The domestic situation made Chiang Kai-shek anxious, and the Red Army in Jiangxi withdrew from Nanfeng, attracting the Red Army to encircle and annihilate it under the city of Nanfeng. After thwarting the offensive of the Sichuan army, the Red Army in Sichuan turned its army to the north and launched the offensive in southern Shaanxi, and Hu Zongnan's troops in southern Shaanxi struggled to meet it; After the army launched an attack, the Northeast Army's 80,000 horses in Rehe were crushed at the touch of a button, and most of the cities in Rehe, such as Chifeng and Chengde, were lost within half a month, and the army easily approached the line of the Great Wall.

A year ago, when Zhuang Jihua predicted to Chiang Kai-shek that the army would soon attack Guannei, Chiang Kai-shek, although he did not believe it, still ordered Zhang Xueliang to strengthen the defense of Rehe, but in just half a month, Rehe was lost, which shocked him very much.

Chiang Kai-shek believed that if he had ordered the Northeast Army to resist, the army would never have occupied the three eastern provinces so easily, but Rehe had to resist, but the defeat was still so fast.

The defeat in Rehe intensified the anti-Japanese salvation movement in the country, with students from all over the country taking to the streets first, and their protests won widespread sympathy from all walks of life, while the repression made the political axe lose face. Internal and external troubles, all of which made Chiang Kai-shek irritable.

"Cultural Revolution, your judgment of the Yue army is correct," it was only in front of Zhuang Jihua that Chiang Kai-shek showed this frustration: "What do you say they are going to do next?" What should we do? ”

Zhuang Jihua was a little surprised, he thought that Chiang Kai-shek was going to ask him about the situation in Sichuan, such as the Sanming Cooking Youth League, the Development Company, and even the Red Army in northern Sichuan, but he didn't expect to ask about the situation in the north first.

Zhuang Jihua cleared his mind and was silent for a long time before he said: "The students believe that the purpose of this attack is to secure the northeast, deter the national political axe, and crack down on the domestic anti-Japanese movement, so the students judge that the actions of the Yue army are tactical, not strategic, and prepare for the next full-scale invasion of China." ”

"As for our response. Rehe's easy success will inevitably provoke the attack of the Yue army, so they will definitely attack the Guannai, so they should immediately arrange the Great Wall defense line, mobilize the Central Army, the 29th Army, and the Jin Army to go to the Great Wall, and then ,.... the army outside the pass, and then " Zhuang Jihua was silent before he said with difficulty: "The students think that they can make peace, the reason is that we must buy time to prepare for war." ”

If this word was to be spread, he would definitely be scolded as a traitor, but reason told him that it was not yet the time for all-out war, and Chiang Kai-shek would not start a full-scale war.

"Well, make peace," Chiang Kai-shek nodded, Zhuang Jihua's countermeasures coincided with his thoughts: "You are right, we are not ready, the total strength is 200,000, and there are 80,000 in Rehe, but we have only been fighting for half a month, this is a full-scale war, and it can be fought for a few days." ”

Chiang Kai-shek walked back and forth in the house in great annoyance, and he said with some excitement: "What is the war, steel, we don't even have 1% of the book, machine guns, artillery. It is said that there are more divisions and regiments in the army than in one of our group armies, not to mention the navy and air force. I think they have ulterior motives! ”

Zhuang Jihua looked at Chiang Kai-shek inexplicably, not knowing who he was referring to, and the angry Chiang Kai-shek blushed and scolded angrily: "Don't I want to fight?" I am willing to bear the infamy of this traitor! Niang Xipi! ”

"The principal is angry," Zhuang Jihua said after Chiang Kai-shek's anger subsided for a while, "the problem is that after the peace talks, we must hurry up, because there is no next chance for peace talks." ”

Chiang Kai-shek spat heavily, he is the supreme leader of China today, the loss of the three eastern provinces, the Songhu armistice agreement, and..., everything has to be held responsible, he wants to fight, but he can't, his chest is like pressing a heavy stone, which makes him a little breathless.

"The students judged that even if there were peace talks, the army would ask for a sky-high price, and they would definitely enter the customs, and Beiping and Tianjin would face a direct threat from the army, and if war broke out again, what I wanted was the Pingjin area, and then we would have no way out." Zhuang Jihua said lightly: "So the students think that we must hurry up, and the students suggest that we can start from eight aspects, one of which is to build a military industry, which I will do in Sichuan; Second, to rectify the army, at present the most elite of the domestic army is the German armament division, but the number of German armament divisions is too small, and the students believe that at least 100 more German armament divisions need to be reorganized, and at least 20 German armament divisions that are fully equipped with the vitality of the German army need to be reorganized within five years; Third, to rectify the party organization, in this regard I think we should learn from the Communist Party, [***] is well-organized, and the fighting effectiveness of party members is extremely strong, so our party should learn from them; Fourth, I only discovered this problem after I arrived in Sichuan, the grassroots political power organization is scattered, and because the local government is too exploitative, the common people are often dissatisfied with the political axe; Fifth, to strengthen youth work, the students discussed with Teng Jie and established a Sanmingzhuo Volunteer Youth League, with the aim of uniting and organizing young people; Sixth, to strengthen national defense scientific research, it will take decades of hard work to catch up with and surpass the military in an all-round way, but we do not have so much time, when we can make use of our strengths and avoid our weaknesses, conduct research on the weaknesses of the army, and use science and technology to improve the combat effectiveness of the army; Seventh, we should strengthen the construction of the army's reserves, and at present, our army's supplementary soldiers mainly come from recruitment, and some of them even come from strong men; both of these methods have serious defects and cannot quickly replenish the army's consumption; Finally, the economy should be rectified, economic supervision should be strengthened, and once a war breaks out, military supplies and people's daily necessities should be managed by the political axe, so as to ensure the livelihood of the people to the greatest extent and facilitate the long-term war of resistance. These eight aspects are not completely done, as long as they can be achieved seventy percent, the loss of this contract is worth it. ”

Chiang Kai-shek muttered in a low voice: "Eight aspects, eight aspects, you want Yucheng to practice these eight points?" ”

"Yes." Zhuang Jihua promised: "However, some can be done in Yucheng, and some cannot, such as the Sanming Boiled Youth League, the Three Youth League formed by Teng in Yucheng should be a branch, and the headquarters should be formed by the central government; I talked to Director Weng of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, and he agreed very much and recommended General Yu Dawei to be the director, hoping that the chairman would approve it. Then there is the economy and the reorganization of the army. ”

"Yes, you can't do these things in Sichuan," Chiang Kai-shek said in thought: "I agree with the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, you give me a specific preparatory plan, as for the Sanming Boiled Volunteer Youth League, you don't care, you first get one out in Yucheng." The economy can be handed over to Minister Song of the Ministry of Finance and Minister Kong of the Ministry of Industry to plan, and the German mechanics who can completely use the firepower of the German army can be honestly politically difficult, and it is difficult to come up with so much money at once. ”

Zhuang Jihua secretly scolded in his heart, Damn, he was going to fight Lao Tzu's idea again, he didn't want to answer, but he couldn't stop Chiang Kai-shek's expectant eyes, so he had to answer: "Principal, students can donate again,..., Well, 100 million oceans, I don't know if it's enough, and I ask the principal to forgive me." ”

Chiang Kai-shek was satisfied and even nodded with gratitude, in fact, Chiang Kai-shek did not tell a lie, Song Ziwen did not agree to issue public bonds, he wanted to keep his promise to the merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but he kept his promise, the national political axe will be difficult to do, the military expenditure is seriously insufficient, whether it is to resist or suppress bandits, it is not enough, so angry that Chiang Kai-shek has no way to take him.

"Cultural Revolution, what's going on with that company you started in Sichuan?" Chiang Kai-shek asked.

Zhuang Jihua said in his heart that you finally asked: "The purpose of establishing the company is to use economic interests to tie up various powerful factions in Sichuan and let them act in accordance with the central government's strategy." ”

When talking about the Central Committee, Zhuang Jihua accentuated his tone, he could not give Chiang Kai-shek the impression that he was engaged in the Kingdom of Reading Power in Sichuan, although he gave Chiang Kai-shek 210 million before and after.

Later, Zhuang Jihua had a line, and Chiang Kai-shek explained in detail the social reforms he planned to make in Yucheng, the purpose of building the road, the significance of the Chengdu-Chongqing railway, how to build a reserve, why tax exemption and free education, and so on.

"This is the first stage of social reform, and after the completion of this stage, the students plan to implement rent reduction and interest reduction," Zhuang Jihua said: "Sichuan rural taxes have been levied for 60 or 70 years in the Republic of China, and the people are miserable. ”

"It's good to reduce rent and interest, but will the gentry agree? Jiangsu and Zhejiang have tried to reduce rent and interest rates for a period of time, and the gentry have responded strongly, and now they exist in name only. Chiang Kai-shek shook his head and sighed and said that the rent and interest reduction was announced and implemented by the Nationalist Axe before the Northern Expedition, and after the completion of the Northern Expedition, the Nationalist Axe did not abandon this policy, and it was implemented in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but the resistance of the gentry was too strong to be implemented at all.

"I exempted them from taxes, what else do they not promise." Zhuang Jihua looked murderous and said coldly: "Since ancient times, only the peasants rebelled, and there were no gentry who rebelled, if they didn't do it, then don't blame me." ”

"Well," Chiang Kai-shek looked at Zhuang Jihua and said earnestly: "Cultural Revolution, be careful in everything, the Communist Party is pervasive, don't let them take advantage of the loopholes." ”

Zhuang Jihua smiled: "Principal, what's wrong with you, rent reduction and interest reduction are good for farmers, if the Communist Party is against it, will the farmers still follow them?" ”

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head and said: "[***] is the best at exploiting loopholes, you don't know the influence of those gentry in the countryside, as soon as you reduce rent and interest, as soon as the gentry oppose it, the local turmoil will definitely occur, and the Communist Party will take advantage of the situation to enter, and their fight against local tyrants to divide the land is more attractive than your rent and interest reduction." ”

"Yes, student understood." After thinking about it, Zhuang Jihua couldn't help but say that Chiang Kai-shek was right, and the Communist Party was likely to make a fuss about this, and the simplest thing was that when the gentry were opposed, they instigated the peasants to make trouble, and then attributed the credit to them.

"What do you think of the recent activities of the communist bandits in northern Sichuan?" Chiang Kai-shek involuntarily asked about the movements of the Red Army in Sichuan.

"The students think that they are attacking the south in the north," Zhuang Jihua said unceremoniously: "After they arrived in northern Sichuan in Wushan, they captured Tongnanba, and they also knew that the Sichuan warlords would never give up, so they took advantage of Tian Songyao's defeat and the next attack was still in the interval of the organization, and preemptively attacked southern Shaanxi, with three purposes, one of which was to eliminate the threat from the north first, and avoid being attacked by our army in southern Shaanxi when the Sichuan army was fiercely fighting; second, expand the room for maneuver and enhance the strategic depth; third, to attract the Sichuan army to the north as soon as possible; Wushan and Xiangqian's intention was to trick the Sichuan army into launching an attack without preparation. ”

Chiang Kai-shek pondered and calculated expressionlessly, and after Zhuang Jihua finished speaking, he slowly nodded and said: "You have analyzed well, you and Wushan are really a good pair of opponents." ”

"Principal, there is a strange situation," Zhuang Jihua remembered the information provided by Li Zhilong: "There is no name of Wushan in the latest notice issued by the Communist Party of Northern Sichuan. ”

Chiang Kai-shek looked at him very strangely: "What do you mean?" ”

"I mean, Wushan is afraid ......." Zhuang Jihua didn't want to say any more, he was very uneasy about Jiang Xianyun's fate.

"You mean he's been purged?" Chiang Kai-shek's tone was complicated, with both regret and excitement. The information on the purge within the Communist Party has long been reported, but I didn't expect that even people like Jiang Xianyun could be eliminated, they are really helpful.

"I don't know." Zhuang Jihua tried to suppress the feelings in his heart, trying to make his tone appear a little indifferent.

After the Red Army captured this place, the small landlord's family fled, and it became a prison for the Political Security Bureau. He was the only "criminal" in this cell, and it was very spacious, and a man dressed as a cadre stood in front of him and said sternly: "Jiang Xianyun, don't be stubborn, you know the party's policies, and you must explain how you let go of the counter-revolutionary Zhuang Wenge and how you are now in contact with him." ”

Jiang Xianyun looked at him coldly and didn't answer, because there was no need to answer, the organization had already found out, this was Zhang Guotao's desire to add crimes, from Hubei, Henan, Anhui to Sichuan, Zhang Guotao had killed too many revolutionary comrades. Zhuang Jihua, the name of a long time ago, is now in Yucheng, hundreds of kilometers away, if he sees himself like this, what will he think? He will definitely be poor, Jiang Xianyun showed a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Seeing that there was no answer, the cadre said hatefully: "Don't think that in this way, the organization will not be able to find out, and there will be no good end for confronting the organization." ”

After the cadre went out, a Red Army trotted to the cadre's side and handed him the telegram in his hand, and the cadre read it and whispered: "Inform the firing squad to execute Jiang Xianyun tonight." ”

(To be continued)