A four-wheel drive off-road vehicle was creeping hard on the mountain road, and the hillside was covered with lush towering ancient trees. Although it was already summer, the mountain wind was still cool on the face.

Mao Zd wrapped in a thin military coat and leaned on Li Yunhe with a tired face. He walked four counties in the Hunan-Jiangxi border area, but the situation was not very optimistic. Liling County, which is close to Pingxiang Coal Mine, is in a slightly better condition. Many local farmers work in coal mines, and their income is quite rich. A railway to transport coal passed through Liling, which drove the development of the local economy. Liling's fireworks and ceramics are still well-known in the Hunan-Jiangxi region. But he clearly felt that the gap between the rich and the poor in the local area was huge. The richest were the industrial and commercial capitalists of the fireworks factories and ceramic factories. These people lived in the contiguous villas built around the county town, many of whom even bought cars, and half of the financial industry in Liling County was controlled by the money houses they operated.

In addition, these industrial and commercial capitalists also operate in agriculture. Most of the fertile land on both sides of the Chengtan River belongs to these capitalists. Some are lands with all property rights and can be traded freely, while others are "permanent tenant land" that is prohibited by law. They also bought "permanent tenant rights". However, the "tenant system" exploitation method did not appear again, but a large number of farms employed by farmers to farm. The original tenant farmers have now become employed farmers!

However, the farmers who lost their land have not all become hired farmers. Most of them were absorbed by Liling and the relatively developed industries and commerce and coal mining industry in Pingxiang County, nearby Jiangxi. Mao Zd also investigated the living and income status of workers and clerks in Liling County. He found that the income and living standards of this part of the proletariat were very good. If you work at Pingxiang Coal Mine, you can earn hundreds of Huayuan yuan every month. This salary is definitely a huge sum of money compared to the price level of Liling County! Even in Nanjing, it is not a middle- and low-income. You should know that our President Mao paid Secretary Li Yunhe's salary. It is only 50 Huayuan per month. However, the job in the coal mine is not easy to find, otherwise there will be no one farming. A job that is easier to find in Liling is to work as a worker in a ceramic factory or a fireworks factory, and there is also a salary of 40 to 50 Huayuan per month, which is enough to support a family of five or six.

Therefore, few educated young people in Liling County farm at home, and most of them work in factories, coal mines or shops in county towns. Of course, some people went to Changsha, the provincial capital or participated in the National Defense Forces. Those who still stayed at home to farm are elderly middle-aged or elderly people. Because they are past the best age to study, they are inevitably clumsy and mostly don’t recognize words. Therefore, the industry, mining and business names are unwilling to hire them, so they can only live a hard life with a few acres of thin fields. The poorest people in Liling County are these farmhouses with no young people at home.

Mao Zd also found that the land price in Liling County is very cheap. A good acre of irrigated land cannot be sold for 80 yuan. If it is a terraced field on the hillside, no one will buy it even 2 or 30 yuan, and there are many abandoned and no one will cultivate it there! The reason for this is that it is said that the income of farming is too low, too hard, and there are risks. If you are not careful, you will have to farm at a loss. Therefore, many families working in artificial mining companies often choose to sell the land, and then move their families to the county town or move to Pingxiang to live. Therefore, the land price is lowered. In addition, the collection of Yongxi and land tax is also a reason. If these two burdens can be reduced, farmers' enthusiasm for farming will probably be higher.

However, this is just the situation in Liling County. Mao ZD saw the situation in Pingjiang, Tongcheng, Chongyang and other small counties in the border areas of Hunan and Jiangxi, which were inconvenient transportation and had no mineral resources to develop. It can only be described as withering. The land is abandoned on a large scale, and the young people are lost in large numbers. Even the county towns do not have much vitality. They are all old men and women.

"Are you still going to Xiangtan?" Li Yunhe asked softly.

Xiangtan County is Mao Zd's hometown, where Mao Zd has many relatives. His younger brother Mao Zemin's constituency is also in Xiangtan County, and he is very familiar with the situation in Xiangtan.

"I won't go." Mao zd waved his hand gently: "Xiangtan is close to the Xiangjiang River, and there are the conveniences of Pinghan Railway and Beijing-Guangzhou Railway. If it is not prosperous and prosperous, what will Prime Minister Chang's peace and prosperity become?" As the off-road vehicle swayed, Mao zd seemed to say to himself: "This countryside... Alas, I really don't know what to say. On the one hand, it is land concentration, and on the other hand, it is unprofitable to farm. The young people in the rural areas are unwilling to farm again... There are still middle-aged and elderly people who are about to farm, but what to do in the future? In a few decades, will there be farmers who farm? It seems that they have to go to the United States to see it!"

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Just when Mao ZD finished his brief rural inspection in Hunan and was about to go to the United States to see it again, Chang Ruiqing had temporarily put aside all the rural issues, urbanization issues, and agricultural industrialization issues, because as soon as he returned to Nanjing, he received a telegram from the Chinese military delegation to Berlin, saying that Hitler hoped that the Chinese Defense Force would send troops to attack Moscow!

Under the night, the Prime Minister's Office was brightly lit, and an emergency meeting was being held in the conference room. A 1:200,000-yuan topographic map of the western Soviet Union was spread on the table, Chang Ruiqing, Zhao Zhen, Wu Shi, Yang Yixian and others were lying beside the table to study countermeasures. The situation on the Soviet battlefield is changing very fast, and the Soviet Red Army has collapsed on all fronts. The Chinese and German armies are advancing rapidly on the eastern and western front battlefields. If you want to use one word to describe it, it is like a stalemate.

Just in the past few days when Chang Ruiqing visited Japan and South Korea, the Chinese Siberian Front had advanced to Yekaterinburg, east of Ural Shandong and Chelyabinsk, which had been bombed once by nuclear fission bombs. According to the agreement reached at the Berlin Conference, these two territories were prepared to be allocated to Germany.

The same German Wehrmacht also launched a devastating offensive on the Western Front. After more than one million Red Army troops surrendered in Trotskisk (Kiev), the Soviet Western Front and Southwest Fronts were unable to organize a decent blocking battle. Millions of troops retreated in panic. Kharkov, Donetsk, Sevastopol and other important Ukrainian cities fell one after another. The vanguard of the German Army C Group also rushed all the way to seize Volgograd, an important industrial city located in the lower reaches of the Volga River, and cut off the liaison between Moscow and the Caucasus oil-producing areas. The German Army B Group's army front pointed directly.

Moscow, the vanguard of the army group, advanced to the town of Krasna Polyana, which was only more than 30 kilometers away from Moscow city on June 24, 1936. It is said that at that time, there were German commanders climbing the bell tower and looking at the spire of the Kremlin with a telescope. However, the Soviet Red Army's troops in Moscow still seemed to be very strong. Just one day later, they launched a counterattack and repelled the German army that broke into the suburbs of Moscow. According to the reconnaissance of the Luftwaffe, the Soviets were desperately building fortifications outside the city of Moscow, and it seemed that they were really ready to defend their great capital to the death.

"Prime Minister, the Germans hope that we can control the Ural Mountains as soon as possible, and at the same time divide our troops westward, pressing towards Moscow from the east, and cooperate with the German B Army Group to annihilate the main force of the Soviet Red Army in Moscow."

After Zhao Zhen told Chang Ruiqing the German's request, Yang Xianyi, who had just been promoted to marshal, sneered a few times and suggested: "Prime Minister, the Germans want us to bear the losses for them, right? I think it's enough to deal with it casually."

"It's not just a matter of sharing losses," Wu Shi interrupted Yang Xianyi and said: "On the surface, the Soviet Red Army has now suffered a total defeat on the front line, but the total number of this army is still more than 10 million, and it has rich combat experience and good equipment. Although it can't defeat us and Germany in regular combat, it will be very troublesome to fight guerrillas! So the Germans hope that we will block the retreat route eastward of the Soviet army in Moscow to prevent them from escaping into the Ural Mountains and Western Siberia."

Chang Ruiqing touched his bearded face, and Wu Shi said to him. World War II was not over yet! Trotsky still had at least 10 million Red Army soldiers in his hands. If they could not be eliminated, even if only 1 million people sneaked into the Ural Mountains and West Siberia, it would be enough for him to drink a pot. He thought for a while and said, "It's still Brother Yu Xun who thought carefully. This time, I can't sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. Without us pushing from the east, it would be fine for the Germans to capture Moscow, but it would be difficult to annihilate the Moscow defenders. If they come to West Siberia, our troubles will be great!"

"If this is the case, we must at least dispatch one armored army and two infantry army to advance westward across the Ural Mountains." Zhao Zhen gestured on the map.

"Can you use so much?" Chang Ruiqing asked back.

"I'm afraid that Trotsky will abandon Moscow and go east and run into the east and run head-on with our troops advancing west, so it's better to send more troops."

"Okay, that's it," Chang Ruiqing focused heavily and said in a deep voice: "Brother Youlin, I'll order Bai Jiansheng and Guo Maochen to draw out an armored army, two infantry armies form a Western army group, cross the Ural Mountains and march towards Moscow. In addition, quickly occupy the Ural Industrial Zone of the Soviet Union, and dismantle and transport the machinery and equipment there for me!"

Chang Ruiqing said in his heart: "Since Hitler proposed to let the Chinese team advance westward to assist in the war, he probably wouldn't care about this Russian machine, right?"

He looked at Wu Shi again: "Yu Xun, you will be responsible for the commander of the Western Army Group! This is the first time our ** team has set foot on the European battlefield in history (Chang Ruiqing does not recognize that the Mongol Empire represents China). We must let the Europeans see how powerful we are! Do you know?" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!