After talking about the seven things to do immediately, Xiao Siming said that there is another very critical thing, that is, how to solve the problem of eating!

Xiao Siming said: Now is the spring famine season, and most poor families are short of grain and out of food, and there are phenomena of fleeing the famine to ask for food and selling their children and women. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Whether or not the Eighth Route Army can organize and lead the poor peasants through the spring famine is the touchstone to test whether the Eighth Route Army is a soldier of the people.

Jilubian is a fertile plain, in addition to the production of wheat, corn, soybeans, peanuts, cotton and other crops, because of the frequent proximity to the Bohai Bay, but also the production of fish, shrimp, sea salt, is a standard land of fish and rice. It is a pity that during the Republic of China, land annexation was severe, and rich landlord families had more and more land, more and more money, and the grain was inexhaustible. The life of the poor is getting harder and harder, and it is difficult to eat a full meal!

Now is the period of the Anti-Japanese War, when the Japanese army went south to the border of Hebei and Shandong, they burned, killed and looted, and caused tragedies along the way. After the Japanese army, the puppet army occupied most of the area on the border of Hebei and Shandong, grabbing grain and money. Except for some of the armed forces that swarmed up to resist Japan, most of them were like bandits who occupied the mountains and were kings, occupying an area and collecting grain and distributing money under the banner of resisting Japan. In this way, no matter how much Jilubian is a granary, it can't withstand such a loot and toss, and it will be turned into a thousand miles of red land!

Xiao Siming just arrived at Jilu, and after entering Ningjin County, he didn't have time to take a look on the street! When he said this, he was not a situation he had seen with his own eyes, but a general phenomenon. Not only in Jilubian, but also in all areas occupied by the Japanese army, where is this not the case?

How to lead the spring famine?

Xiao Siming said that the key is to rely on policy! First, it is necessary to resolutely implement the rent reduction and interest reduction proposed by the national government in the base areas to lighten the peasants' burdens; The other is to resolutely suppress the traitors, confiscate the traitors' land, and distribute it to the landless peasants for cultivation; The third is to combine disaster relief with development and production, and instead of opening warehouses and releasing grain free of charge, the anti-Japanese democratic government will come forward and adopt the method of interest-free loans and interest-free grain borrowing to lend to those people in need, return the wheat after harvest, and encourage them to actively produce. The fourth is to promote the two-cropping farming method in one year, changing the old one-cropping farming model in the past, and planting beans and corn after wheat harvesting. At the same time, seize the spring planting season to plant corn in the wheat field, a variety of sweet potatoes, pumpkins, radish, cabbage and other high-yield cold-tolerant crops and vegetables; When selecting a place to be stationed, the new corps, the anti-Japanese military and political school and the teaching team in the Jilu border should avoid the county towns and market towns, go to the seaside, look for a large area of wasteland that has not been exploited, open up wasteland for farming, hold a hoe in one hand and a textbook and gun in the other, and cultivate the land while studying and training. Not only these troops, but also the leading organs in the Hebei-Shandong border and the central base areas where conditions permit, must mobilize cadres and fighters to open up wasteland and cultivate land, spin cotton and weave cloth, and carry out large-scale production campaigns. Sixth, it is necessary to protect market circulation, and our army strictly implements the policy of protecting industry and commerce, and encourages businessmen in the Hebei-Shandong border region to go out and go to enemy-occupied areas to purchase materials for continued supply in the base areas, so as to ensure the circulation of materials in the base areas.

When he said this, Xiao Siming said that the new recruits of the new corps could not take care of going to reclaim the wasteland and cultivate the land, so they should concentrate on training. At the end of the training, the battalions of the advance brigade were immediately replenished. The second batch of conscripted recruits and the reorganized miscellaneous armed forces immediately went to the selected reclamation areas to reclaim land while training.

When he said this, Wang Lushui interjected and said, why do those pseudo-garrisons and miscellaneous armed forces put up recruitment flags, and there are people who eat food? Putting aside the general interests of the nation, survival comes first! Therefore, if our army wants to gain a foothold in the Jilu border and build the Jilu border into an impregnable base area behind enemy lines, in addition to establishing party organizations, political power, and armed forces, it must also solve the problem of feeding the troops, party and government cadres, and poor people. Otherwise, it will be impossible to consolidate the base area!

When the North China People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Association was founded, it set up a food and socks committee to be responsible for raising military rations. The purpose is to have money to contribute, someone to contribute, a gun to shoot, unity, common external affairs, and defend the hometown. Until now, the 31 st Detachment has adopted two methods for the supply of military rations and clothing, one is to rely on seizure, but also on donations. This method is possible when the size of the army is small, but when the scale of the army is large, the political power structure is sound, and there are more people who are out of work, it will definitely not work!

The same is true of the advance brigade, because it has never had its own base area, and there is no one to pay a penny of military expenses, and all logistical supplies are relied on capture, and it has also handed over to its superiors from the capture several times. The only time to rely on local supplies was when Yuxian County was reorganized. That month, the original independent battalion ate the food of the people of Yuxian County, which was provided by the local government.

Xiao Siming was bent on advancing eastward in order to establish a base area belonging to his own troops and solve the problems of supply, supply of troops, and production of military industry. Now that we have arrived at the Jilu border, the most important problem of eating must be solved first!

Xing Renfu is not very old, he has just entered the age of 28, almost the same age as Huang Hua, and three years older than Wang Lushui.

Because he went to school and served as a soldier in the warlord army, Xing Renfu has a wide vision and knowledge, and his brain is more effective than that of ordinary peers.

Xiao Siming didn't want to talk about it too much, but this was the war years, and it was rare for the leaders of the advance brigade, the 31st detachment, and the Hebei-Shandong Border Working Committee to gather. As he spoke, Xiao Siming let go, talked a little more, and basically expressed his mind directly, and said what he thought about and used to guide the construction of the base area along the Jilu border. Although he was afraid of Xing Renfu and was afraid that he would really rebel in the future, Xiao Siming didn't talk about it in depth, and it was all some superficial problems, but for people who explored in the long night in this era, it was tantamount to piercing the window paper, which made people feel enlightened at once!

At this time, Xing Renfu had no distracting thoughts and led the team to resist the Japanese wholeheartedly. The reason why he later defected to the enemy and rebelled was because he became a big official, knew how to enjoy it, and his selfish desires swelled.

Although Xing Renfu said that he knew a little about military affairs, just as Xiao Siming thought, he had only served as a soldier in the warlord army and a company staff officer. The early battles of the 31st Detachment mainly relied on Red Army cadres Zhou Kaidong and Guo Shengyun sent from Yan'an. It's just that he is a native of the underground party in Hebei and Lubian, and his appeal is much greater than that of Zhou Kaidong and Guo Shengyun, and when Ma Zhenhua initiated the establishment of the North China People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Association, the main consideration was influence and appeal, and he was pushed to the position of military commissar of the National Salvation Association at the beginning, and Zhou Kaidong, a Red Army cadre sent by Yan'an, could only be his assistant and chief of staff.

The North China People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Association and the North China People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army organized by it are complex. Because the party's organizational activities were in a state of secrecy at this time, when the Jinnan Special Committee and the Lubei Special Committee jointly established the National Salvation Association, the two main leaders, Yu Wenbin and Ma Zhenhua, were not included in the list of eight leading members of the National Salvation Association.

When the North China People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army was formed, it was formed on the basis of the small guerrillas set up by Ningjin******** Li Guangwen and Du Buzhou, as well as the armed forces of smuggled salt trafficking linked by Liu Zifang, and joined other miscellaneous armed forces. Among them were a battalion brought by Liu Jingliang and a group of bandits who were willing to resist the Japanese brought by Cui Jizhang. Later, in December 1937, Cui Jizhang, who wanted to be the king and hegemon in the North China People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, and Liu Jingliang, who felt that the National Salvation Army was an armed force controlled by the Communists, each fled with their own teams. Cui Jizhang defected to the enemy and became a puppet army, Liu Jingliang led his troops back to Huimin, and played the banner of the national * army in Huimin and developed.

In addition to Cui Jizhang and Liu Jingliang, Zhang Ziliang, who had only more than 30 people when our army attacked Wudi, had already agreed to be organized into the 6th Route of the 31st Detachment, but he took advantage of Xing Renfu's hasty withdrawal from Wudi to occupy Wudi City, and his power began to swell, and since then he has become the sworn enemy of our army.

Because of this complicated situation, the Jilu Border Work Committee strengthened the political work of the 31 st Detachment.

Although Xing Renfu was bent on resisting the war at this time, after all, he was from the lower echelons of the old army, and he was the commander of the 31st team, what he was most afraid of was that the main force of the Eighth Route Army came, completely reorganized the 31st team, and kicked him away!

When he first saw Xiao Siming late last night, Xing Renfu thought that the real head of the Eighth Route Army was political commissar Wang Lushui. As for the captain Xiao Siming, he is just a young man who has not dried up!

In Xing Renfu's mind, Xiao Siming was able to be the captain of the Eighth Route Army at such a young age, it must be that this little guy didn't want to die in battle, but he was lucky enough to save his life in the fight, so he became the commander of the Eighth Route Army at a young age.

Listening to Xiao Siming's lecture just now, Xing Renfu realized that he was wrong, very wrong. Although Wang Lushui is the political commissar of the advance brigade and the secretary of the newly established Hebei-Shandong Border Military and Political Committee, he is the head of the Eighth Route Army, but Xiao Siming is also the head of this army. Moreover, from Xiao Siming's speech, Xing Renfu understood that Xiao Siming's level was very high, and his speech was tantamount to setting the tone for the creation of the Jilu border base area.

Especially when Xiao Siming said that he was going to personally lead the cavalry company to the guerrilla attack on Jinpu Road, the first thought in Xing Renfu's mind was that this young man was a fool, he actually put down his large army and acted alone, and he was not afraid that he would lose his military power when he returned! Later, he figured out that it was the regular army of the Eighth Route Army, and the cadres were all appointed by their superiors, Xiao Siming never thought that someone would take away his military power, it was impossible!

When he figured this out, Xing Renfu was a little envious of the advance brigade, there were not so many internal disputes, and there would be no question of which cadre defected with the team.

The reason why Xing Renfu has this idea is because after the defection of Cui Jizhang, Liu Jingliang, and Zhang Ziliang, there are still hidden dangers within the 31st team.

Wang Zhaoming, a member of the National Salvation Association, became the deputy commander when the North China People's National Salvation Army was renamed the 31st Detachment because he went to Wuhan to ask for the number of "31st Detachment of the Special Brigade of the National Revolutionary Army" because he went to Wuhan to ask for the number of "31st Detachment of the National Revolutionary Army". This thing is not a good bird, he has become a deputy commander, he is not satisfied, and he still thinks that the commander should let him be it!

Looking at the relationship between Xiao Siming, Wang Lushui, Huang Hua and others, and thinking about the truth of the thirty-one teams, Xing Renfu couldn't help sighing! (To be continued.) )