Signing in during the Republic of China: Starting from a foot patrol

Chapter 198

On a flat land, countless poppy seedlings swing in the wind, and the bright flowers add a bit of enchantment under the sunlight.

In the clearing not far away, people from the surrounding villages gathered, including large families in satin, civilians with shabby clothes, and poor families in rags.

But without exception, their gazes all looked at the field ridge, a group of soldiers dressed in military uniforms and holding torches.

The first one, but everyone is also familiar with it, it is the Bai family's eldest young master Bai Wenju who burned his family's 500 acres of poppy and advertised what smoking ban was all day.

The rich man's gaze constantly swung back and forth between Bai Wenju and Poppy Poppy.

When looking at Bai Wenju, it is the evil wolf gaze that cannibalizes, and when he looks at Poppy Poppy, it is the painful gaze that peels off the flesh of his heart.

"How smart a person County Magistrate Lin is, how could he be seduced by Bai Wenju, this rabbit cub!"

"It's over, this year's tobacco money can't be earned!"

"Bai Wenju this rabbit cub, I will send someone to slaughter him sooner or later!"

"Come on, you, believe it or not, Old Master Bai came with you with a guillotine."

"Damn, this money, their Bai family has to compensate us!"

"Loss?"

"Don't forget, the county chief just set up the anti-narcotics bureau two days ago, the county chief is the chief of the bureau, and Bai Wenju is the deputy director."

"If you dare to claim compensation from him, believe it or not, he will dare to use the name of drug prohibition to copy your family's background!"

Growing big tobacco is a very profitable business, several times or dozens of times stronger than farming.

Although Lin Hongfei compensated each household according to the amount of raw materials per mu of poppy poppy, it could not make up for the subsequent tobacco income of the large households.

It's just that now, Lin Hongfei can be described as tall and hard, and these rich people don't have the guts to fight with the county magistrate.

Therefore, they could only forcibly swallow the bitter fruit, and the county magistrate could not afford to offend, so they poured their anger on Bai Wenju's head openly and secretly.

Unlike these rich people, the reaction of ordinary people was relatively stable.

Anyway, when the rich people buy raw pulp every year, they will desperately lower the price, and the money they get and the grain they exchange for are actually not much different from farming.

Moreover, the magistrate of Lin County was benevolent and righteous enough to directly compensate everyone for the money and grain, and the amount of these money and grain was six or seven percent more than the money and grain given by those rich people after deliberately undercutting the price.

Therefore, the people did not have any overreaction, but still felt that the county magistrate Lin was a parent official who cherished the people.

As for the poor families in rags, they have a mentality of watching the excitement and having fun.

These people are all long-term workers and hired farmers who have no land under their names, so the burning of poppy fields has nothing to do with them.

However, seeing the heart-wrenching faces of those rich people who usually oppress them is enough to make these poor families as happy as their wives having children.

At this time, Bai Wenju, who was standing at the field ridge, stood up straight, his face was full of spirit, but a trace of guilt flashed in his eyes from time to time.

"I thought that the county chief was the same as the corrupt officials before, but I didn't expect that I misunderstood him."

"At the beginning, I was still so insulting to him, but he still ignored his previous suspicions and personally invited me to serve as the deputy director of the Jiangdu County Narcotics Control Bureau."

"With this trust of the county magistrate, the anti-drug work in Jiangdu County, I will do it well!"

At this moment, Bai Wenju took the torch in the hand of his entourage, and then shouted loudly:

"Brethren, set fire!"

"Burn all the dirty things that have brought calamity to the country and the people!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers of the Independent Regiment, who had been temporarily seconded to the Anti-Narcotics Bureau, agreed in unison, and then surrounded the entire poppy field along the ridge.

With the ignition of the torches, with the help of the wind, the fire immediately burned in the field, and soon it spread rapidly!

Looking at the burned poppy seedlings, the hearts of the big households are dripping blood, this is all money!

The money spent in vain, just burned like that?

I saw an elderly rich man clenched his fists, his head led his body to twitch violently, and his mouth was tearful and shouting:

"What a crime!"

The common people in the distance saw that these rich men were as uncomfortable as their dead fathers, and they couldn't help but snicker, and then looked at the fire in the field with interest.

However, compared with today's liveliness, the people of Jiangdu County have a greater liveliness to see a few days later.

The recruiters

saw a flat threshing field, the soldiers of the Independent Regiment wore brand new and flat uniforms, and the guns in their hands were wiped clean.

Similar to the situation of the last conscription in Lu Province, the grain like the ocean and the mountains was so bright and bright in front of the people.

The rules of conscription have not changed, strict review, excellence, once selected, each person 8 oceans, 200 kilograms of grain.

Of course, the greater temptation for those young lads is the brand new uniforms worn by the soldiers of the Independent Regiment.

After all, for these poor guys, their clothes are either full of patches or almost exposed.

As for a family of four, just a pair of pants, who goes out and who wears it, it is not uncommon in the countryside of Jiangdu County.

Therefore, in the eyes of the young men, the dress is more attractive to them.

Therefore, although the recruitment review is very strict, there are still many young men of the right age who have signed up.

At the same time, in addition to recruiting some army soldiers this time, Lin Hongfei also asked Fu Tao to come forward and recruit some recruits who met the standards of sailors to expand the ranks of the independent regiment's water army.

After Ding Dehu returned from Jilu Province, he brought back more than 700 able-bodied boys.

Huo Yunshan also carefully selected local and recruited more than 300 local youth from Jiangdu County.

The increase in the number of soldiers doubled the officer strength of the Independent Regiment.

To this end, Lin Hongfei specially set up an independent regiment officer instruction brigade, with him as the chief instructor, specially selecting suitable personnel from within the army to carry out corresponding grassroots officer education.

Wu Yongquan, Chu Liangyi, and Huo Yunshan, graduates of the Baoding Military Academy, also became instructors of the officer instruction brigade like dogs, and systematically taught the knowledge they learned in the military academy to the cadets of the officer brigade.

Because this group of cadets is the first batch of cadets of the officer teaching brigade, Lin Hongfei, as the chief instructor, will also go to give a few lessons to the cadets from time to time.

In class, Lin Hongfei asked the students to call him an instructor according to the rules of the teaching brigade.

Over time, the trainees became accustomed.

After they graduated from the teaching brigade and were delegated to various companies as grass-roots officers, they also did not change, and some even deliberately called Lin Hongfei that.

After all, in the face of Lin Hongfei, you call him the county magistrate and the regiment commander, and we directly honor the instructor, which shows how close we are to the regiment commander!

Of course, not only these people, the Jiangdu County Independent Regiment was established on the basis of the 4th Company of the 11th Brigade in Lu Province.

Therefore, in order to show their difference, the members of the old fourth company would call Lin Hongfei the company commander every time in private.

After a long time, the independent group could roughly infer the seniority of this person from the title of Lin Hongfei.