Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 338 Forty million catties of grain
mid-September.

The personnel from the political department and the staff office who carried out the land reform in the west of Ci County returned one after another, but the personnel from the farm remained in Ci County. The entire land reform ended in a rapid and relatively smooth process.

According to statistics reported at the time, the land reform involved 152 villages, and 24552 households were allocated land, accounting for about half of the total population, about 80000 people. Large areas of guerrilla areas were consolidated into base areas.

In addition to the efforts of the independent detachment, the land reform in the western part of Ci County was able to achieve such results. There were also several reasons why the area of ​​Ci County changed ownership, frequent wars, the displacement of ordinary people, and the emergence of many unowned fields.

At that time, Zhou Weihan and Zhao Gang were in town in Ci County. When they learned that in some areas, there were many households but few people. Some households even had only one person, and many households had three or five people.

Zhou Weihan made a decisive decision and ordered the Fourth Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment to cooperate with various working groups to mobilize the villagers to form several sparsely populated villages into one nearby village.

In order to ensure that the people in the newly merged villages can cultivate nearby fields, the method of field replacement was adopted as usual, and even many landlords in Ci County were forced to replace part of their fields.

Therefore, each household is based on the population, regardless of age, and each person has three acres of land, all of which are standard fields.

What is a standard field?
This was proposed by Ding Dasuan, based on the output of winter wheat in June this year. After using simple chemical fertilizers, the yield per mu reached more than 200 catties.

The fertility of the land is slightly poor, and the fields in some villages do not meet the standard field requirements. The working group will allocate more fields to each family according to the actual situation.

The annual ration of each person in the three-mu standard field is more than 600 catties. This is still fine grain. After switching to coarse grain, it will only be more.

On Mount Yama.

Zhou Weihan and the others were discussing the land reform work report submitted by the working group, and Ding Dasuan also attended the meeting.

"Talk about the abacus first!" Zhou Weihan said.

"Detachment leader, this land reform involved a total of more than 40 mu of land, of which 35 mu of land was confiscated from the homes of 12 local tyrants and evil gentry on the list, and 62 large and small landlords were subsequently seized, covering more than 9 mu of land. , which accounts for 21 mu, and the remaining 19 mu are mostly unowned fields."

"A total of more than 80000 people were allocated land during the land reform, and 24 mu of land was allocated, but there is still 16 mu of land left uncultivated. What a good field, it will be abandoned after a long time. What a pity!" Ding Dasuan Said regretfully.

"Hey, before we divided the land, we only wanted to feed the villagers according to their rations. I didn't expect that there would be so many fields left, and there would be a situation where there are more land and less land!" Zhao Gang said.

"The land can't just be left alone. I need to settle this matter. How many people in various places don't have their own land, and there are not a few displaced people. For example, the northern and eastern Henan provinces in the south have a large population. Province, send people to other places to recruit a group of ordinary people, as long as the Ci County personnel can be in place before the winter wheat is planted, the problem will be solved!" Li Yunshan suggested.

"Just do it like this. It's better to have more fields than less. After the meeting, let the Fourth Regiment send people to collect the population in the direction of Lin County and Pingshun. Ci County, I will personally pass this matter on!" Zhou Weihan said.

"There is another problem. Although most of the villagers in Ci County have been allocated land, due to the war, many fields have been planted with corn and other crops, but due to improper management, the production in October this year will definitely decline. The rations may not survive the winter wheat harvest!" Ding Dasuanhui reported.

In this era, every household had the habit of storing grain. Nearly [-] million catties of grain were confiscated in Ci County. However, Zhou Weihan ordered that all the seized money, grain, livestock, and various utensils be sealed up on the spot and not issued.

Zhou Weihan did this because he was afraid of causing confusion.

"Now the situation is clear, the social order has stabilized, and the previous seizures can be distributed to the common people in batches!"

"Abacus, you still have to go back to Ci County and bring your farm staff to assist the Fourth Regiment in distributing the confiscated items. First of all, various utensils and animals must be properly measured!"

"As the old saying goes, don't worry about scarcity but inequality. The things I ordered before were sealed up, and the common people were staring at them. From the big cattle to the small pots and pans, tables, chairs and benches, they must be divided. Good!" Zhou Weihan instructed.

Ding Dasuan was worried when he heard it, and said: "It's easy to talk about pots, pans and pans, but you said how to divide livestock such as farming cattle, it's impossible for every household to share one, and there are not so many!"

Zhou Weihan nodded and said, "You're right, it's a problem!"

Zhou Weihan thought for a while, and finally said: "Animals such as farm cattle, or mules and horses, can be divided into two or three in a village, and they are owned by the collective and shared by everyone!"

"This method is good. In fact, how many villagers can have farming cattle at home? Isn't the farmland all relying on manpower? This distribution is also to silence the villagers!" Zhao Gang nodded and said.

"I think, after you return to Ci County, you can take this opportunity to select suitable personnel in each village to form a militia team. With the convenience of the militiamen being familiar with the conditions of the local villagers' households, your work will be much easier to carry out!" Zhao Gang said again. suggested.

One person counts short, three counts long.

All the people present, you said a word to me, and the loopholes in the work plan were perfected.

"Another point is that some of these villagers who have been distributed to the fields must have enough surplus grain in their families. In this case, the seized grain should be given priority to the fellow villagers who have no surplus grain for the winter. Those who have surplus grain can give two chickens. A sheep can't even be separated!"

"The specific situation is still the same sentence, you decide!" Zhou Weihan said.

"Detachment Captain, I'm afraid I won't be able to do this well!" Ding Dasuan said worriedly.

Everyone present laughed.

"What are you afraid of, we have your backing, hurry up and convey the meeting content to the Fourth Regiment, and the detachment will send an official document to notify the Fourth Regiment!" Zhou Weihan waved his hand.

Ding Dasuan was rushed away by Zhou Weihan's few words, and Li Yunshan who was on the side suddenly said: "This work is not easy to carry out, comrade Abacus has suffered!"

Zhou Weihan shook his head after hearing this. Doesn't he know that this job is not easy to do?
For the local tyrants and evil gentry, the independent detachment can strike hard, but when distributing supplies, Zhou Weihan can be sure that there will definitely be fellow villagers who will not cooperate.

When it comes to issues of self-interest, do you really think that all ordinary people will be reasonable and cooperate?
There will be troubles in later generations, and the war years are also indispensable.

For fellow villagers, you can do it casually. Once you do something for fellow villagers, sometimes the nature will change.

Of course, Zhou Weihan will never tolerate those who intentionally make trouble, and once someone with ulterior motives secretly instigates him, he will never be soft.

(End of this chapter)