Chapter 205 Delivering Food to the People's Army
Donghejia Village, Yong'an County, is just a small village with dozens of families.
Before last year, the people in Hejia Village lived a very poor life, and it was common for people to starve to death in the year of disaster. Many people even had to sell their children and daughters. Even in the year of good fortune, they would not be able to eat enough every day. Once someone in the family gets sick, it would be a huge disaster for the family.
In fact, the first residents of Hejia Village all had their own farmland, and many of them were built by villagers.
Unexpectedly, a landlord named Li appeared not far from Hejia Village. As a landlord, the Li family was very eager for land. By purchasing land at a low price in the year of disaster, they bought most of the farmland of the surrounding village residents. The common people who lost their land could only become the tenants of the Li family and make a living by renting the land of the Li family.
The Li family is very bad to tenants, and the rent is very high. Many times, there are servants of the Li family. Guards bully these tenants and forcibly robbing the women of the people are common.
However, ordinary people cannot resist and dare not rebel, so they can only bear it silently.
Finally, the People's Army appeared. The People's Army searched the Li family and publicly tried the landlords and the landlords' dog legs in front of the people of Hejia Village. After approval, the landlords and some dog legs were directly executed.
Seeing that the landlord and his dog's legs died, many ordinary people in Hejia Village were so excited that they shed tears.
The landlords and dog-legged men who oppressed the people of Hejia Village were all dead. The People's Army not only distributed land to them, but also wiped out all the bandits and bandits around them. From this day on, He Gui's family supported the People's Army wholeheartedly.
He Gui's family has four people, He Gui and his wife and two sons. In fact, He Gui and his wife gave birth to four children in total. Unfortunately, one son died of illness and one daughter was starved to death in the year of disaster.
The Li family was most resentful when his son and daughter died. It was the Li family's oppression that made He Gui's family live a hungry and full life, and even his son was sick and had no money to go to see a doctor.
Secondly, He Gui also resented the government that had been driven away by the People's Army. Some people once sued the officials because of the oppression of the Li family. Not only did the government not take charge of the affairs, but instead beat the person who sued the officials and beat them half to death. Then the Li family came to the door, and the family was destroyed. Since then, no one dared to sue the officials again.
It is another bumper season. He Gui was also happy when there were bumper harvests in previous years, but He Gui was even happier this year.
In previous years, the farmland that He Gui cultivated belonged to the Li family, and most of the harvested food had to be taken away by the Li family. The remaining grain could not support He Gui's family eating for a year. Now, these farmlands belong to him, and most of the harvest in the farmland belonged to He Gui's family. Harvesting so much grain can make He Gui's family eat for more than a year and a half.
Take all the food home, and the narrow houses are almost filled, but how could He Gui's family get angry about the food that is full of food? They wish that the more food the better.
Looking at the food in the room, He Gui was thinking about whether he should build an extra room. To harvest so much food, he would not need to be so busy next year and he had time to build a house. He Gui felt that many families in Hejia Village had plans to build a house.
He Gui's wife looked at the whole house and was thinking that the whole family would be able to eat enough food in the future and there would be excess food. Should she sell some food to make new clothes for her two children, buy some fish and meat to replenish the child's body. Both children were growing up.
The couple decided to sell part of the food while discussing, but they would not choose to sell the food shortly after the autumn harvest. At this time, there must be many people selling the food. Those merchants will definitely lower the price of food after the purchase of food. Wait until the price of food rises. By the middle of next year, the price of food will be at the highest level.
Although He Gui and his wife couldn't read one of them, they always understood some common sense of life after living for so many years.
However, He Gui and his wife probably don’t know that the People’s Military Government has issued a notice to set a minimum purchase price and a maximum sale price for various grains. If merchants violate the orders of the People’s Military Government, they will be punished.
If merchants are unwilling to abide by the orders of the People's Military Government and do not purchase grain, it doesn't matter to the People's Military Government. The People's Chamber of Commerce, which belongs to the People's Military Government, will also purchase grain. The people can not sell grain, and it is also a good thing to store a batch of grain at home to prevent accidents.
After He Gui and his wife finished selling food, He Gui thought of another thing: he wanted to send some food to the People's Army.
It is impossible for He Gui and his wife to understand how strong the Ming Dynasty was, but on weekdays, various news spread to Hejia Village, and He Gui and his wife also knew that the People's Army was fighting with the official army.
It was the People's Army who gave He Gui's family farmland, and it was the People's Army who drove away the government to investigate the landlords and bandits who bullied them. If there were no People's Army, how could He Gui's family have a good life today?
There are many young people in Hejia Village who join the army to support the People's Army in defeating the government army. He Gui's family, He Gui's family, he cannot join the People's Army with his own wife and children, and his two children are also too young to join the People's Army. It just so happened that he had harvested so much food this year that the whole family could not finish it. He could send some food to the People's Army and contribute his own strength to the People's Army's defeat of the government army.
He Gui's idea was approved by his wife, and He Gui said his idea in the village. Many people in the village agreed with He Gui's idea. Everyone harvested enough food this year. This is a good day they dreamed of, and everything was given by the People's Army.
The People's Army is still fighting with the government army. They want the People's Army to continue to win. They want to continue to live a good life. There are very few things they can do for the People's Army.
"Let's go, we will deliver food to the People's Army!"
After a long response, every household moved out some food, brought a truck to load the grain, and sent it to the People's Military Government in the county.
When Zheng Jun, the county magistrate of Yong'an County, learned that there were ordinary people coming to deliver food to the People's Army, he was very surprised. Will the Ming court officials encounter this situation before? Zheng Jun personally met with the people of Hejia Village who came to deliver food to the People's Army.
"Mr. County magistrate, we are here to deliver food to the People's Army. The People's Army must have a full meal when fighting." The village chief of Hejia Village said to Zheng Jun with a hunched over.
"Friends, our People's Army is disciplined and cannot take anything from the people."
It is the discipline of the People's Army not to take every needle and thread from the people. This discipline is the same whether it is officials or soldiers. Zheng Jun will definitely not know how to send the food sent by the people under his command.
"No, no, county magistrate, this food was not taken by the People's Army, but by the people who gave it to the People's Army. It's different, different." The village chief said hurriedly.
Zheng Jun argued with the people of Hejia Village, but in the end Zheng Jun accepted the grain and wrote on the record that the batch of grain would be sent to the troops where the military personnel in Hejia Village were located.
Zheng Jun did not expect that Hejia Village was only the first group of ordinary people to deliver food. Soon, more ordinary people came to the county town to deliver food to the People's Army.
Chapter completed!