Borodin's views on Chiang Kai-shek seemed to be confirmed in the following days, when Chiang Kai-shek set out from Shantou at the end of December, and before his departure he published the "Letter to the Comrades of the Whole Party" and the "Warning to All Officers and Soldiers", in which Chiang Kai-shek criticized the Xishan Conference faction, refuted the party's view that [***] was in fundamental conflict with Sanming and that [***] was encroaching on the Kuomintang, and in the latter he reminded the army to strengthen unity and pay attention to military discipline, and admonished officers to study more and enhance their personal cultivation.

"It's shameless, shameless. Yun Lao, this Chiang Kai-shek seems to be hopeless. Still in the Yunwuju Teahouse, Jiyuan threw the article on the table and scolded.

"High, brilliant! It seems that this Chiang Kai-shek was not a martial artist. Li Yanguo seemed to deliberately disagree with Ji Yuan, and praised Chiang Kai-shek, and Ji Yuan glared at him angrily.

"It's still Yanguo who sees far-reaching, and in my opinion, Chiang Kai-shek is forced to do so." Wu Chaoshu still looks like he is not in a hurry.

"Yun Lao, why did you come to this conclusion?" Ji Yuan picked up the manuscript and read it carefully, but still didn't find anything that could be explained in this way.

Wu Chaoshu said with a smile: "Ah Yuan, you are writing old articles, but politically you are a little worse, and Yanguo is better than you in this regard." You see, in Chiang Kai-shek's manuscript, he did not say that the Xishan Conference was illegal, but that 'even if its convening was legal', what did it mean, he was a little sympathetic to their actions in his heart, and he exonerated Zhang Jingjiang, 'Comrade Zhang Jingjiang persuaded bitterly', haha, when did Zhang Jingjiang persuade bitterly, he did have advice, persuaded everyone to be patient, thinking that [***] is not the time, this cripple is Chiang Kai-shek's brother, naturally he has to think about Chiang Kai-shek. ”

Wu Chaoshu paused at this point, swallowed his mouth and said: "Look again, Chiang Kai-shek is currently in military power, but he has risen too fast, Tan Yankai, Zhu Peide, and Li Jishen have contradictions with them, last time in order to let Zhu Peide go to Deng Benyin, Wang Jingwei allocated the weapons aided by Soviet Russia to the Third Army, Chiang Kai-shek heard about it on the front, and he was very angry and accused Zhu Peide of being a thief and self-respecting, but what is the use? He is not firmly rooted now, and his prestige within the party is not high enough, so he cannot turn against [***]. This article is nothing more than a consolation to [***], he needs two major to consolidate his position. ”

"Also, do you remember the "Military Opinion" he put forward some time ago?" Wu Chaoshu asked, Li Yanguo nodded quickly, and Jiyuan also nodded after thinking about it: "There are a lot of things to say in this opinion, and there are only two cores, abolishing the military commander system, and military readability." After the abolition of the army commander system, Tan Yankai, Zhu Peide, and Li Jishen lost their real power, and Chiang Kai-shek could use the name of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission to command the whole army; If the military needs are read, Wang Jingwei will not be able to interfere in the affairs of the army, and the army will be decided by Chiang Kai-shek alone. ”

Wu Chaoshu peeled off the cocoon one by one and analyzed Chiang Kai-shek's thoughts; Borodin was observing Chiang Kai-shek, Wu Chaoshu was also observing Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei, his opinion of Chiang Kai-shek had been formed, he believed that this was a person with a strong desire for power, such a person could not be willing to live under Wang Jingwei, and it was impossible to completely listen to Borodin, he and Wang Jingwei, and Borodin would have a contradiction sooner or later, what he wanted to do was to cause this contradiction, and then use this fire to extinguish [***], and then save the Kuomintang, he believed that this was their only hope.

When Wu Chaoshu passed by Wende Building, he looked at this U-shaped building with a foreign appearance, and looked at the flow of people coming in and out here, and a strong hatred welled up in his heart.

Chiang Kai-shek's two articles temporarily quelled the internal criticism of him and also relieved the pressure on Zhou Enlai, who had been an important part of his work since he became director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy.

Behind the two long and narrow red wooden windows on the second floor of Wende Building is Zhou Enlai's new home, which is a two-bedroom room with a bathroom, this house was assigned to him by the organization to take care of him after he got married, Deng Yingchao came to Guangzhou in August, they didn't want to alarm others when they got married, but Zhang Shenfu didn't do it, he invited everyone to have a Western meal at the Taiping Pavilion at his own expense, and this meal became the wedding banquet of the red couple; After marriage, Deng Yingchao served as the home of Li Fuchun, a member of the Guangdong District Party Committee and head of the Women's Department, who had served as the director of the Political Department of the Second Army shortly after returning from France, and his wife Cai Chang was the secretary of the Guangzhou Women's Movement Committee.

After getting married, Zhou Enlai came to Deng Yingchao for less than two months, and at the end of April, Zhou Enlai went to the Dongjiang River, and returned to Guangzhou in a hurry to report to work, and left without even entering the house. Deng Yingchao jokingly called him Dayu to control the water, and Zhou Enlai said that this was a sacrifice for the revolution.

Li Fuchun and Cai Chang are also in a similar situation, the Second Army is stationed in Beijiang, the military headquarters is located in Shaoguan, and Li Fuchun is stationed in Shaoguan for a long time, so the two families are women at home during this time, and the two women move around very frequently, and they help each other when there are difficulties in life.

Li Fuchun is very sympathetic to Zhou Enlai, his work in the Second Army is also very difficult, Tan Yankai, this old fox is a Tai Chi master, you can't figure out what he really thinks, Chiang Kai-shek will also give speeches, and will put forward ideas, Tan Yankai is not in charge of anything, in case of trouble, he will bring the division commanders and brigade commanders of the army to discuss, and everyone decides together, the people below will make some small moves behind his back, and he will know it, he will not be angry, but find an opportunity to make up for them. Li Fuchun had no choice but to concentrate his energies on the lower strata and to establish party representatives at all levels, but in Li Fuchun's view, most of these party representatives were in name only, and why was it that because there were no people, there were not so many people who knew about the revolution, they had to use old officers, who did not know what to do in the name of party representatives.

"There are too few cadres, there are too few, Enlai, can you transfer a few from Huangpu to me." Li Fuchun asked Zhou Enlai for help.

Zhou Enlai felt embarrassed, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to expand the army, and when he was in Shantou, he reorganized the 123rd detachment of the original Guangdong Army: "We are not enough, but the third phase is about to graduate, at that time you make a request, I will say it again, it is estimated that President Chiang will agree." ”

Cai Chang and Deng Yingchao were joining forces to straighten the yarn, she stretched out the yarn with both hands, and Deng Yingchao was in the thread pulling group, and when she heard them talk about Chiang Kai-shek, she asked: "Is this Chiang Kai-shek a real revolution or a fake revolution, is it really China's Kai Moer?" ”

"Yes, Enlai, what do you think of him?" Li Fuchun also asked.

Deng Yingchao looked at her husband with some concern, she knew that because Chiang Kai-shek's husband was criticized in the party; However, the husband rarely talked to him about his work, so he did not know exactly what was going on.

"This man...... It's hard to say, sometimes I think I can see clearly, but sometimes I feel like I don't see clearly," Zhou Enlai pondered for a moment and said slowly: "But the situation of the revolution is developing rapidly, and if he is a fake revolution, sooner or later it will be exposed." ”

Having said that, there are hidden worries after all. Once Chiang Kai-shek was a fake revolution, the threat to the revolution with the military power he held was fatal.

Zhuang Jihua helplessly learned that he was elected as a representative of the Second National Congress, looking at Zheng Jiemin's somewhat excited face, Zhuang Jihua also had to make a happy look, but in fact he had no interest in this representative, the students in the school have graduated, these are eighteen seeds, these eighteen seeds were sprinkled by him in Yanjing, Tianjin, Shenyang, Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Yueben. He said that he was preparing to recruit another batch of students, who were not going to be recruited from the military academy, but from the Sun Society. Now it has to be done after the meeting.

Chiang Kai-shek was very dissatisfied with this election, and only Zhuang Jihua and Zeng Guangqing were elected to the Chinese Kuomintang members of the entire First Army and the Whampoa Military Academy, and Zhuang Jihua was still elected by only one vote, and he was almost certain that there was a conspiracy in it.

Chiang Kai-shek, who returned to Guangzhou, became a political star and a man of the hour, the Nationalist Axe awarded him a gold medal, and various social groups invited him to be respectful to both the Kuomintang and Soviet Russian advisers, but Chiang Kai-shek proposed to Wang Jingwei to designate some officers to attend the Second National Congress, which made Wang Jingwei feel embarrassed, the number of deputies to the Second National Congress was decided by the Central Standing Committee, not an individual can change, for this he consulted with Xu Qian, Yu Youren, Tan Yankai, etc., Xu Qian, Yu Youren resolutely opposed, Tan Yankai was ambiguous, neither agreed nor opposed, Borodin finally suggested that Chiang Kai-shek could appoint some officers and instructors to attend the congress, but these people were not official delegates and could only attend, without the right to vote or speak.

Borodin personally went to Chiang Kai-shek's home and informed Chiang Kai-shek of this decision, which pleased Chiang Kai-shek, who thought that his opinion was taken seriously; Second, as soon as he raised his opinion, Borodin came in person and explained his important surname. For this reason, he took out his treasure collection of vodka and shared it with Borodin. This bottle of vodka was given to him by the leaders of Soviet Russia when he visited Soviet Russia, and he never drank it, but Chiang Kai-shek's alcohol was very shallow, so he only poured himself a little, but Borodin was even more excited, and his attitude towards Chiang Kai-shek proved that his judgment of Chiang Kai-shek a few days ago was correct, and Chiang Kai-shek was just making a surname. The two were in high spirits, drinking and chatting in the living room, and Chen Jieru took Jiang Weiguo upstairs to rest early.

"General Counsel, the next step is the Northern Expedition to realize the prime minister's long-cherished wish for many years." Chiang Kai-shek drank some wine, and his face was flushed.

"General Gallen once made a plan, but his precondition was that there must be a stable and consolidated Guangdong, and now this condition has been met." Borodin drank so much that he did not go overboard like Chiang Kai-shek, but poured it into his mouth.

"General, you don't look like a general when you drink, but like a general... Weak scholars. Borodin said to Chiang Kai-shek with a smile as he pondered his words.

"Hehe, I can't compare with you, you Russians are like you Russians grew up in wine." Chiang Kai-shek laughed and said, maybe it's the cold ice and snow in Siberia, everyone in Russia is good at drinking, and it's a lot of people who pull it casually, and it's a real massive.

"Meet," Borodin drank happily, a grunting sound came out of his throat: "There is a tradition in the Russian army that generals who can drink will fight, generals, you will not drink, so you will not be a general of the Russian army." ”

Chiang Kai-shek laughed, he blinked his eyes and deliberately asked: "Among the Russians, General Kutuzov is considered to be a Russian general." ”

"No, no," Borodin shook his head: "You don't understand Russia, Kutuzov is a commander-in-chief, not a general." ”

"Really?" Chiang Kai-shek asked with a little playfulness.

"Of course." Borodin replied in the affirmative.

The two laughed in unison.

After a short pause in laughter, Chiang Kai-shek stood up with great interest, looked at the north from afar as if he saw his orthodox commander marching north, he waved his finger to the north and said: "If you want the fire of revolution to burn in the whole of China, if you want to advance the revolution, you must go on the Northern Expedition, if we go to war this year, we will be able to conquer Wuhan next year." ”

"You're right, the revolution can't stay in Guangdong forever, then the revolution will be suffocated to death, and the Northern Expedition is the only way out." Borodin stood up and walked to Chiang Kai-shek's side: "But before we do that we have to do a few things. ”

Chiang Kai-shek turned his head to look at Borodin, who continued: "The revolution was not simply military action, but more political and economic change; As the revolutionary forces develop north from Canton, they can bring political and economic reform programs everywhere, and the revolutionary forces will awaken the peasants and workers along the way. With the swiftness of the revolutionary winds, it is no longer possible for the bourgeoisie to stifle change as it did before. In this way, it would be possible to carry out the agrarian reform and ensure the success of the revolution. So we first have to make an economic plan, a political plan; The economic plan must take into account the method of distribution of the wealth of society, and the political plan includes how to strengthen our forces, transform the old army, and so on. After these two plans are completed, we can go on the Northern Expedition. ”

Chiang Kai-shek looked pensive: "How much time will it take to formulate these two plans?" ”

"It's not more than half a year, and if it's short, it's three or four months." Borodin was also excited, and at this time he forgot about the dispute in Moscow, and also about the challenge from Tijiashan, he thought about the glory of creating a state.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded with satisfaction, thinking that he would be able to make a northern expedition to the Central Plains in half a year, and he couldn't help but be full of pride in his chest.

(To be continued)