Section 130: Merging villages and villages

"Is that him?"

"It's him." The man whispered.

"Carry the body to the village and throw it on the threshing floor." He ordered, "Let everyone see what happened to the traitors"

The Fubo army drove into the village under the panicked watchful eyes of the villagers, and then began to demolish the liaison officer's house. In less than fifteen minutes, the entire house was razed to the ground. Everything was removed and transported outside the village to be burned, leaving only a very thick bamboo as a girder.

The soldiers brought an ox with an iron plough hanging behind it, and plowed deep into the foundation of the house, which had become a white field, and then a bag of sea salt was sprinkled into the furrow and buried.

zuihou, erected a bamboo on the homestead, and hung up the body of the liaison officer who betrayed the task force.

"Don't take it off until you turn it into a bone," Lin Shenhe ordered.

A new team was sent from Danzhou. The captain is temporarily represented by Lin Shenhe. Then, Liu Yixiao and Yu Zhiqian also followed the team to Wangpu Village. For a time, the center of power in Danzhou shifted to this desolate small village.

Liu Yixiao expressed concern: "Is it appropriate for you to come here too?" ”

"It's not that there are no elders in Danzhou City." Yu Zhiqian said, "I also want to inspect the battlefield. Besides, when such a big thing happened, the leader didn't come to the front line in person and let the Senate know about it? ”

A large-scale clean-up of the entire village followed. The new team no longer talks about the development of mountain areas and the cultivation of cash crops, and even the original work of recruiting soldiers and husbands is no longer carried out.

Whether it is Lin Shenhe or Liu Yixiao, they all suspect that there are other characters in the village who are related to bandits. In addition, Liu Yixiao believes that it is impossible for the villagers to be ignorant of what kind of bandits they are coming.

These problems must be thoroughly clarified, and we cannot carry out construction peacefully without digging up the dangerous roots.

Under the supervision of the soldiers, the men of the village built a bamboo fence outside the village, dug a trench and erected an lookout in the village. Rough work outside the villagers must be approved by the team stationed in the village. The village began to register its permanent residents and established a hukou system.

Several team members wearing blue collar badges began to talk to the villagers "back to back" one by one, up to 80 years old and down to 8 years old.

This kind of investigation turned everyone in the village upside down. In the end, someone confessed that Chen Lianjian in the village had a bandit at the bottom of the sea.

This person has been a bandit for many years, and then he was injured and lame before returning to farm. There is a wife and daughters at home. There is no strong labor force, and life is tight.

Chen Lianjian said that he did work as a bandit, but he was not in the same group as the bandits.

"They have nothing to do with the small ones, and they are definitely not small seduces" Chen Lianjian shouted again and again, "The Hu Rotten Eyes gang came from Lingao"

Chen Lianjian didn't know much about Hu Langyan and his gang, only that they only came from Lingao last year, and there were many people, and as soon as they arrived in Danzhou, they became the largest local bandits.

Lin Shenhe slapped the table: "How much do you know about the local bandits, give me an honest explanation."

Chen Lianjian has no culture, and he is just a small minion in the gang. I don't know much about dry goods. However, he still confessed a lot of local bandits' bandits' bandits, shares, activity methods, and other materials such as black language. Lin Shenhe realized that this person was quite useful to them. If it is handed over to professional reviewers, more "material" can be dug up.

"Come on, lock him up alone." Lin Shenhe said, "You have to take good care of him"

"Yes," the guards were about to leave. Lin Shenhe stopped the guards again, "And his wife and daughter were also arrested and detained separately"

"The little one is already a wasted person, and he can't eat this bowl of rice anymore, and he doesn't dare to have delusions anymore? Please be clear," Chen Lianjian begged bitterly, he felt that Australians were likely to treat him and his family as "chickens" who would make an example of each other, and enjoy the same treatment as liaison officers.

"Do you want to kill a few people to make a threat?" Lin Shenhe asked Liu Yixiao, "You can kill Chen Lianjian, who was a bandit." ”

Liu Yixiao shook his head: "It's not appropriate, Chen Lianjian didn't get involved in the attack on the task force." Most of the ordinary people in the village are neither the principal offenders nor the accomplices, and at most they do not act bravely, so the name of killing people in this way is not justified. ”

"It's a pity not to kill a few people." Yu Zhiqian was disappointed, "You can't stop the locals like this"

"The common people have been in hardship for a long time, and it is inevitable that their ideology is numb and ignorant, and they only know how to protect themselves." Fang Jinghan, who was in charge of presiding over the political review and social research on people's feelings, said, "This is a typical mindset of conforming to the people, and whoever is the master can be the master -- as long as they can give them a way to live, they will be poor and lose nothing anyway." ”

"I still think I should kill a group of people." Yu Zhiqian felt that it was very unwilling to let the villagers go like this, "If you don't kill people, it's not enough to seriously affect the security of Danzhou in Danzhou."

Liu Yixiao resolutely opposed: "It is meaningless to kill innocents indiscriminately, these villagers are very hateful, but there is no reason to kill, and indiscriminate killing will only expose our inner weakness." ”

Although Liu Yixiao resolutely opposes the slaughter of villages or killing, he has never had a bottom on how to deal with this matter.

His report on the Zhaopu Village incident to Lingao caused an uproar in the Senate*. The news from Liu Muzhou was very bad. The senators were extremely dissatisfied with his work. It is very likely that he will be removed from his position as the leader of the Danzhou task force.

Once this position was withdrawn, his hopes of serving as the first county magistrate of Dan County were completely dashed. Not only that, but this political stain is difficult to wash away. He was frustrated and uneasy. I can only try to add points to myself as much as possible in the follow-up processing.

If he is too lenient with the local villagers in handling this matter, he will inevitably arouse even greater dissatisfaction in the Senate - according to Liu Muzhou and his communication, some of the elders even demand that the village be slaughtered.

But being too cruel will also be disgusted by some of the patriarchs. How to grasp the degree of leniency and severity made him very difficult.

After thinking about it for a long time, Fang Jinghan proposed a plan for "collective punishment".

The plan was to confiscate all the property of the villagers in Wangpu Village as punishment for the elimination of the team.

", what property do they have?"

"The land here, although small, is also property."

"Well, what do we want this land for?" Danzhou also has no shortage of land, what is lacking is people.

"The focus is not on the land – by taking away their land, it is depriving them of the resources to stay here." Fang Jinghan said, "All the labor force in the village has become a population at our direct disposal, and if you want, you can call them 'state-owned slaves'." ”

"Immigrants like immigrants are indentured slaves......"

"That's it. We will move the whole village and move to a place with better conditions to merge the villages, and turn the villagers into our direct population. The first commune in Danzhou"

"Thirty or so households is a commune? There are fewer people. ”

"We have set up a group of villages and settled them, and gradually relocated and merged these small villages, so that even if we manage and control the population, it will be conducive to development."

After the population migrates, the local area can be completely abandoned -- there is not much development value in the first place, and when it is necessary to develop mountain resources in the future, it is completely possible to migrate and resettle again.

As for the villagers who were relocated, Fang Jinghan suggested that they should be used immediately, and first all the 18~25-year-old men in the village should be conscripted into the army.

"The army is a melting pot." Fang Jinghan said, "When I went to the melting pot of the army, I was poured some rice soup by Wei Aiwen, and after three years of walking, I developed discipline, and when I came back, I was a qualified 'newcomer'." Adults can only do it by such coercion. ”

All children under the age of 18 are sent to Lingao for compulsory enrollment. The younger ones go to the national school, and the older ones go to the apprenticeship course. The rest were used as laborers. No manpower is wasted.

"That's the way it goes." Liu Yixiao nodded and agreed with his plan, "There is a shortage of people to build roads now, and these people will build roads for three months after moving to a new place." ”

"It's better to repair the commune first." Yu Zhiqian hurriedly added, "I think the foundation of the Zhonghe City of the Guardhouse is good, there are many empty houses, and it is completely suitable for immigrants." It took the Zhonghe Institute as the location of the first commune in Danzhou in the future. ”

In the second week, more team members and a second infantry company were transferred from Danzhou. The village was tightly besieged by soldiers. Subsequently, the team entered the village in batches and ordered the families to pack their belongings and prepare for relocation.

The villagers were poor, and the only property they had was a few tattered clothes, farm tools, and a few basic household items. The most haode people have cattle.

"You don't have to bring anything but soft clothes and livestock," the indigenous team members shouted over loudspeakers. We will also provide you with food and drink on the way."

By the standards of the Crossing Syndicate, the villagers had nothing but themselves and their livestock that the patriarchs looked up to. The local agricultural tools and the like are too inferior to be used as scrap metal for recycling. Even the most precious iron pot veterans felt that iron was being wasted. Not to mention the problem of utensils and hygiene - all things considered, everyone agreed that it would be easier to have a total supply system.

The things left in the village are inspected and the materials that can be used - ironware, metal objects, cotton and linen textiles, etc., are disinfected and recycled. If there is no use value, all of them will be destroyed on the spot. All houses, including houses, were demolished. Completely cut off the idea of migrants returning.

The only thing left in the village was the badly decomposed corpse that hung from a bamboo pole. Flies buzzed and flew on it.

As the people hit the road with their luggage, the village had already begun demolition work, and the rumbling sound of the houses and the smoke and dust made the migrants' faces look sad and hesitant.