Chapter 186: Chen Feng's Worries (1) (Asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! )
PS: Since Kang Ze will be Chen Feng's main stumbling block for a long time in the future, Kang Ze's explanation is more detailed, and it also involves some sensitive things, and there are a lot of informational things, I hope you will forgive me!!
Chapter 186: Chen Feng's Worries (1) (Asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! )
On 20 March, when the large-scale military training movement against the Red and Blue Confrontation in Chahar Province was in full swing, the Nationalist Government's military procurement team entered Shaanxi via Henan, then crossed the Yellow River eastward into Shanxi, and finally entered the Yanbei Administrative Region under the protection of an elite infantry regiment in the Second World War Zone. The team was accompanied by 700 administrative officials, the vast majority of whom were recent graduates, 458 men and 242 women.
After receiving the telegram from the Nationalist Government, Chen Feng immediately ordered Li Wensheng's 101st Division to send capable troops to Shuoxian County to meet the Nationalist Government's group heading north.
On the 21st, this group of people finally arrived safely in Xinghe under the protection of the 101st Division Cavalry Regiment and was warmly welcomed by Chen Feng. That night, Chen Feng was in charge of all the incoming magistrates at the newly built Chahar Provincial Government Guest House in Xinghe, and all the senior officers of the 40th Group Army in Xinghe were present to accompany him.
However, when he learned that the leader of the Nationalist Government's arms procurement team and the representative of the Nationalist Government in the inspection was actually Kang Ze, Chen Feng's whole feeling completely changed, although this Kang Ze was not as famous as Chen Cheng, Xue Yue, Du Yuanming, Luo Zhuoying and others in the Anti-Japanese War, but this person's name is not small. This person was even told by Mao Weiren in Yan'an, "The peasants are unforgivable for Kangze". It shows that this person is a strange flower.
There are other reasons why Chen Feng feels bad, Kang Ze is not as easy to deal with as other Xue Quzhi and others, this person's vicious methods and meticulous thinking are definitely not what ordinary people can imagine. To put it mildly, thousands of officers like Xue Quai's come Chen Feng won't even blink an eye, because the two sides are not a hierarchical opponent at all. Even if the Nationalist Government sent generals like Xue Yue or Wei Lihuang to Chahar, Chen Feng would not be too worried, because these generals were orthodox soldiers, and they had their own conscience and the minimum bottom line of life.
But Chen Feng can't see any of these things in Kang Ze, this person is just Lao Jiang's henchman, which is not terrible at all. Lao Jiang's henchmen are thousands of relatives. There are thousands of people who regard Lao Jiang as Bole. However, Kang Ze is the only one who can be regarded by Lao Jiang as his right-hand man or even the heir, even Chen Lifu, Chen Guofu brothers, Dai Li, He Yingqin and others who have always called Lao Jiang "Third Uncle Jiang" are far inferior.
In addition, Kang Ze not only acted viciously, but also his methods were extremely clever, and it only took this person one year to completely destroy the Jiangxi Soviet District built by "Zhu Mao", which was enough to see this person's methods. So the high-level in Yan'an has always thought. There are two culprits in the destruction of Ruijin. One is Lao Jiang, and the other is Kang Ze.
Kang Ze's methods of dealing with the common people in the Soviet area were very clever, and at that time, the war of the Nationalist Government to encircle and suppress the Soviet area of Jiangxi gradually expanded. Xue Yue and other military generals fought against the Red Army in the front, while Kang Ze, who was then the captain of the Blue Coat Society's Beilu Mobilization Team, took the newly formed Beilu Mobilization Team to the front line centered on Fuzhou and the nearest recovery area, where the Lanyi Beilu Mobilization Force would play the role of a provisional government.
The first thing that the Bellu Task Force started was to organize and protect the original peaceful residents of more than 10 counties around the front line. Compilation and Guarantee A start with social surveys and household registration surveys. Plainclothes went to the townships to find out the population, structure, who had "collaborated with the enemy," and whose land had been confiscated or divided. Then, it is a district team or a detachment to "go to the countryside". Because the Red Army's conscription campaign has been so strong in the last two years, there are very few strong people in this area. In this way, their small armed forces were hardly resisted. One detachment took over one or even two or three counties, the squadron took over the market towns, and the district teams and detachments penetrated deep into the villages. Half of Jiangxi was taken over by them overnight.
Before they entered the village and entered the household, the families of those who had contacts with the Soviet area or who had children in the Red Army were almost gone. At this time, the order stamped with Kang Ze's private seal appeared in the villages, towns and towns in the form of notices: Those who return to the village in time to "report" and register their household registration are regarded as "timely self-reform", and the Mobilizer will not blame the past. The offender "sinned the whole family when discovered." This barbaric policy, which was soft on the one hand and the other, was very effective, and even in Ruijin, the Red Capital of the Red Army, which had been in operation for a long time, 1,000 or several hundred "red masses" went to the county government to handle "self-reform."
The fugitive landlords and rich peasants returned in batches, and they quickly became the local civil base of the Belle Movement Force. The candidates for the chief of security and the director of joint security are designated among these people. After the temporary yamen and the armor protection chief were elected, the "standard strategic village" and the armor protection system began to be implemented with astonishing speed and astonishing terror. Dozens of miles around the Soviet zone were turned into a ring-shaped "no man's land." Kang Ze's eyes were grim, and he commanded the members of the Beilu Movement and the improvised soldiers to drive millions of villagers out of their villages and into standard "strategic villages" like cattle, where they were confined to the "armor protection system".
This "armor protection system" is one of the most sensational systems in modern history. It stipulates that in order for any family to prove its status as a "good citizen," it must find four families as guarantors, guarantee that it will not "cooperate with the enemy," that it will not take in all suspects, and that it will not supply material materials to the Soviet area. Five families are connected to each other. Those who do not report "if there is an enemy situation" will be shot and killed. If one family commits a crime, the family destroys the family and destroys the family, and the other four families are also "killed"!
The decrees of "five households in a row" and "one family has an accident, and the rest are punished" have achieved remarkable results. In just over a month, the Belle Movement took control of millions of residents in nearly 20 counties. After the completion of the "strategic village" and the formation of the armor, hundreds of thousands of residents were mobilized under the leadership of the Beilu mobilization team members and the chief of the armor protection. Armed with primitive weapons such as "blades, spears, and hoes," they walked to large and small intersections and set up tens of thousands of "people's checkpoints" to interrogate and inspect passers-by.
The "embargo" and the blockade of traffic are based on strong civil control and "mobilizing the masses." A clamp on Ruijin was formed. Kang Ze ordered that all inspection teams should be shot on the spot if they found Soviet traffic officers, second-lane traffickers, and smuggling caravans, regardless of whether they were suspected of "fornicating with the enemy area." Second, the inspection troops are soft on the one hand and the other: those who collude with smuggling will be shot; Anyone who finds a substance or reports a bribe will be given a heavy reward. The heavy reward is to reward the meritorious personnel for "all confiscation" and to raise the "two-level salary" in a row.
This was just the beginning, with the successive military victories, in the second half of 1934 Kang Ze and his Blue Coat Society had already controlled 80% of the towns in Jiangxi, so the "new Jiangxi model" proposed by Kang Ze began. Speaking of this "new Jiangxi model", even Chen Feng had to admire Kangze's methods and strategies. He first organized the "Zhuangding Team" and the "Shovel Volunteer Team". The aim was to win over the youth and cut off the supply of troops from the Soviet districts. For this. The Beilu Task Force exercises comprehensive and strict control over Jiangxi's millions of young and middle-aged people. At that time, "all strong men who have reached the age of 18 and are less than 45 years old" in rural Jiangxi were all incorporated into the strong ding team. Zhuang Ding lives and goes out, and is fully monitored. Every morning, the strong men will go out to exercise, and everyone will come. And it is absolutely forbidden for strong men to leave their homes.
When the sentry posts, militia, and strong ding organizations are all under the control of the Beilu mobile force. The appearance of "New Jiangxi" has been revealed. "Anhui Yu heavy regimental police. "Jiangxi's emphasis on education" was a policy formulated by Chiang Kai-shek. The two "century-old plans" of education and anti-corruption are the key to the "new Jiangxi" model.
As a result, night schools for boys and girls in various villages, as well as "people's checkpoints", "strong ding teams", and "shovel communist volunteer teams". Appears together in every village. They made it mandatory for all adult boys and girls to attend a popular night school, and each person needed to "know more than 500 Chinese characters." After completing literacy, they are required to memorize and memorize the Handbook for Suppressing Bandits.
The most striking achievement of the "New Jiangxi" is basic education. The Belo Task Force has built about 2,700 schools in Jiangxi, with a primary school in almost every two or three villages. These schools are named after "Zhongshan Primary School" and "Zhongzheng Primary School", and after a little more than a year, 200,000 or 300,000 students will be enrolled. Combined with the people's night school, two or three years later, Jiangxi became the most successful province in basic education in the country.
The slogans on the earthen walls and the sound of various loud slogans also followed quickly and forcefully. All of a sudden, Jiangxi's earthen walls and firewood doors were painted everywhere with slogans such as "Suppress the outside and secure the inside," "Suppress bandits and save the people," "Eliminate the Communist Party," and "Strictly protect the armor organization." Every morning and evening, those who are accustomed to hoeing are also asked to gather at the entrance of the village to recite these slogans.
The effect of this subtle "education" is almost as good as "fighting local tyrants and dividing the land". At the same time as night school and elementary school, there are medical stations. Most of the large quantities of medicines mobilized from Shanghai were distributed free of charge to villagers with headaches and brain fever. It is estimated that during the Jiangxi period, about 2,000 medical stations were set up by the Beilu Mobilization Force, benefiting more than 1 million residents.
The anti-corruption achievements of the Beilu Task Force are unparalleled in the Republic of China. Compared with Deng Wenyi's Wuhan "Clear Stream Storm" and Chiang Ching-kuo's "Tiger Fight" 15 years later, it is even more powerful. It also focuses its anti-corruption efforts directly at embezzlement, solicitation, and bribery of officials. In just over a year, it has investigated and dealt with a total of 1,200 "major corruption cases" and countless small cases, and has almost eradicated corruption at the grassroots level in half of Jiangxi.
Under this series of measures to "militarize" and "partyize" society, the entire Jiangxi society has become a large barracks. This kind of manipulation and momentum was only repeated once more than 30 years later. Not only that, but they also went door-to-door to ask the poor about the needy, provide loans, seeds, and introduce pesticides to provide disaster relief...... At the moment when the guns were constantly firing on the front line, there was a momentum of agricultural revival in the half of Jiangxi Province.
By the end of 1934, when the Red Army had begun its epic Long March, spring ploughing, cattle buying, fairs, and field trading were again appearing in most parts of Jiangxi. Cattle and land trading were symbols of the prosperity of the village community, and the Belu Movement rarely collected miscellaneous donations and assessments, making the people richer than in the past.
In half a year, the Beilu Mobile Brigade expanded from three brigades to seven brigades, with more than 7,000 plainclothes agents, 17,000 ordinary members, more than 30,000 regular troops, and about 5 million residents in Jiangxi.
To tell the truth, Chen Feng is very jealous of a person like Kang Ze who is meticulous and vicious, as an orthodox soldier, Chen Feng thinks that he is not as good as Kang Ze's methods, and now the national government will definitely not be a good thing to send this guy to Chahar. (To be continued......)