Chapter 218, Veterans Are Eager to Return Home

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

"He's not dismissed, is he? Didn't the newspaper say that Governor Henry was in poor health and went to recuperate?"

"He is a founding member of the alliance after all, so we should give him some face. Dismissal is not nice, but it's more decent to voluntarily resign and rest."

"Oh... I see. But how could such a veteran be dismissed?"

"It may be because he is not doing his job well. Before, the newspaper also mentioned the progress of the first phase of the alliance's infrastructure construction. The progress of the High Tower Province is only slightly better than that of the Wangcha Province, which was established less than two months ago. It must be the governor. Dissatisfied."

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

"That's for sure! I was one of the first people to flee from Qinggu to Weixing City. I had already obtained formal citizenship. I returned to Qinggu this time because I saw the achievements of the alliance's infrastructure and was determined to form a transport team. My application plan was supported by the Agricultural Bureau of Beiqinggu Province and received investment. You see, I am not only a transport driver now, but my fleet already has 16 vehicles. Just follow this line and connect more than 200 farms..."

The voices of people talking were transmitted on a car.

This is a modified iron bull truck. The cargo box has been lengthened a little, covered with tarpaulin, and several windows have been opened for ventilation, similar to the appearance of a troop carrier.

Almost 20 people were sitting in the car, listening to the driver bragging.

The vehicle was driving in the plains of the Beiqinggu area, speeding on the hardened road that had been opened. On both sides were the rich green fields in summer. The wind blew, and the early summer sun was not too hot. The warmth and fragrance flew in from the window of the canopy, making Cohen Puglia feel almost drunk.

The pain of being forced to retire after losing his right arm, right eye, and right ear seemed to have eased a lot.

He was from Qinggu, and more than half a year ago, he enlisted in the battle of the alliance to pacify the Qinggu area.

However, he enlisted a little late and basically missed the Qinggu battle. After staying in the recruit camp for a few weeks, when he was transferred to the formal army, his destination was different from most of the garrison divisions that entered the Qinggu Army Group. Instead, he was sent to the 2nd Infantry Division of the Central Army Group, and then followed the troops back to the Central Bank Province, and then went east to fight in the eastern provinces.

The battles in the eastern provinces were easy, but that ease mainly refers to the overall situation. 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 where Cohen Puglia was located was ordered to destroy a stubborn bunker.

The effect of heavy artillery bombardment was not very good, and soldiers still needed to go down and gnaw.

Cohen Puglia was in the assault team.

His squad's attack was generally smooth. Under the suppression of machine guns, they approached the entrance of the bunker and blew it up. After entering again, they eliminated many blocking enemies and only suffered four casualties.

But at this time, they encountered a homemade bomb made by the enemy. The explosion exploded beside him and he fainted at the time.

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

After an amputation operation, his life was saved, but he lost all parts of his right hand from the elbow down; his right eye was permanently blind, and his right ear was blown off.

With such serious injuries, he certainly had no way to return to the army.

The army promoted him one level and retired him with the rank of corporal.

Strictly speaking, Cohen Puglia's military career of only three months ended just like that, with a disability.

He was very depressed and desperate.

He was born in a serf family. After joining the army, he experienced a life that was once unimaginable.

Although he had to face battles and dangers, he liked his comrades from different places, the rude but caring shouts of the squad leader, the brotherhood of comrades fighting side by side, and the truths and stories told by the company instructor.

He didn't want to retire.

But there was no way. His current physical condition made it impossible for him to continue to stay in the army.

However, the generous treatment of retired soldiers and disabled soldiers by the alliance gave him hope and dawn.

First of all, he was promoted to the first rank, corporal.

This rank promotion is very important. The retirement allowance of corporals is one level higher; and when he is transferred to a citizen on the spot, he can directly obtain the E9 rank.

This is equivalent to a guarantee for the future.

Moreover, he did not retire normally, but retired with disability. This will allow him to have an additional generous pension in addition to the ordinary retirement allowance when he retires.

In addition, he has a third-class combat medal.

At this point, it should also be mentioned that the Ministry of Military Affairs has designed three new levels of combat medals, which are located below the Medal of Renaissance and the Medal of Extinguishing Wind.

These medals not only represent honor, but also represent an additional allowance, which is valid for life.

Adding all these things together, the pension and retirement allowance, Cohen Puglia can have a large sum of money after retirement, which can be used to improve his life and can be used for a long time; the E9 citizen level means that as long as he follows the arrangements of the Retirement Security Bureau of the Union Military and Political Department and does some simple work, he can get a well-off standard of living, which includes food rations, housing subsidies, medical security levels, and education for his offspring. The E9 level allowance and the combat medal allowance combined can give him a good additional quality of life improvement on top of basic life...

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

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

The railway track, which had just been repaired and opened to traffic, took him all the way from Xiongya City back to Beigu City.

Here, he first went to handle his retirement procedures and transfer his identity to Beiqinggu Province. Comrades in the Retirement Security Bureau will continue to pay attention to the status of all veterans in the province to ensure that they can get what they deserve.

Then, he went to the provincial civil affairs bureau and inquired about his family's situation. His family was assigned to a place called "Weihe Farm" as agricultural workers.

After finding out where Weihe Farm was, he was directed by the staff to go to the outskirts of the city and found a covered car.

This iron bull-modified covered car can carry more than 20 people at a time. They connected Beigu City to countless transportation towns along the newly built road network, and then contacted almost all registered farms from these hub towns.

He waited in Beigu City for two days, and got on the car when the driver gathered 20 people; after another two days of journey, he was almost there.

The driver was still bragging, the passengers were still talking, but he could already see the appearance of his hometown from afar.

"Weihe Farm is here! I remember there is a veteran on our bus who is going here?"

"Yes." He responded.

"Okay, then you are ready to get off the bus. People like you who have made great contributions in battle are the people that old Bray admires the most. Without you, there would be no great situation in the alliance now! I hope to see you again in the future!"

"Okay, I hope to see you again."

When he arrived at the gate of the farm, he got off the bus with his luggage in his only remaining left hand.

During this process, enthusiastic passengers lent a hand and helped him take his things down.

After thanking them and saying goodbye to everyone, he entered the farm.

This is his hometown. He is originally from Beiqing Valley. At least since his grandfather's generation, he has been a hired farmer at Weire Farm. The plantation owner provides food and drink, but nothing else.

In the past, he didn't think there was anything wrong with this, and even thought that the farm owner was very kind. At least from his grandfather's generation to his parents, no one had starved to death.

But now he doesn't think so.

After listening to many truths and stories told by the instructor, he realized that their family's past life was not right.

If it was that hometown, then he would not miss it at all.

But the alliance has changed all this.

So he came back.

He looked at the scene in front of him, which was familiar yet a little strange.

Many of the walls that were originally built to defend against the deformed monsters and the looters were demolished, leaving only a symbolic gate with the name of "Weihe Farm" hanging on it.

Instead, a tall wooden watchtower was built with people on duty.

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

The person on duty on the watchtower, of course, saw him.

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

"Brother Cohen? It's really you! You're back!" The visitor smiled enthusiastically and approached quickly, but when he saw his hands, eyes, and ears when he got closer, his face changed again.

"Momo, hello. These are left over from the war."

"Brother Cohen, you've suffered... Do your uncle and aunt know you're back?"

"I wrote them a letter, they should know, right? But maybe it got lost? Anyway, we're back, we'll know everything later."

"Then come with me, I'll take you home!" Momo helped him carry a lot of things without hesitation, and then led him to his home.

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

Many people left, at least 80% of the people. It is said that there is still a lot of land to be developed in the province, and the planting industry here in the original Weire Farm does not need so many people after having large machines.

His parents should have been relocated, but they said they wanted to stay here and wait for Cohen to come back. According to the policy, they discussed and did not relocate.

Now, they no longer live in the collective dormitory of the original farm serfs, 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 is a lot of leftover wood, which can be used to build houses or export wood if a wood processing plant is opened.

In fact, it is more economical and reasonable to use wood in this way than to crush it directly into synthetic starch. Now, only the wood that cannot be consumed by processing plants and paper mills and is of relatively poor quality will be thrown to 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 subcontracted 1,000 mu of farmland, which was an unimaginable number in the past. First, they couldn't grow so much, and second, it was impossible to divide so much land among the family.

But now it is possible.

Agricultural machinery has changed the production model and has become extremely efficient. Plowing the land no longer requires dragging old oxen over and over again, and tractors with plows and harrows can just go once; the same is true for sowing seeds, and the newly distributed high-yield seeds are said to have much higher yields than before; pesticide spraying does not require hand-cranked machines, and working hard in the fields, and tractors dragging pesticide machines to run a few times is enough.

In the future, when harvesting, facilities such as combine harvesters and farm stations can solve big problems.

Puglia's parents, with their 13-year-old brother to help, are a little hard, but they are enough to take care of the 1,000 mu of land.

Not only their family, but most of the families who stayed behind have similar situations.

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

His underage brothers and sisters were all assigned to the E3 level, with food rations; his parents were both E5 level, strong-aged laborers, not only had enough food, but also had allowances to save up, whether it was to buy household appliances, or to save up to buy their own farm machinery, to cultivate more land, it was all possible.

And according to the annual agricultural production, the citizen's rank will be readjusted every six months. Those who do well and have high production will be promoted quickly. Even if they are ordinary or even lazy, as long as they work normally and complete the minimum production quota, their accumulated years of service can also be improved, but not so quickly, and there is an upper limit.

Now, everyone's life has improved. Not only the basic rank rations make people well fed and clothed, but there is also extra money to go to the nearby hub town to buy some novelties. A new piece of clothing, a fan, a radio, exquisite and sturdy furniture...

These have really changed the lives of everyone in the Micro-heat Farm.

These words of the little brother, in Puglia's ears, are as warm as the wind mixed with fragrance at this moment.

He became optimistic, with a smile on his face.

Although he could not stay in the army any longer, coming back seemed to be a good choice.

The pension and retirement benefits he brought back should be enough for his parents to buy some farm machinery, so they don't have to queue up and squeeze with others to use it, and they can rent it out to others. Just like what the driver brother he heard on the road said, others can be a transport team, and he seems to be able to be a farm machinery management team.

At that time, he can also ask others to help expand more contracted fields and expand production. With the increase in output, his parents and younger brothers and sisters will be promoted faster in the future.

Although he broke his hand, lost one eye and ear, and was half disabled, he could do what he could to reduce the burden on his family.

E9's rank is considered high in the farm. Although he is half disabled, Xiao Yuemei may still be willing to marry him.

While walking, he talked with Momo and imagined the future.

He could already see a small wooden house.

That was his home.

His parents were waiting for him.

He couldn't help but pull Momo and quicken his pace.

"Hey, Brother Cohen, don't be so anxious. Go slowly. There are still a lot of things. You are in poor health..."

But his friends' persuasion could not stop him from returning home.

However, when he arrived at the door of his house, he walked slowly.

He heard his mother crying from the house, mixed with his father's stammering and humble voice, and some scolding sounds.