【182】Galaxy Shadow Shakes the Three Armies (10)

The "People's Daily" was quietly launched, with a first printing of 10,000 copies, which were sent to all parts of the base area by horse-drawn carriage, and the four big characters of the People's Daily on the masthead were inscribed by Yao Fan himself, and after copying more than a dozen copies of the masthead inscribed by the original chairman, Yao Fan was never satisfied, and he did not know why, but always felt that it was still a little short, so he simply used the original inscription of the chairman and handed it to the newspaper for engraving.

Ding Baozhen also got a copy of the People's Daily, which he sent someone to buy in Qingzhou City, disguised as a merchant, and secretly sent it back to Jinan.

Without waiting for Ding Baozhen to take a closer look at the other small characters, the wax word "Spring Snow in Qinyuan" engraved by Yao Fan himself on the front page came into his eyes with a majestic momentum.

After reading the words "Northern scenery, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting ......", Ding Baozhen's face sank like water, and he didn't say a word.

Li Yuanhua, who had just been transferred from the position of political envoy to the province, also had a newspaper in his hand, and the price of this newspaper was only one copper plate in the base area, so the informant sent by Ding Baozhen bought more than a dozen copies.

Li Yuanhua's voice was very small: "This Yao Fan has so much literary talent. ”

Ding Baozhen read the newspaper carefully, and his eyebrows were lowered: "It's not just three points of literary brilliance, compared to him, that Hong Thief Xiuquan has never read a book." ”

Li Yuanhua said: "This person is very deep in the city, and he hid the fox's tail so tightly when he was in Jinan. ”

Ding Baozhen suddenly opened his mouth and read: "...... Striving for peace, democracy and unity, and opposing civil war, dictatorship, and separatism are the voice of the people, and the People's Daily is the mouthpiece of the people, the torch of truth, the clarion call for peace, and the harbinger of democracy. Representing the will of the people and speaking for the people is the historical mission of the People's Daily......"

After reading it, Ding Baozhen sighed and said to Li Yuanhua: "Yuanhua, what do you think?" ”

Li Yuanhua shook his head slowly with difficulty, and also chose a paragraph to read: "...... Revolutionary war is a war of the masses, and war can only be waged by mobilizing the masses, and war can only be waged by relying on the masses...... What is a real impregnable wall? It is the masses, the millions of people who sincerely support the revolution. This is a real iron wall, which cannot be broken by any force, and cannot be broken at all. The counter-revolution cannot break us, but we must break the counter-revolution. By rallying millions of people around the revolutionary government and developing our revolutionary war, we will be able to eliminate a single counter-revolution and we will be able to seize the whole of China......"

After reading it, Li Yuanhua turned his head to look at Ding Baozhen: "This son is born against the bones, his father Yao Peng named him Yao Fan, he must have already had a plan, intended to 'rebel', he said that his word is early sail, I think it is also homophonic 'rebellion', look at this son Wencai and his father Yao Peng's several grand books that narrate the history of Europe and even the world, I don't believe that this word was obtained by himself, I am afraid that Yao Peng has already given him a good name." ”

"This Yao family has been planning for a long time in order to return to the Qing Dynasty, and we have all looked away. He thought he was unprepared, and it was reasonable for us to be deceived. ”

Ding Baozhen shook his head and said, "I'm not asking you how he has been planning for a long time, but asking you about this text." ”

Li Yuanhua suddenly raised his head and said: "Vulgar people can understand it, even if they are illiterate, they can understand it when they listen to others read it, it's just plain language!" ”

Ding Baozhen said irritably: "It's whiter than the big vernacular!" ”

"Look at this article." Ding Baozhen pointed to an article in the newspaper titled "Letter to the Enlightened Gentry and Enlightened Generals"

"The people who are still working for the traitorous government of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, except for the corrupt officials who committed the most heinous crimes and the cruel lackeys who committed unpardonable crimes, you listen well, we know that you are in a very complicated mood now, and if you choose to continue to be a lackey, you will definitely be killed by the people, but if you don't become a lackey, it means giving up the right to oppress the people. Don't you feel bad when you are terrified every day in front of the awakened people? How do you survive?

Mr. Li Hongzhang, Mr. Ding Baozhen, Mr. Zuo Zongtang, the commanders, battalion commanders, and sentinels of the Mingjun, Qingjun, and Wuyi Army.

You have now reached the point of exhaustion, following Wang Zhengqi's corps being completely annihilated in Pingdu, Li Peirong's Mo Zushen corps was gathered and annihilated in Weifang. The famous general Zhou Shengchuan had the courage to attack the people's army, but what was the result? was also ruthlessly annihilated, and the once invincible Zhou Shengchuan fell into a shameful fate of being killed on the spot.

Do you know that in every previous battle, our people's army has fought more with less and with almost no harm? Do you know that the number of casualties and wounded of our troops so far does not exceed 100? Do you still have a reactionary army in Zhili that you can rely on?

You may still be dreaming of spring and autumn, right? Waiting for the Ming Army, Wu Yi Army, and Qing Army in the northern Jiangsu region to complete the assembly training and go north to rescue you, right? Waiting for the newly trained Township Warrior Regiment to come and send you to death, right? But do you know that the number of the people's army is increasing every day, and we have grown from a few dozen or hundreds of men at the beginning to tens of thousands at present, and we can now use a large army to launch a devastating attack on you. The reason why you still occupy a vast territory at present is only because the people's army has left you with a way out of the evil and the right, not because you have any strength to hold on.

Your army, whether in terms of weapons or tactics, is as backward as unearthed cultural relics, and we can kill a bunch of you with a single shell, and you, as the commanders, should be sympathetic to the feelings of your subordinates and their families, cherish their lives, find a way for them to survive as soon as possible, and stop asking them to make unnecessary sacrifices.

If you surrender now, the people's government welcomes it, and we have always warmly accepted and tolerated the enlightened gentry, not only protecting his legitimate property, but also protecting the lives and safety of him and his family in accordance with the law, and the future construction of New China will require a large number of intellectuals, and we are eagerly looking forward to educated and revolutionary-minded intellectuals joining our ranks, and our policy is to unite the majority of the people and isolate a small number of counter-revolutionaries. It is still stubborn, hesitating before us, and there is no point in vacillating between the Manchu government and the revolutionary masses.

This is the only way for you to survive given by the people's government, so think about it, and if you think it is good, do so. If you still want to fight, then fight again, and you will be dealt with in the end.

Signed: Chinese Central Military Commission of the People's Liberation Army"

"It's just a paradox!" Li Yuanhua frowned and reprimanded.

Ding Baozhen said expressionlessly: "Are these glue thieves really only losing less than 100 people?" ”

When Li Yuanhua heard this, he immediately shuddered: "How is it possible?" ”

Ding Baozhen sighed: "The old man recently personally asked a lot of soldiers who fled back, they still dare not deceive me, the more I ask, the more chilling I feel, so many people, no one can be sure that he has killed the glue thief with his own hands, under repeated questioning, they all said that they have not yet fought, and they were scattered by the glue thief from a distance......

Li Yuanhua felt the cold hairs all over his body stand up: "How can this be? ”

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Yao Fan instructed the soldiers of the guard company and several young cadres to learn the technique of using the well drilling machine, and he knew in his heart that 1876 was the worst year of the drought, and the well drilling machine could only quench the thirst for a while, but on the whole it would not help. In order to solve the famine in North China, it is necessary to mobilize the state forces to transfer grain from the south to the north, or to copy out the rice and grain hoarded by all the landlords and gentry in North China and distribute it to the people.

Yao Fan had purchased 10 Hongjiang brand agricultural drilling machines, but because this thing was used for large-caliber agricultural irrigation, the fuel consumption was really terrible, with an average consumption of two to three liters of diesel per meter, and a 20-meter hand-cranked pump well to consume 40 to 50 liters of oil. A 200-liter tin oil drum can only beat four pounds.

"Chairman! Another well is finished! Niu Hu sweated profusely and ran to report to Yao Fan, he was barefoot, his military pants were rolled up to his thighs, his upper body was naked, and the sweat beads on his body playfully reflected the light in the April sun.

"Chairman, this drilling machine is really powerful, like an old dragon head keeps drilling into the ground, and the well of 20 meters is finished in more than an hour!"

Yao Fan was concerned that the hand-cranked pump was inconvenient and there was no electricity in the countryside, so he originally wanted to drill 50 to 300 meters of drought-resistant machine wells and install electric pumps, but now he has given up the previous idea and changed to all 20-meter wells, the advantage of 20-meter depth is that it is not easy to collapse, it is fast, and it is slightly fuel-efficient.

"Hurry up the construction, build the well platform with bricks and cement, and install the hand pump when the cement is dry tomorrow."

"Yes!" Niu Hu excitedly turned his head and ran back to the distant drilling site.

Yao Fan continued to sit on this slope, looking at the place where the well was dug in the distance and surrounded by the enthusiasm of the nearby villagers, he smiled and continued to bow his head and think about his work. There were two other young guards on the slope, who stood vigilantly around and stood on guard.

According to history, in 1876, the most severe drought in Shandong was Laiyang, Weifang, Huimin, Liaocheng, Heze, Tai'an, Juxian, these areas were the most affected by the drought, if you add other areas that were affected by drought in different ways, there were basically no counties and no drought in 96 counties in 21 prefectures in Shandong.

"In the 19th century, when groundwater resources were abundant, a 20-meter well should have been sufficient, but last winter when a well was drilled in the arid area of Jimo County, water came out of five meters." Yao Fan thought.

"If you need to go to the mountains to dig deep wells in the future, and there is no electricity, can you consider using a small steam engine like a pot camel engine to drive the water pump?" Yao Fan imagined.

"Ten drilling rigs are a bit less, but the drilling team is rotating like now, plus the fuel consumption of tractors and trucks, it will consume nearly two 200-liter oil drums a day, and ten is two tons. There were still 40 tons of diesel left in the base before, but this time, thanks to my father's large order of oil drums, he brought 500 tons of diesel over...... "Yao Fan calculated the economic account in his stomach.

"Even if I can save the people of Shandong, what about other disaster-stricken areas in North China, Northwest China, Central China, and East China? Am I going to watch them die? Northern Jiangsu, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Shanxi, Gansu......

No way! At the end of the month, we must send troops again! As a traverser, if I don't save the world, who will?! ”