Chapter 191, Destroying the Jungle
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Hong Xin Bu
Chapter 191, Destroying the Jungle
After the wave of aberrations receded, the predicament of Crocker Manor had been completely resolved.
Although the militia suffered heavy losses; although the manor was terribly bombarded by biological and chemical bombardment, and the large area of corrosion was not known how to solve it, at least the crisis of extinction had been resolved.
And in the evening of the second day, Major Purbeauf—oh, Lieutenant Colonel now—led his Winds-off Brigade to Crocker Manor.
Jason Morgan and Perbov are old acquaintances. Before moving eastward to liberate Trash Town, when he suppressed bandits within a range of more than 200 kilometers from Fuxing City to Trash Town, he had a relationship with Perbov, who was the battalion commander at the time. cooperation.
At that time, the status gap between the two was relatively large.
Of course, it is not small now, but it is smaller than it was then.Although Perbov was promoted to the most important brigade commander of the Ending Wind Brigade, and his military rank was also raised by one level, he, Jason Morgan, was promoted faster.Although his rank is not high, he is currently only a D4, but he has already become the main person in charge of the alliance in the Mutual Aid Association.
The Xifeng Brigade marched forward this time, and the material support they needed in the future depended on him.
After the two had a brief exchange of pleasantries, Perbov revealed his next plan: to attack the jungle.
This made Jason Morgan turn pale with fright. He only wondered if Lieutenant Colonel Perbov was in a daze and was having a big dream.
The current main continent of the entire Fury Owl Star can be roughly divided into six major regions from a conventional point of view: the central region, the eastern provinces, the northern land, the Qinggu, the western desert, and the western part of the mainland.
In terms of these six places, the Qinggu region is the most populous place, with a population of more than ten million.
However, for this rich and vast land, the number of human beings is still too small.They are far from the masters here, the vast jungle is.
Humans just opened one plantation after another in the open space 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 Green Valley area.
The jungle breeds aberrations. When there are too many of them in the jungle, they will rush out and attack humans, trying to expand the territory and the jungle. This is the wave of aberrations in Green Valley.
But when humans slow down, they will in turn reoccupy places that have not yet been forested.
Generally speaking, the jungle is extremely dangerous. There is nothing in it for human beings to survive, but it is full of terrible monsters.
In the jungle, humans have no advantage.Numerous thick trees, muddy ground, swamps... These natural environments have all formed 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 the fact that every Qinggu person has been educated since childhood.
And now, Jason Morgan heard that Lieutenant Colonel Purbov was going to take his troops into the jungle to die.
Sensing Jason Morgan's surprise, Perbov just laughed after the other party spoke dissuading words.
"Of course, of course, I understand that the jungle in Qinggu is hell. But I have studied it for a long time before I set off, and no one knows the jungle better than me."
After talking big, Perbov continued: "We have a secret weapon in our hands now."
Jason Morgan didn't buy it: "What secret weapon will allow us to easily conquer the jungle?"
"It was arranged by the governor."
Jason Morgan was immediately speechless.
However, Perboff also saw that Jason Morgan was not completely relieved.
He didn't explain any more, just patted the civil affairs official on the shoulder and said, "You will see it with your own eyes soon, don't worry."
……
It was said to be very fast, but in fact Jason Morgan waited for several days before seeing what the secret weapon was.
In fact, the Ending Wind Brigade started to act the next morning after arriving at Crocker Manor.The soldiers drove armored vehicles and tanks to the edge of the jungle and began their clearing of the jungle.
Yes, the clearing of the entire jungle.
Jason Morgan was curious and anxious, how to do this?
Still, he suppressed his curiosity.
He has a lot of work to do himself.
Continuing the meetings of the Mutual Aid Association and providing supplies to the Xifeng Brigade and other units of the Central Army that will follow up later are his most important things.
At the same time, he also received a request from the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Alliance to complete the reorganization of the people in the Qinggu area on the spot.
The historical mission of mutual aid associations has come to an end.The alliance system will be completely brought into the Qinggu area.
According to the guidance materials sent directly by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Jason Morgan knew what he should do.
He wants to transform the Mutual Aid Association into the alliance's management organization for the Qinggu region, which will be the fourth province directly managed by the alliance: North Qinggu Province.
The manor owners of each manor will become administrative officials in various places, just like the adaptation of the three central provinces.They will then enter Xifeng Loyal Descendants Academy in batches to study; at the same time, their respective manors are confiscated in a sense, and they no longer have ownership of their past properties, but Is only management rights.
Of course, this is not a radical reform, and it is deeply compromised.The alliance officials who have been transferred from the owner of the manor may not have much change in the management of their original manor, nor will there be enough changes in the lives of the people.
Even, it is foreseeable that when the alliance gives farmers in those manors to become agricultural workers, and then provides ranks ranging from E5 to E7, can they really get the corresponding benefits?Won't they be deprived of what they deserve by the manor owners who have administrative power?
But those are solvable problems.
Anti-corruption, persistent preaching to the people at the bottom, and giving them opportunities to ascend.They will know E5 or other grades, how much they should get, if the manor owner does not give it, they can report it.
That's easy to say, but it's actually quite difficult.Many people have never left the manor in their entire lives, where can they report?Will the route of reporting be controlled by interest groups?
There are many problems.
But these are essentially to make way for another practical factor-the alliance is now unable to appoint enough officials to do this.
It's really cleaned up. It's easy to say. Where can the alliance find so many suitable officials to take charge of this part of the work?
Administrative management is really not something that can be done by just pulling someone up.
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 strategy in Central Province, North Central Province, and High Tower Province is also consistent.
Do it first.
The league's disciplinary committee will play their role.
In the future, these problems will be alleviated when more students from the School of Faith and Grammar graduate.
not for long.
The Ministry of Education of the Alliance is now getting a lot of investment, teachers can easily upgrade their ranks, and priority is given to the construction of school buildings...
In terms of the school system, minors should go to school well; for adults, there are also crash courses.
However, this so-called crash course is still different from the worker education that Wei Xingcheng conducts.No matter how fast it is, administrative officials are far from being as easy to teach as factory workers.
But generally speaking, the alliance's educational undertakings have been in progress for some time now, and suitable students will graduate soon.
At that time, if these manor owners, including those old officials in the three central provinces, do not do well enough, they will be replaced as soon as they should be replaced; the disciplinary committee will also carry out a large-scale screening at that time, On the one hand, it is to purify the atmosphere, and on the other hand, it is to make room for new officials who are relatively more upright and young.
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 little more troublesome.
It is impossible for Shuangcheng to absorb all 200 million people at once, that is unrealistic.Even in the future, the Shuangcheng metropolitan area will further expand and expand, but that is not the present.The expansion of the scale of the city will always take time.A large number of people flooded in instantly, and even the expansion of the production line could not keep up, and there was no job for the time being.
Of course, relocating residents is still a normal work, and it has to be done all the time.For the surplus population, it will take time to go to adult schools and night schools to learn some industrial technology and literacy.When they have been trained in place, they can initially become a qualified industrial population, and the corresponding production lines have also expanded, and they will be able to connect better seamlessly.
As for the remaining population, it is also useful.
They are generally assigned to the grades of E3 and E4.
The lower levels actually need to be talked about.
In the alliance, reaching the E1 level means having citizenship.But at this level, there are no benefits, the alliance just recognizes you as a citizen.
E2, half of the minimum standard of living will be issued, which is generally given to children and disabled people who are completely unable to work as government subsidies.
E3, there are benefits of the minimum standard of living, from food distribution to necessary medical assistance.
E4, started to have allowances, but not much, it belongs to interns.
Up until E5, that's what adults in most leagues get when they're employed.You can ensure that you have food and clothing, and you can even save some money, do some things to improve your life, and have money for some entertainment.A pair of E5-level couples is enough to support three or five children plus their parents, but living in that way is quite tight.
Although the refugees are generally classified as E3 or E4, this still makes them happy.
And the alliance took all these people down, thinking that a member of the alliance bears a great burden.As the civil affairs officer of the alliance and the actual person in charge of government affairs in Beiqinggu Province, he must mobilize these people.
They have to work to find their own value; and the alliance also needs them to work hard to earn back the high investment as much as possible, so that the burden can become positive income as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the most important thing in Qinggu area is land.
A batch of high-yielding seeds from the interstellar trade sent by the alliance headquarters was also sent over.It's autumn now, and it's a good time to build new plantations one after another to accommodate these refugees.Once the construction work is complete, it's almost time to plant the seeds.
In addition, a considerable number of people were sent to the army to act with the army.
The Central Army needs a large number of army workers, and the first to bear the brunt is Perbov's Ending Wind Brigade.
His troops had already entered the jungle area, and he, the logistics steward, had issued a demand for [-] young and middle-aged workers.
These people, Morgan has provided for him.
They were sent into the jungle and participated in the work of clearing the jungle.
Then, Jason Morgan went about his business again.
Even if he tried his best to maintain the system of mutual aid associations, Jason Morgan was still too busy to complete the introduction of the alliance system on the spot.
Workers stuff, there is no end.In the first few days, he really couldn't do without at all, but after working for a while, he still found time and ran to the edge of the jungle.
He really wanted to see what the secret weapon that Perbov said was.
Then, he witnessed the disappearance of a large forest.
The armored vehicle is equipped with something similar to a flamethrower, but the purplish red flames it emits do not bring high temperature and combustion.
Trees and vegetation burned by the purple fire will wither and dehydrate rapidly.
This is much faster than actually burning with flames.
After the armored vehicles were sprayed, after a while, the soldiers on foot and the recruited migrant workers began to move forward.
The work they have to do is also very simple.
After the low shrubs dry up quickly, they will turn into a piece of debris after being pounded with a wooden stick a few times, providing fertilizer for the land; the tall trees will also become brittle.A strong man can knock him down with just a few kicks.
After the tall trees crashed down, they would be dragged in batches to the vehicles behind them.
These things should not be wasted.
Tall wood can be used as building material after dehydration.It wasn't particularly good, and it wasn't as good as the cut wood that had been cut down through the corresponding industrial technology, but it was a material that could be obtained quickly when necessary.
Just in time, a large number of plantations in the rear need to be newly built.Houses, walls...all need these building materials.
Of course, it definitely won't take that much.The worst thing is to build a synthetic starch factory nearby, and these woods can still be used as raw materials for the manufacture of synthetic starch.
There's a lot of economic value to this, as Jason Morgan, a government official, can see.
But what he can see more is the way to completely solve the Qinggu problem.
Ever since he came to Qinggu area, he has been thinking about this problem, but he never thought that the way to achieve it is to completely eliminate the existence of the 'jungle' itself!
If someone told him that in the past, he would definitely think it was a fantasy.
But now, all this has come true before his eyes.
(End of this chapter)
After the wave of aberrations receded, the predicament of Crocker Manor had been completely resolved.
Although the militia suffered heavy losses; although the manor was terribly bombarded by biological and chemical bombardment, and the large area of corrosion was not known how to solve it, at least the crisis of extinction had been resolved.
And in the evening of the second day, Major Purbeauf—oh, Lieutenant Colonel now—led his Winds-off Brigade to Crocker Manor.
Jason Morgan and Perbov are old acquaintances. Before moving eastward to liberate Trash Town, when he suppressed bandits within a range of more than 200 kilometers from Fuxing City to Trash Town, he had a relationship with Perbov, who was the battalion commander at the time. cooperation.
At that time, the status gap between the two was relatively large.
Of course, it is not small now, but it is smaller than it was then.Although Perbov was promoted to the most important brigade commander of the Ending Wind Brigade, and his military rank was also raised by one level, he, Jason Morgan, was promoted faster.Although his rank is not high, he is currently only a D4, but he has already become the main person in charge of the alliance in the Mutual Aid Association.
The Xifeng Brigade marched forward this time, and the material support they needed in the future depended on him.
After the two had a brief exchange of pleasantries, Perbov revealed his next plan: to attack the jungle.
This made Jason Morgan turn pale with fright. He only wondered if Lieutenant Colonel Perbov was in a daze and was having a big dream.
The current main continent of the entire Fury Owl Star can be roughly divided into six major regions from a conventional point of view: the central region, the eastern provinces, the northern land, the Qinggu, the western desert, and the western part of the mainland.
In terms of these six places, the Qinggu region is the most populous place, with a population of more than ten million.
However, for this rich and vast land, the number of human beings is still too small.They are far from the masters here, the vast jungle is.
Humans just opened one plantation after another in the open space 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 Green Valley area.
The jungle breeds aberrations. When there are too many of them in the jungle, they will rush out and attack humans, trying to expand the territory and the jungle. This is the wave of aberrations in Green Valley.
But when humans slow down, they will in turn reoccupy places that have not yet been forested.
Generally speaking, the jungle is extremely dangerous. There is nothing in it for human beings to survive, but it is full of terrible monsters.
In the jungle, humans have no advantage.Numerous thick trees, muddy ground, swamps... These natural environments have all formed 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 the fact that every Qinggu person has been educated since childhood.
And now, Jason Morgan heard that Lieutenant Colonel Purbov was going to take his troops into the jungle to die.
Sensing Jason Morgan's surprise, Perbov just laughed after the other party spoke dissuading words.
"Of course, of course, I understand that the jungle in Qinggu is hell. But I have studied it for a long time before I set off, and no one knows the jungle better than me."
After talking big, Perbov continued: "We have a secret weapon in our hands now."
Jason Morgan didn't buy it: "What secret weapon will allow us to easily conquer the jungle?"
"It was arranged by the governor."
Jason Morgan was immediately speechless.
However, Perboff also saw that Jason Morgan was not completely relieved.
He didn't explain any more, just patted the civil affairs official on the shoulder and said, "You will see it with your own eyes soon, don't worry."
……
It was said to be very fast, but in fact Jason Morgan waited for several days before seeing what the secret weapon was.
In fact, the Ending Wind Brigade started to act the next morning after arriving at Crocker Manor.The soldiers drove armored vehicles and tanks to the edge of the jungle and began their clearing of the jungle.
Yes, the clearing of the entire jungle.
Jason Morgan was curious and anxious, how to do this?
Still, he suppressed his curiosity.
He has a lot of work to do himself.
Continuing the meetings of the Mutual Aid Association and providing supplies to the Xifeng Brigade and other units of the Central Army that will follow up later are his most important things.
At the same time, he also received a request from the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Alliance to complete the reorganization of the people in the Qinggu area on the spot.
The historical mission of mutual aid associations has come to an end.The alliance system will be completely brought into the Qinggu area.
According to the guidance materials sent directly by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Jason Morgan knew what he should do.
He wants to transform the Mutual Aid Association into the alliance's management organization for the Qinggu region, which will be the fourth province directly managed by the alliance: North Qinggu Province.
The manor owners of each manor will become administrative officials in various places, just like the adaptation of the three central provinces.They will then enter Xifeng Loyal Descendants Academy in batches to study; at the same time, their respective manors are confiscated in a sense, and they no longer have ownership of their past properties, but Is only management rights.
Of course, this is not a radical reform, and it is deeply compromised.The alliance officials who have been transferred from the owner of the manor may not have much change in the management of their original manor, nor will there be enough changes in the lives of the people.
Even, it is foreseeable that when the alliance gives farmers in those manors to become agricultural workers, and then provides ranks ranging from E5 to E7, can they really get the corresponding benefits?Won't they be deprived of what they deserve by the manor owners who have administrative power?
But those are solvable problems.
Anti-corruption, persistent preaching to the people at the bottom, and giving them opportunities to ascend.They will know E5 or other grades, how much they should get, if the manor owner does not give it, they can report it.
That's easy to say, but it's actually quite difficult.Many people have never left the manor in their entire lives, where can they report?Will the route of reporting be controlled by interest groups?
There are many problems.
But these are essentially to make way for another practical factor-the alliance is now unable to appoint enough officials to do this.
It's really cleaned up. It's easy to say. Where can the alliance find so many suitable officials to take charge of this part of the work?
Administrative management is really not something that can be done by just pulling someone up.
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 strategy in Central Province, North Central Province, and High Tower Province is also consistent.
Do it first.
The league's disciplinary committee will play their role.
In the future, these problems will be alleviated when more students from the School of Faith and Grammar graduate.
not for long.
The Ministry of Education of the Alliance is now getting a lot of investment, teachers can easily upgrade their ranks, and priority is given to the construction of school buildings...
In terms of the school system, minors should go to school well; for adults, there are also crash courses.
However, this so-called crash course is still different from the worker education that Wei Xingcheng conducts.No matter how fast it is, administrative officials are far from being as easy to teach as factory workers.
But generally speaking, the alliance's educational undertakings have been in progress for some time now, and suitable students will graduate soon.
At that time, if these manor owners, including those old officials in the three central provinces, do not do well enough, they will be replaced as soon as they should be replaced; the disciplinary committee will also carry out a large-scale screening at that time, On the one hand, it is to purify the atmosphere, and on the other hand, it is to make room for new officials who are relatively more upright and young.
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 little more troublesome.
It is impossible for Shuangcheng to absorb all 200 million people at once, that is unrealistic.Even in the future, the Shuangcheng metropolitan area will further expand and expand, but that is not the present.The expansion of the scale of the city will always take time.A large number of people flooded in instantly, and even the expansion of the production line could not keep up, and there was no job for the time being.
Of course, relocating residents is still a normal work, and it has to be done all the time.For the surplus population, it will take time to go to adult schools and night schools to learn some industrial technology and literacy.When they have been trained in place, they can initially become a qualified industrial population, and the corresponding production lines have also expanded, and they will be able to connect better seamlessly.
As for the remaining population, it is also useful.
They are generally assigned to the grades of E3 and E4.
The lower levels actually need to be talked about.
In the alliance, reaching the E1 level means having citizenship.But at this level, there are no benefits, the alliance just recognizes you as a citizen.
E2, half of the minimum standard of living will be issued, which is generally given to children and disabled people who are completely unable to work as government subsidies.
E3, there are benefits of the minimum standard of living, from food distribution to necessary medical assistance.
E4, started to have allowances, but not much, it belongs to interns.
Up until E5, that's what adults in most leagues get when they're employed.You can ensure that you have food and clothing, and you can even save some money, do some things to improve your life, and have money for some entertainment.A pair of E5-level couples is enough to support three or five children plus their parents, but living in that way is quite tight.
Although the refugees are generally classified as E3 or E4, this still makes them happy.
And the alliance took all these people down, thinking that a member of the alliance bears a great burden.As the civil affairs officer of the alliance and the actual person in charge of government affairs in Beiqinggu Province, he must mobilize these people.
They have to work to find their own value; and the alliance also needs them to work hard to earn back the high investment as much as possible, so that the burden can become positive income as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the most important thing in Qinggu area is land.
A batch of high-yielding seeds from the interstellar trade sent by the alliance headquarters was also sent over.It's autumn now, and it's a good time to build new plantations one after another to accommodate these refugees.Once the construction work is complete, it's almost time to plant the seeds.
In addition, a considerable number of people were sent to the army to act with the army.
The Central Army needs a large number of army workers, and the first to bear the brunt is Perbov's Ending Wind Brigade.
His troops had already entered the jungle area, and he, the logistics steward, had issued a demand for [-] young and middle-aged workers.
These people, Morgan has provided for him.
They were sent into the jungle and participated in the work of clearing the jungle.
Then, Jason Morgan went about his business again.
Even if he tried his best to maintain the system of mutual aid associations, Jason Morgan was still too busy to complete the introduction of the alliance system on the spot.
Workers stuff, there is no end.In the first few days, he really couldn't do without at all, but after working for a while, he still found time and ran to the edge of the jungle.
He really wanted to see what the secret weapon that Perbov said was.
Then, he witnessed the disappearance of a large forest.
The armored vehicle is equipped with something similar to a flamethrower, but the purplish red flames it emits do not bring high temperature and combustion.
Trees and vegetation burned by the purple fire will wither and dehydrate rapidly.
This is much faster than actually burning with flames.
After the armored vehicles were sprayed, after a while, the soldiers on foot and the recruited migrant workers began to move forward.
The work they have to do is also very simple.
After the low shrubs dry up quickly, they will turn into a piece of debris after being pounded with a wooden stick a few times, providing fertilizer for the land; the tall trees will also become brittle.A strong man can knock him down with just a few kicks.
After the tall trees crashed down, they would be dragged in batches to the vehicles behind them.
These things should not be wasted.
Tall wood can be used as building material after dehydration.It wasn't particularly good, and it wasn't as good as the cut wood that had been cut down through the corresponding industrial technology, but it was a material that could be obtained quickly when necessary.
Just in time, a large number of plantations in the rear need to be newly built.Houses, walls...all need these building materials.
Of course, it definitely won't take that much.The worst thing is to build a synthetic starch factory nearby, and these woods can still be used as raw materials for the manufacture of synthetic starch.
There's a lot of economic value to this, as Jason Morgan, a government official, can see.
But what he can see more is the way to completely solve the Qinggu problem.
Ever since he came to Qinggu area, he has been thinking about this problem, but he never thought that the way to achieve it is to completely eliminate the existence of the 'jungle' itself!
If someone told him that in the past, he would definitely think it was a fantasy.
But now, all this has come true before his eyes.
(End of this chapter)
