Chapter 384: East Adaptation 3

People don't think about anything else until they've had a full meal. How can I eat a full meal? Where can I find something to fill my stomach? These thoughts tend to stick tightly in the minds of people who don't have enough to eat.

Long-term lack of food, in addition to the decrease in brain activity caused by poor drinking, the long-term desire to find food and find a way to fill the stomach occupies the mind, and the brains of those who do not have enough to eat will gradually stiffen and solidify. In this case, people who do not have enough to eat all year round will give people a feeling of numbness and sluggishness.

When modern people look at the pictures of ordinary people in the late Qing Dynasty, they tend to think about things like unreliable national character. But the reality is that it is difficult to imagine what it is like for a person in this physiological condition to be in such a state of long-term hunger without truly experiencing the chronic and long-term state of hunger.

The stomach is empty, but it has to be physically unbearable for a long time. As a result, such people are not only in a state of deformity in appearance, but also psychologically.

Take, for example, the Ba'ath Army. In addition to those recruited in Baathist-ruled areas, the first thing they did after entering the camp was to receive full treatment from the army's health department.

Malnutrition, parasites, infectious diseases, and physical deformities of all kinds are very common among these workers. The problem of nail deformity alone is present in basically every recruit.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the first half month after the new recruits enter the camp are basically receiving nutritional supplements and health and epidemic prevention treatment. In this month and a half, cadres of the Renaissance Army at all levels began to settle in the barracks. In the units at the class level, instructors who had been promoted from among the ordinary soldiers of the old Ba'ath Army began to educate the recruits in the first level of literacy and began to teach them the most basic knowledge of regulations. The squad leader, who was also promoted from among the veterans, will give the recruits basic tactical education.

In the process of the new recruits beginning to receive nutritional supplements and sanitary and epidemic prevention treatment, the Baath Party began to educate the troops in political, cultural and military skills. By the time the soldiers had recovered from the half-month recuperation, they were basically able to grasp the basic knowledge of the regulations and establish a general sense of discipline. In the following three months of recruitment, the knowledge and sense of discipline of these regulations will be continuously strengthened.

At the same time, soldiers who perform well in the process of receiving basic education will be promoted to deputy squad leaders for key training. Of course, the selection of the deputy class leader is not decided by the class leader and the instructor. Squad leaders and instructors nominate among the soldiers, and then hand them over to the soldiers of their squad for democratic elections.

On the one hand, this is because Wang Shuhui attaches importance to the military's function of cultivating talents, and on the other hand, it is because Wang Shuhui attaches importance to the transformation of soldiers' ideology and consciousness. Therefore, in the Renaissance Army, the principle of the party commanding the gun was emphatically embodied, so much so that Wang Shuhui sent instructors in charge of ideological, political, and cultural education directly to the "squads" of the most basic units of the Renaissance Army.

Unlike political cadres at and above the company level, who pay attention to the ideological and political construction and personnel management of the troops, political cadres at the squad and platoon levels mainly conduct ideological and cultural education for soldiers in specific affairs. Moreover, they must also undertake the work of democratic education for the soldiers of their squad.

The deputy squad leader who was elected by the soldiers of this squad is not just the position of deputy squad leader. As a democratically elected cadre of the soldiers, the deputy squad leader is also the representative of the soldiers of the squad. The soldiers of each squad elect the soldiers of their own squad, and the soldiers of each squad elect the soldiers of their own platoon, and the soldiers of their own platoon jointly elect the soldiers of their own company, and the soldiers of each company form the soldiers' committee of the battalion.

Soldiers' deputies at all levels have two main tasks: one is to supervise the economic work of the troops. The main thing is to supervise the payment of military salaries and the expenditure of troops. The other is to participate directly in the trial of military tribunals. They sit as jurors in court-martial trials and oversee the execution of various punishments imposed on soldiers.

It turned out that when they were in the Hubei base area, because the soldiers who joined the army were all ordinary people, they lacked a clear understanding of the army and the feudal system. Therefore, in the process of building democracy in the Ba'ath Army, they did not have any subversive understanding of the democratic system of the Ba'ath Party. It is precisely because there is no influence of preconceived notions in everyone's mind that it is easier to establish a system on a blank sheet of paper.

But the situation is very different here with the newly formed Dongjiang Revival Army. It can be said that the various policies and systems of the Baath Party have made these ordinary soldiers who were oppressed and exploited in the feudal army in the past feel very frightened. Let's talk about the simplest case of the medical and health personnel of the Renaissance Army treating their diseases. They all felt very confused.

In their opinion, those potions in various wrappers and glass bottles, which should be valuable just by looking at them, are not at all what they should enjoy as cannon fodder and as consumables. Especially because many of the health care workers in the reconstruction army are young women, so they are afraid to move when they are receiving treatment.

Zhao's eldest son has a good reputation among the grassroots soldiers and people in Dongjiang Town. This young man, who lost all his relatives in the Liaodong Massacre of the Dongyu Jurchen, was particularly fierce in the battle against the Later Jin Jurchen in Dongjiang Town. Almost everyone knew that Zhao Changzi was going to kill at least four or five Jurchen soldiers.

So in Zhao's eldest son's class, he was unanimously elected as the deputy squad leader by everyone. The class leader and instructor of his class also felt that this young man with strong skills, strong personality, and a very flexible mind was very talented.

Zhao's eldest son lived a hungry and full meal like everyone else in Dongjiang Town, and had a miserable life without a meal. It's not that there are no officers who see Zhao's eldest son's good skills and want to promote him to his own personal soldiers. But for these solicitations, Zhao's eldest son refused.

In his opinion, it is true that being a pro-soldier family member can immediately change his living situation, but he also knows that the main role of the pro-soldier family on the battlefield is to protect the main general. In actual combat, the pro-soldiers often hide behind the military formation with their masters, and once the formation collapses, they will keep their masters and escape on horseback. What can really compete with the Tartars is those inconspicuous cannon fodder soldiers.

With Zhao's eldest son's skills, hiding in a group of cannon fodder soldiers, he was also able to hide his body and find the right opportunity to assassinate one or two enemies. If he took refuge in a certain master for the sake of his own living treatment, he might not be able to really kill a few Tartars