, and the low-class two. If it is indeed a village with few male sex workers, you can apply for exemption from male sex status - but this can only be confirmed after on-site inspection. The ranking of each village is still based on self-reporting. However, the size of the village is obvious to all, and it is obviously unwise to play tricks on it.
In this way, excluding those particularly small villages, the approximately 300 villages participating in the meeting can provide approximately 1,000 young men. These young men are managed by the Cross Travel Group and their service period is one year. After one year, you can return to the village, and the village will send someone to replace you. If you are unwilling to go back, you can continue to serve.
The young men who come to serve are all paid. This is what Wu De emphasized. Each young man is treated according to the current treatment of the labor force of the time traveler. He is provided with rations and can receive wages at the end of the year.
Each village originally thought that the sentinels would have to pay for rations and the like in their own village. Now that they heard that the young men did not need to be supported by the village and could still get wages, they were so grateful for the generosity of the crossing group: although these thieves They are engaged in the business of murder and arson, but when it comes to caring for the people, the government is really far behind. Favorability increased again.
Then there was the matter of establishing the Bairen Security Group. On this matter, there was a long bargaining between the county government and the executive committee. Although the county government has almost no control over what the Crossing Group wants to do, the establishment of such an armed force under the nose is obviously not what Magistrate Wu wants. However, the establishment of the security group was the first step for the Chuan army to gradually annex and integrate the entire county. Therefore, the Chuan group refused to give in. In the end, it only promised to control the size of the security group to less than 1,000 people within three years. At the same time, the official Dian Shi of the county government can be accepted as the nominal chief.
The first source of soldiers for the security regiment is the young men sent from each village, who travel through the masses. A number of people will be selected from the young men sent from each village to serve as regimental soldiers. The second is the bravery of each village. According to the plan, each village will have a rural warrior team based on its size and population. Villages without local heroes will be equipped and trained by cross-country warriors to help them. The militiamen from each village were transferred in batches to the Bairencheng Office to participate in the training of the security corps, and together they were responsible for the security duties in the county. The service period of this militia was three months.
The mission of the security group is mainly to suppress bandits and resist pirates. The Bairen Public Office will also establish an early warning liaison system throughout the county, restore and repair the beacon towers that were set up in the past to resist Japanese pirates in harbors where pirates easily boarded. Once pirates boarded. The security team was dispatched to intercept the pirates.
This approach is actually the same as the six-village joint guarantee in Huangjiazhai, but the traversers expanded it to the entire county. Let each village have basic self-protection capabilities in the face of small groups of bandits and pirates. The government must not only improve the security situation in the county to the maximum extent, but also not excessively consume its own troops. The only way is to organize a militia system - it was this way that TG completely eliminated those areas with serious banditry. . Of course, the Executive Committee knew very well that this kind of militia system could not cope with the encirclement and suppression by the official army. After all, the official army occupied the official position of the imperial court. But it is still feasible to use it to defend the hometown and fight against bandits.
This detailed explanation was unanimously approved by representatives of each village. Wu Ya also secretly appreciated that the "Kun thieves" had many methods, but he also scolded the representatives of each village: Back then, the county wanted to carry out joint defense in different areas, but the villages either complained about poverty or pushed back, and they always couldn't get it started. Now that Shorthair came and burned and looted Goujiazhuang, everyone immediately obeyed. It was really shameless.
The representatives also raised demands for the treatment of the rural warriors during their service in the security corps. After all, Xiangyong is also a strong labor force, and sending some of them will naturally affect their production. Wu De was already prepared for this problem: he said that all rural warriors who come to serve for a short period of time can receive 30 yuan in circulation coupons every month. With this money, they can buy 30 kilograms of rice, which is quite good as a reward. If someone is injured in battle, the time traveler will be responsible for medical treatment; if the person is disabled, the time travel group will be responsible for supporting him; if someone is killed in battle, the time travel group will be responsible for providing compensation. If orphans or widowers are left without anyone to take care of them, they will all be supported by the Time Travel Group.
This condition was announced, and it immediately caused a sensation in the audience, and everyone was talking about it. Over the years, every village has been fighting against bandits, and deaths have occurred from time to time. The villagers just gave them some money to burn and bury them. If they were single and came from outside, they even skipped the money and just took the money. Once the coffin was buried, everything was over. The promise of "Kun Thief" is so good that it makes people suspicious.
Huang Xunkun said in secret: "This is nothing more than deceiving local warriors to fight with their lives. Even the imperial court has no such example. Are they Bodhisattvas?"
"You're right, even the imperial court can't afford to fight like this, let alone them!"
Suspicion was doubtful, but the representatives who came to the meeting did not question it anymore - anyway, the time travelers are the masters of Lingao now, and they can do whatever they say, so everyone has no choice but to listen to it. Some people, especially those who have dealt with time-traveling groups, believe that the time-travelers will keep their word. After all, they have not yet kept their word since they landed ashore.
The meeting had already reached noon. Although they had been listening to speeches all morning, every representative listened carefully because it concerned the vital interests of each village. Although there were discussions from time to time, the order was still in order. Now being hungry will naturally affect your concentration. At this time, Hou Li Yuanyuan came on stage again, announced that the meeting was closed and brought food to everyone.
Lunch was brought by cart. The male and female students gave points to the delegates. Each person is a wooden box with a polished color. After opening it, the food is much richer than anyone imagined - rice, sliced bacon, vegetables, and the legendary scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Very real. Then there was another bamboo tube stuffed with a stopper. Huang Hankun opened it and smelled it. Inside was a light soup, which was probably cooked with some kind of fish and kelp. He took a sip and it tasted extremely sweet - the thieves had really enjoyed their meal.
Huang Hankun looked around while eating. When you see the young man and woman sharing the food, they seem to be speaking Cantonese. He can speak Hainanese Mandarin. There is not much difference between the two. Don't ask tentatively:
"Are you Kun, no, Mr. Australia's family?"
The boys and girls all laughed and said nothing. Only a boy wearing a small white cloth with some patterns on his arm said: "We are students of a national school."
"Students?" Huang Xunkun was puzzled. "Thieves" still run schools? What do they do with schools? If you teach people to kill and set fire, they will never read the book of the saint, otherwise they will not be pirates.
But he couldn't say this in front of these "little thieves". He asked again: "What is the purpose of this place?"
"This is a movie theater," said the leader, "Little Kun Thief." "It's usually a place where movies are shown."
"What is a shadow play?"
The student was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Of course I will entertain all the representatives in the evening. You will understand then."
Huang Hankun wanted to ask some questions, but these "little thieves" were very tight-lipped and just laughed without answering.
They all seem to be children of good families. I don’t know what kind of hallucinogenic drugs they took, but they actually think that a thief is their father! Huang Xunkun sighed secretly.
After lunch, Li Yuanyuan announced a half-hour break. Everyone could take a walk around the venue or relax. However, you must not cross the lime line around the venue. Huang Hankun took the opportunity to investigate around the venue and walked along the lime line, trying to see more of the scenes in Bairen City. The most striking thing he saw was a tall iron tower in the center of the city.
The tower's foundations are partially lost among several distinctive gray buildings. The tower is made of black steel and is as tall as twenty people. It gets thinner and thinner until it becomes a pointed head. It has shiny tips on it.
The hometown of this "Kun Thief" must be good at smelting iron, so all kinds of objects are made of iron. No wonder people say that thieves continue to use ships to smuggle iron items from the mainland to the island.
It's just that Huang Hankun couldn't figure out the use of this tower made entirely of iron. In his opinion, it was a complete waste - so much iron was worth a lot of money no matter what it was used for. He wanted to get closer and take a closer look, but was immediately blocked by a man wearing gray clothes and a belt around his waist. The man swung his long black-blue bird cannon, and he had no choice but to retreat behind the line.
The color of this blunderbuss is similar to the blunderbuss picked up from the scene where he killed his third brother. It's a pity that after my father fired it once, he couldn't fire it again, and he didn't know how the medicine was loaded. Huang Hankun thought, he must find an opportunity to try this kind of blunderbuss - shouldn't he want to form a security team? He had made up his mind to personally lead Xiang Yong to participate when the time came, to see how powerful the "Kun Thief" was in fighting, and to build such a blunderbuss if he had the chance. ! ~!
