Due to the shortage of accommodation at the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek did not set up his home in the military academy, but placed it in a small two-story villa-style building on the west side of the mountain on the west side of the Changzhou Fortress, which was only 7 or 8 minutes away from the military academy. Before lunch the next day, Zhuang Jihua came to Chiang Kai-shek's house, and opened the door for him, the female worker of the house, Wu's sister-in-law, who was a local, and Chiang Kai-shek invited her after he settled her home here. When Sister-in-law Wu brought Zhuang Jihua in, Chiang Kai-shek was reading the newspaper on the canvas recliner in front of the living room, and saw Zhuang Jihua come in, Chiang Kai-shek put down the newspaper and stood up, Zhuang Jihua hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Chiang Kai-shek did not wear a military uniform today but wore a cyan gown, and when he saw Zhuang Jihua's appearance, he immediately said: "Your Zhuang * time is accurate, you came with a meal, come in." ”

Zhuang Jihua is intentionally like this, he is a little frustrated now, or he is discouraged because he can't find a way, why did Chiang Kai-shek invite him to dinner, he has already guessed that ** is not far from ten, but he doesn't want to talk about this topic, even if the military academy gives him a punishment, or even expelled from it, it's nothing, get out of this nest of right and wrong as soon as possible.

"The principal is busy, and students don't dare to come and disturb the principal too early." Zhuang Jihua's answer was high-sounding.

"Oh, you're pretty thoughtful." Chiang Kai-shek was noncommittal, turned and walked into the living room.

The furnishings in the living room are simple and traditional, with two rows of elm chairs, and a carved elm coffee table in the middle, but it can be seen to be a little old.

Chiang Kai-shek didn't take a seat when he came in, but sat down on the chair on the left, then pointed to the chair opposite and said, "Sit." ”

Zhuang Jihua didn't politely agree, and sat down.

"You've been very idle lately, other classmates are fighting for the revolution, how do you feel about watching the excitement next to you?" Chiang Kai-shek's tone was tinged with a hint of ridicule.

"Report to the principal, the students are ashamed, ashamed of the principal's teachings." Zhuang Jihua said in his heart that you didn't give me a job, but you pretended to be here and cut...

"Shame? I'm afraid not, but if you're not convinced, it's for sure, you're thinking in your heart that you don't give me something to do, it's not that I don't do it, so it's so. Chiang Kai-shek seemed to see through Zhuang Jihua's thoughts: "You didn't arrange a job in the first phase of the entire Huangpu, and you didn't arrange a job in the country so much in need of talents, but you didn't arrange a job, what does this mean, it means that you stabbed Da Louzi, if you only offend one side, it's okay to say, but you offend both sides, you want to walk in the middle, and you end up becoming a rat in the bellows, do you say yes." ”

Zhuang Jihua reluctantly admitted that Chiang Kai-shek was right, and he also saw this, but Chiang Kai-shek came to him to say this to him? Zhuang Jihua decided to wait and see.

"The principal is right, the students' ideas are still too naïve." Zhuang Jihua said "ashamed".

"It's good to understand, the bearded people of Soviet Russia even I sometimes have to look at their faces, so it's natural for you to provoke them and suffer some hardships," Chiang Kai-shek said here, deliberately looking at Zhuang Jihua, his strategy against Zhuang Jihua today is to go straight to the point, add a little "open and honest", seeing that Zhuang Jihua was a little confused when he mentioned Soviet Russia, and his heart was a little satisfied, it seems that he still doesn't know where the trend came from. Then he continued: "You don't know, your article made Borodin very angry, so he summoned all the leaders of [***] in Canton to track down the author, and this is what happened." ”

Zhuang Jihua was a little confused now, Borodin's reaction to his article was so big that he didn't expect, and he had already figured out the reason for the accusation. Historically, the leftist approach that [***] has always adopted is even ultra-left, Li Lisan and Wang Ming are one peak, * is another peak, and it was not until Deng Gong came to power that [***] the policy of governing the country returned to the normal way.

However, today's mention of Borodin by Chiang Kai-shek made him think of another possibility: Is the left and right of [***] deliberately guided by the Comintern? Zhuang Jihua couldn't help but ask, "Why?" ”

Zhuang Jihua's reaction made Chiang Kai-shek somewhat satisfied: "Why? Your article must have poked the bearded man's sore spot, as for what I don't know yet, but the ancients said that caring is chaos, since they have such a big reaction, then there must be a reason. ”

As soon as Chiang Kai-shek opened his mouth, Zhuang Jihua knew that Chiang Kai-shek had misunderstood, but he also misheard what Chiang Kai-shek had to say. Chiang Kai-shek's strategy today is not to be clichéd, and he believes that a "smart" person like Zhuang Jihua cannot be treated like Wang Bailing. As long as Wang Bailing promises an official or something, he will be so moved that he will be loyal, this set is useless to Zhuang Jihua, you see that Zhuang Jihua is not in a hurry these days, if he doesn't look for him, I'm afraid he is still willing to go on like this. For Zhuang Jihua, you have to force him to choose, and you have to arrange the most practical path for him, and at the same time block his others. Now [***] and the rightists have helped him and blocked Zhuang Jihua's other roads, and he can't do it if he doesn't take the road he arranged.

While the two were talking, Chen Jieru came in from behind, and Zhuang Jihua hurriedly stood up and greeted her: "Hello, master." It wasn't the first time he had seen Chen Jieru, but it was the first time he had been so close.

"Sit down, sit down, you're welcome, this is your headmaster's home, which is your home." Chen Jieru wore a long Liuhai, wearing a Chinese-style wide-sleeved women's dress with a small half of her arms exposed, and a half-cut skirt and half-heeled leather shoes underneath. She is a native of Ningbo, grew up in Shanghai, and has the unique foreign flavor of Shanghai girls, which is the kind of petty bourgeoisie in Zhuang Jihua's opinion.

"When the guests come, let's have dinner, and we'll talk about it after eating." Chen Jieru said softly to Chiang Kai-shek.

"Well, let's eat first." Chiang Kai-shek stood up and walked straight to the dining room, Zhuang Jihua asked Chen Jieru to walk in front and himself to follow behind.

The dining room is not big, there is a round table in the middle, on which are placed six plates and a bowl in the shape of plum blossoms, which one in the middle is a fish, the other has a plate of dried vegetables and fried meat, another scrambled egg and two ordinary vegetables, and the bowl is fish head tofu soup, but Zhuang Jihua noticed that there was no wine on the table.

Chiang Kai-shek still said politely: "Please be seated." Zhuang Jihua dared to sit down like this, and hurriedly said: "Principal, you sit, master sit." Chen Jieru smiled and said: "*, you're welcome, I often hear your principal talk about you, saying that you are bold, and I heard him say a few days ago that you are very good at fighting, and even the consultant is very praised." ”

"That's the principal's award." Zhuang Jihua's face turned red, he knew that the tactics he used that day came from the old-timers, in another world, his cheeks had been trained very thick (no way, work needs), and the thickness of his cheeks had increased a lot after coming to this world, and it was estimated that it was not bad to use the city wall as a metaphor, but he didn't expect the praise of this young wife to make him blush.

"Try this, Kai-shek's favorite Whampoa eggs, your school's food is poor, eat more today." Chen Jieru saw Zhuang Jihua gobbling up his arms and starting to dry, so he happily added a scrambled egg for him. Although Chiang Kai-shek loved Chen Jieru very much, there were very few women on this Huangpu Island, and the family members of the officers in the Huangpu Military Academy either kept their families in their hometowns like He Yingqin, Wang Bailing and Deng Yanda before, or they set up their homes in Guangzhou like Liao Zhongkai, and only Chiang Kai-shek installed their homes on Huangpu Island, Chen Jieru had almost no social activities, and Chiang Kai-shek only accompanied her when he was free, but Chiang's free time was too little, there were few guests at home, and even fewer guests were invited to dinner. Today, Zhuang Jihua lacks the consciousness of nervousness and restraint, in Zhao Benshan's words, he let go of the creation, this kind of laissez-faire made Chen Jieru very interested, and also made Song Meiling feel that he was different.

"You don't know this, their conditions are good enough, they have 8 yuan of food money per month, much better than the soldiers, and I don't know how good it is when I was a soldier, when I only had a small box of cold rice at each meal, and only two or three pickles for vegetables, I didn't have enough to eat for a day." Chiang Kai-shek said.

"Really, don't the soldiers in this country have enough to eat, how can they fight?" Chen Jieru was a little surprised, it seems that she also made the first time to know about Chiang Kai-shek's study abroad.

"Fighting a war depends on courage and perseverance, that is, Chinese soldiers pay attention to military pay and food. He said that he regarded it as an honor for the country to fight a war, and did not pay attention to these things. Therefore, if I want to talk about revolution, first of all, we must endure hardships, talk less about conditions, and talk about spirit, and where the spirit comes from, it will come from ism, so we must talk about ism to the soldiers, and they will be brave and good at fighting when they understand it. Chiang Kai-shek said.

"The principal is right, if the students have the opportunity to lead the army, they must follow the principal's instructions." Of course, Zhuang Jihua understood that Chiang Kai-shek was right, the Red Army's Eighth Route was not bitter, but the army did not collapse, and it continued to develop. It's just that he doesn't understand why Chiang Kai-shek also knows that this is a bit different from the reaction in his previous life.

"There is definitely a chance to lead the troops, don't be discouraged about this. We'll talk about it slowly. Although Chiang Kai-shek ate quickly, he was silent and rarely spoke at the dinner table.

While speaking, Chiang Kai-shek had already finished eating and put down the bowl, so Zhuang Jihua was a whole fierce creation, Chen Jieru didn't eat much and put down after eating a small bowl, and the couple was there to watch Zhuang Jihua perform gluttony.

Under the gaze of two pairs of eyes, Zhuang Jihua was embarrassed no matter how thick his skin was, so he hurriedly finished planing the rice grains in the bowl, put down the bowl, and said that he had finished eating.

"Full? Would you like to eat a bowl? Chen Jieru asked with concern.

"Thank you, my wife, I've eaten enough." Zhuang Jihua said in his heart, you two look at me eating, and those who can eat it are monsters.

In the past, Kangxi commented on the Confucian Fang Bao and said that he was broad-hearted and strong, and belonged to the kind of person who let go of his belly to eat and set his heels to be a man; *, I think you mean that. After returning to the living room, Chiang Kai-shek seemed to be still reminiscing about Zhuang Jihua's gluttony.

"Fang Bao?" Zhuang Jihua didn't know who Chiang Kai-shek was talking about.

"Fang Bao is a talented man in Tongcheng, a famous Confucian in the Kangxi period, and walked to the study as a cloth cloth." When Chiang Kai-shek saw Zhuang Jihua's appearance, he knew that he didn't understand who Fang Bao was, so he briefly introduced him.

"You grew up in the United States and don't know much about Chinese history, so you don't know, but this Fang Bao is very famous, and Zeng Guofan, the leader of the Hunan Army in the late Qing Dynasty, founded the Xiangxiang faction in his academic studies." As soon as Chiang Kai-shek said this, Zhuang Jihua didn't understand it even more, Zeng Guofan knew that the leader of the Hunan Army, the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Li Hongzhang, he knew that after signing the Treaty of Guomuguan, what kind of trick the Xiangxiang faction was, he didn't know.

Chiang Kai-shek looked at him and said: "It seems that you still have to learn more about Chinese culture, although there is some dross in Chinese culture, but there are still good and excellent ones, especially the art of war, such as: Sun Tzu's Art of War, Zeng Hu Zhibing's quotations, you must read these two books." ”

Zhuang Jihua nodded and agreed: "Sun Tzu's Art of War, the students have already read it, but Zeng Hu Zhibing's quotations have not been read, since the principal said it, the students must find it to study it carefully when they go back." ”

Chiang Kai-shek nodded and said: "That's good, everyone in the world thinks that Hu Linyi of Zeng Guofan is just a literati, but I don't know how unique it is in managing the army. Wait, I'll give you a set. ”

Only then did Zhuang Jihua understand that General Songpo was Cai E, and Zeng Hu Zhibing's quotations were compiled by him, and he thought it was written by Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek came out of the study, held a set of books in his hand, handed it to Zhuang Jihua, and then said: "I recently investigated this sentence of governing the army, and added a chapter of "Governing the Heart", which is dedicated to how to cultivate the fighting spirit of soldiers, you can take it back and take a look." ”

Zhuang Jihua took it and said loudly: "Yes, the students must live up to the principal's admonition." ”

He thought that this was the end and he could go back, but unexpectedly, Chiang Kai-shek pointed to the chair behind him and said, "Sit down, as the old saying goes, the master leads the door, and the cultivation is in everyone; In the future, it will be up to you to use what you have learned in military school on the battlefield. ”

Then Chiang Kai-shek turned the topic to Zhuang Jihua's current situation.