733 There are millions of grains, but there are still many people dying of hunger.
Headquarters of the First Detachment of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi.
Captain Kong, who was sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, was smoking a cigarette and puffing away smoke while asking Dong San, the director of the logistics department of the first team, and Xu Qingnian, the director of the finance department, who were reporting to the headquarters, about the current logistics and economic situation of the independent regiment.<
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"After this period of hard work, how much food have we stocked up and down now?"
Seeing Kong Jie's inquiry, Dong San, the head of the Logistics Department, immediately took out a detailed record book from his arms, then opened it to the corresponding page and replied:
"Reporting to the head of the delegation, according to preliminary statistics, so far."
"We are an independent regiment, including the detachment headquarters and the public grain stored in various granaries. In addition, during this period, we have continuously purchased grain from all directions within the base area, totaling 45,000 tons."
"The Second Regiment currently has a total of 23,000 dans of public grain in stock."
"The Third Regiment has hoarded 24,000 tons of public grain."
"The fourth regiment is currently dealing with the Japanese army in the Zhongtiao Mountain area. There is no burden on the victims. The operation of hoarding food has not been carried out on a large scale. There is no statistics for the time being."
"To put it into perspective, our team has so far stockpiled a total of 92,000 tons of public grain. If converted into kilograms, it is almost 11 million kilograms of grain."
"Commander, that's it. Not counting the food we consumed during this period, our team, in addition to its ability, also supported the brigade, headquarters, and surrounding troops who had difficulty in using food, with nearly 50,000 loads of food.
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"In addition, after the disaster victims temporarily settled in our base, we have so far exempted and exempted more than 2 million kilograms of public grain."
"And in accordance with your instructions, head of the delegation, 27,000 dans of relief and low-interest loan grains were allocated from the public grain and distributed to the people in the disaster area as resettlement expenses and payment for all types of workers."
“Among them, the migrant workers’ league spent a total of 12,000 dan.”
"According to the expenditure of various factory workers in the area, 11,000 dan...
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Dong San took the accounting book in his hand and reported the data to Kong Jie in detail.
Kong Jie was a little confused after hearing this. He thought about this stuff carefully and naturally understood it, but as the leader of such a large independent group, he had to do everything by himself. How could he die from exhaustion?
Captain Kong, who is often lazy with his wisdom, certainly understands that it is better to use others than to use oneself.
The Independent Group is now full of talents. Only by making full use of these talents can he, the leader of the group, be the most leisurely and unrestrained.
"Lao Xu, in order to resettle the victims and deal with the gradually spreading disaster during this period, our base has been mainly purchasing grain. I didn't have time to ask the Finance Department if there are any financial difficulties."
Xu Qingnian replied: "Captain, as we have purchased a large amount of food from top to bottom during this period to deal with the disaster, the financial income of our independent group has not increased significantly."
"Our financial reserves have indeed dropped a lot, but they are still within an acceptable range and will not affect the overall economic stability of our base area."
Speaking of this, Xu Qingnian also smiled: "In addition, after the victims were resettled, they quickly started formal work with the food we initially provided.
They get rewards through their work, whether it is money or food. First, they feel stable and will not worry about not having food to eat tomorrow.
Secondly, the victims of the disaster made money and spent it in the bazaars we built on the ground.
This has greatly promoted the economic circulation of our base area."
"In this way, as long as we ensure that external economic and trade continues and materials and money from enemy-occupied areas continue to flow into our base area, we will continue to stimulate the economic development within our base area."
"So far, according to your plan, leader, we have initially achieved the rapid economic development of our base area brought by the demographic dividend."
At the end, Xu Qingnian said with emotion: "If we ignore the impact of the subsequent war.
And ensure an adequate supply of basic living materials above and below ground, especially the most basic agricultural production, that is, food, to meet the basic needs for survival above and below ground.
Leader, I think the economic development of our team’s base area will get better and better.”
"Thank you!" Kong Jie nodded and said.
Then Kong Jie raised the issue that he was worried about.
"From the current point of view, as our base area receives a large number of disaster victims, we are indeed moving towards the blueprint of the initial demographic dividend."
"But everything has a limit. The area of our base and the number of people the land can support are ultimately limited."
"We may be able to withstand the current 30,000 to 50,000 victims, but what if there are more? One hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, or even millions, sooner or later our entire base area will be crushed."
"Even if we continue to cultivate the area, it is far less terrible than this disaster."
"Captain, are you saying that our base area will begin to restrict the admission of disaster victims?"
Dong San asked, pondering the meaning of Kong Jie's words.
"That's what it means, but the method must be changed, and the benevolence, justice and responsibility of our people's soldiers must not be lost."
"The victims who have escaped will survive if we take action, but if we don't take action, we may even kill them indirectly. This needs to be continued."
"For the victims who have stabilized their domestic work and have accumulated a certain amount of food, we need the Propaganda Department to increase publicity and encourage everyone to return to their hometowns to work in agriculture!"
"Based on the principle of voluntariness and guided by publicity, if you are willing to return to your hometown to work in farming, we will send a escort team to protect you along the way, and provide an additional travel fee, as well as food and water needed on the way."
"After all, as the number of disaster victims increases, the amount of land we can reclaim from above and below is also limited. So many victims cannot get land. After returning to their hometowns, there will be a large area of land for them to cultivate."
"We can even rent some of their cattle. I think the folks will be willing."
"This is also to leave room for future victims to survive after their own survival problems have been initially solved."
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"Of course, we must make it clear to everyone that asking everyone to rebel does not mean to drive everyone away."
"After the escort arrived at the victims' hometowns, they stayed there to help the villagers resume spring farming. They acted as armed workers' teams and militiamen behind enemy lines. They combined with the local mass base, tried to contact anti-Japanese activists, and secretly established an anti-Japanese revolutionary regime."<
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"If you encounter difficulties during these tasks, the detachment headquarters will provide assistance. I will discuss this with the political commissar later."
"Yes!" Dong San, suddenly enlightened, responded.
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It was Kong Jie's helpless move to allow the victims who had temporarily settled down and regained their strength to return home.
Compared with Kong Jie's independent regiment, in fact, most base areas in Taihang, Taiyue and other bases have already begun to implement policies to arrange for the victims to return home due to the pressure of the continuous influx of victims.
On the other hand, we have to do our best to discourage disaster victims from entering the country.
There is nothing that can be done about this. Under the influence of the disaster, the Eighth Route Army, which is already short of supplies, is often unable to help. It cannot be because of temporary overflow of kindness that it cannot save people, but drags down the soldiers and civilians on the base, and the gain outweighs the loss.
Some base areas are in short supply of supplies. When arranging for the victims to return home, the only thing they can do is hold a farewell party.
Then at the farewell party, two pancakes were stuffed into the hands of each of the victims who were preparing to return home, as rations on the way back.
The poor victims didn't know that these two pancakes couldn't withstand the long journey back home, and they would starve to death when they returned home, so they simply started guerrilla warfare in the base area.
Send them off here, pretend to leave, and then return to some villages under the jurisdiction of Balugencu from the other side.
In short, I just won’t leave.
Everyone knows that if you can stay here, you may have hope of survival.
Under the influence of the spread of the horrific disaster, many places that cannot be seen are already filled with victims of hunger and death. The tragedy is unbearable to see.
Every time Kong Jie thought about this, he always felt that he appeared and struggled with all his strength, but what he could really do for his motherland was just a drop in the bucket.
..."Old Xu, under the impact of the disaster, people are starving to death every minute. We cannot be the savior to save the world. We can only do our best and obey fate."
"Continue to increase our efforts to purchase food, and don't be afraid to take risks. Food is life now, and taking risks can save more lives, which is worth it."
"Yes!" Feeling the firm determination of his team leader, Xu Qingnian responded quickly.
After Dong San and Xu Qingnian left, political commissar Li Wenjie and Xu Guoan also returned to the detachment headquarters soon after.
They discovered that Commander Kong had been staring at the twelve main railway lines used by the Japanese to transport food on the combat map without blinking.
"Lao Kong, are you still thinking about how to cut off the Japs' transportation route?"
Kong Jie sighed and said: "It's still not enough, not enough, it's too far behind!"
"What's not enough?"
"Food, food is not enough, far from enough."
As he spoke in a daze, Kong Jie's eyes opened angrily, staring at the combat map, the various Japanese transport railway lines leading to Shanxi, and said categorically:
"Cut off all the grain transportation lines that the Japanese 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 cutoff operation can only succeed, not fail!"