Zhong Yi was complaining, but the Chen family and more than a dozen grain merchants were celebrating each other.

Chen Qifan rushed back to Mazhu from Yinjiang, and without washing his face, he was called to the living room by Chen Dasan to explain to the dozen or so grain merchants gathered what the situation in Yinjiang was now.

"Boss." Chen Dasan said, "Hurry up and talk to the elders." ”

"Yes, Dad." Chen Qifan said respectfully, "Everyone, yesterday and early this morning, I went to Haishu, Jiangdong and Jiangbei for a turn, and found that Jiangdong and Haishu basically did not see the shadow of refugees, but the schools, churches and temples in Jiangbei District did live refugees, but I don't know if they were full. ”

Seeing Chen Dasan frowning, Chen Qifan hurriedly said: "Because there are police officers standing guard outside the door of each refugee resettlement site, it is strictly forbidden for idle people to enter and exit, and now the police in Yinjiang are also evil, I want to make money buy a policeman and go to Minqiang Middle School to have a look, but I can't do it." ”

Shopkeeper Wang waved his hand and said: "Whether King Zhong Yan can resettle or can't resettle the refugees, we don't care, what we all care about is food, how much corn is left in Jiangbei Railway Station?" ”

The other dozen or so grain merchants also pricked up their ears when they heard this.

Yes, for them, the food problem is the fundamental problem.

"Regarding food, I also went to Jiangbei Railway Station to see it." Chen Qifan smiled and said, "There is not much left, and it will only be 30,000 or 40,000 tons if it dies." ”

"Thirty or forty thousand tons." Chen Dasan said, "100,000 people can eat, but we can still eat for a long time, and we still have to work hard." ”

"We still have to work hard to eat, but we can't rely on us alone." The shopkeeper Wang said, "Old Chen, you also have to contact the Japanese, let them increase the pressure, and drive as many refugees as possible to Yinjiang, 100,000 people can't eat Zhong Yanwang, then 1 million people!" One million is not enough, so come to him two million! ”

"You don't need to talk about this." Chen Dasan said lightly, "The imperial army has long said that in the next month, at least 100,000 refugees will come to Yinjiang every day, and in half a month at most, more than one million refugees will pour into Yinjiang, so we just need to continue to eat corn." ”

The king's shopkeeper was speechless.

……

Time flew quickly, and soon came to the middle of February of the 39th year.

At this time, the battlefield in northern Jiangxi was already full of war clouds, and the first large-scale battle since the Sino-Japanese war entered the stage of all-round stalemate was about to start.

On the Yinjiang side, more than one million refugees have poured in.

Not only Jiangbei, but also schools, private schools, temples, and government offices at all levels in Jiangdong, Haishu, and even the surrounding towns of Zhuangshi, Shiqi, Gulin, and Luotuo were all requisitioned to resettle refugees.

Even the Yinjiang Municipal Government and the No. 2 Prison have housed many refugees.

The sudden influx of nearly 1.5 million refugees into Yinjiang has brought severe challenges to Yinjiang's food, hygiene, medical care, and especially public security, and the police station's patrol brigade has expanded to 2,000 people, but it is still not enough.

As a last resort, Zhong Yi could only transfer Li Ziren's garrison regiment, Zhen Yongmeng's special service battalion, and He Wenxi's officer training class to Yinjiang City, and go all out to maintain law and order in Yinjiang City.

Even so, there were still problems in the city.

Cao Ziying had just finished dealing with a case of a refugee robbery and rushed to report it to Zhong Yi.

It happened that Zhang Yuanxi was also here with Zhong Yi, and Cao Ziying also smiled at Zhang Yuanxi.

"Mayor, here's the thing, first a refugee broke into a resident's house and stole clothes, and after being discovered, it turned into an open robbery, and the resident called in a neighbor to help, which in turn seriously injured the refugee." In less than half a month, Cao Ziying's whole person has lost weight, her voice has become hoarse, and she has two dark circles under her eyes, obviously lacking sleep.

Zhong Yi nodded, and said, "Then how did you deal with it?" ”

Cao Ziying said: "The main offender who beat the man was sent to the Yinxi construction site to serve half a year of hard labor, and the refugees were compensated 5 yuan for medical expenses, and the six accomplices served half a month of hard labor and 1 yuan for each of the medical expenses. ”

After a pause, he added: "After the refugee recovered from his injuries, he served three years of hard labor for robbery. ”

Zhong Yi nodded and said, "Lao Cao, you handled it well, just deal with it." ”

Cao Ziying smiled flatteringly, and said: "Mayor, the number of refugees pouring into Yinjiang has exceeded 1.5 million, and our patrol team is becoming more and more inadequate, so, you see, can we recruit another batch of patrol police?" ”

"Lao Cao, I was about to tell you about this." Zhong Yi Zhengse said, "At present, there are more than 2,000 personnel in your patrol team, and this is already the establishment of a regiment, so if you enter again, it is not appropriate to use the number of the patrol team." ”

Cao Ziying's face immediately swelled with a flush, and she couldn't hide her excitement: "What does the mayor mean?" ”

Zhong Yi said: "I have applied to the provincial security department, preparing to expand the Yinjiang Patrol Force into a police corps, with Lao Cao you as the captain. ”

"This, this ......" Cao Ziying was so excited that she didn't know what to say.

The police corps is equivalent to a division-level establishment, that is to say, he Cao Ziying is also a division commander, although he is not an irregular army, but no matter what, he is also a division commander! Senior general!

Zhong Yi turned his face again and said: "Lao Cao, let's talk about the ugly things ahead, you have to bring the team to me, I am still very satisfied with your work in the past few months, I hope you can guard against arrogance and rashness, and continue to work hard!" ”

"Yes!" Cao Ziying snapped and replied proudly, "Ziying will never live up to the mayor's cultivation!" ”

"Go ahead." Zhong Yi waved his hand and said, "Set up the shelf of the police corps as soon as possible, remember, the police corps must be strictly checked when entering the police, and only recruit good people with clean nets!" ”

"Yes!" Cao Ziying stood up again and turned around.

Seeing Cao Ziying's figure leaving, and then looking at the refugees living in tents in the courtyard outside, Zhang Yuanxi turned back to Zhong Yi and said: "Ziren, I don't understand this, Yinxi's nests have been built, why don't you let the refugees live in the nests?" If they live in a nest, there won't be so many security incidents. ”

"This can't be rushed." Zhong Yi waved his hand and said, "If you let the refugees live in the nest now, it is hard to guarantee that they will not wake up the devils of the Mei Agency, in case they wake up, they will definitely cut off the refugee transportation channel, so that no more refugees will be sent to Yinjiang." ”

Zhang Yuanxi said: "1.5 million people, are you still not satisfied? ”

"Why are you content?" Zhong Yi said, "As long as you can afford it, isn't it better to have more human resources?" ”

"Okay." Zhang Yuanxi spread his hands and said, "You are always right, who let you have 3 million tons of grain in your hands." ”