Chen Ming has visited many military-affiliated villages in the past few days, and has also seen a lot of ordinary villages. To tell the truth www.biquge.info the quality of life in military-affiliated villages is better than that of ordinary villages. And the life of the people in ordinary villages is much stronger than in previous years.

In the old base areas, do you want the landlords to reduce rents and interest rates, and many landlords have run away, so their land has become public land and distributed to the local people, and the rent they receive is much less than that of the original landlords. But there are always special people in this world.

Today, on the way back to the city, Chen Ming accidentally saw a little girl of eight or nine years old, with two little boys of five or six years old, scraping salt soil in a saline-alkali field. Chen Ming knew that many poor people couldn't afford to eat the cheap private salt, so they could only scrape the salt soil and boil a small amount of salt. The salt in the old base area is the absolute 'official price', which is many times cheaper than the original price, but there are still people who can't afford to eat salt. Especially this year, the salt goods in the base area are tight, the price is cheap but there is no stock, it is still in vain. In spring and early summer, it is common to blow salt soil and boil small salt.

In spring and early summer, the climate is dry, there is little rain, and the salt and alkali are brought out of the soil with water vapor and form on the surface. On the ground of the back streets and alleys, under the walls of the earthen courtyards, and in the old houses, there are often white flowers, and a layer of salt and alkali is raised, as well as the salt soil in the saline-alkali land.

After transporting the salt soil home, first add water to precipitate the soil inside, and then pour salt water, and then pour salt water, and support a big broken pot, and there should be cracks at the bottom, leaking water without leaking mud. The bottom of the pot is covered with mat sheets, old cloth, etc., and then salt soil is put into the pot. Do not fill the soil, two or three inches away from the edge of the pot, fill with water, and soak thoroughly. A large basin is placed under the pot, and the water that is slowly poured out is light in color, which is the salt water. Put the salt water that is drenched all over the place, and then refill the water. If there is less salt in the water twice, don't throw it away, and then add it to the pot and pour salt water. After three showers, it is over. The next thing to do is boil a little salt.

When Chen Ming was wandering around Tumenji and Xiaonangou, he had seen people in the mountains do this. A large pot can produce three or four catties of small salt. The water above the salt layer is pale yellow and is brine. After the salt layer is stabilized, the brine is put out, placed in the basin, and slowly crystals are precipitated, forming a lump of shape, with ice lines, which is soil nitrate, which can be used as gunpowder. The rest of the liquid can also be used to order tofu.

A large part of the source of saltpeter in the old base area of the Fu Han Army was collected from the people. And after the beginning of spring this year, many people in the base area eat this coarse little salt.

Don't look at this small salt looks like granulated sugar, in fact, this salt is not pure, and a small part of it is still nitrate. It has a bitter taste and is best used for pickling. Eating it often is not good for the stomach, and it will cause diarrhea or even worse. Of course, I haven't heard of a few who really eat the dead.

"It's June now, and there is no salt soil in the saline-alkali land......" Li Xiaomei is not a person who does not know the suffering of the people. He said while pressing Chen Ming's head with his hand.

Xiao Chen Ding was carried down to sleep, Chen Ming lay on the bed, her head rested on her lap, and Li Xiaomei gently pressed Chen Ming's head. Since returning to the base area, Chen Ming has gained tremendous prestige and influence on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has also been under endless pressure, and his nerves have collapsed very tightly. Being pressed by Li Xiaomei like this, I feel a lot more relaxed.

"yes. At this time, there is no salt soil. But scraping a little is a little, and if she doesn't scrape, her house will run out of salt......"

The little girl's grandfather died early, her father ran a single gang outside, and he was in the field when the Han army made trouble, and now he has not heard from him for two years. The family has ten acres of land, and if you hire a long-term worker to help with this, you can also hire a family to eat. Her grandmother and mother were worried and worried, and they had been sick since the wind last winter, and the family had to sell all the food. Chen Ming followed the little girl's sisters and brothers to her house to sit for a while, it was really a family with four walls, there was not even a table in the hall, the illness of the two adults made this originally good family to the brink of bankruptcy, her family's ten acres of land have been sold seven acres, if the little girl's father can not go home this year, her grandmother and mother continue to be sick, waiting for the family only the most miserable ending. Although there is also a reason for the increase in the price of medicinal materials in the base, some of the medicines taken by her grandmother and mother are more expensive, and now they are even higher.

"This is really pitiful...... the little girl's father was not at home, which directly touched the heart of Li Xiaomei's relatives.

Li Xiucai ran away with his son and wife for two years, but the Chen family did not perish, but became rich and prosperous. The in-laws of the Li family surrounded them, and Li Xiaomei could only use them as a sustenance. Now Chen Ming doesn't want to promote industry and commerce, but Li Xiaomei is just a relative, and she also told Chen Ming twice, and Chen Ming responded in one bite.

To whom is not to give? How many of the businesses that are gathering in Lushan now are clean? More or less, there are shadows of military and political officials of the Fu Han Army. It's all an open secret. Li Xiaomei listened to her relatives and taught Chen Ming at night, she thought that Chen Ming would be furious, but Chen Ming laughed.

Yes, haha laughed, Chen Ming was happy to see this happen. More and more officials are involved, that is, more and more people are on Chen Ming's side. He didn't believe that these people would be able to spit it out after they had tasted the good.

"There are many such people in the world. I can only save the urgent, not the poor......"

"Know that you won't sit idly by. All the money bags are gone, right? Li Xiaomei didn't find the money bag under Chen Ming's waist.

"Haha, and a handcuff."

"Look at you, girl, what are you doing with firearms......

In this kind of talking, Chen Ming, who was relaxed, fell asleep unconsciously, and woke up at more than two o'clock in the afternoon, there was a bowl of cold rice noodles, red chili oil, green cucumber shreds, and then mixed with garlic juice, Chen Ming picked up two hulu and went down to half a bowl. There are also cold beef and lamb tripe on the table, cut eggs and a plate of steamed vegetables, all of which are small plates, which were swept away by Chen Ming in a quarter of an hour, and drank two bowls of chilled rice wine, Chen Ming liked to drink this thing in his last life, said goodbye to Li Xiaomei and his son, and when he strode out of the backyard, Liu Wu was waiting there.

"Your Highness, Madame has asked people to go to Xiao Li Zhuang."

Xiao Li Zhuang? "Is that the little girl's house?"

Madame sent a cart of rice noodles, a few pieces of cotton cloth, and also sent Dr. Sun...... "There must be silver, Liu Wu said in his heart."

"That's your young lady's heart." Chen Ming's psychological side felt even more light. Liu Wu walked behind him and said all the way.

After a few steps to the front hall, Wang Huizu, Xiong Bingzhang and others were waiting for Chen Ming's approval with a full of folds. The Fu Han army returned to its hometown, and the team expanded so much that it was inappropriate to use the battalion system as a unit. Chen Ming had to form not only brigades, but also divisions.

The expeditionary force and the troops in the base areas should be mixed together, and a general staff department should be formed, and all the graduates of the military academy and the cadre school should be brought over. Then there is the formation of a large organization, the promotion of different officers, and the payment of their respective military merits, which also includes 100,000 soldiers of the Han Army, either for acres of land or real money, depending on their own choice.

In the affairs of the army, Chen Hui completely let go of Chen Ming, just like Chen Ming was relatively restrained in the affairs of the central government, there is a tacit understanding that does not need to be expressed.

In many government affairs, Chen Ming only has the right to make suggestions, and many of the suggestions are still his suggestions to Lao Tzu alone. Then Chen Hui took it outside as his own opinion, discussed and decided, and then the relevant departments implemented it. This kind of thing that doesn't need to be said may not be known to outsiders, but Chen Hui is willing to do this, what can others do? Chen Ming was very surprised and very happy, Chen Hui didn't seem to be too attached to the desire for power, at least he didn't have family affection to value him more, which was a great good thing for Chen Ming.

For example, the formation of a rural work team will serve as the first batch of current affairs and political propaganda teams of the Fu Han Army to go deep into the countryside to practice Chen Ming's ideal of "rural civilization". If all goes well, they will bring not only a new culture, but also a new way of life and a new way of thinking. But Chen Ming knows better that this team is more likely to fail. The transformation of the countryside, even if there are real interests in front of them, may not necessarily make the peasants of this era rush forward, and the government will drive them behind with a whip, whipping them, and forcing them to cross one threshold after another.

It's just that the current new government of Fuhan is not capable of doing so.

In order to ensure the smooth development of the work, or in other words, to ensure the safety of the members of the task force, every male and female member of the task force has undergone rigorous shooting training - there are literary and artistic soldiers in the task force, and a certain amount of assassination training. They were armed with the finest flintlock pistols and handcuffs, each member of the team was equipped with five grenades, and as for the escort troops of each task force, everyone had to wear armor and sturdy war horses, and the overall equipment was better than that of the individual soldiers of the Fu Han army, because the working members of this task force were also a group of seeds of the new Fu Han government.

The task force is now tasked with disseminating the new Government's tax policy. Although the new government has long since abolished many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the land tax has been greatly reduced, many ordinary people do not know about it. Taking the eastern Hubei region as an example, according to reliable intelligence feedback, the villagers in many places did not know what the Fu Han army was different from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they were still paying taxes to those local tyrants and patriarchs, or even paying more. Just as Wang Huizu said, many officials in eastern Hubei do not leave the city by decree, and even if they appoint officials from the countryside, those people bend their knees in front of the landlords and squires, only make wood carvings and clay sculptures, and even collude with each other to act in embarrassment. All the tax revenues that should have been reduced fell into the hands of those moths, which not only seriously damaged the interests of the villagers, but also weakened the credibility and prestige of the new government. The rural work team is a counterattack to this!

Chen Ming did not dare to take it lightly, Chen Hui knew that the squire landlord was powerful, the Fu Han army was "snatching food from the tiger's mouth", and it was impossible not to be "attacked by the evil tiger", and the rule of the Ming and Qing dynasties pursued the policy of not going to the countryside by the government, so that the rights of the Chinese gentry and clans have been swelled and developed. They are the head snakes of the land, and they will be 'devoured' if they are not careful.

It's hard to get started!

"Colleagues, this trip to the countryside is definitely not an ordinary propaganda speech, you will face the most vicious treatment, the harsh treatment of food and water, the false accusations and slander of all kinds of rumors, especially those female team members, and of course, bloody killings! When necessary, you must take up your guns and guns and fight resolutely against those hostile forces that cannot be civilized! "It cannot be said that there are no people who dare to fight against the Han army, but they must be very few. Hubei's one before and one after the other, one small and one large, and the two regimental training trends have caused the vast majority of the gentry and gentry who have the ability to dare to do it fall in a pool of blood, or escape far away, and the rest are all people who dare not do it and are obedient and resentful. As long as the Fu Han army remained strong in terms of military strength, the possibility of those squires and landlords daring to really do it was very small, and the most they could do was to incite the ignorant people and splash dirty water indiscriminately, spreading rumors and slanders. The words are terrible!

"What you are about to face is a battlefield of 'thought', and what the mind is, you all know when you study.

In this battlefield filled with gunpowder, the enemy does not have the word enemy on his face, but will greet you with a full face, and will only stab you with the sharpest dagger where your eyes cannot see.

Don't think that the countryside represents only simple simplicity and kindness, and it also represents conservatism, stubbornness and ignorance. Your enemies are not only the gentry and rich men with fat brains, but also the villagers who are so ignorant that they are stupid. As long as the landlords and clans say a word, it is entirely possible for them to stand on the opposite side of you, and you must also be highly vigilant in this regard!

In China, the rules and bad habits that have been cultivated for thousands of years cannot be changed with a few words, a few propaganda speeches, and a few plays, but this is a long-term struggle. You have to hold a gun in one hand and a pen in the other, and use your sincerity, blood and even your life to change the countryside of this era. ”

"The Fu Han army and government will be your strongest backing."

"If you publicize our tax policy, our government philosophy, and our economic philosophy, and truly penetrate and take root in the grassroots rural peasants, you are just like the soldiers who fought bloody battles on the battlefield, and you are all great heroes of the government."

Of course, these words were not said by Chen Ming, nor by Chen Hui, but by Chen Cong.

According to the plan of Chen Hui and Chen Ming's father and son, the entire task force was divided into five routes: east, west, south, north, south, and middle. They visited village by village, village by village, and preached village by village. It's a hard and long job, and there will be people in the middle of the rotation, and the next time we see them, it will be at least a year later.

The members of the task force are composed of grass-roots officials, literary and artistic soldiers, veterans and active military personnel with outstanding work achievements. All of them are from the old base. (To be continued.) )