"Do you have to be shot?"

Xu Shijiu frowned and looked at Yin Shangwen and asked.

Early this morning, Yin Shangwen came back from Yanjia Town and reported to him that the old lady Yan had been arrested, and that he had gone through a public trial yesterday, and that he would be executed in public just for Xu Shijiu's consent.

To be honest, Xu Shijiu was very surprised by Yin Shangwen's suggestion.

In more than a dozen townships and towns in Longkou County, there are not a few local tyrants and inferior gentry who are more greedy than Mrs. Yan, and there are a very small number of local tyrants and gentry who are definitely enough to bully men and women and fish and meat in the township, so they must be suppressed and shot, and these local tyrants and gentry who can be described as full of evil should be suppressed and shot, not an enlightened squire like Mrs. Yan.

Compared with other squires, Mrs. Yan is really an enlightened squire.

"My opinion is that Yan Zhong must be shot." Yin Shangwen said, "Although the situation in Yanjia Town has been opened, the concerns of the township party have not been eliminated, and the influence of the Yan family in Yanjia Town can be said to be deep-rooted. ”

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for the township party not to worry that there will be a day when the Yan family will recover, and once the Yan family recovers, will they carry out a counteroffensive? Will the fields and lands they just redeemed be recaptured by the Yan family? And will the overpaid tenant rent and interest money they have paid over the years from the Yan family be recovered? ”

"With such concerns, the township party will have reservations about its support for our democratic government."

"Only by suppressing the old lady Yan and completely dismantling the Yan family by thunderous means will the township party dispel their concerns and truly support our anti-Japanese democratic government, in short, I think that if we cannot give the township party sufficient guarantees, the anti-Japanese democratic government will not be able to obtain the unreserved support of the township party."

Xu Shijiu is still a little hesitant, with different backgrounds and different positions, Xu Shijiu does not have any bad feelings towards a squire like Mrs. Yan, and even if Mrs. Yan lends money, Xu Shijiu does not feel that there is anything wrong, five points of interest is definitely not a usury in this era, not to mention that Mrs. Yan did not fight in and out

Yin Shangwen said: "I also admit that Yan Zhong is already an enlightened squire compared to other squires, but no matter how enlightened he is, it is an indisputable fact that he exploits his hometown and the party, after the investigation of our county party committee, there are more than 1,000 households in Yanjia Town, of which more than 300 households are Yanjia tenants, and more than 60% of the fields in Yanjia Town are Yanjia farmland. ”

"There are so many tenant farmers and land properties of the Yan family?" Xu Shijiu couldn't help but be slightly taken aback when he heard this.

"That's not all." Yin Shangwen said, "Most of the remaining 600 households have borrowed usury from the Yan family, the reality is that over the years, the Yan family's family property has become more and more abundant, and the grain accumulated in the granary alone is enough for the whole town to eat for more than three years, while most of the rest of the township party almost don't even have overnight food, is this a normal phenomenon?" ”

Xu Jiu was secretly frightened when he heard this, and asked, "The Yan family has so much food?" ”

Yin Shangwen said: "This is only a conservative estimate, if the Yan family is suppressed and the property of the Yan family is confiscated, I dare to guarantee that the harvest is far greater than this number, and this is the nineteenth detachment, which is tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow. ”

Seeing that Xu Shijiu was a little moved, Yin Shangwen was going to slaughter the Yan family as a fat pig.

Yin Shangwen then said: "Detachment leader, there is another advantage to suppressing the Yan family, even Shili's deep-rooted Yan family in the local area has been suppressed by the democratic government, so in all the townships and towns, which squire still dares to go against the democratic government?" And these businesses in the county, they should also think about the consequences of always perfunctory democratic government"

Xu Shijiu was also completely moved, as Yin Shangwen said, it is an indisputable fact that the Yan family exploited the township party.

"Okay, I'll agree to this, but I can't expand it, unless it's a local tyrant and shoddy gentry who have done a lot of evil and have great public anger, it's better to kill a few less." Xu Shijiu said, "After all, the united front of the whole people that is being pursued now, at this stage, our primary enemy is Little Japan, as long as these squires and businessmen are willing to resist Japan, let's open up to them." ”

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Old lady Yan was publicly executed by the Longkou anti-Japanese democratic government, which caused a great shock.

However, the most shocking thing is the township party of Yanjia Town, for the township party of Yanjia Town, the Yan family is the sky, and the old lady Yan is the master, but now, the old lady Yan has been shot, and the Yan family has also been raided by the anti-Japanese democratic government, and the once lofty and invincible Yan family has completely disappeared.

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"Fourth, why are you going?"

Seeing Yan Lao Sihu walking out with a face on his face, the woman hurriedly rushed up to block the door.

Outside the gate, two young people walked by with a megaphone, shouting as they walked: "Fellow villagers, fathers and old folks, if you reduce the rent, reduce the interest, and redeem the land, you will have a good life in the future, but the little Japanese will not die, they will soon gather troops to fight, and Longkou will soon be attacked by the little Japan." ”

"Little Japan is more ferocious than bandits and bullies, more ruthless than local tyrants and inferior gentry, if they come to Longkou, we should not think about living a good life, our wives and daughters will be humiliated by them, the grain we have worked so hard to grow will be robbed by them, and when the time comes, we will not even be as good as tenant farmers for the landlords and old wealth."

"Fathers and fellow villagers, if you don't want to go back to the old days, if you want to protect your wives and daughters, and want to keep your fields and property, then you can only pick up a steel gun, go to join the army, and fight as a soldier, we use bullets and grenades to tell Little Japan that Longkou is definitely not the place where they should come."

The two young men shouted and walked away, and Yan Lao Si turned around and was about to go out again.

"Fourth, don't go, I won't let you go." The woman once again blocked Yan Laosi's way, she knew where her man was going, what he wanted to go to was the recruiting point outside the town, he was going to sign up for the anti-Japanese salvation army in southern Anhui, but the woman had a great fear of this, she couldn't imagine that once her man really went to the battlefield, once he died on the battlefield, leaving her a widow and three children waiting to be fed, how could she live?

"Baby, I have to go." Yan Lao Si has made up his mind.

When he saw Mrs. Yan being shot dead in public at noon today, and then the people of the working group sent over the 14 pieces of ocean and more than 600 catties of grain that the Yan family should have returned, Yan Laosi had already made a decision in his heart, he felt that this anti-Japanese democratic government was really thinking about the poor people, and he was willing to risk his life to defend this government.

Although Yan Laosi has only studied in private school for half a year and has no knowledge, he can still see clearly that defending the anti-Japanese democratic government in Longkou is to protect their family's future life.

Yan Lao Si is absolutely unwilling to return to his previous embarrassing life.

Just a few days ago, he was still squatting under the eaves of his house and crying, and he once thought about committing suicide by hanging from the beam, if it weren't for the young age of his three children, he might have been a ghost in the underworld at this time.

"Fourth, I don't object to you going to be a soldier, but don't go to the regular army, let's be a militia." The woman burst into tears, the woman knew very well the character of her man, usually he looked wilted, and he couldn't beat half a fart with eight sticks, but once the decision was made, it was nine cows that couldn't pull it back, so he could only compromise.

There are two recruiting offices in the Citang outside the town, one for the militia and the other for the regular army.

Although it is also dangerous to be a militia, it is possible to be transferred to the battlefield, but it is better to be safe.

"No, I'll be a regular soldier." Yan Laosi did not hesitate to reject his woman.

"Fourth, have you thought about it, if you have three longs and two shorts, how can we orphans and widows live

"Baby, have you ever thought about it, if no one signs up, where will the regular army come from? If Little Japan really fights, if Longkou County can't hold it, then no one wants to have a good life, Little Japan is not a human being, it is a group of animals, and everything can be done, so I can't let them enter Yanjia Town. ”

"Fourth, do you have to go?" The woman looked at Yan Laosi sadly, hoping that he would change his mind.

Yan Laosi put the jacket on his back, turned his head around the woman, and walked away without looking back.

Looking at Yan Laosi's figure in the distance, the woman had already rubbed her eyes with tears, and a half-sized man came out of it, holding a girl baby in her left hand, and holding a smaller one in her right hand, the girl raised her head and asked, "Mother, is Daddy going?"

"Your father, he's going to be a soldier." When the woman wiped away her tears, and when she turned to face the three children, she immediately became stronger, took the youngest baby from the hands of the half-eldest child, and led the little girl into the house, saying, "There are a bunch of robbers outside, and your father must go and drive them away." ”

"Dad is really powerful, robbers fight all the robbers." The little girl is innocent.

"That's right, your dad is amazing." The woman said, but then she thought that maybe today's parting, the husband and wife would be separated forever, and they didn't realize that they were in tears again.