War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 662: Lao Xu’s Farmland
Xu Chaoyang didn’t care what the fundamental reason for land distribution was in other places. The purpose of land distribution in 217 was to recruit soldiers.

The words "preferential treatment for military dependents" filled the newly built conscription office with people...

Why?

Because Liu Gen'er's father-in-law sent his son to join the army.

All these actions are done simply for the purpose of "preferential treatment for military families."

So, what are the preferential treatments for military families?
For example, if ordinary people can get eight mu of land, the land that military dependents can get is one mu and two mu.

Why is it not one acre, but one acre and two?

Xu Chaoyang knew the common people too well. When the common people talked about the extra four mu of land, especially when they were chatting with them, they would immediately say, "We have military dependents in our family, so we get half an acre more land than you do. How much more grain can we produce with half an acre?"

Ordinary people like to brag.

The rounding in mathematics changes completely when it comes to the mouths of ordinary people, and becomes almost the same. The sense of superiority of this four mu of land can make everyone look sideways and can cause the most fundamental change in their identity.

Of course there are other benefits, such as priority in housing construction.

Xin County has not been rebuilt yet, but if you have military dependents in your family, once spring comes, no matter if your household registration is in Xin County before or not, as long as someone in your family is a soldier, you can get your own house in Xin County.

There are also free seeds and free farm tools distributed by the army.

Xu Chaoyang: The arsenal is about to be built. Can't we make some farm tools for the people? But if there is no soldier in your family, I'm sorry, the seeds given to you are called "borrowing" and you have to return them when the autumn harvest comes. Applying for farm tools from the army is also called "borrowing" and you still have to return them after using them.

The most important thing is that 217 has horses. When plowing and turning the land, ordinary people who want to borrow horses to plow the land have to line up behind the military dependents.

These are all the preferential treatments for military dependents. Even though they may not seem like much, just based on these few points, Liu Gen'er's father-in-law insisted on sending his son to join the army.

Why?

Just for four plots of land?
No~ Because when Liu Gen'er's father-in-law went to the county government, he asked this question: "County magistrate, our Liu Gen'er is clearly a soldier in the army, why is he not considered a military dependent?"

The county government did not argue with him whether the words "county magistrate" were in compliance with regulations. The answer was very simple: "Don't understand? Liu Gen'er's last name is Liu, which is not the same as yours. Moreover, Liu Gen'er has established his own household after marriage. Therefore, your daughter is considered a military dependent, but your family is not. It's not that they are not completely considered. If you are bullied, the army will still give you preferential treatment as a military dependent."

"Can't you be flexible?"

"It's not impossible. If your family is not considered a military family, let's make an analogy. If the standard for ordinary people to get land is eight mu, then your family can get eight mu, and Liu Gen'er's family can get one mu and two mu, a total of two mu;"

"If you count, your eight mu of land will be taken back, and your family will get a total of one mu and two mu. After all, if your family is considered as military dependents, then you are a family, and how can a family be divided into two plots of land? Is that right?"

"What if there's another soldier in your family?"

"Military dependents!"

Is this still half an acre of land? There is an extra acre and two inside and outside!

Of course, this number is just an analogy, but the facts are real!
In less than half an hour, Liu Gener's father-in-law sent his son to the conscription office. Now, he has become a soldier in the "recruit camp" of the new regiment, and spends every day in training and receiving ideological education from the "instructor".

And Xu Chaoyang has been very busy these days!
An official from the county government came to the military sub-district office and said, "Chief, there will soon be not enough land to be distributed in Xinzhou. Once word gets out about our land distribution here, the poor people in Taiyuan will be eager to move to Xinzhou. How can we have so much land to distribute to everyone?"

"If we add the original Xinzhou residents and even plan out the land in the Lingshan valley, there won't be enough to go around."

Xu Chaoyang had never experienced this before, so he asked, "So what did you do?"

The county magistrate lowered his head and smiled, saying, "Military families are given priority, and the others will line up. I have planned all the land outside Xinkou, such as Ruyuekou and Yanmenguan. I originally wanted them to wait until those places are liberated..." The embarrassed smile on his face became bigger and bigger. Xu Chaoyang felt that this was not right. Isn't this equivalent to eating up the food of the next year in the current year? When those places are really conquered, won't the local people rebel?
"stubborn!"

“Can’t the mountain be divided?”

"Can't we live by planting fruit trees and timber on the mountain? Can't we divide the river? Can't we raise fish in the river and make fish ponds? Can't we live differently?"

"Also, if the poor people from Taiyuan come to us, we welcome them, right? But we can't treat them the same as Xin County, right? It's right to distribute land, and it's right to line up numbers. Then shouldn't the land that should be lined up and distributed be the land around Taiyuan?"

"Taiyuan?"

The county magistrate scratched his head and said, "Chief, what are you doing..."

"Then don't worry about it. Just do as I say. If you make a mistake, it's my fault."

He was afraid that this matter would cause misunderstanding and friction with Yan Laoxizi, but Xu Chaoyang knew that there was no friction between them at all.

This is a war that must be resolved sooner or later!
Spring came quietly under such circumstances. At the same time, Yan'an sent another 100 secret front soldiers, carrying banknotes from Xu Chaoyang's Xinxian Banknote Printing Factory to Yuezhou.

At present, if we transport banknotes to America at this frequency, as long as Xiaoduo and the others come back, there will be a batch of people coming back every month, which means that the monthly income will reach the level of five million US dollars... What does this mean?
If this becomes a large-scale issue, Xu Chaoyang will have the final say on whether America will be in chaos in the future!
Of course, there is still no news from Xiaoduo, who was among the first group to go out, and a month has passed.

"The sun is rising! The sun is rising!"

"Is it time to start construction in Xin County? The ground is obviously soft."

This was the first sentence Yang Jingyu said after returning to the military district office. What he meant was that the weather was gradually getting warmer, the land had thawed, and the city was still a ruin. He couldn't just leave it like this, right?
Xu Chaoyang looked at the water dripping down from the roof, looked at the bright sun at noon and muttered: "It's time to start construction..."

"Give me the order!"

"Starting tomorrow, all soldiers of the three regiments of the 217th Military Sub-district, including the artillery battalion, cavalry battalion, guard battalion, and recruit battalion, will switch from full-day training to half-day training. The training time will be set in the morning. After lunch, all soldiers and civilians will begin to clean up the ruins of Xin County and build houses for the people!"

"The political cadres of each battalion, company, and platoon are all responsible for the ideological education of the soldiers at night. In addition..."

"Old Yang, you should communicate with the comrades in the county government and organize a few 'literacy classes' in Xin County. In addition to teaching culture, you can also teach the people about farming. Let the old farmers who have been farming for many years share their farming experience and explain what 'photosynthesis' is..."

"What does it do?"

Xu Chaoyang was born in the 80s. When he was in primary school, his textbooks introduced photosynthesis, which is the knowledge that the yield can be effectively increased by making full use of light energy through reasonable density. But in this era, that is the unique skill of the old hands!

Even if you give two families the same seeds, plant the same piece of land, and experience exactly the same weather conditions, the yields of the two families will be completely different. Unless it is a disaster year and everyone has no harvest, otherwise, you are not as good as the old master.

This is not to say that people in our country don't know how to farm. There are smart people who really treat the land they have as their own son, while some people still just throw seeds into the ground and leave it alone, without caring about farming skills. Land is the most practical thing. How you treat it is how it treats you. It is not fake at all. But once the yield reaches its limit, there is nothing anyone can do. After all, there are not many high-yield things that have been hybridized in this era.

The actual name for "photosynthesis" appeared in 1897. The reason for naming it was not to increase the yield of the land, but because it was discovered that plants can release oxygen through light energy after absorbing underground water.

Xu Chaoyang started farming. When Xiaoduo and the others were not back, Yu Xinxian built houses, led the people to farm, and dug canals. Even Li Wanchao asked curiously, "Xuzhou is so lively, don't you want to participate?"

At this moment, Xu Chaoyang just looked back at the old fox, smiled slightly, and shook his head without saying anything.

How does he participate?

Yes, now 217 has gathered nearly new recruits through the "privileges for military families", and the total strength has reached . But when there are three quarters of new recruits in the team, and they have only been trained for half a day and haven't even left the recruit camp, isn't it tantamount to seeking death to take this group of people to war?

What was the scale of the battle in Xuzhou?

Almost all of Yu Xuezhong’s troops and Li Zongren’s troops had rushed in. How could he fight with his 217?
Xu Chaoyang stopped fighting. Not only did he stop fighting, he was still waiting!
After Xiaoduo comes back, the organization will go to the Russians to acquire a mining company. The most important thing right now is to get the arsenal up and running as soon as possible!
(End of this chapter)