Chapter 53: Occupy Guo Zhen
"Listen, people in the town, I am the commander of the anti-Japanese advance battalion of the 57th Army, and I am ordered to take over Guozhen, and call your captain out quickly. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Li Han directly revealed his identity, and he also knew that if he only said that he was going to take over Guo Zhen, I was afraid that the deterrent power would not be enough.
Therefore, Li Han added the name of the advance battalion to himself, which was tantamount to putting on the tiger skin of the 57th Army. A small security team, with the name of the 57th Army, should be enough.
"What bullshit advance camp, I've never heard of it. If you know each other, you should leave quickly, otherwise, even if Lao Tzu recognizes you, the guy in Lao Tzu's hand will not recognize anyone. ”
Zhang Biao didn't believe that Li Han was a member of the 57th Army at all, because he had never heard his second brother say that the 57th Army had entered Chahar, so he was accustomed to classifying Li Han as a rout of the Volunteer Army.
Besides, even if Li Han belongs to the 57th Army, what right does he have to take over Guo Zhen, and Chahar is not the territory of the Northeast Army now.
The so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, as long as it does not pour in tens of thousands of people at once like the Northeast Volunteer Army, Zhang Biao thinks that he is in Guyuan, and there are few people he can't afford to provoke.
"Hmph, I have long heard that the security captain Zhang Biao has taken refuge in the Japanese, and he is ready to be a traitor, so I don't believe it, today I have seen it, the first and second companies are ready to fight, and the cavalry company rushed in from both wings to disarm this puppet army as quickly as possible."
originally wanted to receive Guo Zhen peacefully, but after listening to Zhang Biao's words, Li Han knew that it was impossible, but before he started, he didn't forget to put the hat of a traitor on Zhang Biao.
In China, it has always been justifiable, and if you attack Guo Zhen without any reason, it will be easy to be criticized. Li Han has also been in the army for more than half a year, so of course he would not make such a low-level mistake.
With Li Han's order, the soldiers of the three companies quickly loaded their bullets, and the sound of pulling the bolt of the gun was endless, and eight Czech light machine guns were placed at the forefront.
At the same time, the cavalry company was divided into two parts, and went straight towards both sides of Guo Zhen, boom! The earth seemed to tremble, and hundreds of war horses gathered to charge, and the momentum alone was enough to scare these security team people stupidly.
The soldiers of the fourth battalion had just retired from the Rehe battlefield, and they still smelled of blood.
Those security teams composed of family members, hooligans, and village guards have never seen this world, and they have been defeated with only one face, but it took a lot of time to collect the prisoners of these security teams.
The next work will be simple, the security team will be incorporated, the home of the 'big traitor' Zhang Biao will be raided, and a company of soldiers will be dispatched to be responsible for maintaining law and order in Guo Town.
Soon Wang Wei, who was in charge of raiding the house, sent a report that 20,000 Dayang and 300 Hanyang-made rifles were seized, 300 prisoners were captured and 10 people were killed. In addition, a large number of land deeds and land deeds were also found in Zhang Biao's home.
However, Zhang Biao, the captain of the security brigade, saw that the situation was not good, and he slipped away early.
God is pitiful, although Zhang Biao said that his virtue is a little worse, of course, he does not do much to bully men and women on weekdays, but there are still some differences with traitors. Of course, judging from his daily behavior and habits, when the little devil comes, he must be a hardcore traitor, but isn't the devil still coming yet.
Of course, Li Han also knows this, but who called Zhang Biao not to cooperate, in order to allow more Chahar people to live a happy life, he can only sacrifice Zhang Biao's small family and achieve everyone.
And it doesn't matter if Zhang Biao runs away, Li Han didn't plan to kill him, and he also left a thousand oceans for the family abandoned by Zhang Biao, so that Zhang Biao's family would not be unable to live. The so-called calamity is not as small as the family, everyone is Chinese, and Li Han does not want to kill them all.
However, in addition to the Zhang family's mansion, other land deeds and land deeds were confiscated by Li Han, which were very important for him to win over and subdue the hearts of the people of Guozhen in the future.
In Li Han's plan, before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Guo Zhen and Guyuan, and even Chabei would become their own rear against the Japanese devils.
Guozhen can also be regarded as a border area, located in the border between Rehe and Chahar, the land is much more barren than other provinces in the Guannei, even in the peaceful and prosperous times, the food produced by the common people can only barely solve the problem of food and clothing for a family.
A few years ago, when Zhang Zuolin was still in power, Chahar was under the rule of Fengjun, and it was generally stable, and the people were barely able to live a life of endurance.
However, since Zhang Zuolin was killed, the Northeast Army retreated to the three northeastern provinces, and Chahar was ruled by the northwest warlords.
Every time Chahar changed its owner, the common people would have more harsh taxes under various names.
The new government will have to keep the government institutions running, and at the same time be responsible for eliminating the people who have become bandits in order to avoid taxes, which will cost money.
But where does the money come from, and the new government has also set its sights on the common people, continuing the unfinished business of their predecessors, so that more and more ordinary people have become bandits in order to avoid heavy taxes.
Such a vicious circle has led to the current situation of Zahar being full of bandits.
If Li Han wants to build Guozhen and even Guyuan into a rear base, then this problem must be solved. In order to solve this problem, Li Han held several meetings.
The participants were basically Li Han's own subordinates, and of course, in order to show democracy, Li Han also invited some squires who were more influential in Guo Town.
On the day of the meeting, Li Han said to the squire who came to the meeting with a smile on his face: "Thank you to the elders of Guozhen for giving Li this face, everyone will have a meeting when they have a meeting, and what gifts do you bring!" ”
But when he turned around, he didn't change his face and said to Jin Long: "Jin Long, why don't you go and help the elders of the township get things, it's true, I don't understand the rules at all!" ”
Although he was amazed that Li Han was so young and thick-skinned, the landlord and squire who came to the meeting, which one was not an old fox, invariably chose to ignore Li Han's careful thoughts.
As the saying goes: "If you don't become an official for money, you won't invite me to come!" "This is not the case with officials throughout the ages.
They are not afraid that Li Han will accept gifts, but they are afraid that Li Han will not accept gifts, because the dogs that bite people do not bark.
"Ladies and gentlemen, although we drove away the puppet army and recaptured Guozhen, because the Northeast Army had just lost the battle at Rehe, a large number of routs poured into Chahar. Especially in Duolun and Guyuan, the county seat is still occupied by the volunteers! In order to maintain the stability of the place, we must determine what to do next. ”
It was also the first time that Li Han had presided over this kind of government meeting, and fortunately, there were many military meetings that he had presided over before, and although the two were different, there were many similarities.
For Li Han's proposal, the squires of Guo Town were silent, obviously they still lacked trust and confidence in Li Han.
And from the perspective of these squires, Li Han's troops are no different from the Northeast Army's rout and the Northeast Volunteer Army. If it weren't for the fear of the gun in Li Han's hand, they wouldn't have come to this meeting at all.
"Battalion commander, one Guo town can't accommodate more than 1,000 people in our four battalions, at present, in addition to the county seat, the defense force in other places in Guyuan is very weak, and even many towns and villages are controlled by bandits, it is the best time for us to take them!"
Seeing that everyone present was silent, Hu Zhi, who was anxious, was the first to speak.
Not to mention, although his words were a little rude, these words still made a lot of sense, and the most important thing was to say what Li Han thought in his heart.
"Sir Li, Guyuan is a small border county, with barren land and a withered population, and in recent years, there have been constant wars and corpses everywhere. In order to survive, the people of Guyuan County have reached the point of selling their sons and daughters, and they can't even support themselves, let alone the army. Even if you occupy the whole county, it will be useless if you can't resume production as soon as possible and solve the food problem. ”
As soon as they heard that they were going to use force again, the landlords and squires of Guo Town couldn't sit still, they had lived in Guyuan for generations, and their industries were all over the towns and villages of Guyuan County, and if they used force on the land of Guyuan, the impact on them would be fatal.
So someone couldn't sit still and began to tell Li Han the truth, which meant that Guyuan County was very poor and couldn't withstand the toss of Camp Commander Li.
Although Li Han didn't know what these landlords and squires had in mind, he definitely didn't believe that these people would intercede with him for the sake of the common people who sold the source, but he didn't mean to dig deeper.
Because what he wants is for these people to bring this issue up, so that he can have an excuse to bring the land matter to the table and solve it.
"Since we have talked about the survival of the common people, I have a proposal, the first is to abolish all kinds of cents and taxes, the second is to limit land rent, and the third is to vigorously open up wasteland, what do you think?"
Li Han took the opportunity to put forward a policy that he had planned long ago, in fact, according to his original intention, he wanted to buy land directly from the landlords and gentry, and then distribute it to the peasants.
After all, the land in the hands of the landlord is all good land that has been operated for many years, and one acre is worth four or five acres of land that has just been cultivated. But after thinking about it carefully, I still didn't say it in the end.
On the one hand, Li Han was worried that these landlords and squires would be labeled as communists, but don't underestimate the methods of these landlords and squires, most of the officers in the national army were the children of big families.
Usually it is nothing, once it is found that he has a connection with the Communist Party, with Chiang Kai-shek's attitude towards the Communist Party, Li Han is an immortal peeling skin. His great cause of resisting Japan had just begun, and he didn't want to offend Chiang Kai-shek at this time.
On the other hand, even if all the landlords agree to sell the land, it is estimated that the land in a town will be bought with Li Han's little belongings.
The money was used to buy land, what to do with the food and clothing of more than 1,000 people in the four battalions, and weapons and ammunition were also a huge problem.
Moreover, Li Han's eyes were on the whole county, the entire Chabei region, so much land was bought with money, even if the four battalions collectively treated the pants, it was not enough to pay a fraction.
Regarding the plan proposed by Li Han, the officers present didn't care, everyone was following the battalion commander, naturally Li Han had the final say, but those landlords and squires had ideas.
The abolition of centigold can reduce logistics costs, help the circulation of goods, simply put, the cost of doing business is reduced, and of course more money will be made, which is beneficial to landlords, merchants, and farmers, and they will certainly not object.