[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 945: Field Trip (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Since he promised the chairman to revitalize the economy of the border areas, of course Ma Zheng would not just talk about it, so in the next few days, Ma Zheng took the guard troops he brought with him to wander around the surrounding areas of Yan'an every day, sometimes there was no one for a day or two, and sometimes even some very important activities were delayed, so many comrades in the party had quite opinions on this. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Some veteran comrades even suggested that the chairman should severely criticize a group of unreliable comrades, hoping that he would give priority to the party and military industry and not be overly obsessed with enjoying the mountains and rivers.

However, the chairman only smiled at the requests made by these people, and did not make any comments. If it is said that Ma Zheng spends a lot of time on the mountains and waters, the chairman and others will never believe it, after talking with Ma Zheng secretly, he knows that Ma Zheng is no longer Wuxia Ameng, and now Ma Zheng has hills and valleys in his heart.

Ma Zheng really didn't go to the mountains and rivers these days, but went to inspect the situation of the border district government on the spot. In his memory, although the conditions of the government of the border region are indeed very difficult and the financial and other aspects have indeed encountered considerable difficulties, there are still more difficult things to come.

If Ma Zheng's memory had not been skewed, the real difficulty would have been around 1942, and compared to the most difficult period, this difficulty is simply not worth mentioning.

It was in order to cope with the difficulties of 1942 that the Party Central Committee proposed the large-scale production movement. At that time, the place where the large-scale production movement arose was Yan'an, and the effect was very significant.

Since the predecessors have already had successful experience, Ma Zheng unceremoniously plagiarized and requisitioned. The star unit of the large-scale production movement is Wang Zhen's 359 Brigade, and the star area is in Nanniwan, of course, these are also targeted by Ma Zheng.

Ma Zheng went to the surrounding areas of Yan'an to survey the terrain in the past few days, mainly to see if there were any places that could be reclaimed on a large scale in addition to Nanniwan, after all, one Nanniwan could not meet the needs of more than 20,000 troops of three infantry brigades.

Of course, Nanniwan, the famous Ma Zheng in the south of the Yangtze River in later generations, will never let go, and the first battle of Ma Zheng's great cause of reclamation is ready to start in Nanniwan.

Nanniwan is located 45 kilometers southeast of Yan'an City, a hundred years ago, it was densely populated, with abundant water, fertile land, and very prosperous production and economy. In the middle of the Qingming Dynasty, the Qing rulers provoked the Hui and Han ethnic disputes and killed each other, turning it into a desolate place overgrown with weeds, thorns, sparse people, and infested with wild beasts.

As early as February 1939, the chairman put forward the general policy of "developing the economy and ensuring supply" and the call of "doing it yourself" and "having enough food and clothing" to mobilize the vast number of military and civilians to carry out the large-scale production movement. However, at this time, because the most difficult time had not yet been reached, the large-scale production movement was not carried out on a large scale.

After inspecting Nanniwan, it was difficult for Ma Zheng to connect the wild land he had seen with the later Saiwai Jiangnan Institute, and he also admired the 359 Brigade that created this economic zone from the bottom of his heart.

As far as Ma Zheng knows, in the spring of 1941, the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, under the leadership of brigade commander and political commissar Wang Zhen, was ordered to drive into Nanniwan and began a life of overcoming thorns and thorns, cultivating wasteland, and sleeping in the open.

By 1942, the production self-sufficiency rate of the 359 Brigade reached 61.55%; In 1943, the production self-sufficiency rate reached 100%, and by 1944, the 359th Brigade had opened up 261,000 mu of wasteland for farming, harvested 37,000 stone of grain, raised 5,624 pigs, and handed over 10,000 stone of public grain.

In the past few years, the vast number of officers and men have used their own hands and sweat to bend the deserted Nanniwan into "Pingchuan rice fragrant, fat ducks all over the pond." There are crops everywhere, and cattle and sheep everywhere", and the popular song "Picking Flowers and Blue" was also created at this time.

According to historical documents, after the implementation of the large-scale production campaign, the organs and troops in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region needed 39 million kilograms of fine grain (millet) every year, and produced 15 million kilograms by themselves. Many units in the border areas have achieved complete self-sufficiency in food and funds, and have achieved the goal of "doing their own work and having enough food and clothing."

In agriculture, as a result of the implementation of the correct agricultural production policy, the area of cultivated land in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region has increased rapidly, the area of irrigated farmland has continued to expand, and grain output has increased by a large margin.

The area of cultivated land increased from 12,132,169 mu in 1941 to 14,256,144 mu in 1945, an increase of 7 percent over 1938, and the area of dry land in the whole border region was converted into 23,558 mu of dry land in 1940 and 41,109 mu in 1944. Grain output increased year by year, reaching 455,860 stone in 1941 and 1,812,215 stone in 1943, achieving self-sufficiency and laying a solid material foundation for the general rear of the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines.

In addition to grain production, cotton production in the border areas is also increasing year by year. The border areas did not produce cotton in the past, but after a large-scale production campaign, the area of cotton planting expanded rapidly, and the cotton output also increased year by year, reaching 3 million catties (net flowers) in 1944, which was enough for the military and civilians in the border areas to wear clothes.

At the same time as the grain and cotton increased, the animal husbandry in the border areas also developed considerably, and the number of cattle increased from 150,892 in 1939 to 20,781 in 1943, and the number of sheep and pigs also increased considerably.

In addition, the entire Yan'an region and the entire border region have made tremendous progress in all walks of life, and gratifying results have been achieved in both agricultural and animal husbandry production and industrial production. By 1944, 77 public factories, including 11 paper mills, 2 soap factories, 12 quilt factories, 8 tool factories, 4 printing factories, 3 ceramic factories, and 23 textile factories, had been set up, with more than 12,000 employees.

By 1943, the border areas were basically self-sufficient in cotton yarn, cloth, iron, paper, and many other daily necessities. The development of industrial and agricultural production has brought about the prosperity of commerce and the vitality of the market. The government of the border region successively set up the Guanghua Store, the Salt Industry Company, the Nanchang Company, the Native Products Company, and the Yongchang Company, mainly organizing the export of local products in exchange for the import of necessities, so as to ensure the supply of military and civilian products and stabilize the prices and currency in the border areas.

At the same time, public-run commerce, cooperative commerce, and private commerce have formed commercial outlets throughout urban and rural areas, which have facilitated the production and life of the military and civilians.

The large-scale production campaign enabled the armed forces to actively participate in production and improve their material livelihood, and many military units achieved full or partial self-sufficiency in food, clothing, and other daily necessities. The military and civilians in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region and the anti-Japanese base areas were also able to victoriously survive the most difficult period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, thus laying a material foundation for supporting the protracted war behind enemy lines and winning victory in the War of Resistance against Japan.

These are solid figures, absolutely not mixed with any water, and this is only a small part of the wealth and economic effect created by the troops.

Now Ma Zheng is ready to invest greater manpower, material, and financial resources to raise the scale of the large-scale production movement to a degree that is incomparable in history, so he firmly believes that this large-scale production movement presided over by the Suicha Military Region led by the central authorities will definitely achieve a more brilliant victory than in history.

Ma Zheng did not participate in any political activities in Yan'an for more than half a month, and after half a month, Ma Zheng quietly returned to Saibei.

Later historians have studied Ma Zheng's trip to Yan'an, but they have not found any textual anything about the exchanges between the chairman and Marshal Ma Zheng, but they can roughly judge the general content of the conversation between them based on the activities of the Suicha Military Region in the following years and some of the central authorities' principles and policies, and the core of it must be related to the revitalization of the economy in the border region. (To be continued.) )