After talking about Zhuang Yilan, Li Guangyi said again: "Sir, there is also an error in the number of landlords occupied by the landlords mentioned before, saying that they account for two or five, which is the highest. In some mountainous areas, such as Yishui, the landlord occupies only 10% of the land at most, while the Rizhao side has a large number of people doing business, and the landlord occupies only 10% of the land. [Note]"

Since Yang Rui has come to the grassroots level, the group of people he brought with him are all pen sticks, and after Li Guangyi made a briefing according to the previous report figures, he was very worried, he was deeply afraid that Yang Rui's people would find out the real situation.

"Why?" Yang Rui looked at him and said, he wanted to know what this former international student thought.

"Sir, we want to mobilize the peasants, in addition to exposing to them the oppression of everyone by the Manchus, the oppression of the landlords by them must also be exposed, if the landlords occupy too little land, then ......" Li Guangyi saw that Yang Rui was not angry, and said according to the actual situation.

But when he said this, Yang Rui became happy. When he decided to take the rural route, Yang Rui was always worried that the peasant movement would lose control like the peasant movement of the Great Revolution in later generations. But even so, he was still afraid that once the hatred between the landlords and tenants was instigated, it would not be extinguished, and even more afraid that it would cause a nationwide peasant unrest, when the time would not be the most terrible death, but the disorderly chaos in the whole country would be the most terrible. However, Li Guangyi's words made him understand that it meant something else, that is, there was not so much hatred between the landlords and tenant farmers, and more hatred came from the provocation and incitement of the revolutionary party. Yang Rui has in his mind the propaganda of the landlord occupying seventy or eighty percent, as well as the drama of the white-haired witch, but this qiē is so illusory in the face of real numbers.

"Xiao Yan. You remember later that propaganda is one thing, real numbers are another. Yang Rui was silent for a long time before he said, "No matter how you publicize it below, the real number must be sent back to the general association, because only the real number can make the general association make the right decision." ”

Yang Rui's words only made Li Guangyi nod again and again, just when he thought that this matter was over. Yang Rui said again: "Also, why are you so unreliable in your work?" You've been trained in the club for a few years, why are you in such a hurry? Also Where does the rice come from? How much did it cost? You calculate how much it cost for that meal last night. Report it back, this money is mine; The rest of the rice can only be counted as yours, and it must be slowly deducted from your monthly salary! ”

"Sir, I'm ......" Li Guangyi saw Yang Rui settle the ledger for him. Immediately panicked. However, his words were interrupted by Yang Rui. "You'd better write a deep review first. No one can afford not to make mistakes, but you must understand, where did this mistake come about? If you don't find out the problems in your mind, I'm afraid that you will still make mistakes in the future. ”

Hearing that Yang Rui was not dismissed, but wrote a review, Li Guangyi breathed a sigh of relief and became excited at the same time, "Sir." I'll be sure to write the review when I go back, I'll ......" He suddenly bowed again, "Sir." I ......"

Seeing him incoherently, Yang Rui just smiled, patted him on the shoulder and said, "My rule is, don't make a mistake a second time!" You have to remember! ”

After criticizing Li Guangyi, before waiting for the arrival of members from all over the country, Yang Rui asked Xu Taizhen, a member of the county, to accompany a few of his people to the countryside of Juzhou. If you want to enter the village, changing clothes, shoes and hats is the most important, according to Xu Taizhen, if you are still dressed in a long shirt, then after entering the village, you will only be regarded as a rent collector by the people, only wearing tattered coarse cloth short clothes and pedaling straw shoes, the people will treat you as their own. Cheng Ying is okay, but Yang Rui is tall and strong, not to mention that these coarse cloth short clothes don't fit, even if he wears these things, he can't tell that he is a farmer, and in the end he only wears a broken straw hat, covers half of his face, and at the same time rolls up his sleeves and smears his arms a little more, so he barely looks like a farmer.

Yang Rui entered the village, and several people from the guard company also followed, but such a large number of people were too conspicuous, according to Xu Taizhen's Jianyì, these five or six people were all dressed as porters, and the wooden butts were removed, and the spears with folding iron frames were hidden in the bamboo poles for picking things. They kept a certain distance from Yang Rui and the four or five people, hanging from a distance.

The temperature in the past May is much warmer than when I came to Juzhou, and the sun directly shines on Yang Rui's body and feels comfortable, only flying in front of him from time to time, and the flies that want to stop on Yang Rui are extremely annoying, but when they go out of the city and walk to the field, these flies are instantly attracted by a pile of black cow dung in the middle of the dirt road, and they instantly run to the cow dung.

The water is watery, only passing slowly from the east of the county, and the trees by the river are verdant and verdant, only much more lovely than the seedlings in the field. However, Yang Rui didn't go to appreciate the rural scenery, just struggling with the straw shoes under his feet, because they were new shoes, they were very uncomfortable to wear at first, and the soles of the straw shoes were all straw ropes.

"Comrade Wen, what you see now is the land of the big landlords." Xu Taizhen said to Yang Rui that his family is actually a wealthy family, but he does not agree with the landlord.

Fifty thousand acres is just a number, but seeing the endless wilderness in front of him, Yang Rui had to think that fifty thousand acres of land is indeed not small, "Is the banker's land in Juzhou?" How did his family make his fortune? Yang Rui asked.

"His family's land is not only in Juzhou, but also in Linxian County, and even in Jiangsu." Xu Taizhen said: "Their family was an immigrant to the north in the early Ming Dynasty, and they were also poor earlier, and in the Wanli Renzi period (1612), the fifth ancestor of the family, Zhuang Qian, a seller of baked cakes, actually went to high school to become a jinshi, and since then the official fortune has been prosperous; And his younger brother Zhuang Nai, the tone of the word, is a martial arts itch student, strong martial arts, official to Luokou garrison, Chongzhen 17 years ago Ming Dynasty collapsed, Ding Revolution when he witnessed the invasion of the Manchurians, and led the people to resist the Qing Dynasty, once captured the Nine Immortal Mountain on the other side of the city, and then the Manchu Qing Dynasty General Ke Yongsheng sent troops to suppress it, and it was impossible to attack for a long time, the legend said that there was a huge spring on the Nine Immortals Mountain, and 10,000 people drew water without drying up, but did not want the spring to suddenly run out of water one day, so the volunteers also collapsed.

After Zhuang Nai escaped with his soldiers and horses, he secretly infiltrated the Beijing division alone. was ready to assassinate Emperor Shunzhi, and planned to do it when Shunzhi sacrificed to the sky, but he didn't want Shunzhi to come that day. Only sent the regent Dolgon to represent the emperor in the suburbs, when it was, Zhuang Nai looked at Dolgon's tartar and fired an arrow, but Dolgon's life was big, and the arrow hit his clothes. As soon as the arrows were fired, Dorgon's guards were alarmed and searched for the Assassins, but Zhuang Nai, who had already ridden away on a white horse. It's just that in the end, the arrow that shot Dolgon was exposed, and the arrow had the words 'Ming General Zhuang Diaozhi', so the Manchu Qing ordered to search the genealogy of people surnamed Zhuang in the world. wanted to find this person named Zhuang Diaozhi, the Zhuang family saw that the shape was in danger, and after hearing the news, he burned the family tree overnight, and this Zhuang Diaozhi was not found. However, this dealer has not been an official since then. It was not until a hundred years later that the 10th was the subject of another expedition. Until now, it has been a constant official fortune. ”

This Xu Taizhen has studied in a private school, and was admitted to Linyi Normal last year, but she really has the material to be a teacher, and she only tells this story or legend eloquently. Cheng Ying listened intently, and Chen Guangshou and Li Guangyi also listened intently. But as soon as he finished speaking, Li Guangyi asked with a smile: "Where did you hear the news, I have also heard this story, but it just means that this Zhuang tune is from Zhucheng." It's not from Juzhou, if you spread this section. Then don't the Zhuang family go crazy? ”

Xu Taizhen smiled and said: "One of my students is named Zhuang Shanchang, although he is young, he is revolutionary, and this story is what he overheard the adults in the family talking to." If you want to check whether this Zhuang Nai is real, you will know. If we can draw the bankers into the revolution on this basis, then we will have the funds in the early stage. ”

When Yang Rui heard him say this, he said: "Revolution is not only to overthrow foreign rule, but also to reform the economic structure of the entire society. This banker has too much land, and the revolution will certainly damage his family's interests. How old is that student of yours? Did you repeatedly talk to him about these revolutionary truths? ”

Young students have always been the favorite of the revolutionary party, at this time Yang Rui said that Zhuang Shanchang, a young student of the Zhuang family, was kneeling in the Juye Hall of the Zhuang family's compound, and in front of him was Zhuang Yuzhen, the thirteenth head of the Zhuang family, and his father Zhuang Houtao.

Dadian Street, Sai Beijing, Ju Ye Tang, Second Imperial Court. The dealer has more than 5,000 rooms in Dadian Town, and the entire compound is fifteen or sixteen miles away, and this Juye Hall is the core of the entire Zhuang compound. This large courtyard building with small courtyard houses was the headquarters of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army during the anti-Japanese period in later generations. However, compared with the decay of later generations, now this Juye Hall is still blue bricks and tiles, white walls and white walls, stone steps, doors and windows, stairs, everywhere are carved and inlaid with clouds, and with the Nanmu beams and pillars that are cushioned on the round stone and painted in Chu color, the whole Juye Hall looks extraordinary.

"Say it! Why read the reverse book? "There is only a copy of the Revolutionary Army and a copy of the Anti-Russian Record of the Revival Army on the table, which Zhuang Yuzhen found out when Zhuang Shanchang spot-checked his schoolwork today. Zhuang Yuzhen is not an ordinary person, he was a tribute in his early years, he was a cabinet secretary, and then resigned, but now he is a member of the Shandong Provincial Assembly. He knew very well why the revolution was, and he was also very clear about why the revival army was there, and when he saw that there were people in his family who were reading anti-books, he had to solemnly bring people to the Juye Hall to kneel.

Zhuang Shanchang, who was kneeling, was only fifteen years old, and the big family was very strict, and he was also very rebellious because of his temperament. When Zhuang Yuzhen saw him like this, he just sighed in his heart, he had seen this kind of revolutionary student in Jinan, as if he was enchanted, no matter how he persuaded him, he was finally imprisoned, but he still did not repent.

"Get up!" Zhuang Yuzhen saw that the hard one couldn't come, so she had to come to the soft one. "I have also read this revolutionary army, but there is nothing else in this book except for generous and impassioned words, if I am the person who writes the book, I must write the truth clearly."

Seeing that he knelt without punishment, Uncle Gong also calmly talked about the book of the Revolutionary Army, Zhuang Shanchang was not silent and only said: "There are also reasonable people in the book, isn't what Mr. Taiyan wrote is reasonable." Besides, only by vigorously overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty and recreating China's words can make people's hearts warm and make people's blood boil when they read it. ”

"That revolution is just a momentary bravery, no matter how the revolutionary country is still this country, the people are still these people, is it possible that once the revolutionary Han people sit in the world, we in China will make foreign ships and cannons? Your uncle is half a year old, and he has seen a lot of things, the revolution is not bad, but life is reformed little by little, you see now, most of the provincial councils are Han Chinese, and more than half of the parliament are Han Chinese. If this continues, it won't be long before the parliament will be filled with Han Chinese, and will it be necessary to make a revolution at that time? Looking at his nephew's eagerness, Zhuang Yuzhen had to reason.

"Humph!" Young people don't care about humility. only treats what the uncle says as nothing. "The blood feud of the Han people always has to be avenged! And what good have you parliamentarians done for the people? It has become a decoration for the people, so that we can be used as a reason not to revolutionize. ”

"Bold!" Zhuang Yuzhen slapped his palm on the rosewood table, and the sound resounded throughout the hall.

The young man's sentence "full of decoration" only stung Zhuang Yuzhen's nerves. Isn't that how he returned to Juzhou from Jinan? At present, the relationship between the imperial court and the local governors is very antagonistic, and the local governors let the central court hold a congress, and the central court allows each province to hold a provincial council. Because of the stimulus of Hangzhou's uprising, the power of the Congress can be regarded as giving some real power, at least the Congress has the right to let the cabinet members come to the Congress for questioning; The provincial council basically only has the right to supervise the provincial government, and then there are some trivial matters such as building roads, bridges, and installing electric lights. The provincial government only has the right to supervise the construction of the province and has no right to interfere in decision-making. Zhuang Yuzhen did not become a member of parliament because he did not "buy votes", let alone have any prominent status or outstanding prestige. And just a member of the provincial council, since he is a member of the provincial council, it is a plaque. He got tired of making plaques in the provincial capital, so he took leave and returned to his hometown to walk around. It's a plaque though. But when he returned to his hometown, it was a big fanfare, at least this plaque can still show the majesty of the dealer.

The people in the hall were only frightened by the old man's slap, but Zhuang Shanchang's face was flushed after the fright, and he gritted his teeth and didn't speak.

"Say, 'Where did this book come from?' Break your leg if you don't say anything! Seeing that his uncle was angry, Zhuang Houtao was also angry on the side.

"I bought it in Linyi." Seeing his father asking, Zhuang Shanchang replied stiffly.

"When have you ever been to Linyi? You name it, who gave it to you! Zhuang Houtao immediately exposed his son's lies. Fourteen or fifteen-year-olds, when have they ever been to Linyi.

"I ...... I asked the picker to help buy it when he went to Linyi. Zhuang Shanchang is irrefutable. I had to pull it out again.

"You! I'm going to beat you to death! Zhuang Houtao held the bamboo and made a big gesture, but was stopped by Zhuang Yuzhen, "Zhong'er, it's not impossible for you to revolutionize, don't forget it, it's not easy for our Zhuang family to run this family business, if you really join the revolutionary party, it will be a big difficulty for the whole family." You don't think about the whole dealer, you have to think about your parents and brothers. Ay...... There you go! Go ahead! ”

Zhuang Shanchang was ignorant and understood out of the Juye Hall, but Zhuang Houtao in the Juye Hall was in a hurry, "Uncle, how can this be done?!" ”

"What else can you do if you don't?" Zhuang Yuzhen has stayed in Beijing and Jinan, even if he is not a revolutionary party, he knows what the revolution is all about, "Now there are such books in schools all over the country, although the words of revolution have declined after the opening of the Congress, but recently because the Yanzhou Revolutionary Party won the victory, it has been a fuss again, Jinan can't stop it, what else can you do in Juzhou?" ”

Zhuang Houtao is not a material for reading, he only does something about Zhuangzi at home, he has only heard legends about the revolutionary party in the south, and now it is confirmed in his uncle's mouth, and he only exclaimed: "It is said that the revolutionary party has ten Qing soldiers at a time, and only tens of thousands of Qing soldiers have been killed in Hangzhou, and the water of the Qiantang River is all red, which is also true?" ”

Seeing the rumors outside, Zhuang Yuzhen only sighed: "On the Yanzhou side, there are 50,000 revolutionary parties against 30,000 imperial courts, nearly 10,000 dead and wounded in the imperial court, and countless casualties among the revolutionary parties. Who do you say won this battle? ”

Zhuang Houtao was asked by this, and suddenly became a little clear, and said: "In that case, the Qing army has won, and there are at least 100,000 elite soldiers." ”

Seeing that her nephew had finally turned this corner, Zhuang Yuzhen was very relieved and said: "The Yanzhou Revolutionary Party is nothing more than taking advantage of the terrain, and then it is just taking advantage of the unpreparedness, and now the imperial court is going to increase the training of troops, in order to destroy the revolutionary party in one fell swoop." In another year, I'm afraid this Yanzhou will also be flat. Zhuang Yuzhen said this, and said: "Zhong'er is afraid that he will be bewitched in the school, you go to the school to check and see who is preaching the revolution?" If so, let the county take it down and put it in jail. ”

"Yes!" Zhuang Houtao immediately responded.

The middle school on Dadian Street is run by Zhuang Yuzhen, and it is also the property of the Zhuang family, and most of the students who have learned new schools are invited to it, and Zhuang Shanchang goes to school there.

Zhuang Houtao said neatly, but Zhuang Yuzhen was a little uneasy, but he knew the truth about the revolutionary party, and this Qing soldier was not as capable of fighting as he said. Now the newspapers say that these soldiers are no different from Li Hongzhang's Huai army in the past, and he thought about it and suddenly said: "If you are sent to the county prison, I am afraid that you will not escape death." This move is really dry, so let's send it out as a gift. ”

The gentleman Zhuang Yuzhen wanted to give out of the country was Xu Taizhen, but at this time he didn't know that someone wanted to beat him, so he just took Yang Rui to a market town, where there was a peasant training center.

The workshop is located in the home of a peasant association member. There were only a few jujube trees planted in the courtyard of the dilapidated courtyard, and in the courtyard surrounded by the half-high courtyard wall that collapsed in several places, I saw a circle of people in blue and blue short clothes sitting neatly on a few bricks. A very young gentleman was talking about something, and when Yang Rui and the others were about to approach the courtyard, several people who were standing outside the courtyard and were in charge of patrolling came over with sticks with a stern face, just waiting for them to see Xu Taizhen in the crowd. Only then did he let down the stick of guard. One of the leading black-faced men gave a fist salute and smiled: "Teacher Xu is here." ”

The other party saluted, and Yang Rui and his party also hugged their fists in return. A fanatical organization is not something that can be cultivated simply, but it has many details, special gestures, special slogans, uniform clothing are all important parts of it, and there must be a patrol at the beginning, they are the most fanatical members of the organization, and their role is not only to isolate members and non-members from each other, but also to punish those who quit. Only in this way will the peasant association be a closed circle. It is only in closed circles that there is a basis for unity. Looking at the smiling faces of these people in front of him, Yang Rui felt that this should be the most fanatical member of the peasant association in Juzhou.

Xu Taizhen didn't introduce Yang Rui to the black-faced man, but just asked, "Is there any situation?" Has anyone come to make trouble? ”

"A few ruffians came, and I drove them away. They also came to hear what the peasant association was saying. The black-faced man said with a smile.

"Well, well done! Don't let the bad guys in. Xu Taizhen advised, and then said seriously: "This is a comrade from Linxian County, who is here to learn from our valuable experience in Juzhou." ”

Hearing that it was another county that came to study in this county, the black-faced man smiled even more happily, and saluted Yang Rui and the others again, and said: "Qingming every year!" ”

Seeing that he said the incision, Yang Rui also said with a straight face: "Repeat every day!" ”

I don't know who came up with this easy-to-understand slogan, although Yang Rui felt vulgar when he heard this, but the truth in it was clear. Now as soon as he started talking, the man on the other side was very happy, and said, "My name is Hei Qi, welcome all brothers to Juzhou." Come, come in, I'll keep watch outside. ”

The courtyard is getting closer and closer, and the voice of the young gentleman in the blue shirt in front of the blackboard is getting louder and louder, speaking extremely fast and imposingly, using dialects, but Yang Rui still understands Shandong dialect. “…… Why can't we eat enough, we don't gamble, we don't eat, we work every day, and we are tired. It's useless to blame the heavens and the earth, and now in this world, there are more donations every year, and the taxes are heavier every year, and there are several big floods from time to time, how can this live well and eat well? Who is to blame for this? If you still want to blame too many corrupt officials, if you want to blame, you will blame the Tartars for being useless, the Tartars have to pay tens of millions of taels to foreigners every year, and the officials of all sizes have to be greedy for tens of millions of taels every year, and then they have set up some new schools and patrol police, and the money adds up to us. This is not enough, some time ago there was a conference in the capital, saying that there would be more donations and tax increases, who would donate more? Whose taxes are being raised? It's not about increasing our donations and increasing our taxes.

Who fed the court, or did we feed the court? The last time we debated, it was we who fed the court. But the more this court raises and becomes more and more inactive, the more you want to think more, the foreigners can't beat it, and they always have to lose money, which makes us bitter haha can't eat, can't wear warm clothes, can't live in a house, and can't save money. This year, there will be wild vegetables to eat, and what will we have to eat next year? What if you donate more the year after then? ”

In the speech, the words were gushing, the words were only about eating, and listening was to concentrate on it, and the fists were already clenched, Yang Rui understood that he was going to shout slogans in a while, which was the standard operating procedure of the workshop. (To be continued......)

PS: Note: Excerpted from "Rent Reduction and Interest Reduction in Shandong Anti-Japanese Base Area" p21.