Study On The Grain Struggle In Shandong Anti-Japanese Base Area

As a Chinese saying goes,"Food and grass go first before troops and horses move",grain played a prominent role in the war as an important strategic material.Before the war,Shandong could basically meet the people’s demand for food under the conditions of internal and external cooperation in food supply.In 1940,the Shandong Anti-Japanese Base was form ally established,becoming an important strategic base of the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines.During the war of resistance against Japanese aggression.Grain production in Shandong has decreased,coupled with the increase of the demand for grain from all sides,the problem of imbalance between supply and demand intensified,so the Japanese,the puppet,and the Communist P arty of China launched a fierce competition for grain.The Japanese,the puppet and the stubborn fought for grain in the base areas mainly by means of "peaceful" collection of grain,military scramble for grain and "buying grain".Among them,the "legal" land ownership and grain control system became the main ways of "peaceful" grain collection by Japanese,bogeymen and obstinate people in the base areas in an attempt to make them hand over grain in a seemingly "legal" way.In addition to the "peaceful" means,the Japanese,the puppet and the stubborn resorted to the violent methods of looting,seizing and cutting by force and reining in force to seize grain.Especially in the later period of the war,the Japanese puppet resorted to the armed grabbing of grain by any means possible.In addition,cheap purchase,high purchase and smuggling and other economic means are also Japanese,fake,stubborn way to plunder food.The act of food grab is accompanied by the infringement of the rights and interests of the people in the base areas,and the basic living environment of the people at the bottom is greatly damaged.In response to the plunder by the Japanese,the puppet and the stubborn in the base areas,the Communist Party of China responded accordingly and actively carried out the struggle against food grab.The countermeasure of the Communist Party of China against grain grab is as follows:organize armed forces to help the people to grab and store grain to protect the food security in the base areas;Combine the "law" struggle with the "illegal" struggle,and flexibly transform the countermeasure against grabbing food;Cooperate with the peasants in the base areas,the landlords,the puppet army and other forces available to fight the Japanese,the puppet and the stubborn in the food struggle.In response to the enemy’s economic offensive,the base areas carried out the"food war":cracking down on food smuggling and rationally promoting the circulation of grain between the enemy occupied areas and the base areas by means of anti－smuggling and currency struggle.In order to fight grain more efficiently against Japan,the puppet and the stubborn,the"grain borrowing movement" was carried out in the base areas to adjust the internal grain circulation.In addition,the CCP actively organized production activities in the base areas,increased grain supplies,and cooperated with the fight against corruption and waste.Through the food struggle against Japan,the puppet and the stubborn,the CCP demonstrated its ability and effectiveness to coordinate the comprehensive war of resistance against the party,government,military and people.In the process of the struggle,the national consciousness of the people in the base area was gradually awakened,and the CPC also trained a number of grass-roots cadres in the process ofmobilizing the people to fight against the Japanese,the puppet and the stubborn struggle,gradually stabilized the regime and social order in the base area,improved its political status,and laid the foundation for the future control of the political power.