"Don't say it, my brain hurts when I shout!"

Being added to Zhang Ran's bunch of tall hats and sycophants, Deng Fang's heart became a lot more comfortable, and he hummed: "I'm too lazy to see that dead old man, as long as he doesn't do things, don't worry about it on my side......"

"It's still Deng Gong, you know the righteousness!"

Zhang Ran slapped another sycophant with his hand, and then went to Xu Jiunian, saying that he had severely criticized Deng Fang's nerd, and made him angry, asking him not to be as knowledgeable as Deng Fang, and then said with a smile: "But Master Xu, you also know that these nerds are just brainless, otherwise, I will give you an extra five yuan a month, and you will accommodate him a little more?" ”

"It's not about money!"

Xu Jiunian heard that he added five more yuan a month, and seventy or eighty yuan more in a year, and suddenly his happy teeth came out, but he hummed on his face: "I'm just looking at Captain Zhang's face, otherwise, hum, it's a big deal to just don't do it-with my craft, where can I find food?"

"Yes, yes, Master Xu, you have to provide for people everywhere, our detachment can invite you over, it's all the blessing of our detachment......"

Zhang Ran smiled like a flower, grinding his teeth and smiling.

Xu Jiunian boasted to himself again, and then knocked on the pipe and went to the coke oven, and reluctantly instructed the people to make changes according to Deng Fang's method, adding the drainage of coal tar and other products produced during coking, and the installation location of the flue gas extraction equipment.

"This old thing, it's too special to be on the road!"

Zhang Ran rubbed his cheeks, which were sour, and explained to Wang Changtian: "How did those apprentices learn? Tell them to use snacks, our dignified Eighth Route Army team was choked by such a person, I can bear it, but I can't embarrass our Eighth Route Army......"

"Don't worry, Captain, I'm staring at it!"

Wang Changtian said in a low voice: "Not only you and I don't like Xu Jiunian, but there are many people who don't like the old man, as long as the person I arranged has learned the craft, I will immediately give this old man money to let him get out - our detachment can't tolerate this kind of person!" ”

The situation of the coke oven was almost checked, and Zhang Ran waited for Deng Fang on the side, while listening to Wang Changtian's introduction to the production situation of some base areas.

Because the landlords' land was divided into households, and the usable land on the hillside could be reclaimed at will, the land of more than a dozen villages under the jurisdiction of the underground more than doubled in the autumn season!

If chemical fertilizer can be manufactured smoothly, and chemical fertilizer can be used to catch up with the crops once or twice, it is estimated that during the autumn harvest, the base area will usher in a bumper harvest unprecedented in thousands of years!

"The harvest is good, with food, there is a bottom in the heart!"

Zhang Ran was also very happy to hear these words, not to mention that these hungry and poor people are looking forward to a bumper harvest and looking forward to having more food at home, why not on his side?

Only when there is enough food in the base area, the common people will need the protection of the armed forces of the detachment even more, so that the fruits of their labor will not be looted by people such as devils and Xu Songla outside, so that the common people will unite more closely around the detachment, support and support, and willingly safeguard the interests of the detachment!

Only under such circumstances can the detachment develop better, and while better protecting the people in the base area, it has the ability to expand the radiation scope of the base area and bring more ordinary people and more territory into the scope of the detachment!

In this way, after another year and a half of development, when the little devils were constantly frustrated on the frontal battlefield, knowing that their hopes of forcing the chairman to surrender and ending the war as soon as possible were disappointed, and they began to vigorously consolidate the occupied areas, implement a blockade and sweep of the surrounding base areas, and ushered in the most difficult period in the War of Resistance against Japan, the detachment was already fully prepared!

He didn't want that when the time came, his soldiers would be like the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in history, and they would have to go up the mountain every day to pick wild vegetables and leaves and hand them over to the canteen as rations!

Even in order to avoid competing with the people for profit, the soldiers could not pick the wild vegetables that were closer, and they had to leave the leaves of these wild vegetables to the villagers, and the soldiers were so hungry that they could not even carry water, and the common people were swollen and covered with black spots because they ate too many wild vegetables.

Not to mention the places occupied by the Japanese army outside the base areas, because the Japanese army implemented a strict rationing system, the common people snatched all the grain that came out of it to the little devils, and the little devils themselves ate rice and white flour and other refined grains, and supplied some of the bran and bran that the pigs were unwilling to eat as rations to the people, and even the rations that these pigs were unwilling to eat were stipulated that they could only be in the age group of 12 years old and 55 years old, and people in this age group were not even given rations that these pigs did not eat. I don't know how many people were starved to death......

And because the Eighth Route Army had no food, they couldn't get food to help these poor people, and because they couldn't fight the Japanese army because they didn't have food, they watched those terrible tragedies happen......

Zhang Ran knew that his strength was limited and he couldn't help everyone.

But he hopes that when the most difficult time in this period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression comes, at least his Jindong detachment must have made adequate preparations!

"Captain, there's something I don't know if I should tell you......"

Wang Changtian hesitated a little, but finally spoke: "The village chiefs of those villages such as Maling Village outside the mountain have already approached me many times, and they also want to join our base area and become a part of it......

Maling Village is the place where Zhang Ran crossed over and encountered the devil for the first time, although it is less than a hundred miles away from Yanggou Village, it already belongs to the plain area.

To open up a base area, Zhang Ran certainly hopes that the bigger the territory, the better.

But this has a premise, that is, there are enough armed forces to be able to protect their own territory, so that the people in their territory can accept their leadership at the same time, but also protect them, so that they can avoid more exploitation!

Otherwise, the detachment will only dedicate people, but it will not give people benefits, and in the end it will only end up with the people's hearts scattered!

At present, the strength of the detachment is still very weak, and if Maling Village and other villages are included in the scope of the detachment, it will immediately cause confrontation between the detachment and Xu Song's security team!

Xu Song's security team can have two or three hundred people, and the strength is not bad compared with the Cangshui Self-Defense Force, before this, the detachment did not have enough strength to fight Xu Song.

This is also the main factor that obviously Maling Village and other villages are closer to the detachment, but they have not been included in the scope of the base area for a long time!

Wang Changtian is clear about this.

The reason why he brought up this matter now is probably because he thinks that the detachment has the strength to use troops against the Cangshui Self-Defense Force, so it is naturally easy to deal with Xu Song.

"Don't worry!"

Zhang Ran thought for a while: "Tell the village chiefs of Maling Village and other villages that they are willing to merge these villages into our base area, and the detachment is welcome with both hands, but the time is not yet ripe, I hope they can endure it for the time being-everything, wait until our detachment finishes fighting the Cangshui Self-Defense Force!" ”

If everything goes well with the Cangshui Self-Defense Force, then needless to say, the strength of the detachment will definitely skyrocket again, and there will be no problem in dealing with Xu Song when the time comes!

Even if it fails, the detachment will be withdrawn from Cangshui, and no matter how awesome the Cangshui Self-Defense Force is, they will definitely not dare to extend their claws to the territory of Dongjiang County!

But Xu Song's Dongjiang Security Regiment is different!

Fighting with Xu Song is equivalent to starting a war at the doorstep of the base area, once defeated, it will immediately threaten the life and death of the base area, which Zhang Ran does not want to see.

Therefore, now is not at all a good time to absorb Maling Village and other villages into the base area!

"Okay, then I'll reply to them in Maling Village first!"

Wang Changtian nodded and asked: "Those villages all want our fertilizer, and when our fertilizer comes out, if they want fertilizer, shall we give it?" ”

"Give it, why don't you give it - as long as we have enough fertilizer, as long as the people need it, we will give it!"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "Of course, the premise is to give priority to our base area itself, and then the people in the surrounding areas of the base area, Maling Village and their villages are in front of our village, how can they not give it - besides, anyway, as long as everything goes well, the problem on the Cangshui side should have been solved before the autumn harvest, and when the time comes, Maling Village and other villages will be absorbed into the base area, and the more grain grown in the field, the more abundant our base area will be, isn't it good?" With our Jindong detachment here, does he Xu Song still want to collect a grain from these villages? ”

"yes, why didn't I think of that?"

Wang Changtian slapped his thigh when he heard this, and said: "You are still tall, captain, according to your method, you can expand the territory of our base area, and you won't delay it......"

This sycophant is not clever at all, but Zhang Ran is still very happy to listen to it.

This Jindong base area was founded and developed by Zhang Ran, just like his children, even if he sees a little bit of development and growth in the base area, Zhang Ran will be happy from the bottom of his heart, just like parents see that their children are becoming more and more promising.

"Secretary Wang, what are you talking about so happy?"

Deng Fang, who had finished arguing with Xu Jiunian, came over and asked from afar.

Wang Changtian said Zhang Ran's plan again, and praised with his thumb: "Anyway, in my eyes, our Captain Zhang is no worse than that Zhuge Liang......"

Deng Fang almost choked to death by his own saliva when he heard this, and looked at Zhang Ran with a stunned face and said, "Just him is Zhuge Liang?" In hindsight, it's pretty much ......"

Zhang Ran glared at Deng Fang stupidly, directly taking this as Deng Fang's jealousy of himself, urging him to take him to see the flue gas extraction and diversion on the copper smelting furnace that was drying, and prepare the tower cylinder for the preparation of sulfuric acid!