Chapter 57: 100,000 Hungry People

Gong Dapeng is a veteran, a ten-year party member, participated in the Korean War, experienced the test of blood and fire, and was very prestigious in the village and even the township.

Chen Zikun ordered Gong Dapeng to connect with each other overnight to organize the members of the production brigades of the whole commune and go to Beitai tomorrow to receive grain.

Gong Dapeng offered advice: "The name is not right, the chief, I suggest that we set up the headquarters in the commune. ”

Chan happily accepted.

Several juniors rode Li Huazi and their bicycles, and quickly went to inform the various production captains to go to the commune for a meeting, Chen Zikun also drove to the commune, and Li Huazi, who was tied up with five flowers, was led by people with ropes and followed behind.

When they arrived at the commune, the group entered the office, and the master of the canteen walked in with a bowl of noodles and said with a smile: "Secretary Li, supper is coming." ”

A group of people glared angrily at the chubby master.

Only then did the master realize that something was wrong, and Secretary Li had become a prisoner.

"Okay, you Li Huazi, the masses are so hungry that they are swollen, but you open a small stove to eat white noodles, do you still have a conscience!" Gong Dapeng shouted angrily.

"Fight him!"

"Hold a mass meeting and fight him for three days and three nights!"

Li Huazi hung her head, like a defeated rooster, and hated the master in her heart, this bowl of noodles will not appear sooner or later, this point will be brought out, this is not fatal.

The more the angry crowd talked, the more angry they became, so they simply went up and beat Li Huazi violently, seeing that they were almost done, Chen Zikun persuaded him: "Don't fight, how can you fight him if you kill him." ”

The crowd vented their anger and felt much more comfortable, so they stopped and threw the dead dog-like Li Huazi into the corner.

Chen Zikun got straight to the point, saying that there was relief grain in the city, but the organization did not have the strength to issue it, and hoped that the peasant brothers would take the initiative to receive it and set off tomorrow, bringing shovels and sacks, and those with animal powered carts or tractors would also drive together, otherwise there would be too much relief grain and they would not be able to take it.

The head of the central government spoke, who could not believe it, the crowd was jubilant, and the news flew everywhere like wings, spreading all over the land of Jiangbei overnight.

That night, Chen Zikun slept in the commune conference room, and the secretary asked him worriedly: "Chief, this is going to be a big deal." ”

Chen Zikun said: "I just have to make a big deal in order to attract the attention of the central authorities, in order to completely solve the problem of peasants starving to death in batches, and to treat serious diseases, we must use strong medicine, sacrificing my personal political life is nothing, I have been prepared." ”

The secretary choked up and said, "Chief, I ......"

This secretary was assigned to Chen Zikun by the General Office of the State Council, named Peng Jianguo, who graduated from the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University and is an absolute elite talent.

Chen Zikun said: "Xiao Peng, you haven't been working by my side for a long time, I don't want to affect you, you go back to Beijing now, this matter has nothing to do with you." ”

The secretary puffed out his chest: "Chief, I will advance and retreat with you!" ”

Chen Zikun nodded with satisfaction, it seems that there is still hope for young people.

……

In the early morning of the next day, thousands of people had gathered at the station of Kushuijing Commune, holding bags, carrying baskets, carrying baskets, driving ox carts, driving tractors, and according to the instructions of the superiors, all production teams were waving red flags.

Chen Zikun is a general who has led the troops, and dispatching these thousands of peasants is not the same as playing, he asked Gong Dapeng to prepare a flagpole with one zhang and eight feet, and carry the big flag of Kushuijing Commune as a big flag, and formulate a simple flag, Daxu forward, the masses forward, Daxu stop, the masses stop, in short, everything follows Daxu, and each production team selects two agile and clever people with legs and feet as messengers to convey the orders of the general headquarters.

After arranging everything, the team set off towards the county seat.

Along the way, a large number of people helped the old and the young to join, although they were all hungry, but their eyes were shining with sparks of hope, and Chen Zikun's army quickly changed from 1,000 to 10,000.

The core of the team is a walk-behind tractor, on which Chen Zikun sits like a general leading thousands of troops, and a tall young man stands beside him with Da Xu, proudly puffing out his chest.

The tractor driver is the person who pulled Chen Zikun yesterday, and he is excited and proud at the moment, although he is driving a tractor, but the momentum is as if he is driving a tank car, a fighter plane, and a 10,000-ton giant ship.

Gong Dapeng served as a pioneer officer, and he organized dozens of strong young men to protect Chen Zikun with shovels and sticks, and in his words, there are traitors and traitors in the party, and the chief must be protected.

When Yang Shugen, the first secretary of the county party committee, got the news, the 10,000 ** army had already arrived at the edge of the county seat, and the black pressure was like locusts.

"Who organized! Who leads! It must be strictly investigated and dealt with strictly! Yang Shugen jumped like thunder, grabbed the phone and shook violently: "Pick up the county public security bureau for me!" ”

Dozens of policemen of the county public security bureau, all scattered out could not stop the army of food, Yang Shugen was anxious, personally out of the horse, sitting in a jeep to appease the masses, he thought that his prestige was enough to suppress the hungry masses, but he did not expect that people did not pay attention to him at all, the tide of people rushed by the side of the jeep, even if he shouted hoarsely, no one listened.

"Comrades, folks, listen to me, don't be instigated by bad people!" The poplar root shouted hoarsely, but the sound was quickly drowned out.

A tractor drove by, and the person sitting in the car made Yang Shugen's heart twitch suddenly.

It turned out to be him!

Chen Zikun, the king of Jiangdong, is back, this old warlord who is not willing to be lonely, in a vain attempt to instigate the masses to oppose the party and socialism!

The strings of the class struggle in the roots of the poplar suddenly collapsed, and the situation was much more serious than imagined, and it must be reported to the local party committee immediately.

He immediately returned to the county party committee, grabbed the phone and shook the handle violently, but there was no echo in the microphone.

"Xiao Li, you should go to the post and telecommunications office immediately and ask them how the phone line worked." Yang Shugen ordered the county party committee messenger.

"Yes!" Xiao Li ran to the post and telecommunications office.

At the same time, on the telephone pole outside the county, a sturdy young farmer with a mouth full of white teeth, holding a cut telephone line to show off his achievements to his companions.

Chen Zikun had already made arrangements and sent people to cut the telephone lines to prevent the North Thai side from making early preparations.

Chen Zikun, who has experienced warlord melee, the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation, can not be compared to a small role like Yang Shugen.

The team is getting bigger and bigger, the chariots and horses are Xiao Xiao, looking at the front and not seeing the end, and there are estimated to be 100,000 people, Chen Zikun is in the middle of the command and dispatch, completely relying on backward flags and passwords, and it is actually in order, which is all thanks to our party's organization at the grassroots level, and the youth participate in the militia, and the youth participate in the Communist Youth League, the Young Pioneers and other organizations, and the ability to organize and coordinate is much stronger than that of the people before liberation.

Most of the people who joined later did not know what was going on, they only knew two things, Chen Zikun had returned, and he had food collars.

Chen Zikun has been in charge of Jiangdong for 30 years, it can be said that the common people have never suffered from hunger, 42 years of famine in Henan, millions of people died of starvation, Jiangdong was also very badly affected, Chen Zikun bought high-priced grain from the Japanese forest area for disaster relief, and tried to ensure that no one starved to death, although these things were not publicized later, but the people kept it in mind.

When Governor Chen returns, there will be no need to starve, this seems to have become a truth, and everyone is convinced of it.

……

A Gasjeep was speeding on the dirt road like wolf smoke, and stopped in front of the office building of the Jiangbei Prefectural Party Committee.

Mai Ping, secretary of the prefectural party committee, is presiding over a grain work conference; a batch of wheat has recently been collected in the Jiangbei region, and this batch of grain must be loaded with the deep friendship of the Chinese people and transported to Cuba to support the proletarian brothers.

Mai Ping has been on the rise in the past ten years, on the one hand, because he has a close relationship with Zheng Zeru, on the other hand, because of his high level of education and strong political quality, ordinary cadres really can't compare with him, and he has been promoted from a small unit chief to the secretary of the prefectural party committee in ten years.

Secretary Mai spoke on it, he did not need a script, he spoke eloquently, clearly, and infectiously, unlike some old and rough cadres who had been transferred from the army, who could only lead the troops to fight and could not speak.

The cadres were taking notes carefully, and suddenly the door of the conference room was pushed open, and Yang Shugen, who had an anxious face, walked in and whispered: "Secretary Mai, there is something important to report." ”

Mai Ping looked at his watch and said, "The meeting is over." ”

Yang Shugen took a step forward and said, "Something happened, 100,000 hungry people are flocking to Beitai!" To grab food! ”

Mai Pinghu's body was shocked, and then returned to normal: "Xiao Yang, is the situation as serious as you said?" ”

"Secretary Mai, I use the party spirit to vouch, there is no lie, I am responsible, but I can't help it, because these people were bewitched by Chen Zikun, and I really can't do anything."

Mai Ping gasped, Chen Zikun is back, this matter is complicated.

He stomped a few steps back and forth in the conference room and said, "Are you sure their purpose is food?" ”

"Sure! That's their slogan, saying that there is relief food in North Thailand. ”

Mai Ping said with a gloomy face: "You come with me." ”

Quickly coming to the office, Mai Ping first hung up the phone to the regional public security office, asked them to send more people to protect the national grain depot, and then called the railway branch to report the situation, asking them to leave the train as soon as possible to transport the grain.

"I'm afraid there aren't enough people in the regional public security department." Yang Shugen said worriedly, "The people from the county public security bureau tried to stop it, but they were quickly washed away. ”

Mai Ping said: "The strength in the county is relatively weak, but there are troops to support the region, so I immediately asked the Jiangbei Military Division and the garrison division to send troops over." ”

The secretary of the prefectural party committee is also the political commissar of the military sub-district, and it is reasonable to transfer troops, not to mention that this is an extraordinary situation.

100,000 hungry people are flocking to Beitai.