After receiving Chen Yu's orders, Liu Long and his group quickly sprang into action.
They returned to their transport squadron overnight, called a meeting with their squad leaders, and conveyed the decision to increase their daily workload.
The squadron leaders naturally resisted this decision.
For example, on Li Cheng's side of the five-man group, as soon as he announced his decision, a middle-aged man said sarcastically, "Captain Liu, a new broom sweeps clean, this isn't how you do things, is it? What? You just ate the blood bun of our base hero Li Liguo, and now you're trying to exploit us? You know how you got your position as captain. If our base hero Li Liguo hadn't been seriously injured and sacrificed, would you ordinary transport workers have gotten a share of the credit? I know you're new and eager to show off, but you think you can gain credit by increasing our workload? Humph! Sorry, I'm not playing along!"
The middle-aged man was the former squadron leader of this squadron, named Jiang Yong. He was a good squadron leader who only needed to assign tasks to the squads below him and then count the task completion status of each squad, and he could get enough food to fill his stomach every day.
However, now, precisely because the higher-ups want to promote Li Cheng, he has become the unlucky one who has to make way for him. He has gone from being a squad leader sitting in the base to a squad leader, and every day he has to go out on field missions, moving supplies with the transport team in the freezing cold. Moreover, the food he receives is more than half less than before.
This made him quite resentful of Li Cheng. Although it was the decision of the higher-ups to remove him, if Li Cheng hadn't been promoted, he would have been doing a good job, so why would the higher-ups have taken action against him?
He had no objection to the decision above, nor did he dare to.
But for Li Cheng, who was once at the bottom of the base but has now become his superior, he was filled with resentment and discontent.
When Li Cheng saw that Jiang Yong was so direct and merciless in his criticism, he was first taken aback and then felt a little uneasy.
However, he quickly remembered what Chen Yu had told him, so he straightened his chest and said coldly, "Jiang Yong, how dare you! Not only do you question my decision, but you also slander your superiors at will. You are challenging the base's discipline! You are undermining the base's unity, and even more so, you are destroying the base's noble mission of continuing the human race!"
“You…” Jiang Yong’s face turned ashen upon hearing this. In his eyes, even though Li Cheng had now become the squad leader, he was still just a lowly servant from the bottom of society, and was considered lowly. Jiang Yong, on the other hand, had been the squad leader for more than half a year and was of a higher status than Li Cheng.
At least, that's what he thinks.
Yet this very person, whom he considered a lucky but lowly individual, dared to speak to him like that and even slapped a series of accusations on him—something he used to call out!
In the past, when he dealt with those disobedient grassroots porters, he used the same righteous and indignant language, using the base's discipline, unity, and the mission of the human race to suppress them, forcing them to submit to his authority.
But now, Li Cheng has actually pinned these huge accusations on him.
It has to be said that these accusations were quite damaging, leaving Jiang Yong somewhat at a loss. He opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't find the right words to refute them.
"Hmph!" Li Cheng sneered. "What has allowed you to survive in this extremely cold apocalypse until now? It's the protection of the Fireseed Base, the wise leadership of our great leader, and the hard work and unity of each and every one of us. You enjoy the blessings of the base, yet you have no gratitude whatsoever. You're unhappy if you're asked to do a little extra work? Every day, you act like doing a little work is your life, and then you complain about not having enough to eat! Don't you know why you're not getting enough to eat? If everyone in the base were as lazy and gluttonous as you, I think our Fireseed Base would be doomed sooner or later! Our Fireseed Base exists to preserve the spark of human civilization, not for you to enjoy yourself! Remember, the work the base is asking you to do now is not for yourselves, not for me, and not even to appease the base's leaders, but for your descendants, for humanity to overcome this natural disaster and thrive again on this land!"
Li Cheng's words were powerful and resonant, each word striking the hearts of the crowd like a heavy hammer.
The team leaders were stunned by what he said, and for a moment they actually felt that it made a lot of sense, and they even felt a little guilty.
However, while Li Cheng's words could fool the other squad leaders, they couldn't fool Jiang Yong, who had once served as a company commander. As a former base manager, although he was only a junior manager, he had enjoyed some minor privileges.
Li Cheng was very familiar with these rhetoric techniques.
However, given the current situation, he dared not refute it. After all, if he went against Li Cheng now, it would not only be a conflict with Li Cheng, but a challenge to the authority and order of the entire base.
Although he didn't say it, his eyes betrayed him. Although he concealed it well, Li Cheng still keenly caught the resentment and malice flashing in his eyes.
Li Cheng showed no mercy and slapped Jiang Yong across the face.
This slap, somewhat fueled by personal grudges, sent the scarf she was wearing flying.
Jiang Yong was stunned by Li Cheng's slap. His expression froze, his eyes widened, and he seemed unable to believe what was happening. The air around them seemed to freeze. The other squad leaders were also speechless with shock. The meeting room was deathly silent.
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