(416) The new car of the Minister of Finance
He wanted to try his luck in the capital, so he borrowed the money to go to Yanjing. For a while, he worked as an assistant in the library of Yenching University, with eight yuan a month, just enough to live. One of his duties was to register the names of people who came to the library to read the newspaper. Many of them were well-known cultural people at the time, and he wanted to talk to them, but they were busy people who didn't have time to listen to a library assistant speak Southern vernacular. He felt left out and stayed on it.
In less than six months, he returned home, and the travel expenses were still borrowed. He made a detour to Shanghai to see off his friends who were going to France, and returned to Changsha in April 1919. He got a taste of the cultural life of the metropolis, but eventually had to come back to work as a primary school teacher in another province. Deeply disappointed and dissatisfied with the political axe of the Republic of China, he felt that it was as incompetent as the Manchu Dynasty. He began to try to find a more radical way to save the country.
A radical student union was founded in Changsha, and he edited the journal Xiangjiang Review. Due to financial difficulties, the student weekly was discontinued after only five issues.
On October 5, 1919, his mother died. His mother had lymph node tuberculosis, and he sent her a prescription and brought her to Changsha for treatment. In his relationship with his mother, maternal love is selfless, but his feelings are both strong and selfish. Before his mother died, he told her that he couldn't bear to look at her painful appearance and wanted her to make a good impression on him. He's leaving.
When his mother was dying, his first consideration was still his own feelings, not his mother's hopes. He was able to speak to her without any scruples, and it was obvious that his surname was cold and ruthless. He also had no affection for his father, and his reaction to his death was nothing short of cold. His father died of typhoid fever on January 23, 1920, and wanted to see his son before he died. But he did not go back and did not express any sadness at his death.
He loves radical activities, which take him on another journey and will determine the fate of his life. In 1918-1919, when the Hunan people expelled the warlords Zhang Jingyao and Tang Tianxi, he organized students to participate in it. After the end of the war, he traveled to Yenching with a student delegation and gave lectures at various universities in Yenching. As an activist in Hunan, he became acquainted with a number of well-known figures, including the liberal leader Hu Shih and the famous Marxist Li Shouchang.
It was during this journey that he met a man who changed his life. This man was one of the best agents of the Chinese intelligence service, and he had been observing him for a long time, and this man was preparing for the "Information Gathering Office" to recruit him and his classmates, and he readily agreed, and began to work for this secret intelligence organization.
The organization he works for is wide-ranging, and not limited to the country. Soviet Russia, because of its direct border with China, was the object of the group's attention, and as the leaders of the Chinese intelligence services feared, the Soviet regime had been interested in China since its birth.
The formation of the Chinese Communist Party was not Li Shouchang's idea, nor was it the idea of any Chinese. The idea came from Moscow. From 1919 onwards, the nascent Russian government founded the "Common International" to advocate revolution and carry out Moscow's will throughout the world. In China, a vast secret plan was put into action in May to prop up a pro-Bolshevik Chinese political axe. Since then, Moscow has invested a lot of manpower, material resources, and arms in order to enable the Chinese party members under its leadership to seize power.
Beginning in 1920, the Bolsheviks infiltrated China one after another. Communal International has established organizations and activity stations in Shanghai and other big cities. Chinese intelligence closely followed the movements of the Bolsheviks, and later cooperated with the Chinese police to uncover the vast majority of Bolshevik stations. At this time, he did not believe in Marxism. But through work, he began to come into contact with the propaganda of the Bolsheviks. Among the large quantities of propaganda confiscated, many of them contained articles about Lenin and the political axes of Soviet Russia. He began to be attracted and gradually became fascinated. Since the doctrines of the Bolsheviks fit well with his thinking, he began to collect relevant things carefully.
He can be said to be always holding his head high when doing this kind of thing, because in today's China, engaging in communitarian activities is not only a crime, but also a heavy sentence, and is spurned by the whole society. Despite the danger, he indulged in it. He was determined to realize Lenin's ideals in China. He used his position to find a way to get in touch with Moscow. Moscow, of course, was overjoyed by his "defection," and soon he became one of the important contacts between the Chinese underground party organization and Moscow.
There is no information on how he joined the party and what formalities he followed. However, due to his own intelligence work, he became "his own man". In July 1921, on the instructions of Moscow, the Bolsheviks set up a peripheral organization in China, the Socialist Youth League, to recruit party members. One of the contacts I found in Changsha was him. In other words, he is already a member of the Communist Party. In September, he wrote to a friend in France, saying that he "deeply agreed" with "using Russian methods to transform China and the world." This was the first time he had explicitly expressed his belief in communalism.
He took this step not as a result of a fervent pursuit of faith, but as an opportunity: he showed up at a certain time and place, accepted a well-appointed job, and entered a new organization under the auspices of a powerful foreign country.
Many of his friends disapproved of communitarianism, and they wrote to him from France: "We do not approve of the welfare of the majority at the expense of a part. It advocates a moderate revolution, a revolution using education as a tool, and a revolution for the benefit of the people as a whole...... Quite a rejection of the Russian-Marxist-revolution as legitimate". Instead of fanatically defending communalism, he replied that his friend's views "make sense in theory, but in practice it can't." He persuaded his friends in this way: "Ideals are important, and reality is especially important. ”
He made it clear to them that he did not join the Communist Party out of passionate faith, but by a sober and practical choice.
Despite Moscow's strong support and the assistance of his party members in the Chinese intelligence apparatus, the Bolsheviks' career in China suffered a constant setback, and a large number of party members were killed or imprisoned. The Yanjing political axe continued to launch raids in various places, and a large number of Moscow documents were found, which proved that the Soviet Union was plotting to subvert the Yanjing political axe in China.
Soviet documents were widely reprinted in newspapers throughout China, and the scale of the Soviet subversive program angered public opinion and shocked the Western powers. Knowing that the Soviet Union was going all out to overthrow it, the Yanjing political axe greatly intensified the crackdown, and more importantly, the situation facing the Chinese political axe caused the Western powers to increase their support for the Yanjing political axe.
In order to reverse the unfavorable situation, he can be said to have racked his brains, although he is now in a dangerous position and may be discovered at any time, he is still unwilling to give up.
Because although he is supported by Moscow, he has his own grand plans.
After Lenin's death, Stalin had just become the number one man in the Kremlin. Stalin personally formulated his policy toward China. On more than one occasion, he asked the Chinese Party to build up armies and base areas in order to eventually conquer China with the barrel of a gun.
Seizing power with the barrel of a gun, Stalin thought of China as early as 1919, when the Communist International was founded. In a letter to Wang Ming, chairman of the "China Committee," Birkin, director of the Soviet Army Intelligence Bureau, said that the Soviet Union's first task in China was to build up the Red Army. Stalin sent his fellow countryman Rominaz to China to take charge of the affairs of the Chinese Party, responsible for supplying the Chinese Party with weapons, funds, medicines, and intelligence. At the same time, military advisers were also sent, and military training for Chinese Party personnel was also intensified in the Soviet Union.
For Stalin's "path", he raised his hands in favor. But he did not want to be a pawn of Moscow. If he wants to have his own armed forces, he must rely on other means.
Now, here's your chance.
He learned early on that the most powerful man in China was not the president of Yanjing, the prime minister, or the generals of the army, but a man not much older than his age.
This man is the finance minister who has been re-elected for many terms, and he also single-handedly founded all China's intelligence agencies, and although he is in charge of China's finances, he is also the head of all intelligence agencies.
He had seen this man more than once, this man was three years older than him, and it was said that he had studied military affairs in Yuben, and he was considered a professional soldier. This person used to be a small local warlord in Jiangxi, and later became an indispensable figure in Yanjing's political axe. He always had a kind smile on his face, was open-minded, and liked to talk to young people, and this man gave speeches more than once, preaching "science, boiling, and freedom". After the establishment of Soviet power, this man was once considered by the Russians to "belong to the left wing of the Chinese political axe" and "is very close to us ideologically." But what happened later showed that this man was extremely anti-Soviet, and especially disgusted that the Soviets wanted to divide Chinese society into different classes and engage in class struggle.
After much research, he believed that this person was the greatest threat to the Chinese revolution. If this person can be eliminated, it will be a fatal blow to the "reactionary" Yanjing political axe.
Although he moved to kill this man, he did not rush to act, but carefully studied all aspects of him, such as his surname, preferences, work and life habits, etc., and investigated a large number of accounts of his life experience. He discovers that the man has been subjected to many extremely dangerous assassinations, but each time he has been able to surprisingly save the day.
The reason for this is that in addition to the fact that this person is well-guarded and the people around him are capable and reliable, his own alertness and cunning and superb personal combat skills are also an important reason.
In order to be able to kill this person, he lost sleep more than once due to excessive thoughts.
Now, he finally has complete certainty, and he is ready to do it.
He thought his plan was foolproof because he knew that this man would be killed in the air this time.
In the sky, this is the time when this person is most dangerous and vulnerable.
After burning all the papers, he packed up his belongings, took one last look at the basement, and got up to leave.
"Are we slowing down?"
Yang Shuoming, who was sitting on a large "Tianyan" rotorcraft, looked out through the window, and at this time, the surroundings were full of white and dense fog, and the visibility became very poor.
"Yes, Chief." An officer reported, "It was foggy for a while, and in order to prevent a collision with the fighter, the speed was slowed down." ”
Although the new members of the rotorcraft family are not very familiar in China, Yang Shuoming has dared to "be the first in the world" and become a loyal passenger of this new type of aircraft.
This time, he temporarily decided to change from an airship to a large rotorcraft, not simply to advertise "Boeing China".
In the 20th century, airplanes often stalled due to malfunctions during take-off, resulting in crashes and fatalities. Under the guidance of Yang Shuoming's "genius creativity", the famous Chinese aircraft designer Ba Yuzao invented the autogyro in an attempt to solve this problem. This kind of rotor is moved by the airplane when it stirs up the air rotation, generating lift, so that the plane will not fall when stalling, at that time, his invention was called "windmill plane" by the world press, in 1924, Ba Yuzao in a Chinese air base in Guangdong Province for the first time test flight. Three years later, in 1927, Ba Yuzao personally piloted a gyroplane to successfully cross the Taiwan Strait in 43 minutes. The gyroplane has since become famous. Since then, some companies in the United Kingdom, the United States and Spain have also begun to build similar gyroplanes for search and measurement.
At first glance, gyroplanes and helicopters look exactly the same: they both have a pair of large-diameter rotors overhead, which rely on the rotation of the rotors to generate lift during flight. But apart from these superficial surnames, the rotorcraft and the helicopter are two completely different aircraft.
A gyroplane is actually a flying machine between a helicopter and an airplane, which, in addition to the rotors, has a pair of propellers placed vertically to provide forward power, and is generally also equipped with smaller wings to provide partial lift in flight. The biggest difference between a gyroplane and a helicopter is that the rotor of the gyroplane is not connected to the engine transmission system, and the engine does not drive the rotor to provide lift for the aircraft, but in the process of the rotorcraft flight, the rotor is rotated by the front airflow to generate lift, like a windmill, the rotor system is only driven by its own power when starting, which is called "pre-rotation", and is driven by air force after takeoff; The rotors of the helicopter are connected to the engine transmission system, which can not only generate lift, but also provide flight power, like an electric fan. Since the rotor is self-rotating, the torque transmitted to the fuselage is small, so the gyroplane does not need the tail rotor like a single-rotor helicopter, but it is generally equipped with a tail to control the flight. When a gyroplane is flying, the lift is mainly generated by the rotors, and the fixed wings provide only part of the lift.
Since the power of rotor rotation of a gyroplane is obtained by the aircraft moving forward. In case the engine stops in the air and the propeller does not rotate, the rotorcraft continues to fly forward because of its habitual surname, and gradually reduces its speed and altitude due to gravity and air resistance. In this way, the Rotary Plane can glide and descend safely with the pilot's stewardship. Even in the special situation when the pilot cannot ride and the rotorcraft loses control, it will land like a parachute, although it is also a rough landing, but there will be no straight fall like "weighing the weight to the ground".
Since the rotor of the gyroplane is not powered, it does not have the large vibration and noise caused by the power drive rotor system, and it will not shorten the use of the rotor and fuselage or increase the fatigue of the crew due to this vibration and noise. The effect of the rotorcraft power driving the propeller is obviously much smaller. In addition, the gyroplane also has a very valuable feature, that is, its landing and running distance is much shorter than the take-off running distance, and even if it is good to run, it can land on the spot without sliding, as long as a place larger than the diameter of the rotor can land, even if it is not very flat, it does not matter, and it can even land on the canopy or deck of the tourist ship. It can also be automatically adjusted, so that the fuselage has a good pitch stabilization, roll stabilization and speed stabilization. The rotating paddle disc rotates like a large customary wheel, and the rotor does not change periodically. And because the rotor installation angle of the rotor is larger than that of the helicopter, it has a better gyroscopic effect and a higher stability. The gyroplane is also more resistant to wind, and it also likes to be windy when it takes off. For gyroplanes, the wind is good for the starting and accelerating rotation of the rotor, which can shorten the jump of the run, and when the wind speed is high enough, the general gyroplane can also take off vertically.
Due to the simple structure of the gyroplane, it is not only cheap to build, but also has a low failure rate. In addition, it is easy to use and maintain. The cost is also low, so after the successful test flight, it is very popular with the Chinese side. Many Chinese civil airlines are also preparing to introduce this new type of aircraft.
This time, Yang Shuoming chose to take a rotorcraft, mainly because the terrain and climate of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are not conducive to the flight and take-off and landing of large airships.
"Although we have radar, we can't rely on it all, after all, it's a new machine, and the surname can not be stable." Another officer frowned when he saw Yang Shuoming and immediately explained.
"It's foggy." Yang Shuoming's "supercomputer eye" kicked off, "We're in Sichuan now, aren't we?" ”
"Just entered the Sichuan provincial border." The officer replied, "The captain has already made contact with the airfield just now, and their escort fighters will be there in a moment." ”
Yang Shuoming nodded and didn't ask again. Probably due to the cloudy weather and the fatigue of the journey, he closed his eyes and quickly fell asleep.
(To be continued)