Since Chen Jiliang announced that the Navy would begin to be rebuilt with immediate effect, all kinds of pressures have poured in. Pen "Fun" Among the overseas Chinese in the United States, some leading figures in the Cabinet www.biquge.info changed their stance overnight, and their attitude of support changed from enthusiastic to indifferent; embassies and consulates did not dare to come forward to support the reconstruction of the navy; moreover, Wang Zhengting, the ambassador to the United States who had a good relationship, was soon replaced, and the new one was Hu Shih, a professor at Peking University, who had been appointed; the New York branch of the Bank of China was also asked by the Ministry of Finance whether it had any naval deposits, but fortunately, the navy did not open an account with the Chinese bank at all, but the matter was not over; before he was transferred, Wang Zhengxu, the governor of the bank, reminded the navy that the national government had requested the US Government to freeze the navy's deposit accounts in the United States through diplomatic channels, adding that the Chinese government has not approved the naval rebuilding plan......

However, the Navy is being rebuilt in the United States, and businessmen welcome Chinese spending money in the United States, and the New York Times predicts that according to the Chinese Navy's plan to build more than two dozen submarines, two aircraft carriers, and several destroyer cruisers, this will bring the United States $400 million to 500 million in business. Even if the plan is not fully completed, it will cost more than $200 million.

Compared with the support of public opinion in the United States, the Central Daily and the major newspapers in China have criticized the unauthorized reconstruction of the navy, holding that the navy is in urgent need of foreign exchange to stabilize the value of the currency and purchase weapons, but the navy has ignored the overall situation and built a navy that cannot play much role, and this small group practice must be stopped immediately, and the funds for the reconstruction of the navy should be handed over to the national government to purchase army weapons and aircraft.

Just over a year ago, people across the country were chanting Long live the Navy; Only five months ago, at the memorial service of the officers and men of the Ninghai, Chang Kaishen and the party-state dignitaries publicly promised to rebuild the navy, but now those words have disappeared. There may be 'enough' money for the rebuilding of the Navy, and there is no shortage of carrier-based pilots, but there are not enough officers and men. Fortunately, at this time, the backbone of the shipbuilding and aviation department had already gone abroad, and only the engineers of the naval aircraft factory could not go to the United States because they could not apply for passports.

1939 Chinese New Year's Eve, 70 ZQ Haishi Road, Taipingmen Customs Site, Navy General Headquarters.

Before the fog dissipated, the sound of the military horn had already sounded, and seeing the acting commander-in-chief Zeng Yiding appear, the officer on duty said loudly: "The acting commander-in-chief has arrived!" Stand upright, salute! After the officers and soldiers saluted, he turned to Zeng Yiding and said: "Report to the Acting Commander-in-Chief: The officers and soldiers of the headquarters have been assembled, please instruct!" ”

"Stand upright, take a break." On Chinese New Year's Eve, Zeng Yiding probably wanted to say something, but he did not immediately order the flag to be raised and the national anthem was played. "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, so I would like to pay a New Year's greeting to you, as well as to the soldiers who are still fighting mines everywhere. Most of the navy warships were sunk, but the officers and men at all levels still fulfilled their duties and fought bravely, living up to the expectations of the nation-state, and Yiding was very pleased with this. Nowadays, many people in the navy are willing to rebuild the fleet to resist the enemy, and they have good intentions, but they have committed the mistake of ignoring the overall situation. ”

In response to the unstable morale of the army caused by the lack of support from the national government due to the rebuilding of the navy, he solemnly saluted the queue with the attitude of the general headquarters in a hasty manner, and he ordered: "Raise the flag!" The national anthem is played. ”

With his order, the obscure tone of the song of the Three People's Principles was played by the naval band, and the blue sky and white sun flag were also raised into the extremely dim sky. After the flag-raising ceremony, Zeng returned to the headquarters with Ding.

"Shuchun, is there really no way?" Zeng Yiding just now publicly criticized the reconstruction of the navy for ignoring the overall situation, but when he returned to the headquarters, his attitude in front of Zhou Yingcong was diametrically opposite, and what he was concerned about was the passport issue of officers and soldiers.

"The eldest lady let me go last night, and the box of gemstone jewelry given to the chairman's wife has been returned." Zhou Yingcong did not have the usual optimistic and smiling expression, but a worried look, he came to the Navy General Headquarters early in the morning to report the news. The matter of bribing the sisters of the Song family is actually yellow, according to Li Kongrong, those two sisters are both lovers of life.

"What happens after that? Let's inform Seyoung and Hansheng. Zeng Yiding took a shallow sip of tea before asking.

"Notify me." Zhou Yingcong said, "Third brother of the province, how many people can be dispatched?" ”

"I can send as many people as you want." After the fall of Wuhan, the navy's task was to lay mines, and the acting commander-in-chief of the navy, who had been Ding, was naturally able to dispatch officers and men to fight everywhere in the name of mine-laying operations, and the navy had 10,000 people, and it was not obvious that a few hundred people had been transferred. Just ......, he put down the teacup and said, "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not issue passports, can you arrange for them to go abroad?" ”

"I can't." Zhou Yingcong smiled bitterly, "At least you can't go to the United States." ”

"What then?" Zeng Yiding asked with concern. "Smuggling out?"

"I don't know." Zhou Yingcong thought about the current situation, and still smiled bitterly, "What are I going to do with YYN going to YYN once?" "Zeng Yiding is a little inexplicable.

"Looking at the whole country, only GX and YN are not completely controlled by the central government. We have a blood feud with the Gui family of GX, and rashly asking for help in case the old grudges of Li Bai and others are not eliminated, it will only backfire, and only YN will be left. I contacted the people of YN Longyun some time ago, so I want to go to YN to meet Longyun for a while, he may be able to help. ”

Zhou Yingcong expressed his considerations, and when he saw that Zeng Yiding still didn't understand, he said: "China's passports can be roughly divided into three types, one is a diplomatic passport, the second is an official passport, and the third is an ordinary passport, of which the ordinary passport is valid for three years. Nowadays, the only way to do this is to change the names of the officers and soldiers who go abroad, change their nationality and ask the provincial government to apply for passports from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on their behalf, as long as the people who apply for passports rarely show their faces and the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs do not know them, then it is possible to get passports. It is not necessary to go directly to the United States, but also to South American countries, so that the government will not be alarmed by the large increase in the number of people going to the United States. ”

The method Zhou Yingcong said is theoretically feasible, and in peacetime, the provincial governments have a lot of ready-made blank passports in case of emergency, let alone in times of war. It's just that after the FJ Incident, the executive power was completely controlled by the central government, and even if there was a blank passport, it would not be given to the Navy personnel, and then excluding the Gui family, which had an old grudge with the Navy, only YN could issue a passport. The way is this, but Wang Longyun disagrees, what price needs to be paid and negotiates, and there is no government to negotiate with the US government, and there are not many people who can go only with ordinary business visas.

Zeng Yiding sighed, "There is only this way, it is better to have a passport than not to have a passport." When are you leaving? ”

"I'm going to leave in the morning, I've already contacted Kunming." Zhou Yingcong said.

"Wang Zhaoming has just gone to Hanoi from YN, and the situation in YN is undecided, you must be careful!" Zeng Yiding stretched out his hand and shook Zhou Yingcong, and he suddenly smiled: "Now that everyone is working together, I feel like I am twenty years younger." ”

Hansheng said that YN would be fine. Now, we are all for the sake of resisting Japan, all for the sake of resisting Japan! Zhou Yingcong's heart was warmed by his last sentence, and he didn't look back after saluting. In the afternoon of the same day, after four hours of turbulence, the plane arrived at Kunming Wujiaba Airport. As soon as Zhou Yingcong got off the plane, a man in an army uniform stepped forward and asked, "Is it Boss Zhou who is in the jade business?" ”

In order not to attract attention, Zhou Yingcong was wearing a long shirt and leather jacket, he thought that he would have to stay in the hotel for a few days before he could see Long Yun, and he didn't want to be contacted as soon as he got off the plane. He smiled and arched his hand: "It's Zhou, may I ask who your Excellency is ......?"

"Please take a step to speak." It was Long Yun's adjutant Yang Zhu'an who came to pick you up, and he took Zhou Yingcong aside and said, "Colonel Zhou, Chairman Long asked me to pick you up." ”

"Thank you so much." Zhou Yingcong happily shook hands with Yang Zhu'an, and then got into a car with him and went to Kunming. At the same time, in the Longyun Mansion in Cuihu in Kunming City, Long Shenwu had just hung up the phone, and he said to his father, who was fidgeting in the house: "Father, Colonel Zhou has just gotten off the plane and is on his way to the city. ”

"Hmm." Long Yun, who was dressed in a short jacket and long shirt, nodded, his mind was not on the meeting with Colonel Zhou Yingcong of the Navy at this time, but on Wang Jingwei. More than two months ago, Vice President Wang Jingwei flew to Hanoi, Vietnam, via Kunming, by special plane, and published his infamous Yandian more than 10 days later. This move made him extremely passive, originally he wanted to use Wang Jingwei to oppose Jiang, but unexpectedly, Wang Jingwei's original intention of this trip was to surrender to Japan. The Anti-Japanese War is in the ascendant, and YN also sent 200,000 troops, how can he surrender to Japan? If you want to surrender to Japan, you will not send troops to resist the war.

It's just that if he doesn't invest in Japan, with Chang Kaishen's means of consuming and annexing dissidents, he will eventually be Liu Xiang's end. What to do now? How can I protect myself? Long Yun was thinking about these questions with a cup of tea, but after a while he was tired, and when the guests did not arrive, he asked his subordinates to burn the lamps and smoked a bubble of cigarettes before going out to greet them.

The winter in Kunming is much warmer than ZQ, but Zhou Yingcong was hungry and thirsty all the way, and there was some leakage on the way to the car. Standing in the middle of the living room, the owner was short and thin-cheeked, wearing a short inky leather jacket and a pair of scholar's glasses, and next to him were two young men, one slightly older, around thirty years old, and the other in a military uniform, with what seemed to have scars on his face. Under Yang Zhu'an's introduction, Zhou Yingcong walked quickly to Long Yun and said with a smile: "Navy Zhou Yingcong has seen Chairman Long. ”

"Well said, well said." Long Yun mouthed official words, fortunately, Zhou Yingcong could understand, and he smiled and said: "Colonel Zhou has worked hard from afar, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, I will prepare some thin wine for Colonel Zhou to wash the dust at noon." ”

Long Yun's words were sincere, and he personally set up a banquet to accompany him, so Zhou Yingcong immediately had some confidence in this trip. He sat down at the invitation of Long Yun, and after a few glasses of wine, the two sides who had finished politely finally got to the point. Yang Zhu'an said: "Colonel Zhou, I heard that your navy dug up a few sunken ships in the Americas, which are full of gold, silver and jewelry?" ”

Zhou Yingcong was often asked about the treasure of the shipwreck found by the navy after returning to China, and said truthfully in the face of Long Yun Zhou Yingcong: "The navy was lucky to find a sunken ship, but the gold, silver and jewelry on it are enough to buy a ship." ”

"And what are you going to do in the Navy?" Long Yun was very interested in the treasure hunt of the navy, and there were many treasures in the mountain, but unfortunately he couldn't find it for a while. "I've heard people say that the Navy wants to buy dozens of warships in the United States."

"I can only think of a way slowly." Zhou Yingcong dealt with the past with a smile, and then he talked about the intention of this visit, "Dissatisfied with Chairman Long, the government does not support the reconstruction of the navy, at least not satisfied with the navy to put aside the reconstruction of the national government, so the government has a lot of restrictions on the personnel of the navy going abroad. ”

Zhou Yingcong's opinion was conveyed to Long Yun through acquaintances as early as ZQ, and YN's agreement to him was naturally roughly agreed to help, and now we want to talk about the price: YN helped the navy, what will the navy get in return? It should be known that YN is an inland province that does not reach the sea, and no matter how good the relationship with the navy is, it will not benefit much.

Zhou Yingcong was about to say that if Chairman Long helped, the navy would be unforgettable, Long Shenwu on the side asked directly: "Colonel Zhou, what good will it do us to disobey the will of the central government to help your navy go abroad?" ”

Long Shenwu asked bluntly, and only after he finished speaking did Long Yun glared at him: "Children are not sensible, Colonel Zhou should not take it to heart." ”

Knowing that Long Yun and his son were singing double reeds, Zhou Yingcong could only say that he didn't dare. He saw that Long Yun was waiting for him to speak, so he said: "Now that the War of Resistance is difficult, can the navy help the provincial government with two million national dollars as military salaries......

"Two million dollars? Send it to Hanako! Before Long Yun could speak, his third son, Long Shenzeng, said with disdain. If the navy wants to rebuild its fleet, there must be a lot of people who go out, and it is also the right thing to pay for passports, but now the national currency has depreciated sharply, and it has been depreciating, and now two million is only worth more than 60,000 pounds, and the money is too little.

"Rope Zeng!" Seeing that the third son was disrespectful, Long Yun immediately stopped drinking, he was a little angry, and he said, "Apologize to Colonel Zhou." ”

Long Yun drank his son and asked him to apologize, and Zhou Yingcong hurriedly said: "The third son is quick to talk, there is nothing to apologize for." The navy is really shy in its pocket, and two million national dollars is just a meaning, and if Chairman Long has a place for the navy to help in the future, we will not shirk it. ”

"Colonel Zhou, I heard that the Navy is recruiting pilots in the United States?" Zhou Yingcong stopped Long Shenzeng, but Yang Zhu'an, who had always been polite, asked another question.

"It is true." Zhou Yingcong nodded, unable to figure out what he meant for a while.

"Then the Navy is preparing to run an air force?" Yang Zhuan Road. "Can you buy the latest airplane?"

"Not the Air Force, exactly, but the carrier-based aviation of the aircraft carrier." Zhou Yingcong said. "Since the Navy trains pilots in the United States, it is natural that it can buy the latest aircraft."

"Don't hide it from Colonel Zhou, YN originally had an air force, but," after glancing at Long Yun, Yang Zhuan said: "It's just that it was merged into the air force after the Anti-Japanese War, and now it has been exhausted." It would be great if the Navy could help YN train an air force. ”

Yang Zhu'an's request was completely unexpected by Zhou Yingcong, and after being surprised, he admired Long Yun's calculation - because of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, all the troops of the whole country were under the central government's dispatch, and the air force was no exception, otherwise it would be a great disapproval of the world. But it is really difficult to predict whether the end of the Anti-Japanese War will be another warlord melee, YN originally had an air force, but after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, there will be no more YN air force, only the Chinese Air Force that obeys the orders of the central government. In case of repeated civil wars after the Anti-Japanese War, YN even parried with the power of ...... No! The power of parry is definitely not, it should not even have a chance to escape, and the plane is all in the hands of the center. However, the Central Committee of the Central Committee will definitely not allow YN to set up an air force again, but if the air force is placed in the naval aviation force, it will be feasible to transfer it to YN after the war.

"High! It's really high! Zhou Yingcong cocked his thumb and smiled, he admired Long Yun too much, no wonder he would present a picture to the Red Army back then. (To be continued.) )