"Captain Li, this is our payment this time, a total of more than 4,000 catties of grain, and more than 300 catties of meat!"

Chen Hong once again pulled a few carriages of things to the Chencun side, and recently the business has been doing well, and the coal produced in the Chencun village has met the needs of many people at one time.

Originally, he was still worried that there might not be enough workers on the Chen Village side, but now it seems that this worry is superfluous, because the little commander in front of him will take prisoners to work!

"Thank you, according to the rules, Young Master Chen, you take your own share!"

"This ...... All right! Chen Hong finally chose to accept the food, although he is not short of food now, but it is better to do business with these people who carry guns according to their wishes.

If you don't obey, you may have to move your head one day.

"By the way, your Chen family is also a landlord, how much land do you have in your hands?"

"Uh...... This ......" Chen Hong's face was a little ugly when he heard Li Huan's words, and he thought that Li Huan was going to encroach on their family's land.

"Why are you so nervous? I didn't want to rob your family's land, I just asked! ”

"Oh, that's right, our Chen family has more than 2,000 acres of land scattered around here, half of which is paddy fields, the remaining half is dry land, and some of it is mountainous, so you can't grow food!"

"Yo, there are more than 2,000 acres of land at home, what a big landlord!" Li Huan is a little greedy, if these lands are in the hands of the government, it is estimated that a lot of taxes can be collected, and it can also reduce a lot of burdens on the people.

It's a pity that the Chen family is considered an enlightened gentleman, and they have a good reputation in the surrounding area, so they must not do this kind of thing.

"In fact, land is only part of the income of our Chen family, and most of our family's income is in shops, such as selling cloth, selling grain, and some businesses in cooperation with foreigners!"

Hearing Chen Hong say this, Li Huan couldn't help it, and looked at him differently, but he didn't expect that the Chen family was still doing business with foreigners.

It seems that the Chen family is not only as simple as it seems on the surface, if it really develops industry and commerce like him, then it will not be able to kill the Chen family, on the contrary, it is necessary to protect them well.

Because the protection of national industry and commerce is the current policy of the party!

"Do you still do business with foreigners?"

"Hehe, when my father was young, he was fortunate to go to many places and met some foreign businessmen, so he started a business together, which can be regarded as subsidizing the family!"

It is no wonder that Master Chen reduced the rent and interest for the people, and even lived rent-free during the famine, the original income from the land only accounted for a small amount, and the Eighth Route Army's favorite was this kind of landlord.

"Okay, your family's business will be put aside first, I'm more curious, the spring ploughing is coming recently, why don't everyone go out to plow the land?"

Recently, the common people heard that the hired workers of the Eighth Route Army had come to the Eighth Route Army one after another, and they didn't even plant their family's land, which made Li Huan feel very strange.

For an ordinary person, the land at home should be the most important, if you don't farm, how can you have food to eat?

When Chen Hong heard this, his face was also very ugly, and his hesitant appearance made Li Huan very unhappy.

"Say whatever you want!"

"Alas~ It's like this, Captain Li, there are two most important reasons why the people don't plough in spring, one is that there is no grain to grow, and the second is that the people don't have any big livestock at home, and this land is not good for plowing!"

"And how did they plow last year?"

"Last year, a lot of families had mules, horses, or cows or something!"

"Then why not this year?"

"Alas, the Japanese devils, when they went to the countryside, they robbed the people's cattle, mules and horses, and even many of the people's chickens and ducks were gone!

The reason why they are willing to come to Captain Li to work is that they want to get some food first, and then pull the plough and plough the land by themselves. ”

In Li Huan's impression, he had seen such a scene of ox ploughing, but he had never seen a person pulling a plough to plough the land.

"It's not...... People are too tired to pull plows and plough the fields, can't they find a way to get some oxen or mules and horses? ”

"Alas, how can it be so easy, my father has lent all the cattle or mules and horses in the family to the common people for free, but unfortunately the number is too small, a drop in the bucket!"

"That's not good, it's too tiring to let the people pull the plough all day long, the key is that the efficiency is not high, you just tell me where there are mules, horses or cows, I'll help you get it, it's great to spend some money!"

Food production is a big problem, and if the people don't have food, it is very likely that they will starve all over the country.

"This ...... Some nearby landlords' cattle also need to be lent to their tenants, but they can't get them, unless they ......"

"Unless what?" Li Huan knew that there was a drama when he heard Chen Hong say these words, but there might be some troubles in it.

"Unless you go to the puppet army's barracks near us to borrow it!"

"Puppet army barracks? Are you talking about the cavalry company of the puppet army near us? Li Huan suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a cavalry company camp of the puppet army nearby.

"Yes, it's them, I heard that they are indeed called cavalry companies!" Chen Hong nodded affirmatively.

"The cavalry company is full of war horses, can this war horse also be used to plow the land?"

"Yes, of course! Moreover, there are not only war horses in their barracks, but also many pack horses and mules, and even many cattle and sheep, all of which are family businesses purchased by those puppet army commanders! ”

Hearing this, a smile appeared on Li Huan's face, as long as it was to rob the enemy, he would not violate the rules.

"This puppet army actually raises cattle and sheep privately through the barracks of the cavalry company, it seems that they are not a good thing!

I'll leave this matter to me, don't worry, I'll promise to get you a lot of cattle and horses back!" ”

Chen Hong didn't know what Li Huan was thinking, could it be that Captain Li wanted to go to those puppet soldiers to see the cattle and horses?

This is impossible, the Eighth Route Army and the puppet army are mortal enemies, how could the puppet army lend cattle and horses to the Eighth Route Army?

"Okay, Captain Li, you also need to tighten up on the coal mine, the buyers have been urging me recently, I hope you can continue to increase production!"

Li Huan is also very concerned about this matter, after all, the army can also make a lot of money with a side job, and he can take this opportunity to arrest all the puppet troops of those cavalry companies for "labor reform"!

Just when Li Huan was thinking about his vigorous robbery plan, Changfeng suddenly ran over and told him that Xu Dazhuang was here.

"Yo, why is Uncle Zhuang coming to me?"

Li Huan put down the things in his hand, trotted to the command headquarters, he hadn't seen Uncle Da Zhuang for a long time, and he didn't know how his body was recovering.