When I returned to the village, it was noon. Although Geng Liuan repeatedly invited Li Songchen and others to his house for dinner, he was still rejected by Li Songchen, and repeatedly emphasized that this was an organizational discipline that must not be violated. This also made Geng Liuan feel shocked again, this group of people is much stronger than the government.

Li Songchen and the others ate at Qi Shijie's house, and the food was naturally their own dry food, in addition to the military rations brought by the soldiers, Li Songchen and others also brought a lot of instant noodles, bread, biscuits, potato chips, beef jerky, chocolate, etc., so they used the big pot at Qi Shijie's house to boil a large pot of water, put all the instant noodles and seasonings in the pot, and distributed them to each child to eat. And the others only ate bread, biscuits, and whatever, plus the soldiers' rations.

Although the fourteen children, each of them only got a small amount of noodles, but for the children who ate instant noodles for the first time, this is almost the best food they have ever eaten, on the one hand, because of hunger, on the other hand, it is also instant noodles For this era, it is naturally different, so after each child eats, they lick the bowl and lick it, only to eat the bowl.

After eating, each child also gave a piece of chocolate, so that many children cried after eating, before eating a compressed biscuit, now each person has eaten a bowl of noodles, although not completely full, but can also suppress hunger, there were some forced, but now they are willing to follow the traverser.

According to the original plan, the next goal of Li Songchen and the others was to go to the village of Zhang Pan, another naturalized citizen, but now that so many children have been taken in, of course it is impossible to take all the children there, but fortunately, they have to go to Zhang Fan's village, which is the road to the scriptures, so after discussion, everyone decided to leave Gao Jun, Geng Jinyan and four soldiers to continue to take care of these children in the village, and the others went to Zhang Pan's village with Li Songchen to continue the investigation, and then took these children back to Tianjin when they returned.

After discussing and deciding, Li Songchen and others immediately set off, led by Zhang Pan. And Gao Jun and the others stayed in the village on the side, taking care of the children while waiting for them to return.

At this time, all the children are also full of curiosity about their future destiny, of course, there are also a few children who are full of worries about the future, because they are older children, they know more things, because in recent decades, there have been many rumors of church abduction and persecution of Chinese children, some say that foreigners want to use the hearts and livers of Chinese children as medicine, and some say that they want to eat children's eyes to treat foreigners' blindness, although these rumors are very absurd, but the vast majority of Chinese people, because they are among the people, have chosen to believe without exception。

After the famous Tianjin Case, all kinds of rumors about churches harming Chinese children were widely circulated, and they became more and more intense, reaching their peak during the Boxer Rebellion. Although on the surface, it is the superstition, ignorance, and ignorance of the Chinese people, but from a deeper level, it is actually the result of the increasingly intensified contradictions between China and foreign countries, and at the same time the lack of correct guidance. If it were not for the oppression and bullying of China by the imperialist countries over the past decades, the Chinese people would not have easily believed this fundamentally unreliable rumor.

However, of course, these children do not understand these complex background reasons, but most of them grew up in the fear of "eating children in church", and the mantra that their parents and family scared them when they were children was "If you don't hear about it, I will send you to church", so in the minds of these children, the church basically means the same as "big bad wolf".

Of course, Li Songchen and others are not foreigners, let alone missionaries, because the Tianjin area is relatively open, the people are not unfamiliar with the concept of overseas Chinese, but in any case, these people look completely different from the Chinese of this era, compared to this, this group of overseas Chinese dress is more like foreigners, so some children are also more worried, and asked Gao Jun a lot of questions.

And Gao Jun also gave detailed answers to them one by one, telling them that after arriving in Tianjin, they can not only eat enough every day, but also have new clothes to wear, they can learn all kinds of knowledge, and they will become useful people when they grow up.

Although these children don't understand it, they can finally understand it, and they can live a good life when they arrive in Tianjin. Even Geng Liu'an, who was listening to the side, was almost moved by what he heard, if it was really so good, he could send his children and daughters to study.

At this time, the villagers in the village also heard a little news that the new Boxers who defeated the foreigners had come to our village, so they all came to see the excitement, and after a while, thirty or forty people gathered at the door of Qi Shijie's house.

Although Li Songchen was not here at this time, after more than ten days of experience, Gao Jun had grown a lot, and he was not afraid of such a scene, so he took the initiative to go out, met with the villagers, introduced the origin of the crossing group to the villagers, denied the statement that it was the new Boxer, and emphasized the major victory achieved after the crossing group landed, so that the villagers could live with peace of mind and not worry about foreigners coming again. And after Gao Jun finished speaking, he also asked the villagers to ask questions casually.

Although the rumors of the new Boxer Rebellion were punctured and the villagers were a little disappointed, the villagers' interest in crossing the group did not decrease but increased, and the problems were all kinds of things.

Gao Jun also answered the questions of the villagers one by one, and he was very comfortable with them, focusing on publicizing the policy and discipline of the crossing group, and resolutely denied some too absurd questions, such as whether the travelers would use the law, but emphasized that they could defeat the foreigners because of the combat bravery of the crossing army, and the ability to make better cannons, warships, and so on than the foreigners.

In addition, on some sensitive issues, such as how the crossing group plans to manage Tianjin, whether to collect taxes or not, and the relationship with the Qing court, Gao Jun also played Tai Chi and pushed it over lightly.

Of course, there are also a few villagers who put forward some excessive demands, such as hoping that the travelers will kill all the foreigners, burn all the churches and foreign goods, etc., and Gao Jun also tried his best to explain the reasons why he could not do this.

After talking for about two hours, although it did not completely dispel the doubts of the villagers, who were even more skeptical that they could defeat the foreigners without a spell, it also made the villagers have greatly reduced their vigilance against the crossing group. Of course, trust doesn't come overnight, and it's a good result to have the current world.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Li Songchen and his party returned to the village, and at this time, there were nearly 100 villagers around the door of Qi Shijie's house, and Gao Jun was talking in the middle of the crowd and completely controlling the situation, which also surprised Li Songchen, he didn't expect Gao Jun to have such ability.

Seeing that Li Songchen and his party had returned, Gao Jun announced the end to the villagers, and the villagers dispersed, and everyone set off back to Tianjin with their children.

After leaving the village, Li Songchen asked Gao Jun what happened after he left, and Gao Jun also told him in general.

After listening to Gao Jun's speech, Li Songchen was also very happy, because he basically had a preliminary idea of the management of the rural areas, and the two villages investigated today had been listed as the key points by Li Songchen, and Gao Jun's actions today certainly laid a good foundation for the next step of work. Therefore, Li Songchen said: "Captain Gao, you have done a good job. ”

Gao Jun also smiled and said: "There, I had no choice at that time, so many people came, I couldn't ignore them, so I had to bite the bullet, but I didn't expect it to be okay, at least there was no stage fright." Honestly, I'm still a little scared right now, what's going on in the village over there?"

Li Songchen said: "Very good, today's investigation of these two villages is very fruitful, and I have a lot of actual conditions. ”

Gao Jun nodded and said, "But when I was talking to the villagers, I found a problem and had a little idea. ”

Li Songchen said: "Oh, tell me, what do you think?"

Gao Jun said: "At the beginning, didn't those villagers think that we were the new Boxers, thinking that we could do spells or something, but when I denied that we had spells, I found that many villagers were very disappointed, and they didn't seem to believe that we had defeated the Eight-Nation Alliance. ”

Li Songchen nodded again and again, and said: "Yes, I have also encountered this in the latter village, after all, China has not been able to defeat foreigners for decades, so it is not easy to make them believe once." ”

Gao Jun said: "So I think we can hold a prisoner parade so that the villagers of these villages can see the foreign prisoners we have captured, which should enhance their confidence in us." ”

Li Songchen laughed and said: "If you hold a prisoner parade for this, it will be too cost-effective, I have a better way." ”

Gao Jun said: "What is it?"

Li Songchen said: "Isn't this autumn harvest? Moreover, the population in every village is now insufficient, and many fields are deserted, so we can take the prisoners to participate in the autumn harvest, first, to help the villagers do some farm work and win the villagers' favor with us; second, we can also get a part of the grain harvested in the autumn to increase our own grain reserves; and third, to let the villagers see these prisoners working under our orders and enhance their confidence in us." ”

When Gao Jun heard this, he also nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "This method is very good, kill three birds with one stone, I think it will definitely work." ”

Li Songchen said again: "Tomorrow we have to go to other villages to investigate, can you still come to help tomorrow?"

Gao Jun thought for a while and said, "Of course you can, anyway, there is nothing to do in the past few days." ”

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