The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 338
When the 30s were just beginning, the world was not happy.With 500 million unemployed Americans, Roosevelt reduced the value of the dollar to sixty cents.Su L began to promote collective farms, and Sterling believed that capitalists would choose war to get out of depression. ** The SA holds a large-scale military parade in Nuremberg, and Hitler predicts that the German Empire will exist for 1000 years.

Mussolini said: "The country is me", and the Italian army has 48 soldiers on the Austrian border.

The turmoil in the world pattern has not had much impact on China. What really makes this country sad is the ensuing natural and man-made disasters.

After the beginning of spring in [-], the climate across the country was abnormal.

The incessant torrential rain caused several rivers to burst across the vast land, and the flood flooded wantonly and destroyed countless houses and seedling fields. The flood in the Yangtze River Basin killed 20 people, and the earthquake in Suiyuan, Xishan, and Xishan killed another 7 people. People died, and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, known as "paradise on earth", did not receive a drop of rain in spring, the ditches dried up, the early rice withered, and more than half of the farmland in the country had no hope of harvesting before the summer harvest.

In cities and towns, the price of industrial raw materials was out of control, causing the price to collapse. Immediately after the rush to buy, the market ushered in the Great Depression. The momentum of closures swept almost all factories. Even Tan Kah Kee, the rubber king, declared bankruptcy. Banks were crowded day and night waiting to cash out. citizens.Unemployed industrial workers, handicraftsmen who cannot make ends meet, and refugees who have no food and clothing are mixed together, all over the cobweb-like rural soil to the streets of towns where water and land meet.

There are as many as 700 million hungry people struggling on the poverty line. With the arrival of the hot season, the exhaustion and depression of the whole country spread around like steaming heat fog, covering the land of China.

When the economy suffered a catastrophic failure, the ruling group suddenly split due to the unbalanced distribution of interests.

Warlords such as Feng Xiang and Yan Shan, who opposed Chiang, embraced their own strength and established a second government that was opposed to the Jingnan government of the Nationalist Party. thousands of miles.

The large-scale melee brought huge military expenditures. In order to maintain the huge war expenditures, the warlords who called themselves the "government" continued to apportion various taxes to the people. The war had just begun. In Nanhe, one of the main battlefields, The amount of military expenditure borne by farmers is more than forty times that of the already heavy land tax, and various taxes have been collected in advance in [-].

In the fifth month of the war, military expenditures reached more than 5 million yuan, and the number of casualties on both sides was more than 30.

At this time, China is like a huge refugee camp. Tens of millions of displaced refugees fleeing the war, as many as 50 unemployed workers, and wounded soldiers with different numbers but equally desperate feelings are mixed together, wandering in the desolate Among the fields and ruined towns.

This is a chaotic, listless race.

At this time, in the four eastern provinces, just two years after the September [-]th Incident, Jiang Shi adopted a policy of non-resistance and allowed the Japanese army to invade and occupy the four eastern provinces, and proposed that "to fight against the outside world, we must first secure the interior."

China is in peril, and the nation is hopeless.

Even Xia Yuan shudders when he thinks of this era.

This is a truly hopeless world.

The only thing that makes him feel lucky is that the village he lives in has not been affected yet, and everything seems relatively stable, but from memory, the tax revenue has tripled in the past two years, and the land tax paid is three times higher than before. times.

"Awakening, awakening in such a chaotic world."

Xia Yuan seems to understand this mission, but it is followed by complicated clues. He doesn't know how to awaken the peasants, and how to develop the present. Fortunately, no matter how long the mission world has passed, the real world has just passed for a while, so he also Don't act in a hurry and continue to pretend to be a fool in the village.

On the other hand, his body is weak. This time, he was given the identity of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child, about 1.6 meters tall, severely malnourished, hungry and skinny. Fortunately, when he crossed over, his physical fitness changed. However, if he does not take in enough nutrients for a long time, even if his physique is several times higher than that of ordinary people, he will gradually become weak.

The first thing to solve at the moment is his own food and clothing problem, but this is not a problem for him. If he has nothing to eat, he can just go to the landlord's house and steal it. psychological pressure.

Get up from the ground and stand at the head of the field ridge, looking at the surrounding fields, many people went to the ground early in the morning to pick up wheat ears, men, women and children bent their waists, looking for the fallen wheat grains on the ground with their rough palms , I found one, picked it up carefully, put it on the palm of my hand and gently blew off the dust, and carefully put it in a cloth bag at the waist. Some people already put half a bag of grain in the cloth bag.

Xia Yuan knows the current domestic situation, regardless of his young age, it is almost impossible for a family to get a living.

But there were more thoughts in his mind.

A shrill scream from a distance interrupted Xia Yuan's thinking. Looking up, it was the local hooligans under the landlord who were robbing the villagers of food. Grain, white-haired, knelt down on the ground, surrounded by seven or eight strong hooligans armed with guns, punched and kicked him, and even smashed his body with the butt of his gun.

"Immortal, hurry up and take out the food!"

The leading man cursed and said: "Beat me, that's how livestock are, if you don't obey, you should be beaten!"

The old farmer was beaten and rolled all over the ground, but he still tightly guarded the last half of the bag of wheat grains. His mouth was full of blood mixed with mud and sand, and he begged, "Please, this is our family of five people. You can’t take away one year’s rations, what will we eat if you take it away.”

"Grandma, don't you eat the toast and eat the fine wine, right? You haven't paid enough land tax. I don't care what you eat, so hurry up and hand it over!"

The leading man showed no mercy at all, and ordered his subordinates to continue beating with fierce eyes.

After a while, the old farmer was beaten with blood flowing from his mouth and nose, and the blood stained the ground and turned into sand. The old farmer was still protecting the small bag of wheat grains in his arms. He knew in his heart that the wheat grains were lost. Five people will starve.

This year's land tax is three times higher than in previous years. They even took out all the grain they saved in previous years, but they still couldn't fill the hole. The house was completely empty, and they had no money to buy grain. They could only search the fields after harvest. The wheat grains in the soil, but even so, this group of people did not let go of the half bag of wheat grains the size of a palm, and still wanted to snatch them away.

How can an old farmer stand up to a few strong local hooligans? During the tearing, half a bag of wheat grains in his arms was scattered all over the ground. It's the last hope of their family.

Seeing that the wheat grains were scattered all over the ground, the group of hooligans were willing to give up. They violently raised the sand on the ground with their feet. The sand was flying everywhere along with the wheat grains, leaving the old farmer covered in blood on his knees. , tremblingly protecting the sand in his arms, as if protecting the livelihood of their family.

The villagers standing in the field in the distance took a look from a distance, bent down numbly and continued to search for the wheat grains that might exist under the sand, as if none of this happened.

Seeing that everyone was gone, the old farmer carefully let go of his arms. Regardless of the pain in his body, he stretched out his trembling palms to search for wheat grains in the soil. When he found a grain of wheat, he carefully blew off the sand and put it in the cloth bag in his arms. inside.

A 70-year-old farmer picked up a grain of wheat, and the muddy tears rolled down his face mixed with the sand. He looked at the clear sky, but he couldn't see a ray of sunshine.

Such a scene made Xia Yuan's heart ache. He stepped forward to pick up a grain of wheat on the ground, and held out his dirty and thin palms to the other party. The old farmer saw the thin hands and turned his head to look at them. The eyes are Sam Xia's mad boy, dressed in rags and unkempt, but those eyes are unusually bright and clear.

The old farmer took the wheat grain tremblingly, and carefully put it in the cloth bag. Xia Yuan sat down beside him and said, "Didn't the big guy want to resist when they treated the big guy like this? "

The old farmer wiped the blood from his mouth and beard, wiped the blood mud from his palms on his body, searched for wheat grains in the soil, and said in a low voice, "How can you resist? They have guns, we have nothing, and we have nothing. I am too old to resist."

The old farmer looked at the ground numbly, "Get used to it, and you'll be fine."

Life has made them look so bright, let alone resisting, it has been like this for thousands of years.The landlords are very powerful, with money, guns, and people. They can't resist, and they can't resist.

Xia Yuan remained silent: "It's not just thoughts that are awakened, but people are more important."

The feudal system of the old society was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Although the Three People's Principles overthrew the feudal system, Jiang Shi did not carry forward the Three People's Principles, and even trampled on and abandoned the Three People's Principles.

In wars, it is the common people who suffer, and it is still the common people who are responsible for the war.They enjoy the superior life brought by the peasants, but they have never given back to the peasants, which forms a kind of squeeze, which is deeply pressed on the peasants.

"Are you used to it?"

Xia Yuan looked at the farmers in the field facing the loess and their backs facing the sky. After paying the land tax, they had no surplus grain in their hands. If they wanted to survive, they had to think about bibimbap. Picking up the wheat grains that fell on the field was just one of them. When the great famine came, people would even eat the bark of trees.

He stood up with firm eyes: "A happy life must be created with your own hands, not through the landlord's handouts."

Xia Yuan thought of the Red Army, he asked: "Do you know the Red Army?"

The old farmer was stunned, and murmured: "The Red Army."

He seemed to search for this word in his long-term memory, thought for a long time, then shook his head: "I don't know, I haven't heard of it, what is it?"

Xia Yuandao: "That is the people's team. He can bring happiness to the people, drive away the landlords, and distribute their own land to the people. They are a group of people with ideals. They will build a new China and let everyone live a happy life." happy day."

After seeing with his own eyes the life of the peasants at the bottom of the old age, he finally realized why the Red Army was loved by the people, and why there was a voice that "only the Red Army can save China". They are an army that truly serves the people, and After Jiang Shi abandoned his husband's Three People's Principles, he finally represented the interests of the landlord class and gradually moved towards the road of retrogression.

"Is there really such a team?"

The old farmer froze for a moment. The warlords in his memory could only squeeze and exploit them. Like the landlords, they were the people's army. This was the first time he heard of the army that distributed land to the people.

"some."

Xia Yuan got up and left. When he came to the village, the children who ran towards him played with him, and the peasant woman who was working in the field with a basket looked at her from afar and called her children to stay away from him. After hearing the noise from the children, Xia Yuan also became clean, walking in ragged clothes on the road in the village, walking unevenly.

The low and dilapidated earthen house looks dirty and messy. The old man with 70 to [-] years old and old hair is wearing old clothes. wall,

The young ones all went to work in the fields to look for grains of wheat, and the old ones stayed at home to exert their strength.

The local hooligans under the landlord were wandering around in the village, seeing Xia Yuan surrounded him and beat and kicked him involuntarily. Xia Yuan didn't resist, and let them beat and scold him. The villagers standing under the tree in the distance were numb. I watched, with sympathy in my eyes, but no one dared to come forward to stop them. The local hooligans under the landlord were rampant in the village, bullying men and women, and doing all kinds of evil. Facing the oppression of the landlord's hooligans, the villagers could only silently Bear.

The wheat picking team in the distance came back, and several young people stood not far away looking at the hooligans who bullied Xia Yuan. A young man with disheveled hair at the head wanted to stop him angrily, but was pulled away by his companions. He stopped, shook his head, and signaled him not to mess around.

The landlords have guns in their hands, and they want to plant the landlord’s land. If there is no landlord’s land, they will all starve to death, but this year’s harvest is very small, the tax revenue has been doubled, and the food for the family is not enough. I heard that Nanhe New taxation has come out there. There is a grain tax for grain, a salt tax for salt, and an oil tax for oil. There is food but you can’t even afford to eat. There is even an overdraft tax. It is obviously three or four years, but the tax has already been collected. In [-], the national army came here, and the Yan army came again there. Both governments had to pay taxes. They sold everything that could be sold at home to pay the tax. The flames of war came again. A lifetime of hard work vanished in an instant.

Tens of millions of refugees flocked to major cities, and the corpses of ordinary people were everywhere in the criss-crossing wilderness.

Floods, droughts, and civil wars have killed people one by one.

To the north, the Japanese army invaded and occupied the four eastern provinces and established the Manchurian government. The entire Chinese people were in dire straits.

Some people even doubt whether China will still exist after [-].Does the Chinese nation still exist?

China is in peril.

(End of this chapter)