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At a liaison meeting between the Shandong Bureau and the Shandong Military Region, Zeng Zhongsheng reported on the rest and training of the air defense brigade, artillery brigade, heavy machine gun regiment, and guard regiment over the past month, and pointed out that since the guard regiment has been withdrawn from three battalions, although there are now two battalions, the guard tasks of the Shandong Bureau and the military region are great and must be fully staffed as soon as possible. It is best to separate the military district guard regiment from the Shandong Bureau and the future Shandong Anti-Ming Cooking Political Axe Guard Regiment, and the military region guard regiment will assume the task of guarding the command organs of the military region, and it can also be put into the battlefield at any time as a reserve during battle. The Shandong Bureau and the Political Axe Guard Regiment are mainly responsible for the garrison security tasks of the rear political leading organs. It is proposed to set up a special service regiment of the military region to undertake the task of garrisoning the rear bases.

Guo Hongtao reported on the building of local political power in various base areas, the best of which were Luxi and Jilubian. Luxi is an old base area, after the elimination of the main force of the 21st Division of the Yue Army and the battle of the Fourth Brigade of the Reading Force, the prestige of the Eighth Route Army has been unprecedentedly enhanced, and most of the local anti-Japanese armed forces left by the former General Fan Zhuxian have been reorganized and trained by our army, except for some who have surrendered to the enemy. All counties in Luxi have set up an anti-Ming boiling political axe, raised the county and district armed forces, completed the election of village-level political power, and are concentrating on militia training. In the Jilu border base area, because the 7th Brigade was mixed with the army's reading ability to withdraw to Dexian County, and when the 3rd, 7th, and 8th Brigades crossed the border, they also cooperated with the 6th Brigade to carry out sweeping activities along the Hebei-Lu border, and the local forces were swept away; except along the railway line, the areas south of Cangxian, east of the railway line, and north of the Yellow River were all controlled by our army, and the building of grassroots political power in the counties in the base areas has already taken shape, and cadre training is being stepped up. In several other areas, because the troops have just entered the area for a short time and the construction of the base areas has just begun, there is still too much work to be done. In particular, in the southwestern part of the country, where the 1st Brigade was taught, the Fifth Division of the Chinese Army was frantically sweeping there, and the orders received by the troops were to develop in a covert manner, and the building of political power was still in a state of underground and secret development.

As for the progress of the training of cadres, Guo Hongtao reported that a training course for guerrilla cadres, a training course for female cadres, and a training course for young cadres have been held, and most of the trainees are intellectuals who have gone south from Tianjin, and some underground party members from southern and central Lu have participated in the training.

Since the end of 1937, the provincial party committee has organized armed uprisings in Jilubian, Jiaodong, Heitieshan, Culai Mountain, Ludong, Taixi, Lunan, and Yexian counties, among which the first army of the Shandong People's Resistance and National Salvation formed by the Jilubian uprising has been mixed with the Sixth Brigade of Jiao, and the second regiment of the Jilu Border Reading Force has been established. The Third Army formed by the Jiaodong Uprising and the Fifth Army formed by the Heitieshan Uprising had not yet been able to meet their divisions because the main forces that were responsible for the task of creating base areas in these two regions had arrived late. Among them, Comrade Li Qi, the leader of the Jiaodong Uprising and secretary of the Jiaodong Special Committee, died in the battle, and the Jiaodong Special Committee meeting elected Cao Manzhi as the acting secretary of the Special Committee, and Lin Yishan and Song Cheng served as the commander-in-chief and political commissar of the Third Army respectively. Comrade Lu Xingsan, the leader of the Ludong uprising and secretary of the Ludong Special Committee, was assassinated on April 2 during the transfer. The Taixi rebel forces had already been contacted when the main force crossed the Jinpu Road, and the rebel forces were replenished and strengthened, and now they are fighting with the cavalry brigade. The guerrilla forces born from the Lunan Uprising have already entered the Baoqinggu Mountains and have been in contact with the Fifth Brigade of the Teaching, but since the Fifth Brigade is now divided into troops to fight, the troops of the Lunan Uprising have not yet been reorganized. The Yexian uprising troops developed rapidly, and had already captured the county seat and belonged to the leadership of the Third Army.

Li Yuxian reported on the progress of popularizing the two-cropping system in one year, and Comrade Lin Feng was specifically responsible for this work, and at present, a quarter of the peasants in the Luxi base area have begun to practice wheat and corn interplanting. Although the central and south-central areas of Shandong are new areas, due to their proximity to the Shandong Bureau, the promotion efforts are relatively large, and the areas controlled by our army have basically begun to intercrop and popularize, and the corn seedlings have also grown, and the growth is gratifying.

After that, Li Yu reported on the preparatory work for the establishment of the Shandong Anti-Ming Cooking Political Axe, and planned to temporarily set up seven departments, including civil affairs, transportation, taxation, public security, commerce and trade, agriculture, forestry and water, and culture, education, and health, and establish the Shandong High Court. The personnel are basically composed of cadres supported by the central government and personnel who actively resisted the protests of the former administrative organs in Shandong. After discussing with the Organization Department and the Political Department, the leaders of each department will take out the list and submit it to the Shandong Bureau for approval.

In the end, Li Yu proposed that the bank must be established as soon as possible, because the army supported Wang Kemin's puppet Republic of China political axe to set up the puppet China United Reserve Bank on March 10, with its headquarters in Xijiaomin Lane, Beiping, to issue Lianyin bills, stipulating that the legal tender issued by the national government axe must be circulated at the same price, and the Lianyin bills must be used in market transactions in the areas occupied by the Yue army, and the accounts of the bank's banks are all based on the Lianyin bills. The capital of this pseudo "China United Reserve Bank" was 50 million yuan, and 12 million yuan was contributed by the puppet North China Provisional Political Axe, and at the same time, eight banks, including the Bank of China, the Bank of Communications, the Bank of the Mainland, the Jincheng Bank, the Zhongnan Bank, the Buye Bank, the Bank of Hebei Province, and the puppet Jidong Bank, were forced to contribute 12.5 million yuan, and the issuance reserves (huge amounts of silver) that the original banks in North China had not paid in time for the legal tender reform in 1935 were included in their share capital.

The face value of the Union Bank Coupon is 1 Yuan, 5 Yuan, 10 Yuan, 100 Yuan and 1 Jiao, 2 Jiao and 5 Jiao auxiliary currency coupons, commonly known as the Dragon Ticket. Compared with the Korean won and the Manchukuo won used by the devils in the northeast, the first two are the silver standard, and the Union Bank Bills are the gold standard, which are not guaranteed and not honored, which is more conducive to the devils plundering China's resources and raising military spending, especially to solve the funds of the puppet political axe and the puppet army at all levels. In order to occupy the financial market in North China, the devils have set up branches in various places, prohibiting the circulation of legal tender in North China, stipulating that people are not allowed to hold legal tender, and if they are found to hold 1 yuan of legal currency, it will be confiscated, and those who hold 60 yuan will be executed. The army even exchanged foreign currency by arbitraging and even counterfeiting fiat currency to buy military supplies urgently needed for the war.

In view of this, Li Yu proposed that a bank in the Shandong base area must be established as soon as possible, and that military and civilian transactions in the base area should be carried out in our own renminbi. In view of the fact that the renminbi printing factory is in Shaanxi, which is inconvenient to transport, and that the logistics headquarters has the equipment and raw materials that can be used to make engravings, it is suggested that the central authorities should ask for instructions and set up a mint on the spot to print the renminbi, and the name of Shandong or the bank can be added to the face of the bank.

Cai Zhong reported on the propaganda work of the army and the localities, and the "Dazhong Yuebao" has already been launched, and now it is mainly distributed to the military units and political axes at all levels in the base areas, and the initial circulation is very small, but the newspaper is of high quality and very popular, and it is building distribution channels to expand its influence. The literary and artistic publications "People", "Shandong Literature and Art", and "Qilu Pictorial" founded by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles are progressing smoothly, and the inaugural issue can be issued before the end of the month. The Shandong branch of Luyi is being prepared, and if there is no major combat action, it will strive to open after the wheat harvest.

Wu Zheng reported on the construction of the rear base, and after a month of hard work, he built an arsenal at the junction of Xintai and Mengyin by using private houses, temples, and karst caves, which can now mass-produce explosive packs, grenades, reload bullets, artillery shells, and repair firearms. Preparations are being made for the construction of a machinery factory, and preparations are being made to refer to the construction method of caves in northern Shaanxi, and to build caves in places where caves can be drilled as small workshops and staff dormitories. However, this Yimeng Mountain is basically a stone mountain, and it is very difficult to make a cave. No matter how difficult it is, you have to fight, because air defense needs. In the next step, it is necessary to encourage the national capital enterprises that have been withdrawn from Tianjin to quickly start construction, and strive to produce civilian products as soon as possible to meet the needs of the military and civilians in the base areas for production and living.

After the report, Liu Yimin first severely criticized the slow march of the troops, and some army leaders only paid attention to the main force and operations, ignoring the local armed forces and the building of political power, and the Ludong uprising gave birth to the seventh and eighth detachments, which was the key for us to open the situation in Ludong, but because the main force moved slowly, it did not contact the insurrectionary troops in time, and there was a tragedy in which the main army advanced eastward and led to the sacrifice of such backbone leaders as Lu Xingsan.

The reason for this situation is that Liu Yimin said in his analysis that it was because the instructors had won successive battles, and the cadres and soldiers had a proud mentality, they only wanted to fight a big battle, they wanted to fight a big battle, they wanted to occupy cities, they did not want to dig into ravines, they could not live in poverty, they neglected the important surname of building base areas, they neglected the important surname of closely relying on local party organizations, they neglected the important surname of relying on the people of Shandong, and they ignored the important surname of building local armed forces to defend the base areas. To put it bluntly, it is pure military thinking that is doing the trick. Party organizations at all levels, cadres at all levels in the armed forces, and all veteran Red Army soldiers and members must understand that our army's march into Shandong is not to fight a battle and leave, but to build Shandong into a powerful base area for resistance against Japanese aggression and to lay the foundation for the victory of the whole nation's war of resistance against Japanese aggression and for the establishment of a new political power in which the people are the masters of the country. In the future, this Shandong will be our home, and we will fight to the death with the Yue army in Shandong, and fight with the Yue army and even other forces for control of Shandong. Every comrade must understand that the battle of our army in Shandong is different from any other battle during the Long March and since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In the past, with the exception of the Battle of Tongguan and the Battle of Gathering and Annihilating the Majia Army to defend the base area in Shaanxi, all of them were battles in which one shot was fired and left, and the impact of the battle on the local people was basically ignored. Now Shandong is our home, and in every battle, we must consider the retaliatory factor of the army, and we must put the protection of the base areas and the safety of the people's lives in the first place. To achieve this, it is not possible to do without strong local governments and local armed forces. All officers and men of the division must ponder a question, that is, the question of who to rely on to win the battle and for whom to win the war.

Since Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, Zeng Zhongsheng and Liu Yimin worked together, all they have seen is Liu Yimin's praise and encouragement of the troops, but they have never seen Liu Yimin criticize the troops so loudly, and they are all a little apprehensive in their hearts, and they don't know who they will criticize and which aspect of their work will be criticized in the future.

Guo Hongtao and others have worked with Liu Yimin for a short time, and they are not familiar with Luo Ronghuan and them to the same extent.

Then, Liu Yimin expressed his views on the problems existing in the building of party organizations at all levels.

This time is slightly different from history. At this time in history, the army mainly occupied the big cities and communication lines in Shandong, and many counties had not yet been occupied by the army and were in a state of no political axe. Like the southeast of Shandong, most counties still have the Kuomintang regime, and Gao Shuxun's new Eighth Division should still be in southeast Shandong at this time. At this time, due to the mobilization of the Yue army to carry out a sweep of all parts of Shandong, the remnants of the Kuomintang regime have been driven out of all parts of Shandong, especially the 16th Division of the Yue Army and the 6th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed into the sweep of central and southern Shandong, and all the [***] forces in these areas have been driven to the south of Linyi, and now these forces are afraid that they have already fled to Xuzhou.

Therefore, Liu Yimin pointed out that the current hinterland of Shandong is basically a struggle between the two forces of the Puppet Army and the Eighth Route Army, and that excluding the heavy army groups used by the Army to fight in the direction of Lunan and Xuzhou, it is basically a situation in which we are strong and the enemy is weak, and this is an unprecedented development opportunity that our party has encountered in Shandong. The ancients said that God will accept it, and so will sin! Every member of the Communist Party of China, whether it is a professional revolutionary or an intellectual, a member of the rural party or a workers' party, whether it is an army or a local organization, must understand the sacred mission he is shouldering, stand up, go to the main force, go to the guerrillas, go to the peasants, go to the workers, go to the businessmen, actively form party branches, blossom everywhere, and build a network of party organizations in the entire land of Shandong from western to eastern and from northern to southern Shandong. Party committees should be established at and above the district level, and party branches should be set up in villages, and each party branch should become a strong fighting fortress for uniting and organizing the people to actively resist the war and develop production. The first thing that the newly created local armed forces should do is to implement the principle of our army's political work of building branches at the company level, so as to ensure that every contingent will not be defeated or dragged down.

Liu Yimin praised Comrade Lin Feng, who had served as secretary of the Beiping Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, and secretary of Comrade Shaoqi.

Then, as soon as the conversation changed, Liu Yimin criticized Li Yu's work as a bit soft, and the establishment of a bank is our established policy, and it is also our established policy to prepare for the establishment of a political axe in Shandong. What are we doing here with hundreds of thousands of elites in Shandong? Isn't it for the sake of building political power and establishing base areas? What is a base? That is, there is money, food, soldiers, and resting places, and these things cannot be done without the bank. Why did I propose to create a bank as soon as our army occupied Shaanxi? That is, to establish our financial system and completely break the blockade and restraint imposed on us by the enemy. There is no need to discuss this matter at the meeting, and Comrade Li Yu should have the determination and courage to make decisions when he is in charge of this work. We have laid down Tianjin, and there is money, and the principal of the bank can be greater than the 50 million shares of the devil's pseudo-China United Reserve Bank. Comrade Li Yu is not able to make a decision on this matter, just report it to me and Political Commissar Luo. One of the two of us can take a stand. Some time ago, I went to Xuzhou, and I was delayed for a few days, and before leaving, I had made it clear that Political Commissar Luo was in charge of the overall work of Shandong, which means that I agreed with Political Commissar Luo's statement. Why didn't you report to Commissar Luo? Before the Autumn Harvest Uprising, Political Commissar Luo participated in the organization of the peasant armed forces in Tongcheng and Chongyang, and participated in the Southern Hunan, and was the father of our army, and he had extremely rich experience in struggle. In the future, Luo Political Commissar will be in charge of all matters involving party building, political power building, economic construction, and cadre deployment, and he should be asked for instructions.

Liu Yimin was about to say more, but Luo Ronghuan hurriedly stood up and interrupted him, saying: "Comrade Liu Yimin has too high an opinion of me, and I am sincerely afraid. In the future, we will communicate more and exchange more views on any matters, and the purpose will be one thing, that is, to do a good job in the party's cause. ”

Liu Yimin waved his hand, asked Luo Ronghuan to sit down, and then said: "Comrade Li Yu has made outstanding contributions to the restoration of the party organization in Shandong, the organization of the anti-Japanese armed uprising, and the creation of the armed forces in Shandong. The reason why I criticize Comrade Li Yu is not to criticize him personally, but to remind everyone that whether we are the main force or local troops, whether we are cadres sent by the central authorities or local cadres, we are all comrades, comrades-in-arms, and flesh and blood. Local cadres may take up posts in the military, and military cadres may take up posts in localities. In a word, how to be conducive to work. ”

After saying so many words, Liu Yimin was a little thirsty, glanced at Tang Xingying, Tang Xingying immediately sent him a tank of water, Liu Yimin took a sip and continued: "Now is not the time to publicly establish the Shandong Provincial Anti-Ming Cooking Political Axe, you can announce it in the name of the Shandong Anti-Ming Cooking Senate, exercise the power of the political axe, Li Yu is the chairman of the Senate, Lin Feng is the deputy chairman of the Senate, and Yang Dalin of the Political Department of the instructor is transferred to the director of the Public Security Department, and the troops are transferred from various units to form the Shandong Public Security Corps, which is subordinate to the Shandong Anti-Ming Cooking Political Axe, It is under the dual leadership of the Political Department and the Security Department of the Military Region. Comrades Li Yu and Lin Feng should set up the leading bodies as soon as possible, guide the work of resisting the Ming Dynasty and cooking the political axe, organize production, develop the economy, dredge trade routes, and maintain social order. ”

After talking about the work of the political axe, Liu Yimin said: "The work of the logistics command must be strengthened, the construction of factories must be done quickly, and the equipment and materials purchased from the United States will arrive immediately, and after this batch of equipment arrives, we will be able to build a small steel plant to produce weapons and ammunition." Therefore, while building factories, the logistics command is recruiting and training workers, and it is necessary to expand the scale of our arsenal to tens of thousands of people, not only to meet the needs of our troops in Shandong, but also to support the central and southern Hebei armies, and the New Fourth Army. In addition, it is necessary to set up pharmaceutical factories, flour mills, and garment factories to thoroughly solve the problem of logistical supply to the troops. ”

As soon as he heard that the equipment from the United States was about to arrive, Wu Zheng's eyes lit up, and he raised his hand to speak, but Liu Yimin stopped him and continued: "The propaganda work is not strong enough, and we can't just stop at running newspapers, magazines, and art troupes, newspapers and magazines are for literate people, and most of the ordinary people in Shandong are illiterate. First of all, it is necessary to carry out literacy education, and secondly, it is necessary to organize all base areas to set up propaganda teams and work teams to compile and stage easy-to-understand programs to be performed among the masses and awaken their patriotic consciousness. The third is to put up slogans, distribute leaflets, expose the enemy, and promote our ideas. Fourth, it is necessary to take the village as a unit, popularize our army's effective grievance activities, carry out land reform, and thoroughly awaken the masses, so that they can consciously follow the Eighth Route Army and take up the gun to defend the fruits of victory. If we do this, we will be invincible, whether it is a devil or a Kuomintang, no one is our opponent! ”

After arranging the construction of the base area, Liu Yimin turned to the work of the army. He drank his saliva and said loudly: "The army is now engaged in the late stage of the Battle of Xuzhou, and the purpose is to encircle and annihilate the main force of [***] in the Xuzhou area. When I was in Xuzhou, I met with Chiang Kai-shek, and at the operational meeting convened by Chiang Kai-shek, he explained the truth that the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression would be victorious, and analyzed the army's attempts. Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren are not stupid people, and I estimate that they will inevitably take corresponding countermeasures, take the initiative to evacuate Xuzhou, and attack the enemy with cameras. After the devils fought in Xuzhou, there were two major combat directions, one was to directly attack Wuhan, and the other was to return to the division to sweep Luxi, southern Hebei, and central Hebei, because they still thought that the main force of my instructor was in southern Hebei. According to the analysis of the military region, before concentrating its forces on launching the Battle of Wuhan, the army will inevitably mobilize a large army to return to the division to sweep southern Hebei, Luxi, and central Hebei, and has already reported to the general headquarters and also informed the commanders of the 129th and 115th divisions of the situation. In view of this situation, if our army continues to develop in a decentralized manner, it will be impossible to defeat the enemy's encirclement and suppression. Therefore, I am determined to mobilize the main force to meet the devils and defend the base area. After the meeting, the specific operational arrangements will be issued to all units. What needs to be emphasized here is that all units must make good preparations for counter-sweeping, and the main force of our army will spend about 20 days to thoroughly sweep away the enemy and puppet forces in their respective base areas, and then move to the stage of concentrated rest and recuperation to prepare for the enemy's sweep. ”

Liu Yimin paused for a moment and said: "In order to strengthen the leadership work of the base areas, Comrade Zhu Rui went to Luzhong and concurrently served as the political commissar of the Fourth Brigade, the secretary of the Luzhong District Party Committee, and the political commissar of the military region. Comrade Guo Zihua went to southeastern Shandong and concurrently served as political commissar of the southeastern Shandong detachment, secretary of the party committee of the southeastern Shandong region, and political commissar of the southeastern Shandong Military Region. Comrades Zhu Rui and Guo Zihua were originally in charge of the same work, and they worked a little harder. Comrade Duan Junyi served as the secretary of the party committee of Taixi District and led the struggle in Taixi District. The cavalry brigade is a mobile combat unit of our army, and it is impossible to act as a local unit in the western part of Taixi. The Central Cadre Regiment and the Training Headquarters that have already arrived in Luxi should rush to the Yimeng Mountains as soon as possible, and Comrade Zeng Chunjian, who is in the cadre regiment, is the head of the 18th Regiment of the Old Red Army, and he will remain on the spot to serve as political commissar of the Second Brigade. Comrade Cheng Cuilin's former concurrent political commissar of the Second Brigade was abolished, and he was appointed full-time political commissar of the First Brigade, concurrently serving as a teaching instructor, and deputy director of the Political Department of the Military Region. To reiterate, during the period when I left the Shandong Bureau to lead the army, the party, government, and military work in Shandong was presided over by Comrade Luo Ronghuan. ”

After Liu Yimin finished speaking, he announced the adjournment of the meeting, and he hurriedly left the meeting hall and returned to the division headquarters to make combat arrangements.

Luo Ronghuan told Li Jun, director of the secretariat, to put away the comrades' notebooks, compare them, and make sure to completely record the spirit of Comrade Liu Yimin's speech, copy it to the chairman and the headquarters, and distribute it to all base areas.

(To be continued)