"The first thing to do is to face what has happened, not to speculate on the process, what to see, what to hear, what information to collect, just talk about what actually exists." Li Shouxian said calmly to his comrades.

He Jinwu said loudly: "What actually happened was that a part of the masses in western Zhejiang bought from the counter-revolutionaries the land and property of the revolutionary masses that the counter-revolutionaries had embezzled. And try to take it for yourself. ”

Li Shouxian said with a smile: "Comrade He Jinwu, what you said in the previous paragraph is basically right, but what you said in the latter paragraph is not quite right. From the point of view of the masses, they have taken these lands for themselves. You say that you are trying to take it for yourself, which is far from being a factual statement. ”

"Humph!" He Jinwu sneered, "Secretary Li is right, they have indeed taken it for themselves now. But with our BJP, this kind of action can never really succeed. ”

Li Shouxian felt quite regretful about He Jinwu's speech, "Comrade He Jinwu, my next speech is not aimed at what will happen in the future, but at your way of thinking about the problem. Why should we implement land reform? This is our party's policy, and there have been no counter-revolutionary incidents in many areas, so we have not implemented land reform in the same way? The masses in some areas support land reform, while the masses in others do not, and this is a matter for the masses themselves, and our goal is to implement land reform. Therefore, the implementation of land reform is our business, and what does it have to do with the masses? ”

He Jinwu, like most comrades, was extremely dissatisfied with the masses in western Zhejiang who had "taken advantage of the counterrevolutionary atrocities," so he had a desire to make things difficult in his heart. Listening to Li Shouxian's criticism of his own thinking, He Jinwu also felt that Li Shouxian's local cadres "pointed fingers and gave orders from the beginning of his dismissal", and he was very unconvinced.

Li Shouxian said with a smile: "I think the comrades' ideas are very straightforward, whoever dares to drink the blood of revolutionaries deserves to die." Even if he did not commit a capital crime, it was a capital crime that should be forgiven. We now have guns and soldiers in our hands, and it is really easy to rectify these Baina in western Zhejiang. Confiscation of their illegal land, imposition of fines for their actions, punitive measures against them in policy. I came from an administrative background, and I wanted them to survive but not die, there were so many ways to come up with several in the blink of an eye. ”

These words took advantage of the comrades' thoughts, and the comrades' middle-of-the-road straightforward people couldn't help but smile.

Li Shouxian also smiled, and he said to He Jinwu: "Comrade He Jinwu, and other comrades, please sing "Good Spring in February". ”

Seeing the stunned look of everyone, Li Shouxian urged: "I heard that this song was written by Chairman Chen Ke when he inspected the army farm, where is there a reason why the comrades of the army can't sing it." Don't be afraid of being shy, which comrade will sing it. ”

The comrades couldn't figure out what kind of fame Li Shouxian was doing, and they looked at each other and didn't understand. In the end, it was the Japanese political commissar Hitoshi Kuroshima who sang.

In February, there is a good spring, and every household is busy farming. Counting on a good harvest this year, donate more grains to replenish military rations.

In February, there is a good spring, and every household is busy farming. He who sows melons gets melons, and he who sows beans reaps beans, and whoever sows hatred suffers himself!

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After Kuroshima finished singing, Li Shouxian repeated one of the lyrics, "Those who plant melons get melons, those who plant beans harvest beans, whoever sows hatred suffers himself!" I've always thought the lyrics were very good, and I thought the lyrics were very realistic. The counter-revolution in Zhejiang, the counter-revolution in western Zhejiang, they oppose the policy of agrarian revolution put forward by our People's Party, they have planted hatred, and now it is the process of repaying their blood debts. In the same vein, I would like to ask, when these masses buy land, are they doing so in opposition to the agrarian revolutionary policy of our People's Party? If any comrade thinks so, stand up and say what you think! ”

Li Shouxian can be regarded as a clamour, and the comrades attending the meeting are very clear about this. But even if he was so angry that he blushed and his neck was thick, no one stood up to refute Li Shouxian's words. Everyone knows very well that Li Shouxian is right, the people of western Zhejiang do not buy land for the sake of confrontation with the People's Party, they do it purely for their own interests. The anger of the comrades is also directed against this selfish action.

Seeing that no one objected, Li Shouxian's expression regained his composure, first glanced at the comrades, and Li Shouxian said calmly: "Chairman Chen also wrote an article called "Medicine", some comrades have read this article, and some comrades probably haven't read it. There is a story written in it, we have a saying in Jiangnan that human blood steamed buns can cure tuberculosis, that is, tuberculosis that we learned in medical class. The only son of a good old family was sick with tuberculosis and begged the executioner for help. At that time, it was killing people, and it was a revolutionary who was killed. The reason why revolutionaries shed their blood to participate in the revolution was to save the Chinese people. As a result, after the revolutionary was killed, the protagonist of the story got a steamed bun with human blood. The revolutionaries were not able to awaken the people through their own deaths, and the people did not let their sons be saved because of the blood of the revolutionaries......"

This is a tragic story, Li Shouxian is extremely impressed, and the luggage he carries with him happens to have this article in it. Li Shouxian simply took out this article and read it to the comrades. A calm voice recited this gloomy novel, and the entire conference room fell into a deathly silence.

They couldn't walk twenty or thirty paces, when they suddenly heard a loud cry from behind them; Both of them turned their heads in horror, only to see the crow spread its wings, and with a bend of its body, it flew straight into the distant sky, and the arrow flew away. ”

When Li Shouxian finished reading the last paragraph, some comrades from western Zhejiang covered their mouths and wept bitterly, some comrades sobbed in low voices, constantly wiping tears with their cuffs, and other comrades had a mixture of anger and pain on their faces.

This "Medicine" touched everyone in the meeting, the revolutionaries are moths to the fire and work hard for the welfare of the people to create tomorrow, but the people can not understand that they are still living in all kinds of hardships. The tragic situation in western Zhejiang is fully in line with the story told in this article, and in order to live a better life, the surviving people took out almost all of their savings to buy blood-stained land. I don't understand why the victims died.

Li Shouxian wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, he has been doing administrative work for so long, and he knows the hardships and helplessness of construction work better than the comrades of the troops galloping on the battlefield.

He sniffled and exhaled deeply, as if this was the only way to evacuate the boulder-like depression in his chest. Li Shouxian continued: "Whoever sows hatred suffers himself. The masses in western Zhejiang did not buy land because they opposed the agrarian revolution, and if we punish them for buying land from our own standpoint, then we are planting hatred. No one will really admit that they are bad people, not only of the masses in western Zhejiang, but even of the counter-revolutionaries. In the face of such a situation, we must adhere to the party's three major work styles and the principle of seeking truth from facts. We must adhere to the mass line, come from the masses and go to the masses. Rather than simply and rudely believing that we have the truth, we can do whatever we want according to our own standards and preferences! Just like in "Medicine", the real murderer is not Hua Lao Shu, because Hua Lao Shuan got a human blood steamed bun for his son and punished Hua Lao Shuan, do you think this is the right thing to do? ”

He Jinwu, commander of the 15 th Group Army, who has always been the representative of the comrades' thoughts in the troops, did not answer this time, he just wiped the tears rolling out of his eyes. After a long while, he choked up and said, "I...... I've got it...... What Secretary Li means, please Secretary Li tell me about your thinking. ”

Li Shouxian saw that the whole situation had been reversed, and he said: "All land transactions during the counter-revolutionary period will be terminated after the grain harvest is finished this year, and the property of the counter-revolutionaries must be confiscated, and after the confiscation, the money and property purchased by the masses for land purchase should be returned to the masses and the land recovered." Of course, this must be after the harvest of the masses, and since the masses have grown food through their labor, we must ensure the fruits of their labor. Of course, after these were over, we began to implement land reform in western Zhejiang. ”

Even though he felt that Li Shouxian was too merciful in doing so, no comrades raised objections and doubts again. Li Shouxian had convinced his vengeful comrades that a storm that was likely to target the masses had finally been contained before it erupted.

Of course, Li Shouxian's appointment as secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee is not simply to curb the wrong trend. In the following days, Li Shouxian began to build the local militia. In order not to give birth to the illusion that the masses in Zhejiang are "vanquished", it is also necessary to ensure the smooth implementation of the suppression of counter-revolutionary actions. Now more than ever, it is necessary to win the masses over to their side.

The tragic slaughter caused by the class struggle in western Zhejiang is also quite unusual in Zhejiang, and the 412 counter-revolutionary massacre swept the whole of Zhejiang, and the real climax of the massacre was the massacre of the local traditional old forces against the new forces that began to rise in the new era. Judging from the information gathered by the People's Party, during the massacre in Zhejiang, the overseas students who were called "fake foreign devils", the young people who were educated in the new schools, and the guys who tried to stand out in electoral politics were all-out counterattacked by the old forces. As long as they are labeled as a "chaotic party", those old forces in the countryside can justifiably slaughter these people. And these people who were killed had nothing to do with the People's Party, let alone the western branch of Zhejiang. Many of those killed were even staunch in their opposition to the reform policies pursued by the western Zhejiang branch.

There was not much reason for the People's Party to intervene in the internal massacres of the Zhejiangese, so it had to unite more closely with the masses and stand with the masses to fight these stubborn counter-revolutionaries. This is because these counter-revolutionaries are not necessarily opposed to the BJ, they are firmly opposed to all revolutionary actions. Against this part of the people, Li Shouxian was ready to confront them by organizing a militia.

After the reorganization of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, there were many commanders and fighters in various localities, and the commanders and fighters from the Shandong Military Region were extremely experienced in assisting the masses in organizing militias.

There is no better way to deal with militias than militias. Historically, the militia was the party's main enemy, and Chen Ke was quite jealous of this when he did not study it deeply. Since Chen Ke was very jealous, he made great efforts to understand the militia group, and the party set up a special work master to engage in this work.

The militia is a local force, and the People's Party is an external force. On the surface, it looks like a dragon fighting a snake. Without investigation, there was no right to speak, and in the course of the revolution, the BJP gradually recognized the militia for what it was.

Historically, the militia groups wreaked havoc on the base areas, first of all, relying on the enemy's regular army to contain and even suppress the revolutionary regular army. The People's Party encountered this kind of problem in Shandong, and many Red Gun Societies and local militia groups once used the excuse of "how the Beiyang Old People's Association is" to intimidate the masses in the Shandong base areas and used this pretext to extort money and property from the masses in the Shandong base areas. The People's Party resolutely launched a fierce attack on those local organizations, but as a result, the "Beiyang bosses" did not move at all. The masses of the people were a little apprehensive at first, but after observing for a while, they found that the militia was simply bragging. From then on, the masses in the base areas no longer succumbed to the intimidation of those local forces, and whenever the militia groups came to extort money, the masses dared to argue with these people.

Of course, at the same time as the masses shouted, they would also hastened to notify the nearby garrisons of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, of course, immediately dispatched troops to strike at the militias like a fall of leaves. After several such struggles, the masses in various localities set up their own militia organizations under the leadership of the people's party, and sometimes by the time the troops arrived, the militia had already collected the militia.

The peculiarity of human society is that whoever is more organized will win. Originally, it was a scattered mass that was afraid of the militia group, but later it became a mass that the militia was afraid of organizing. The militia organization was originally a local force like the bandits, and when there were no other forces around, they would expand their territory, collect "protection money", and enforce their own order. Now that the masses in various places have been organized, the militia can only shrink. As the saying goes, rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, and the militia does not dare to take drastic measures against the locals. Without money to support, the militia naturally had to reduce its own income, which then caused the dependents on the periphery of the militia to flee one after another.

Without personnel and without profits, members of the militia will often not be sincerely united, but will intrigue with each other. The People's Party took advantage of this opportunity to expand the trade of supply and marketing cooperatives, penetrated into the militia groups, and easily disintegrated the local militia organizations in Shandong as outsiders.

Since the comrades in Shandong have sufficient experience in this field, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee entrusted a task force composed of these comrades to start work in Zhejiang.