The personnel of the Political Department and the General Staff Office who were conducting land reform in the western part of Ci County returned one after another, but the farm personnel remained in Ci County. The entire land reform ended in a rapid and relatively smooth process.
According to current statistics, the land reform involved 152 villages. One family was allocated land, accounting for about half of the total population and about 100,000 people. A large guerrilla area was consolidated into a base area.
The land reform in western Ci County was so effective not only because of the efforts of the independent detachment, but also because the Ci County area changed owners several times, wars broke out frequently, people were displaced, and many ownerless fields appeared.
At that time, Zhou Weihan and Zhao Gang were in charge of Ci County. They learned that in some areas, there were many households but few people. Some households even had only one person, while many households only had three or five people.
Zhou Weihan made a prompt decision and ordered the four regiments and the cavalry regiment to cooperate with various working groups to mobilize fellow villagers and merge several sparsely populated villages into one nearby village.
In order to ensure that the people in the newly merged villages could cultivate fields nearby, the method of field replacement was adopted as usual. Many landowners in Ci County were even forced to replace part of their fields.
Therefore, each household is given three acres of land per person according to its population, regardless of age, and all three acres of land are standard fields.
What is a standard field?
This was proposed by Ding Abacus. Based on the winter wheat yield in June this year, after using simple chemical fertilizers, the yield per mu reached more than 200 kilograms.
The fertility of the land is slightly poor, and the fields in some villages cannot meet the standard field requirements. The working group will allocate more fields to each household based on the actual situation.
The annual ration for each person on a three-acre standard field is more than 600 kilograms. This is still fine grain. After switching to coarse grain, it will only be more.
On the Yama Mountain.
Zhou Weihan and others were discussing the land reform work report submitted by the working group, and Ding Abacus also attended the meeting.
"Tell me about Abacus first!" Zhou Weihan said.
"Detachment leader, this land reform involved a total of more than 400,000 acres of farmland. Among them, 120,000 acres of land were seized from the homes of 35 local tyrants and evil gentry on the list. Subsequently, 62 large and small landowners were inspected, and more than 90,000 acres of land were seized.
, which accounts for 210,000 acres, and the remaining 190,000 acres are mostly ownerless fields."
"During the land reform, a total of 240,000 acres of land were allocated to the remaining people, but there are still 160,000 acres of land that is uncultivated. What a good land, but it will be abandoned over time. What a pity!" Ding Dabacus lamented.
said.
"Alas, we used to divide the fields so that the villagers could eat enough according to their rations. I didn't expect that there would be so much land left, but there would be more people and less land!" Zhao Gang said.
"The land must not be left alone. I want to solve this matter. How many people in various places do not have their own land now, and there are not a few who are displaced. For example, northern and eastern Henan in the south have a large population.
The province should send people to other places to gather a group of people. As long as the people from Ci County can be in place before sowing winter wheat, the problem will be solved!" Li Yunshan suggested.
"Let's do it this way. It's easier to handle more fields than less. After the meeting, let the Fourth Regiment send people to Lin County and Pingshun to gather the population. At the same time, let the enemy engineering department use the convenience of the cargo warehouse to move the people from other places to
Ci County, I will personally tell you about this!" Zhou Weihan said.
"There is another problem. Although most of the villagers in Ci County have been allocated land, due to the war, although many fields are planted with corn and other crops, due to improper management, the output in October this year will definitely drop. Some villagers'
The rations may not last until the winter wheat harvest!" Ding Da Baan Hui reported.
In this era, every household had the habit of storing grain. Nearly 40 million kilograms of grain were confiscated in Ci County. However, Zhou Weihan ordered that the seized money, grain, livestock, and various utensils be sealed on the spot and not distributed.
The reason why Zhou Weihan did this was because he was afraid of causing chaos.
"Now that the situation is clear and social order has stabilized, the previous seizures can be distributed to the people in batches!"
"Abacus, you have to go back to Ci County and bring your farm personnel to help the four groups distribute the seized items. First of all, all kinds of utensils and livestock must be measured correctly!"
"As the old saying goes, you don't worry about scarcity but about inequality. The things I ordered to seize before were sealed, and the common people were watching them. From cattle to cattle, to pots and pans, tables, chairs, and benches, they must be divided.
OK!" Zhou Weihan ordered.
Ding Abacus was worried when he heard this, and said: "It's easy to talk about pots and pans, but how do you divide livestock like cattle? It's impossible for every household to divide one, and there aren't that many!"
Zhou Weihan nodded and said: "You are right, it is a problem!"
Zhou Weihan thought for a while and finally said: "Animals such as cattle, mules and horses can be divided into two or three in a village and owned by the collective for everyone to share!"
"This method is good. In fact, how many villagers have cattle at home? Farming all depends on manpower. This kind of distribution will also stop the mouths of the villagers!" Zhao Gang nodded and said.
"I think that after you return to Ci County, you can take this opportunity to select suitable personnel in each village to form a militia team. With the help of the militiamen's familiarity with the conditions of every household in the local village, your work will be much easier to carry out!" Zhao Gang added
suggested.
One person counts as short, three counts as long.
Everyone present, you and I spoke to each other to correct the loopholes in the work plan.
"Another point is that some of the villagers who have been allocated fields must have enough surplus grain in their families. In this case, the captured grain must be given priority to the villagers who have no surplus grain for the winter. Those who have surplus grain can be given two chickens and divided into two.
One sheep can even be ignored!"
"The specific situation is still up to you to decide," Zhou Weihan said.
"Detachment leader, I'm afraid I can't do this well!" Ding Abacus said worriedly.
Everyone present laughed.
"What are you afraid of? We have our support. Go quickly and convey the contents of the meeting to the Fourth Regiment. The detachment will also send a special official document to notify the Fourth Regiment!" Zhou Weihan waved his hand.
Ding Abacus was driven away by Zhou Weihan with a few words. Li Yunshan on the side suddenly said: "This work is not easy to carry out. Comrade Abacus has suffered a lot!"
Zhou Weihan shook his head after hearing this. Could he not know that this job is not easy to do?
The independent detachment could strike hard against the local tyrants and evil gentry, but when distributing supplies, Zhou Weihan could be sure that there would definitely be uncooperative villagers.
When it comes to issues of self-interest, do you really think that all ordinary people will be reasonable and work cooperatively?
There will be troublemakers in later generations, and the war years are also inevitable.
You can attack fellow villagers casually, but once you attack fellow villagers, sometimes the nature of the attack changes.
Of course, Zhou Weihan will never tolerate people who deliberately cause trouble. Once someone with ulterior motives secretly instigates, he will not be lenient.
