Zhu Chengxiu was in Pyongyang, disgusted with this place, while Qiao Xuenan was in the office in the city, holding the love letter in his hand.
Zhou Qingfeng carried out the North Korean campaign with a brigade of more than 200 people. Most of these people were high school graduates from Jinzhou University. The Revolutionary Army's university could only train primary school students. Those who could complete the six-year course of study in one year were all talents. Each of them was a treasure collected by the Revolutionary Army.
The division of labor in the brigade had different functions. Although Qiao Xuenan was only 18 years old, he followed Zhou Qingfeng earlier. Because of his hard work and hard work, he often served as the chief of staff on duty in the brigade, responsible for managing thousands of people in the brigade.
When he arrived in North Korea, Qiao Xuenan had to help Wang Yining form a democratic government. It was a hard job to register the Shandong officials and North Korean aborigines, not to mention teaching them how to do things according to the rules of the Revolutionary Army. The North Korean aborigines were easy. The gentry from Shandong came to Korea after destroying their families and businesses, so they hated the 'Revolutionary Army'.
How to count the land in Pyongyang, how to draw a map, how to assign officials, and so on … In short, Qiao Xuenan had a lot of things to do every day. He and a group of young staff officers from the Brigade Department had been busy for a month. They worked day and night before they finally managed to stabilize the situation in Pyongyang. With Zhou Qingfeng, who was a big boss who didn't have to do anything, the people under him had to work a little harder.
Now that he finally had some free time, Qiao Xuenan had to worry about his own love affairs. The love letter in his hand came from Jinzhou. It was written by Chai Jie, the female leader of the Imperial Guard. The handwriting in the letter was crooked, and there were a lot of typos. The words were also without rhyme or reason. At first glance, it was just greetings.
But the letter itself was shocking enough.
Recently, the Revolutionary Army began to promulgate some of its own laws. The first batch was the Marriage Law. The law approved by Zhou Qingfeng was very special. There were three forms of marriage — husband and wife equal, husband dominant, and wife dominant. This involved property, children, and the right to take concubines.
This law had caused a huge uproar recently. The discussions in the streets had even surpassed the news that He Zhuo was conquering Shandong. This was because the law clearly stated that if the wife took the lead during the marriage, not only would the wife control the family's finances, but she could also take in concubines like a man. This was tantamount to making the matter of marrying into the family clear and expanding in depth.
The law also stipulated that legitimate and illegitimate children had equal rights, but illegitimate children had no rights at all. What Zhou Qingfeng did was to clarify many of the family matters of the common people that were unclear in the past. He also made a rule on the number of concubines that could be taken, differentiated by their status.
Because Qiao Xuenan was already 18 years old, he also wanted to get married and start a family after reading the discussion in the newspaper. But recently, he was frustrated in love. Sang Xiuer, who had been a little ambiguous with him, went to work as a personal secretary for the Minister of Education, Yin Hu. Everyone knew that the personal secretary was actually a concubine. It was just that the girl was not yet 18 years old, so they couldn't officially get married.
This news came too suddenly, and Qiao Xuenan was greatly shocked. He knew that he couldn't compete with the Minister of Education, so he could only go get drunk and cry. As a result … several of his colleagues who were drinking with him spread the news.
A few days later, Chai Jie, who was also an old cadre of the Imperial Guard, suddenly came and asked Qiao Xuenan directly if he was willing to be with her and marry her as equals in a few years.
Qiao Xuenan was stunned on the spot. Chai Jie also plucked up her courage. After saying a few words, she ran away with a red face. This girl was also only 16 years old. She took Qiao Xuenan's stunned expression as a tacit agreement. Since then, she would send him letters every few days and send him some small gifts.
These letters made Qiao Xuenan very embarrassed. He was not familiar with Chai Jie. He also liked girls like Sang Xiuer, who were from a humble family. As for Chai Jie … She was a female general who had followed Zhou Qingfeng to war and killed people whenever she wanted. However, when this girl took the initiative to ask for his love, Qiao Xuenan felt very warm and couldn't bear to refuse her.
"Staff Officer Qiao."
A delicate voice broke Qiao Xuenan's worries about how to reply to the letter. Outside the office, a young and delicate woman walked in. The woman held a file in her hand and gently placed it on Qiao Xuenan's desk. She lowered her head and said in a voice as quiet as a mosquito, "This is the timber cutting plan for next month. How many people will be used, how many tools will be allocated, how many lumber yards will be allocated, the freight routes, and the allocation of vehicles have all been calculated."
Zhou Qingfeng had always asked his subordinates to have a plan when doing things. Although he never had a plan himself. When Qiao Xuenan trained the puppet government, he repeatedly emphasized various plans.
Because Zhou Qingfeng had no taboo for women to become officials and even encouraged it, a large number of female civil servants appeared in Wang Yining's government. Shandong was prosperous in culture and education, and most of the women in the families of the officials were literate. Among the families of the officials and gentry who were escorted to North Korea, many women also came out to take up positions in order to survive. This was one of them.
The plan sent by the woman was a memo for Qiao Xuenan. After all, the Revolutionary Army was now the emperor of North Korea, and he had to grasp all the situations. Qiao Xuenan was also greatly relieved when he received these reports. He had done these things by himself before, and now there was finally someone to share the burden.
"Thank you, Miss Ma." After Qiao Xuenan thanked her, he found that the woman stood still. "Is there anything else?"
"Is Staff Officer Qiao free tonight? My father has prepared some wine in the residence and wants to have a chat with Staff Officer Qiao. "The woman's face blushed and instantly became hot. "My father only has me, and I'm quite lonely in North Korea …"
The woman's tone was delicate, and it was very pitiful. But Qiao Xuenan flatly refused, "The cadres of the Revolutionary Army don't accept invitations, and we don't build relationships behind your back. Miss Ma, when you go back, please tell your father that this rule can't be violated. The Grand Marshal is very vigilant about officials making friends in private. Once discovered, they will be severely punished. The people from the Ministry of State Security are not incompetent, and they keep a close eye on it. "
Hearing the name of Zhou Qingfeng, the woman's face instantly turned pale. She hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No, it's not building relationships. My father has already repented of his bad behavior in the past, and would never dare to disobey the Grand Marshal's rules. We are just, just … "
The woman's eyes were moist, and she was almost in tears.
Qiao Xuenan smiled and said, "You came from Shandong, so you must be scared. But you don't have to worry too much. The Grand Marshal didn't bring you to North Korea to punish you, and he didn't want to kill you. As long as you abide by the law, and understand the organizational philosophy of the Revolutionary Army, you will find that the Grand Marshal is actually a person who is easy to deal with. "
"We, we … always abide by the law, and dare not act rashly." The woman's eyes were filled with hidden bitterness, and she thought in her heart, "This idiot, I don't want to talk to him about this." She saw that Qiao Xuenan didn't understand her meaning, so she could only sigh and turned away.
After the woman left, Qiao Xuenan thought in his heart, "Sigh … I once again appeased the panic of the Shandong officials. These people are really too much recently, they always come to me to chat. If they don't meet by chance, they take the initiative to invite me. Humph … I, Qiao Xuenan, am loyal to the Grand Marshal, and listen to the revolutionary teachings day and night. How can I be so easy to corrupt? "
Qiao Xuenan was very proud of his vigilance. He grabbed the proposal sent by the woman and flipped through it, and immediately frowned. "These newbies are really careless, so many low-level mistakes, and they can't see it. I can see at a glance that there are many places where the data is wrong. If this plan continues, the work will be a mess. "
Qiao Xuenan could only walk out of the office and look for the woman just now to redo the proposal. But when he came out of the room, there was a young woman staring at him.
"Staff Officer Qiao."
This young woman was a bit more courageous, and her voice was loud. But her Chinese accent was strange, and it was obvious that she was a native of North Korea. The personnel in the puppet government were complicated, and only those with talent could take up the post. So not only a large number of officials from Shandong joined, but North Korean officials from Pyongyang also tried to squeeze in to get a position. This woman in front of him should be a newly recruited civil servant.
"Hello." Qiao Xuenan had been with Zhou Qingfeng for a long time, and was used to greeting people in modern Chinese. He didn't know this young woman, but he could see that she was quite beautiful. "What's the matter?"
"I'm the daughter of Minister Kim Jingrui, and I also work in the government. I'm here today … "The young woman said halfway and was about to bow. Qiao Xuenan interrupted her with a stiff tone: "Thank Minister Kim for my kindness, but I don't accept invitations or gifts. If you have any requests, you can directly report it to me and go through the formal process. This is good for all of us. "
This sentence was said quickly and steadily, and the young North Korean girl almost choked to death by Qiao Xuenan. But she seemed to have already inquired about this young man's temper and character, and was even more clear about his identity. The girl paused for a moment and continued to bow: "Staff Officer Qiao misunderstood, I am a logistics officer in the security army, and I feel the burning fighting spirit of the security army, so I specially came to ask for permission from the Grand Marshal."
"Permission to fight?" Qiao Xuenan was a bit surprised.
The Kim girl said respectfully: "I heard that Staff Officer Qiao is good at planning battles, and is my senior. First, I want to ask Senior Qiao for advice, and second, I really want to ask for permission to fight. Our security army has tens of thousands of people, and we are eager to show our loyalty to the Grand Marshal. As long as the Grand Marshal gives the order, without the guidance of the Imperial Guard, we can directly kill our way to Seoul and annihilate Li Hui, the traitor who usurped the throne. "
The Kim girl said while gritting her teeth, as if she really had a grudge against her compatriots in the south. In the past month, the North Koreans in Pyongyang had already seen the powerful force of the Revolutionary Army. The Guards Guards could fight, but it was nothing more than making people feel fear. However, the ability of hundreds of transport ships to continuously transport a huge amount of resources was truly convincing.
The Revolutionary Army wanted wood, so the North Koreans thought they would have to bring axes to the mountains to chop trees. In the end, the transport ships only took a few days to deliver a large number of hacksaws, axes, and even horses and freight carriages.
Zhou Qingfeng wanted to use the water power of the Datong River to build a wood processing plant, so professional personnel came to guide the construction. He wanted to use Pyongyang's lignite resources to build a wood drying kiln, so he immediately recruited thousands of North Korean workers to start making firebricks. He had money, technology, and management. These things that he didn't even dare to think about in the past were all available in the blink of an eye.
Zhou Qingfeng disliked the poor performance of the current cavalry artillery, so he just threw it to the security army. But with the continuous training of the North Korean gunners, they regarded this thing as a national treasure. The Imperial Guard was replacing the matchlock guns with flintlock guns, and the North Korean gunners found that the Revolutionary Army's matchlock guns were lighter, more accurate, and more powerful than their own.
The North Korean farmers were all poor and had no food, but there were many of them. The Revolutionary Army felt that human resources were precious, so without hesitation, they shipped one ship after another of food. A few hundred tons at a time, enough for tens of thousands of people to eat for a month. The transported cloth and ready-made clothes immediately changed the North Korean security army from the outside to the inside.
Countless North Koreans cried while eating rice and noodles, swearing to be loyal to the Grand Marshal. Because for thousands of years, this kind of refined grain could only be eaten by the upper-class nobles, and the lower-class people could only eat the chaff of the grain they painstakingly grew. Under the command of the Imperial Guard officers, the North Korean workers completed the work that they didn't even dare to imagine. This shocked the North Korean officials who were ashamed to have contact with the lower-class people.
This was a complete suppression in culture, system, and production capacity. The Revolutionary Army had the ability to turn stone into gold. Something that Grand Marshal Zhou leaked out of his fingers was enough to change the world of North Korea. As soon as he opened his mouth, he asked for a loan of 50 million silver dollars, so the first batch of silver dollars was immediately delivered. Just this number alone was already too much for many people to count with their fingers.
Now the North Koreans looked at Zhou Qingfeng as if they were looking at a god. They were eager to do something so that they could better cling onto this golden thigh. They had no right to speak about construction, so the only thing they could think of was war. This Miss Jin was not lying when she said she wanted to go to war. She really wanted to destroy the North Korean Lee Dynasty in the south.
Now, the people who disliked the North Korean King Li Hui the most were the people who led the way in the north. They hated him to the core and felt that if Li Hui didn't die, the Grand Marshal wouldn't completely trust the North Koreans. Many of them were planning to skin their old master and pull out his tendons to show their loyalty.
This Miss Jin wanted to go further. She asked very sincerely, "Senior Qiao, are you free tonight? I want to learn the art of strategy from you. I also hope to take care of your daily life so that you can live better in Pyongyang. "
"I can learn, but I don't need you to take care of my daily life. I can take care of myself." Qiao Xuenan waved his hand. He felt that he still needed to report this to the Grand Marshal so that he could have a class or something. Before he could ponder, he suddenly heard a series of warning sounds coming from outside the city. He immediately shouted in shock, "Something's wrong. It seems like there's an enemy attack."
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