Wang Xiaohu said with a sad face: "Commissioner Zheng, you don't know. After the anti-mopping campaign, the base area sold the aircraft. In addition to the ones handed over to the superiors, there was only a total of 450,000 yuan left. The headquarters and Taiyue Military Region also wanted After leaving 250,000 yuan, we only have 200,000 yuan left in our base area.
Over 20,000 yuan was spent on sporadic expenses. In the past few days, you have approved 70,000 yuan. We have less than 100,000 yuan left in our account. "
Wang Huaiming said: "Don't we still have 100,000 oceans? Why can't we get even 10,000 oceans?"
Wang Xiaohu said: "Look, it's almost the end of the month. At the end of the month, all units will have to pay a subsidy of at least 80,000 yuan. This does not include the salary of the pilots and ground staff of the flying group. This 100,000 yuan is not worth it at all. It’s just not enough.”
After hearing this, Wang Huaiming became a little anxious and said: "This base of yours is just nonsense. Why do you pay so many subsidies? And these pilots, why do you pay them so much?"
When Wang Xiaohu heard what he said, he couldn't help but despise him, thinking that this guy was just a idiot who didn't even understand this.
However, he was a smart man and did not refute him and said: "This is a rule formed in the previous base area."
Wang Huaiming said angrily: "These rules are wrong and must be corrected."
Wang Xiaohu pretended to cooperate with him and said: "Commissioner Zheng, you are right. I also think this is unreasonable. Let's just hold a meeting and talk about canceling the army's subsidies. The Americans in the flying brigade cannot give them that much salary, otherwise If so, it would be too difficult for me to be the head of the logistics department."
Wang Huaiming said: "Just notify us and hold a special economic work meeting tomorrow afternoon."
Wang Xiaohu said happily: "That's great, I'll go and notify him right away." When Wang Huaiming came to the Mawushan base area, the person he could trust was the chief of staff who came with him. Wang Huaiming thought that this matter should be discussed with him, so he sent someone to call the chief of staff.
He told his opinion to the chief of staff. The chief of staff had been a regimental commander in the army and had experience in managing the army. He was shocked when he heard what he said.
He said: "Commissioner Zheng, I'm afraid this won't work. If we do this, I'm afraid we will be opposed by all the officers and soldiers in the base area, and the troops will be in chaos."
Wang Huaiming realized the seriousness of the problem and said, "What should we do?"
The chief of staff said: "Since the economic work conference has been notified, it still needs to be held. There is only one purpose, to try to increase income. In the past, the base area could support so many people, so they naturally had their own methods. The purpose of this meeting It’s just to mobilize everyone to go out and make money.”
Wang Huaiming felt a little calmer after hearing what he said, and said, "Okay, let's do it like this."
That afternoon, in the guerrilla conference room, an economic work meeting chaired by Wang Huaiming was held.
As soon as the meeting started, many people began to complain. The vice principal of the Special Warfare School said: "Commissioner Zheng, the Special Warfare School has recently recruited a group of trainees from various military regions. The daily expenses and training expenses are high. Increase, please increase funding for the Special Warfare School by 4,000 oceans per month."
Cui Zhenyue, captain of the chariot brigade, said: "The gasoline consumed after the last battle has not been replenished. Now only one-third of the vehicles in the chariot unit can be driven, and the usual training is no longer dared to be carried out. The fuel must be replenished quickly, otherwise, Once there is enemy situation in the base area, the tank troops will not be able to participate."
The captain of the transportation brigade also said: "The transportation brigade is also extremely short of oil now. The only part of the oil in stock is still used by the chariot brigade. Without oil, the vehicles are basically unusable, and even the business of transporting coal out of the country is no longer available. It has been greatly affected." Bob also expressed his opinion on behalf of the flying group. He said: "The fuel stored in the flying group is really too little, and there are no aerial bombs. If it is not replenished, the flying group will not be able to carry out the operation. It’s a combat mission.”
Li Yunlong, Kong Jie, Wang Limin, Sun Desheng, and Wang Chengzhu also complained, saying that without training fees, even normal training work would be difficult to carry out.
Wang Huaiming was furious when he heard this. He was very angry. He slapped the table hard and said, "What are you arguing about? Everything requires money. If you don't have money, will you stop working and resist Japan?"
Others didn't say anything when they saw him getting angry, but Li Yunlong didn't tolerate him.
He said: "Commissioner Zheng, we, Mr. Li, don't like to hear what you say. When it comes to fighting the Japanese, none of you here are innocent. You have never fought with the Japanese army. If you don't have funds, weapons and ammunition, what can you do with it?" To fight the Japanese? Are we going to let the soldiers hold fire sticks, go hungry, barefoot and without shoes, and fight against the Japanese?"
"Yes, yes." When everyone heard what Li Yunlong said, they all agreed below.
Bob's Chinese was not very good. After listening to the interpreter, he said: "Sir Wang, you are wrong. You can't fight a war without money. If you don't have oil or aerial bombs, what can you use to fight? If you don't give money, guyong What do soldiers eat?”
Bob spoke so directly that Wang Huaiming's head was pounding. He saw everyone's dissatisfaction and was at a loss for a moment.
Seeing him like this, the chief of staff hurriedly came out to smooth things over and said: "The economic work meeting was held today to solve the funding problem. It has been a long time since the Mawushan base area was established. Didn't the funding be solved well before? Today's meeting The purpose of this meeting is for everyone to discuss how to solve the funding problem as before."
After Wang Huaiming heard this, he had an idea and asked: "Wang Xiaohu, tell me, how did you solve the previous funding?"
Wang Xiaohu said: "Report to Commissioner Zheng that almost all the funds in the base area are obtained by Captain Xu."
Wang Huaiming said: "You are talking nonsense. Are all the people in the Mawushan base supported by Xu Dalong?"
Wang Xiaohu was too frightened to speak. He stood there not knowing what to say.
Zhao Gang said: "Commissioner Zheng, what Wang Xiaohu said is not entirely correct, but it is not too far off. A considerable part of our base's funds are the bonuses obtained by Captain Xu from the war. All of them are awarded to individuals. Captain Xu has spent all of them. It serves as the funds for the base area. A large part of it is also Captain Xu’s personal relationship. He asked for it from his friends in the friendly forces. Without these funds, the base area would not be able to maintain it at all.”
Wang Huaiming said: "Listen to what you said, does it mean that without Xu Dalong, the base area will not be able to function? What do we have so many troops for? Can't we go out and seize them? Aren't those planes just captured?"
Li Yunlong said disdainfully: "It depends on the seizure, to put it lightly. When the troops go out to fight, they must win before they can seize funds and supplies.
The little Japs are not that easy to fight. The reason why we often win battles and capture things here is because Brother Dalong has good plans and clever tactics. Only then can we defeat the Japs and seize supplies.
Besides, just confiscating it won't work. When fighting the Japanese, don't we also have to consume weapons, ammunition and a lot of money? Sometimes after the battle is won, the things captured are not enough for consumption. If you lose the fight, you will have nothing. "
"Yes, yes." All the participants agreed.
Wang Huaiming became even more angry and said, "Can it be that our base area cannot survive without this Xu Dalong?"
Kong Jie said there in a sinister tone: "Whether we can survive or not is hard to say. You are the person in charge of our military division. We will listen to your opinion on what to do."
Everyone also agreed, hoping that Wang Huaiming could give a solution to the problem.
Although Wang Huaiming had a way of treating people, he was at a loss when things really happened. He couldn't come up with any decent advice, so he looked to the chief of staff for help.
When the chief of staff first came to the base area, he was also full of confidence. After all, he had been a regiment commander and was confident that he could lead troops. But now he discovered that the Mawu Mountain base area was really different. Compared with other places, the water here was too deep and he couldn't play around at all.
In order to avoid embarrassment, he suggested adjourning the meeting temporarily to let everyone think of a solution, and then meeting again to discuss it.
After returning to Wang Huaiming's office, the chief of staff said: "Commissioner Zheng, do you see it? These guys are giving us problems."
Wang Huaiming said angrily: "Why didn't I know? The key issue now is how to deal with these guys."
The chief of staff suggested: "You'd better report it to your superiors and say that these people in the base area were secretly instructed by Xu Dalong to deliberately create problems for us."
Wang Huaiming said: "You don't need to remind me about this. I must report Xu Dalong's evil deeds and impose severe sanctions on these stubborn guys. But how to solve the problem at hand?"
Speaking of this, the chief of staff also had a headache. After all, he leads troops all year round and is considered a good fighter when it comes to fighting. But when it came to making money, he was confused as a monk, and he didn't know what to do.
He said: "It's better to ask your superiors for instructions and see if they have any good suggestions and instructions."
Wang Huaiming always used the skin of a tiger to pull the flag, so he sent a telegram to his backers.
After receiving Wang Huaiming's telegram, his backer also had a headache. Originally, he wanted Wang Huaiming to take control of the Mawu Mountain base to increase his strength, but he didn't expect that Wang Huaiming would be so unsatisfactory and couldn't even handle these things.
Angry as hell, the backer still sent a telegram of instructions to Wang Huaiming, asking him to delay for a while and buy time to think of a solution.
Wang Huaiming discussed with the chief of staff for a long time, but could not think of any good solution.
Finally, I finally found a way, which is to suspend the payment of wages and allowances this month, and at the same time ask for help from the headquarters, hoping that the headquarters can support part of the funds of the base area.
When the head of the headquarters received the telegram from Wang Huaiming, his face suddenly darkened.
He said: "What happened to Wang Huaiming? When Xu Dalong was here, he often sent supplies and funds to his superiors. Why did he replace him and he had to ask for funds from the headquarters? What is the use of such a cadre? If you don't have the ability, don't do it. .”
The chief of staff thinks so too, but he is more stable.
He said: "Boss, the headquarters' funds are extremely tight and we will definitely not be able to come up with it. However, we still need to send a telegram back to Wang Huaiming to encourage him to find a way to solve the problem."
The boss said: "I understand what you mean, then just send him a telegram."
The chief of staff sent a telegram back to Wang Huaiming. The telegram said that the Mawushan base area had never reached out to its superiors in the past, and even took the initiative to help its superiors solve material and funding problems. Wang Huaiming had just arrived at the Mawushan Base Area and was not familiar with the situation. It was excusable. The headquarters specifically approved that the Mawushan Base Area could no longer hand over supplies and ammunition to their superiors in the short term. However, the Mawushan Base Area was left to solve the problems themselves.
After Wang Huaiming read the telegram sent from the headquarters, he really didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
After discussing with the chief of staff, he finally came up with a strategy, which was to send troops to imitate Xu Dalong's example and go out to rob the Japanese in order to obtain part of the funds.
So they held a combat meeting and proposed the idea of sending troops out to capture it.
The acting captain of the intelligence brigade first introduced the enemy's situation. He said: "In the intelligence stations set up by the guerrillas in other places, most of the intelligence agents are hired. Funds must be paid to them on time every month. No money has been given to them this month, that is, I've lost people's trust. This information is not easy to get."
Li Yunlong said: "Without intelligence, how can we fight a war? Should we let our brothers go out blindly to die?"
Kong Jie sang with Li Yunlong, and he deliberately said: "Old Li, what are you talking about? There will be no war without intelligence? Now that the base area has financial difficulties, we have to go out to fight. What if we win? Anyway, we can Grab some supplies and come back."
Wang Limin said worriedly: "This is too risky. If we are defeated, many people will be sacrificed."
Cui Zhenyue said: "We have no oil, how can we go out to fight?"
Bob said: "Without fuel and aerial bombs, the flying brigade cannot be dispatched. Besides, the people in the flying brigade are all soldiers. No one will be dispatched before they get the money. We must think about the money issue quickly. The solution is, if you don’t give us any money at the end of this month, we will stop working.”
There was a quarrel at the venue. Generally speaking, if there was no money, this battle could not be fought. Not only will there be no gains from fighting, but it will also waste people and money.
Wang Huaiming didn't know who to target for a moment. He glanced at Cui Zhenyue and said, "The tank troops don't have gasoline. Can't we borrow some from friendly forces?"
Cui Zhenyue said: "Well, I don't have that much respect. The friendly forces are all connected to Captain Xu. We can't borrow them if we go there."
Everyone argued for a long time, but in the end there was no accurate idea.
Wang Huaiming became a little angry. He thought that these guys were posing problems for him and despising his authority.
