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Standing in front of the shiny glass mirror, Xu Tuyuan looked at his appearance, combing his unmessed oil head, wearing a straight stand-up collar, and a golden pen pinned to his pocket, properly dressed as a successful person.

"Young master, the old lady called you over."

Xu Tuyuan was admiring his spirit in front of the mirror, and a little maid walked behind him and said to Xu Tuyuan respectfully.

"Got it."

waved his hand casually, signaling the maid to retreat, he already knew. In the end, he lifted his collar again, and Xu Tuyuan walked out of his room and walked to the back hall.

On the couch in the back hall, Mrs. Xu, the head of the Xu family, was shrunk in a brocade robe, slowly holding the stove and eating snacks. When he saw his eldest son walk in, he raised his hand and motioned for him not to move.

"Don't come here yet, just stand there and let me take a good look."

Looking at her straight son, Old Lady Xu's face was full of smiles.

"Well, well, you're pretty good in this outfit. Since you are the president of this maintenance committee, then work hard, and let me see it, my son is a material for being a county magistrate. ”

The wrinkles on Old Lady Xu's smiling face were all squeezed together, as if a flower had bloomed.

Listening to his father's praise, Xu Tuyuan only had a smile on his face, and then walked over and sat on Mrs. Xu's couch closely.

"Dad, this maintenance chairman of the Japanese is not so easy to be. A few days ago, the Japanese had just fought a battle with the Eighth Route Army, and they lost so badly.

I inquired clearly, and the Eighth Route Army, which had been staying in our Jingcheng since the end of last year, had won the 424th Regiment of the Japanese. This 424 is so capable of fighting, they are still eyeing our Xuzhuang.

If you want me to say, whether this Xu Zhuang is up to us in the end is really not necessarily. ”

"Poof"

Old lady Xu spit out a jujube pit in her heart, looked at her son and shook her head.

"You're still too young to understand. No matter how much the Eighth Route Army can fight, we won't follow them! Not even if it's a hypocrisy.

Can the Eighth Route Army give you this black gauze hat, they have always talked with poor sticks. The Japanese let you be the maintenance president, this is being an official, in the past in our house, can you think that the Japanese are still doing business with us, and all you get are tickets printed by the Japanese, which are valuable. When the time comes, our children will be able to go to Japanese schools and read Japanese books.

Except for the Japanese, who can give these things to us, whether the Central Army can give them, or the Jin Sui Army can give them

With the benefits given by the Japanese, let's settle down and do things for the Japanese. The Eighth Route Army, no matter how fierce it is, will have to get out sooner or later.

They fought hard in Lingqiu, and they all occupied the county seat. In the end, didn't they honestly run out of Shanxi, what happened to the Zhang family, didn't the big family still die, and the Eighth Route Army protected them?"

As soon as Old Lady Xu's words came out, Xu Tuyuan was full of excitement at that time, and immediately lowered his head to admit his mistake.

"The child knows that he is wrong, it is simple for me to think, I thought that while currying favor with the Japanese, I could also think of currying favor with the Eighth Route Army, so that I would not suffer losses. Now it seems that this Eighth Route Army really can't deal with them. ”

Old lady Xu nodded with satisfaction.

"That's right, as the old saying goes, it's the handsome bird that flies with the phoenix, and those poor sticks can't fall well with them."

Xu Tuyuan also laughed here, but after only laughing for a while, he said again.

"But Dad, we did it with the Japanese. If the other people in the village say that we are traitors, what should we do, the Eighth Route Army will incite the people, and if they do badly, I am afraid that I, the chairman of the maintenance committee, will still be unstable, and then the county magistrate who Fujino Taijun promised will probably have to be lost. ”

Regarding his son's worries, this old guy still looks like he is holding a pearl of wisdom.

"Mud legs, what do they know, listening to the wind is the rain. As long as they are given some benefits that can be seen in front of them, they will all be honest and obedient, and the big deal is to reduce their rent when the time comes. ”

As soon as Mrs. Xu said this, Xu Tuyuan immediately realized that the entire Xu Zhuang and their Xu family were the biggest landlords. I can't wait for the land in the whole village to belong to their family, as long as they hold the land in their hands, it will be regarded as choking the life of those poor sticks, just like my father said, give them a little rent reduction, and they will not make trouble.

Thinking of this, Xu Tuyuan can be regarded as completely carrying his heart to his stomach, and now he can be a Japanese official in peace.

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"Bang!"

"Xu Tuyuan, this dog traitor!"

Di Hanming slapped the table heavily, his temper was not good, but it was rare to be so angry as today.

There is a reason for his anger, in the past month, because Xu Tuyuan has been appointed as the president of Xu Zhuang, the work of the group has caused great trouble.

Xuzhuang's geographical location is very important, it is not only the threshold of the back road of the station, but also the richest village in the Jingcheng section of the Zhengtai Railway. Needless to say, such a small village would naturally become a key point in the next stage of the struggle.

But what all the decision-makers of the 424 Regiment did not expect was that the devil's movements would be so fast, and after the defeat of Nanzhang, he didn't even have time to bandage the wound, and inserted a knife in his backhand at this critical place. Yue Siliang never imagined that he had worked hard to defeat Sasaki United, and he would actually become a stepping stone for some people in the Japanese army to advance, and he enjoyed the dividend of defeating Sasaki earlier than himself.

Fujino, the spokesman of a certain faction, was not only not punished after Sasaki was killed in battle, but was pushed to the position of Dazuo, and was also appointed as the Hebei magistrate of the Zhengtai Railway, and the first thing he did after his promotion was to wedge a nail here in Xuzhuang, and at the same time support Xu Tuyuan to maintain the chairman, he also built a new stronghold near Xuzhuang, responsible for the maintenance, supply, and security work of the railway, and preliminary information showed that at least two hundred devils would be stationed there!

Fujino's hand immediately made the 424 regiment extremely uncomfortable, and the feeling was like half a peppercorn pressed under his tongue, and he couldn't spit it out, and it was uncomfortable to close his mouth.

Especially what Di Hanming couldn't accept the most was that after Xu Tuyuan served as the maintenance president, he immediately showed a very high talent for flattery.

First of all, an order was issued: every house must hang a little Japanese plaster flag on the door, and he actually planned to bring the whole village to be obedient to the Japanese; At the same time, he used some small favors to buy the people; The most hateful thing is that he used all kinds of means to slander the Eighth Route Army while bribing the villagers!

For a time, the work of the 424th regiment became extremely difficult to carry out, which is why Di Hanming hated him so much.

"Commander, we must not tolerate a traitor like Xu Tuyuan! I suggest that you form a hoe team now and get rid of this Xu Tuyuan! The geographical location of Xuzhuang is particularly important to us, and this threat to Xu Tuyuan is even greater than Fan Jianwen at the beginning! ”

Di Hanming is jealous and hateful, and hates this kind of incorruptible and shameless person the most, not to mention that Xu Tuyuan's existence has also seriously affected the development of the work, Di Hanming is now eager to tear Xu Tuyuan into pieces.

However, what Di Hanming didn't expect was that Yue Siliang didn't seem to approve of his suggestion.

"Hamming, don't be impatient. For Xu Tuyuan's matter, we have to think about it in the long run. ”

Di Hanming didn't understand what Yue Siliang said, you must know that he didn't have such an attitude towards Fan Jianwen at the beginning, Yue Siliang at that time hated Fan Jianwen so much that he directly led the guards to Lingqiu City.

"Regiment commander, haven't you forgotten that you were a lone hero, you took a guard platoon to break into the county and threw the entire regiment to Shuangyin alone."

Being ridiculed by Di Hanming like this, Yue Siliang shook his head with a smile.

"Which is the same, this time and that time, this Xu Tuyuan and Fan Jianwen are different.

At that time, Fan Jianwen was in the early stage of the war, and all the actions of the devils in the war stage were in the service of the war, and Fan Jianwen was not a crucial figure for them, because at that time, all the logistics of the devils relied on the materials within the army.

But now it's different, with the end of the Battle of Shanxi, the devil's purpose is not the same as before. Puppet traitors are not dispensable to them now. Judging from the enemy's series of actions in Xuzhuang, their determination can be seen.

Even if we get rid of this Xu Tuyuan, the devil can support another Zhang Tuyuan and Wang Tuyuan ......, and we all know that the traitor group headed by Xu Tuyuan is propagating and slandering us. And Xu Tuyuan used the means of buying people's hearts to create a short-term illusion of public expectation.

At this time, we must not be impatient. The fellows can only see one thing, at this time, we suddenly took action to get rid of Xu Tuyuan, if we don't get it right, it is likely to be counterproductive. ”

After Yue Siliang finished speaking, everyone in the regiment headquarters could only accept his opinion with a reluctant face.

"Then what should I do, is it far from possible to indulge this Xu Tu like this?"

Wang Shuangyin asked, but at the same time as he asked this question, he vaguely guessed that Yue Siliang might have a way to deal with it.

"How can you indulge him like this, he slanders him, let's do ours. The paper can't contain the fire, and the nonsense will eventually be blown away by the wind. When Xu Tuyuan said that it was not the same as what the people saw, it was when he was unstable.

And we also said that he is bribing the people with small favors. Since it is a small favor and a small favor, it means that he can't come up with something that the villagers will follow with all their hearts. The day when Xiao En Xiaohui runs out sooner or later.

We can now hang this Xu Tuyuan like this and do our own thing with our hearts. Leave everything to time, and time will give everyone an accurate answer. ”

Speaking of this, Yue Siliang's smile was unfathomable.

"Also, even if we don't care about this Xu Tuyuan, someone will take care of it sooner or later, so what's the urgency now?"

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