Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

By ambushing small Japanese units, puppet troops and bandits in the surrounding areas, each regiment has at least formed a complete Japanese-equipped battalion. The guns of other battalions are unified into medium-sized regular guns. Although the light and heavy machine guns are not as good as those of the Japanese-equipped battalions, they are much better than those of regular troops. Now they only lack large-scale actual combat and equipment to basically form combat effectiveness.

However, the strength of the local regiments is much weaker. Due to the formation of a new main regiment, and the need for local regiments to give priority to supporting the main combat regiment, the weapons of each regiment are relatively mixed. Many of them are new recruits who have just joined the Eighth Route Army, and most of them lack weapons and ammunition. However, this requires the commanders of each regiment to find a solution.

However, at present, the impact of this situation is not very large. After all, the main task of each local regiment is to cooperate with the border government in the construction of the base area. In wartime, they only need to be responsible for the logistics transportation of the main force and the transfer of people. The local regiment does not need to have great combat effectiveness.

Speaking of artillery configuration, currently the brigade generally distributes 60mm mortars to each regiment. Previously, each regiment had four mortars. After the expansion, with the six mortars from logistics and the repaired ones, only three mortars can be maintained per regiment. As for more mortars, each regiment needs to find a way on its own.

At the same time, when reducing rent and interest, cracking down on bandits and bullies, and clearing out evil gentry and local tyrants in the base area recently, a large amount of money, grain and supplies were seized, including about 200 million kilograms of grain, about 100 million yuan in various kinds of money, hundreds of kilograms of gold, and various jewelry. The total harvest was not small.

When Zeng Jiwen saw the summarized supplies, and thought about his own time walking through the vast countryside, he saw that every villager had a pale face and the grain they grew was often only enough for themselves to eat. When a disaster struck, they had no choice but to sell their children.

The fire in his heart could not be extinguished for a long time. Everyone said that there was no money and no food, but the reality told him that it was the vast majority of the lower-class people in Jin who had no money and no food, not the local tyrants and evil gentry who relied on exploiting the lower-class people in the towns and villages.

This is Shanxi Province, which has relatively strong industrial strength in the whole of China. As for other places, Zeng Jiwen couldn't imagine it and was once again shocked by the naked reality before him.

Zeng Jiwen suddenly realized that in order to solve the current problem of living standards of the local people, he had to make some choices in the previous policy of rent and interest reduction. Only in this way could he unite the strength of the broadest masses of the people to fight against the Japanese invaders.

Therefore, Zeng Jiwen discussed with the political commissar and other people from the political department and decided to implement the original land policy of the Soviet area in the jurisdiction and carry out land revolution in the vast rural areas. However, due to the current environment, the landlords' land was redeemed and distributed to poor peasants and hired farmers. At the same time, restrictions were placed on rich peasants who had more land, and local groups were allowed to help them with production and construction, repair water conservancy houses, and ensure the distribution as balanced as possible.

At the same time, in order to prevent forced buying and selling, Zeng Jiwen repeatedly emphasized the need to ensure fairness and encouraged them to invest the money from the sale of the land into light industrial industries such as various processing plants that the border government participated in and led the construction of. The border government's commercial policy was based on the standards of the original Soviet area.

For those who really resist, they can only be forcibly sent out of the jurisdiction to prevent them from becoming dissatisfied and eventually causing trouble.

When Zeng Jiwen told this plan, people in the Political Department started talking about it.

"Brigade Commander, should you reconsider this? The current policy of our Eighth Route Army is to unite all forces that can be united. Doing so will cause controversy." Zhou Shi said with a worried look on his face.

"Yes, once the government knows what's happening here, they will definitely make a big fuss about it." Deng Xie also looked solemn.

"I know, but the situation is very serious right now. Look at what we found in the homes of the local tyrants and evil gentry. It's simply shocking!"