Chapter 1185: Filling Xiao Town

The Huaxia team heading toward the Suiren clan has already been on the road for several days now.

Most of them are people from various Noble families, children, or family members who are currently in the off-season of farming, or even sons-in-law and granddaughters' husbands.

Then, adding in servants, tenant farmers, and so on, a single family can scrape together dozens of people; this is the foundation of a great Noble family.

They immediately brought a large amount of grain with them, which counts as a promise made in advance to those Suiren clan people, as well as the expenses for the round trip; after all, it is unknown how many people can be brought back, and if following the expected plan of several hundred people per family, the expenses for the journey are immense.

Furthermore, they also need to bear the food costs for the thousands of people heading to Xiao Town; of course, Baifeng will certainly reimburse them for this in the end, but for now, Baifeng says he does not have the energy to allocate funds for them.

The Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Public Security are the same, currently rushing to manufacture some things related to household registration for Xiao Town.

Because the area of Xiao Town is relatively large and quite important, all standards are based on those of a small city; in any case, schools, a Hospital, and a standard leadership team are essential.

Another thing is the military; Xiao Town is too important, and the distance is too far, so Huaxia does not have the time to provide support; if something were to happen and they had to go rescue them, it would be too late, so a military is a must.

With city walls, basic safety can indeed be guaranteed, but a military must exist; the current plan is an Establishment System of one hundred people.

Half of them are elite Soldiers transferred from Huaxia, and half are Soldiers selected and trained locally.

Because training takes time, this means that during this gap, there can only be fifty Soldiers.

As for those Soldiers of the Suiren clan, they will first be selected directly on the spot; first, they will sign up voluntarily, and they will be told about Huaxia's military policy so they can prepare themselves mentally.

Once they confirm they want to come, they will be selected; if fifty people are needed, then seventy will be recruited, and twenty will be eliminated; if everyone is qualified, then everyone will be kept, which is not a big problem.

Or they will be incorporated into the Public Security to serve as personnel for maintaining public order.

The fifty Soldiers sent over will certainly be rotated, unless they themselves want to settle in Xiao Town, in which case they can stay there indefinitely; of course, Baifeng would certainly be very supportive of this, as being able to let Huaxia's own people stay in such a remote, wild place is also a very successful thing and a very good example.

The Public Security personnel are also sent over by Huaxia; those who understand the written laws must all be Huaxia people, because the Suiren clan does not have such people themselves; other personnel, who count as temporary staff, can be from the Suiren clan to assist in maintaining public order and order management.

All other department personnel are people with aspirations; young people are fine, and older people are also fine.

Young people need a bit of grassroots experience; this is mandatory, they have to go, they have no choice.

And those who already have grassroots experience and no longer need it, but still want to go, are doing so to accumulate political achievements for themselves; if they can work in Xiao Town for a few years and achieve some results, returning to Huaxia City would certainly allow them to rise rapidly.

Now is also just the time for a change of terms; many of the older generation are gradually reaching the age of retirement; they have been in high positions for too long, but unfortunately, their contributions are too great, suppressing the officials below them so that they cannot move up a single step, but as soon as they retire, those officials who have waited for many years will immediately have the opportunity to fill those spots.

But everyone's level is about the same, so who fills them? It must be those with political achievements; and how do you get political achievements? Going to the grassroots is the fastest way.

Xiao Town is currently still very popular; after all, everything has already been built, unlike the Western Development Group, which has nothing and not many hands.

Once you go to Xiao Town, everything is ready-made, and you can immediately display your talents; in Huaxia City, they have layers upon layers of officials above them, but in Xiao Town, the biggest person is themselves.

Moreover, these officials preparing to go have children who are already grown, so they are not that attached to their homes; if the environment in Xiao Town is not that bad, then settling their families there is not a problem at all; they are not the same as the young people—young people want to move up, while they want to reach the "top," regardless of whether it is a phoenix head or a chicken head.

Of course, Baifeng himself did not expect that a position in Xiao Town would be so popular; everyone is fighting to go, and while they are not the least bit excited about moving their families there, they are quite active about going to such a remote place to be an official.

However, this is certainly a good thing for Baifeng; it is better than sending a few young people who have just graduated; he was not too reassured about sending them, just thinking about whether the energetic young people could create a miracle.

The letter sent by Changle said that the Western Development Group is not at all suitable as a capital; this news made Baifeng's heart go cold by half; although there are not many good places in the Northwest region, his capital does not need such a large place right now, so what exactly is the situation with this Western Development Group that it cannot even build a large city?

Baifeng himself wants to go and take a look.

However, Changle said he is preparing to find a place himself to serve as the capital and has already set off, which makes Baifeng feel much more at ease; he believes that Changle's insight and ability are certainly more reassuring to him than sending other people from Huaxia.

Grain has now also been sent to Xiao Town bit by bit, and all the Iron recently smelted has been forged into farm implements and tools to meet the development needs of Xiao Town and those other towns.

The forging of weapons has been dragging on because the requirements for weapons are much higher than for farm implements, and the difficulty of forging is also greater; Huaxia simply does not have that much energy.

Now Baifeng is already preparing to bring all the Artisans of the Suiren clan to Huaxia for training, or once those officials have identified the mineral deposits and such in the Suiren clan's territory, he will immediately send people there to build blast furnaces and then smelt a large amount of copper.

Their Artisans happen to know how to cast tools, farm implements, and such; the requirements are not high, so copper ones are also acceptable and sufficient; if the Suiren clan side can get it going, then the pressure on steel smelting and forging in Huaxia will immediately be reduced significantly.