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Because the guards attacked reactionary forces such as landlords, bullies, local tyrants and evil gentry this winter and this spring, less than 400 people participated in the operation, and they were scattered into various teams to operate in Yishui, Linqu, Laiwu and other places, several county governors appointed by Zhang Zongchang and the responsible personnel of the Jinan authorities formed a misunderstanding about this.

Because of the escorts blocking the relevant operation information and the heavy snow in winter, the governors of several counties only received the general activities of the escorts after the beginning of spring. After learning about the relevant situation, with the crying of some landlords and squires in distress, the governors of each county also wanted to send troops to clear out the escorts that had emerged shortly. It can be seen that the number of people was small and often moved in various villages, which was really difficult to remove.

After reporting the situation of the relevant escorts to Jinan, the relevant responsible personnel of the Jinan authorities were having headaches for the riots in Linyi, Wenshang and Ningyang. When they saw several county governors reported vague reports about the "escorts" and thought it was just a small group of new bandits with 100 people running around in the Yimeng Mountains. There have been many bandits of all sizes in the Yimeng Mountains since ancient times. There were more 100 people from the "escorts" to come. There was no need to make a fuss about it. It was just to ask all counties to take strict precautions.

After receiving the instructions from Jinan to "strictly prevent" from coming back, the governors of several counties also gave up the idea of ​​sending troops to clear out. Originally, each county had only one guard with less than 300 troops, but now the red guns in the south and west were so fierce. It was a barely enough for the few people in his hands to defend the county town. It was impossible for all county masters to put the old nests of the county town but sent troops to the countryside to vent their anger for the suffering landlords? As for those landlords and gentry who had been filial to many suffering landlords in previous years, just comfort them.

In this way, when the area around the Yimeng Mountains was in chaos, Zhao Zhenzhong and others made great efforts to rectify all matters in the controlled area and spent an extremely critical period of stable development of more than half a year.

During the Qingming Festival, Zhao Zhenzhong and others held a grand ashes placement ceremony for the sacrificed soldiers in the cemetery opened in the mountains near the Donglidian Training Camp.

At the end of the ceremony, Zhao Zhenzhong faced the students of the third study class who attended the funeral and Du Yishan, Liu Jifeng, Jiang Yishan and others who came from nearby garrison companies, saying: "These soldiers who died were all brave and brave! Although these seven martyrs left us with regret, they failed to see us help more people in the future, develop and strengthen the team, break the reactionary and corrupt old order, and build a beautiful new world, but all of us who are alive must work hard to fulfill the unsuccessful wishes of the martyrs. This is what we must do and we must do it!"

"The martyrs will be immortal!"

All the people attending the funeral, listening to Zhao Zhenzhong's words in that solemn and sad atmosphere, were baptized in their hearts and strengthened their future direction.

Just after the Qingming Festival, the reconnaissance communication team led by Yang Tianming sent back from western Shandong that Zhang Zongchang's troops launched a massacre killing against the Red Gun Club. After receiving the news, Zhao Zhenzhong and others strengthened the prevention of surrounding areas while increasing the efforts to carry out various work in the area.

Originally, based on the map, Zhao Zhenzhong roughly calculated that the area of ​​the entire activity area was approximately more than 2,000 square kilometers, but the actual area was much higher than this estimated number. This area not only covers almost all areas of Yiyuan County in later generations, but also includes the Jiushan area in the south of Linqu County, the Shagou area in the north of Yishui County, and the Xinzhuang area in Laiwu. The overall area is about 2,400 square kilometers.

Among the more than 1,200 villages that have been initially identified in the area, activities such as eliminating landlords, bullies, local tyrants and evil gentry, and allocating land for poor people. Those poor people who have divided the land are grateful from the bottom of their hearts and support the guards.

When the news came from outside the mountain after spring that Zhang Zongchang faced Yi in the south, and the people in Ningyang were killed in the west due to resisting Zhang Zongchang's tyranny, although the people were worried, after seeing the strict discipline, neatly equipped guards, the people gradually became at ease. Their idea was relatively simple. Since the guards could eliminate bandits and landlord bullies, they were indeed a team to protect the people's own interests, there should be no need to worry about the bastards outside who were eating and not doing human affairs.

After the Spring Festival, facing the drought that swept nearly half of Shandong Province, the people in the controlled area, with the help of various drought-resistant and self-rescue activities carried out by the guards, not only did not leave their hometowns and flee, but instead looked forward to the harvest of summer grain in the near future. The people in the area became more grateful to the guards.

In the spring of 1926, more than 40 counties in Shandong Province suffered severe drought, accounting for nearly half of the 107 counties in Shandong. At that time, the Shenbao published news that "Jinan, Tai'an, Wuding, Dongchang, Linqing, Dezhou and other counties belonged to more than 40 counties. Since the lunar calendar, there has been no drop of rain, the second wheat has drought and withered, the autumn crops have not been planted, the food prices have soared, and people have a difficult life."

Faced with severe drought, Zhang Zongchang and other Shandong authorities did not take any drought relief measures, but instead announced a "ban on slaughter" to pray for rain. Zhang Zongchang himself personally led the military and political chief to hike to the Dragon God Temple in Jinan City every day to pray for rain. But after Zhang Zongchang and others burned incense and worshiped the gods for nearly a month, the rain still did not fall. Zhang Zongchang was furious and used the excuse of the Dragon King of the Dragon God Temple as a way to lock the statue with an iron lock, and publicly declared that it would not rain or release it.

Unlike Zhang Zongchang's desperate pursuit of his own gods, Shandong Province Acting Governor Lin Xianzu heard that the gods in Handan were effective, so he sent personnel to Handan to welcome the iron plate of the gods to Jinan to pray for rain. He hoped that the original monk would be able to recite scriptures, and the gods from Handan would have spirits.

But God seemed unwilling to give Zhang Zongchang, Lin Xianzu and others face, and let them scramble in Jinan City, until late June, the sun was still in the sky. Nine out of ten wells in the commercial port of Jinan were scooped from the bottom of the well, and the price was as high as ten copper coins. To the west of Qingzhou and north of Tai'an, the land was cracked, the seedlings were scorched, and the fields were without green grass. People in the disaster area were forced to leave their hometowns to flee.

Unlike the miserable situation where people in the surrounding areas left their hometowns to flee famine due to drought, although the people in the area controlled by Zhao Zhenzhong and others were also suffering from drought, they could still take measures to resist drought and save themselves. Although summer grain cannot guarantee a bumper harvest, it can ensure that people's food is basically no problem.

In the last winter and this spring, a series of ponds, ditches, small reservoirs and other water conservancy facilities built by the Guards organized forces played a huge role that the people had in the past in the drought resistance this spring. Not only did it benefit many poor people who had divided the land, but even some of the small landlords, rich peasants and other people who were retained also benefited a lot. In addition, the Guards did not distinguish between each other and sent manpower to help widowed, widowed, orphans and families who lacked labor to carry out drought resistance and self-rescue activities, making the people in the area more happy with the Guards.

Although the reduction in summer grain yield due to drought has become a foregone conclusion, the people's eyes are still full of hope. With the advocacy of the guards, new farming methods, as well as good varieties introduced from the United States, and water conservancy irrigation and other measures, although the output of summer grain that is about to be harvested is reduced, the output is not much lower than in previous years, and at least it can allow people to obtain food that can barely survive. The people are thinking: With these harvests at present, if some crops are replanted after the rainy season and there is still some harvest in autumn, then this year will be passed, and at least it can ensure that the family and young people will not have to leave their hometowns to escape famine.

In response to the severe drought, the guards also announced that they would exempt all taxes and taxes from the people in the region within two years and promised not to pay any fees to the people. This move completely made the affected people happy.

In addition to building water conservancy, helping people farm, and exempting people from renting and taxes for two years, the Guards also organized forces to carry out activities such as repairing traffic in the area, cleaning up environmental sanitation.

By renovating road traffic, not only can the rubber wheel trucks be smoothly passed at important locations in the area, it facilitates people's exchanges and material transportation, but also improves the efficiency of the escort force mobilization, strengthens control within the area and defense outside the area.

Cleaning up environmental sanitation not only changes the original situation of garbage and sewage, but also makes the village and its surroundings clean and fresh, but also effectively reduces the probability of some diseases.

Faced with all these changes, some old farmers often smiled happily on their faces, wrinkles like knives. When chatting in the fields and under the trees in front of the house, they sincerely sighed at everything they only saw in their lives and praised the actions of the guards.

Compared with the killings suffered by the people in Linyi, Wenshang, and Ningyang in the south, as well as the drought that swept half of Shandong, and the suffering of people leaving their hometowns to flee famine in nearby areas, the area controlled by the Guards is simply a paradise. Some elderly people have repeatedly warned the young people at home to learn more from the Guards. Parents with young children at home also taught their children to learn from the Guards' elder brothers and become guards when they grow up.

In this way, under the implementation of a series of actions and measures of the Guards, and the comparison of living examples outside the mountains, and the intentional or unintentional indoctrination of various companies and working groups, in addition to the very few suppressed landlords and bullies, and the surviving families of local tyrants and evil gentry also had resentment towards the Guards, the people in the entire area gradually became united. The people were numb to life in the past, and their despaired eyes disappeared, and their eyes gradually became radiant, and they were full of yearning for a new life, and began to be filled with vitality and hope.

The activity area has not only initially become a control area, but has also been further consolidated. The guards have truly gained a foothold in the central Lu area in Yishan and Lushan.
Chapter completed!