Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 191

191. Chapter 191, Destroying the Jungle

Deformation Monsters After the wave receded, the dilemma of Crocker Manor had been completely resolved.

Although the militia suffered heavy losses; although the manor was badly bombarded by biochemical bombardment, and it was not known how to solve the large-scale corrosion, at least the crisis of extinction had been resolved.

In the evening of the second day, Major Perbov – oh, now a lieutenant colonel – led his Wind Extinguishing Brigade to Crocker Manor.

Jason Morgan and Perbov were old acquaintances. Before the eastward liberation of Garbage Town, he had cooperated with Perbov, who was then a major battalion commander, when he was suppressing bandits within the range of more than 200 kilometers between Fuxing City and Garbage Town.

At that time, the gap in status between the two was relatively large.

Of course, it is not small now, but it is smaller than it was then. Although Perbov was promoted to the most important commander of the Wind Extinguishing Brigade and his military rank was also raised by one level, he, Jason Morgan, was promoted faster. Although his rank is not high and he is currently only a D4, he has become the main person in charge of the Alliance in the Mutual Aid Association.

The Wind-Quieting Brigade is marching forward quickly this time, and the subsequent material support will depend on him.

After the two exchanged a few pleasantries, Perbov revealed his next plan: attacking the jungle.

This shocked Jason Morgan, who wondered if Lieutenant Colonel Perbov had lost his mind and was dreaming.

The entire main continent of the Wrathful Star can be roughly divided into six major regions: the central region, the eastern provinces, the north, the Qinggu, the western desert, and the west of the continent.

Among these six regions, the Qinggu region is the most populous place, with a population of more than 10 million.

However, for this fertile and vast land, the number of humans is still too small. They are far from being the masters here, the vast jungle is.

Humans have only opened plantations one after another in the open space between the jungles and connected them with roads.

The war between humans and the jungle has been going on for a long time in the Qinggu region.

The jungle breeds deformed monsters. When there are too many of them in the jungle, they will rush out and attack humans, trying to expand their territory and the jungle. This is the wave of deformed monsters in the Qinggu region.

But when humans recover, they will in turn reoccupy the places that have not yet become jungles.

Generally speaking, the jungle is extremely dangerous. There is nothing in it for humans to survive, but it is full of terrible monsters.

In the jungle, humans have no advantage. Countless thick trees, muddy ground, swamps… these natural environments have become obstacles for humans to conquer the jungle.

Not to mention the huge number of monsters bred in the jungle.

In the Qinggu area, entering the jungle is tantamount to seeking death.

This is a fact that every Qinggu person has been taught since childhood.

And now, Jason Morgan heard that Lieutenant Colonel Perbov was going to take his troops into the jungle to die.

Feeling Jason Morgan’s surprise, Perbov just laughed after the other party said words of dissuasion.

“Of course, of course, I understand that the jungle in Qinggu is hell. But before I set out, I had already studied it for a long time. No one knows the jungle better than me.”

After boasting, Perbov continued, “We have a secret weapon in our hands now.”

Jason Morgan didn’t buy it: “What secret weapon can make us conquer the jungle easily?”

“This is arranged by the Governor.”

Jason Morgan immediately had nothing to say.

However, Perbov also saw that Jason Morgan was not completely relieved.

He didn’t explain any more, just patted the civil official on the shoulder and said, “You will see it with your own eyes soon, don’t worry.”

…

It’s said soon, but in fact Jason Morgan waited for several days before seeing what the secret weapon was.

In fact, the Wind Extinguishing Brigade started to act early the next morning after arriving at Crocker Manor. The soldiers drove armored vehicles and tanks to the edge of the jungle and began to clean up the jungle.

Yes, it was to clean up the entire jungle.

Jason Morgan was curious and anxious. How to do this?

However, he still suppressed his curiosity.

He still had a lot of work to do.

Continuing the meetings of the Mutual Aid Association and providing supplies for the Xifeng Brigade and other troops of the Central Army Group that would follow up later were his most important tasks.

At the same time, he also received a request from the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Alliance to complete the reorganization of the people in the Qinggu area on the spot.

The historical mission of the Mutual Aid Association has come to an end. The system of the Alliance will be fully introduced to the Qinggu area.

According to the guidance materials directly issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Jason Morgan knew what he should do.

He wanted to transform the Mutual Aid Association into the Alliance’s management agency for the Qinggu area. This would be the fourth province directly managed by the Alliance: the Northern Qinggu Province.

The owners of each manor would become administrative officials in various places, just like the reorganization of the three central provinces. They would then enter the Xifeng Zhongsi College in batches to study; at the same time, their respective manors were, in a sense, confiscated, and they no longer had ownership of their past properties, but only management rights.

This was certainly not a thorough reform, and it was deeply compromising. The manor owners who were transferred to the alliance officials would not make much difference to the management of their original manors, and the lives of the people would not be changed enough.

It is even foreseeable that when the alliance gave the farmers in the manors the status of agricultural workers and provided them with job levels ranging from E5 to E7, would they really be able to get the corresponding benefits? Would the manor owners who hold administrative power deduct what they deserve?

But those are solvable problems.

Anti-corruption, persistent preaching to the grassroots people, and giving them the opportunity to move up. They will know how much they should get for E5 or other levels. If the manor owners do not give them, they can report it.

That is easy to say, but it is still difficult. Many people have never left the manor in their lives. Where can they report? Will the reporting route also be controlled by the interest groups?

There are many problems.

But these are essentially to make way for another realistic factor – the alliance is currently unable to delegate enough officials to do this.

It is easy to say that it is really cleaned up, but where can the alliance find so many suitable officials to take charge of this part of the work?

Administrative management is not something that can be done by just randomly picking up someone.

Letting these native guys do it may cause various problems, but at least, in the early stage, the operation of Beiqinggu Province can be maintained.

In fact, the alliance’s strategies in the Central Province, the North Central Province, and the High Tower Province are also consistent, so

let’s do that first.

The Disciplinary Committee of the Alliance will play their role.

Later, when more students from Zhongsi College and Liberal Arts College graduate, these problems will be alleviated.

It won’t be long.

The Alliance’s Ministry of Education now receives a lot of investment, and teachers can easily be promoted. School buildings are built first…

In terms of the school system, minors should go to school well; for adults, there are also crash courses.

However, this so-called crash course is different from the workers’ education in Weixing City. No matter how fast it is, administrative officials are far from being as easy to teach as factory workers.

But in general, the Alliance’s education has been carried out for some time, and suitable students will graduate soon.

At that time, if these estate owners, including those old officials in the three central provinces, do not do well enough, they will be replaced; the Disciplinary Committee will also carry out a large screening at that time, on the one hand to purify the atmosphere, and on the other hand to make room for new officials with relatively good roots.

However, it is relatively easy to deal with the existing plantations that are still in operation.

But the huge number of refugees who have lost their homes is a bit more troublesome.

It is not realistic for the Twin Cities to absorb all two million people at once. Even if the Twin Cities metropolitan area will expand further in the future, it is not now. It still takes time to expand the scale of the city. If a large number of people pour in at once, even the expansion of the production line will not be able to keep up, and there will be no jobs for the time being.

Of course, relocating residents is still a normal task and must be done all the time. For the surplus population, first go to adult schools and night schools to learn some industrial technology and literacy, which also takes time. When they are trained in place and can initially serve as qualified industrial population, the corresponding production lines are also expanded, and they can be better connected seamlessly.

As for the remaining population, they are also useful.

They are generally classified as E3 and E4.

The lower levels actually need to be discussed.

In the alliance, reaching E1 level means having citizenship. But at this level, there are no benefits. The alliance just recognizes you as a citizen.

E2 will be issued half of the minimum living standard, which is generally given to children and disabled people who are completely unable to work as a government subsidy.

E3 has the minimum living standard welfare, from food allocation to necessary medical assistance.

E4 begins to have allowances, but not much, for trainees.

Until E5, this is the rating that most adults in the alliance get if they have a job. In addition to ensuring that they have enough food and clothing, they can even save some money, do some things to improve their lives, and have money to have some entertainment. A couple at E5 level is enough to support three or five children plus both parents, but life is quite tight.

Although the refugees are generally rated E3 or E4, they are still excited.

The alliance took all these people, and Cheng thought that being a member of the alliance was a great burden. As the civil affairs officer of the alliance, the actual person in charge of government affairs in the Beiqinggu Province, he must get these people moving.

They have to work to find their own value; and the alliance also needs them to work hard to try to earn back the high investment and turn the burden into positive income as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the Qinggu region lacks land the least.

A batch of high-yield seeds obtained from interstellar trade sent by the Alliance Headquarters were also sent. Now it is autumn, and it is just the right time to build plantations one after another to accommodate these refugees. After the construction work is completed, it will be almost time to sow.

In addition, a considerable number of people were sent to the army to follow the army.

The Central Army Group needs a large number of accompanying workers, and the first to bear the brunt is Perbov’s Wind-extinguishing Brigade.

His troops have entered the jungle area and issued a demand for 30,000 young and middle-aged workers to him, the logistics butler.

Morgan equipped these people.

They were sent to the jungle and participated in the work of clearing the jungle.

Then, Jason Morgan started to busy himself again.

Even if he tried his best to maintain the system of the mutual aid association, he was still too busy to complete the introduction of the alliance system on the spot.

There is no end to the workers. In the first few days, he couldn’t leave at all, but after being busy for a while, he still took some time to run to the edge of the jungle.

He really wanted to see what the secret weapon that Perbov mentioned was.

Then, he witnessed the disappearance of a large area of jungle with his own eyes.

The armored vehicle was equipped with a thing similar to a flamethrower, but the purple-red flame it sprayed out did not bring high temperature and burning.

The trees and vegetation burned by the purple fire would wither and dehydrate rapidly.

This is much faster than burning with real flames.

After the armored vehicle sprayed, after a while, the soldiers on foot and the conscripted civilian workers began to move forward.

The work they had to do was also very simple.

After the low shrubs dried up quickly, they would turn into a pile of debris with a few hits with a wooden stick, providing fertilizer for the land; the tall trees also became brittle. A strong man could knock them down with a few kicks.

After the tall trees fell down with a bang, they would be dragged to the vehicles behind in batches.

These things should not be wasted.

After the tall wood is dehydrated, it can be used as a building material. It is not particularly good, and it is not as good as the wood that has been cut down properly and made with the corresponding industrial technology, but when necessary, it is a material that can be quickly obtained.

It just so happens that a large number of plantations need to be newly built in the rear. Houses, walls… all need these building materials.

Of course, not so many will be used. At the very least, a synthetic starch factory can be built nearby, and these woods can still be used as raw materials for making synthetic starch.

This will generate a lot of economic value, and Jason Morgan, as a government official, can see this.

But what he can see more is the way to completely solve the Qinggu problem.

Since he came to the Qinggu area, he has been thinking about this problem, but he never thought that the way to achieve it is to completely eliminate the existence of the “jungle” itself!

If someone had told him this in the past, he would have thought it was a fantasy.

But now, all this has come true before his eyes.

(End of this chapter)