[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 943: Large-scale Production Movement (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

"I heard that your kid is going to expand his army, can you support so many troops?" It was very surprising that the chairman did not comment on Ma Zheng's question, but asked about the recruitment of new recruits in the Suicha Military Region. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ma Zheng also knew the contradiction in the chairman's heart, although the Soviet Union did not give them much practical support now, and even when he was in Jiangxi, the Soviet Union also gave the Nationalist Government more than a dozen Soviet infantry divisions to besiege the Soviet area.

But they must not turn their faces with the CPSU now, and the consequences of doing so are very serious, after all, the CPSU is now a tiger-skinned banner for Yan'an. Although there is no substantial benefit to having the protection of this tiger skin banner, it can make the enemy on the surface have some scruples, but if this tiger skin banner is lost, the environment outside China will suddenly become very bad.

Knowing this, Ma Zheng didn't ask too much, after all, some things only need to be clicked lightly, and talking too much is not beautiful.

With the funds that our comrades got back from the United States, we can buy food from the nationalized areas and even from enemy-occupied areas, and our own heavy industry base can produce weapons and equipment, so it is naturally no problem to feed these troops. What's more, these new units formed this time are mainly used to enrich the rear, and there is no need for them to go to the battlefield, and in their spare time, these troops still have to settle fields and produce their own food, so the pressure on the military region is not as great as imagined! Ma Zheng said.

"Tuntian?" The chair asked, surprised.

"Well, don't you think that the army's cultivation of land is an effective way to solve the food problem?" Ma Zheng asked rhetorically.

"The method of tuntian has existed since ancient times, but is it really good to use a modern army to conduct tuntian?" The chairman asked, frowning.

Ma Zheng said very seriously: "Chairman, when you first entered the door, you asked me how Yan'an was, compared to Guisui, in fact, I didn't tell the truth!" ”

"Oh, so what's your honest?" The Chair asked with interest.

"Yan'an is generally not bad, but there are still some problems, which can be summed up in one sentence: lack of material life and full spiritual life." Ma Zheng said in a deep voice.

"How?"

"The spirit of Yan'an is very good, whether it is the people in the city or the army are full of vitality, people here are easily infected, there is hope here, it can be said that Yan'an is the spark of the Chinese revolution. However, the living standards of the people in Yan'an are really too poor, not a little worse than those in Guisui, and even the living standards of the common people in some of the occupied areas cannot catch up. Ma Zheng told the truth and told the chairman everything he saw and thought.

The chairman paused for a while before saying: "You are very right, the current situation in Yan'an is exactly what you said, but the reality is like this, the troops are not even enough military rations, and where do the people in our rear go to improve their living conditions." Since we can't improve the living standards of the common people, we can only improve their spiritual life, and there is no way to do it! ”

Ma Zheng knew that the chairman was telling the truth, and the material life in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area during the Anti-Japanese War was very difficult. The border area is originally a barren place, the natural conditions are harsh, the main planting of crops such as miscellaneous grains with a relatively short growing season and strong drought tolerance, and the yield is very low, and the people's diet is mainly millet and other miscellaneous grains; Sheep husbandry is the main industry, and clothing mainly depends on homespun cloth and fur.

Since ancient times, this is a place that can barely be self-sufficient, and once a natural disaster occurs, people here can only leave their hometowns, so this has always been one of the several major sources of peasant uprisings, such as Li Zicheng and others in the late Ming Dynasty were born here.

Second, the reality of the situation has aggravated the poverty level in the Yan'an area, since the Red Army reached the border area after climbing the snow-capped mountains and crossing the grasslands, a large number of outsiders have come to the border area, and all the consumption of the troops has to be supported by the people in the border area.

At the same time, after the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the stage of stalemate, the Kuomintang army adopted an economic blockade policy and suspended the payment of military salaries to the Eighth Route Army in the border areas, and all foreign aid in the border areas was almost completely cut off, and necessities such as cotton and cloth were forbidden to flow in, resulting in difficulties in eating and dressing the border areas.

Ma Zheng thought for a while and said: "Chairman, in the past few days, I have made a long observation and visit to Yan'an, and I have seen some good places and some bad phenomena, and the phenomenon of third-class clothing and fifth-class food in our army has aroused the dissatisfaction of the majority of intellectuals and the people, but the root cause of all this lies in the underdeveloped economy and lack of materials in the border areas. As long as we solve this problem, everything else can be easily solved, and in addition, the rich spiritual life in our border areas can also be preserved or carried forward, so that Yan'an can truly become a holy place for our party members. ”

"It's not easy to talk about, the economic development situation in the border area is very worrying, we have discussed it many times, and we have found a lot of experts who have made great achievements in the economy, but we have not found a solution, so..."

The chairman didn't say anything next, but Ma Zheng knew what the chairman meant.

Ma Zheng also knows that it is indeed not easy for leaders in this era, not to mention the chairman opposite, and even Chairman Chiang, who has always had a lot of money, is at a loss in terms of economy. If the national government's fiscal revenue is calculated according to the budget revenue of 1 billion yuan per year, the war expenditure alone is twice the total fiscal revenue.

In fact, the national government's fiscal revenue did not reach the budgeted figures, and from 1938 to 1941, the annual fiscal revenue was only about 400 million yuan, which was only 40 percent of the 1 billion yuan budget in 1937. Before the war, the rich eastern areas were the main source of fiscal revenue for the Nationalist Government, but after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, this area fell quickly, causing the Nationalist Government's fiscal revenue to decline rapidly.

Even the Nationalist Government is in such a situation, let alone the border district governments of only a few dozen counties, and it is no wonder that the chairman does not believe that Ma Zheng is capable of solving the difficulties encountered by the border government at the moment.

Thinking of this, Ma Zheng suddenly realized why the chairman had avoided talking about the Soviet issue before, but instead led the problem here, and the chairman told himself that it was not that he did not want to solve it, but that he could not do anything about it.

With the financial difficulties faced by the Party Central Committee and the government of the entire border region, not to mention anything else, just dressing and eating is enough to worry people, let alone other things. If it is not enough to dress and eat, it is only death to get rid of the constraints of the Comintern and the Soviet Union.

Ma Zheng suddenly appreciated the clever skills of politicians in this era, and people didn't answer those sensitive questions directly at all, but just told you from the side that I didn't want to do it but that I couldn't do it, and that doing it would lead to great things.

Ma Zheng secretly smiled bitterly, the chairman is the chairman, and such a clever method cannot be learned by himself.

In fact, the root cause of these problems is the problem of economic development, and the root cause of economic development is the problem of materials. It may be a little difficult to change someone else, but everything will no longer be an unsolvable problem for Ma Zheng.

"Chairman, I know what you said, and in my opinion, all this is not something that cannot be solved, most of the reasons why the people have opinions on the government of the border region are because of borrowing grain, as long as we solve this matter, most of the affairs in the border area will be solved, you can leave this matter to me, and I will also give you an outline for the economic construction of the border region, but all this needs your support, chairman!" Ma Zheng said.

Seeing Ma Zheng say so firmly, the chairman also began to be moved, after all, Ma Zheng's record is there, that is a person who is used to creating miracles and likes to move from victory to greater victory, everything is possible in him.

"Tell me what you think, as long as it's good, I'll support it!" The Chairman immediately asked.

"I hope to launch a large-scale production campaign in the name of the central authorities and do it ourselves, and this is the reason why our Suicha Military Region has been able to develop in such a short period of time; the regular troops of our military region are not engaged in agricultural production, but the garrison units in the rear have their own fields, and the grain produced every year is enough for the military region's troops to consume for a year, and they can also provide some support to the fraternal troops."

Ma Zheng continued: "So we rarely collect taxes from the people in the jurisdiction, so we quickly gained the trust and support of the people, just now our military region has recruited another 120,000 recruits, the vast majority of these recruits are the children of peasant families, and the 100,000 army only took less than one month to collect all the taxes, which cannot be done without the heartfelt support of the people." ”

Ma Zheng was very surprised by what he said, because he knew that the Suicha Military Region was very trusted by the local people in Suicha and the two provinces, but he did not expect that he would believe it to such an extent. (To be continued.) )