The residence that Chief Qian arranged for Zhou Wen and the others was the Jianguo Hotel located on Dehua Street, the most prosperous street in Zhengzhou. It was a standard four-star hotel by the standards of later generations. It was a 5-story Western-style building with a neat and elegant exterior.
The interior can only be described as magnificent.
This is the first time for the transport team members to drive meat. They all step carefully on the golden carpet, but after all, they are all well-trained elites. They will not scream in surprise, but just look around curiously.
Only Hongxiu was so excited that she grabbed Li Qiaoer's hand and chatted and laughed non-stop. The second and third floors of the hotel had been taken over by Chief Qian. The team members shared a room with Hongxiu and Li Qiaoer. Only Zhou Wen was occupied by Chief Qian.
It was arranged in a suite on the fourth floor. Zhou Wen and Xiaohu stayed there.
Zhou Wen knew that it would be easy for the brothers to make a fool of themselves when they stayed in a high-end hotel for the first time. So he specially asked a few party officials and hotel attendants brought by Liu Ruoshui to explain to the team members how to use the various facilities in the room.
In the afternoon, Chief Qian hosted a banquet for all members of Zhou Wen's transportation team at the Jianguo Hotel restaurant. Adjutant Zhang and several party officials accompanied the team members to dine in the hall. Zhou Wen accompanied Chief Qian and Liu Ruoshui into a private room. Go in and take a look
, Chief Zhang and Chief Gu were present in the private room, both looking at him with smiles. Zhou Wen quickly stood at attention, saluted, and loudly reported hello: "Hello, Chief Zhang, Hello, Chief Gu."
Chief Gu said with a smile: "I'm telling you, Xiao Zhou, you're boring. We don't have any friendship at all, so we still need these false courtesy. Come on, come on, sit down quickly, we won't go home until we get drunk today."
Several officers had not seen Zhou Wen for a while, and the relationship cultivated on the battlefield was the most difficult to let go of. They also knew that he was about to return to Shanxi for development, and it would be difficult to meet him in the future. The officers all put down their arrogance and drank with Zhou Wen.
They changed the glasses and started calling each other brothers. The drinking lasted until nine o'clock in the night.
When Zhou Wen saw off several officers and returned to the restaurant, there were no other guests in the restaurant. The team members, including Old Uncle Wu, were still sitting in the restaurant. Only Hongxiu and Wang Xiaohu, who was also sitting obediently, were talking in a low voice.
What? No one was drunk, and no one left. Zhou Wen looked at Gao Xiaoshan and Miao Hua and nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Tieniu jokingly and asked, "Are Jing and Tieniu full? Do you want another table?"
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Everyone laughed, and Tieniu stood up and said angrily: "Brother Shanzi specially asked the restaurant to prepare two more tables. I am full, and I can still eat it if there is more. It is really delicious."
With a "coax", everyone laughed even louder. This is two more tables of food, do you want to eat more? What a big stomach it is.
Zhou Wen looked at his pocket watch and said: "It's too late today, let's eat tomorrow. We will still eat here tomorrow. I will let the restaurant do whatever you and Ah Jing want to eat. I will take care of it. What do you think?"
Tieniu happily scratched his head and laughed, "Hehehe, that's a good feeling." Everyone was amused by him again.
Zhou Wen turned to the team members and said sternly: "The morning training will be as usual at six o'clock tomorrow. We will gather downstairs at eight o'clock in the morning to wait for the National Army's Southern Front Group Headquarters to read out the retirement order and the new appointment of the party department. From tomorrow on, we will withdraw.
The National Army has been established, which means that tomorrow is also the day when our mercenary group is established. Let us use the name of the Shanxi Party Headquarters to develop in a low-key manner for a period of time, and when the time is right, we will use the banner and name of the mercenary group."
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At eight o'clock in the morning the next day, soldiers had set up a cordon on the lawn in front of the Jianguo Hotel. The transport team, with 48 people from Zhou Wen on down, stood in neat formation and waited in full uniform.
At 8:30 in the morning, a major general and deputy chief of staff of the National Army's Southern Front Headquarters, whom Zhou Wen was familiar with, came with a group of officers to read out the retirement order for the entire transport team to withdraw from active service in the National Army. Then the entire transport team put on their military rank badges and
The badges were removed and handed back to an officer carrying a tray.
At nine o'clock in the morning, a Deputy Secretary-General of the Party Headquarters named Chen arrived on a bridge car accompanied by Liu Ruoshui. Zhou Wen was stunned after Deputy Secretary-General Chen read out the appointment letter. He appointed himself as the guard of the Shanxi Branch of the Central Party Headquarters.
Director, I have known this before. The question is, what is the rank of lieutenant colonel plus colonel? I have already quit the National Army, why do I still have the rank?
Looking at Zhou Wen, who was a little confused, Liu Ruoshui stepped forward and explained softly. It turned out that just in the past few days, the Kuomintang issued a new national army reorganization and training plan.
All armed departments involved in security and security work must be brought under the unified management of the National Revolutionary Military Commission, and relevant military ranks must be uniformly awarded and registered.
Liu Ruoshui also only received the news that Zhou Wen would be awarded the military rank in the morning. Because the order had just been issued, the party headquarters did not prepare military rank insignia and badges in a hurry. He could only wait a few days for the party headquarters' logistics vehicles to arrive before conferring the title uniformly.
Zhou Wen couldn't laugh or cry for a while. He tried every means to withdraw from the National Army system, but in the end he just changed the soup without changing the medicine. He couldn't take off the military uniform for a while. But after understanding the situation, he didn't have anything to worry about. After returning to Shanxi
Who cares whether you wear a military uniform or a suit? And sometimes it is better to do things in a military uniform. This is a good thing with more advantages than disadvantages.
Zhou Wen knew that this addition of the rank of lieutenant colonel to colonel was a peculiar design unique to the Republic of China. It meant that the officially recorded military rank was lieutenant colonel, and the treatment was also that of lieutenant colonel, but the military uniform had the rank of colonel, which was convenient for all kinds of reasons.
Show off.
After the appointment ceremony, Deputy Secretary-General Chen gave Zhou Wen a few words of encouragement and excused himself from being busy with official duties. Think about it, Zhou Wen had only slapped the Central Party Committee in the face not long ago, although
In the end, the two parties reached a reconciliation, but the senior party officials were still very dissatisfied, so they decided not to meet each other if they could, lest both parties would feel uncomfortable.
Liu Ruoshui hurried back to the headquarters to ask for money and equipment. He went to Shanxi, which is far away. How could he leave without getting enough funds and benefits? The equipment he needed had been discussed with Zhou Wen. If you can take more, you would be welcome. And the appointment
The book clearly asked Zhou Wen to report the list of his subordinates. Military ranks below major and positions below deputy director should be directly appointed and reported by Special Commissioner Liu Ruoshui.
Then dozens of brothers stayed in comfortable rooms at the Jianguo Hotel, slept on luxurious spring beds, and ate delicious delicacies. They lived a corrupt life for two days. At first, the National Army paid the bill, and behind it was the Central Party Headquarters.
Pay money and don't live a comfortable life. Even Zhou Wen began to worry about whether some brothers would be weakened by this corrupt life.
When Zhou Wenzheng was thinking about whether to move out, Liu Ruoshui rushed back from Nanjing.