"Old lady Yan is here"

"Old lady Yan is here"

The shadow of the tree, the name of the person, and the old lady arrived, and the atmosphere inside and outside the entire ancestral hall suddenly changed.

Those who were still watching couldn't help but show a little schadenfreude on their faces, people are like this, but how hard life is, they can always find some fun, for now, if they can see the bad luck of those fellow villagers who try to challenge the authority of the Yan family, it is their greatest pleasure.

Those who have already entered the ancestral hall, including Yan Laosi, can't help but beat the drum in their hearts.

Although he was wearing a cane, the old lady's pace was extremely steady, and he didn't even need Yan Qi's support, so he walked into the ancestral hall steadily, and the working group that was busy in the ancestral hall quickly became vigilant, and more than 20 officers and soldiers of the garrison brigade responsible for protecting the safety of the working group also raised their guns and pointed their guns at the old lady Yan

Not to be outdone, the more than 20 nursing homes behind Old Lady Yan also raised the guns in their hands.

The two sides were tense, and the air in the ancestral hall suddenly became tense.

Only two of them remained composed.

One is, of course, the old lady Yan, this old man has experienced a lot of storms, of course he will not be frightened by this small scene in front of him, and the other is Yin Shangwen, although Yin Shangwen is young, he has also seen the world, and carried out rent and interest reduction work in Jing County, and the armed working group where Yin Shangwen is located even went hand in hand with a local tyrant's biedong team.

"Young man, I heard that you are going to do something rent-free and interest-free?" Old lady Yan's eyes were threatening, and she glared at Yin Shangwen and asked.

Although no one has introduced it, what kind of eyesight does the old lady Yan have? He immediately saw that Yin Shangwen was the one in charge.

"Old man, you're wrong." Yin Shangwen looked at Mrs. Yan and corrected, "It's not rent-free and interest-free, it's rent reduction and interest reduction, our anti-Japanese democratic government clearly advocates that the legitimate rights and interests of the township gentry should be protected, but for the rent that exceeds the legitimate rights and interests, it must be reduced, and I hope that Mrs. Yan can support our work." ”

"Support your work?" Old lady Yan said coldly, "Why? ”

"Old man, I advise you to get acquainted with each other, don't try to resist the government" Another young man behind Yin Shangwen couldn't bear it anymore, and stood up and wanted to reprimand the old lady, but was suppressed by Yin Shangwen.

"The government?" Old lady Yan said abruptly, "Who is your so-called anti-Japanese democratic government?" Has it been approved by the National Government? Is there an official letter signed by Chairman Jiang or the chairman of Anhui Province? There is nothing, that is, the rebel party, the bandits, as the mayor of Yanjia Town, I have the right to arrest you

"You might as well try." The young man behind Yin Shangwen couldn't bear it anymore, and with a wave of his hand, more than 20 officers and soldiers of the garrison brigade behind him pulled the bolt and pushed the bullet to load.

"Young man, I advise you to think about the consequences before you speak and act." Old lady Yan didn't pay attention to the young man behind Yin Shangwen, nor did he pay attention to the muzzle of the six or seven black holes aimed at him, just shook the robe on his body, and said to Yin Shangwen in a good time, "Believe it or not, as long as I stomp my feet, you don't want to step out of Yanjia Town alive."

Speaking of this, the negotiation basically collapsed, and Yin Shangwen was no longer polite, and replied coldly: "I don't believe it, the old lady might as well stomp her foot and let me take a look." ”

Old lady Yan was forced into a corner now, and immediately turned around and shouted at the housekeeper Yan Qi: "Xiao Qi, go and gather the township party and show these outsiders the majesty of our Yan family."

"Yes," the butler agreed, and turned to go.

In just a moment, the bell of "Dang Dang Dang" rang outside the ancestral hall.

Outside the ancestral hall, there is a hundred-year-old pine tree, and there is a horizontal branch on the top of the two of them, and a bell is hung on this horizontal tree, and whenever there is anything, such as punishing adulterers and adulterers, such as bandits coming to invade, and if there is a town meeting, this bell will be ringed, and then the men of the whole town will flock to it.

When the bell rang, the old lady asked the family to bring a chair and sat down calmly.

Yin Shangwen was not to be outdone, and also asked people to bring a bench and sit down opposite Old Lady Yan.

The two stared at each other for about ten minutes, and there was already a lot of people outside the ancestral hall.

"Young man." Old lady Yan looked at Yin Shangwen, with a victorious smile on her face, and said, "If you are willing to give in now, admit your mistakes, and revoke the rent-free and interest-free bullshit policy you have made, I can still give you a chance to go back to the county seat with all your tails." ”

Yin Shangwen smiled and said: "Old lady Yan, I still say the same thing, whether you are willing or unwilling, resist or not, the policy of rent reduction and interest reduction must be implemented, and the tenant rent and profits of the Yan family over the years must be returned in full, and if the parents of the town intend to redeem the pawned land, the Yan family cannot shirk for any reason." ”

"Arrogant" said that the old lady was very angry by Yin Shangwen's words, Rao is his decades of qi cultivation kung fu, and he couldn't help but be so angry that his beard trembled, and he got up and walked out of the ancestral hall at the moment, preparing to convene the township party to teach this group of young people who don't know the height of the sky a lesson丨lest they really take Yanjia Town as a place to enter and leave at will.

However, when the old lady walked out of the ancestral hall, he unexpectedly found that the situation did not seem right.

There are a lot of people outside the ancestral hall, and almost all the old and young masters in the whole town are here, which is true, all the old and young masters are all guys in their hands, which is also true, but the problem is that these old and young masters are not angry, let alone show the momentum of grinding this group of outsiders into powder, and even ...... Somewhat apathetic.

That's right, it's indifference, Old Lady Yan felt indifference from the eyes of the township party

However, after all, Mrs. Yan had seen the world, so he quickly calmed down, paused with his cane first, and was about to speak, but to Mrs. Yan's surprise, before he could speak, a voice had already shouted out: "Reduce rent and interest, and return to us the overpaid land rent and interest over the years."

The old lady Yan was furious, raised her cane and hit the man.

The man grabbed it, and the old lady Yan struggled hard, but he couldn't break free, and when he looked at it again, he grabbed his crutches and turned out to be the fourth Yan who was usually honest and couldn't smash half a fart with a hammer, but this time, Yan Lao Si was like eating a bear's heart and leopard gall, and he dared to speak up to the old lady in person.

"It's the opposite, it's the opposite" The old lady Yan suddenly trembled with anger.

The housekeeper Yan Qiyi waved his hand and yelled at the family behind him: "Arrest me"

The two villagers rushed up, ready to arrest people, but before they could rush forward, more villagers had already stepped forward, holding firewood knives, flat poles, hoes and even bird guns, protecting Yan Laosi behind them

"Reduce rent and interest, pay us back the tenants, pay us back the profits, pay back the money"

More and more villagers gathered around, and the scene quickly became angry, but the object of anger was not Yin Shangwen and his working group, but Old Lady Yan, who was the Yan family

In the final analysis, the authority of the Yanjia is actually based on violence.

If we wishfully believe that the power base linked by the clan and township party is strong, it is that there is a lack of sufficient understanding of this kind of power structure, and when faced with the threat of foreign villages and foreign parties, the clan and township parties will indeed show unity, and the cohesion is quite large.

But when problems and contradictions come from within, and when external forces intervene, such institutions can easily fall apart.

A few years ago, the Nationalist Government also cracked down on the local tyrants and shoddy gentry, but it did not grasp the correct method, and only blindly tried to change the status quo with external forces, and as a result, the local local tyrants and inferior gentry gathered the township party and villagers, and completely overthrew the county magistrates and township heads sent down by the Nationalist Government.

However, the results of the Communist Party's crackdown on local tyrants and inferior gentry in the Soviet area, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, and the vast anti-Japanese base areas were very good.

In a word, the Communist Party's crackdown on local tyrants and inferior gentry does not rely on external forces, but on the internal forces of the local township party and villagers

The Communist Party's sharp weapon is to reduce rents and interest rates, and this skill cannot be learned by the Nationalist Government, because the position of the officials sent by the Nationalist Government is not right, and no matter who makes a revolution, it is impossible to change their own lives, and most of these officials are from the local landlord class, and it is absolutely impossible for them to help the poor masses to rebel against the landlords.

The situation in Yanjia Town is similar to that of other places.

Old lady Yan still fantasized that the Yan family could still respond to the call as before and drive Yin Shangwen and his working team out of Yanjia Town, but this was wishful thinking.

Facing the angry township party and villagers, Mrs. Yan felt at a loss for the first time.

What's going on? Did the Yan family really do something wrong? How did it become the target of public criticism?

Yin Shangwen also walked out of the ancestral hall, and saw that the villagers of Yanjia Town were angrily denouncing the old lady Yan, and a smile appeared on his face, and the situation in Yanjia Town seemed to be opened.