The traitor Wu Lantian has served as secretary for many years and is very good at local governance!

What’s even more shocking is that this traitor completely copied the Eighth Route Army’s model of forming an anti-Japanese government!

Not only does it form a county council to hold open elections, it also sets up a secretariat, civil affairs bureau, finance bureau, education bureau, construction bureau, security headquarters, and audit office in the county...

It's just that all department heads are selected from the special task force organized by traitors.

There are about 300 remaining secret agents stationed in the county, and most of the rest are scattered in the towns surrounding the county to ensure the safety of the county!

For towns further away from the county seat, fewer spies are arranged accordingly.

The mayors and mayors of each township are all served by cronies of traitors, and then they arrange their cronies to act as pawns of the pseudo-township government...

The strange thing is that in the villages under the jurisdiction of the pseudo-townships, there are not many ordinary people left at all. In fact, the ordinary people in several villages in the countryside combined are not as many as the spies in the countryside!

As a result, the township heads and town mayors naturally have very few daily affairs to deal with. Besides, how do those dog spies know anything about governance?

Of course, the township head and town mayor who was born as a bandit has the fundamental goal of making money to satisfy his selfish desires. Without the common people in his jurisdiction, the spies naturally have their own ideas. Wu Jinshan, the traitor, knows how to make money from business, and in all transactions, he sells without money.

Buy money the fastest!

Secretly instructing his subordinates to imitate the early working methods of our party and beat up the local tyrants in the county. After they had no worries about money and food, the traitors immediately turned their backs and refused to recognize anyone. First, they publicly shot a group of criminals who had committed crimes and the people were very angry, and then in a high-profile way, they ordered their subordinates to

The spies went around pretending to be good people to maintain order, and sent people to neighboring counties to preach about the fairness of the county government.

The traitor also set up a strange rule. All township personnel at all levels, including township heads and mayors, must patrol every village in their jurisdiction every three days to maintain public order in each village...

In fact, every village has been empty of ten houses, and those left behind are basically the old and the weak. They are villagers who are not even qualified to flee!

Even if you are fleeing, you still have to bring some food to fill your belly on the way out, right?

If you can't even raise food on the way to escape, what else can you do except stay and wait to die?

The remaining villagers are in dire straits, and their only hope is for God to open his eyes and make it rain!

The traitors come up with endless ways to win over people's hearts. With money, they can get food. They even started to organize their subordinates to occasionally distribute some relief food to the villagers who were left behind and were about to starve to death. Although it was just bean cakes and bran to feed the livestock, at least it was enough to hang them.

life.

The remaining villagers were deceived and turned into spies for the Wu brothers in a short period of time!

Therefore, when there was a strange situation in the town, it quickly reached the ears of deputy leader Wu Hexiu.

The person guarding the city gate of the security team was accompanied by a villager. The two stood up straight and looked carefully at the deputy leader who had just washed his face: "...the leader is a detective team member from Meixian County, his name is Hu Yi, he is here

There were eight people in total, and there must be meat in their mule carts, I could smell it very clearly!"

Wu Hexiu glared: "Meixian? You come all the way to a poor and remote country like me to sell grain and meat? Do you really think I'm a fool?"

The security team member was a little confused: "Could it be...that they came here because they thought our prices were affordable?"

Zhao Hepi smiled but said: "You idiot, you are going to shoot those... leaders of the Eighth Route Army tomorrow. Of course they are here to find out the news today. Hehe, then wait until tomorrow to catch them all."

"But... there's no writing on Balu's face. What if it's not Balu?"

"What does it matter if he's not the Eighth Route Army? As long as he stays in my territory for two days, won't he still give us money for food and drink?"

"How about I arrange for someone to arrest them directly? According to the news from the brothers who followed them, they have a lot of money with them!"

Wu Hexiu was furious: "Damn it! How many times have I told you? We are on the same side of government, so we must ensure the safety of the people on the same side. Only in this way can we collect taxes, collect city entry fees, and have a steady stream of money."

Wealth source! You must not kill the chicken to obtain the egg. You mother, go back quickly and warn those bastards who are planning to do evil things. Whoever dares to do something on my territory will have their hands chopped off, and those who move their legs will directly use their legs..."

The security guard curled his lips and quickly bumped his shoulder into the civilian husband next to him who had been afraid to speak and had dozens of patches on his clothes.

The dirty-faced civilian husband was extremely nervous when faced with the murderous Wu Laoer: "I know one of them. He is from Jiujianfang Village. His surname is Geng. One of his two sons joined the national army and died.

During the battle in An County, another one was running errands for the Eighth Route Army. Last year, he was caught and shot by people sent by Township Chief Wu Laoba..."

"Okay, I get it, I'll reward you with ten yuan, haha..." Wu Hexiu smiled broadly, took out a stack of bills from his pocket, took out one and handed it to the farmer.

The middle-aged man took the money tremblingly: Ten yuan!

In the early years, soldiers who went to the battlefield to serve as suicide squads received bounties for less than ten dollars!

The security team glanced sideways and immediately took the civilian husband and ran away...

After the two of them went out, Wu Hexiu still had a smile on his face: "It's interesting, this family is not very peaceful..."

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Under the spring sunshine, the town of Anxian County is all gray.

Dressed in a plain cotton coat, with short neck-length hair swinging from side to side, Su Qing quickly turned into an alley.

She glanced back inadvertently, and the monkey following her from a distance nodded to her.

Immediately turn around and walk into a deeper alley.

She received an emergency contact signal from the intelligence team directly under the headquarters in An County.

This was her first time communicating with her superiors' independent intelligence system personnel. There was no one in the alley, and she looked at the house number casually.

On the 18th, a door god was posted on the upper part of the gray door. It must have been posted for the New Year. It was very new, but I don’t know who dug a hole in it.

Judging from the scale, the yard at the back shouldn't be big.

Su Qing suddenly felt a little uneasy. The intelligence team directly under the headquarters would not look for her for no reason.

He took a deep breath, walked to the door, raised his hand and knocked twice in succession, one hard and four softly, according to the agreed code.

Then wait.

After a while, the door opened.

A middle-aged man with an extremely ordinary appearance appeared, and he put his head in confusion and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Su Qing did not answer the other party's question, but handed over the dime note that he had prepared with a copper coin wrapped in half: "This is your wages for doing odd jobs last month, a total of ten cents!"

A corner of the banknote folded on top was missing. The middle-aged man reached out to take it, took out the money from his pocket, clamped the banknotes together, then shook out the copper coin and gave it back to Su Qing: "Thank you for your hard work.

, you can take this copper coin to the alley and buy a bowl of sugar water to drink."

Su Qing said calmly: "One penny is not enough."

The middle-aged man took out another copper coin from his pocket: "Is this enough?"

"That's enough, I can buy two bowls of water!"

The middle-aged man's expression remained unchanged: "Please come in!"

Su Qing walked quickly into the hospital, and the middle-aged man immediately closed the door behind him.

Su Qing was a little excited and looked at the layout of the yard out of habit.

The middle-aged man walked to the house in the courtyard first: "Say in the house!"

Following the middle-aged man into the house, the middle-aged man poured a glass of water and pushed it in front of Su Qing who was standing: "Please sit down and drink water!"

Su Qing held the cup in both hands, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Are you Mr. Zhou?"

Putting down the kettle, the middle-aged man stretched out his hand to shake Su Qing's hand: "Zhou Tongle, please reveal your identity... The station tax collector at Jiuxing Hutong, North Street, Taxation Bureau, remember clearly, you can come to me directly if you have important matters in the future! Remember, only

It could be something important!”

The middle-aged man pulled out a chair and sat down opposite Su Qing, took out a cigarette and hesitated for a moment: "Do you mind if I smoke a cigarette?"

Su Qing was stunned for a moment: "It doesn't matter!"

The middle-aged man calmly took out his cigarette. A delicate lighter appeared in the middle-aged man's hand, and flames erupted with a crackle.

Su Qing watched all this without saying anything. Chief Lin told her that the Eighth Route Army had three independent intelligence systems in An County!

What she knows is that the anti-Japanese democratic government has a system. Director Zhang of the Public Security Bureau died. The division's own system is actually in her hands and is currently merged with the work team. The other most secret intelligence system is directly controlled by the Eighth Route Army headquarters.

The leader, in her capacity, is not qualified to know.

This time, an intelligence officer from the headquarters intelligence system suddenly contacted her.

Zhou Tongle raised his head and blew out a smoke ring into the air, saying directly: "We have an important mission this time!"

Speaking of intelligence, Su Qing immediately became calm: "Please give instructions."

Zhou Tongle pushed the document on the table over.

Su Qing quickly read the contents on the piece of paper.

There are not many words on the document, but it is about the arrest of Secretary Li Fengtian...

Zhou Tongle looked serious: "This is what the comrades in the division reported directly through the enemy's artillery tower. It may not be detailed, but the current situation is urgent. In order to transmit the information to us in time, we also lost an intelligence line!

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Hua County? Isn’t Jiuying in that area?

Su Qing's eyes widened as she listened, and she asked with some confusion: "Can I think...this Secretary Li's matter is very important?"

Zhou Tongle's face turned cold: "I remind you, this is not a question you should ask! What we have to do now is to launch a rescue operation!"

Su Qing's face turned pale when her superior pointed out her mistake to her face. She was an old underground worker and she didn't know why she got distracted.

Adjust your mentality quickly.

The intelligence work she is doing focuses on the work against the enemy in towns and villages outside the county seat.

Huaxian County is about 80 kilometers away from Anxian County, and it is within the scope of her work! It is only because of some reason that she is unwilling to admit that she often looks at the map of that area.

However, she did not refuse: "Whatever you want us to do, you give us the order!"

Zhou Tongle then nodded: "The armed work team that was originally operating in the Huaxian area was trapped and ambushed by traitors, and suffered heavy losses. Our mission this time is to cooperate with the division to launch a rescue operation..."

Su Qing has been working underground for many years, and she knows very well that this operation is definitely not just about rescuing a secretary.

The tasks assigned by her superiors only needed to be carried out, so she did not ask any more questions.

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At that time, Huaxian County was located in the center of the Hebei, Shandong and Henan base areas...the prefectural committee had different opinions on this traitor.

Some people hope to be able to work with Wu Lantian and let him take the initiative anyway. After all, that guy has a county in his hands!

In the 1980s, Zhao Shuji, the supreme leader, worked under Wu Lantian at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War.
Chapter completed!