In the vast land south of Lijiazhuang, Lao Pi and Lao Fu are busy on the farmland, and they are engaged in single, mechanical labor. They were joined by many refugees from the north. But now on their faces, there is no trace of hardship. Because their situation is still relatively good. They can be fed. The clothes are also new, and if you work well, you might get a house of your own here. In that case, they would have made their home here.

"Oops. How much land do we cultivate? Lao Pi wiped his sweat and asked, old fart.

"I think it's about fifteen acres of land." The old fart worked hard. Because it is completely calculated based on their work situation, more work to get more, less work to get less. That's all they have to do. Many young and strong young men, they are reluctant to come, and those who have profits go to the factory, and those with flexible brains also go. Those who have strength are said to have gone to work. After they have a household registration, they can go to work in the engineering team. I heard that half a year of work is equivalent to their salary for a year. Lao Pi was very envious, but there was no way, his body was not as good as before. Although the doctor showed him and said that the problem was not big and that he should pay attention to his cultivation, he knew what was going on, and how a disaster would fall into some root causes, but it was already good to be alive. You know, a lot of people are gone.

"yes, fifteen acres. But the land is not yet over. Not to mention, there are more than 100 acres of land. When were we at home, when did we have so much land? Old Leather said with a hoe.

"Hehe, you're wrong. That's more than 300 acres of land. We're going to finish all this work today, and we'll go to the next one tomorrow. It is said that the family has more land, tens of thousands of acres. Twelve people from agricultural companies have been hired to farm. "The old fart is still working hard. Lao Pi looked at it in surprise. Then swallow a mouthful of saliva and continue drying. A lot of land was concentrated in the hands of a few people, because more and more people moved into the cities, where there were factories, and the value generated by the cities was more stable, and they concentrated the land in the hands of the Agricultural Bank. The ownership is theirs, but the right to use it belongs to the bank, which avoids more problems, and if it needs to be realized, you can also choose the way to pay for the funds. Relatively speaking, this is a good expense. Some people have already sold their land to the Agricultural Bank in order to do business, so that the land is in the hands of the bank. And the banks further expanded production. At the same time, the government provides a large number of interest-free loans, and the interest is paid by the government, and they only need to borrow more money. The borrowed money can be used for many things, building canals, employing more people to farm, and if necessary, buying some farm equipment. That's a good thing.

However, interest-free loans are not available to many people. Under IRA law, only farmers of more than 1,000 acres of land are eligible to apply. This is a further policy trend to encourage land annexation.

In order to get more interest-free loans, some small farmers and other farmers joined forces, and they formed a joint-stock system. The scale of land has also grown rapidly from hundreds of acres to thousands of acres, because the scale of land is larger. The more likely you are to get an interest-free loan. Not only agricultural loan support, but also if the scale of land reaches tens of thousands of acres, and the grain production of the land gets a scale figure, the government will also reward accordingly. This is to encourage agriculture to resume production as soon as possible and increase production. After all, the high price of food puts too much financial pressure on the Republican Army.

Under this stimulus, the farmer has changed again, and the situation of the small farmer has changed. More and more large farms are emerging. These are some of the advantages of encouraging mergers.

Handan. North. This is where small workshops are concentrated. They produce more and more things. Even though their factories are small enough to produce some bearings or larger lathe parts, they can get some orders through their craft. For example, the trigger on the flintlock pistol, as well as the related trigger parts, are concentrated here**. Because of the greater cost savings, the production speed is also very fast, it is said that they can produce more than 10,000 trigger parts in just one day. And the pass rate is very high. After all, the arsenal of the Republican Army needs to be spot-checked, and once the pass rate is not reached, no cash will be paid. And the Republican Army in order to increase production output. The Second Arsenal is said to be responsible for the production of 100,000 flintlock pistols. In order to increase the speed of production, the only way is to hand over some unnecessary parts to those manual workshops to complete.

For example, a large number of carpenters are also involved, and they use the best mahogany to make it, so that the production speed is greatly accelerated.

If we only rely on the existing personnel in Handan City to carry out production, it is difficult to ensure such a large-scale division of labor. Because the population of Handan itself is not large. When I entered the city, the population of the city was only in our early 60,000s. But now, Handan's population has swelled to a staggering 270,000. And that's without adding to that the circulating population, which is two to three times larger than the urban population. Because trade is developed here. Many people are running to do business, plus the transportation team, the whole Handan city is unusually prosperous, only commercial taxes. It is possible to provide more than three infantry divisions for war expenses.

The industrial workshops in the North District have attracted more craftsmen, blacksmiths, and carpenters from the surrounding area, and they have brought income, as well as the demand of the consumer market, and the wages they get can allow them to live here, and with their income, they can buy their own houses after working steadily for a year. However, most of them choose to rent a house temporarily. Because it is more cost-effective, their wages and salaries, in addition to buying a large amount of grain, can be sold by the government to meet the basic rations. You can also buy more other goods, such as some beds, coffee tables, and other new furniture. And soap. They are also well decorated. It is said that a better house must also have a bathroom, which they think is very good, and in winter, many people will not bathe.

The development of Handan City is rapid, and it is using the fastest force to attract a large number of people from the surrounding areas to gather here. However, the demand for housing is getting bigger and bigger, and the city of Handan has a son and is getting bigger, and then people finally know why Handan wants to tear down those walls. The reason is that the existence of the city wall greatly restricts the development of Handan City. Many old residents of Handan have seen the rapid development of Handan with their own eyes, and they believe that one day they may surpass Luoyang's. Because the pace of development here is fast, fast.

Of course. There are also people who will not enter Handan, they will go further north, where the coal producing areas need more people. Because that kind of work is too tiring. But the salary given is more, so some people who don't have technical skills are concentrated there.

If you have built a house at home, it is also the best. Because they can get into the engineering corps. There are two types of engineering teams. One is to build roads. There are more recruits there, and they need to endure hardships, most of them are refugees from the north, or from the Black Mountain bandits. Their main purpose was to build roads. The other is to build a house. There are also many types of houses, including wooden houses and brick houses. The best is the cement knows the big house, to use iron bars. Iron bars produced by the Handan Iron Works were supplied to them, and then the large frames were poured with concrete, followed by bricks. Cement factories, brick burning places are more and more, because the demand for houses becomes very large. The demand in Handan is even greater. It is said that 20,000 stone of cement produced in a month is not enough. The gap in wood is also large. In short, the faster the pace of development, the greater the consumption of materials.

Lijiazhuang. War Department.

"At present, everything has entered the state it should be, and agricultural production has provided sufficient labor security. A large number of workers meet some of these needs. Jia Xu said to Shangwu.

"We don't just need these labors, we need quality. If they don't farm well, we'll be in big trouble. Shang Wu said.

"It's not a big problem for the time being. But I'm worried about the war. A telegram came from Hedong. And they went well. I think now they can end the battle in Shirari. According to preliminary statistics, we may have eaten more than 1,200 Hun cavalry from the other side. Our horse problem has been solved quite a bit for the time being. But the issue of food replenishment, as well as ammunition replenishment, has not been well resolved. Jia Xu said worriedly.

"I think that number is probably going to go up, as far as the logistics are concerned. The only way we can do that is to build roads. If the road can solve such a problem to a greater extent, it will be of great help to us. Shang Wu said. The current transportation is still relatively low-end. The reason is that they only have one-wheeled transportation. This is an important reason for restricting the further development of the war in Hedong.

"Well, I borrowed one of your methods, that is, if a large number of disaster victims appear, you can let them sell their land, or the Republican Army can buy their land, and at the same time give them a job to build engineering roads to do, so that refugees, roads, most of the problems can be solved." Jia Xu proposed.

"Well, disaster relief through work. It's a good idea. Shang Wu said.