Luo Yue asked again, "What kind of place is Wangjiazhai?"

Li Zhuangyong said: "Wangjiazhai is thirty miles west of Jiaozhou City, there are about 1,000 people in the village, because the owner of the village is surnamed Wang, and most of the residents in it are surnamed Wang, so it is called Wangjiazhai." ”

Jiang Haidong interjected: "Battalion commander, this Wangjiazhai is not a good place, the owner of the village is called Wang Zhanyuan, he has three sons and a daughter, all of them are not good things, and he also raises more than 100 evil slaves, who are local bullies in order to harm the township and oppress the good." ”

It turned out that Jiang Haidong had taken political lessons in the People's Army for a few days, and he really learned some things, such as what the People's Army is the army that protects the people, and all those who oppress the people are the enemies of the People's Army, and the landlords and bullies are of course the enemies of the People's Army, so Jiang Haidong said this.

Li Zhuangyong gritted his teeth and said: "There is nothing wrong at all, the family surnamed Wang is not a good thing, and our attack on Wangjiazhai this time is to eliminate this harm for the local people." ”

Luo Yue nodded, and asked about the situation of Wangjiazhai, as well as the bad things that the Wang family father and son had done there, Li Zhuangyong couldn't answer, only said that he was not a local, but only developed Boxers in this area, and there were more people in this area who participated in the Boxers than in other places, and many people were persecuted by the Wang family before joining the Boxers, Li Zhuangyong knew about Wangjiazhai from these groups, and he didn't inquire in detail, so he decided to attack Wangjiazhai.

After listening to Li Zhuangyong's speech, Luo Yue was noncommittal, but turned to ask Li Zhuangyong and others about their next steps, because he was reminded by Jiang Haidong and had seen the combat effectiveness of the People's Army with his own eyes, so Li Zhuangyong immediately said that he also wanted to join the People's Army.

Luo Yuezhi did not refuse this, only said that he would report to his superiors and then make a decision, of course, he could stay in the People's Army during this time.

At this time, Lu Fushan and the others had already packed their things, so everyone returned to the people's army station. After returning to the station, Luo Yue immediately made a detailed report to the Qingdao headquarters on what had happened today, and asked the headquarters to instruct the next move.

At present, Qin Zheng and Xiao Jianjun have moved the Shandong headquarters of the People's Army from Weihaiwei to Qingdao, leaving only one battalion in Weihaiwei to garrison them, and at the same time set up a temporary management committee in Qingdao, officially setting up the political and administrative core of the People's Army in Shandong in Qingdao.

After receiving Luo Yue's report, Qin Zheng, Xiao Jianjun, and Wang Yunpeng immediately began to study. Judging from the information obtained now, Wangjiazhai is obviously a landlord bully force, and for such a force, the traverser naturally has to resolutely eradicate it. First, by eradicating Wangjiazhai, a certain amount of materials can be obtained, which is still of great benefit to the traversers; second, landlords like Wangjiazhai will certainly occupy a large amount of land, so that the land can be distributed to the local peasants, complete the agrarian revolution, and establish a social system for the traversers; third, they can also win the hearts and minds of the peasants in Shandong through this incident, which will help the traversers gain a foothold in Shandong as soon as possible.

However, Wangjiazhai is not an isolated case, but a broad representative. Because Shandong is different from Tianjin, both in terms of area and population, it is much larger than Tianjin, so the social and economic situation here is much more complicated.

Before the traversers occupied Tianjin, Tianjin had been occupied by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and a large number of people had fled, and the old social system and local forces had almost been swept away by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Although Shandong has two foreign colonies, Weihaiwei and Qingdao, these two places are only a very small part of the whole province of Shandong, and there is no large-scale war between Britain and Germany in Weihaiwei and Qingdao, and the two countries have not been operating in Shandong for a long time, so their influence on Shandong is limited, and the old forces in Shandong have basically not been affected, and Wangjiazhai is a typical local force. And with the rule of the traverser in Shandong, there will also be a large number of such local forces.

Of course, not all local forces are bullies on a dangerous side like Wangjiazhai, and there may be local benevolent and charitable Good people who build bridges and pave roads, but as a class of immediate interests, they are obviously biased towards the side of the Qing court, maybe they will not be loyal to the Qing court, but before the traverser has not achieved absolute superiority, it is impossible for them to be loyal to the traverser, it is also conceivable that the traverser wants to promote his own land system in Shandong, and will definitely be strongly opposed by this stratum, so how to deal with the relationship with the local forces in Shandong, whether to use violent means to complete the agrarian revolution, are all problems that the traverser will face, and a solution must be determined as soon as possible。

To put it simply, it is not difficult to destroy a Wangjiazhai, but it is urgent to formulate a plan to promote its own land system in Shandong and establish an administrative system for traversers. Moreover, this plan is also of guiding significance for the future traversers to expand their influence to the whole country. So Qin Zheng and others immediately jointly drafted a report and sent it to the Tianjin Provisional Government, asking the Provisional Executive Committee to make a resolution.

After Xia Bohai and Xu Jichao, who stayed in Tianjin, received this report, they did not dare to slack off, because this was a major matter related to the future development of the traverser.

"Fighting local tyrants, dividing up the land" and "carrying out the agrarian revolution" are easy to say, but if they are really done, they are indeed not so simple. In the old time and space, the predecessors of the time-travelers basically forced this process through violent means, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the heads are rolling.

But compared with their predecessors, the traversers are a generation that grew up in a peaceful environment, and do not have the experience of the predecessors living and growing up in the evil old society, although the traversers understand that in this era of China, violent revolution is inevitable, but the real implementation, there will definitely be some shrinking, in fact, according to the concept of the predecessors of the traversers in the old time and space, the traversers are actually a group of petty bourgeoisie with weak personalities.

Xia Bohai and Xu Jichao first discussed, and then exchanged views with Qin Zheng, Xiao Jianjun, and Wang Yunpeng, and finally decided to deal with Wangjiazhai as an incident first, and send troops to defeat Wangjiazhai. However, before taking action, it is necessary to conduct a serious investigation into the situation in Wangjiazhai and submit the results of the investigation to the Fifth Executive Committee for review.

Because the current characterization of Wangjiazhai is mainly through the statements of Li Zhuangyong and Jiang Haidong, and the authenticity of their statements has not been determined. From a legal point of view, the testimony of these two people is invalid, and in the confrontation with the People's Army, it was indeed the other party who fired first, but this does not prove that the Wang family's father and son are local bullies. After all, the situation at that time was that the People's Army protected the Boxers, and from the position of the other side, it was reasonable to fire first. Therefore, in order to determine whether the behavior of the Wang family's father and son really meets the standard of a bully, it is necessary to conduct a serious investigation, which may not necessarily have sufficient evidence, but must stand on a neutral position.

Qin Zheng and the others held talks with the Germans who had already rushed to Qingdao as soon as possible, and after the negotiations with the Germans were over, the three of them immediately rushed back to Tianjin, and then convened a meeting of the entire executive committee, and everyone discussed a result together. In the meantime, the event was announced to all the traversers, and a plan was put forward to all the traversers on how to promote their own land system in Shandong and establish an administrative system for the traversers, so that all the traversers could think about it together and submit their opinions to the Provisional Executive Committee for reference.

After receiving the reply from the Executive Committee, Qin Zheng and Xiao Jianjun were really a little embarrassed, it should be said that the consideration of the Executive Committee was not unreasonable, because once Wangjiazhai was characterized as a bully, then what awaited them would be a disaster. For the traversers who have grown up in the modern civilized society, the concept of life above all else has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so it is not unscrupulous to avoid causing unjust, false and wrongful convictions, on the other hand, it is also to determine a basic criterion for the future behavior of the traversers, although in this era, violent revolution is inevitable, but violence must be used carefully.

But the problem that Qin Zheng and Xiao Jianjun are facing now is that although the traverser has an absolute technical advantage, the ability to reconnoiter and collect intelligence has always been the biggest shortcoming of the traverser. In the past, traversers confronted other countries, and the main way to collect intelligence was to crack the telecommunications code and use drones for reconnaissance. But these means can play a big role in the confrontation between the traverser and other countries, but to collect information about Wangjiazhai, these high-tech means are useless, and it is necessary to use the most traditional way of makeup reconnaissance, send people to dress up as ordinary people, and infiltrate Wangjiazhai to collect relevant intelligence.

And although they are all yellow people, due to the differences of the times, the behavior, living habits, and conceptual temperament of the Chinese in this era are completely different, so at least at this stage, the crossers cannot dress up as people of this era and dissolve into the society of this era, and naturally there is no way to collect useful information. And if other fighters of the People's Army are activated, they can successfully integrate into society, but first, they have not received special reconnaissance training, and second, Qin Zheng and Xiao Jianjun are still not very at ease with the people of this era, and they have not yet reached the point of being independent.

Therefore, Qin Zheng and Xiao Jianjun had no good way, so they had to gather officers above the battalion level to discuss, give full play to everyone's wisdom, brainstorm, and work together. How to solve the problem of reconnaissance, if we can find a solution this time, then it will be much easier to deal with in the future.