Rebirth of the National Marshal

Chapter 410 Acres of Land

"I have thought about this method, but the problem is that the people in our country are willing to stay in their hometowns. Even if they don't have enough food, they are unwilling to go out. Look at how good the conditions we provide for them in Chahar are, but in the end only two or three million people came. I thought tens of millions would come!" Mao Yuanshan's cold joke was not funny. Mr. Jiang Baili on the side didn't even make any expression, which hurt Mao Yuanshan very much.

"Don't think so small. If tens of millions of people really come, my entire government will be paralyzed. It's already amazing that several million people have come. Your original policy was to give 50 acres of land to every family that came. Where can we get so much land to give to them?" The policy that Mao Yuanshan announced to the people of the whole country did attract quite a few people, but it was this policy that left Chahar without any reserve land.

"Since we have tried this policy and it is very useful, from now on, we will also implement this policy in the Soviet and Mongolian territories within our occupied areas. Fifty acres of land is too little. If they are willing to go to the Mongolian area, we can give them 100 acres of land. If they can go to the Soviet area, five hundred acres of land will not be a problem. Although the land there is relatively poor, we can still get a lot of land by reclaiming it for farming. As long as they are diligent, it will definitely be better than living at home." Mao Yuanshan thought for a while and said, this really set a record for the first time.

"You are really a good person who takes advantage of others without any regret. You just gave away five hundred acres of land. But I think the Soviet Union is so cold and the land is not very fertile. I guess we can only use the area to attract these people. But we must guarantee their safety. We must station troops around them. Otherwise, the people will encounter resistance from the Soviets after they go there, and then this road will be cut off, and no one will be willing to go there anymore." This has been the truth since ancient times. When a nation is migrated from their original area of ​​residence to another area, they will definitely come into conflict with the original residents of that area.

There is no way around it. The number of residents that a piece of land can support is limited. If you bring these residents over from other places, then you will have to sacrifice the local residents' right to survival, so conflicts will of course occur.

Just like the current Northeast region, the immigrants from Japan occupied the land of the people in the Northeast region, and the people would find ways to attack those Japanese immigrants, which also caused a lot of headaches for the Kwantung Army.

However, the method adopted by the Kwantung Army was direct massacre, which would definitely cause resistance from the people and deepen the hatred of a nation towards them. There was no such thing in the Soviet Union. The Far East region itself was vast and sparsely populated, with an average of less than one person per square kilometer.

Moreover, the Far East is not suitable for farming because the winter there is too long. So Mao Yuanshan came up with a new idea for them: after you go there, you can work as lumberjacks locally.

Many people would also say that if there were more people in the past and they all worked as lumberjacks, this forest would most likely have been cut down by them. In fact, there is no need to worry about this. The society now is not as powerful as that of later generations. There are still certain limits on forest development. Moreover, lumberjacks now rely entirely on their own strength, and there are not so many modern equipment, so there is no need to worry about the deep forest being cut down.

Moreover, when Mao Yuanshan asked them to cut down trees, he would also plant some trees. Forests are renewable resources. If the rate at which you cut down trees is lower than the rate at which they grow, the entire forest will continue to provide you with wood and will not disappear.

"At the beginning, they naturally need the support of the army, but the army cannot always guard them. They have to rely on themselves. Our militia system is very good. After they go there, it is best to establish a civilian gathering point in one place first. Here we can station a small number of soldiers and give them weapons." The militia system is a very important system for the entire Chahar local government. It not only protects the lives and property safety of the general public, but also provides a steady supply of soldiers for the regular army. Now the number of militia in the Chahar local control area has reached 50.

Every year, the militia alone can provide about 20 soldiers to the regular army, which is already a very large number.

Soldiers recruited from ordinary people are very different from soldiers recruited from militias. For example, although the weapons used by the militia are all captured weapons, that is, single-shot rifles, they also have two formal military trainings every year. These two formal military trainings last about three weeks and are designed to familiarize them with the weapons in the army.

"There shouldn't be that much resistance on the Soviet side. The population there is relatively sparse. And because of the war, I believe that all capable people have fled back to Europe. Those incapable people should understand what to do after our intimidation and will not take extreme actions against our people." Although Mr. Jiang Baili had never been to the Soviet territory, what he said was similar to the actual situation there.

"As for the matter on the Soviet side, as long as Comrade Da Lin does not continue to send more troops, we can continue with our current approach. Now let's start discussing the issues in the northeast." Mao Yuanshan thought about it and felt that there should be no problems on the Soviet side, so the topic immediately shifted to Rehe.

"Your thoughts jump really fast, kid. My old man's brain is still in the Soviet Union, but you directly diverted it back. There is still an issue that has not been discussed in the Soviet Union, that is, the railway issue. Should we build the railway to Ulaanbaatar or to Irkutsk!" As expected, having a chief of staff saves him a lot of energy. Mao Yuanshan often does not think about problems comprehensively. The railway is a very important issue, but he actually forgot about it. Fortunately, he has a good chief of staff, otherwise it would be a joke. He would forget such an important issue.