Hu Zongnan sent them to the door to "be slaughtered" and asked Zhuang Jihua to leave ten old subordinates such as Zhao Hanjie and Zhang Guobin behind, but Zhuang Jihua did not let them enter the army at once, but advanced training classes and received training together with the officers of the Sichuan army. The escort team in charge of Du Yuming was renamed the Yucheng Garrison, with a total establishment of 20,000 people, recruiting 12,000 recruits, plus the original escort team, the total strength reached 16,000 people, but these 16,000 people now only have 9,000 guns, and the 70,000 guns accumulated in the past year were divided into 40,000 by Liu Xiang, Deng Xihou and others, and the remaining 30,000 were bought by Liu Wenhui with 20,000 in cash and given to Chiang Kai-shek 6,000, and Zhuang Jihua himself left only 3,000, Du Yuming was very angry about this, but Zhuang Jihua told him that he didn't even want to keep the 3,000.

"The further back you go, the better the weapons, now we can make 5,000 rifles, 2,000 submachine guns, 1,500 machine guns, 1,000 mortars, the weapons you want, you won't have them in two months, what's the hurry." Zhuang Jihua said nonchalantly that industrial control is in hand, and what is needed is available at any time.

However, Zhuang Jihua has a question in his heart, why did Liu Wenhui buy so many guns? Geographically speaking, Liu Wenhui was the farthest away from the Red Army in northern Sichuan, and was not directly threatened by the Red Army, and there were no troops of the 24th Army in the last battle, and after the Battle of Erliu, Liu Wenhui's 24th Army only had more than 16,000 people and 20,000 guns, which could allow his troops to be reequipped.

"He's going to expand his troops," Fan Hanjie reminded, "Does he still want to counterattack Sichuan and recapture what he lost in previous years?" ”

"No, the political, economic, and military conditions do not allow him to do this, and he will not fail to see this," Zhuang Jihua said after thinking about it: "We still know too little about the intelligence of the Xikang area, so we sent a letter to Li Anding and asked him to pay close attention to the situation in the Xichang and Ya'an areas." ”

Zhuang Jihua thought of Huili's own vendetta again, and he felt that there seemed to be something behind it that he didn't see clearly, it was a disease in his heart, but he couldn't take care of it now.

Under the joint attack of the three major factions, the resistance of several elders in Sichuan was quickly subdued, and Zhuang Jihua's rectification and training of party affairs went very smoothly. However, then the differences between the three major factions began to change, and the "Central Daily" published an article arguing that the primary responsibility for the chaos of Sichuan's party affairs system lay with the provincial party department, and criticized Zeng for embezzlement and corruption, loss of revolutionary spirit, and collusion with local clan forces in Sichuan, resulting in the corruption of party affairs.

What is strange is that the Blue Coat Society did not refute, but only focused its firepower on the local forces in Sichuan, and Chen Lifu's punch felt like it was in the air.

"Why did these people from the Blue Coat Society suddenly become smarter." Chen Lifu sighed, he very much hoped that the Blue Coat Society would fight back, so as to attract greater attention.

"There's no need to deal with him," Li Yanguo smiled slyly: "Have you read the investigation report of the Nanchang Airport fire case handed over by Deng Wenyi?" ”

"You've seen it, what? Is there something wrong? Chen Lifu is very strange, the Nanchang Airport fire is a major fire at Nanchang Airport in June this year, the fire burned almost all the equipment of Nanchang Airport, the explosion of the oil depot and ammunition depot shook the entire Nanchang City, causing huge repercussions among the people. What is even more heart-wrenching is that the construction funds of Nanchang Airport are donated by overseas Chinese and people, and the wreak havoc of military planes in the Great Wall War of Resistance last year shook the people in China. Shanghai citizens launched a campaign to donate airplanes, this movement quickly spread to the whole country, and then received a response among overseas Chinese, a large number of aircraft funds were sent to the central government, Nanchang Airport was used to use part of the funds, by 30,000 migrant workers to build in nine months, but did not expect to be destroyed in a fire before it was really put into use.

"I thought there was something inhumane about it." Li Yanguo said solemnly.

Chen Lifu looked at him, and then carefully recalled the investigation report. After the fire, the Nanchang Airport was personally supervised by Xu Peigen, director of the Aviation Administration, who graduated from the Baoding Military Academy and later studied at the German Army Staff College. Before the fire, he had already received an order to revoke the director of aviation and was reappointed as director of the Ordnance Industry Administration, replacing Yu Dawei, who presided over the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.

Chen Lifu is not familiar with Xu Peigen, but he is not completely unfamiliar, he gives Chen Lifu the impression that he is very elegant, even if he wears a military uniform, he looks like a literati.

After the fire, Chiang Kai-shek sent Deng Wenyi to preside over the investigation, at this moment all kinds of speculation about the fire case spread throughout the country, Deng Wenyi was under great pressure, he investigated very carefully for four months, and came to the conclusion that it was an irresponsible soldier who smoked, which eventually led to the fire.

"It's impossible, Deng Wenyi has been doing it for four or five months, and we have also sent someone to participate, so it is impossible for him to make a name for himself." Chen Lifu shook his head and said.

"Not necessarily, although we sent people, Deng Wenyi is the chief, and who knows what he did below." Li Yanguo blinked his eyes as he spoke, and then said slowly: "Deng Wenyi is a cadre of the Blue Coat Society, and it is said that Xu Peigen also joined the Blue Coat Society, won't he protect him?" The chairman of the committee has become more and more dissatisfied with the Blue Coat Society, and for the sake of Yu Sadu, He Xinhan has been withdrawn, if another Xu Peigen case breaks out at this time, the Blue Coat Society? ”

Chen Lifu suddenly realized that he understood Li Yanguo's purpose, there was no problem with the conclusion at all, what he wanted was to make something out of nothing, even if he didn't, he would have to make a problem for him. And if Deng Wenyi is involved, the blow to the Blue Coat Society will be fatal.

In mid-December, a tabloid newspaper in Shanghai suddenly published an article entitled "Doubts about the Nanchang Fire," in which the tabloid not only detailed Deng Wenyi's investigation report, but also raised a sharp question: "How can a cigarette butt cause such a fire? He then concluded: "The person responsible is nothing more than a group of scapegoats, scapegoats for them to cover up some kind of culpability, and this is a clear case of arson to cover up their corruption crimes." ......., the supervising official of Nanchang Airport is the same person as the person who bought the aircraft in the United States, he accepted kickbacks from manufacturers in the United States, and embezzled and accepted bribes while supervising the construction of Nanchang Airport, and all these money were lost by him in gambling..........

In the following half month, newspapers in various localities began to publish the article one after another, pointing the spearhead directly at Xu Peigen and Deng Wenyi, and overseas Chinese, social organizations, and scholars were all filled with righteous indignation, demanding that the political axe should be re-investigated thoroughly and that corrupt officials be severely punished.

In the face of surging public opinion, Chen Lifu was secretly proud, and Chiang Kai-shek was furious, this was the second time that his report had been leaked, but this time the consequences were even more serious, this was purely to incite the people's dissatisfaction with the political axe.

"Xu Peigen is corrupt, Deng Wenyi is shameless, these two bastards have lost the face of the party-state, I will severely punish them, severely punish them." Chiang Kai-shek was thundering in his office, his face flushed, and the two tendons in his forehead were jumping abruptly.

Chen Lifu felt that the time had come, and he immediately added fuel and vinegar and said: "Since Deng Wenyi served as the secretary general of the Whampoa Alumni Association and the secretary of the Blue Coat Society, he has been nepotistic, embezzled public funds, and accepted bribes, so he should be removed from his post and investigated, and his party disciple Ren Juewu should be arrested and prosecuted, and the cultural society he established should be dissolved. Chen Lifu was very sad, but he was very happy in his heart, this time he was going to avenge the three students of the Central Party School, and by the way, he cut off the tentacles of the Blue Coat Society to the cultural field and control the New Life Movement in his hands.

"You're right, shoot Xu Bacon, Niang Xipi! Niang Sippi! Chiang Kai-shek shouted angrily: "Return that soldier, those officers who neglected their duties, all the officials involved in the case were shot, these scum of the party-state!" Moth! ”

The surging public opinion frightened Deng Wenyi, he didn't understand what was going on? That report was obviously sealed by him and handed over to Chiang Kai-shek by hand, and it was impossible for it to be leaked, and more importantly, he had confiscated Xu Bacon's bribes at all, but now public opinion unanimously believes that he took bribes, so he shielded Xu Bacon, and he felt that there was a pair of black hands behind it. But who is this black hand from? Judging by the leak of his report, could it be.... But no, Chiang Kai-shek didn't need to deal with it at all.

"Junshan, I'm afraid I won't be able to get through this time." Deng Wenyi told He Jinhan that he had a feeling that a catastrophe was coming, and after the incident, he proposed to meet Chiang Kai-shek several times, but Qian Dajun's reply was that the chairman was not available.

"Don't worry, don't worry," He Jinhan comforted, this happened too suddenly, and completely caught them off guard: "The most important thing now is to see the principal and tell the principal face to face." ”

Although He Jinhan is no longer the secretary general of the Blue Coat Society, he has always regarded the Blue Coat Society as his own support force, and controls the Blue Coat Society through Deng Wenyi, Ren Juewu, Pan Youqiang and others, so he can't watch Deng Wenyi fall in public or private.

"First of all, immediately send someone to investigate the tabloid in Shanghai to see where their news came from; Secondly, contact Qian Dajun and Lin Wei, and ask them to make suggestions to the principal while they are free, and send someone to investigate the Nanchang fire case again, so that you can be cleared. He Jinhan instantly thought of two ways, and after the incident, he also asked Deng Wenyi, and Deng Wenyi assured him that he had never taken a bribe from Xu Peigen.

Deng Wenyi's actions were very fast, and the investigation department secretly arrested the editor-in-chief of the tabloid in Shanghai on the same day, but the editor-in-chief explained that the manuscript was sent to the newspaper office by a man in his thirties, and the man said that it was written by his younger brother, who worked at Nanchang Airport, but after they published it, the manuscript fee sent to the address provided by the man was returned, and the address was fake. Now all the hopes are pinned on He Jinhan.

(To be continued)