His Majesty Zhu Dan and his companions were tied upside down, but the People's Party did not embarrass them too much, and still let the gang sit on their horses, and the reins were held in the hands of the cavalrymen who were walking side by side. When passing through the village, the villagers were surprised by such a strange group of people, and they stopped to watch. His Majesty Zhu Dan only felt proud and ashamed, doing things for the people of Henan was the place of pride of His Majesty Zhu Dan. But he felt extremely ashamed to be watched by the people with the eyes of bad people. In order to explain that he was not a bad person who was arrested for committing a traitor, Zhu Dan Majesty shouted loudly: "Fellow villagers, I am Zhu Dan Majesty, a member of the Henan Provincial Assembly. At present, the People's Party invades Henan, and if everyone encounters difficulties, they should quickly go to Kaifeng, the provincial capital, to hide. ”

The people listened to Zhu Dan's majesty in a daze, looking completely incomprehensible. His Majesty Zhu Dan shouted for a while, and when he saw that no one responded, he was very upset, and he simply shouted: "There is going to be a war, everyone hurry up to Kaifeng to avoid trouble!" This had an effect, and the faces of the people finally became frightened when they heard this.

The cavalry did not stop His Majesty Zhu Dan from shouting, until he heard His Majesty Zhu Dan howl like this, and then urged the horses to speed up. Zhu Danma's legs were tied to the stirrups, and the horses jolted up at this accelerated speed, and Zhu Danma's majesty bit his tongue all of a sudden, and he couldn't help the pain with tears coming down, and he couldn't make a sound with his mouth closed.

After walking a long way, the farther north we went, the more red flags were displayed in the villages, and the walls of some villages were painted with slogans such as "Class Struggle, Agrarian Revolution," "The People's Party is the Party of Our People," and "The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army is the Ranks of Our People." The daily life of the people continued, and there was no sign of looting.

Because he was rectified by the cavalry next to him, Zhu Dan felt a burst of pain in the broken part of his tongue bitten, so he was full of anger and refused to speak. But seeing that the situation in the countryside was completely different from what he thought, he couldn't help but want to ask. It's just that the horses are in a hurry, and they can't find a chance to speak.

The sun was setting in the west, and a military camp appeared ahead. The cavalry stopped their horses in front of the barracks, but they were not allowed to enter at the gate of the barracks.

Zhu Danma and the others were imprisoned in a very ordinary tent, and the captured group did not have time to observe, they first applied to pee and, and cleared the backlog of inventory before they could be regarded as fixing God. When they got back to the tent, there were already people waiting for them.

"You are Principal Zhu, you have been looking up for a long time." A young man inside, who was clearly an officer, said with a smile.

Looking at the person who spoke, His Majesty Zhu Dan asked coldly, "Why are you arresting us?" ”

"What is Principal Zhu doing here?" The officer asked, still grinning.

"As a member of the Henan Council, can't I still walk in Henan?" His Majesty Zhu Dan said loudly.

"Walking, of course, is fine, but if you volunteer to blow up our arsenal, you won't be able to." Because he had seized the initiative, the young officer's mood was very relaxed.

After all, His Majesty Zhu Dan was young, and his face changed at that time, and it was a very secret operation for him to come to blow up the arsenal, but he didn't expect that the People's Party had completely figured out His Majesty Zhu Dan's movements. wanted to quibble a few words, but Zhu Dan didn't know what to say.

The officer smiled and said: "Principal Zhu, we won't kill you either, but you are also a councilor elected by the people of Xiangcheng, since you haven't been able to do bad things, it is not good to kill you directly to explain to the people of Xiangcheng." But this will have to be wronged for a while, go to the prison in Shangqiu to reflect on why you came to blow up our arsenal. You eat first, and after eating, we will send you to Shangqiu. ”

Seeing that the young officer's attitude towards him was quite disdainful, and he didn't regard himself as an important task at all, His Majesty Zhu Dan became angry, "Your unprovoked invasion of Henan is as reasonable as if it were very reasonable." ”

"Oh? Then it makes sense for you, Zhang Zhenfang and others to pretend to be the masters of the house in Henan? The young officer scoffed.

"I am a member of the parliament elected by the people of Xiangcheng!" His Majesty Zhu Dan was humiliated by this, and immediately shouted.

"Haha," the young officer laughed, "just because you were indeed chosen by the people of Xiangcheng, even if you were going to blow up our arsenal, we would still spare your life." If it is the other local tyrants and shoddy gentry in the council, they will be dragged out and killed. ”

Seeing that the attitude of the People's Party was so arrogant, Zhu Dan couldn't say anything angry, and after a while he shouted: "The people of Henan will definitely not serve you as the master." ”

The young officer smiled, "Then it's not your turn to worry." Hurry up and eat, and you'll have to hurry after eating. ”

There was no more horseback riding that night, and the People's Party tied up Zhu Dan and locked them in a cart carrying supplies. After a night of bumps, we arrived at Shangqiu at dawn.

His Majesty Zhu Dan glanced at the rising sun, but unexpectedly found that the two strange birds he saw yesterday flew over from far and near in the sky. Just as they wanted to see more, the soldiers behind them pushed and shoved them into prison. After the door of the cell was closed, His Majesty Zhu Dan fell into darkness again.

Chai Qingguo, director of the Management Committee of the Eastern Section of the Longhai Railway, got up early in the morning and got the news that His Majesty Zhu Dan had been captured, and Chai Qingguo just said "um". The People's Party's intelligence agencies have now infiltrated all aspects of Kaifeng City, and the capture of His Majesty Zhu Dan is not something that can be hyped up.

And the recent work is not to solve the Henan Governor Zhang Zhenfang at all, but to digest the territory that has been seized as soon as possible. In the morning, Chai Qingguo wanted to meet with the local landlords in Shangqiu and discuss land reform matters with them. There is a very tricky matter here, Shang Yuan's relatives are the big landlords of Shangqiu, and if they are not handled properly, it will be difficult for Chai Qingguo to see Shang Yuan in the future.

Those landlords were quite acquainted, and Chai Qingguo invited them to come, and they arrived honestly. Compared with the small landlords, who did everything possible to avoid meetings, it was indeed much smarter. More than a dozen of the largest local landlords gathered in the conference room, all of them either uneasy or simply grim-faced, and on the whole there was nothing too out of place.

Chai Qingguo said with a pleasant face: "I invite you to come today, I want to say something." We want land reform, and we want to divide the land equally. You are the largest landlord in Guide Prefecture, and the land reform charter means that all the land is state-owned, and those who are willing to farm can get three acres of land. I would like to ask you how the land reform can be carried out so that you can be happy. ”

The landlords looked at each other one by one, and the gap between Chai Qingguo's tone and content was too big. After a while, someone finally said tentatively: "Lord Chai, we don't want land reform." This land has been handed down from our ancestors, so we can't lose it in our hands. ”

Chai Qingguo was still pleasant, "First, we don't want to call adults here." You have to call me Comrade Chai. Second, you're off topic. What we are discussing is how to implement land reform to make you happy, and we will not discuss the question of whether this land reform should be implemented. I can say it again, land reform must be implemented. ”

Fortunately, the people who attended the meeting were all big landlords, they had seen the world, and even when they met a "very unreasonable" person like Chai Qingguo, these people did not lose their basic reason. Shang Yisheng, the uncle of Shang Yuan's own family, stood up and arched his hand, "Comrade Chai, if you want food and money, although our family property is meager, we will try our best to help." My nephew Shang Yuan is in your party, and we also have some incense feelings, so you might as well say it directly, why scare us first? ”

As soon as they heard this, the landlords hurriedly responded, "Yes, I am willing to donate 5,000 taels of labor, and your troops have not committed any crimes after arriving at Guide Mansion, but I am willing to donate." ”

"I'll donate 5,000 too."

"Although my family is not wealthy, I donate 3,000."

Listening to the landlords trying to "break the fortune and eliminate the disaster", Chai Qingguo asked them to sit down first, and then said: "Do you think we are the Beiyang Army or the Qing government?" That's why you're wrong. We don't want money, and we don't want food. What we want is land reform. Here I can give you a package ticket first, after the land reform is completed, everyone has their own land, and we will not ask for everyone's money and food. I could even give you a note on this. ”

Shang Yisheng stood up again, Chai Qingguo waved his hand, "Please sit down and talk, talking is talking, don't get up and owe it, it's a lot of delay." ”

Hearing this, Shang Yisheng sat back in his chair, "Comrade Chai, according to what you said, one doesn't want money, and the other doesn't want food. Do we want our business to fail? ”

Chai Qingguo explained: "We don't want any of the mills and oil mills you opened. We don't even want land, our People's Party's land reform is land owned by the state, land is not allowed to be bought and sold, and those who are willing to cultivate land can be allocated land to plant. If you are willing to work in the factory, you can go to the factory as a worker as soon as the land is handed over. If you don't want to do it in the factory, you are willing to come back to farm, and then give him land to continue farming. We don't want land ourselves, and that's how our system plans land use. ”

"That means you must take our land?"

"Yes."

"Took our land, and your People's Party still didn't give money."

"That's right."

After some answers, the landlords' faces were silent. Shang Yisheng held back for a long time, and suddenly asked with incomprehensible emotions: "Since you say that you don't want land, then why do you have to reform the land?" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, our People's Party and everyone have no grievances in the long term and no enmity in the near future, according to what Mr. Shang said, there is still some incense between us. But China wants not to be bullied by foreigners, and wants to become a new country where everyone can live and work in peace and contentment. It is necessary to solve the land problem. And we absolutely do not accept the old order of relying on land exploitation. In our new system, the meaning of the existence of land is to provide food for the people of China to eat through the hard work of laborers. This is not a land issue of one person or two people, it is a question of food for the entire Chinese people......"

"Just taking our land is not enough for the Chinese people to eat." Immediately, a landlord retorted.

"Therefore, we have fully nationalized land and carried out land reform in our base areas. Every new place we go to will also nationalize land and carry out land reform. It is only a matter of one day earlier and one day later, and it is impossible to have the question of whether there is land reform or not. As long as our People's Party is not eliminated, land reform will inevitably be carried out. ”

Hearing Chai Qingguo's remark, "As long as our People's Party is not eliminated, land reform will inevitably be implemented," a cold light flashed in the eyes of several landlords. Chai Qingguo was just like he didn't see it, with a kind smile on his face.

Talking to these landlords is not about "seeking skin with the tiger", but completely "seeking skin with the tiger". There was no controversy or disagreement in the base area about the elimination of landlords. Many landlords have been killed in the four provinces, and Henan is naturally unlikely to be spared. It's just that now when they first arrive in Henan, if the landlords can "rise up", it will be a great thing. Eradicating the landlords' armed forces and confiscating the landlords' land is really the easiest choice. If it weren't for this purpose, Chai Qingguo would not have taken the trouble to negotiate with the landlords "how to implement land reform to make the landlords happy." Chai Qingguo is not stupid, how could he not know that the landlords will definitely not be happy.

"Comrade Chai, with all due respect, we don't want to hand over the land, let alone be happy because of the land. You're too strong to be a man. But what I just said still counts. If your ministry needs food, just say a word, and I will provide you with as much as my family has. Shang Yisheng said.

Chai Qingguo said with a smile: "I also said it before, and now I will confirm it again." We don't want your food or money. ”

Both sides have said kind words, and they have also drawn a bottom line that they can accept, although these two bottom lines can be said to be worlds apart. However, without tearing his face, the meeting ended without a hitch.

As soon as the landlords left, Chai Qingguo immediately convened a meeting of the staff who had completed the initial investigation of the land reform.

"The situation of landlords in Shangqiu has been basically investigated. The main method of doing bad things in their own hands is usury, and they do not directly attack the people. Even if there were, there was a lot of collusion with bandits. ”

"The villages bordering the base areas are not very opposed to land reform. But the farther away you are, the worse you go. ”

"Some of the poorer villages are willing to accept land reform, but it will not have much impact on them anyway. However, these villages are mainly interested in the cheap goods provided by our supply and marketing. On the contrary, they do not care at all about the political significance of land reform. ”

"There are more bandits in Shangqiu, and each big landlord has its own armed forces."

"The local people are still not interested in the liberating significance of land reform, and the local opera is very different from our base area. The drama was held several times, but because of the language problem, the people couldn't accept it. ”

From the political, military, cultural, and folk customs, the characteristics of local land reform summarized by the People's Party are summarized one by one.

"Commissar Gu, what do you think?" Chai Qingguo asked Gu Lu, political commissar of the 4407th Division.

Gu Lu didn't speak immediately, he was really a rocket promotion. Originally, Chai Qingguo meant to let Gu Lu be the political commissar of the "Longhai Railway Eastern Section Management Committee", in fact, this is equivalent to the position of the secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee of the People's Party. So in the end, Gu Lu just became the political commissar of the 4407 Division.

Chai Qingguo's question boils down to "where to start with land reform." This is not a trivial problem, and if you start in the wrong direction, it will affect the next step.

After thinking about it again and again, Gu Lu said: "Since the current work is mainly to build railways, and the mass foundation in the areas bordering us is better, let's start along the railway line and along the two lines of the previous boundary line." We have to publicize the political propaganda work of land reform, whether the people like it or not. If the common people don't understand this principle, let's put it another way. In any case, this truth must be explained, and the people must know that the land reform is not irrelevant to them, nor is it simply divided into land. Once we participate in the land reform, we will not let the people fend for themselves. They are part of our base areas, and the state has to care whether they can live a better life. ”

When the other cadres heard this, they couldn't help but frown. Opening up new base areas, especially instilling in the people the perception of a completely new national model, is the most difficult task. The People's Party started with disaster relief, and it always occupied land first and then reasoned. Gu Lu actually took "reasoning" as the focus of the moment, and this difficulty was not ordinary.

"Political Commissar Gu, you are also from Henan, and the gap between these languages is too big. When you Xinyang people from Henan Province arrived in Shangqiu, you still don't understand what you say. ”

"If you don't understand, you can mobilize a literary team from Huaihai Province, or hire a local opera troupe in Shangqiu to sing this play. I didn't know how to make up this play, so I sent a report to the Party Central Committee, asking for support for the comrades in the art team who knew how to make plays. In any case, let's first stage the big drama about land reform in Shangqiu. Ordinary people don't like to listen to slogans, and they always like to watch dramas. Gu Lu replied very resolutely.

The comrades looked at Chai Qingguo in embarrassment, only to see Chai Qingguo nodding, "I support Comrade Gu Lu's opinion." ”

There is no better way to start, what Gu Lu said is very reasonable, and Gu Lu's opinion was approved by the party committee.

When he was about to end the meeting, Chai Qingguo said: "By the way, I have another suggestion. In the two-line areas mentioned by Comrade Gu Lu, as much as possible to temporarily lease as much land in the village as possible to build an airport, the common people are very pragmatic, there are things that can fly in the sky, these things can also let them fly with their own eyes, they can also touch it with their own hands, sometimes I am afraid that it is more effective than saying 10,000 words. ”

This proposal was not so outrageous, and the comrades simply voted to approve it. It's just that other comrades don't know that this suggestion was privately negotiated between Chen Ke and Chai Qingguo. Chen Ke just doesn't like to intimidate the people with too bizarre things, after all, the People's Party's ideological and political work is the first priority. Relying solely on airplanes to scare the common people may be effective in a short period of time, but if the comrades relax their efforts to propagate revolution and liberation in the countryside and blindly rely on such "fierce medicine" as high-tech products, the consequences will be a bit unimaginable. If it weren't for Gu Lu's firm demand to completely mobilize the masses in Shangqiu, and this suggestion was also adopted. Chai Qingguo would never dare to take out this little trick.

Outside Shangqiu's prison is in full swing of land reform, and Shangqiu's prison has not been affected at all. The life of Zhu Danma and the others was not too uncomfortable, and the cell bosses of the People's Party did not extort or abuse them, but locked them up. Feeding on time, cleaning the toilet on time, and beyond that, it's a long boredom.

The first four or five days were good, but after a long time, Zhu Dan and other young people felt that they couldn't bear it. The days of this isolation seemed to have no end in sight, and everyone had a kind of worry about whether they would be locked up in the prison of the People's Party until they died of old age. Although he wanted to maintain his dignity, His Majesty Zhu Dan originally decided not to say a word. After being locked up for a while, the young men who came with His Majesty Zhu Dan couldn't bear it anymore and began to beg the cell boss, wondering when they would be locked up.

During the exchange, His Majesty Zhu Dan and others learned that the People's Party does not have the term cell boss, let alone call it an "adult". All are addressed as "comrades". The surname Liu, who is in charge of prison work, is not too talkative. Regarding the questions of Zhu Danma and others, his answer was: "I will tell you as soon as I have news." ”

Other than that, it's a day by day waiting. Zhu Danma felt that maybe maybe half a month later, someone finally interrogated him. In the envious eyes of his companions, Zhu Dan finally walked out of the prison gate.

Breathing in the fresh air outside, Zhu Danma felt as if all the joints in his body were rusty. In the strong sunlight, he squinted his eyes for a long time before he gradually adjusted to the outside light.

The arraignator was also very young, and after inviting His Majesty Zhu Dan to sit down, the arraignator asked, "Principal Zhu Dan, I would like to know from you how much grain you have collected in Shangqiu. I want you to tell me. ”

Upon hearing this, His Majesty Zhu Dan frowned, could it be that the People's Party was ready to collect taxes again? Although he knew that the People's Party would definitely levy taxes in Shangqiu, he did not expect that the People's Party would actually levy taxes again before Henan Province itself taxed itself.

Seeing that His Majesty Zhu Dan was speechless, the arraignator said solemnly: "We don't have any intention of taxing this year. It's just that the tax accounts we found do not match the grain stored in Shangqiu. And the amount of mismatch is very large. Confessions between the local tax police and local officials did not match. I think there must be someone who has filled his own pockets and embezzled the grain of the tax revenue. What the hell is going on. I hope that President Zhu will cooperate with the investigation. ”

"You guys have nothing to do, I will never cooperate with you." Majesty Zhu Dan stiffly pushed back, after saying this, Majesty Zhu Dan still felt puzzled, he sneered and said: "Are you so sure that the grain was taken by local officials, not secretly taken by your people?" Maybe it's a thief shouting to catch a thief. ”

The arraignator was not angry, he just smiled, "Principal Zhu, as far as we know, Shangqiu has levied 70 million catties of grain. However, after we seized Shangqiu, the total amount of grain found in the warehouse was less than 30 million catties. These 40 million catties of grain were all planted by the people of Henan, and they just disappeared? Don't you care about it at all? ”

Hearing the deficit of 40 million catties of grain, His Majesty Zhu Dan was completely stunned. No wonder the BJP cares so much about this matter, this is indeed not a small amount. Even if His Majesty Zhu Dan would never cooperate with the People's Party, he felt that he needed to figure out this matter before he could do it.