Chapter 346 Food Shortage

It turned out that as early as ten days ago, as soon as Lianchengbi entered the city, before he entered the governor's palace, he came to the granary to meet with Lin Xiao and accept Lin Xiao's face-to-face teaching.

After some in-depth discussions, Lian Chengbi finally figured out the direction of Lin Xiao's struggle and long-term planning.

Therefore, he couldn't help but be deeply shocked by Lin Xiao's broad mind, sharp eyes, and meticulous thinking.

It turned out that Lin Xiao's goal was not as simple as recovering his homeland.

This Qinchuan Marquis, his vision is so profound, and his goal is so ambitious!

While recovering the field step by step, his eyes have already been fixed on the steppe where the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep, the desolate vast Gobi Desert, and the smooth wind and rain in the South Seas, and even the East and West Oceans far away in the depths of the sea, all in his field of vision......

According to Lian Chengbi's understanding, the reason why Lin Xiao relieved himself to hand over the rear to him to take care of, in addition to the temporary need to concentrate on military affairs and the fact that he lacked skills, the most fundamental reason was that Lin Xiao was not afraid of changing the sky at all when he got the territory, he had full confidence and refused to let anyone get involved.

Lian Chengbi understood correctly, although Lin Xiao was still very young, his vision and thinking were very old, far from being as simple as a military general who was only good at fighting.

Lin Xiao, who is usually good at studying and thinking, believes that in the early stage of returning to China for development, when he was not strong enough, waving the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty and establishing a broad united front is the most effective strategy with half the effort.

Of course, it is absolutely impossible to be a virtuous son and filial grandson of the Ming Court, and to hand over his net worth and life to those guys who have not done enough to do things, and it is impossible in this life.

Whether it is a banner or an official position, everything is nominal, and real power must be tightly held in your own hands.

Only with absolute power can we ignore all interference, get rid of all fetters, truly do something practical for the people and the nation, and accomplish a vigorous and great cause.

In fact, as the advantage of being a later generation, what gave Lin Xiao this inspiration came precisely from later generations.

At the beginning, didn't the Taizu who lived on the barren Loess Plateau rely on the flexible united front and extensively mobilize the masses to gradually develop and grow?

When he was in the army, in the process of studying the history of the party, Lin Xiao learned that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the founding Taizu and his great colleagues, after careful consideration, decided to implement the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

At that time, except for the absolute command of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, everything else could nominally accept the leadership of the Republic of China government, and even in the liberated areas around northern Shaanxi and Shanxi, the democratic government they established still used the signboard of the Republic of China government for a long time.

In fact, all the military and political power in the liberated areas is firmly in the hands of its own political party.

It was precisely by virtue of this policy that they were able to use the chicken's egg to make more friends and fewer enemies, effectively circumvent many resistance and setbacks in the weak period, and thus have the strength to thrive later, and when the time is ripe, to fight the reactionaries in an all-round way.

So, is signage important?

Lin Xiao believes that at least in special times, it is not important!

Because, according to his assumptions, all the liberated areas that were tightly in his hands had to be divided into three steps in the development plan he had drawn up.

The first step is to resume production, recuperate, and take food and clothing as the primary goal;

The second step is to solve the land problem, and effectively narrow the gap between the rich and the poor through the suppression and dismantling of the rich and the inferior, so as to gradually achieve abundant food and clothing;

The third step is to develop agriculture and industry at the same time, take industry as the foundation of a strong country, and build at least a semi-industrialized moderately prosperous society.

In Lin Xiao's eyes, once his territory is far ahead in the economy, and the people in the liberated areas can live a good life that everyone envies, then, at that time, the people's will is in me, and it no longer matters what signboard to play.

At that time, even if some people's cheese is moved, all the opposition forces unite against him, and he can deal with it calmly.

Whether it is the Ming Court or other powerful factions, there will be no threat.

Of course, the reason why he is so confident and the biggest confidence comes from his army.

The officers and men of his unit are equal and disciplined, and he is a real soldier, and his combat effectiveness kills all his kind in seconds, which is enough to escort his next expedition to Siyi and expand his territory, so he is not afraid of being shot coldly in the back by others.

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Therefore, at present, the biggest task that Lin Xiao gave to Lian Chengbi is his first goal - to solve the problem of food and clothing and stabilize the people.

However, when Lian Chengbi understood his mission and pondered for a long time, he raised a rather thorny problem - the food problem.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, although this is only a small goal, Lin Xiao also understands the difficulty of Lianchengbi, because the spring famine is coming.

After the ravages of the Tartars, Guangdong Province has long been on the verge of collapse, and the so-called waste is waiting to be rebuilt.

And some of the digital real hammers that Lian Chengbi took out really made Lin Xiao nerve-wracking.

According to rough estimates, there are more than one million hungry people displaced in the province alone, and nearly 5 million people, including urban residents, who do not have a grain of grain at hand.

Even the peasants who lived in the vast countryside were mostly looted, and many peasant families were already relying on miscellaneous grains mixed with wild vegetables, grass roots, and even leaves to feed their hunger.

Although, according to the reports of various troops, some military rations have been captured in each place, but when taken together, the gap is still very huge.

Taking Guangzhou as an example, although with Lin Xiao's efforts, hundreds of thousands of stone of military rations were captured, according to Lian Chengbi's calculations, one stone of grain was only enough for one laborer to eat for two months, based on one and a half to two catties of food per day.

The entire spring famine period lasted for three and a half to four months.

Therefore, even if some of the more than 500,000 people in Guangzhou City will return to their hometowns one after another, there are still 300,000 or 400,000 permanent residents, and if they want to survive until summer maturity, they still need about 800,000 stone of grain.

Fortunately, some non-strong laborers will have less food, and the people can often cut down on food and clothing, and find ways to tide over the difficulties by mixing miscellaneous grains and wild vegetables.

Even so, the food shortage in the province is at least more than 5 million stones.

In addition to ensuring the supply of troops, more than half of Qinzhou's war-ready grain has been consumed in the disaster relief efforts in Guangxi and Huguang.

For this reason, the two discussed for a long time, and the solution they came up with, in addition to providing disaster relief, while seizing the time to mobilize spring ploughing, and trying to buy grain from overseas, they also thought of a third way.

In Guangzhou, some of the richest families in the province gathered, as well as a large number of merchants.

And these wealthy gentry often have their hands and eyes to the sky, even under the coercion of the Tartars, they can still play with ease, collude with illegal profiteers, buy low and sell high, and hide a large amount of grain in their hands.

At the beginning, Lin Xiao learned from the confession of the captives that in the past six months, in the hands of Liu Laosi, he had secretly sold more than 100,000 stone of grain to the black market, but after Gong Tieniu's three companies surrounded the black market, a total of more than 10,000 stones were found.

This shows that a large amount of grain has been transferred and hidden.

Thank you: "Autumn Story" and "No Night" for the tips! Thank you!

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