In 1930, on April 1, Xiadiankou Village, Jiangkou Town, Fengkai County.

This small village at the junction of Guangzhou and Guangzhou, belonging to Guangdong, may have been a great thing many years ago, or many years later, if not because of anything else, but because two or three kilometers away is Guangxi, which is far less economically inferior to Guangdong.

Today, however, this is not the case at all.

Although Xiadiankou Village belongs to Guangdong, it is located at the junction of the two Guangzhou, almost the four regardless of the sky and the earth, regardless of the two Guangzhou, there is no political axe organization, no political axe policy, some are just clan traditions, and some are just clan supervision and deliberation systems formed spontaneously by people.

The social system is backward, the economy is backward, the people are not hungry, in addition to the rent handed over to the landlords, they also have to bear all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the new national political axe and the local political axe.

Actually, there is nothing wrong with this, or rather, when the situation is the same in the nearby villages, there may be a lot of people dissatisfied with such a living situation, but people will choose to go along with it. The kind-hearted Chinese, the biggest skill, is that when the knife is not on the neck, they will do everything they can, endure all the hardships, and live like dogs.

However, when all things have a comparable existence, the most obedient people will also rise up.

Less than three kilometers away from Xiadiankou, Jiangkou Town, Fengkai County, is Huangmaoshan Village, which is under the jurisdiction of Wuzhou City, Guangxi.

Although Huangmaoshan Village is far away from the big city and is not the core administrative area of the Southwest Political Axe, through Huangmao Mountain, some of the goods of the Southwest Political Axe can enter the territory of Guangdong.

Moreover, as a comprehensive rural policy, Huangmaoshan Village receives no different policy care than the rural areas on the outskirts of Kunming. The policy of governing the poor but not the equal, so that all people can enjoy the minimum distribution of benefits. (Limited to policy-making principles, not equal-wealth policies.) After defeating the largest landlords in Wuzhou, Huangmaoshan Village was given land to use the latest rice and wheat seeds, all kinds of improved vegetable and fruit seeds, and a variety of chemical fertilizers to increase the harvest. They have been exempted from dozens of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, large and small, and do not even need to pay any taxes except for the tax on fertilizers and seeds, and can get relief from extreme poverty, subsidies for road construction, and even absolute care from education policies. In addition to paying the state's seed and fertilizer taxes, the peasants also only need to contribute some money and effort to participate in the construction of village roads, while the surplus agricultural products can be sold, or sold to hawkers who go from village to village, or to those wineries, bread factories, and food factories, which often need extremely large quantities of grain.

A group of people have support for the old, help for the poor, rich for the people, and little for education.

On the other hand, in Xiadiankou Village in Guangdong, except for a few rich peasants who owned reasonable land, most of the land was still in the hands of large and small landlords. Year after year, the rents became more and more demanding, so much that no more taxes could be paid, and even the warlords forced them to pull in the surname to replenish the army. Looking at the entire Jiangkou Town, and even the whole of Guangdong, the people are not making a living. And the only benefit they can get is probably education. No matter where the students are, as long as you go to the school in Wuzhou opposite to register, the school will accept you, a report will go up, a large number of approval places will come down, as long as there is a local clan poverty certificate, you can still be free to enroll, the same can eat free student lunch, receive the most modern education. As a result, many students eat rice and white flour steamed buns at school at noon, eat meat and eat the freshest vegetables, but when they return home after school, they can only eat overnight wowotou, kohlrabi or salted beans or something, to fill their stomachs. Many students take pity on their families, and even prefer to eat less at noon than to take home the meals they have saved and eat with their families. You may not know the taste of meat for half a year, and no one can stand it.

The people of Xiadiankou Village have had enough.

They don't understand why Guangxi, which is separated by a wall, can be fed and clothed, and why Guangxi, which is one step away, can enjoy the various policies of the New Deal. They couldn't understand why the Cantonese warlords stationed heavy troops on the border between the two provinces.

Why are they all Chinese, but the southwest political axe can live well, and even get better and better, while the national political axe can only eat chaff and drink thin.

Liao Zhengcai is the most educated person in Xiadiankou Village, and he was also the first batch of students who crossed the border between Guangxi and Guangxi and entered Guangxi at the age of 15.

First in a town in Wuzhou, with the idea of giving it a try, Liao Zhengcai came to a newly built local primary school, and he found the teacher at the registration office to sign up. However, when filling out the registration form, the teacher was embarrassed because the student was from Guangdong.

At that time, the political axe in the southwest was still a rudimentary form, and various policies were not yet perfect. Just as Liao Zhengcai was disappointed and about to go home, the teacher, who was only 18 or 9 years old, told him to wait for a day, took him to his home to live, and then ran to the county government to ask for instructions from the education bureau.

At that time, Liao Zhengcai learned that this 18 or 9-year-old young man was actually the principal of the primary school.

Liao Zhengcai was overjoyed by the results of the request, and the Education Bureau reported the matter to the Supreme Political Axe at that time, and received a personal call from the Supreme Governor Zhang Shusheng on the same day: Hundreds of millions of Chinese people are all Chinese people, and education is a century-old plan, not based on territory. Anyone who comes to study, no matter where they come from, will accept it.

When this kind of proximity to school policy, which Zhang Shusheng had been implementing early on, was expanded to a larger scope, Liao Zheng became the first batch of lucky people. He did not rush to enroll, but returned to Xiadiankou Village, brought more children, and everything entered this new school.

Time flies, when Liao Zhengcai skipped a grade to complete primary school, and then entered the local county junior high school, where his grades were also excellent, graduated in two years, and entered Wuzhou Intermediate Technical School.

After graduation, he did not rush into those modern factories all over the southwest, let alone rush into the grassroots political axes in the southwest, but returned to Xiadiankou Village.

He's going to do one thing, one thing that's been planned for three or four years.

He clearly remembered what the political science teacher at the intermediate technical school said: There are only two ways to reform society, one is to overthrow or conquer another. First, we should rely on the strength of the people and the strength of society to promote this kind of social reform. And the power of the people is often embodied in revolution. The power of society is embodied in public opinion and public opinion. However, the latter is mostly found in the West, while China, this kind of power, can only be revolutionary.

After returning to Jiangkou Town, Liao Zhengcai spent almost all of his time visiting his neighbors, and his footprints were all over Fengkai County, and even several nearby counties.

In the beginning, he used his self-taught agricultural knowledge to guide farmers. At the same time, various welfare policies and people's lives in the southwest are publicized in detail to the local people.

Gradually, people everywhere began to believe what the young man said, and liked to hear him say things that were very new. However, slowly, people found that the good life in Liao Zhengcai's mouth will always exist only in Guangxi, on the other side, while in Guangdong, where he lives, there is no sky.

People began to ask Liao Zhengcai for advice, how to change, how to have a life that can make people live like the southwest.

Liao Zhengcai told people that the best way is for thousands of households to take action, either to go to Guangxi, or to let the southwest political axe come over.

The propaganda of the revolution was very successful, and the people of Guangdong have always been civilized, and the theoretical knowledge that Liao Zhengcai learned from his school politics class made him almost the only hope in the eyes of the locals, and some Christians even thought that he was sent by God. (In parts of the coast, Christianity is very prevalent.) Finally one day...... "Folks, why should we continue to be oppressed by the damned big landlords, why should we continue to be exploited by the damned old political axe, why should we continue to live this life that is inferior to pigs and dogs." Why don't we stand up and use our own strength to transform our lives and usher in hope.

Folks, you have all seen the life in Guangxi opposite, and the political axe in the southwest is temporarily beyond the reach of the whip, so why don't we take the initiative to act? As long as the power of the people is concentrated, we can bring down the warlords. I have written to my teachers and classmates in Guangxi, and they promised to forward the petition letter to the political axe and the newspaper as soon as possible.

Folks, pick up these weapons, our first goal is to defeat He Batian, and then the Jiangkou Town Office. ”

In Xiadiankou Village, Jiangkou Town, more than 200 villagers and thousands of people who came from near and far surrounded Liao Zhengcai and listened to him make the final mobilization. Everyone had a hoe, an axe, a sickle and even an iron chisel in their hands. In front of Liao Zhengcai, there were more than 20 concentrated shotguns.

After two years of careful preparation, Liao Zhengcai worked hard for this day.

"Comrades, rush, down with He Batian, down with the national political axe!"

Liao Zhengcai and several leaders, under the leadership of the respected clan elders, carried out a simple ancestor worship, and then led the team to start the action.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of April 1, 1930, the peasants of Xiadiankou Village could not bear the harsh taxes and the oppression of the national political axe and the big landlords, and launched the peasant war.

"Seize He Batian and divide the field equally."

When the peasant contingent came to the gate of the mansion of He Batian, a big landlord in Jiangkou Town, it had already changed from more than 1,000 people to nearly 2,000 people. Among these people were the destitute people, the middle peasants, and the rich peasants.

The peasant contingent did not target the small rich peasants, and even the small landlords, but they were treated kindly, but the great landlords who annihilated the great evil He Batian and the big landlords will be baptized like thunder.

pulled out He Batian from under the bed, the trembling He Fatzi, how could there be the ferocity of Ping's fierce inwardness, incontinence, and as soon as the rope was tied, he was caught on the spot.

People all over the mountains began to criticize He Batian, with the leadership of Liao Zhengcai, although his children and families were not implicated, but none of the evil housekeepers and thugs escaped, a large row of people were tied up on the sun-drying grain dam, these villains who usually ride on the heads of the people to pee and, were stunned, looking at the peasant legs as docile as sheep in Pingyu, and didn't understand why they suddenly became so violent.

"He Batian was scared to death, He Batian was scared to death!!"

After the struggle just started for a while, Liao Zhengcai thought that He Batian would be directly killed by the angry people, but he didn't expect He Batian, who had done a lot of evil, to be so cowardly, and was directly scared to death by the might of more than 2,000 people.

The angry people saw that He Batian, who had oppressed him for decades, suddenly died, and they couldn't accept it for a while, and they all cried and yelled. It was a kind of comfort that was oppressed to the extreme, and suddenly took a breath, and it was a kind of relief pleasure from the depths of the soul.

"Folks, He Batian is dead, and our uprising is half successful. However, let's not forget that Chen Jitang's troops were stationed thirty miles away. We must leave immediately, move closer to Guangxi, break through the obstacles, and get the support of the southwest political axe is the only way out. ”

Under the leadership of Liao Zhengcai, the uprising began to march towards Guangxi.

However, the development of the situation was somewhat unexpected to him, more and more people along the way, it has reached more than 5,000 people, more and more people are joining in, and even dragging their families with them, and the speed of action of the whole team is getting slower and slower.

"Order the 1st Regiment of the 6th Division of the Garrison Division stationed in Guangxi to enter Guangdong immediately to support the peasant uprising. After the mission is completed, they will be stationed on the spot, ready for further attacks, and wait for the follow-up main forces. ”

After receiving the news of the peasant uprising at the junction of Guangxi and Guangzhou, Zhang Shusheng immediately signed the war order and decisively started the battle to resolve Guangdong.

The General Staff moved at wartime speed, and the plan of action, which had been prepared for a long time, was slightly revised, and immediately sent to the troops participating in the battle.

After the expansion of the army before the war to liberate Sichuan, the Southwest Army in 1930 had expanded from three main divisions to six main divisions on the basis of retaining the original garrison division in various provinces. In addition, the 9th, 10th, and 11th divisions of the garrison division stationed in Sichuan were added. It is guaranteed that the size of Sichuan's garrison division is the same as that of Yunnan and Guangxi provinces, and that it has one more division than Guizhou.

After the order of the Supreme Command of the Southwestern People's Army was issued, the detailed operational orders of the General Staff also arrived in the units. The 5th and 6th Divisions, the 6th Garrison Division, and the 6th and 11th Air Force Regiments, which are the main forces stationed in Guangxi, will join the combat operations. A total of three divisions of nearly 60,000 troops will enter Guangdong from the three directions of Wuzhou, Cenxi, and Hezhou to participate in the battle to liberate Guangdong.

"Report, there is a peasant uprising in Fengkai County, and the garrison troops ask for instructions, whether to exterminate it immediately!!"

Guangdong, Chen Jitang Fushang.

As soon as he finished drinking afternoon tea, Chen Jitang received this very bad news, and the small teapot of the purple clay pot in his hand fell directly to the ground.

"Extermination?"

After a long silence, Chen Jitang sighed, "There are many rights and wrongs at the junction of the two Guangzhou, the southwest is strong, and the people's hearts have changed, how can the southwest not seize this opportunity." ”

"Commander...... How to reply to Head Liu. ”

Chen Jitang waved his hand, "Let Liu Debin retreat, shrink the troops from all over the country, and withdraw to the vicinity of Guangzhou." To the ranks of the peasant uprising, let them go. ”

After a slight pause, "In addition, ...... to the southwest political axe"-

(To be continued)