Chapter 191, Destroying the Jungle
After the wave of deformed monsters receded, the dilemma of Crocker Manor was completely resolved.
Although the militia suffered heavy losses; although the manor was badly bombarded by biological and chemical artillery fire and it is not known how to deal with the large areas of corrosion, at least the crisis of extinction has been resolved.
And in the evening of the next day, Major Perbov - oh, now Lieutenant Colonel - led his Wind-Quening Brigade to Crocker Manor.
Jason Morgan and Perbov were old acquaintances. Before he went east to liberate Garbage Town, he had cooperated with Perbov, who was then a major and battalion commander, when he was fighting bandits in the more than 200 kilometers between Fuxing City and Garbage Town.
At that time, there was a big gap in their status.
Of course, it is not small now, but it is smaller than it was then. Although Perbov was promoted to the most important commander of the Wind Extinguishing Brigade and his rank was also raised by one level, Jason Morgan was promoted faster. Although his rank is not high and he is currently only a D4, he has become the main person in charge of the Alliance in the Mutual Aid Association.
The Xifeng Brigade is marching quickly and charging forward this time, and the material support they need later will depend on him.
After a brief greeting, Perbov revealed his next plan: to attack the jungle.
This made Jason Morgan terrified. He wondered if Lieutenant Colonel Perbov had lost his mind and was dreaming.
The entire main continent of the Angry Owl Star can generally be divided into six major regions: the central region, the eastern provinces, the north, the Qing Valley, the Western Desert, and the west of the continent.
Among these six areas, Qinggu area is the most populous place, with a population of over 10 million.
However, for this rich and vast land, the number of humans is still too small. They are far from being the masters here, the vast jungle is.
Humans simply opened up plantations one after another in the open spaces between the jungles and connected them with roads.
The war between humans and the jungle has been going on for a long time in the Qinggu area.
The jungle gave birth to deformed monsters. When there were too many of them in the jungle, they would rush out and attack humans, trying to expand their territory and expand the jungle. This was the deformed monster wave in Qinggu.
But when humans recover, they will in turn reoccupy areas that have not yet become jungles.
In general, the jungle is extremely dangerous. It contains nothing that humans rely on for survival and is instead filled with terrifying monsters.
In the jungle, humans have no advantage. Countless thick trees, muddy ground, swamps... these natural environments all form obstacles for humans to conquer the jungle.
Not to mention, there are a huge number of monsters bred in the jungle.
In the Qinggu area, entering the jungle is tantamount to seeking death.
This is a fact that every Qinggu person has been taught since childhood.
And now, Jason Morgan heard that Lieutenant Colonel Perbov was going to take his troops into the jungle to die.
Feeling Jason Morgan's surprise, Perbov just laughed after the other party said words of dissuasion.
"Of course, of course, I understand that the jungle in Qinggu is hell. But before I set out, I had already studied it for a long time. No one knows the jungle better than me."
After boasting, Perbov continued, "We have a secret weapon in our hands now."
Jason Morgan was not convinced: "What secret weapon can allow us to conquer the jungle so easily?"
"This was arranged by the Governor."
Jason Morgan was immediately speechless.
However, Perbov also saw that Jason Morgan was not completely relieved.
He did not explain any more, but patted the civil affairs officer on the shoulder and said, "You will be able to see it with your own eyes soon, don't worry."
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It was said to be very fast, but in fact Jason Morgan waited for several days before he saw what the secret weapon was.
In fact, the Wind-Extinguishing Brigade began its action early in the morning of the second day after arriving at Crocker Manor. The soldiers drove armored vehicles and tanks to the edge of the jungle and began their jungle clearing.
Yes, it is a clearing of the entire jungle.
Jason Morgan was curious and anxious. How should this be done?
However, he suppressed his curiosity.
He still has a lot of work to do himself.
Continuing the mutual aid association meetings and providing supplies to the Xifeng Brigade and other troops of the Central Army Group that will follow up are his most important tasks.
At the same time, he also received a request from the Alliance Civil Affairs Department to complete the reorganization of the people in Qinggu area on the spot.
The historical mission of the Mutual Aid Association has come to an end. The alliance system will be fully introduced to the Qinggu area.
Based on the guidance materials directly issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Jason Morgan knew what he should do.
He wanted to transform the Mutual Aid Association into the Alliance's management agency for the Qinggu region, which would be the fourth province directly governed by the Alliance: Beiqinggu Province.
The owners of each manor will become local administrative officials, just like the reorganization of the three central provinces. They will then enter the Xifeng Zhongsi College in batches to study; at the same time, their respective manors will be confiscated in a sense, and they will no longer have ownership of their past properties, but only management rights.
This is certainly not a radical reform, but a deeply compromising one. The management of the manors that were transferred from the manor owners to the alliance officials will probably not change much, and the lives of the people will not change much either.
Even, it is foreseeable that when the alliance turns the farmers in the manors into agricultural workers and provides them with job grades ranging from E5 to E7, will they really be able to get the corresponding benefits? Will the manor owners who hold administrative power deduct what they deserve?
But those are solvable problems.
Fight corruption, keep preaching to the grassroots people, and give them the opportunity to move up. They will know how much they should get for E5 or other levels, and if the manor owner does not give them, they can report it.
That's easier said than done, but it's actually very difficult. Many people have never left the manor in their lives, so where can they report? Will the reporting route also be controlled by those with vested interests?
There are many problems.
But these are essentially giving way to another reality - the league is currently unable to appoint enough officials to do this.
It's easier said than done to clean it up, but where can the league find so many suitable officials to be responsible for this part of the work?
Administrative management is not something that can be done by simply picking up anyone.
Letting these native guys do it may cause various problems, but at least, in the early stage, the operation of Beiqinggu Province can be maintained.
In fact, the alliance's strategies in the Central Province, the North Central Province, and the High Tower Province are also consistent.
Let’s do it first.
The league's disciplinary committee will play their role.
In the future, as more students from Zhongsi College and the College of Literature and Law graduate, these problems will be alleviated.
It won't be long.
The Alliance Education Department is currently receiving a lot of investment, so it is easy for teachers to be promoted, and school buildings are given priority in construction...
As for the school system, minors just go to school properly; for adults, there is also crash course education.
However, this so-called crash course is different from the worker education conducted by Wei Xingcheng. No matter how crash-trained it is, administrative officials are far from being as easy to train as factory workers.
But in general, the alliance's educational business has been carried out for some time, and suitable students will graduate soon.
By then, if these manor owners, including the old officials in the three central provinces, have not done a good enough job, they will be replaced; the disciplinary committee will also conduct a large-scale screening at that time, on the one hand to purify the atmosphere, and on the other hand to make room for new officials with relatively more legitimate backgrounds.
However, it is relatively easy to deal with existing plantations that are still in operation.
But the huge number of refugees who have lost their homes is a bit more troublesome.
It is not realistic for the Twin Cities to absorb all two million people at once. Even if the Twin Cities metropolitan area will expand further in the future, it is not now. It takes time to expand the scale of the city. If a large number of people pour in at once, even the expansion of the production line will not be able to keep up, and there will be no jobs for the time being.
Of course, relocating residents is still a regular job and it has to be done all the time. The surplus population should first go to adult schools and night schools to learn some industrial technology and literacy, which also takes time. When they are trained and can initially serve as qualified industrial population and the corresponding production lines are expanded, they will be able to seamlessly integrate better.
As for the remaining population, they are also useful.
They are generally rated E3 or E4.
There are actually a few lower levels that really need some discussion.
In the Alliance, reaching E1 level means having citizenship. But at this level, there are no benefits, the Alliance just recognizes you as a citizen.
E2 will provide half of the minimum living standard, which is generally given to children and disabled people who are completely unable to work as a government subsidy.
E3, on the other hand, provides welfare at the minimum living standard, ranging from food allocation to necessary medical assistance.
E4, starts to receive allowance, but not much, and is considered an intern.
Until E5, this is the level that most adults in the alliance get if they have a job. In addition to ensuring that they have enough food and clothing, they can even save some money to do things to improve their lives and have money for some entertainment. An E5 couple can support three or five children and both parents, but their life is quite tight.
Although the refugees were generally classified as E3 or E4, this still made them excited.
The alliance took over all these people, and Cheng believed that being a member of the alliance was a huge burden. As the civil affairs officer of the alliance and the actual person in charge of government affairs in Beiqinggu Province, he had to get these people moving.
They have to work to find their own value; and the alliance also needs them to work hard to try to earn back the high investment and turn the burden into positive income as soon as possible.
Fortunately, what Qinggu area lacks the least is land.
A batch of high-yield seeds obtained from interstellar trade were also sent over from the Alliance Headquarters. Now that it was autumn, it was a good time to build plantations one after another to accommodate these refugees. After the construction work was completed, it would be almost time to sow.
Another considerable number of people were sent to join the army and followed the troops.
The Central Army Group needed a large number of military workers, and the first to be affected was Perbov's Wind-Quieting Brigade.
His troops had already entered the jungle area and issued a demand for 30,000 young and middle-aged workers to him, the logistics manager.
Morgan equipped him with all these people.
They were sent to the jungle and participated in the work of clearing the jungle.
Then Jason Morgan went back to his own business.
Even though he tried his best to maintain the mutual aid system, Jason Morgan was still overwhelmed by the need to introduce the alliance system on the spot.
There is no end to the things that workers need. In the first few days, he couldn't leave even a little bit, but after being busy for a while, he still took some time out and ran to the edge of the jungle.
He really wanted to see what the secret weapon that Perbov mentioned was.
Then he witnessed the disappearance of a large area of jungle.
The armored vehicle is equipped with a device similar to a flamethrower, but the purple-red flame it emits does not cause high temperature or burning.
Trees and vegetation burned by the purple fire will wither and dehydrate rapidly.
This is much faster than burning it with real flames.
After the armored vehicles sprayed, after a short wait, the soldiers on foot and the conscripted civilian workers began to move forward.
The work they have to do is also very simple.
After the low shrubs dried up quickly, they could be smashed with a stick and turned into debris, providing fertilizer for the land; tall trees also became brittle. A strong man could knock them down with a few kicks.
After the tall trees fall down, they will be towed in batches onto the vehicles behind.
These things should not be wasted.
After the tall wood is dehydrated, it can be used as a building material. It is not particularly good, not as good as the wood that has been cut down properly and made with corresponding industrial technology, but it is a material that can be obtained quickly when necessary.
It just so happens that a large number of plantations in the rear need to be newly built. Houses, walls... all require these building materials.
Of course, we definitely can't use that much. At the very least, we can build a synthetic starch factory nearby, and these woods can still be used as raw materials for making synthetic starch.
This would generate a lot of economic value, and Jason Morgan, as a government official, could see that.
But what he could see more clearly was the way to completely solve the Qinggu problem.
He had been thinking about this problem since he came to Qinggu area, but he had never thought that the way to achieve it was to completely destroy the existence of the "jungle" itself!
If someone had told him this in the past, he would have thought it was a fantasy.
But now, it all came true before his eyes.
(End of this chapter)
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