Chapter 8 Chapter Eight The First Officer to Go to Sea

Ouyang is leaving the army! Compared with the news that "Hanako is going to serve in the army" in his hometown in 1978, this news will surprise relatives and friends many times!Also incomprehensible how many times! In particular, he has been in the army for 17 years and is already a battalion cadre, but he voluntarily does not want a job arranged by the state. He has become the first self-employed officer of the Guangdong Armed Police, and the transfer fee is only 6,500 yuan. Ouyang Xiangshan, who has only read books for four and a half years, his mother was a landlord, and his father has historical problems, went to great lengths to enlist in the army. If he hadn't "shattered the Gang of Four", he might have only been a "Hanako" for the rest of his life.

But the fate of people is so wonderful, "Hanako" became a soldier, and once he joined the army, he rose straight to the top, from officials to battalion-level cadres. Ouyang Xiangshan is an excellent officer in the army. The company he led was an advanced unit of the whole army. The silk banner awarded by the General Political Department is still preserved in the "Chinese Revolutionary Military Museum". Ouyang often said that after arriving in the army, with the improvement of their ability and will, their ideological realm underwent a qualitative change, and the change in their ideological realm led to a radical change in their overall human quality.More than 50 years since the founding of New China, 80 to 90 percent of the officers and soldiers of the Chinese army are from the countryside. Most of them, like myself, originally wanted to escape the rural environment of hard work, poverty, and no future. The training and education of the soldiers have enabled them to fully improve and develop their potential, and the pursuit of progress and tempering their will have become the entire content and fundamental gains of their military career.Groups of such people survived the fittest, and those who could be promoted to cadres became the elite of the army.These people continue to be forged in the special melting pot of the army to further sublimate and improve their ideological and cultural accomplishments.Once transferred from the army to the local area, they became the elites and pillars of all walks of life in the country.

If someone is interested in doing a comprehensive survey and statistics, you will find that among the elites who hold important power in the party and the country and are most active on all fronts today, many of them have military backgrounds, while those in the economic circles and This proportion is even higher in the cultural sector.Why?Because these people have experienced hardships since childhood, even if they become high officials, they can still endure hardships-the concept of suffering actually contains the tenacity of continuous improvement.They cherish every bit of improvement and progress they have made, so they especially expect greater improvement and progress.

And when his comrades were enviously watching Ouyang Xiangshan soar in his official career, they suddenly heard that he had sent a "Report on Application for Changing Jobs" to the Political Department!It was unexpected! From the desire to change the fate of life by joining the army, becoming an official, and getting promoted, to suddenly giving up his career and resolutely leaving the military camp, and he never did it, and kept coming to "go to sea" without any support from any unit or organization. and sank into the sea.Is Ouyang crazy?Or have political beliefs changed?

He said, "No, I haven't changed anything, and I'm not crazy." But it's not like Ouyang didn't think about it.When he later recalled the moment when he left the army in 1994, he still had that keen love for the army. His heart was extremely complicated, and he couldn't do anything when he filled out the application form for changing jobs.In the end, I wrote a heavy pen in the volunteer column—— First choice, don't organize arrangements! The second choice, or do not organize arrangements! After writing these two volunteers, Ouyang burst into tears. "I know that from the day I take off my military uniform, I will return to my previous status as a poor man who longs for a good meal..."

Unbelievably, he became the first demobilized military officer in Guangdong Province to seek his own employment! It's an incredible choice.I don't get it, and maybe the reader doesn't get it even more. Ouyang burst into tears and smiled, "But this time I chose to give up my military career and a promising career, which is qualitatively different from the practice of desperately trying to change my destiny by joining the army." "How?" I was a little confused. "Joining the army and wanting to join the party and get promoted is the only choice for most of our peasant children to change their destiny. The path I took back then was not much different from the path taken by millions of active soldiers. It's just that the suffering I suffered since childhood was different from others. It’s just more eager. This time I resolutely left my good job, took off my military uniform and went to sea, with a clear heart and a clear goal.”

"What is clear? What is the goal?" "I am clear that my choice is to develop myself more freely; the goal is: to make my family and all my relatives have money to spend, and to live a life that is not short of money." Ouyang's frankness surprised me and surprised. I was shocked by Ouyang's truth that an active military officer and the chief officer of an advanced unit of the whole army would come up with such a practical and bold idea.How many soldiers who were also in the army dare to give up when their official career is very brilliant?Dare to have such an undisguised true pursuit?Whether it is a soldier or someone else, there are not many who can do this, which also determines that among all living beings, heroes and heroes are always a minority in the end.

Ouyang is destined to become a different kind of success.But Ouyang Xin's struggle in life almost ruined all his hopes and efforts.After ten years of "going to the sea" experience, Ouyang often said a sentence that impressed me deeply: "If I knew that creating wealth would be so difficult and suffer so much before I changed jobs, I would definitely stay in the army to survive. A safe meal...but there is no medicine for regret in life. Since I chose to go on, I realized that everyone's potential is actually unlimited. and courage." August 18, 1994 was the day when Ouyang resigned as a cadre in the army battalion, took off his military uniform, and bid farewell to the barracks.Coincidentally, "8.18", business people like to choose such an auspicious day, but Ouyang is particularly sad on this day.The army usually arranges half a year to find jobs for the transferred cadres before changing jobs. Although there is enough time, in the end Ouyang still chose the "dead end" of changing jobs and not organizing and arranging work.However, even so, when the head of the army really came to announce that he was ordered to leave the army, he was still emotionally unacceptable... On the last day of the barracks, he still braved the scorching sun to go to the training ground to line up for the officers and soldiers, Boxing demonstration, the military uniform was drenched with sweat.

"It's so late, why don't you go home?" Zhou Xinyi asked Ouyang with concern after seeing him. "I'm going to stay until midnight before leaving the army. I'll stay with you and finish the last day of my military career..." Ouyang couldn't help but shed tears before he finished speaking. left the troops. Left his comrades. left his second home. Ouyang felt as if he had no organization, no backer, and was wandering alone in the vast sea.After returning home, he thought carefully, now that he has left the army, he is nothing if he does not work, not even ordinary people.In Shenzhen, an ordinary person has a car no matter what, and has tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of deposits!But he has nothing, except for a few sets of military uniforms, and only the 6,500 yuan transfer fee he just received.What about postmenstrual housing?The army can let you stay for a few months, but it is impossible to let you stay for a lifetime. There are only so many family rooms in the army. Where will the cadres mentioned first come from?

At this time, Ouyang's heart began to panic. Although his wife Zhang Qingling has joined the army and moved her household registration to Shenzhen, she has worked from a waiter to a deputy manager, but the efficiency of the unit is not good and the salary is too low.They usually don't have much savings, and now they have a daughter, and their salary is basically "moonlight".Even if there is a little surplus occasionally, it is given to parents and poor relatives in my hometown in Hubei, and these poor holes can never be filled. In fact, before leaving the army, Ouyang had thought carefully: If he continues to work in the army, even if he becomes a general-level officer, he may only be able to solve food and clothing.Fortunately, his family of three had to take care of his elderly and sick parents, his blind sister's family of four, and his elder brother and sister.Ouyang's elder brother Fafa's family suffered from tuberculosis, and his sister-in-law passed away, leaving behind three children.Most of them cannot support themselves and all need his help.

In the eyes of his family and relatives, he is an officer who eats the imperial rations, and he is in Shenzhen with endless money to spend, so he always comes to Ouyang for anything at home.If there is something wrong with the family, he has to pay for it, which is actually nothing to say, he is the best among the sisters and brothers, who will pay if he doesn't pay?Besides, people have to talk about filial piety and conscience, not to mention that they are all blood relatives to him. Think about the days when the family was wandering, telling fortunes, begging for food and starving when they were young. After all, life is much better now, and I can help It is also his responsibility to take a hand.But if it goes on like this, the Ouyang family will never have a bright future.what to do?After much deliberation, only rely on him!It's true that if he continues to work in the army, he still can't fundamentally change the poverty of Ouyang's family!So in such a helpless situation, he chose to go to sea. Rather than saying "going into the sea", it is more accurate to say "jumping into the sea". When changing jobs, Ouyang also tried to find a stable job with a relatively high income, that is to say, a job with privileges.But it never occurred to him that for an ordinary demobilized soldier, it is too difficult, too difficult to find an ideal job... One afternoon, Ouyang went to the Military Transfer Office of the Shenzhen Personnel Bureau to inquire about the whereabouts of the transferred cadres. In fact, he wanted to meet some important people and see if he could meet good luck.As a result, he went to the military transfer office and saw that there were more than 20 people blocking the entrance, including members of the People's Liberation Army and the armed police, ranging from platoon-level cadres to division-level officials, all queuing up there to inquire about their whereabouts.When it was time to get off work, there was no hair to reach Ouyang at all.The next morning, Ouyang went to the military transfer office again, and there were more transferred soldiers, more than thirty.There was a long queue again, and when it was almost 11 o'clock, a staff member came out and said that they are going to have a meeting now, please come this afternoon.In the afternoon, there were still no fewer people.It's really annoying.In fact, he knew most of the staff of the Shenzhen Military Transfer Office. When Ouyang was the deputy captain of the Seventh Detachment, the Military Transfer Office moved the office. He led two platoons to help them move for two days.With such a level of friendship, he thought it was his turn to ask them for help this time and why not take care of them?But he was completely wrong. On the third, fourth, and fifth days, Ouyang went there every day. When he saw the staff, he said, "When your office was moved, I was the one who moved it." But he didn't know anyone. He is gone, and no one wants to know him anymore.For this, he thought over and over again, and couldn't figure it out for several days. In the end, he came to the conclusion that it was up to him to find a good way out. While reaching such a conclusion, he was also thinking about a social proposition, which was fully revealed in his 2005 speech. On the afternoon of August 22, 2005, Ouyang Xiangshan, who had achieved great success, had the opportunity to be invited by Commander Cui of the Municipal Standing Committee of the Garrison District and the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee to speak for the city's demobilized cadres. Although he was slightly worried, he still spoke bluntly. This social proposition of thinking is placed before the public in the form of a speech. Leaders of the municipal party committee and municipal government, dear comrades-in-arms, hello! Today, as a veteran and an old comrade-in-arms, I will discuss with you what kind of mentality a transferred cadre should have when dealing with a second venture. At the same time, I also hope that party committees and governments at all levels will examine and understand the past and future of transferred cadres.We soldiers, during the war, exchanged our lives and blood for the honorable title of "the most lovable person in the world", which cannot be bought with gold, and defended the country and the land.In times of peace, the army no longer fights, and economic construction no longer requires us to rely on guns, but the country is still defended by us, but after a long time, people feel that soldiers are no longer "the cutest people".No, what I want to say is that they don't understand us soldiers, and we soldiers who also make various sacrifices for the country in peacetime.90% of us soldiers came from the countryside. If we could go to university, most of them would not come out to serve as soldiers.It is precisely because of their poor cultural foundation that they resolutely took on the responsibility of defending their home and country.On weekdays, wherever there is a dangerous situation, there are hard, tiring, dirty, and smelly jobs, as long as we give an order, we will complete it without hesitation!The Tangshan earthquake, the flood in the Yangtze River, and the forest fires in Northeast China, weren't we soldiers who took the lead and went through life and death?To put it a bit closer, we are soldiers everywhere, such as cleaning up the pollution of the small Shenzhen River, urban sanitation during major festivals, helping the people, and daily border guard duties; Have you ever left us "silly soldiers"?Let’s talk a little bit bigger, the Gobi Desert, islands, deserts, plateaus, and frontiers are 100% our soldiers who take root there!Let's just talk about local economic construction. If there were no soldiers like us to maintain law and order and guard against theft at critical moments, which local government and which big boss would be so practical and stable?Doesn't all of this mean that we are still the loveliest people in this country and this era? It’s really an iron-clad company with flowing soldiers, and it’s only natural to replace them with new generations. Poor soldiers, hard-working soldiers, smelly soldiers, stupid soldiers, and dead soldiers, now it’s our turn to change careers. Where do we go from here? , how to live in the second half of our life, we can't think too much, but we have to think about it.To be honest, those of us who are soldiers are not born at the right time. When we dedicated our youth and blood to the army and to the motherland, we used to be regarded as indomitable heroes, right?But once you transfer to another place, it's nothing!Take me for example, what is the old relationship with the Personnel Bureau? They should look at the past and find me a good job, right?But after I went to the Job Change Office several times, I was completely disappointed. From that moment on, I realized: After taking off the military uniform, I am nothing in the eyes of others!Many of the people who went to the employment transfer office with me were regiment-level cadres and division-level officials. Aren’t they the same as me?It was also from that moment that I knew that we demobilized soldiers are actually a burden to the local government, an indelible burden, and a burden to society!Why do you say this way?Because in the great wave of modern economy, we are not military and local dual-purpose talents in the true sense, and do not understand the work and work procedures of the various functional departments of local party and government agencies. After that, you still mean nothing.If you go to an enterprise, because you cannot independently create economic benefits, you will not be regarded as a sweet potato.Afterwards, I also thought, maybe because of this, the work of the personnel department is under too much pressure, why don't they want to help us in their hearts?But there are so many people every year, can they help them?It is conceivable how stressful this kind of work is! Here, I would like to call out again, dear comrades: The problems and difficulties we are encountering now are exactly the common problems and difficulties that a developing country will encounter. The prominent social contradictions and the increasing employment pressure are strange Got who?This is called "the sky has eyes but cannot know the cause". We must never blame fate, but we must never hate the earth. It all depends on ourselves, and it all depends on our second self-made business!What's more, the conditions for changing jobs in the army are many times better than ours at that time, at least we don't have to worry about housing in the future!Today's party committees and governments actually attach great importance to us demobilized soldiers. They pay attention to our "birthday horoscope", and even forcefully require some departments to arrange employment for us.We should feel very fortunate, and we should also thank the local government!But we should be clear about one thing: once we arrive at the post, we have to wait for a table, a seat, a ticket, a house, and a car. My understanding of the "five classes" has two meanings. ", the second is the level of "waiting", and eventually become marginalized and vulnerable groups!Dear comrades-in-arms, are you willing to "wait" like this?Are you willing to "wait" like this?As a demobilized soldier who has broken through the society, what I want to tell you is: every one of us demobilized soldiers, we must start from now to live out ourselves, to live a wonderful, valuable, and sunny life Mentality!We have to ask ourselves like the lyrics of the theme song: Dare to ask where is the way?The road is actually under our own feet!We can only learn new knowledge with the perseverance, perseverance, and perseverance that we used to have when we were in the army in order to join the party, to promote the cadres, and to lead the army well, and to fight for this developing country and ourselves again. Only by taking a breath, can we truly overcome this realistic difficulty! Ouyang spoke more and more excitedly. Next, I will report to my comrades-in-arms the situation after I went to sea in the past 11 years, and I hope to give you some useful reference, and I hope you can criticize more... After more than an hour, the house was full of applause! The "dark side" in his speech did not arouse the displeasure of the leaders. On the contrary, everyone believed that he said what the majority of demobilized cadres wanted to say but didn't say, and also understood the difficulties in the work of the municipal party committee, the municipal government, and especially the military office. , intuitively and frankly expounds an objectively existing social proposition.This is the most commendable. The original worry in Ouyang's heart was instantly eliminated, and he thanked the leader over and over again in his heart for his understanding of his speech and positive attention to this social proposition.