Work teams were dispatched, with one squad in each village. Their task was not only to do a good job in mass work, but also to establish a militia company or militia platoon in each village.

There is one militiaman for every three households or thirty acres of land, and each militiaman is given a monthly subsidy of 20 kilograms of grain. Those who do not want to leave can be provided with grain instead. The standard is two hundred kilograms of grain for every thirty acres of land.

The militiamen organize military training during slack periods, and the training time is no less than one week per month. During busy periods, they go to the fields to help the masses harvest and grow food.

A women's rescue association was established among women to organize women to help make military rations during wartime and military shoes and uniforms during peacetime. Each person was subsidized with 5 kilograms of food per month.

Organize the masses to carry out a campaign to reduce rents and interest rates, and stipulate that the maximum land rent cannot exceed 60%.

Chu Xiong understood clearly that since the masses were still reluctant to serve as soldiers, he should first implement the militia system.

Being a militiaman not only does not have to travel far from home, but also provides monthly food subsidies. Those who do not participate will have to pay for food. This choice of joining or joining the militia is very clear to the common people.

As for the big families, they have a lot of land, 30 acres per acre, and they can't afford it, and they can't bear the hardship.

They can only choose to provide grain instead. Thirty acres is only 200 pounds, which is within the range of his affordability. After all, the task of the work team to form a militia is to unite the villages to protect themselves, fight devils, and prevent bandits from invading. For a large family,

It is also beneficial.

This is like boiling a frog in warm water, allowing everyone to gradually adapt to the relationship between rights and obligations. Everyone has the obligation to contribute to the anti-Japanese war, and at the same time enjoys the right to be protected by the Eighth Route Army.

The movement to reduce rents and interest rates has received a positive response from the broad masses of the people. In this era, most land rents are above 70%, or even 80% or 90%. Tenants have worked hard to farm land for the landlord for a year, and what is left after paying the rent.

Not much.

In good years, things are better. You can barely survive with half grain and half wild vegetables. But in famine years, it's common to starve to death.

Well now, as soon as the Eighth Route Army came, they asked the landlords to reduce the rent to 50%, which gave the tenants a way to survive, and they quickly won the support of the people.

The work teams quickly took root in each village, and militia companies were established. The peasants who had guns became stronger and the landlords became more polite in their speech.

Of course, not every landlord cooperated with the Eighth Route Army's policy. As soon as the rent reduction and interest reduction policy came out, the landlords were divided into three factions:

One group is the liberal group. In their view, although the policies of the Eighth Route Army are a bit excessive, they are not unacceptable.

Landowners live off their tenants. If the tenants can no longer survive, they will either starve to death or rebel. Neither of these is what they want to see.

A steady flow of water is the long-term solution. Isn't there still 50% profit, which is acceptable.

The second faction is the fence-sitting faction. They are very reluctant to reduce rents and interest rates, but they are also afraid of offending the Eighth Route Army. Since ancient times, the people have not fought with the officials, and the Eighth Route Army has the gun!

Ask them to give up some benefits to those who are suffering. Even if they don't agree, they can only hold their noses and admit it. This group is the majority.

The third group is the die-hards. They believe that the Eighth Route Army has no right to ask them to reduce rents and interest rates. Farming and paying rent has been a natural and natural thing since ancient times. They have no regard for the work teams of the Eighth Route Army.

In their view, there were only a dozen or so people, much less than their armed villagers, who were overtly and covertly armed to resist the policy of rent reduction and interest reduction. Every village had such stubbornness.

The most arrogant was Gao Wanwan from Gaojia Village. They not only armed themselves against the Eighth Route Army work team, but also injured a common man who could not afford to pay the rent.

Yang Zhijun, the captain of the work team in charge of Gaojiacun, is an old Red Army veteran with rich fighting experience and an old man from the Fourth Front Army.

After facing an armed confrontation involving tens of millions of people, he did not take drastic military action, but chose to make temporary concessions. One was to paralyze the opponent, and the other was to retreat in order to advance. He first found out the details of the opponent and then prescribed the right medicine.

After a week of investigation, Yang Zhijun thoroughly understood the details of Gao Wanwan. Since the opponent's private armed forces were far stronger than his work team, not only could they not be able to deal with the opponent on their own, but they might also be able to alert the enemy.

"If you have any difficulty, please contact the company commander!"

Yang Zhijun decided to report the collected information to the company headquarters and requested the company to send the main force to Gaojiacun to help deal with Gao Wanwan's matter.

Liuzhen Company Headquarters

Yang Zhijun met Chu Xiong and reported the high-million armed resistance to the rent and interest reduction policy to the company.

"Company commander, this Gao Baizhan has dozens of armed villagers under him. He is very arrogant. Not only does he not cooperate with the work of the work team, he also goes his own way and injures a villager in the process of collecting rent."

Chu Xiong was naturally very angry after hearing this. He shot the first bird and was worried about who to target.

This Gao Wanwan sent his head over. If I didn't cut off his head, I would be sorry for his wisdom.

Of course, chopping off his head requires a strategic approach. It must not only scare Xiao Xiao, but also be justified and leave others speechless.

"This Gao million should not be a fool. He should also know the strength of our Eighth Route Army in Liuzhen. With his dozens of men and guns, he can fight against your work team. Once we dispatch the main force, we will destroy him

It only takes a few minutes.

Zhijun, where does he have the confidence to be so arrogant? Have you ever touched his bottom?"

Chu Xiong asked a key question, which was also an investigation of Yang Zhijun to see his struggle experience.

"Company Commander, I have investigated and found out that Gao Wanwan's real name is Gao Wanhe, and his family owns thousands of acres of fertile land. Not only does most of the land in Gaojia Village belong to his family, but he also has occupied a lot of fertile land in other villages.

He has a brother who is a high-ranking official in the provincial government. He relied on this brother's power to collude with the local government and accumulate so much property through plunder.

His brother told him privately that after the reorganization, the Eighth Route Army also belonged to the national armed forces and had an agreement with the government that it was not allowed to divide the land among local areas, otherwise it would undermine the united front."

Li Qing and others frowned when they heard this, but Chu Xiong had a calm expression and motioned for Yang Zhijun to continue.

"Company Commander, through investigation we found that the Gao family is not that simple. He also has a younger brother who was also a government official before. After the fall of Taiyuan, he defected to the Japanese and is now a high-ranking official in the Japanese puppet government..."

Li Qing couldn't help but interrupt and said angrily:

"Isn't this hedging his bets? The country is about to die. These aristocratic families are still thinking of hedging their bets, and Xiao Jiujiu will fall short on both ends!"

Of course Chu Xiong understands, but it cannot be tolerated in his base area. If it is a domestic fight, he can understand how these people bet. The way to survive.

But this time it’s a national war!

Don't be too easy on both sides. If you want to do things that fall into both directions, there is no way!

"Zhijun, have you obtained any evidence that Gao Wanwan colluded with the Japanese or the puppet government?"

"Company Commander, time is too short. There is no direct evidence yet, but there is indirect evidence. The weapons used by Gaojiazhuang Ding are all Japanese standard weapons, and they even have two crooked handles!"

Li Qing objected as soon as he heard this, thinking that this was not enough to convict the Gao family because the Seventh Company was also an all-Japanese weapon.

"Leave the matter of finding evidence to the Tigers Special Forces. Zhijun, you will continue to paralyze the opponent after you return. Before the main force of the Seventh Company arrives, try to avoid a direct conflict with them and leave no excuse for those who are interested!"
Chapter completed!