The reorganization of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment went smoothly, and Li Ming also ordered the troops to pull out their camps and raise their villages, and the troops crossed the Fenshui River and advanced in the direction of Luliang Mountain.

The Shanxi guerrilla detachment did not sit idle, and continued to carry out various activities, breaking down more than a dozen earthen forts of large landlords one after another, secretly attacking several county towns, villages, and towns, plundering large quantities of grain and other materials, and collecting and selecting a number of displaced people along the way, and expanding the size of the unit to more than 10,000 people.

The future base area of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment has now been determined. A month ago, Song Tao led a special combat team and a group of homeless guides who were familiar with the environment of Luliang Mountain to rush to the direction of Luliang Mountain to conduct reconnaissance in advance, and found a very ideal place to camp troops.

In the future, the Shanxi guerrilla detachment will conduct a large-scale training in the Luliang Mountains for nearly a year, and strive to bring this unit out and form an initial combat strength before the establishment of the Hetao base area next year.

In this way, the Hetao Base Area will have an armed force belonging to the Far East in Shanxi, which can actively cooperate with the He Tao Base Area in carrying out various tasks.

In the future, the Shanxi guerrilla detachment will also train a large number of veteran backbones, which will blossom and bear fruit in various parts of the Ming Dynasty as seeds, form guerrilla detachments, and set up base areas one after another.

In order to ensure the military strength of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment, Song Tao took the initiative to ask Ying to stay, and asked that half of the more than 100 newly trained special combat personnel of the scout training center be transferred.

Song Tao will lead them to train in Shanxi, and in the spring of next year, they will go to the Hetao area to conduct preliminary reconnaissance in preparation for the second phase of the planned campaign in the Far Northeast, and also to conduct preliminary field investigations in the Hetao base area. Moreover, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Intelligence, Song Tao will also conduct reconnaissance on the eight traitors and Jin merchants in Shanxi to prepare for next year's operation.

After careful consideration, Li Ming agreed to his request. He also sent a telegram to the company's directors and neighborhood committee, reporting the incident. The committee also agreed with Li Ming's suggestion and sent a civil working group of several dozen people to the Shanxi guerrilla detachment, including migrant employees from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Commerce.

Li Ming also changed his plan to continue his journey north, and directly advanced to Luliangshan with the Shanxi guerrilla detachment to preside over the preliminary infrastructure construction of the Luliangshan base area. The members of the advance team from the Hetao base area to Daming continued to stay in Henan to work.

Everything was going well. But as the summer slowly passed, there was a sudden spurt of displaced people fleeing the famine in Daming. The collection points of displaced people in Henan, Shanxi and other places are now almost crowded by displaced people from all over the country.

Not only that, but the collection points of the Far Eastern Group Company in Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei and other coastal areas are also overcrowded, and a large number of people have gathered at each collection point of the displaced people.

Along the way, there were starving displaced people everywhere, and everywhere there was a scene of thousands of miles of starvation and hell on earth.

As the summer gradually passes. Farmers who were still at home hoping for the rainy season to come, thought that they could replant a crop of green seedlings and harvest some grain, and with the few grains, they might be able to survive this winter.

But it didn't rain all summer, and everyone panicked, seeing that it was autumn, and the surplus grain was at the bottom. There is only one ending in staying at home any longer, and that is to starve to death.

So the farmers in the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty. Almost all of them joined the team of fleeing the famine. In addition, the crowd of people fleeing the famine has also increased the number of small merchants and relatively wealthy families in the city.

Because their surplus grain has been eaten, and the current price of grain, under the coaxing of local bureaucrats, gentry and landlords, large merchants, and feudal kings and military leaders in various places, has long become sky-high prices. In the end, there was no food left.

Therefore, it is not only peasant households that have fled the famine, but also small merchants, handicraftsmen, craftsmen and craftsmen from all walks of life in the city. even includes a large number of poor talents, all kinds of people and so on with the surging crowd. Flee to the east and south.

Li Ming had just stayed in the Luliangshan base area for less than half a month when he received a telegram from the company, asking him to go to Henan as soon as possible to organize the collection of displaced people from all parts of the Ming Dynasty.

After receiving the company's telegram, Li Ming also realized that the situation of receiving displaced people this year must be extremely serious. So he hurriedly put down his work and took a boat along Fenshui all the way to Puzhou.

On the way back, Li Ming's heart had already fallen to the bottom. The displaced people on both sides of the Yellow River along the way can really be described as overwhelming. Countless displaced people who fled the famine helped the old and the young, and moved their families to the south. The crowd fleeing the famine included a large number of old and weak women and children, and I don't know how many homeless people died on the road every day.

Li Ming knew that it was broken, which was completely different from what the company expected. They still underestimated the severity of the great drought in Chongzhen, even if the Far East smashed the pot and sold iron, it would not be able to save so many displaced people. Even if you want to save it, you can't get it back at all, there are too many people.

Li Ming hurriedly sent a report to the board of directors of the company, and reported what he saw to the board committee in detail. The board committee received a telegram from Li Ming and held a meeting overnight to discuss the company's reception of displaced people in Daming.

Gao Jianguo, Wang He and other members of the Standing Committee and members gathered in the company's conference room, and the atmosphere in the conference room was extremely tense. Everyone's expressions were also very serious, most of them frowned, and the meeting reached an impasse for a while.

In the face of such a surging tide of displaced people, no one can think of any way, Li Ming's telegram describes the scene is overwhelming the number of displaced people, this is only the situation in Shanxi, several provinces in the north of the Ming Dynasty have suffered famine, add up to how many displaced people, think about it and shudder.

Wang He saw that the venue was relatively dull, so he smiled bitterly and said: "Now it's not a question of whether we can save the displaced people, but we don't have the ability to save them at all." The collection points of the displaced people in various places have been crowded at present, and now each ship can be loaded as much as it can carry, and each displaced person has only been given two days' rations, according to the reports of the various displaced people's collection points, the displaced people will have to go on the ship hungry after a few days.

Our grain ship is loading grain, and it will set sail for the coast of Daimyo in the next few days. However, when we get the grain, it will take at least ten days to finally transfer it to Shanxi, Henan. When we gather the displaced people in Henan, there is no longer any grain in stock. In the past few days, the Far Eastern Commercial Bank has been buying grain, and they have already spent all their working capital.

But now the grain is simply sky-high, and the silver in the hands of the Far Eastern Commercial Bank can't buy much at all, and this person is still unwilling to sell it to us. Now the Far Eastern Commercial Bank is trying its best to raise grain everywhere, and they have transported all the grain to the various collection points of the displaced people, but it is still a drop in the bucket. Comrades, the situation is grim......" (To be continued......

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