For a while, the atmosphere in the headquarters was very strange, and everyone had their own thoughts, but Chen Zikun was in charge, and no one dared to talk nonsense, so he could only hide his thoughts.

Chen Zikun asked Liu Ting to take his little sister home to rest, asked Chen Bei to go back to the air base quickly, and scolded him for being undisciplined, and after driving the outsiders away, it was time to deal with the affairs in the barracks.

Twenty minutes later, the officers began to arrive one after another, in the middle of the night in the dripping winter, it was an offending thing to call the commander from the warm bed, some people had a rich nightlife, and they were still playing cards and listening to plays, and they came early, and those who were immersed in the dark and sweet country were not so lucky, and it took a full hour to arrive in a hurry.

The last time he received the incident, Chen Zikun had already dealt with a group of officers, and he had changed to a group of young Zhuang factions from the military academy, but today, the young Zhuang faction is also unreliable, and some middle-level officers in their early thirties are already pot-bellied and have fat brains.

"Today, if it weren't for Liu Xiaoyong here, the first corps of the traffic police would have been disarmed by the 89th Army, you have a good life, in the cold winter, hugging the little daughter-in-law to drill the warm quilt, hum." Chen Zikun sneered, and the officers were silent.

"Let's pick all the rank and collar flowers." Chan said.

Everyone is shocked, this is to be wiped to the end.

Liu Xiaoyong stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Sir, in this way, the shelves of the troops will be scattered." ”

Chen Zikun nodded slightly, and said: "Today I will dismiss all of you wastes on the spot, replace them with the rank of second-class soldier, start from scratch, when you are qualified, when will the officer be reinstated, the chief officer of each company and platoon, will be elected by the soldiers of the team, and I will personally take charge of the first team, Liu Xiaoyong will temporarily take the position of deputy captain and preside over the daily work, just like that, the meeting will be dismissed." ”

After that, he brushed his sleeves away, and Liu Xiaoyong ordered all the officers to disband, go back to their respective battalions, and prohibit going out from now on.

The officers were very dissatisfied, and Chief Chen reprimanded them, this Liu Xiaoyong just relied on his sister's nepotism to get to the top, and he also treated himself as a big clove of garlic, and a colonel asked provocatively: "Deputy Captain Liu, may I ask which company we are going to be soldiers?" ”

Liu Xiaoyong said: "You are all commanders, just concentrate on the guard company, and take care of it." ”

The colonel said: "We are not commanders, we are all privates, and the guard company has to stand guard, we have old arms and legs, and it is cold this day, I'm afraid we won't be able to stand it." ”

Liu Xiaoyong said: "Or, go to the cooking class?" ”

The colonel said, "You scold us for being rice buckets." ”

Liu Xiaoyong said: "Everyone, I'm sorry, it's what Chief Chen means to let you go down to the company to exercise, don't come to me, if you want, just pick a company to be a soldier, if you don't like it, you can stay anywhere, but there is one thing, just don't go home, just now Chief Chen also said that no one is allowed to go out, I guess you have heard it." ”

He was neither humble nor arrogant, soft and hard, and the officers had no choice but to complain and find a warm place or go to sleep and go back to sleep, or get together to scold Liu Xiaoyong, scold Ou Guangwu, and scold the Americans for having enough to eat and stir up trouble.

……

Early the next morning, when Chen Zikun was eating in the restaurant, two newspapers were placed in front of him, one was the "Huaijiang Daily" edited by Ruan Mingchuan, and the other was the "Jiangdong Times" edited by Wei Qiushui.

"Ridiculous!" Chen Zikun slapped the Jiangdong Times on the table and was furious, the news of the Times was too poisonous, not only stained the innocence of others, but also poured a basin of dirty water on himself, and the criminals were protected by the police, didn't he say that he was shielding American soldiers.

The headache is not limited to this, the Nanjing Ministry of Defense called long-distance to question the conflict between the Jiangdong Traffic Police Corps and the 89th Army. Howard was urgently flying from Tianjin to deal with the seizure of the American soldiers, and the plane arrived at noon.

Chen Zikun asked the orderly soldiers to prepare their military uniforms, and he had to personally go to the airport to greet General Howard, and Sino-US relations are not trivial, and they must be handled cautiously, and they must not damage diplomatic relations, still less insult the national dignity, and it is really difficult to handle.

Just as he was about to go out, the long-distance phone call came again, and this time it was Chairman Jiang himself, and Chen Zikun introduced the situation and vowed that the handling would be completed within three days and that he would definitely enforce the law impartially.

After coping with the call, Chen Zikun put on a cloak and went out of the door, Liu Ting came head-on, holding a copy of "Jiangdong Times" in her hand with a worried look, and just about to speak, Chen Zikun said: "I have seen it all, you can deal with the affairs of the newspaper, let them correct it, and apologize." ”

Liu Ting nodded: "Okay, I'll do it." ”

The orderly opened the car door, Chen Zikun got into half of it, and then probed out and said: "The mood of the school should also be soothed, how is the little sister's health, if necessary, she will come forward to explain the situation." ”

Liu Ting said: "The body is fine, but the spirit is not good, I was scared, now I am resting at home, don't worry, I will deal with it." ”

Chen Zikun left by car, and when the car drove to the gate of the official residence compound, a jeep drove up, which was his son Chen Bei.

"Stop." Chen Zikun greeted the driver, the bulletproof car stopped on the side of the road, Chen Zikun lowered the window, called Chen Bei to him and reprimanded him, and then left.

Chen Bei was a hero who saved the United States, and he was still proud, he was scolded by Lao Tzu, and returned home depressed, Liu Ting stood on the second floor and shouted to him: "Xiaobei, you come here." ”

Chen Bei went upstairs and entered the study, and Liu Ting asked him with a pleasant face how far the relationship with Liu had progressed.

"She and I are just friends." Chen Bei replied honestly.

"Xiao Nan is your younger brother, he calls a little sister-in-law, you also have to call your sister-in-law, although there is no blood relationship, but the generation is here, we Chinese pay the most attention to ethics, this is insurmountable." Liu Ting educated him seriously, picked up the newspaper and prepared to go out, Chen Bei's eyes were sharp, and when he saw the exaggerated headline in the newspaper, he immediately became angry: "Which newspaper is this, don't you believe it!" ”

Liu Ting said: "I was about to go to the newspaper office to settle accounts with them, but fortunately the newspaper was not seen by Xiaoxiao, otherwise something would definitely happen." ”

Chen Beidao: "I'll go with you." ”

The two drove to the Huaijiang Times newspaper, found the editor-in-chief Wei Qiushui, and slapped the newspaper in front of him.

"Editor-in-Chief Wei, you have reversed black and white and made something out of nothing, I can sue you for defamation in the court, and I can also report you to the news management department for your discord between China and the United States, you know." Liu Ting said very calmly.

Wei Qiushui was a person who understood, and immediately called reporters, editors, and the director of the news department in for questioning, and finally came to the conclusion that the report was indeed contrary to the facts and there was subjective speculation.

"Secretary Liu, I apologize to you and promise to publish an apology notice on the front page tomorrow and compensate for the loss." Wei Qiushui swore an oath.

Liu Ting said: "The compensation will be waived, we are not short of this money, my sister is young, and the road ahead is still very long, even if it is a fact, the newspaper must take care of the feelings of the parties, and cannot name names, otherwise there will be your lawsuit." ”

"Yes, yes, Secretary Liu is taught." Wei Qiushui was humble and cautious, sent the two out of the door, returned to his office, and picked up the phone: "Pick up the provincial government for me, and I'll find the district chairman." ”

"District chairman, I reported to Wei Qiushui, Chen Zikun's secretary really came to the door, yes, everything is according to the plan."

In the provincial government building, Ou Guangyan hung up Wei Qiushui's phone and said to Xu Tingge, who was sitting in front of him: "Director Xu, it's time for you to go out." ”

Xu Tingge gestured to his attendant, and the attendant wearing a cap nodded and went out.

Half an hour later, a truck without a license plate rushed to the entrance of the Jiangdong Times office, and from the car jumped out of the car more than 20 ruffians with iron rods and axes in their hands.

In less than five minutes, the newspaper office was smashed, the window glass was shattered, the desk was cut out with deep axe marks, Wei Qiushui's goldfish tank was also smashed, the water flowed to the ground, and several goldfish were dying on the floor.

By the time the police arrived, the hooligans had already dispersed, the newspaper staff were staggering, humming and chirping, several heads were broken, blood flowed, and the editor-in-chief Wei's glasses were broken, his hair was unkempt, and he was filled with righteous indignation: "I want to accuse, these lawless hooligans!" I want to publish a special issue, even if I fight for my life, I want to expose their shameless behavior. ”

When the police recorded statements to the injured and asked them who had smashed the newspaper office, one reporter said, "I don't know, but they were all wearing American-style high leather boots." ”

Another editor told the police that before the hooligans smashed the newspaper office, Chen Zikun's secretary Liu Ting and his son Chen Bei had come to see the editor-in-chief Wei, and the two sides had a very unpleasant quarrel......

The little policeman knew that this case was not simple, so he left after hastily recording it, how dare he ask.

……

Jiangdong Airport, Chen Zikun met with General Howard in the airport VIP lounge, although the two are old classmates, but at this time they do not miss the friendship of classmates, Howard is aggressive, the comer is not good, Chen Zikun argues with reason, and does not give an inch.

The difference is that General Howard insisted that the jurisdiction of the four American soldiers involved in the case be handled by a military court, while Chen Zikun said that the case involved local Chinese people and must be tried by a Chinese court.

The two fought-for-tat and refused to give in to each other, and finally Howard was anxious and asked Chen Zikun to show evidence, Chen Zikun was prepared, took out his confession, photos and witness testimony, and there was a lawyer in Howard's attaché, who confirmed that it was correct after inspection, but said that it was only an attempted rape and could be released on bail first.

Colonel Chandes, who accompanied him, also followed: "Chen, punishing these four soldiers will not do you any good, it is better to take this opportunity to propose some quid pro quo." ”

Chen Zikun said: "I will never release people unless I receive a higher order." ”

Howard said: "It's easy to do, I'll contact the Nanjing Ministry of Defense immediately and ask them to give you an order." ”

Chen Zikun said: "The marines are seriously disturbing the people, and I ask them to withdraw from Jiangdong. ”

Howard didn't blink: "Okay, I'll make a deployment." ”

The two sides finally reached an agreement, and the Ministry of National Defense issued a document to coordinate the release of the people involved in the case and the withdrawal of US troops from Jiangdong.

Howard did not delay, and immediately took the plane back to Tianjin, leaving the rest of the matter to the adjutant.

When Chan returned to the residence, Colonel Chandes asked puzzledly, "Why take it so seriously?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "If I don't take it seriously, the fire will burn on my head." ”

Suddenly, a banner with slogans covered the sky and the sun in front of them, and the black-pressed students occupied the entire central street, and a thin young man wearing glasses and a white scarf stood on the roof of a car and shouted hoarsely: "Students, compatriots, the American soldiers have bullied our sisters, but the government has shielded them and connived at them, can we agree!" ”

There was a mountain of roars below: "Don't agree!" ”

The young man shouted again: "The Times has exposed the facts, but the newspaper office was smashed by unknown people and the reporter was injured. ”

He raised his arms suddenly, and his voice was out of tune: "Down with US imperialism!" ”

Countless voices shouted below: "Down with US imperialism!" ”

He shouted again: "Down with Chan Tzu-kun!" ”

"Down with Chan Tzu-kun!" Thousands of college students and middle school students held colorful slogans in the cold wind and let out a deafening roar.

A mournful siren sounded, and the horse team of the police department was dispatched, and the black-uniformed policemen of the brigade pounced on the students with batons in their hands, and suddenly the screams resounded throughout the four fields.

"They're against you." Colonel Chandes exclaimed.

Chen Zikun sighed: "What I was worried about still happened. ”