At half past eight in the morning, Yu Jishi, who received an urgent report, drove to the camp in the west of the city, took the resignation report sent by the star officer on duty, and scolded his mother angrily.

At half past three in the afternoon, Wu Ming returned to his own room in the north camp of Quzhou City, changed his clothes, gave Mo Mingqi, the adjutant of the family group, a holiday, and then got into the car and drove out of the camp gate, returned to Changshan's house before five o'clock, entered his yard, hugged his wife who was worried after receiving Ma Zhizhai's call in the morning, and whispered to her that this was a strategy, not a real resignation, which made the wife with a big belly smile.

On the morning of the next day, Wu Ming returned to the barracks and immediately held a meeting, solemnly announcing his resignation decision in the presence of deputy brigade commander Liu Guoyong and a group of section chiefs and regiment commanders.

Seeing that the brothers jumped in fright, Wu Ming did not explain the reason for doing so, but earnestly called on everyone to show the demeanor of revolutionary soldiers, always keep in mind the interests of the party-state and the nation, resolutely unite around the leading collective with Yu Shizuo as the core, unswervingly advance bravely towards the great ideal, and shed their heads and blood for the reunification of the country and the dignity of the nation

After saying the sonorous and sincere words, Wu Ming saluted everyone uprightly, and apologetically instructed the stunned Liu Guoyong to take on the overall work, and then strode away without listening to anyone's words, walked out of the yard to pick up the zebra brought by the officer on duty, turned over and beat the horse and left.

Liu Guoyong and a group of brothers wanted to chase but didn't dare to chase after them, but they felt that the matter was too strange, and no one believed that it was true, so they quickly returned to the conference room again and explored the reason for it.

After arguing for nearly an hour, everyone finally came up with a solution: The news of the blockade must not reveal the slightest rumor, the commanders of each regiment immediately returned to the various departments to manage the troops, deputy brigade commander Liu Guoyong called to report to Director Yu of the Provincial Security Department, and Zhang Dongning, deputy chief of staff, and Dai Zichen, chief of the operations section, rushed to Wu Ming's home to inquire about the reason.

No one knew that Wu Ming and his ugly horse at this time had already boarded the return cargo ship of Maoliangwu Chamber of Commerce to transport coal, arrived at Maoliangwu at noon, and did not reveal any news after seeing Lu Zhengde, Lu Zhengxian and other leaders, only said that he was tired during this time and wanted to rest, so he rode straight to the back of the hospital on the east side of the river, stayed with Wang Yuehan and his son for a long time, and told her that she was going to the She cottage in Phoenix Mountain to have a look, and then left alone on a horse.

In Hangzhou, Yu Jishi had calmed down from the anger of leaving, and once again took out Wu Ming's resignation report and read it carefully, his ears always echoed Wu Ming's drunken inner words, and he slowly softened, and he couldn't hate if he wanted to.

Liu Rulin, Ma Zhizhai, and Chen Shizheng, who received the notice of the meeting, soon came to Yu Jishi's office, and everyone had heard about Wu Ming's resignation before, so Yu Jishi was not verbose, and directly told everyone the report of the Changshan Second Brigade:

Liu Guoyong called me again at noon and reported that he had seen a letter left by him on Wu Ming's desk, which contained the key and password of the safe, and Liu Guoyong called several brigade officers to open it together, and found that it contained exactly the same as what Wu Ming said in the letter, all of which were small treasury ledgers for the past three years, as well as more than 300,000 cash checks and other valuables, including 20% of the equity warrants of the Maoliangwu fluorite mine and three industrial equity warrants jointly operated with the two major chambers of commerce in western Zhejiang. Wu Ming said in his letter that these belonged to all the brothers of the Second Brigade, and it was up to Liu Guoyong to discuss with the brothers what to do, and he didn't care. ”

"Ah...... Is this guy coming really? Liu Rulin was anxious.

Yu Jishi smiled bitterly: "It seems that he is indeed here...... In fact, I know very well that he is unwilling to be transferred to the Central Army, which may be his biggest heart disease. Secondly, for the sake of General Fang Youchun, he gave up the right to collect taxes in the three counties of western Zhejiang in desperation, for which he fell out with General Fang Youchun for two months, and I heard that before he came to Hangzhou to lead the team to compete, he also had a fierce quarrel with General Fang Youchun, and they all drew their guns and faced each other, which shows that this incident hit him very hard. ”

Speaking of this, Yu Jishi sighed with emotion: "Before, I myself misunderstood Wu Ming, thinking that he was greedy for money, but now it seems that I was wrong, so far, Wu Ming does not have a property of his own, and has been living in his father-in-law's house, and there is no difference between the son-in-law who speaks ugly and the inverted door." ”

"I originally thought that he had a lot of shares in the two major chambers of commerce in western Zhejiang, but I didn't expect that these shares belonged to all the brothers of the Second Brigade, and we had always been surprised by the preferential treatment of the officers and soldiers of the Second Brigade, and they were blushing at the officers above the company commander and above by sending a watch, but now I understand that all the funds originally came from the regular dividends of these shares."

"Liu Guoyong also said later that Wu Ming left all the cars before leaving, and only took away the ugly horse he bought before joining the army, which is said to have gone to Maoliangwu."

Everyone felt extremely uncomfortable, and Ma Zhizhai scolded angrily: "What a, this guy is really not a thing, when is it now, he dares to shake his hands, do you really think we dare to clean him up?" ”

Liu Rulin shook his head: "Don't scold, it's ugly, he can't do anything if he doesn't get rid of you, he doesn't steal and he doesn't greed, and he also leaves the army and all the equipment there waiting for you to receive it, why do you clean him up?" Since the Republic of China, are there still fewer examples of throwing off their hands? ”

Ma Zhizhai was made by Liu Rulin's words, so he could only lower his head and stop making a sound.

Chen Shizheng said: "The brigade commanders and regiment commanders of the Second Brigade are quite cautious, and they immediately reported the blocked news, and handled it very well, but it is not a long-term plan after all, and the more than 6,000 officers and soldiers will know the truth sooner or later, so the top priority at the moment is how to come up with a way as soon as possible to stabilize the army and make a smooth transition." ”

Ma Zhizhai proposed: "Why don't you ask General Fang to do Wu Ming's work?" ”

As soon as these words came out, he immediately attracted a roll of eyes, which made him embarrassed, and now that Fang Youchun and Wu Ming have become like that, wouldn't it be more helpful to call Fang Youchun to go.

The last thing was that Liu Rulin was careful, and when he turned to Yu Ji, he asked, "Could it be that Wu Ming just couldn't think about it for a while, or was he angry?" ”

Yu Jishi was in a complicated mood: "At first, I thought so, and even thought that he was threatening me with resignation, but after reading his resignation letter twice, and then hearing the report of the Changshan Second Brigade, I didn't think so...... Although Wu Ming has a stubborn personality and does not have much energy, he is very decisive in doing things, can afford to put it down, and is never ambiguous when he says it. ”

"You might as well think about it, if Wu Ming was just angry for a while, how could he possibly hand over the army? And such a classified ledger and hundreds of thousands of cash checks? How can you hand over the secret shares of tens of thousands of yuan in dividends every month? Others would never do the same, and they would even incite the army to rebel in order to increase the cost of bargaining."

"Only Wu Ming, everything has been handed over, this guy is ruthless enough to himself"

Chen Shizheng also smiled bitterly frequently, his thoughts before were the same as what Yu Jishi just said, thinking that Wu Ming was playing tricks again as before, but he didn't expect that this time Wu Ming would be so single, blocking all the ways at once, and walking innocently and frankly, which shocked him, and he also felt a little guilty and regretful.