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Chapter 596 What kind of land are you planting?
This is not a trivial matter, but a major event that concerns the life and death of more than 100 million ordinary people.

Northwest Shanxi originally did not produce much grain, and more than 100 million ordinary people were counting on the autumn grain to save their lives. Now the devils took away or destroyed all the autumn grain.

To put it in a small way, more than 100 million ordinary people will go hungry.

On a larger scale, more than 100 million ordinary people will starve to death.

In this war-torn era, human lives are worthless, and it is normal for large areas of people to starve to death.

but.

Seeing so many ordinary people being starved to death, everyone felt very sad.

In addition, these ordinary people have no food to eat, and the development of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment will also be greatly affected.

However, the common people in the Xinyi Regiment's defense area had already harvested the autumn grain, and the Xinyi Regiment did not require the common people to pay taxes. Therefore, the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the Xinyi Regiment's jurisdiction would have no problem staying until next year.

"That's a problem."

Li Yunlong nodded, with a dignified expression on his face.

Before the war, he and Zhao Gang had considered this issue, but at that time the Japanese army was about to attack, so they had to wait until the end of the battle to find a solution.

Now that the battle is over, it is time to consider this issue.

Li Yunlong, who was born as a farmer, knew that there must be many ordinary people who have gone to northern Shaanxi and have not eaten their last meal.

"I do have a proposal."

Looking at Li Yunlong, Xing Zhiguo, Kong Jie and Ding Wei who were frowning tightly, Chen Feng, who had not spoken much, put down his chopsticks and said.

"Consultant Chen, do you have a solution?"

Li Yunlong looked at Chen Feng and asked hurriedly.

Chen Feng said conveniently: "I have stored some food in the military bases overseas in the past few years, which is enough to feed more than 100 million people for a year."

Only then did everyone realize that there was a big boss by their side.

Not only the weapons and ammunition sold are calculated in thousand tons, but even the food sold is calculated in thousand tons.

The eyes of Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and others lit up quickly.

Li Yunlong then asked: "Consultant Chen, if we want to exchange food from you, what is the specific price?"

Although the three regiments in Northwest Shanxi guarded the Tongpu Railway and Highway, they were able to loot some food from the traffic line, but it was a drop in the bucket.

And the devil is not stupid. Knowing that you are short of food in Northwest Shanxi, you will definitely not transport food from this line, or only transport a little food each time.

But doing business with Boss Chen in exchange for food is different. As long as you kill devils, you can get food, and the price is clearly marked.

More importantly, Boss Chen has never been in arrears with wages, and he always delivers the goods to his door.

On this point, Li Datuan has always thought that Boss Chen is very good.

Xing Zhiguo, Kong Jie and Ding Wei also looked at Chen Feng with expectant eyes.

"Price..."

Chen Feng pondered: "I have two kinds of grains here: fine grains and coarse grains. The fine grains are white flour and rice. It can be calculated according to the price of one ton for killing a devil."

"What about coarse grains?" Li Yunlong was slightly happy, and asked quickly, "What price?"

"Coarse grains are grains such as barley, millet, and corn." Chen Feng said, "The price of coarse grains can be calculated as the price of two tons for killing a devil."

"The price is very cheap!"

Kong Jie's face turned into a chrysanthemum with a smile.

Ding Wei, Li Yunlong and Xing Zhiguo were even more smiling.

At this price, what else is there to plant?
Killing a devil can get one ton of fine grain, or two tons of coarse grain. Isn't this more cost-effective than farming?

The land in northwestern Shanxi is already barren. The family guards a few acres of land, gets up early and goes to work in the dark, sleeps earlier than dogs and wakes up earlier than chickens, and sweats dry in a year. The harvest is only hundreds of thousands of catties of grain. In a disaster year, the harvest may even be greatly reduced, or when devils and puppet troops enter the village to grab food, the food that is not enough to eat will be even worse.

But now if you kill a devil, you can get 4000 catties of coarse grains or 2000 catties of fine grains.

"So, what Consultant Chen means..." Xing Zhiguo said, "The devils eliminated by the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment can be exchanged at this price to solve the urgent need for food for ordinary people in Northwest Shanxi?"

"That's right!" Chen Feng nodded and said, "That's what I mean."

As soon as Boss Chen said these words, Ding Wei, Kong Jie, and Li Yunlong all let out a sigh of relief.

If Boss Chen asked them to lead his troops to kill the devils again, with the current state of the three regiments, it would still be difficult.

The combined combat effectiveness of the three regiments is still strong, and they are very strong. However, after fighting against the devils for more than half a month, the casualties of each regiment are not small, and the soldiers are also relatively tired. It is best to rest for a while now.

“这次到陕北老百姓的总人口数大概是100万，按照每人每天需要1斤粮食计算，一年365天，一共需要3亿6千5百万斤粮食。”

Ding Wei asked someone to bring an abacus to calculate the amount of grain currently needed for export in Northwest Shanxi.

Of course, Northwest Shanxi cannot produce so much grain, and it is not bad for every ordinary person to eat half a catty of coarse grain every day.

"Our two regiments, the number of devils killed this time is about 1, and all of them are replaced with coarse grains, which is 6 tons of coarse grains..."

"That's 6 million catties of grain."

Ding Wei calculated one by one, and found that it was still far from enough to feed so many ordinary people.

Kong Jie said: "Every ordinary person can only eat half a catty of coarse grains a day. Although they are not full, they will not starve to death."

Ding Wei said: "That still needs more than 1 million catties of grain, which is far from enough."

"These 1 are total casualties." Chen Feng reminded, "Some of them were wounded, not killed."

Ding Wei said: "That's not enough."

Li Yunlong said: "The troops of our new regiment wiped out the devil infantry unit of the 1st division and a heavy artillery unit in Miao'ergou. Hammer of the Father."

"There are about 3800 people in the devil's infantry unit, and they are all wiped out. I originally wanted to replace them with American equipment, and all of them can be replaced with food."

Xing Zhiguo also said: "On the Xinzhou battlefield, our Xinyi Regiment defeated the 10th Regiment of the 39th Division of the Japanese Army and the 13th Regiment of Japanese Army Tanks. It should be considered a business, right?"

Chen Feng nodded: "It must be a business to defeat the devil's infantry unit and chariot unit."

Although more than 80 Devil planes and an artillery regiment were killed during the Xinzhou campaign, they were all killed by Boss Chen's plane, so they were not included in the business.

After a pause, Chen Feng looked at Li Yunlong and said: "This can be a long-term business. If your group wants to exchange food in the future, you can exchange it with me at any time. The price of a devil who kills a second-line division is 1 ton of fine grain or 2 tons of coarse grain , twice as many devils killed a Class A division as the second-tier division.”

(End of this chapter)