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Chapter 266 Grain Embargo

After the war in North China, the militia corps finally had a truly strong military territory. The commercial network that was previously concentrated in the countryside began to enter major counties in North China in an orderly manner to expand operations. Those ordinary people who could only shop in the countryside finally regained the feeling of visiting county towns in the past.

Compared with the post-war reconstruction of the other four provinces, although North China was the last province to be liberated, it was the first province among the five provinces to be restored. This has a direct relationship with the Militia Corps starting from North China. Compared with the relocation of shops and factories in the other four provinces, the journey is not only long, but also time-consuming and labor-intensive. However, compared with the factories run by these individuals and the shops run by them, the speed of relocation from the countryside to the nearby county town is undoubtedly much faster.

Originally, during the Japanese rule, fewer people in the city were in the city, with the militia corps entering, these people in the city who temporarily lived in the countryside also returned to the county town to live one after another. If valid documents could be provided to prove their residence in the county town, the county magistrate of the city would still return these houses to the people in this mechanical city for free.

But for those who have documents but have been destroyed by war or Japanese devils, the militia corps can only provide certain financial subsidies for such people, or they will obtain houses from traitors and Japanese devils to compensate the people in the original city to live. In short, after the liberation of North China, the economic and livelihood of the county towns in North China were restored faster than many people imagined.

While busy with the post-war reconstruction of North China, Deng successfully issued an order that made many forces relying on the militia corps to purchase grain very puzzled. Because, the people in the area controlled by the militia corps, who ushered in a bumper harvest year, all received a notice issued by the headquarters. There was only one meaning. That is, this year's autumn grain, the militia corps strictly prohibited any private operation. Therefore, the extra grain from the people must be recycled in the militia corps as emergency reserve grain.

This put the grain vendors who had originally wandered around North China to buy grain almost in a situation where there was no grain to harvest. So much so that all forces around North China were quickly caught off guard by this measure and called the militia brigade, hoping to lift the food ban. Otherwise, they would consume a lot of money in these surrounding provinces.

For example, the Kuomintang and the Jin army thought that the militia brigade restricted grain to raise prices, and said that they could offer a higher price than the market price to purchase the grain collected by the militia brigade. However, in the face of the requests made by these two parties, Deng Chenggong refused. The telegrams returned to them also surprised them. Because Deng Chenggong clearly stated in the telegram that as long as the grain used for their army's supply, the militia brigade could sell them according to the market price.

But some people in their troops used this name to collect grain for violence, and gave the most complete rejection. His request for these two forces was very simple, hoping that they could provide the amount of military rations they needed so that in addition to military rations, the subordinates of the generals and subordinates who were in charge could not afford to sell grains to the common people at high prices in the name of purchasing military rations.

This kind of practice of cutting off people and wealth naturally attracted many military generals who were operating private transactions around the country, but Chairman Jiang of the Kuomintang and Yan Laoxi did not oppose this practice. What surprised them was that compared to their statistics on the number of their troops, it seemed that the data of the militia corps shocked them even more.

As long as the military ration data they provided did not meet the actual situation investigated by the Militia Corps, the grain procurement plan they obtained would be suspended. A telegram that falsely reported the number of troops was enough to make the two commanders begin to reflect on the intelligence investigation ability of the Militia Corps, which is indeed worthy of their shock.

Moreover, the concealment of his subordinates made the two commanders even more angry. As a result, a small storm in the grain procurement case also caused countless generals fighting behind enemy lines to be removed from office and investigated. For a time, these dismissed military generals became only hateful but not love for the neighbor of the Militia Corps. Unfortunately, they had been removed from office. Faced with the Militia Corps, the strongest militia in China, they could only bear the anger and could not take revenge.

In fact, this decision to not allow private sale of grain also caused a lot of losses to the militia corps, which were originally a major source of wealth for the sale of grain. Fortunately, they had a high reputation among the people in the base area, and the purchase price implemented was not lower than that of grain vendors. So much so that those grain vendors raised the price but still could not buy grain in the base area. All of them were uniformly received by the logistics department of the militia corps in the newly built grain warehouse to be stored.

Xu Mingyuan, the logistics minister, undoubtedly couldn't understand this kind of method of collecting grain but not selling it, but when he asked Deng Chenggong, he got emergency reserves. As for why a temporary emergency grain was added on the basis of good combat preparations, Deng Chenggong only said that it would be of great use in the future, but he refused to reveal a little bit to Xu Mingyuan, the depressed logistics minister, know.

In fact, the reason for this is very simple. Deng Chenggong, who had traveled through time, once saw a movie. The scene of Yi Zi and eating corpses everywhere appeared in the movie, which made Deng Chenggong, who had watched this movie, remember the movie named after this era.

In 1942, this movie, titled Year, tells the tragic scene of the famine in the Nanhe River in Lin Province, North China. Although there is still some time before this happens, Deng Chenggong is very clear that once he ruled the granary that could be said to be responsible for the surrounding provinces, even if he is willing to save these fleeing people in the future, the grain alone will be enough to drag down their finances.

Moreover, if he ruled the grain sold at a low price in the future, if he wanted to buy it from those grain vendors or warlords in the future, he would probably have to spend a high price. He would have to owe favors to buy food at a high price in the future. It would be better to cut off the possibility of such a thing now. At least, he would not build a few more emergency granaries, which would be better than making a fortune from refugees after being taken away by the warlords. At least Deng Chenggong believed that it would be better to keep these grains in his hands than to keep them in the hands of those warlords.

Even in order to prevent the last time of untimely rescue, Deng Chenggong specially contacted the People's Party Army stationed in Nanhe and generals of the National Party. Once there are disaster victims in Nanhe in the future, he hopes that they can use military rations to help these people arrive in North China. At that time, the food consumed by these troops can be collected from the militia troops. Of course, this can also be regarded as a favor for the militia corps.

For these surrounding armies, everyone knows that the Militia Corps is a generous person, and they are generous to those who have helped them. As long as they help satisfy the Militia Corps, the rewards they get will definitely exceed their expectations. Although they don’t know why Deng Chenggong made such a request, they all know that the militia Corps’ controlled area has been engaged in immigration.

However, the Chinese people have the intention of not being able to leave their hometowns. Unless they cannot survive, many people will still refuse to stay away from their homes. Therefore, with Deng Chenggong's reminder, the forces that leaped in the Nanhe River can be considered as having a clear mind. The military generals responsible for the local anti-Japanese war behind enemy lines also specifically told their subordinates to pay attention to observing this aspect.

But there is still some time before next year, and these people don’t take this kind of thing too seriously. Although they all know that the precipitation in Nanhe this year seems to be much lower than in previous years. However, the people who are used to relying on the weather can only lament that God will not give him a way out and have not thought that this disaster will last until next year. As a result, the crops of the people in Nanhe almost fell into a tragic situation of no harvest.

After completing the reserves of the emergency grain warehouse, Deng Chenggong's focus also shifted to the development of military industry. He always felt that he had no time to accompany his three wives, and when he confirmed that there should be no war before the end of the year, he finally took the three women to inspect the two heavy industrial bases in the Jinsui Military Region. Because the first batch of dragon-type combat vehicles that were produced in a fixed manner had been completed and were about to be delivered to the armored regiment that was ready to accept the first dragon-type tank.

As the first dragon-style chariot to be independently researched and produced, the commander-in-chief Deng Chenggong, will inevitably attend the handover ceremony. In addition, this time he had a bit of a review, and the commanders of several other military sub-districts would come to attend the ceremony. No one said he was traveling around with his three wives.

In addition to the dragon chariot being finalized and mass-produced, the first Eagle fighter produced by the aircraft manufacturer directly under the Militia Corps has also been tested and is about to be finalized. In addition, the Goshawk bomber developed at the same time, these two aircraft, which were examples of the first batch of aircraft of the Militia Air Force, are also waiting for inspection by him, the commander-in-chief.

Several commanders who have also been busy also took advantage of this kind of happy event of the militia corps to relax for two days, which is also worthy of advocacy. Even Xu Mingyuan, who usually doesn't leave the base very much, was taken by Deng Chenggong this time. In addition to Xu Mingyuan's wife and his three wives, the second and fourth and sixth men, under the protection of a squadron Feiying led by Wu Zhongyuan, took a special armored train and drove directly to Suiyuan, which saved the happiness of driving or riding a horse in the past.

Of course, in order to avoid emergency information and no one dealt with it, the two of them naturally had to accompany the capable personnel in the confidential room. In addition, the head of state train was equipped with telegram reception equipment. Deng Chenggong and Xu Mingyuan could sit on the train and enjoy the scenery outside the door while sitting on the train, without worrying about delaying the work at hand. This rare leisure time undoubtedly allowed the four Yan Dasi Jinhua, who had traveled with their husbands for the first time, to be the wife of a senior military general for the first time.

Seeing the four women gathered together and smiling, Deng Chenggong still felt very accomplished when he made this decision. As the commander-in-chief of the militia, he could be considered competent for the people and the militia of this army. But only this husband felt ashamed of these three wives who knew each other.

So after discussing with Xu Mingyuan, he made the decision to travel for the first time since their founding of the army. In response, Xu Mingyuan returned home and announced the news, and he rarely enjoyed all-round intimate care from his wife. You should know that although his wife had no objection to being the political director and logistics minister, he enjoyed this intimate care very few times.
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