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Zhao Gang said: "You can't do revolution like this. If all the cadres of our Eighth Route Army are like him, only caring about one-third of an acre of land under their own name, and not caring whether others live or die, what difference will they have from the Kuomintang army?"

"Old Wang, you have been educated in a regular military academy, you can't learn from Lao Li."

"Yes!" Wang Yan stood up straight to attention, and said loudly, "I am a brick of the revolution. I will move it wherever it is needed, and I will hit it wherever the party points it, without any ambiguity."

Zhao Gang pointed to Wang Yan, and said with a smile, "Old Wang, you have learned to talk poorly."

Wang Yan chuckled, and continued, "Commissar, what I'm telling is the truth."

"Okay, let's stop talking about these useless things." Zhao Gang said, "Now let's talk about gold mining."

Wang Yan said: "Political commissar, at this stage, our independent group has just established a firm foothold in Northwest Shanxi, and the foundation is not yet stable, so gold mining must be kept secret."

"So, we must engage in militarized management."

"That is to say, there is no need to hire nearby villagers to mine."

Zhao Gang frowned and said, "The problem is, after all, the gold mine is near Huangsha Village. After a long time, the villagers will definitely suspect that this secret will be discovered sooner or later."

Wang Yan said: "I set up a bureau, saying that the mountain spring water in Yelangyu where the gold mine is located is poisonous. With this excuse, we can logically turn Yelangyu into a military restricted zone."

"Military restricted area?" Zhao Gang said, "This is a way."

Wang Yan said again: "As for the miners, I have already thought about it."

"Let me guess." Zhao Gang said with a smile, "Are you planning to capture the puppet army to mine?"

"The puppet army can't do it." Wang Yan shook his head like a rattle, and said, "The puppet army is easy to cause trouble. If something bad or bad happens, the secret of the gold mine will be exposed."

"I plan to capture the little devils to mine."

"Devils are highly disciplined and easy to manage. They are the most ideal miners."

Wang Yan's words were not casual, but based on facts.

Because in history, both the Soviet Army and the U.S. Army captured many Japanese prisoners of war. These prisoners of war were very brutal before they were captured, but after they were captured, they immediately became very obedient as if they were a different person.

Chapter 380 Huaxia Cigarettes

Zhao Gang said: "In this case, I'm afraid there will be no hope in a short time."

"That's for sure." Wang Yan said, "If the gold mine wants to produce gold, it will have to be next year."

"What can we do?" Zhao Gang frowned and said, "Old Wang, you don't know that Northwest Shanxi is really poor, and the mass base is really poor. Our previous working methods basically didn't work."

The methods used by the Eighth Route Army to open up the situation in the past are actually two main methods.

One is to fight the devils. Through winning a few battles, we will spread the word to the common people. In this way, the people who have been tortured by the devils will support the Eighth Route Army and join the army enthusiastically.

One is to suppress Lao Cai, a landlord with bad deeds.

In fact, all changes remain the same. To put it bluntly, the common people should benefit.

But these two methods do not work in Northwest Shanxi, because Northwest Shanxi is really poor.

The devils just occupied the county seat, and the rest of the villages and towns simply didn't bother to occupy them.

And ever since Kazuo Okamoto, an old devil, became the commander of the North China Front Army, he changed his attitude towards the common people.

The devils in Northwest Shanxi have also begun to change their rules, and they seldom kill innocent people indiscriminately, so the common people don't hate devils as much as they did a few years ago.

In this way, the Eighth Route Army could not mobilize the enthusiasm of the people by beating devils.

Even the common people in some places resist the Eighth Route Army for the simple reason that the existence of the Eighth Route Army will attract devils and bring them military disasters.

The Eighth Route Army also had no way to mobilize the enthusiasm of the people by suppressing the landlord Lao Cai.

Because of the size of Northwest Shanxi, few decent landlords could be found.

Even though there are barely a few landlords, they are quite open-minded and rarely exploit the people, which is difficult.

Wang Yan said: "Political commissar, I think the situation is pretty good. The number of young and middle-aged people who have signed up to join the army has increased significantly in the past few days. They have recruited more than 100 recruits, right?"

Zhao Gang said: "It's not all because of sweet potatoes and cotton cloth."

"If there is no compensation for fifty catties of sweet potatoes and three feet of cotton cloth, how many people do you think will sign up to join the army?"

"Isn't this good?" Wang Yan said, "As long as the people want something, we can find a way to satisfy them. The fear is that if they don't want anything, then we will be caught blind."

Zhao Gang said: "The problem is, our supplies are limited after all, so we can't always rely on this method to recruit troops?"

"Why can't we use this method to recruit troops? I don't think there's anything wrong with it." Wang Yan said, "As for the materials, the existing materials are used up, and we need to find a way to raise them."

"Think of a way to raise money?" Zhao Gang shook his head and said, "What way? Gold mines are nowhere to be found."

"There is really a way." Wang Yan said, "When I went out to find gold mines this time, I found that in addition to planting poppies, the people in Northwest Shanxi also planted a lot of tobacco. All they saw along the way were dried tobacco leaves."

"This is not very normal." Zhao Gang said, "The land in Northwest Shanxi is barren, and only tobacco is grown."

"That's what I'm talking about." Wang Yan said, "That's why we have to set up a cigarette factory according to local conditions."

"What, a cigarette factory?" Zhao Gang's heart moved when he heard the words, and he said again, "Old Wang, can it work?"

"Okay, that's great." Wang Yan said, "There are three main problems in setting up a cigarette factory, one is raw materials, the other is product sales, and the third is technology."

"First of all, raw materials are never a problem."

"There is now large-scale tobacco cultivation in Northwest Shanxi."

"When the cigarette factory is opened, it will be able to expand its scale."

"Let's talk about sales, among other things, how many old smoking guns does our independent regiment have?"

"There are also Taiyue District, Jinsui Border Region, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, and even the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region! Let the bosses also smoke our cigarettes!"

"Yes, there are also Jinsui Army, Central Army, Devils and Puppet Army."

"As long as our cigarettes are good, there is no need to worry about sales."

"This is the main problem." Zhao Gang said, "We don't have the technology. Can the cigarettes we produce compare with Camel, Laodao, Daqianmen or Japanese Chrysanthemum brand cigarettes?"

"That's not necessarily true." Wang Yan said hesitantly, "I don't think that cigarettes such as Luotuo, Laodao, Daqianmen, Sanpaotai, and Chrysanthemum are good to smoke. cigarettes!"

Zhao Gang said in amazement: "Old Wang, I heard you right, do you know how to roll cigarettes?"

Wang Yan chuckled, and said without shame: "Political commissar, I can only say that I understand a little, but it's enough."

Of course, Wang Yan is talking nonsense. He doesn't understand any cigarette technology at all, but knowing cigarette technology doesn't mean he doesn't have the confidence to make good cigarettes.