106 Chapter 108 Soldiers' Personal Problems

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Looking at the water flowing eastward and the sun setting at dusk, time is always passing by inadvertently.

When the Chaoyang lifted into the sky again, a full month had passed since Zeng Zhihua and others left.

If one word must be used to describe the changes in the base this month, it is magic.

With hundreds of excavators and bulldozers working day and night, as well as a large number of reinforced concrete houses built one after another, the entire base is much less empty and a bit more crowded.

From the first residential area to the eighth residential area, the framework has been built, and each residential area is square, which is exactly aligned with the eight directions of the Bagua Array.After the completion of the construction of these eight residential areas, the second batch of residential areas will be built, the direction is behind the first batch, and they will be constructed in cascades. The style and scale are exactly the same as the first batch.

The Bagua Zhen city designed by Li Lan has begun to have preliminary construction results. Of course, it will take a very long time for the distance to be fully formed.

The number of residents in the city has also increased explosively from a month ago. The refugee camps outside the city have rarely seen refugees coming, and the number of refugees coming from Bossaso is increasing every day.At present, the entire territory has more than 300,000 residents, which is a very large number.

Tens of thousands of them came from Bosasso, and all others applied for in refugee camps outside the city.Of course, for those who suffer from infectious diseases, Li Lan also allows their family members to enter, while for patients, Li Lan built a second field hospital. The second field hospital became a special place for these infectious diseases. patient.This hospital is also isolated and only allows family members to visit briefly.

This is also the choice that Li Lan made after considering it for a long time. After all, it is not an option to put those people out of the city like this, and too discriminatory practices will also have a lot of negative effects.Fortunately, bring those people in, isolate them, and treat them slowly.

There are always gains in hard work, and Li Lan's move has also won him some popular support. In general, it is not a loss.

And now, there are 300,000 residents in the city, and there are hundreds of thousands of refugees outside the city. People continue to come from Bosasso every day, as many as six or seven thousand, and as few as one or two thousand. .Like the previous refugees, after undergoing medical examinations and secret detection by military dogs, registering in the register, recording their identity, and bringing a temporary identity certificate, they can become a resident of the territory.

Now, the 100,000 people in the refugee camps outside the city are basically waiting in line.Of course, there are also a small group of people who have not yet planned to become residents of the territory, but no one has left.These people, except for some of them who are lazy and eat together all day long, are those who love their family so much and don't want to make a home here.

These two types of people add up to 30,000 to 40,000, which is not a small proportion.In this regard, Li Lan also has no way. Now he can only deal with those people who wish to become residents here after they have been settled.

Li Lan did not open the refugee camps for a long time, and he did not intend to provide them with free long-term free supply.It is impossible for him to take the food he has obtained so hard to raise those who do nothing all day long.Even if he needs the support of the people, he will never do that, because lazy people, even Somali people look down on it very much.

For those refugees who miss their hometown, Li Lan has no good countermeasures for a while. He can only try to let them understand the territorial policies and let them join willingly. Forcing them can only backfire.

In addition, those people are waiting for medical review. They have already submitted their applications. As long as there are no other problems, they can become official residents of the territory within a few days.

Residents in the city, after a month of construction, according to the time they become territory residents, the sooner the time comes, the sooner they will have their own houses.At present, the construction work in the territory is very fast. Every day, a large amount of cement and steel are sent from Berbera. With the efforts of hundreds of thousands of people, the housing of residents is increasing at a rapid rate.

In order to meet the needs of such a large-scale construction, Li Lan contacted Zeng Zhihua.Under the leadership of the Chinese government, the steel and cement that Li Lan needs naturally continue to flow.Anyway, every time Li Lan paid in cash.I am not afraid that Li Lan will have more, but he is afraid of less.

During this period, a large number of weapons and equipment have also been pulled out. Under the leadership of Farah, the arms business has been booming.Li Lan's purchase of reinforced concrete is all obtained from the arms trade, and many of the equipment he has imported are also used to pay for it.

The arms business is very profitable, and coupled with the extremely cheap production prices in the base, it is not an exaggeration to make a huge profit.

In just one month, Li Lan has obtained tens of millions of dollars in arms sales, and there are still many large orders. If all can be delivered, it will be a transaction volume of hundreds of millions of dollars, which is not empty talk.Many arms organizations active in Africa, especially those private organizations and secret non-governmental representatives, are very interested in Farah’s weapons. Many people have begun to place orders, and some even have deposits in place.

It is precisely because of such a popular business that Li Lan dared to carry out construction so drastically.He doesn't need to worry about food for the time being, and the funds for construction have a way out. The people's hearts that Li Lan cares most about have also greatly improved during this period.

Especially when wages were paid to all workers for the first time, in order to unify the time, those workers who were less than one month old were also paid on a daily basis.Each person is ten dollars a month, and those who have been doing it for a full month each have an extra five dollars each as a bonus for attendance.

And in order to continue to consolidate his image in the hearts of the residents, Li Lan also began to walk among the various construction sites many times, often visiting the residential areas that have been established to see them.

After the people had a formal income, Li Lan began to slowly set up a commercial street, and some shops were opened.In line with the fertile water does not flow to outsiders' fields, the owners of these shops are basically the mobilized soldiers who were injured and unable to continue to serve after the territorial war.

Li Lan allowed them to retire and become ordinary civilians. They could also join the management of the territory, and they could also become school teachers and police officers.Anyway, Li Lan totally depends on their personal meaning.However, for them, Li Lan pays them an extra amount of living expenses every month.

In the army, he also established a set of military pay and allowance standards, so that soldiers can have a certain living space in peacetime.Because Li Lan really didn't want them to not get the reward they deserved except for paying.

After a month, plus engineers and mobilized soldiers, the territory now has tens of thousands of people.Li Lan formulated military pay for them after long-term thinking.Each of them can live like normal people, marry wives, have children and start a family.Maybe there is no feeling now, but after that, maybe there is no need for later.

Now the single women in the entire territory are all thinking of hitting these soldiers.In their eyes, these soldiers are first to be in good health, and secondly to be able to literate and martial arts. Following them, they will not be hungry anyway.

In the eyes of normal people, an ordinary worker can earn more than ten dollars a month, not to mention these soldiers.Moreover, the residents are very clear that all of these soldiers belonged to Li Lan's personal soldiers. Until now, those young people who wanted to be soldiers had no way out.Because Li Lan did not intend to recruit ordinary people into the regular army.

Therefore, the soldiers who patrol and stand guard every day become sweet pastry.Especially those soldiers who drive excavators are excellent targets in the eyes of many women.Engineers are also the targets of many women. They often walk with ordinary residents and often have contact with women. Now many people have targets.

Li Lan saw these in his eyes, of course he was not angry because of it, nor did he prohibit soldiers and women from going.However, Li Lan must put an end to the habit of early marriages among Somalis, at least among his own soldiers.

The purpose of formulating military pay is to consider the soldiers getting married, and with the improvement of the military structure, Li Lan also plans to formulate the rest time for soldiers, so that they have time to go out and play without burden.

In fact, Li Lan also hopes that his soldiers can mingle with the residents, and finally every soldier can marry a Somali woman as his wife.Relying on the political consciousness of these soldiers is very conducive to his control of the territory and the promotion of popular sentiment.

There is also a very important point. The soldiers are also men, and Li Lan knows very well that they also have emotions and desires.Their loyal dedication to Li Lan, it is impossible for Li Lan to make them bachelor.

Therefore, Li Lan is still very concerned about this aspect. Personal issues have never been small issues. In the future, there will only be more and more soldiers. This kind of thing needs to be arranged as soon as possible.Of course, Li Lan couldn't arrange for them a daughter-in-law. He just put aside the policy, and whether he can get a good wife depends on the soldiers' own abilities.

Li Lan is also very clear about how much money he will have to pay for this policy after such a policy goes on, but he does not have any distressed meanings about it.The soldiers respected him like a god, and Li Lan naturally treated the soldiers as brothers.

Due to time constraints, the policy has begun to be implemented, but Li Lan has yet to see how effective it is.In the territory, there is another thing that Li Lan needs to worry about-whether it needs to enlist ordinary people into the army.

Regarding this issue, Li Lan and Natasha discussed for a few days, and in the end it was Li Lan who decided to act arbitrarily and agreed to recruit young people to join the army.However, these ordinary people who join the army will not become regular combat troops. They will serve as second-line troops and will not issue heavy weapons. They are only responsible for guarding and patrolling.And their officers are all mobilized soldiers.At present, Li Lan only intends to recruit 500 people, and those who are healthy will be admitted first to form a garrison camp.