Since Ba Yougong came to Fengtai County, he felt that this place was full of an atmosphere that he couldn't feel good about no matter what. What disgusted Ba Yougong the most was the daily soldiers' life meetings.

Since Chen Ke ended the land negotiations with the landlords, he was transferred to the brigade headquarters of the insurance regiment. Soldiers' life meetings have also returned to normalcy. The officers and men of the Anhui New Army were assigned to the engineering unit of the insurance regiment as instructors. Naturally, the accommodation conditions in the disaster area will not be very good, and the officers and men of the new army can understand but not accept it. Yue Zhangji did have a house to live in, but now it is occupied by women and children. The brigade headquarters of the insurance regiment is a hut with straw huts, whether it is a brigade commander, a regiment commander, a battalion commander, a company commander, a platoon commander, or a squad leader. The accommodation of these officers was indistinguishable from that of ordinary soldiers and civilians. The officers and men of the Anhui New Army had nothing else to say.

"Instructor Ba, I'm stupid, but I really want to learn your craft as soon as possible, if you want to scold me, just scold. But don't teach me again after you're done scolding. Please. Warrior Zhu Cunrui said very seriously. In the insurance regiment, officers are absolutely not allowed to beat and scold soldiers. However, the soldiers of the engineer battalion have long been repeatedly educated in private, and these people from the Anhui New Army are here to be gentlemen, they are not members of the insurance regiment, and the rules of the insurance regiment are not suitable for these people.

Zhu Cunrui still remembers Hua Xiongmao's speech at the time, "If you feel unconvinced and want to be scolded less, no problem." Hurry up and learn other people's things. ”

Ba Yougong did not respond to Zhu Cunrui's question, and he often scolded people, especially in the last two days. On the contrary, the eager learning attitude of the soldiers of the insurance regiment has frightened Ba Yougong. The engineer is a technical branch, and those who can be selected into the engineer battalion are all soldiers with top-notch cultural quality. This is not only that culturally they all know 500 words, know 99 multiplication tables by heart, and can do five-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Many have even begun to study geometry and physics. Chen Ke's requirement for the technical arms is, "There must be a passion for science." There is a desire to seek knowledge. ”

It is precisely because of this quality and enthusiasm that the selected soldiers of the engineer battalion have been able to master so much knowledge in more than half a year. Of course, compared with the systematic education that Chen Ke received, the knowledge mastered by these fighters was inevitably biased. Moreover, the practical purpose of this knowledge is too strong, and Chen Ke does not intend to make these people researchers at all, but only hopes that they can become users.

Even so, Ba Yougong was still shocked by the learning ability of these fighters. After observation, Ba Yougong found that the soldiers especially liked to hold meetings. In their leisure time from work, they did not gather together to drink, brag, show off to each other, or secretly go out to play with women, or gather to gamble. The fighters of the insurance regiment were together and rarely talked about anything other than what they had learned. How can I make better use of the surveying and mapping skills I have learned, and what problems I have encountered in my studies that need to be solved. In the process of studying, I figured out what I didn't understand before. The fighters love nothing more than to communicate with each other.

Ba Yougong had already made up his mind and would no longer teach his knowledge to the soldiers of the insurance regiment. Originally, he was already a professor of the use of instruments, and he thought that it would take a long time to teach the principles of these uses, but he really didn't expect that there would be someone in the insurance group who specialized in teaching these theoretical knowledge. What these buns need is knowledge of the use of existing instruments. For not being able to anticipate this, Ba Yougong is heartbroken.

For the old upper class, monopolizing knowledge was their know-how. The same is true even for the intensive education of the Forces nouvelles. It was enough for the soldiers to be able to follow orders, and a comprehensive education was not the intention of the new army. The insurance regiment, an army that popularizes knowledge to the greatest extent, has never seen or heard of Ba Yougong.

The insurance group not only strengthens the popularization of knowledge and education, but also deviates from the norm in daily life.

Everyone has a daily life. In the insurance group, these things are to be brought out for public discussion. The issue of food distribution, even the issue of the payment of military salaries. These should have been matters for the officers to decide, but now it is up to the soldiers to decide. The officers merely implement these resolutions and allocate personnel.

Although the Anhui New Army is strictly managed, it is still an old army after all. Although they tried to eradicate the old ills of the army, the officers always found other ways to solve them. For example, although military salaries cannot be deducted openly, the officers pull the soldiers out to drink and buy prostitution. Naturally, there are "smart" soldiers to honor. Soldiers who knew each other were able to get an easy fat difference, and soldiers who did not know each other were subjected to harsh treatment. As for those "thorns" who dared to resist, the officers just used their "formal military law". As for gambling, it is the only way to make money. There are even cases of officers sitting in the bank and gambling.

In the eyes of officers, power is the greatest source of profit. The officers and men of the New Army take it for granted that being able to take on less work is a success in the present, and if they can gain the power to oppress others, it is a success in life.

But in the insurance group, this world of course is turned upside down. Power is only for the sake of getting the job done, and the work done with hard work is not for the benefit of the insurance syndicate itself. On the contrary, these heavy tasks are for the benefit of the people.

These days, Ba Yougong already knows that the job of the engineer battalion is to survey and map and prepare for large-scale water conservancy construction in Fengtai County in the future. Of course, the insurance regiment will get its own farms, but the troops have already given orders that the first thing to be surveyed and built will be water conservancy projects for ordinary people. This practice of putting the cart before the horse makes Ba Yougong very puzzled. The work has been hard to this extent, but the insurance team has to work for the people first. What is this figure about?

The people paid only 30% of the rent, and in this year of disaster, they did not collect rent in the first year. This means that in addition to supporting themselves, the insurance group also has to work for the people without any income at all. Even if the families of these soldiers can benefit, the number of soldiers in the engineer battalion is only 1,000, and according to such an overestimated figure of a family of 10, it is only 10,000. Now there are more than 60,000 people in Fengtai County. For the sake of those 50,000 people in vain, Ba Yougong himself will never do it.

He originally thought that the fighters of the sapper battalion did not think about this issue. As a result, the fighters asked privately, and the fighters' statements were simple. "We measured the land, and the others had to open up the land and plow the land. Everyone is working, what's the difference? ”

"What is your mother doing as a soldier if that's the case?" It took a lot of effort for Ba Yougong to swallow this angry scolding back into his throat. To be a soldier is to eat food, if it is not for no longer facing the loess with his back to the sky, no longer sweating beads and falling eight petals of work, who will be a soldier?

Ba Yougong's anger directly broke the table. I can't look at this group of raw melons anymore. He did not think about why he was so dissatisfied with the soldiers of the insurance regiment, and extreme dissatisfaction boiled in his chest. The attitude towards the fighters is that day by day is not as good as day by day.

In fact, He Zudao, who was in charge of political work, had already reported these situations to Chen Ke and asked Chen Ke about his attitude. Chen Ke made a rare joke, "Zudao, if someone firmly believes that the sun is triangular, will you make friends with this person?" ”

"Of course not." He Zudao replied without hesitation.

"If you can make friends, then one of you has to change their position completely. Either you change it, or the other party changes. It is time to strengthen our own position. There is absolutely no room for the slightest relaxation. Since we firmly believe that we are right, we must stick to ourselves. ”

He Zudao thought for a while before asking Chen Ke: "Brigade Commander Chen, do you mean that you want us to reform the soldiers of the New Army?" ”

Chen Ke's original intention was to strengthen the ideological building of the troops and not to let the decadent thinking of the new army pollute the insurance regiment. Unexpectedly, He Zudao had already thought of inspiring the soldiers of the New Army. In Chen's plan, the large-scale reform of the New Army would not begin until the New Army soldiers returned to Fengtai County with their families.

However, since He Zudao has such an awareness, Chen Ke does not think it is necessary to pour cold water on He Zudao. Anyway, it is necessary to do it in the morning and in the evening, and now Chen Ke's attitude towards the party and the army is to let everyone do it. He himself used to protect everyone too tightly, and it should be to the point where everyone can give full play to their subjective initiative.

"Comrade Zumichi, let it go. I'll take on the responsibility. Chen Ke finally gave such a reply.

What He Zudao has learned these days is his own thinking ability, and he convened the party committee in the army. At first, the members of the party committee thought that He Zudao had received some orders from Chen Ke. It is a well-established fact that Political Commissar He is a close confidant of Brigade Commander Chen. When Chen Ke was still a small insurance group, he almost did everything himself, and He Zudao followed before and after the saddle, which was very heralded. So He Zudao held a meeting, and everyone thought that Chen Ke had given some instructions.

When listening to He Zudao's request for everyone to put forward a political work plan, many people almost had the urge to dismiss the meeting. It is not without that everyone has tried to come up with their own plans, but after these plans are handed over to Chen Ke, they are either rejected or changed beyond recognition. After trying it a few times, no one wants to lose face anymore. Since Secretary Chen Ke can always come up with effective solutions, why do he have to find unhappy.

He Zudao's attitude towards everyone can be understood, and to be honest, his plan is the most refuted. But when He Zudao was initially frustrated, there was an ideal that supported him, and he hoped to be able to become an equal man standing by You's side. He also hopes to repay Chen Ke's kindness. These two men saved He Zudao from a shameful death. And He Zudao has always been unable to get rid of shame in front of the two of them to a certain extent. Because of this, the frustration of failure is irrelevant to He Zudao. has already made a big mistake of being infected with willow disease, and other mistakes can't make He Zudao feel more ashamed.

In fact, it is this attitude of not being afraid of making mistakes, daring to admit mistakes and working hard to correct them, which has contributed to the progress of He Zudao. Acknowledging one's own shortcomings and learning with an open-minded attitude is the smooth way to truly grasp the law. Every time he learned something, He Zudao felt that he was one step closer to Chen Ke and one step closer to You Wei.

All the other comrades hoped for was their own success, so the setbacks hit them very hard. He Zudao knew that no matter what he did, he would not succeed in front of Chen Ke. In order to be able to stand on par with Sister You Xuan, He Zudao must move forward. In order to achieve this goal, He Zudao only has selfless work.

If you look at the psychology of later generations, this can be said to be a pathology. He Zudao's selflessness is largely to forget his past mistakes. Completely cut off his relationship with the past, and stand in front of You Yu with a new person. If He Zudao met someone else, this mentality would only make him more miserable.

And He Zudao met Chen Ke, who was completely different from this era. The more He Zudao forgets himself, the more he can learn from Chen Ke, who does not belong to this era, what should not have appeared in this era. This may be He Zudao's luck, and this is definitely Chen Ke's luck.

In the face of the comrades' fear of difficulties, He Zudao did not care. "Comrades, the Central Committee has already planned a strategy. Secretary Chen is very busy now, and with such a big mess, it is unrealistic for him to make another plan. ”

This was Chen Ke's own explanation, and the comrades didn't really believe it. But people are like this, although they don't believe in themselves, but when they see other people firmly believe in it, the more people who are not strong-willed, the easier it is to believe. Sometimes the mood of the masses is not based on the number of people, but on which side is more determined. And everyone didn't really give up on themselves. The plan may not be able to pass it in Chen Ke's place, but it may not be passed if it is put in He Zudao's place. Under the chairmanship of He Zudao, the meeting finally began to proceed normally.

The topic is ideological mobilization.

"I have an idea this time, and I want to talk about it with my comrades. What kind of new regime are we going to build? What exactly is the core of this new regime? He Zudao began.

"The new regime is the people in charge?" Someone has started reciting quotes.

"Do the people now know that they should be in charge?" He Zudao asked.

When the comrades of the political work department heard this, they all smiled bitterly. Yes, what does it mean to be in charge? To be honest, in this era, after accepting Chen Ke's leadership for so long, these comrades finally understand a little bit of the meaning of being the masters of the country. For the dominant thinking of this age, being in charge is about commanding others and gaining privileges. It's more about getting.

To be the master of the People's Party is to be responsible for itself and for others. It's more about giving.

There is no longer a gap between the two, but something completely opposite. The cadres who can engage in political and ideological work are all personally selected by Chen Ke. This realization is not ordinary. Compared with other comrades, they can be regarded as conscious. Even these people still find this kind of ideological work very tricky. As for the other comrades, it is good to be more conscious than the common people.

"What is the purpose of the people who want to be the masters of their own affairs now?" He Zudao then asked.

"For the sake of fairness. Don't be bullied. Someone replied.

"Then let's start from this angle." He Zudao said.