Old man Mei has been smiling and looking at the two, when Mei Yuntian first took this young man to his home, he had a little good impression of this young man, his eyes always had an unspeakable melancholy, but his appearance always looked optimistic, and then the Mei family faced a crisis, but it was his generosity to save him to tide over the difficulties, the Mei family and his joint efforts to develop to an unprecedented height, becoming the most prosperous Chinese family on the West Coast, and even entered the mainstream of American society, which is extremely rare among Chinese.

However, what the old man didn't understand was that this young man paid little attention to domestic affairs, and whenever everyone talked about domestic political dynamics, he always hid to the side, basically did not speak, and tried himself a few times, but he was always cleverly evaded, but these few times let him see that this is a young man with a story.

Sure enough, after 918 and 128, in the midst of the collective righteous indignation of the Chinese Americans, he began to take action, gathering the leaders of the Chinese Americans on the West Coast to jointly formulate a plan, and in a few years, he successfully established a military industrial system in southwest China, and now this system has become the biggest weight for China to resist the invasion of China.

Thinking of these, the old man admired Zhuang Jihua even more, when Zhuang Jihua proposed this plan, not many people thought it would be successful, but now, it turns out that this plan is completely feasible, Mei Yuntian told him that Zhuang Jihua thought that it was only 70% completed, but this also far exceeded his expectations.

In the United States, he pays attention to his news all the time, but there is too little news from Yucheng, in addition to constantly asking for equipment, complete sets of equipment, equipment worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the Mei family in the country, and even in the world to buy factories, purchase equipment, the Mei family once became the most popular customer in the American business world.

But the old man was still worried, although Mei Yuntian and Mei Youlan's letters became more and more confident, but he still couldn't rest assured, after the start of the Anti-Japanese War, he finally couldn't continue to stay in the United States, let his son stay in the United States, and set off to return to China by himself. The road back to China was not easy, the army blocked almost all the ports in China, the only loophole was Hong Kong, he took a boat to the Philippines, from the Philippines to Hong Kong, advanced age and a long time by boat, resulting in a serious illness after he arrived in the Philippines, almost unable to reach China.

After returning to China, accompanied by Mei Youlan, he visited in Yucheng, Sichuan, Yunnan and even Panzhihua, and finally admitted with satisfaction that Zhuang Jihua's achievements far exceeded his estimates, because of his special identity, he was ceremoniously entertained by local officials everywhere he went, and the luxurious banquet made him a little uncomfortable, and he happened to be accompanied by Chen Jiageng, the leader of overseas Chinese in Nanyang, Chen Jiageng is actually a secret funder, this person is contacted by the old man, but the funder, he doesn't know Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua doesn't know him.

Chen Jiageng is complaining that this kind of banquet is amazingly wasteful, if the officials of the Republic of China are like this, the country and the nation are in danger. But Mei Yuntian retorted that this is the habit of officialdom, and it is the same in any country in the world, but he also admits that such waste should be controlled to a certain extent.

After inspecting the southwest, the old man remembered that he had accepted the invitation of Zhou En when he was in Wuhan, so he decided to go to Yan'an, but he couldn't go to Yan'an, even if his special status couldn't, so he used the excuse to go to the northwest and went north with Chen Jiageng, but he didn't expect to go to Xi'an and get sick again, Mei Youlan didn't dare to take the risk and wanted to cancel the trip to Yan'an, but the old man resolutely disagreed.

After this circle, the old man has accumulated a lot of words in his heart and wants to tell Zhuang Jihua, what Zhuang Jihua has done over the years has deeply won his trust.

"Lan'er, don't pester him, Cultural Revolution, come to drink tea, the newly arrived Xiaguan Tuo tea." After the old man finished speaking, he turned around and walked away with his cane.

Mei Youlan stuck out her tongue at Zhuang Jihua, bypassed him and grabbed the palace embroidery painting, and greeted Wu Ziniu affectionately, and then pulled the palace embroidery painting to the plum tree. Zhuang Jihua hurriedly caught up with the old man, ready to help him up the steps, but the old man waved his hand, grabbed his arm with his backhand, and led him into the living room.

After entering the house, the old man let go of Zhuang Jihua's hand and ordered the servant to serve tea, Zhuang Jihua looked at the room and asked very casually: "Old man, why do you plan to live in Yucheng for a long time?" ”

"Born in Si, died in Si, buried in Si; I am also lucky that this old bone can be buried in China. The old man picked up the teacup with his thin hand nonchalantly, gently blew the tea foam floating on it, and took a sip before putting it down.

Zhuang Jihua did not move the tea beside him, and instructed to quietly look at the old man's dark and wrinkled face, which is a very ordinary face, like most Chinese in the United States, the old man was desperate to sell piglets to the United States, after more than fifty years of struggle to have today's achievements, the Mei family's struggle history is the history of Chinese in the United States.

"Old man, don't be so sad, you still have to watch me surrender, and we can still get tea from Hirohito's palace." Zhuang Jihua made a joke casually, talking to this old man is very relaxed, don't look at his age, his body is not very good, but he has an active mind and a keen response, plus his more than 70 years of experience, he can be a refined character.

"Cultural Revolution, you did a good job, I won't talk about anything else, I want to ask, what do you want to do next?" The old man asked.

"I may have to wait two years to go back to the battlefield, and the next thing is to continue social reform and industrial construction, and at the same time to train a new army, and the current troops have some problems to prepare for a counteroffensive." Zhuang Jihua said with a straight face.

"What do you need me to do?" Old Man Mei frowned slightly, and seemed to be a little dissatisfied: "Sometimes I, an old man, is still very useful. ”

"Old man, are you keeping your sword in its sheath for the time being, and you can't unsheath it until the critical time." Zhuang Jihua said lightly, Old Man Mei's eyes lit up, and then dimmed again.

"Trouble?"

The old man's voice was still so calm, without even a trace of mood fluctuations, Zhuang Jihua smiled indifferently: "There is trouble at any time, but I have been dealing with him for more than ten years, and I can still deal with it now." ”

Zhuang Jihua didn't say who he was, and the old man didn't ask, he just nodded, and then smiled: "Mr. Jingjiang is a very interesting person, he asked me to be a political officer, I am still hesitating, what do you think?" ”

The old guy was making a name for himself, and this idea suddenly came to Zhuang Jihua's mind, and he pondered for a moment before slowly saying, "If you can, this is a good idea." Old man, can you stand it physically? ”

Old Man Mei waved his hand: "The body is nothing, it can still hold on, I try to live until the day of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War." ”

"Don't play the pathos card, I know you can." Zhuang Jihua grimaced, trying to keep the atmosphere lively: "How is it, what are the gains from this trip to the northwest?" ”

"Of course there is," the wrinkles on Old Man Mei's face suddenly blossomed, and his mood became a little excited: "I saw MZD in Yan'an, this is a great person, I talked to him three times, to be honest, I have lived for seventy years, I don't admire much, MZD is definitely one, he has a very deep understanding of Chinese society, and they also have their plans for how to reform Chinese society, Yan'an is a pilot of their reform, just like Yucheng, their honesty and efficiency, unlike the national political axe, the people in northern Shaanxi are organized, Unlike most of the Kuomintang areas, which are scattered and disorderly, your approach in Yucheng is similar to theirs, no wonder some people say that you are a fake Kuomintang and a real GCD. ”

Zhuang Jihua sneered, a little worried in his heart, GCD's united front work is too good, and an old man with rich experience like Old Man Mei was attracted to them like this, no wonder GMD failed so quickly in his previous life.

"Don't laugh, I think if the Kuomintang doesn't make changes, the world is likely to be GCD in the future," Old Man Mei smiled and said lightly: "You haven't been to Yan'an, and you haven't seen MZD, he has an attractive charm that can firmly attract you, Zhou EN also has this kind of charm, in the Kuomintang, I haven't seen that leader have this kind of charm." ”

The old man's words included Chiang Kai-shek, but Zhuang Jihua didn't care at all, he said in his heart, MZD and Zhou EN are very powerful, I am afraid that only I know best in this world, this combination is invincible, MZD finally changed the whole of China, the influence is not only limited to China, but also spread to Europe and Africa, and his influence still exists in the 21st century.

"Old man, I know very well the power of GCD, so I have repeatedly emphasized that social reform is more important than the military industry, and the chairman of the committee also recognizes this, but he has too many concerns and too many constraints." Zhuang Jihua stood up and walked back and forth in the room, whenever he was about to make a long speech, he always did this, he liked to stand and talk.

"However, I don't think that there is no hope for our Kuomintang, after all, we are the central power, and if we seize the opportunity to carry out social reform while resisting the war, we still have hope."

"In fact, the chairman of the committee also believes that social reform is needed, but he has too many concerns and too many constraints to let go." Zhuang Jihua smiled bitterly: "Our party has always been loose, and the prime minister's san ming boil righteousness advocates national civil rights and people's livelihood, but now we need to centralize power, but if you really centralize power, it will immediately attract the opposition of a large number of people, so this war gives us a chance to implement partial centralization under the premise of war." ”

"Bang", there was a burst of applause outside the door, Zhuang Jihua looked back, Zhang Jingjiang's wheelchair was already outside the door, Zhuang Jihua greeted him, and without waiting for him to say hello, Zhang Jingjiang said: "Seeing the guards outside, I guessed that it might be you, come and take a look, and sure enough, I saw Wu Ziniu in the yard." ”

Zhang Jingjiang was still lazy from tone to demeanor, he was wearing a thick cotton robe, a blue scarf around his neck, and a pair of thick black cloth cotton shoes under his feet, looking through the thick lenses at Zhuang Jihua standing in the middle of the room.

Argentina lost again, proving once again that Maradona was not a good coach, and he brought eleven lions to South Africa, but unfortunately eleven lions fought alone.

(To be continued)