Chapter 824: Chinese New Year's Eve (1)
"The Chinese New Year's Eve celebration of the Independent Regiment invited many gentry from Guangyuan."
As soon as this news was sent, it suddenly stirred up a thousand waves.
Almost no one was proud to have received an invitation to an independent regiment.
Who is the Independent Regiment? An anti-Japanese heroic regiment that defeated the 8th Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army in the Battle of the Great Wall was awarded hundreds of people for meritorious service; It is the actual controller of Guangyuan, don't look at the county magistrate and the city defense commander who usually have five or six people in the county, but in fact, they are just subordinates of the independent regiment.
Of course, the independent regiment is a household name in Guangyuan, and the heifer took the plane ---- Niu B to the sky, but what makes people want to buy face the most is not the thousands of people in the independent regiment, but the colonel Liu Lang, the colonel of the independent regiment. Liu Tuanzuo is the object of many gentry who have no way to get a relationship.
The most attractive thing about Liu Tuanzuo is not the aura of an anti-Japanese hero on his body, nor the official position of Colonel Tuanzuo, but that he is the cousin of Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan, of the Liu family. Now who doesn't know that Chairman Liu has been vigorously cultivating Colonel Liu? It is said that when Colonel Liu went to the United States for medical treatment due to injury, his position as the head of the colonel regiment was coveted even by people in Nanjing, but he was resolutely blocked by Chairman Liu. It has been vacant for more than half a year, and that position is still Liu Tuanzuo.
A celebrity in the eyes of the king of Sichuan, or a relative within three generations, and holding the military power to control a place, such a person sends an invitation, who doesn't want to come? Or to put it more clearly, who wouldn't dare not come?
Naturally, I was ecstatic when I received the invitation, and I spent several days at home to buy suitable gifts so that I could have a relationship with Liu Tuanzuo. At the same time, there are not many hotels and inns in the county town that are expensive in Luoyang for a while, but they are all fully booked in two days.
These gentry who are either businessmen, landlords, old wealth, or have a little status in the township by virtue of some culture are all smart people, and they know that it is okay for so many people to go to a meal and be entertained by an independent regiment, but it is not suitable to live in the barracks at night, so it is better to rush back to the county seat 20 miles away overnight, and it is a kind of smart show of favor not to cause trouble to others.
These clever people may not have even imagined what it meant to be specifically requested on the invitation card to be invited to go with the whole family. Liu Tuanzuo didn't want any gifts at all, he just wanted to solve the lifelong affairs of these bachelors under his hands.
Of course, Liu Lang will not force it, this is completely a matter of your willingness. Anyway, as long as you fool people over, Liu Tuanzuo has a way.
And if you don't receive the invitation, your heart is messy, and when you go out to inquire, you know that the independent group has screened the invited guests in advance, but those who have bullied the people in the countryside will no longer be invited. It's good now, not only is my heart messy, but it's like standing in the field with their brocade and cotton robes in the cold winter, and my whole body is cold.
Is this the independent regiment going to attack them?
The eyes of the masses are bright, and in front of a large independent regiment, everyone is the masses.
In the past three years that the independent regiment has been stationed in Guangyuan, it is not like the previous Sichuan army ruffians, and they have never stretched out their hands to suck the blood of the people under their rule. For ordinary people, it is autumn that there is no crime, and he is never soft on the heroes who are rampant in the township. In addition to the county magistrate who had to interrogate any case brought by the people to the county government, the top commander of the garrison stationed in the county seat of the Independent Regiment should also look at it. He was sentenced to prison for a light beating, and sentenced to death by shooting after a lawsuit involving his life was verified and reported.
In the past three years, there have been as many as four Haoqiang who have bumped into them, and in the face of soldiers who are fully armed with machine guns, no matter how horizontal Haoqiang is, they can only be obediently bound.
Especially since the brother-in-law of a major general and brigade commander under Chairman Liu insulted a village girl after drinking, a series of things directly made the heroes start the days of being people with their tails between their legs.
Haoqiang, who had money and background in Guangyuan and had never even paid attention to County Magistrate Wang, wanted to settle it with money, and did not hesitate to move out of the backstage of the major general and brigade commander, but was mercilessly tied up and hung outside the county gate by the garrison of the Independent Regiment for five days, waiting for the major general and brigade commander to come to rescue. However, his brother-in-law, a major general, was angry and ready to give an order to rob a company brought by the independent regiment after he failed to intercede, but was instigated on the spot by the garrison of the independent regiment with nearly ten machine guns and four small cannons directly aimed at the open space.
And the unlucky guy who hung at the city gate for almost five days and was already dying, he was almost not scared into a madman, and was finally thrown into the prison and sentenced to ten years in prison, it is said that it was the result of compensating the village girl who was insulted by him and the family of a thousand oceans to obtain the understanding of the people, otherwise what awaits him is to hang at the city gate until death.
For a time, the retired veterans of the Independent Regiment who had been disabled by injuries in various villages became sweethearts, and the squires who had not received the invitation came to visit them one after another, hoping to get some inside information from them, or hoping that they could say good things about themselves, so as not to be targeted by the Independent Regiment.
You must know that in the past three years, although they have not benefited the township, they definitely do not belong to the oppression of the people for the rich and unkind, and their tails have been between them!
Naturally, they didn't get any information from these veterans, not to mention that their behavior of sharpening guns made the veterans unhappy, but the veterans wanted to say it, and they didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Liu Tuanzuo's gourd!
However, after the fight, the attitude of these rural rich people towards the people has changed since then, not only are people no longer so arrogant, they will nostril when they see the poor, but they have also worked hard to build roads and bridges for the local area.
This is a harvest that Liu Lang did not expect. If he knew that he could do this, he would have come to such a trick a long time ago.
This is human nature, the superior only needs to do a move that he does not understand, and without explanation, he will cater to you according to your preferences.
Fortunately, Liu Tuanzao has a very good evaluation in Guangyuanfeng, if they all say that he likes beautiful women, it is not good, the number of beautiful women sent to the independent regiment on Chinese New Year's Eve can definitely form an infantry company. In that way, not to mention the officers above the rank of lieutenant, the problem of singleness of the singles above the sergeant major has been solved.
From the 25th day of the lunar month, the base of the independent regiment began to be lively.
Because the base is an important military camp, it is obviously not suitable as a place of celebration. Therefore, Liang Wenzhong set the location of the celebration on a training ground opened up by the Independent Regiment three miles away from the base, and it was only one mile away from the Independence Regiment Martyrs' Cemetery.
Since the regimental headquarters decided to expand the scale of the banquet a week ago, the independent regiment began to set up field tents on one side of the training ground. Today's logistics department of the Independent Regiment is different from the Great Wall War of Resistance two years ago. Not to mention the construction of a field tent that can accommodate 1,000 people for resting, that is, tens of thousands of people, it is not a difficult task for the logistics of the current independent regiment.
Before Liu Lang returned from overseas, a batch of field tents set off from the United States of America and were shipped to China, where they were sold to the Central Army at a low price of 5,000, 2,000 as a donation to Chairman Liu's Sichuan Army, and the Independent Regiment had 3,000 in reserve. The remaining 5,000 were sold by the Chinese business group to warlords in various places, and the high-quality and low-cost US military field tents were loved by all Chinese soldiers. Although the Huashang Group did not make any money from this, the resistance to doing this kind of military import business in the future has been virtually reduced, and it is much easier to obtain approval.
On the other side of the tent is the erection of the stage. Sichuan people love to be lively is well-known throughout the country, two people meet the vernacular for a while are called to swing the dragon gate array, even if the family is gone, they have to put on the stage to beat gongs and drums and sing for three days and three nights, not to mention this large-scale celebration of the New Year.
The popular Sichuan opera in Sichuan, the most popular northern Sichuan lantern show, big puppet show, shadow puppet show, Liang Wenzhong invited four big troupes from Chengdu and Guangyuan in one breath, ready to let everyone present watch enough on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
There are also chefs, this time the independent regiment learned the lesson of the last time when the whole army returned from too many people and insufficient preparation, and invited five of the largest restaurants from Chengdu in advance to jointly complete the banquet with a number of five or six thousand people.
This time is different from the flowing water banquet in the Ji family in Beiping, according to Liu Tuanzuo's order, it is necessary for the big guys to enter the table together to be considered a military and civilian fun, let a group of people eat and another group of people drooling next to them to look at what's going on?
Therefore, this time, the number of cooks and helpers alone has reached several hundred, not to mention the number of eight immortal tables alone, there are as many as 200, as for the officers and soldiers of the independent regiment, they still eat on the long table in the canteen, anyway, they have long been used to it.
Otherwise, the five or six hundred and eight immortal tables alone would have made Lieutenant Colonel Liang scratch his head.
In addition to this, the field tent of the regimental headquarters, which can accommodate dozens of people, is located in the middle of all the field tents that can accommodate more than a dozen people, and it looks like a big green mansion from a distance.
If it was wartime, if Liu Tuanzuo engaged in such a conspicuous command center, it would naturally be an act of seeking death, but at this moment, for the happiness of the bachelors, Liu Tuanzuo had to order the logistics department to try his best to pretend to be forced.
You can't let a group of big ladies and those rough guys who have already gotten the news and shave, wash their faces and look in the mirror every day on a blind date in the field on the training ground!
This force is pretended for them.