January 27, 1937. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Lishu County, Guojiadian.

Lishu County is located between Shenyang and Siping. Now, Lishu County is still part of Mukden Province, and Siping Street has not been divided from Lishu County. The reason why Xiaolu chose Lishu County is because the team has lost here in the past. This is a focus of the task force, both because it is a food-producing area and because of its proximity to the railway.

The failure of the task force was not serious, but the local people did not welcome them very much, did not accept the anti-Japanese ideas, and the families of the puppet police officers were not very willing to persuade their police children. According to the task force, the problem lies with the well-known Liu family.

Guojiadian is not far from the railway, on the original north-south passage, just between Gongzhuling and Siping Street. There was a big tobacco dealer in Guojiadian, Chang Laosan, who was forced by the advance team to be cornered, sold the land at a low price and paid a ransom, and he went to Dalian.

The advance team distributed the land to the landless peasants. More than a dozen families were grateful, and several families wrote letters to their hometowns in Kannai to bring their families over. At first, they didn't believe it, but later, the team members told them that we were a secret team of anti-Japanese people, and the land was confiscated by traitors. As long as you resist the Japanese, do not grow opium, and pay 20% of the public grain, the land is yours.

Then they didn't dare, saying that Chang Sanye was not dead, what if he came back and took it back? The team member said that the land was no longer his, and it belonged to Master Wang.

Are you sure? What are the credentials?

Look, this is the document that our lord Wang sold land from the Chang family.

I can't read.

You find someone who can read for you. Find someone you can trust.

I'll go to Mr. Liu to help me see it.

Ok Ok.

Master Liu is the head of the Liu family.

More than a dozen families had a good relationship with the advance team, but the local big family found them and was very dissatisfied, saying that the owner did this, and with such a small amount of land rent, then my tenants should be unstable. Besides, if we don't let big tobacco be planted, and the big tobacco is collected from above, how can we deal with it?

Xiao Lu went to these dozen peasant homes this time to have a look, and these people were very grateful to them, and repeatedly promised to resist Japan, promise to pay public grain, and never grow big tobacco.

The local family is called Liu Xinting, and his family has 40 acres of land, all of which are good land, and the land along the avenue grows opium. He did not work very well with the Japanese, so the task force listed him as a solidarity object.

There are several objects of such unity, all of whom are gentry with good personnel. Xiaolu chose it for two reasons, one is that his family's business is doing very well, and its reputation is very good, although it is not big, it is running well. There is another reason, that is, he has the same name as a businessman in the Northeast.

There is also a Liu Xinting in history, who is one of the famous businessmen in Northeast China.

Liu Xinting, a native of Liu Shige Zhuang Village in the north of Leting County, was born in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. The young family is poor, hard-working, and strong. As an adult, Liu Xinting broke into Kanto.

This person has a flexible mind and a shrewd nature, and found that there is a general shortage of agricultural tools in the Northeast, especially hoe boards, and homespun cloth and cotton are more expensive than Leting.

At this time, although there was no large-scale development of immigrants in the Northeast, the number of immigrants was already very large, and there were already many first-line farmers in southern Liaoning and Shenyang.

Liu Xinting saw the opportunity, so he borrowed money from relatives and friends and sold it on his shoulder. After making a profit, hire a car to traffick. On the outbound journey, hoe boards, cotton, and homespun cloth were sold, and grain beans, soil, tobacco and indigo were transported on the return journey. For more than ten years, it has made a lot of profits.

Liu Xinting's son, Liu Ru, inherited his father's business. First opened a Guangfa joint business in Longwan to operate department stores and grains. Later, it was also engaged in foreign exchange, and accumulated tens of millions of funds.

It is now Jilin Nong'an.

Liu Ru's three sons split up, each set up a hall number, and opened three business names in Kuanchengzi at the same time: Taifa He, Yifa He, and Dongfa He. It is known as the buying and selling of the "He" brand.

Kuanchengzi is today's Changchun City. At that time, Changchun had only a few small towns such as Kuanchengzi.

In this way, the son inherited his father's business, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there were dozens of semicolons for the trading of the joint brand, all over the Northeast, and its financial power jumped to the top of the Northeast business community. In Leting County, Liu Jia is the first wealthy family in Jingdong and is famous in Gyeonggi.

Liu Xinting's house is a large courtyard, the earthen wall is two feet high, and there are turrets at the four corners. Due south is the gate, which is very heavy, with upper horse stakes and lower horse stones.

Before Xiaolu could call the door, the door had already opened, and a middle-aged man in a bloated cotton robe hurriedly greeted him, saying, "It turns out that Captain Lu has arrived, please come in." The soldier next to him introduced that he was Liu Xinting.

Xiao Lu said: "Mr. Liu, I'm sorry." ”

Entering the courtyard, the path carefully examined the layout of the courtyard. On the south side, against the fence, there is a row of houses, with simple doors and windows, which seem to be lived by the guys' family. Facing a row of houses, the main house, six houses, two doors. There are four rooms in a row on the west side and four rooms on the east side. Between the wing house and the south wall are granaries, stables and tool rooms. The doors and windows of the main house are detailed, and there is a piece of glass in the middle of each window.

Liu Xinting said: "Captain Lu is not a local, he seems to be very curious about my burrow." ”

Xiaolu said: "Mr. Liu is really good at observation. Yes, I've been to many places, and every time I go, I have to pay attention to the local houses. You see, this kind of household hub is very interesting. ”

Liu Xinting said: "In the countryside, there are no good things, the house is rough, and I laughed." ”

Xiaolu said: "The dwellings in a place are related to the climate and lifestyle here. ”

Saying that, he entered the stove house, and there were two stoves on the left and right sides of the stove house, and several large tanks on the north side. Entering the main house, Liu Xinting said, "Please take a seat." There is a row of wooden cabinets on the north wall at noon, in the middle is the table of the Eight Immortals, with two blue and white porcelain vases, in the middle is a painting of Willow Guanyin, and the couplets on both sides say: "The nectar in the bottle is often sprinkled, and the plain heart is kind and keeps the peace." ”

Xiaolu said: "Mr. Liu turned out to be a family of goodness. ”

Liu Xinting pointed to the chairs on both sides of the Eight Immortals Table and said, "Where, where, please sit." Please tea. ”

Xiaolu sat down and said, "Mr. Liu's name happens to be the same as the head of the Liu family in the Qing Dynasty, I don't know if it is the Liu family's own family?" ”

Liu Xinting said: "It's just a coincidence. It's just a coincidence. It's not my home. People are rich people in Hebei, and I am from Shandong. May I ask who Captain Lu is here this time? ”

Xiaolu said: "I have something to say, I heard that Mr. Liu can't agree with our approach, and I want to ask for advice in person." See where we can't do it, we will correct it. ”

Liu Xinting said: "I heard that Captain Lu also graduated from the Foreign Academy?" That must have embraced some foreign ideas. But I have never seen such a low amount of land for the men to be given to the men for free. If they all did this, the tenants would not have to work hard to save money to buy land. Just rent land and plant it. ”

Xiaolu said: "Your idea is very interesting, please continue." ”

Liu Xinting said: "This time you can spend a lot of money, enough to feed the family to eat and drink." They really got it for nothing, and I can guarantee that within two years, there will be people who sell their land and pay debts. ”

Xiaolu said: "Then why? ”

Liu Xinting said: "One of the fifteen households is a poor smoker. They sold me ten acres of land. ”

Xiaolu said: "Thank you for reminding us, we really need to educate them and improve their culture." What you mean is that it is not easy for ordinary farmers to keep these lands. ”

Liu Xinting said: "Actually, I have dealt with your people a few times. Knowing that you are good people, say a few more words. The landlords outside our customs look rich, but in fact they are not necessarily. The rent is too small to feed the family. Take my house, for example. In our generation, I was the head of the family, and there were three brothers, and an uncle and a family of three. In this way, our family is five families, thirty people, you calculate, one person together will have another three acres of land. ”

Xiaolu said: "With a housekeeper, a chef, two nursing homes, and long-term and short-term workers, the average person is less than one land." ”

Liu Xinting said: "Our family has two or three plots of land, and there are several households, and their lives are not as good as ours. Why? Actually, it's not easy for us. ”

Xiaolu said: "Tell me." ”

Liu Xinting said: "For example, now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, you have to steam bean buns before the lunar month, right." We have to steam dozens of pots at home, but in fact, we don't eat them all by ourselves. You see, for the Chinese New Year, this monk will send a car in the temple, a car in the Taoist temple, and a basket for each person, which is half a car. I still have to sell a car, and the rest of the family is just enough to eat. ”

Bean bun is a kind of traditional food in Northeast China, yellow in color, is mixed with sticky millet flour and cornmeal, and then steamed in the middle wrap red bean paste and then frozen outdoors, slowly eaten.

The bean bag is shaped like a barn, with a round body with a ball top, because it is deformed when steaming on the cage drawer, it sticks to each other and is close to each other, so it is necessary to separate it with a wood chip tool dipped in water when it comes out of the pot, so the body is usually hexagonal. In order not to stick to the bottom, a corn leaf should be placed, which is the kind that wraps the corn cob.

Xiaolu said: "It turns out that this account is calculated like this. ”

Liu Xinting said: "Also, when people from all walks of life come to me, I have to keep eating and drinking, and I have to get some when I leave." Guys are long-term workers. Eat and drink well with me, and you will be full. The meals are all according to the rules. If you owe him what you eat, he owes you a life. ”

Xiaolu said: "I understand, this world is not peaceful. ”

Liu Xinting said: "It's the New Year, the farming is idle, that year, we all have to invite Yangge boards, and ask the two of them to turn the board to sing Yangge for everyone." ”

Xiaolu said: "Understood. ”

Liu Xinting said: "If you want to dismiss a long-term worker, you have to give an extra month's salary, and you have to be accompanied by good words." We have Second Master Kang here, and we are a little mean to a long-term worker, who has a cousin who is bearded, tied up Second Master Kang, cut off one ear and brought it home. In the end, it was not a land sale to redeem people, but it went bankrupt, and now there are only two lands left in the family. There are more than a dozen people, and there is not enough food to eat. ”

Xiaolu said: "We have been to Second Master Kang's house. I understand what you mean, you still have to hire short-term workers when you are busy farming, which is also a big expense. This is not counted, now Manchukuo has very harsh taxes, and opium has to be grown. It's not easy not to go bankrupt. That's why we're going to kick the Japanese out. ”

Liu Xinting said: "You tell me this, I know that you believe me." But this Oriental is not easy to mess with. ”

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1. Here Liu Xinting's famous characters in the text are used to pay tribute to the pioneering spirit.