Chapter 810: A Difficult Winter

Because of the increasing number of displaced people in the base areas, the various detachments of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment are now fully manned. All kinds of weapons and equipment have also been distributed, and the commanders and political work cadres of various detachments, as well as the backbone noncommissioned officers at the grassroots level, have all entered their roles.

Since the beginning of winter last year, the Shanxi guerrilla detachment has been organizing new recruits to conduct basic training. After several months of hard training, the newly trained officers and men of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment, although they were not able to meet the assessment standards for recruits of the Eastern Army due to the conditions in the base areas, they were also trained strictly for several months in accordance with the training program formulated by the detachment headquarters, and they were basically able to deal with the threat of the Ming officers and soldiers.

The Shanxi guerrilla detachment also organized the displaced people in the base areas to carry out literacy eradication and winter training for several months. The more than 60,000 displaced people were also reorganized in the form of squads, squadrons, brigades, and detachments, and the backbone cadres of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment were transferred in turn to serve as instructors for the winter training of the displaced people.

After several months of winter training, the Shanxi detachment selected a group of activists based on the performance of the displaced people in the winter training and formed four militia detachments with a total of 20,000 people.

At present, the Luliangshan base area has received more than 60,000 displaced people, all of whom are young and strong men and women who have been carefully selected from among the displaced people in Shanxi. Although there are still many displaced people nearby, this is already the limit of the Luliang base area.

Although the amount of grain and other materials plundered by the Shanxi guerrilla detachment from the traitors and Jin merchants in the Jinzhong Basin was quite large, it was only enough for the more than 60,000 displaced people in the base area and several thousand officers and men of the Shanxi detachment, and they could barely sustain themselves until next spring with the minimum supply standard.

This also means that by next spring, the grain reserves in the base areas will be depleted. Without food, tens of thousands of displaced people would have to go hungry. Therefore, before the coming of next spring, the Shanxi detachment will have to carry out various operations in various parts of Shanxi to ensure the supply of grain and other materials in the base areas before the autumn harvest.

After months of training. The Shanxi guerrilla detachment has initially formed its combat effectiveness. Moreover, the four militia detachments organized by the displaced people in the base area, after several months of winter training, also have a certain combat effectiveness, and at least when they encounter the Ming official army and the landlords' armed forces, they can also take a top.

While the displaced people were in winter training, Ma Qing led the political work group of the local people's committee. Various kinds of political and ideological education work have been carried out in the base areas. A number of activists have also been selected from among the displaced people to be trained on a key basis to serve as political work cadres in various grassroots squadrons and squads in the base areas in the future.

The Nationalities Committee also organized many study classes for the displaced people to teach them all kinds of knowledge. Before the arrival of next spring, a batch of good seedlings will be selected from the displaced people and will be cultivated in a key manner.

Lin Jinghua led the infrastructure construction team in the base area, recruited stonemasons, carpenters, and bricklayers from the displaced people, and organized an infrastructure study class to try to let them participate in the various infrastructure construction in the base area next year.

There is also an agricultural group led by Zhou Lin. The agricultural classes organized by the organization have focused on training a number of grassroots agricultural and forestry technicians to go down to the grassroots fields to teach the displaced people how to plant corn in the spring plowing work in the base areas next year. New crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Lu Yongren led the industrial group in the base area to select some craftsmen from among the displaced people and organized an industrial study class. It's a shame to say it, and next year the Luliangshan base will open a few small workshops. Produce some simple production daily necessities. To meet the basic needs of the base areas. It is more important to carry out simple repairs and maintenance of some equipment and tools in the base areas.

Next year, after the work in the base areas is carried out. They will be placed in various positions for internships. In the future, he will be the backbone of the base area. There is also a purpose, that is, Li Ming wants to cultivate talents in all fields for the future Hetao base area.

The future Hetao base is the company's top priority. However, the company's departments generally have little interest in the Hetao base area. Moreover, it is really a waste for the professionals trained by various departments of the company to go to the old border area of Hetao.

So although Li Ming and Hu Wei made a fortune everywhere, they finally found more than 20 internal employees of the company. More than 100 immigrant employees. And it is generally the more marginalized people in various departments, or the extra employees in various positions.

During the winter training period, the base management committee also carried out a variety of cultural and sports activities, such as football, basketball, chess, choir, long-distance running, tug-of-war, and so on. All of them are based on squadrons and brigades, which greatly enriches the amateur cultural life of the displaced people.

The base is in the interval between the hard training of the homeless. Various forms of competitions have been organized, which has made the base area much easier and happier while training intensively.

As for the construction of base areas such as Luliang Mountain, Taihang Mountain, and Yimeng Mountain, it is not so urgent. The main thing is to establish an armed force for displaced people in the base areas, gather the displaced people from all parts of the Ming Dynasty, and organize them to carry out tuntian in the base areas, so as to strive to achieve self-sufficiency.

Taking advantage of the period of the great drought in Chongzhen, the displacement of people from all over the Ming Dynasty took advantage of this opportunity to gradually expand the scale of the base areas, blossom everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and establish grassroots political power at all levels. In the future, when the company enters the Central Plains, one by one the bases that have begun to take shape will respond positively in all parts of Daming and cooperate with the company's actions.

In the face of the vast northern Ming Dynasty and countless people of the Ming Dynasty, the grassroots cadres trained by the company in Liaodong alone could not digest such a huge victory. Moreover, the situation in the northern provinces of Daming is not the same, and a large number of local native-born employees are also needed to serve as leading cadres at all levels at the grassroots level.

The whole winter of the Luliang Mountain base was spent in a busy situation. Although the conditions for the winter training were very difficult, the mental outlook of the tens of thousands of displaced people was surprisingly good. The various activities carried out by the local management committee have been well received by the displaced people.

The conditions in the Luliangshan base area are still very difficult. The displaced people live in caves, and dozens of people are crammed into one cave. Because of the extreme shortage of materials, the conditions for construction are also limited. In winter, the extremely cold weather during the Xiaoice River period made the temperature in the cave very low, and it could only freeze without death.

The food standard of the homeless people is also very low, with only one bowl of gruel for breakfast, and one bowl of porridge for lunch, they can also get a cake with mixed noodles, and dinner is the same as lunch. The non-staple food is even more shabby, and each person can only get a little pickle, which can only be distributed at lunchtime.

As for the ones you wear, it's even more shabby. Each homeless person had only a cotton jacket and cotton pants that had been reduced to dirt, as well as a pair of cotton shoes, a cotton hat and cotton gloves. In addition, each person had a quilt, not even a mattress or pillow.

On the coldest days, when the homeless people slept in the caves, the rich breath they exhaled, the next morning, formed a layer of crystal white frost on the edge of their quilts. (To be continued......)

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