The third part of the bloody war, Chapter 9, Running, Section 2, the battle after the war

"300,000 kilograms of grain, Brigade Commander Li, our Qi family's grain warehouse doesn't have that much grain." The accountant glanced at Mr. Qi and said tentatively: "I heard that the general is the old subordinate of Commander Zhuang, and our master wants to treat him to a meal."

"I can tell you this, but Mr. Qi, please give me a correct statement for these 300,000 kilograms of grain." Li Jixiong felt like a disaster was coming, suppressing his anxiety and slowing down his tone. If he hadn't been concerned about the other party's identity, he would never be so polite.

Mr. Qi had long seen Li Jixiong's anxiety clearly. Although Mr. Qi had never seen Zhuang Jihua, he knew a lot about Zhuang Jihua. When Shangqiu implemented social reforms and made a move to reduce rent and interest rates, Mr. Qi got news from his friends in Shangqiu and had a preliminary judgment on Zhuang Jihua. His eldest son, who was working in Wuhan at that time, was worried that Qi County would reduce rent and interest rates, so he wrote to his family, telling him that if Qi County wanted to reduce rent and interest rates, he must be ahead and must not have conflicts with Zhuang Jihua.

This letter left a deep impression on Mr. Qi. This letter revealed two meanings. Zhuang Jihua was very strong and his son could not count on it, but 300,000 kilograms of grain was too big. Even if the Qi family could produce it, it would be damaged. This would never be agreed.

"General Li, our Qi family is doing business legally. We were at a loss when we agreed to exchange for three pounds," Mr. Qi finally spoke. He said slowly: "I feel the disaster in Henan hometown, but my Qi family is also seriously affected. Last year, the rent was not collected, and this year it seems that it cannot be collected. General Zhuang asked us to get 300,000 kilograms of grain, but I can't take it out. Although I am old, I know a few participants in the National Government, and there are a few friends in the government. If General Zhuang wants to commit a crime, my Qi family is not so easy to bully."

People die for money, birds die for food; Li Jixiong's thought came up in his mind. Mr. Qi seemed to be old, and he really didn't know who Zhuang Wenge was. He wanted to stand up and leave, but when he went back like this, he could use his toes to figure out what the result was. Now that his position as brigade commander has been suspended, the Qi family will definitely be involved.

"Hmph, old man, don't blame me for being bad at speaking." Li Jixiong sneered twice, and his anger flashed: "There is no food in the city's grain store. What are you always thinking? I know, don't you just want these people to eat relief grain? You may have calculated that if you count the residents of the city, the relief grain now will only be eaten for one month. Before the summer grain is raised, the old grain will be eaten. At that time, the price of grain will rise sharply, at least doubled on the current basis. The hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain you have stored can at least make a million dollars. But you probably didn't expect that I would go out like this. Three days, at most three days, the charge of hoarding will be detained on your head. Commander Zhuang dared to confiscate the Qi family compound. Do you believe it?"

"In the Republic of China, the world is bright and bright. Can he turn his hands into clouds and rain after the Cultural Revolution?" The housekeeper sneered: "I'm not easy to bully my family."

"I don't know what's wrong," Li Jixiong cursed inwardly. The Qi family has been in charge for a hundred years. How could such a fool have emerged in the end? Mr. Qi seems to be really old. He really thinks that his hundreds of guards can fight against the millions of troops under Zhuang Wenge.

"Mr. Qi, I have been suspended. There are more than 100,000 victims in the inner and outer cities of this city. At this time, Commander Zhuang is going to confiscate your home, and even the chairman cannot save you."

Li Jixiong's words became more and more naughty, and his tone became heavier. But what made him helpless was that Mr. Qi did not give in at all. Li Jixiong tried to persuade him and finally agreed to donate 50,000 kilograms of grain, and then refused to make concessions.

After Ming Zheng left, Zhuang Jihua stayed in the porridge farm for a while and got in the car and left the porridge farm. He had no plans to stay in Qi County, but now he had to spend some time to check in Qi County.

There was an empty space in the Qi County Government. The former Qi County Magistrate fled with the Japanese army, and most of the county staff remained behind. The new County Magistrate was a regiment commander under the 257th Brigade, named Wu Tianming. When Zhuang Jihua arrived, Wu Tianming was not in the county government. He waited for about ten minutes. Wu Tianming and two young talents hurried into the county government.

Seeing the two generals standing in the backyard of the county government chatting, Wu Tianming quickly found who Zhuang Jihua was, and quickly walked to Zhuang Jihua to salute him. The two young men followed him.

"This is Xing Guobin, the county party committee director, and this is Wei Kuo, the president of Qi County National Rescue Council." Wu Tianming introduced to Zhuang Jihua.

Zhuang Jihua looked them up and down and knew that the county party director was from Chiang Ching-kuo, and the National Rescue Council was the leader of the third party, but these two young people looked quite harmonious.

"Tell me about the situation." Zhuang Jihua did not greet them. The situation of posting a line at the porridge field in the north of the city made him dare not easily believe the three people in front of him.

"The situation is not good," Wu Tianming was very frank: "The grain can be barely used until early July. The main reason is that many victims who received the food were forced to hand over the relief grain to the landlords after returning home to pay the rent from last year. They had to return to the city."

"It's not early July, it's probably early June," Wei Kuo interrupted, "Now there are still a small number of disaster victims who return to the city. Once the behavior of those landlords is not punished, other landlords will follow suit. There will be more disaster victims back to the city. I guess there will be more than 100,000 more."

"What do the Party Committee have?" Zhuang Jihua asked Xing Guobin again.

"Commander, those bad-hearted landlords must be severely punished," Xing Guobin was transferred from Hubei. He turned out to be the secretary-general of the Third Youth League in Fang County. This time, Jiang Jingguo directly transferred him to Henan to serve as the county party director, which is undoubtedly an important step in his career.

Under the deliberate training of Chiang Ching-kuo, the Three Youth League has always maintained a vigor and vitality. These young people are full of energy and look down on the most is the Central Party Department. The most radical view is that the Central Party Department is old and many cadres are corrupt and deteriorating. The world should let them organize the Three Youth League.

Although Xing Guobin was not that radical, he was still relatively radical in Fang County. Therefore, he was suppressed by the Fang County Party Committee, which made him feel that everything was restricted. Now he finally deliberately let go.

"This is the food that the government has sent to the disaster victims. They dare to seize it. They are extremely greedy." Xing Guobin was indignant and extremely excited when he mentioned this.

"Where are you planning to take what actions?" Zhuang Jihua felt a little relieved in his heart and asked.

Xing Guobin and Wei Kuo exchanged glances. Obviously they had discussed the solution. Xing Guobin took a step forward: "First, in the name of the county government, the land rent will be exempted this year. In the past, the renters are not allowed to be replaced. The rent reduction will be implemented in the province next year, and any land rent shall not be higher than 30%.

"There are also regulations on the price of grain merchants in the city. Anyone who is higher than this price will be convicted. Use heavy punishments to deal with these unscrupulous merchants in troubled times." Wei Kuo's tone was cruel, with murderous aura.

Zhuang Jihua was silent for a while, Xiao Zhenying kept silent. He had guessed that Zhuang Jihua would definitely start a massacre in Qi County. Now that he met two young people like this, the leader next to him seemed to be a good person. These landlord grain traders in Qi County hit the steel plate this time.

"March Secretary, record." Zhuang Jihua turned his head and called Gong Xiuhua: "In view of the severe drought in Henan, some landlords forced the victims to pay rent with the distributed relief grain. This is a crazy act and must be severely cracked down. The Jiangbei War Zone Command ordered the local government, party department, the Three Youth League, the National Rescue Congress, and jointly acted to resolutely investigate and punish the disaster victims' relief grain. For landlords who have such behavior, they should first advise and order them to return it; if they do not follow, they will be confiscated, and their property will be confiscated, and their crimes of destroying disaster relief and destroying the War of Resistance. Anyone who fails to do this should be held responsible for the local chief. In this order, Zhuang Jihua, the commander of the Jiangbei War Zone Command, will be held responsible."

Xing Guobin and Wei Kuo exchanged their eyes excitedly. If they hadn't been worried about Zhuang Jihua's presence, they would have jumped up and cheered. Wu Tianming kept the seriousness of a soldier, with only a slight smile on his face.

"Did you have the situation around you?" Zhuang Jihua waited for a while and asked the three of them again.

"It's already mastered," Xing Guobin answered first. The three of them were carrying Li Jixiong on their backs in the city and investigated the Qi family's bottom. Now Shangfang's sword is in hand, and they can't wait: "The largest landlord in Qi County is the Qi family. The Qi family is the first to force the victims to pay the land rent. The largest grain merchant in the city is also the Qi family. All the landlords and grain merchants around are following the Qi family's leader, so the first knife must be cut on the Qi family. As long as the Qi family is destroyed, the situation will be opened."

"I have figured out the situation of the Qi family. The Qi family has three grain warehouses, which store about 300,000 kilograms of grain. In addition, the Qi family has a group of servants, with about 200 armed people. He has contact with local bandit Cao Shangfei. His eldest son is Lieutenant General Qi Qigong of the Military Command and his second son..." Wu Tianming introduced the situation of the Qi family again.

After he finished introducing the article, Zhuang Jihua reached out and asked Gong Xiuhua for a pen and paper, and wrote a handwritten warrant and handed it to him, "The handwritten warrant will be assigned to Wu Tianming's command. The 257th Brigade's xxxx regiment, and the 257th Brigade must fully cooperate with the work of the Regiment Commander Wu Tianming."

After Wu Tianming looked up, Zhuang Jihua said calmly: "The commander of the 257th Brigade Li Jixiong has been suspended. I don't care about the specific actions. Commander Wu, Director Jian, and President Wei. You have discussed the action plan. I have only one requirement. I will search the Qi family today."

"yes"

"Please rest assured by the commander"

"Ensure the completion of tasks"

In the evening of that day, Wu Tianming divided his troops into three groups, and one was led by Xing Guobin to search the Qijia grain warehouse outside the city. Considering that it might cause resistance from Qijia's servants, the number of people on this route was the largest, with two battalions, divided into three groups, and searched the three grain warehouses outside the Qijia city. The second route was led by Wei Kuo to search all the grain stores and other stores in Qijia in the city. The third route, Wu Tianming led a strengthening company, surrounded the Qijia compound, and detained everyone inside, including Li Jixiong, who was still trying hard to persuade Mr. Qi.

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