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It turned out that although Zhang Fang led the army to garrison Luoyang, it was not his own territory, so although Zhang Fang's troops were miscellaneous, the military salaries were all allocated by the government

Not to mention these old armies, even the Red Army, which was not paid, would not be able to sustain itself if it was too poor. At least during the Republic of China, Henan was definitely not a good piece of land, and the land of the four wars was far from dangerous to defend, densely populated and prone to frequent disasters, so it was not ordinarily difficult to build up the economy.

"Looking at it now, perhaps the historical evaluation of 'Commander Tang' may not be completely fair, after all, he also had a very bad reputation when he was stationed in Henan, and Henan was already one of the most chaotic and poorest provinces in the country long before he came. In a rich province like Jiangsu and Zhejiang, even if the officials are greedy, the common people can afford it, but in Henan, where the living conditions are extremely bad, as long as the officials are a little more corrupt, and even if the officials are honest but incompetent, they will starve to death on a large scale, so Tang Enbo's evil deeds will be infinitely magnified", Hu Weidong couldn't help but sigh, he naturally knew that even after the liberation of history, Henan's economy has always been in the lower reaches of the country, so it can be seen how difficult it should be to build Henan's economy?

However, the difficulties faced by Hu Weidong are still much smaller than those faced by Jiao Yulu and Zhang Qinli (Jiao Yulu's assistant and successor) in later generations. Second, there are some valuable experiences in the governance of Henan in later generations, such as "diversion of yellow water and irrigation of silt"; Third, the Red 15 th Army had captured a lot of money in the previous battles, and the funds and materials in its hands were relatively abundant, but the base areas did not blindly expand, and they temporarily stopped after taking possession of all 19 counties in western Henan, except for Luoyang and Mengjin counties. In addition, there is another very important point, that is, the situation in Henan has been extremely bad, Hu Weidong as long as he makes a little achievement, the people will be grateful to Dade, and with the support and support of the people, the work will naturally get better and better, and the people will get benefits, and naturally more and more support, which forms a virtuous circle

During the period of the agrarian revolution, the first thing the Red Army did to lay down a new piece of land was land reform, but the situation in Henan was different from that in other regions, where chaos had been going on for decades, and the big landlords who had occupied a large area had fled to death, so the problem of land annexation was not serious, and the main problems that really made the local people miserable were four problems -- harsh administration and corrupt officials, the formation of troubles, the rise of bandits, and disasters for many years.

The first problem was basically solved as soon as the Red Army arrived, and although there were good and bad cadres in the Red Party, at least in terms of honesty, the average level was definitely much better than that of the current Kuomintang. And in terms of policies, especially the military service system, at least for the peasants, who made up the majority of the population, they were much better than those of the state

According to incomplete statistics, during the Central Plains War alone, more than 2 million people died in Henan. However, the terrain of the western Henan Soviet region is very special, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack but has convenient transportation, and has both military value and economic value, and the reason why Luoyang can become the imperial capital again and again in history is precisely for this reason. Although compared to the danger of Yanshan, the mountains around Luoyang can only be regarded as hills, but the construction of permanent solidity at the key point, or even just civil fortifications, is enough to make the western Henan Soviet area impregnable, even if the main force of the little devil comes in the future, it will be difficult to cross the thunder pool, and those plain areas that are not dangerous to defend, before he liliang is enough, Hu Weidong will not touch, of course, Luoyang, which is surrounded by the Soviet area, is an exception, how can there be no reason not to eat the meat in the bowl, but the time is not right now...,

The third question has been elaborated on earlier, so I will not talk nonsense

The fourth problem is the most important, the Yellow Flood has not yet appeared, and the most common disasters in Henan are mainly floods, droughts and locust plagues secondary to drought. The reason for the frequent occurrence of flood and drought disasters is because of climate problems, such as the precipitation in western Henan has been low, so it is drought at every turn, and second, because the current farmland water conservancy construction in Henan is basically zero, so in later generations, too much or too little precipitation that is not a disaster at all will lead to a reduction in field yield or even no harvest. As for the more harmful locust plagues, on the one hand, they are due to frequent droughts, and on the other hand, because farmers lack the knowledge of pesticides and various kinds of locust prevention and control.

Hu Weidong has no way to deal with the climate, but he still knows a little about farmland water conservancy construction, and this kind of thing is actually not high (because because the Anti-Japanese War is imminent, water-saving irrigation cannot be carried out temporarily, and canal irrigation Chinese will be more than 2,000 years ago.) As long as the government can come forward to organize the peasants, it will not be very difficult to do a good job, and organizing the masses is precisely what the Red Party is good at but the Kuomintang is not good at. As for the prevention of locust plagues and other pests and diseases, Hu Weidong on the one hand asked the "new factory" of the Gongxian Arsenal that used to produce poisonous gas to try out several kinds of pesticides with high efficiency, low toxicity and low residue that he remembered, and on the other hand, he organized farmers to raise more poultry, and at the same time prohibited the killing of all kinds of birds, frogs and other beneficial organisms, so as to play a role in biological control

In addition, Hu Weidong also organized teachers and students from the Department of Biology of Zhejiang University to go to the countryside regularly and irregularly to popularize basic agricultural science and technology knowledge to farmers, coupled with the successive commissioning of phosphate fertilizer plants and potash fertilizer plants in the Soviet area, so that the 36-year-old Soviet area of western Henan ushered in a bumper harvest that had not been encountered for decades. But considering the imminent War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the terrible Great Famine in the Central Plains in 1942 (at least 3 million people starved to death in Henan alone), Hu Weidong never stopped buying grain.

Although agriculture has recovered and developed rapidly, Henan is too densely populated, and the per capita cultivated land in 35 years is only more than 2 acres, even if it is intensively cultivated in order to pursue total output, there is a serious surplus of agricultural labor, after all, even if cattle are used, under the premise of not affecting the yield, a skilled strong labor force is enough to cultivate 30 acres of single-crop fields or 15 acres of multi-crop fields. In order to make use of these idle laborers, Hu Weidong recruited a large number of young and middle-aged peasants to work in industrial and mining enterprises or to build public works while vigorously engaging in rural cooperatives (Note 1) and militia building

Note 1: In order to get the peasants out of the idea of small producers one by one, this step must be taken, and in the Republic of China period, when there was a serious shortage of water conservancy facilities and the imbalance in the age and gender structure of the population caused by wars for many years, cooperatives were of great benefit to disaster prevention and mitigation and to help the elderly, weak, women and children, as long as they did not go too far

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