After the biggest problem of troop expansion was solved, Wang Hong did not leave.
His face suddenly became very serious, and then he spoke: "Commander, I have finished talking about the losses of the troops, but I have not yet talked about the losses in the base area!"
"According to statistics, in the past few days when the Japanese and puppet troops entered the base area, a total of 11 villages were burned down and 1,856 houses were destroyed, causing more than 8,900 people in the base area to lose their homes!"
"Although we organized guerrillas from each village and ordinary people to rescue themselves, we used the ruins to build temporary shacks to ensure that everyone does not have to sleep on the streets for the time being and has a place to avoid the cold!"
"But this is not a long-term solution. We must fulfill our commitment as soon as possible and help them rebuild their burned-down houses!"
"The weather is getting colder and colder. It may snow in another month. If the houses cannot be repaired before then and the people can move back to their new homes, some people will definitely freeze to death just relying on shacks to survive the winter!"
This is a big problem, related to the morale of the people and the military in the entire base area, and must be solved!
Li Hao secretly made a decision in his heart.
But this is not dozens or hundreds of houses, but nearly two thousand.
If all the compensation is paid in oceans, even 50,000 oceans may not be enough.
Although the Independent Group guards the three cornucopias of sweet potato flour factory, pig farm, and chicken farm, the Independent Group can only keep 10% of the profit every month, which is less than 2,000 yuan even if it is all taken out.
It will take three years to collect these oceans.
What's more, these oceans have already been used for other purposes, and they are purchasing large quantities of grain, so there is no excess available.
Thinking of this, Li Hao couldn't help but twist his brows into a big "Sichuan" character, his face was sullen, and he didn't say a word for a long time!
Wang Hong hesitated and suggested: "Captain, if it doesn't work, we will suspend the purchase of grain and use our monthly share to compensate the people!"
"no!"
Li Hao was very determined on this matter and had no intention of compromising at all!
If we don't collect all the surplus grain just after the autumn harvest and while the grain is still in the hands of the people. Once the people sell the grain to grain merchants and flow out of the base area, it will definitely be difficult for the troops to buy so much grain, and it will also have to be
Pay a higher price!
Li Hao would never do a loss-making business, so interrupting the purchase of grain would definitely not work!
"What should we do? To rebuild nearly 2,000 houses, it will cost nearly 20,000 yuan just to prepare materials. If you don't have money, you won't be able to buy materials, and you won't be able to rebuild those houses!" Wang Hong became anxious and chased after Li
Hao asked back!
"Solve it all yourself!"
Li Hao seemed to have thought of a way and answered very firmly!
"The materials used to build a house are nothing more than bricks, stones and wood. If I remember correctly, except for towns, most villages use very few bricks and stones, and all use adobe bricks. As long as we have people, we can make the adobe bricks and timber ourselves."
It can be produced!"
"As for the manpower needed to rebuild houses, there are tens of thousands of people in the base area. As long as we mobilize effectively, we will definitely be able to provide it!"
After saying that, Li Hao stared at Wang Hong and asked: "Political Commissar, did you just say that the 800 prisoners in our hands should be able to mobilize 500 people to join our Eighth Route Army?"
"The lowest at this time!" Wang Hong affirmed!
"Then mobilize as soon as possible!" Li Hao ordered anxiously.
"The remaining prisoners who are unwilling to join our Eighth Route Army will be kept according to the old rules. They will serve for different periods of time according to the severity of their crimes. I will rely on them to provide me with the bricks, stones and timber needed to rebuild these two thousand houses."
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"Also, if I remember correctly, there are hundreds of prisoners in the secret camp, add them in!"
"Thousands of people work together to make adobe bricks and cut wood, and they can produce the materials needed for two thousand houses in a month at most!"
"In addition, although they are all prisoners, we must treat them differently!"
"Ordinary prisoners who are unwilling to join our Eighth Route Army can only work for more than ten hours a day, and they must be fed well!"
"And we don't need to be so polite to those prisoners who are full of evildoers!"
"They must pay the price for their past actions, and they will never forget it for the rest of their lives! Even if they are released by us in the future, they will not have the courage to join the puppet army, work for the Japs, and commit many evil deeds!"
"For them, they have to work at least fifteen hours a day!"
"You don't have to feed them too much, as long as they are full and don't starve to death!"
"Use all the tricks they used against the common people and our Eighth Route Army on themselves, tit for tat!"
Wang Hong was very principled. He hesitated and reminded: "Captain, will this violate discipline?"
"I'm worried that if word gets out, someone will say we tortured the prisoners!"
Li Hao shook his head, a sneer flashed across his lips and answered.
"Then let's change the method and let them voluntarily work for fifteen hours a day, so that there will be no torture of prisoners!"
Wang Hong retorted with an expression of disbelief: "Impossible!"
"Captain, have you ever seen those prisoners? Their skin is thicker than the city wall. Even if they do things normally, they have to be watched, otherwise they will definitely cheat!"
"It's definitely harder than climbing to the sky to get them to take the initiative to do things!"
Li Hao replied with confidence: "That's because the political commissar's method didn't work well!"
After thinking for a few seconds, he asked: "Political Commissar, when you were in the military division, what did the troops eat every day?"
"Multigrain pancakes, steamed buns, wild vegetable soup, pickles..." Wang Hong answered without thinking!
"The situation in the military subdivision is much worse than that in the independent camp. If the troops can have a full stomach every day, it is already good! As for the white-flour steamed buns, it is good if they can eat one meal in two or three days! The pork cost is half a month, or even one
The meat and fish meat can only be seen in the moonlight!"
Li Hao immediately made a decision: "Then we will serve these prisoners with the same food!"
"Political Commissar, go down and divide the prisoners into two groups. Group the die-hard traitors who are full of evildoers into one group, and feed them this kind of food every day!"
"We, the Eighth Route Army, will give them whatever they want to eat. No one will accuse us of mistreating them if this incident is spread. We can't give them delicious food. We, the Eighth Route Army, should starve ourselves!"
"Tell them that if they do good work every day, they can eat white flour steamed buns for one of their three meals a day!"
"If you don't work hard and just want to hang around, you can, and we won't stop you. Then you can eat multigrain pancakes and wild vegetable soup every day!"
"In addition, the ten prisoners who do the best every day can eat a meal of meat. If they eat meat for ten consecutive days, congratulations, they can leave this prisoner camp and join the group of ordinary prisoners without suffering any more!"
Wang Hong's eyes started to shine, and he shouted excitedly: "What a great idea! Captain, how did you come up with such a great idea!"
"How could those captives, who were accustomed to being pampered and pampered, endure eating multigrain pancakes and wild vegetable soup every day? In order to eat white flour steamed buns and pork, no matter how lazy they are, they would work hard to get them!"
"Why didn't I think that one meal would arouse all their enthusiasm! I'll do it in a minute!"
Li Hao nodded and replied: "It's up to you, the political commissar, to decide how to do it and what the standards are. In a word, I will squeeze out all the remaining value of these prisoners and make them regret working for the little devils for the rest of their lives!"
"Now that the raw materials are taken care of, all that's left is to build a house!"
"The manpower needed to rebuild the houses will be provided by each village. The autumn harvest is over and now is the time for farming!"
"As long as everyone is willing to contribute to building a house for us, we will be responsible for three meals on our own!"
"There is nothing to do at home anyway. If you work for our independent group, you can take care of three meals and save the food rations at home. I believe many people are willing to do it!"
"In this case, our independent regiment only needs to provide food to rebuild all the burned houses before the winter snows!"
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