In the morning, the rooster reported the dawn, and Li Jing followed suit. Remembering the old lady's words last night, I worked hard at night, cultivated my field seriously, worked hard, watered carefully, and sowed both fields together. Such a hard-working performance made Gui Niang and Wan'er both pleasantly surprised. When he got up in the morning, he became more and more gentle, one of the two women helped comb his hair, and the other helped to fetch water and wipe his face, and gently and considerately served him to go out.

Before going out to say goodbye to the old lady, Mother Li's face smiled, and she could see the movement in the main house last night, and it seemed that she knew everything. Before leaving, he personally stuffed Li Jing with more than a dozen boiled eggs, saying that he wanted him to make up for it.

As soon as he went out, Li Jing divided the eggs with Zhao Jiang's guards, more than a dozen eggs, and he ate them alone. Unexpectedly, this small move moved Zhao Jiang and other guards. On the way back to the town of Jiangfu, you can see busy shadows everywhere in the city. Although only about half of the new city has been built, most of the well-planned building areas in the city have been completed one after another.

The inpatient area is divided into nine squares, and a well-shaped four-street divides the entire residential area into nine blocks. There are also square walls and doors between the squares, and the houses in the whole residential area are divided into three types, one is the single-family type of blue bricks and green tiles, which is the best house, and it is also the residence of senior officers and civil servants, and there is only one square. The rest is a gray and white seagrass house made of bricks and stones with a seagrass roof, which has two squares and is also a single-family building, which is considered a medium house. The remaining six fangfang houses are made of rapidly forming adobe bricks for walls and thatched roofs. The walls of these adobe brick houses are built with stones mixed with loess. It was all adobe bricks. The roof is made of wood and thatched. None of these houses have separate yards. Hundreds of square buildings, one next to the other, neat rows.

The houses have all been built, with 100 high-end squares and 256 mid-range squares, a total of 512 houses. The ordinary one has six squares, each with 600 houses, a total of 3,600 houses. Add it all up. There are four thousand one hundred and twelve houses. According to the original plan, each house can live in more than 4,000 households, with a population of nearly 20,000.

On the street, I happened to meet Zhang Hong holding an account book that never left his body and talking to a few people, Li Jing stepped forward and asked, "How is the residential area?" I see that the house is ready, when can I officially issue the house? "As the days get warmer and the rain increases, living in a shack is not the way to go.

Zhang Hong frowned a little and said: "The new house will be completed faster than expected, as long as it is left to dry." Ventilation can basically be distributed. Now there's a big problem, though. When we first planned to build as many houses as possible, we have already repaired according to 20,000 people. But right now, it's not enough. We have a lot of porridge and little porridge, I am worried about how to divide it, now everyone has a saved work ticket in their hands, all waiting to buy a house, our house is not enough. ”

By this time in February, there were already many people in the town of Salmen. Before Li Jing landed on the island, the maximum permanent population of Shamen Town reached 30,000. After Li Jing landed on the island, the number of people recruited quickly exceeded the 10,000 mark. Almost all of these young men joined the army, their families also went to the workshop, and the children went to the school. The fortifications of the city continue to recruit people, because of the good treatment, the wages are high, there is meat to eat, there are a lot of people to come, and now the construction site is entering the climax, the number of foreign workers who build the city almost exceeds 20,000. Many of these people are now interested in Shamen Town, and they have always taken the initiative to receive work points, waiting to save money to buy a house and move to Shamen Town.

In addition to these, the island has a large population.

Whitebeard moved to Salmon with more than 500 of his brothers, and most of their families were brought in, adding up to a population of several thousand.

In addition, the last time Li Jing went to Liaohai, he exchanged prisoners of war and pirates from Qingnipu for 2,000 prisoners of war, 3,000 male slaves and 5,000 female slaves, and the people on Wuhu Island were forcibly relocated to Shamen Island by him, and there were more than 8,000 people. Together with the Da Xie soldiers who followed Wu Qian and Zhang Lie to surrender, nearly 2,000 people followed them to Shamen Town.

In this battle, Feng Zhang was defeated and fled, and in addition to the more than 800 soldiers who died in the battle, a full 5,000 soldiers were captured.

"Now the number of people on the entire Salmon Island has exceeded 100,000, which is really too many."

Li Jing couldn't help but be surprised, "100,000 people, not so many, right?" ”

"Why not, there were originally 30,000 permanent residents on the island, and now we have built a city and attracted 20,000 outsiders to the island, even if all these 50,000 people are removed. Our own family has recruited 20,000 from Qingning Township in several batches, and if you add the slaves exchanged from Qingnipu, the people moved from Wuhu Island, and the prisoners of war from Fengzhang, it is already 50,000. Salmon Island is not big, and it is really overcrowded now, not to mention that our residential area is not suitable for living, or even if it is outside the city, it almost occupies the whole island. ”

"What are these people doing now?" Last time, he brought back more than 20,000 people from Liaohai, and Li Jing was busy dealing with Feng Zhang's counterattack, handing over all these people to Zhang Hong, and now he remembered to ask about the arrangement.

"How else can I arrange it, and set up a temporary camp at the foot of Phoenix Mountain. I don't dare to use those people now, the male slaves and women in exchange for Qingnipu have been arranged to work in various workshops, those prisoners of war are still a little unruly, and now they are still locked up in the camp and sent to take care of them. More than 8,000 people moved from Wuhu Island have become a separate battalion, and for the time being, they are only allowed to work on the construction site. As for Wu Qian, Zhang Lie and their subordinates, I don't know how to deal with them, so I temporarily arranged them in the wooden fence of Bai Dang's house, and let them monitor them first. The more than 5,000 captives of this battle, including that Meng Yang, were all imprisoned in the barracks. How to arrange it depends on the general's arrangement. ‘

Population is also a resource, but now the small town of Shamen has a population of 50,000 all of a sudden, which is a bit of pressure. If the arrangement is not good, not only does it not play its due role, but it consumes food every day in vain.

"That's it, this new house will still be sent out after the construction is completed. But don't send it all at once, let's plan according to the original plan, the house is calculated according to the work, at present, we are worth ten cents for one work, and one hundred cents for the same money. Our house, an ordinary adobe brick thatched house, is priced at 50 cents per building, but only the work is collected, that is, 5,000 cents per thatched house. And there is a proviso, buyers can only be the first and second groups of people to go to the island, that is, our soldiers and their families are eligible to buy a house. ”

"Those who meet the conditions for buying a house, and then have enough work can buy a house, remember, there must be a limit to the house, each family can only buy one, not more. If the conditions are appropriate, but the money is insufficient, the house will not be purchased for the time being. If we don't meet the conditions, we can open the house again in the second phase. In addition, all officers and men in the army, those who have made meritorious contributions, excellent house purchases, and orphans who died in battle also have priority conditions. ”

Fifty yuan for a house is not expensive, based on the minimum salary of fifty yuan a day in the current workshop in Shamen Town, if a family has two laborers, 3,800 yuan a month, the gross income in a year will be almost fifty yuan. In addition, there are overtime pay and reward subsidies, etc., which can save money for the purchase of a house in three years. If there are children in the army, then it can be faster.

"What about those who can't meet other conditions?"

"Let's take this step by step, don't sell all the houses at once. We don't want to make money with the house, this is a benefit to the people of Shamen Town. We must not only satisfy the people, but also make them feel our favor. As for others that can't meet the conditions, let them work hard. If there are people who are willing to build their own houses, we can first set aside a few plots of land outside the city, plan them in a unified way, and let them build houses on them, and we do not restrict them. As for mid-to-high-end houses, this is not something that can be lived in with money, and you have to have merit to live in it. ”

"I see, I'm much more relieved to say that." Zhang Hong breathed a long sigh of relief.

"But there are still too many people on our island, I don't mean there are too many people, but our island is too small." Zhang Hong said again.

Li Jing nodded, "I naturally know this, and I will solve this problem immediately." ”

Back at the town general's mansion, Li Jing immediately summoned Li Wei.

"Zijun, after the first battle the day before yesterday, how did all parties in Dengzhou react?" Li Jing asked directly, after the first battle the day before yesterday, after Feng Zhang's defeat and retreat to Daxie Island, Li Jing did not make any moves, but the military and civilians had a day off. In fact, he was still worried about the reaction of all sides of Dengzhou, and what he was most afraid of was that Wang Jin and others would designate him as a rebel. He didn't make any other moves after he repelled Feng Zhang, but he also wanted to show all parties that he was really just forced to fight back, not a rebellion.

"When Fengzhang attacked the day before yesterday, the soldiers and horses of the Dengzhou Navy Division gathered in the water village, but it did not start. In addition, in Dengzhou, several military camps, such as the Dengzhou Zhizhou Soldiers, the Longshan Battalion, and the Dongmu Shou Capture, also gathered soldiers and horses. Until yesterday, the battalions returned to normal. ”

"What about the assassin Song Wen and Changshi Wang Jingwen?"

"I didn't find any movement, and it was very calm."

Li Jing frowned, at the beginning of the assembly reaction of the naval division and the battalions, it showed that the impact of this battle was still very great, and almost the entire Dengzhou soldiers and horses were involved. However, Song Wen and Wang Jingwen, the two powerful leaders of Dengzhou, did not move, which means that they are still watching and suppressing this matter. This is a good thing, his public opinion propaganda has played a role, of course, the biggest effect is because Song Wen still treats him as his own person, otherwise the battalions would not have gathered. Objectively speaking, the actions of the battalions in Dengzhou that obeyed the orders of the marshal to gather troops and horses were the reason why Wang Jin was really suppressed.

However, Wang Jin and Song Wen have not yet spoken out on this matter, but it is reverie. The calm in Dengzhou today may be the unusual tranquility before the storm. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please read it on m.biquge.info. )