Liu Wei and several commanders went out to assign officials. Du Zhongxiao and Su Song took Dai Dujian to see the prepared food.

The first impression of the Xiang army that came is very important. This meal tonight can make them satisfied and avoid many troubles in the future. Don’t underestimate the meal. Whether it is the army or the factory, food will directly affect morale.

When I arrived at the wing room on the east side, I saw two large rows on the ground. The front row was a wooden basin with white flour buns piled up like a mountain, and a large wooden bucket behind it, containing cooked meat. The meat was not boiled in white water, but was filled with various seasonings, which looked delicious. On both sides were pickled vegetables in large basins, all of which were pickled radishes, cut into pieces.

Du Zhongxiao said to Dai Dujian: "Dujian, how are you preparing here? Compared with what soldiers usually eat, is it better or worse?"

Dai Dujian said: "How can this be compared? If this kind of meal is usually good for me and the commanders. How can the soldiers below eat meat? It is rare for them to have enough rice to keep their stomachs from being hungry."

Du Zhongxiao nodded, roughly knowing it. The army is not good. Most of the family members have no jobs and rely on the salary of soldiers to make a living. The salary of the army is meager, and it is okay for those who are single, but with family members, they will be hungry and full. This is the difficulty of the court at this time. The number of troops is too large and the money spent every year is countless. It is really distributed to the soldiers because they want to support their families and still have difficulty living.

At this time, why do some new tricks appear in places where the morale of the Xiang army is sometimes higher than that of the imperial guards? Although the money spent on them is less, most soldiers' families do not live on their salaries, but they have other livelihoods. On the contrary, the imperial guards and these Xiang army, which have been passed down for a long time, live in camps and have no other means of making a living. After having family members, their salaries cannot make them worry about food and clothing.

Du Zhongxiao thought of this problem before, because this kind of thing is not only in the army, but also in places where industrial concentrations such as the iron supervision will also happen. In this era, in addition to a few places such as weaving, printing and dyeing, it is unrealistic to recruit a large number of female workers. After the iron supervision is running, the workers in the interior also monitor the problem of a large number of surplus labor such as family members. If they have nothing to do, no matter how much wages they give workers, their lives may not be rich.

Why build such a large barracks? Three thousand people live together is nothing in the future, but this era is a great thing. Three thousand households are already a big county, and there are three thousand households living in an iron smelting center in the Iron Supervision Bureau. In this era, it was very dense. This arrangement is to find some suitable jobs for the family in the future so that they can earn income by relying on side jobs, not entirely on the wages of one or two people in the family. The population formation scale is easy to arrange whether it is textile or other industries.

After seeing the food arranged for the soldiers, Dai Dujian was very satisfied. Not to mention that such conditions may not be able to eat so well even when the imperial guards faced the enemy. The details can be seen in many things. It seems that in the Iron Supervisor, it is much better than in the army.

After coming out of the wing room, I met Liu Wei who arranged for an official to return to the yamen.

Du Zhongxiao said: "After a while, we will send the prepared meals to the soldiers. On the other side, we prepared wine and food. Everyone above the army came over to drink a glass of wine. Let them arrange the arrangements below and take the soldiers to the houses there with the officials from the team. Now the barracks there are arranged residences according to the team. Before and before the road, there are exactly five households. There are small lanes in front of and behind the houses. Each team has two rows of ten rooms, with the first and five households in the back. This is how the team is not satisfied with the establishment of the house, and the houses are vacant, and people will be arranged to move in later. As for each battalion and capital, they may not be adjacent. This is clear to them. The houses are the same. No quarrels or noise, and they will go back to their own houses and clean them."

Dai Du's head was moved and crossed his hands and said, "It turns out that those barracks are really for soldiers to live in. When the officials came, they saw that the houses were beautifully built and very neat, much better than the soil houses in the nearby countryside. How could they think they were the places where soldiers lived?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "There is a place for burning bricks and tiles in the Iron Supervision Bureau, which is nothing more than hiring some civilians to build houses. In the future, the barracks of the Iron Supervision Bureau will be arranged in this way."

Dai Dutou thanked him repeatedly. I have never seen such living conditions before. Most of the barracks of soldiers were built with thatched houses, and even some places did not even have barracks, so they rented houses to live in. The scale was not large, with three main houses and a typical small family, roughly the same as the middle and lower-class households in the civilians at this time. The workshops were not comparable to farming, and they lived without paying attention to gathering clans, and were mainly small families.

Suddenly remembering, Dai Dutou asked, "Yun Judgment, these houses are so exquisite, not a day's work. The people brought by the officials were just the first batch of people. I wonder if the people coming later are the same? Even if the Iron Supervisor is attentive, how can he build so many houses?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "You are right, and the Iron Supervisor is unable to build all the houses. There are only so many barracks built now, and all of them will be arranged for you to bring. When they are settled, these people will not only do the work of the Iron Supervisor, but also arrange people to build houses for those who will come later."

Dai Dujian nodded to relieve his doubts. According to the scale of Du Zhongxiao's memorial to the court, more than 10,000 people would come in the future. How could such a large place in Ye County be able to withdraw so many people and build the house? It can only be built for the first batch, and then prepare the barracks for the later arrival. The quality of the construction is not good, so maybe they will change the house. Who would not work hard to live in the bad house they built?

Several soldiers carried large wooden barrels and basins, followed Du Zhongxiao and his party, left the yamen, and arrived in front of the soldiers in the empty field.

At this time, there were a row of large tables in the space field. In front of each table, a long line was lined up under the command of officials and grassroots officers. These were all arranged, and officials conveyed to the head of the capital to maintain order together.

Liu Wei arranged for soldiers to put the wooden basin and barrels on the table, and piled up a large stack of bowls next to them. At the order, they began to put the rice. The soldiers looked at the white steamed buns and the large pieces of meat in the barrel, and many people couldn't help but drool and cheered together.

Du Zhongxiao ordered all the heads of the capital of each capital to temporarily maintain order.

Everyone came to Du Zhongxiao and sang the promise with their hands.

Du Zhongxiao said: "Today is the first day you go to the Iron Prison. Two things are the most important. The first is to eat well. You have seen the food there, including white flour steamed buns, meat and pickles, a bowl of wine for men, and a big bowl of porridge for women and children. Another thing is to arrange your residence. You all have posters and bookkeepers, and they all have ordered them when they live. When you arrive at your own place, how to arrange your own decisions? All the houses are the same and you must not make a quarrel. The well water and firewood of each family are ready, and you can clean up the others yourself. The Iron Prison thinks about you everywhere and has done everything you can. They go back and tell the people in the capital that there will be no trouble today, otherwise they will be punished heavily!"

Everyone looked at the meal and were happy. After hearing Du Zhongxiao's words, they agreed.

Du Zhongxiao said again: "It's just a matter of going back and making arrangements. You will come to the yamen with your commander. The yamen prepares some wine and food to welcome you. From now on, work in the Iron Supervisor will not be as good as the army, and everyone will abide by the rules."

When they heard that there was a separate banquet, everyone was overjoyed and agreed to the promise with their hands, and went back to maintain order.

In the army, Dutou is not important. The army is based on command. Only when it is a commander can one have the opportunity to stand alone. This organization is similar to the battalions and platoons in later generations. The actual management and command are regiment-to-companies, and the battalions and platoons in the middle are false. However, without this intermediate level organization, the army will not function properly, and officers will lack the opportunity to reserve and exercise. When they arrive at the local level, it is different from the army. According to the specific work, the basic unit will inevitably break away from the constraints of the battalions and the capital and form another system. When these people enter the Iron Supervisor, the first officers who must be drawn out are Dutou. These people will all leave their posts in a few days and accept re-arrangement.

As officers, their treatment must be different from others. White flour steamed buns and meat cannot make them overjoyed. A banquet prepared in the yamen was much richer than outside, which was the place to welcome the officers.
Chapter completed!