Time flies, and we have come to 30 years.
There were two heavy rains at the beginning of spring. With the heavy rain falling, the dry riverbed finally contained water, and the cracked earth finally began to recover.
The trees that were frozen to death came back to life, and even the weeds began to sprout. The common people finally saw a way to live again, and they ran directly into the rain to feel the long-lost rain and dew.
After the spring rain, the villagers hurriedly sprinkled the seeds into the ground, hoping for a bumper harvest in summer.
But Xiang Nan knew that the drought was over, but the locust plague was coming again.
Because drought is conducive to the reproduction of locusts. It spawns best in a dry environment with a humidity of 10 to 20 percent.
Plants in arid environments have low water content and are most suitable for locusts to eat and grow, and drought is also conducive to locust migration.
Therefore, after years of severe drought, there will always be locust plagues.
However, locust plagues are very difficult to control. Even in modern times, agricultural technology has been very developed, and there are often news of locust plagues all over the world.
What's more, during the period of the Republic of China, agricultural technology was still very backward, so it was even more difficult to prevent and control locust plagues. Xiang Nan didn't expect anything about it.
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He is more concerned about the affairs in Xi'an.
According to the timeline in the book and the play, I am afraid that Lu Zhaopeng is going to be in danger.
He was ordered to find the 36th Army in the Maoqin base area. As a result, Jiang Dacheng, the political commissar of the 36th Army, insisted on going his own way and instigated the army to attack the city of Xi'an.
But in fact, he had already betrayed.
The base of the Thirty-Sixth Army is Maoqin, located in the mountainous area of Weibei, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Moreover, the team of more than 900 people can easily be dispersed. Therefore, it is very difficult for the national army to enter the mountains to encircle and suppress.
But Weinan is a plain, and there is no place to hide here, so it is easy to be gathered and wiped out.
Jiang Dacheng wanted to bring the 36th Army out of the mountains, onto the plains, and into the encirclement. At that time, the enemy will be outnumbered and there will be nowhere to hide, so it will be easy to be surrounded and wiped out.
In the play, the Thirty-Sixth Army was almost wiped out, and even Lu Zhaopeng was almost killed.
Moreover, because of Jiang Dacheng's betrayal, the underground party suffered extremely heavy losses. The contact points in the province were almost wiped out, and many comrades including Tailor Han and County Magistrate Hao died because of this.
Xiang Nan couldn't bear to see this tragedy, so he decided to save them.
Immediately, he left Bailuyuan in the name of wandering around the world, entered Zishui County, and quietly lurked in the party headquarters of the Nationalist Party. The location was on the ceiling of Yue Weishan's office.
Yue Weishan's superficial identity is the Secretary-General of the Zishui County Branch, but his real identity is the person in charge of the Central Committee stationed in Sanqin.
He is in command of hundreds of spies in Zishui County, and his task is to eliminate the chaotic party and maintain the rule.
Therefore, by lurking by his side, Xiang Nan can receive first-hand news.
Relying on Xiang Nan's martial arts and the secret agent skills inherited from James Bond, it is natural for him to follow Yue Weishan without any mistakes.
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After several days of tracking and lurking, Xiang Nan quickly received key information.
A traitor is willing to surrender to Yue Weishan for the sake of a high official and generous salary. In order to keep it secret, the two met for the first time at a small tea shop in Xi'an City.
Xiang Nan guessed that the traitor should be Jiang Dacheng.
Yue Weishan disguised himself as an ordinary small businessman and entered the tea shop.
And some of his men disguised themselves as shopkeepers, shop assistants, and tea customers of tea shops, and some disguised as street vendors and beggars... In short, the security measures were very strict, and they were under surveillance within a radius of 100 meters.
If that person sincerely surrenders and pays back, if he lures a fish into the bait and takes the opportunity to assassinate, everyone present will capture him immediately.
A moment later, I saw a tea customer enter the tea shop, but he didn't sit at the same table with Yue Weishan, but sat in the seat next to him.
Xiang Nan was not sure whether he was a traitor for a while, so he quickly used Zixia's magical skills to eavesdrop.
But he heard the man whisper, "Master Yue?"
"It's me, are you Shopkeeper Jiang?" Yue Weishan asked.
"It's me." The man nodded and said, "Shopkeeper Yue, the business has been doing well these past few years. Our business has almost been robbed."
"Praise from shopkeeper Jiang." Yue Weishan smiled, "If you don't dislike it, why don't you come to our store and join us. How about I guarantee you to be the second shopkeeper?"
"Second shopkeeper?" Shopkeeper Jiang was taken aback, then smiled, "How much is the salary?"
"Shopkeeper Jiang is afraid that my brother will be stingy. As long as you are willing to come, I will give you ten small yellow croakers as a gift. After you come, the salary will be equal to mine, how about it?" Yue Weishan laughed, then took out a package from his pocket, Pass it secretly to Shopkeeper Jiang under the table.
"Okay, shopkeeper Yue is really generous." Shopkeeper Jiang took a look, and his eyes lit up, "In that case, let's make a deal."
"Shopkeeper Jiang is really quick to speak." Yue Weishan laughed, "Brother gave you a gift, so you have to return a gift to brother."
"Okay, then I'll point out the two rabbits first, and I'll serve Shopkeeper Yue." Shopkeeper Jiang said immediately, "Their contact point in the provincial capital is cutting..."
When Xiang Nan heard this, he had already confirmed his identity. Seeing that he was about to reveal the news, he immediately stopped hesitating, took out his pistol, and aimed a shot at Shopkeeper Jiang.
With his marksmanship, he guarantees a hundred hits.
Sure enough, a shot was fired, and the shopkeeper Jiang was shot in the head as soon as the words came to his lips.
Yue Weishan was furious when he saw it, and immediately ordered his men to search around for the shooter.
But there is still time.
After Xiang Nan finished shooting, he immediately left. In a short while, he had already run several miles away, and those spies couldn't catch up even if they were killed.
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After taking care of the traitor Jiang Dacheng, Xiang Nan quietly went to the tailor shop at night, and collected a series of secrets from Yue Weishan, such as the national army's communist suppression plan, the national army's defense map, the spy's infiltration list, and the telegram to decipher the code. Ben and so on are placed at the door of the tailor shop.
Then, he knocked lightly on the door three times.
Tailor Han just fell asleep when he heard a knock on the door and woke up immediately. Came to the door quietly, looked out through the crack of the door cautiously, and saw the package on the ground.
He quickly took it into the house, opened it, and was shocked.
These are top-secret information, each of which is very precious. If you want to get it, you don't know how much effort you have to put in and how many comrades you sacrifice to achieve it, but now it's dropped out of thin air, it's like a windfall from heaven.
In addition, he also saw a letter from the package, which explained the whole story of Jiang Dacheng's murder.
Tailor Han was taken aback when he saw it.
He hasn't received the news of Jiang Dacheng's assassination yet, but he has met Jiang Dacheng and knows that he is the political commissar of the 36th Army, and he just came to the city for a meeting.
Unexpectedly, he was already killed, and he was actually a big traitor.
Fortunately, he was executed in time, otherwise, all underground parties would be in danger and would almost be uprooted by him.