The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 174 Peach Blossom Mountain Economic Circle
The last time Gao Jiu brought back a telephone switchboard and a large number of telephones, telephone lines and other equipment from Yu County, now the Taohua Cave and the surveillance posts on the surrounding mountains of Taohua Mountain have already installed telephones, making communication very convenient .

Gao Jiu picked up the phone, notified Wang Yuling, and told Bazel to go directly to her.

Seeing that it is the end of May, and the wheat harvest will soon come. After the wheat harvest, it is the best time for Taohuashan to store a large amount of grain.

Gao Jiu decided not to perform combat missions in the near future, but to pay close attention to the training of troops and strengthen food reserves.

In people's impression, the main means of survival of bandits is robbery, but this is not the case.

The bandits took over the mountain and became kings. They established their prestige by killing people and frightened the people around the village.Then they will delineate a range, such as some surrounding villages, which they usually do not rob.They will threaten these villages and pay food and salaries to the bandits' cottages on a regular basis.If these villages resist, they will suppress it.

Under normal circumstances, if the people in these villages obey and pay their food and salaries on time, they will also protect the people in these villages.

Taohuashan's way of life is also very similar to that of ordinary bandits.There are 17 villages of different sizes around Taohuashan, and Taohuashan guerrillas obtained food, vegetables, oil, meat, and other materials from these villages.

The difference is that the Taohuashan guerrillas did not collect food and salaries from the surrounding villages, but sent purchasing personnel to purchase with real money.The people in Peach Blossom Mountain are rich, and the business is fair. People in the surrounding villages are willing to do business with people in Peach Blossom Mountain.In order to facilitate the purchase of Taohuashan, the people of Taohuashan will issue purchase receipts to those who are more familiar with the people, and let them go outside the mountain to purchase on their behalf. This will greatly facilitate the supply of materials for the Taohuashan guerrillas.This approach also drives the economic development of the surrounding villages, forming a unique Taohuashan economic circle.

As the number of people in Peach Blossom Village increases, the amount of supplies they need will also increase. Often one or two villages cannot supply so many supplies, so more villages are needed to supply supplies to Peach Blossom Mountain at the same time.

Peach Blossom Mountain has limited purchasing personnel, so merchants are asked to deliver to the designated place. Within the agreed time, there will be many villages, and the goods will be delivered to the same place at the same time, thus forming a small market.

In order to take care of the surrounding people, the Taohuashan guerrillas set up bazaars in the south, north and west, and went to each bazaar in turn every week to make purchases, taking care of the 17 surrounding villages as much as possible.

This morning, the guard captain Geng Hua took six team members to escort the purchasing personnel of the guerrillas to Wuligou for purchasing.

At noon, when Geng Hua and others arrived at Wuligou, they saw dozens of people waiting there.They placed the goods on the ground, waiting for the purchasers from the Taohuashan guerrillas to come and pick them.

There are quite a lot of goods, including chicken, duck, fish, sticky rice, soybeans, peanut oil, rapeseed oil, various vegetables and other food, as well as needles, threads, and other daily necessities they brought from the city.

Han Laoliu is 41 years old this year. He has a big head and thick neck, and a big stomach.

Han Laoliu was the first group of old team members to follow Gao Jiu up the mountain, and now he is the head chef of Taohuashanzhai.He used to open a restaurant in his hometown and developed the habit of purchasing in person.He often came to pick the goods himself, and the people all knew him, and for the sake of the ocean in his pocket, they all called him "Six Lord".He enjoys the respectful attitude of these traders to him, and people in the cottage also respect him very much. He is very satisfied with his current life.

In the market, he used to walk from the east end to the west end, picking out the goods of the merchants one by one, and when he saw what he liked, he yelled proudly: "Take it."

The buyers behind him began to weigh and pay.The merchants who sold their goods were all smiling.

"Thank you Liu Ye, thank you Liu Ye!" Compliments were endless.For those ordinary goods or goods of lower quality, he would frown and reprimand those traders.Said: "You guys, what do you think of the men on the Taohua Mountain, and you use these junk to fool us?"

So the vendors kept saying good things.

For the sake of their coming all the way, Han Lao Liu would not completely refuse. He would buy some of their goods at a lower price, and then ask them to bring the better ones next time.Han Lao Liu's care naturally rang out a voice of "Thank you Liu Ye".

Han Laoliu was a little triumphant, he suddenly felt a cold light shooting at his back, he couldn't help shivering, he turned his head and saw Geng Hua looking at him with disdain.

Han Laoliu hurried forward, nodded and bowed and said: "Captain Geng, these guys are all yelling indiscriminately. I am worthless as the sixth master. Only the big masters in Taohuashan are worthy of being called the ninth master."

He was really worried that Geng Hua would go back and tell the people in the cottage that he was called the sixth master.

Think about it, the master of the family only calls him Jiu Ye, and he, Han Lao Liu, dares to call him Liu Ye.

Seeing that Geng Hua's face improved slightly, Han Laoliu continued: "Captain Geng Hua, I know you like Huadiao wine, so I specially ordered someone to order a whole box, and it will be delivered in a few days. You cook some side dishes, heat up a pot of Huadiao wine, and bring it to you personally."

Seeing Han Laoliu's attentive appearance, Geng Hua showed a smile.

Since most of the goods were pre-booked, the vendors basically sold their goods and went home happily with their white oceans.

Today's Peach Blossom Village already has quite a few horses. These horses cannot enter the Peach Blossom Cave, and they are usually kept on the hillside to the north of Peach Blossom Cave, where a horse pen was specially built.Now there are two large baskets on the horses of these horses, and the team members put the purchased goods on the horses.Seeing that the goods were loaded, Geng Hua said, "Lao Liu Han, let's go."

Han Laoliu said, "Wait a minute." Then, he stood on a rock, put up an awning with his hands, and looked towards the west.

It turned out that he was waiting for merchants from Xiwangzhuang. He had already ordered a batch of small ground sesame oil, and a batch of prickly ash aniseed and other seasonings for cooking. For some reason, these people didn't come today.

After looking at it for a while, Han Laoliu shook his head regretfully, and cursed: "The dishonest guys, let's see how I deal with them." He jumped off the rock and said, "Let's go, don't wait for them!"

At this moment, a shout came from the west: "Master Liu, Master Han."

Han Laoliu saw that it was Li Gouzeng from Xiwangzhuang, from whom the Xiaomo sesame oil was ordered.

When Geng Hua and the others saw someone coming, they stopped and waited for him. Not long after, that person ran over. He looked very embarrassed, his face was red and swollen, bloodstains remained at the corner of his mouth, and his clothes were torn. up.

Han Laoliu frowned and asked, "Li Gousheng, what's wrong with you? Who bullied you?"

With a "plop", Li Gouzeng knelt down in front of Han Laoliu, crying and said, "My goods were snatched by Gouri's puppet army. You have to make the decision for me!"

The 17 villages around Taohuashan are all covered by Taohuashan. They do not need to pay taxes to the government, but only accept the jurisdiction of Taohuashan.

Geng Hua became angry as soon as he heard it, and he asked: "Li Gousheng, what's the situation? Who dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head?"

Li Gousheng didn't know Geng Hua, so he looked at Han Laoliu.

Han Laoliu hurriedly said: "This is our Captain Geng from Taohuashan. If you have any grievances, just tell Geng Ye."

Li Gouzuo told the story of his misfortune in detail.

This morning, Li Gousheng and his nephew, pushing a wheelbarrow, were going to the market in Wuligou.When passing the Gaojiazhuang gun tower, he was stopped by Zhang Jiuling, the deputy squadron leader of the public security army.

(End of this chapter)