The reform of the armed forces in the 80s of the last century lasted several years, and a series of problems were placed in front of the leaders of the armed forces at all levels, from the enhancement of the 'combat effectiveness' of the elite troops to the re-establishment of the military rank system.

In the first two years of the 'restoration of the rank system,' almost all the troops were reduced, and most of these officers who were 'transferred to other jobs' were satisfactorily arranged, that is, before they were transferred to other jobs, they were given a new level, and they were originally platoon commanders, but they were originally transferred to the deputy company level, and when they were originally battalion commanders, they became deputy regimental levels.

Don't look at the increase in the level you have returned from the army, but when you use cadres, they have formulated a new principle, that is, 'demotion to half a level', that is to say, if you become the deputy regiment commander, when you return to the locality, it will be arranged for the main battalion, so that the level promoted in advance by the unit will be in vain, and the cadres who return to work in the local area will also be angry and complaining.

Military rank is really a good thing, it has changed the phenomenon of "the same officers and soldiers" in peacetime, from the "three points of red" in all colors, it is impossible to see the official and the official small, and later changed the new military uniform, can only be seen from the material of the officer's clothes, plus the ribbon of the big-brimmed hat, you are not an official or a small official, but that can only judge how many levels your level has, in the administrative level of about dozens of levels, just looking at these two, it is difficult to distinguish clearly, so the necessity of military rank is also revealed, Guo Kaishan this time. But I really caught up.

"I said Lao Guo, have the people from the old army cadre department talked to you, are you a major or a lieutenant colonel?" The squad leader of Guo Kaishan's squad is an engineer battalion commander, and his military rank should be between 'captain' and 'major', if the 'captain' rank is abolished, he will be 'major.' ’

'Major, I'm not in the medical system right now, I should be a major. They haven't looked for me yet,' while sorting out the housekeeping, Guo Kaishan talked to him.

'Do you regret it?' Regret not old Guo, look at this regulation, military doctors follow the standards for the promotion of technical cadres, if you don't work to the colonel, you don't want to leave the army, it doesn't have the problem of changing jobs at all, it's better to be a military doctor. If you are still a military doctor, will you believe that you will be designated as a lieutenant colonel this time? As the squad leader said, the same is the standard for the promotion of young officers and military doctors. It is much more relaxed, often a regiment-level field hospital, and it is normal for colonel-level officers to be everywhere, but in a regimental-level grass-roots unit. There should not be many officers at the school level, except for the battalion commander instructor, that is, the regiment commander.

'What's the use of regretting. I went to college, I think it's worth it, I said class leader, do you think you're not worth it? Guo Kaishan asked the squad leader.

"It's worth it, of course it's worth it, I never dreamed that I would still be able to go to college, especially for you, the superior as a squad leader, if you return to the old army, maybe I will have to salute you, isn't it Comrade Guo Kaishan." ’

"It's you, I'm still worried, I've called the army and division several times, and I don't necessarily have to arrange for me when I go back, you are the commander of the engineer battalion, you can be a chief of staff or something when you go back, my future comrade commander of the engineer regiment."

I love to hear this, my wife has said it, I was born to be the life of the regiment commander, just like this promotion, my old battalion commander didn't catch up, his wife asked him to turn over, now it's okay, he was a small policeman in a police station, he was a soldier for several years, and he left without even mixing up his rank, so he was so disappointed. ’

"The battalion commander will be a general police officer when he returns to the locality? No way? ”

"No, this is still a entrusted person to enter, now the place is different, the old nose has been disarmed in the past few years, my classmates have said, at least two or three years, if you go back early, how to arrange you is not necessarily, my classmate is a resettlement office, he is clear about this matter."

"Guo Kaishan, Guo Kaishan is here, someone is looking for him at the gate!" The sentry at the door ran to Guo Kaishan's dormitory and shouted.

'In, in whom's looking for me?' Guo Kaishan ran out.

'A young man, he said he was your soldier, what was his name, I forgot. ’

The person who came to 'H Military Industry' to look for Guo Kaishan was not an outsider, but Wang Kai, the guard platoon commander of the 'Red Army Division's front-line medical team', whose sudden appearance made Guo Kaishan very happy.

"Why are you here, go, go inside," looking at Wang Kai dressed in military uniform, Guo Kaishan was happy, he found that Wang Kai was much more mature than before, and he had a hard beard and stubble when he got off the horse.

"Captain, let's go outside, there are a lot of people in your school, and it's not convenient to talk," Wang Kai didn't want to visit the university.

"Okay, I'll call our captain first, now I have to ask for leave to do something," picked up the doorman's hand-cranked phone, asked for the switchboard, Guo Kaishan took a half-day leave, and followed Wang Kai out.

It is also a provincial capital, and the scenery of 'H Military Industry' is more Westernized than City A, Guo Kaishan invited Wang Kai to have a simple meal, and then came to a small park to sit down and talk to him.

"What's the matter, last time you wrote to say that you were a company commander, was you a company commander or a deputy company commander?" Guo Kaishan was happy for Wang Kai to become a company commander.

"Company commander, also in the Red Army Division, but not Regiment B, I can't get in without anyone in Regiment B," Wang Kai's addiction to cigarettes seemed to be heavier than when he was fighting on the front line, he smoked one after another, and most of the smoke was swallowed in his stomach.

Wouldn't that be good, jumping from platoon commander to company commander is a leap, your mother must be very happy." ’

Yes, as soon as the good news of my meritorious service arrived at home, my mother was crazy with joy, and even the neighbors who usually looked down on us came to the house to congratulate them. ’

'How are you and Nurse Zhang?' Is there still a place? Regarding Wang Kai's personal situation, as an elder brother, Guo Kaishan still has to ask.

She was too high-minded, and now she contacted a deputy regiment, who was hospitalized in the Red Army Division Hospital, and I called several times, but she said that she was very busy, and in the end she didn't answer. ’

I remember that she was not such a person, you can't just talk on the phone, you have to carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice. Rush up, occupy her, take her. ’

"Captain, let's not talk about these idle things, okay, I came to find you today, you have to do me a favor," Wang Kai really didn't want to talk about these troublesome things, and immediately got to the point.

'Okay, you say, if I can do it.' I'll help you, who will follow whom. ’

The regiment wants me to change jobs. ’

'Changing jobs? How old are you, according to the age of the officer's transfer, a person who is in a re-established position must be thirty years old, who told you? ’

The political commissar of our regiment, he said that the rank system would be restored soon, and the troops would be downsized, and the regiment held a meeting to decide. This is the time for me to change jobs. ’

Guo Kaishan was silent for a long time, "The matter of restoring the military rank system is also a lot of trouble in our school, how do you want me to help you?" ’

"The political commissar of our regiment said. If you don't want to change jobs, you can transfer away, and as long as there are troops to take you in, you can stay. ”

'. How did you get to their group in the first place? ’

It was the 'battlefield propaganda group' organized by the military region, and it was their regiment that took the initiative to find me. I said that if I could become a company commander, the gap between me and Nurse Zhang would be narrowed, but I didn't expect that after only a year in their regiment, they didn't want me, I didn't dare to tell my mother about this, maybe she would be sad,' Wang Kai choked as he spoke.

Reality is reality, Guo Kaishan wanted to ignore this matter, but seeing Wang Kai's sad appearance, he still relented, "That's it, I'm in school now, I don't know much about the outside world, I ask the school for a leave, go back to Jingbei to help you run, if there are any troops willing to ask you, I don't believe it, the combat heroes don't want it, what else do they want." ’

"Then thank you, captain, with your words, I feel much more at ease, when are we leaving?" Wang Kai seems to be in a hurry, and he refuses to come to H City to find Guo Kaishan.

During the more than a year that the R Army was studying in Guo Kaishan, the personnel of the military department has also undergone major changes, and Minister Hu of the Logistics Department has been promoted to deputy political commissar of the R Army, but he is also a deputy political commissar, and he must be ranked below the other two deputy political commissars, and the other two, one is the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, and the other is a full-time deputy political commissar, and his deputy political commissar was specially approved by the commander of the R Army nominated for the 'Northern Xinjiang Military Region'.

Regarding the recognition of the ranks of cadres in various units, the Party Committee of the R Army decided to hand over this matter to Deputy Political Commissar Hu, who is Guo Kaishan's old sentry commander, Lao Hu.

"I said Xiao Hu, this is a beautiful difference, our deputy political commissar is already old, these cadres will be your subordinates in the future, you can ask for a bowl of water," is also the 'fourth chief', the age of the full-time deputy political commissar is more than ten years older than Deputy Political Commissar Hu, and he is already a person who is about to retire.

I know, I can only criticize those who run through the back door, I won't help them, I can run for officials here now, and I may do many outrageous things in the future, I must do this in accordance with the relevant regulations, please supervise me. Strict words are the true character of Deputy Political Commissar Hu, and when the official is big, he naturally has to shout more slogans.

"But you also have to listen to the greetings, such as some old chiefs, the face of the old superiors, you have to give it, you don't live in a vacuum, do you?"

My surname is like this, since I have left this matter to me, I have to do this, no one can say anything. ’

"Okay, I'll just wait for your words, I can see what happens in the future," as the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission in the army, it seems that the other deputy political commissar wants to take Deputy Political Commissar Hu's army, and after he is generalized, he can justifiably supervise him.

Relying on his old relationship in the Red Army division, Guo Kaixin took a few days off from school, and then transferred to various grassroots units of the Red Army division, and walked for several days in a row, but they all ran into a wall, because these grassroots units are also laying off people, and the task is arranged by Deputy Political Commissar Hu of the military department, and the quota is also set to death.

"The old sentry chief is the deputy political commissar, Wang Kai, don't worry, I think my face, he will definitely give it, tomorrow we will go to the military headquarters," living in the guest house of the Red Army Division, Guo Kaishan is still sure, he and Deputy Political Commissar Hu are not friends for a day or two, arranging a company cadre, is the words of the big chief.

"Captain, I believe this too much, isn't Deputy Political Commissar Hu the Minister Hu back then, he mentioned it too quickly, and now he has become the head of the army, and he is also in charge of the restoration of the military rank system." Wang Kai followed Guo Kaishan down for a few days, although he didn't see the thing done, but the leaders of the various units under the Red Army Division can be regarded as giving Guo Kaishan face, and he has always been in and out of the distance, and now he said that he would go to find Deputy Political Commissar Hu for him, and his heart is more confident.

In the early morning of the next day, Guo Kaishan led Wang Kai to the military headquarters, and when he asked to see Deputy Political Commissar Hu in front of the gate, the staff officer on duty at the gate stopped him. 'Guo Kaishan, right, Deputy Political Commissar Hu said, no one will see you, now is a special period, he will not see you. ’

'Didn't you tell him on the phone, I'm Guo Kaishan? Guo Kaishan never expected that all along, the gate of the military department has never stopped people, but today's rules have changed. I'm starting to stop people.

He said that he would talk about private matters later, and when it came to official matters, there was nothing to say to you. If you want to find him to do something, you can report it level by level, and he won't accept you. ’

Guo Kaishan stood at the gate and didn't know which foot to take, he stared blankly at the windows of the agency building. He knew that Deputy Political Commissar Hu was watching him from behind a certain window at this time. The reason why he didn't leave was that just for him to see, he Guo Kaishan really had no face today.

"Captain, let's go, Deputy Political Commissar Hu is very busy with work, and it's right not to see us," Wang Kai was afraid that Guo Kaishan would not be able to get down the steps, so he stepped forward and pulled him.

"Let's go, let's just wait for him here, I don't believe it, he doesn't get off work," sitting on the road in front of the military department, this is not a cordon, Guo Kaishan kept smoking his cigarettes, he was thinking, even if he couldn't see Deputy Political Commissar Hu, he might meet the 'old company commander', he was the No. 1 chief, he would definitely give Guo Kaishan face.

Until he got off work in the afternoon, he never saw the car of the No. 1 chief and Deputy Political Commissar Hu, driving out of the gate, this time Guo Kaishan was completely disappointed, he finally understood that in the hearts of others, he was just a person who was nothing, and he was too complacent.

"Let's go, let's go back, I don't believe it, and there are things that I Guo Kaishan can't do." ’

Often when he is most helpless, Guo Kaishan always thinks of Liu Xuehua, and this time it is the same, 'Xuehua, I am Guo Kaishan.' ’

"Yo, college student, what's the matter, are you about to graduate, you want to find me to blow the New Year," Liu Xuehua's voice is still so sweet, she is now single, and her nominal marriage ended after her ex-husband became a military attache in a foreign country.

"I want you to do me a favor."

'What's the matter, is it complicated?' ’

'Wang Kai, do you know? ’

'Yes, I don't know him, what's wrong with him?' ’

'I'm going to change jobs, I'm going to arch him, I want to keep him in the army, can you help me.' ’

Liu Xuehua thought for a long time on the other end of the phone, but did not answer.

"Wang Kai is a good boy, you can admit it, after all, people have followed us, at the critical moment, you have to help." ’

'Have you ever gone to the old sentry?' ’

I found it, he didn't see me, I think even if I did, it would be useless, he was in charge of this. ’

"My dad called a few of our children a few days ago, that is, this is the matter, this time I can't help you, if it's your business, I can still talk about it, others, I really can't take care of it," Liu's father has always been very strict with his children, and he emphasized it again after his illness was cured, and now he is about to resume his military rank, he is a 'general'.

"Okay, I'll think about other people and see if anyone can help me, I don't believe it, the old mountain hero just changed jobs," Guo Kaishan saw Liu Xuehua reply the same, and he didn't fight anymore.

"Kaishan, don't worry, by the way, aren't you about to graduate, did your superiors say where to go?" Liu Xuehua also heard it, Guo Kaishan seemed to be angry.

"Wherever I can go, it's all up to the old sentry chief, I have to learn to be a sapper, and at my level, it's not easy to find a job." ’

"Isn't this over, after you graduate, you must go to the engineering corps, you won't go to their leaders first, maybe he will buy your face," Liu Xuehua is a bystander.

'Oh, why didn't I think of it, why didn't I think of it, thank you Xuehua, if I do this, I will find you for dinner one day,' put down the phone, Guo Kaishan seemed to have divine help, and he wanted to jump up with joy. (To be continued......)