The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 271
Ten days later, Zhao Dahai and Yizhihua walked out of Wendula Mountain with [-] bandits and formally surrendered to Bukuidu's yamen.The banditry that had endangered Bukui and its surrounding areas for more than ten years officially disappeared.

It turned out that Yizhihua claimed to have more than 200 bandits under her command, but in fact there were not that many, it was just exaggerating the number and bluffing.

Including those who were killed and captured in Sijiazi last time, there were only 130 people.

When the residents of Bukui saw these people on the street, they couldn't believe it. These shabby, sallow and emaciated people in ragged clothes were the one flower bandits that had made them fearful for so many years.

It turned out that the veterans of the Bukui Garrison also began to gather for training.

The newly recruited bandits were also broken up and mixed with these veterans for training.

At the same time as the training, literacy education, arithmetic education and ideological education are also going on.

The so-called ideological education is nothing more than the indoctrination and edification of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, the heaven and the earth, the ruler, the relative and the teacher, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, the three cardinal principles and five constant principles.

Those bandits who recruit security have an extra lesson, which is to reflect on their past wrong education.

If you are recruited, you will not be held accountable, but you still need to have an understanding of your past mistakes.Only when you realize your mistakes can you let go of your burdens, bid farewell to the past, and move forward lightly.

This education did not go well, and many bandits were very resistant at the beginning.

However, under the strict training and punishment system of the Fubingtuan, these people were quickly subdued.

Of course, that's not true for everyone.

Six bandits tried to escape again. After being caught, they were cleared from the army because they had escaped from Guanzhuang before, and they were sent back to Guanzhuang, where their sentences were increased.He completely recovered his past status as a criminal.

When they found out that they had gone in a big circle outside and went back to the past, they regretted that they should not be so self-willed during training and class.

However, it is too late to regret at this time.

Being a bandit was beaten by officers and soldiers, and he didn't want to be restrained when he was a soldier. Probably only being an exile was suitable.

On the third day after the bandits were recruited, Cong Xiucai led 47 farmers and 80 craftsmen to Bukui.

On the evening of their arrival at Bukui, the Bukui Dusi Yamen held a grand welcome dinner for them.

Bukui Dusi Yamen Dusi Jia Min, Chief of Staff Feng Ziying, Chief of Staff Chen Yejun, Chief of Military Intelligence Wei Ruolan, Military Judge Lin Dajiang, Military Quartermaster Jiao Li, Department Guard Zhao Dahai, Yamen Dianshi Yang Lin, and other members of the Army Corps. The battalion commander, leader Feng Kui, Xu Mingtao and other prominent figures all attended the welcome banquet.

For a time, these farmers and craftsmen were flattered and grateful.

On the second day, the farmers were allotted [-] mu of land, a cow, a plow, seeds and other means of production from the Dusi Yamen.

Everyone also borrowed ten taels of silver from the yamen, which was used to build houses and buy living supplies.

Some of the craftsmen were assigned to mines, firearms workshops, coal mines and iron factories, and more than a dozen people wanted to start their own businesses. They also obtained a piece of free land from the yamen, and they could borrow 20 taels of silver.

Dai Zhi's family members also arrived together.Mother, wife, son, daughter, brothers and sisters, a family of seventeen, finally reunited in Bukui thousands of miles away after more than ten years of separation.

When the family met, they were so sad that they shed countless tears.

Jia Min brought a group of officials to Dai's house to visit the whole family, and Yang Lin, on behalf of the Dusi Yamen, sent 100 taels of silver as a settling fee.

Jia Min personally contributed 100 taels, and other major officials also donated their pockets one after another, ranging from five taels to ten taels.The Dai family was so moved that they said the good words a thousand times.

As a flower was recruited, peace was restored in the Wendula mountain area.

A platoon of the government corps entered the Wendula Mountain Iron Mine, and more than 100 convicts were transferred to the Wendula Iron Mine. The iron mine was preparing to expand its production scale.

Due to the elimination of banditry, the line of communication from Wendula to Bukui has become safer now, and the number of vehicles transporting ore has gradually increased.

Jia Min handed over most of the matters to others.Recently, he has focused his energy on food reform for exiles.

This is the most important measure of his reform to reduce the abnormal death rate and escape rate of convicts.

The so-called nostalgia for home when you are full, and honor or disgrace when you have enough food, all illustrate the importance of eating.Only when the migrants are full can they stay in peace.Only when you are full can you have the physical strength to work and complete the heavy labor tasks.

It seems to be just a matter of eating, but in fact, it is a very large system engineering.This means that in addition to transforming the original food system, a new system and operating system must be established.

First of all, it is to formulate food standards for exiles.

This standard consists of two parts.One is the capital standard, six silver coins per person per month.The other is the physical quantity standard.

According to the physical quantity regulations, each exiled prisoner, regardless of gender, age or age, must have 2 catties of grain, 4 catties of oil, 3 catties of meat, 4 catties of fish, 40 catties of bean products, and various vegetables every month. [-] catties.

Among them, the staple food, refined grain must reach 20 catties, accounting for more than 40.00%.

Funding standards and material standards, the two standards must be met at the same time.

All food expenses must be used for the exile's food, and no surplus, misappropriation, or deduction is allowed.

In the supply of staple and non-staple foods, a unified procurement, unified supply, and centralized distribution method is adopted.

In order to ensure the normal supply of food, a special food department was set up in the Dusi Yamen to be responsible for the food supply of the exiles in Bukui.

All kinds of food are purchased by the catering department, and then sent to various villages, mines and factories.

In order to prevent abnormal weather from affecting food distribution, certain reserves are kept in various places to meet emergency needs.

These alone are not enough.In terms of the institutionalization and standardization of food supply, detailed standards and operating procedures have been formulated.

First of all, the "Xun Recipe" is formulated by the Dining Department.

Ten days per ten days is a cycle, list the staple food and non-staple food types of three meals a day during these ten days, report to the Quartermaster Gioli for approval, and then calculate the needs according to the staple food and non-staple food types formulated in the "Ten Day Recipe" According to the total amount of materials, the "ten-day purchase plan" is formulated, and after the approval of the quartermaster, purchases are made according to this plan.

If it is the material of the yamen itself, such as food, it will be allocated from the yamen according to the plan.If it is not available in the yamen, it must be purchased from the market. As long as it exceeds 20 taels of silver, it must be tendered.

The standard of "Xun Recipe" is very detailed, every noon or night, it is necessary to improve the food.Specifically, whether to eat meat, or fish, or tofu, or even fried or stewed, there are standards for how much each person feeds, and it must be marked on the recipe.

After the recipe is formulated, it must be posted on the bulletin board in front of the Dusi Yamen and announced to the whole society.

When the meal is delivering food, the recipes should also be sent to each Zhuangzi for posting.Let every exile from Zhuangzi know what he ate during these ten days.

During the Spring Festival, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, it is necessary to improve the food throughout the day.

Among them, the Spring Festival is improved for seven consecutive days, one day on the fifteenth day of the first month, one day on Qingming, two days on the Dragon Boat Festival, and three days on the fifteenth day of the eighth month.

To improve this kind of festival, recipes should also be formulated and posted.

At the end of each month, the food consumption settlement for this month must be carried out.After the quartermaster's review, the "Monthly Migration Food Consumption Statement" was posted and announced on the bulletin board in front of the yamen.

In the balance sheet, state how much was in balance last month, how much was purchased this month, how much was consumed this month, and how much was in balance this month.

Quantity, price, how much money was spent on each item, how many people have eaten this month, how much money was spent in total, how much money was spent by each person on average, what is left, how much is left, how much is left , are listed one by one on the table, so that people can see it at a glance.

The release of the "Ten-day Recipe" and "Monthly Food Consumption Statement for Migrants" to the outside world is not only to show the openness and transparency of the yamen, but also to accept the supervision of the whole society.

A total of three food supervision report boxes were set up beside the bulletin board and in Bukui Street, and another 21 food supervision report boxes were set up at the concentration points of the various districts below.

For those who do not meet the standards of the "Ten-day Recipe" and "Monthly Food Consumption Settlement Table", the catering department or delivery personnel have stolen food, given food to favors, exchanged food for other materials, and the food has spoiled or deteriorated. Violations of discipline, such as those who are short on gold and short on two, shoddy as good, etc., can be reported whether they are traffickers or others.

It is not enough to have this kind of passive supervision, an active supervision system must be established.

For this reason, a food monitoring team for exiles was specially established.The military judge Lin Dajiang served as the captain.

The monitoring team is directly responsible to Bu Kui's top military and political officer, Jia Min, and is not subject to the leadership and constraints of any other organization or personnel.

The monitoring team can monitor recipes, various reports and documents, and various objects at any time.

You can go to a certain official village to check what and how much the exiles ate.

You can also go to the warehouse to check how much each item is and whether it matches the account.Whether things have deteriorated, whether there are rats in the warehouse, ventilation, fire, flood control, and even detailed to whether the food is placed neatly in the warehouse, whether it is off the ground, away from the wall, etc.

This inspection team, which was originally established to supervise exiles' meals, later became the Bukui Inspection Office.

Its monitoring program is growing and has covered various sectors and industries.The scope of supervision also covered the entire Bukui region, thousands of miles across.It has become a sharp sword that officials and servants are afraid of when they hear it.

The strength of this food reform for exiles is unprecedented in Bukui's history.The standard of food has suddenly increased to three times the original.

It is an old problem in Bukui that officials, yamen servants and Zhuangtou embezzle exiles' food and fill their own pockets.

This time, after spending so much money, will it be possible to get all the streamers to eat it?Will those people be filling their pockets again?

Many people are watching.

(End of this chapter)