At the end of October of the third year of Chongzhen, the population of Hongmen soared by more than 20,000 again, and after experiencing the previous food shortage, since last year, all the land belonging to Hongmen has been converted to grain, and the planting of soybeans, cotton, sugarcane and other cash crops has been temporarily stopped.

At the same time, Hongmen also mobilized neighborhood committees to mobilize the people in all parts of Hongmen to grow grain, and let the people of Hongmen use it for their own use by raising the purchase price of grain and restricting the purchase price of cash crops.

Chen Yumo and their own screenwriters wrote about the miserable lives of the poor people under natural and man-made disasters, so that the people in a happy environment in Hongmen recalled the time when they were displaced, and they all wanted to reach out to help these miserable people recruited by Hongmen.

Originally, the recruited displaced people, because they were in an unfamiliar environment, people's hearts would become sensitive and unstable, and various contradictions and disputes would inevitably arise with the people from all over Hongmen.

Stealing chickens and dogs, defecating in the open and other problems occur from time to time among the newly recruited displaced people, and although the Hongmen Public Security Bureau and the Defense Force have deployed additional personnel to strengthen control, they still cannot prevent this from happening.

The people of Hongmen once had fierce friction with those newcomers for this reason, and even almost used force, and were finally suppressed by the defense forces, but then the old and new gangs also became enemies, each on guard.

Li Tianyang discovered this problem and dispatched people from the neighborhood committee to do the dredging work, but the effect was little; Li Tianyang and the others also issued various regulations to make up for the losses of the local residents in various aspects, and at the same time taught the newcomers the rules of Hongmen.

But these things can only cure the symptoms, not the root cause, at least until these new people have a sense of belonging to Hongmen and regard the place where they live as their true home, which is a difficult thing.

It wasn't until Chen Yumo's drama club rehearsed a play called "Heavenly Death" in silence, and performed it all over Hongmen, not only for the local people, but also for the newly recruited homeless people.

The plot of "Heavenly Death" is actually based on the real experience of the displaced people, and the screenwriter who wrote this script was a graduate of Bengang School who was arranged by Li Tianyang to go to the north the year before last, and he witnessed the hellish situation on earth, wrote it down and processed it to a certain extent, and then there was this "Heavenly Death".

Scenes such as starvation and death, easy children and food, human hearts and beasts, etc., can all be found in this play, which aroused the newcomers to hide deep in their minds, and they have always wanted to hook up their forgotten memories, and many people lost their temper on the spot and cried!

The local people in Hongmen are actually very touched, and most of the people who can be recruited by Hongmen can't live in their hometowns, otherwise they won't leave their hometowns and come to the legendary poor mountains and bad waters.

When I saw the human tragedy, staged tragically under the carefully crafted props, one by one realistic babies were thrown into the pot to boil, and one by one the corpses were chopped into sections of bloody flesh, on Dayuan Island, where there was no ****, the people of Hongmen were shocked to the point that they had nothing to say.

The once antagonistic emotions gradually softened, and the people who lived a relatively better life in Hongmen spontaneously donated money and materials after the play, hoping to do their part to help this group of displaced and unaccompanied displaced people.

In ancient times, the common people were simple, although there were a few people who were selfish, but more, they still had the fine character of knowing how to repay their kindness, and after the Hongmen people gave them a helping hand, they naturally changed their attitude.

The previous contradiction was easily solved, and even Li Tianyang felt incredible.

The purpose of letting Chen Yumo form a drama club, Li Tianyang just hopes that his wife, who has just given birth to a son, can find something to do while taking care of the two children.

And the reason why he chose the drama club, Li Tianyang is also because the folk activities in the Hongmen team are relatively boring, and when it comes to the farming season, the people in Hongmen who have a few extra money begin to gradually find entertainment projects for recreation.

Playing chess, playing Go, listening to book reviews, or sitting in a teahouse and chatting with each other, these are all common things, and they are not bad things for everyone. There are even motivated people who take advantage of the slack time to go to night schools to learn to read and write, so as to make up for the lack of opportunities to study.

But gradually, the same people began to look for another way of entertainment, and private bustard restaurants and underground gambling halls also came into being.

Among Hongmen, only Jilong Town opened two Qinglou under the auspices of Hongmen because of its external operation, but in several other towns in Hongmen, there are no such Qinglou.

The reason for this is naturally that Li Tianyang is influenced by later generations and does not really want his territory to make a living from this kind of gray, but he obviously underestimated the charm of this business that can continue from ancient times to the present.

Even if there is a Hongmen charter in front, it still can't stop the way of thinking of the underground people, and there are naturally people who are willing to take risks to make this gray money.

In the same way, gambling money is the thing that can arouse people's desire for unearned gains, basically as long as they are taken to play a few games, they will eventually like this pastime game, and then indulge in it.

Over the past few years, the Hongmen Public Security Bureau and the defense forces have carried out countless joint operations, and almost every time they have been able to smash several private prostitution kilns and underground gambling houses, and these businesses have always been repeatedly banned and revived, which has caused headaches for the Hongmen administrative management.

Therefore, Li Tianyang thought that he could enrich the leisure life of the people, and maybe he could change the current predicament of the bottom of Hongmen.

At the same time, the repertoire performances of the drama club can also imperceptibly affect the thinking and concepts of ordinary people, so that many existing and future systems in Hongmen that conflict with the real society can quietly infiltrate the hearts of the people like spring rain.

After the establishment of the drama club and the continuous release of more than ten wonderful and easy-to-understand plays, can they change the living conditions of the people in Hongmen, for a while, Li Tianyang and they still can't get definite evidence.

But the drama club now has an impact on the people's thoughts, but it is obvious to all.

It was only now that Li Tianyang woke up, no wonder he paid the most attention to the ideological influence of the grassroots people, and all kinds of hypnotic ideological guidance methods, which finally allowed them to seize the ruling power of Greater China.

After this incident, Li Tianyang and the others began to pay more attention to the role of the drama club.

(End of chapter)