At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the sunshine had turned golden, and the trading team finally came back, but there were two men with strange faces in the team. They tied their hands and escorted them to the village. They had buck teeth and beards.
His eyes moved furtively, staring at the village.
"Qingming, you are back. Where did you get so many lambs and calves? Is there any new decision in the meeting?"
The passing villagers happily greeted the returning team. When their eyes fell on the lambs and calves guarded by the soldiers in the team, they asked in surprise.
Li Qingming said with a smile: "Aunt Feng, there is no new decision. Just wait. The new decision will be made soon. It will definitely be a good thing for everyone."
"Then we have to look forward to it."
Aunt Feng said with a smile, her eyes fell on the two people being detained in the team, and she couldn't help but ask: "Why did I arrest two people when I came back this time?"
Li Qingming turned to look at Buck Tooth and Beard, and said: "On the way back, these two guys followed us sneakily. They probably wanted to follow us back. Fortunately, the second squad leader discovered them and arrested them."
Aunt Feng praised: "Well done, our good life has just begun, we can't let them ruin it."
Other villagers had the same idea and said one after another: "Lock them up and let Captain Xia interrogate them to see if they have done anything harmful or harmful."
Li Qingming said: "Don't worry, everyone, they can't escape, take them away."
Arriving at the Red Army's temporary station, he commanded the soldiers: "Take good care of the lambs and calves, close their tails and don't let them escape. Watch carefully. I'll go find the company commander."
After saying that, Li Qingming entered the courtyard and shouted at the top of his voice: "Sun Dasha, Sun Dasha."
"I'm here, Brother Qingming, what do you want me to do?"
Sun Dasha's figure appeared in the yard.
"In the army, you should be called deputy company commander, do you know?"
Sun Dasha scratched his head and said, "I understand, deputy company commander."
Li Qingming asked: "Where is the company commander?"
Sun Dasha said: "The company commander is writing something in the room. I can't read either, so I don't know what he is writing."
"You, study more with the company commander in the future, and you will definitely know Braille!"
Li Qingming said: "I have something to do with the company commander."
"Hey, deputy company commander, don't worry, I will definitely work hard with the company commander in the future."
Li Qingming waved his hand and came to the room. Xia Yuan was at the desk, writing something on the paper, and said without looking back: "Is this transaction going well?"
"It goes well even if it goes well, and it doesn't go well even if it doesn't go well. Company commander, I got news in Laohe Village, news about another Red Army team!"
Li Qingming walked to Xia Yuan and said in a suppressed voice.
The shaking pen stopped, Xia Yuan's eyes moved slightly, turned his head and said: "Is the news true?"
Li Qingming said: "I haven't investigated, and I don't know yet. I heard the landlord in Laohe Village said that he wanted to make money, and he heard it from an acquaintance in the county. There should be no problem."
Xia Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Tell me what news you got and how you got it."
Li Qingming pulled a stool over, sat down and said, "It's like this, wasn't it a deal with Zhang Wangcai? After the deal, he invited me to have a drink. I thought that there were comrades from the second squad investigating in the village, so I agreed to deal with him.
Zhou Xuan, I told him that he had something to do in the afternoon, not to drink too much, but to drink less, and just chat there during the meal, and he mentioned this matter."
He said: "Zhang Wangcai said that he once went to the county town and met an acquaintance in the county town. This acquaintance was not simple. He said that this person had connections with the national army and that he appeared in West Hankou.
There is a Red Army team that specifically targets landlords. Several landlords have been killed by this Red Army team. He also said that the tactics of this Red Army team are the same as those of the Red Army team that caused trouble two years ago."
Seeing Xia Yuan deep in thought, Li Qingming paused and shouted: "Company commander, company commander."
Xia Yuan woke up from his meditation and said, "Continue talking."
Li Qingming said: "He suspected that the Red Army team at that time was not completely killed. Sooner or later, they would come over. He wanted to unite with me and the landlords to unite to deal with the peasants."
When he said this, there was a hint of anger in his voice: "He calls us animals, and we have to be beaten and scolded, otherwise we won't obey!"
He said angrily: "Company Commander, I don't think this wealth is a good thing, I must punish him severely!"
"Don't worry, I won't let him go!" Xia Yuan thought for a while: "Go and ask the second squad leader to investigate the information in Laohe Village and convene a meeting with the cadres. You will be responsible for organizing it. I will go there after the meeting."
"yes!"
Li Qingming stood up immediately, paused, and then said: "By the way, company commander, we also caught two tails when we came back."
"Tail?" Xia Yuan frowned.
Li Qingming said: "It was Laohecun who ran out and followed us all the way. Fortunately, the soldiers of the second squad saw it, so we caught the two tails and brought them back. These two people are Zhang Wangcai's men. I don't know if they are following us."
What to do.”
Xia Yuan thought for a while and said: "Let's have a meeting first, and I will go and interrogate it in person later."
"Yes, I'll go and convene a meeting with the cadres first."
After he left, Xia Yuan fell into deep thought, "The Red Army was found in West Hankou, is it that one?"
The memory in my mind cannot guarantee that this Red Army team that suddenly appeared is the team that was dispersed before, but it is also possible that when the Red Army was finally dispersed, there were only two squads left in the Red Army team.
Most of the soldiers were wounded. The White Army came and scattered them all at once. The regiment leader died. They all lost contact with the regiment political commissar. The former escaped from the mountains and forests alone, with no comrades around him.
On the way to escape, he lost everything he had on him. With nothing left, he returned to his village in ragged clothes and searched for his memories, living in confusion.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xia Yuan has no idea whether anyone has escaped from the mountain forest alive like him, and the mountain where they were surrounded is more than 100 kilometers away from Xihankou
It is more than a hundred miles away from Nianping Village.
"The establishment of intelligence agencies must also be put on the agenda!"
After recovering his thoughts, Xia Yuan stood up and put away the draft book on the development direction of the base area on the table. "No matter which team it is, as long as it is a Red Army team, it is our family member. There is no reason not to help."
In the hall, a group of cadres have gathered together. These are all old acquaintances. The first group of people who followed Xia Yuan were Yang Chenglin, Sun Zhiyong, and Hu Xianfeng, as well as those who later joined the Red Army due to their performance, as well as various people elected internally by the Red Army soldiers.
Schedule leader.
Everyone gathered together in a lively atmosphere, but when they saw Xia Yuan coming out, they all stopped talking and followed Xia Yuan's instructions.
Xia Yuandao: "This meeting is not a big meeting. Let me talk about two things first. The first thing is the Red Army uniforms. At present, the purchasing team soldiers have purchased enough cloth and handed it over to the quilt factory. One hundred sets have been made.
Military uniforms will be distributed to everyone tomorrow. The second thing is about the investigation of Laohe Village, so the second squad leader of the first platoon will briefly talk about it."
"yes!"
The second squad leader of the first platoon stood up and said: "After our simple investigation, the landlords and bullies in Laohe Village are no different from the landlords and bullies in our Nianping Village. Even because of the issue of trading lambs and calves, the landlords wanted to make money because there were not enough lambs, so they robbed the villagers.
In order to achieve the required number of lambs for the transaction, Zhang Wangcai imposed excessive taxes and high land rent, so some villagers could only dig weeds to satisfy their hunger, basically like the landlords in Nianping Village."
He said: "Company Commander, we can't let Zhang Wangcai go! We must bring a good life to the villagers of Laohe Village!"
"This is natural. The peasants are the friends of our Red Army. To bully them is to bully our friends. But everything must be done step by step. We have just planted a tree in Nianping Village, which is full of fruits. There is no fruit yet.
If we are discovered by jackals, tigers and leopards, they will come around to fight for the fruits we have finally harvested."
The ideological work of the Red Army soldiers must be done well. Through this incident, a seed of hatred for the landlords can be planted in the hearts of each cadre, and this seed will only grow bigger and bigger.
Xia Yuan was also anxious to liberate the villages near Nianping Village. He had slept on the roadside along the way. The sights he saw in each village were simply miserable. The landlords in each village oppressed and exploited the farmers in the village. Everywhere was a scene of people living in dire straits.
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Why landlords oppress and exploit farmers actually has something to do with the general environment. The War in the Central Plains led to the emergence of various taxes. Warlords from all walks of life went to the countryside to collect grain and tax. You cut it once, I cut it again, and the landlords watched.
Anxious, they also joined in the grass-cutting procession. Some landowners even directly emptied the farmers' wealth. Landowners in other villages saw landowners in other villages doing this, so they did the same. After tasting the benefits, they got out of hand.
In the end, it is the farmers who suffer.
At present, the Nianping Village base has not yet been formed, and there are only a dozen weapons and equipment. The development of farmers' associations and militia groups has just started, the quilt factory has just started operating, and the lambs and calves in the breeding farm have just been put in place. Everything still needs time to develop.
Xia Yuan planned to conduct research first to mobilize the enthusiasm of the Red Army soldiers for external expansion. When the time is right, the seeds of hatred accumulated in the hearts of the Red Army will sprout and form a force.
This power will support his warriors to be invincible.
"This matter is based on the squad. The squad leader will tell the whole squad about the situation in Laohe Village. The deputy squad leader will do a good job in ideological work. Those who cannot do ideological work will go to the deputy company commander for advice."
Xia Yuandao: "In ancient times, Gou Jian suffered hardships while lying on his back. Today, we hold back the anger in our hearts and work hard to develop the base area. In the future, the fruits of Nianping Village will blossom and bear fruit in every village!"
"yes!"
The cadres have a lot of energy in their hearts. With this energy, they have the motivation to keep moving forward.
"In addition, didn't the second squad leader say that some of the lambs and calves in Laohe Village are robbing the lambs and calves of the villagers in Laohe Village? This matter must also be handled well. After all, the villagers have worked hard to raise them. We can't just take them away just because of the transaction.
The villagers' lambs and calves were bought and they suffered a loss."
As the cadres listened, Xia Yuan said: "Well, second squad leader, tomorrow you and the soldiers in the squad will sneak into Laohe Village and ask which villagers were robbed by the landlords, and we will compensate them."
"Yes!" the second squad leader stood up and said.
"Sooner or later, the news about the appearance of the Red Army in Nianping Village cannot be concealed. Everyone should spend more time on training. If we train hard today, we will be able to kill more enemies on the battlefield in the future." Thinking of the fact that today there is a group of people following him.
Second shift, in the future, the quilt factory in Nianping Village will start to trade with the outside world. The secret of Nianping Village cannot be kept. It is necessary for Xia Yuan to inoculate the cadres and tell them so that they can be mentally prepared.
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The enemy will never watch your smooth development. Once the Red Army begins to expand, there will be no way to hide what happened in Nianping Village.
"That's it. When everyone goes back, think about what I just said, think about it, think about it, the Red Army is not mine alone, it is the joint efforts of everyone. It is what everyone is like."
After the meeting, Xia Yuan called Li Qingming to talk about the tail.
"They are locked up in the newly built warehouse in the northwest corner, watched by two soldiers."
"Go over and have a look."
Bucktooth and Beard were locked up in a small warehouse. The room was a little dark, and two soldiers with guns were in charge of standing guard outside the door, never leaving.
Huzi stared at the house outside the window, "Grandma, there's something wrong here. Buck teeth, have you noticed? This place doesn't look like a landlord's house."
He recalled the sight of the villagers greeting the people who escorted them on the road, revealing a trace of weirdness. He said: "Did you notice that the villagers in this village actually greeted them on the way back? In our village, the master walked to
Hey, those villagers looked like they wanted to chop the master alive. If our master hadn’t had a gun in his hand, I think those villagers would have rebelled."
He touched Buck Tooth and said, "But look at this village, how happy the villagers are when they say hello."
He bucked his teeth and thought about it, feeling that something was wrong all over him, "Huzi, you said the people here are so strange, what's the reason?"
Huzi said: "How did I know that we have been arrested now, and it is not certain whether we can go back. Let's think about how to save our lives first."
Wow.
The sound of opening the door came from outside the door. The two people quickly closed their mouths and looked up. A thin young man walked in from outside the door. What surprised them was that the landowner who had traded with the master before was just following the young man.
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Two soldiers holding guns stood on the left and right of Xia Yuan and Li Qingming, staring at the two people sitting on the ground with a hint of evil.
"A person from Zhang Wangcai in Laohe Village?"
After Xia Yuan walked in, he looked at the two of them and asked directly.
"Yes, sir, please be merciful and let us go." Huzi's mind turned quickly and he understood that the young man in front of him was probably the real landlord of Nianping Village. Maybe he was just the housekeeper, and he was afraid of this trip.
Since the transaction was unsafe, he pretended to be a landlord and conducted transactions with his own master.
Combined with what I observed in the village before, I came up with a bold guess.