Chapter 8 Illiteracy

In the official history of 1935 AD, many major events have happened.

Domestically, Chairman Mao's leadership position has finally been determined; Japan signed several overlord treaties with the Nationalist Government in North China: the Treaty of Datan, the Qintu Agreement, and the Hemei Agreement; The 29th Army was stationed in Hebei and established the Yicha Autonomous Government; Qiantang River Bridge started; The Yangtze River was flooded, killing more than 142,000 people......

Internationally, Italy invaded Ethiopia, and Britain and France adopted a policy of appeasement for their own interests, which made Hitler see the weakness of Britain and France and began to expand the army with great fanfare......

These have not changed because of the appearance of Ouyang Yun, the difference is that because Renqiu Petroleum entered the historical stage in advance, the situation in North China has become unpredictable after Kai's death. And the fate of some once unliterate little butterflies in history will also change, such as Chu Tiange, Gu Lianyun and so on.

Ouyang Yun's short coaching career at Yan University was fruitful, making the recruitment of the Cadet Brigade go exceptionally smoothly - of course, it was a pure accident to provoke Fan Wei, a rival in love.

On the evening of his arrival in Renqiu, after attending a dinner with Kang Dafu and others, Ouyang Yun presided over the first military meeting attended by officers at or above the battalion level in the conference room of the Renqiu Barracks and Brigade Headquarters of the Cadet Brigade.

After this period of recruitment, the number of trainee brigades has reached nearly 3,000 people, with three infantry regiments and a special battalion, and directly under the brigade headquarters, there are also the Langya Brigade, the Special Service Brigade, the Fox Pupil Special Operations Group, the Communication Company, the Medical Company, the Guard Company, and the Renqiu Special Police Squadron. Among them, the commander of the 1st Regiment is concurrently served by Deputy Brigade Commander Li Tieshu, and the deputy regiment commander is Chen Kanglin; The head of the 2nd regiment is concurrently served by Chief of Staff Ji Xingwen, and the deputy head of the regiment is Zhang Qiang; Ouyang Yun, the commander of the third regiment, personally served as the commander, and the deputy of the regiment was Li Zebang, the former commander of the 1st Battalion of the 219th Regiment; The captain of the wolf tooth brigade is Guo Biao (regimental level); The commander of the special battalion is Chu Tiange; The commander of the guard battalion is Gu Lianyun; The leader of the special service team is also Ouyang Yun, and the deputy team leaders are Huang Cheng, Lu Jiacheng, and Zhang Xiaoou, and only Zhang Xiaoou participated in the meeting; Chen Shichang, squadron leader of the Renqiu Special Police Squadron (battalion level). Jiang Shuren, as the general manager of Dadao Finance Company, Gu Xudong, as the newly hired business consultant of Ouyang Yun, and Hou Debang, as the chief engineer of the chemical group to be established, were also invited to participate.

After the participants arrived, Chen Shichang, who is also the chief of the archives section of the brigade headquarters, announced the opening of the meeting and then invited Ouyang Yun to speak. Ouyang Yun looked at everyone, solemnly saluted, and said, "Everyone, you have worked hard during this time, Ouyang Yun is here to express his gratitude!" ”

When Ouyang Yun returned to Renqiu, he was most happy with Li Tieshu and Jiang Shuren. The former was in charge of the management of the student brigade during this time, and although he had Ji Xingwen's help, he was still so busy that his butt was smoking, and in his own words: he almost didn't even have time to go to the toilet. Jiang Shuren is responsible for the early financing and construction of some industrial and mining enterprises, and also has to take into account the "business system of agriculture", but also to organize inspection groups, deal with businessmen all day long, every moment is troubled by a lot of trivial things, it is inevitable that the head is incomparably big, and sometimes the businessmen have to be blocked to ask some technical questions.

Techniques such as military uniforms are relatively popular, but those involving special processes, such as steel mills, are not so easy to be vague. For example, the design and installation of the converter, when he listened to Ouyang Yun, he felt that it was very easy, but when it came to implementation, he felt that he had no way to start. For this reason, he also went to Beiping to find Ouyang Yun to ask for detailed design drawings, which fulfilled his mission and successfully built the converter.

In order to arouse the investment desire of businessmen, in the planning of Ouyang Yun and Jiang Shuren, the iron ore screening chief, the steelmaking mill and the quilt chief are the first batch of factories and mines to be built. Among them, the iron ore plant was built in Xuanhua, Chahar, and the steel mill was built in Tangjiazhuang, northwest of Renqiu.

For Ouyang Yun's posture, Ji Xingwen and others thought that he was modest, but Li Tieshu and Jiang Shuren deserved it. Jiang Shuren said: "Brother Ouyang, I've really been busy during this time, but it's good if you can come back, just come back." "It means that since you are back, you will be fully responsible for the affairs of the factory and mine in the future.

Li Tieshu smiled reservedly and said: "Brigade seat, it would be false to say that it is not hard, but watching our cadet brigade grow from a small training class to a cadet corps, and then from regiment to brigade, the cautious appearance of the soldiers is almost a sheep a day, to put it mildly, this hardship is worth it!" ”

Guo Biao looked at Ouyang Yun and said meaningfully: "Everyone, I don't know if you have found out about it, there is at least one benefit to following our brigade." ”

Everyone looked at him.

"The speed of promotion is definitely first-class, hahaha!"

Everyone thought about it and laughed.

Ouyang Yun shook his head and said, "Chief of Staff Guo's words are too explicit, are you all in the army to be officials?" There is an old saying in China that an old man should not be a soldier, and I think that if we live in an era when the country is rich and strong, and the people live in peace, who would want to be a soldier! ”

These words spoke out the hearts of some people, causing many people, especially Chen Shichang and others, to fall into contemplation. Gu Xudong, who had not spoken, said: "Brigade Commander Ouyang is absolutely right, if there is no invasion of little devils, each of us can choose what we like to do." I think that I once regarded myself as a foreign country, but now I am-" I don't know if Lu Dao remembered what happened to him, his face was a little gloomy, his eyes were red, and he couldn't continue.

Gu Xiangyun's unfortunate death, everyone present knew that he must have remembered it, and the atmosphere in the venue became gloomy for a while. Guo Biao waved his fist fiercely and said: "People who are good are bullied, and the country is weak and invaded!" Gu Lao, we will definitely avenge the revenge of the daughter! ”

Ouyang Yun took over the conversation and said: "So far, we are afraid that thousands of our compatriots have been killed by the Japanese, and their blood will not be shed in vain, and one day we will let the little devils return ten or a hundred times more!" He stood up and waved his hand vigorously and said, "Now, let's get started!" First of all, let's discuss the next step of the Cadet Brigade......"

What the Cadet Brigade needs to do at the moment can do, Ouyang Yun has thought about it and boiled it down to two things. The first is military training - because many new recruits have been recruited, and they will continue to recruit people in the future, recruit training is the focus of the army's work in the next stage; The second is entrepreneurship - this is actually related to Ouyang Yun's role as the commander of the Cadet Brigade. He had communicated with Jiang Shuren before, and learned that the policy of "using business to make agriculture" had been actively cooperated by businessmen, and he now had thousands of acres of land in his hands, so he felt that he could start land reform.

After the meeting began, Li Tieshu and other members of the original student corps, including Ouyang Yun, took out paper and pens, and habitually prepared excerpts and key points for recording. After Ouyang Yun started speaking, the sound of writing sounded in the conference room. Ji Xingwen, Guo Biao and others attended this meeting for the first time, and they couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when they saw this scene. After Ouyang Yun finished speaking, Guo Biao said to Ouyang Yun: "Traveler, I'm really embarrassed, I don't know if I still have to take notes." ”

Ouyang Yun hurriedly said: "It's nothing, it's nothing, we are afraid that we will forget it after the meeting." It's the same in your mind," and then he said to Ji Xingwen: "Chief of Staff Ji, the preparation of the meeting should be the responsibility of the staff officer of the brigade headquarters, let them prepare some paper and pen in the future." ”

Ji Xingwen was also a little embarrassed, as an old head of the regiment, he never needed to take notes in meetings before. He has just come into contact with the post of chief of staff, and he is not yet proficient in some business. He stood up and said, "I'm sorry, I was negligent. Then he got up and went out of the house, and asked the staff officer outside to prepare a pen and paper.

At this time, another embarrassing thing appeared, Li Zebang turned out to be illiterate, and his previous promotion was made by virtue of military merits. Li Zebang was also refreshed, and when the pen and paper were delivered, he confessed the matter. With him as an example, the active battalion commanders scattered around the conference room did not feel that it was a shame to be illiterate, and they all said that they were illiterate, which made Ouyang Yun regret that he had to set an example and make a record.

The appearance of this scene was unexpected by many people, and the most embarrassing of them was naturally Ji Xingwen, because the illiterate battalion commander and regiment commander were all from the original 219 regiment. He blushed and said, "It seems that it is necessary to organize a literacy class, which was done by General Feng when he was in the Northwest Army before." ”

Ouyang Yun looked at the appearance of those "illiterate" people holding their heads high one by one, and couldn't help but think of some people in their time, when they justified some of their behaviors, they always said majestically: I'm a countryman, what's wrong?! He was feeling that his head was big, and when he heard Ji Xingwen's words, he had an idea, and said: "There is a need for this, the current person here is the battalion commander, the regiment commander, and the future will be the brigade commander or even the division commander. Well, the establishment of literacy classes is very necessary, and in any case, we are a cadet brigade. I happen to have an agreement with Principal Situ of Yan University that I can send some people to their school for training every school year, and those who have outstanding grades in the literacy class can be given priority! ”

After solving the problem of illiteracy, Ouyang Yun organized a discussion on the training of the student brigade. At this time, Guo Biao raised a question and said: "Brigade, I have read the drill manual you compiled, it is very good and comprehensive, but why is there no big knife drill project?" You must know that the reputation of our 29th Army is cut by a big blade. ”

Ouyang Yun, Li Tieshu and others were not from the 29th Army, and they really ignored this problem, so he immediately made a review, and then carefully wrote it down in the notebook, ensuring that the broadsword training project would be added after the meeting.

Guo Biao saw that his proposal was approved, and was swept away because of the embarrassment of not bringing pen and paper. Ji Xingwen and others were encouraged and also put forward some of their own opinions......