On the outskirts of Qingdao, a temporary building was built. Unlike the expansion of Qingdao Port and the industrial zone, this is a casual building. A division's production and construction corps took 3 days to build it. In fact, if it was just an internal room, it only took less than a day. A simple structure and some triplex structures were just like a room, not a real room. What really took the time was the large wire mesh made of steel bar structures outside, with a total of 3 floors, two of which were set up with a power grid. Around the surroundings, 17 artillery towers were evenly distributed, surrounding this area of ​​more than 50 acres was blocked.

What is it? After such a big battle, it is right. It is a prisoner of war camp. The war against Japan was not long, but some prisoners of war were captured, especially the 30,000 people surrounded by the encirclement. In the northwest, most of these Japanese troops will become prisoners of war, and even the Japanese army will increase their troops in the future. Therefore, it is necessary to build prisoners of war camps as early as possible and guard them nearby.

In the battle against Japan, the captives were all here, including two division commanders, Masao Koizumi and Sogoro Kawamura. Both of them were in an assault on the 2nd Battalion of the 117th Regiment, without even reacting and were directly captured. Among the personnel in the prisoner-of-war camp, most of the army were in the army. When the navy was beaten to death by the northwest, they either jumped into the sea or remained silent with the warships. In other words, some of the Japanese navy were captured on the four destroyers that were captured. The northwest did not care much about this part and directly threw it into the prisoner-of-war camp.

The First Division's reconnaissance regiment suddenly collided with the Japanese army and annihilated enough Japanese troops but did not capture many prisoners. At that time, Takaha Koichiro's troops were directly defeated by the Reconnaissance regiment. When pursuing, they did not stop well. As a result, they were in trouble. A large number of personnel were directly killed and fewer prisoners were captured. That is, when the 89th Division, the number of prisoners was captured was slightly larger. At that time, it was a field battle. The 2nd Battalion also attacked from behind, and suddenly attacked on both sides. In addition, a large number of casualties were fruitless, many more were captured.

Now, there are almost 5,000 people in this prison camp and more than 3,000 injured people. This part of the Northwest has not been treated too differently. Some particularly critically injured people cannot be caught. They either fend for themselves or have been put to the last shot. No matter how kind the Northwest is, it is impossible to waste valuable resources on the enemy. These injured people who were caught have also received good treatment. Of course, the purpose is not for humanitarianism or anything else. In this world, humanitarianism has not yet attracted the attention of the whole world. How can the Northwest be humanitarian? They have other purposes.

Look, there are a group of guests in today's prisoner-of-war camp. They are all typical Shanxi people. They seem to be a bit rustic and verbal, but everyone is very rich. They are all rich people in the northwest, but they are not factories or other industries, they are all mine owners.

The northwest is now developing. Due to the attractiveness of good welfare and conditions, the northwest now has more than one-third of China's territory, but it has more than 350 million people. Among them, 250 million have settled in the northwest, accounting for more than half of the entire China. However, the remaining 100 million people are migrant populations, and it is very likely to settle in the northwest in the future.

The huge population provides enough human resources to the Northwest, but with the Northwest's expansion capabilities in machinery and industry, there is still not enough personnel, especially in some dangerous industries. For example, Baotou, the core of the Northwest, has the largest coal field in the world. Even in the 21st century, coal mining has not been fully mechanized. After all, in some relatively small and complex mine pits, manpower is still irreplaceable. Compared with other environments, coal mining and some complex mineral collections are more closed and easy to manage. Let these prisoners of war be placed first, and thousands of people are not enough, preferably more.

These mine owners are the small coal mines that were later commonly known as the small coal mines. Most of the land in Baotou and the northwest were reclaimed by redemption and reclaimed to the Northwest United Industrial Company. His predecessor was the Baotou Chamber of Commerce and the largest trust group in China. The major shareholder was Yang Yuanzhao.

But no matter how much you buy it, some small pieces of land and some small coal mines with few buried lots cannot be recovered. Today, with the expansion of industrialization in the northwest, energy and coal chemical companies are increasingly becoming the foundation of the northwest, coal has become the source of wealth. Even if there are only about a few hundred thousand tons of coal mines, it is a considerable wealth. These mine owners have made money by relying on coal, increased their investment and increased their ability to excavate.

No matter how much investment is, the small coal mine is quite dangerous, which restricts their profit speed. It happened that the northwest emitted rumors. There was a group of prisoners of war in Qingdao. This news quickly spread to the area in a specific circle, and thus attracted a large number of people.

Seeing that the prisoners of war who had been scheduled before the treatment was completed, Liu Shu also smiled bitterly. He was responsible for coming over to bring these merchants to see the prisoners of war, and complained to Yang Yuanzhao about the tension of hard work now, especially in these dangerous places. There are too many places where the Chinese can make money. In the past, there were some people who could not read big words and choose those places. However, the mine owners were unwilling to use it. After all, they were Chinese and had a perfect guarantee in any aspect. In dangerous situations, there must be a considerable subsidy cost, which is higher than ordinary workers' wages. The most important thing is to buy high insurance, otherwise, if an accident dies, the compensation will cause the mine owner to suffer heavy bleeding. In this case, unless it is necessary, no one will use the Chinese as workers in small coal mines, and the cost is quite high.

Relatively speaking, for those workers, unless they have just arrived in the northwest and are not aware of the situation, others will not be a small coal mine. They have a bad reputation, but the task is heavy and dangerous, and the salary is slightly higher, which is also relatively common. After all, the real high salary in the northwest is still researchers and engineers. These personnel who are crucial to the factory also enjoy high distribution.

Those workers who have worked in small coal mines have a little ability and have other choices, so the mobility of small coal mine workers is quite large.

Now, the sudden existence of these prisoners of war has given these mine owners a new idea. Safety is not necessary. They need to pay money. They have a lot of money, but not as high as the Chinese. Overall, they only have about one-third of the salary, and the salary level is lower than the average worker's wages, and there is no need for a series of investments such as dangerous subsidies. Overall, the total expenditure is reduced by half. In this case, for the mine owner, it is simply a good thing given to heaven.

At least 100 mine owners, following Liu Shu to Qingdao, saw the huge prisoner-of-war camp and the young and middle-aged Japanese soldiers, their eyes turned green. This was simply a good thing given by heaven. Compared with the frame, things like prisoners of war were too scarce. More than 100 people began to compete wildly, and some even performed a full martial arts campaign.

Those who were able to own land in the late Qing Dynasty and resist the temptation of acquisitions in the northwest have been preserved until now, these mine owners are not fuel-efficient. They are all rough and fight and scold people. But in the end, in a simple and rough manner, these prisoners of war have masters. Of course, they are just low-level officers and soldiers, and senior officers. There are not many prisoners. The two division commanders, some corps captains and brigade commanders, and there are only a dozen of them. Let them be put aside first.

After dealing with these prisoners of war, some of them have not been discharged from the hospital, but the mine owners are a little impatient and even urged the northwest to get more prisoners of war. On average, only a few dozen are divided by one person. This is not enough. If the loss is added, it will be even less than enough.

Liu Shu had no choice but to go to Yang Yuanzhao to tell him that he hoped to get more prisoners of war. Liu Shu said it was unintentional, but Yang Yuanzhao listened to it. Prisoners of war were nothing. In the future, the Japanese might get tens of thousands of dollars. But after asking clearly, after he knew that tens of thousands of people might be a drop in the bucket.

You should know that the small mines in the northwest are not just small coal mines, some small metal mines, and some relatively barren mineral deposits. Some of them are not suitable for using machinery, and the income ratio is too small, and some even lose money. However, if you use prisoners of war, it is very suitable, just give them a full meal.

It is not a good choice to let the Northwest start a war for prisoners of war, but it is OK to manipulate the transaction of prisoners of war. There may not be any prisoners of war in China at present, but there are too many in the world, especially in Germany. Under the blitzkrieg, a large number of Belgian troops and French were captured, and in addition to the occupied areas, there were more French and Belgians, which is a good source.

Yang Yuanzhao became more and more excited the more he thought about it. This was a win-win result. For the Germans, the prisoners of war and the residents of the occupied areas were enemies and enemies who destroyed their families. However, China was not a member of the allies, and the feeling of hatred would be greatly reduced. Not only would there be some pure laborers, but there would also be a large number of educated, even technical workers and engineers. These people, in the absence of China, and some European traditions, should be devoted to China's construction.

China does not lack people, but these people who are obviously helpful to China or even beneficial to China are really the better.

"Brother Zelin, don't worry first. You need to count the situation of prisoners of war. It's best to come up with a general data. Maybe I can help you solve it!"

Liu Shu just said casually, but he didn't expect that after so long, Yang Yuanzhao gave him such an answer and asked intently. However, before the matter was not clear, Yang Yuanzhao did not answer any of his questions, so he had to suppress his thoughts. He spent several days thinking about how Yang Yuanzhao solved the problem of prisoners of war. Judging from his tone, it seemed that he could solve most of the problems. Where did he catch hundreds of thousands of people? (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!