Zhuang Jihua finally got the conclusive news from Director Zhou that Chiang Kai-shek had newly established an intelligence section under the garrison headquarters, appointed him as the section chief, and increased his military rank by one level. There are two deputy section chiefs, one is still He Jinhan, and the other is Li Anding, who was transferred from the Second Regiment. The others are Zhuang Jihua's people in the Shantou liaison group, Hua Chun, Wu Ziniu, Zhao Hanjie and others, of course, Chiang Kai-shek has not yet brought Wang Xiaoshan and Fan Hanjie to appear, and Deng Wenyi has officially left the intelligence department.

Holding this appointment, Zhuang Jihua felt a strong uneasiness in his heart, Director Zhou saw that he was a little absent-minded, thinking that he was worried about the work of the Intelligence Section, so he told him who he needed to find him, President Jiang had instructed that the staffing of the Intelligence Section could be given priority, Zhuang Jihua smiled bitterly in his heart, priority? When the intelligence officers can get it to the sun to discuss, and Chiang Kai-shek has already ordered it.

When the words came to his mouth, the phone on Director Zhou's desk rang, Director Zhou picked up the phone and signaled him to wait when he heard just two sentences, Zhuang Jihua took the opportunity to change his words and said Director Zhou, you are busy, I will go to Corey to have a look first.

When he walked to the door, he heard Director Zhou say: "Comrade Tailei, what issues are mainly discussed at the meeting, can you reveal them first." ”

After Borodin returned from Yanjing, he still lived in a villa near the East School, after Sun Yat-sen's death, his political status in Guangzhou did not decline but rose, and the family was often overcrowded, Zhou En still waited for half an hour to see Borodin after coming to the villa, and he was met with Tan Pingshan, Chen Yannian, Lin Zuhan, Deng Zhongxia and others.

After entering the small study, everyone saw that Gal was also in the study, and it was obvious that he was also going to attend this meeting, which made everyone feel even more extraordinary. Gallen is the general military adviser of the political axe of Guangdong, only responsible for military issues, and Borodin is the general political adviser, but imitating the principle of the Soviet Russian Party commanding the gun, Borodin's status in the advisory group is higher than Gallon. Sun Yat-sen had suffered too much from the military dictatorship and was wary of military interference in politics, so Gallen generally did not participate in political issues in Guangzhou, but only focused on military affairs.

After everyone was seated, Borodin got up from behind his desk, and he was slowly paced out from behind the desk in a Russian-style shirt today.

"Comrades, I have invited you here today to inform you of one thing." Everyone present noted that Borodin used the word "briefing" rather than "discussion".

"After my discussions with Liao Zhongkai, Hu Hanmin, and Xu Chongzhi, we believe that the time has come for the establishment of the Kuomintang Central Committee, and a few days later the Central Standing Committee of the Kuomintang will be convened, at which the organizational regulations for the national political axe will be discussed.

Borodin's words did not cause any stir among the people, and all the people present were [***] high-ranking cadres in Guangzhou, and most of them also held high-ranking cadres in the Kuomintang, and Borodin's discussion on a small scale had already leaked out. Seeing that there was no reaction, Borodin knew in his heart that they already knew, so he stopped talking nonsense and went straight to the point.

"The main issue that has convened you today is the direction of future work and the personnel in the national government. The National Government plans to adopt a chairmanship system, with three ministries: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Military Affairs. In addition, a military commissar will be established to exercise leadership over the army. ”

The Military Council also imitated the Soviet Russian system, systematically ensuring that the party commanded the gun. Everyone here understands that Borodin does not need to explain anything, and everyone is waiting for Borodin to explain the topic of the meeting.

"I invite everyone to discuss whether our party should participate in the national political axe, and the other is the issue of army rectification."

After Borodin's words were finished, Zhou Enlai understood that what Borodin really wanted to discuss was the selection of military commissars, or more precisely, the question of who to support. According to the Soviet Russian system, the chairman of the party is the natural candidate for the chairman of the military committee, and the other are important political and military leaders, and there are three main political leaders in Guangzhou at present: Wang Jingwei, Hu Hanmin, and Liao Zhongkai; The military leaders are mainly: Xu Chongzhi, Tan Yankai, and Jiang Zuobin; The other Zhu Peide, Cheng Qian, and Chiang Kai-shek are considered second-class, and after that, they will be counted as Bai Wenwei, Li Jishen, Li Fulin and others. However, according to the geographical division, it is complicated, Xu Chongzhi on behalf of the Guangdong Army, Zhu Peide on behalf of the Yunnan Army, Tan Yankai and Cheng Qian on behalf of the Hunan Army, and Chiang Kai-shek on behalf of the Party Army. Xu Chongzhi was the first to recommend the strength of the Guangdong army in terms of strength, and Xu Chongzhi incorporated a large number of Chen Jiongming's remaining troops, so that the strength of the Guangdong army quickly jumped to the top of all armies; followed by Tan Yankai's Hunan army; After pacifying Liu Yang, Chiang Kai-shek incorporated the prisoners of the Yunnan army and established the Fourth Regiment, and the advantages of the party army were mainly reflected in politics, and his middle and lower-level officers were all from the Whampoa Military Academy, with high political consciousness and strong combat effectiveness.

"Of course, our party should participate in the political axe. Does this still need to be discussed? Director Zhou was thinking about it when he heard Tan Pingshan ask a little strangely.

Hearing his words, Director Zhou shook his head in his heart, Tan Pingshan is too honest, Borodin must have asked this because the Kuomintang did not want [***] to participate in the political axe, and the Kuomintang wanted to read the power to govern.

Sure enough, Chen Yannian frowned and asked, "Doesn't the Kuomintang want us to participate in the political axe?" Borodin nodded.

"Hu Hanmin told me that under the current situation, it is easy for [***] members to participate in the political axe and be blamed by others, causing unnecessary trouble, and besides, the Kuomintang political axe is to work under the guidance of the Kuomintang, and [***] members can participate in the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, and there is no need to participate in the political axe."

Borodin's words surprised everyone, and Deng Zhongxia stood up angrily and asked: "The cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was formulated by the prime minister in front of him, why do they want to deny the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party before the prime minister's bones are cold?" ”

"Deng, don't get excited, they haven't reached a resolution yet, they just discussed it with me in private, and they should want to see our attitude before making a decision." Borodin appeased Deng Zhongxiadao.

"We cannot accept such an arrangement, there should be a place for our party in the national political axe, otherwise how can the KMT-CCP cooperation begin." Lin Zuhan also disagreed.

"Adviser Bao, our party can not send people to join the political axe, but what I don't understand is what is the purpose of their message? Is it a temptation or something else? Chen Yannian asked.

"Is it this or will it be the same in the future?" Director Zhou added.

Borodin did not expect that the [***] cadres in Guangzhou did not approve of the proposal not to join the political axe, and he regretted that he had brought this issue up for discussion, and he should have discussed it with Chen Duxiu in Shanghai, and he would have understood my painstaking efforts.

"It's not clear yet, but I think it should be a problem this time." Borodin decided to put the issue aside for the time being and not to make a decision for the time being.

But Borodin's words made the participants in the meeting very dissatisfied, how can such a thing be prevaricated with uncertainty?

Chen Yannian quickly reacted to Borodin's words.

"I believe that our party should resolutely oppose such a proposal and should resolutely strive for a position in the political axe. Even if the position of minister cannot be obtained, the position of secretary below the minister can. ”

"This is an obvious rightist remark, and after Feng Liberty and others left, Hu Hanmin became the leader of the rightists in Guangzhou." Deng Zhongxia is very angry, this kind of issue should be counterattacked on the spot, how can it still be discussed at the party meeting? He was dissatisfied with Borodin's bias towards the Kuomintang.

"I also think it's inappropriate to do this, how to reflect the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party; At the beginning, our party participated in the premier's reorganization of the Kuomintang, and now our comrades are working in the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, and our party should also participate in the formation of the political axe, so as to reflect the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Tan Pingshan also expressed his attitude at this time.

Borodin did not expect his prevarication to arouse their dissatisfaction, and hurriedly remedied: "I think what they mean is that they will not send people to participate in this political axe [***] alone, mainly because the three ministries established are not good at [***] comrades, and when other departments are established in the future, [***] will send people to participate." ”

Borodin's words made everyone suspicious, because just now Borodin made it clear that he did not know how he had suddenly changed again. Before everyone could think through how to express their doubts, Borodin immediately threw out the second item on the agenda of the meeting.

"After the establishment of the national political axe, the next step is to carry out army rectification, and my idea is to take one army as the core and rely on it to rectify the Guangdong army, I will first listen to your opinions and choose that army as the core."

All the Chinese looked at Gallon in silence, Gallen is the general military adviser, he knows the army in Guangdong best, and has the most say on this issue.

Gallen had not spoken just now, and according to the division of labor, Borodin was in charge of political issues, and he was only in charge of the military. Borodin attached great importance to the army, and he believed that some of the troops in Guangdong were not yet revolutionary armies and were still in the stage of mercenaries, and it was necessary to sort out the Guangdong army. Finishing requires a force as the core, and this is where his disagreement with Borodin lies. He believed that the Cantonese army was strong, and using it as the core could reduce a lot of resistance; However, Borodin believed that Xu Chongzhi was a soldier with a very heavy old mentality, and with the Cantonese army as the core, he was afraid that he would not be able to achieve the goal of revolutionizing the army. They have argued with each other several times, but they have never been able to get to know each other, and both have reported to Moscow through their respective channels and are now waiting for Moscow's answer.

Gallen thought that such a meeting was meaningless, just waiting for the telegram from Moscow, but now that everyone was looking at him, Gallen had no choice but to express his opinion.

"General Xu Chongzhi's troops are the strongest among the armies in Guangdong, and if he is the core, together with General Chiang Kai-shek's troops, more than half of Guangdong's troops will be reorganized, and this will shorten the time for reorganizing the troops and reduce unnecessary interference."

"I disagree." Director Zhou immediately stood up and said. Among the Chinese present, he was the only one who worked in the army and had the most say on this issue: "Xu Chongzhi's Guangdong army is still far from the revolutionary army, and the most revolutionary spirit in the Guangdong army is the party army, so I think we should vigorously strengthen the party army and take the party army as the core." ”

"Come on, it is very risky to rectify the army, and if you don't pay attention to it, it will lead to a rebellion, Xu Chongzhi's Cantonese army is the strongest, and taking him as the core can deter other armies, I think General Gallen's opinion is correct." What Director Zhou didn't expect was that Tan Pingshan was the first to object.

"It is precisely because of this that we cannot take the Guangdong army as the core, Comrade Pingshan, what is the purpose of rectifying the army? It is to revolutionize the army. Although the number of the Guangdong army is large, the number of troops with combat effectiveness is actually limited, and since the pacification of Liu Yang, the Guangdong army has hijacked Guangzhou's financial resources, packed cigarettes, gambled and prostitutes, and what is the difference between it and Liu Yang's army? Director Zhou paused and said:

The middle and lower-ranking officers of the party army are all young people who have received revolutionary ideological education in Huangpu, they are full of vigor and vigor, and they take the eradication of warlords and the defeat of imperialism as their own responsibility, and the revolutionary surname of the army is very strong; If such an army cannot become the core, I don't know that the army in China today can become the core of the revolutionary army. ”

Director Zhou's remarks resonated with other people present, and Chen Yannian also said that the performance of the Guangdong army after the pacification of Liu Yang really cannot be called a revolutionary army, and it may not be appropriate to take him as the core.

Deng Zhongxia simply thought that Xu Chongzhi was full of all kinds of poisons, and he was not worthy of being called a revolutionary soldier at all, let alone the leader of the revolutionary army, and even if he wanted to take the Guangdong army as the core, Xu Chongzhi should be removed first.

Later, Director Zhou said again: "The purpose of establishing Whampoa is to train a group of young officers for the revolution, and then build a new type of army with these officers as the core. Comrade Gallen, you have also seen the performance of the party army during the Eastern Crusade, is such an army not worth vigorously developing? ”

When the discussion of Borodin's villa was intense, Zhuang Jihua was in the office in a hurry, the sea breeze blew in from the window, this night without air conditioning and no electric fan, made him sweat, the window was wide open, the sea breeze poured in from the window, blowing away the paper on the table that had been full of words, and the falling paper was written "Sichuan Army Transformation Plan".

(To be continued)