The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 734

The headquarters of the first detachment of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi.

Sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, Captain Kong smoked a cigarette and puffed out the clouds, while reporting to the command headquarters, Dong San, the head of the logistics department, and Xu Qingnian, the head of the finance department, asked about the current logistics and economic situation of the independent group.

"After this period of hard work, how much food have we hoarded in the base area?"

Seeing Kong Jie's inquiry, Dong San, the head of logistics department, immediately took out a detailed record book from his arms, then opened to the corresponding page and replied:
"Reporting head, according to preliminary statistics, so far."

"Our independent regiment, together with the public grain hoarded in various granaries including the detachment headquarters, and the grain we have continuously purchased from all directions to the interior of the base area during this period, totaled 4.5 dan."

"The Second Regiment currently hoards a total of 2.3 dan of public grain."

"The three regiments hoarded 2.4 dan of public grain."

"The Fourth Regiment is currently dealing with the Japanese army in the Zhongtiao Mountain area. There is no burden from the victims. The operation of hoarding food has not yet been carried out on a large scale, and there is no statistics for the time being."

"In this way, our team has hoarded a total of 9.2 tons of public grain so far. If converted into catties, it is almost 1100 million catties of grain."

"Regimental Commander, that's all, before counting the food we consumed during this period, our team not only has the ability, but also supports the brigade headquarters, headquarters, and surrounding troops with food shortages, nearly 5 dans of food. "

"In addition, after the victims of the disaster have temporarily lived in our root land, we have reduced or exempted more than 200 million catties of public grain so far."

"And according to your instructions, head of the delegation, 2.7 tons of relief and low-interest loan grains were allocated from the public grain and distributed to the people in the disaster-stricken areas as resettlement costs and all types of workers' expenses."

"Among them, the migrant labor groups spent a total of 1.2 tons."

"According to the expenditure of 1.1 tons by workers in various factories in the area...

......"

Dong San held the accounting book in his hand and reported the data to Kong Jie in detail.

Kong Jie was a little confused when he heard it. He thought about it carefully, so he naturally understood it, but as the leader of such a large independent group, he had to do everything by himself, wouldn't he be exhausted?
Captain Kong, who often uses his wisdom to be lazy, of course understands the truth that it is better to use others than to use oneself.

The independent regiment is now full of talents, and only by making the best use of these talents can he, the leader of the regiment, be the most leisurely and unrestrained.

"Old Xu, in order to resettle the victims and deal with the gradual spread of the disaster, we have been mainly buying food in the base area. I didn't have time to ask the finance department, can there be economic difficulties?"

Xu Qingnian replied: "Leader, during this period of time we have purchased a large amount of food in the base area to deal with the disaster, and the financial revenue of our independent regiment has not increased significantly."

"Our financial reserves have indeed dropped a lot, but they are still within an acceptable range and will not affect the overall economic stability of our base areas."

Speaking of this, Xu Qingnian also smiled: "In addition, after the victims were resettled, relying on the food we donated at the beginning, they quickly started working formally.

They get paid through labor, either money or food. First, they have peace of mind and don't worry about having nothing to eat tomorrow.

Second, the victims earned money and turned to spend it in the bazaar we built up and down the ground.

This has greatly promoted the economic circulation of our base area. "

"In this way, as long as we ensure the continuation of foreign economic and trade, and let the materials and money in the enemy-occupied areas continue to flow into our base areas, we will continue to stimulate the economic development of our base areas."

"So far, according to your plan, the leader, the rapid economic development brought by the demographic dividend to our base has been initially realized."

At the end, Xu Qingnian said with emotion: "If you ignore the impact of the follow-up war.

And ensure the basic living materials in the base area, especially the most basic agricultural production, that is, the sufficient supply of food, to meet the basic needs of survival in the base area.

Commander, I think the economic development of our team's base area will get better and better. "

"Thank you!" Kong Jie nodded and said.

Then Kong Jie raised the question that he was worried about.

"From the current point of view, as our base area receives a large number of victims, it is indeed moving towards the blueprint of the initial demographic dividend."

"But there is always a limit to everything. The area of ​​our base area and the number of people that the land can carry are ultimately limited."

"The current 20 to [-] victims, we may still be able to bear it, what if there are more? One hundred and twenty thousand, or even millions, sooner or later, our entire base will be crushed."

"Even the area we are constantly cultivating is far less terrifying than this disaster."

"Leader, do you mean that our base area is going to start restricting the acceptance of disaster victims?"

Asked Dong San, who was pondering the meaning of Kong Jie's words.

"That's what it means, but the method must be changed, and the benevolence and responsibility of our people's soldiers must not be lost."

"For the victims who have escaped from the disaster, they can survive if we take action. If we don't take action, we even indirectly kill them. This needs to continue to be received."

"The internal work has stabilized and the victims who have accumulated a certain amount of food should ask the Propaganda Department to increase publicity and encourage everyone to return to their hometowns to work in agriculture!"

"On the premise of the principle of voluntariness and guidance through propaganda, we will send escorts to protect those who are willing to return to their hometown to work in agriculture, and an additional travel fee, as well as food and water needed on the road."

"After all, as the number of disaster victims increases, the amount of land we can reclaim up and down the base is also limited. So many victims of the disaster cannot be allocated land. After returning to their hometowns, there will be a large area of ​​land for them to cultivate."

"We can even rent some cattle from them, I think the folks will be willing."

"This is also to leave a living space for the later victims after their own survival problems have been initially resolved."

"Of course, we must make it clear to everyone that telling everyone to go back to their hometown does not mean driving everyone away."

"After the guards arrived at the victims' hometowns, they stayed there to help the villagers resume spring plowing. They acted as armed forces and militiamen behind the enemy, combined with the local masses, tried to contact anti-Japanese activists, and secretly established an anti-Japanese revolutionary regime."

"If there are difficulties during these tasks, the detachment headquarters will provide assistance. I will discuss this with the political commissar later."

"Yes!" Dong San suddenly realized.

……

It was Kong Jie's helpless move to let the victims who had temporarily settled down and regained their strength return to their hometowns.

Compared with Kong Jie's independent group, in fact, Taihang, Taiyue and other base areas have already been pressured by the influx of disaster victims, and have begun to arrange for the disaster victims to return to their hometowns.

On the other side, they had to helplessly discourage the victims from entering the country.

This is also something that can’t be helped. Under the influence of the disaster, the Eighth Route Army, which is already scarce in supplies, is often helpless. It cannot be saved because of the sudden flood of kindness, which will drag down the soldiers and civilians in the base areas.

Some base areas are short of supplies. When arranging for the victims to return home, the only thing they can do is hold a farewell party.

Then at the farewell party, two pancakes were stuffed into the hands of the victims who were about to return home, as rations on the way back.

The poor victims didn't know that these two pancakes couldn't withstand the long journey back to their hometown, and they would starve to death when they returned home, so they simply launched a guerrilla attack in the base area.

Sent off here, pretended to leave, and then returned to some villages under the jurisdiction of Balugenju from the other side.

In short, just hang on.

Everyone knows that if you can rely on this place, you may have the hope of surviving.

Under the influence of the spread of the horrific disaster, too many places that cannot be seen have already been filled with mourning and starvation, and the tragedy is unbearable.

Every time Kong Jie thinks about this, he always feels that he has tried his best to struggle with his appearance, but what he can really do for his motherland is just a drop in the bucket.

... "Old Xu, under the impact of the disaster, people are starving to death every second. We can't be the saviors who save the world. We can only do our best and obey the destiny."

"Continue to increase the intensity of food purchases, and you are not afraid of taking risks. Food is life right now, and taking risks can save more lives, and it is worthwhile."

"Yes!" Sensing the firm determination of his head, Xu Qingnian quickly replied.

After Dong San and Xu Qingnian left, political commissars Li Wenjie and Xu Guoan also returned to the detachment headquarters shortly thereafter.

They found that Commander Kong had been staring at the twelve main railway lines used by the devils to transport grain on the battle map without blinking his eyes.

"Old Kong, are you still thinking about how to cut off the devil's transportation route?"

Kong Jie sighed and said, "It's still not enough, not enough, it's too far away!"

"What's not enough?"

"Food, food is not enough, far from enough."

As he spoke in a daze, Kong Jie opened his eyes angrily, staring at the battle map, leading to the various devil transport railway lines in Shanxi, and said firmly:

"Cut off the food transportation lines that the devils transport to Shanxi."

"This is not only to give the little devil a fatal blow, but also to save more of our victims."

"This food interception operation is only allowed to succeed, not to fail!"

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(End of this chapter)