Wang Jingwei, who was familiar with Chen Bijun, understood that Chen Bijun was already impatient, and Chiang Kai-shek did not come to make her a little disappointed, and it was inconvenient for her to be angry, so Zhuang Jihua was implicated, not to mention that he was only a major. Although Wang Jingwei felt inappropriate, he still couldn't stop listening to Chen Bijun's words, he smiled at Zhuang Jihua slightly apologetically, but he didn't think about it, but he saw a trace of goodwill understanding in Zhuang Jihua's eyes, "Did he understand Chen Bijun's words?" Wang Jingwei was slightly shocked in his heart, and he walked towards the welcoming crowd with this question.

Xu Chongzhi's welcoming ceremony was not cumbersome, Wang Jingwei delivered a brief speech at the wharf, the main meaning is that he came to Shantou to tell the Dongjiang area [***] about the premier's funeral, and to fulfill the premier's last wish - to express condolences to the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition; In addition, he was very grateful to Commander Xu for organizing the welcoming ceremony, which made him flattered and ashamed, indicating that he fully understood that the welcome to him was an expression of condolences to the premier by the Chaoshan people.

In Zhuang Jihua's opinion, Wang Jingwei's speech was very low-key, without mentioning him personally, and he flattered almost everyone on the scene, except for himself; In addition, his personal image is very good, elegant and modest, and personable, and it is easy to gain the favor of others, so his speech received a tidal wave of applause.

At the banquet in the Guanchao Pavilion, Wang Jingwei gave a speech again, he still kept a low profile, and his speech was still successful; Zhuang Jihua also delivered a speech on behalf of the party and army, and in his speech, of course, he wanted to exalt Wang Jingwei, what "Mr. Wang has been following the prime minister for a long time, is the founder of our party, is a revolutionary predecessor, and is a model for our young people to learn from..." "Wait, it's just one, he didn't say what Wang Jingwei wanted to hear the most, that is, the prime minister's student.

Chiang Kai-shek often pretended to be a student of the premier when he spoke to the students in school, and when Zhuang Jihua was drafting his speech last night, when he wrote this paragraph, he suddenly remembered that if Wang Jingwei was said to be a student of the premier, what would Chiang Kai-shek think? Out of prudence, Zhuang Jihua did not mention the stubble of the premier's students, and only praised him as a revolutionary predecessor and a young model. Anyway, hello, I'm good, everyone, just fool each other around.

However, at the banquet, Zhuang Jihua unexpectedly sat at a table with Director Wang of the Liaison Office, strictly speaking, this was not an accident, the lowest rank among the soldiers present was Zhuang Jihua, and after that, Director Wang had the rank of lieutenant colonel. Zhuang Jihua took this opportunity to ask him about Song Yunfei, Director Wang thought that Song Yunfei had offended Zhuang Jihua when he sent the letter, and said that he would go back to "vent" for Zhuang Jihua, but Zhuang Jihua hurriedly denied it, saying that he was just curious, how could he let a reconnaissance captain be a liaison officer. Hearing Zhuang Jihua's question, Director Wang couldn't help sighing, and whispered that this kid usually has a little bit of kung fu, and no one pays attention to him, but his hands are too hard, and no one wants to deal with him, but this time he broke four ribs of a battalion commander for some reason, and the matter was so big that he couldn't get along in the Seventh Brigade, and he was transferred to me to suppress his arrogance. After finishing speaking, Director Wang sighed again and said, the above will really make trouble for me, how can he be able to contact him with such a temper, the liaison office pays attention to harmony and wealth, and sooner or later he will get into trouble if he is so reckless. Zhuang Jihua understood, but he still didn't know why Song Yunfei wanted to sell to him, but he couldn't ask, but at least he understood that he had no ill will towards him.

After returning to the liaison office, Zhuang Jihua immediately asked He Jinhan to send a telegram to the military academy, and asked Deng Wenyi, who returned to the school to serve as the captain of the student team after recovering from his injury, to try to find out whether the Generalissimo's Mansion was going to introduce any major measures or any major personnel changes. Deng Wenyi has not been absorbed into the intelligence department, but the hub of intelligence transmission is located in the military academy, so there must be people from the intelligence department in the military academy, when Zhuang Jihua proposed to Chiang Kai-shek to absorb Deng Wenyi, Chiang Kai-shek hesitated and said that he was suspicious of treating him as a peripheral personnel, and it is not appropriate to absorb him at present, internal personnel of the military academy, Chiang Kai-shek proposed to let Wang Bailing be responsible, Zhuang Jihua said that he might not be able to command him, and finally Chiang Kai-shek chose Xiao Zanyu, who also returned to the school due to injury, to be responsible, and let Deng Wenyi be responsible for the periphery.

He Jinhan didn't ask why, and immediately went to do it; Then Zhuang Jihua called Wu Ziniu again and asked him if he had any familiar people in the Seventh Brigade of the Guangdong Army, Wu Ziniu said of course without thinking about it, so Zhuang Jihua asked him to inquire about Song Yunfei, the captain of the reconnaissance team of the Second Regiment of the Seventh Brigade.

Two days later, Wu Ziniu inquired about Song Yunfei's situation clearly, Song Yunfei was arrogant, and short-tempered, and had a tense relationship with his colleagues, but his marksmanship and fists were extremely powerful, and no one could compare with him in the second regiment.

After listening to Wu Ziniu's words, Zhuang Jihua became more interested in this Song Yunfei: "What great achievements has he made." "It is important to know that robbery of munitions is a felony in the army, and it may be understandable in wartime, but it is absolutely intolerable at other times.

"After Chen Jiongming's rebellion, Commander Xu was defeated in Shaoguan and transferred to Fujian, Fang Benren prepared to ambush our army, it was he who discovered the enemy's ambush, and in the absence of time to notify the troops, he took eight people to break into the enemy's headquarters, control the enemy's commander, and save the whole army. It was from this merit that he was promoted to officer. ”

This is completely a natural killer, a natural special soldier, after listening to Wu Ziniu's introduction, Zhuang Jihua secretly screamed in his heart, digging him up, this thought appeared over and over again in his mind. But in the end, Zhuang Jihua still forced the surname to suppress the temptation in his heart, Xu Chongzhi has some knowledge of Song Yunfei, and this time he will be saved, who knows if Song Yunfei will remember the old feelings, he is trying to deal with Xu Chongzhi, any of the leaks, not only will he be compensated, I am afraid that he will also be affected Chiang Kai-shek, maybe even the entire party army will be compensated, this risk cannot be taken.

Song Yunfei's situation has been investigated clearly, but there has been no progress on Deng Wenyi's side, and the most rumored in Guangzhou at present is that Yang Ximin continues to transfer troops back to Guangzhou, and the rebellion is already on the way, and the important figures in the city have successively transferred to the Generalissimo's Mansion and the Whampoa Military Academy, the military academy is loose inside and outside, the guns and ammunition have been distributed to all the students, and the normal class procedures of the school have been stopped, and combat skills training has been entered in advance.

Without information about Wang Jingwei's stay in Guangzhou, Zhuang Jihua had no choice but to reluctantly write a report on Wang Jingwei's presence in Shantou and report it to Chiang Kai-shek, in which Zhuang Jihua did not draw conclusions about the purpose of Wang Jingwei's visit to Shantou, but put forward several possibilities for Chiang Kai-shek's reference.

Zhuang Jihua believes that Wang Jingwei's purpose in coming here has several possibilities: first, to justify his own name and say that he is a student of the premier, in order to seek political interests in the future; Secondly, it is possible that the Generalissimo's Office will have to make personnel changes after the counterinsurgency in Guangzhou, and the bolder speculation is that Hu Hanmin is the acting generalissimo after all, and after the pacification of Guangzhou, the generalissimo will definitely be re-elected, and Wang Jingwei may have come for this matter; The last judgment is that it came to quell Liu Yang's rebellion, but this possibility is very small. After eating, Zhuang Jihua remembered the situation on the dock again, so he added another sentence at the end, another: Chen Bijun is arrogant, and Wang is suspected of being strict with his wife.

Soon after the telegram was sent, Xu Chongzhi sent someone to invite him, and when he arrived at the Lin family ancestral hall, Xu Chongzhi and Wang Jingwei were both sitting, and Xu Chongzhi told him that Mr. Wang was going to Chaozhou, and he had already informed Chiang Kai-shek, who asked him to accompany Mr. Wang, and also designated him to be responsible for the security work along the way. Security work? Zhuang Jihua was a little worried, his liaison office was a turnip and a pit, and no one could be transferred out, this Chiang Kai-shek would really have problems.

"Commander Xu, you know that I am a liaison office, there are only seven people in total, and only three have combat experience, so what should I do?" Zhuang Jihua said to Xu Chongzhi with difficulty. Shantou to Chaozhou to take the waterway, because it is a boat against the current, it takes more than a day, this waterway is not very peaceful, the rest of Chen Jiongming, who was scattered, has been reduced to bandits, to rob the water and drought two ways of business for a living, the Eastern Expeditionary Army also sent troops to clean up, a large number of bandits have been exterminated or absorbed, but there are still a small number of defeated soldiers are locals, after they go home, because they are used to being soldiers, they are not willing to work in the field anymore, so the army comes to become a people, the army is gone, and they come out as bandits. Fighting a guerrilla war with the Eastern Expeditionary Army was a headache for the Suppression Army. So far, although they have not robbed a ship with the army emblem, no one can guarantee that some of them will suddenly have the courage to "show" it, and Lou Zi will be great.

"Well, that's it, I'll send someone to you, and you'll be in charge." Xu Chongzhi thinks about it, there are only a few people in the party-army liaison office, and if he is in charge of security, he must always send a few people.

Xu Chongzhi turned his head to the adjutant and said, "Call Xu Chu." "Yes." The adjutant turned around to leave, and Xu Chongzhi added: "And that Song Yunfei is also called." "Xu Chu is Xu Chongzhi's cousin and currently serves as the commander of the guard battalion of the headquarters.

Soon Xu Chu and Song Yunfei came to the house, Xu Chongzhi pointed to Zhuang Jihua and said, "Battalion Commander Xu, transfer a squad from your guard battalion to Major Zhuang to command, responsible for the security work along the way from Mr. Wang to Chaozhou; Officer Song, you are responsible for assisting Major Zhuang, and when you wait for Chaozhou, you will bring this class back. "Yes." The two replied in unison.

The boat sent by Xu Chongzhi was his commander's special boat, which turned out to be Hong Zhaolin's special boat, and the living facilities on the ship were very comfortable, so he knew that Wang Jingwei and his wife should live there without arrangement, and the adjutant guards should live there. With this class, more precisely, after Song Yunfei, Zhuang Jihua got on the ship without taking anyone from the liaison office. When he arrived on the boat, Zhuang Jihua found that Xu Chu had also equipped him with a machine gun, at this time, the machine gun was a sign of strong firepower, and with this machine gun, it was impossible for one hundred and eighty people to get close.

Chen Bijun was a little incomprehensible about Wang Jingwei's decision to go to Chaozhou, and in her opinion, it should be Chiang Kai-shek who came to Shantou to see Wang Jingwei, not the other way around. Although Wang Jingwei has been explaining to her in the past two days, she still can't help but complain.

"Isn't this Chiang Kai-shek just a military school principal, is it necessary for us to go to Chaozhou? Haven't you already negotiated with Xu Ru (i.e., Xu Chongzhi, the word Ruwei)? ”

"Xu Ruwei supported me because he had a holiday with Hu Hanmin, and Xu Ruwei was criticized by the prime minister for the failure of the counterattack on Guangzhou, and Ruwei suspected that it was the result of Hu Hanmin's complaint in front of the premier. If you support me, it doesn't mean that Chiang Kai-shek also supports me, and this you have told me that he can't control his ally. Faced with the complaining Chen Bijun, Wang Jingwei had to explain again.

"Isn't Chiang Kai-shek just an alternate member?" Chen Bijun still refuses to give up, she still doesn't understand why Wang Jingwei wants to be condescended to the noble and subservient to that martial artist.

"Jun, although Chiang Kai-shek is only a principal, he is the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, and I have talked with Borodin, Tan Pingshan and other [***] people in Guangzhou, and they admire Chiang Kai-shek very much, thinking that he is a rare soldier who resolutely supports the revolution, so Chiang Kai-shek's status in the party will rise in the future. And although Ru Wei is lenient, he has no good impression of him in [***], and it is not known whether he can become the minister of military affairs, and if he can't become Chiang Kai-shek, he is likely to be. ”

"He? It can't be, with his qualifications as Minister of War? Chen Bijun interrupted Wang Jingwei's words in disbelief: "Didn't you say yesterday that Xu Ruwei has no problem serving as the Minister of Military Affairs?" ”

"Xu Ruwei's life is too corrupt, smoking opium and playing with women; Although he was very cautious and did not say anything that made the [***] side uneasy, but his style was exactly the same as that of the warlords, do you think Borodin would support him? That's what I figured out just now, and you can see that he is very enthusiastic about us, but he knows his weaknesses and wants my support. Speaking of this, a smile appeared on Wang Jingwei's handsome face.

"So the [***] side will push Chiang Kai-shek to power?" Chen Bijun asked, Wang Jingwei nodded: "Alas, this nouveau riche is really lucky." Chen Bijun's tone showed a little helplessness.

"By the way, Jun, do you remember to change it?" Wang Jingwei suddenly saw Zhuang Jihua chatting with Song Yunfei on the deck, he remembered that after talking with Xu Chongzhi about the national political axe with Xu Chongzhi yesterday, he remembered the author of the article that was praised by Sun Yat-sen as a visionary, and changed it, and later he remembered that the telegram sent by Wu Chaoshu mentioned that the author changed it, as if he was a student of the Whampoa Military Academy, and it seemed to be called Zhuang Jihua.

"Change?"

"Yes, it is the author of the article "The National Political Axe and the National Revolution." Wang Jingwei reminded.

"Oh, what's wrong?" Chen Bijun remembered, she also read this article at the beginning, and she didn't feel anything unusual, the issue of establishing a national political axe had not been discussed before, but she didn't expect to make such a big move in the end.

"I remember Wu Chaoshu's telegram saying that the author's name seems to be Zhuang Jihua."

"You mean, it's him? This major? Chen Bijun's chin tilted slightly towards Zhuang Jihua, and Wang Jingwei, who understood what she was referring to, nodded.

"I don't think there's anything surprising about that article? Why does the Prime Minister attach so much importance to this article, and I will discuss it with you. Didn't the prime minister call back in the end and say that there was a small mistake in the article? When Sun Yat-sen read the article, he closed the door with Wang Jingwei, Dai Jitao, Jiang Zuobin and others to discuss, and when Wang Jingwei came back, he only told her that the article and conclusions were discussed.

"That is not ripe, the general ideal is to protect him, in fact, the prime minister attaches great importance to the idea put forward in this article, that is, to use the law to sort out the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party." Zhuang Jihua didn't hear this, if he was there, he would definitely be very grateful, so far, only Wang Jingwei saw his purpose.

"Ha, use the law to sort out the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party? How did I hear that [***] was dissatisfied, and there were also people in my party who were dissatisfied, and he became a rat with bellows, and he was not pleasing on both sides. How do you see that. Chen Bijun said with a smile.

"Jun, you underestimate me too much, although he mentioned a lot of things in the article, what national political axe, what labor disputes, what protection of laborers, in fact, these are implemented into one article, to solve the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. I've been writing articles for so many years and I still don't understand him. Wang Jingwei smiled easily, Chen Bijun also smiled, she knew that Wang Jingwei's current appearance was deliberate, so many people didn't see it, he saw it, of course he was proud, but he was used to hiding this pride in external modesty, even when there were only two of them.

Now the conversation between Wang Jingwei and his wife no longer has the slightest grievance, and has become relaxed and natural. The chat between Zhuang Jihua and Song Yunfei on the deck was also relaxed.

When Xu Chongzhi proposed to send Song Yunfei with him, Zhuang Jihua finally suppressed the temptation, broke free again, and burned in his heart, and soon after the boat sailed, Zhuang Jihua finally decided to try it and see what Song Yunfei wanted to do.

"Officer Song, I haven't had time to thank you for what happened last time, and I'm going to trouble you again this time."

"Sir is polite, this time it is Commander Xu's order, and it is also my task." Song Yunfei's meaning is very clear, you don't have to thank me this time.

"What I don't understand is why you reminded me last time?" Zhuang Jihua went straight to the point, he had nothing to worry about, even if Song Yunfei rejected him, he had nothing to lose, even if Xu Chongzhi knew, it was nothing, and the current Guangzhou military circles often "jumped ship", for example, before the Eastern Expedition, Wang Maogong in the Guangdong army and Zhang Zhizhong in the Gui army "jumped ship" to Huangpu.

"It's nothing, it's just that the road is uneven." Song Yunfei said lightly. The road is uneven, but that's it? Zhuang Jihua didn't believe it in his heart, he knew that this was a matter of two systems, he and he were not colleagues, and when he saw that the road was uneven, he ran to remind me that there are really heroes in this world! However, Song Yunfei sealed the words and gently and skillfully avoided Zhuang Jihua's words.

(To be continued)