"Hahahaha" There was a burst of laughter, and the bearded soldier tilted his head and smiled, "Little rabbit, if you want to keep planting, what kind of soldier will you be, a bullet here will reimburse you, you better go back to farming." Sir, don't you know, this sissy doesn't even dare to visit a kiln, and it's still a chick. ”

As he spoke, everyone laughed even louder, and a few even clapped their hands.

Zhao Gang waved his hand to stop everyone's laughter and said, "Everyone be quiet, listen to this little comrade, little comrade, what's your name?" Where are you from? Being a soldier is so dangerous, why do you want to be a soldier when you want to pass on incense? ”

The little soldier glanced at the bearded man viciously and said, "Sir, my name is Yang Erqiu, I am from Suiyuan, I also know the danger, but I can't help it!" Our family was originally a tenant, was renting the landlord's land to live, my father was diligent, my mother can also needlework, at the beginning the family was okay, although I couldn't eat oily, but I couldn't starve to death, my father also let me secretly go to the landlord's house to listen to the class for a few days.

Later, my father got sick and asked for money, first spent all his savings, and then borrowed usury from the landlord's family, but the illness has not been cured, and my father simply died of treatment, but the money has to be repaid, my family is a man in my family, I was only 7 years old at the time, I can't do anything, a sister above, a sister below, the landlord sees us pitiful, and sees that I am a man, so he promised to let me pay it back slowly, my sister above will go into the landlord's house to be a maid, and my mother will help others do needlework subsidies, so it also lasts for two years. ”

As he spoke, the little soldier slowly shed tears and continued to whisper, "Then I don't know why, Chief Yan and Chairman Jiang fought, and the fight was very bad, Chief Yan asked for money, so he raised taxes, and the landlord of our family had no money." I fired my sister, and then I said that when I grew up as a tenant, I would pay back the money to them in advance, where did our family get the money, I have a sister below, a family of four, how much to eat, my mother didn't work, and I wanted to run away if I couldn't do it. As a result, he was arrested and beaten severely. My mother never got up again. ”

No one laughed at this little soldier Yang Erqiu anymore, and the bearded soldier also sat on the ground, looking straight at the ground. I don't know what I'm thinking.

Yang Erqiu wiped his tears with his sleeve and said, "I know, it's our fault, we should pay back the money we owe, and if we don't pay it back, it's in vain, but when will this profit be paid off, there is really no way, my sister sold herself"

Saying that, Yang Erqiu slapped himself hard and cried, "I'm useless, if I were a little older, I wouldn't let my sister be Sister Yao, I didn't understand anything at the time." I was very happy to see that my sister had money to pay back and food for us to eat, and I didn't know what Sister Yao was until I was laughed at by others."

Yang Erqiu snorted hard and said, "That's right." Lao Tzu is the younger brother of Sister Yao, but I don't think my sister is dirty at all, I came to be a soldier at the age of 15, just because there is a salary for being a soldier. I don't go to the cave because I'm afraid of running into my sister, I don't go to the restaurant to save money, I want to save enough money. Redeem my sister and give it to my father, and my mother will build a good grave and marry my sister to a good family. ”

Saying that, Yang Erqiu's eyes lit up, "When the time comes, I can go home, if I can save some money, I can also marry a daughter-in-law, go home to farm, have another baby, and live like this for the rest of my life." ”

"Papapa" Zhao Gang applauded, and then, one after another, applauded for this soldier with a grand goal.

"Erqiu, I won't laugh at you anymore, you kid is better than me, and I won't pull you to the kiln. You have to live longer than me, Lao Tzu is white, and you still have a home. The bearded soldier snorted, and his tears were falling. I probably also remembered my sadness.

Zhao Gang nodded and said, "Comrade Yang Erqiu said very well, but I want to ask, Comrade Yang Erqiu, how many years have you been a soldier now?" How much money have you saved? How much money can I ransom your sister out? ”

Yang Erqiu suddenly lowered his head, as if it was about to fall, Yang Erqiu snorted and said, "I've been a soldier for six years, and I saved seventeen yuan." But if you want to redeem my sister, it will cost fifty. ”

Zhao Gang patted Yang Erqiu's shoulder with a sigh and said, "It's not easy, I didn't dare to go to the restaurant for six years, and I still saved seventeen oceans, how much is your monthly military salary?" Why are there only so many? Have you ever wondered why your home is like this, why you are poor, why your sister sold herself? Why is it that you, a person who is willing to work diligently to make money, have not been able to make a fortune? ”

Yang Erqiu lowered his head and thought about it, and said a little timidly, "When I was a soldier, I said that it was six yuan a month, but then because I had to deduct food and clothing money, shoes and hats, bullet money, etc., I got about one yuan and five jiao, and it stands to reason that I should have eighteen yuan a year, but often sometimes I can't get it, my sister is staying at a relative's house, and I also need money for food, so I can only borrow it from the army on credit first, and then the army has money, and I will pay it back." It's been like this for six years to save so much, as for why this is happening, it's all bad in the world, it's fate. ”

Zhao Gang asked loudly, "Do you think the same way?" ”

The others looked at each other, nodded and did not speak.

Zhao Gang sighed and said, "Comrades, listen to me and analyze it to see if this is the case, when did the tragedy of Comrade Yang Erqiu's family begin?" It started with his father who had no money for medical treatment after he was sick, and then he went to borrow money, this landlord was not bad at first, probably because Yang Erqiu had been a tenant for many years, so he lent it to his family, and his father found that it was not cured, so he refused to seek medical treatment and died, why do we poor people look down on the disease? Why do we work so hard to farm but don't have savings? Because we are planting other people's fields! We don't have our own land! Why don't we have our own land? Because we don't have the money to buy it! Where does all our money go? It's all handed over to the landlord, so should we blame the landlord? ”

Zhao Gang paused for a moment and said, "This is and is not, the landlord is hateful, they chased the debts of Comrade Yang Erqiu's family, and even forced Comrade Yang Erqiu's sister to sell herself, and Comrade Yang Erqiu's mother was beaten alive!" But is it strange to the landlord? At first, this landlord did not force debts, because he believed that Comrade Yang Erqiu would be a tenant for him when he grew up, and he would be able to get more. But why did the landlord's family suddenly force debts? ”

Yang Erqiu said loudly: "Because Chief Yan and Chairman Jiang are at war, our landlord also needs money. ”

Zhao Gang clapped his hands and said, "This is the key!" The landlord's family had no surplus food. Even the landlord, who was quite enlightened at the beginning, was forced to ask Yang Erqiu to pay back the money because of taxes, why did the landlord's family have no money? What is a landlord? They just have a lot more land than us, and if we give him the crops grown by our tenants, he will have a lot more crops than us, but although they need military rations to fight, they need more weapons and money, that is, they have to exchange these grains for money, but this grain cannot be exchanged for money. Do you know why? ”

The bearded soldier thought for a moment and said, "I remember, in those years, grain was not sold at a high price. My family next door was still worried at the time, saying that it was even more difficult than the poor harvest in previous years! ”

Zhao Gang waved his hand and said, "That's right! Why? Because in those years, the economic crisis in the United States and Europe broke out, and I said this economic crisis, you may not understand, I simply said, that their crops can't be eaten by themselves, they are going to rot at home, there is no way. They were all shipped to us to sell, don't you know, Shanghai at that time, there were foreign rice and noodles everywhere. And it's also very cheap. Half the price we sell, do you think we can still sell our crops? ”

One soldier said, "Others are not stupid, so they won't buy us?" But why do we let them sell. ”

Zhao Gang said with a smile: "Our country fights wars every day, and warlords are everywhere. What do you say you can do to stop other countries from selling to us? In fact, internationally, buying and selling is normal, but for such a low-priced thing. We can raise taxes to make their prices equal or even higher than ours, but because our country's customs are not in our own hands, not only can we not increase taxes, but we keep raising taxes on our own goods, and as a result, our things are getting more and more expensive, and other people's things are getting cheaper and cheaper, and finally, our merchants go bankrupt, and we farmers have no money, so we can only flee and borrow. When the landlord has no money, he will be forced to go into debt, which is the reason why Yang Erqiu's family was forced to go into debt. ”

Yang Erqiu suddenly realized, "I understand, our family owes debts because the money of the outside family has been taken away by the landlord, and our family has been forced to pay debts to the end, one is to blame for the war between Chief Yan and Chairman Jiang, and the second is to blame our country for not having the strength and being bullied by foreign countries." ”

Zhao Gang nodded, everyone looked at Zhao Gang and listened to him continue, "This is one, and the other is that after you joined the army, why can't you get your military salary?" I'm afraid it's not just the money you can't get, right? Let me ask you, how many of you have been punished for kneeling, starvation, drinking urine, and eating phlegm? How many people have been beaten? How many people have you seen killed by the Chief? How many of them have been paid by your commanders? ”

Speaking of this, everyone lowered their heads, and Zhao Gang also saw a few people staring at everyone viciously, and even the bearded man who was originally very bold tilted his head and didn't dare to speak.

"What's wrong? Aren't they all heroes at the beginning? Why don't you dare to say it? We are going to say, talk about the bad things in the past, figure out why we are like this, and then solve them, and no longer be bad. I know, you're afraid of retaliation, aren't you? Zhao Gang walked down with a smile, patted the bearded soldier just now, and said, "Tell me, is there such a thing?" ”

The bearded man stood up and said with a smirk, "How can it? Sir, our troops are all brothers, there will be no such thing, right? ”

The others hurriedly replied, "That's it." ”

Zhao Gang shook his head and said, "I don't think so, your attitude tells me that it's not, I tell everyone, don't be afraid!" Our Eighth Route Army is a new unit, and you will soon be reorganized, and your original squad leaders, platoon commanders, and even company commanders, regiment commanders, and division commanders will have to be re-elected. Zhao Gang pointed to his nose and said, "It's not me who chooses, and it's not those commanders who choose, it's the soldiers' committee among you who choose!" ”

Soldiers' council? What is that? Everyone asked each other about the name they had never heard before.

Zhao Gang explained, "This soldiers' committee, to put it simply, is to elect each other by yourself, secret ballot, who will be your squad leader, who will be your platoon leader, when encountering non-military things, such as an officer beating and scolding a soldier, the soldiers' committee can hold a meeting to discuss this matter, if you think that the commander is wrong, the soldiers' committee can punish or even remove your commander." The Soldiers' Council can also participate in your own day-to-day management, such as the management of food money, the standard of food, all of which are decided by you. ”

Everyone couldn't believe it, and Yang Erqiu asked excitedly, "Is there such a thing?" ”

Zhao Gang waved his hand and shouted, "A few of you talk to them." ”

A soldier stepped forward and said loudly: "I am a soldier of the new third regiment of the 129th Division, I joined the army in June last year, and was selected into the soldiers' committee in August. He also participated in the management of meals, and did his best to keep the fighters well fed, and when a battle broke out, we rushed to the front with other party members and regimental members, retreated, and we broke off the rear with them. If a commander makes a mistake, we point it out, and if we do not correct it, we will hold a meeting and make a decision after discussion, and the commander must obey it, and our army officers and men are one, because our army is not the army of any commander or chief, our army is the army of the people, the army of the nation, and the army of the proletariat. ”

"That's a good point." Zhao Gang applauded and said, "So, I also hope that you can stand up bravely, say what bad things have happened in the army, figure it out, and let everyone vote for that person when everyone votes." You can stop being bad in the future. “

Yang Erqiu was the first to stand up and said, "Let me say first, a lot of my military salary was swallowed by the regiment commander and battalion commander, and Commander Yan actually paid money most of the time, everyone knows about this, and our company commander often beats and scolds us, asking us to help him do this and that, and he has also killed people." ”

Immediately, someone said anxiously, "Yang Erqiu, you wolf-hearted nonsense." ”

Yang Erqiu snorted, "Who of us here doesn't know, so you are allowed to drink the blood of the soldiers, and we are not allowed to say it?" ”

Zhao Gang waved his hand, and immediately someone controlled the person who called "We are here in the grievance conference, everyone can speak out about their suffering, and there will be a reward for saying good, and they can even be given priority to enter the soldiers' committee." ”

As soon as they heard that they could enter the soldiers' committee, everyone thought it was an opportunity to become an officer, and as soon as you said a word, I said a word, and immediately turned the bottom of the army upside down. (To be continued.) )