On November 1, 1647, Wucaoling Township.

As the most economically backward town in Xihu County, which will be officially established on January 1 next year, yes, you have never seen it. Even the low bunker that was established later than Focaoling Township has come back to the top with its unique agricultural conditions and steadily surpassed Focaoling Township in the hilly area. Focaoling is cold this spring.

The population of this township is only 4,000, of which there are about 1,500 young and middle-aged men. With the ongoing war with the Spaniards, the East Coast Republic, which has increasingly demanded troops, has carried out in-depth mobilization in the country, and a large number of militias who have participated in military training have been transferred to the front line. Wucaoling Township is no exception. This township dominated by agriculture has contributed 400 high-quality soldiers to the newly established Xihu County Militia Brigade in one go, which is a great effort.

Because the village where Shao Yuanyi is located is on the edge, local farmers often fight with the traversing Guarani people, so they have strong combat effectiveness and have won the championship in militia competitions in dozens of villages in four townships in Xihu County for many years. Therefore, when the militia brigade was formed, the village was transferred out of 30 people, almost one-third of the adult male labor force in the village.

After the men went to the front line, the burden of the family suddenly hit the women. They did farm work in the fields, took children at home, dug dredging in the river, and built roads. There was no such work that "healthy women" could not do. There was no way. The labor force in the village is too tense now. Even a well-known doctor like Shao Yuanyi, who had to carry rifles every Friday and go to the village office to pay whistle.

There are usually two patrol officers in the village office, one militia chief, one militia squad leader on duty, two guards in the arsenal, and one sergeant guard. Among them, the militia chiefs live next door with two arsenal guards. The sergeant guards are outside to watch the door. The patrol officers and the militia squad leader on duty live in the main hall. The village offices of each village are located on the south side of the road entering the village when they are built. There is often a small artillery tower next to it, with seven or eight militia stationed at any time, commanded by the militia squad leader.

Shao Yuanyi was one of the militia squad leader. It was his turn today, so he went to the artillery tower early in the morning to explain, and then slipped to the village office. The patrol police officer Petrov of the village was his father-in-law, so he happened to sit down and chat together when he was bored.

However, when he went out today, he obviously forgot to read the calendar, because Old Petrov was walking around in the main room at this time. He was sitting in the house, flipping through the latest news of the battle situation of Pravda. When he saw Shao Yuanyi coming in, he immediately squeezed his eyes at him, and then went out to wander with a strange smile on his face - well, the patrol went.

"Anna was abducted by a sailor. The sailor was a pauper. He came from the Mingguo of Dongfang at the beginning of this year. I had seen him at that time, and I should be wary of it. That guy was good at speaking and lying. He fell in love with Anna's money and wanted to instigate her to spend money to buy a boat, so he spoke sweetly to Anna. Finally he succeeded!" Petrov said this and cursed a few Russian slangs. "That guy worked on the cod fishing boat of the South China Sea Fisheries Company. Recently, he was auctioning a batch of Spanish fishing boats brought from La Plata, which was very cheap. This guy didn't have enough money, so he cheated Anna away and wanted to buy a boat with her. Oh, I shouldn't have given Anna so much money."

When he heard his father-in-law say this, Shao Yuanyi was speechless. His father-in-law always wanted his youngest daughter to marry an officer, either an engineer or a technician, or a decent person. In short, he could not be a sailor! However, Shao Yuanyi had different opinions on this matter. He had met the young man and talked to him. Before coming to the East Coast, this man had been a military servant in the Heishui area for more than two years. It is said that before joining the East Coast system, he was a stud and had many knowledges. No wonder he could deceive the little girl Anna.

This person gave Shao Yuanyi a good feeling and was ambitious. It might not be a bad thing for Anna to marry him. However, he could not say this in front of his father-in-law at this time, so he just persuaded him a little and then turned the topic elsewhere: "The brick and tiles and wheel kiln in the village is about to resume work, do you know?"

"Of course I know." Petrov sat on the chair, picked up a cup of warm matte tea and took a sip, and then said: "This brick and tile wheel kiln faced the dilemma of insufficient manpower at the beginning of its production, and its production capacity was not as good as the other four wheel kilns in China. There were only a few dozen full-time workers, so they usually recruited a large number of seasonal temporary workers, and many temporary workers were local residents. They worked odd jobs in the slack farming season and made pocket money. Therefore, at this time, the highest yield of wheel kilns was often the time for the highest. However, once the busy farming season or other projects that required a large amount of labor were started, the output of the wheel kiln would drop sharply after leaving the wheel kiln, and in severe cases, it would even be stopped for a while."

"But fortunately, this wheel kiln is mainly used for several nearby towns, and the demand is not particularly large. It is almost enough to ignite a batch of fire on the kiln every few days." Petrov continued, "But this time it is obviously a bit troublesome. Dingxi Castle, Baoan Township, and Northern Botanical Garden on the north side of Yazi Lake are expanding settlements and building water conservancy facilities to accommodate the group of Eastern immigrants who will arrive in two or three months. Therefore, there is a great demand for various building materials. We are the closest brick and tile kiln to Beiyazi Lake. Most of the bricks and tiles required for us. In addition, the construction of the second phase of the low bunker irrigation canal has made the demand for red bricks even greater. This time, the township government urgently demanded that the brick and tile factory resume work, which is why."

"Now there is a shortage of labor everywhere in the country. Why are there so many projects going to start? Where do you get the staff?" Shao Yuanyi sat down with a little depressed feeling and said with a frown.

There is a reason for him to be so depressed, because the village requires people to go out to brick kilns to help with it. Although it is said that wages are paid, who cares about the broken paper! Now the alfalfa fields in the mountains are about to be harvested, and the harvested grass has to be dried, cut, and silage, which are time-consuming and laborious. The livestock at home also needs to be fed, and in a few days it will be the estrus of the cows. At this time, people from the agricultural technology station should be invited to guide artificial insemination technology to increase the number of conceived cows as much as possible. In addition, the village also issued a notice that the construction of sand and gravel roads between villages in the township should also be put on the agenda. The route site has been selected, and the village requires that the land leveling work will be carried out in the near future. This is another project that occupies a large amount of labor.

After all, the villagers have almost no idle for a moment in the next few months. When a large number of male men were transferred to the front line to fight, the remaining people need to work together and get up early and go into the darkness to finish the current situation - after all, wheat seedlings in the fields also need care. In the case of such a labor force being used to the extreme, the superiors actually have to go out to work in the brick and tile kiln factory to produce. How is this possible!

"If there is no manpower, we have to bring in projects." Petrov's awareness is not low. He also expressed his understanding of the government's measures, and he continued to say: "What is the difficulty we are now? Insufficient manpower, especially when fighting, the manpower is even less! Then a large number of new immigrants will pour into our country in the first few months of next year. This is a correct measure to alleviate the current lack of manpower and enhance our country's national strength. But to resettle these new immigrants, you have to build new settlements. Don't just focus on the three expanded old settlements in the north. In the depths of the southern grasslands, the technicians of the Construction Bureau of the Ministry of Transport are working hard to plan and select new settlements for the new settlements. The construction of those places is the big one. It is really built from scratch, bit by bit. Of course, most of these are the lives of those new immigrants."

"With people, there will be improvement in national strength." Petrov's cadre training course was not in vain. At this time, he commented on national affairs and was very concise: "With people, wheat production will increase, road traffic will be more convenient, and with people, fishing catch will increase significantly, etc. In short, there will be everything. The war with the Spanish shows is not over, and it may be necessary to continue fighting for many years. People on the front line are constantly killed in battle and dying of illness. These are all strong men's laborers. If there is no newcomer to add them, how can they replenish the vacancies after they die? If there is no supplementary addition, how can this battle be fought? Should we give up now and let the Spaniards come over and take away everything from us? Of course, this is not possible!"

When Shao Yuanyi heard his father-in-law talk so much, he was a little overwhelmed. He now regretted raising the topic in this regard. He just complained casually about the destruction of the domestic livelihood and the exploitation of the common people's labor force by the protracted war, and guided his father-in-law to teach himself, which was really depressed.

So he immediately explained: "Of course I am not against the government's decision. I am just worried about how to allocate labor. But this is not my business, it is the village chief's business. Why am I worried about this? At worst, the children from the village's primary school and township central primary schools will be organized to work in brick kiln factories. This is not a heavy physical work, nor does it require too much technical content. Organize them to suspend classes for ten days and half a month, and concentrate on the production of a batch of red bricks to fool some of the most urgently needed projects. If it really doesn't work, the children can work during the day and go to class at night, which should alleviate the shortage of a considerable number of labor forces."
Chapter completed!