The third part of the Bloody and Fire War of Resistance, the ninth chapter of the rush, the third section of the Taihang line

From meeting again to now, Zeng Peiqin made Mei Youlan feel strange, in her impression, this girl was a little shy, and even a little shy, but six years have passed, and when she meets again, these things have disappeared without a trace on her body. The whole // this \ small // said \ net replaced it with firm, capable,..., perhaps, and a little fanatical.

"Reporter Mei, you don't know us well enough," Zeng Peiqin's tone became a little calmer now, and a faint smile appeared on her face: "Chairman M taught us to be self-reliant and work hard, only in this way can we maintain a strong fighting spirit and defeat Japanese imperialism." ”

Ji Dengke and Captain Zhou didn't understand much of this kind of theoretical stuff, but they also heard it, and Mei Youlan seemed to have some opinions and some opinions about the party.

"Secretary Zeng, you misunderstood, I didn't say that your party's ideals are not good," Mei Youlan remembered some of what Zhuang Jihua had said to her, and said thoughtfully: "I have also seen along the way, the support of the people in the base area for your party and the government in the base area, however, from an economic point of view, the supply system cannot be maintained forever, and your party is currently adopting the supply system, more because of the tight finances, whether it is Yan'an or Taihang Mountain, are places of scarcity of materials, and it is very difficult to support hundreds of thousands of troops. This is the fundamental reason why your party adopted the supply system, let's just say Soviet Russia, they are also GCD people, and now they are using the salary system. ”

Zeng Peiqin nodded in silence: "Maybe what you said makes sense, but no matter which way we take, our ideals will not change." ”

As she was talking, the landlord's daughter brought a dustpan of dried persimmons, Zeng Peiqin grabbed the money on the table and gave it to her, the landlord's daughter was a little at a loss, and looked at Zeng Peiqin in confusion, after Zeng Peiqin explained, her face turned red, and she resolutely put the money on the table.

"What are you doing here, looking down on me?" The landlord's daughter got angry, threw down the money and turned around and left.

Mei Youlan smiled bitterly, and before she could explain, the big cow stuffy donkey and Xiao Shi came in from outside, and Xiao Shi was very happy to see Mei Youlan, but when he saw her with Zeng Peiqin and Ji Dengke, he hesitated and didn't come over, standing at the door. Captain Zhou stood up at this time and said goodbye to Mei Youlan Ji Dengke Zeng Peiqin: "Section Chief Ji, Secretary Zeng, Reporter Mei, my task is complete, the main force goes to us, I have to go back quickly, the county brigade is likely to have a task." ”

Section Chief Ji and Zeng Peiqin did not stay, Mei Youlan was full of gratitude to them, and affectionately pulled Xiaoshi to talk to Da Niu, telling Xiaoshi that after driving away the little devil, if you want to study, you can go to her, Chongqing does not charge money for studying, Xiaoshi is a little embarrassed, Captain Zhou laughed and agreed for Xiaoshi.

The landlord's daughter ran out of the house, seeing this, knowing that Captain Zhou and they were leaving, her eyes were red, and she pulled Captain Zhou to the side to talk, Mei Youlan was a little puzzled, Zeng Peiqin smiled at her knowingly, Mei Youlan suddenly realized and looked at them with a smile.

After saying "let's go" for a while, Captain Zhou waved at Da Niu and them, and the landlord's daughter reluctantly sent them to the entrance of the village, and then watched them leave.

"Don't worry, they'll be back soon," Zeng Peiqin joked with a smile, "When the time comes, I'll drink the wedding wine of the two of you." ”

"The district chief, ignoring you." The landlord's daughter blushed, flicked her big pigtails and ran away.

"Captain Zhou is blessed." Mei Youlan looked at the back of the landlord's daughter and said faintly, "This is a good girl." ”

Zeng Peiqin was very sensitive, and immediately noticed that Mei Youlan seemed to have something in mind, so she smiled and said: "You may not know that Captain Zhou was injured in the battle before, and he was recuperated at the eldest mother's house, and they were better at that time, but the army had regulations, and Captain Zhou's conditions were not enough, so they were delayed." ”

"Are there any conditions for marriage?" Mei Youlan was very surprised.

"Our party has a rule that the 258th Regiment means that the man must be over 25 years old, have eight years of military experience, and be a regiment-level cadre or above." Zeng Peiqin explained.

"Ah," Mei Youlan exclaimed, and then blurted out involuntarily: "This is unreasonable. ”

"It's a little unreasonable," without waiting for Section Chief Ji to speak, Zeng Peiqin took over the topic: "It's a time of war, we must temporarily give up our personal interests, and there is no way to do it." ”

Looking at Zeng Peiqin's natural appearance, Mei Youlan felt a little weird and scared in her heart. From time to time, people in the village greeted Zeng Peiqin, and Zeng Peiqin also casually said hello. At this time, a woman came out to fetch water, and saw Zeng Peiqin seemed to be a little scared, shrinking in the corner of the house and not daring to move, which was very different from the harmony just now. Zeng Peiqin's gaze turned on her, and then she looked away as if nothing happened.

Mei Youlan asked with some curiosity: "That's?" ”

"Oh, she is the landlord of this village, and she resists rent and interest reduction, and has been criticized by us." Zeng Peiqin's tone was very disdainful.

Mei Youlan nodded, she understood that this kind of thing had happened in various places to reduce rent and interest, the landlord resisted openly and secretly, and even sent someone to assassinate the team leader, all kinds of means emerged in an endless stream, Zhuang Jihua was also angry, and used iron-blooded means to kill, so as to implement the rent reduction and interest reduction.

"I heard that Chongqing is also implementing rent and interest reductions, is that so?" Chongqing's rent and interest reduction had a great impact, and in that year, Chongqing sent representatives to Nanjing to file a complaint, and in the major newspapers in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, they issued a series of newsletters, reprimanding Zhuang Jihua for plundering people's property, promoting GC doctrine without GCD, and demanding that Zhuang Jihua be replaced.

"That's right." Mei Youlan participated in the development of the southwest from beginning to end, and was very clear about these things, but Ji Dengke was a little curious, he didn't expect that the Kuomintang was also engaged in rent and interest reduction: "How do you reduce rent and interest? Is it also a two-five rent reduction? ”

"Rent reduction in the second five? I don't know," Mei Youlan didn't hear: "Chongqing's rent and interest reduction was in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Nationalist Government, before the Northern Expedition. The national government passed a decree requiring the rent to be reduced by 25%, oh, this is probably the rent reduction of the second five, but this is not the case in Chongqing, Chongqing stipulates that the rent shall not be higher than three or five per mu of harvest, and if it is exceeded, it will be fined one hundred. ”

"It's not allowed to exceed three percent of five," Zeng Peiqin muttered and repeated, quickly calculating in her heart, the difference between the rent reduction and the second five-year rent reduction, it turned out that the ground rent here was seventy percent, a reduction of 25 percent, that is, a reduction of nearly two percent of the ground rent, so the ground rent was still fifty percent, and she was a little strange: "Isn't that more resistance." ”

"In fact, after the landlords reduced the rent, they were also exempted from agricultural tax and poll tax, that is, the rural areas basically did not collect taxes, so the burden on the landlords was also reduced, in addition, the landlords could also put their accumulation into industry, and the government was exempt from tax for three years, and they were still cost-effective." In order to help Zhuang Jihua win the battle of rent reduction and interest reduction, Mei Youlan has conducted a detailed study on rent reduction and interest reduction, and all the data is very clear, which is not difficult for her at all.

Ji Dengke also counted it, and this time he was really surprised, obviously according to this algorithm, the burden of the peasants in the base area exceeded the burden of the peasants in Chongqing.

"There is no agricultural tax, and there is no poll tax, so what do you do to feed the army?" Zeng Peiqin's reaction was faster, she didn't believe that the national government had so many troops, so many government officials, what to raise.

Mei Youlan smiled at her, of course she knew the mystery, but this couldn't be said, it was a secret, at least it wasn't yet time to be revealed.

"In the initial stage, it was the donations of overseas Chinese, and then it relied on industry, in fact, industrial taxes are more stable than agriculture, and the Sichuan Development Company has developed a large number of mining factories, and about half of the benefits generated by these factories are used to raise the army, and about half are used to expand reproduction."

Ji Dengke can now conclude that Mei Youlan is telling a lie, exempting agricultural tax, exempting poll tax, is this possible? This reporter Mei is still a member of the Kuomintang, and he has done his best to propagate and whitewash them.

"Reporter Mei, I'll go over there and take a look, you rest first." Ji Dengke stopped at the door of the eldest lady and said goodbye to Mei Youlan, he came to pick up Mei Youlan, of course he didn't come alone, with a detachment, all of them were elite soldiers and strong generals drawn from the divisional reconnaissance company.

Zeng Peiqin also took the opportunity to say goodbye to Mei Youlan and went hand in hand with Ji Dengke, Mei Youlan limped back to the yard, pulled a chair and sat down, the landlord's daughter was pulling corn, and when she saw her sit down, she got up and brought her a bowl of water, and the two chatted about it without a match.

"She's bragging, doing her best to evaluate the merits of the Kuomintang, why do the superiors still attach so much importance to her." Ji Dengke was a little resentful, he began to look down on Mei Youlan anymore, and felt that this was not his own person.

"You're wrong, Chongqing is indeed like this," Zeng Peiqin shook her head and said: "Although I have never been to Chongqing, when Chongqing announced these policies, it caused a great reaction across the country. ”

"Ah" Ji Dengke stood in surprise and turned his head to look at Zeng Peiqin: "I don't believe it, this Kuomintang is still good, and dogs don't eat anymore." ”

"That's not it, think about it, why is it only Chongqing that implements these policies?" Zeng Peiqin shook her head solemnly: "The essence of the Chiang Kai-shek government will not change, ****, as far as I know, the **** in Chongqing is more serious than other places, there is no freedom of speech, no freedom of residence, no freedom of march and assembly, they just want to exchange economic interests for the people's political rights, but this way is extremely deceptive, and it will inevitably go bankrupt in the end." ”

"You scholars can see far and deeply," Ji Dengke felt a little better and nodded with satisfaction.

After two days of repairing here, Mei Youlan's feet were all right, Ji Dengke said goodbye to his eldest mother and walked towards the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. Zeng Peiqin didn't stay, in three days, the work here had been completed, and she left the small mountain village a day earlier than Ji Dengke and them.

Marching in the mountains in spring is very pleasant, the mountains are full of flowers, the fields are full of greenery, and the slight mountain breeze sends a leisurely mountain song.

"The yam eggs are blooming and knotting, and the egg is my confidant. Half a bowl of beans and half a bowl of rice, I thought of you when I picked up the rice bowl..."Mei Youlan listened interestingly, and whispered softly, and some soldiers in the squad began to respond loudly: "... Turning over the peach blossom ridge to flow through the sea of apricot blossoms, the humble brother he looked at the flowers, a little sister picked a mountain flower in the flowers, and her daughter was so beautiful, ...... she was dumb. ”

This move made Mei Youlan dumbfounded, you must know that this is the army on a mission, on the march, it is not easy to expose the target in this way, but Ji Dengke didn't care, and after the soldiers finished singing, they shouted excitedly: "Mountain sparrow, another one"

The mountain sparrow looked back, glanced at Mei Youlan a little shyly, and then opened his throat and sang:

"In August, the autumn breeze is cool,

The three of us went to beat the sour dates.

Big brother, he holds a bamboo pole in his hand,

The second brother mentioned it again, and he mentioned Zhuzhu Lanlan again.

This mountain sees that mountain is high,

The sour dates on the mountain grow well

……”

Ji Dengke has been walking in front of Mei Youlan, the mountain road is narrow, and the team can only march in a single way, Ji Dengke looked back at Mei Youlan.

"This is our Taihang Mountain song, and the soldiers like it very much."

"Aren't you afraid of exposing your target? Captain Zhou couldn't even speak loudly when they were marching. "Mei Youlan seems to have some complaints about the march of the previous day.

"No, didn't you hear the singing, that is, there is no enemy within dozens of miles." Ji Dengke doesn't care, this is the area of the Eighth Route Army, there are no bandits, no puppet army, no devils, only the armed forces under the leadership of the Eighth Route Army and GCD.

The singing is continuous, and the mountain road is long; The team quickly climbed over two hills and stopped at a nest to rest for lunch. There were three huge pine trees in the mountain nest, the name of the place is also three pines, and the warriors did not gather under the pine trees, but scattered, each finding a place to eat their own dry food, however, Mei Youlan noticed that although Ji Dengke was very confident, he still sent a guard post, one in front of the other, two guard posts.

Two whistles sounded, Ji Dengke stood up, and turned his eyes to a mountain road on the side, which was also a three-way crossing, and another mountain road came along the valley. After a while, a group of people came out of the valley one after another, and when they arrived at Sankesong, they also stopped, and the cadres in charge looked at Ji Dengke and them, and called to rest.

Mei Youlan was surprised, this group of people was obviously very abnormal, six soldiers with weapons were scattered in all directions, in the middle were more than 20 people who were tied, these people were dressed in a variety of clothes, some wore the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, some wore long robes, some wore local native coats, some were leather shoes, some were cloth shoes, and some were straw sandals.

The group had no hands tied, and a hemp rope was pulled from head to tail. With the order, these people sat down on the spot, Mei Youlan was very sensitive, she immediately noticed that a trace of indescribable emotion flashed in Ji Deng's light, as if she was unbearable, and it seemed to be irritable, and..., Mei Youlan thought about it carefully, and finally remembered, it was disgust, yes is disgust.

This made Mei Youlan very interested and disgusted, this soldier who had participated in the Long March and experienced countless bloody battles actually had a sense of disgust for his own people, which was strange. Who are these people? Mei Youlan looked at them carefully.

The Eighth Route Army did not have a military rank, but this did not prevent Mei Youlan from quickly finding the cadres among them, because only one of the people in this group had a pistol at his waist. This cadre is not like many cadres of the Eighth Route Army, his face is relatively white, he is cleaned up and down, and the cloth shoes under his feet are a little stolen, but the leggings are very clean. And the rest of the fighters were no different from the soldiers of the other Eighth Route Army.

"Who are they?" Mei Youlan quietly asked Ji Dengke, Ji Dengke was a little hesitant, and it took a long time before he replied: "I don't know." ”

When the white-faced cadres saw them, Mei Youlan felt that this gaze was condescending, there was a feeling of being looked down, and this gaze also carried deep suspicion.

"Old Ji, it turned out to be you." The white-faced cadre recognized Ji Dengke, and a smile appeared on his face. Ji Dengke looked him up and down, obviously unable to remember seeing this person there.

"We met in the military sub-district, you forgot, last year, we met with Secretary Dai at the sub-district rectification meeting." The white-faced cadres eagerly said that Ji Dengke was a cadre of the Long March, and these military cadres who participated in the Long March were very trusted politically, and Ji Dengke was still from the First Army, and he came down from Jinggang Mountain, so he did not have the slightest flaw in politics.

"Oh, yes, yes, you were next to Secretary Dai at the time," Ji Dengke still didn't think of it, nodded randomly, Secretary Dai in their mouth was the secretary of the division, responsible for rectification and interrogation, Ji Dengke's chin slightly asked the group of prisoners: "These are...?" ”

"Agent." The white-faced cadre spoke contemptuously: "These are all Kuomintang spies who have been found out from all over the place, infiltrated our party, and will not repent." ”

"So much." Ji Dengke seemed to be very peaceful, but also seemed a little casual.

"That's the worst part of the problem, and most of it is yet to come." The white-faced cadre said.

"The Kuomintang spies you caught?" Mei Youlan saw the stitches and interjected and asked.

"Yes." The suspicious gaze of the white-faced cadre fell on Mei Youlan again, her outfit was too eye-catching in the base area.

"Kuomintang spies," Mei Youlan added a question in her tone: "I remember that now it is the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperating to resist Japan, and the Kuomintang is arresting GCD members in the Kuomintang area, and Mr. Zhou Enlai protested, saying that it was to sabotage the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and now your party is arresting Kuomintang members in the base area, may I ask, is this sabotaging the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party?" ”

"Who are you? From what standpoint do you stand on? The white-faced cadre's eyes suddenly became fierce, and the soldiers also looked at Mei Youlan vigilantly.

"Non-partisan person, Chongqing Yuzhou Evening News reporter Mei Youlan." Mei Youlan sneered: "Do you think that I am also a Kuomintang spy and should be arrested, just like them." ”

"You ,...," The white-faced cadre's reaction was still very fast, and he immediately understood that Mei Youlan's identity was definitely not ordinary, and it was definitely extraordinary to be able to go to reporters from Chongqing to Taihang Mountain. Ji Dengke sighed secretly, went up and pulled the white-faced cadre aside, and spoke in a low voice.

Mei Youlan ignored them, and walked straight to the group of prisoners, examining them carefully, while the warriors stared at her vigilantly. Mei Youlan walked from beginning to end, she suddenly felt that one of the male cadres was a little familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, she still didn't come up with it.

"Are you members of the Kuomintang?" Mei Youlan rolled her eyes, and suddenly asked: "My name is Mei Youlan, a reporter from Chongqing to interview, if you are members of the Kuomintang and it is now a period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, I will negotiate with the GCD and let them release you." ”

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