Chapter 3: Charging Northwest (3)
Since the establishment of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army at the end of May, Feng Yuxiang and others have organized troops to conduct pre-war training in Chahar. Although Song Zheyuan, who was the chairman of Chahar at the time, was dissatisfied with the series of activities held by Feng Yuxiang in Chahar, he was unwilling to fight with his old boss. In order to avoid being embarrassed between Feng Yuxiang and the authorities, Song Zheyuan simply claimed to be ill and went to the West Mountain to recuperate after the Great Wall.
However, after the Tanggu Agreement was signed, the situation in Pingjin area had begun to stabilize, and the authorities could free up hands to solve the problem of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. Up to now, the clues that Feng Yuxiang's troops received Soviet aid have been seen by the authorities, and the CCP forces in the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces were also mastered by Nanjing and Peking. In addition to the reasons why many people knew Xuan Xiafu, this was also related to Feng Yuxiang and others' propaganda to allow hundreds of CCP members to master the Allied Forces in order to inspire people. In order to realize the party's intention of "rotating" the Allied Forces, the Shanghai Central Committee has also promoted the news that a large number of Soviet aid is coming in the army.
On June 17, the Nanjing Government Executive Yuan Executive Yuan was officially established and the first plenary committee was held. The main content of this meeting was to solve Feng Yuxiang's anti-Japanese alliance problem. On the same day, Moscow's Issue News published a statement denied that the Soviet Union had aided Feng Yuxiang. However, this statement from the Soviet Union clearly made people feel a sense of "no silver here".
Perhaps Feng Yuxiang learned from some channels that Peking had to start solving the Chahar issue, or perhaps he knew that the Allied Army had been in Chahar for nearly a month and had already made all walks of life doubt their intentions. Anyway, on June 20, Feng Yuxiang and the Allied Generals Fang Zhenwu, Sun Liangcheng, Tong Linge, Ji Hongchang and others issued a telegram to raise an army, claiming that "reorganize the Yiqi, recover lost territory, and attack inside and outside, it is not a fear."
Zhao Zhenzhong already knew the outcome of Feng Yuxiang and others' anti-Japanese allied forces.
Shortly after the signing of the Tanggu Agreement, the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces' actions at this time will inevitably be jointly opposed by the Nanjing authorities and the Japanese army. This major premise destined to have extremely limited external living space.
The internal components of the Allied Army were complex and the various units were different, which destined that this team could not last long. Feng Yuxiang brought the CCP forces in to use this to Lai the Soviet Union's tiger skin as a banner; and the CCP borrowed Feng Yuxiang's signature, and also held the purpose of "borrowing chickens to lay eggs" to operate and develop its own land in the Allied Army. In fact, the CPC Front Committee of Chahar had received a clear instruction from the Shanghai Provisional Central Committee and the Hebei Provincial Committee to "develop the Chahar Anti-Japanese Allied Army under the influence of the CCP into a Red Army, and bring it to Hebei, and to establish a new base at the border between Shanxi Provinces and implement a land revolution.
There were oppositions from the authorities and the Japanese army outside, and internally they each made their own plans. It would be strange if the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces could go far.
Zhao Zhenzhong was concerned about the anti-Japanese Allied Army. In addition to being wary of Feng's re-jailing carriage and threatening material transportation, he was also worried that due to the actions of the Allied Army, hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in the Ping, Tianjin, Hebei, Cha, Jin and Sui areas after the truce were attracted to the Chahar and the Pingsui Line. If it develops to that extent, Chiang Kai-shek would have the idea of using a large army to encircle and suppress the "people bandits" in the northwest, the pressure on the base would be too great.
However, judging from the current situation, the banner of "anti-Japanese" that Feng Yuxiang had at least made Chiang Kai-shek worried and would not use troops to Chahar or the Northwest Base. Zhao Zhenzhong turned his attention to the construction of the Northwest Base.
It has been more than two years since the Northwest Base Area was opened. The early openings of Gansu, Ningxia and other places have been stabilized, and the western part of the Hexi Corridor and Qinghai and other places that have opened later are also stepping up various constructions. Although the entire Northwest Base Area is not earth-shaking, its changes are changing with each passing day.
In terms of agriculture, in addition to liquidating landlords, bullies, local tyrants and gentry who are in blood debt, and allocating land according to population and actual conditions, the entire base area also carried out farmland water conservancy construction in the past two years, laying a solid foundation for the high grain yield and bumper harvest in the base area. Among them, the most significant effect of water conservancy construction is Ningxia where Zhang Mingrui's first lunar calendar is located.
Although Helan Mountain is used as a barrier, Ningxia is located in the northwest, and the climate is also dry. The agricultural water is entirely irrigated by the channels to irrigate the Yellow River. There were 10 main canals in the Ningxia Plain, but due to years of war and disrepair, the outside of the canal bed was high and silted, the canal shore was incomplete, and the water volume was lost, which was unbearable. After the People's Army occupied Ningxia, in order to change this situation, Zhang Mingrui organized military and civilians to repair these 10 main canals in autumn and winter. By the 1932 spring plowing, not only did the original 10 main canals be put into normal use, but a new main canal of 120 kilometers was built.
After being allocated to the land, the People's Army reduced the land tax for two years. The people of Ningxia, who tasted the sweetness of water conservancy construction the year before, burst into great enthusiasm for construction when the water conservancy construction was developed in the autumn and winter of 1932. After about half a year of labor, by the spring plowing of 1933, not only did the 11 main canals that had been put into use have been further deepened and reinforced, but also unblocked. 8 new middle canals, more than 1,200 branch canals, and more than 3,000 sub-canals were built, with a total length of nearly 1,500 kilometers and can irrigate more than 1.8 million mu of farmland.
More than 1.8 million mu of fields with good irrigation, and the People's Army has vigorously promoted intercropping of winter wheat, corn, and soybeans. After a bumper harvest, it can ensure that more than 3 million people have no worries about food. In other words, the grain produced in the Ningxia Plain alone can meet the needs of more than half of the population in the northwest base area.
Of course, for Zhang Mingrui, the current action of the first lunar calendar is still far from Zhao Zhenzhong's requirement of "building the Ningxia Plain into a large granary that can solve the problem of eating tens of millions of people." In the future, the first lunar calendar and governments at all levels will continue to work hard.
The restoration, new canals, and farmland water conservancy construction results are gratifying. Longdong, Longzhong, Longxi and other places are limited to their own conditions. Although they cannot be compared with Ningxia, the construction results are also quite large. The Jinghe River, Weihe River, Taohe River and its tributaries, Liu Jifeng, Xu Chaoyuan and others have also built sufficient water conservancy facilities in the past two years, so that people in the Gansu and Longjiang area no longer have to worry about eating.
In fact, after the bumper summer grain harvest in June 2013, not only did the People's Army obtain enough food to support the 500,000 army in one year through the cultivated farmland, but every family in the base area had the surplus food that could be provided for at least one year.
Having food in your hands is not panic. The solution to the food problem not only solves the food problem of millions of people in the base area, but also makes people feel at ease. In addition, the implementation of policies such as promoting education, building roads, and helping widows, widows, orphans and other policies, the People's Army and governments at all levels have further won the support of the people.
In addition to the construction of water conservancy and the development of agricultural production, the People's Military Government also organized military and civilians and labor camps to build several major roads in the base area in two years. By expanding the original roads and building new roads, the entire base area is organically connected from both sides of the Yellow River in Ningxia to Longdong, Longzhong, Longnan, and Hexi Corridors. The completion of these roads not only facilitates people's travel and transportation of materials, but also further improves the defense system of the base area.
After this spring plowing this year, Northwest Bank's move to fully exchange military tickets of nearly 8 million yuan in Gansu, Ning and Qinghai through various rural credit cooperatives, which completely won the hearts of the people of the three provinces.
After taking over Longdong and Ningxia, the People's Army faced the problem of Feng Yuxiang sending military tickets in the northwest. By the end of 2011, after registration and statistics, there were nearly 8 million military tickets of various types in Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and other places controlled by the People's Army.
At the end of 31, all kinds of military tickets with a total amount of about 8 million were collected and deposited by various rural credit cooperatives established by the People's Military Government and distributed to people in various places to collect and collect, and inform them that they would be fully exchanged in two years.
To be honest, at that time, the People's Army implemented the policy of first deposit and then exchange, and the people of the three provinces could not believe in these young people of about 20 in their hearts. But these people had guns in their hands, defeated all the officials and landlords who had been powerful for many years, and distributed land to their families. They promised not to collect land taxes for two years, and could also borrow money from the credit union. In other words, they would not lose money if they did not exchange them for their own family. The people also paid the general's ticket with different psychology, in exchange for a cardboard book called a passbook.
Although they had the passbook in their hands, few people believed that they would really exchange it. However, after the spring plowing this year, Northwest Bank publicly announced to the public through governments and credit cooperatives at all levels that they could go to the credit cooperative to exchange cash in full. The people of the three provinces really got an unexpected surprise.
You should know that the People's Army and governments at all levels have adhered to their commitments and have not collected a penny of land tax from the people in the two years since the base was established. However, after spring plowing, they fulfilled their promises to the people of the three provinces in advance, so there is no problem of collecting land tax from the people and then cashing out. This not only shows that the People's Army and the government are reliable, but also shows that the People's Military Government's financial resources are solid and strong.
Originally, Zhao Zhenzhong planned to establish Northwest Bank before the end of 31 years, but firstly, overseas personnel would not return to China in the second half of 32 years. Secondly, the base area was not stable yet, and there was no large-scale construction, and it would not be very useful to establish a bank. Therefore, before the end of 31 years, only some rural credit cooperatives were established in the Northwest Base area. Northwest Bank was established by the end of 32 years. With overseas provisions and sufficient hard currency Zhao Zhenzhong got from the Northeast, it was no problem for Northwest Bank to fulfill its promise in advance.
For some people in Gan, Ning and Qing provinces who understand the truth, the People's Army fulfilled their promises in advance, which is enough to prove the strength of the People's Army. While frightened, these people also began to seriously think about the relationship with the People's Army in the future. Among them, Ma Hongbin and others who were under house arrest felt even more powerless after hearing the relevant news and were confused about their future future. Wu Peifu, who ran from Wudu to Lanzhou, sighed after hearing the actions of the People's Army, said: "Young people are terrifying!"
Except for some of the officials of Gan and Ning provinces who were captured by Ma Hongbin, some of whom had committed evil intentions and were cleaned up in blood debts, the others were still detained or under house arrest. According to Zhao Zhenzhong's intention, they would have to wait for another one or two years to wait until the northwest base was completely stabilized before they could stay or stay.
However, Wu Peifu was forced to go to Lanzhou by Hu Zongnan. In the spring of this year, after Hu Zongnan's troops entered Nanzheng, he sent someone to send a letter to Wu Peifu, who was in Wudu, and asked him to enter Beijing as soon as possible. When Wu Peifu left Sichuan, he said that he would change his way to Beijing or go north to Beiping. Now Hu Zongnan adhered to the will of Chiang Kai-shek and was afraid that he would disturb the matter in the northwest, so he urged him to set off. But Zhang Xueliang had already stepped down at that time, and it was boring to go to Peking, but when he arrived in Nanjing, he had to see Lao Jiang and others' expressions. In desperation, Wu Peifu simply brought his people to Lanzhou. At least, the People's Army did not object to his residence here...
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