It was not easy to persuade comrades to give up sympathy for Zhang Youliang, who was a landlord, and many comrades were also born landlords. For them, Zhang Youliang is more like "their own people". Talking about "people's revolution" in his mouth, even if it is a small test of Zhang Youliang, many people will no longer be so committed to defending the people.

Although Lu Huitian no longer mentioned Zhang Youliang's issue, he never explicitly supported Zhang Youliang's life and death issue. Although other comrades also supported the settlement of Zhang Youliang's cognition, no one made it clear whether Zhang Youliang would be killed or released. Chen Ke didn't want to say so much, for Chen Ke, once Zhang Youliang was handed over to the people to decide, then Zhang Youliang must die. To put it bluntly, a mass movement is to mobilize the masses and arouse the anger of the masses. It works better than anything else. The people also have a clear distinction between love and hate, and the excitement of emotions is enough to put people to death. Zhang Youliang has been in Yue Zhangji for so long, and he must have done a lot of bad things. The best way is to find the victim, then let the victim accuse Zhang Youliang, and then "conform to the will of the people" to execute Zhang Youliang.

The only problem is that time is short, and these people are not easy to find. Now time is the crystal sand inside the hourglass, and every moment is precious. So Chen Ke simply stopped talking about the problem and began to assign other jobs.

The county seat of Fengtai is now overcrowded, and the surrounding landlords have fled to the county seat to escape the flood. And many of the people also fled to the county seat. Plus the people rescued by the insurance group, as well as their families. The small county town of Fengtai has gathered as many as 30,000 or 40,000 people. As the floodwaters began to recede, the mood of the victims became more and more impetuous. This is also understandable, the water has besieged the county, and these people are always afraid that the water level will continue to rise, and even their last place of refuge will be swallowed up. The external environment is very tight, but everyone can gather under one flag. But when the water recedes, everyone's thoughts are different.

The wealthy landlords felt that it was no longer safe to return home, so they simply prepared to get up and go to the big cities. Landlords who had no money, or whose belongings were ruthlessly devoured in the floods, had nowhere to go. As for ordinary people, they are even more homeless. The people of Anhui have the habit of fleeing from famine, and many people have tried to talk to the members of the insurance group, hoping to take them with them when the insurance team sails.

After this flood, the Manchus were powerless to provide relief. To be honest, at the level of an agrarian country, disaster relief is also a best-effort thing. If it weren't for the efforts of the BJP Insurance Corps, there would have been many more deaths.

The expansion of the insurance group is closely related to the deepening of the floods. When we first started recruiting, we weren't interested. After all, everyone still has little interest in being bandits.

When the food brought out by the farmers gradually ran out, more and more members asked to join the insurance group. Originally, as long as you belong to a good family, you can join the insurance group, but later, the insurance group can even be picky to the extent that you only choose to join the insurance group. The immediate benefits of joining the insurance group are very large, and you can eat enough in the first place. Secondly, the insurance group is also hiring people to do some work. By joining the insurance group, family members can be given priority access to these job opportunities. So in a very short period of time, the insurance group has made a leap in numbers.

The county commander Shangyuan always thought that Chen Ke was capable, and after seeing Chen Ke's use of the power of the insurance group, he felt even more admired and puzzled. The so-called "eating, drinking, and Lazar", Chen Ke not only led the People's Party and the insurance group to arrange for the people to eat and drink, but also paid more attention to the people's "Lasa". In several makeshift camps in the county seat, an important goal of the "security team" composed of insurance corps personnel is to order the people not to defecate in the open. This is something that no one has ever paid attention to, but Chen Ke has been strict about it from the beginning. The reason is very simple, open defecation is very likely to lead to the outbreak of plague during this flood period. The population density of the county town has reached a dangerous level, and if there is an outbreak of plague, it will be devastating. The health situation in the county is the responsibility of the insurance team. Later, the insurance group began to go out to carry food, and these tasks were left to other hired people.

There is a saying that "the sky is in charge of the sky, and the earth is in charge of the bottom, and you can't control people from pooping and farting." "But the insurance group is so broad, so that the people are extremely dissatisfied. But the mouth of eating others is soft, and the rules of the insurance group are simple. Once you defecate in the open and get caught once, the day's meal is immediately halved. Therefore, the person who is arrested is extremely dissatisfied, but his stomach will be hungry very quickly. Everyone finally gave in.

In addition to asking people to obey health regulations, the BJP has established more rules, from washing clothes to bathing, and the floods are fortunately in the summer. The temperature is not low, and there is no shortage of water. In order to eat, the people barely maintained their obedience.

However, as the water receded, these obedience began to reach their limits. Some people have already begun pestering the insurance group to ask for food loans. It seems that he is going to leave Fengtai County to escape the famine. The people of Anhui have a tradition of fleeing the famine, and this behavior can also make Chen Ke understand. But Chen Ke didn't want to accept it. Today, when the rush to harvest is about to begin, what will be the impact after the people flee the famine?

Yuwen Badu didn't quite agree with Chen Ke's question, "Comrade Chen Ke, you're thinking too much. In previous disaster years, after such a catastrophe, it was a dead end for people who had no money to stay in the local area. Our insurance group doesn't have a reputation at all, and those people definitely won't believe us so quickly. Those who fled the famine, even if you forcibly pulled us under our banner, you may not be able to share our hearts. But those who didn't leave, I think will be a little more loyal. Without us, they wouldn't have been able to farm. ”

That's a good idea, because these people simply don't have any capacity to resume production when they return home. First of all, there is a shortage of farming tools, which will directly affect the efficiency of production and self-help. People who have escaped from the flood instinctively carry valuable things, and farm tools such as hoes are not necessarily the most important wealth in the family. And some large farm tools have no way to take them away. Although the BJP has brought back some farm tools from other places, it is still far from enough compared to the size of these tens of thousands of people.

Yuwen Badu believes that letting a group of people go to escape the famine is conducive to reducing material consumption. In the absence of tools, it is not a good thing to have extra people.

"Wen Qing, are you really going to let everyone's men, women, and children go into battle?" Shang Yuan was not too sure about Chen Ke's idea.

Chen Ke nodded, "That's right. That's what I'm going to do. I think we've got to give everyone a choice. I don't think it's appropriate to let people escape the famine now. The matter of producing self-help begins immediately. Can't you wait a few more days? ”

"In that case, I will organize comrades to explain this matter to the people." Shang Yuan replied.

"There is no need to organize comrades, let's first explain this matter to the comrades of the insurance regiment. If these comrades do not understand our policy, but they tell the people first, wouldn't they put the cart before the horse? ”

"......, then let the comrades of the Military Commission take charge of this matter. But what to say to the people. This must not be publicized by the comrades of the insurance group. Shang Yuan only paused a little at the beginning, and his subsequent answers did not mean that he was emotionally affected in the slightest.

"I mean to expand the army, I think it's necessary to form some new units. Using the model of the ancient military camp, we formed a reclamation army. Even if I let people go, I still want to be as strong as possible. And the strong can stay, and the old and weak will naturally not leave easily. ”

"Juntun? Among the existing troops, how about the three companies and four companies brought to the military cantonment first? Hua Xiongmao asked. He was a little worried about the burden on the families of officers and soldiers.

"My opinion is that now we have not too many troops, but too little. For now, it is necessary for us to form a regular brigade of two regiments. The scale is around 8,000 people. Moreover, it is not only the new troops that will carry out the tuntian, and the entire brigade will have to fight while farming the land and fighting at the same time. It is necessary not only to protect the base areas, but also to feed oneself. ”

Now there are about 1,000 people in the insurance group, which is a scale that many people have never imagined. And the army of 8,000 people is far beyond the imagination of comrades. Although many of the participants had thought about the million-dollar army, in this imagination, the million-strong army was just a vague shadow, just a simple collection of personnel. In fact, managing these 1,000 people has already made the comrades of the Central Military Commission busy. With an eightfold scale, will the existing management capacity be able to keep up? The comrades who had experience in leading troops all looked solemn. On the contrary, those comrades who had no experience in leading troops were all happy.

People are so strange, as long as you think that there are enough people, many things will become completely different.

As Chen Ke spoke about his views on the future, the attitude of the party comrades towards Zhang Youliang gradually became unanimous. Since killing Zhang Youliang is not for personal grudges, but for the category of political struggle. What's more, there may be a team of 8,000 people in the future, and many people think that Zhang Youliang's life and death are no longer a problem. The focus of everyone's discussion was on the question of how to arrange production to save themselves after the capture of Yue Zhangji.

"Don't wait to start, start now. Let Comrade Shang Yuan introduce this issue. Chen Ke pushed the problem to Shangyuan, the county magistrate of Fengtai County, who was responsible for self-help in production. Shang Yuan has been in charge of contacting the landlords who fled into the county these days, and Zhang Youliang's landlord attitude may be tough, but the attitude of the landlords in the county town is completely different. China's landlords do not have enough class consciousness, and they see landlords as a profession rather than a class. Such an attitude determines that the first thing they want to secure is their own life, not the ideal of permanent possession of the land. This attitude is manifested in the face of natural disasters by the fact that the small landowners did not strongly oppose the transfer of temporary cultivation rights to the land. These small landowners also need to be able to get out of their state of destituteness as soon as possible, and the floods are fair. The small landlords had no surplus of food.