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Chapter 163: Factory Guard Team
Xie Hushan jumped off his bicycle leisurely and watched the fun with the three harvester drivers as if it had nothing to do with them. His attitude made the three drivers a little confused.

The people in the middle of the four extended and thickened tractor beds were sweating all over, crying and shouting, and the smell of meat was about to waft out. How could this comrade named Xie Hushan still have the mood to ask them for a light?

"Comrade three drivers, you take a break first. Well, I'll go and find out what happened." Xie Hushan lit a cigarette and greeted the three drivers in a humble manner. Then he walked towards the four tractor heads surrounded by a large group of people in the distance.

At this time, Han Hongbing, Chen Daxixi and other militiamen were jokingly arguing with the farmers in front of the tractor.

Han Lao Er stood on the roof of a tractor and pointed at the members below who were talking in a flurry:

"Did I tell the people in your team who were blocking the road? Tell them to get out of the way! Our tractor is going to break down! I've said all the good things I could say! I've begged them for so long, but no one believed me. Now that it's broken down, they're coming to ask me what to do?"

"I'm telling you, I have no idea! All I can think of is to tell you to hurry home and get your chopsticks to take the steamed bread. You can eat it when it's cooked!"

"Give me something shameless!"

A middle-aged man who looked like a brigade cadre had a gloomy face and pointed at the harvester in the distance and said to Han Hongbing:

"The harvesters from your Zhongping Brigade are here! If you continue to block them, it will delay Zhongping's harvesting mission, and no one will have an easy time!"

When Xie Hushan heard this, he realized that this was not going to work. The other party was not being firm enough, so he immediately started to explain loudly:
"Comrades! Don't let the appearance of the harvester affect your fight! We are not just passing by, we are just here to watch the excitement. After watching, we will turn back to the county and not cause any trouble to either of you!"

"If we have to fight, we should fight! Don't resort to fancy dinners. Show your determination to overcome all difficulties, fear no sacrifice, and dare to change the world!"

A group of members turned around and looked at Xie Hushan. Where did this stupid guy come from? Wasn't he okay with just watching the fun?
The damn guy who came with the harvester must be a cadre from the Zhongping Brigade. Is the Zhongping Brigade actively provoking trouble?
The brigade cadre walked towards Xie Hushan with a frown on his face:
"Hurry up and get these tractors to move away! Otherwise, none of your team's harvesters and tractors will be able to leave!"

"I don't want to leave. If you don't let me go, we definitely won't leave and we won't fight. Let's be reasonable. Do you want to let the harvester harvest some wheat for your brigade now?" Xie Hushan said to the brigade cadre with a smile:

"I definitely won't stop you. Our Secretary Han told me when I came here to win people over with virtue."

The other party said with a sullen face: "To win people over with virtue means to surround our members and roast them?"

Judging from the other party's posture and tone, he should be a cadre like the brigade's security director. He was not surprised at all to see Xie Hushan speak.

The person in charge of leading and stopping the machines is generally the security director of the production brigade, or a relatively young brigade cadre such as the militia company commander who ranks lower in the brigade cadre sequence and takes charge.

"Don't say that, Old Xie." Xie Hushan said with a smile on his face:
"I am not the same as them. They are steel mill workers. I am just here to watch the fun. Don't let the harvester's arrival affect your fight. Fight as you please. I love to watch."

"My last name is..."

Xie Hushan interrupted the other party and said in a firm tone:

"It doesn't matter what your last name was before. From today on, your last name must be Xie."

"You are Xie Hushan, the director of the Zhongping Production Brigade and the director of the steel rolling mill. I know you." The middle-aged man said with a stern face, staring at Xie Hushan fiercely:
"What? Are you going to use a few pieces of red-hot iron to scare people in our brigade?"

Xie Hushan put on a flattering smile and gently patted the other person's chest with both hands, signaling him not to get angry:
"Don't say that. What's so scary about iron? What's scary is that Zhongping Commune will remember your brigade from today on. I promise that from today on, it will go to the county every day to collect debts from your commune. It will suspend all the production indicators of your brigade, such as fertilizers and seeds, and sell them to Zhongping at a discount." "You're bragging..." A young man next to him, who might be the militia company commander of the brigade, spoke with disdain after hearing what Xie Hushan said.

Xie Hushan opened his hands and urged the other party to be quiet:

"Don't get excited, don't get excited, don't be impatient, just listen to me slowly, what you are doing now is obstructing and sabotaging factory production, which has nothing to do with stopping the harvester. Do you see the iron? It is getting colder and colder because of your obstruction. You are sabotaging factory production."

"If your sabotage causes the steel mill to be unable to supply goods and causes heavy losses, the steel mill will not be able to pay the tax showdown and various levies to Zhongping Commune. Zhongping Commune cannot collect the money and wants to know the reason. If it wants to know that it is because you blocked the steel mill that it cannot collect the money, what do you think the leaders of Zhongping Commune can do?"

"We dare not come to your brigade to collect debts, right? You are so fierce, so we can only ask the county and your commune. Zhongping Commune dare not bully other brigades, but we dare to make a statement to the county. If the county and your commune do not compensate Zhongping for its losses, starting next year, we will not pay a single grain of public grain. What do you think the county will do? What will your commune do?"

"Does your brigade have anything to pay off the debt? No, even if you have it, the county won't dare to deduct it. It only dares to deduct what hasn't been issued to you yet. For example, if it announces that your brigade has no quota next year, it will actually compensate Zhongping with the fertilizer quota and seed quota, right?"

Xie Hushan reached out and patted the other person's face, and gave his advice seriously:
"So, I suggest that if you really think you are awesome, you'd better smash the tractor now, destroy the factory assets, fight with these steel mill workers, and rescue them. Otherwise, if you see Zhongping people appear in the future, behave yourself and speak properly."

"In the final analysis, you haven't figured out one thing, which is who you are. You dare to challenge your grandfather, a worker? Fuck! You overestimate your own abilities!"

"Fuck you..." The other armed company commander opened his mouth and was about to curse Xie Hushan.

Then I heard the sound of gun bolts being pulled behind me!

Everyone in their team turned around and saw that Han Hongbing, Chen Daxi and others, who had been unarmed just now, had already picked up various guns in the tractor cab and were loading ammunition.

Han Hongbing had a Type 56 submachine gun slung across his chest, with the black muzzle pointed at everyone.

Having guns is not scary, what is scary is the yellow bullets in the hands of the militiamen.

In an instant, everyone fell silent.

"Don't swear. If you have the guts, do it now." Xie Hushan was still fanning the flames: "Smash it? You are all mute, so you won't say anything harsh, right? I'm just wondering who you are, how dare you challenge the workers?"

"Let me introduce you. They are the armed militia guarding the Zhongping Steel Rolling Mill. If you dare to smash your car, they can shoot you on the pretext of protecting the factory's assets. If you die, you will be criminals, but if they die, they will be martyrs and model workers."

The first thing Xie Hushan did when the steel rolling mill was established was to ask his master Zhang Cheng to contact the county armed forces department and agree that the steel rolling mill would select outstanding workers to form a militia protection team. The commune armed forces department would distribute some weapons and bullets, and Han Hongbing would serve as the captain of the militia protection team and the head of the security department.

The factory was more valued than the production team, and applying for ammunition to defend the factory was a very reasonable application in that era.

"If you want those people to come out, either you are prepared to be reactionary to the end and start an internal conflict between the workers and peasants to see whether your pickaxe handles are more powerful or the workers' bullets are more powerful." Xie Hushan held a cigarette and looked at the other party's security director:

"Or, I'm tired, and you can take my place by riding the bike and taking the harvester to Zhongping."

(End of this chapter)