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Chapter 121 Repatriation of Refugees to Review Military Merit

Hengshan is as cold as winter in February, and the mountains are covered with silver makeup.If it wasn't for the fact that the Heishui River had already started to melt, we still don't know when spring will come.

At this time, inside and outside Heishui City, there were crowded crowds everywhere. The population of 10,000+ is crowded within a radius of less than [-] kilometers, making the entire area around Heishui City a mess.Countless tents were set up outside the city, densely spreading along the Blackwater River to the foot of the mountain.Although the mayor and regimental envoys were assigned to manage the population, none of the county officials had the experience to manage such a large population, so they could only grope and perfect the system in the chaos.Therefore, there are rubbish and filth everywhere outside Heishui City today. Although the county government issued repeated orders asking everyone to pay attention to environmental hygiene, the effect was not great, even if the previous government had never managed them like this, many people I feel uncomfortable.When Lin Yifan returned to Heishui City, seeing the chaos here, he lost his temper in front of everyone for the first time.Immediately asked the county government to strictly rectify this, and the mayor must tell them from door to door what they need to pay attention to. Any refugee who does not cooperate will immediately stop his one-day ration.At the same time, the regiment training envoys will organize people to carry out strict monitoring, and mobilize the refugees to deal with the garbage around them.

For this reason, Lin Yifan also held a special meeting on the planning of residential areas outside the city.Finally, it was decided to set aside a piece of land on the south bank of the Heishui River, where Heishui Nancheng would be established.One is to solve the housing problem, and the other is to use manpower to develop Hengshan.Nancheng will mainly be a residential area, which will accommodate at least 5 people after completion.

The size of the narrow plain impacted by the Heishui River simply cannot accommodate too many people. 8 people are basically the limit that Heishui City can tolerate.And the most fundamental reason is not because of this, but food.

Originally, before winter, they only prepared food for 3 people a year, but because of the arrival of the 3 refugees rescued earlier, the rations prepared by Hengshan were reduced to three to four months.Although a large amount of supplies were seized while rescuing the people, the proportion of food and grass was not large, and it was impossible to solve the problem of food shortage.After the Hengshan Army broke through the Polang Pass and brought in more than [-] people, the food supply became tense all of a sudden. Even if they got a lot of food and supplies after the war, they could barely maintain the food stock in Heishui City.But if there is no other way, after two months, everyone will be hungry.

Faced with this predicament, Lin Yifan has already called everyone together to discuss the countermeasures. After discussion, everyone believes that Hengshan can only support a population of 8 at most. If only 8 people remain, food can still be maintained. In four or five months, as long as the grain and sweet potatoes are planted after the beginning of spring, the harvest season will be ready.Therefore, half of the population had to be repatriated back to the pass in order to reduce the pressure on Heishui City.At the same time, after the Golden Werewolves withdraw to the north, there will naturally be a large imperial army in the pass to recover the lost ground, and a series of recuperation policies will be introduced one after another.The repatriated people may have a harder life at first, but as long as they can survive, life will gradually get better.

For this reason, Lin Yifan issued a repatriation order, and all the people who were willing to return to their hometown would be given a bucket of grain as a gift.After a few days of registration, more than 5 people chose to return to the customs.The rest of the people were homeless because their families were broken, and some chose to stay because their lives here were better than before, and so on.In this way, there are still more than 2 people in Hengshan, which is still too many.In this regard, everyone had to strengthen the screening of the population, and finally cut down more than [-] people to reduce the population by half.

At the same time, the reorganization of the army is still going on. At present, there are only more than 5000 combatable soldiers in the Hengshan Army, and the losses of each department are quite heavy.In this regard, after discussing with Luo Yi and others, Lin Yifan decided to downsize the army. Because the armored cavalry is Hengshan's core combat force, it will maintain a full number of 1000 troops.As the most mobile unit of the Hengshan Army, the light cavalry was increased to 2000.The infantry is divided into two divisions, each with 500 men, of which 8000 are infantry and cavalry.So far, Hengshan's force will remain at [-].Although the Golden Werewolves have retreated now, the world is not peaceful, and Hengshan must maintain a certain size of army to protect itself.Lin Yifan's eyes have already turned to the land of Shazhou, which is the source of Hengshan's wealth, and there must be no loss.If the Tianyun Kingdom really wants to invade Shazhou, it should have done so by now, right?For the sake of the long corridors and ancient roads, the Hengshan Army may be on the battlefield again in the near future.

At the same time, the war has ended for the time being, and the various military merit assessments and rewards are finally determined after statistics.After these few battles, the Hengshan Army captured a total of nearly [-] heads, including more than [-] Golden Wolf heads, and tens of thousands from the newly attached army.According to the military merit system established by Hengshan before, each head is worth one tael of silver and one mu of land; if you kill five or more people, you can be promoted to the captain;Ten o'clock is one turn, and after nine turns, you can be promoted and raise your salary.

The post-war rewards should not be delayed, as soon as the statistics were completed, Lin Yifan held a military merit reward meeting to distribute the military merit certificates and land deed money of all the soldiers.Then there is the military merit assessment, which is what everyone is looking forward to the most.However, this conference will not assign military posts to middle and upper-level officers, because Lin Yifan himself is only a small county magistrate and does not have that much power to appoint officials. The official position itself is much higher than that of the county lieutenant, and there is no reward.Therefore, the objects of this award are the soldiers below.Many soldiers who performed well in combat and killed more than five enemies will be promoted to corps leaders.

Before this, the Hengshan Army did not have the post of corps leader. It started as a small team leader, in charge of 30 people.Now that many people have obtained military exploits, if more positions are not opened up, then there is no way to reward them.For this reason, Lin Yifan made some adjustments to the military system. Under the squad leader, there were two levels, the group leader and the corps leader.The corps chief is in charge of five people, and the gang chief is in charge of ten people, which can be regarded as the lowest level of non-commissioned officers.After this adjustment, the eight thousand soldiers immediately vacated a large number of job vacancies, allowing many meritorious soldiers to become the backbone of the army.

Of course, these vacancies were privately conferred by Hengshan himself, and they were not recognized by the court, and they were not even known to the court.The high-level people in Hengshan knew this, but they all tacitly did not question it.To do extraordinary things in extraordinary times, the Hengshan soldiers on the surface are only 7000 county soldiers stipulated by the imperial court system, while the remaining [-] people belong to the civilian population and do not have the nature of an army.

What really caught everyone's attention was that Lin Yifan planned to present the memorial to the imperial court, intending to ask for real rewards for all the soldiers.Once it is played, not only Lin Yifan is expected to be promoted, but almost everyone can get a promotion in status and monetary rewards.Therefore, according to the military merit system of the empire, Hengshan's contribution this time is really too great. Just beheading the heads of eight thousand gold werewolves is enough to cause a shock in the world and attract the attention of the whole world.In addition, saving hundreds of thousands of people from being enslaved by the Golden Werewolves won praise from all over the world, and his fame and prestige skyrocketed.After all, after the Golden Werewolves went south, almost all the counties and counties were breached, and the Tianwu army was defeated at the first touch, and they suffered repeated defeats.With these achievements, almost everyone feels that their future is bright, and a rising avenue has appeared at the bottom of their feet.

(End of this chapter)