Sending the people away, Yan Wangcai looked at the empty money box and wanted to cry.

The border tickets just issued by the headquarters, the funds for their independent regiment for half a year, and the boxes of red tickets, were all gone, and none of them were left for him.

It's really hard.

"Old Yan? Old Yan! ”

This side was sad, and Li Yunlong's unique loud voice came from there.

Yan Wangcai hurriedly trotted to Li Yunlong's house and asked, "Commander, you called me?" ”

Li Yunlong hummed lightly, and said: "Take a hundred border tickets, go to the grocery store to buy some incense, candles, paper money, wine, etc., isn't this Qingming Festival, let's go and pay tribute to the brothers who have left." ”

Yan Wangcai's face immediately fell: "Regiment Leader, there is no money." ”

"What did you say?" Li Yunlong's eyes immediately widened, and he scolded, "The 50,000 border tickets just issued, Lao Tzu hasn't used a single point, so you tell me that there is no more?" Yan Wangcai, you're a shit, you've learned to be extravagant, haven't you? Believe it or not, I'm going to shoot you right now! ”

"Commander, you have to speak with your conscience, when am I going to be extravagant?" Yan Wangcai burst into tears, "When did the headquarters issue funds, didn't I break one money into two flowers with careful calculations?" ”

"I can talk to the merchant about buying a needle and thread brain for half a day, and I am lavish?"

"Don't inquire, is there any more economical than me?"

Li Yunlong said angrily: "Where did the money go?" Why are all the tickets for the 50,000 border area gone? ”

"Yelling what? Lao Li, what are you yelling about? How bad is it for the fighters to hear? As soon as the words fell, Zhao Gang walked in from outside the door and said with a dark face, "I spent all the money." ”

"You spent it?" Li Yunlong was surprised, "Lao Zhao, what did you do with so much money?" ”

"What else can be done?" Zhao Gang didn't have a good breath and said, "Take it to give a subsidy to the people who lure the enemy, five border area tickets per person, and deduct the ten catties of millet that was said." ”

Li Yunlong was surprised: "Millet has risen to five jiao and one catty? ”

Zhao Gang nodded, and said worriedly: "There has not been a single rain since the beginning of spring this year, and there is likely to be a drought, and some unscrupulous grain merchants have begun to hoard and settle strangely, and the price of grain is about to double." ”

"Is it that serious?" Li Yunlong's expression also became solemn.

After speaking, Li Yunlong said to Yan Wangcai again: "Old Yan, I wronged you, don't mind." ”

Yan Wangcai wiped his tears and said, "Commander, it's okay if you wronged me, but you can't insult me and say that I spend money lavishly, so am I still from Shanxi?" ”

"Okay, okay, it's me who is wrong, can't I apologize to you?" Li Yunlong said repeatedly.

"What's the use of apologizing?" Yan Wangcai's mouth flattened and said, "Now that there is no food and no funds, how will our independent regiment survive the remaining half a year?" ”

Li Yunlong said: "You don't have to worry about this, we have guns and bullets in our hands, guarding the devil's line, and we are afraid that we will not have anything to eat?" Look, I'll get you hundreds of thousands of catties of grain back! ”

Zhao Gang said: "Lao Li, the matter of food really needs to be taken seriously. ”

"How?" Li Yunlong said in a deep voice, "Lao Zhao, have you found anything?" ”

Zhao Gang said: "There is an old saying that the wind rises at the end of the apple......"

Li Yunlong interrupted Zhao Gang impatiently and said, "Lao Zhao, don't drop your book bag with Lao Tzu and talk to people." ”

Zhao Gang rolled his eyes and said: "What's going on in the grain market, the grain merchants are often the first to react, and now it's not just the occupied areas, even the grain merchants in the base areas have begun to hoard grain, in addition to this, there is also a rumor that makes people very worried." ”

Li Yunlong said: "What rumors? ”

Zhao Gang said: "I have heard that Henan has not had a single rain since the second half of last year, and the drought has become more serious in the spring of this year, and all the crops have died. ”

"It hasn't rained since last year?" Li Yunlong was surprised, "Really? ”

"Probably true." Zhao Gang said, "Lao Li, do you remember the vegetable stealing incident a few days ago? ”

"Why don't you remember." Li Yunlong said, "A mother and son who fled from Henan were so hungry that they stole a few beans from the villager's house, and they were almost killed. ”

Zhao Gang said: "I heard from the villagers that although there were also people who fled from other towns in previous years, there were not as many as this year, and all the people who fled this year were from Henan. ”

Li Yunlong said: "So Henan really suffered a great drought? ”

Zhao Gang said: "That's why we have to take precautions and prepare early. ”

Yan Wangcai couldn't help but say: "Regiment leader, I also think what the political commissar said is reasonable, this year's weather is very strange, with my years of observation experience, this year is mostly a big drought year!" ”

Li Yunlong groaned slightly, turned his head and shouted: "Counselor Wang? Counselor Wang! ”

Now that Li Yunlong is about to get used to it, if there is anything, first gather Zhao Gang and Wang Yan for a meeting.

Soon, Wang Yan lifted the curtain and walked into the house with his head down, and greeted him with a smile: "Political Commissar Lao Yan is here, head of the regiment, do you have something to do with me?" ”

Li Yunlong snorted and said to Zhao Gang: "Old Zhao, you talk to Counselor Wang first." ”

Zhao Gang told them about their analysis just now, and when Wang Yan heard it, his heart was suddenly shocked.

Damn, how did you forget about this stubble? It's 1942! In 1942!

In 1942, 12 million people were affected by the severe drought in Henan, 5 million people were forced to flee their homes, and 1.5 million of them starved to death on the way to escape, which can be called an unprecedented humanitarian disaster!

At that moment, Wang Yan said solemnly: "Regiment leader, I completely agree with the proposal of the political commissar, we must take precautions and raise as much food as possible!" ”

"So we're on the same page." Li Yunlong said, "Then the question now is, how to raise food?" ”

Wang Yan said: "There are only two ways to raise grain, one is to spend money to buy it from the occupied area, and the other is to rob the devil puppet army. ”

Zhao Gang said: "If you can snatch food from the devil puppet army, of course it is good, but the problem is that after the devil puppet army around our Taiyue base area has suffered many losses, it has become very careful, and the supply of the artillery towers in each stronghold has also been changed from once a week to once every two days, and the oil and water are much less." ”

"No matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, and it must be robbed." Li Yunlong said, "The battalions of our independent regiment have also been training for a while, and it is time to join the actual combat test, so let the battalions and companies ambush the troops that deliver supplies to each stronghold. ”

Wang Yan said: "I'm afraid the supply of robbing the devil puppet army is far from enough. ”

Zhao Gang said: "Staff Officer Wang, do you mean spending money to buy grain from the occupied areas?" ”

"Yes." Wang Yan said, "We directly spend money to buy it from the occupied area. ”