Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 36 A single spark can start a prairie fire

The third company commander built the stage very quickly. Using some objects in the Liang family mansion, he put up the stage in no time.

This thing is only used for a short while anyway, so it doesn't need to be too durable.

After Chen Chengxing stepped onto the stage, he looked at the common people who were called over from below and said:

"Fellow villagers, I think you can tell my identity from the clothes I'm wearing. I'm Chen Chengxing, the commander of the New Second Regiment of the Eighth Route Army."

"The propaganda officers of my regiment should have told you before that our Eighth Route Army is a team of the poor, an army of the people! What we have to do is to serve the people."

"I found such a box when searching the Liang family mansion." Chen Chengxing took a wooden box from Wei Dayong next to him.

"Do you know what's in here?" Chen Chengxing asked.

The ordinary people in the audience all kept their mouths shut. In their opinion, what did this have to do with them?

Seeing that no one answered from the audience, Chen Chengxing did not wait, but opened it directly and took out the things inside.

"IOUs! These are all IOUs!"

When they heard that there were IOUs inside, the faces of the people in the audience who were originally numb immediately changed. Whose IOUs were they from?

To put it nicely, it was an IOU, but to put it bluntly, it was a bunch of shackles that locked them up completely and turned them into slaves of the Liang family. The men were treated like slaves and the women were abused by anyone.

Chen Chengxing looked at the changing expressions of the people below the stage and added fuel to the fire, "This is all Liang Shang's evil trick! Today, I will burn all these IOUs in front of everyone! From now on, none of you owe anything to the Liang family! If anyone dares to make things difficult for you, just come to me, the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army will bear it all!"

Chen Chengxing casually threw the IOU into the brazier. As the IOU scattered, the flames in the brazier soared high.

The people in the audience stared at the flame coming out of the brazier. Although the flame was not dazzling, they felt it was so blinding. However, everyone stared at it without blinking.

What the raging fire burned was not a piece of paper, but the shackles they had been carrying for countless years, shackles that made them breathless!
That red thing is not flame, but their future, a bright future that they can look forward to!

At this moment, the expressions of the people changed from numbness, to being moved, to hope, and finally to tears.

"Long live the Eighth Route Army!" someone suddenly shouted at the top of his voice from the audience.

"Long live the Eighth Route Army!"

"Long live the Eighth Route Army!"

"Long live the New Second Regiment! Long live Commander Chen!"

When Chen Chengxing heard people shouting "Long live me", he was shocked. Was he going to be crowned with a yellow robe? He couldn't bear that. In later generations, he had never been crowned with a yellow robe.

Chen Chengxing quickly spoke up to stop them: "Fellow villagers! Fellow villagers!"

When they heard that Chen Chengxing was going to speak, the people below hurriedly stopped and looked at Chen Chengxing on the stage intently. Now they were extremely grateful to Chen Chengxing.

Now the people in the audience were extremely enthusiastic, and Chen Chengxing did not wait any longer and decided to put the Liang family on trial immediately.

As for the absent Liang Zhenxing, he would deal with him after returning to Hongniwan. At that time, he would screen the security team and deal with them in a unified manner.

"Next, we, the Eighth Route Army, will put all the members of the Liang family on trial. In a moment, all the members of the Liang family will go on stage for trial. Their life and death will be decided by you. The first one will be Liang Shang!"

"Bring him up!" Chen Chengxing ordered.

Chen Chengxing pointed at Liang Shang who was brought onto the stage and asked: "Do you think he should die?!" After Chen Chengxing's combination of punches just now, the passion of the people had already been aroused, so they were very cooperative with Chen Chengxing.

"Damn it!"

"This old bastard deserves to die!"

"Kill him!" "Kill him!" "Kill him!".
As time went by, the originally chaotic shouts gradually converged into three words "kill him", which shows the people's hatred for Liang Shang.

"Okay! On behalf of the people, I declare Liang Shang dead!"

"Come here, push him down! Shoot him immediately!" Chen Chengxing ordered.

"boom!"

With the death of Liang Shang, the people in the audience became agitated. They did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would really kill people without authorization. This was very different from the officials they had dealt with before.

After Chen Chengxing presided over the trials of several people, he handed the stage over to the third company commander, and he returned to the Liang family mansion to check the situation of the material clearance.

"Captain, these ordinary people." Wei Dayong said this, but didn't know what to say.

He felt as if he had never truly understood the common people.

"The common people are like a pile of dry firewood. On ordinary days, anyone can step on it and take it home to burn. But once they are ignited, they will burst into flames, a flame that can burn everything!"

"This is what they call 'a single spark can start a prairie fire'," said Chen Chengxing.

This was also the reason why the Eighth Route Army was able to expand rapidly in Shanxi, and why the Japanese invaders could not wipe out the Eighth Route Army no matter how hard they raided.

A political party that stands with all the ordinary people. No matter how brutal the Japanese raids are, as long as there is a spark, the Eighth Route Army can never be destroyed.

After the public trial, Chen Chengxing ordered the soldiers of the third company to visit Liangzhuang. The third company left some food for the people who were living in difficult circumstances.

Regarding the Liang family’s land issue, due to the opposition of the Kuomintang, the Eighth Route Army could not carry out the land revolution in Shanxi, but this did not mean that Chen Chengxing had no solution.

Chen Chengxing had already thought it through. All these lands would be registered under the name of the New Second Regiment, and then rented out to the people for free for cultivation.

The common people only need to pay grain to the New Second Regiment according to the standard tax rate, and they do not need to pay any other miscellaneous taxes.

As for whether the New Second Group should pay taxes to the Kuomintang government, the people do not need to worry about it.

If the Guo Party wants it, they can just come and ask for it themselves and see if Chen Chengxing gives it to them or not.

The Liang family is written on these deeds. Why are you asking me, the New Second Group, to pay taxes?
What? You said the land is in the hands of the New Second Regiment? These lands are our spoils of war. If not in our hands, then who has them?
As for how you collect the tax, that is not the responsibility of our New Second Group. Whether you send it in a dream or burn paper, it has nothing to do with us.

However, Chen Chengxing did not organize anyone to deal with this matter at this time. It was really complicated and Chen Chengxing had no time to deal with it.

After Chen Chengxing reports the situation, his superiors will definitely send people to set up a local government.

When the time comes, Chen Chengxing will arrange two people to bring the land deeds to assist, and the land deeds will then be directly placed with the local government.

When Chen Chengxing led his troops away from Liangzhuang, the people of Liangzhuang warmly saw them off.

The common people did not return home until the visible troops disappeared from their sight. Compared with the previous dullness, there were obvious laughter and expectations for the future in the sky above Liangzhuang.

(End of this chapter)