Chapter 40: Before the War
Xingshan County, Kyodo News base.
The base of Kyodo News is on a mountain platform more than 4o kilometers northwest of Xingshan, which was originally the nest of a bandit, but after being flown by Kyodo News, it naturally changed owners.
The summit of this plateau looks like a "D" shape and covers an area of almost five square kilometers. The topography of the mountain was originally relatively flat, but after being favored by Kyodo News, it used explosives to blow up the bulging hills, fill in the depression above, and create a flat hilltop for life. After the settlement of Xingshan County, Kyodo Shrine hired thousands of people in the vicinity to build a large number of buildings on the terrace. For building materials, a cement factory and lime kiln were also opened.
Due to the use of a large number of steel bars and cement, and wood and stone are made of local materials, the wages are sufficient, and the construction degree is very fast, and the main buildings have been almost repaired in more than 3 months.
At this time, in the conference room, which had just been renovated and the lime water on the wall had not yet dried, there were a number of officers at and above the company level of the Kyodo Society. In order to eat the attacking Hubei New Army, in addition to 1 infantry regiment and an artillery battalion stationed at the base, Wen Desi transferred 2 infantry regiments from nearby areas. The total number of troops has risen to 12oooo.
Kyodo's current troops, equipment, training, experience, intelligence, and even tactics are all better than the opponents, not to mention the location and people, plus the soldiers' undisciplined ghost ideas, if they can't win the battle like this, President Rossi can also go find a piece of tofu to kill him.
Therefore, the content of their meeting now has little to do with the invading Hubei New Army.
Yi Damao, commander of the Combat Engineer Company of the Seventh Infantry Regiment, was speaking, and he said excitedly: "...... Comrade President, I don't understand, why did we retreat when we attacked Jingmen? We could have taken down Jingmen City, but the patrol battalions defending the city were almost exhausted, and it would take us half a day at most to liberate Jingmen......
Comrade Yi Damao is not a cyborg, he is one of the few people among the natives of this time and space who has become a middle-level officer of Kyodo Society (now the largest establishment of the Kyodo Army is a regiment, so the company commander is also considered a middle-level officer).
Yi Damao turned out to be a blaster in the Kaiping Coal Mine in Tangshan, and he played with explosives in one hand. During the Boxer Rebellion, he also followed the Boxers for a few days, and after the Boxer Rebellion failed, he ran back to Tangshan. Later, the Kaiping Coal Mine was taken by the British, and Yi Damao, an angry young man, was extremely dissatisfied with this, because he was good at playing explosives, so he organized a bomb team, which killed 2 Britons who came to take over the coal mine and a few Ah San followers. When this guy saw that he had stabbed the big basket, he was also afraid, so he quickly ran away to Henan. After staying in Henan for a while, I felt that I was still not at ease, so I ran to the south to join my relatives, but I encountered last year's flood and ended up in Chongqing.
The mines in Chongqing have not yet been opened on a large scale, and the owners of the petty mines do not have explosives for him to play with. Fortunately, he also learned the skills of an electrician in the Tangshan mine, and relying on his ability to be an electrician, he went to Chongqing Candlechuan Electric Light Co., Ltd. and recommended himself to be an electrician. (Candle River Company is the first power plant in Chongqing, because Xingke Company sells a large number of hot ball machines and electrical equipment, Candle River Company was established 2 years earlier than the original time and space.) )
But this guy has a very bad character, there is a head catcher in Tangshan who is in charge of this case to come to Chongqing on a business trip, and there is a coincidence on the street that he met Yi Damao who got off work from the Candle River Company, the head catcher is a well-known veteran of the six doors in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang area, and has the ability to never forget, and he recognized this terrorist at a glance and immediately stepped forward to arrest him. Yi Damao relied on being more familiar with the road than the head catcher who had just arrived in Chongqing, and narrowly escaped from the pursuit.
But the next day, his wanted warrants were plastered all over the city. The magistrate had to pay attention to it, among the people killed by him were 2 genuine Britons, it is said that there was a dead ghost or a relative of the minister in China, this is a big case, the Qing court is to pat the British chest to assure that he must be caught Yi Damao to be executed in a late manner, and give an explanation to the honorable British lord.
Fortunately, Yi Damao was alert, and after escaping from pursuit, he went home with his belongings and sent him across the Jialing River, or he wouldn't even be able to get out of the city the next day. However, except for the road leading to Hechuan County in the north, roads in all directions are blocked. As for Hechuan County, it is at the foot of Huaying Mountain, it is the territory of the bandits, and even the government does not dare to provoke the big monsters.
At this moment, Yi Damao was desperate, and he thought to himself: Lying in the mud of the Malagobi, this dog-day Qing Dynasty is really not a thing, didn't Lao Tzu just blew up a few foreign devils who robbed mines? This is to make you angry! Because Lao Tzu used to "help Qing Qing and destroy foreigners", he still didn't let go even after he hid in Chongqing, and he had to go to Ling Chi Lao Tzu to kneel and lick foreign devils! This is really something that an aunt can bear, but an uncle can't bear it! Okay, since you can't tolerate your master, you will go to the bandits!
So, he simply twisted his braids, shaved his head again (he heard that the bandits are all bald), and ran to Huaying Mountain to take refuge in the "bandits". When he was working in Chongqing before, he also had some understanding of this "bandit". It is said that they shouted the slogan "The cultivator has his field", specializing in robbing the rich and helping the poor, hoeing the strong and helping the weak, which is much stronger than the "Liangshan heroes" in the play, and the "Liangshan heroes" did not give the fart people a land.
What Yi Damao didn't expect was that in the territory of the "vultures", it was actually stricter than the government's guards, and just after entering the territory of Hechuan County, he encountered a road card of the bandits, and was stopped for inquiries at that time. Yi Damao didn't hide it, and he couldn't hide such a big case, so he told his own affairs, and the platoon commander who led the team asked the two soldiers to report to the public relations department in the county.
What's funny is that now Hechuan County is still in the hands of the imperial court in addition to the county seat, and the outside of the city has long been a place for bandits to have fun. Fortunately, the bandits have a tacit understanding with the government, "as long as you don't come to provoke Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will not come to attack the city", so the road is still smooth, but the government no longer dares to take care of it, and even the road cards that collect tolls have become patrol posts for the bandits. The local government and Kyodo Society coexist peacefully in a very magical state, and each side pretends that the other does not exist, and each does its own thing.
Hey, in fact, even Hechuan County only nominally belongs to the imperial court, and it doesn't make a difference whether it is fought or not. The city's public security, defense, and other functions were all taken over by Kyodo Society. The group of soldiers on duty at the gate of the city was from Kyodo, and they didn't even bother to cover it up, they directly wore Kyodo's military uniforms on duty, and cooperated with the Daqing Dragon Banner planted on the head of the city, giving people an indescribable sense of disobedience.
The bandits even opened an office in the county seat, which was very arrogant opposite the county office, and also hung a sign "Kyodo Hechuan County Office" in a big way. According to their explanation, this is the place to communicate information with the public servants of the Qing Dynasty in the future, and everyone should communicate more and move around more in the future, so as not to cause any misunderstandings. No matter how uncomfortable the servants of the Qing Dynasty were, they were put on the muzzle of their heads and a cannon on their doorsteps, and they immediately cooperated.
Since Kyodo Cooperatives placed great emphasis on the development of productive forces, after acquiring the land, they not only distributed land and organized farmers in the form of cooperatives to carry out intensive agricultural production, but also opened a number of factories and breeding farms. The production of refined salt, duck, salted eggs, silk, cured meat, iron farm tools and other products, compared with the previous price is cheaper, better quality, in the vicinity quickly famous, so that many merchants heard the news. As a result, there was a strange prosperity on the ground of Hechuan.
Originally, the officials and old men thought that they were almost finished, and the officials did not even dare to go out of the city, so how could they collect the taxes? Besides, many old faces in the officials were gone, but there were many more "fresh faces" who came from nowhere, and these public servants could not be in command. The bandits did not want the tax collected in the city, but they warned the old men that the transaction tax should not exceed 5%.
The most amazing thing is that the bandits sold things in the city and paid taxes according to the regulations. Hey, you said that the agricultural tax outside the city, cough cough, can we not talk about the outside of the city? But just relying on the little tax in the city is enough for a fart, and the tax cannot be collected, even if the bandits do not come to attack the city, this term will be considered the end of this office.
But to the disgrace of the officials, only three months after the official resumption of trading at the bazaar, the commercial tax collected was equivalent to the total tax revenue of the past six months. The officials and gentlemen breathed a sigh of relief, as long as I can collect the taxes, I will complete the task, no matter how you make a fuss outside the city. As for the difference between commercial and agricultural taxes, anyway, I don't collect taxes in kind early in the morning, and even the gentry who grow grain have to exchange the grain they collect for silver to pay taxes. The agricultural tax is gone, and the official can not use the commercial tax to offset it, and the official only asks the quantity and does not care where the silver is collected.
What Yi Damao saw in Hechuan County was such a magical scene, he couldn't imagine that there were such extravagant "bandits" in the world. Have you ever seen a bandit working opposite the county office? Have you ever seen a bandit who maintains law and order in the city? Have you ever seen a bandit standing guard at the gate of the city and on the city wall?
Of course, such extravagant behavior is currently only found in the eastern Sichuan region to liberate the highest state capitals, and Hubei is still a drop in wood!
When will you wait for Lao Tzu to become a bandit, which dog dares to catch Lao Tzu? Yi Damao was very excited and asked to join. Only then did Yi Damao know that the official name of the "Wu Bandits" was Kyodo Society, or more accurately, the "Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army". Kyodo is the general name of this organization, and the "Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army" is the name of the armed forces of this organization.
However, the bandits did not accept him directly like other hills, but let him and a group of newly recruited reserve recruits go to a Zhuangzi outside the city to learn theoretical knowledge.
When a bandit still needs to learn theoretical knowledge? Yi Damao suddenly felt that his brain was a little insufficient, was it the wrong way he got up today? Nima, I am here to be a coward, not to take the Xiucai test! If it weren't for the fact that the other local recruits all looked surprised, he would have thought that the public relations minister was joking.
After seven days of basic theoretical study, Yi Damao finally understood that this Kyodo Society was really not a bandit, but a very strange revolutionary party. It is strange because Yi Damao has never heard of such a revolutionary party. In his opinion, the revolutionary party is similar to the elder brothers of the Boxers, all they do are killing officials and rebelling, besieging yamen, assassinating officials, and so on.
The instructors who explain the basic theories are very level, and they use the most simple and easy-to-understand vernacular to give lectures, just like pulling a homely routine, even if they can't understand big words, unlike those sour literati who always like to say something very difficult to understand. The instructors told the recruits in the most straightforward language: why did Kyodo Society rise up in rebellion, why did the people live more and more unbearable, and what kind of new society Kyodo Society wanted to build.
Yi Damao and the recruits were quickly attracted to these theories, and in the days that followed, there were often recruits who cried out loud in class. At the end of the one-week course, the recruits were all re-established with three views and established basic beliefs.
Of course, what they don't know is that this course is a set of training courses that took more than half a year to sort out by gathering psychologists and education experts under his command and integrating a large number of psychological and pedagogical achievements based on various training methods in later generations. "MLM training" is a brainwashing method familiar to the public in later generations, but compared with this course, it is scum. After all, MLM is a scam, and what is instilled in the course is false, but what Kyodo instills is true.
Even if we don't talk about the results and just look at the methods, the "pyramid scheme" is not very good, it can only grasp the desire of "money" to make a fuss, and the limitations are extremely great. However, there are many types of human desires, in addition to "wealth", there are also "promotion", "fame", and "being worshipped...... and so on, as well as a higher sense of mission, achievement, honor, and salvation, until the pursuit of "governing the country and leveling the world". Can MLM blow this?
These desires are all human instincts, and as long as they are normal, they will have these consciousnesses. In the past, these high-level aspirations had never been related to the people at the bottom, and their inferiority made them dare not think about it at all. But it's not that they don't have this kind of consciousness, it's that it's all hidden.
And this training course is to use the means of psychology to defeat their inferiority, reshape the three views, and make the recruits' subconscious various high-level aspirations burst out. In the most straightforward terms, it is to establish a "sense of ownership" among the recruits. Of course, this training process is long-term, and just seven days can only be regarded as a foundation. This course will continue in the years of service to help them continue to consolidate and deepen their minds.
Yi Damao is only in his early 20s this year, which is the age of the angry youth, if he is not angry, he will not go to plant a bomb for the British. After learning about Kyodosha's theory of scientific socialist industrialization, he immediately became a fanatic. The purpose of "overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, expelling the foreign powers, rejuvenating China, and strengthening the country and enriching the people" was even more appealing to his appetite.
Because he was good at playing explosives, Comrade Yi Damao was assigned to the combat engineer company as a demoman after a month and a half of recruit training. Subsequently, in many battles in eastern Sichuan and western Hubei Province, with his excellent blasting technology, his performance was extremely eye-catching, coupled with his firm belief in socialism, he was soon favored by the high-level and stood out from the recruits, deputy squad leader, squad leader, deputy platoon commander, platoon commander, deputy company commander, and was promoted to company commander all the way.
This time against the ambush circle of the Hubei New Army, Yi Damao's bold idea accounted for a large proportion of it. There have been rumors that after the end of this campaign, Comrade Yi Damao, who is one of the key training objects, will be sent to the newly established Military Command College of the Revolutionary Army for further study.
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