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Chapter 230 The Tranquility Before the Storm

In the morning, the rooster was dawn, and Li Guan rose up. Last night, he kept in mind the words of the old lady, worked hard at night, worked hard, and watered carefully, sowing the two pieces of land. Such hard work made Gui Niang and Wan'er both surprised. When they woke up in the morning, they became more gentle. One of the two women helped to comb their hair and the other helped to wipe their faces, and gently and considerately served him out.

Before leaving, she went to ask the old lady for her husband's care. Li's mother smiled and could see the movements in the main house last night. It seemed that she knew everything. Before leaving, she personally stuffed more than a dozen cooked eggs to Li Huang, saying that she would ask him to make up for it.

As soon as he left the door, Li Guan divided the eggs with Zhao Jiang and several guards. There were more than ten eggs, but he could finish it alone. Unexpectedly, this small action moved Zhao Jiang and other guards. On the way back to the town, you could see busy shadows everywhere in the city. Although the new city was only about three meters built, most of the various standardized construction areas in the city were already being completed one after another.

The hospital area is divided into nine yards, and one tic-shaped streets divide the entire residential area into nine pieces. There are fangmen and fangmen and wall gates separated. The houses in the entire residential area are divided into three types, one is the single-family type with blue bricks and green tiles. This is the best house, and they are all houses of senior officers and literary officials, with only one yard. The remaining ones are gray-white sea grass houses built with bricks and stones and sea grass roofs. There are two houses of this kind, and they are also single-family buildings, which are considered medium-sized apartments. The remaining six houses are made of rapidly forming adobe bricks as walls and thatched grass as roofs. The foundation of these adobe bricks is about one meter, built with mixed stone loess, and the roofs are all adobe bricks. The roofs are wooden roofs and thatched grass. There is no separate courtyard, one building is about a hundred square meters, one building next to one, rows are extremely neat.

The houses have been built, one high-end yard with a hundred buildings, and two medium-end yards have two hundred and fifty-six buildings, totaling 512 buildings. The ordinary ones have six houses, each with a total of 600 houses. A total of 3600 buildings. Total, there are a total of 4112 houses. According to the original plan, each house can have more than 4,000 households and a population of nearly 20,000.

On Fang Street, I happened to meet Zhang Hong talking to a few people with a tent book that was always in front of me. Li Guan stepped forward and asked, "How is the residential area going? I see that the houses are already well. When can I get a formal delivery?" It warmed up day by day. The rain became more and living in a shack is really not a solution.

Zhang Hongyou said with a brow, "The new house is completed faster than expected. As long as it is dry and ventilated, it can basically be allocated. But now there is a big problem. When we planned, we had tried our best to repair zinc as much as possible, and we had already repaired it for 20,000 people. But now, it is not enough. We have too many people and less porridge, so I am worried about how to divide it. Now everyone is holding the saved work-point tickets in their hands. We are all waiting to buy a house, but our house is not enough."

By this February, there were already many people in Shamen Town. Before Li Guan went to the island, the maximum permanent population of Shamen Town reached 30,000. After Li Guan went to the island, the recruitment quickly exceeded 10,000 people. Almost all of these people joined the army, their families also entered the workshop, and children entered the school. Fortifications in the city were constantly recruiting people, because of the good treatment, high wages, and meat was eaten every meal, and a large number of people came. Now when the construction site was reaching its climax, the number of migrant workers in the city exceeded 20,000. Many of these people now like Shamen Town, and they have always taken the initiative to receive work points, waiting to save money to buy a house to move to Shamen Town.

In addition to these, there is a large population on the island.

Baibei moved to Shamen Town with his more than 500 brothers, and their families were basically brought in, and together they had a population of thousands.

In addition, last time Li Yan went to the Liaohai war and exchanged jailers and pirates from Qingnipu to 2,000 prisoners of war, 3,000 male slaves and 5,000 female slaves. In addition, the people on Wuhu Island were forced to move to Shamen Island by him, and there were more than 8,000 more people. In addition, the great Xie soldiers who followed Wu Qian and Zhang Lie to surrender, nearly two thousand followed him to Shamen Town.

In this battle, Feng Zhang was defeated and fled. In addition to the more than 800 people who died in battle, the Da Xie soldiers who went ashore were captured.

"Now the entire Shaman Island people have exceeded 100,000, and there are too many people."

Li Guan couldn't help but be surprised, "One hundred thousand people, there are not so many, right?"

"Why didn't there be? There were 30,000 people on the island. Now we built a city and attracted 20,000 foreign people on the island. Even if all the 50,000 people were removed, we recruited 20,000 from Qingning Township in several batches. If we add the slaves exchanged from Qingnipu, the people moved from Wuhu Island, and Feng Zhang's prisoners of war, it would be 50,000. Shamen Island is not big, and it is really crowded now. Not to mention that our residential area cannot be occupied, even if we build a shed outside the city, it will almost fill the entire island."

"How are these people arranged now?" Last time, more than 20,000 people were brought back from Liaohai, Li Guan was busy dealing with Feng Zhang's counterattack and handed all these people over to Zhang Hong. Now he remembered to ask about the arrangements.

"How else can I arrange it? I will set up a temporary camp at the foot of Phoenix Mountain. I don't dare to use those people now. The male slaves and female servants exchanged for Qingnipu have been arranged to work in various workshops. The prisoners of war are still a little unruly, and they are still locked up in the camp and sent people to take care of them. I think I will first close the gate and suppress their wildness. They are all prisoners of war from Liaodong, not many honest. The more than 8,000 people moved to Wuhu Island have become a battalion alone, and for the time being they are just letting them go to the construction site to work. As for Wu Qian, Zhang Lie and their subordinates, I don't know what to do, so I temporarily arranged them in the wooden squad of the Bai family and let them monitor them first. The more than 5,000 prisoners in this battle, including Meng Yang, were all imprisoned in the military camp. How to arrange the specific arrangements must be followed by your arrangements by the general.

Population is also a resource, but now the small Shamen Town has a population of 50,000 at once, which is a bit stressful. If the arrangement is not good, not only will it not play its due role, but it will consume grain every day for nothing.

"Let's do this, the new house will still be distributed after the construction is ready. But don't send it all at once. Let's follow the original plan. The house is calculated by the work points. At present, our work points are worth ten cents and one hundred work points are a coin. Then our house, ordinary adobe brick thatched hut, is priced at fifty cents per building, but only the work points are completed, which is 5,000 work points per thatched hut. And there is a condition that home buyers can only be the first and second batches of people on the island, that is, our soldiers and their families are eligible to buy a house."

"If you meet the conditions for buying a house and have enough work points, you can buy a house. Remember, there must be restrictions on the house. Each family can only buy one, not more. If the conditions are appropriate but the money is insufficient, you will not be allowed to buy a house for the time being. If other conditions are not met, we can open the purchase of a house again in the second phase. In addition, all soldiers in the army who have meritorious service and excellent purchases, and those who die in battle will also have priority conditions."

A house of fifty cents is not expensive. Based on the minimum salary of fifty cents per day in the workshop in Shamen Town, if the family has two laborers, 3800 cents a month, the gross income will be almost fifty cents a year. In addition, there are overtime pay and reward subsidies, etc., which can save the house purchase payment in three years. If there are children in the army, then it will be faster.

"What should I do if other conditions cannot be met?"

"We should do this step by step, and don't sell the houses first. We are not going to make money with the houses. This is a benefit to the people of Shamen Town. We must not only satisfy the people, but also let them feel our favor. As for other things that cannot meet the conditions, we can make them work hard. If anyone is willing to build a house by themselves, we can first set aside a few pieces of land outside the city to plan the houses on them. We do not restrict them. As for mid-to-high-end houses, this is not enough to have money, and those who have made contributions must live there."

"I understand, I feel much more at ease when I say this." Zhang Hong let out a long sigh.

"But our island still has too many people. I'm not saying there are too many people, but our island is too small." Zhang Hong said again.

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

When he returned to the Zhenzheng Mansion, Li Guan immediately summoned Li Wei.

"Zi Jun, how did the parties in Dengzhou react after the battle the day before yesterday?" Li Guan asked directly. After the battle the day before yesterday, after Feng Zhang was defeated and retreated to Daxie Island, Li Guan also did not follow any action. Instead, the military and civilians took a day off. In fact, he was still worried about the reactions of Dengzhou from all sides. What he was most afraid of was that Wang Jin and others designated him as a rebel. After he defeated Feng Zhang, he did not make any other moves, and wanted to show to all parties that he was really just forced to fight back, not a rebellion.

"When Feng Zhang attacked the day before yesterday, the Dengzhou navy's troops gathered in the water camp, but they were not sent. In addition, Dengzhou's Zhizhou soldiers, Longshan camp, Dongmu Shouzha and other military camps also gathered in the army. Although there was no action in the end, the atmosphere in Dengzhou was very tense. It was not until yesterday that the battalions returned to normal."

"Where are the assassinations Song Wen and the Chief Secretary Wang Jingwen and others?"

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

Li Guan frowned. At the beginning, the assembly reaction between the navy and the battalions showed that the war had a great impact and almost affected the entire Dengzhou army. However, Song Wen and Wang Jingwen, the two forces in Dengzhou, did not move, which means that they were still waiting and suppressing the matter. This is a good thing. His public opinion propaganda played a role. Of course, the biggest role was because Song Wen also regarded him as his own person, otherwise the battalions would not have gathered. Objectively speaking, the action of Dengzhou's actions of the battalions gathering troops and horses that obeyed the command of the commander of the commander of the Jiezhou was the real suppression of Wang Jin.
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