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Chapter 218, veterans, returning home like an arrow

"Huh?! The governor of the High Tower Province has been dismissed!"

"Isn't he dismissed? Didn't the newspaper say Chief Henry was in poor health and went to recuperate?"

"At any rate, he is the veteran of the establishment of the alliance, so he must show some face. It's ugly to be dismissed, and it's more decent to take the initiative to resign and recuperate."

"Oh...so that's the case. But how could such a veteran be dismissed?"

"Maybe it's because it's not working well. Before, the newspaper said that the progress of the first phase of the alliance's infrastructure construction. The progress of the High Tower Province is slightly better than that of the Wangcha Province, which was established less than two months ago." .The governor must be dissatisfied."

"Can so many things be analyzed from the newspaper?"

"That's for sure! Back then I was the first batch of people who fled from Qinggu to Weixing City. I had already obtained official citizenship. This time I returned to Qinggu because I saw the results of the alliance's infrastructure and made up my mind to form A transportation team. My application plan has been supported by the Agricultural Bureau of Beiqinggu Province, and I have received investment. You see, I am not only a transportation driver now, but my fleet already has 200 vehicles, so I will take this route , linked more than [-] farms..."

The sound of people talking is transmitted in a car.

This is a refit of an iron bull truck. The body of the truck has been lengthened, covered with a tarpaulin, and opened a few windows for ventilation, similar to a personnel carrier.

Almost twenty people, sitting in the car, listening to the driver bragging.

The vehicle was driving on the plains of the North Qinggu area, and was speeding on the hardened road that had been opened.On both sides are rich green fields in summer. The wind blows, and the sun in early summer is not too harsh. The warmth and fragrance fly in from the window of the car hood, making Cohen Puglia almost drunk.

After losing his right arm, right eye, and right ear, the pain of being forced to leave the army seems to have eased a lot.

He is from Qinggu, more than half a year ago, he was enlisted in the army during the alliance's campaign to quell the Qinggu area.

However, he joined the army a bit late, and basically missed the battle of Qinggu.After staying in the new barracks for a few weeks, when he was transferred to the official army, his destination was different from most of the garrison divisions that entered the Qinggu Army. Instead, he was sent to the 2nd Infantry of the Central Army Division, and then followed the troops back to the central province, and then went east to attack the eastern provinces.

The fighting in the eastern provinces was easy, but that ease mainly refers to the whole.Specifically, when it comes to each company and each soldier, it does not mean that there is no danger at all.

At that time, the company of Cohen Puglia was ordered to destroy a recalcitrant bunker.

The effect of heavy artillery bombardment is not very good, and soldiers still need to go down and chew.

Cohen Puglia is on the attacking team.

His squad's attack was generally smooth. Under the suppression of machine guns, they approached the entrance of the bunker and blasted it.After re-entering, they wiped out many blocking enemies, and they only paid the casualties of four soldiers.

But at this time, they ran into an improvised bomb made by the enemy.The explosion exploded beside him and he passed out.

His comrades did not abandon him, but rescued him back to the field hospital behind.

An amputation saved his life, but he lost his right hand from the elbow down; his right eye was permanently blind and his right ear was blown off.

With such a serious injury, he certainly has no way to return to the army.

The army promoted him by one rank and retired him with the rank of upper private.

Strictly speaking, Cohen Puglia's military career of only three months ended in this way, with a disability.

He was depressed and hopeless.

He was originally from a serf family, but after joining the army, he experienced an unimaginable life.

Although he has to face battles and dangers, he likes those comrades from different places, the rude but caring shouts of the squad leader, the brotherhood of comrades fighting side by side, and the truths that the company instructors babbled and stories.

He doesn't want to be discharged.

But there was no way, his current physical condition made it impossible for him to stay in the army any longer.

However, the alliance's generous treatment of retired soldiers and disabled soldiers gave him hope and light.

The first is the promotion of the rank of first class, corporal.

The promotion of this military rank is very important, and the discharge fee of a senior soldier is one level higher; moreover, when he becomes a citizen on the spot, he can directly obtain the rank of E9.

This is equivalent to a guarantee for the future.

Moreover, he was not discharged normally, but disabled.This will allow him to have an extra generous pension in addition to the ordinary pension when he retires.

Also, he has a third class combat medal.

Having said that, it should also be mentioned that the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs has designed a new three-level combat medal, which is located under the Revival Medal and the Extinguish Wind Medal.

And these medals not only represent honors, but also represent an additional allowance, which is valid for life.

Adding all these things up, pensions and retirement benefits, Cohen Puglia can have a lot of money after retirement, which can be used to improve his life, and it can be used for a long time; the citizenship level of E9 means that he only needs to follow the league According to the arrangement of the Retirement Security Bureau of the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, by doing some simple work, one can obtain a well-off standard of living, which includes food rations, housing subsidies, medical security levels, and education for future generations. The combination of the E9-level allowance and the battle medal allowance can allow him to obtain a good quality of life improvement on top of the basic life...

Cohen Puglia finally decided, with his own money, with his citizenship rank and medal allowance, to return to his hometown.

After completing the formalities, he boarded the train back home.

The railway tracks that had just been opened to traffic had just been repaired, and they drove him all the way from Xiongya City back to Chatan City.

Here, he first went through his discharge procedures and transferred his identity relationship to Beiqinggu Province.The comrades in the Veterans Security Bureau will continue to pay attention to the situation of all veterans in the province to ensure that they can hold what they should get.

Immediately afterwards, he went to the Provincial Civil Affairs Bureau and inquired about his family members.His family was assigned to a place called 'Weire Farm', and his identity was an agricultural worker.

After finding out where Weire Farm is, he was instructed by the staff to go to the outskirts of the city and find a van.

This caravan modified by Tie Niu can carry more than twenty people at a time.Along the newly built road network, they connected Chatan City to countless transportation towns, and from these hub towns, they connected to almost all registered farms.

He waited in Chatan City for two days, and got into the car when the driver gathered twenty people; it was another two days' journey, and he was almost there.

The driver is still bragging, the passengers are still chattering, but he can already see the appearance of his hometown from a distance.

"We're here at Micro Heat Farm! I remember there was a veteran in our car who was going here?"

"Yes." He responded.

"Okay, then you are ready to get off the car. The combat exploits like you are the people we admire the most. Without you, how can the alliance be in such a good situation now! Hope to see you in the future!"

"Okay, hope to see you again."

After reaching the gate of the farm, he got out of the car with only his left hand dragging his luggage.

During this process, the enthusiastic passengers offered a helping hand to help him take the things down.

After thanking everyone, he bid farewell to everyone and entered the farm.

This is his hometown. He is originally from Beiqinggu. At least since his grandfather's generation, he has been working as a farm laborer in Weire Farm.The planters provided food and drink, but nothing else.

In the past, he didn't think it was a big deal, and even felt that the farmer was very kind. At least from his grandfather to his parents, he didn't starve to death.

But now he sees it differently.

After listening to many truths and stories told by the instructor, he realized that the past life of his family should not have been.

If it is that kind of hometown, then he has no nostalgia for it.

But the league has changed all that.

So he's back.

He looked at the scene in front of him, both familiar and strange.

Many of the walls originally built to defend against the aberrants and looters have been demolished, leaving only a symbolic gate with the name 'Slightly Heat Farm' hanging on it.

Instead tall wooden watchtowers were erected with men on duty.

The function of this observation deck is probably to check the surrounding conditions in advance.

Of course the watchman on duty saw him.

He seemed to say something, and soon someone rushed over.

"Brother Keen? It's really you! You're back!" With a warm smile, the visitor quickly approached, but after approaching, he saw his hands, eyes, and ears, but his color changed again.

"Momo, hello. This is left over from the war."

"Brother Keen, you have suffered...does uncle and aunt know that you are back?"

"I wrote them a letter, so I should know, right? But it's possible that they lost it? Anyway, they're all back, and we'll know later."

"Then come with me, I'll take you home!" Momo helped him get many things without any explanation, and then led him to his home.

Along the way, Momo told him a lot about the great changes in his hometown during the few months he was away.

A lot of people are gone, at least 80% of them.It is said that there is still a lot of land to be developed in the province, and the planting industry here in the originally lukewarm farm, after having big machines, does not need so many people.

His parents were also supposed to be evicted, but they said they would stay here until Cohen returned.According to the policy, there is no migration after discussion.

Now, they no longer live in the collective dormitory of serfs on the farm, but have their own small house.

In the plan to eradicate the jungle, there is a large amount of wood raw materials that have nowhere to be used, and they are all taken to the synthetic starch factory.Of course, there are a lot of leftovers to open timber processing factories, which can be used to build houses or export timber.

In fact, using wood in this way is more economical and reasonable than directly crushing it into synthetic starch.Now, only the poor-quality wood that cannot be consumed by processing plants and paper mills will be thrown into the synthetic starch factory.

His parents built a new wooden house not far from the farm and lived with his sister and brother.

Their family has a thousand mu of farmland subcontracted to households, which was an unimaginable amount in the past.Firstly, it is impossible to plant so many fields, and secondly, it is impossible to distribute so many fields to a family.

But now it does.

Agricultural machinery has changed the production mode, and the efficiency has become extremely high.It is no longer necessary to drag the old cattle over and over again to plow the land. The tractor can carry the plow and harrow, and it is enough to walk once; the same is true for sowing seeds. You don't need to crank the machine, just go to the field to work hard, and it is enough for the tractor to drag the pesticide machine a few times.

In the future, when harvesting, facilities such as combine harvesters and farm stations will be able to solve major problems.

Puglia's parents and their 13-year-old brother helped out. Although it was a little hard work, it was enough to take care of the thousand acres of land.

Not only their family is like this, most of the remaining families have similar situations.

The corresponding agricultural machinery is also allocated to the farm, and everyone is learning and using it.

His younger brothers and sisters who are underage are all assigned to E3 level and have food rations; his parents are both E5 level and working in their prime. When you get up, you can buy your own farm machinery and reclaim more land, it's all possible.

According to the annual output of agricultural products, the citizen rank will be readjusted every six months.Those who do well and have high output will be promoted quickly.Even if it is ordinary, or even a little lazy, as long as it is doing things normally and completing the minimum production quota, the cumulative number of years can also be increased, but it will not be so fast, and there is an upper limit.

Now, everyone's life has changed for the better.Not only the basic rank rations, people are fed and clothed, and there is still money to go to the nearby hub towns to buy some novelty gadgets.A new dress, fan, radio, fine, solid furniture...

These have really changed the lives of all the people in Weire Farm.

What the little brother said, in Puglia's ears, was as warm as the fragrant wind at the moment.

He became optimistic and a smile spread across his face.

Although he can no longer stay in the army, it seems like a good choice to come back.

The pension and retirement pay he brought back should be enough for his father and mother to buy some agricultural machinery, instead of queuing up and crowding people to use it, and they can also rent it out to others.It's like what the old driver he heard on the road said that he can be a transport team, and he seems to be able to be an agricultural machinery management team.

At that time, you can still ask people to help, and expand some more fields that can be contracted, expand production, and the production will increase. Parents, younger siblings will be promoted faster in the future.

Although I have broken my hand, lost one eye and ear, and am half useless, I can also reduce the burden on my family by doing what I can.

The rank of E9 is considered high in the farm. Although she is half disabled, maybe Xiaoyuemei is still willing to marry herself.

While walking, chatting with Momo while thinking about the future.

He could already see a cabin.

That is my own home.

Parents are waiting for him.

He couldn't help pulling Momo and speeding up his pace.

"Oh, Brother Keen, don't be so anxious, slow down, there are quite a lot of things, and your body is also..."

But how can the persuasion of his friends stop him from returning to his heart like an arrow?

However, when he got outside the house, he walked slowly.

He heard his mother's cry from the house, mixed with his father's humming and humiliation, and some scolding voices.

(End of this chapter)