The headquarters of the first detachment of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi.

While smoking a cigarette and puffing out the clouds, Regiment Commander Kong, who was sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, asked Dong San, director of the logistics department, and Xu Qingnian, director of the finance department, who had reported to the headquarters to report to the headquarters, about the current logistics and economic situation of the independent regiment.

"After this period of hard work, how much grain have we hoarded up and down the ground right now?"

Seeing Kong Jie's inquiry, Dong San, the head of the logistics department, immediately took out a detailed record book from his arms, and then turned to the corresponding number of pages and replied:

"Report to the head of the regiment, according to preliminary statistics, so far."

"Our independent regiment, plus the public grain hoarded in various granaries, including the detachment headquarters, plus the grain we continuously purchased from all directions from the base area during this period, a total of 45,000 quintals."

"The second regiment is currently hoarding a total of 23,000 quintals of public grain."

"The three regiments hoarded 24,000 quintals of public grain."

"The Fourth Regiment is currently dealing with the Japanese army in the area of Zhongtiao Mountain, there is no burden on the victims, and the action of hoarding food has not been carried out on a large scale, and there is no statistics for the time being."

"In this way, our team has hoarded a total of 92,000 quintals of public grain so far, which is almost 11 million catties of grain when converted into catties."

"Regiment commander, that's it, not counting the food we consumed during this time, our team has not only supported the brigade headquarters, headquarters, and surrounding troops with food difficulties, nearly 50,000 loads of food."

"In addition, after the victims of the disaster settled in our base temporarily, we have reduced more than 2 million catties of public food so far."

"And in accordance with your instructions from the head of the regiment, 27,000 quintals of relief and low-interest loan grain will be allocated from the public grain and distributed to the people in the disaster area as resettlement expenses and all kinds of workers' expenses."

"Among them, the migrant workers' group spent a total of 12,000 quintals."

"The expenditure of various factory workers in the base area is 11,000 quintals......

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Dong San took the account book in his hand and reported the data to Kong Jie in detail.

Kong Jie listened a little big, he pondered this thing carefully, and naturally understood it, but as the head of a huge independent regiment, he had to do everything himself, so he couldn't be tired to death?

Captain Kong, who is often lazy with wisdom, of course understands the truth that it is better to use oneself than to use others.

The independent regiment is now full of talents, and only by making the best use of these talents can he, the head of the regiment, be the most leisurely and chic.

"Lao Xu, during this time, in order to resettle the victims and deal with the gradually spreading disaster, we have been mainly buying grain from the base area, and I didn't have time to ask the Ministry of Finance if there are any economic difficulties?"

Xu Qingnian replied: "Regiment Commander, with the purchase of a large amount of grain from the base area during this period of time to deal with the disaster, the financial income of our independent regiment has not increased significantly. ”

"Our financial reserves have indeed dropped a lot, but they are still within an acceptable range, and it will not affect the overall economic stability of our base areas."

Speaking of this, Xu Qingnian also smiled: "In addition, after the victims were resettled, they quickly put into formal work with the food we initially provided.

They are paid for their work, either money or food, because they are at peace and do not worry about not having food tomorrow.

Second, the victims of the disaster made money and used it to spend money in the bazaars we built up and down the ground.

This has promoted the economic circulation of our base areas to a great extent. ”

"In this way, as long as we ensure that foreign economic and trade continue to be carried out and that materials and money from enemy-occupied areas continue to circulate to our base areas, we will continue to stimulate the economic development within our base areas."

"So far, according to your plan, the head of the regiment, the demographic dividend has initially brought rapid economic development to our base area."

In the end, Xu Qingnian sighed: "If you ignore the impact of the follow-up war.

It also ensures that the basic living materials above and below the base areas, especially the most basic agricultural production, that is, the supply of grain, is sufficient, so as to meet the basic needs of survival in the base areas.

Regiment commander, I think the economic development of our detachment's base areas will get better and better. ”

"Good work!" Kong Jie nodded and said.

Then Kong Jie raised the question of his own concern.

"At present, as our base receives a large number of victims, it is indeed moving towards the blueprint of the initial demographic dividend."

"But there is always a limit to everything, the area of our base area, and the number of people that the land can carry, are limited after all."

"At present, we may be able to bear the 350,000 victims, but what if there are more? One hundred and twenty thousand, or even millions, sooner or later will crush our entire base area. ”

"Even the area of our cultivated land is far less terrifying than this disaster."

"Commander, do you mean that our base is going to start restricting the reception of disaster victims?"

Dong San, who was pondering the meaning of Kong Jie's words, asked.

"That's what it means, but the way must be changed, and we can't lose the benevolence and responsibility of our people's soldiers."

"For the victims who have fled, they can survive if we take action, but if we don't take action, we even indirectly take their lives, which needs to be continued to be received."

"For the victims whose internal work has stabilized and accumulated a certain amount of food, we should ask the Propaganda Department to increase publicity and encourage everyone to return to their hometowns to farm!"

"On the premise of voluntariness, guided by publicity, if you are willing to return to your hometown to farm, we will send an escort team to protect you along the way, and give an additional amount of travel expenses, as well as food and water needed on the way."

"After all, with the increase in the number of victims, the amount of land reclaimed from our base is also limited, so many victims cannot get land, and after returning to their hometowns, there is a large area of land for them to cultivate."

"We can even rent them some cattle, I think the villagers will be willing."

"This is also to leave room for the survival of the victims after the initial solution of their own survival problems."

"Of course, we must make it clear to everyone that letting everyone go back to their hometown is not driving everyone away."

"After the escort arrived at the victims' hometowns, they stayed in the local area to help the villagers resume spring ploughing, played the role of the armed engineering team and militia behind enemy lines, combined the mass base in the local area, tried to contact anti-Japanese activists, and secretly established an anti-Japanese revolutionary regime."

"If there are difficulties in these tasks, the detachment headquarters will help, and I will discuss with the political commissar in this regard."

"Yes!" Dong San, who suddenly came to his senses, responded.

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Let the victims who have temporarily settled down and recovered their strength return to their hometowns, which is also Kong Jie's helpless move.

Compared with Kong Jie's independent regiment, in fact, most base areas such as Taihang and Taiyue had already begun to carry out the policy of arranging for the victims to return to their hometowns under the pressure of the continuous influx of victims.

On the other hand, there is no choice but to dissuade the victims from entering the country.

Under the influence of the disaster, the Eighth Route Army, which was already scarce in materials, was unable to help many times, and it could not be saved because of the overflow of kindness for a while, but it dragged down the soldiers and civilians in the base area, and the gains outweighed the losses.

In some base areas, supplies are in short supply, and when arranging for the victims to return to their hometowns, the only thing they can do is to hold a farewell party.

Then, at the farewell party, each of the victims who were about to return to their hometowns were stuffed with two pancakes as food rations on the way back.

The poor victims of the disaster did not know that with just these two pancakes, they could not withstand the long journey back to their hometowns, and they also starved to death when they returned to their hometowns, so they simply started guerrilla attacks in the base areas.

Sent off one side, pretended to leave, and then returned to some villages under the jurisdiction of the Eight Roads from the other side.

In short, I just don't leave.

Everyone knows that if you can rely here, you may have hope of living.

Under the influence of the spread of the terrible disaster, too many places that cannot be seen have long been full of mourning and starvation, and the tragic appearance is unbearable.

Every time Kong Jie thinks about this, he always feels that his appearance is struggling with all his might, but what he can really do for his motherland is just a drop in the bucket.

...... "Lao Xu, under the impact of the disaster, people are starving to death every minute, we can't be the savior of the world, we can only do our best to obey the destiny of heaven." ”

"Continue to increase the intensity of grain purchases, and do not be afraid to take risks. Food is life now, and it's worth taking the risk to save more lives. ”

"Yes!" Feeling the firm determination of his head of the group, Xu Qingnian hurriedly responded.

After Dong San and Xu Qingnian left, political commissars Li Wenjie and Xu Guoan also returned to the detachment headquarters soon after.

They found that Regiment Commander Kong had been staring at the twelve major railway lines on the combat map where the devils transported grain, without blinking his eyes.

"Lao Kong, are you still thinking about how to cut off the devil's transportation route?"

Kong Jie sighed and said, "It's still not enough, it's not enough, it's too far away!" ”

"What's not enough?"

"Food, not enough food, far from enough."

With a somewhat stunned opening, Kong Jie's eyes opened angrily, staring at the battle map, the various devil transport railway lines leading to Shanxi, and said categorically:

"Cut off the various grain transportation lines that the devils transport to Shanxi."

"This is not only to give the little devil a fatal blow, but also to save more of our victims."

"This grain interception operation can only succeed, not fail!"

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