Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2134 Bailihou

Scattered corpses can cause plague if left unburied, and stray weapons are also a potential threat.After the war in Wuzhou, there were a lot of weapons, armour, sticks and firearms abandoned by officers and soldiers outside the city, which can be seen almost everywhere.A large number of ordnance is dispersed, which is a potential threat to the new government.It must be confiscated as soon as possible.In addition, his current weak military situation also urgently needs some supplements.Zhu Quanxing's battalion can manage the security work of several counties in Wuzhou Prefecture, and it is difficult to cover everything.

The last topic is to repair the city walls and some infrastructure inside and outside the city.In fact, the battle in Wuzhou was not fierce this time, but the two sides invested a lot of firepower, especially the artillery and naval detachments of the army, who almost regarded the Wuzhou battlefield as actual combat training. city ​​defense facilities.Now have to restore it.

In addition, there are two important transportation hubs outside Wuzhou City.One is the Guijiang pontoon bridge erected on the Guijiang River leading to Sanhezui Dajiaochang, and the other is the Canglong pontoon bridge erected on the Xijiang River.These two pontoon bridges connect the east, west and south banks of Wuzhou, making the internal and external traffic of Wuzhou very convenient.

Now the two pontoon bridges were destroyed during the siege, the traffic was interrupted, and it was very inconvenient to travel around.

Xie Erren made a rough calculation, excluding the sewage system he planned, the restoration project alone would be enough for him to work for the first half of the year.As for the money and food spent, that’s not to mention—the “aftermath fundraising” alone can’t handle it.

A meeting was held to improve the situation, and Xie Erren convened a meeting of Guihuamin's cadres.

The number of Guihuamin cadres in Wuzhou is very small. Apart from Zhao Fengtian, the secretary of the Municipal Office who he regards as his right-hand man, and Qian Duo, the commander of the 7th Company of the 20rd Battalion Battle Infantry, who is civil and military, there are no more than [-] Guihuamin cadres.Most of these cadres were suddenly promoted and trained from the naturalized cadres in the area ruled by the Senate. Most of them were from Guangdong, and some were from Shandong and Hainan.After being incorporated into the Qiongya Detachment, after special training, they can at least communicate in Cantonese.

Now these people gathered together, waiting for Xie Erren's "instructions".

Xie Youren looked at this group of naturalized civilian cadres, old and young, men and women, and felt a little guilty-he had a good idea of ​​the quality of the cadres going north: most of them came from rural grassroots cadres, and only a few were assigned by administrative staff. or veterans.

Xie Erren has no idea about the level of these cadres.But right now there is no one who is more useful and reliable than them.

"Comrades!" He cleared his throat, "Wuzhou has been restored—this is all thanks to our brave officers and soldiers of the Fubo Army, Army and Navy—as the first batch of cadres who took over Wuzhou, we rely on the guns of the Fubo Army It’s not uncommon for a child to enter a city: if you want to get in, you have to be able to sit still.”

After saying this, Xie Youren suddenly felt a little more confident.

"Everyone has read the booklet "Summary of Wuzhou" compiled by the Foreign Intelligence Agency before coming here. It lists the detailed social conditions of Wuzhou Fucheng and the surrounding areas. This is an important reference book for us to carry out work in the future. I hope Everyone should read more when they have nothing to do—only when they have the specific situation can they start their work.”

Then he arranged a few things to do now.Once Guangzhou and other cities in the Pearl River Delta were restored, the primary job of the veterans and naturalized local officials who received them was to check household registration and establish industrial and commercial registration materials and other constructive work for the regime.However, the situation in Wuzhou is different from these places - Wuzhou is a "front-line city" and safety comes first.So the work he assigns also revolves around the issue of "safety".

The specific tasks are roughly the same as those assigned to the Rehabilitation Bureau just now. Xie Erren will assign the work of each contracted area to the Guihuamin cadres, and ask them to supervise and supervise the related work of the Rehabilitation Bureau at all times.Several cadres were also appointed to lead the labor team to remove the corpses and rubble.

Because the national army assigned to Wuzhou had not yet arrived, Xie Erren was eager to expand his force, so he decided to recruit experienced and reliable soldiers from the local guards who had surrendered to form a militia team, led by soldiers of the Fubo Army.

His plan was to allocate a platoon from Qian Duo's company, and one soldier led ten militiamen to form a militia team of 300 people.The rest of the regular army did not move, as a mobile force.

"... Do you think this is difficult?" Xie Youren asked Qian Duo.

"There is no difficulty. It's just that the soldiers use rifles, and the militiamen don't have rifles, so they can only use spears and broadswords—if there is a war, it means that we have lost the firepower of [-] rifles."

Thirty soldiers were scattered among the [-] militiamen as commanders, and they could not be concentrated in a platoon to concentrate their firepower. This loss was a bit big.After all, there are only a hundred guns in Wuzhou City.

"The militia can be equipped with some bows and arrows and old-fashioned firearms, at least three hundred more people."

The 7th company only has one hundred people, and it is obviously not enough to be responsible for the defense of the entire Wuzhou city, so he did not express any objection.After all, we don't know when the National Army will arrive. Even if it does come, there will only be one squadron.

In order to further enrich the force in his hands, Xie Youren decided to take over all the three classes of yamen servants from the Wuzhou prefecture and county yamen.Although the three classes of Zao, Kuai, and Strong have different responsibilities, they are generally biased towards security work. Although these are not very applicable, they are finally familiar with the local situation, at least they can deal with the immediate security work first.

All the miscellaneous details were implemented one by one, and finally Xie Erren took care of Zhao Fengtian: we must immediately recruit a propaganda team.

Xie Erren himself was a reporter, and he was most familiar with and valued propaganda work.

"Chief! Don't worry about the propaganda team." Zhao Fengtian said, "The county officials who have surrendered outside are waiting to see you. It's been a long time."

"Since they have all surrendered, what's the rush? There must be a position for them to receive their salaries." Xie Erren impatiently took out a few pages from his briefcase, "This is a plan I wrote. Get the people and the equipment you need as soon as possible.”

Zhao Fengtian took it over and took a look, the plan was very detailed!Organizational structure, number of personnel, males and females, all kinds of skills are required, and there are brooms and lime buckets for brushing slogans; rough paper, pen and ink for writing slogans are clearly listed one by one.Chief Xin Dao's plan is really good!
But looking at it again, some of the requirements are difficult to handle, because a "cultural propaganda team" is also involved.

Zhao Fengtian of the so-called cultural propaganda team knows that it is nothing more than organizing a group of men and women who can sing, play and sing, to sing or perform "live newspaper dramas" to preach policies-this is a very common form of propaganda in Hainan.Each county has a propaganda team.They have only been in Wuzhou for a few days. Where can they find these "professionals" who play and sing?Besides, it's hard to say whether people are willing to "propaganda" for it.

Finally, there is a "coverage target". Looking down, there are short-term goals-within seven days; medium-term goals within 30 days, and long-term goals of [-] days.There are three stages to achieve the coverage of slogans, how many times the propaganda team should make presentations, and how many people will participate in the presentations...

He murmured: "Chief! These things are not difficult, but they are not urgent, especially for the propaganda team..."

"For the propaganda team, you just need to find a few educated people from the refugees. Anyway, they just write," Xie Youren said. He felt that Zhao Fengtian didn't understand the meaning of propaganda work deeply enough, so he said earnestly: "Propaganda work is our civil affairs work. The important point, don’t look at it and think that it’s something that is not productive. Most of the local people in Wuzhou only know about our Senate and Australia, and they don’t know what it is. , it is very detrimental to our work, and it also gives hypocrisy a chance to smear us. Besides, after we enter the city, there will be a series of administrative measures, which must be widely announced so that the people will know..."

Zhao Fengtian nodded again and again to show that the chief saw far and comprehensively.I will definitely do it myself.However, he still reminded the chief that the "surrender" outside was still waiting.

"Then let them all come in." Xie Youren said in a good mood.

Since both the magistrate and county magistrate had committed suicide, there were no particularly valuable officials among Wuzhou's "surrenders".Xie Youren had been in the meeting for too long, and he was no longer interested in talking to them, so he said a few perfunctory words, and told them to "break up" if he wanted them to "do business with sincerity".

When the meeting was over, he suddenly remembered something, and told Zhao Fengtian: "Tomorrow, wherever you are, find someone who is very familiar with the local conditions to be your guide. I want to inspect the city of Wuzhou."

"Understood, Chief!" Zhao Fengfeng said, "This candidate is ready-made, I will arrange it right away!"

After receiving the "surrender", it was almost dusk.Xie Erren rested in the magistrate's office that night.The back office lit up bright kerosene lamps and placed tables and chairs.Because this was the first time in many days that he lived in the house seriously, Xie Erren's life secretary was extra flattering, and the dinner was very sumptuous.

Wuzhou is a commercial port in Guangdong and Guangxi, and its business is prosperous, and it is very particular about food and clothing.Although it is now the Ming Dynasty, many famous dishes of Wuzhou in later generations have not yet come out - such as paper-wrapped chicken, crispy dog, etc., but some famous local products are already available.The government office is naturally prepared.Knowing that he hadn't had a serious meal for a long time, the life secretary specially cooked it carefully: the Wuzhou paper-wrapped chicken uses local three-yellow chicken, which tastes delicious and mellow, and the rice for cooking is also sticky rice with Mengshan oil.Only fresh vegetables are hard to find because of the war, so I managed to gather a few vegetables.

Since Xie Erren landed in Guangdong, he has hardly had a good meal, and this time he had a great meal.Seeing the beauty snuggled up next to him, and thinking that he is also a "Hundred Lihou", he felt a sense of satisfaction that a man should be in life.

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