Song Ziwen was a little happy and a little regretful in his heart, although the post of Minister of Finance was taken back, but the Executive Yuan could not get it, Chiang Kai-shek seemed to be still on guard against him, and similarly, Zhuang Jihua felt a little strange that Zhang Jingjiang agreed to serve as a member of the Political Council, but it was not easy to ask.

"After Wang Zhaoming left, the central government vacated a lot of positions," Zhuang Jihua said thoughtfully: "However, principal, the students suggest that it is best to leave a few positions for Mingzhuo people, such as Zhang Lan, Huang Yanpei, Luo Longji, Zhang Bojun and others. ”

Over the past year or so, Zhuang Jihua has come into contact with many people in Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan, and knows that they have grievances against the political axe, and the most fundamental thing about this grievance is that their political demands have not been satisfied.

Chiang Kai-shek was slightly stunned and did not speak, but Yang Yongtai shook his head and said: "These people have no ability to do things except for shouting blindly, and let them enter the political axe, except for messing up the political axe, there is no other benefit in the slightest." ”

"Mr. Changqing," Zhuang Jihua also shook his head and said: "These people have some influence in society, and if we combine them into the political axe, we will form a joint political axe, highlighting that the various political groups in the country are still closely united around the principal, and they have not been affected by Wang Jingwei's departure, so that Chinese and foreign doubts can be eliminated." ”

The meaning of Zhuang Jihua's words is obvious, the fundamental reason why Roosevelt sent Curie is still full of doubts about the national political axe and political axe, if these people are united into the political axe, on the one hand, it highlights the determination of the political axe to resist to the end, and on the other hand, these elites in the country can be included in the political axe and take the initiative politically.

But Yang Yongtai knew that Chiang Kai-shek would not think like this, these people were all dissidents of the Republic of China, and they would still shout blindly when they entered the political axe, and the impact would be even worse at that time.

"Cultural Revolution, I'm afraid that others won't appreciate your idea," Song Ziwen also disagreed: "I haven't been in contact with Zhang Lan, but I know Luo Longji and Zhang Bojun, and they don't look down on ordinary official positions, but if you want to hand over important departments to him, they will make a mess." ”

Zhuang Jihua still shook his head: "I don't see it that way, the right positions can make them play a role, for example, the Department of Soviet Russia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the recruit transportation agency, in addition to the establishment of a foreign affairs committee in the political participation council, in addition, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry, like Luo Longji, can let him go to the Ministry of Industry as a deputy minister, Zhang Bojun can serve as the director of the Department of Soviet Russia, Zhang Lan can go to the Ministry of Education, in addition, the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications can also give up some positions, if it is not enough, the Ministry of Mines can also be established, and the Political Participation Council can set up multiple committees, For example, the Business Development Committee, the Import and Export Management Committee, let them play a role in this. ”

Looking at Song Ziwen's expression, he still disagreed, but Yang Yongtai felt that Zhuang Jihua was not on a whim, but planning something, but now he can't see clearly, it is by no means as simple as eliminating Chinese and foreign doubts. It seems that the pair of teachers and students are about to start calculating again, Yang Yongtai thought to himself. With this judgment, he stopped speaking.

"Cultural Revolution, aren't you setting things up because of people." Song Ziwen's tone was slightly reproachful, and he was very disapprehensive in his heart, to say that among these people, Zhang Lan and Huang Yanpei are not bad, and there is another set in education, and the other Luo Longji and Zhang Bojun are political activists, and they learned to cook a little bit in the West, so they came back to show off, and they themselves have no ability to start their own stoves, they can only succeed because of people, but they are self-righteous, and they don't look at what the people they rely on need at all, such people are ultimately unlucky whether they are in the Kuomintang or in GCD.

"Then because of people, we control the Ministry of Finance, the Military Command Department, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and let Mayor Yang deal with them, as long as they rely on the political axe, they will no longer rely on others, and achieve this goal." Zhuang Jihua didn't care at all and still insisted.

Chiang Kai-shek's heart moved, and he was silent for a while before he said: "Cultural Revolution, you go and prepare first, and negotiations will start the day after tomorrow at the latest, well, Deng Wenyi will let him go to your southwest camp first to serve as the deputy director of the Political Department, anyway, Zeng Guangqing is also there." ”

"Brother Enlargement, loyal and honest, steady in everything, Brother Xue Bing is a little impatient at times, but the cooperation between the two is appropriate, and the principal has a unique vision." Zhuang Jihua pretended not to hear Chiang Kai-shek's dissatisfaction and praised endlessly.

Chiang Kai-shek looked at him angrily and funny, and couldn't help but scold: "You get out of here, get out, get out, get in trouble for me." ”

Zhuang Jihua stood up with a smile and said goodbye to him, and when he walked to the door, Chiang Kai-shek stopped him again: "Li Anding, you have sharpened very well, and Deng Xuebing has also handed it over to you to watch, by the way, why didn't you recommend Li Anding?" ”

The casual conversation between these two made Yang Yongtai and Song Ziwen a little envious, Song Ziwen dared to lose his temper with Chiang Kai-shek, Yang Yongtai was very respected by Chiang Kai-shek, but they were all restrained, but Zhuang Jihua was intimate, as if he was pulling a family routine.

"Yunxi is still inseparable from stability, and he is preparing for war there." Zhuang Jihua replied, as if he remembered something, he turned back to Chiang Kai-shek and said: "The army I prepared in western Yunnan still lacks a commander and division commander, and the principal will see if Brother Shijian and Dai Anlan will be transferred to me." ”

"You," Chiang Kai-shek was a little crying and laughing, Zhuang Jihua has been asking for cadres since he entered Sichuan, and he has been asking for eight years, these two people Zhuang Jihua has also been asking for a long time, asking him, asking He Yingqin, he has not agreed, but Yu Chengwan's situation He also knows that this brave general who climbed out of the mountain of cattle walking corpses has never been unlucky, in terms of qualifications, it is no problem to be a military commander, and in terms of ability, ability is not bad, but I don't know why every time I should be promoted, the top boss always recommends other people.

Looking at Zhuang Jihua's eager gaze, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't be angry anymore, he shook his head with a wry smile: "Okay, it's all for you, you, don't be such an indiscriminate person in the future." ”

Chiang Kai-shek let go, Zhuang Jihua almost jumped up, he could finally get someone to come, now he is not worried, he has released a group of tigers in western Yunnan, Xiao said that once he went south, he prepared a big meal for them in Burma.

After Zhuang Jihua left happily, Chiang Kai-shek turned to face Yang Yongtai and Song Ziwen, and his expression returned to seriousness.

"Ziwen, the Ministry of Finance has two newcomers, Liu Hangchen, as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance, and Ma Yinchu is in charge of the Finance Committee of the Political Council, some of the words of the Cultural Revolution are still right, we can't GCD pull everyone away, we also attach importance to the people of Mingzhuo, Zhang Lan can use it, he has a high reputation among the Sichuan people, if he wants, give him the Ministry of Education." Chiang Kai-shek said.

Liu Hangchen became the vice minister of finance in order to win over the powerful faction in Sichuan, and Song Ziwen confessed this truth, but there was also a sense of guarding against him, after all, his relationship with Chiang Kai-shek was not as close as Kong Xiangxi.

"Mr. Changqing, the personnel arrangements of the Executive Yuan will be implemented as soon as possible, and you should first solicit the opinions of those newcomers." Chiang Kai-shek instructed Yang Yongtai again.

"Yes, chairman, but what if Zhang Lan proposes to increase education funding?" Yang Yongtai asked.

"The country is at war, and it is impossible to increase education funds," Chiang Kai-shek was very resolute in this regard: "After the issuance of national bonds is successful, I will give due consideration to one point, and the number will not be too much. ”

After Zhuang Jihua left Huangshan, he immediately sent a telegram to Bai Sitong, asking him to come from Chengdu as soon as possible, so that he could recruit Deng Wenyi from Guanyinqiao Middle School and hand over the letter of appointment to him.

"Xue Bing, be careful in the future, be cautious, and stability can be an example." Zhuang Jihua sighed in his heart, when he commanded the anti-pornography, anti-drug and anti-gambling in Wuhan, Deng Wenyi was so high-spirited at that time, compared with now, it can be described as a heaven-made difference, seeing him, Zhuang Jihua once again had the idea of saying goodbye to politics.

Deng Wenyi knew very well that this was what Zhuang Jihua begged him for, he once begged He Jinhan, although the relationship between the two was irreversible, but He Jinhan himself was suspicious and couldn't speak at all, He Yingqin still remembered the situation when they forced the palace, and he didn't even want to see him, let alone Song Meiling, Qian Dajun spoke for him, but he was reprimanded by Chiang Kai-shek, and no one dared to speak in the future.

"You prepare, tomorrow we will go to the North Hot Springs." Zhuang Jihua was a little excited when he saw him, in fact, for him, teaching was not a good thing.

North Hot Spring is at the foot of Jinyun Mountain, it is the most famous hot spring in Chongqing, it turned out to be a dilapidated temple, Lu Zuofu engaged in rural construction experiments in Beibei, built a hot spring resort here and became the most famous park resort in Chongqing, but the North Hot Spring Hotel is not within the North Hot Spring, but in the Wentang Gorge under Jinyun Mountain, close to the Jialing River, it was originally a vacation place for employees of Minsheng Company, after the start of the Anti-Japanese War, Lu Zuofu dedicated it to the national political axe, the original intention was to be used as a sanatorium for disabled soldiers, after the purchase of housing acceptance, But it became a sanatorium for political axe officials, and Lu Zuofu was helpless when he knew about it.

Zhuang Jihua held the first preparatory meeting here to agree on the negotiation strategy, and the British came first, and the British political axe sent a three-person team headed by Colonel Blind.

According to the information presented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colonel Blind is the chief of operations of the British Command in India, and the two attachés are Lieutenant Colonel Staff Officer George and Major Pletson of the Indian Army.

When he got the list, he had a feeling in his heart that the British were not here to formally negotiate, but to find out. In fact, the British were enough to give face to the national political axe, and when they first went to negotiate with Soviet Russia, the biggest military rank was only lieutenant colonel.

"The British came to find out, and we also touched his bottom by the way, so that we could deal with it in the future." Zhuang Jihua told everyone at the preparatory meeting that his indifferent appearance made Zhou Liyi faintly worried.

Frankly speaking, Zhuang Jihua had a very bad impression of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whether it was the killing of Yue himself in Yucheng or the expulsion of the British in Tibet Province not long ago, they all brought a lot of trouble to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and made them scramble for a long time.

Deng Wenyi and Bai Sitong didn't say anything, one of these two people had just re-embarked on their careers and had not yet regained their confidence, and the other was working by Zhuang Jihua's side for the first time, and they didn't dare to be too presumptuous, so they made up their minds to observe first.

"There is no negotiation strategy, this time is to meet and talk about the sea and the sky," Zhuang Jihua stretched his waist, this action made him look a little ruffian: "But the Russians should be cautious." ”

In contrast, Stalin attached much more importance to the talks, sending negotiators, Lieutenant General Menetsov, deputy chief of the General Staff, and Major General Chuikov, head of the Soviet Russian advisory group in China. Moreover, the two sides first had contacts in Moscow with a clear purpose, and Soviet Russia clearly stated that it hoped to strengthen cooperation between the two sides in the military industry, especially in the aircraft industry.

After the Zero appeared in the Chinese sky, the main aircraft of Soviet Russia, the I-15 and I-16, were obviously defeated, and there were no big defeats in several engagements, Zhang Gufeng clashed, and the Zero was once again aggressive, and the Soviet Air Force suffered heavy losses, on the contrary, China's P40 was slightly insufficient, but it was able to barely compete with the Zero, and several battles did not suffer any big losses, which made Soviet Russia tempted, and Stalin had this decision in connection with the bazooka radar last time.

Located at the foot of the mountain, the hotel is cool and pleasant under the river breeze blowing the Buddha, surrounded by mountains and forests, mixed with birdsong in the forest, adding a tranquility to this troubled world.

Blind looked at the young man sitting across from him, a young general who had become the Moses of China and had defeated the army several times, and was the best general in China. The other party's peaceful gaze lingered on him, and his original confidence suddenly became bottomless.

"Colonel, Burma is a colony of your country, how can we cooperate to defend it?" Zhuang Jihua spoke first.

"The opinion of our political axe is that in the event of a war against the South Pacific, we hope that your country will provide us with logistical support, and in addition, we will ask your country to help us defend Hong Kong." Blind cheered up and said that the national prestige of the Immortal Empire could not fall on him.

"Don't mention Hong Kong, you and I are both soldiers, you should know that Hong Kong, a small place, cannot be defended, and it is useless to defend it." Zhuang Jihua bluntly vetoed half of the other party's request, and then changed the subject: "How many troops does your country plan to invest in Burma?" How many troops are there at the moment? Do you have a battle plan? ”

These three questions directly stab the other party's key points, in fact, how many British [***] teams are currently stationed in Myanmar, Zhuang Jihua has a number in his heart, Li Anding has not been in vain in western Yunnan in recent years. The British consisted of only one brigade in Burma, all of which were Indian Malays, and could only be regarded as a third-rate unit in the British army, with extremely low combat effectiveness.

In addition, Myanmar's reading movement has risen in recent years, and the Burmese people have an extreme hatred for the British, as long as they offer to help them get rid of the British, the Burmese will help you, which is also what worries Zhuang Jihua.

"At present, I have not shown any signs of going south," Blinder quibbled, "and as soon as there is any sign of this, we will immediately increase our troops in Burma." ”

"Oh, that's right." Zhuang Jihua looked at Blind with interest, and felt a little funny: "Then what are we talking about here?" ”

(To be continued)