The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 217: Passionate Years

New cadres such as Li Hua and Chen Ping were shocked on their first day at the combined brigade.

According to the requirements of the combined brigade, each soldier must fire no less than 500 rounds of bullets for target practice per year.

You should know that in the field army, each soldier will not fire more than 10 bullets per year. As for independent divisions, soldiers will not fire more than 5 bullets per year.

However, the requirement of the combined brigade is that each soldier must fire no less than 500 rounds of bullets for target practice per year, and even cadres are subject to the same requirement, which is included in the assessment indicators.

The combined forces brigade has 6000 personnel, which means it has to fire at least 300 million rounds of ammunition a year.

This does not include various machine gun bullets and artillery shells!
And their salaries are actually much higher than before!
The original salary could even be said to be just the basic salary, and there were various allowances as well, and even extra allowances for going to the battlefield. Their salary was at least twice the original one.

In addition to the super high salary, other benefits are also extremely good. As for food, there is meat for every meal.

Even their family members can get a job at Panshan Machinery Factory, and they can spend one day every week with their families.

Although they don't have a place to live now, Panshan Machinery Factory has already built a residential area for the families of the combined forces brigade outside Panshan.

Therefore, most of the people in the combined brigade are new members, but they have now returned to their original affiliation and there have been no problems.

Liu Tao got to know these cadres one by one.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t remember so many people at once. You can get to know them by coming over from time to time later.

Of course, this is just the brigade headquarters now. The entire combined brigade has 6000 people, and there is no way to accommodate so many people here.

The entire combined brigade is currently temporarily stationed in Tianzhu Mountain.

Although Tianzhu Mountain is not as good as Panshan Mountain, it can be used as the base for a combined brigade. There are mountains and water there, and the terrain is relatively complex, so it can be used as a training ground for a combined brigade.

Moreover, Tianzhu Mountain is not far from Panshan, it is just in the next town.

After a while, the brigade headquarters will also move to Tianzhu Mountain.

Liu Tao discovered that at the battalion and brigade levels, the support from above were all cadres with rich experience. The deputy brigade commanders, chief of staff, etc. were all from various divisions, and the battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders were even the regimental commanders of their previous units.

For example, the commander of an artillery battalion was previously the commander of an artillery regiment.

Even at this level, the cadres are relatively young, with few over 30 years old. There are even college graduates serving as platoon-level cadres.

Now the framework of the entire combined brigade has been established, but there is still a big gap in weapons and equipment, but it will take time to gradually add and supplement them.

As for firearms, they were replenished as soon as possible.

After meeting these cadres, Liu Tao prepared to return to the capital with his wife and children.

Carrying large and small bags, Liu Tao and his companions left Panshan Machinery Factory in a jeep.

This time, Liu Tao specifically asked people to go to the surrounding towns and villages to buy some wild goods, including various mushrooms, old mountain ginseng, Panax notoginseng, Dendrobium officinale, wild Ganoderma lucidum, snow lotus, angelica, Cordyceps sinensis, etc.

These are all good things, pure wild and pollution-free.

Many of them are very beneficial for nourishing the body.

Liu Tao is not short of money now. His monthly salary is more than enough for his family to spend, not to mention the bonuses given by the state.

These things are naturally bought in large quantities, just like this time, I spent several thousand dollars.

Of course, Liu Tao has made a special list of what pregnant women can eat and what they cannot eat.

The driver took them directly to the airport. Liu Tao carried the bags and Zhu Lin held the child. After about ten minutes, they finally entered the waiting room. When they arrived at Beijing Airport by plane, Liu Zhenbang drove over to pick them up.

Last year, the foreign trade working group was specially equipped with a car.

Put the bags in the car and head directly to the courtyard.

There were already a lot of people in Shichahai in the evening, especially today was Friday, so even more people came to Shichahai to play.

The spring breeze of reform and opening up has spread across the mainland, and changes are also taking place in Beijing.

When Liu Tao and his companions arrived at the courtyard, they found it was quite clean, obviously someone had cleaned it.

Liu Tao had just got off the car at the gate of the courtyard when he saw his mother Chen Fang and several people.

There was a woman who looked a bit like his mother Chen Fang, and Liu Tao was a little dazed.

"sister!"

"younger brother!"

That woman was Liu Tao's eldest sister, Liu Hongying. Liu Hongying was thirty years old this year, but she had already shown the vicissitudes of life. There were wrinkles on her face and her hands were rough. It was obvious that she had suffered a lot in the Great Northern Wilderness.

Like others, Liu Hongying responded to the country's call and went to the Great Northern Wilderness to participate in its construction, and she stayed there for more than ten years.

When Liu Hongying left the capital, she was still a young girl, and now she is the mother of three children.

The green military uniform he was wearing had many patches on it and I didn’t know how many years he had worn it.

With Liu Hongying's introduction, Liu Tao also met his elder brother-in-law Qian Huaqiang.

Qian Huaqiang is also from Beijing. His parents work in the Third Ministry of Machine Building. He is two years older than Liu Hongying. He also responded to the country's call and went to the Northeast to support the Great Northern Wilderness.

After moving the things down, everyone entered the courtyard.

The dining table in the hall was already filled with food.

After Liu Tao put his things away, he went to get two bottles of Moutai, and the family ate and drank.

The children finished their meal quickly and started playing in the yard. Liu Tao and the others were chatting. After Qian Huaqiang drank two glasses of Moutai, he became more talkative.

"Back then, we left Beijing with great enthusiasm and headed for the Northeast. However, when we first arrived at the Great Northern Wilderness and saw it, we had no expectations on our faces, only confusion." Qian Huaqiang seemed to recall the scene of going to the Great Northern Wilderness that year, "We were all silent like statues, without communicating, as if our youth had left us far away. Facing the vast sea of ​​smoke, we pondered the unknown future."

The Great Northern Wilderness is now a nationally renowned granary, but in the past it was deserted. It can be said that it took a generation of people to fight against nature and the earth to open up this great granary.

In the history of the development and construction of the Great Northern Wilderness, urban educated youth have been present for most of the time. They followed in the footsteps of the first generation of people in the Great Northern Wilderness, used their youth, wisdom and sacrifice to develop the Great Northern Wilderness, reclaim the wasteland, settle and guard the border, spread urban civilization, shoulder responsibilities and share the country's worries. They made indelible contributions and left a strong mark.

They regard the Great Northern Wilderness as their second home and will stay there forever.

Over the past twenty years, as many as 70 educated youth have come to the Great Northern Wilderness from all directions.

Their spirit is admirable, but at the same time, the environment there is difficult and harsh.

Each of them has endured countless hardships, and the Great Northern Wilderness is filled with their sweat.

Compared with Liu Hongying, Liu Honglei and others, Liu Tao is undoubtedly happy. He can go to university, and after graduation he can go to a state-owned factory and become a skilled worker. He is a cadre from the beginning. The hardships Liu Tao endured are nothing to Liu Hongying, Liu Honglei and others.

In the future, when people talk about this passionate period, they will yearn for it, but they will never imagine the hardships behind it.

(End of this chapter)