Zhong Yi was complaining, but the Chen family and more than a dozen grain merchants were celebrating each other.

Chen Qifan rushed back to Mazhu from Yinjiang without washing his face. He was called to the living room by Chen Dasan and explained to the dozen grain merchants who gathered together what the situation was in Yinjiang now.

"Boss." Chen Dasan said, "Hurry up and talk to all elders."

"Yes, dad." Chen Qifan said respectfully, "Everyone, yesterday morning, I went to Haishu one after another, Jiangdong and Jiangbei, and found that Jiangdong and Haishu had basically not seen any refugees. However, the schools, churches and temples in Jiangbei District did live in refugees, but I don't know if they were full."

Seeing Chen Dasan frowning, Chen Qifan quickly said: "Because there are police stations outside the door of every refugee resettlement site, it is strictly forbidden for idle people to enter and exit. Moreover, the police in Yinjiang are also evil now. I want to use money to bribe a policeman and go to Minqiang Middle School to take a look, but it was not possible."

Manager Wang waved his hand and said, "If King Zhong Yan can resettle or cannot resettle refugees, we don't care at all. What we all care about is food. How much corn is left at Jiangbei Railway Station?"

The other dozen grain merchants also pricked their ears when they heard this.

Yes, for them, the food problem is the fundamental problem.

"I'll also go to Jiangbei Railway Station to see the grain." Chen Qifan smiled and said, "There are not much left, and it's only 30,000 tons if I die."

"Thirty-forty thousand tons." Chen Dasan said, "One hundred thousand people can eat it, but we still have to work hard."

"We still have to work hard to earn, but we can't rely on us alone." Manager Wang said, "Old Chen, you also need to contact the Japanese, so that they can increase the pressure and drive more refugees to Yinjiang as much as possible. One hundred thousand people are endless to eat, and that's one million people! One million people are not enough, so let's have two million!"

"You don't need to say this." Chen Dasan said lightly, "The Imperial Army has said that in the next month, at least 100,000 refugees will arrive in Yinjiang every day. At most half a month, more than one million refugees will flow into Yinjiang. Therefore, we just need to continue eating corn."

Manager Wang was speechless.

...

Time flies, and it will soon be mid-February 1939.

At this time, the battlefield in northern Ganzhou was already covered with war clouds. The first large-scale battle since the Sino-Japanese War entered a full-scale stalemate stage will soon begin.

There are more than one million refugees pouring in from Yinjiang.

Not only Jiangbei, Jiangdong, Haishu, and even surrounding Zhuangcheng, Shi, Gulin, Luotuo and other towns, schools, private schools, temples, and government offices at all levels were all requisitioned to resettle refugees.

Even the Yinjiang Municipal Government and the Second Prison have placed many refugees.

Nearly 1.5 million refugees suddenly poured into Yinjiang, bringing severe challenges to Yinjiang's diet, hygiene, medical care, and especially public security. The police station's patrol brigade has expanded to 2,000 people, but it is still not enough.

As a last resort, Zhong Yi had to transfer Li Ziren's security regiment, Zhen Yongmeng's spy camp and He Wenxi's officer training class to Yinjiang City, and do his best to maintain the public order in Yinjiang City.

Even so, problems continue to arise in the city.

Cao Ziying had just dealt with a refugee robbery case and rushed to report to Zhong Yi.

It just so happened that Zhang Yuanxi was also here with Zhong Yi, and Cao Ziying smiled charmingly at Zhang Yuanxi.

"Mayor, this is the thing. First, a refugee broke into a resident's house and stole clothes. After being discovered, it turned into an open robbery. The residents called neighbors to help, and in turn they beat the refugee seriously." In less than half a month, Cao Ziying lost weight all over and his voice became hoarse, with two dark circles in his eyes, and obviously lacking enough sleep.

Zhong Yi nodded and said, "Then how did you deal with it?"

Cao Ziying said: "The main culprit who beat the man was sent to the Yinxi construction site for half a year to serve and compensate the refugees for five yuan in medical expenses, and the six accomplices for half a month to serve, and the medical expenses will be compensated one yuan each."

He paused and said, "After the refugee recovered from his injuries, he served three years of labor for robbery."

Zhong Yi nodded and said, "Old Cao, you handled it well, just handle it like that."

Cao Ziying smiled flatteringly and said, "Mayor, there are more than 1.5 million refugees pouring into Yinjiang, and our patrol team is becoming increasingly unable to do so. So, do you see, can you recruit another group of patrol police?"

"Old Cao, I'm about to tell you about this." Zhong Yi said seriously, "There are more than two thousand people in your patrol team, and they are already in the same regiment, so if you enter again, it would be inappropriate to use the number of the patrol team."

A flush immediately surged on Cao Ziying's face, and he couldn't hide his excitement: "What is the mayor's meaning?"

Zhong Yi said: "I have applied to the provincial security department and prepared to expand the Yinjiang Patrol Team into the Police Corps, with Lao Cao as the captain."

"This, this..." Cao Ziying was so excited that she didn't know what to say.

The police corps is equivalent to the division level, which means that Cao Ziying is serious and is also a division commander. Although he is not a regular army, he is still a division commander no matter what! A senior general!

Zhong Yi was stern and said, "Old Cao, let's talk about the ugly things ahead. You have to take the team for me. I am still very satisfied with your work in the past few months. I hope you can avoid being arrogant and keep working hard!"

"Yes!" Cao Ziying stood attentively and responded proudly, "Ziying will never let down the mayor's cultivation!"

"Go." Zhong Yi waved his hand and said, "Put the police corps' airs as soon as possible. Remember, the police corps must strictly check the entry of people, and only recruit innocent children!"

"Yes!" Cao Ziying stood at attention again and turned around.

Watching Cao Ziying leave, and then looking at the refugees who set up tents in the courtyard outside, Zhang Yuanxi turned around and said to Zhong Yi: "Zi Ren, I don't understand this. Yinxi's land nests have been built. Why don't you let refugees live in the land nest? If they live in the land nest, there will be no more public security incidents."

"This matter cannot be urgent." Zhong Yi waved his hand and said, "If the refugees were allowed to live in the ground, it is difficult to guarantee that the Japanese in Mei's organs would not wake up. If they wake up, they would definitely cut off the refugee transportation channel. In this way, more refugees would not be sent to Yinjiang."

Zhang Yuanxi said astonished: "1.5 million people, are you not satisfied?"

"Why are you content?" Zhong Yi said, "As long as you can afford it, isn't the more human resources the better?"
Chapter completed!