Chapter 512: Clothes are divided into three colors, food is divided into five grades
the next day
Just as Jiang Cheng got up, Li Qian came in and said, "Boss, Chairman Lin is looking for you."
Twenty years later, Jiang Cheng would probably be thinking of Lin Sanhu, but now Chairman Lin is Lin Boqu.
Lin Boqu is the chairman of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and he is also a busy man. He must have something to do with him. Jiang Cheng immediately put on his clothes and said, "Let Chairman Lin come in quickly. Where is Yishan?"
Li Qian replied, "Sister Yishan has gone to school. She has already had breakfast."
Jiang Cheng nodded and walked out. He saw Lin Boqu drinking tea in the yard. Jiang Cheng stood up apologetically and said, "203, I'm sorry. You haven't had a good rest yet, so I came to find you."
Jiang Cheng smiled and stretched out his hand and said, "Chairman, sit down. I wonder why Chairman Lin is here?"
Lin Boqu shook his head and said, "This is the Three Treasures Hall of Gods and Buddhas. I won't come here if I have nothing to do. I really have something to do when I come here this time. I wonder how 203 knows about the food situation in our border area?"
Jiang Cheng thought for a while and said, "I know a little bit about it. The specific figures are definitely not as clear as the chairman's."
Lin Boqu nodded and said, "We in the northwest have always been short of food. The environment has been deteriorating since the Tang Dynasty. In modern times, there has been a shortage of food and it has become a major food-deficient province. As far as I know, taking Shaanxi as an example, in normal years
Only 16 counties are self-sufficient, and the remaining 26 counties have gaps. Do you know the main reason?"
Jiang Cheng thought for a while and said, "Chairman, didn't you say everything? Is it because of the deterioration of the natural environment?"
Lin Boqu smiled and said, "On the one hand, it can be said to be a natural disaster, but there are also man-made disasters!"
"Man-made disaster?" Jiang Cheng gave Lin Boqu some water and asked, "What man-made disaster?"
Lin Boqu sighed, "People's hearts are lacking... There are three points! The first is grain merchants. Due to the inconvenience of transportation in the northwest, this grain costs ten silver dollars per load in Hubei, and it costs twenty to enter Shaanxi. When it reaches the mouth of real people, it may be just
I am going to be thirty. Of course, this is an example. As I just said, there are actually places in Shaanxi that can be self-sufficient. They are often only four or five hundred miles apart. One side has prices but no market, and the other side has market but no price.
On the one hand, expensive crops hurt the people, while on the other hand, cheap crops hurt the people. Many people themselves don’t understand why they can’t survive even if the harvest is good or the harvest is poor. The final result is that many people are forced to abandon their crops, a vicious cycle!
The second is opium. You should know a lot about the harm of opium. Of course, it has been basically eliminated in our border area. But what I want to tell you is that before we entered the border area, the border area was full of opium.
Hundreds of acres, sometimes more than 10,000 acres. In Zhouzhi County, which has the largest number, more than 50,000 acres of fertile land have been turned into opium fields. The opium is valuable, but of what use is it when you are hungry?
In the end, the government's regulation was not good, and these three man-made disasters greatly contributed to the food gap."
Jiang Cheng nodded in an educated manner and asked strangely, "But these three problems should be solved in the border area, right? What does this... have to do with the kid?"
Lin Boqu smiled and said, "Yes, the man-made disasters in the three major border areas have basically been solved, but what about other places? I heard that the chairman asked you to go to Taihang Mountain to cooperate with disaster preparations, so I came in a hurry. Mainly because I missed you.
When going to other base areas, carefully observe whether there are any man-made disasters like I mentioned. If there are, be sure to point them out in time. As far as I know, in order to raise military expenses, the Japanese army planted a large amount of opium in various places. Our troops often only focus on combating them.
The enemy has strength, but they have not paid attention to destroying their economic pillar. You can tell them to attack the Japanese opium fields more often, and ask the people to eat more food. This will have a great effect on our future drought."
Jiang Cheng looked at Lin Boqu suspiciously and nodded slowly to express his understanding.
Lin Boqu stood up and was about to walk out. Suddenly he turned back and said with a smile, "By the way, Xiao Jiang, I forgot to tell you something. Someone recently said something. I wonder if you have heard of it?"
Jiang Cheng asked curiously, "What do you mean?"
Lin Boqu took a breath and said, "Clothing is divided into three colors, and food is divided into five grades!"
Jiang Cheng's eyes sharpened suddenly. He finally knew what Lin Boqu wanted to say to him. Those disaster preparations were just a cover. What he really wanted to say were these eight words.
Seeing Jiang Cheng's reaction, Lin Boqu nodded and said, "It's true that Guansheng asked me to tell you. I experienced some things when I was in Jinggangshan. I understand what this means. Guansheng said that you are the only key."
, if you can really do it, don’t let something like that happen again.”
Jiang Cheng squinted his eyes and nodded, "I understand. I will work hard to solve the disaster relief issue."
In the afternoon, Yu Yishan returned home. Seeing Jiang Cheng who was deep in thought, she came over strangely and said, "Brother Cheng, what's wrong with you?"
Jiang Cheng looked at Yu Yishan and said, "Yishan, come here, I'll tell you something."
Yu Yishan sat down and asked, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Cheng replied, "Let me ask you, do you know Kang Sheng?"
Yu Yishan thought for a while and said, "I've heard of it. I seem to have been to the Soviet Union. After I came back, I published a lot of articles. Especially, I kept criticizing Wang Ming. It seems that his status has been rising. Brother Cheng, what are you asking him for?"
Jiang Cheng shook his head and said, "Let me ask...Yishan, maybe something will happen in the border area later. Remember, you are my woman, no one dares to touch you, but don't talk nonsense, otherwise you will let some little
If people target you, you will be in trouble."
Yu Yishan asked in fear, "Brother Cheng, is something going to happen?"
Jiang Cheng sighed, "Some things will come sooner or later. Don't be nervous. In fact, it's just like getting sick. A minor illness once in a while is only good for a person's body. Otherwise, a minor illness will turn into a serious illness and big problems will arise. Yes, we
Let's eat together and then take a rest early." He said with a wicked smile and looked at Yu Yishan, who angrily hit Jiang Cheng, got up and left.
Jiang Cheng narrowed his eyes and said, "Qianqian!"
Li Qian walked to Jiang Cheng's side, knelt down and asked, "My boss!"
Jiang Cheng took a breath and said, "Qianqian, from now on, be more vigilant around Yishan. In addition, monitor the Kang Zihao list I gave you. Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of anything unexpected."
Li Qian wiped her neck with her fingers and said, "Then boss, why don't we?"
Jiang Cheng smiled and shook his head and said, "No, that's a knife. It's a good knife..."
——Taihang Mountain
"7532 bags! 7533 bags! 7534 bags!" Bag after bag of grain was moved into the warehouse. Every time a bag of grain was brought in, someone would shout loudly to record it.
Jiang Cheng turned around and handed Deng Xianxian a cigarette and said, "Is there still a shortage of food in the mountains now?"
Deng Xianxian shook his head and said, "If your food is included, there is no shortage. If not, there is a great shortage of food..."
Jiang Cheng said in embarrassment, "The chairman means that these grains can only be used with orders from the central government. It's useless for you to tell me. How is our current disaster preparedness situation?"
Deng Xianxian stretched out his hand and said, "Comrade 203, are you interested in going with me?"
Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "That's great, I just want to take a look."
Deng Xianxian said while walking with Jiang Cheng, "203, the central government also asked us to cooperate with you to establish an independent audit department. I have also heard about this audit, and I support it. In addition, I have also asked our foreign trade department to do it.
You are ready to work and can be audited by the audit department at any time."
The Foreign Trade Bureau was a special department responsible for the purchase and sales of the Red Party base areas during the Anti-Japanese War. Whether it was the entry of goods from outside the base area or the external sales of goods from the base area, this department was responsible for the external sales of the large amounts of salt and sugar carried by Jiang Cheng.
This department is also in charge, and it can be said to be one of the departments with the most economic power in the entire Taihang Mountain base area.
Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "There is no rush in this matter. By the way, we have reviewed them before. I wonder if anything happened?"
Deng Xianxian smiled helplessly and said, "Indeed, let's do this. I'll take you to a nearby village first, so it's more intuitive."
A group of people came to a village, which was an ordinary small mountain village. When they saw Deng Xianxian and his party coming, the village chief came to inquire. When he saw Deng Xianxian, he hurriedly stretched out his hand and said, "Chief, why are you here?"
Deng Xianxian shook hands and said, "I'm bringing comrades from the central government to see our disaster preparedness. Where is our granary? Let's go take a look."
The village chief nodded quickly and said, "Okay! I'll ask the accountant to open the door together."
The so-called granary is actually the cellar of a large family. It is mainly guarded by three poor peasant families. There are three big locks on the cellar. The village chief and the accountant asked the three poor peasant families to open the door of the cellar together, and they saw a sack of grain in the cellar.
The sacks of grain were left open. Jiang Cheng asked strangely, "Why do you want to open them?"
The village chief smiled and said, "This is all to prevent someone from stealing the food. You see, our food is all stamped with stamps. If someone touches it, it will be discovered immediately."
Jiang Cheng walked over and took a look, and sure enough he saw a big seal stamped on the grain. If someone really touched the grain without a seal, they would be discovered immediately.
Jiang Cheng clapped his hands and said, "This method is great! No one can touch it, but who has this seal?"
The village chief replied, "It's in our grain bureau, but we don't have it here."
At this time, Zhou Weiguo, who was responsible for protecting Jiang Cheng, suddenly squatted down. Jiang Cheng looked at him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhou Weiguo stood up, smiled, shook his head and said, "It's nothing."
Deng Xianxian smiled at Jiang Cheng and said, "Isn't this a good method?"
Jiang Cheng nodded in agreement. Deng Xianxian raised his hand and said, "Village chief, we won't stay here any longer. Let's leave first."
The village chief hurriedly said, "Chief, let's have a meal together. We have people go catch some fish. There are no good things in the mountain village, but there is still some game."
Deng Xianxian waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's go first. Next time, I still have work."
After all, a group of people walked out. Jiang Cheng smiled at Deng Xianxian and said, "Political Commissar Deng, I saw that the people in the village looked pretty good. How did we collect public grain here?"
Deng Xianxian took a long breath and said, "Our Taihang Military Region, like other base areas, collects grain taxes in the name of public grain for national salvation. According to the instructions of the central government, we do not collect public grain according to grade classification, but based on per capita grain and according to the
The tax is collected in a progressive manner. Our minimum income requirement here is 7 bushels per capita. We will not charge those with less than 7 bushels. Those above 7 bushels will be charged 3%, and those with the highest income above 46 bushels will be levied 35%."
Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "Isn't that high?"
Deng Xianxian said with some embarrassment, "But it's not enough. According to our calculations, this food is not enough for our future use, so we have been borrowing food from the people. Last year, the food we borrowed was not much different from the normal collection.
Speaking of which, our people are really good people..."
Jiang Cheng asked, "How do you say this?"
Deng Xianxian laughed and said, "We have a middle peasant family with a large family, so they are always very careful about food. When we borrowed food, he refused to borrow it even to death. Later we came to persuade him, and even more
He talked about the use of borrowed grain, the famine situation in Henan, and the difficulties in the anti-Japanese base areas. They were all poor people. In fact, the so-called middle peasants were just people who had enough to eat. He was stunned after hearing this.
Tears, you know, his children also starved to death back then, so he said that in addition to seed grains, other grains can be lent to us, even if they eat chaff and grass, they will survive..."
As he spoke, Deng Xianxian's eyes also turned red, and Jiang Cheng sighed and said, "As the saying goes, I will starve to death without eating seeds. As long as our people are not pushed to the extreme, they are willing to endure anything and work hard in the country."
This land."
Deng Xianxian nodded in agreement and walked all the way to the Foreign Trade Bureau. Seeing that it was already noon, Deng Xianxian suggested having lunch first and then checking. Jiang Cheng nodded in agreement.
After Deng Xianxian left, Jiang Cheng asked Zhou Weiguo, "Did you find anything?"
Zhou Weiguo sighed, "Look at this." He took out a few grains.
Jiang Cheng asked, "This is..."
Zhou Weiguo explained, "This was found in the cellar. I took a look and found that there were traces of steel thorns on the grain bag. It should be hollow. It was pierced at the bottom of the bag. If you only take out a little bit, the mark is
There will be no problem. Someone must have stolen the food. But I guess this is just for the three poor farmers to fill their stomachs. After all, you can't steal much food using this method. It can only be said that there is really no other way. I don't know.
I didn’t say anything. After all, stealing public food is a serious crime."
Jiang Cheng clapped his hands and said, "Yeah, but it shows one thing. This method may have been made public underground, and I don't know what will happen to the Ministry of Foreign Trade. I think we may really find out a lot of things this time."
, well, it’s much easier to kill these darknesses before they grow, than to chop them down after they grow into towering trees. Go and generate electricity for Mr. Yu, I need some financial experts.”
