"North China Oilfield!" After choosing a circle, Meng Xiang finally determined the place to be mined first.

At present, there are many oil fields in the base area of the vanguard army. For example, the Shengli Oilfield in the Dongying area, which was still a small village at this time, was deserted. Another example is Tianjin Dagang Oilfield, and Zhongyuan Oilfield. These are big oil fields.

However, none of these fields are suitable for development at this time, and there are still some problems with safety.

The Shengli Oilfield is located near the mouth of the Yellow River, and like the Dagang Oilfield, it is located in the coastal area of the Bohai Sea. There is also the Zhongyuan oil field, which is also close to the front line of the vanguard army and the devils, and the safety is greatly reduced.

There are also some small oil fields in other places, but Meng Xiang does not know much, and only a few and a half of them have been found during the inspection of mining trucks, which is not enough to erect oil wells. There are some oil reserves in the north side of Qidu and Binzhou, but the neighborhood is densely populated and difficult to keep secret.

The North China Oilfield is located in Renqiu, Hebei Province, in the hinterland of the Seventh War Zone. Even if the devil knows and wants to attack all the way, the price they have to pay needs to be considered.

"How can those who are afraid of wolves and tigers develop rapidly? As long as it grows stronger, what if the devil knows about it? Come one, I'll beat one. Meng Xiang was full of confidence for a while, and the vanguard army at this time did have a certain degree of self-protection strength.

"I order, build oil wells!" Because it is a relatively large oil field, Meng Xiang also knows that in Renqiu, after a month of exploration, the mining truck finally found several places where oil wells can be erected, most of which are in saline-alkali wasteland. It is sparsely populated, but it also lacks the shelter of trees. At that time, the oil well can solve the exploration of some devils through the camouflage of the base, and the demarcation of military restricted areas on the saline-alkali wasteland can also block some peeps.

Because the Langfang sub-base that manages these wells is not yet an energy base, the production per hour is only 10 tons, instead of 40 tons to the Middle East.

However, 10 tons per hour is not enough, and the output of several tons per day in Shaanxi is much higher. One oil well is three-star, and the Langfang sub-base also has to shoulder the construction of Beiping and Tianjin, which is more difficult, and Meng Xiang only built five oil wells and stopped.

The peak production year of the North China Oilfield reached more than 10 million tons, and the output of the five oil wells accounted for only a fraction of the production in a year. Helplessly, the oil wells are limited. The Beijing-Tianjin area has built a large number of tank factories, air command centers, logistics equipment centers, etc., there are also two science and technology centers in Beiping, and there are shipbuilding factories around Tianjin. Everywhere you need to build. With the output of 1,200 tons a day from these five oil wells, plus coal-fired oil and imported oil, it is enough to relieve the pressure in the war zone.

After refining in the refining workshop, all kinds of gasoline and diesel are rolled out, and even the analyzed asphalt can be directly used for road construction. When there is no tension in wartime and military reserves are set aside, the oil resources in the theater still have the spare power to be diverted for civilian use.

With the stable supply of this oil field and the possibility of increasing production at any time, Meng Xiang is no longer afraid of the attack of devils. A war machine made of steel and gasoline can crush any enemy that comes its way.

Although there is oil, Meng Xiang has taken some measures to save money. The fuel power for training and civilian use is to use engines with high efficiency and low fuel consumption as much as possible. Diesel power is also encouraged to be replaced by electric motors. To this end, the power grid, with the help of the base, is covering every county town and township. Some nearby villages are also connected to electricity. When the light of the electric light pierced the dark night of the village that had been silent for thousands of years, many people in the village happily stayed at the electric light all night.

Due to the price factor, people cannot afford to use electricity at home, and the only light bulb in many villages is in the office of the villagers' representative committee.

"If you have electricity, but you can't use electricity, you can't use lights, isn't that for nothing?" Meng Xiang also couldn't cry or laugh, as soon as the people arrived at night, they would go to bed in black, where did they need any electric lights.

"We have to grasp the material and spirit!" It was only at this time that Meng Xiang understood the meaning of those slogans of later generations.

At this time, it is winter. It is better to organize outdoor activities than to organize labor and repair roads and ditches in various villages. In addition, literacy is also an effective way for people to open their eyes to the world.

"Literacy first!" With Meng Xiang's instructions, large and small literacy classes appeared in villages and towns. This directive is not forced, but only conditional. However, anyone who knows 2,000 words, can write 100 words, can calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within 100, and has passed the requirements of the literacy examination, the stipulation of dividing 10 catties of grain during the Spring Festival every year is only.

Ten catties of grain is not a small amount, and for a while, people from all over the country have enthusiastically signed up. Without the supervision of the teacher, I began to take the initiative to learn to read and write.

"I went to the village school to read and write." Jiao Chongli greeted his wife in the house, put down the dishes and chopsticks, and was about to go out.

"Who's going to see that kid? Our women's class is also going to learn! Shen Cuihua inside couldn't help shouting.

"What does a woman know? Long hair and short knowledge. Jiao Chongli muttered, but he was still attracted by the ten catties of grain for one person. Although people with fields in rural areas cannot receive grain on a quarterly basis, they can still enjoy the preferential treatment of 10 catties of grain at the end of the year after they get rid of illiteracy.

"What?" Shen Cuihua walked out of the back room.

"Nothing. Children still need someone to watch, or will I come back and teach you after I have learned? Jiao Chongli said hurriedly.

"You teach? How much can your stupid head remember? I don't know as much as I do! After another month of hard work, I will be able to pass the exam, and by the time of the Chinese New Year, I will be able to get ten catties of food. In the days of the Chinese New Year, we ate dumplings every day. Shen Cuihua said with a smile.

Jiao Chongli couldn't help blushing when he heard this, he was a good hand at all kinds of crop work, but he was a beat slower than others and even worse than his wife.

"Send it to their grandparents, and the study class is also very fast, an hour is enough. Our women's class starts early and ends early, so I pick up the children after class. Shen Cuihua diverted from the conversation.

Those over fifty don't need to study, and they can get five catties of food during the New Year, which can be regarded as balancing the psychology of the elderly. Similarly, people with disabilities can get five catties of food if they don't study.

Jiao Chongli was sitting on the table and chair of the village primary and secondary school at this time, watching the young teacher draw words on the blackboard, and those familiar Chinese characters had turned into a cow and stuffed into his head, making his brain swell.

It was warm in the classroom. The coal stove was lit early in the elementary school, and the radiator next to the wall was a little hot to the touch.

This autumn, the ten acres of land he served for a bumper harvest, and next year's grain will be enough. He sold some food and exchanged it for some metal military tickets. In addition to adding a new kettle and a flashlight to his home, he also wanted to install one of these coal stoves in his home. It's so warm in the winter that you can't reach out in the house. The price of coal is not very high, burn some coal bricks, at least it will be warm during the New Year. I heard that this kind of stove can also burn firewood, and it will save money even more when the time comes.

What he didn't know was that in order to allow primary schools around the country to survive the winter, Meng Xiang would take care of all the coal for heating with a wave of his hand. The experts also specially designed this kind of heating stove, and the radiators and pipes used were removed from the warship. At least more than 200 schools in the SAR are heated. The heating stoves in the university use the steam boilers of large warships.

Due to limited time and materials, many schools do not supply all of them for heating, but only for the main buildings, which will be fully used when they are completed next year. As for the newly recovered areas, these are just plans, and they can only wait until next year.

Jiao Chongli looked up at the electric light above his head, and there was nothing to see under the light. This kind of thing is also available in the village committee and primary school at this time. This elementary school is responsible for the school of students from several surrounding villages, and it is the best building in the surrounding area. The lights and heating inside are all surprising to the people in the surrounding villages. According to the capacity of the base, more schools can be built, but the number of teachers is insufficient, and it is impossible to have them in every village. You can only gather in relatively large villages, and the surrounding villages come to study. This doesn't matter at all to children who are used to running in the wilderness. And the school has to take care of meals at noon, which solves the trouble of running back and forth.

Jiao Chongli began to be distracted again, his mind was now a cow, acres of arable land, and the words on the blackboard seemed to have become the footprints of cow hooves in the mud. As he imagined, he built a cowshed, and electric lights were used in the cowshed.

"Electric light?" He came back to his senses all of a sudden, for the sake of ten catties of food, in order not to let his wife look down. He needs to be literate and not illiterate.

"We're going to live in a house like this in the future!" He looked at the blackboard, then at the overhead light.

This winter, the problem of the house is not the most urgent at all, the most urgent is the problem of food and clothing.

After more than half a year of governance, Shandong has stabilized. At this time, the newly recovered areas have not yet implemented subsistence allowances, but the porridge shacks set up everywhere can temporarily ensure that no one will starve to death. The improvised houses built here and there also provide a shelter for those who are homeless. The application for the distribution of cotton wool coats is still continuing, and at the same time, there are many free used clothes to be distributed. Not only the theater management committee has come forward to organize, but there are also many non-governmental organizations that are carrying out charitable relief.

All in order to ensure that no one starves to death, and does not freeze to death.