The costume change lasted almost a whole day before it ended, and that same evening, the political cadres began their work. In the name of meeting the soldiers for the first time, political work cadres at all levels gathered the soldiers together as a company unit to talk, while the battalion headquarters and regimental headquarters were also recruited by instructors and regimental political commissars, on the one hand, to carry out their initial work, and on the other hand, to hold them back and not to interfere with the political work cadres of the company. Political work mainly begins with the grassroots soldiers, and the first work is very important, and it is necessary to win the favor of the soldiers so that they can start their work in the future.

On the basis of the past six years and the experience of political work in the old days, a set of very effective procedures has been formed for the political work of the People's Army, first of all, the company instructor asks the soldiers one by one in a homely way, such as "Where are you from?" "What did you do at home before?" The younger ones asked, "Are your parents still there?" Do you have any brothers or sisters?" and the older ones ask, "Have you ever been married?" Do you have any children?

After getting the answer, you can further ask, "how did the family live before", "did you have land", "did you work hard for the landlord", "did the landlord treat you well", and so on. Although Zhang Zuolin's brothers come from three religions and nine streams, five elements and eight sects, ordinary soldiers are basically composed of ordinary people, which is also the formation of the army in ancient China, and it is a common point after Qi Jiguang's Qi family army began, that is, generals can be from various backgrounds, and even ruffians and hooligans, as long as they dare to fight and kill, they are not afraid of death, but ordinary soldiers must be ordinary people, and the more honest the better, because honest people are the most obedient, what they are told to do, what they are not allowed to do, they will never do it, ordinary soldiers are like this。 Since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing court has begun to organize armies, from the Hunan Army and the Huai Army to the current Beiyang New Army, basically according to this line of thinking.

Zhang Zuolin is also a person from the army, of course he knows the truth of this, so when recruiting soldiers, his old brothers serve as officers at all levels, while ordinary soldiers are still recruited from ordinary people.

The living conditions of the common people are almost the same, although the Northeast is vast and sparsely populated, and the land contradiction is relatively not too intense, but due to the harsh climate in the Northeast, the cost of living is much higher, and the lives of the common people are not much better.

In addition, the oppression of the common people by the imperial court and landlords is the same as in other places, and the invasion of bandits and Russia is also added, so the lives of the common people are quite difficult, and every family is basically the same, there are children who died and relatives who died of hunger, otherwise they would not come to be a soldier, Bi Jing is a life-saving job, even if Zhang Zuolin was in the insurance team, the main object of the war was bandits, which was also quite dangerous. But when a soldier has at least a bite to eat, and there is still a military salary to take, when he encounters a leader like Zhang Zuolin, a local powerful force leader who is generous, does not owe the soldier's salary, and can ensure that the soldier has enough to eat, he can get the support of the soldier and gain a foothold in this troubled era.

And now the instructor asked the soldiers to introduce their family situation, which was naturally a cup out of the way, plus the instructor induced from it, and added fire and firewood at the moment of Guan Jian, which soon resonated with all the soldiers, and they cried collectively, and the goal of the first step was achieved.

After the soldiers vented, the cordiality to the instructor also increased a lot, so the instructor began to brainwash them, telling them that East China, the People's Army and the imperial court are different, the People's Army is the army of the poor, and it is the court that fights the court, landlords, bandits, and foreigners, that is, it does not beat the poor, and it is necessary to let the poor no longer be bullied by the court, landlords, bandits, and foreigners, and the goal of East China is to let the poor live a good life, every family has a field, a good house to live in, a good livestock, and a full meal. Dressed in a bright way, there are no exorbitant taxes, no land rent, and the children go to school.

Although most of the soldiers were still skeptical, or even unbelieving, the soldiers still showed that they were quite similar to this kind of life, so they all gathered around the instructor to ask this and that, and in the hearts of the soldiers, the favorability of the instructor naturally increased further, and even began to have a certain respect. While answering the soldiers' questions, the instructor further explained that the things he just said were not illusory, but real, and that under the leadership of East China, Shandong has now achieved a considerable part, and cited some examples of land reform in Shandong, and said that now the Northeast region has been under the jurisdiction of East China, and these situations will also be realized, and it is estimated that it will take 5 or 7 years.

Now the soldiers couldn't help but boil their blood, Bi Jing 5 or 7 years is not a very long time, as long as there is no accident, the people present can wait until that day, although the soldiers are not completely convinced, but they also have a certain sense of belonging to East China, and at the same time have a considerable sense of trust in these instructors.

The situation in each company is basically the same, and some even say that after 10 o'clock in the evening, in this era, it can be regarded as late at night. And at this point, today's goal and effect have basically been achieved. After all, political work is not achieved overnight, there is a process of slow guidance, and these soldiers must also be given time to digest.

The political work at the battalion and regiment levels is different from that at the company level, and the officers at the Bijing battalion and regimental levels have basically solved the problem of food and clothing, and it can even be said that their lives are not bad, so they are not very interested in living a good life, and in addition, they have some knowledge, and they are not so easily ignored. Therefore, the political work at the battalion and regiment level is mainly from the perspective of the people, saying that the goal of East China is to establish a strong and dignified country to the outside world, not to be discriminated against and bullied by foreigners, and to list the victories of the People's Army against the foreign powers, this is not bragging, the results of the battle are just around the corner, the original rampant in the northeast region of Russia, Japan, were defeated by the people's army, and driven out of the northeast region, which can not help but unconvinced them.

And internally is to establish a fair society, merit rewards and punishments, the capable are mediocre, self-reliant, distribution according to work, etc., although Zhang Zuolin and his brothers do not understand these concepts very well, but the general meaning is still understood, in addition to the introduction of East China's industrial and economic achievements in Shandong, but also added some convincing. Although the effect of brainwashing is not as good as that of ordinary soldiers, it shows the strong strength of the East China ** and the People's Army, which is not only convincing to these people, but also has considerable deterrent power.

The next day, Zhang Zuolin's troops began training to familiarize themselves with the new weapons, and in addition to the training, the political work cadres at all levels and the soldiers at the group level held some sports competitions, singing, and various performances, and other activities.

In addition, the content of the performance has been carefully written, which is to reflect the darkness, stupidity, backwardness of the old society, and the image of East China's ** Wei Guangzheng, mainly played by political cadres, and brought some girls from the health team or ** department to perform together, and even Gao Jin also came to make a few cameos, expressing the support of the administrative department for the army. Because the effect of blindly preaching political lectures to soldiers is limited, it may be very effective at first, but the more times, the marginal diminishing effect will increase, so it is necessary to adopt different forms, and performance is the most effective of them.

Subsequently, the political work cadres began to set up soldiers' committees in Zhang Zuolin's troops, organized soldiers' lectures, literacy classes, and regularly conducted political studies, and carried out their work in an all-round way.

So only 3 or 5 days later, the political work cadres quickly dissolved into Zhang Zuolin's troops, and became one with most of the soldiers. It was only at this time that Zhang Zuolin found out that the energy that he thought the prison army had far exceeded his imagination, if these people were allowed to move like this, at most 2 or 3 months, the grassroots soldiers would almost fall to the side of the people's army, and lose the obedience of the grassroots soldiers, even if their own group of iron buddies did not change their minds, but the control of this army would be greatly weakened, and the Bi Jing army was mainly composed of grassroots soldiers. I have to say that the methods of overseas Chinese are not only clever, but also really incredible, competing to take away the hearts of generals in this way.

Zhang Zuolin hurriedly recruited the brothers to discuss countermeasures, but unfortunately at this time, no one could come up with any good way, even Yuan Jinkai was helpless, because Zhang Zuolin had no reason to refuse these political work cadres, and these political work cadres did not speak ill of Zhang Zuolin and his iron buddies in their work, on the contrary, they were maintaining the authority of the military commander on many occasions, and now they are deeply respected by the grassroots soldiers, and Zhang Zuolin cannot come up with a set of theoretical behaviors to compete with the activities of these political work cadres.

If it was still when he was still working in the insurance team, of course it would be easy to do, just drive them away, and no matter how bad it is, it would be to instigate a few soldiers to go to the trouble of political work cadres and squeeze them out, but these means cannot be used now, and they can't even be bribed with money, because now the salaries of Zhang Zuolin's troops are uniformly distributed to each soldier by the logistics headquarters of the People's Army, and they do not go through Zhang Zuolin's hands.

And the final result of the discussion can only make Zhang Zuolin feel hopeless, that is, he can only be loyal to East China**, loyal to the People's Army, and not have two hearts. It is basically impossible to make this army its own private army, or to maintain a certain degree of independence.