Li Zhilong was on fire in his heart, after Zhuang Jihua left, everything was still very smooth, there were three more laboratories with equipment in place, two factories started, pharmaceutical factories and smokeless gunpowder factories were put into operation one after another, some disputes in the construction of highways were quickly subsided, teachers from all over the country were also distributed, and several factories from other provinces were also assisted, everything went smoothly, but in June, things began to change.

A group of students from Yucheng who had just joined the development team and were training went to the city to participate in the march against the "Rehe Armistice Agreement", which was nothing, and in the enlightened way that Zhuang Jihua implemented in the development team, Li Zhilong and the others decided not to punish them in any way, but only took some precautions to avoid more people from participating, which led to a decline in the progress of the project.

In late June, the Yucheng press reprinted the news from Shanghai that Zhuang Jihua was behind the betrayal of Rehe, which was like a bomb exploding in the base.

In the past year or so, Zhuang Jihua's actions have won the trust of most people in the base, but the betrayal of Rehe made all the team members from Beiping angry, and at first a small number of people quietly discussed, but then they didn't see Zhuang Jihua's argument, and this discussion went from the ground to the ground.

Li Zhilong noticed this situation, and he adopted some means, according to his previous experience, he sent most of the students out to participate in the grassroots practice, but some of them did not move, and the cadres trained the students of the school.

There are three sources of students in the cadre training school: the personnel of the regimental training institute, the original members of the development team, and the new recruits in Yucheng. The reason why Li Zhilong did not send them out was that there were only about 200 students in the cadre training school, and their training period was only five months, which was very tight, and Li Zhilong did not want to interrupt their study, but something happened to these people.

The curriculum of the cadre school was designed by Zhuang Jihua, and the content included Sun Yat-sen's handwritten lectures on Sanming cooking, basic military training, laws and regulations, modern Chinese history, Western economics, Chinese rural organizations, social analysis of Soviet Russia, and diplomacy of the Republic of China. In the course design, Zhuang Jihua emphasizes patriotism and the spirit of law. For the management of students, Zhuang Jihua imitated the Whampoa Military Academy, and imitated the style of Peking University in terms of academic style, so the students were very free to speak and dared to express various opinions.

As the rumors of Zhuang Jihua's betrayal of Rehe became more and more, Zhuang Jihua did not publicly defend himself, and the students of the cadre school went from being suspicious to publicly denouncing, and then they jointly held two demonstrations with the Yucheng National Salvation Federation.

Li Zhilong was very shocked by this request for replacement, and he held a meeting with Teng Jie, Hong Junqi, Tang Zong, and others, and Tang Zong advocated suppression and arrested the leaders, but Li Zhilong and Teng Jie expressed their opposition, believing that it was not appropriate to take tough measures at this moment to avoid intensifying the contradictions.

Teng Jie proposed to hold an anti-withdrawal demonstration with the Blue Coat Society and the Sanming Boiled Youth League as the core, but Li Zhilong expressed his opposition after thinking about it, believing that such a move would cause confrontation between the members of the base and easily cause mass conflicts.

At this meeting, Li Zhilong believed that the rumors in the newspaper were rumors after all, and the truth should be discussed after Zhuang Jihua returned, and he listed Zhuang Jihua's various actions during his tenure as captain, his many contributions to the development of the southwest, and the various policies recently implemented in Yucheng proved that Zhuang Jihua was by no means a traitor.

"For more than a year, what Captain Zhuang has done for us is what we have seen and heard with our own eyes, he seems to be a traitor at that point, classmates and comrades should not listen to other people's rumors, but believe in their own judgment, and when Captain Zhuang comes back, we can ask him to make a special speech on the Great Wall War of Resistance and listen to what he said."

Li Zhilong's bitter advice took effect, most of the students and team members accepted it, and when the matter was about to gradually calm down, Li Haoyi took action, he suddenly arrested several main leaders of the Yucheng University Salvation Association in early July, and then arrested several students from the provincial senior industrial school and normal school, and finally he arrested four base team members in Guanyinqiao Town.

When the news came back, there was an uproar inside the base, and one of the four team members who were arrested was a staff member of Professor Hu's electronics laboratory, and one of the other three was also a student from Beiping. At this time, even the experts and professors were enraged, and they collectively approached Li Zhilong to demand the release of the arrested people.

After Li Zhilong got the report, he immediately knew that things were going to be bad, the professors' protests were real, and Li Haoyi was definitely not easy to deal with, and he had to arrest people even when Zhuang Jihua had greeted him, which could only show that he already had evidence in his hands.

Li Zhilong comforted the professors while consulting with Teng Jie and Tang Zong. Tang Zong completely lost his usual calm, and began to scold Li Haoyi when they met, and in his scolding, Li Zhilong knew that whether it was a major or a few people inside the base, they were already in his hands, these people came out of the last protest to the municipal axe and this parade, it is certain that they are all small characters, they are exposed to the outside, and they can be concluded to be members of the peripheral organizations of the Communist Party, and the reason why Tang Zong did not arrest them is also here.

Tang Zong was extremely regretful in his irritability, at the beginning Li Zhilong hinted that he could let go of Li Haoyi, he did not take action, he thought that there was a suspicion that Zhuang Jihua and Li Zhilong borrowed a knife to kill people, but now Li Haoyi's move not only sabotaged his actions, but also forced him into an embarrassing position. He was actually sent by Chiang Kai-shek to deal with the Communist Party, Dai Li also hoped that he could make achievements in Yucheng and win glory for the secret service, but it has been a year since he arrived in Yucheng, although the power of the secret service has expanded a lot, but he has not cracked any major Communist Party cases, and the few people arrested are all small roles.

"What else do you say, complain to the principal, Li Haoyi's casual actions have ruined our plan." Tang Zong finally said with hatred.

"I'm afraid not," Teng Jie shook his head and said: "After all, he is arresting the Communist Party, and the principal will not deal with him, not to mention that Xu Enzeng and Li Anding will protect him." ”

Tang Zong was even more angry now: "How can Li Anding use such a bastard, he is really blind." ”

"It's useless to get angry, since the incident has happened, then think about how to deal with it," Li Zhilong became very calm, he felt that the time had come to really test him, if the removal incident some time ago was a small test, this incident was a big test: "Naijian, for these people, what evidence do you have to prove that they are the Communist Party?" ”

"The direct evidence is that [***] propaganda was found in their room, which we found after we searched their room after their accident," Tang Zong said: "The other thing is that they have contacts with the Major Salvation Association, among which Chu Ming is more active and often has radical remarks, and the other three Wang Yuqi, Zheng Xin, and Li Rongjian are very close to Chu Ming." ”

"Li Rongjian?" Teng Jie thought about it and asked, "Is it the Li Rongjian of the Progressive Society?" ”

Tang Zong nodded, and Teng Jie was extremely surprised. The Progressive Society is a peripheral organization of the Blue Coat Society, which is organized by Teng Jie, and his wife Chen Qikun is responsible for the regular work, although this Li Rongjian rarely participates in organizational activities, Teng Jie still remembers his name, because he was one of the first people to participate in this organization, but for some reason he participated in activities less and less later. In fact, he didn't know that after Li Rongjian joined the Progressive Society, he was secretly developed by Tang Zong, and became a pawn for him to monitor the development team, and then relied on him to get close to Chu Ming, and then to approach the Major Salvation Association, and the final purpose was of course to break into [***], but now that this chess piece has been caught by Li Hao, even if it is released in the future, I don't know if the Communist Party will trust him.

"Do you know those books?" Li Zhilong didn't care about any progressive clubs, several organizations were set up in the development team, what progressive clubs, performance teams, etc., Zhuang Jihua and he both thought it was nothing, and the Whampoa Military Academy was like this back then.

"I don't know," Tang Zong said, "Li Haoyi failed to enter the base, I guess he just got some clues from the major side, maybe he knocked on the mouth of the major students, found some clues from them, and then arrested people." ”

"Since this is the case, that means that Li Haoyi has no direct evidence." Li Zhilong looked directly at Tang Zong, Tang Zong hesitated and nodded: "That's good, I'll come forward to ask for someone." ”

"Don't be busy," Teng Jie stopped Li Zhilong: "You go like this, Li Haoyi won't let people go, find Mayor Shanghe and go together." ”

Li Zhilong accepted Teng Jie's suggestion, he first appeased the professors and team members in the base, and then found He Guoguang, but He Guoguang was a slippery head, he didn't want to be involved in this matter, so he sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, accusing Li Haoyi of acting without authorization, causing the development team to fall into chaos. Then he persuaded Li Zhilong to wait for Chiang Kai-shek's answer.

Li Zhilong did not agree, he was worried that some of the arrested people would be beaten into tricks, in that case, they would be passive, so he took two people and broke into the Special Investigation Department of the Party Department in Chongqing.

(To be continued)