"I don't agree with the plan to adjust the personnel." He Zudao said to Chai Qingguo very calmly.

If someone else said this, Chai Qingguo might think that person was deliberately against him, but it was He Zudao who said this, Chai Qingguo didn't even have this idea.

"Why?" Chai Qingguo asked.

"Because this selection method selects fighters who you think are good at fighting, not fighters who can actually fight. So I can't agree. ”

"Then what do you mean, Commissar?" Chai Qingguo couldn't figure out He Zudao's thoughts.

"My idea is simple. I would like to suggest to Brigade Commander Chen that you should be the commander of the Second Regiment in Qingguo. When He Zudao said this, his attitude was calm. Chai Qingguo only felt that he had heard it wrong. Sure enough, He Zudao continued: "I will apply to become the political commissar of the Second Regiment." If there is any difference between the second regiment and the first regiment, it is that the second regiment was formed for a short time and worked for a short time. Now if the second regiment is weakened, it is better to simply cut the second regiment. Since there is no plan to dismantle the Second Regiment, it is now necessary to improve the quality and capability of the Second Regiment as soon as possible. ”

"There's going to be a war soon?" Chai Qingguo didn't understand He Zudao's detour. Isn't it good to directly form a strong field army? It will take half a year to complete the training of the second regiment. In the past six months, the infrastructure work of the Second Regiment has also been arduous. While fighting and farming, the iron-beaten man is afraid that he can't withstand it.

He Zudao also didn't understand Chai Qingguo's thoughts, he asked very strangely, "Deputy Commander Chai, can't the second regiment do it if you fight a few bandits?" ”

"It's definitely no problem to fight bandits, but in the future, we will fight the army of the imperial court. The new army is not so easy to fight. Chai Qingguo replied.

He Zudao's answer was straightforward, "The Anhui New Army is not the Beiyang New Army, and our insurance regiment is not the Boxer Rebellion." What's so good to fight and not to fight. ”

Chai Qingguo wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it. He Zudao's words are right, the Anhui New Army is no match for the Beiyang New Army in any case, and the Boxers are definitely not comparable to the Insurance Corps. However, Chai Qingguo always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say the problem. It can only look like a fish in the throat.

He Zudao didn't mean to embarrass Chai Qingguo, seeing Chai Qingguo's red face and speechless, He Zudao, as a political commissar, felt the need to come out and say something clearly. "Deputy Head Chai, let's stand in this Fengtai County. The best part? It is to let the people know and support our People's Party is the leader of this Fengtai County. It stands to reason that as long as we preside over the division of land in Fengtai County, we can get the support of the people. However, it will have to wait for this wave of grain to be planted before large-scale water conservancy facilities can be built. So what are we doing to keep the situation going now? ”

Chai Qingguo did not study the revolutionary theory of the People's Party too deeply, and in his understanding, the People's Party repeatedly emphasized two things at the party meeting: "Divide the land and engage in water conservancy construction." For such a policy, Chai Qingguo really doesn't have much feeling. Like ordinary people, Chai Qingguo believes that these policies have been too long. And the disaster relief policy that the People's Party is now implementing, Chai Qingguo believes is also a thankless act.

Using the food they have worked so hard to transport to the people can only ensure that the people do not starve to death. And the people can't eat enough, so they naturally want to scold their mothers. After Chen Ke personally came down to suppress the formation, especially after the operation of the soldiers' committee, there were fewer complaints, but all these complaints were made public. The division of land and the construction of water conservancy have completely become a kind of commitment.

As a Jianghu person, Chai Qingguo knows the meaning of commitment. I also know the importance of commitment. This kind of major matter of land division is something that the brothers on the rivers and lakes will never dare to promise. This is a matter of human life, and the brothers on the rivers and lakes can definitely push it, even if it is really promised, it will never really be fulfilled afterwards.

And the People's Party dared not only to make promises, but also to make promises to tens of thousands of people. Chai Qingguo himself didn't believe in this kind of thing, and he also knew that tens of thousands of people in Fengtai County actually didn't believe it either. If we hadn't been eating the People's Party and drinking the People's Party, I was afraid that we would have made a big fuss long ago.

"Political Commissar He, let's not talk about these nonsense. It's real to kill those bastards who collude inside and outside. At least kill a batch, and the people will know that it is powerful. Otherwise, they really don't know the three eyes of Lord Ma. "If it was in the past, Chai Qingguo's words would have been vicious and murderous. Now, Chai Qingguo is really plain as water. It's not that he's lost interest in killing. Eliminating the bandits and cutting off their skulls to hang them on the flagpole for public display was originally a very effective means of establishing authority. The problem is that the People's Party has put forward such a policy as dividing the land, and in comparison, the effect of killing people and establishing authority is not enough to save the loss of breaking the promise.

He Zudao has never been involved in the rivers and lakes, and he really doesn't understand the thoughts of the heroes of the rivers and lakes, but Chai Qingguo's feeling of disobedience, he can definitely detect it, "Deputy Head Chai is a revolutionary comrade, can you tell the truth." What is the reason for doing this? ”

Chai Qingguo is much older than He Zudao and has experienced more things, listening to He Zudao say this, he feels that He Zudao is too tender. But after all, it is a grasshopper on a rope, if he doesn't make it clear to He Zudao now, if He Zudao is stuck, Chai Qingguo's plan will not be implemented at all. Gritting his teeth, Chai Qingguo said what was in his heart.

"Commissar He, do you really think that the matter of dividing the land can be done?"

"Of course."

For He Zudao's insistence, Chai Qingguo was no longer angry, he smiled: "Then don't you want to think about how many things can be led when the land is divided?" Even if we build water conservancy and divide the land, the people will not accept our affection. Don't you want to think about how many lawsuits there will be then? ”

Chai Qingguo didn't understand He Zudao's thoughts, and he asked strangely: "When the land is divided, the people come to us to start a lawsuit, doesn't it prove that the people think that we are the ones who can handle the lawsuit?" Isn't our insurance group the one who is in charge of Fengtai? What's wrong with this, could it be that the people started a lawsuit to find the Manchu yamen? ”

"Even if you are a yamen, you have to have your own iron core, right?" Chai Qingguo felt that He Zudao's naivety was outrageous.

He Zudao thought that Chai Qingguo's consciousness was too low, "We are the people's army, the people's soldiers, what is not iron?" Now that the people don't believe in us, we have to work to make the people believe in us. Let's form a bunch of thugs now, so what's the difference between us and Zhang Youliang? ”

This is also considered to be upright, Chai Qingguo can't refute it at all, but he is not convinced at all. "I can't talk to you, but you have to say that the people don't want to get more for themselves, I don't believe in this evil. You said that Wen Qing didn't want to fish for himself, I believe it. You don't want to make money for yourself, I believe it. You said that the people didn't want to get more money for themselves, and I didn't believe it. ”

After listening to Chai Qingguo's words, He Zudao already understood Chai Qingguo's true thoughts, "No one wants the knife handle to fall into the hands of others." That's right. If you give the handle of the knife to someone else, it is called Tai'a holding it upside down, and giving it to someone a handle......"

Chai Qingguo interrupted He Zudao's words angrily, "I haven't read a book, don't tell me this crepe thing." ”

He Zudao was also a little angry, his expression became serious, "Deputy Regiment Commander Chai, how hard is this work done by the soldiers in our insurance regiment now?" You know that. If the people really don't believe in us, if they don't believe that we will really divide the land in the future, and everyone will have water to water the land, and there is no hope for the future, why are the soldiers so desperate? Deputy Commander Chai, you have made a bunch of thugs now, you dare to use these thugs to scare the people. The insurance group immediately dispersed. If you don't use these thugs and use these so-called iron rods to scare the people, then it is better not to form them. If you can fight or not, you will know if you pull it out and fight it. Training well and preparing before the battle is better than anything else. ”

Speaking of theory, Chai Qingguo is really not He Zudao's opponent, but Chai Qingguo does not believe in the attitude of the people, which is the deep impression left on Chai Qingguo in the Boxer Movement. Although Chai Qingguo once felt that Chen Ke's people's revolution was "very interesting", in actual operation, he found that the people's revolution was actually made by himself, the "officials", who had to make so many contributions to the people, and he actually gained nothing but hardship and labor. Chai Qingguo even felt that Chen Ke was fooling when he was in Beijing.

The meeting broke up unhappily, to Chai Qingguo's surprise, He Zudao really found Chen Ke and asked him to be the political commissar of the Second Regiment, and suggested that Chai Qingguo should be the head of the Second Regiment. Of course, Chen Ke agreed with He Zudao to be the political commissar of the Second Regiment, but he did not agree with Chai Qingguo's appointment. But now is after all the stage for comrades to let go of their work, and with no matter how good his prestige, Chai Qingguo may not dare to openly confront now.

The Central Military Commission held a meeting, and the result of the discussion was to make He Zudao the political commissar of the Second Regiment and Chai Qingguo to be the acting head of the Second Regiment. The first task that Chai Qingguo, the acting head of the regiment, received was to clean up public order and quell the bandits.

He Zudao is worthy of being Chen Ke's student, after serving as the political commissar of the Second Regiment, He Zudao immediately began to participate in the soldiers' life meeting of the Second Regiment, and on the first day of his appointment, he directly put forward the task at the soldiers' life meeting of the first battalion and one company, "Comrades, there have been more and more thefts of the grain depot of the insurance regiment recently. There has been an organizational decision to clean up law and order. In the near future, in addition to their daily work, comrades in the unit will also be responsible for public order work. Defeat these bandits. ”

Chai Qingguo knew that he couldn't do political work, so he simply followed He Zudao to attend the meeting. After hearing He Zudao say this, Chai Qingguo only felt a pain in the egg. The theft gang clearly showed that it was done by several other people from the "reclamation brigade". To put it bluntly, the "Reclamation Brigade" is a refugee camp, and the insurance regiment operates through food distribution in the Reclamation Brigade. Now the main work is to build the core unit of the 359 Brigade and the First Regiment. He Zudao wants to come to develop the work of the second regiment, which in itself is playing with his life.

The proportion of recruits in the second regiment is as high as 95%, and although the discipline is quite passable, Chai Qingguo firmly believes that these new soldiers who have only been in the army for a month must support the locals more than the People's Party. Seriously, the Second Regiment was able to maintain discipline and persist in the work of building water conservancy, Chai Qingguo was really a little surprised. If the Boxers had been replaced, they would have rebelled a few times.

Sure enough, as Chai Qingguo thought, there was not much enthusiasm in the expressions of the soldiers. It was a surprise, but it was not a surprise.

"These people don't have to starve to death when they come to steal. However, every time they come to steal, they destroy a lot of crops. How much more grain will be produced when these crops are grown? I don't know how the people of Fengtai County cleaned up this kind of person when they were caught before, so I want to ask you. ”

The warriors were speechless at first, but they didn't know who sighed first.

"What do you say, what do you think about this matter?" He Zudao asked.

Still no one spoke.

"I know that everyone is a villager, and everyone feels that they can't save face. But have you ever thought about it, the grain in this granary is for the people to eat. Everyone is hungry like this now, how can they withstand such a toss? They have wasted so much grain now, and now how much grain they have wasted, how much food everyone will have to eat in winter. If it's a good year, let's not talk about it, it's a disaster year, and we can't let them continue to plague everyone like this. ”

The warriors still refused to speak.

He Zudao was not discouraged, "Comrades, everyone knows the rules of our insurance group, and if you have anything, you can say it boldly." Let's not do any post-autumn reckoning. ”

After a long time, a soldier said, "Commissar He, if we catch someone, what are we going to do?" ”

"We're not going to deal with these people now, we're going to keep the food now." He Zudao gave an answer that was not the answer.

The atmosphere in the venue was quite heavy, and finally a soldier who looked to be in his forties said: "Political Commissar He, don't say it's a disaster year, it's a good year, and if you waste food like this, you will be beaten up if you catch it." In disaster years, it is not uncommon to be killed. After saying that, the warrior sighed.

"I know you don't want to die, it's a life. It is not easy to survive the flood until now, and it is always inappropriate to be killed like this. Now we can't let them do that. In my words, it is our goal to catch these people and prevent them from continuing to spoil food. Their lives and deaths are in everyone's hands. It's not me who says these people have to die, and if you catch them, you will kill them. If everyone unanimously wants them to die, then they have to die. Otherwise, arrest them and do their work, and make up for their wasted food. Do you think this will work? ”

"Really?" The fighters were skeptical of such a reasonable approach.

"Political Commissar He, didn't you kill them after you caught them? Or beaten half to death, and then flailed up for public display? ”

The soldiers knew that it was common for people to kill people in such a disaster year, which was why many thieves mixed in with the refugees, but did not dare to do anything wrong. During the floods, the people were largely destitute and had no belongings. But seeing that life had calmed down after the floods, the gang was ready to move.

"Comrades, I would like to ask you all that this first wave of harvest is only a matter of the past two months. What are you going to do? ”

As soon as these words came out, the soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, and I don't know what to say. The proportion of recruits in the second regiment was very large, and 19 out of 20 people had to be recruits. A regiment had the consciousness of the old troops, participated in the disaster relief, and participated in the battle against Yue Zhangji. From top to bottom, they feel that they are the "own people" of the BJP. This kind of self-awareness is very weak in the second group.

He Zudao asked, soldiers, look at me, I look at you, the forty-year-old soldier finally spoke. "I'm joining our insurance group, first, eat more. Second, I also want to protect it. You won't be bullied in the future. Speaking of future plans, I plan to divide the land in the family. Just farm well. It's been this year, and I don't have any plans. Thanks to our insurance team, there are seven members of my family, and only one has died until now. This is seeing that there will be a harvest too, and there will be no starvation this year. That's it. ”

Someone took the lead, and although the mood of the fighters was not high, it was quite stable. After all, everyone is an honest farmer, and they can do anything to survive during the flood. Seeing that the grain is growing now, everyone naturally reverts to their old habits. To be on the safe side. The Chinese people are such pragmatic people, nothing is as good as having food in their hands.

And by this time, everyone has become very conservative. No one wants to cause trouble, and if something happens, they will see that the food they can get is gone. The cold winter is not an easy one. If you don't eat, it's definitely going to kill you.

"Commissar He, you don't have to worry, we will definitely do a good job. We must plant this year's grain well. "That's the most talked.

Looking at these soldiers, He Zudao was very moved. In order to live, how hard everyone works, He Zudao is very clear.

"Comrades, the insurance regiment is our people's own team. The food grown must be eaten by everyone. The cadres will not be allowed to eat more, and the fighters will eat less. If there is a grain, everyone will eat a grain together, and if there is a handful of rice, everyone will eat this handful of rice together. As long as our insurance group is still in the day, this rule cannot be broken. No one eats more than anyone else, and no one eats less than others. You don't have to worry about that. ”

This is the propaganda of the insurance group all along, and it is also the persistence of the insurance group. The fighters have a first-hand experience of this.

"We're going to catch the bad guys this time because they're spoiling the crops. These crops are not Brigade Commander Chen's crops, and they are not my crops. It's the crop of our entire insurance group. These bad guys are like rats, they spoil a little bit today, and they spoil a little bit tomorrow. How much food can we afford to be so bad? Comrades, we can't afford such a waste. ”

The soldiers are not stupid, He Zudao is so reasonable, and the next blow to these bad guys will be ruthless. And He Zudao is bound to ask the soldiers to report these people. On top of that, many of the warriors really knew who these bad guys were.

Some fighters have decided to report it, while others have various concerns.

He Zudao was not in a hurry to ask for more information, what he needed now was to familiarize himself with the situation and walk around the various companies. So to everyone's surprise, He Zudao actually left after talking a few more words.