"Master Zhou, this is today's learning content." The guard placed a stack of documents in front of Zhou Zhentao, commander of the 4406th Division. It's a freshly printed document that smells of fresh ink. Zhou Zhentao took the document and said to the guards: "You go out first." Looking at the back of the guards leaving, Zhou Zhentao breathed a sigh of relief and felt a lot more relaxed in his heart.

Since several incidents of clashes between cadres and subordinates or with fighters, the guards have refused to carry out these orders, and the fact that the guards are actually subordinate to the "Political Security Department" has been "recognized" by the cadres. In the millennia tradition, the guards are the henchmen of the officials and should be the hardcore of these people. But his own iron is actually "someone else's person". This cannot make many cadres feel quite dissatisfied. The guards must be managed by the Ministry of Political Security, which is a rule formulated by Chairman Chen Ke, and Zhou Zhentao didn't think about it so much at that time, but now that he thinks about it, Zhou Zhentao feels that Chen Ke is "too distrustful" of his comrades. These days, Zhou Zhentao has tried his best to let the guards be with him less, so that he can feel better.

Turning the page of the study content, the first page is a signed article titled "We are comrades, we must be synchronized". This is a recent trend, and the Political Department has vigorously carried out education at the grassroots level, and Chen Ke has also continued to write articles to carry out ideological education in the whole party and the whole army.

Zhou Zhentao was a comrade who followed Chen Ke at Fudan Public School during the Shanghai period, and was also one of the earliest party members. He knew that he was definitely not Chen Ke's opponent in terms of writing articles and reasoning. Don't think about it, Chen Ke must be asking everyone to put discipline first, work hard, and study hard. It's been almost half a month since the Chinese New Year, and Chen Ke has been writing articles on this. Zhou Zhentao also felt a little tired, and he didn't want to watch the learning content in front of him. Closing the document, Zhou Zhentao simply leaned back in his chair and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

As a native of Shaanxi, Zhou Zhentao has always attached importance to righteousness. In Shaanxi, if a person only talks about reasoning and does not pay attention to righteousness, there is no way to get mixed up at all. Emphasizing righteousness and morality is the foundation of Zhou Zhentao's life. In fact, not to mention in Shaanxi, it is also necessary to emphasize righteousness in the south. However, in his recent propaganda, Chen Ke has charged "mountainism" with "morality." forcibly linking morality to gangs and factions cannot disappoint Zhou Zhentao.

When comrades make mistakes, they do not take care of them, but instead dig deep into the ideological roots, and we must find out the so-called "root causes of erroneous thinking." Zhou Zhentao believes that this is "unreasonable", and it can even be said to be a fabricated crime. The comrades worked hard and became cadres, and occasionally did something wrong, which was good for saving some face for the comrades. Let me admit my mistake in front of the comrades below, how will I lead the troops and how will I work in the future? People live with a face, and trees live with a skin. The face is gone, where does the prestige come from?

But Zhou Zhentao really couldn't say this, he knew very well that he was by no means Chen Ke's opponent in terms of reasoning. And Chen Ke never talked about crooked reasoning, and put the big truth outward, and Zhou Zhentao couldn't deal with it. What made Zhou Zhentao even more puzzled, or unhappy, was that Chen Ke was engaged in education at the grassroots level, and at the same time, he did not relax at all in his work. Many cadres are worried about the rectification movement and have to work tirelessly, which is simply treating people as animals. Thinking of this, Zhou Zhentao only felt tired to death, as a division commander, he had to take care of the work up and down, and he had to worry about protecting others as much as possible, and he suddenly felt that everything he did was not worth it. What is it that I am trying so hard for?

When he was upset, he saw the guard enter the office, "Division commander, Comrade Chu Shiliang is here." You are not seeing him. "Chu Shiliang is Chu Shifu's cousin, and he is also a relative and confidant of Zhou Zhentao's subordinate Chu Deli. Zhou Zhentao replied, "Let him in." ”

Chu Shiliang had obvious excitement on his face, and as soon as the guards went out, Chu Shiliang said happily: "Senior Commander Zhou, I heard a piece of news. Gu Lu's group began to make trouble. ”

Zhou Zhentao didn't like Chu Shiliang, he felt that Chu Shiliang's character was quite bad. However, there are not many people who are willing to stand firmly on his side now, and Zhou Zhentao has nothing to do. "What's going on?" Zhou Zhentao asked.

"Gu Lu, what kind of mass supervision is there in their regiment, and they want the soldiers in the regiment to give their opinions. I heard that about the distribution of rewards a year ago, many soldiers felt that Gu Lu's distribution was unfair, which caused a fuss. They hold a democratic meeting every night, and I have heard that many comrades want to seek justice at today's democratic meeting. It's supposed to be a big fuss. Chu Shiliang knew that Zhou Zhentao didn't like that kind of flamboyant person, and he was able to restrain himself a little when he first said the news. Because Gu Lu and Chu Deli had a fierce conflict before, Chu Shiliang was disgusted with Gu Lu, saying that the soldiers in Gu Lu's regiment wanted to "make trouble", Chu Shiliang said that he was already smiling later. It wasn't until he saw Zhou Zhentao staring at him with disgust that Chu Shiliang couldn't easily restrain his smile.

Zhou Zhentao knew that Gu Lu had set up this "democratic association" in his regiment. The Democratic Association is nothing new in the People's Party, as early as when Chen Ke founded the "Insurance Group", there was a Democratic Association in the army, and at that time Zhou Zhentao was still a subordinate, as a party of "democracy". Chen Ke and the leaders of the party committee are the party subject to the democratic supervision of the comrades. Later, because of war and construction, democracy gradually faded. Zhou Zhentao heard this term again, and couldn't help but feel a very distant memory.

"Pretend to be positive." Zhou Zhentao said in his heart. Democracy will be very time-consuming, as long as you encounter a major work, everyone is fully engaged in preparing for war or labor, if you have a little spare time, it is better to go to sleep quickly, the ten days and a half months of democracy will be a formality at all.

But this can't be said to Chu Shiliang, Zhou Zhentao doesn't like Chu Shiliang's habit of holding chicken feathers as arrows at all. He asked coldly, "Is there anything else?" ”

Chu Shiliang didn't make Zhou Zhentao happy when he saw his report, and he didn't dare to show any more meritorious looks. He hurriedly said, "Master Zhou, there is nothing else to do for the time being. I will report back to you in a timely manner if there is any situation. ”

Zhou Zhentao was not moved by Chu Shiliang's diligence at all, and he said in a stern tone: "Platoon Commander Chu, you are a platoon leader, and you have to lead a whole platoon of people." Now that the labor is so intense, you should still work more on the construction site. ”

"Master Zhou, don't worry, the work has been arranged, and there will be no delay in progress." Chu Shiliang hurriedly replied.

Zhou Zhentao knew that Chu Shiliang must have arranged the work, otherwise he would not dare to come to report the situation to him like this. And Zhou Zhentao knows better that Chu Shiliang came to report to himself, partly because he wanted to prove his loyalty to Zhou Zhentao, and partly because he didn't like to work, and he could avoid his work by coming to report the situation. This is called "villain".

As a large local family in Fengxiang, Shaanxi, Zhou Zhentao has received internal education from many families since he was a child. This kind of villain must not be reused, but this kind of villain cannot be without. The specific use of this depends on the current development of events.

As an ordinary middle peasant from the Henan region of the Dabie Mountains, Gu Lu did not receive this kind of "ruling class education". It wasn't until a few days after he decided to implement the "democratic life meeting" in the regiment, when he met Chen Tianhua, director of the Political Department, occasionally, and the two chatted about their recent work, that Gu Lu knew that Chairman Chen Ke had promoted this kind of democratic life meeting in the army.

Gu Lu was not proud or frightened because he had inadvertently learned Chen Ke, and he asked Chen Tianhua how Chairman Chen Ke's democratic life would be held at that time. Chen Tianhua actually didn't have much experience, so he suggested that Gu Lu ask Chai Qingguo. Chai Qingguo is very experienced in this.

After listening to Gu Lu's inquiry, Chai Qingguo first looked at Gu Lu carefully for a while before replying: "There is only one thing to talk about at the democratic life meeting, how to work." At that time, it was really brainstorming, and then it was gradually replaced by various professional research institutions. It still sounds like there is, but it's actually just a saying. ”

Gu Lu didn't expect Chai Qingguo to give a fairly complete introduction to the ins and outs of the democratic life meeting, and he didn't think much about it, but just asked: "I don't object to this, right?" ”

"Why object?" Chai Qingguo asked rhetorically.

"Because I have only been to the soldiers' council, not to this kind of democratic life. So I don't know if there will be opposition to it. Gu Lu replied frankly.

Chai Qingguo looked at Gu Lu with bright eyes, and after a long while, he said: "You are the political commissar of the regiment, and you are responsible for the political work in the regiment." You don't have to worry about what you said above, Chairman Chen has repeatedly emphasized one thing, our party organization is a bottom-up structure, not a top-down structure. There was a reason for what happened back then, Chairman Chen was too strong. With or without a meeting, he was able to point out the right path, so the discussion became a church. At that time, our base was also small and weak. There is no such situation as it is now, and it is not clear whether everyone can survive or not. If democratic discussion really takes place, it will delay the matter, and then democratic life will have to be canceled. That's not a question of whether democratic life is right or wrong, it just had to be that. If someone makes irresponsible remarks, you don't have to deal with them at all, and you can do it according to your ideas. ”

Gu Lu is an extremely well-behaved person, since the director of the Political Department did not object, Chai Qingguo simply expressed his support with a clear attitude, and he began to hold a democratic life meeting in the regiment. At the meeting, two issues were mainly discussed, the first was to discuss with everyone how to do better work, and the second was to discuss various problems encountered in the work that made the comrades unhappy.

For the first few days, everyone didn't know what to say. What can be taken out are trivial things, whether the attitude of the cadres is correct, and whether they are happy at work. It was only after the party's organizational discipline had been propagated to a certain extent that fierce conflicts really arose at the democratic life meeting.

The implementation of the three disciplines and eight attention groups is quite good, and after Lu Kaiwen was dismissed, the cadres were quite shocked, and they didn't dare to speak loudly, let alone violate discipline. When the issue of "labor and equality" was explained to the comrades, some comrades rose up and asked, "The cadres are often not on the construction site, but when the rewards are divided, the cadres take the same as the soldiers, and this is considered equality." ”

This question was immediately endorsed by a considerable number of comrades, and of course there is no alternative anywhere. For example, at a company democratic life meeting attended by Gu Lu, after this issue was mentioned, some comrades said strange things, "In the past, it was said in the education of the army that absolute egalitarianism is opposed. Of course, the work of cadres and fighters is not equal. ”

The opposition to absolute egalitarianism was previously proposed by Chen Ke. At that time, the troops began to talk about equality, and some soldiers thought that since they talked about fairness, they had to be completely consistent. Officers and soldiers must live on an equal footing, and commanders are not allowed to ride horses. At that time, Chen Ke once criticized this idea that "one monk carries water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, and three monks have no water to drink." "After the education of the troops, this atmosphere has finally subsided. Comrades don't talk about what happened a long time ago, but they haven't forgotten it in their hearts.

Of course, the commanders could not agree with this accusation convincingly, and with the presence of Gu Lu, the political commissar of the regiment, the cadres began to explain in a bit of a hurry. As soon as they explained, the comrades stopped asking. The meeting returned to the previous uneventful situation.

Gu Lu just listened quietly at first, until the democratic life will be lifeless and almost over, the cadres and soldiers have nothing to say, just waiting for the meeting to end, Gu Lu got up and walked to the center of the venue, he is less than 170 tall, and his figure is not strong enough, but when he walked silently among the comrades, he really had no sense of oppression.

But when Gu Lu spoke, his voice was loud and crisp, and it was quite like a bell. "I want to criticize the comrades today, not the commanders, I want to criticize our soldiers!"

The commanders' faces are all ugly, what is the difference between criticizing the fighters and criticizing the commanders? In any case, this leadership responsibility cannot be run. The soldiers were not familiar with Gu Lu, the newly appointed political commissar of the regiment, and they began to criticize people directly after listening to Gu Lu's loud voice and clear attitude, and the soldiers felt a real pressure from this small and not burly political commissar, no one dared to say anything, and everyone listened quietly to the political commissar and began to criticize everyone.

"Comrades, our organizational discipline requires everyone to speak openly when they encounter something they are not satisfied with. This is the organizational discipline of our Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. If you are right, everyone will naturally support you, and if you say something wrong, everyone will tell you where you said wrong. This is our organizational discipline. The work is already very hard, and everyone is unhappy in their hearts, how can this work be done well? In this matter, I would say that everyone is doing something wrong. After I criticized you today, you don't have to be afraid of anything, just say anything openly, you can't be the same as when you have a meeting today, you can complain when you have a chance, say nothing if you don't have a chance, and say whatever you have. Afraid of what? ”

The commander and the soldiers were stunned, everyone never imagined that Gu Lu, the political commissar of the regiment, would actually criticize this matter. Those who serve as soldiers listen to those who serve as officials, and this has been the case for thousands of years. The comrades couldn't understand what Gu Lu meant for a while.

After a while, the comrade who had just said something strange suddenly laughed, and then said: "If I want to say it so bluntly, I am afraid that the commanders will be unhappy." If they are not happy, I will not be happy. ”

The soldiers were all from the countryside and were quite simple people, and it took a long time for many comrades to understand the meaning of these words. Some comrades and other comrades laughed out loud, and asked other comrades with puzzled faces, what was so ridiculous about this.

"You don't have to fear retaliation. If comrades feel that they have told the truth and have been retaliated against, can they raise it in public at the democratic life meeting? I don't know if the commanders have made it clear to everyone, but I believe that the commanders will make it clear to everyone in accordance with the regulations. I will repeat here once again that everyone has the right to participate in this democratic life meeting, and no one can deprive comrades of the right to participate in the democratic life meeting under any pretext. If someone does this, you can report it to the political commissar, and we will definitely deal with it seriously. Do you understand? ”

The comrades stared at each other in amazement, not knowing how to answer for a moment. Gu Lu didn't wait too long, he continued to say loudly: "Today's time is up, comrades hurry up and rest." Tomorrow's work won't be easy. When democratic life begins tomorrow, I hope that you will be able to say what you want to say out loud. I'll be back in the conference. ”

At the democratic life meeting the next day, Gu Lu happened to be called by Chen Tianhua to talk about some work. Gu Lu, who didn't like to ride horses, specially found a horse, crossed the horse and rushed to Chen Tianhua to explain to Chen Tianhua that he was going to participate in the democratic life meeting. Chen Tianhua told Gu Lu without saying a word, not only did he not talk about work for the time being, but Chen Tianhua also went to participate in this democratic life meeting in person.

When the two appeared at the venue, the cadres and soldiers were already waiting there. Gu Lu could see that there was an uneasy look in the eyes of the cadres, and when they saw Gu Lu arrive on time, they even looked a little disappointed. The eyes of the soldiers were anxious, and when they saw Gu Lu coming to the meeting on time, great enthusiasm appeared in everyone's eyes.

At this meeting, the comrades really did not say any unreasonable questions. The focus of everyone's questions is generally on one question, why cadres are often not seen when they are working. Comrades work every day, while cadres often stop for two or three days a week.

The cadres saw that Gu Lu clearly supported the soldiers, and they were all dejected, and some cadres explained a few words, but not only did they not get the approval of the soldiers, but they were criticized more fiercely because they stood up.

After such criticism, the cadres wilted. On the contrary, the soldiers were agitated, shouting vigorously for the cadres to tell what they were doing.

Chen Tianhua really had never participated in this kind of grassroots democratic life meeting, and seeing the serious confrontation between cadres and fighters, he had a great deal of-for-tat. He just looked at Gu Lu, but he didn't say anything. Chen Tianhua didn't think there was anything wrong, Chen Ke had already said that in the face of the united masses, such a handful of cadres were not opponents at all. He really wanted to see how Gu Lu would handle this kind of scene.

Sure enough, Gu Lu came forward. His voice was still loud, "Yesterday I criticized the soldiers, and today I want to criticize our cadres. If you have anything to fear, say whatever you have done. As far as I know, there is a meeting in the regiment headquarters, and everyone has to participate. When something happened to Comrade Lu Kaiwen, we had a lot of meetings. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. If everyone is afraid that comrades will know that they are not all going to the meeting, but that they are lazy. Then I have to tell you, look at the questions raised by the comrades now, and just say whether the cadres are lazy or not. It's all come to this point, what's so scary? Tell me the truth! ”

Gu Lu's words caused the soldiers to burst into laughter, and the faces of the cadres became even more difficult to look at.

"Comrades, don't laugh!" Gu Lu turned around and shouted to the soldiers. As soon as the shouts fell, the warriors stopped laughing.

"Comrades, I haven't been in our group for a long time, and I don't know what happened before I came, and I can't say so much. But I now ask the comrades to put the things they want to talk about in the period after I come. Let's not dig over old accounts, just talk about things and seek truth from facts. Do you agree? ”

"Agreed!" The fighters replied almost in unison.

Gu Lu turned his head and said to the cadres with embarrassed and ashamed faces: "Cadre comrades, everyone is a man. What is it like to answer so shyly? Since the comrades have all asked questions, should everyone raise their heads and answer the questions aloud? Shame on people doesn't mean that you do something wrong and you are ashamed. It's that you don't dare to take it, and this will be looked down upon by everyone. I have heard Chairman Chen Ke hold a meeting before, and everyone said that Chairman Chen Ke and his comrades rowed out together to relieve the disaster, and at that time, everyone did not know how to row, and the boat capsized when it encountered a wave. The whole boat of comrades fell into the water. When Chairman Chen talks about these things, he admits that no one makes mistakes. Mistakes are inevitable. Chairman Chen dared to admit what he had done, and what did everyone dare not admit. If you don't admit it, you don't do it, so you don't do it? ”

With Gu Lu's encouragement, the democratic life will finally continue.