About three days after the garrison crisis ended, Longcheng had returned to its former tranquility, and Su Tianyu was also working hard to prepare for the conference.
At this juncture, Tan Hengqiang, who had been promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the Chinese Corps, boarded a plane back to Dragon City.
That afternoon, at a small airport of the Longcheng Garrison Corps, a group of senior generals stationed there were waiting for the return of Commander-in-Chief Tan.
These senior generals are all Tan Hengqiang's core team, including his son Tan Mingchao, Army Corps Chief of General Staff Zhang Xunchen and others.
Everyone stood in line according to their order, their faces beaming with joy. While waiting, they started chatting casually.
There were several military commanders standing behind Zhang Xunchen. One of them was probably in his fifties, with fair skin and a short and fat figure. He also wore a pair of black round-framed glasses on his plump face, giving people a very funny look.
a feeling of.
This man's name is Jiang Yuanzhen, he is the commander of the First Army of the Longcheng Garrison Corps, and he was also Xin Chaojie's boss. At this time, he was chatting with others with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face.
A military commander next to him stretched out his hand to push him and said, "Hey, Lao Jiang. You said that when the commander comes back, do you want to mention the rank of our unit? Isn't the star on the shoulder the same?
Can I have one more?"
Jiang Yuanzhen chuckled and said: "Isn't this a sure thing? After this trip, the level of our entire corps will be upgraded. I heard that we will expand the army."
After a staff officer heard this, he couldn't help but ridicule Jiang Yuanzhen: "This relationship is great! One star is enough for you to marry a wife with ten rooms!"
Jiang Yuanzhen quickly waved his hand and responded with a pun: "No, no, I can't marry, I can't marry. This gun is in a holster. It has not been used for several years."
"Ha ha!"
Everyone laughed.
Just as everyone continued to chat, a whistling sound came through the air. Everyone looked up and saw a small plane slowly sliding towards the runway in the distance with a deafening noise.
The officers immediately stopped joking, stood up straight, and looked at the landing plane.
Soon, the small plane landed steadily on the runway and continued to glide forward for a certain distance. Then, under guidance, it slowly approached them.
Zhang Xunchen waved his hand, and everyone immediately stepped forward and formed two lines in front of the plane door.
The cabin door slowly opened, and Tan Hengqiang, dressed in military uniform, stepped out of the plane. The officers on both sides saluted him and shouted loudly: "Hello, Commander-in-Chief!"
A group of military officers lined the street to welcome him, making it look like a local emperor had arrived, flattering him to the extreme.
Tan Hengqiang stood in front of the cabin door refreshed, waved to the people below, and while walking down, pointed at them and said: "You guys are all going to have great things happen."
Hearing the sound, everyone looked happy and couldn't help laughing.
Tan Mingchao was even more happy. He ran up the steps and personally helped his commander's father down.
The officers gathered around, and Zhang Xunchen was the first to speak: "Commander, we have arranged a dinner for you tonight."
"The dinner is not urgent." Tan Hengqiang said calmly: "Let's go back first and have a meeting. We will talk about the dinner after the meeting."
"Yes." Zhang Xunchen nodded.
Tan Mingchao accompanied Tan Hengqiang in the military vehicle, and his officers all got into the vehicle behind them. A convoy quickly left the airport and headed for the station headquarters.
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Two hours later, Longcheng Garrison Headquarters.
Several key officials, including Tan Mingchao, Zhang Xunchen, Jiang Fatty and other generals, all followed Tan Hengqiang back and sat in the spacious conference room.
The joy of promotion infected everyone, and everyone chatted with each other, laughing and talking about the garrison and their own future.
All the non-core members left, and Tan Hengqiang stood alone in front of the window, looking at the scenery outside the window, smoking silently, with little joy on his face.
The officers who were chatting gradually discovered something unusual about the deputy commander-in-chief and gradually stopped talking.
Tan Hengqiang finally turned around and ordered: "Send the documents."
"Yes!" Tan Mingchao's adjutant stood up, took a document, and handed it to a staff officer.
Tan Hengqiang pointed to this document and said to the staff: "This is the list of military rank promotions and troop expansion plans to be announced tonight. You can take a quick look at it and put it into the meeting agenda. We will use it tonight."
"Yes!" The staff officer took the document, saluted Tan Hengqiang, then sat aside and began to read through the document silently.
Tan Hengqiang also sat back in his seat, drinking tea expressionlessly.
Everyone was a little confused. It was obvious that he had been promoted and the army was about to expand, but the commander-in-chief was not very happy.
These senior generals looked at each other, and finally turned their attention to Zhang Xunchen.
Zhang Xunchen understood what was happening, so he turned around and asked tentatively: "Commander, what's going on? Don't you feel very happy?"
When Tan Hengqiang heard this, he sighed: "Oh... What's really exciting is that my level has been raised, the level of the corps has also been improved, and we can decide the number of people in the station ourselves. But, what about us?
The tight curse on the top of my head is getting tighter and tighter."
Everyone heard that something was not right, and they all became serious. Tan Hengqiang paused and continued: "Starting from today, the amount of military expenditures at our station will be reduced by 30%. Related combat readiness resources are also strictly restricted. The upper management
As I said, let’s negotiate with Lao Li on the issue of replenishing military expenditures. For the thirty less, let us take charge of the city’s finance department.”
In a word, the officers under his command were a little restless.
"Thirty percent?" A military commander couldn't help but asked: "Isn't this a bottleneck for us?"
"Commander-in-Chief, is there no need to discuss this matter?" Another staff officer also asked hurriedly.
Tan Hengqiang waved his hand: "I'm back, so what else are we discussing?"
"Isn't this 30% too exaggerated? If it is divided equally among all the units, then the salaries of the personnel will be reduced. I'm afraid the brothers below will have objections."
"Yes. The Chi Army, the Third Division, after Sri Lanka stabilized, Su Tianyu suggested to Lao Li several times to increase military expenditures. Their current treatment is no worse than ours. We need to reduce it.
The officers and soldiers don't make as much as the bandits." Jiang Yuanzhen frowned and said, "Isn't this just for fun?"
"The butt determines the head. In order to do something as trivial as Dragon City, we don't even care about the stability of the region."
Everyone was talking about it, and Tan Hengqiang couldn't help but sigh: "These politicians in the first district want me to show their teeth to Lao Li, but they don't want to give money. I'm afraid I'm going to have a hard time in the next few days."
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The room suddenly became quiet, and everyone fell into silence. At present, the army must be expanded and military expenditures must be reduced. This is indeed a lot of pressure on the Longcheng garrison.
At this time, Jiang Yuanzhen said again: "As long as we express our stance, won't this tight curse disappear?"
Tan Hengqiang smiled, looked at Fatty Jiang, and asked in a soft tone: "Old Jiang, tell me, how should we express our stance?"
In one sentence, Jiang Yuanzhen and the others all fell silent.
The meaning of the statement is easy to understand. It is nothing more than to suppress Lao Li and buy the upper level of the first district, so that the tight curse can be removed.
But Tan Hengqiang's rhetorical question shows that he is very sensitive to this issue of expressing his stance.