Chapter 16 Great changes in the country
Jiang Weiguo mistakenly thought that only he had a secret meeting with Zhuo Fei before leaving, but in fact, it was Zhou Enlai who had a secret meeting with Zhuo Fei, and similarly, Zhou Enlai also received a document forwarded to Mao Zedong. After reading the information that Zhou Enlai brought back, Mao Zedong also discussed some of the contents of the information with Zhou Enlai, how could Mao Zedong, who has superb military command skills, not see the importance of this information, but he still can't fully believe Zhuo Fei.
Zhuo Fei has already made his attitude clear, once the civil war breaks out, the umbrella company will all go south to Australia. If we can sit down and cooperate sincerely with the KMT, the umbrella company will continue to unconditionally support the coalition government, whether it is training the army or providing equipment. Xu was aware of Mao Zedong's hesitation, Zhou Enlai informed Mao Zedong of Zhuo Fei's attitude, although this trip to Western Australia was not smooth, but Zhou Enlai's impression of Zhuo Fei has always been very good.
"I'm afraid that Lao Chiang is unwilling to coexist peacefully with us now, the military friction in Shandong is getting worse and worse, and there is already an uncontrollable momentum, so it is possible that we will sit back and watch the Kuomintang troops have been targeting our troops in Shandong." Mao Zedong understood the meaning of Zhou Enlai's words, but the current tense situation in the country made it difficult for him to make a decision. No one wants to have a civil war, but the world is unpredictable, and who knows what will happen tomorrow.
Just when Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai were hesitating, Chiang Kai-shek took the initiative to throw an olive branch, and after careful consideration, Chiang Kai-shek, who had always adhered to the wishes of the premier, decided to cooperate with the CCP again. Chiang Kai-shek's olive branch came so suddenly that the CCP leaders did not expect that the troops in the Kuomintang-controlled areas had received orders not to be hostile to the CCP troops, and those Kuomintang troops who had had had friction with the CCP troops also strictly abided by the military order and took the initiative to withdraw from the military friction areas.
"You said that Zhu Huaibing's troops have retreated? This bastard wants to slip away when he takes advantage. Peng Dehuai, who was assembling troops to prepare to deal with the next wave of friction among the national army, was also confused, and Zhu Huaibing's division of the national army, which was still in tat-for-tat confrontation with his own troops yesterday, suddenly withdrew, such a strange situation made it difficult for Peng Dehuai to make a decision for a while, and some people even suggested that this was not a conspiracy of the national army.
No matter how the CCP paid attention to it, Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Chongqing, immediately summoned the Song, Kong, and Chen families to his villa on the south bank for a small gathering. Because of Chiang Kai-shek's coming to power, the four major families of the Republic of China have been called the four major families of the Republic of China, and there are four major families in many money-making industries in China, among which the most greedy is the Kong family, and the Kong family has even put its hand into the arms procurement of the national army.
After reading the information provided by Zhuo Fei, Chiang Kai-shek deeply realized the great influence of the family on China, and this influence was indeed the opposite. "Some people say that Jiang Song Kongchen is one of the four major families in China, and I didn't believe it at first, but I just sent the people below to investigate a little, and it turned out that this statement does not seem to be wrong, and the actual situation is far more serious than the rumors." In front of the other three principals, Chiang Kai-shek did not do much foreshadowing, but went straight to the point, and the neatly bound materials were also sent to the hands of others.
"I don't want to know what you've done in the past, I'm just going to ask you one question now, what do you want China to become? Is it a war-torn China? Or a vibrant China? "Chiang Kai-shek's question seemed a little abrupt at this time, but when the others opened the materials on the table according to Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, everyone's faces immediately changed greatly." Upward and downward effects, maybe even you don't think about what kind of virtue those who are attached to your hands are, right? Let's take a good look at it. ”
"I don't know what kind of China you want, I hope that in the future, China will no longer have to bear the oppression of foreigners, that the Chinese in the future will be able to live in a country without war, and that the Chinese in the future will be able to proudly claim to the world that they are Chinese, instead of quietly emigrating abroad after earning money." Chiang Kai-shek tapped his fingers on the table as he secretly noticed the expressions of the other three principals.
"You have earned enough money for your descendants to live a lifetime without doing anything, so I ask you now what you want China to be like in the future. If you are willing to witness China's future with me, then put an end to your unscrupulous efforts to make money as soon as possible and do something for China in a down-to-earth manner. If you can't let go of the greed in your hearts, then I will allow you to leave China, but everything here will not be your business, and you will not even be able to return to China in my lifetime. ”
"What about our assets in the country? For a while, those assets could not be sold. "The people of the Confucian family have always been very realistic, and they mistakenly think that Chiang Kai-shek's move is to rob them of their family business. The people of the Confucian family took the lead, and the people of the Song family and the Chen family also changed from a wait-and-see state to a eager to try, and the three families, who were deeply influenced by Western forces, were even pondering whether to coerce Chiang Kai-shek into the wilderness, so as to raise a puppet close to the family, so that their family could continue to make money from the country.
"It's not a difficult task, and the South Asia Bank will be sending more than 10 tons of gold north in the near future, which is enough to buy all three of your properties in China." Chiang Kai-shek was not angry, but showed a relieved expression, with Zhuo Fei's support, even if the other three were in trouble at the same time, it would not be difficult to buy their assets in China. With the 10 tons of gold taken out by the South Asia Bank, the other three families really had nothing to say, after leaving the South Shore Villa, the three families got together again to discuss, the Song family left first, and they had too much to do with the Jiang family, and they had already made up their minds to stay in China.
This secret conversation between the four major families was not hidden from the ears and eyes of those who had a heart in Chongqing, and when everyone thought that a bloody storm was coming, no one would have thought that the final outcome would be the silent submission of the other three families. Although the Confucian family was unwilling to accept the reality, the simultaneous defection of the Song family and the Chen family made the Chen family unsupportable, and finally had to grit their teeth and accept the conditions offered by Chiang Kai-shek.
At the same time, Jiang Weiguo, who had met with Zhuo Fei, quietly went to Shanghai to serve as the commander of the Shanghai garrison on Chiang Kai-shek's secret order, and cooperated with his eldest brother Chiang Ching-kuo to rectify the economy in Shanghai. Hoarding materials to raise prices to make profits, this is the specialty of many Shanghai businessmen after 1937, but with the arrival of the two Jiang brothers, the first thing to be stabilized is the price of grain, because of the cooperation of the independent army, more than half of the grain from the five South Asian countries has been transported into China.
Cracking down on illegal traders, abolishing and punishing the black market, and rectifying the phenomenon of corruption in government departments, especially the phenomena of corruption, the Chiang brothers, who relied on thunderous means to exercise military control over Shanghai, seized all the illegal traders in Shanghai in just half a month. As for the students and citizens who were instigated by the unscrupulous traders, the poor people of Shanghai, who had been organized by the army, responded with the fact that the strike and march instigated by the unscrupulous traders lasted only one morning and collapsed.
"Shanghai is just our first step, there are more cities waiting for us in the future, we are the future of China, for the future of China, please work with me." Chiang Ching-kuo, the new Minister of Supervision, has never been more energetic, and in the auditorium sat 3,000 students from various schools under the Ministry of Supervision, and these 3,000 students were also soldiers of the newly formed Student Army, and Chiang Ching-kuo was not only the minister of the Ministry of Supervision, but also the first commander of the Student Army.
At the same time, all units of the national army received orders for reorganization, and the Ministry of Military Affairs selected a number of officers from the new army to serve as reintegration instructors. The Kuomintang showed such a strange scene, which the Chinese communists did not expect, especially the Kuomintang intelligence department also canceled the investigation and suppression activities against the underground party of the Chinese Communist Party, which made the CCP's top brass even more unclear about the situation.
It was not until the Chiang brothers' Shanghai purge came to an end, when the student army entered Zhejiang and Jiangsu to rectify the officialdom, and when Chiang Weiguo appeared in Shaanxi on Chiang Kai-shek's secret order, that the CCP high-level leaders understood Chiang Kai-shek's true intentions. "Before I arrived, my father made it clear that the family had built a manor house in Australia as a retirement home. Before he retires, his father wants to see a new China, and before he retires, he hopes to work hand in hand with your party to build a real China. ”
Chiang Weiguo did not stay in Shaanxi for too long, but his secret visit to Shaanxi this time was of great significance, and after intense deliberation and consideration, the top level of the Chinese Communist Party made the decision to cooperate sincerely with the Kuomintang, and at the same time ordered all departments of the Chinese Communist Party to carry out a new round of reorganization in accordance with the method of the national army. After a new round of reorganization, the number of troops controlled by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has dropped to less than one million, but more than 80 percent of these million soldiers are veterans.
The Umbrella Company's arsenal base in Ruili was not transferred south with the Jews, but was handed over to the student army free of charge, and Zhuo Fei also left a group of skilled Jewish technicians to the student army. As long as there is sufficient material support, the Ruili Ordnance Base will be able to provide a steady stream of new weapons and equipment for the Chinese army, and Zhuo Fei believes that a large number of Chinese troops equipped with new weapons and equipment will definitely leave a deep impression on the Japanese army that has made a comeback.