At the turn of late autumn and early winter, the leaves in the Yimeng Mountains are already withering and the cold is blowing.

Before dawn, Cai Zhong and Ren Ying got up and led a few guards to pick up vegetables in their vegetable garden with baskets.

Cai Zhong was busy with work, and he couldn't take care of the cabbage and big robe in the garden. Seeing that it is cold, if you don't collect it, you will freeze to death.

Cai Zhong got up early, but he didn't expect someone to be earlier than him. There are people in the vegetable garden of Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan next door, and they are all busy.

Now is the time to harvest cabbage, radish, and sweet potatoes, and I am busy during the day, and I have to prevent being discovered by the devil's plane, so I can only take advantage of the unknown weather to collect vegetables.

After Liu Yimin evacuated from Shanghai and fought with the little devils in Yao's house, he led the special operations team led by Wang Laohu and Liu Bin to march all the way, entering the canal from Taihu Lake, crossing the river in Yangzhong, and entering northern Jiangsu from the Sanjiang Battalion, where he joined the troops of the New Fourth Army and Huang Wenhu's Hongze Lake Water Garrison Regiment.

Then he took a boat all the way north and met with Liu, Chen and other leaders of the New Fourth Army and the Central Plains Bureau in the semi-town of Hongze Lake. After resting for a few days, he continued to go north by waterway, broke through the Japanese blockade in Xinyi Ancient Town on the Longhai Line, entered the Yihe waterway, and returned to Linyi in Shandong.

In Linyi, Liu Yimin learned about Konoe Nachi's Taiwan from the radio and newspapers, and Hideki Tojo became the prime minister of Japan.

Liu Yimin knew that Konoe Fumima fell because he could not make up his mind to start a war with the United States and Britain, and he also knew that the battle plan for the Japanese army's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor had been completely decided at this time. With the coming to power of Hideki Tojo, the outbreak of the Pacific War was irreversible.

Liu Yimin, who was not in a hurry, inspected the construction of the troops of Hong Chaoyuan's Fifth Column in Linyi, held a forum for cadres at and above the regimental level, and then inspected the farmland and water conservancy facilities and market trade in Lunan District.

Originally, Liu Yimin really wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of acting alone to go west along the Yangtze River to Nanjing, and go to the headquarters of the Central China Front Army to toss and take the head of Nishio Shouzao. It is a pity that he can't help himself, and the telegrams sent by the Central Committee and the General Headquarters on a regular basis urge him to return to Shandong as soon as possible, and not to make any extraneous troubles and violate discipline. Liu Yimin thought about it later, and felt that he couldn't take a solo adventure, this was a war, he was the commander of the army, not a chivalrous man in martial arts novels, his task was to command the army to fight, not a special sniper. As a result, when Liu Yimin arrived in Bancheng to meet with Liu and Chen, he knew that Nishio Shouzo had been dismissed as the commander-in-chief of the [China" country dispatch army and that Junliu had been appointed as the commander-in-chief of the [China" country dispatch army, so he had to curse a few times hatefully.

Liu Yimin, who returned to the big store, was very busy. With so many Jewish scientific research and technical personnel and skilled workers imported from Shanghai, the strength of the logistics command's arsenal has grown a lot. In particular, the introduction of Jewish scientific research and technical personnel, including talents from all aspects of industry in this era, before Liu Yimin returned, the logistics command had already clarified the foundation and came up with a plan for developing the industry in the base area. Liu Yimin took a look, Wu Zheng and Yang Zhicheng were very ambitious, and even proposed to build the Eighth Route Army's automobile factory, motorcycle factory, and bicycle factory.

Of course, Liu Yimin can't wait to build a large factory, but the current situation is not suitable. Only by recovering the Northeast and having a consolidated base area in the Northeast and utilizing the industrial base of the Northeast can large factories be built. For the time being, this is just a hypothesis. Liu Yimin ordered Wu Zheng and Yang Zhicheng to use Jewish scientific research and technical personnel to set up various research institutes and technical schools while strengthening the production of munitions, so as to lay the foundation for the future development of Northeast China's industry.

Liu Yimin gave a death order to the logistics command to produce 2 million rounds of artillery shells to meet the needs of the troops in a big war before the arrival of spring. This figure does not include normal reloading ammunition.

Now that the logistics headquarters has equipment, enough technicians and technicians, and steel shipped back from Shanghai, as well as crude iron produced by iron-making furnaces in the base area, Liu Yimin is ambitious and ready to find the bad luck of the little devil.

Cai Zhong knew that Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan were busy, but he didn't expect the two of them to come to collect vegetables early in the morning. After picking up a few baskets of cabbage and pulling out a few baskets of radish, Cai Zhong asked the guards to pick them back to the headquarters compound and hand them over to the guard gang room, asking them to make a pot of rodish cabbage soup and make breakfast for the headquarters organs and soldiers.

The guard reported that he had heard that yesterday the commander had given the cooking squad to the commissar for breakfast with poached eggs, and that the commissar had given the commander with poached eggs for breakfast, with the result that the soldier who delivered the meal was criticized by both the commander and the commissar, and the breakfast was sent to the field hospital; If the chief confesses to the commander and commissar to add poached eggs to the breakfast, maybe the soldiers who deliver the food will be criticized again.

This is the benefit of calling on all units to reclaim land and carry out large-scale production and movement. The Shandong Military Region not only solved the problem of funds for the economic development of the base areas by capturing Shanghai, but also lightened the burden on the people of Shandong. As far as Cai Zhong is concerned, from Shangjinggangshan to the present, when it comes to the supply level of the troops, there is no comparison between the time and the present in the Central Soviet District. It was precisely because there was food in the warehouse that Cai Zhong thought of asking the cooking class to quietly add some nutritious eggs to Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan's breakfast.

Cai Zhong laughed when he heard it, stopped being wordy, and turned around and went to Liu Yimin's vegetable garden next door.

Liu Yimin's vegetable garden is large, and there are more people working, and the radishes pulled out are piled up like wheat straw stacks in the villagers' homes.

Cai Zhong saw Liu Yimin's hard work, so he shouted: "Commander, political commissar, come and rest, smoke a cigarette, and drink tea!" ”

Luo Ronghuan's vegetable garden is next to Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong's vegetable garden, and the size is similar to Cai Zhong's vegetable garden, and it is almost the same. When Lin Yueqin heard Cai Zhong's shout, she picked up Luo Ronghuan, who was bending over to work, and pushed him over, saying that she and the soldiers would do the rest of the work, so he didn't have to worry about it.

Ren Ying felt sorry for Luo Ronghuan, because Luo Ronghuan had been injured and had always had back pain recently, so he asked him to go to the hospital for a check-up and he didn't go, and he was not allowed to tell his comrades.

When Luo Ronghuan came over, Lao Yuan said: "You Lao Cai, leaving Ren Ying alone to lead the soldiers to work, hiding here to enjoy leisure, and seducing me and the commander, it's really unbelievable!" ”

Cai Zhong said with a smile: "Political commissar, the two of us have a small vegetable garden, and we don't have much work, so we can't stop the soldiers from doing it." Anyway, this dish is confiscated for everyone to eat, and anyone can do the same! ”

Liu Yimin held the freshly pulled radish in his hand and said: "Lao Cai is sophistry, bullying Ren Ying's sister-in-law." In your case, you can only be a soldier and fight, Cai Zhong still smiled and said: "Then you are underestimating people." I'm really good at farming, plowing and raking, and doing everything. Besides, how can my Lao Cai be so smart, how can he stubbornly guard 30 acres of land and hot kang with his wife and children? At the very least, I want to open a restaurant in Shanghai and be a rich Shanghainese! ”

Cai Zhong went to Shanghai this time to open his eyes, and saw the prosperity of the ten-mile foreign market in the concession, and he was full of foreign flavor when he joked.

Hearing this, Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan and the soldiers who were working all laughed.

Liu Yimin said and laughed, but he didn't come over, and his hands didn't stop.

Cai Zhong felt strange, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that Ni Hua seemed to be following Liu Yimin. Liu Yimin plucked the turnip, and she picked it up. It seems that Ni Hua has never done field work, and he doesn't want to stand empty-handed, so he can only give Liu Yimin a hand.

Cai Zhong walked over and said, "Ni Hua, why are you here?" Hurry up and go back to see Jing'er, you don't have to do the work here! The commander is really, such a smart person can't tell the difference between big and small, Ni Hua is holding a scalpel, not pulling a turnip. It's a pure waste of talent! ”

Ni Huajiao smiled: "Director Cai, didn't your sister-in-law Ren Ying also come to collect the vegetables?" I have to learn from her. I can't do it, I can learn! ”

Cai Zhongxin said, Ni Hua is afraid that Tang Xingying will follow Liu Yimin to collect vegetables, and he will not work in the field and will come hard. Women, no matter how beautiful they are, no matter how knowledgeable they are, and how good their temperament is, they also have unknown cautions in their hearts. In fact, Tang Xingying is not good at farm work, it is also Miss Jiao, a foreign student, but she fell in love with Liu Yimin and refused to fall behind, so she walked in front of all kinds of work.

Liu Yimin saw that the sky was almost clear, and he was afraid that Jing'er would wake up and cry, so he ――――― wait for the soldiers to start transporting radishes and cabbage back, and let Ni Hua also go back to see if he was allowed to fall out of bed.

Cai Zhong picked up Liu Yimin and left, sat down next to Luo Ronghuan, and called Ren Ying to bring the teapot, poured three bowls of hot tea, handed Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan a bowl each, and drank a bowl himself.

After Luo Ronghuan put down the tea bowl, he said to Liu Yimin: "Commander, the chairman published "Transforming Our Learning" in May, and the Politburo held an enlarged meeting in September.

Yesterday, the Central Committee sent a telegram asking the Shandong Bureau to elect a delegation to participate in the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China and return to Xi'an to participate in the study. You go back and see, let's look at how the deputies are elected and who will lead the team. ”

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was about to occur, and Liu Yimin was planning how to fight a big battle in Shandong, mobilize the Kwantung Army to Shandong, and create conditions for the upcoming invasion of the northeast. At this time, the Central Committee asked the Shandong Bureau to elect representatives to participate in the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, form a delegation, and return to Xi'an to study.