Since 1941, in fact, Henan began to have a drought, and the grain production has also been greatly reduced, to the spring of 1942 there were only a few light rains, and then there was no rain for a whole year, Henan grain harvest in a large area, what makes people even more desperate is that after Henan broke out of the locust plague, locusts everywhere, there is no food, the people who rely on the sky to eat can only start digging grass roots, gnawing the bark, as long as you see the tree, basically the bark is stripped naked, people peel off the bark, women will grind into powder, Some people are hungry and swallow it in their mouths, thinking about how difficult it is to swallow, but they can't live if they don't eat. The weather was so dry that even the trees could not survive, and many of the trees became dead trees, and in this way, the dead bark was also stripped off and eaten.

At that time, many people starved to death without food, and Bai Xiude, who was in the disaster area of Henan, took pictures of wild dogs eating roadside corpses, which was really shocking.

Because the magistrate who had just arrived at that time did not want to affect his political achievements, he did not truthfully report the disaster in the early stage, resulting in Chiang Kai-shek's inaccurate estimation of the severity of the disaster in Henan, so he did not provide timely relief. In addition, at that time, in order to complete the task of grain requisition, the grassroots in Henan at that time did not care about the lives of the people and forced them to hand over the stock, which further pushed the people of Henan to a desperate situation, and they had to start to leave their hometowns and flee the famine!

Li Ming received that there was no food to eat in the disaster area of Henan, and there was no rain and drought in the fields, and later encountered a serious locust plague, and at that time, the Henan defender Tang Enbo did not release grain at all, and it was just enough to let the peasants pay grain, and some of them had no food to eat, and some of them fled, and most of them fled to the northern Shaanxi side of the base area of Jilu, but the peasants passed through the enemy-occupied areas and went to the territory of the Eighth Route Army from the area ruled by the Kuomintang and the army, and there were many people There was also a shortage of food.

At that time, Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, held a meeting to discuss the issue of food disaster relief, and at this time, Li Ming sent 50,000 generations of flour, 30,000 gold vermicelli, 10 carts of cabbage, and 500 barrels of cooking oil to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army through Premier Zhou.

In May of the same year, he gave the Eighth Route Army a batch of 5,000 Mauser rifles, 30 Soviet 180 mm caliber field guns, Soviet-style long guns, 1,500 short guns, and 50,000 rounds of ammunition.

The period from 1941 to 1943 was the most difficult period for the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines. The frequent "sweeps" of the Japanese army have reduced our base area, made it difficult for the economy, and sometimes even food has become a problem. However, as soon as we settle down, our rectification study will continue, and thinking about it in light of the difficult situation at that time, it can be said that the rectification study will be more in-depth. In particular, after the "sweep" in May 1942, when Comrade Hu Fu (Liu Shaoqi) passed through Taihang, he criticized the work of the Northern Bureau, which inspired us to think even more.

Our group of young people is very naïve, and in the past we always thought that there was something wrong below, but there would be no mistake in the Northern Bureau. Because the leaders of the Northern Bureau are all old revolutionaries and people who have been tempered a lot, how can they make mistakes? However, Hu Fu said that since he left, the Northern Bureau has not mobilized the masses in time, so it cannot withstand the enemy's brutal "sweep" and is in danger of being overwhelmed by the enemy. Hu Fu said: There is a law for establishing base areas behind enemy lines: the first step is to use the army to open up the situation; The second step is to seize the time, implement rent and interest reductions, mobilize the masses, and let the peasants turn over and be the masters (of course, we should also pay attention to the united front and unite the enlightened gentry and all anti-Japanese forces); The third step is to develop and revitalize the armed forces (the creation of militia guerrilla units and regular armies of a sub-district and district-wide character), relying on the peasants. At the same time, it has established and built political power and various mass organizations, and engaged in various construction undertakings in the base areas. He said: This is the law he summed up from his work behind enemy lines in North China and Central China. We must act according to this law, so that the base areas can be as solid as a rock, and neither the Japanese army nor the Kuomintang diehards can defeat us. If we consolidate the anti-Japanese base areas in North China and Central China and link them together, we will win the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the future, and most of the world will be ours. After listening to Comrade Hu Fu's speech, we thought about it in the spirit of rectification, and felt that he had made a good and correct speech, and that the Northern Bureau had indeed made a lot of mistakes. It can be seen from this that even in the war period at that time, when it was very difficult behind enemy lines, we still had a very tight grasp of the study of rectification.

After the autumn of 1942, in order to streamline the administration of the army, the Northern Bureau set up the Taihang Branch under its subordinates, which governed the party committees of the four districts of Taihang, Taiyue, Southern Hebei, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan. In this way, the Northern Bureau has only three sub-bureaus in the northwest of Shanxi, Shanxi-Cha-Ji, and Taihang, and no directly subordinate district party committees, and its organs are very capable, with only three or so people in each department. For example, the Organization Department only has Minister Liu Xiwu, Department Member Guo Sen (Cadre Section Chief), Department Member Li Xin (Organization Section Chief) and an Officer Zhou Jinguang. After the establishment of the Taihang Branch, I was transferred to the branch as the secretary of the Youth Committee. The sub-bureau is stationed in Chifeng Village (the station of the 129th Division) in Shexian County, Hebei Province, and the station of the Northern Bureau (Matian Town, Liao County, Shanxi Province) are both on the bank of the Qingzhang River in the middle of the Taihang Mountain, about 70 miles apart, and it is a day's walk and more than half a day's riding horse. After I arrived at the sub-bureau, most of the rectification inspections had to be related to the youth work of the past, so I often went to the Youth Committee of the Northern Bureau to participate in their discussions on the rectification study.

As the leader of the Northern Army, Li Ming also made a plane to Henan Tang Enbo's department, in order to support the disaster area, Li Ming sent Tang Enbo a large amount of food, and also sent some medicines, etc., Tang Enbo received Li Ming, at this time Tang Enbo did not plan to report to Lao Jiang, this incident was accidentally photographed by reporters, and then reported, Li Ming, the commander of the Northern Army, took a group photo with Tang Enbo, the commander of the National Revolutionary Army, and the next section introduced the detailed report of Chief Li to send materials to the disaster area. Darling, Li Ming, sent supplies to Henan, it seems that this is still good.

Then Yan'an was very satisfied with Li Ming, the chairman said, they are all disaster relief, regardless of the national army, the Eighth Route Army is the people's soldiers, this day Li Ming visited several villages and towns in Henan, this scene made Li Ming stunned, the roadside, the street are full of people, there are broken bowls, tableware, and crutches called Huazi, Li Ming is sour when he sees it!

In this way, millions of victims of the disaster in Henan, in order to find hope for life, set off from Luoyang again, they went west to Tongguan, Xi'an, Baoji, and even further. During this migration, a large number of Henan people lived in other places from then on, and some fell forever on the way to escape the famine.

Li Ming then went to the *** in Luoyang, which is the brothel, and the hungry people began to take this road, as the saying goes, isn't this a fire pit? Some people say that it's good to have a stutter alive, hunger makes the people's minds sell their souls, in the eyes of hungry people, life is the most important, you just want me, hurry up and take the two children, here to grow moist, good-looking, beautiful, ugly, what the old thing looks like in his heart, like a pig's face, you don't scare the guests away here, don't roll me anymore.

Li Ming walked by, and at this time, a woman said, "This gentleman, you have taken a fancy to the beauty of my family, I am not here to find a woman, is Lao Tzu short of women?" If you don't have money, you are not welcome here, blind your dog's eyes Li Ming's guards said that this is our chief, and what about the chief, wearing a ragged clothes, shabby, no, a beautiful woman will want you, Li Ming is very low-key, I don't want to be familiar with her, and then said, I am recruiting people here, I must be obedient, Li Ming came out, and a few people who were suspicious said that this person can really be covered, do you know if you know it, Li Ming stood outside Wanchun Building and said, you don't have hunger to eat now, right? Everyone nodded, you give us a meal, let us do anything, and even some people say sell it to you, sell your daughter to you, Li Ming said Okay, don't worry, listen to me, how many people near you who haven't eaten are going to say hello, Li Ming's guards quickly got a cart of boxed lunches are white rice vermicelli tofu, Li Ming said that everyone should not rob the back of the people to divide it, everyone is eating, sitting on the side of the road, there are families, there are singles and singles, a hula in the distance came a crowd of people This scared Li Ming a lot, There are 3 million hungry people in history, Li Ming knows, these are not enough to eat, these people began to snatch and even fight for food, Li Ming took out a gun and shot it into the sky, scolded, you want to rebel and can't succeed, stop me, many people stopped fighting, you bastards Chief Li provides you with food, you cannibalism kill each other, this is not a thing, from now on the specifications will be changed and there will be no food to eat, if you want to eat, then be obedient, if you don't want to eat, get out, this is not a charity, at this time the proprietress of Wanchun Building also came out, Seeing that Li shot, he even ran and thought that it was good that he didn't mess with this Erbu, I don't know how to do it, it seems that this person is not an ordinary person, the proprietress sent someone to check and said that this person has dealings with Tang Enbo of the National Revolutionary Army, and these people block us from affecting business.

Listening to the commander of a national army say that this person is from the Northern Army, where is the Northern Army, don't ask if you shouldn't ask, be careful to lose your head, Li Ming said that men and women stand in a row according to high and low, men stand in a row, women stand in a row, and the old ones stand on one side, and then a few cars came to send these people to the airport, because there were too many people, Li You sent some transport planes hundreds of thousands of people, Li Ming transported them away twice, and on the 23rd of the same year, the last group of people was transported away.

Li Ming ordered to build some buildings near Sakhalin Island, in order to save area buildings are dozens of floors, in view of the strong and fast speed of Li's construction company, the main body of the house will be capped in a few months, and the workers will hurry up the construction and decoration, plaster the inside and outside, hang putty and get the door to complete the work, some of these farmers directly follow the construction work family, sleep either in the temporary tent, or in the building, the grass in the summer in the north is very deep, the water is also more, and the mosquitoes in the summer are also terrible, Li Ming wore a hard hat on this day, wore a white shirt, and the outside was a black suit, Li Ming wore a red tie and black leather shoes, and several people who accompanied him were also dressed like this, Li Ming inspected the construction progress of the building, and made work guidance on the quality of the construction, and looked at the things in the kitchen, and the menu said to find the housekeeper, Mr. Li, what do you order, the food must be improved, if I see tomorrow that the food is very poor, no fish, no meat, then I'm sorry you don't have to go to work, I give you a lot of food a month, and dare to do this, the leader I have received this money every month, okay, It seems that it is time to investigate, Li Ming's attitude is resolute, no matter who he finds out, no matter who he is backstage, he will investigate it for me, and on the third day, I found out that the company's financial captain withheld the worker's food money, and soon the captain was removed from his position and became a worker, and Li was also merciful, otherwise he would have been killed.

In order to attract attention, warn everyone not to make mistakes, embezzle food, and make penalties to warn major employees and managers.