The Ningxia campaign ended successfully, and the Hetao base area continued to deliver supplies to the Hetao area day and night. After 10 days of hard work, the mountains of materials piled up on the banks of the Yellow River were finally transported back to the base area.

The Far Eastern Army looted like locusts crossing the border, the materials were swept away, and the population was also taken away by tens of thousands, scraping Ningxia Town to the emptiness, making the Qingwang Mansion and the corrupt officials and military leaders here cry, these thieves are too ruthless, and their wealth for many years is gone.

When the murderous Shaanxi border army entered Ningxia Town, they were also frightened by the miserable scene of Ningxia Town, and now there is nothing but houses and land here.

The Hetao base area is a completely different scene, and there is a busy scene everywhere. The displaced people from all over Shaanxi and the captured military households of the border army in Ningxia Town need to be resettled, and the booty seized from Ningxia Town needs to be counted and put into storage. A large number of warehouses will also be built to store supplies, and the houses for the new immigrants to spend the winter this year are also under construction.

This year, more than 50,000 Shaanxi refugees have been received in the Hetao area, more than 40,000 prisoners of the border army and military families and their families in Ningxia Town, plus 50,000 or 60,000 Han slaves from the original Han people in the Tumochuan Plain and Han slaves from various tribes in the grassland, adding up to a total of about 150,000 people.

In the base areas, all the new immigrants were dispersed and mixed, and the Shaanxi refugees and border army families from different regions were assigned together to form grassroots detachments, which were respectively resettled in the vast areas of the Hetao Plain and the Tumochuan Plain.

After the resettlement of the new immigrants, the base area began to organize them to develop and build various agricultural infrastructure facilities on both sides of the Yellow River, including reclaiming wasteland, digging irrigation canals, and making organic compost by soil method, so as to make active preparations for next year's spring ploughing.

It is also necessary to build transportation infrastructure in various parts of the base area, wharves and warehouses along the river, and strive to do more work before the arrival of winter. Save next spring, because the roads are muddy, affecting the spring plowing work in various places.

The Shanxi region has been rich in "peat" since ancient times. According to the data of modern society, more than a dozen open-pit coal mines have been found in the Hetao base area, and a large number of Mongol prisoners from various tribes in Monan have been mobilized for several months. At present, the coal storage yards in various parts of the Hetao are piling up raw coal, which can ensure the supply of coal in the base area for several months in winter.

In addition to more than a dozen coal mines, the Hetao base area has also developed several iron mines in Bayannur. The average grade was 30-35%, with a maximum of 46%, and the steel plant and the accompanying coke plant were expanded. Because of the limited conditions, the "local five small" method is still adopted to carry out local production, but the Hetao area is still mainly based on agriculture and animal husbandry, so it is enough to meet the needs of the base area.

In addition, a number of quarries and forest farms have been developed in various parts of the base area, and several earth-based cement yards and more than a dozen brick factories have also been established. The production methods are relatively primitive, with the shortcomings of high labor costs, poor environmental protection conditions, and low output, but they still strongly support the initial construction of the base area.

The Hetao base area has also carried out large-scale expansion of several existing enterprises. The Far Eastern Company had recently organized several more long-distance transports, bringing in a large number of steam engines, various tools, steam-powered machine tools and other equipment, so the shipyard was also greatly expanded.

Moreover, the company has also changed its name to Hetao Machinery Processing Factory, which is relatively large-scale, covering woodworking machining, casting and forging, machining, equipment maintenance, shipbuilding and other types of work, with a total of more than a dozen production workshops. The company also supports hundreds of industrial workers and technicians in various positions with mature work experience. As an employee and technician of Hetao Machinery Factory.

The more than 2,000 craftsmen looted from Ningxia Town were all distributed to the Hetao Machinery Factory on the bank of the Yellow River outside the Naturalized City. That is, the original shipyard. According to their abilities, the company also carried out the reorganization according to the establishment of the squadron and brigade, and became the first batch of apprentices in the Hetao base area, and they were mainly trained by the technical personnel of the base area and the backbone of the engineer regiment directly under the Northwest Field Army.

This year's work in the Hetao Base Area is coming to an end as the weather gradually turns colder. Various departments have also begun to seize the sealing of equipment and materials. Prepare for this year's wintering, and then organize the winter training of more than 100,000 new immigrants in the base areas.

This year, the base areas did not take in the displaced people on a large scale in the Shanxi region, and the main work was to carry out the initial construction of the base areas. Through the winter training, a group of grassroots backbones will be trained, and from next year, large-scale reception will be carried out from the Shanxi region.

After two years of construction in several bases in Daming, the company has made great progress in all its work. Because the company occupies the big granary of India. The company's food shortage has been completely solved, so the company's support for several bases in Daming has also been greatly enhanced.

According to statistics, several base areas have received more than 400,000 displaced people before the onset of winter, and the resettlement conditions are much stronger than in the past.

Among them, the Luliangshan Base Area in Shanxi Province received the largest number of displaced people, receiving more than 150,000 displaced people. Next year, most of these displaced people will be sent to the Hetao base area through various means.

After a year of preparation, the Hetao Base Area will receive 300,000 displaced people next year. These displaced people will wantonly cultivate land in the Hetao area, develop the land resources on both sides of the Yellow River, and strive to build the Hetao area into a "plugged Jiangnan in the Far East" in the northwest within three years.

Next year, the work in the Hetao base area will still be arduous, first of all, the work of clearing the land before spring sowing, there is no machinery and equipment here, and all of them have to rely on oxen, horses and wooden curved plows. Then there is the irrigation project of digging ditches and diverting water, which requires a lot of manpower and time, and is a long and arduous project.

The Hetao base area is in ruins and the infrastructure is very weak, so first of all, it is necessary to solve the problem of road traffic in the base area, and all kinds of land and water transportation work require a large amount of resources to be invested in the base area.

In the future, the Hetao base area will mainly focus on the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, and develop a large area of land in the Hetao Plain and the Tumochuan Plain, and the Hetao area of modern society will be rich in spring wheat, rice, millet, millet, soybean, sorghum, corn and other crops.

The vast and vast natural grasslands of the Ordos region, the Alxa region and the Monan grassland are all good places to develop animal husbandry resources, and these areas will also be the main pastures in the Far East in the future. It is suitable for raising horses, cattle, sheep and other livestock, especially for raising sheep.

The desert steppe in the northern part of Yinshan Mountain and the western part of the Ordos Plateau has a dry climate, poor forage species, and low grass yield, but the fat and protein content of forage grass is high, and it is an excellent grazing ground for small animals.

The desert pastures in the west are well suited for camel development. The famous Three Hippos, Three Rivers Cattle, Grassland Red Cattle, Uzhumuqin Fat-tailed Sheep, Ao Han Fine Wool Sheep, Ordos Fine Wool Sheep, Albas Cashmere Goats and other fine livestock breeds are well-known in the region and abroad. (To be continued.) )