Comrades propagandists, when we publicize the history of the red tax, we will encounter the large-scale production movement, here is an introduction to the story of the large-scale production movement in the Taihang base area, you can collect, enrich the content of the propaganda, this article was written by Xi Fengzhou, a cadre engaged in agriculture at that time, after the liberation he worked in the Ministry of Agriculture, and in 1948 also published a book "How to Defeat Natural Disasters".
This article was published by Xi Fengzhou on 29 August 1943. There are some strange place names and vocabulary in the text, and Lao Zhao made a simple annotation.
Beginning on 1 April 1943, all units in the southern part of the Tai (Xing) region stopped conducting exercises (military training) for one month and were involved in the wave of spring ploughing and production, and the participating units included the headquarters of the four divisions, the political department, and the regiments, battalions, hospitals, rest centers, and rotational training teams, ......They not only worked hard in the agricultural production of their own units, but also provided assistance to the peasants in the various garrisons.
Commander Huang Xinyou had already produced 130 catties of vegetables in his spare time (in his spare time after work), and now he has stipulated that each person must grow 200 catties of vegetables, and more than 5 acres of wasteland have been cleared a few days ago.
In the agricultural production of the troops themselves, because the cadres can play an exemplary role, the production mood of the soldiers is also particularly high. Most of their cultivated land was solved by eliminating the mature land (once cultivated land and then no one cultivated it) and reclaiming the raw land (previously from the wild land that was not cultivated), of which only the Pingshun (Pingshun County, Shanxi) independent battalion reclaimed 180 mu of cultivated land, and the 31st Regiment not only eliminated 84 mu of mature land, but also opened up 157 mu of barland. According to statistics, during the spring ploughing period, 17 units in the whole sub-district have a total of 1,420 mu of land, and the types of crops include various autumn grains and vegetables, such as millet, corn, wheat, radish, yam eggs, ground vines, and so on.
Fighting does not forget production. "In order to complete this year's production tasks, each company organized a production team, and in the continuous battle with the enemy, 30 acres of wasteland were cleared and 60 acres of yam eggs were sown. When the enemy invaded Linxian from the south, they did not stop their production activities, but on the contrary, they more actively cooperated with the militia, attacked the enemy, covered the people's production, and completed the regiment's plan to open up 60 acres of wasteland. The Huguan Independent Battalion was tasked with defending the outpost of the base area, and in April this year, it fought 31 consecutive battles. They never relaxed their efforts to produce the work that should be done, and as a result, 97 acres of land were cultivated on schedule. The backbone team of the five districts of Licheng (below the county level, the district level is the grass-roots level, and the backbone militia team) took advantage of all the gaps in the "sweep" of the wheat season, planted 19 acres in a surprise attack, and covered 6 acres of land for X company. In addition to constantly attacking the enemy, the backbone team of the fifth district of Lucheng cultivated several acres of land in a place close to three miles from the enemy. It is said that when they carried dung and planted seeds, everyone brought **, ready to fight the enemy who destroyed production.
The Eighth Route Army has always been concerned about the interests of the masses. When the X Regiment was in Licheng, it helped 28 nearby villages to carry out spring ploughing, and some of them were automatically helped by everyone when they were camping. In the anti-"mopping-up" battle, the divisional rotation training team drew out livestock to help the masses cultivate. The Second Company of the Licheng Independent Battalion and the backbone team of the Fifth District not only repaired a lot of weirs for the people in various villages, but also helped cultivate 23 acres of land during the anti-"sweeping" campaign. At the temporary wounded transfer station, there were six working comrades, who also helped to farm 52 small plots of land without hindering the fulfillment of their tasks. Lao Chen, a cook in the political department of the sub-district, was in the process of countering the "sweep";On the one hand, he is responsible for managing his own pigs, and on the other hand, he helps the masses cultivate more than 20 acres of land.
100 help plan
I remember that when the spring ploughing in southern Tainan entered the tense stage this year, the bulletin of the sub-district political department wrote: "I helped the anti-subordinate and poor peasants to carry 300 quintals of dung in a row.""The second company helped the anti-subordinate and poor peasants to carry 200 quintals of manure, and began to open up four acres of land for the anti-genus. "According to preliminary statistics in the first half of the year, a total of 12 units below the sub-district headquarters participated in the ploughing assistance, and the number of villages assisting in farming has reached 88, with a total of 11,316 quintals of manure, 270 loads of manure, 18 mu of ploughed land, 513 mu of farming land, and 36 mu of land preparation.
This article was published by Xi Fengzhou on 29 August 1943.