Old Zhou's mind, at the level of a full regiment, was filled with thoughts.
Contract-based firefighters, although not yet widely applied, are a significant subject.
Six years had passed.
In recent years, as the era has developed, firefighting capabilities have increasingly shown to be lacking.
This issue is beyond dispute, with a county-level region often relying on a single fire brigade, a dozen or twenty-odd people, to maintain the fire safety of hundreds of thousands of residents.
Qu Jing has a Luoping Brigade, with 13 officers and soldiers, serving a population of 600,000.
This ratio is shocking to behold.
Although there are many local fire stations as supplements, they cannot be considered professional firefighting forces.
Many solutions had been considered.
Training elite troops, reinforcement systems, fire inspections, safety propaganda.
Yet it was not possible to expand recruitment.
The reasons were numerous.
