Section 164: Preparation of Public Opinion

Back to Lingao, the "First Lingao Political Consultative Conference" to be held after the Spring Festival is also in full swing. After the vigorous publicity of the crossers and local collaborators, Zhang Youfu, a negotiator at Lingao, and Lin Quanan, a non-staple food supplier of the crosser, held a competition to encourage the locals to participate in the meeting in order to win the favor of the executive committee. Zhang Youfu sent out all his long-term workers, domestic servants, and tenants, and told them to go home to publicize

Ma Qianzhu asked Wu De to select some eloquent people from the workforce to form a working group to go to the countryside to mobilize the masses. For this matter, he transferred Du Wen back from Yanchang Village.

On a winter morning, the sun rises from behind the mountain and dispells the night fog. The wind was slightly chilly, but it was refreshing and pleasant. The water of the Wenlan River has become very shallow, and in many places - the stones at the bottom of the river have been exposed - and people can wade across them.

On the newly renovated Wenlan River-Bopu Highway, groups of local farmers, carrying poles, ropes and dustpans, greeted each other and walked to various construction sites along the Wenlan River. It's the slack season, and the workers are building everywhere, and there is a need for laborers everywhere, and as long as they are willing to work, even women, women, and children can earn some wages every day.

In the past, small bandits were extinct on both sides of the river, and the superiority of mobility, communication, and firepower of the traverser made any such action unprofitable and dangerous - anyone who challenged the authority of the traverser was either killed or arrested in a labor camp. Safe and convenient transportation has slowly changed people's living habits, and many people have become willing to leave their homes to look for opportunities and insights far away.

Among these pedestrians, Du Wen walking on the highway is particularly eye-catching. She wore locally dyed blue-cotton overalls, a blue-colored worker's hat, a nylon scarf around her neck, and a yellow-colored satchel full of documents and pamphlets, with a woollen scarf tied to it. It stands out in the crowd on the road. The locals are no longer surprised by these "bearded people", but when they see such a female "short-haired-", they can't help but have to take a few more looks.

Du Wen's mood is very happy, firstly, seeing the rapid development of construction, when I went to Yanchang Village last year, the roads were still dirt roads, although some of them were stone roads, and they had long been damaged. Now there are not only improvised roads, but also roads paved with gravel and cinders instead of simple rammed-earth roads - not only are they smooth, but there is much less smoke and dust for carriages and horses; The second is that in these days in Yanchang Village, she has had the opportunity to show her skills and apply many past theories to reality, some of which have hit a wall and some have succeeded. To sum it up now, her results are not bad:

The official classes of the Ma Yuan Training Institute have been held for three periods, and more than 20 rural cadres have been trained, who have not only completed literacy eradication and learned basic cultural knowledge, but also have initially learned political theory knowledge and basic administrative methods. The principal cadres of the Bairen People's Commune, including the current Bairen People's Commune, have all participated in the training in this training center. In addition to this, basic literacy work was carried out for the entire village in the form of "part-time classes" and "evening schools". The illiteracy rate among schoolchildren under the age of 13 has now dropped to zero. This gave Du Wen a sense of accomplishment.

In addition to setting up a village committee and a militia team, Yanchang Village has also put a lot of effort into setting up a women's group -- although it is only organizing women's and women's to do some logistical work at the moment, she believes that this women's group will play a greater role in the future. It's a little regrettable that Tan Xiaoqin, as her key cultivation object, has always had a limited increase in consciousness. In many major matters, I would rather let men make up their minds, and I don't have the awareness of half the sky at all.

When she was about to reach the outside of Bairen City, she saw Ma Qianzhuo standing by the river with a few people, so she quickened her pace.

Ma Qianzhu is still wearing his unchanged 87-style training uniform, although this dress has been worn out recently. The chest pocket of the training uniform was inlaid with three red-color-diagonal carry-overs -- this was a new trick developed by the new army, and Wei Aiwen proposed that without implementing the military rank system and military insignia, the color-color should be used as the mark of the position and the army. These three red-color slashes represent Ma Qianzhu's military status: Chief of Staff of the New Army. The original plan was to imitate the style of the German General Staff and put it on the trousers, but it was thought that it was really unsightly, and there was no place to find so many red-colored strips of cloth so that they were placed on the chest pocket instead.

With a telescope in his hand and a notebook in his hand, he stood on a large rock by the river and looked at the construction site on the other side. Next to her were Mei Wan, the head of the engineering department, and the female planner she didn't recognize, both of whom were carrying a bag of drawings and materials. Something is being discussed.

“…… Commissioner Ma, the stadium itself is not an urgent matter, and besides, isn't there a basketball court, badminton court, and other facilities in the city for everyone to exercise? Suddenly building such a large stadium with a 400-meter track is not only difficult in terms of materials, but also in terms of labor. ”

Ma Qianzhuo said with a blank face: "This is not just for sports, but for celebrations and mass meetings in the future." He sighed, "There must be a venue for these things, not to mention the rest, the chairman's platform and the viewing platform must be completed on time." ”

As he was talking, he saw Du Wen coming, so he hurriedly said hello and came over to talk to her.

"You're back?" Ma Qianzhuo glanced at her, "Why don't you call Xiao Zishan and ask him to send a car to pick you up?" What about luggage? ”

"There is a car," Du Wen took off her hat and wiped her sweat from the satchel, "I just took the car to Bopu to deliver salt, but I heard them say that there will be a car to Bairen at noon, so I will come first, and the luggage will be delivered with the car in a while." ”

"Well, it's better if you come back early. We'll talk about work first. ”

In addition to the matter of the working group, there are other considerations for transferring Du Wen back from Yanchang Village: although Yanchang Village is the first local village to take refuge in the traverser, and the loyalty of the traverser is also the highest, the Tan family's clan shili is still a little too powerful. Most of the people who attended the farmer's workshop were children of the family. If we continue to put the training center there, sooner or later a situation in which the Tan family will have an advantage in the rural cadre system. Cadre training institutions such as training institutes should not be isolated from their main bases for a long time.

Ma Qianzhuo got straight to the point: "We are now going to organize some working groups to go to the countryside to carry out propaganda and agitation for the upcoming county-wide conference. Oude has already chosen a few people. You are quite experienced in conducting mass work, and the grassroots cadres of the Bairen Commune are all trained by you and are familiar with them, so you will take the lead in this matter. ”

Du Wen nodded: "I'll discuss it with President Wu." ”

"There is another thing, the peasant training center in Ma Yuan, which the Executive Committee will cancel after considering the end of the congress. The Ma Yuan Workshop has been very well run and has achieved remarkable results. But the place-color-color is too strong. So after I brought you back this time, I started a new school and started a new school. The village of Yanchang was converted into a general school. ”

"I have no opinion." Although Du Wen didn't quite understand that Weishenme had to make such an adjustment, it was a good thing to return to Bairen anyway, at least she could take a comfortable hot bath every day, and the food and accommodation conditions were much better than those in Yanchang Village.

"After the school is set up, you will still be in charge of the daily work." Ma Qianzhu said.

"Okay, when I arrived in Bairen Village, the conditions were better, and with a theoretical position, I could train more cadres!" Du Wen was very happy. Recently, she has become more and more enthusiastic about engaging in theoretical work, and the theoretical articles in the "Lingao Times" used to be the most written by Xi Yaya, and Du Wen was the last.

"The task of training rural cadres will become more and more arduous in the future, and you should devote more attention to this aspect, especially to cultivating the quality of cadres."

Once the villages have received the regimental training and joint defense jihua, the crossers will take advantage of the opportunity of the regimental training to gradually train the young people from each village as grassroots cadres after they formally take power in the future.

"I have to remind you of one thing," Ma Qianzhuo remembered, "when teaching the students, don't grasp the wrong direction. In the present period of history, landlords and merchants are our allies - you have to remember that. There will be a lot of children of such people among the students. ”

Du Wen nodded solemnly: "I understand this truth." At this stage, the slogan is 'shoveling the strong and helping the weak, protecting the territory and the people'. There are no political issues—"

"It's good to understand, now we have to unite all those who can be united." Ma Qianzhu sighed.

"Do you want to continue writing my theoretical article?"

"Write, weishenme doesn't write?" Ma Qianzhuo smiled, and in his heart he didn't pay much attention to Du Wen's theoretical articles - in addition to a large amount of data, the theoretical value is not high, but it is better than nothing, even if it is used to occupy the position of public opinion.

"Theory is theory, don't rightists advocate freedom of speech all day long, and it doesn't matter if you have a strong view of freedom of speech. Just don't advocate violent revolution. ”

"Good! I understand! ”

Du Wen looked at Ma Qianzhuo's dark eyes, "Duke-you also have to pay attention to your body." ”

Ma Qianyan looked at it and said with a disguised smile: "It's nothing, I have to make institutional adjustments recently, there are a lot of meetings, and before I know it, it's too late." He deliberately stretched his waist, "When I get here, I feel that my life is regular and fulfilling, and it is much better than in the past." ”

"Duke, don't hold the post of chief of staff, you are not from a military background, you are tired and hard, and you still have the work of the Planning Commission to do-"

"It's okay, it's better to be busy, it's better to be busy, it's good for your body and mind." Ma Qianzhu said a little embarrassed.

Du Wen said goodbye to Ma Qianzhu and walked towards the headquarters of Bairen Commune. On the way, I met several cadres who had taken classes for her and greeted her. When she arrived, she saw Wu De staring at a large-scale map of the heights on a table—a map from the 21st century, but had been modified by the surveying and mapping department to suit the current situation. In the past few months, the remote survey team has basically traveled through the mountains and rivers of Lingao, and clearly marked the villages and settlements.

Du Wen was in charge of mobilizing the masses, and Wu De had already received a notice from Ma Qianzhu.

"The entire Lingao settlement is basically on this." Wu De pointed to the small flags of various colors and pins planted on the map, "The red-colored ones are sure to participate, the green-colored ones are ambiguous, and the yellow-colored ones are shirked." These are based on initial publicity by our local collaborators. ”

In general, the majority of red-color-color, especially the villages in the north of the county and on both sides of the Wenlan River, are completely red.

"The difficulty now is in the south of the county, as well as in the areas near Danzhou and Chengmai, and there are fewer villages willing to come. But he blatantly refused to come, but there was not a single one. ”

Du Wen and Wu De discussed: Since there are not many villages with ambiguous attitudes, the scale of the propaganda group in the countryside should not be too small. They are not familiar with the people in these areas, and if there are fewer people, they will not be able to show their authority, and second, it will be difficult to ensure the safety of personnel. In case you encounter a stunned person who is not afraid of heaven and earth, it is easy to suffer if there are fewer people in the propaganda group.

At the moment, it was decided that each group should send a platoon to escort them, and the power of thirty Mini rifles was enough to deter the local recalcitrant people, except for the new army, the crossers who led the team did not require to be able to speak, but chose people with strong survival ability and physical strength in the wilderness - after all, this is also individual work. The group should have a guide who is familiar with the local environment, preferably a local who has a relationship with the destination. It is also necessary to find some people who are familiar with the dialect and can speak the Tao to carry out propaganda. Naturally, the focus of the propaganda is what the Executive Committee has repeatedly emphasized: it is to maintain local law and order -- "protecting the territory and securing the people." For this reason, Wu De has asked Zhang Xingjiao to write several drafts of propaganda leaflets in a row to explain the policy of the traverser. After asking a few Chinese students to read the meaning, they asked Zhou Dongtian to print a batch of notices and leaflets.

"Do Bulletin Flyers Work? When I was in Yanchang Village, I found that the illiteracy rate was very high. Du Wen was a little skeptical.

"It doesn't matter if you understand it or not, the key is to get our message across. As soon as the notice was posted, the villagers who were originally ostriches had to face up to reality. It doesn't matter if they don't know how to read, they will naturally find someone to inquire about the content. ”

"Gotta take it with you, too." Du Wen suddenly remembered this chef who had a talent for acting in Gou Jiazhuang at that time, "But he only has one person, and he can only arrange one group." ”

"Indeed." Wu De felt a little regretful, although this Gou Buli was not very scheming, but it was a very useful propaganda tool, but unfortunately most of the people who attached to them were so simple that they couldn't even speak, "By the way, you can also let Lin Quanan and Zhang Youfu come forward." These two are also very good at fooling people. They also have some capable subordinates who can use it. ”

"Can these people be trusted?"

"Haha, very positive!"

In addition to these people, the intelligence and health services have requested that some of their own people be placed in the team in order to gather information on the ground. In the past, they could only analyze these villages outside the Shili range through reports and photographs from reconnaissance and exploration teams, but now they have the opportunity to go to the field to investigate them in person, so they naturally cannot miss it.