The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 350 Simple Meeting
At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun had turned golden, and the trading team finally returned, but there were two more men with strange faces in the team, who were bound by their hands and escorted to the village with buck teeth and beards. His eyes rolled cunningly, staring at the village.

"Qingming, you guys are back. Where did you get so many lambs and calves? Is there any new decision in the meeting?"

The passing villagers greeted the returning team cheerfully. When their eyes fell on the lambs and calves guarded by the soldiers in the team, they asked in surprise.

Li Qingming said with a smile: "Aunt Feng, it's not that there is a new decision. You just have to wait. The new decision will come down in a short time. It will definitely be a good thing for everyone."

"Then we have to look forward to it."

Aunt Feng said with a smile, her eyes fell on the two people in the team, and she couldn't help asking: "Why did you arrest two people when you came back this time?"

Li Qingming turned his head to look at Baoya and Beard, and said, "On the way back, these two guys followed us sneakily. They probably wanted to follow us back. Fortunately, the second squad leader found out and arrested them."

Aunt Feng praised: "Good catch, our good life has just begun, we can't let them ruin it."

The other villagers also thought the same, and said one after another: "Just lock them up and let Chief Xia Lian interrogate them to see if they have done any evil things."

Li Qingming said: "Don't worry, everyone, they can't escape, take them away."

When he came to the temporary station of the Red Army, he commanded the soldiers: "Take good care of the lambs and calves, lock up their tails so they don't escape, watch carefully, I'll go find the company commander."

After finishing speaking, Li Qingming entered the yard and shouted at the top of his voice, "Sun Dasha, Sun Dasha."

"I'm here, brother Qingming, what are you calling me?"

Sun Dasha's figure appeared in the yard.

"In the army, you have to call the deputy company commander, do you know that?"

Sun Dasha scratched his head and said, "Understood, deputy company commander."

Li Qingming asked: "Where is the company commander?"

Sun Dasha said: "The company commander is writing in the room, and I can't read, so I don't know what to write."

"You, learn more from the company commander in the future, and you must know Braille!"

Li Qingming said: "I have something to do with the company commander."

"Hey, deputy company commander, don't worry, I will definitely work hard with the company commander in the future."

Li Qingming waved his hand and came to the room. Xia Yuan leaned over his desk, wrote something on a piece of paper, and said without looking back, "Is this transaction going well?"

"It's going well, it's going well, it's going well, it's not going well, company commander, I got a piece of news in Laohe Village, news about another Red Army team!"

Li Qingming walked to Xia Yuan's side and said in a low voice.

The shaking pen stopped, Xia Yuan's eyes moved slightly, and he turned his head and said, "Is the news true?"

Li Qingming said: "I haven't investigated it, and I don't know yet. I heard from Laohe Village's landlord, Zhang Wangcai, and he heard from an acquaintance in the county. It should be fine."

Xia Yuan thought for a while, and said, "Tell me, what news, and how did you get it."

Li Qingming pulled a stool over, sat down and said, "It's like this. Didn't you trade with Zhang Wangcai? After the deal, he invited me to have a drink. I thought that there were comrades from the second class investigating in the village, so I agreed to deal with him. Zhou Xuan, I told him that I still have something to do in the afternoon, so I shouldn’t drink too much, I drank less, and I chatted there during the meal, so he brought it up.”

He said: "Zhang Wangcai said that he once went to the county seat and met an acquaintance in the county seat. He also said that the method of this Red Army team is the same as that of the Red Army team that caused trouble two years ago."

Seeing Xia Yuan lost in thought, Li Qingming paused for a moment and called out: "Company commander, company commander."

Xia Yuan woke up from his contemplation, and said, "You continue to talk."

Li Qingming said: "He suspected that the Red Army team at that time hadn't been completely killed. Sooner or later, they would fight over. He wanted to unite with me, and the landlords unite to deal with the peasants."

When he said this, there was anger in his voice: "He calls us animals, so we have to beat and scold us, or we will be disobedient!"

He said angrily: "Company commander, I don't think this Wangcai is a good thing, so we must punish him severely!"

"Don't worry, he will definitely not let him go!" Xia Yuan thought for a while: "You go and ask a row of second squad leaders to investigate the information in Laohe Village, and call a meeting with the cadres. You are in charge of the organization, and I will go there after the meeting."

"Yes!"

Li Qingming got up immediately, paused, and said: "By the way, company commander, when we came back, we caught two tails."

"Tail?" Xia Yuan frowned.

Li Qingming said: "It was Lao Hecun who ran out and followed us all the way. Fortunately, the soldiers of the second squad saw them, so we caught these two tails and brought them back. These two people are Zhang Wangcai's subordinates. I don't know if they followed us. what to do."

Xia Yuan thought for a while, and said, "Have a meeting first, and I'll go to interrogate myself later."

"Yes, I'll call the cadres for a meeting first."

When he left, Xia Yuan fell into deep thought, "I found the Red Army at Xihankou, which one is it?"

The memory in my mind can't guarantee that the Red Army team that appeared suddenly is the team that was dispersed before, but it may also be that when the Red Army team was finally dispersed, there were only two squads left in the Red Army team. Most of the soldiers were wounded. When the White Army came, they scattered them all at once. The regimental leader died, and they all lost contact with the political commissar of the regiment.

On the way to escape, he lost everything on his body, nothing, and returned to his village in ragged clothes, looking for memories, living in a daze.

Xia Yuan didn't know if anyone had escaped from the forest alive like him, and the mountain where they were besieged was more than 100 kilometers away from Xihankou, and more than 100 miles away from Nianping Village.

"The establishment of an intelligence agency is also on the agenda!"

Withdrawing his thoughts, Xia Yuan got up and put away the drafting paper on the development direction of the base area on the table, "No matter which one it is, as long as it is the Red Army team, it is our relatives, there is no reason not to help."

In the main room, a group of cadres had already gathered together. These were all old acquaintances. The first batch of Yang Chenglin, Sun Zhiyong, and Hu Xianfeng who followed Xia Yuan, as well as those who later joined the Red Army because of their performance, plus various members of the Red Army soldiers who were elected internally. platoon leader.

Everyone gathered together in a lively manner, and when they saw Xia Yuan coming out, they all stopped and followed Xia Yuan's instructions.

Xia Yuandao: "This meeting is not a big meeting. Let me talk about two things first. The first thing is the Red Army uniforms. At present, the soldiers in the procurement team have purchased enough cloth and handed it over to the quilt factory, and a hundred sets have been made. The military uniforms will be distributed to everyone tomorrow, and the second thing is about the investigation of Laohe Village, so the second squad leader in the first row will briefly talk about it."

"Yes!"

The second squad leader in a row got up and said: "After our simple investigation, the landlords and bullies in Laohe Village are no different from the landlords and bullies in our Nianping Village. Even because of the problem of trading lambs and calves, the landlord advocated that Wangcai robbed the villagers because of insufficient lambs. In order to achieve the quantity required for the transaction, Zhang Wangcai levies miscellaneous taxes and high land rent, so some villagers can only dig weeds to satisfy their hunger, basically the same as the landlords in our Nianping Village.”

He said: "Company Commander, we must not let Zhang Wangcai go! We must bring a good life to the villagers of Laohe Village!"

"This is natural. The peasant masses are friends of our Red Army. Bullying them is bullying our friends. But everything must be done step by step. We have just planted a tree in Nianping Village, which is full of fruits. If we are discovered by wolves, tigers and leopards, if they are discovered by wolves, tigers and leopards, they will surround us and compete for the fruits we have so hard to bear."

The ideological work of the Red Army soldiers must be done well. Through this matter, a seed of hatred for the landlords can be planted in the hearts of various cadres, and this seed will only grow bigger and bigger.

Xia Yuan was also in a hurry to liberate the villages near Nianping Village. The predecessor walked all the way, sleeping on the roadside, and walking through a village saw a miserable scene. The landlords of each village oppressed and exploited the peasants in the village, and the people everywhere were in dire straits. .

Why do landlords oppress and exploit peasants? In fact, it has something to do with the general environment. The Great War in the Central Plains led to the emergence of various taxes, and various warlords went to the countryside to collect taxes. In a hurry, he also joined the ranks of mowing the grass. Some landlords even directly emptied the farmers' homes. When the landlords of other villages saw that the landlords of other villages did this, he did the same.

It is the farmers who suffer in the end.

At present, the base of Nianping Village has not yet been formed, there are only a dozen weapons and equipment, the development of the peasant association and the militia has just started, the quilt factory has just started operation, and the lambs and calves have just been put in place for the farm. Everything still needs time to develop.

Xia Yuan planned to conduct research first to mobilize the enthusiasm of the Red Army soldiers for external expansion. When the time is right, the seeds of hatred accumulated in the hearts of the Red Army will germinate and form a force.

This force will sustain his warriors invincible.

"This matter takes the squad as a unit. The squad leader will tell the whole squad about the situation of Lao Hecun. The deputy squad leader will do a good job in ideological work, and those who can't do ideological work will ask the deputy company commander for advice."

Xia Yuandao: "In ancient times, there was Gou Jian who tried his best. Today, we hold back our anger and work hard to develop the base area. In the future, the fruits of Nianping Village will surely blossom and bear fruit in every village!"

"Yes!"

The cadres have a lot of energy in their hearts, and with this energy, they have the motivation to keep moving forward.

"In addition, didn't the second squad leader say that some of the lambs and calves in Laohe Village were robbed of the lambs and calves of the villagers in Laohe Village. This matter must be handled properly. After all, the villagers have worked so hard to raise them. We can't just because of the transaction. The lambs and calves of the villagers were bought, and they suffered a loss."

The cadres listened, and Xia Yuan said, "Well, second squad leader, tomorrow you will sneak into Laohe Village with the soldiers in your squad, and ask which villagers have been robbed by the landlord, and we will compensate them."

"Yes!" The second squad leader got up and said.

"Sooner or later, the news of the appearance of the Red Army in Nianping Village cannot be concealed. Everyone spends more time on training. If we train hard today, we will be able to kill more enemies on the battlefield in the future." The second shift, the quilt factory in Nianping Village will start to trade with foreign countries in the future, and the secrets of Nianping Village cannot be kept. Xia Yuan needs to inoculate the cadres and tell them so that they are mentally prepared .

The enemy will never look at your smooth development. Once the Red Army starts to expand, it is absolutely impossible to hide the things about Nianping Village.

"That's it. After you go back, think about what I just said, think about it, and think about it. The Red Army is not mine alone. It is the joint efforts of everyone. What everyone looks like is what it looks like."

After the meeting, Xia Yuan called Li Qingming to talk about the tail.

"They're locked up in that newly built warehouse in the northwest corner, watched over by two fighters."

"Go and have a look."

Baoya and Beard were locked in a small warehouse, the room was a little dark, and two soldiers with guns were in charge of standing guard outside the door, never leaving.

Huzi stared at the house outside the window, "Grandma, something's wrong here, Bucky, did you notice that, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a landlord's house."

He recalled the sight of the villagers greeting their escorts on the road, revealing a trace of strangeness, he said: "Have you noticed that the villagers in this village greeted them on the way back? In our village, the master walked Oh, the look in the eyes of the villagers wished to cut the master alive, if it weren't for the gun in my master's hand, I guess those villagers would rebel."

He touched Baoya's side and said, "But look at this village, how happy the villagers are when they say hello."

When Baoya thought about it, he felt something was wrong, "Huzi, you said the people here are so strange, what is the reason?"

Hu Zi said: "How would I know, we've also been arrested now, it's not certain whether we can go back, let's think about how to save our lives first."

wow.

There was a sound of opening the door, the two quickly closed their mouths, looked up, and a thin young man walked in from the door, what surprised the two was that the landlord who had traded with the master earlier was just behind the young man .

Two soldiers with guns stood on the left and right sides of Xia Yuan and Li Qingming, staring at the two sitting on the ground with a hint of unkindness in their eyes.

"A man from Zhang Wangcai in Laohe Village?"

After Xia Yuan walked in, he took a look at the two of them and asked directly.

"Yes, master, please be merciful and let the two of us go." Huzi's mind turned quickly, and he realized that the young man in front of him was probably the real landlord of Nianping Village. The transaction was not safe, so he pretended to be the landlord and traded with his own master.

Combined with the previous observations in the village, I have a bold guess in my mind.

(End of this chapter)