Spring has finally arrived in Ivory Shantun. The mountains of food piled up in Zhongtian Farm have helped the old and young men in Ivory Shantun survive this cold winter;
The fellow villagers who had food and cold-proof supplies survived this cold winter without anyone starving to death or freezing to death. This was definitely the first time in the village.
In previous years, on the coldest days, the old people in the villages would wear thin clothes and sneak into the wind and snow with bare feet, just to leave the last bite of food for the young people and children, so that they can survive until spring comes. .
Because when spring comes, wild vegetables are dug all over the mountains and fields. With wild vegetables and mushrooms, people in the villages can survive.
On days like this, the Nakata family sat together in a big warm spring-like house with floor heating;
Hot wine was warming on the stove, and fragrant meat was stewed in the pot. Saburo Nakata sat on the back of the Chinese man and "horsed" while chewing the leg of lamb. After chewing, he would stuff the bones into the mouth of the "horse slave". The entire Chinese people in Ivory Mountain Village are slaves of their family, and they don't have to pay compensation if they are beaten to death.
With the Nakata family no longer weighing on them, and land, grain, and livestock being allocated to them, the fellow villagers in the village finally lived a "human" life.
Spring has begun, and although it’s not yet the planting season, Lao Si’s family can’t sit still at home, so they catch up with the assigned animals early to plow the fields. Their family was assigned ten acres of paddy field and twenty acres of dry land;
He thought about growing rice in paddy fields and corn and potatoes in dry lands. Seed teams were assigned to each household, so he didn't have to worry about seeds.
He is an expert at farming, and the black soil in the village is so fertile that he can squeeze out oil;
The reason why people are starving to death is because the people have no land.
Before the Japanese came, almost all land was concentrated in the hands of landlords, large and small, and the villagers in the villages could only work as tenant farmers for the landlords;
Although the Chinese landlords exploited them vigorously, they generally did not push them to death.
There are many people but few people on the black soil, and the land is fertile. After paying the rent every year, the family can barely survive;
Landowners are not stupid either. If all the tenants starve to death, who will farm the land for them?
Things were different after the Japanese came. The pioneering group all immigrated from Tiaopanji. When they came, they almost only had a mouth. They grabbed the land directly from the Chinese landlords with the support of the Kwantung Army. .
Many landowners were unwilling to hand over their land for free, and would be accused of colluding with the Anti-Resistance League. They would be imprisoned and killed, and the land would fall into the hands of the pioneering group.
These pioneering groups did not follow the routine at all. They treated the Chinese people as slaves. They were all their private property. Their lives were worse than animals. They committed countless evil deeds in the white mountains and black waters.
After the fourth child arrived at his own field, he habitually circled around his own land, just like an animal patrolling its territory.
He wants to level his land before Grain Rain, and then plant corn cobs. In the summer, his family will be able to eat delicious boiled corn cobs.
Not long after he started working, he saw several people coming over. With his sharp eyes, he recognized Captain Gao at a glance, who was the benefactor of the whole village.
Before he could take the initiative to say hello, Gao Dashuan said hello first:
"Fellow, where is the farmland? Are you busy?"
The fourth child stopped what he was doing and said happily:
"If you are busy enough, you have livestock. This amount of work can be done in two or three days. It won't miss the farming season."
Gao Dashuan took the members of the work team around the fields to see who was busy and could help;
He was also a good farmer in Gaojia Village, so he naturally knew the importance of the farming season. If he missed the farming season, he would get half a year's worth of food.
"Fellow, do you know which family in the village has a tighter labor force? It's better for us to go over there and do some work, but we don't dare to miss the farming season."
Gao Dashuan habitually started a family conversation with the fourth child. The fourth child thought for a while and said:
"Everyone is usually too busy with the work of digging the land, but the sixth sister-in-law has a strong family and few laborers, and the man was beaten to death by that goddamn Nakata;
A woman's house may not be so smooth when it comes to raising animals. Why don't you go to her house and have a look. "
After Gao Dashuan asked the sixth sister-in-law's home where it was, he took a few people from the work team there.
When they arrived at Liu Sao's field, they saw Liu Sao circling with the animals from a distance. Gao Dashuan knew at a glance that Liu Sao had never handled animals before, and her mule did not listen to her commands at all.
Gao Dashuan shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Sister-in-law, that's not how a mule works. Why don't you let me try?"
Sixth Sister-in-law looked up and saw that it was Captain Gao of the work team, and quickly declined:
"Captain Gao, how can I let you work for my family? I can do it more often."
“Sister-in-law, we, the Eighth Route Army, are one family with you, and you are just out of sight;
I used to be very good at home, so this job is not difficult for me. I can finish it early and save myself from missing the farming season. "
Sister-in-law Six was also worried that she would miss the farming season, so when she saw that Gao Dashuan was already in the fields, she did not refuse. She happened to want to follow suit and could not always count on the help of the Eighth Route Army.
The task of plowing the land was of course not a problem for Gao Dashuan. The other people were also good at farming. After they got down to the ground, those who drove the animals drove the animals and those who prepared the land started working with their hands free.
Sixth Sister-in-law could only watch from the sidelines. The work team was very popular in the countryside and got along very well with the fellow villagers. The common people always had a strong sense in their hearts, and they could still tell who was nice to them.
The armed work team of the Eighth Route Army assists the militia in counter-mopping up operations during wartime. In normal times, they work and live together with the fellow villagers. They take root among the masses and become a family with the masses. This is the mass work of the Eighth Route Army, and this is how mutual trust comes from. .
Thanks to the efforts of the work team, organizations at all levels in Ivory Shantun have been established. The militia company already has 117 militia members. If it were not for the spring plowing, the training of the militia company would have started.
Since the main force seized a large number of weapons during the suppression of bandits, almost all of these weapons were distributed to the militia. This made the militiamen in Ivory Mountain Village almost have one gun per person and 15 rounds of ammunition per person. Although this configuration is not as good as that of Liu Town, it is It's pretty good, there's no problem in dealing with some scattered bandits.
At the joint command headquarters, Zhong Guoliang walked in with a smile on his face and said to Chu Xiong and others:
"The good news is that the suppression of bandits outside the customs has achieved a major victory. With the assistance of the majority of anti-union comrades, all the departments I participated in the suppression of bandits have achieved brilliant results, wiping out hundreds of armed groups of bandits, large and small, and annihilating more than 80,000 bandits. , more than 60,000 people were captured alone;
The organized bandit armed forces outside the customs were almost wiped out, and only a small number of remaining bandits escaped into the deep mountains and old forests.
The comrades of the Anti-Union League were indispensable for the quick victory in suppressing the bandits this time! "
