When the Ninth Engineering Company was marching towards Longkang amid the sound of singing, Guan Fei was receiving a group of people led by Deputy Commander Peng Desheng of the Northeast Military Region next door.

During a routine inspection of the troops in the morning, he learned that someone from the Northeast Military Region next door had arrived, and that Peng Desheng, their deputy commander, had personally led the troops. As soon as he got the news, he rushed back, and at the same time asked political commissar Zhang Shengguo, deputy brigade commander Sun Yaohua, brigade chief of staff Yu Baihai, and civil affairs director Zhao Zhonghua to accompany him.

Peng Desheng is a very interesting person, he is a fruit root person.

The so-called fruit root is actually the descendants of the Ming army who fled to Weiding with the last emperor Yongli in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Under the coercion of Wu Sangui's army, King Weiding confiscated all the weapons of the Ming army and handed over Emperor Yongli to Wu Sangui. After the death of Emperor Yongli, these Ming soldiers and their families were released, and they followed the path they had come from, and retreated here, because they did not want to be slaves of the Manchurians, so they refused to go again.

Initially, they numbered a few hundred households, but they multiplied and now have a total population of 130,000.

He has always been extremely wary of China, and has always refused to recognize the Chinese in China as a separate nation. In order to gain their status, these descendants of the Ming army called themselves the Guogen tribe, which means decisive and brave Chinese.

After hundreds of years of living in the mountains, their social system has also degenerated into a more primitive Tusi system, and the leader is the descendant of the general of the Ming army surnamed Yang.

Peng Desheng was born and raised in such an environment. When he was young, he and a group of companions entered the military training class of Kunsha, the big drug lord in the Golden Triangle, and later returned to Guogen and led the people and the Weiding army to fight guerrillas.

In the sixties, he ran to the country, joined the BJP, received domestic armed forces, and trained troops. When the People's Party returned to Weiding, it was he who bore the brunt of the attack, captured Guogen County in one fell swoop, and defeated Menggu the following year, and conquered the wooden stick again and again, winning many battles.

However, despite his great military achievements, he had no status in the People's Party, and was only appointed deputy commander of the Northeast Military Region, and the commander was appointed by the General Headquarters.

Guan Fei speculated from the information that this person probably had no People's Party beliefs at all, but was a warlord figure.

After the disastrous defeat of the People's Army in history, he was expected to return to the BJP headquarters in Gougen for a long time, and he was asked not to go to a meeting. At the time of the drastic changes in Eastern Europe in this century, he may have expected the failure of the global communist movement, so he took the initiative to contact the side of the defense and expressed his sincerity. At that time, the supreme head of the military government flew to meet with him, agreed to his request for national autonomy, and granted him the title of the first special region.

Upon his approval, he immediately ordered the expulsion of all BJP cadres from the army and the localities, and declared his separation from the BJP.

That is, under his exemplary effect, in just a few days, the rest of the military regions announced one after another that they would no longer accept the command of the People's Party Headquarters. In the end, the headquarters of the People's Party, which had nowhere to go, could only retreat into the country, and a once vigorous revolution of disgrace disappeared.

Guan Fei thought this person was very interesting, and when he heard him coming, he wanted to meet him.

The 291st Brigade and the Northeast Military Region are only separated by the Salween River, and the two sides live next to each other, but they have no contact before. This person is far more qualified than himself, and he has no interest in reaching out to this person. In his opinion, what self-proclaimed Guogen people are actually opportunists and short-sighted.

Even if they still have a Chinese heart in their hearts, what they yearn for is the former Ming Dynasty, not the current republic system. From the time they were young, they took the initiative to contact the remnants of the Golden Triangle government, which shows their tendencies. Later, they took refuge in China, but they were forced to choose a choice because they could not win the war.

Looking at their later actions, it was just a matter of opening casinos to attract domestic tourists, and later it developed to deceive people to come and forcibly consume, and then to kidnap and extort, behead their families and blackmail their families to send money to ransom people, and they have completely degenerated to the point of a large-scale underworld armed group.

Guan Fei can only say one thing about their actions, but they can still live if they do evil in heaven, but they can't live if they do evil in themselves!

To put it mildly, the first special zone is just a verbal promise, and the only reason why they can exist is that there is a country behind them.

Guan Fei couldn't think of any other evaluation of his backers, kidnapping his people, and killing people and goods.

To put it nicely, they are in the style of the king of the mountain, and if it is ugly, it is a bandit and robber group!

Even if there was a trace of pity for them in the country because of their blood origins, after they themselves waved their knives to cut off this connection, they were left with cold indifference.

Sure enough, not long after, the Wei Ding army attacked Guogen on a large scale, and the Guogen army, which was known as invincible, collapsed, and the entire territory fell into the hands of the other party, and he could only flee in a hurry and his whereabouts were unknown.

You must know that at that time, the country was already slowly rising, and it was trying to stretch its tentacles to expand outward. If he had a trace of kindness towards the country, the country would not be indifferent to him, and some people even speculated that it was the country that demanded that the country eradicate this malignant tumor!

Guan Fei knew what he did later, but he still wanted to meet him.

He didn't want the Guogen Army, but the Guogen people were also descendants of China after all. If there is an opportunity to include these people in his sphere of influence, then his future development path will be smoother and faster.

When he came back, it was already past eleven o'clock, and the other party didn't say anything directly.

On both sides, you praise me for our good victory at the bridgehead, and the military prestige of the People's Army is a head-on blow to the enemy's arrogance. I praise you for taking two hundred athletes to fight bravely to kill the enemy, and recovering Guogen County in a war.

Zhang Shengguo, Sun Yaohua and others, as well as several brigade commanders on the other side, are also hehehaha, constantly beating the side drums, you come and go.

Although the atmosphere was warm, there was not a single substance, and it was extremely empty.

At noon, Guan Fei entertained the guests to dine together.

The lunch menu was not extravagant, because there were more people, and there were more than a dozen people on both sides, sitting at two large round tables.

The dishes served are nothing more than fried water spinach, fried lettuce, fried rape head, fried peanuts, fried corn kernels, a plate of fried fish, a plate of old bacon, and wild mountain mushroom soup, all of which can be said to be home-cooked dishes. But the portion was very large, and each dish was served in a large bowl like a bowl, and the oil was shiny on it, and the cook put a lot of oil in it.

The dishes are the same on both tables.

When the fraternal troops meet, wine must be indispensable, and a bottle of Wuliangye is placed on each table. If you can't drink white, there is also Tsingtao beer.

The visitor from the Northeast Military Region looked at the dishes on the table, his throat kept rolling up and down, obviously salivating, and his hand unconsciously touched the chopsticks. The cadres of the 291 Brigade are much better, although everyone is not allowed to drink alcohol at ordinary times, but they are also used to eating these dishes, and they also enthusiastically talk to their brother comrades-in-arms to get closer to the two sides.

They didn't know Guan Fei's attitude, thinking that they were simply entertaining their brothers, so they all behaved positively, wanting the other party to feel their kindness.

Peng Desheng looked at his subordinates absent-mindedly, not waiting for the master's chopsticks to move, staring at the dishes on the table and couldn't help but want to dry, snorted in his throat, and slapped it heavily on the table.

Everyone else was taken aback.

"Brother, why be angry, everyone is suffering, since you are here, just be casual, just like in your own home. Come, come, eat, eat! Guan Fei didn't laugh at them at this, picked up the chopsticks, got up and first grabbed a large chopsticks of water spinach and put it in the bowl.

Driven by him, several brigade commanders of the Northeast Military Region stood up like wolves and tigers, holding the dishes they wanted to eat, and munched on them.

For the first chopsticks, they all coincidentally chose bacon, and it was not lean meat, but oily fatty meat.

Stuffed into their mouths, they immediately couldn't wait to bite down, and they didn't care about the oil coming out of the corners of their mouths, only showing an intoxicated expression. After chewing it a few times in a hurry, he swallowed the jujube and swallowed his throat, and immediately went to the second chopstick.

Peng Desheng looked at his subordinates and made a fool of himself, with an expression of hatred that iron is not made of steel, and said to Guan Fei embarrassedly: "Let you laugh, this meal may be the most hearty meal for us people these days." If it weren't for the old man's bad appetite, he might have gotten up and grabbed it like them. ”

"It's okay, we were the same as you a few days ago, when we ate meat for the first time, we robbed it, and we almost didn't fight." Guan Fei said with a smile.

Zhang Shengguo and the others all laughed.

What Guan Fei said was true, but he was not present at the time, but in Hong Kong, and did not see it with his own eyes. The first batch of grain was sent back, because there was still a little spare money, so I bought a few pigs from several towns in the country, and sent them back to kill them to make everyone addicted.

As a result, the scene at that time was so hot that in order to take an extra piece of meat and a piece of meat less, the cadres and soldiers were able to fight. What they rob is not lean meat, they just want fatty meat, the fatter the better, it is best to eat it in the mouth, and it is enjoyable to soak it with oil.

Guan Fei's original idea of one pound per soldier per day actually consumed far more!

I don't know if it was because the physical exertion of training every day was too great, or because they were afraid of hunger, the soldiers ate as if they had not eaten enough in eight lifetimes, and they all ate the bowls as quickly as possible, and then got up to add a second bowl.

In the first week, the average amount of food per soldier reached one pound and eight taels!

At that time, Zhang Shengguo was frightened, he was afraid that the soldiers would eat bad stomachs, and he was afraid that the food he bought back would not be enough, so he was sad all day long. He asked every grassroots commander to find a way to persuade everyone that the food would definitely be brought back in a steady stream, so that the soldiers would not eat it so violently.

In the third week, the average amount of food eaten by the soldiers dropped slightly, reaching one catty and five taels.

The performance of the colleagues in the Northeast Military Region is actually a reappearance of them a month ago, so no one laughed at them. Many cadres even stretched out their chopsticks symbolically and tried to keep the good food for them.

Director of Civil Affairs Zhao Zhonghua even quietly instructed the cooking class to serve the table again as it was, so that all the comrades-in-arms who came to eat well and be full.

Peng Desheng did not chew as much as his subordinates, but picked up the wine bottle, first helped Guan Fei fill it, then poured it himself, twisted a few peanuts, chewed slowly, and then raised the wine glass, silently clinked glasses with Guan Fei, put it to his mouth and squeaked, and went down to the small half glass.

"Good wine! It is worthy of Wuliangye, I have lived in Sichuan for several years, and I have never drunk it, and it really deserves its reputation. He complimented, and picked up his glass again, this time not half a sip, but took a small sip, letting the wine spread in his mouth, and slowly savored the taste.

"You've been in Sichuan?" Guan Fei also slowly devoured peanuts and said strangely.

"yes. Nine years ago, I failed to compete for a position with the Yang brothers and fled to China. At that time, I felt that there was no hope, thinking that my ancestral home was Sichuan, so I simply went back to Sichuan to return to my roots, and from then on I would be a flat-headed common man. Peng Desheng said with a look of reminiscence, his expression was very complicated, and after a while, he said, "I can't imagine that the world is impermanent, and I still came back here after all." Originally, I was going to do something, but looking at the situation in front of me, the People's Army only dared to send a small detachment to sneak attack an enemy's outpost from time to time, and it was regarded as a great victory......

"Difficulties are temporary, as long as we don't lose heart, we will always win." Guan Fei remained silent, took a sip of wine, and said lightly.

"For the time being?" Peng Desheng smiled bitterly and said, "Do you know, the base area has long been out of food!" Last time, Kitoura was defeated, and the big guy didn't have time to escape for his life, so he threw everything down and ran away. My troops go up to the mountains every day to pick wild vegetables, and they are about to spit green water in their mouths when they eat. ”

Guan Fei said in surprise: "How can this be? Does the headquarters care? ”

"Don't fucking talk about headquarters!" As soon as he talked about the headquarters, Peng Desheng became angry, slapped the table with a slap, and scared the other brigade commanders who were gobbling up so much that they almost threw away the things in their hands, and he glared at these people, "Eat you!" What to see! ”

Those few people hurriedly lowered their heads and continued to eat theirs, but the range of movements was much smaller.

"Brother, you are also the first veteran soldier to join the People's Army, don't you know what kind of bird the headquarters looks like? That's the Great Certainty! Damn, from the general secretary to the Standing Committee, and even the members, they are all fucking Japanese people! Lao Tzu fought to his death, and only then did he become a deputy commander, and he had to listen to others! Peng Desheng scolded angrily, and sighed and said, "What's the use of talking about this now, the headquarters has moved to the south, and as soon as they arrive in the locality, they will engage the landlords and rich peasants, and to put it bluntly, they don't want food." But you also know the harvest here, you have to drink it for half a year, even if they grab grain, how much can they rob? I see, if the country is left alone, this people's party will break up sooner or later! ”

I thought I'd wanted to break up for a long time!

Guan Fei didn't say anything, put down the wine glass in his hand, pondered for a while, and said slowly: "Actually, the little brother still has some food here, and he can hold on for the time being." My brother is so difficult now, I can't sit back and ignore it, so let's do it, if I have a bite to eat in the future, I will have your brother's. I asked the soldiers to take 70 tons of rice to you every month, enough to feed 2,000 people. However, I'm going to do something here, I want to level the land, repair the house, and there are fewer people. If the Northeast Military Region can let ordinary people come to work, I am willing to pay them according to the standard of one and a half catties of rice per day! ”

"Really?"

Peng Desheng came today, in fact, to ask for help, but the best result he expected, he didn't expect Guan Fei to be so happy.

He is nominally a military region, and he also has two division commanders and four brigade commanders under him, and the total number is actually only about 1,000 people!

Seventy tons of rice was enough for them to eat with an open stomach!

As for letting the people come to work, it is even more unbelievable! One person has one and a half catties of rice a day, and 10,000 people are 15,000 catties of rice! Take it home, boil it into porridge and share it with everyone, and you can live a life, this kind of good thing he can't find with a lantern!

Although there are many contradictions in Guan Fei's words, what tightens his belt to help him, he is simply a passing wind, and he will disperse after blowing. How can you hire someone to come and work without food, this kind of smooth lie has no value at all.

Okay, since you didn't say how many people you want to come, I'll organize a little more.

Twenty or thirty thousand, or even more! Anyway, there are more than 100,000 people in Guogen, and it is not a problem to organize tens of thousands of people, let alone pay any price. One more person will give one more grain, and when the time comes, I will collect it directly from the people.

With this food source, you won't have to "tighten your belt" in the future!