Chapter XXIX: An Important Enlarged Meeting (ENDS)

The idea of "setting up the 'new version' of the supervising army on the company" is very creative, and it is actually reasonable for Qian Yuanshan, as a grassroots commander of the people's army in his previous life, to have this kind of idea. As soon as he made this suggestion, the meeting room, which had just quieted down, became lively again, and the congregation brothers began to discuss the proposal.

However, the focus of the discussion was not on whether or not this proposal should be adopted, but on how this so-called "new version" of the supervising army should be set up, what kind of authority should he have, what kind of relationship he should have with the military commander of the unit, and so on. Therefore, I feel that the correctness of Qian Yuanshan's suggestion is basically beyond doubt, and everyone is more concerned about how this suggestion should be implemented.

After a lively discussion in which each person expressed his own opinions, the participants finally reached a consensus on the title of the "new version" of the supervisory army, its responsibilities and powers, the selection mechanism, the promotion mechanism, and so on.

On the basis of fully absorbing everyone's discussions, Qian Yuanshan, with the assistance of his brothers from the Military Department and the four committees (alternate members) of the committee, summed up a Jihua plan for the establishment of a "new version" of the supervisory army, which was submitted to the enlarged meeting of the committee to be held the next day for deliberation.

Since Qian Yuanshan's plan was drawn up on the basis of the consensus reached after discussion with the congregation brothers the day before, the plan was approved very smoothly at the next day's meeting and promulgated and implemented by the committee.

According to this plan, the Ministry of Military Affairs set up a new Department of Military Supervision, with Wang Kunjun concurrently in charge, and Zhang Weixin, Xu Shaoan, and Yang Xin as his deputies. The department is mainly responsible for the appointment and dismissal of military supervisors at all levels, work evaluation, promotion and demotion, and other administrative affairs.

The "new version" of the supervising army is divided into five grades from low to high, with the company level being the supervisory officer, the battalion level being the supervisory envoy, the regimental level being the metropolitan supervising envoy, and the units at or above the division level that may appear in the future are the supervising military envoy and the metropolitan supervising military envoy -- the corresponding military rank of the supervisory army at all levels is the same as that of the military commander.

Among them, as the supreme leader of the "Flying Dragon Army" military supervision system, the post of military envoy is concurrently held by Wang Kunjun, the nominal commander-in-chief of the "Flying Dragon Army," and Xu Shaoan, the deputy commander-in-chief, is also concurrently serving as the deputy military envoy of the capital -- considering that Xu Shao'an will be stationed in the "Kaifeng Detention Office" for a long time to come, the committee appointed him as the deputy military envoy of the capital supervisor, and at the same time appointed Zhang Weixin and Yang Xin, two members (alternate members), as deputy military envoys of the capital supervisor, to be responsible for the ideological education work of the "Flying Dragon Army" when Xu Shaoan was unable to personally supervise the affairs - Zhang Weixin is mainly responsible for cultivating the loyalty of officers and men, while Yang Xin is mainly responsible for cultivating the sense of honor, mission, centripetal force, and cohesion of officers and men, which can be more easily and directly translated into ideological content in terms of combat effectiveness.

As the direct command organ of the "Flying Dragon Army" at present, the former enemy's command headquarters will set up the post of temporary military envoy of the capital supervisor -- the military envoy of the capital -- to oversee the political and ideological work of the "Flying Dragon Army" when it goes out to fight. Qian Yuanshan, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy's headquarters, concurrently held this position, and Zeng Zhilin, the former deputy commander-in-chief, concurrently served as the deputy military envoy of the capital.

According to this plan, the main responsibility of the military supervision at all levels is to conduct political and ideological education for the officers and men of their subordinate units, so that they will be loyal to the team and have the necessary sense of honor and mission for soldiers. Military supervisors at all levels should make the officers and men at the grassroots level understand that what they want to be loyal to is not a certain general or a certain commander, but a collective that is "crossing the team."

If ideological education is the first priority of the work of supervising the army, then as the direct reason for the crossing team's decision to set up the post of supervising the army, avoiding and preventing the recurrence of similar incidents of "rebellion against Botong" is the second most important duty of the supervisory troops at all levels. This duty requires that while performing their work as "political work cadres," they should also shoulder the heavy responsibility of supervising the ideological state of the officers and men of their units and the relations between officers and men, so that they can discover and eliminate in a timely manner those trends and hidden dangers that may endanger the interests of the "Flying Dragon Army" or cross the team.

In addition, the supervising army is also responsible for inspecting the officers and soldiers of their units. When the officers and soldiers under their command are faced with the opportunity to be promoted, the military supervisors at all levels not only have to give their own opinions, but their opinions also play a decisive role and have the effect of "one-vote veto" -- this virtually increases the authority of the military supervisors, thus preventing the military commanders of the troops from crowding out and isolating the supervising troops, and affecting their due role. ,

Corresponding to the above, in addition to the evaluation of the promotion of the military supervision at the next higher level and the military supervision department of the military department, the military commanders at all levels have the power to provide evaluation opinions for their political work partners. Moreover, these opinions are directly handed over by the military commander to the higher-level leader of his supervising partner, and the supervising military who is being evaluated cannot see the content of the evaluation opinions put forward by the military commander. The reason for doing so is to balance the power between the military commanders and the military supervisors, and to check and supervise each other, cooperate with each other, and support each other.

However, the approval of the plan is only the first step, and how to implement the plan is the most critical. As the concrete implementers of the plan, the Military Department and the former enemy headquarters of the "Flying Dragon Army" immediately took action after the plan was adopted and began to make arrangements in accordance with the plan.

One of the first steps is to select suitable candidates, and the trainees who have been appointed as military envoys and deputy military envoys of the capital will be trained. Of course, it is not possible for all of them to participate in the training in person. Except for giving a lecture to the trainees on the day of the training, encouraging them to study hard and contribute their liliang to the "Qingyuan" brothers and the "Flying Dragon Army" as soon as possible, and to make new contributions, he only gave three or four classes to these "quasi-political cadres" -- Wang Kunjun was a pure layman in this respect, so the only few classes were basically based on the draft prepared by Zhang Weixin and the Military Department in advance.

However, although he did not participate in direct teaching, Wang Kunjun did not stay out of these "quasi-superintendent" trainings, but often visited the "Feilong Village" where they studied and met with them. And he also made full use of the opportunity to meet with the students, vigorously exerted the kind of communication and coordination skills he showed at the beginning of the crossing, coupled with the majesty of the superior person cultivated by being at the decision-making level of the team for a long time, through contact and communication with the students, the students felt very cordial to them, and spontaneously gave rise to a sense of awe, so that their image in the minds of these "quasi-supervisors" quickly became taller, and successfully established their own prestige.