Feng Yi didn't seem to expect Chiang Kai-shek to ask such a question, and he hesitated before saying, "Naturally, I will go back to Anhui and continue to run my newspaper." ”

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head and showed regret: "I want to ask Mr. to stay, now that my party is in crisis, I am worried, but I am dull to politics, and Mr. Octavia should be able to fill in the gaps for me." ”

Chiang Kai-shek said this very tactfully, but Feng Yi heard the meaning of the words, you said that our party is going to be hollowed out, okay, I will listen to you, but you can't finish talking and leave, leaving me alone to make up this mess.

Zhang Jingjiang said with a smile: "That place in Anhui is too small to accommodate you as a ghost, so I think you will stay, serve as a staff officer for Kai-shek, and contribute more to the party and the country." ”

Although Feng Yi was still hesitating, his expression was no longer so resolute, and Chiang Kai-shek seized the opportunity to say: "I ask Mr. to be my confidential secretary, if you want the rank of colonel, for the time being, you can only award the rank of colonel, and the general-level officers must be approved by the Military Commission." ”

"The military rank is unnecessary, Feng has never thought of holding a gun, I'm afraid I will only pee my pants when people shoot me, so don't embarrass the National Revolutionary Army."

After saying this, he laughed, everyone listened to him funny, and couldn't help but be happy, Zhuang Jihua shook his head in his heart, not knowing what this Feng Yi brought, whether it was right or wrong to bring him.

Among these people, Zhang Jingjiang is the most satisfied, he not only completed Wang Jingwei's trust, but also eliminated worries in disguise, Chiang Kai-shek has a bad habit, he will leave without saying a word, this was the case in the Guangdong army before, and later the Whampoa Military Academy was also like this, in the past, Sun Yat-sen cherished his talents, and every time he sent people to chase back, if he leaves now, I am afraid that only people are happy, no one chases.

Then chatted for a while, Zeng Guangqing thought of writing an article, contacting the newspaper, and was about to leave without saying a word, Zhuang Jihua took the opportunity to leave with him, and Chiang Kai-shek did not leave them, but just exhorted them a few words and let them go.

After the backs of the two disappeared at the door, Chiang Kai-shek asked Feng Wei: "Mr. Impermanence, what do you think I should do in the future?" ”

"For Soviet Russia, we have to take advantage of it, without their support the Northern Expedition will be very difficult; To [***] to use, but also to control. Feng Wei said: "The way to control is to use the law, so the three bills of the Zhuang Cultural Revolution should be formulated as soon as possible, in addition, [***] doesn't it mean that we have three factions of the left, the middle and the right, in fact, [***] is not monolithic, but also distributed, radicals, centrists, moderates, radicals follow Soviet Russia, how does Soviet Russia say how they do, the conservative faction advocates our party as the mainstay, they are supplemented, Chen Duxiu, Zhang Guotao is the middle of this faction, and the radicals are represented by Cai Hesen and Qu Qiubai. ”

Unlike the Kuomintang, the internal situation was never announced to the public, Chiang Kai-shek was surprised: "Where does Mr. know?" ”

"I learned from "New Youth" and "Guide". Feng Wei was a little proud: "Although [***] tried their best to cover up their internal differences, it is inevitable that there will be clues leaking, as long as you think carefully, you can find out." ”

"So how do you hold back the moderates and fight the radicals?" Zhang Jingjiang was very interested, although he did not participate in the Xishan Conference faction, but he was slightly sympathetic to them, and was worried about the development of [***] in the Kuomintang, and more importantly, [***] has not yet revealed obvious flaws in it. It does not want to cause the breakdown of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, violating Sun Yat-sen's three major policies, and also wants to inhibit the development of [***]. This made him feel frustrated, but after Feng Yi's analysis, he suddenly found that [***] still had a lot of weaknesses, and his confidence came naturally.

"The way to win over the modests is to contact Chen Duxiu and others, listen to their opinions, and make some concessions if necessary to meet their demands, which can increase their prestige in the party; To crack down on radicals, it is necessary to enact legislation as soon as possible, and the purpose of legislation is to draw a line for them, and once this line is crossed, they will be resolutely cracked down. Feng Wei then explained: "In addition, we must look at Soviet Russia separately from [***], and we must promote the separation of [***] from Soviet Russia." Soviet Russia first takes care of their interests, and does not unconditionally support our party, I have heard that most of the weapons that Soviet Russia gave us, we gave money, not unconditionally, is this so? ”

Chiang Kai-shek nodded: "Except for the first few thousand guns, we have paid for the rest, including the batch of weapons and equipment that arrived after Shaji." ”

"This situation should be revealed as soon as possible and let the people know." Feng Yi said immediately.

"Why?" Chiang Kai-shek was puzzled: "British and American imperialism can use this as an excuse to intervene. ”

"They have long known that Soviet Russia is supporting our weapons, but what the people don't know is that we have paid for these weapons, and they think that Soviet Russia supports us unconditionally, so they blindly worship Soviet Russia and reveal the truth, so that more people can see the purpose of Soviet Russia, and we don't need to be grateful to them." Feng Yi explained.

Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Jingjiang said at the same time that the prestige of Soviet Russia in Guangzhou was very high, mostly because people had a feeling of gratitude to Soviet Russia, Britain and the United States and other European powers had never supported the political axe of Guangzhou, but Soviet Russia sent weapons and advisers, so the people of Guangzhou were sincerely grateful, so they never thought that Soviet Russia actually had their own purposes, and most of the weapons and equipment had been paid, and these equipment were still some obsolete old equipment.

The next day, Chiang Kai-shek attended the congress, at which he spoke again, strongly demanding the passage of the Northern Expedition bill, accusing the opposition to the Northern Expedition of being a compromise with the warlords and a betrayal of the revolution, and he claimed that the Northern Expedition was not to be carried out tomorrow, and that the adoption of the Northern Expedition bill was only an indication of our attitude, and that we should advance the revolution to the whole country.

After Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Jingjiang also made an exception to ask for a speech. Although Zhang Jingjiang is a member of the supervisory committee, due to his inconvenience, he rarely participates in the meeting, and he speaks even less, and he has never spoken at this meeting until now, so Zhang Jingjiang's gesture has aroused great attention from the delegates attending the meeting.

In his speech, Zhang Jingjiang unequivocally supported Chiang Kai-shek, and he counted the premier's several Northern Expeditions, as well as his last words, and the Northern Expedition bill showed that we would inherit the premier's legacy and carry out the national revolution to the end. …………。

Seeing that the situation might be reversed, Ji Jiashan personally went out to talk about the unfavorable factors of the Northern Expedition at the meeting, and finally he said in a conclusive tone that it was inappropriate to mention the Northern Expedition at present, and suggested that the Northern Expedition should not be passed for the time being, and that it should be resolved at the next meeting. Subsequently, Zhang Tailei spoke on behalf of [***] in support of Ji Jiashan and suggested that the Northern Expedition bill should be voted on immediately; Wang Jingwei accepted this suggestion, and the result of the vote was that the Northern Expedition bill did not pass.

Although the Northern Expedition bill was not passed, Chiang Kai-shek was not as angry as before, his expression was calm, and he seemed to silently accept this reality. A joke broke out in the subsequent election, Li Jishen loudly asked whether those who were not present could be elected, and after receiving a positive answer, Li Jishen wrote the word Hu Hanmin on the ballot and then shook his head and left, and Hu Hanmin was elected with a high vote.

Chiang Kai-shek was also elected to the Standing Committee of the Central Committee at this congress, but his expression was still so unhappy or sad, as if there was a kind of loss, the same mood was Zhang Guotao, [***] did not implement the decision of the Central Committee at this congress, although the proportion of members and alternate members of the Central Committee was less than that of the previous session, but the secretaries of the key ministries were all controlled by [***] people, in addition to the Kuomintang leftists who were deeply affected by [***] accounted for about half, the two combined, [***] The power of [***] has fallen and actually risen, The right wing of the Kuomintang was almost completely wiped out.

Wu Chaoshu had expected this result, after the election, he walked out with Sun Ke with the flow of people without sadness or joy, and when he arrived at the door, he saw Li Yanguo pacing back and forth in the courtyard, and when he saw the two of them, he walked towards him quickly, Wu Chaoshu gave him a reproachful look, Li Yanguo slowed down in consciousness, and when he arrived in front of Wu Chaoshu, Li Yanguo handed him the newspaper in his hand, and then said nothing.

Wu Chaoshu didn't look at it immediately, but smiled and invited Sun Ke to lunch, Sun Ke waved his hand and refused, his mood was irritable and felt cheated, when Chen Duxiu was in Shanghai, he promised to be good, but when the election came, it changed, although the number of members of the Central Committee was smaller, but the real power was greatly increased, and the key positions in each ministry were almost held by [***]. Sun Ke regretted coming back to the conference.

After Sun Ke left, Wu Chaoshu and Li Yanguo got into the car together, and only then did he open the newspaper in the car, the newspaper was Sun Wenist Journal, and the headline was "Why Soviet Russia Opposed the Northern Expedition", when he saw this title, he was stunned and then refreshed, and he didn't speak, just read attentively, Li Yanguo smiled in his heart, turned around and told the driver to drive.

After Wu Chaoshu finished reading, he closed his eyes and thought about it before saying: "When the floating is a big white, Yanguo, Dongpo Building." ”

Wu Chaoshu's voice was full of joy and excitement, and Li Yanguo smiled and said, "I asked Jiyuan to book a private room at Happy Restaurant, and he is waiting for us there." ”

"Okay, Yan Kuniya, who knows me." Wu Chaoshu laughed.

Happy restaurant is a new restaurant opened in the autumn of last year, the boss is from Chaoshan, the restaurant is mainly engaged in seafood, the taste is mainly Sichuan, but for Cantonese people do not like spicy, reduce the spicy, in the sweet street of Guangzhou food industry is also unique Wu Chaoshu When they arrived, Jiyuan was already waiting in the private room, seeing them coming, while greeting the guys to serve the food, while saying to Wu Chaoshu: "Yun Gong, the braised rat fish I ate last time I came, the taste is unique, you want to taste it alive today." ”

Wu Chaoshu was in good spirits and smiled: "Okay, everything you eat today is delicious." ”

"Oh," Jiyuan also smiled: "It's still Yanguo is powerful, he said that after watching Baoding, he invited a treat, and it seems that he expected it again." ”

"Please, whatever you want to eat, I'll please." Wu Chaoshu said magnanimously.

"Brother Jiyuan, what did you order, should you save money for Yun Lao." After Li Yanguo finished speaking, the three of them laughed together.

After the men withdrew, Wu Chaoshu took out the newspaper, pointed to the headline and said: "It seems that Chiang Kai-shek has realized the danger of Soviet Russia and [***], and has begun to prepare to deal with them." ”

"Yanguo said the same thing, I didn't believe it at first, but then Wang Maoru came to me and asked us to cooperate, and I realized it." Ji Yuan said.

"Wang Maoru has looked for you?" Li Yanguo was a little strange, why didn't he tell him.

"Yes, not long after you left, Wang Maoru came, and he said that he hoped that our group newspapers would cooperate to create a greater momentum, and I felt that you were right, and it must be Chiang Kai-shek's instigation behind this matter." Jiyuan explained.

"You see that the tone of this article is exactly the same as Chiang Kai-shek's speech, and without Chiang Kai-shek's consent, does Sun Xuexue dare to openly criticize Soviet Russia?" Wu Chaoshu said.

"This must have been instructed by Chiang Kai-shek, but I don't understand why he did such a thing at this time, the Northern Expedition bill has been vetoed, is it a little too late to do it at this time." Li Yanguo raised a key question.

"That's a good question," Wu Chaoshu nodded, "That's the key." No wonder Chiang Kai-shek was cured of his illness today, and no wonder he was indifferent to the rejection of today's bill. Well, Gao Ming, Gao Ming, must have a drink. ”

After that, he raised his wine glass and signaled to Ji Yuan, although Ji Yuan was anxious, he had no choice but to raise the wine glass and drink it all. Putting down the wine glass, Wu Chaoshu said unsatisfied: "Chiang Kai-shek's purpose is to take advantage of the veto of the bill to launch a counteroffensive against [***] in propaganda, you see," he picked up the newspaper and read: "'The Northern Expedition is the will of the prime minister, and it is the touchstone to measure whether a revolutionary is a real revolution or a fake revolution. Chiang Kai-shek's article was written here. ”

Ji Yuan was a little confused, he looked at Wu Chaoshu puzzled: "What article does he want to make?" ”

"I still don't understand, the real revolution supports the Northern Expedition, and the fake revolution opposes the Northern Expedition, you see that the students in the major schools in Guangzhou are shouting revolution, in fact, they understand what revolution is, but they simply think that learning from Soviet Russia, overthrowing warlord imperialism is revolution, then the good Northern Expedition is to defeat the warlords, you don't support it, is it still a revolution?" Wu Chaoshu was a little funny when he thought about it.

"More importantly, [***] has always prided itself as the most revolutionary, always accusing us of the Kuomintang, and now we are asking for the Northern Expedition, asking for an attack on the warlords, but Soviet Russia and [***] are obstructing, what is this." Li Yanguo said with a smile.

(To be continued)