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

In the open space not far away, people from surrounding villages gathered, including large families wearing silk, civilians with worn-out clothes, and poor families with ragged clothes.

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

The leader was one person, but everyone was familiar with it. Bai Wenju, the eldest young master of the Bai family who burned all his 500 acres of poppy millet and promoted the ban on smoking all day long.

The rich men's eyes kept swaying back and forth between the poppy and millet, changing.

When looking at Bai Wenju, the eyes of the evil wolf who wished he could eat people. When looking at Poppy, the painful eyes of the heart were cut off.

"What a smart person in County Magistrate Lin, why was he bewitched by Bai Wenju, this bastard!"

"It's over, I can't make money from opium this year!"

"Bai Wenju, I will send someone to kill him sooner or later!"

"Come on, do you believe it or not, Mr. Bai is fighting with you with a guillotine."

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

"pay?"

"Don't forget that the county magistrate just established the anti-drug bureau two days ago. The county magistrate serves as the chief director, and Bai Wenju is the deputy director."

"If you dare to ask him for compensation, if you believe it or not, you dare to use the name of drug control to confiscate your family!"

Growing big smoke is a very profitable business, several times better than farming, dozens of times more powerful.

Although Lin Hongfei compensated every household with money and grain according to the raw material output of each mu of poppy millet, it could not make up for the subsequent opium income of the large households.

But now, Lin Hongfei is tall and hard, and these local rich men have no courage to challenge the county magistrate.

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

Unlike these local rich men, the reactions of ordinary people are quite stable.

If you don’t let the poppy seeds and corns grow, you won’t plant them. Anyway, when the rich buyers buy raw pulp every year, they will desperately lower the price. The money they get and the grain they exchange for are actually not much different from the farming area.

Moreover, County Magistrate Lin was kind and righteous, and directly compensated everyone for money and grain. The amount of these money and grain was 60% or 70% more than the money and grain given by the rich man after deliberately lowering the price.

Therefore, the people did not react violently. Instead, they felt that County Magistrate Lin was a parent who loved the people.

As for those poor families in ragged clothes, they have a mentality of watching the fun and watching the fun.

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

However, being able to see the heart-wrenching and discomfortable rich men who bully themselves on weekdays is enough to make these poor families as happy as their wives have given birth to children.

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

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

"I was so rude to him at the beginning, but he still ignored his past grudges and personally invited me to serve as the deputy director of the Jiangdu County Drug Control Bureau."

"With this trust of the county magistrate, I have to do my best to do the anti-drug work in Jiangdu County!"

At this moment, Bai Wenju took the torch from his entourage's hand and shouted loudly:

"Brothers, set fire!"

"Burn all this dirty thing that harms the country and the people!"

"yes!"

The soldiers of the Independent Regiment who were temporarily seconded to the Drug Control Bureau agreed in unison and surrounded the entire field of poppy and millet along the ridge.

With the ignition of the torch, the fire immediately started to burn in the field with the help of the wind, and soon spread quickly!

Looking at the burned poppy seedlings, the big families were bleeding. It was all money!

What was the waste of money, just burned it?

An elderly rich man clenched his fists, and his head twitched suddenly, trembling, and shouted heart-wrenchingly:

"It's a sin!"

When the common people in the distance saw that these rich men were as uncomfortable as their dead fathers, they couldn't help laughing, and then looked at the fire in the fields with great interest. But everyone had no fun to watch.

However, compared to today's lively, the people of Jiangdu County have a bigger lively one after another a few days later.

conscription

I saw a flat threshing field, soldiers of the Independence Regiment were wearing brand new and flat military uniforms, and the guns on their hands were wiped clean.

Similar to the last time when the military recruitment was recruited in Shandong Province, the sound of the ocean and the hills were placed in front of the people so openly.

The rules for recruitment have not changed. We will review them strictly and strive for excellence. Once selected, each person will be 8 yuan and 200 kilograms of grain.

Of course, what tempted even more to those young men was the brand new military uniforms on the Independent Soldiers.

After all, for these poor guys, their clothes were either covered with patches or were almost ass to the point.

As for the family of four, it is not uncommon for only one pair of pants and whoever goes out to wear them, it is not uncommon in the countryside of Jiangdu County.

So, in the eyes of the young men, the clothes are more attractive to them.

Therefore, although the recruitment review was very strict, many young men from the past signed up to participate.

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 new recruits who meet the standards of the navy to expand the ranks of the independent regiment's naval army.

After Ding Dehu returned from Hebei and Shandong provinces, he brought back more than 700 strong and powerful young men.

Huo Yunshan also carefully selected locally and recruited more than 300 local young people from Jiangdu County.

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

To this end, Lin Hongfei specially established an Independent Regiment Officer Training Brigade, with him as the chief instructor, and specially selected suitable personnel from the army to educate corresponding grassroots officers.

Wu Yongquan, Chu Liangyi, and Huo Yunshan, these Baoding Military Academy graduates also became teachers of the Officer's Teaching Brigade, systematically teaching the knowledge they learned in the Military Academy to the students of the Officer's Brigade.

Because this group of students is the first group of students in the Officer Teaching Brigade, Lin Hongfei, as the chief instructor, will teach the students a few lessons from time to time.

In class, Lin Hongfei asked the students to call him the instructor in accordance with the rules of the teaching brigade.

Over time, the students became accustomed to it.

After they graduated from the teaching brigade and were transferred to various companies to serve as grassroots officers, they did not change. Some people even deliberately called Lin Hongfei this.

After all, when you call Lin Hongfei, you call him the county magistrate and the leader of the group, and we respectfully call him the instructor, which shows how close we are to the leader!

Of course it is not just these people. The Jiangdu County Independent Regiment was established on the basis of the Fourth Company of the 11th Brigade of Shandong Province.

Therefore, in order to show their uniqueness, the members of the Fourth Company would call Lin Hongfei the company commander in private occasions.
Chapter completed!