This was Zhou Weihan's first meeting with everyone. Li Daben had always met with them as a representative of the independent detachment, so polite words were indispensable during this first meeting.
Everyone gave up in the meeting room of the garrison. Zhou Weihan sat on the left hand, Li Dabenji, the host, on the right, and the rest of the people sat scattered in the room.
Zhou Weihan has always been a straightforward person. He looked at the people gathered together and said directly: "Everyone is gathering together today. Is there anything going on?"
The landowners present looked at me, and I looked at you, and finally they all looked at Bai Chengfeng.
Seeing this, Bai Chengfeng coughed slightly, with a smile on his face, and then said: "Comrade Zhou is really quick to talk. In this case, I will give it to you!"
"Some people visited our villages two days ago. According to the escorting Eighth Route Army comrades, they came down from Yamawang Mountain to inspect the education situation of the school-age youth in each village. According to their intention, they want to run schools in the villages. I think
Is this the case?"
Zhou Weihan nodded after hearing this and said: "It is indeed such a thing!"
Bai Chengfeng stood up, with a smile on his face, looked at the landlords who had gathered in a circle, and continued: "We here all have some assets in our families, and establishing education is to benefit the hometown and awaken the people.
It’s a great thing, so we discussed it and decided that we would fund it!”
"What's the address of this school? Most villages have ancestral halls or larger houses, which are suitable for classrooms. We can buy all the teaching supplies. We can also set up a school field near the school to produce
Food is specially supplied to schools. Before food is produced, if the young people who come to school have family difficulties, we can provide them with a lunch!"
After Bai Chengfeng finished speaking, the others answered: "Yes, I'm a half-grown man who will eat you to death, but we can still afford to give him a ration of one kilogram a day!"
Zhou Weihan stood up suddenly after hearing this, and then asked: "Is this true?"
"a man of his words!"
"Okay! Mr. Bai, this is a great act of kindness. The people who are being helped will never forget you, and our Eighth Route Army will never forget you!" Zhou Weihan said with a smile, stroking his hands.
"Everywhere, there are fellow villagers who can help us in any way we can!"
There are 650,000 people in Wuyi and Wu'an counties. Excluding the population of the counties and the Japanese-occupied areas, there are at least 400,000 people in the base areas of the two counties.
Although life is not rich these days, there are at least two or three children in the family. If a school is really started, Zhou Weihan thinks that the number of children will be indispensable.
After discussing this matter, Bai Chengfeng and the others left.
Zhou Weihan looked at the backs of everyone and couldn't help but be a little confused: "Aside from welcoming me, are they just for running the school?"
"Captain, don't be fooled by their current appearance. When we first started contacting them, they were all very smart. But now their interests are tied to ours. They are just elected representatives from various places.
There is actually a large group of small landowners and rich peasants behind it!"
"Also, they say they care about the meals of young people with poor families, but in fact, they decide which family is poor and which family is rich. Aren't they the ones who decide?"
"Finally, it's okay when it's not busy. When farming is busy, there probably won't be a single student in the school. Plus, some families may not want to lose this labor force and won't let their children go!"
Li Dafeng said several things in succession, and Zhou Weihan nodded: "No matter what, as long as he implements this matter, even if only a few hundred students benefit, it will be a great thing!"
"Detachment leader, you are looking at this list of students!" Li Dazhen said calmly and took out a list.
The name of each student's place of origin, family members, and social relationships were written on the list. Zhou Weihan glanced at it briefly, and then frowned.
"Is this Bai Xiuzhu the daughter of the Bai family?" Zhou Weihan asked.
Li Daben hurriedly explained: "She is the daughter of the Bai family and the detachment leader. Most of the 262 students on this list are children of the families of the big and small landlords who cooperate with us. Some are direct and some are collateral!"
"They made this calculation very clearly. When recruiting troops, at most the affiliates of each family would join the army. Now when I hear that the cadre school is recruiting students, each one is more active than the other. Otherwise, how could this happen?"
"Hasn't every family's children entered the cadre school? But there's nothing we can do about it. Those who have gone to school are from wealthy families. As long as those who can graduate from high school and primary school are not available to ordinary families, I can only let people work with us.
Landlords with close connections select students!"
"Then the Bai family sent their daughter to the army?" Zhou Weihan asked curiously.
"Hehe, this Bai family is known as one dragon, one tiger and one Biao. The second son Bai Jinhu has joined the army a long time ago and is now a company commander of the first regiment and battalion. You should know the third son Bai Jinbiao. He is from the guard company.
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"The eldest son is here to continue the incense. As for why the younger daughter is acting like this, she may be trying to find a good way out!"
Zhou Weihan felt familiar when he heard this name. Bai Jinbiao was not from the guard company, but now he is a company commander of the new corps training new recruits.
"Detachment leader, most of these students are children of landlord families, will there be any problems?" Li Dafeng said worriedly.
"As long as they support our Eighth Route Army and the Anti-Japanese National United Front, what about the children of landlords? They are also contributing to the Anti-Japanese War. Why should they have opinions about others?"
"I'll take as much as you come. Based on the ideological work of our Eighth Route Army, even if Chiang Kai-shek's son came, he would turn his gun and hit his father!" Zhou Weihan said with a smile.
Li Daben always contacted all parties on weekdays. Zhou Weihan said this just to prevent Li Daben from having any mental burden.
Later, Zhou Weihan asked Li Da to find several battalion-level cadres from the garrison.
Not long after, the first battalion commander Magnet, the second battalion commander Zhang Zhiming, the third battalion commander Sun Chenghai and three instructors all arrived.
Zhou Weihan looked at the people in front of him, then smiled, and Roger, who was always beside him, said: "This is the political commissar of your garrison, come and get to know each other!"
Roger took the initiative to get to know everyone, and then the scene became cold.
Except for the second battalion commander Zhang Zhiming, the other two battalion commanders seemed not to welcome the new political commissar.
At the critical moment, it was Li Da who came out to smooth things over: "Oh, political commissar, I miss you so much. Our defense regiment needs a political commissar so much!"
The magnet's eyes were wide open, staring at Roger.
"Stone, what do you mean, are you looking at the little devil?" Zhou Weihan asked deliberately.
"Hey, no, I, I just want to see what the political commissar looks like!" The magnet immediately put on a smile.
"I know you love to get into trouble, and you have a lot of strength, but let me tell you in advance, if I make your political commissar angry in the future, otherwise I will deal with you!"
"Yes, yes, I can't, I can't!"
The magnet looks stupid, but in fact it is smart when it should be smart.
