However, if it is serious to enter the development team, it is necessary to obtain Chiang Kai-shek's approval, Zhuang Jihua immediately sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, explaining the serious matter, and at the same time asking Chiang Kai-shek to send him some more people, they are really not enough manpower here.

Chiang Kai-shek quickly called back and agreed to seriously enter the development team, and the military rank was set at lieutenant general, and at the same time, in order to facilitate Zhuang Jihua's work and reward his achievements in the Great Wall War of Resistance, his military rank was also promoted to lieutenant general, and the real appointment letter was sent later, as for other personnel, Chiang Kai-shek said that he was looking for them.

Chiang Kai-shek's personnel arrived soon, and they were still Zhuang Jihua's old friends, but this old friend also made Zhuang Jihua a little upset.

"I said Brother Impermanence, have you been there all these years? I didn't hear from you after I returned to China, and I thought I was done in Wuhan that year. Zhuang Jihua teasingly said to Feng Knee, although he was a little upset with him, but he was not a person like Li Haoyi after all, he just insisted on his own ideas.

"I will leave Wuhan before you are arrested," Feng said with a smile: "In the past few years, I have worked first in Guangzhou, then in Shandong and Anhui, and then in the Propaganda Department of the Central Party Department. ”

"I don't dare to accept your brother's words, the party department is not under my control, it is Lifu's job." Zhuang Jihua is very vigilant, Chen Lifu has a very strict control over the party department, and regards him as his own territory, Zhuang Jihua doesn't want to have a dispute with him: "But since you are here, I will also send you some work, and our cadre school teachers are insufficient, you come to give them lectures, and subsidize you with 50 yuan per month, how about it, the treatment is good enough." ”

"Don't do it," Feng Kneeling replied quickly and simply, Zhuang Jihua was stunned, Feng Kneeling said leisurely: "Your wife takes eighty oceans every month, and I can't be inferior to her as a big man." ”

"Boom." Everyone present laughed, Zhuang Jihua couldn't cry or laugh: "Yes, yes, it's my talent who has the eyes to ignore your impermanent brother, eighty oceans invited middle school teachers at that time, your impermanent brother should be a professor, two hundred and forty oceans, it's all right." ”

Feng Chuan nodded with great satisfaction, and his mouth was still angry: "The salary of the director of the party department is sixty oceans, plus two hundred and forty, a total of three hundred oceans, which should be comparable to the salary of you, a lieutenant general, thank you very much, I will attend classes when I get the money." ”

"Damn, you want money to die." Zhuang Jihua couldn't help but scold, everyone became more and more happy, Du Yuming They knew him in Wuhan before, but they didn't expect this person to be so humorous, Zhuang Jihua was played by him like this.

Lin Wei was also there with Feng Knee, nominally Lin Wei came to announce Zhuang Jihua's promotion and serious appointment, but in fact he also had the mission of inspecting the development of the southwest, so when he proposed to take a look at the development of the southwest, Zhuang Jihua immediately left other things and walked around the factories and construction sites with him.

"A factory produces guns, imitating the German 7.92mm Mauser rifle, which can produce more than 800 rifles per month, and the output is still very small, the main reason is that there is a shortage of skilled workers, and the defective rate is relatively high. The next step is to expand the factory," Zhuang Jihua said, referring to the plant under construction: "This is the second phase of the expansion of the factory. ”

Lin Wei did not make any comments except for saying yes, he looked at it very carefully, asked very carefully, and when he heard Zhuang Jihua describe the way he controlled the news media, he not only praised it.

"Your method is good, any policy has been commented on by them as useless, the chairman of the committee is very troubled by this, your method is good, manage it, prohibit private ownership of newspapers, raise the threshold for entry, inconspicuous, make people have nothing to say, and control the media."

"This rabbit is in a hurry and bites, who let them push me into a hurry." Zhuang Jihua said with a wry smile, and Lin Wei couldn't help laughing. He was in a very happy mood, the progress of the development of the southwest exceeded Chiang Kai-shek's judgment, the steel plant could start steelmaking next spring, the artillery plant could already produce 60 mortars, the Czech light machine gun could already be mass-produced, although the output was very low, the traffic, at least the traffic in the Yucheng area was very smooth, the Chengdu-Chongqing railway had been laid by one-third, and the railway group had already begun to plan the railway from Yucheng to Xiangfan, but at this stage due to the war, some sections could not be explored on the spot.

"Cultural Revolution, in terms of social reform, what do you plan to do in the next stage?" Lin Wei asked, this is a matter of great concern to Chiang Kai-shek, the Red Army in northern Sichuan is very troublesome, Chiang Kai-shek is worried that the slightest trouble will cause greater social unrest.

"The main thing is to reduce rent and interest," Zhuang Jihua said after thinking about it: "I'm afraid that the resistance to this policy will be relatively large, and the principal will have to support me at that time." ”

Lin Wei said after a while: "This matter must be safe, the central government has done it in Zhejiang, and now it exists in name only, you must be careful." ”

"The last time I went to Nanchang, the principal also said this, so I first established a grassroots organization, and then carried it out, and the implementation of this policy can only be guaranteed if there is a sound grassroots organization." Zhuang Jihua then recounted the idea of establishing a village militia and a village head, and finally said: "In this way, the problems of grassroots organizations and reserve forces can be solved together, and the implementation of various government decrees will be guaranteed." ”

After thinking about it in his heart for a while, Lin Wei felt that this strategy might be the most secure, and if there was any problem, I was afraid that it could only be a problem in implementation.

"What are your thoughts on how to pacify the communist bandits in northern Sichuan?" Lin Wei finally asked this question, and he looked at Zhuang Jihua with a little hopelessness.

Zhuang Jihua pondered for a moment and said: "Let Liu Xiang fight, defeated, there will be no excuse to refuse the central army to enter Sichuan, and winning the war can be regarded as solving a trouble, three years later, I will be able to train 50,000 troops to come out, and the central government will be equal to entering Sichuan at that time." ”

"Well, it seems that you and the chairman of the committee are in agreement, the chairman of the committee launched the fifth encirclement and suppression of the Jiangxi communist bandits, adopted the fortress tactics proposed by Mr. Yang Yongtai, although the progress is slow, but the effect is good. The only thing the chairman is worried about is the northern Sichuan communists. ”

Zhuang Jihua shook his head and said: "I'm not worried about the Red Army in Northern Sichuan, if Liu Xiang can take out all his strength, even if he can't eliminate the Red Army in Northern Sichuan, he can inhibit its development; The army in the north is the biggest worry. ”

Lin Wei glanced at him, and said in his heart, you really dare to say it, but the hidden worries in North China are indeed very big, and this worry does not come from the outside, but from the inside.

After the end of the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, the 29th Army, the 32nd Army, the 17th Army, and the 35th Army were each proposed to take out a division to be reorganized into a German armament division, but in the end, Chiang Kai-shek reorganized the 17th Army and the 14th Army into a division each, and expanded the 87th and 88th divisions into 36th, 87th, and 88th German armament divisions.

For the fifth encirclement and suppression of the Jiangxi Soviet Region, Wei Lihuang's 14th Army and Song Xilian's 87th Division were ordered to transfer south, with Song Xilian as the commander of the 36th Division and Wang Jingjiu as the commander of the 87th Division.

Chiang Kai-shek asked Chen Cheng to be in charge of the army arrangement, Chen Cheng listed the 11th and 18th divisions of his descendants as German armor divisions, Hu Zongnan heard about it, and wrote to Chiang Kai-shek, thinking that the first division was the glory of the National Revolutionary Army and should be installed first, and Chiang Kai-shek immediately approved it. The 100 million oceans provided by Zhuang Jihua began to operate.

"What does General Secter think of North China?" Zhuang Jihua asked, Seckert did not return to China in the end, he accepted Chiang Kai-shek's appointment to serve as the general adviser of the German [***] affairs advisory group, Chiang Kai-shek gave him a high courtesy, called him the chairman of the committee, and claimed that everything Seckert said was equivalent to what Chiang Kai-shek said, and officials at all levels must follow it.

"I don't know about this, I don't have a reminder about that." Lin Wei asked with some suspicion: "It's been less than a year since the armistice agreement was signed, so I won't stir up trouble so soon, right?" ”

"I can't be trusted in the first place, 918, 128, and the Great Wall War of Resistance, didn't I just find an excuse to start it?" Zhuang Jihua asked rhetorically, Lin Wei was speechless, Zhuang Jihua sighed, and then said: "We can only be ready to fight at any time, and we can't be careless." The headmaster was reluctant to arm the motley army, but the northern front needed them, and once the army's morale was dispersed, the consequences would be unimaginable. ”

Lin Wei still has nothing to say, dare to criticize Chiang Kai-shek like this, I am afraid that I can't count a few in the whole of China, Lin Wei doesn't want to talk about this issue, but Zhuang Jihua doesn't want to let him go: "Brother Weiwen, please bring a message to the principal for me, there is something to give, there is something to gain, arming the 29th Army and the 32nd Army, whether in the short term or long term, it is advantageous." Spend millions to buy their loyalty, and the business is worth doing. ”

"Okay, I'll bring that." Lin Wei nodded in agreement, and then he changed the topic: "These factories are the southwest development team of the city? ”

"No," Zhuang Jihua said quietly, "It should be said that it is the Sichuan Development Company." ”

"Isn't it your investment?" Lin Wei was a little surprised.

"I invested the money, but I needed their help in other areas, so it was a good deal to let them take a stake in power, territory and army."

"A good deal?" Lin Wei didn't figure it out at all: "How much money did you invest?" 100 million or 200 million? ”

"There are about 200 million, and there are records in Shaoqing, not counting this account." Zhuang Jihua shrugged indifferently, in the year of this year, the education subsidy is close to 40 million, the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War and the suppression of bandits in northern Sichuan add up to 30 million, and he bought back the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, iron ore, as well as ships, equipment, etc., and he alone calculated that the bulk was more than 100 million.

"The 200 million from the chairman is not counted." Lin Wei smiled bitterly and said with some admiration: "No wonder Li Zaitian said that you should not take money." ”

"If you have more money, you want to do something, otherwise what will you do to make money," Zhuang Jihua said lightly: "Look at Lu Zuofu, he is engaged in rural experiments and runs schools in Beibei, and he is not losing money, why do you say he is doing?" It's not like I want to do something good for society. Let's talk about Mr. Zhang Jingjiang, why did he break the family and become a country? Money, in fact, is a tool, which is used to realize one's dreams. ”

Lin Wei looked at Zhuang Jihua thoughtfully, and asked for a long time: "What about Mr. Shaoqing?" ”

"He's going back to the U.S. on business." Zhuang Jihua said that in fact, Mei Yuntian's return to the United States was arranged by him, and the purpose was to apply for a patent for penicillin, and he brought a lot of materials, including more than 5,000 patents, from equipment to materials, almost everything, leaving no room for others at all.

After sending Lin Wei away, Zhuang Jihua took advantage of this quiet time to speed up the pace of social reform, and established trade unions in various factories. This was partly increased by the introduction of a minimum wage, the construction of welfare housing for workers, who could move in with very little rent, the introduction of a six-day, 48-hour workday, and the establishment of a medical security system, for which he also set up a special insurance company.

The almost comprehensive satisfaction of the demands of the trade unions led to a great increase in the prestige of the trade unions, with almost all the workers joining the trade unions, and Teng Jie and Feng Kneeling taking the opportunity to recruit the Three Youth League members and Kuomintang members among the workers, and to establish League branches and Party branches in various factories, of course, the staff of these two branches were not absentees, but workers who also had to participate in the work.

Also joining the development team with Feng Kneeling and Serious was Yu Peidi, and Zhuang Jihua also promoted three people from the development team to the top level, two from the Whampoa Military Academy, and the other was Tao Zhiyong, the former military doctor of the First Division. After Tao Zhiyong followed Professor Tang and Professor Ding to succeed in penicillin, Zhuang Jihua persuaded him to come out as the director of the newly established Health Bureau, and Zhuang Jihua clearly told him that his task was to build hospitals, medical schools and health schools.

"Within three years, you must ensure that Yucheng has 100,000 beds and can accept 100,000 wounded people at the same time, can you do it?" Zhuang Jihua was very serious.

Tao Zhiyong couldn't help but complain: "Commander, aren't you chasing ducks to the shelves?" 100,000 in three years, you let me go there to find so many doctors and nurses? Medical school students are enrolled in five years. ”

"So far, we're not chasing ducks out of the shelves?" Zhuang Jihua asked rhetorically.

"Hospitals are different from others, first of all, there must be doctors, and even Shanghai and Nanjing probably don't have 100,000 beds." Tao Zhiyong resolutely refused.

"It's a military need, you can't watch those wounded die not on the battlefield, but in the hospital, right? If so, do you feel at ease? Zhuang Jihua began to intimidate him, he also knew that this matter was difficult, but there was no way, time waited for no one.

"I'll do my best." Tao Zhiyong said helplessly.

Zhuang Jihua shook his head: "It's not a try, it's a must, I remind you, if you can't find anyone in China, you can go abroad to find it, and the salary of the talents you dig is set by you." ”

After getting rid of Tao Zhiyong, Zhuang Jihua began to design the army's logistics support system, and he asked Yu Peidi to be the head of the logistics department, and asked Zheng Zheng to be the training director, and they shared part of the work of Li Zhilong and Du Yuming respectively, and Du Yuming withdrew himself to prepare for the establishment of the general staff.

Just when Zhuang Jihua was preparing to dry quickly, another change occurred in the south, Li Jishen announced the establishment of the People's Revolutionary Political Axe of the Republic of China in Fuzhou, and elected Song Qingling, Deng Yanda, Chen Youren, and Chen Mingshu as members, and Li Jishen as the chairman.

(To be continued)