When Yang Bangzi was very busy, because Hong Mei was not in front of him, he also shared the work of the administrative office, and only then did he find that in accordance with the spirit of the document issued from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region last year, the administrative department sent more than 10 work teams, ranging from three to five people to about a dozen people, to go deep into the villages in the mountainous areas to carry out land reform.

This is nothing new, since the Eighth Route Army came to Jinchaji in 37 years, it has carried out some rural land reform on a pilot basis, but the main purpose is to have good relations with all strata in the rural areas, so that they can stand on their feet and collect grain.

However, Yang Bangzi found that some of the documents on this land reform left in the administrative office were not quite right, and there were words and phrases in the documents that it was necessary to rely on the vast number of poor peasants and poor hired peasants to redivide all forms of rural land. This is to divide the landlord's land!

As a result, bad news came that people had been killed in several villages, and some landlords and rich peasants were dissatisfied with the work methods of the work team and opposed the division of their land without compensation, and were beaten to death by the work team. In other villages, peasant associations set up by work teams also lynched landlords and rich peasants to death.

In fact, at the beginning of the Jin-Cha-Ji land reform, which was tried once two years ago, Yang Bangzi, like many people, couldn't figure it out at first: the base area in the liberated area was the nest of the Eighth Route Army during the Anti-Japanese War, and it has always been under the leadership of our party. Since those landlords, rich peasants, and village cadres have been donating money and materials to you under your leadership, responding to your rent and interest reductions, and supporting you in resisting Japan and fighting devils, then in the land reform movement, you can completely use peaceful means to deprive the landlords and rich peasants of their land and distribute it directly to the peasants.

You used violent means to deal with those rich people who had been traitors during the Anti-Japanese War and were attached to the Japanese regime. It makes sense. Deal with those local tyrants and gentry who have blood debts in their hands. Totally suitable. But why do you want to use violent means? Use hanging, criticism, humiliation, imprisonment, and even killing to deal with those who have been actively attached to you, and whose children have shared the weal and woe in your ranks. It is unreasonable in terms of reason and human feelings. What is your real purpose in doing this? Is it just for the buckets of grain that the landlord's family has more than the ordinary peasants?

This was also a question that many intellectuals and young students who had joined the revolutionary ranks were most puzzled by since the land reform movement began. In those years, while launching the land reform movement, our party launched the "three inspections and three rectifications" campaign among the revolutionary ranks, and one of the main problems solved by this was the problem of understanding the land reform movement.

In fact. On closer inspection, this is a bit of a logical problem of stealing concepts. It is not that people have different views on the land reform movement you have launched, and anyone who has a slight sense of social progress and equality will actively support you in launching the land reform movement.

What people have a view is that you advocated the use of violence against all land-rich people in the land reform movement. It's that I can't look at your random beatings, killings, and detaining people. You have deliberately distorted this point, and anyone who has an opinion on the violent methods that have emerged in this land reform movement is opposed to land reform and our party's policies, and must be dealt with by the organization.

No one is against land reform. They objected only to the violent tactics that had emerged during the land reform movement. Or, in today's fashionable parlance, what they oppose is only the discordant elements that have emerged in the land reform movement.

Because. The land reform policy proposed by our party in those years against the landlords and rich peasants in a brutal way of struggle seriously ran counter to the basic reality of Chinese society at that time.

For thousands of years, the foundation of China's traditional culture, dominated by Confucian culture, was in the countryside, and its representative was the landlord class. Like any group with bad guys, the landlord class is a complex and large social group made up of a variety of concrete people. There are also bad people among the landlords, but the landlords are not all bad people.

A considerable number of these landlords, influenced by China's traditional etiquette and culture for thousands of years, have been "loyal to their families for a long time, and their poems and books have been passed down from generation to generation", and they have been educated by the Confucian education of kindness and charity. It is the carrier of China's economic development and moral culture. Whenever the country is ruined and the nation is in danger and suffering, the landlord class cannot be spared alone, and they will become one of the sufferers like the entire Chinese nation.

For more than half a century, out of the need to seize and grasp the national political power, our party has created typical figures of the landlord class, such as Zhou Papi, Huang Shiren, Nan Batian, and Liu Wencai, in literature. This kind of literary creation, which "comes from reality and is higher than reality," is only an artistic model shaped by the needs of the class struggle and the culmination of all bad landlords. In real life, such bullies are not absent, but they are extremely rare.

At that time, most of the landlords in the countryside were "rich landlords" who had been farming for generations, and their families did not have officials or "big traders" in the towns, so they had no "backers." Because they are literate in the mostly illiterate Chinese countryside and have more means of economic livelihood, they will accumulate more land property and live a better life than the average poor peasant.

For thousands of years, due to family tradition or family history, most of these landlords received strict cultural basic education in their youth, and Confucianism was deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and they were a social group with high Chinese quality and high moral quality in rural areas. Most of the landlords emphasize loyalty, filial piety, honesty, etiquette and shame, they pity the poor and care for the elderly, help the poor and help the needy, help teachers and schools, build bridges and roads, and build water conservancy; They defend the township, are enthusiastic about public welfare, mediate disputes, and advocate cultural activities; For example, all public welfare undertakings and charitable undertakings in rural areas that need money and materials are initiated by them, enthusiastically sponsoring and playing the leading role in donating funds, donating materials and making efforts. In disaster years, they provide disaster relief, set up porridge farms, and provide free food for the poor; In the event of an invasion by foreign enemies, they will even prefer to break the jade and raise troops with their families, and have no intention of retreating with self-discipline for life.

Since the day of the birth of our party in 1921, the educated landlord class has contributed an innumerable number of its own sons and daughters to this party that was still called the "proletarian party" at that time. The overwhelming majority of the highest leadership strata in the Red Army of our Party were made up of the children of this landlord class.

The Japanese devils launched a war of aggression against China, and countless landlord classes in the north and south of China sold their land and property to support the war of resistance. And for the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to defend the interests of the nation, countless precious sons and daughters were sent. You can't count how many of them threw their pens from Rong and went to the front line of resistance against Japan to kill themselves.

Therefore, whether you admit it or not, the landlord class in China's rural areas is not only one of the victims and victims of Japan's war of aggression against China, but also the countless landlord strata who stand on the side of our party and live in the anti-Japanese base areas are also one of the enemies that the devils and traitors will resolutely crack down on after the outbreak of the Japanese devils' war of aggression against China, and they are also the victims of the invasion of the base areas by the Japanese devils' army. This reason is not difficult to understand: because they have supported our party with financial resources, and they have also sent a large number of their children to the ranks of our party to fight against the devils.

Now, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has reached a relatively difficult period, in order to consolidate the support of the peasants in the base areas for our party, it is necessary to poison these wealthy rural strata who have always supported you in exchange for the support of those relatively poor strata of soldiers. This makes no sense in terms of reason or morality. If it doesn't make sense, it must be carried out, and what is practiced is the means of violence

On the other hand, in rural China, under the subtle influence of traditional culture for thousands of years, "there are gods and spirits" watching you at all times, and the vast majority of farmers are honest and unwilling to obtain ill-gotten gains. For the "owner" who has been for many years and the "neighbor" who is relatively wealthy to himself, now he wants to suddenly turn his face and take away other people's property, and people are living well, why should you be in front of others and take away other people's property? Aren't you afraid that God will take revenge on you? So the concept can't turn around for a while, and I can't get started.

At present, the violent scenes that have emerged in the land reform movement are helping the peasants, who have always been honest, to "get down." Kill your people, kill your mouth, and I will take your property with peace of mind, and I am not afraid of revenge. The violence of land reform and the killing of landlords are quite the "letter of nomination" that Lin Jiao has to pay after he goes to Liangshan, kill an innocent passer-by first, so as to never go to your back road. Desperately working for the cottage. At present, the bloody lives of countless land-rich people have become the "vote of name" for peasants who have turned over from land reform to enter our party's army.

The emergence of violence in the land reform movement was the beginning of the eradication of the good side of human nature. Later, in the larger-scale national land reform, the violent side of human nature was more clearly reflected.

Speaking of which, don't look at Yang Bangzi himself as a poor peasant, he also disagrees that the treatment of these landlords and rich peasants is a coercive means to take away their land and grain.

Therefore, after receiving reports on land reform issues reported by several localities, Yang Bangzi did not discuss with Hong Mei, but directly ordered in the name of the sub-district and administrative offices to stop this kind of pilot land reform, and he also asked Lao Feng to lead the working group to go to these villages and towns where problems occurred, and find a way to recover the adverse impact caused by the land reform team.

It's a pity that people are still forced to die, and the property is still divided, and the most direct consequence is that there are a few cadres and soldiers in the 11th division on the side of the first division, and when they heard that their families were killed by the land reform team, the house and land were divided, and in a fit of anger, they voted for the devil and became traitors!

This incident also alarmed the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, because this kind of problem has occurred not only in the 11 th sub-district, but also in several sub-districts that are engaged in land reform experiments, so the border region and the northern bureau have held a meeting to study and hold that the main problem that needs to be solved in the land reform work at present is not to change the land structure in the rural areas, but to make the land rich produce more grain and the poor peasants have more land.

In accordance with this spirit, the government of the border region issued new detailed rules for the implementation of land reform, which can be regarded as pulling this land reform pilot project that almost set off a storm in the countryside in the right direction. (To be continued......)