Bad news always spreads quickly. www.biquge.infoLess than a day after Chen Jiliang announced the news of the rebuilding of the navy in New York, Wang Chenghuang of the Air Force's office in New York reported it to China, and early the next morning, Qian Dajun, who heard that Chang Kaishen was in Wuhan, came forward to report the news of the rebuilding of the navy in New York to Chang Kaishen. After the sinking of the Ninghai, there were only a few gunboats left in the navy, and the main thing to do was to lay mines along the Yangtze River and use the fortresses along the river to stop the westward advance of the Japanese fleet.

This was largely in vain, and the fortress could only hold out for a while, not for a long time - the Yangtze River was like a huge funnel, through which the Japanese army continued to advance. Compared to the Japanese troops struggling in the Yellow Flood, they could travel along the Yangtze River to the heart of China in just a few days. The fortress can only be stuck at one node, and once the RB army makes a roundabout encirclement attack from the shore, no matter what the fortress will be. At this time, Chang Kaishen did not regret leading the Japanese army from North China to SH to start a war, and he did not have time to think about SH starting a war, and he was now glad that 'in the past, he captured our Nanjing, and could have pursued it as best as he could, and took Wuhan all the way'[Note 62], but the Japanese were short-sighted and did not take Wuhan in one go, giving the government time to breathe.

The navy is no longer of much value, and the government's plan for the navy is to abolish the Admiralty after the people forget about the Ninghai, and instead establish the Navy Commander-in-Chief, and Chen Shaokuan, the Minister of the Navy, will be reappointed as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy; After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the navy was rebuilt under the leadership of the national government, so that the situation of Fujian controlling the navy could be completely eliminated.

Unexpectedly, the abolition of the Admiralty was not a move, and the Navy announced its own reconstruction. Looking at Qian Dajun, who was standing in front of him, Chang Kaishen was a little skeptical: "This is just Chen Jiliang's wishful thinking, right?" Where does the Navy get the money to build aircraft carriers? ”

"The president of the report said that the Navy held a special press conference in New York and the commander of the 1st Fleet, Chen Jiliang, personally announced that it was going to be rebuilt, and that in addition to building submarines, they would also recruit naval pilots throughout the United States. The question of the money was asked by a reporter, but the Navy did not say anything about it, saying only that there was a reliable source of funding. Now shipyards and airlines in the United States are surrounding Chen Jiliang and his group, and they also opened an aviation school in San Francisco. ”

Qian Dajun said the news from New York, feeling extremely atmospheric, and after he finished reporting the situation, he said: "President, although the Air Force now has Soviet-made planes, the performance of these planes is too poor, and even old pilots are prone to crashes, so everyone thinks that it is better to buy American planes. The Navy has just rebuilt its fleet, and now it is actually going so far as to open an aviation school to recruit pilots, and there are quite a few recruits, 500 people in the first phase, and they have to buy planes after recruiting pilots. As the Air Force is weakening and the country's foreign exchange is also extremely tight, what is the benefit of the Navy in forming an air force to fight the war? Wouldn't they bomb the sea?

Dajun asked the president to postpone the reconstruction of the navy and instructed him to use the foreign exchange in his hand to buy the latest American fighter planes and hand them over to the Aviation Committee, at least a batch of dive bombers should be replenished. Now there are two armored corps, the last Lanfeng operation dive bombers were very expensive, according to Du Guangting, the armored army must seize air supremacy during the battle, and then rely on dive bombers to disrupt the enemy's defensive position. Even just a few hours of air supremacy is extremely advantageous for armored combat......"

The Navy's four high-level training planes were 'borrowed' by the Air Force last time, and now they want to 'borrow' foreign exchange from the Navy's hands like last time, and they also come up with an excuse for the combat needs of the armored forces. Chang Kaishen blinked when he heard this, Du Guangting's armored army is indeed a big country. The morale of the army, even the German advisers were amazed by it. Now the Supreme Command is forming a second armored corps, the 71st Armored Army, and the commander Song Xilian will use all Soviet-made tanks, and the backbone personnel will be withdrawn from the 88th Army.

"I'll let Brother Jing take care of this." Chang Kaishen was a little happy when he thought of the armored army, but the current strategic situation made him unhappy, the loss of Madang is equivalent to the opening of the east gate of Wuhan, and he may not wait for the Japanese army in the north to go south, and the Japanese army in the east will approach Wuchang.

"Yes, President." Qian Dajun felt that Chang Kaishen was a little absent-minded, so he saluted and turned around and went out. Chang Kaishen, who did not delay, immediately called He Yingqin.

"I'm He Yingqin......" He Yingqin on the other end of the phone was obviously handling official business, and when he heard Chang Kaishen's voice, the voice in the office quieted down. Two days ago, Minister Chen reported to me about the navy, and I told him that the government is in great difficulty at present, that most of the weapons and ammunition are imported, and that foreign exchange is insufficient, and that it is better to slow down the reconstruction of the navy. He Yingqin waved his hand to let the person next to him exit the office and began to explain the matter of the navy to Chang Kaishen.

"The Navy has announced a rebuild in New York!" Chang Kaishen, who was holding the microphone, pounded the table, he felt more and more that those people in the Fujian system were very unreliable, and he actually put aside the national government to announce the reconstruction. "The Navy has already set up an aviation school in the United States, and in the first phase, it will recruit 500 naval pilots and build aircraft carriers......

"What?!" He Yingqin was taken aback, and only then did he remember the last few words when Chen Shaokuan was stabilized by him that day, "Chen Houfu didn't tell me about this matter!" I'm ......, I'll come right over......"

He Yingqin hurried to Chang Kaishen's official residence on Jialuo Mountain after hanging up the phone, and when he arrived, Song Meiling had already gotten up, and Song Meiling had also heard that the navy had announced in New York that it would rebuild and recruit pilots to build aircraft carriers. Chen Shaokuan and Song Meiling are familiar, Song Meiling took his arm and walked on the warship several times when he took the warship, and was more affectionately called 'Ah Kuan', but the navy wanted to form a naval air force, which made her a little unhappy, not to mention that at this time the war of resistance was being carried out, wouldn't the navy ignore the central government?

"Brother Jing is here." Seeing that He Yingqin had arrived, Song Meiling, who was talking to her husband, stood up and said hello politely.

"Yes, ma'am, President." He Yingqin called Chang Kaishen's new title, although on April 1 this year, on the day of the fourth meeting, Wu Zhihui proposed and recommended Chang Kaishen as the president of the party and determined that he was the core of the leadership of the Party Central Committee, but it was not until after the victory of Lanfeng that the surrounding people generally called Chang Kaishen "president", which made Chang Kaishen very proud, thinking that Lanfeng fought well, and the captured Japanese artillery suppressed everyone.

"What the hell is going on in the Navy?" Chang Kaishen waved his hand to let He Yingqin sit down and ask the questions he cared about.

"Navy ......" He Yingqin secretly wiped his sweat, and he handed over the things he received when he left the office, "President, Chen Shaokuan has resigned, and I just received the resignation letter." ”

"Chen Shaokuan resigned?" Chang Kaishen was a little surprised, he thought that Chen Shaokuan was planning this matter behind the scenes, but now he resigned, which means that he does not agree with Chen Jiliang's opinion. "Who the hell is in charge of the rebuilding of the Navy?"

"This, Lin Xiangxin, director of the Ordnance Department of the Admiralty, must know," He Yingqin hesitated for a moment before saying. "Of course, since Chen Jiliang will come forward to announce the reconstruction, he can't get rid of it."

"Lin Xianxi? Director of the Ordnance Division? Chang Kaishen smiled, "I'm afraid that the director of the Ordnance Department is just running errands." It's Chen Jiliang ......", speaking of Chen Jiliang, Chang Kaishen's smile immediately retracted, this hero of Jinshanwei's great victory, the first winner of the Navy Blue Sky and White Sun Medal, it is really not good to reprimand and stop this person.

"Brother Jing, do you know where the foreign exchange for the reconstruction of the navy comes from?" Song Meiling carefully took a sip of coffee, not letting the juice wash away her lipstick. At that time, she thought that this aviation school was the same as the previous overseas Chinese aviation school, with a scale of more than 10 or 20 people, but she did not expect that this was not the case at all, and the navy wanted to recruit 500 pilots, not 500 flight cadets, which is equivalent to saying that this aviation school has a scale of more than 1,000 people.

"This, madam, I don't know where the navy got the money Yingqin, at least the Ministry of Military Affairs has not allocated funds. It can't be the Navy's issuance of bonds, right? He Yingqin was confused.

"I can only ask Brother Yong about this matter." Chang Kaishen touched the top of his head, and suddenly a sentence came out. Song Meiling glanced at him, but because He Yingqin was on the side, it was difficult to ask.

"President, Chen Shaokuan's ......" He Yingqin pointed to the resignation letter that was placed on the table by Chang Kaishen.

"The Admiralty should have been revoked a long time ago." Chang Kaishen pressed the resignation letter. "Let's take this opportunity to abolish the Admiralty and establish the Naval Headquarters. As for the candidate for commander-in-chief of the Navy...... "Thinking about the FJ people in the Admiralty, Chang Kaishen didn't want to use it, but he couldn't find anyone else with enough qualifications, so he had to say: "Let Zeng Province be the third temporary substitute, isn't he the commander of the 2nd Fleet." ”

Unexpectedly, Chang Kaishen really agreed to Chen Shaokuan's resignation, and when He Yingqin was thinking about the consequences of doing so, Chang Kaishen said: "The newspaper, at least the Central Daily, should publish an editorial to refute the behavior of the navy to rebuild without the approval of the Supreme Command. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was difficult, and the country's foreign exchange was even more limited, and the limited foreign exchange was not used to the point where it mattered, but to build a navy that could not be used. ”

Chang Kaishen's last few words were serious, He Yingqin nodded again and again, and seeing that Chang Kaishen had nothing else to do, he immediately got up and left. As soon as he left, Chang Kaishen's voice softened with a straight face, and he said, "Darlene, after Brother Yong returned to China last year, he reported to me about a shipwreck of Spanish treasure three hundred years ago. ”

“what？！” Song Meiling was startled, and her native language naturally blurted out, considering that Chang Kaishen couldn't understand English, she had to force her switch to a foreign language: "Darlene, is this true?" Spanish treasure ships? ”

"I didn't believe it when Brother Yong told me, but he said it very carefully, saying that the ship contained nearly ten tons of gold, more than 30 tons of silver and hundreds of kilograms of jewelry, and that it sank in Cuban waters, which is easy to salvage because it is a shallow water, and he also sent someone to an archive in Spain to find records of the sinking of the ship......"

Chang Kaishen talked about an incident that Kong Xiangxi secretly reported to him last year, he didn't really believe that there was such a good thing at the time, but he couldn't find the source of the funds for the reconstruction of the navy, and he suddenly remembered this matter.

"Darlene, Spain did sink a lot of ships in Cuba, but this is what Brother Yong told you, what does this have to do with the reconstruction of the navy?" After all, Song Meiling grew up in the United States, and she has heard some stories about Spanish treasure ships and pirates.

"This was reported to him by Li Hansheng, the naval attache of the Berlin embassy." Chang Kaishen also said the name of Li Kongrong, who predicted the Japanese army's landing in Jinshanwei, and was really a naval think tank. "The Navy should have found the wreck before announcing its reconstruction."

"So that's it?" Song Meiling's eyes flashed with a few looks, but she was a little disappointed when she thought that the shipwreck was found by the navy, and she couldn't see any jewelry on it. "If there were ten tons of gold, then the navy would probably have more than 12 million dollars, and it would be a pity if this money was only used for the reconstruction of the navy and not for the war of resistance. How could that Li Hansheng be like this? Here I told Brother Yong that there was a Spanish shipwreck, but here I found it and concealed it and didn't report it. ”

"FJ people? Isn't it all like this, left and right, and there is no truth? Chang Kaishen remembered Huang Jun who was executed, and he had always respected Huang Jun, but he didn't expect that these two fathers and sons were Japanese spies.

"What about the more than 10 million dollars?" Song Meiling asked. "Although the Soviet Union had loans, the performance of Soviet planes was very poor, and the pilots were very unsuitable, and if the more than 10 million US dollars could be used to buy new aircraft, Wuhan would not have been bombed by Japanese planes."

"The money is ......in the hands of the Navy, and perhaps most of it has been paid to American companies." Thinking that things should still be fought for, Chang Kaishen changed his mind and said: "It's better to leave it to Brother Yong, he is the premier of the Executive Yuan and the Minister of Finance, and it would be better for him to come forward to recover the money." ”

Since the Anti-Japanese War, the fiat currency has been depreciating, and in order to maintain the credibility of the fiat currency, foreign exchange is decreasing day by day. Although more than 10 million US dollars is a lot, it is better than nothing, but Chang Kaishen still cares that the rich navy will 'go alone', so ignoring the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War, rebuilding privately will only bring a bad head to the warlords everywhere. Recovery is a secondary priority, and the key is to prevent the Navy from rebuilding. Thinking of this, Chang Kaishen began to write warrants, some for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, some for the Military Statistics Bureau, and some for the chairman of FJ Province......

Li Kongrong, who was on the Atlantic Express cruise ship, guessed that Chang Kaishen would secretly prevent the Navy from rebuilding the fleet, but when he returned to Berlin after dealing with important affairs in Britain and Switzerland, he was first told that it was the government that abolished the Admiralty, and Chen Shaokuan also resigned. And the Ordnance Department is also among the abolished, and he, the section chief, has nothing to do.

"Brother Hansheng, what the hell is going on?" In the past few days, Cheng Tianfang has been inexplicable about the situation in China, and the navy seems to have done something that is not pleasing to President Chang.

"Nothing, nothing." Li Kongrong, who returned to Berlin again, had an indescribable self-confidence, and he could not explain the actions of the national government, so he had to be perfunctory. "The War of Resistance is difficult, and the Admiralty should be revoked, and the Air Force has not been revoked a long time ago? This will at least save you a little bit of your budget. (To be continued.) )