On October 20, 1860, Zhou Jinguo went to the military headquarters for a meeting with some trepidation. In the past, he also went to the military headquarters for meetings, and before each large-scale battle, the Liberation Army would hold a meeting, first of all, a meeting of division commanders and above, and they held a campaign mobilization meeting. After the meeting discussed a result, a mobilization meeting was held with the division as a unit. After talking about the objectives of the campaign, it was followed by a military discussion. Finally, a large-scale mobilization meeting was held at the battalion commander and above. After this mobilization meeting, there will be a general mobilization at all levels of the army for the campaign. Mobilize together from top to bottom.

This time, I didn't hear about the general mobilization at all, but I called Zhou Jinguo to a meeting. The regiment commander, brigade commander, and division commander did not have any news to convey it. Zhou Jinguo very much hoped that the content of this meeting would be to march into the whole of Hunan, and seeing this, he couldn't believe that there would be such a good thing.

There were not many people attending the meeting, but there were army commanders, division commanders, regiment commanders, battalion commanders, and in terms of military rank, some of them were lieutenants, and even ensigns. Those with the rank of lieutenant may be a battalion commander, and the rank of second lieutenant is at most a company commander. Mandarin began to be popularized in the troops, but when you listen to everyone's speeches, they are basically with a Hunan accent. Even those with a strong Guangxi accent, such as Lei Hu, the commander of the Fourth Army. His home is on the border between Hunan and Guangxi, and it is difficult to completely kick him out of the ranks of Hunanese.

Hearing these familiar Hunan accents, Zhou Jinguo had a glimmer of hope in his heart. His letter to Governor Wezedu worked, and Governor Wezedu decided to let the troops go north.

After everyone was seated, Lei Hu spoke: "Many of the comrades here have written letters to Wei Dudu. Let me tell you first of all that the governor is so busy that there are not 1,000 but 800 people who write to him every day. It was impossible for the Governor to read the letters, and there were people in the Governor's Mansion who were in charge of reviewing the letters. However, everyone's letter is to march into Hunan, and the governor already knows about it. ”

After hearing this, Zhou Jinguo couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief. Knowing that there was someone under the governor of Wei Zedu who was in charge of reading the letter, this already made him feel extremely excited. Not to mention that Governor Wei Zedu already knew about Zhou Jinguo's request.

Before Zhou Jinguo could speak, a regiment commander with a Yuezhou accent said excitedly: "Commander, did the governor let us go north?" ”

Lei Hu shook his head, "Now the troops can't go north for the time being, but the governor ordered that we can make contact in Hunan, and send people to secretly inquire about the hometown of the comrades in the army." Let's find out what the situation of everyone's relatives is......"

Hearing this, Zhou Jinguo had already gotten up and shouted: "Our Chenzhou is only a hundred and ten miles away from Yongxing, and I am willing to lead a team to Yongxing to find out the news." ”

After staring at Zhou Jinguo for a moment, Lei Hu waved his hand, "It's Comrade Zhou Jinguo, you sit down first." This investigation was only an additional task, and the General Political Department ordered the troops to propagate our army's ideas on the land issue in Hunan. That is, the land is owned by the state, and the cultivator has his land. The various units first figured out the matter on their own, and then went to the whole of Hunan to carry out propaganda. ”

These officers who were anxiously waiting to inquire about the news at home were stunned when they heard this, and if they wanted to find out the news, they just sent someone to do so, why bother so much. Immediately, an officer got up and asked Lei Hu about it.

Lei Hu replied: "Not to mention the comrades in our troops, there are not only comrades from Hunan, but also comrades from Hubei, Anhui, and Jiangsu, and even comrades from Henan, Hebei, and Shandong. You are homesick, these comrades are homesick? If you go to inquire about the news with great fanfare, then I ask you, these comrades say that we are also going home to find out the news, how can I make them think that I don't let them go? We are troops, and we have to obey orders. ”

These words have suppressed the comrades from Hunan, they are all officers, if the subordinates think about going home all day long, shouting all day long to go home to see, or to go home. Then these people's jobs don't have to be done. was yelled at by the army commander Lei Hu, and everyone was honest. It is not bad that the comrades in Hunan are close to the water and get the opportunity to find out the news at home. Asking for more, everyone also feels that it is not so appropriate.

In the end, the comrades of Hunan nationality obeyed the orders of the army commander, and they accepted the comprehensive propaganda of the "concept of the land question" in the troops, and when the propaganda within the troops was completed, and then the propaganda began to be carried out to the whole of Hunan, their desire to inquire about the situation at home was naturally satisfied.

Zhou Jinguo is naturally very satisfied with this, his home Yongxing is so close to Chenzhou, once he starts to investigate, he is naturally the fastest. Therefore, when the political department of the army began to carry out propaganda, Zhou Jinguo joined the ranks of promotion with all his might.

As an ordinary peasant family, Zhou Jinguo had seen the land grant decree implemented in Guangdong, and Zhou Jinguo felt that there was no problem with the state ownership of land. The peasants have been farming and paying grain for thousands of years, and it is not a matter at all to hand over the public grain. In particular, after learning to "settle accounts", Zhou Jinguo understood one thing: it seems that the peasants pay 30 percent of the public grain to the state, and if the peasants only pay 30 percent of the public grain to the state, they can still keep 70 percent for themselves. However, according to the original "rules," peasants had to pay more than 50 percent of the total amount of grain to the government, landlords, clans, and monasteries. If we add to this the exploitation of usury by the landlords and clans, seventy percent of the peasants' annual income will be taken away by those gangs. Compared with the two, the Guangfu Governor's Mansion, which only collects 30% of the public grain, is a genuine benevolence.

Thinking so himself, Zhou Jinguo also believed that other comrades in the army would also think so. But after a few days of publicity, Zhou Jinguo found out that things were not like that. In the feedback from many instructors, company commanders, and platoon commanders to the propaganda meeting, many comrades raised a question: "After the land is state-owned, won't my family's land be gone?" Someone else proposed, "When we fight the world, we don't want to sit in the world, we can't be any big officials, but we should have more land." ”

Chen Yaoguang, the political commissar of the battalion, had a black face like the bottom of the pot, and he was very dissatisfied with the ideas of the comrades at the battalion's recovery meeting. "The state ownership of land does not mean that the state gives the land of the hostile to the state, but that all the land in China is state-owned. What do these people think? ”

As a veteran soldier who has been with the Liberation Army for eight years, Zhou Jinguo can certainly understand the concept of policy, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom proposed the state-owned land in those years, and even implemented the policy of state-owned land in many places. In fact, Zhou Jin did not have much land in the country, and if he followed the policy of granting land, his family could get far more land than before. So he naturally supports this policy.

Of course, Zhou Jinguo can also understand the views of the comrades below. The more land the better, and who wouldn't want more land? If you just want to find out about your own situation, you must first complete the propaganda of the land issue policy in the army. Zhou Jinguo said: "The commander wants us to publicize, and we have already publicized. Comrades have some ideas, is it also common! ”

Hearing this, political commissar Chen Yaoguang said angrily: "What is the purpose of propaganda? Don't you still have to understand and accept these policies? Everyone doesn't understand, can you call the propaganda over? I said Lao Zhou! You now give the order to charge, the troops just hear it, and then they don't move, you say that's what you ordered? ”

Hearing Chen Yaoguang say this, Zhou Jinguo no longer tried to fool around. Naturally, the purpose of the troops' propaganda is not just words. Helplessly smashed his mouth, Chen Yaoguang said: "What should I do then?" ”

"What to do? Be reasonable! Chen Yaoguang said loudly.

Chen Yaoguang first went to the military headquarters for a meeting, and when he returned the next day, he first gathered the main cadres in the battalion. Chen Yaoguang looked quite excited, he stood up and said loudly to the cadres: "The land is owned by the state, because the land is planted by the people who cultivate the land. As far as our Liberation Army is concerned, whoever does not make a living from farming cannot divide the land. This land is for the people who cultivate the land, not to get another group of landlords to rent the land for others to plant, and then live on the rent. Governor Wei has already said that we will recover the Governor's Mansion wherever we go, no matter who we are. If Wei Du Du does not farm the land himself, we will not give Wei Du Du land when we restore the Du Governor's Mansion. Not to mention an acre of land, half an acre of land, a piece of land, and a ridge of land will not be given to Wei Dudu. This is true for the Veddu, and it is the same for everyone! ”

Zhou Jinguo looked at the excited Chen Yaoguang in a daze, although he didn't say anything. But Zhou Jinguo couldn't help but shout in his heart, "I'm cāo! In addition to being shocked, Zhou Jinguo already understood why Chen Yaoguang was so excited, and he also understood the determination of the political department, which had an increasingly high status in the army.

Other cadres, like Zhou Jinguo, were frightened by the ruthlessness of the political department. No one dared to say anything for a long time. And Chen Yaoguang continued: "Don't worry, this is what Wei Dudu ordered everyone to say. And Wei Dudu said it clearly, our recovery will be a spit and a nail, and we will do it when we say it! Everyone boldly go and say to comrades, don't be afraid! ”

The political commissar is not afraid, their political department is a department directly led by Governor Wei Zedu. But Zhou Jinguo didn't dare to say so unscrupulously, in the next many meetings, Chen Yaoguang's words caused a great shock in the troops, Zhou Jinguo just listened, and when others asked, he also answered according to the regulations. But he didn't dare to take the initiative to publicize it at all.

A few days later, a message was sent to the military headquarters to deal with a group of people. Dozens of officers privately wrote to Governor Wei Ze, saying that the people of the government department were talking about Wei Ze, some saying that they had falsely preached holy decrees, some saying that they had no respect for Wei Ze, and some saying that they dared to deprive Wei Ze of the power to divide the land.

Wei Ze personally issued an order to these people, clearly expressing the hope that the comrades in the army would understand that the attitude of the Liberation Council and the Restoration Governor's Office on the land issue would always be the same, and that the land should be distributed to the people who cultivated the land, so that they could work hard to grow grain. It is not used for the local lord to be powerful, Wei Ze does not farm the land himself, of course he is not qualified to divide the land. Weeser gave a harsh criticism of the ideas of these comrades. The military department immediately ordered the suspension of these comrades from their posts and the organization of their studies.

Seeing that the horse's ass was slapped on the horse's feet, the people who wanted to borrow Wei Ze all died down, and the whole army understood one thing, in terms of attitude towards the land issue, Wei Ze and the political department were completely identical. What followed quickly entered the phase of a protracted war.

Even if they understood Wei Ze's attitude, there were still quite a few officers and soldiers who could not quite accept this attitude. At this stage, Zhou Jinguo also saw the clues. They had little objection to the officers and soldiers who did not have any land at home, or who participated in the land granting order. However, those comrades who have a lot of land at home are not very satisfied with the policy of state ownership of land. They did not object to the acquisition of new land through the grant of land, they objected to the need to hand over their own land before they could get it.

Some comrades even openly said that even if he agreed with the attitude of the troops, the people in their families would not agree. Among these people, Zhou Jinguo even found that some were Hunan natives.

As a veteran soldier who has joined the Liberation Army for seven or eight years, Zhou Jinguo suddenly had some suspicions, and Governor Wei Zedu ordered the troops to be reorganized first, because he knew that there were too many people who were afraid that they would not agree with the policy of state-owned land. Having the experience of "opposing mountaineering" and "opposing localism" last time, Zhou Jinguo was not optimistic about the future of these comrades. R1058