Stepping on the early spring sun, Zhu Wenqi, who got up early in the morning to go to work, rushed to the Longjiang Shipyard with his bicycle and put the car into the designated carport.

After waiting for the location of the factory gatehouse, Zhu Wenqi's brows furrowed slightly.

The worker next to him whispered: "Eh, it's unusually tight today, what about the soldiers guarding the factory?" ”

Longjiang Shipyard is one of the three major shipyards in the Ming Dynasty at present, many of the keels that are being developed and improved can be called the country's heavy weapon, and they have always been heavily defended.

"Who knows, I heard that it was taken away overnight."

Several employees who lived in the factory dormitory at night interjected: "It may be some urgent task." ”

"Nanjing is the old capital, the financial and taxation center of Jiangnan, what kind of emergency can there be."

Even if the capital was moved to the north, there were still 100,000 regular troops and local troops around Nanjing, and there could be no serious emergencies at all, and even the guards of the Longjiang Shipyard needed to be transferred.

So Zhu Wenqi didn't believe it at all, but he couldn't think of anything wrong for a while.

With full of doubts and puzzles, it was not until noon that Zhu Wenqi met dozens of guards who had just been mobilized back in the canteen.

With a plate of rice, Zhu Wenqi sat near these guards, pricking up his ears to listen to the whispers between them.

"You say, what did General Ma mean by that this morning, why did he have to sign a petition against the cabinet to rectify the Fifth Military Government, in other words, what is the Fifth Military Government?"

"How do I know what the Fifth Military Mansion is, anyway, don't worry about what you don't understand, just stand at our own post."

"Did you sign it?"

"Signed."

The guard smiled and said softly: "Although I don't know what the Fifth Military Mansion is, didn't General Ma say it, the Five Military Mansions belong to our military and can work for the welfare of our soldiers, and the cabinet is for those who read, and the purpose of rectifying the Fifth Military Mansion is to deduct the money in our pockets, and I signed my name as soon as I heard it." ”

"Yes, yes, yes, it makes sense."

Several people were chattering, but only one bowed his head and didn't dare to say anything, because he didn't sign it.

"Xiao Li, if you don't speak, it shouldn't be that you haven't signed."

The guards who were called Xiao Li were about to cry: "How do I know what this signature is for, what cabinet and what the five military offices, listening to it is a big deal, I want to be an honest soldier, I don't dare to get involved." ”

Several people who said this all condemned Xiao Li, but soon, a person walked in at the door of the canteen and drank a word.

"Sun Wei, Meng Erhu, Gao Qing, Li Tiantian."

The four guards subconsciously stood up and shouted: "Here!" ”

Zhu Wenqi glanced up and found that the name of the four people was called by a man of thirty years old, judging from the color of the armor and helmet, this was a political commissar!

"Come out, I will have something to say to you."

The four of them shouted yes with some trepidation, and then they didn't care about eating, and immediately lined up and walked out, and only the unsigned Xiao Li was left at the table.

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Zhu Wenqi didn't go to listen, but walked to Xiao Li's side with a rice plate and sat down, and said this.

"You're scared."

Xiao Li didn't plan to deal with Zhu Wenqi, but he was stunned when he heard this question.

"Your hand holding the chopsticks is shaking, because you realize that your previous signature is probably doing something wrong, especially when you find that everyone around you is signing, and you wonder if you have made a mistake because you don't fit in, right?"

Zhu Wenqi's calm tone relieved Xiao Li's heart to a certain extent, he nodded, but he still adhered to discipline and didn't say anything to Zhu Wenqi.

For Xiao Li, who was silent, Zhu Wenqi just smiled and said to himself.

"What you did is right, if you are a soldier, you should be a soldier, there are some things that should not be mixed with you as a soldier, you can be a soldier and pay as a soldier, you can join the army as a dedicator, you must not be used by someone with a heart, and you will be an accomplice of ignorance."

A sentence of accomplice instantly scared Xiao Li into a thrill, although he was simple, he also knew that the word accomplice was by no means a good word.

"If you want peace of mind, you can repeat to me what happened in the morning, and maybe I can help you."

Zhu Wenqi buried his head in the rice: "Don't worry, no one can hear your small voice." ”

Xiao Li, who was worried in his heart, hesitated for a long time, and finally told what happened this morning.

It turned out that before dawn in the early morning, the two general flags of their garrison at the Longjiang Shipyard received an order to assemble, and when they arrived at the Nanjing garrison camp, they listened to the request of Ma Xin, the commander of the garrison, and asked all of them to sign a petition against the cabinet's rectification of the Fifth Military Government.

At this mobilization meeting, Ma Xin said that the existence of the Fifth Military Government is a military organization that protects the interests of military personnel and improves the welfare and subsidies of military personnel, and that the cabinet has decided to eliminate the corresponding powers and funds of the Fifth Military Government in order to save this part of the money.

In a word, it is to rob the money that belongs to the big guy as a soldier.

At the same time, Ma Xin also complained sharply that if there was no Wujun Government, the world would be dominated by the literati family in the future.

Although the current soldiers have a little bit of culture compared to more than 20 years ago, and a small number of them have gone to school for several years, but in the end, the idea is simpler, and what Ma Xin said seems to be indeed reasonable, so they immediately became angry, and signed their names while denouncing the group of literati who had no conscience.

For those who were unwilling to get involved and did not dare to sign like Xiao Li, there were only two or three hundred people in the entire Nanjing Garrison who were reorganized and guarded, and the other more than 9,000 people were all coaxed and instigated by Ma Xin to sign their names.

After listening to the original story, Zhu Wenqi nodded, and just as he was about to speak, he found that the previous political commissar outside the door of the canteen walked in, was busy keeping his mouth shut, eating the food cleanly, and leaving with his head mixed into the crowd.

The political commissar walked all the way to Xiao Li, with a smile on his face, and when he saw that the latter was standing straight, he reached out and patted the latter's shoulder.

"Xiao Li, you did a good job today, and you are still strong ideologically, I will write down your name and send a copy to Beijing."

"Yes, thank you Commissar!"

Although Xiao Li didn't understand what he was doing, he still thanked him loudly.

"Feel like eat, go back to your own post after eating, don't think about anything else."

After explaining, the political commissar was just about to leave, but he paused again.

"What did the worker sitting next to you talk to you about?"

"Report to the commissar, no!"

Xiao Li was nervous, but he didn't dare to say nonsense, for fear that the credit he had received would be gone: "He asked me why no one guarded the factory this morning, and I didn't say anything." ”

The commissar smiled, turned around and left.

Xiao Li's eyes looked at the back of the political commissar, and the afterglow swept out the window.

Four familiar figures were standing straight in the sunlight.