Xiaohuzi went quickly. It didn't take long to bring back a few dishes. While arranging the dishes, he smiled and said, "Commander, it's really time today." In the afternoon, the secretary of the canteen put down a few sets on the back mountain, and wanted to put a roe deer on it to supplement a little nutrition for several leaders. ”

"It's a pity that the roe deer didn't get it, only two rabbits, and they didn't burn it all for you. In addition, when we captured Jiamusi, the commander of the 1st Brigade Wang, got a little peanuts and good vermicelli, which he just sent someone to deliver in the afternoon. Today, these dishes are all cooked by our secretary who heard that several leaders are going to have a dinner. ”

The so-called additional dishes, in addition to a large bowl of tonight's food dish pork fried radish, and a bowl of stewed potatoes and pumpkin with captured canned Japanese beef, are only four more dishes. A bowl of braised rabbit meat, a plate of scrambled eggs, a plate of fried peanuts, plus a plate of fried vermicelli, a specialty dish from the Northeast. In addition to these few items, there is only a large bowl of millet porridge and a plate of large cakes as the staple food.

Not to mention the ordinary dishes, there are two other dishes in the canteen. It's just that the bowl of potato stew and pumpkin has an extra canned beef in it. And for this canned beef, Yang Zhen still needs to pay for it.

Although the dishes are just simple things that can't be simpler, when he saw the dishes on the table, Li Yanping rubbed his hands and smiled at Xiaohuzi: "I said Huzi, you are not qualified as a housekeeper." How much money has your chief accumulated in his hands, and this is a hemorrhage? ”

Yang Zhen shook his head indifferently and said: "Food and clothing are all given by the army, and I am a single person, unlike your Lao Li who dragged his family with a mouth, and smoked, and it was useless to keep it, and it was all spent when it was spent." It's you, our Standing Committee team plus Lao Zhang, the five of you have a heavy burden on Lao Li's family, and you still smoke. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen said with some half-complaint: "This is a battle, one after another." According to the regulations, the four cigarettes issued by the army every month are not enough for you at all, and the remaining money saved by your mouth and stomach is spent on smoking. ”

"You too, won't you talk to Lao Zhang and give you more points every month? Lao Guo and Lao Gao don't smoke, and I smoke occasionally. You are the only one in the whole headquarters who smokes, and you are the political commissar, so this care should still be given. You also need to save some money to improve your family's life. Your children are growing up. Besides, you, the political commissar of the dignified army, can't even afford to eat a piece of tofu at home, what is this? ”

Regarding Yang Zhen's concern, Li Yanping shook his head and said, "I can't start this, it's not a matter of one or two cigarettes." Regulations are regulations and must be strictly enforced. If those of us who make the rules don't take the lead in enforcing them, but instead violate the rules, who else can follow them? I smoke four cigarettes a month, which is already special care. No matter how much it is, it is to engage in specialization. ”

"My family has a large population and a large number of children. However, although your sister-in-law does not pay her salary in the clothing factory of the military region, doesn't the military region give you a subsidy of three yuan, and each child has a subsidy of one yuan. I also enjoy the supply system, and my food and clothing are all for the army, and in fact, I can save every month's allowance and food. It is enough for smoking. ”

"Besides, my allowance is ten yuan a month, which is paid on a monthly basis, which is six or seven yuan more than the soldiers below, and I can get some food tails every month. The soldiers below, due to financial constraints, rarely have a two-dollar living allowance paid on time. Those of us who are the leaders can receive it on a monthly basis, which is already special. Can't take any more. ”

As a member of the political committee, Li Yanping paid great attention to playing an exemplary and leading role in all matters. After the base area was stabilized, Yang Zhen sent people to secretly go south to pick up Li Yanping's family from his hometown in Yanji. After Li Yanping's family arrived at the base area, he did not let his wife sit back and enjoy her success as an official wife at home, but sent his wife, who was good at sewing work, to the military region's clothing factory, and several children were left in the care of his mother.

Although his wife works in the clothing factory of the military region, according to the regulations, she does not enjoy a salary or a supply system, except that she can go to the health department for free to see a doctor. There are many children, and the two sons are at the age when they are half the eldest son and eat the poor old man, and they can eat more than Li Yanping with one mouth, and there is an old mother to support.

Although the army pays a family allowance of three yuan a month and a living allowance of one yuan a month for each child, there is not much left except for the purchase of food and daily necessities, and life is still tight. Except that you don't have to hide in Tibet every day, you are worried. When there is no war, in addition to enjoying the life of a family reunion for a few days a month, it is better to live in the hometown farming.

Due to the shortage of funds, the limited funds must not only maintain the daily needs of the ever-expanding troops, but also invest a large amount of money in the military industry. The military industry, in particular, is simply a bottomless pit. Sometimes, in order to maintain military production, the living expenses of the troops are scraped together, and in many cases, only some basic living expenses can be allocated.

Therefore, after the establishment of the base area, Yang Zhen clearly stipulated that all family members of the army whose husband's allowance was more than 7 yuan and who worked in the clothing factory of the military region would not be entitled to the salary of 10 yuan per month for ordinary workers, but that the military region would pay a living allowance of 3 yuan per month, and an additional living allowance for each child who had children a month. Even if you undertake a technical job, you don't enjoy it.

Not only are military dependents who work in clothing factories not paid allowances, but they also work in the arsenal, the only place in the entire Jidong Military Region that pays salaries and has the highest salaries, even if you are an ordnance expert, you don't have a penny. Similarly, only three family allowances are paid.

Fortunately, among the current cadres of the army, singles account for the vast majority. A small number of people with family members are either far away in the customs or have long since lost their whereabouts. A small number of cadres from the Anti-Japanese Federation have family members, and most of them are illiterate. Either farming in the construction corps or working in a clothing factory with a relatively low salary. Basically did not work in the arsenal.

Otherwise, looking at the fact that his colleagues who are engaged in the same work as in the arsenal have a minimum salary of 17 yuan per month, and the highest salary of a skilled worker even reaches 30 yuan, I am afraid that many cadres will have a revolution in their families.

This is not only the case for family members to work in the local area, but also for both parties in the army. If both of them are soldiers, then after marriage, the wife's allowance will be abolished, and the same monthly subsistence allowance of three yuan will be paid. At most, the supply system treatment enjoyed remains unchanged.

If Zhang Ting hadn't sacrificed, after she married Yang Zhen, don't look at her as the deputy director of the logistics department, but the eight yuan allowance per month according to the level would still be cancelled, and she would receive three yuan per month living allowance like other family members. There is no special treatment except for the fact that when the child is born, he is given a nutrition subsidy of five yuan like all other family members.

It's not that Yang Zhen wants to save money from the mouths of his family. It is a policy of austerity that has to be adopted as a last resort under the current situation that the financial management of the troops is not sound, the sources of income are very small, and most of them can only rely on captures.

In the base areas, in order not to kill chickens and take eggs, to ensure the enthusiasm of the peasants, and to stabilize the hearts of the people, only 30 percent of the actual income of the agricultural tax is collected, and all of it is offset by grain. The excess is all purchased at the market price and using cash. Not only was the grain collection unable to maintain a balance between payments, but even under the premise that the autumn harvest in most areas of this year, Yuyuan, which was the main battlefield, had to come up with a considerable amount of grain relief.

In addition, the original occupation was a small county town, there was not much industry and commerce, and the commercial tax that could be received was really not much. Even in order to encourage commercial circulation in the base areas, except for the brothels that have not yet been banned and the brewing industry is deliberately taxed in order to reduce food consumption, the rest are exempted from taxes from time to time.

At present, the main expenditure of the troops is almost entirely dependent on the seized Japanese assets. The source of income is pitiful, the expenditure is large, and no matter how much money is saved, the money is still not enough to spend. And the income of several gold mines was basically invested in the construction of the military industry.

Funds are limited, expenses are huge, and there is a lack of financial management personnel in the troops, so the current use of funds is overstretched. In desperation, Yang Zhen could only work himself, and he could save a little bit. In addition to ensuring the necessary expenses such as food and clothing for the troops, the rest can be saved.

Li Yanping's words moved Yang Zhen very much. So a large family, in addition to himself according to the supply system, enjoy a certain treatment, the rest of the people have to go to the market to buy food and clothing, and his little is not as good as the high income allowance of a hotel running hall in the puppet Manchurian can barely make ends meet.

He is a dignified political commissar of a military region and a political officer who commands tens of thousands of troops, and he usually can't even see a little oil at home. The standard of living is not even as good as that of the local people who can occasionally eat some meat to improve their lives. The six members of the family are all crammed into the palm-sized collective dormitory provided by the clothing factory that has moved to Luobei County.

Yang Zhen has seen him save the extra subsidized eggs more than once and go back to the children to eat. Occasionally, the headquarters canteen was used as a substitute for the distribution of food tails because there was no fund, and the seized canned food was reluctant to eat, and it was taken home to the old mother and a few growing children.

I think of those officials in later generations who spent tens of thousands of public funds on a meal at every turn, did not smoke a sky-high cigarette that often cost tens of thousands of dollars, did not smoke a bottle of imported high-end foreign wine of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, and did not drink domestic wine except for top-level Moutai, and the table full of high-end seafood such as shark fin, sea cucumber, and abalone still felt nowhere to put chopsticks.

In front of me, I have always set an example, not to mention the high-end cigarettes such as Hademen, which are not as valuable as a chicken. Even adding two cigarettes of the current cheapest Concord brand every month is afraid of causing a bad impact on Li Yanping, who has a bad impact on the troops. Yang Zhen took a deep breath and sighed, this is our old-timers who have fought for the country and the people for most of their lives, and even stained the battlefield with blood.

Seeing Yang Zhen fall into deep thought, not knowing what he was thinking, Guo Bingxun lightly knocked on the bowl and smiled: "I said commander, the political commissar was stunned for a long time, and let everyone accompany him to suffer hunger for a long time." This dish is coming, and you can't help it. Your wine, Huzi poured it for you. Shouldn't we have a glass of glass?"

Guo Bingxun, who has a very shallow amount of alcohol, does not drink liquor, so he has a teapot of beer in front of him. And except for him, including Yang Zhen, all the liquor was poured. Looking at the teapot full of liquor in front of him, Yang Zhen, who was summoned by Guo Bingxun, couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I said that you guys are going to pour me down with pure heart." So much liquor, what can I drink? This is a high-strength sake in the 50s. When this teapot goes down, I'm dizzy, how can I still be on duty? ”

Li Yanping smiled when he heard this: "Commander, Lao Guo said just now, he will be on duty in a while." As for you, just stay here and drink. This wine is a celebration of our victory this time, and you, a great hero, have to drink it, and you have to drink it if you don't drink it. ”

These words were originally just telling the truth, but thinking of the sacrificial Zhang Ting, Li Yanping found that he had said the wrong thing. Qinggong wine is not wrong, as the supreme commander of this battle, Yang Zhen's identity as a great hero is well deserved. It's just that Zhang Ting's sacrifice cast a big shadow on this hero.

It's just beyond the expectations of Li Yanping and even Gao Yumin. Regarding Li Yanping's words, Yang Zhen seemed very calm. just said lightly: "The hero of this battle is not me, but the martyrs who died on the battlefield." Without their sacrifices, we would have won battle after battle? ”

Yang Zhen raised his wine glass and smiled bitterly: "Although Zhang Ting is my fiancée, she is also a soldier, and since she is a soldier, she should be ready to sacrifice." Not only her, but also every one of us here should be ready to make sacrifices in this war for the whole nation to safeguard its sovereignty, independence, and national dignity. ”

"Because we are soldiers, whether we volunteer or not. But since you have put on this military uniform, you should be prepared to sacrifice a qiē. Zhang Ting's sacrifice, although I am very sad, but I am also proud. She sacrificed herself on the battlefield of national liberation to resist foreign aggression and realized her value as a soldier. ”

"In the future, I will miss her, always. For the rest of my life, I will never forget her, and forget my lover who fell on the battlefield of the liberation of the motherland. But I'm not going to be in the middle of the pain. The jackals who trampled on the land of the motherland have not yet been driven away, and our compatriots are still living under the iron hooves of the invaders. until he finally defeated them and drove them back to their lair. ”

"Because we are soldiers, soldiers who have the mission of defending the homeland and the country. When our country is invaded and our people are slaughtered, we hold the gun in our hands and fight a bloody war for the independence of the motherland, the dignity of the nation, and the peace and contentment of the people. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen's expression was calm, but he said to the few people present almost word by word: "I want to keep the festival for Zhang Ting for three years." In three years, I won't get married again, even if I'm in love. I used to break her heart when she was alive. Now, I will keep a feast for her for three years. ”

With that, Yang Zhen drained all the full glass of wine in the cup. While the wine was dry, Yang Zhen also pressed the pain deeply in his heart. He knew that this kind of pain would never be revealed again.

Hearing Yang Zhen's words, except for Guo Bingxun, who understood his thoughts, the other three people were all dumbfounded. It's just that they know Yang Zhen's character, and they also know that as soon as Yang Zhen's stubborn temper comes up, no one can persuade him. The only commander-in-chief who could suppress him was not there at this time, and after receiving Guo Bingxun's expression, several people were not persuading.

Seeing that the scene was a little cold, Yang Zhen, who had made a glass of wine, took the lead in taking a sip of rabbit meat and smiled: "The political commissar has a saying that is right. Some things have passed, and we all have to look forward. Come on, everybody eats. This meal has cost me half a year's allowance. If you don't eat it, it's really Lang fee. ”

"I can tell you, I'm a stingy man. After this opportunity, let me have a treat next time, but I don't know if it's the Year of the Monkey. Besides, these dishes have taken a lot of effort from the director of our headquarters, and if you don't eat them, it will be a lot of hard work. ”

Yang Zhen's words to enliven the atmosphere made several people laugh. also changed the silence just now, and raised their chopsticks or wine glasses one after another. The director of the canteen director of the headquarters, who no longer cooks himself, is indeed very skilled, and simple things are simply made by him to be full of color and flavor. At the end of the meal, everyone ate quite happily. However, Yang Zhen was drunk.

Although Yang Zhen is already very controlling, he is still drunk and messy, and he even forgets to discuss some things with Li Yanping alone after dinner. This is the first time he has been drunk since he returned to this era, and he is still so drunk.