The way of delay was simple, linking the reopening of customs to the handling of the Shaki incident and compensation for the closure, and the British were unwilling to compromise on these issues, so the negotiations went on endlessly.

"So many?" Zhu Peide was surprised that the financial situation of the national political axe has always been poor, and it is very rare to be able to come up with two million at a time.

"That's more, I estimate that in a few months, we may have tens of millions." Song Ziwen said with a smile: "The main reason is that the income of import and export companies is high, and due to the strike in Hong Kong, the entrepot trade of Hong Kong has been transferred to Guangzhou, and the transaction volume has increased, and the commercial tax has also increased." Now that some of the United States and Bendu have moved their companies from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, if the strike continues, the trade volume will continue to grow, and the commercial tax will further increase. ”

"Oh, I didn't expect a strike to have such benefits, how could it be?" Tan Yankai was surprised, he had always disliked the workers' and peasants' movement, and every time the merchants in the strike station complained to him, the tax revenue was also reduced, and he had never heard that the strike could still make money.

"The strategy is right," Song Ziwen explained simply, and then asked with a smile: "Who came up with this import and export company, and it is enough to damage." You see Minister Chen is now seeing the British, his face is so raised that his eyes are going to the top of his head. ”

Wang Jingwei laughed, Zhu Peide laughed, Chiang Kai-shek's very serious face couldn't help but be happy, and everyone laughed in a heap.

Chen Youren said with a smile: "I didn't expect that this matter would have political benefits in addition to economic benefits, but now they are in a hurry, I am not in a hurry, everyone will talk slowly, talk about it for seven or eight years, and when we have the strength, we will not talk about it." ”

Everyone laughed again, and Wang Jingwei said with a smile: "Minister Chen, you didn't agree to be a gentleman at the beginning, but I didn't expect it, this is still a strange trick." ”

"Yes, yes, it's a strange move, I'm Song Xianggong fighting a dignified battle, I said Kai-shek, your student is really powerful, how can you lend it to me."

"Lend it to you? Let's wait until he finishes reorganizing the 20,000 Sichuan army. Of course Chiang Kai-shek knew that this idea was Zhuang Jihua's idea, but others only knew, it turned out that this idea was Zhuang Jihua's idea, Xiong Kewu couldn't help but shake his head, this Chiang Kai-shek's luck is good, how did his subordinates have such a genius, he also knows the things in the reorganization, and he is also impressed by Zhuang Jihua's open-mindedness, at least he knows that if he wants to replace him, he will never let go of the assassination.

There is no financial problem, Chiang Kai-shek's confidence has naturally increased greatly, and the current national political axe is different from the appearance of the First Eastern Crusade, the guns aided by Soviet Russia have been delivered, and the five million military expenses have also arrived, and the morale of the various departments is high, but when he was gearing up to draw up the battle plan, there was an accident in the military academy.

In fact, this accident is not a big deal, mainly because the charm of Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow is too great, which not only robs the students of the Whampoa Military Academy, but also makes the students who have graduated from the military academy and those who have not graduated also germinate the idea of changing jobs.

Some of them are preparing to apply for the exam, and a considerable number of students have turned to CUHK. Now the revolutionary atmosphere in Guangzhou is very strong, the prestige of Soviet Russia in Guangzhou is unprecedentedly high, the young people look at the West with pious eyes, and all dream of going to the world-famous Hongdu to worship and seek the true scriptures, so as soon as the news of the enrollment of Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow came out, the registration point located in the Central Party Headquarters was immediately overcrowded, and the reputation accumulated by the two bloody battles in Huangpu was easily washed away, and a large number of young people who were ready to apply for the fourth phase of Huangpu turned to apply for CUHK, and what is even more surprising is that the entrance examination to CUHK has become the most fashionable thing among the young people in Guangzhou.

Not only the young people outside, but also more than 300 Whampoa students also signed up, and a considerable number of them were graduates of the first and second phases, which made Chiang Kai-shek very angry.

"Niang Xipi, what are they going to do," Chiang Kai-shek scolded angrily in the Political Department, Director Zhou smiled bitterly on the side, he didn't expect this situation to happen: "It's all gone, do you want the troops." The seventeen regiment commanders couldn't be found, they were gone, and I took the troops alone, Niang Xipi," Chiang Kai-shek slapped heavily on the table: "None of them are allowed to go, Niang Xipi." ”

After being silent for a while, Director Zhou persuaded: "I'm afraid it's not good to go at all, anyway, the students of the third phase have not graduated, you can agree to let them go, and the first and second phases are not allowed to go, so do you think it's okay?" ”

"No, you don't know, there is a shortage of cadres now, and the troops will get bigger and bigger in the future, and everyone will be useful." Chiang Kai-shek's anger was unabated, he did not expect at all that a Moscow would stir up the hearts of the cadets, and for the first time he felt that [***] was developing too fast.

After being silent for a long time, Chiang Kai-shek's anger gradually subsided, he looked at Director Zhou and understood his difficulties: "Enlai, in the middle of the third issue... Forget it, just do as you say, students in the third phase can take the exam, but they are not allowed to go in the first and second phases. He wanted to say that you [***] party members can go, but when the words came to his lips, he changed his words.

After Chiang Kai-shek finished speaking, he scolded angrily Niang Xipi shook his hand and left, Director Zhou was depressed, this is okay, to the top and bottom, both internally and externally, there is an explanation. When he came back to his senses, Director Zhou hurriedly chased him out and handed over the personnel plan of the newly organized regiment to Chiang Kai-shek for his approval.

Chiang Kai-shek returned to the office to look at the appointment proposed by Director Zhou, and felt that something was wrong, this Golden Buddha Zhuang and Ji Fang were all [***] members, how did they all go to the first regiment, and Liu Yaochen and Yan Fengyi were also in the third regiment, Chiang Kai-shek put down the pen and wanted to change, and then put it down, took out the list of Zhuang Jihua newspapers, and looked at the list of cadres of the first regiment and the third regiment, there was nothing strange, most of them were Kuomintang members, so he changed his pen to revise it, the head of the second regiment was changed to Liu Yaochen, and the head of the fourth regiment was changed to Golden Buddha Village.

In less than a week, the number was completely changed, and the party army was changed to the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with Chiang Kai-shek as the commander, Wang Jingwei as the party representative, and Director Zhou still as the director of the Political Department; The Hunan Army of the People's Republic of China was reorganized into the Second Army of the National Revolution, Tan Yankai was the commander, Lu Diping was the deputy commander, Yue Sen was the chief of staff, the party representative was temporarily absent, and Li Fuchun, a member of the [***], served as the director of the Political Department (promoted to the party representative in 26); The Founding of the Dian Army was reorganized into the Third Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with Zhu Peide as the commander, Huang Shi, chief of staff, and Zhu Kejing, the party representative; The First Army of the Guangdong Army of the People's Republic of China was reorganized into the Fourth Army of the National Revolution, with army commander Li Jishen, deputy army commander Chen Keyu, chief of staff Deng Yancun, party representatives temporarily absent, and director of the Political Department Mai Chaoshu; The number of the Fifth Army was left to Li Fulin's headquarters of the Fu Army, which was originally composed of members of the Guangzhou Gang, and the army's combat effectiveness was not strong, and the organization was even more scattered, but the closed surname was very strong, and the progress of reorganization was slow. At this point, most of the armies in Guangdong have been reorganized, and there are still the Hunan army under Cheng Qiansuo, Gu Zhenglun's Guizhou army, and some of the Guangdong troops under Xu Chongzhi, such as Zhang He's brigade and Yu Yingyang's regiment, which have not been reorganized for the time being.

Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek separately reorganized the First Army, mainly to change officers and sequences, the former commander of the First Division of the Party Army was still He Yingqin, and the party representative was Zhou Enlai and director of the Political Department, under the jurisdiction of two brigades: Qian Dajun, the commander of the First Brigade (under the jurisdiction of three regiments, the regiment commanders were Qian Dajun, Liu Yaochen, Hu Zongnan), the commander of the Second Brigade Jiang Dingwen (with jurisdiction over three regiments Jiang Dingwen, Chen Jiji, and Jinfozhuang); Wang Maogong, commander of the second division, Liu Zhi, commander of the third brigade of two brigades (Zhu Tang, Sun Yuanliang, and Hui Dongsheng of the third regiment), and Gu Zhutong, commander of the fourth brigade (Gu Zhutong, Luo Weixiong, and Xiao Yisu of the three regiments); Tan Shuqing, commander of the Third Division, and Wei Lihuang, commander of the Fifth Brigade of the two brigades (Wei Lihuang of the third regiment, Tu Sizong, and Zhan Shunhu (apocryphal, retained by the Sichuan Army. The commander of the Sixth Brigade Xu Tingyao (Xu Tingyao concurrently, Liu Sibian (apocryphal, retained by the Sichuan Army)), of which the Sixth Brigade is temporarily two regiments.

After the completion of the reorganization, the second batch of Whampoa students officially graduated, and most of them served as company and platoon-level cadres; the first phase of graduates, such as Guan Linzheng, Huang Wei, and Song Xilian, who had made meritorious contributions in the First Eastern Crusade, were promoted to battalion-level cadres; Hu Zongnan and Sun Yuanliang were the first to be promoted to regiment commanders; Jiang Xianyun also served as the party representative of Liu Yaochen's regiment; and Chen Geng served as the company commander of the army guard battalion.

Now what gives Chiang Kai-shek a headache is where Zhuang Jihua goes, in terms of credit, Zhuang Jihua is the greatest, as for talent..., do you still need to prove it? According to Chiang Kai-shek's original idea, Zhuang Jihua was to go to the Third Division to serve as a brigade commander, but he was not at ease with the combat effectiveness of the Third Division, Zhuang Jihua was good at training, and Hu Zongnan and Song Xilian all absorbed his training mode and trained the soldiers to be like wolves. Tan Shuqing is an old-style officer, and he doesn't know much about new-style military training, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to rely on him.

But Wang Bailing's words made Chiang Kai-shek change his mind, he didn't want Zhuang Jihua to lead the troops now, let him lead the troops, this Eastern Expedition must be meritorious, at least Chiang Kai-shek thinks that because this expedition is strong and strong, it is difficult to fail.

The fresh tree is scattered, everyone else has settled, Zhuang Jihua's appointment has not yet come, Jiang Xianyun and others feel strange, but they don't know why, Jiang Xianyun is very nervous, I don't know if Chiang Kai-shek saw his secret tricks, but this can't be asked, so I have to stuff it in my heart.

The team headquarters gradually decreased, and in the end, only Zhuang Jihua, Yu Peidi, and a few low-ranking officers were left to look at the remaining thousands of eliminated soldiers, who would be formed into an engineering unit. Zhuang Jihua also released the detained officers, and now he is no longer worried about them disturbing, he set up a few tables of wine and invited them to dinner.

"I know you have resentment in your hearts, I understand this, after all, I have locked you up for so long, but you also know why I have locked you up, in this case, drink this bowl of wine, and we will even it."

After Zhuang Jihua finished speaking, he raised his neck and drank the wine in the bowl dry, Yu Peidi has received an appointment, he will serve as the chief officer of this unit that will be reorganized into an engineering force, if it is changed to before the reorganization, he will definitely be unwilling, but now he feels that this may be a good arrangement. Now that he sees Zhuang Jihua acting like this, he feels that it is necessary to say a few words.

"You know what you have done, this result is already the best result, the Cultural Revolution is no longer pursued, it is he who is open-minded and generous; I'm not as good as him in this regard, at least I can't. Compare your heart to your heart, and who of you can do it? Yu Peidi glanced at the audience, and when the officers who were still a little indignant collided with his gaze, they couldn't help but dodge.

Yu Peidi also drank the wine dry, then smashed the bowl to the ground, and said loudly: "This bowl of wine is drunk, everything is over, whoever dares to cause trouble in the future, I will definitely not spare him, and kill him with my own hands." ”

An officer with a scar on his face walked out of the crowd, and he also carried a bowl of wine: "Sir Zhuang, I thought I was living to the end, but I didn't expect to be able to live, I didn't gossip, I just said that this favor will be repaid." After speaking, he took a big sip of the wine in the bowl, then threw the bowl away, hugged his fists and said, "Farewell." "Turn around and go.

"Come back," Zhuang Jihua said softly, the man turned to look at Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua slowly walked in front of him and asked, "Where are you going?" Back to Sichuan? The officer nodded.

"The mountain is high and the road is long, how can you go back?" Zhuang Jihua asked again.

"Jianghu people, there are friends there." The officer replied bluntly. Yu Peidi knew that this person was a subordinate of Tang Zimo, originally from a family of Brother Pao, a very righteous person, at the age of sixteen he participated in the Baolu Movement under the leadership of his father and brother, his father died in the Second Revolution, he and his brother returned to Brother Pao, after the outbreak of the Protectorate War, the brothers joined Tang Zimo's troops with the intention of revenge, and since then they have been fighting in the Tang Zimo army, the war against thieves failed, his brother died, and he went to Guangzhou with the army.

Zhuang Jihua took out the thirty oceans and stuffed them into his hand: "Take it, this is not what I gave, it is the severance pay given by the national political axe." ”

"If you are willing to leave, I will not force you to stay, the national government axe stipulates that the severance pay is thirty oceans; But I hope you will stay, at least earn enough money to travel before leaving, thirty yuan of ocean will not be able to go back to Sichuan. Zhuang Jihua turned around and said to the officers who were still thinking about it.

"If the officials in the national political axe are like the chief of Zhuang, I will definitely not leave." Someone said coldly.

"Hey, I'm not a good person." Zhuang Jihua said with a smile: "There are many people who are better than me in the national political axe, and I, that is, an ordinary person, just want to keep my surname in this troubled world." ”

These words were a bit heavy, and everyone was silent for a while, although Zhuang Jihua persuaded him repeatedly, most of them still took severance pay and left. Zhuang Jihua sighed in his heart, most of these people are actually men with blood surnames, and it's a pity to leave like this.

With the dismissal of the detained officers, the fresh army was basically over, and then Zhuang Jihua received an order, and the rest of the affairs were handed over to Yu Peidi, he returned to the garrison headquarters to continue to serve as the chief of the intelligence section, this appointment not only made the Huangpu Department up and down, but also made many generals who were concerned about the Whampoa Department surprised, Zhuang Jihua worked hard to reorganize the Sichuan Army successfully, and made great contributions to Chiang Kai-shek, but in the end he ended up empty-handed, and for a time the rumors about the Huangpu Department inside and outside the Yu Zhuang Jihua were everywhere.

(To be continued)