There is a strange phenomenon in Nanjing officialdom, most of the people who come in and out of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wear suits, most of the people who come in and out of the military command department wear military uniforms, most of the people who come in and out of the French palace-style building at No. 16 Dingjiaqiao wear Mao suits, and most of the cars entering and leaving the door are American cars, this is Chen Lifu's territory, every time he looks out of the car window and sees the admiring faces of people passing by on both sides, Chen Lifu will have a sense of satisfaction.

During this time, Chen Lifu's mood was very happy, since Yang Yongtai was driven away, his mood was so happy almost every day, the reason why it was almost because the Blue Coat Society was still looking for trouble in Shanghai, and the two sides of the cultural circle were fighting fiercely, but with Wu Tiecheng's secret help, the situation had begun to tilt towards the CC system.

"Minister, Feng Yi, director of the Party Department in Yucheng, is in a hurry." As soon as Chen Lifu entered the office, the secretary brought an urgent telegram, he took it and frowned slightly, Feng Yi reported to him in the telegram an urgent matter, after the Sichuan Party Affairs Training Corps started, the three county party directors refused to participate in the training, Zhuang Jihua was angry and not only dismissed their party directors from their posts, but also expelled them from the party, these three people were not satisfied, and then protested to the Sichuan provincial party department, believing that Zhuang Jihua was interfering in politics with the military, contrary to the premier's teaching that soldiers are not allowed to interfere in politics. Relying on their old qualifications and rich connections in Sichuan, these three people held a press conference in Chengdu to launch a public opinion offensive, saying that Zhuang Jihua's various measures were all to implement the strategy of the Communist Party without the Communist Party, and his intentions were sinister and wanted to disintegrate our Kuomintang from within. Although most of the Chengdu press circles were under the control of Zeng Guangqing, and only a few newspapers published their statements, it also caused quite a stir in the political circles in Sichuan. Feng Yi suggested in the telegram that now is the best time to meddle in Sichuan party affairs, and take advantage of this turmoil to drive Zeng Kuanqing out of his position as director of the Sichuan Provincial Party Department and take Sichuan party affairs from the hands of the Blue Coat Society.

Feng Yi's suggestion made Chen Lifu feel excited, Sichuan's party affairs were originally controlled in the local forces in Sichuan, that is, selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, until 1931, Chiang Kai-shek sent Zeng to expand the love into Sichuan, and then took over the party affairs work, and then the rise of the Blue Coat Society, He Zhenhan controlled the Sichuan party affairs in his hands through Zeng Guangqing, especially in the past two years, Zhuang Jihua's suppression of local forces in Sichuan made Zeng Guangqing's control of Sichuan party affairs more handy, Chen Lifu has long complained about this, and has also made several statements in front of Chiang Kai-shek, He believed that the party affairs in Sichuan should still be handed over to the Central Party Department for management, but Chiang Kai-shek never agreed.

"Director Li Yanguo, please." After thinking for a moment, Chen Lifu instructed that Chen Lifu was not only the head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, but also the chairman of the Land Committee, and was one of the leaders of the largest faction in the Kuomintang.

After 412, Li Yanguo and Wu Chaoshu left Guangdong to Nanjing, and he quickly judged that although Chiang Kai-shek was in the wilderness, his strength was still there, and Li Zongren Bai Chongxi, who presided over the political axe of Nanjing, was not strong enough and could not successfully dominate the throne, and Chiang Kai-shek would definitely make a comeback.

"Zhuang Wenge has reached out to the party power and the regime." After Li Yanguo read the telegram, he immediately made a judgment. Chen Lifu nodded, this judgment was easy to make, but Chen Lifu hesitated what countermeasures to take.

The mission of developing the southwest was clear to him from the very beginning, and Zhuang Jihua's various measures in Sichuan in the past two years were strongly supported by Chiang Kai-shek, and he lived up to his expectations, quickly opened up the situation, gained a firm foothold in Sichuan, and gradually divided the powerful factions in Sichuan, so that the central government's control over Sichuan was greatly strengthened.

More importantly, the tremendous achievements made by the Southwest Development Team in the past two years were approved by Chiang Kai-shek, and even Feng Yi, a high-minded and arrogant person, did not hesitate to admit in his letter that the achievements made by Yucheng in the past two years surpassed those of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the past five years, and that its industrial development was stable and that its official administration ranked first in the country.

Therefore, Zhuang Jihua wants to meddle in the party affairs and political power in Sichuan, Chen Lifu has to consider the possibility of conflict with him, and now the momentum of the Blue Coat Society has been beaten down by him, but Sichuan is one of the few areas controlled by the Blue Coat Society, and he wants to take back the party power in Sichuan, which is bound to conflict with the Blue Coat Society; Secondly, Yang Yongtai is still in Sichuan, this old and cunning guy will never be a spectator, he will not take the opportunity to use the power in his hands to expand the Department of Political Science to Sichuan, then he is not Yang Yongtai.

"The minister is thinking about Zhuang's attitude towards the Cultural Revolution, right?" Li Yanguo saw Chen Lifu's hesitation, he was not unfamiliar with Zhuang Jihua, in Guangzhou he and Wu Chaoshu and his gang fought with Zhuang Jihua a few times, defeated more and won less, and finally although Zhuang Jihua was successfully driven away from Chiang Kai-shek, it is difficult to say that Zhuang Jihua is a loser. Since then, he has been paying attention to and pondering this person, and the more he pondered, the more he felt that this person was extremely difficult to deal with. He is extremely high, but he has no desire for power, he will hand over the power if he gives power, and if he goes, he will go there, and he looks like a gentleman; He is easy to deal with if he is a simple gentleman, but he acts in an eclectic manner, and his methods are sometimes very noble and upright, and sometimes it makes him, a person who thinks he loves to make tricks, feel very despicable, and such a character is difficult to deal with.

Chen Lifu nodded again, he didn't want to clash with Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua's awesomeness was very clear in the Intelligence Department, if he was pushed into the arms of the Blue Coat Society, there would be endless troubles.

"It's better not to clash with him," Li Yanguo said: "Brother Wuchang's telegram didn't make it clear, what was the purpose of Zhuang Wenge's intervention in Sichuan?" Is it just a seizure of power or something else? Let's figure out his purpose first. ”

Chen Lifu let out a soft sound from his nostrils, and then frowned and said, "How to deal with those troublesome old guys?" ”

"I don't care about my opinion for now," Li Yanguo said: "Let's wait and see, let Feng Yi not express his position, wait for Zeng to deal with it, and see what kind of attitude the chairman has, and then say it." ”

There is no doubt that this is a very safe way to advance and retreat freely without taking a little risk; Those old guys in Sichuan participated in the league meeting, and they had contacts with several Sichuan veterans in the party, Xie Zhi, Yang Shukan, Xiong Kewu, and even Lin Sen and Zou Lu, and it is difficult to say that these people did not take the opportunity to stir up disputes within the party.

"Okay," as soon as this voice came out, a thought flashed through Chen Lifu's mind, and he immediately called Li Yanguo, who was about to go out: "Wait, it's not right." ”

Li Yanguo stopped, turned to look at Chen Lifu, and didn't know what he meant: "Feng Wuchang understands Zhuang Wenge, since he said so, then it means that it can be implemented, and immediately send a telegram to ask, on two questions, how sure is Zhuang Wenge's attitude and driving Zeng Guangqing away?" ”

Li Yanguo is a very smart person, he thought about it a little and understood that what Chen Lifu said made sense, Feng Yi was a more cautious person, and he had worked with Zhuang Jihua in Yucheng for more than half a year, so he should have a better understanding of his thoughts, since he took the initiative to propose, it means that this matter is certain, and Feng Yi's telegram came back half an hour later.

"Zhuang Jihua's purpose is to rectify the current relatively loose middle-level party organs, so as to establish a strict grass-roots party organization, that is, to transplant the organizational structure of Yucheng to Sichuan, in preparation for the implementation of rural reform and the establishment of a reserve military service system, Yucheng is about to implement rent reduction and interest reduction, it is expected that this move will be more resistant, Zhuang Jihua also intends to use this to establish authority, deter local clan forces in Sichuan."

After talking about Zhuang Jihua's purpose, Feng Yi further analyzed Zhuang Jihua's attitude: "In Zhuang Jihua's view, whoever can help him achieve this goal, he will support whom, so as long as we show strong support, we will not conflict with him." He himself has said on more than one occasion that he has no intention of party affairs and government affairs, and that he is indeed the same in Yucheng, and has not interfered in party affairs and personnel. ”

"Driving out Zeng Kuoqing mainly depends on the central government's brewing, and Sichuan has no such possibility." Feng Yi only said one word to Zeng Kuoqing, but that was enough, Zeng Kuoqing was the person in charge of party affairs in Sichuan, and it was impossible to get rid of him by relying on Feng Wei.

"Okay," Chen Lifu couldn't help but scream after reading it, and Li Yanguo was also a little excited: "Lifu, we must take Sichuan, the development of the southwest is progressing rapidly, Sichuan will be a very important area in the future, I calculated, in two years, various factories will open more than a dozen, according to this rate, in two years the number of factories can reach at least fifty, the output value is close to one billion, not to mention anything else, that penicillin is unacceptable, at least tens of millions a year." ”

"Well, okay, take care of it," Chen Lifu decisively said: "On the one hand, I will do this to drive Zeng Guangqing, and on the other hand, we will wait for those Sichuan elders to come out to speak, and we will help Zhuang Wenge." ”

Sure enough, as Chen had predicted, Xie Zhi, who was recuperating in Shanghai, issued a statement raising objections to the Sichuan Party as a whole, and at the same time lashed out at the New Life Movement in Chongqing, mocking that the height of the slits in his heels and cheongsam was inversely proportional to the depth of the new life. Subsequently, Lin Sen and Zou Lu also expressed their stance one after another, holding that Sichuan's practice of rectifying party affairs was inappropriate and paralyzed the grassroots party organizations in Sichuan, and in particular, they did not pay attention to taking care of the feelings of the old comrades in the party.

Bai Yu, a member of the Shanghai Cultural Society and a professor at the China Public School, openly wrote an article saying that some old-fashioned old decay in the Kuomintang should have been eliminated long ago, and that their corpses were useless to the country and the nation except that they could become officials, and that the Kuomintang should use violent means to carrion on its own body and implement its own new life with the determination of a strong man to break his wrist.

Chen Lifu personally wrote an article describing the reasons for the slackening of grassroots organizations over the past few years and the serious consequences caused by this; taking the Sichuan incident as an example, the concentrated study of the party department directors was an order of the provincial party department, and the directors of the party departments of the three counties dared to disobey it.

Chen Lifu's statement, Nanjing officialdom found out that this time the CC Department and the Blue Coat Society joined forces, just before they had time to express their surprise, Yang Yongtai began to bombard Xie Zhi, thinking that the implementation of the New Life Movement is the chairman's national policy, is a good prescription to boost the confidence of the people, the students in the Yucheng area actively participated, it is in response to the chairman's call, even if it is a little excessive, but it is better than indifferent.

Nanjing officialdom was shaken, this time it was a rare combination of three factions, something that had never happened in the political arena of the Republic of China had happened, and the bureaucrats of Nanjing, big and small, were a little stunned, and they didn't know what articles were in it.

When the two sides were arguing, the Battle of Xiangjiang broke out, and in the fierce battle that lasted for eight days, the Red Army suffered heavy casualties, the corpses were filled with the Xiangjiang River, and the Xiangjiang River was cut off, and the Red Army was sharply reduced from more than 80,000 people at the time of departure to more than 30,000 people; The Kuomintang army won an unprecedented victory, Nanchang, Nanjing, and Shanghai were thunderous with joy, and they began to predict the demise of the Communist Party, and there was even gossip in the Beijing-Shanghai area that Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Red Army, had been killed in this battle.

Zhuang Jihua didn't pay any attention to the offensive of the three Xinhai-level old party members, he didn't even bother to tell the difference, these three people had no other strength except for a little seniority and knew a few figures who had no real power in the party, and they wanted to pull him down with one mouth, which was really a joke.

“… The attack formation of the army is a tactical formation called a triangular formation in the West, and this formation is divided into two types, the main point of the front triangular formation and the rear triangular formation is ......., and the main point of the tactics of dealing with the triangular formation is to make full use of machine guns and sharpshooters......."

In the training of officers, Zhuang Jihua regarded the army as an imaginary enemy, and all the content of the course was aimed at the army, but what he wanted to teach was also what he sorted out with Xue Yue back then, but these contents were also modified, and he explained them on the basis of the equipment of the German armor division.

To be honest, this period of time can be very busy, the development team, the new army, the party affairs training group, the officer training group, government training, he is not at ease, all the teaching content must be handed over to him for review and approval before he can start teaching, and he himself is also in the three regiments as a teacher, party affairs he has to talk about the grassroots work methods of the course, government affairs to talk about the specific practice of Sanming cooking, this is what he summed up in the past two years, the three courses have tired him, almost completely unable to find the north.

Zhuang Jihua pushed open the classroom door after class, and when he looked up, he saw a group of people standing on the field outside the door, and a familiar little man next to Du Yuming attracted his attention, and when he looked at it, Zhuang Jihua almost didn't believe his eyes.

"Shoushan, haha, why did you come to Yucheng!" Zhuang Jihua almost jumped up, and rushed to Hu Zongnan in a few steps, Hu Zongnan was dressed in an ordinary earth-gray military uniform, and only two golden stars proved his identity.

"We're going to Xuanhan to suppress bandits, and we're here to see you. Shi Jian asked me to bring it to you. Hu Zongnan's smile was honest and steady, and there was a hint of warmth in his voice.

There is no need to go through Yucheng to Xuanhan, Hu Zongnan did come to see him on purpose, Zhuang Jihua said happily: "No matter where you go, you have to listen to me when you get to my acre and three points of land." Brother Shi Jian is there with you, why didn't he come? This decrepit boy, did you forget me? ”

"He wants to lead the troops, he can't leave, I can't come when he comes, do you think I can let him come?" Hu Zongnan smiled, Yu Chengwan is now a brigade commander, and this time he led his troops to enter Xuanhan, and Yu Chengwan fought at the front station, so it was impossible to come.

Zhuang Jihua said and raised his eyes to look at the people on the periphery, his expression became more and more excited, all acquaintances, all brothers.

"Salute!"

Neat and standard military salute, Zhuang Jihua looked at some familiar and somewhat unfamiliar faces with mixed feelings, these were his old subordinates in the first division, survivors of the Battle of Niuxing.

"Wang Guobin, Zhang Xin, Zhang Lihui," Zhuang Jihua shook hands one by one along the queue, and he also accidentally found a person in the queue: "Zhao Hanjie, why are you here?" ”

"Company commander, after graduating from the military academy, I asked to go to the first division, and the commander of Fang agreed, but the company commander was... Later, when Chief Hu came, I followed him all the time. "The current Zhao Hanjie is not the Zhao dog who didn't understand anything and was a deserter, he now has the rank of major, his figure has grown taller, and he has a mustache on his lips.

"Good, good." Zhuang Jihua punched him in the chest excitedly, Zhao Hanjie smiled and accepted it nonchalantly, Zhuang Jihua couldn't help but say again: "Okay, it's strong, the little hairy child of the year has become a man." ”

Wu Ziniu said with a smile: "He's still the dog of the year, but now he looks worthy of the name you gave him, Han Jie, the hero of the Han people." ”

Wu Ziniu, Song Yunfei, and Zhao Hanjie were all brought out by Zhuang Jihua from the Intelligence Section, and compared with other people, the relationship between them was more intimate.

"You cow, have you tied a rope all these years?" Zhao Hanjie asked with a smile.

"Tie me, the woman who can tie me hasn't come out yet." Wu Ziniu was smiling, but when he saw Zhuang Jihua turning his head and glaring at him, he immediately shut up.

Seeing these brothers who followed him out of the pile of dead people in the cattle shop, Zhuang Jihua was both happy and sad, most of the more than 700 survivors of that year were sent to military academies after the war, and Chiang Kai-shek did not break his promise. After graduation, most of them returned to the First Division, but after years of war, now there are only more than 200 people left, and in the later wars, Hu Zongnan continued to be promoted from the First Division, and now these people are distributed in the various units under Hu Zongnan's command, most of them are captain-level officers, and only a very few are non-commissioned officers.

In the evening, Zhuang Jihua paid for three tables in the canteen, and when the old subordinates of the year were feasted, Zhuang Jihua said to Hu Zongnan: "Shoushan, I am also expanding the army now, and there is a serious shortage of officers with actual combat experience, can you support my brothers." ”

Hu Zongnan couldn't drink much, his already dizzy head suddenly woke up, and he instinctively wanted to refuse, but Du Yuming preemptively said: "Brother Shoushan, the first division is known to be a combat strongman, and in your army, there are elite soldiers and strong generals, and it is not a problem to transfer one hundred and eighty people." ”

Hu Zongnan's drunkenness was completely awake, and he resolutely refused: "One hundred and eighty people!" You Du Guangting's tone is too big, I'm not right, it's not the foundation laid by the Cultural Revolution back then, who doesn't know Huangpu classmates, in the past few years, I have also practiced according to the training manual of the Cultural Revolution, don't you also have that manual, no, no, one hundred and eighty people, absolutely not, I have already drunk, talking doesn't count, doesn't count. ”

"One hundred and eighty people can't do it, twenty or thirty is still okay," Seeing that Hu Zongnan began to play tricks, Zhuang Jihua came forward to play a round: "Come, Shoushan, I thank you first," he drank the wine in the wine glass as he spoke, and then showed the bottom of the glass.

Hu Zongnan smiled bitterly and looked at Li Zhilong, Hong Junqi, and Du Yuming, and felt that their gaze at him was like a pack of wolves seeing a sheep, and they were all drooling.

"Cultural Revolution ,...." Hu Zongnan wanted to resign, but Zhuang Jihua interrupted him with a smile: "I don't want it in vain, I'll exchange things with you, how about it?" ”

"What's that?" Hu Zongnan asked suspiciously, Zhuang Jihua's business is not good, maybe he will sell you.

"Machine guns, rifles, mortars, you want that? If you dare to collect money, I will dare to give it," After Zhuang Jihua finished speaking, he leaned into Hu Zongnan's ear and whispered: "Brother Shoushan, don't blame me for not reminding you, if you don't give it, I will poach it, and when the time comes..." ”

Hu Zongnan couldn't laugh or cry, this Zhuang Jihua has become a lieutenant general, how can he still say such ruffian words; But he can still threaten him with this, just look at those boys who heard that they were going to come to Yucheng to see Zhuang Jihua, so they ran to the division headquarters and asked to come together, and they understood that if Zhuang Jihua poached the corner, there was a good chance that he would succeed.

"Zhuang Wenge, this is a soldier of the country, you can't trade privately, besides, everyone is an old classmate, you can't yin me!" Hu Zongnan's tone seemed to be angry and begging for mercy, and then he asked for help from Zheng: "Teacher Yan, you have to uphold justice." ”

"I support you on this point, you are right, soldiers are soldiers of the country, and they cannot be exchanged privately," said seriously and seriously: "However, Shoushan, if the Cultural Revolution appoints important people to the Ministry of Military Affairs, do you think the principal will approve it?" At that time, you were empty of money and money. ”

"That's right, we have a serious shortage of cadres here, the principal will not fail to approve, the Cultural Revolution, those machine guns, mortars are still saved, let's equip the new army." Li Zhilong said with a smile.

Hu Zongnan was a little stupid, Zhuang Jihua really wanted to ask for it, and he was eighty percent sure that Chiang Kai-shek would agree. But the people he brought today are all brave and good at fighting, let's just say Zhao Hanjie, the little doll back then, is now the commander of the division reconnaissance battalion; That Wang Guobin has already won two medals, and he will soon be promoted to the head of the regiment, which...., he will feel heartache for anyone.

"Old classmate, big brother," Zhuang Jihua was very sincere: "Two Czech light machine guns and one mortar for one person." ”

Hu Zongnan blushed, gritted his teeth and said: "You Zhuang Wenge is a robber, you cheated us of our military salary back then, this time..., I sent it to the door for you to rob, no, absolutely not, I... I'll give you at most... Ten people, not one more, a hundred Czech light machine guns, fifty mortars, no bargaining. ”

"Deal!" Zhuang Jihua patted Hu Zongnan on the shoulder, and said happily that these ten people will be his descendants, and the descendants of the descendants are completely his Zhuang Jihua's people.

(To be continued)