Catching Young Men

In the Sichuan countryside during the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang reactionaries used the name of resisting Japan and under the guise of insufficient frontline troops to arrest young men in the countryside, reaping benefits from them, and making the people miserable. Captain Lu (played by Zhang Yisheng) of the division management area asked Wang Baochang (played by Chen Ge) for young men, and Wang immediately asked the landlord Li Laoshuan (played by Wu Xue) for a donation of young men. Landlord Li Laoshuan exploited his tenants at every level, forced Jiang Guofu (played by Shao Hua) to death and kidnapped his son as a substitute. After some time, Li Laoshuan's son, who was a regimental deputy in the Kuomintang, returned to his hometown in great glory. Li Laoshuan didn't know what was going on, hoping that his son could overpower Captain Lu and Baochang Wang, and his wife and daughter-in-law also started to stir up trouble. How could Captain Lu and Baochang Wang be willing to lose the benefits of buying and selling young men? Their plan to frame Li Laoshuan failed, so they simply teamed up with Deputy Li to catch more young men, hoping to get more money and faster...