Siheyuan: Living in the People's Community, with a Heart for the Red Star

Lao Yang found that he was too busy to practice, and the space was growing very slowly. What would it be like if his space was big enough to directly take the Earth into the space?

Lao Yang drove to No. 8 Guaijia Hutong to check out the situation in the yard. He found that there was no room for the 30 or so cars in his space. He had no choice but to find another place.

Lao Yang drove out of the main urban area and came to his factory in Santa Village to check. He saw the workers on the site were working hard, with more than a hundred people coming and going.

Seeing that the project was in good order, I didn't pay much attention to it. I drove along the main road to the west and soon found that there was an abandoned factory two streets away from my factory. The fallen sign at the door only had three words "Assembly Factory", and the rest was gone.

Lao Yang stopped the car and saw that no one climbed up the wall. He looked inside and found that the area was also very large, even larger than his own bullet reloading factory. There were three factory buildings inside, two of which had collapsed and the bricks and tiles were almost lost. The rest of the open space was littered with many broken stones and sand.

It looked like no one had been here for a long time. The weeds on the ground were already half a person tall and there were no signs of being trampled. Old Yang jumped into the yard and quickly checked it out. He found nothing special, except that a wall had collapsed in the northeast corner of the yard. It should be that people from a nearby village came in through here and moved everything away.

Lao Yang immediately decided to put the cars here. He came to the center of the venue and began to put out the 35 modified cars in the space, arranging them neatly, filling the front yard and the middle yard. He put the information and keys of all the vehicles in the first car, put the key of the first car under the stone platform at the entrance, pressed a brick on it as a mark, and drove away after confirming that there was no problem.

Twenty minutes later, he arrived in the city, found a public phone, called Zhang Ke, told him the location of the new car, and then ignored the matter.

Deshengmenwai Hutong

A military jeep stopped a black car. Lao Yang, who was in the driver's seat of the black car, saw Zhou Zhennan in the jeep through the car window, swallowed his saliva, opened the car door and walked over.

Through the window, he said to Zhou Zhennan, "Uncle Zhou, it's you. What's the matter? Send someone to notify me and I'll go. It's a pity that you have to come in person!"

Zhou Zhennan looked at Lao Yang with complicated eyes and said to him: "Drive and follow!"

After saying that, he closed his eyes and ignored Lao Yang. Lao Yang had no choice but to return to his car and follow the jeep in front that was slowly accelerating away, not knowing where it was taking him.

Soon the jeep left the city. After passing Xizhimen, Lao Yang saw that the road seemed to be heading to Zhou Xiaobai's garrison. The two cars drove one after the other and soon arrived at the garrison of the Beijing Garrison. After a simple registration at the gate, they drove in.

In the office building, Zhou Zhennan led Lao Yang to the conference room on the second floor.

After entering the conference room, Lao Yang found six generals sitting at the conference table, Zhou Xiaobai, Luo Yun and two female soldiers sitting against the wall, each with a notebook on their lap. Everyone looked at Zhou Zhennan and Lao Yang, especially Zhou Xiaobai and Luo Yun, who were so excited that they almost stood up after seeing Lao Yang.

Zhou Zhennan pointed to a seat at the back and said to Lao Yang, "Go sit there!"

Old Yang nodded and walked to the back. When he passed Zhou Xiaobai and Luo Yun, he made a face to them. To the surprise of the other two female soldiers, Zhou Xiaobai kicked Old Yang's calf. Old Yang pretended to be injured and moved to the end of the conference table and sat down.

After seeing Lao Yang sitting down, Zhou Zhennan also sat down and announced: "The main purpose of calling everyone to hold this meeting today is to discuss the allocation of personnel for retired special servicemen to teach abroad, as well as the allocation of the training fees they receive. The person coming with me is Yang Shangjin, the leader of the aid party. If you have any questions or specific requests, you can ask him. We must hurry up and finalize the matter before the navy and the air force formulate a detailed plan! Let's start now."

Everyone present looked at Lao Yang. Zhou Xiaobai and Luo Yun looked at Lao Yang with stars in their eyes, unable to suppress the smiles on their lips. After all, he was their man, and the pride filled their hearts and showed on their faces.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Lao Yang immediately stood up, saluted and said, "Hello, generals! I am Yang Shangjin, the founder of Changle Group in Hong Kong and Xingbang Company in China. This time, our Changle Group has established a mercenary company and is preparing to recruit retired special forces in China to work in the company as instructors. The number of people required is relatively large, and my request has been approved by the senior management. In the near future, a large number of personnel will be hired from the navy, army and air force to serve as instructors and train mercenaries in Hong Kong and Nanyang. I also hope that the generals will show mercy and not be too harsh!"

A general sitting in the first seat opposite Old Yang asked, "Boss Yang, how many people do you need? What types of troops?"

A slightly younger general sitting next to Old Yang coughed and said, "How can Commander Wang call Comrade Yang the boss! We are all comrades, Chinese compatriots who help each other! This time we are also supporting our compatriots' economic construction. This is a mutually beneficial fraternal friendship! Don't let there be class feelings!"

Commander Wang glanced at the middle-aged general, snorted and said unhappily, "Wu Shibao, you are a bookworm. You have to make everything sound high-sounding, but aren't they all essentially the same? Stop interrupting me and stay aside!"

He turned his gaze to Old Yang and said, "Xiao Yang, you say."

Yang Shangjin said quickly, "Yes, yes, both seniors are right! There is no need to argue about such a small matter. I also lived through the Anti-Japanese War era, and I know the temperaments of generals very well. I will report my ideas to several leaders. This time, I am honored to be given this privilege by the superiors. I plan to recruit the following arms from the army: 100 tank soldiers, artillery soldiers, signal soldiers, radar soldiers, medical soldiers, and cooks. 20 special forces soldiers for plains, deserts, and mountains. 200 recruit instructors. Of course, normal people are the best among these people. If there are none, disabled elites who can serve as instructors are also acceptable."

The generals present all frowned when they heard Lao Yang's request. The types of soldiers Lao Yang required were too comprehensive, and definitely not the size required by an ordinary mercenary company. The number of these instructors alone exceeded the total number of mercenaries in the world.

Although they still had some doubts in their hearts, they did not point them out directly. Instead, they analyzed the gains and losses of their own divisions in their minds.

Seeing that everyone had fallen silent, Lao Yang sat down and waited for their decision.

About ten minutes later, Zhou Zhennan knocked on the table and said, "Now let's all share our opinions!"

After a moment of silence, Wu Shibao, who was sitting next to Lao Yang, spoke first and asked Zhou Zhennan directly, "Commander, how many places can our military region get? After all, this is not just a matter for our military region. The commanders of other military regions will also compete for these places. After all, there are not many places for our five major military regions to fight for. If they are divided equally, our entire North China Military Region can only get 100 to places. If our Kyoto Military Region can get places, it will be good!"

Several other division commanders also looked up at Zhou Zhennan.

Zhou Zhennan also frowned. These 100 places are not too many, but not too few either. After all, there are too few outstanding soldiers who have retired since the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially those in special arms. There are quite a few regular arms such as artillery, tank soldiers, and cooks. However, there are only a few technical arms such as medical soldiers, radar soldiers, and communications soldiers. Except for those injured on the battlefield, no one has retired!

Although many technical soldiers are already quite old, they are still working in the army, just transferred from the front-line combat units to the second-line service units.

Zhou Zhennan looked at the six generals who were thinking about something with their heads down. Seeing that none of them took the initiative to speak, he suddenly became angry. He called out to a general next to him and said, "Zhixian, you speak first."

Huang Zhixian, commander of the mixed division, joined the revolutionary team in 1931 and joined the party the following year. After 1937, he followed General Zhou in the battles of the south and the north. He was brave and resourceful, and was a rare talent as a general.

Huang Zhixian had no choice but to speak when the director called him to speak: "As the main combat force, our 520th Division has a total of 13,000 people. From the founding of the People's Republic of China to now, less than 1000 people have retired normally. There are 80 main battle tanks in service, more than 60 light tanks and auxiliary armored vehicles, about 20 engineering locomotives, 20 self-propelled guns, and 30 field guns. There are front-line combat personnel, logistics personnel, and civilian personnel."

"The several wars after the founding of the People's Republic of China caused numerous casualties among outstanding soldiers, and there are almost no experienced special forces soldiers who have retired. If we can gather some people from each unit, there will be no problem. However, it is easy to get thousands of soldiers, but it is difficult to get a general. Every outstanding talent in our army has a special mission. We can't bear to send them away like this!"

Commander Huang looked at the others, then looked at Lao Yang and added, "You have to pay more!"

The other generals looked at Huang Zhixian and nodded in agreement. They had been waiting for someone to shamelessly ask for the money, and now that Huang Zhixian had come forward, several people became active and began to put forward their own demands and suggestions.

Now the domestic situation is stabilizing, and the surrounding environment is also less conflict-ridden. The state alone is already stretched to its limits in supplying troops, and many troops have already had supply problems. If some soldiers can be retired in exchange for money or supplies, it will be beneficial to all three parties!

Of course, I can't bring this up on my own. Since the higher-ups have agreed, I definitely can't miss this opportunity. After all, it makes sense that whoever contributes more gets more!

Who is this person? It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the richest man in the country - the boss of Xingbang Company. If he does not extort money from him, he will not live up to his original intention of fighting against the local tyrants and dividing the land. After all, so far, most of the big landlords and capitalists in the country have been defeated, and the remaining capitalists are keeping their tails between their legs. There are no more high-profile people like Lao Yang, and this has caught up with the tail of this era.

Since the commander was able to invite people, it showed that the relationship between the two sides was good, and no one wanted to offend the other person first. Since Huang Zhixian had already brought it up, the others had no scruples and began to speak out their questions and needs. In short, what kind of person did they want and how much money did they give? What supplies could they get with this money?

After all, the conditions that Lao Yang had negotiated with the Air Force and the Navy had already spread among the top leaders and had become a secret that was no longer a secret.

Zhou Zhennan saw that the atmosphere had been improved, and he coughed twice, waiting for everyone to stop and look at him. He said to Lao Yang warmly: "Xiao Yang, you see our military region is really poor, lacking food and clothing, and the equipment is also backward! I heard that you can get advanced weapons and equipment. Can you exchange a batch of weapons and equipment, and give us some discounts because of our friendship! After all, the country is in the process of development, and there are too many places that need funds. We should save as much as possible!"

Old Yang looked at the burning eyes of several people and patted his head and said, "This is very difficult for me! After all, it is not a matter of our military division. If I give us a discount, what will happen to other military divisions? Are their people worthless? This is unacceptable! This is disrespectful to other soldiers."

Seeing that several generals were getting angry, Lao Yang said quickly, "But what is our relationship? We are from the same hometown because we live close to each other, and Uncle Zhou and I are not outsiders! There can be no discrimination in the training expenses of personnel, and we must treat everyone equally. But I can privately sponsor some advanced weapons and equipment for our Kyoto Military Sub-district, such as new main battle tanks, off-road armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery, surface-to-air missiles and the like. Of course, the quantity is only 1 or 2, for our military factory to study and use, I don't have more!"

Everyone thought it was a solution. After all, it was not just a matter for one military region. Once there was a clear deviation, it would cause serious problems. So how many generals agreed with Lao Yang's plan?

Seeing that the basic demands had been agreed upon, Zhou Zhennan instructed Zhou Xiaobai next to him, "Xiaobai, Xiaoyun, the two of you take Xiaoyang to the military area, and we will discuss it in detail!"

Seeing that the other party was sending him away, Lao Yang quickly stood up, saluted the generals and said goodbye, "Then I won't bother you generals anymore. Excuse me!"

Zhou Xiaobai and Luo Yun stood up and saluted, saying, "It's the commander!"

The two followed Lao Yang out of the meeting room.

After Lao Yang and the other two left, Political Commissar Dong Zhi asked Zhou Zhennan with a smile, "Lao Zhou, are you going to use a honey trap? You're really willing to give your own daughter away!"

Zhou Zhennan said with a dark face: "What kind of honey trap is this? This is called free love! I'm not an old-fashioned person. Okay, let's count the number of people and the standard of training fees."

Several people immediately became serious and began to fight for quotas and the proportion of the expenses. After all, a leader who cannot fight for the interests of the troops is not a good leader. Which soldier is willing to follow his leader to eat bran and pickles while watching others eat fish and meat?

After leaving the meeting room, Zhou Xiaobai and Luo Yun each held Lao Yang's arm and walked out of the office building. They strolled along the street, whispering to each other, and the two women laughed from time to time.

"Honey, Xiaobai and I finished our military training early and were assigned to work in the logistics department. Xiaobai was appointed as the team leader of the logistics department, with an administrative level of deputy section-level cadre. I'm the deputy team leader, so how about that? Not bad, right? The other recruits are still in recruit training, but we were assigned early."

Luo Yun was like a child who picked up money and gave it to the policeman, waiting for praise.

"Is it so great? Tell me how the two of you were transferred to the logistics department ahead of time. You don't look like people with talent in this area!"

Lao Yang doesn’t think that the two were transferred to the logistics department early because of Zhou Zhennan. He feels that Zhou Zhennan is not such a boring person.