"Hello Minister Kong!"

"Hello Mr. Zhou!"

At the farewell party of the special envoy, Zhou Hexuan and Kong Xiangxi shook hands warmly, and the two were full of smiles, and there was no contradiction at all.

There are 12 official members of the mission, Kong Xiangxi as special envoy, Chen Shaokuan and Zhou Hexuan as deputy envoys, Weng Wenhao as secretary general, and the rest are officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Of course, the actual number of people traveling must be more than these, Kong Xiangxi's wife, eldest daughter, and second son will go, plus more than 30 reporters and attachés.

"Hello, Mr. Zhou!" Minister of the Navy Chen Shaokuan took the initiative to come over to say hello.

Zhou Hexuan hurriedly shook hands and said with a smile: "Minister Chen, I heard that we are going to make a warship?" ”

Chen Shaokuan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Originally, I was going to take a warship, but it has been canceled, and the contact between the two countries was not done well." ”

There are too many long-distance voyages involving warships, and they have to be replenished along the way, and they may also pass through the territorial waters of other countries. If two or three countries refuse to cooperate, the warship's voyage will become a joke, and China obviously does not have such a big international face at this time.

Zhou Hexuan comforted: "The country is poor and weak, it can only be like this, and one day it will get better, and then the Chinese Navy can go to any sea area in the world." ”

"I hope I can't see it anyway." Chen Shaokuan's tone was cheerful.

This kind of thing obviously should not come from the mouth of the Minister of the Navy, and even if he thinks so in his heart, he can't say it directly. It can be seen that Chen Shaokuan is really confused and lost, and he can't see the future of the Chinese Navy at all, and he doesn't even bother to say a few words.

Just a few years ago, Chen Shaokuan was still full of ambition to build a "world-leading" navy, but the hammer of reality smashed his head.

First of all, there is an internal problem in the navy, and the factional struggle is serious, not to mention Chen Shaokuan, even Chang Kaishen has no choice.

By 1937, there were four major factions in the Chinese Navy -

First, the Fujian faction headed by Chen Shaokuan accounted for two-thirds of the total navy. These Fujian-based officers were arrogant, corrupt, and intertwined. Chen Shaokuan once got tired of seeing it, and stipulated that when the captain of a ship went to study at the naval academy, he could only bring less than 20 percent of the warships under his jurisdiction to spend money on public activities. As a result, more than 20 captains rebelled and sued Lao Jiang, saying that Chen Shaokuan should not hire a Japanese as a teacher, so angry that Chen Shaokuan resigned directly.

Second, it is the Northeast Department under Zhang Xueliang, which has strong combat effectiveness and weaponry. The Northeast Navy has been taking refuge in the central government for several years, but it is not obedient at all, treating Chen Shaokuan's orders as a fart, and only obeying the commands of Chang Kaishen and Zhang Xueliang.

Third, the so-called Guangdong system, most of which were annexed to the central government after the pacification of the two Guangzhous. The Guangdong Navy is dominated by small ships, and in Chen Shaokuan's view, it is just a group of dirt buns, and it is still a stubborn dirt bun, and he doesn't take the Admiralty seriously at all.

Fourth, it is the electric thunder department that rose during the Anti-Japanese War, which came from the electric thunder school founded by Lao Jiang - the Whampoa Military Academy in the Navy. At this time, the lightning department was still very immature, and the students who had just graduated could only be middle- and low-level officers. But these are the old Jiang Yan, representing the future of the navy, and they can't be in the same pot as Chen Shaokuan.

Under such a factional situation, Chen Shaokuan was completely unable to exert his hands and feet, and even he himself was forced to get involved in the factional struggle. As the leader of the Fujian faction, Chen Shaokuan needs to use the Fujian faction as a bargaining chip to suppress other factions to make them obedient. The Fujian officers used this as a bargaining chip to put pressure on Chen Shaokuan and ask for more benefits and benefits. At the same time, the Fujian, Northeastern, and Guangdong navies were deeply afraid of the young and sharp electric lightning system, and the three factions joined forces very tacitly to suppress the development of electric lightning officers.

It is normal for there to be factions in the navy, but it is a bit too much for factional struggles to affect the normal development of the navy.

In the long run, Chen Shaokuan himself has become a good faction, and after he led the navy to revolt and defect to the Communist Party, he is still playing the old trick of "non-Fujian people are not allowed to be captains".

Lao Jiang was also unaccustomed to the chaos of the navy, so he frantically developed and cultivated newcomers to the electric and thunder system. Until the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Northeast, Fujian and Guangdong departments suffered heavy losses in the battle, and Lao Chiang took the opportunity to change the blood of the navy, and one by one young officers of the electric mine department quickly took office.

In addition to factional struggles, the Chinese navy is more serious about the lack of military spending. The navy is a branch of the military that burns money, and it is a fart to develop without money, and where the Northern Expedition was victorious, Lao Jiang shouted the slogan of building a first-class navy, and as a result, he has not changed a few new ships in the past ten years.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, not to mention that Chen Shaokuan is not a good woman, he is just a decent housewife.

Here, the author reminds me of a joke about the two legendary arms of the 20th century: the Soviet Navy went ashore and the Chinese Army went to sea.

Well, we shouldn't joke with the PLA Navy seniors......

In addition to the special envoys, more than 200 people attended the meeting, including Song Meiling, Song Ailing, Song Ziwen, He Yingqin, Wang Zhengting, and Xu Shiying. Song Ziwen and Wang Zhengting are old acquaintances, and they came over to say hello to Zhou Hexuan, and Song Meiling also joined the chat after a while.

Finally, the farewell party officially began, and Chang Kaishen took the stage to deliver a speech. After talking a lot of nonsense, he said: "Special Envoy Kong has done his best for the country over the years, and has made meritorious contributions in all aspects of industry, finance and economy, especially in financial achievements, and is the first since the Republic of China. ”

Hearing Chang Kaishen praise Kong Xiangxi and praise him as the first person to make financial achievements since the Republic of China, Zhou Hexuan couldn't help but turn his head to look at Song Ziwen.

I saw Song Ziwen sneering on his face, and the sarcasm on his face was not concealed at all.

Chang Kaishen also said: "I also want to make a special mention of Deputy Envoy Zhou, who is famous at home and abroad, and has done his best to Sichuan disaster relief, and is a rare talent for the Republic of China. In addition, Deputy Envoy Zhou is also a close friend of King George VI of the United Kingdom, and this time to participate in the coronation of the British King, Deputy Envoy Zhou needs to make more efforts to let China and Britain form a deep international friendship. ”

At the end of the speech, there was another ceremony for the awarding of medals and certificates of appointment, and all official members of the Special Mission were to receive a certificate of appointment and medals.

Originally, the medal awarded this time was a commemorative medal, just an ordinary special medal.

After Kong Xiangxi got the medal, he felt very bored, so he quietly found Lao Jiang to ask for Lao Jiang to award him the highest civilian medal, so that he could wear it to London to increase the dignity of the envoy. Lao Jiang said to He Lian, the director of the administrative department of the Executive Yuan, who was sitting next to him: "Where is the chief, you can take care of it and award Dr. Kong a medal." Caiyu, Qingyun or Zhongshan Zhang can be, and it should be of the highest level. ”

Any medal awarded by the Nanjing Nationalist Government needs to be proposed and approved at a meeting of the Executive Yuan, and then sent to Chairman Lin Sen, who will personally issue it by Lin Sen, the head of state, or by Lin Sen sending special personnel to issue it.

But Chang Kaishen gave an order, and He Lian had to notify the relevant departments overnight to hand over the medal to Kong Xiangxi before the mission left.

Like what Zhou Hexuan got before, Kong Xiangxi got the first-class Qingyun Chapter this time. It's just that one was issued by Lao Jiang on his own initiative, and the other was asked by Lao Jiang himself.

Zhou Hexuan finally saw the style of the old rich man in Shanxi, Kong Xiangxi not only asked Lao Jiang for medals, but also visited the UK with his children, but also looked for the quota for Lao Jiang at the farewell party (Song Ailing has a quota as the wife of the special envoy), the reason is: to open the eyes of juniors.

It's nothing to take her daughter abroad, if Kong Xiangxi pays for it himself, he can go with the boat. But he wants to get an official quota for the group, and he spends public money on all expenses, which is simply impossible to look at.

A finance minister and a big capitalist actually saves money for his children to go abroad, the richer he is, the more he picks the door!

For this kind of behavior, Song Ziwen found Zhou Hexuan after the meeting to complain, ridiculing Kong Xiangxi as "China's contemporary Grand Terrace".

Zhou Hexuan laughed and walked out of the venue with Song Ziwen.

The Yangtze Hotel is in Baoshan Street, and the Song Ziwen Mansion is in Jilong Mountain, both of which are not far from each other, both of which are located in Xuanwu District.

Seeing Song Ziwen invite Zhou Hexuan into the car, the members of the Black Dragon Society who were in charge of keeping an eye were dumbfounded. Due to the blind black light, they didn't see whose car Zhou Hexuan got into at all, and they didn't know whether to implement the plan for a while.

The leader of the Black Dragon Society was afraid of the trouble, so he had to change the time of the assassination and decided to wait until tomorrow morning.

What the hell is this playing?

The plan changed again and again, causing the assassins to squat on the side of the street and blow cold air for several hours, and when they returned home at night, they directly caught a cold and fever.