The Japanese liaison officers were a little messy. Their soldiers were attacking the Central Army of the Nanjing Government, the Central Army was attacking their infantry and the Tsarist Russian artillery, and the Tsarist Russian artillery was attacking the Central Army's positions and the Japanese chargers. What a chaotic relationship.

However, with the heavy artillery of the Tsarist Russians, the Central Army machine gun castle on the front positions also stopped fire. But God knew that it was because the charger was knocked out by Tsarist Russian artillery, so the ceasefire was or the fire in the castle was knocked out by the cannon. The Japanese liaison officer would rather believe in the second one.

The people in China sneered at the Japanese who came to fight Rehe again. This is the third time. Tell me when he won? Taiwan has been taken back by the Nanjing government, and the Japanese who dared not even fart. It is said that a large group of generals have asked to attack Ryukyu. Taiwan Ryukyu was stolen by the Japanese back then, so how could only recover one?

However, according to the recent military meeting of the Military Commission, this issue has not been discussed. Ryukyu is seven or eight hundred kilometers away from Taizhou, and only the largest landing craft can reach it. Although the number of Japanese soldiers on it is smaller, the current Nanjing government's strategy is to focus on stability. Naval ships can just go around and ensure that the plaster flag cannot go into the sea. Such a blockade makes Japanese soldiers feel more uncomfortable than killing Ryukyu.

Most people's views on the Japanese's once again provoking war are similar to the current season - the grasshoppers after autumn can't jump for a few days.

Instead of thinking about the problem that is so far away, it is better to leave it to the men in Nanjing to think about it. Farmers only think about having a good harvest in a year.

This is strange. The imperial grain tax of thousands of years has no need to pay since last year. Since last year, the tax collectors from all counties and townships have not gone to the countryside, but have been transferred to Jiangsu by a transfer order. Except for the elderly and weak, they were sent back, and the others did not run away. I heard that they went to Shandong for training and then Fujian to reorganize and finally went to Taiwan.

I really got to be a soldier and eat food. I don’t know which master came up with an idea. Not to mention, this group of tax collectors is said to have made the Japanese scream in Taiwan. Is this combat power not high? They are the top leaders in the villages on weekdays - this is the one who collects taxes. If you feel a little weak in your heart or hands, you will not be able to collect the tax.

What is the purpose of this tax? First, pay the country's regular tax. Secondly, the county magistrate, judge, police, etc. in the county are expensed by the government. However, the tax collectors of the security team do not use the government expenses. The tax on this part of the tax is often several times that of the regular tax. In the countryside, it is called donation tax. If there are wealthy people, it is also used to build water conservancy, pave bridges and roads. There is no need to think about poor places.

The Japanese devils were first recruited by the regular army in this fight. In the past, this group of people were also a large group of bandits in the countryside who used tax donations. They were not happy yet after they left the tax collectors, and they were also entrusted with strong men.

Take Wang Guangtian, a self-cultivated rural villager in Dingxing, Baobei, Zhili. This year, Wang Guangtian thought about buying an oil press. Last year, after the Nanjing government suddenly announced that it would be exempted from the land tax that had been passed down for thousands of years, everyone was skeptical. If it was exempted, it would be good. Who wouldn't want to eat a few more months of full meals a year? If it was inevitable, it would be fine, but it had been paid for thousands of years anyway.

At that time, most people in and outside the village thought that this was just a matter of saying. The King of Chuang also said that equalizing the fields and freeing grain, so what could happen in the end? The King of Chuang was really equalizing the fields and freeing grain, but none of them were happy. The men and women who did not leave the army were killed, leaving behind a lonely and widowed young man and young man looking at the empty rice jar and crying to death all day long.

But the young and strong man who did not need to pass by the territory to supplement the battle losses and not take food and property as the food and salary of the rioters. How could the rioters regroup after several defeats and finally enter the capital to hang the emperor? Dear, this is an advertisement.

But it was just an advertising slogan to deceive Xiaomin. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, people were willing to believe it. The reason was nothing else. After more than two hundred years, I forgot everything I should have forgotten.

No one came down to collect taxes last year until the end of the year, so it was a good year for Wang Guangtian’s family. The three-fresh dumplings were eaten until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Wang Guangtian, who had secretly betrayed two bandits in the county, secretly went to the county's police station to buy a foreign gun with his family on his back. It was said that it was a foreign gun, but the price was much cheaper. He also sent dozens of yellow and orange bullets per 10 yuan. Wang Guangtian secretly fired six bullets in the shooting range opened near the county's police station and felt very distressed. In this way, Wang Guangtian's shooting skills were still terrible. According to the police station, he can only guarantee that he can hit the person within five meters, and it's just a matter of what to hit. He may also aim at his chest and hit the foot.

A bullet-fighting police station costs one cent, and 60 cents can buy twelve kilograms of white flour cakes in the market in the town. The twelve kilograms of white flour cakes can be eaten for two days for a family of five.

But Wang Guangtian still felt that it was necessary to spend the ten yuan. Since the country repeatedly exempted the agricultural tax and then forced the donation, the bandits who forced the donation must have a way to fight him.

It is not surprising that bandits forced donations. Not all bandits go to rob their families. Some bandits write notes after they become powerful. For example, a family has paid 1,000 dan of grain for their birthday today. Zhangjiazhuang has to send more than 1,000 dan of grain and side dishes to the bandits for their birthday without saying a word. Otherwise, they will wait for the bandits to come to the village to rob grain and women.

This bandit's birthday may not be the case, at least twice a year - wheat harvest and autumn harvest. However, it is also possible to meet worse bandits who celebrate their birthdays three or four times a year.

Although the country had just wiped out bandits from all over the country two years ago, these bandits were not found when society was first formed, and those bandits were not big bandits born in the bandit's nest. After all, they were gradually organized by the collapsed army, refugees, hooligans, gangsters, etc.

After buying a gun last year, Wang Guangtian felt that his waist had become much harder. In the spring of the next year, he planted peanuts on the more than ten acres of sand fields passed down from his ancestors. As for the five acres of dry fields that had been growing grain, they still planted winter wheat, which was planted last fall. In May, the wheat was harvested and corn was planted.

This year, the food ration field can contain about 800 kilograms of white flour and more than 2,000 kilograms of corn flour. If the family of five is exempted from agricultural tax, it is absolutely enough for a family of five to eat, tortillas and white flour pancakes. But people don’t just need to eat.

Take the proverb in the countryside as saying, marry a man and wear clothes and eat. Now it is popular to say that food and clothing are important, which shows that the importance of clothing is even before eating. That year, when two bandits' nests were sold, Wang Guangtian had the reward for the whole family to make new clothes for winter. By the way, Wang Guangtian himself was worried about this for a long time. It is said that if he won't die, he will be in danger of fighting a thief.

Sometimes Wang Guangtian thought that the bandits knew that they had reported to him and sold the bandits' nest. At that time, the bandits and soldiers came to the door and killed all the family and robbed them. Fortunately, this incident did not happen in the end. At the same time, this was also a reason why Wang Guangtian bought a gun last year to defend himself.

Although the range of this gun is closer, the people in the police station also said that it is okay to knock down two or three people after using it well. Those bandits are just a group of mobs. It is okay to bully the people without guns. Once there is danger, they run faster than rabbits. If every family in the village buys guns and every household is in charge of defense, the bandits will not even dare to enter the village. If there are dozens of short guns in a village waiting for the bandits to approach before they attack, then who dares to enter? But the bandits have no artillery, so how can they rob them if they don’t go in?

Although the police praised the revolver so much that it could not change the fact that the revolver had only an effective range of 30 meters.

Wang Guangtian didn't want to sell these peanuts planted this year to the oil shop opened by Zhou Caidong in the village like in the past. He changed some peanut oil and oil cakes for fertilizers. As for the cost, just pay a portion of the peanuts or oil cakes. Everyone knows that oil pressing is also profitable, otherwise what oil shop will Zhou Caidong open? This is when Wang Guangtian bought a gun in the county town. There was a factory in Tianjin selling oil presses. The oil yield rate was much better than the traditional oil pressing method of two stoves and one mill.

I heard that this oil press can squeeze oil by itself as long as it is powered on. If it is powered off, it is okay, just spend more effort. You can use the pedal to squeeze oil. Some people in the city bought this oil press from Tianjin and sold it to make a profit.

The price is not too expensive. Wang Guangtian planned to sell most of the food stored in his family last year and this year, and the money saved by selling the bandits' nest was just enough to buy such an oil press. At that time, his family opened an oil shop in the village, and maybe his family would prosper again in ten or eight years.

Wang Guangtian never thought about where the electricity comes from in this village. Not to mention the village, there is no electricity even in the county. It would be nice to have an oil lamp at night. At the beginning, Wang Guangtian fell in love with the benefits of human oil pressing. There are five people in the family, so they don’t have to be idle during the slack farming period. Take turns stepping on this oil pressing.

For example, Wang Guangtian's three children are now 13 years old and the youngest is 9 years old, and they can't do anything. A few children just take advantage of the summer and autumn to pick pig grass by the pond, and then carry it to a town dozens of miles away to sell it. This basket of pig grass can only be sold for five cents, but it is already an incredible income for children. This five cents can be bought at the market for a pound of white flour cake or two traditional snacks from Baoding.

As the saying goes, half a young man eats poor, and the stomachs of these three children are like bottomless pits. They can eat a few kilograms of vegetable steamed buns in a meal and can't wait for a while and they will be hungry again.

On weekdays, the three children always bring two baskets of pig grass to the market to sell to those who sell livestock. When the children take the money, they often buy things to eat in a few taels. That's it, they still have hungry when they take two meals a day.

Even if the country exempts the land tax, the oil and water in this kind of land are not very large. Wang Guangtian thought about this for a year before making up his mind to buy an oil press. Not to mention that his family has thousands of kilograms of peanuts a year, there are hundreds of thousands of kilograms of peanuts in the village and village in total. First, sell the peanuts from his family, and then buy the peanuts in the village and continue to squeeze the oil. Isn’t it just a little effort? There are not many other people in the countryside, and they have more strength.

Since Wang Guangtian is the head of the family, there is no need to discuss this with his wife. Every woman has long hair and short knowledge. She did it as soon as she wanted. After selling most of the food stored in the family, a silver-shining (galvanized) oil press was pulled back by a ox cart. This time, Wang Guangtian went to the county town to learn a complete set of oil pressing techniques. In fact, there is no skill and all fools to operate. She just remembers where the material is fed, and the oil cake is fed.

From this day on, the sound of foot pedals stomping in Wang Guangtian’s main hall was heard. The first person to step on the foot pedals was naturally Wang Guangtian, who had just learned this skill. The four of his wife and children in the family began to be busy peeling peanuts and filling the ingredients. Then he watched the yellow peanut oil slowly flow into a side barrel from less to more.

When the oil was released, a dark yellow oil cake slowly came out on the other side and fell on the plate. For a moment, the main room was filled with the fragrance of peanut oil.

After all the oil and oil cakes came out, Wang Guangtian said: "The oil cakes can be squeezed once more and then sent in."

Wang Guangtian's wife put the oil cake into the feeding mouth again, and Wang Guangtian kicked up again. The second time the oil cake was much less oil, but the combined oil yield was considerable. Although Wang Guangtian's family didn't even know a few, they still had a scale in their hearts when they were squeezing oil from Zhou Caidong.

Wang Guangtian's wife poured the peanut oil squeezed into the oil bottle that had been empty for many days at home and gestured, saying, "It's one-fifth more than Zhou Caidong's oil pressed."

Wang Guangtian said: "It's not just one fifth. In the past, the oil pressing had to give Zhou Caidong all the oil cakes to the oil pressing money. Or take out one fifth of the peanuts. Just one fifth of the difference between here and outside. These oil cakes are also of great use."

Of course, it is of great use. The remaining oil cakes from the oil press can be used as fertilizer or feed. There are also a lot of people who pay to buy them at the market. After eating the oil cakes, they grow fat and big, which is of course better for selling - in this dark 1930s, fat meat was more expensive than lean meat.

Wang Guangtian's eldest son thought that the remaining oil cakes could still be squeezed out, and asked, "Dad, are you squeezing these oil cakes once?"

Wang Guangtian nodded and said, "Okay. Then let's try it. They said they would squeeze it twice, so we would really squeeze it twice?"

But this time the oil press disappointed the father and son. For the third time, only a few drops of peanut oil were squeezed out, which was not enough effort.

Everyone was not too discouraged. After all, it was wrong to produce unlimited oil in this piece of oil cake. It was a surprise that it could produce so much oil. The whole family immediately devoted more energy to the oil pressing work.

A pound of peanut oil can be sold for about 20 cents per kilogram in Shanghai or Sijiucheng, but the wholesale price in this countryside is only 10 cents per kilogram - is it the origin? It is naturally cheaper. Besides, the living standards of Sijiucheng and Shanghai are always higher than those in local counties.

When Wang Guangtian stepped on the oil press, he thought of a good life in the future. This year, his family collected more than 1,800 kilograms of peanuts, which could produce about 1,400 kilograms of peanut kernels. After drying, he would still have to remove 100 kilograms of water. However, there are still 1,300 kilograms of peanut kernels. Usually, these peanut kernels are squeezed out oil and sold for money to pay various taxes. Since last year, these taxes and agricultural taxes have been lost, so there are still a few hundred kilograms of peanut kernels left last year - the oil-pressed ones are the peanut kernels dried last year.

According to the current oil yield rate of 2,000 kilograms of peanut kernels, about 6,700 kilograms of peanut oil. Be good, how much does it cost? It's more than 100, and the money you bought a machine has been back. More importantly, the money is legitimate and belongs to your own. No need to think about the donations to suppress bandits and prevent thieves and donate road construction and disasters.

As he thought about it, Wang Guangtian strengthened his belief: If he asked me to donate this and that, I will fight him with a gun.

Wang Guangtian's wife poured a pot of peanuts into the feeding mouth and asked, "Dad, our family will have to raise a few pigs in the spring next year. I see these oil cakes, and there are so many fields available at home."

Wang Guangtian became more and more vigorous as he pedaled, and said, "It's not just buying a few pigs. This year, our family is so tired that they can't straighten their waists. They hire people to shave peanuts next year. How can the work in the field be as fast as this one? I calculated that it can make about 100 yuan a year for planting peanuts, and it's quite reasonable to spend more than ten yuan to shave peanuts. The work in the grain field can also be used for short-term work. When our oil pressing workshop grows bigger, we will also hire a few long-term workers to spend the life of Zhoucai's boss."

"The profit of 100 yuan a year!" Wang Guangtian's wife was a little unacceptable for a while. The ground machine white flour cost only 600 cents per kilogram. The annual output of the five-acre ration field in the family is only 800 kilograms of white flour and 2,000 kilograms of corn flour, and the total value is more than 100 yuan, but that is what I eat at home. Not to mention anything else at home, five people have to eat thousands of kilograms of corn flour and hundreds of kilograms of white flour for a year.

He didn't dare to sell the food he saved randomly and kept it for waste. For example, this time, Wang Guangtian took his own initiative to take out all the cash and grains from his family and exchanged them for an oil press. His wife didn't dare to say it, but he complained countless times in his heart. If this iron guy couldn't squeeze out the oil, how could he live this winter and next spring? You have to know that his relatives and in-laws' families are not rich.

The family took turns to work and took fifteen days to squeeze all 2,000 kilograms of peanut kernels into more than 700 kilograms of peanut oil and more than 900 kilograms of oil cakes. From then on, the Wang Guangtian family all had thick and strong legs, which was something that everyone discovered a long time later. The important thing now is to exchange these peanut oil for money to continue buying peanut kernels.

If you want to say that Baobei, where Wang Guangtian lives, is a really good place. Whether it is Sijiu City, Tianjin Wei or the provincial capital of Zhili, Baoding Prefecture, at this time, there are a large number of people living in the population of several million people in Beiping City (permanent residence and mobile), and these people naturally have to eat oil.

But there may be factories, schools and hospitals in the city, but it is impossible to produce oil without farmland. The side foods and fruits, vegetables, and cooking oil needed must be purchased from the countryside, and there are also specialists who work as second-trade dealers.

After Wang Guangtian's family sold the oil, they inquired about the price of peanut kernels in the market. They were shocked. The 140 yuan earned from selling peanut oil could actually buy 2,800 kilograms of peanut kernels. Not to mention anything else, they also made more than 700 kilograms of peanut kernels. The one I bought was not an oil press, but the one I bought was obviously a money press.
Chapter completed!