Chapter 32: Gambling
"Fang Datong, Yu Sihu, why are you two!" Seeing the two people who were escorted back by the villagers, Wang Guozhen's face changed dramatically and shouted: "How can you do such a thing!" ”
"Guozhen, know these two scum!" Tang Zhidao asked angrily: "Could it be that it is the people of the third battalion again!" "I actually stole the farming cattle of other villagers, and if I stole it, I was caught red-handed, and I didn't dare to do anything if I didn't admit it, and I didn't dare to do anything about it, who knew that these two guys not only recognized it, but also were escorted back by others with great fanfare, and they were thrown home.
"It's all a platoon of soldiers from the Ninth Company." Wang Guozhen said embarrassedly: "It's all because I, the deputy company commander, didn't take care of him." "These two little soldiers are not only Wang Guozhen's subordinates, but also his fellow countrymen, who have always taken good care of the two of them, but I didn't expect to do such a thing.
"Since it's yours, you can also come and listen to it." Tang Zhidao said coldly: "If Zhou Wenruo is responsible for recording, this kind of thing must be severely punished." ”
Soldier petty theft is really not a big deal in this era, generally speaking, just a few reprimands, serious ones are locked up for a few days, and it is not impossible to meet a grumpy commander and whip a few whips. Tang Zhidao didn't plan to lightly expose it this time, mainly because the military discipline of the third battalion had reached the point where it had to be rectified, and this kind of sneaky thing happened several times a month, especially a vicious incident in which a soldier raped a beautiful widow in the village and caused someone to commit suicide. At this time, the party was not caught red-handed, but according to Tang Zhidao's secret investigation, eighty percent of them were done by people from the third battalion.
"Raise your head and tell your name and age!" After bringing the person back to the interrogation room, Tang Zhidao began to interrogate.
"The small Fang Datong, the Zhili Hejian people's clan, is twenty-three this year."
"The small Yu Sihu, Zhili Hejian people's clan, is twenty-two this year." The two soldiers knelt on the ground and replied tremblingly, originally thinking that if the number of the unit was reported and the confession was generous, the villagers would let him come back, but they didn't expect to escort him back to the camp directly, and it happened that Du Shijie, who had just returned from outside, looked at him and reported to the head of the Tang regiment.
"Guozhen, you seem to be also a member of the Naoli Hejian clan!" Tang Zhidao said to Wang Guozhen beside him.
"The subordinate is from Hejian Prefecture, and these two unsuccessful things are the same villagers under them." Wang Guozhen couldn't wait for a crack to get into at this moment, and he had just made up his mind to do something with Head Tang when he encountered this kind of thing.
"Stand up and speak." Tang Zhidao nodded and instructed the two soldiers on the ground: "Talk about the crime process yourself." ”
"Last night, it shouldn't be today, I and the Four Tigers ......" The two of them were slightly older, so they were a little bolder and said intermittently. The case is extremely simple, the two of them are short of money, so they went to the village to steal things, and after wandering around for a long time, they stared at people's ploughing cattle (a cow is worth dozens of oceans), and as soon as they started stealing, they were seen by the children in the village who got up to pee, and the two were caught by more than a dozen villagers.
"Guozhen, these two people are your people, what do you think of it?" originally planned to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, but when it involved Wang Guozhen, Tang Dao planned to let it go first, which can be regarded as a personal favor.
"These two are subordinate fellow villagers, and subordinates should avoid suspicion!" Wang Guozhen stood up and said: "Please also ask the head of the regiment not to deal with it lightly because of me!" ”
"The regiment commander spares his life, and the regiment commander spares his life."
"Company commander, save us!"
"Company commander, someone forced us, so we didn't dare to talk to you!"
"We had to steal as a last resort." When the two saw that Wang Guozhen didn't intercede for them, they couldn't help but panic and shouted loudly. People say that the new official took office with three fires, and maybe the regiment commander burned himself with one fire.
"As a last resort, what a last resort." Tang Zhidao was amused by the three words "last resort", people who do bad things always have a reason. …,
"The small family is poor, there is almost an old mother, and there is a newborn baby...... Fang Datong said loudly.
"Do you know that you are old and young? still do this kind of immoral thing, to steal the cattle of other villagers! Wang Guo really knew about the situation of Fang Datong's family, and he had helped him twice with his own salary, so he was extremely angry.
"My family is waiting for me to pay to live!" Fang Datong lowered his head in shame and said, "But Xiao Xiao didn't have a penny on hand, so he encouraged the Four Tigers to ......."
"Stop, stop!" Tang Zhidao frowned and asked, "Why are you penniless?" I personally sent the arrears to you last month, there should be ten oceans, this month's salary has just been paid, and I eat and drink well every day to support you, how can you have no money? "Although this month's military salary is not issued by Tang Zhidao one by one, but he checks the account books of the military quartermaster one by one, is there any problem here?
"Last month, the regiment commander gave the small eleven pieces of ocean, and this month the army quartermaster gave each of them four pieces of ocean." Fang Datong said with remorse: "The small ones are going to be saved and sent back to their hometown in Hejian together, who knows that they will be ...... for a while."
"The small ones are not people, the small ones are not people and ghosts, and all the fifteen oceans have been put in." Thinking that the fifteen oceans were gone, Fang Datong actually fanned his mouth.
"Speak well, what the hell have you done?" Tang Zhidao glared at Fang Datong in disgust and said.
"I, I, I don't dare to say it......" Fang Datong secretly looked at Wang Guozhen and said in a huff.
"Whatever the head of the regiment asks you, you say." Wang Guozhen knew what was going on after a little thought.
"I'm not human, I gambled all my money and lost." Fang Datong said dejectedly: "There is not a single point left, and I still owe others ten oceans." ”
With a "snap", Tang Zhidao slammed the startled wood on the table, scaring Fang Da and the others into a cold sweat.
"Which gambling house is so blind, dare to let you gamble." Tang Zhidao, who was a man of two lives, hated gambling the most, and he once personally participated in the capture of a spy in the Marine Corps, who was bribed by overseas spy organizations because he was addicted to online gambling and owed huge gambling debts. Not long ago, he also sent people to several gambling houses in the town to ring the alarm bell, and he had just lured the officers and men of the Second Mixed Regiment to gamble, and he must have been unable to eat and walk around.
"The little ones don't gamble in the town, they lose in the camp game." Fang Datong's voice became smaller and smaller.
"What? Someone dared to gather in the barracks to gamble, why didn't they come to report to me? Tang Zhidao said angrily: "Wang Guozhen, is this incident true?" ”
"The regiment commander does have such a thing, and the gambling game is set up in the company headquarters of the twelfth company." Wang Guozhen hurriedly replied: "As far as my subordinates know, the soldiers of the third battalion are mainly involved in gambling, and there are also many troops directly under the other two battalions and the regimental headquarters, and many officers of the third battalion are involved in gambling. ”
"The little ones have also gambled, but they have lost a little less." Yu Sihu also muttered quietly.
"Then why are you only reporting now!" Tang Zhidao looked around at everyone coldly and asked, "Do you all know?" "Such a big thing happened in the camp, and Regiment Commander Tang didn't know at all, no wonder he was angry.
"I have reported to Camp Chief Chen many times, and he promised me in person that I would seriously pursue this matter." Wang Guozhen said helplessly: "It's just that they will change places at most, and everything will be the same." ”
"My subordinates have only heard about it, but they have never seen it with their own eyes." Zhou Wenruo also hurriedly reviewed: "My subordinates will definitely investigate this matter as soon as possible with Judge Tonghua." ”
Zhou Wenruo didn't hear about it, in fact, Tang Zhidao had gambled twice before, and after losing a few handfuls, he barely restrained it, but he didn't see it as much of a problem. In fact, not only ordinary soldiers, junior officers, but also those high-ranking brigade commanders, division commanders, overseers, and even ministers and prime ministers are very good at this, and some ministers, prime ministers, and overseers even like to work at the card table very much, sign documents when they come, and continue to play cards after signing. …,
It is said that in the early years of the Republic of China, gambling was common inside and outside Beijing, especially among high-ranking officials, so that it seriously affected the operation of the Beiyang government. Yuan Shikai convened a meeting of cabinet dignitaries, but people kept being late and absent, and in a fit of rage, President Yuan ordered Wu Bingxiang, the chief of the Jingshi Police, to ban gambling and asked him to submit a list of gambling officials. This is difficult for Director Wu, those ministers, deputy ministers, and division commanders don't gamble, and the whole newspaper is afraid of public anger, and if they don't report it, they won't be able to complete President Yuan's errand. When he was so anxious that he was about to hit the wall, a teacher in the director's yamen came up with a brilliant idea. With a stroke of the pen, Director Wu reported the gambling executives and dignitaries, and the first on the list was Duan Qirui, the then Minister of the Army. This Duan Qirui has no bad habits with a clean breeze on his sleeves, only occasionally playing a little mahjong for fun, but people never delay their business because of this. When Lao Yuan got this list, he could only smile bitterly and throw it into the wastebasket, and Jingshi's gambling ban was over.
In the historical materials of later generations, a certain principal also contained this way, and also left famous sayings such as "I am not as good as you in war, and you are not as good as me in mahjong".
"Leave him alone for now, wait until I figure it out." Tang Zhidao had already regained his calm and said lightly: "But if any of you dare to participate in gambling from today onwards, once I find out, I will leave immediately!" "If you want to cure this stubborn disease, you have to be heavy-handed, but now you are not very sure, and I am afraid that Chen Daofeng and his group will not be able to move Chen Daofeng and his group just by gathering crowds to gamble, let alone reorganize the three battalions.
"Yes, yes!" Seeing that Tang Zhidao did not delve into this matter, Zhou Wenruo secretly breathed a sigh of relief, glad that he had cleaned up after losing a month's military salary at that time, otherwise he really didn't know what would happen if he fell into it.
"Go back, all of you!" Tang Zhidao wanted to calm down alone and plan the next step.
"Commander, what about these two people!" Du Shijie, who had not spoken, pointed to Fang Datong and Yu Sihu and said.
"Five days of confinement for each person!" Tang Zhidao thought for a moment and then said: "Yupu, take another ten pieces of ocean to Guozhen." ”
"Guozhen, you send these ten oceans directly to Fang Datong's family." Without waiting for Wang Guozhen to ask, Tang Zhidao commanded again
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