The "Northern Public Security Army" was organized into four regiments. In addition to the supreme leader and Wu Qingcheng, who was named a general, was ranked in sequence, including the leaders of each regiment and the staff.

There was a "teacher" in the past, but Wu Qingcheng believed that doing so was meaningless. More importantly, the group leader and the division commander are two concepts. In addition to accelerating the expansion of ambitions and desire for power below, it will not have any effect on the actual improvement effect.

In the afternoon, Hu Pingtao took two guards away from the company, passed through Village No. 6, east of the stationed area, and headed to the regiment command center.

The four regiment numbers of the "Northern Public Security Army" are divided into one, three, seven, and nine. The villages in the jurisdiction are also divided according to numbers and have no place names.

Although he is a company commander, he is very different from the soldiers of his neighbors in the north. Especially in terms of the treatment of officers, it is even more different.

Here, only the group leader is qualified to equip the car. But even so, discipline must be strictly enforced when using the vehicle. After all, no gasoline is produced in the mountains, so it is less to use it.

When they walked into Village No. 6, the villagers saw Hu Pingtao and others in uniform, both men and women, standing by the roadside to avoid giving in, nodding and bowing, their faces full of flattery.

Here, the army has supreme power.

Hu Pingtao was very cold about this. He walked past these people with an arrogant look, looking disdainful.

In the eyes of local villagers, this is already a very friendly attitude.

Women have a very low status here. As long as they are favored by the military, they can get a "legal marriage" by applying to the superior department.

If no one wants the woman who is abducted from outside, she will be rated to the unmarried locals. This kind of marriage is recognized by the "Northern Security Army", but there is no protection. It may be demolished, disbanded, and equated with the woman to the officers and soldiers in the army at any time.

In short, everything is mainly soldiers.

Village No. 6 is very large, and it is an important location within the entire jurisdiction. It is equivalent to a small town with a total population of about 4,000.

Hu Pingtao and his group soon arrived at the small square in the village.

There is a wooden punishment rack here, with a middle-aged man tied with stripped clothes on it. His left hand was cut off from his wrist and made a simple bandage. An iron chain locked his elbow and stretched his broken arm diagonally upwards. His right hand was also tied by an iron chain, and his whole person was fixed on the wooden rack in the shape of the letter "y". There is a simple sunshade at the top, and someone regularly feeds him water so that he will not be sunburned by the sun or die of thirst.

Despite this, he was still powerless and dying.

There were two militia guards next to him. When they saw Hu Pingtao coming, they quickly stood up from under the shade of the trees and raised their hands to salute.

Hu Pingtao casually raised his hand as a gift, glanced at this side, said nothing, and turned around and left with the guards.

In the jurisdiction, people who are lacking in hands and feet can often be seen.

According to the order of Wu Qingcheng, all fields in the jurisdiction must be planted according to the plan. In addition to essential food and vegetables, most of the land is used to grow poppy. The local garrison is responsible for harvesting mature poppy, making opium, transporting it to designated areas, and refining it into heroin.

Not everyone is willing to grow poppy, especially those who have been plundered from outside, who yearn for freedom and want to live their own way.

They grow corn and other crops, raise chickens and pigs. In fact, doing so is also a good thing for the "Northern Security Army". To some extent, it can reduce the pressure on purchasing meat and transportation from the outside world. But Wu Qingcheng doesn't see this way. He believes that fixed poppy production is the core of maintaining rule, so these people who secretly change planting projects will become criminals and will be punished publicly.

If it is the first offender, cut off one hand or one foot according to the actual situation.

If you still refuse to plant poppy in the second year, then you will cut off your hands and make public for three days, and then take them to the "Corpse Valley" in the southern part of your jurisdiction and kill them on the spot.

Under the cruel high-pressure policy of Wuqingcheng, more and more disabled people in the jurisdiction, and the poppy planting area is getting larger and larger. There is even a saying in the outside world: the reason why the heroin sold by the "Northern Public Security Army" is of excellent quality is because the "Gao of Corpse Man" continuously produces a large amount of fertilizer.

...

Wu Yanhui was waiting for Hu Pingtao in the regiment command center. Seeing him and the guards coming in, he greeted him and smiled and said, "Aming, it's quite early!"

Hu Pingtao quickly raised his hand and saluted.

Wu Yanhui is the chief of staff of the 7th Regiment (a special organization of the Northern Army) and one of the real power figures of the "Northern Security Army". He and Li Wenbao have good personal training, love the house and the Wu, and "Chen Junming" is brave in fighting, so he pays more attention to this young man from outside. In more than a year, Hu Pingtao has become a confidant of Wu Yanming from an ordinary outsider.

Last week, Wu Yanhui made an appointment to have dinner together tonight.

Hu Pingtao sat down on a bamboo chair and smiled and said, "Chief of Staff, will the regiment commander come later?"

Wu Yanhui glared at him unhappily: "How many times have you said that, when there is no outsider here, just call me Brother Hui."

Hu Pingtao quickly changed his words with a smile, nodded and said, "Okay, Brother Hui."

Wu Yanhui then returned to his original expression: "I made some wine, made an appointment with Lao Chen, and a few battalion commanders. You can drink a few more drinks later, and I will introduce you to it, which will be good for you."

Wu Yanming has a good idea of ​​winning over people.

...

At dusk, everyone arrived and a banquet was held.

The dishes on the table are quite unique. The main dish is braised bamboo rats. This thing grows from bamboo shoots and is everywhere in the mountains. The soup stewed with big frogs is milky white and delicious. In addition, there are various wild vegetables, which are very tender.

Grilled chicken and grilled fish are very common, and they are all mountain products.

Tofu is a high-end dish, and beef is rare in the mountains.

The leader Chen Ying was from Annan, and he was almost fifty years old. He stood up with a glass of wine, smiled and saluted him, and drank the wine in the glass with one sip.

Not many people were invited, plus three battalion commanders and three deputy battalion commanders, a total of nine people.

Hu Pingtao knew all the people who came here. Although they were not very familiar with each other, they had met each other.

Each person had a bottle of rice wine on his hand, and there was no special hospitality, and they each drank their own. The rooms were also separated separately, and there were guards on duty downstairs, which was very safe and the content of the conversation would not be leaked.

Looking at Hu Pingtao sitting diagonally opposite, the commander Chen Ying felt a little strange.

Last week, Wu Yanhui made an appointment with him. He thought it was an ordinary banquet to contact his subordinates, but he didn't expect that the little lieutenant "Chen Junming" was also present. When Chen Ying first came in, he wanted to ask Wu Yanhui privately, but he couldn't find a chance... Thinking of this, he smiled "haha" and turned to Wu Yanhui sitting next to him, and said in a punctuation: "Young people nowadays are very good, especially those like Amin, who will be our successor in the future!"

Wu Yanhui smiled and said, "It's the same when you are young and old. After staying in the mountains for so many years, even if you die, you can only bury it here. Whether you take over or not is actually meaningless."

This is not a new topic.

Boredom and impetuousness are the main emotions of the "Northern Security Army".

It is too hot, there is no electricity, and there is insufficient security for living. Although the military power is strong, it cannot leave its jurisdiction and compete with the Siamese and Burmese for territory.

After staying for a long time, I will naturally get annoyed.

Chen Ying knew this very well. He actually had similar ideas. The six battalion-level officers present today are all confidants, and they are also Annan people who have been with him since early age. They also have a lot of homesickness.

He picked up a piece of beef with chopsticks, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it slowly: "In the words of the Chinese, please do it."

Wu Yanhui sighed: "The general has always kept this sentence on his lips. It was like this when he escaped with us back then, and it is still like this now."

Chen Ying's heart moved slightly, he spitted out the bones in his mouth and asked with a smile: "Ah Hui, you have something else to say! You are not an outsider, tell me what you think."

Wu Yanhui did not open the trump card directly. He looked a little sad: "Last week, someone from Annan brought news: My mother passed away. When she was dying... she kept saying that she wanted to see me."

Chen Ying said unanimously: "I know this. You told me during the last meeting... Forget it, I want to be more open."

Wu Yanhui smiled self-deprecatingly: "I know this is a luxury that is impossible to achieve. The general has already issued the order to close the mountain, and it is impossible for those who have not been allowed to go out. What I want to say is that we came here with him at that time to live a good life. But now..."

Shaking his head, Wu Yanhui stopped talking.

A battalion commander sitting on the side of him also sighed: "I want to leave too, but I can't leave."

Another battalion commander also echoed: "We are in the mountains and have no news from outside. Without electricity, we are basically isolated from the world. The general said before that this situation will not last too long. But now it seems that we will be like this for the rest of our lives."

Wu Yanhui raised his hand, pressed down, and whispered: "Actually, the Siamese and the Burmese have always sent people to contact us."

Chen Ying stared at him: "Are you referring to the inclusion?"

Wu Yanhui hesitated for a moment and said seriously: "Captain, you know more about this than me, and you are not an outsider either. I think the incorporation... is not a way out."

Chen Ying leaned on the soft chair of rattan and said coldly: "The Siamese people offered very harsh conditions, requiring us to hand over our weapons and go to southern cities to accept the adaptation. The Burmese people were even more excessive, saying that they would "punish the evildoers", hum... Such conditions are simply impossible to accept."

Wu Yanhui said: "That's all the past, but it's different now."

Chen Ying was stunned for a moment, then quickly stood up and asked, "Ah Hui, what do you mean?"

Wu Yanhui filled his empty wine glass and whispered: "When we first came, our foothold was not stable, and the Siamese and Burmese people could not give generous conditions. Besides, Annan has declared us to be "rebels". Our situation will not be good for both public and private. But now it is different. There are more and more people in the mountains, and the combat effectiveness of the Siamese and Burmese people is not very good, so we are almost suppressed by us. They are eager to change the situation, and the conditions given to us are much better than before."

As soon as he said that, everyone present focused on Wu Yanhui.

Chen Ying frowned and asked, "What do you mean is that the Siamese and Burmese have changed their conditions? When is this happening, why don't I know?"

Wu Yanhui took a sip of wine, and with a slightly drunken drunkenness that was stimulated by alcohol, he said hatefully: "The news came from the Third Regiment. Two months ago, they were responsible for the mountain pass to the south. When the caravan came in, they also brought a document. It was issued a new price code given to us by the Siamese people: reorganized on the spot and incorporated into the Siamese National Defense Forces. All officers remained unchanged and were promoted normally according to the Siamese rules."

"They promised to spend money to transform infrastructure such as transportation, water conservancy and electricity, and turn it into a new city under the rule of Siam."

"In addition, all the incumbent officers and soldiers can get a sum of money. You can choose to stay in the army or leave the army. In short, Siam will not hold us accountable and ensure that all those who leave are properly placed."

The battalion commander who spoke before was full of surprise: "The conditions are very good!"

Others were also talking about it.

"Chief of Staff, is this true?"

"What is the attitude of the Siamese people?"

"If this is the case, that would be great. To be honest, it's really no point in staying in the mountains, there's nothing here."

Chen Ying is a person who has experienced it and will not be easily tempted by words. He thought for a moment and asked questions calmly: "Ah Hui, what do you mean is that Wu Qingcheng blocked the news about the Siamese people?"

Wu Yanhui nodded: "What the general wants is different from us."

Some words cannot be said directly. Although Chen Ying has a good relationship with him, his attitude is unclear at the moment and can only wait and see for the time being.

Chen Ying knew this very well. He immediately fell into thinking.

After a long time, he opened his mouth and said slowly: "This matter should be true. The Siamese people have always wanted to solve us, but their army's combat effectiveness is too weak. Incorporation is a good way, and these conditions are also in our interests. But the problem is that whether it is water, electricity, or access, it is a big project that requires money. Are the Siamese people really willing to invest?"

Strictly speaking, many senior officers of the "Northern Security Army" including Chen Ying are not hard-core followers of Wu Qingcheng.

The Annan government was very arrogant in the last century and went to war with three neighboring countries at the same time. This rash and arrogant attitude caused its international image to plummet and it was isolated internationally. In addition to the rapid deterioration of relations with neighboring countries, Southeast Asian countries also rejected, isolated and boycotted it, and imposed an economic blockade on it.
Chapter completed!