Faced with Gao Jianwu's pressing step by step, Zhao Facai struggled for a while before he truly knelt down and lay flat completely.
Love it, at least my life has been saved, and my family property... I have also saved a lot of it on the surface, and it seems that he has to stand on Route 8 in order to fool the little devil. In this case, labor and management will wait for a while. Let's see what happens.
This officer still seemed to be quite capable, and would not be so quick to confront the Japs head-on. He had to intervene, so he was left with Zhao Facai.
Of course, Zhao Facai would not dare to report the matter until he was forced to do so. Route 8 was not someone to be trifled with. If the root cause was not eradicated, there would be plenty of people to take revenge.
With the current situation of their family, it would really be a fate for them to be exterminated with just a few people and a few guns.
That's why Zhao Facai felt that it was better to have both sides. Since he still had value, it wasn't that difficult to survive. He just had to grit his teeth for a while and get through it.
Although this seemed like walking a tightrope, and it would be embarrassing if the information about Route 8 was not leaked to the Japanese, Zhao Facai really had no other way.
He had seen the power of the Japs, but he still felt that the Japs were strong. Otherwise, Zhao Facai would not have bent his knees to serve the Japs against the wishes of his ancestors. Zhao Facai felt that it was not shabby to bend the knee to the strong to protect his family.
Because the Jinsui Army used to be such a powerful existence in his heart, but when the Japanese came, it was different. In less than a year, Yan Laoxi was driven to the mountains to drink from the northwest wind.
What can Zhao Fa do?
Zhao Facai still doesn't believe how big a stir these few 8th Route Army members can make now. They may be driven away by the Japs in a few months. When the time comes to deal with the Japs, Xiaogu Nao will still be Zhao Facai's. The world.
Everyone who ate him and shared everything with him will be taken back!
He, Zhao Facai, now wants to be Gou Jian and Han Xin who can bend and stretch, endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens!
Xiao Guyao will still belong to his old Zhao family in the future!
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Gao Jianwu didn't care about the wealthy Zhao who was trying his best to kill himself. He was full of grievances and was ready to "sit on the salary and taste the courage" for a while.
He's busy with things.
When you arrive in a new place, you need to build a base, which is not something that ordinary people can do easily.
If it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that the situation would not be able to open up at all within three to five months. Especially in the deep mountains and old forests, many people have never even heard of Route 8. They have long been accustomed to succumbing to the coercion and control of landlords and gentry like Zhao Facai.
However, Gao Jianwu has countless advanced methods and memories for mass work. The key to whether he can do it well lies in whether he can quickly implement the practical issues that the people are most concerned about and bring tangible benefits to the people.
Reducing rents and interest rates is a good policy proposed by the border area for the current livelihood of the common people. It is currently the greatest common denominator between the landlords and the common people. Although the interests of the landlord class are harmed, it will not be broken and they can strive for unity. War of Resistance.
However, although this policy was good, it was full of twists and turns in Xiaogunao, but Gao Jianwu still implemented it vigorously and resolutely.
The people of Xiaogunao watched the pie falling from the sky and refused at first. Although they were confused about the newcomer No. 8, they still refused Gao Jianwu's kindness with some trepidation at first.
After all, Zhao Facai and the Zhao family have accumulated prestige for a long time, and it has been nearly a hundred years since he became the emperor of Xiaogu Naotu.
They are not like Zhao Facai, who has been to county towns or even provincial capitals to see the world. They also have the habit of listening to current affairs, storytelling and news on the radio. Most of them have never even gone out to Xiaogu Nao, and very few have been to the farthest distance. In Dagu Town, the external information available is extremely limited.
Some people just had the idea that the Qing Dynasty was overthrown and Yan Laoxi was in charge. As for the news about the coming of the Japanese and the change of dynasties, it was Zhao Facai who brought them. At the same time, there were also new grain payments.
Although life is getting harder and he has to be hungry for at least one more month a year, the people still scold this little devil in private. But when it comes to resisting and killing the Japanese, there is not so much hatred among the old and young men in Xiaogu Nao yet.
However, Gao Jianwu "persuaded" Zhao Facai, and there were always brave ones who were persuaded to go to the Zhao family compound and apply for a new rent reduction and interest reduction contract. When someone really reduced the land rent to 30%, and paid another 20% of the public grain in the new contract Taking it home, this big move that actually reduced the income by at least 20%, immediately made the villagers excited.
One household, two households... Under the auspices of the guerrillas, new contracts were signed with Zhao Facai one after another. After overcoming the initial hesitation, more and more villagers accepted the new policy of reducing rent and interest rates.
After Gao Jianwu returned the land that Zhao Facai had taken over the past year to its original owner, he also significantly reduced the IOU and millet rent.
Let everyone see that they can still pay off their debts in their lifetime, and Zhao Facai publicly acknowledged all of this. Xiao Gunao finally became excited, thinking that it was really earth-shaking.
So when they heard that Gao Jianwu and the others were going to take root, there was no need to mobilize at all, and the villagers, old and young, came together to help, they now hoped that Route 8 could stay in Xiaogunao forever.
Three large huts and two side rooms were quickly built and became a guerrilla base: a team headquarters conference hall, two large shops, and then a kitchen and toilet. Now there is no problem for a hundred or ten people to live here.
Although each task is trivial, Gao Jianwu takes the entire team to do it together. Not only that, Gao Jianwu also teaches the team members how to understand the headquarters policies and the historically effective development routines of the military workers team while doing the work.
While carrying out mass education and enlightenment, militia teams and women's rescue societies were established one by one. Grassroots organizations temporarily focused on the militia teams and women's rescue societies to carry out work, and the base area was gradually built in a down-to-earth manner.
Xiaogu Nao is Gao Jianwu's first base area. Gao Jianwu is not in a hurry at all. He leads everyone to implement the policies and methods for building the base area to the letter, instead of rushing out to fight against the Japs.
After all, if you go out to fight against the Japs now, you can just make a cold shot, which will not yield much. On the contrary, it may trigger a Japs raid in advance and affect the construction of the base area.
Working with Gao Jianwu, the team members felt like they were brought to a new world. Although there were many things they didn't understand, everyone learned very seriously.
Compared with military training, everyone puts a lot of thought into construction.
Since childhood, Gu Nao has opened up the situation, and the next step is to spread the branches and leaves.
The team members who had learned a lot would first form a team of three or five and go out to do work. When they encountered a village where local tyrants and evil gentry were stubbornly armed, Gao Jianwu led the team to convince the people with force, and naturally they would seize a lot more. They were really guilty and heinous. Even the local tyrants and evil gentry, Gao Jianwu, are not afraid to directly implement policies.
After more than a month of development, fifty-six villages within a ten-mile radius were successfully developed. However, there was no "rich traitor" like Zhao Facai around. The guerrillas captured the local tyrants, and all the rest were comparable to Zhao Facai's. The contribution is considerable.
However, through piecemeal work, Gao Jianwu's platoon, which was renamed Dagushan Guerrilla, has developed more than 100 militiamen and more than 30 guns. The guerrillas have not replenished their manpower for the time being. Instead, under Gao Jianwu's intense training, they fired hundreds of rounds of bullets and added more weapons. With enough staple food in charge, these veteran team members gradually improved to the level of scouts in terms of marksmanship and physical strength.
Especially the progress of Zhao Dalei, Wang Xilai and Lu Fan surprised Gao Jianwu. Others used to shoot a 100-meter target with a simple vertical target, but now the three of them dare to shoot a target directly on someone's head!
The mentality is stable.
Gao Jianwu, who had been struggling to develop in Xiaogunao, finally took the first step to build the Dagushan base area. Although the scale is still very small and the foundation is relatively weak, the No. 8 Road that makes decisions for the people has begun to take root in the hearts of the people.
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