"Now I'll tell you something!"

It wasn't until they were almost finished learning that the villagers and the Eighth Route Army team separated, and Wang Changtian began to stop the villagers and said, "Captain Zhang said, let me organize everyone and reclaim all the wasteland that can be reclaimed in the surrounding area......

In the past, both the fields planted and the wasteland on the mountains belonged to the landlord's family, and no one dared to dig casually, nor could they dig casually - digging for the landlord's family when they dug it, and no one wanted to have nothing to do when they were full.

Now it's different, everything around is Zhang Ran's final say, as long as Zhang Ran speaks, the villagers will dig where they want to dig.

Organizing the villagers to open up the wasteland, Zhang Ran has his own considerations.

On the one hand, of course, it is necessary to increase the land area and increase the grain harvest as much as possible, after all, it is clear from the history books that the present stage is the best stage for the development of the base areas behind enemy lines, and more than a year later, because of the famine and because of the blockade and sweep of the base areas by the Japanese army, the base areas will usher in an unprecedentedly difficult stage!

Zhang Ran didn't want his Jindong detachment base to be the same as other liberated areas, and he had to stipulate how many wild vegetables and leaves each soldier picked every day to cook in the canteen.

Although Zhang Ran felt that he was now taking precautions more than a year in advance, he would definitely not fall into such a difficult situation, but it was very necessary just in case.

Once the base area is established, it is inevitable to collect a certain amount of taxes, but if the detachment has its own land and can solve part of the supply problem on its own, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the burden on the people in the base area.

"Is the detachment in charge of food again?"

The villagers said happily, after all, they had just watched the soldiers of the Eighth Route eat dry rice and drink mush, and the villagers were hungry to death.

"Captain Zhang, they are also in difficulty now, why do you want people to take care of their meals all day long?"

Wang Changtian's face was high-spirited.

The villagers immediately began to complain, saying that there was no reason for people to work and not even give them food, but in the end they did not directly stumble as before, and it was obvious that the policy propaganda in the past few days has begun to work to some extent.

"Although I don't care about the meal, Captain Zhang didn't want to let the big guy work for nothing!"

Wang Changtian said: "Captain Zhang said that half of the wasteland opened up belongs to the detachment and half to ourselves, and these wastelands will not be taxed for three years!" ”

"That's pretty much it!"

The villagers immediately smiled, as if they had taken advantage of it.

I didn't expect it to be like this, the detachment didn't have any strength at all, and it might have hundreds of acres of its own land all of a sudden.

Of course, from the perspective of not having Zhang Ran and his Jindong detachment, these people would not even have half of them, the matter of clearing the wasteland is indeed a mutually beneficial thing, and there is no situation where Zhang Ran has played tricks to call the villagers again.

Zhang Ran is also making a schedule with the soldiers and setting tasks.

What time do I get up in the morning to start training, after training, one squad of men patrols the surrounding area of the village, and the other squad goes to dig earthworms.

"Captain, what are you doing digging earthworms?"

Hearing that everyone should go to dig earthworms after training tomorrow, Wang Laogui and the others were confused, and said in their hearts, do you think that everyone has no meat to eat, and you want everyone to eat earthworms?

The thought of that thing to eat for yourself made everyone disgusted.

"If you want to eat it, you can't give it to you—it's for chickens!"

Zhang Ran was speechless and said, "When the chicks hatch out, can't you feed them?" Now that food is so tight, it's impossible to just feed the chickens, right? ”

"That's just feeding earthworms, hundreds of chickens, and the big guys can't dig that much...... Why don't you just put it on the mountain and raise it? ”

Everyone said that if the chicken really hatched, how many earthworms would have to be eaten that day? These people are busy digging earthworms all day long, and it is estimated that there is not enough for chickens to eat!

"What do you know?" Zhang Ran was speechless.

Free-range farming is of course a hassle-saving task, but it is a great harm to the surrounding fields, and it may also cause the death of chickens for various reasons.

Of course, the main reason is that free-range chickens grow too slowly and the egg laying rate is low!

Centralized feeding, control of the activity space of chickens, can greatly improve the production efficiency of chickens, coupled with a reasonable feed ratio, can make the growth rate of chickens can lay eggs, to a rather terrifying point!

Of course, intensive rearing also has to face the danger of poultry diseases such as chicken plague.

Digging earthworms, Zhang Ran wants to build several earthworm ponds, with earthworms as the core to match chicken feed, which can not only greatly improve the nutrition of chicken feed, but also effectively improve the disease resistance of chickens.

Not to mention that he also has several prescriptions for treating general chicken plague.

This is also the fundamental reason why Zhang Ran thought of building a chicken farm as soon as he got this batch of eggs.

Hearing this, Wang Laogui and the other soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, and said in their hearts that they would wait for others to join the Eighth Route Army, and if a group of people carried hoes all over the mountains and fields to dig earthworms in the future, it would be a shame to die.

"What's your name?"

Zhang Ran pointed to one of the new fighters in his twenties and asked, this soldier performed very eye-catching in the training during the day, and he was also very active in the process of learning just now, and his brain was flexible, which made him very satisfied and felt that he could be trained to become the backbone of the team.

"My name is Shi Yuan, from Shijiagou Village!"

As soon as he heard Zhang Ran call his name, the soldier immediately became excited and said, "Does the captain have any orders?" I promise it's done! ”

"Now I appoint you as the squad leader of the second squad of the detachment, and tomorrow I will lead the team out to dig earthworms!"

Zhang Ran smiled: "Dig more!" ”

"Yes, chief, I promise to complete the mission!"

Shi Yuan replied loudly, and snapped upright, and saluted as if he was in a military salute.

Seeing that Shi Yuan had been promoted to an officer, many soldiers were envious, and secretly vowed that they would train hard in the future, study various programs hard, and strive to become an officer as soon as possible.

The first three soldiers, Wang Laogui and Wang Kai were okay, after all, Wang Laogui was about to take Zhang Ran as a squad leader at the beginning with a shotgun at home, and now there are more people and he has been directly promoted to platoon commander, and Wang Kai has just been appointed as a squad leader during the day.

But Wang Wenping is not happy - the newcomers have become squad leaders, and his old qualification is still a bald commander, so it's strange that he can be happy.

"Captain, tell me, what am I not as far away as the stone? Why is he a squad leader, and I'm nothing? ”

As soon as the meeting ended, Wang Wenping blocked Zhang Ran and refused to let him go, looking dissatisfied, and insisted that Zhang Ran give him an explanation.

"You're no worse than Shi!"

Zhang Ran can't say that you have a worse brain than others, and he did have other arrangements for Wang Wenping, patted the other party on the shoulder and said: "I don't let you be the squad leader, because I want to entrust you with a heavy responsibility - from now on, you will be the captain's personal guard!" ”

"What is a personal guard?"

Wang Wenping suddenly shrewdly asked the bottom of the matter.

"It's where I go, you go, keep me safe, you eat whatever I eat!" Zhang Ran said.

"This is good, this is good......"

As soon as I heard what I eat, what do you eat, thinking of Zhang Ran, I will inevitably deal with those dignitaries, nobles and big landlords in the future, so I can't follow him to eat and drink spicy food?

So he suddenly smiled, and said with a twisted face: "I thought you didn't look down on me, captain, but you were so worried about me in your heart......"

"Get out!"

That expression made Zhang Ran get goosebumps all over his body, and asked this disgusting guy to get out of here quickly.

"In the future, when training, pay more attention to what specialties the fighters have, write them down, and when you have the opportunity in the future, you can do targeted training!"

Zhang Ran finally instructed the platoon leader Wang Lao to turn a few words.

"I know that!"

Wang Laogui already had a little bit of an officer's style, and nodded when he heard the words before saying: "It's the captain, let's have three guns now, even if the landlord Lao Cai can knock out a few guns, it is far from enough, what should I do with the rest?" ”

"Let's find some wooden sticks to hold on for the time being, and the problem on the landlord's side has been solved, it's not enough, let's find a way to get some red tassel guns - don't worry, everything will be fine!"

After Zhang Ran finished speaking, Lu Yan came over again and said that there was not much food, and he would run out of food for two days at most, so he had to comfort him a few more words.

"The people in the village are now gossiping about us behind our backs, saying that I ...... with you"

Lu Yan said with a red face, not daring to look at Zhang Ran's eyes.

"We're not afraid of shadows!"

Zhang Ran said, then thought about it and said: "But you are now the women's captain, not only do you have to work for the women in the village, but you also have to be busy cooking, and you are also busy in the fields at home, so it is not possible to go on like this - when everything is on track, you don't do cooking, and concentrate on women's work!" ”

"I'm going to cook!" Lu Yan suddenly became anxious.

"Look at you, just to eat two meals for nothing, as for it?"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "In the future, you will not only be the women's captain of Yanggou Village, but also responsible for the work of all the women in the base area, where can you take care of cooking for us?" ”

"Huh?"

Lu Yan was startled and said, "With so many things, where am I busy?" ”

"As long as you organize the women's work, the detachment will pay you!" Zhang Ran said.

"Then I'm sure I'm busy!"

Lu Yan's face was instantly firm!

“……”

Zhang Ran was speechless, and asked Lu Yan to learn more from Wang Changtian and learn culture, otherwise with her current ability, it is estimated that she will not be able to do the work of women in the entire base area.

The reason why women's work is valued so much is because Zhang Ran knows how much role these women played in the war of resistance!

The men fought in the front, and they not only supported the family by relying on their thin shoulders, but also had to bear the burden of raising food, transporting grain and grass, taking care of the wounded, etc. - it can be said that without these women, there would be no development and growth of the battlefield behind enemy lines, let alone the final victory in the War of Resistance against Japan!

After explaining everything, Zhang Ran hurried back to the chicken farm.

Although he has explained very carefully to Wang Wenhua, Wang Wenhua is the first contact after all, and Zhang Ran is not at ease at all by relying on him alone.

Lu Yan looked at Zhang Ran's back, clenched her fists silently, and felt a kind of turmoil in her heart that she was in the same boat with Zhang Ran.