Chapter 250: Chapter 172, Work Report
While thinking about the matters concerning Blackbird Heavy Industries, people gradually arrived one by one.
There were still fifteen minutes until the scheduled time, but since everyone had arrived, Gu Hang announced that the meeting would begin ahead of time.
The first to report was the person in charge of military affairs, Colonel Yan Fangxu.
After Gu Hang had taken the First Cease Wind Brigade, the Second Infantry Division, and the Third Independent Regiment, the remaining surface forces still consisted of six divisional units.
The 4th to the 9th Garrison Divisions, after replenishing their personnel and disbanding surplus troops, had settled down. They consisted of seven infantry battalions and two artillery battalions as the main combat forces, plus two battalions for logistics and engineers, as well as the division headquarters’ guard company, communications company, and staff…
A single garrison division totaled over six thousand troops. Six divisions combined amounted to nearly forty thousand troops.
As the commander of the army group, Yan Fangxu divided the area around Revival City into three war zones, taking Revival City as the center.
The first was the Gaota War Zone. The 4th and 5th Garrison Divisions were stationed there. They were responsible for exterminating the remaining Green Skins after the Gaota War and burning all the land and suspect green vegetation where the Green Skins might have resided.
After the previous war, there were still some Green Skin creatures that survived, Orcish kids, little sprites, or even just a few Skugg Beasts. At most, they could be considered scattered troops, not a significant threat.
But they couldn’t be ignored. Otherwise, who knows how long it would be before a new Green Skin tribe resurfaces?
This was certainly a task that needed to be carried out persistently. Such exterminations would continue for many, many years, till there was a long period without any trace of Green Skin Orcs, before they could relax a bit.
The second was the Central War Zone, with the 6th, 7th, and 8th Garrison Divisions stationed there. The 6th Division was positioned between Revival City and Weixing City, responsible for defending the capital. The 7th and 8th Divisions, centered on Revival City, swept to the west and south, up to about 300 kilometers as a boundary.
They mainly swept the wasteland of marauders.
Marauders were exterminated on the spot; those who surrendered or were captured were screened based on their past crimes. Those with heinous crimes, especially those with anti-humanity crimes like cannibalism, were executed outright.
Others with less serious offenses were thrown into prison—not to live comfortably of course, but to work in the mines with an F-grade treatment or to pick up trash in the ruins of Gaota.
F-grade treatment meant they were no longer considered human. In actuality, anyone below E-grade had no human rights. Common criminals like thieves, robbers, and fraudsters could at most be classified as E1-grade, at least still regarded as human and not treated excessively harshly when imprisoned or reformed. If someone actually died in prison, the prison would be penalized.
But F-grade was akin to a suspended death sentence, stripped of human rights. Some murderers and other severe criminals were sent to this level. Essentially, they were people who should have been sentenced to death, but it was a pity to waste their labor, so they were simply put to work.
Those with F-grade treatment had to bring back a sufficient quota of yield from the mines and Ruin Mine every day. If they did not meet the quota, they would not eat and would be whipped. Exceeding the quota came with a small food reward and the accumulation of work points. If they worked well enough, perhaps in five to ten years, they could escape the F-grade inhumane treatment and get the normal E-grade treatment of a person.
Of course, that was quite difficult. Inadequate nutrition, high work intensity, poor living conditions, and lack of medical resources… these issues caused a significant number of people to not survive a year. Those who lived past five years and worked hard to shed their F-grade status were very few.
The 7th and 8th Garrison Divisions, in addition to eliminating those marauders, would locate survivor camps and bring them under the direct rule of the Alliance.
It was estimated that there were about 2.7 million people in this region.
For these people, the strategy adopted was consistent with the past: send out work teams to assess the industry structure of the camps on-site. If they complemented the Twin Cities of Revival well, especially in producing food or industrial and light industrial raw materials, then they were preserved; if the complement was weak or the camp itself struggled to survive without any industry, then the population would be relocated to Weixing City to fill the industrial workforce void.
However, this operation currently encountered some difficulties.
At present, only about seven hundred thousand people had been brought under control; among the remaining two million people, there were several large settlements each with a population of about two hundred thousand. It was uncertain what the attitude of their people was, but at least the rulers of those places did not accept giving up power.
In fact, according to the policy of the new Alliance authorities, they would not completely lose their power. As long as there was a peaceful transition, settlements with tens of thousands of people would not be disbanded directly, as too many people flooding into the Twin Cities of Revival at once would be difficult to manage.
On the contrary, since a settlement could gather so many people, it must have industry capable of sustaining life.
Retaining the corresponding camps, or even the ruling class, meant transferring personal affiliations and abolishing private capital to transform into the job-ranking and duty system of the new Alliance. The original ruling class would most likely convert into the bureaucratic class under the new Alliance system, enjoy fairly good treatment, and continue to manage their camps.