"Hehe, the Cultural Revolution general is too anxious." Xiang Chuanyi, the deputy commander of the 24th Army, broke the deadlock with a smile, and Xiang Chuanyi had a mustache that was very popular in the Beiyang period, and when he laughed, his two beards shook and shook.

Zhuang Jihua seemed to have just woken up, he smiled, and said with a little embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm too anxious." After a pause, he defended to Liu Wenhui: "It's not that I'm too anxious, but I can't help it, the experts from Beiping, Shanghai, and Nanjing are first-class professionally, but the development of Sichuan resources is a systematic project, and professional knowledge alone is not enough, and there must be people who are familiar with the local situation to coordinate all aspects." Mr. Ren is the best candidate for this. ”

Systems engineering is a very novel term, people here have never heard of it, Liu Wenhui smiled and asked: "Cultural Revolution, really worthy of being a person who has seen the world, a set of new terms, what does this system engineering mean?" ”

"Oh, how do you say that?" Zhuang Jihua thought for a while and said: "Taking the development of Sichuan as an example, it is necessary to explore resources, transportation, refining, etc., and each link involves many problems, such as transportation, involving road traffic, building roads, it involves exploration routes, recruiting people, and once you want to recruit people, you have to have a relationship with the local people, so all these things are integrated into a system, which is called system engineering in foreign academic circles." ”

Zhuang Jihua took the wine glass and drank it all, then put down the glass and continued: "The development of Sichuan resources is very complicated, there are many ethnic groups in Xikang, Tibetan, Yi, Miao, the customs and religious beliefs of various ethnic groups are completely different, there is no one who knows them, at least the development of Xikang will not be smooth." ”

Liu Wenhui understood now, he nodded and said: "The Cultural Revolution is the worry, the most headache in Xikang is these ethnic minorities, they have conflicts with us, and they often fight against each other internally, so you must be very careful when you go to their territory." ”

Zhuang Jihua's heart couldn't help but tighten, and Liu Wenhui immediately smiled and said: "But the Cultural Revolution, you don't have to worry, I'll say hello to the below, the exploration team is going to enter the Tibetan area, the Yi area, and the Miao area, and I will send someone to be responsible for contacting it." ”

"Thank you so much, Chairman Liu." Zhuang Jihua said very gratefully, and then raised his glass: "A glass to Chairman Liu." ”

"You're welcome, you're welcome, it's just a gesture." After putting down the wine glass, Liu Wenhui waved his hand disappreciably: "However, Mr. Ren can't come to you for the time being, I still need him to help me stabilize the Kang-Tibet border." ”

Zhuang Jihua looked at Liu Wenhui with some surprise, Liu Wenhui sighed and said: "That [***] lama is really fucking going to pick a time to cause trouble, Mr. Ren's father-in-law is a Tusi in the Xikang area, and he is the best person to coordinate this matter." ”

"That hasn't been settled yet?" The lama sent troops to Xikang to provoke the conflict between Kang and Tibet, which has been going on for two years.

"Yes, if we have to put all Tibetan areas into Tibetan provinces, the British have begun to intervene." Liu Wenhui sighed, this Tibetan area will be fully classified into Tibetan Province, and there will not be much left in this Xikang.

"It seems that I can only hope that people will sigh." Zhuang Jihua smiled mockingly, and then said to Ren Naiqiang: "Mr. Ren, the door of the Resources Committee is open for Mr. at any time, and as soon as the matter of Xikang is over, please consider us coming here." ”

"General Zhuang is very loving, and the contemptible people are very grateful, after the Xikang incident is over, I will definitely consider it." Ren Naiqiang said with emotion that the purpose of going to Xikang is to develop Xikang, and now Zhuang Jihua wants to develop Xikang, of course, it is in line with his wishes, and what makes him even more grateful is that Zhuang Jihua is so important to him.

"By the way, I still have something to ask," Zhuang Jihua turned to Liu Wenhui and said, "I heard that for more than ten years, Sichuan Zhengaxe has explored the line of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, but I don't know if these materials are still there." ”

"I don't know, what, are you going to build this road?" Liu Wenhui looked at him in surprise.

"Yes," Zhuang Jihua nodded: "To be honest, the traffic in Sichuan is too poor, let's just say the Chengdu-Chongqing Highway, it seems to be open to traffic, but if you look at the road, it is full of potholes, more than 300 kilometers of road, and I walked for three days." Along the way, I passed hundreds of tax cards, God, I want to transport a car of goods from Chengdu to Yucheng, not only the time is delayed, but the tax paid exceeds the total value of the goods, so I want to have a railway. The train won't stop to pay your taxes, and it's fast, overnight. ”

"General Zhuang," Liu Wenhui and the others didn't speak, but Ren Naiqiang spoke first: "I must toast you," he said excitedly: "We Sichuan people have been looking forward to this road for decades, from the past to the present, if you can really repair this road, the people of Sichuan will definitely give you a monument." ”

"Cultural Revolution, how are you going to build this road?" Leng Yindong asked in confusion.

"I haven't figured out how to repair it," Zhuang Jihua said calmly: "However, this road must be repaired," Zhuang Jihua raised his eyes to look at them, and saw that their faces showed a sudden look, and understood, they thought they were just talking casually, so they smiled: "To build a railway, a large number of rails are needed, but there is no steel mill in Sichuan, so there is a problem, whether to build a steel mill or buy rails from outside, this matter is a major problem, and there are locomotives, and locomotive repair shops, as well as drivers, repairmen, etc." These are all questions that must be considered. The railroad expert can tell me the line of the railway and how to build the railway, and the steel expert can tell me how to build the steel mill, but it is up to me to evaluate the relationship between the steel mill and the railway. ”

"I see." Liu Wenhui suddenly realized: "Is this also systems engineering?" ”

"Yes, what Chairman Liu said is," Zhuang Jihua said with admiration: "In fact, building a railway is not just as simple as a road, but also has to consider its economic value, a road can drive the economic development of all places along the line, so how to repair, which line to take, to consider all aspects of factors, and strive to obtain the maximum value with the minimum investment." ”

"Obey, the old man is satisfied," Liu Wenhui laughed and said: "Cultural Revolution, it seems that you not only led the troops to fight well, but also engaged in construction. Cultural Revolution, you can rest assured, as long as you build a road, I will support it unconditionally, and the people of Sichuan have been looking forward to this road for too long. ”

"Chairman Liu is right," Zeng Kuoqing didn't interject, but whispered and laughed with Liu Wenhui's chief of staff, Peng Can, when he spoke: "The Cultural Revolution is famous in schools for having many ideas and methods. In addition to the Chengdu-Chongqing railway, he also wants to build the Kunming railway, and there are also railways to Xi'an, Wuhan, and Guizhou. ”

"Hehe, that's a good dare, so many roads will be repaired, and this Shu Road will not be difficult." Xiang Chuanyi smiled.

Zhuang Jihua shook his head and smiled: "Brother Enlargement always likes to laugh, how much money does it cost to build so many roads, does the political axe have so much money?" Not at all, let alone complete cultivation, even if it is one, the principal will have to criticize me like a pig's head. ”

Everyone laughed, originally they didn't take Zeng Guangqing's words seriously, this road has not yet been settled, and those roads are even more impossible.

"Well, but I remembered that the original information should have been placed in the Civil Affairs Department, and Tian Songyao was the director." Liu Wenhui said with a restrained smile.

Zhuang Jihua nodded understandingly: "Okay, I'll go look for him tomorrow, but you can also help find him." ”

After Liu Wenhui said goodbye to Zhuang Jihua and Zeng Guangqing and returned to the office, he wrapped his arms around his arms, supported his chin, and pondered in the room.

"Commander, I think this Zhuang Jihua came to Sichuan to develop Sichuan." Peng Can said.

"What do you say?" Liu Wenhui looked up at Xiang Chuanyi and Leng Yindong.

"I think it's similar, you can see his attitude towards Ren Naiqiang, if he didn't really come to develop, he would never have behaved like that." Leng Yindong said.

"I also see it this way, it doesn't look like it's pretending, and the report from Yucheng says that most of the people who came with him were students and experts, although there were some soldiers, but some of them set off with the exploration team, and some of them set off with the survey team. This posture does not look like it is here to plot against Sichuan. Xiang Chuanyi also said.

Liu Wenhui combed the beard on his lips with his fingers, pondered for a moment and said: "I can't make such a judgment yet, this Zhuang Cultural Revolution is both civil and military, but there is another possibility, Chiang Kai-shek asked him to contact my nephew, Deng Monkey, and Tian Donggua, so we still can't take it lightly, and we still have to closely monitor his actions in Chengdu, and pay special attention to the reactions of Deng Monkey and Tian Donggua." ”

Zeng Kuoqing and Zhuang Jihua returned to the provincial party headquarters, and as soon as they entered the office, Zeng Kuoqing asked: "Cultural Revolution, what do you think?" Can you give me a thorough understanding? ”

Zhuang Jihua said while taking off his coat: "Brother Enlargement, don't worry, it's still in the fire reconnaissance stage, I don't have a complete plan yet, I only have a vague idea." ”

"Don't let me guess the riddle, otherwise I don't know how to cooperate with you, just like today, in Liu Wenhui's place, I don't know what to do." Zeng Guangqing was a little anxious.

Zhuang Jihua stopped what he was doing, he thought about Zeng Guangqing's words were not unreasonable, he should tell him his thoughts, and after he left in a few days, the work in Chengdu would be carried out by him.

Zhuang Jihua turned around and closed the door, and then said to Zeng Kuoqing: "I don't have a detailed plan yet, only a vague idea. Zhuang Jihua walked up to Zeng Kuoqing and whispered: "My idea is to let Liu Xiang lose first and then win, and let Liu Xiang hand over Yucheng to me by himself." ”

Zeng Kuoqing thought for a while and said: "Cultural Revolution, I want to remind you that these warlords in Sichuan are different from our Northern Expedition, they generally do not rush to exterminate. Once defeated, declare the wilderness, or ask someone to make peace, and it will be over, as has been the case in the previous wars. This Liu Xiang wants to be like this.... ”

"I'm not worried about this," Zhuang Jihua shook his head and said: "Liu Wenhui is determined to unify Sichuan this time, you see the tone of his speech, it's just that I'm worried that he can't win, he has too many enemies, Liu Xiang is cunning and abnormal, and he has the upper hand in terms of strength, so to deal with Liu Wenhui, it is inevitable to contact other forces, Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao are bound to contact; What we need to solve is to let Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao participate in the war when we need them, let them follow our baton, and in addition, we need to control part of Liu Wenhui's internal forces, simply put, to buy his subordinates, let them play a role at the critical moment, and create conditions for Liu Xiang's victory. ”

"The difficulty of the whole thing is how to convince them that they can get the most out of working with us, and then they will be willing to cooperate with us." Zhuang Jihua said depressedly that this is his biggest problem.

(To be continued)