The dinner with Ma Hongkui's family was still relatively pleasant.

Due to the arrival of Liu Yimin, there was no more situation of the Western Route Army's westward expedition, and the Red Army did not have the hatred for Ma Jiajun after the defeat of the Western Route Army in history, so when Liu Yimin reported to [***], [***] had the idea of comparing Ma Hongkui to the method of Shaanxi Provincial Chairman Shao Lizi. Only Liu Yimin knows in his heart how cruel the Ma Jiajun in history was.

Now, Ma Hongkui's troops have finished fighting, the compensation money has also been paid, the war horses, cattle and sheep have arrived, and three national treasures have been returned. Therefore, Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, Zeng Zhongsheng, Wu Zheng, Qian Zhuangfei, Hu Di and others were in a very good mood, and at the banquet, they educated and comforted Ma Hongkui, and persuaded him to cheer up, and after returning to Ningxia, he changed his past mistakes and did something good for the people of Ningxia in a down-to-earth manner.

Liu Yimin knew that Ma Hongkui in history, although he did not participate in the main battle to eliminate the Western Route Army, he was also the only local warlord in China who did not send troops to participate in the war during the Anti-Japanese War. During the War of Liberation, Ma Hongkui acted actively and led his troops to seize the trilateral areas.

Now that the situation has changed, maybe Ma Hongkui will change something after losing his capital, at least he will not dare to attack the Red Army again.

Liu Yimin didn't talk much at the wine table, sitting next to Tang Xingying, eating and drinking quietly.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yimin's calmness made Ma Hongkui feel more and more that this young army commander was unfathomable, and gently touched the fourth aunt with his foot, Liu Muxia immediately understood, picked up the wine glass and came to Liu Yimin and Tang Xingying, and said: "Commander Liu, Mrs. Liu, I'm sorry, I just came from Ningxia, the news is blocked, I don't know that you just got married, and you said something you shouldn't say today, please don't blame the regiment commander and his wife, I'll drink one first to apologize to the two." After saying that, he raised his glass and drank it all.

Liu Yimin had no choice but to stand up and say, "The fourth aunt is too polite, I don't know if I am guilty." In fact, Mr. Ma still did a little thing, and he did a good job of planting trees in Ningxia. On the occasion of parting, I have a word for you and your wife to consider, that is, to do more good and less evil. Benefiting the people can also make their hearts peaceful. If you create evil and calamity, you will also plunge your soul into endless troubles. When people come to this world, their lives are short, greedy and shameless, and they have vain the teachings of their parents and shamed their ancestors. To give the most realistic example, Shao Lizi is the chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Political Axe, but he is a decent person with clean sleeves. He was also taken prisoner by us, but he was our guest. Why? Please think about it when Mr. Ma goes back. ”

Ma Hongkui hurriedly stood up and beat him again and again, saying that he had been taught, but the wine glass in his hand kept touching Liu Yimin's wine glass, wanting to toast with Liu Yimin.

Liu Yimin and Tang Xingying had no choice but to clink glasses with Ma Hongkui.

After drinking, the atmosphere became warm, Liu Muxia pulled Tang Xingying to pull it in, and insisted that the three girls she brought in came in, and each sang a piece of Qin dialect.

Although Tang Xingying has made good achievements and opportunities since joining the Red Army, and has made great contributions and got what she wants, when it comes to life experience, where is she the opponent of Liu Muxia, who has experienced vicissitudes and is good at observing words and feelings. In the end, perhaps it was the same age as the three girls, and sympathized with their miserable life experience, Tang Xingying begged Luo Ronghuan to let the three girls stay and report to Zhao Xiaoman in the art troupe.

Although Ma Hongkui contributed money and the three treasures he obtained were confiscated by the Red Army, he was also happy to be able to return alive, regain his freedom, and have a good relationship with the Red Army, a powerful neighbor.

As for Liu Yimin, first, the current atmosphere of the KMT-CCP peace talks does not allow him to kill people like Ma Hongkui, and second, from a strategic point of view, he cannot let Ma Hongbin dominate the family in Ningxia. The reason why Ma Hongbin finally showed progress and accepted the adaptation in history was that on the one hand, he did not have any major crimes, and on the other hand, Ma Hongkui suppressed him with all his might, his power was relatively weak, and he was extremely disappointed in the Kuomintang authorities. Now that Ma Hongkui has been captured and he has been appointed chairman of Ningxia, he can't kill a Ma Hongkui and come up with a strong warlord who is smarter than Ma Hongkui, and that kind of outcome is something Liu Yimin absolutely does not want to see.

As a result, after Ma Hongkui patted his chest and repeatedly promised that he would change his past mistakes, the Red Seventh Army let him go back to Ningxia with his senior officers as promised.

After dealing with Ma Hongkui's matter, Liu Yimin asked Hu Di to hurry up and do Ma Bufang's work, because he knew that soon the North China incident would escalate, and there were many big things waiting to be done, and there was no time to delay on these remaining issues.

Hu Di followed Liu Yimin's instructions and found Ma Pu.

Ma Pu, the word Huai'an, Hui nationality, Gansu Linxia people. Captured former commander of the 100th Division Reading Cavalry Brigade.

Liu Yimin knew that in history, Ma Pu led his troops to participate in the battle of Ni's camp to eliminate the Western Route Army, and was caught by stray bullets, so that the captured Red Army soldiers were carried back to Qinghai. After the liberation of Qinghai, he took advantage of its prestige to do a lot of work, and served as vice chairman of Qinghai Province.

Because Ma Yuanhai was killed in the back by a sniper in the Battle of Tianshui, among the captured officers in Qingma, Ma Pu was older and had a relatively high prestige. Therefore, Liu Yimin asked Hu Di to talk to him directly.

With the experience of dealing with Ma Hongkui, plus he is one of the top three heroes of [***] intelligence, and has rich experience in the struggle, Hu Di quickly surrendered Ma Pu.

In fact, to put it bluntly, after being captured for such a long time of education and detention, these senior officers of Qingma, who can't read a few words, have already lowered their arrogant heads in their hearts. They had to admit that even if the Red Seventh Army ordered them to put them back and let them fight with their troops, they were still defeated. The result is brutal, but it is the truth. Because these officers have already seen that in the battle of Tianshui, they did not lose money, whether it was tactics, firepower, or reconnaissance and planning of the enemy, the gap between them and the Red Seventh Army was too big, and it was not a heavyweight.

Alas, times have changed, and gone are the days of dominance with the wielding of the saber and brutal savagery.

Therefore, when Hu Di found Ma Pu, Ma Pu was very glad in his heart that the Red Army still knew him and looked up to him. Anyway, as long as I can go back.

Ma Pu soon used the Red Army's radio to send a telegram to Ma Bufang, asking him to send someone to bring money to save the officers. The conditions of the Red Army were 200,000 yuan for the brigade commander, 150,000 yuan for the deputy brigade commander, 100,000 yuan for the regiment commander, 50,000 yuan for the deputy regiment commander, 30,000 yuan for the battalion commander, 20,000 yuan for the deputy battalion commander, 10,000 yuan for the company commander, and 5,000 yuan for the platoon commander. The security corps and the militia are to be implemented according to this standard. There are still 6 brigade commanders, 5 deputy brigade commanders, 9 regiment commanders, 6 deputy regiment commanders, 21 battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders of the New Second Army and the 5th Cavalry Division, and a little more at the company and platoon levels. asked Ma Bufang to bring 5 million yuan to negotiate with the Red Army no matter what, and now that Ma Hongkui and the senior officers of the Seventh Division have been released, he and his officers are here for a long time, eager to be rescued.

In fact, Liu Yimin, Hu Di, and Ma Pu did not expect that at this time, Ma Bufang's chief of staff, Ma De, was already on the way to Xi'an with gold.

After Ma Bufang and Ma De led the gendarmerie regiment to flee back to Xining from Gangu, they were so frightened that they didn't have time to gather the participating militia from all over the country and put together the troops, and Xue Yue's 100,000-strong army arrived.

This time, it was Xue Yue who climbed the snowy mountains and crossed the grassland, worked hard all the way, and left many corpses before rushing to Xining.

As soon as Ma Bufang saw Xue Yue's army arriving, he went to meet Xue Yue and asked Xue Yue to avenge him.

Xue Yue snorted in his nose, then ignored him anymore, and after sending troops to Lanzhou to strengthen defense, Xue Yue began to act in Xining, removing two-thirds of the officials appointed by Ma Bufang, leaving only a few officials with a slightly better reputation to support the façade, and all the important positions were replaced by officials who were urgently airlifted from Nanjing to Chengdu and entered Qinghai with Xue Yue's troops.

At this time, Ma Bufang completely understood, it turned out that Xue Yue was not here to help himself, but to snatch the ruling power of Qinghai.

Understand that without strength, everything is in vain.

If he wanted to go to Nanjing to complain to Chiang Kai-shek, Xue Yue directly told him that the commission said that he could be allowed to take up his post in Nanjing, and he could also send a plane to pick him up and his family.

Thinking about the conflict between himself and his uncle Ma Lin back then, Ma Lin went to Nanjing to complain to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek bluntly said to Ma Lin, your Ma family is entrenched in Qinghai and Gansu, and you have not done a good thing for others, and your behavior is no different from banditry. made Ma Lin ashamed. Thinking of this, Ma Bufang himself broke off the idea of sueping.

After learning from the pain, Ma Bufang felt that no one complained, so he complained that he was too stupid and stupid, and forcibly cut off the main force and so many security groups and militia groups in Tianshui. The top priority at the moment is to leave Xining as soon as possible and withdraw the remaining troops to Yushu. As long as you can recuperate in Yushu for a few years and your strength grows, whether it is Chiang Kai-shek or Xue Yue, no one can do anything about themselves.

So, Ma Bufang left Xining with his cronies and remnants of the army and fled to Yushu.

Xue Yue didn't bother to pay attention to him, wishing he would leave Xining. If Ma Bufang dared to do wrong, Xue Yue believed that he could make him disappear by talking and laughing.

After Ma Bufang fled to Yushu, after discussing with the core figures of Ma Jiajun's stay in Qinghai, he felt that he had to negotiate with the Red Army immediately and let them release the captured officers and soldiers, otherwise, under the suppression of Xue Yue, the Qingma Group would soon disappear.

This Ma Bufang is a little different from Ma Hongkui, he is more ruthless than Ma Hongkui, and he is naturally the same. He knew that trying to save people from the Red Army was tantamount to a fool's dream, and he was afraid that nothing else could be said except gold, silver dollars, war horses, and grain. Fortunately, gold is produced in Qinghai, and the Ma family has ruled in Qinghai for many years, and the family is rich, so it is nothing to have some blood. The key was to avoid Xue Yue's eyes and ears and safely deliver the gold and silver dollars to the Red Army.

Ma Bufang wanted to go to Xi'an in person, but he was afraid that Xue Yue would say that he was a communist, so he took the opportunity to clean him up, so he had to send Chief of Staff Ma De to Xi'an. For safety, Ma Bufang sent his last elite military police regiment out to escort Ma De.

After Ma De left, Ma Bufang waited for the news from Xi'an every day like the stars and the moon, and Ma Bufang was ecstatic when he received Ma Pu's telegram. It seems that this can be done, this must be a telegram sent by Ma Pu instructed by the Red Army, waiting for himself to redeem people!

Ma Bufang immediately called back, and sent Chief of Staff Ma De to lead the military police regiment to Xi'an with money, and asked Ma Pu to tell the commander of the Red Army to pay attention to sending troops to answer and ensure the safety of Ma De and his party.

Ma Bufang also asked Ma Pu to do more work, try to let the Red Army let more people come back, it doesn't matter if the money is not enough, when Ma De arrives, he can let the military police escort the officers back, and then bring money to pick up people. In short, the more you come back, the better.

After Hu Di showed Ma Bufang's telegram to Liu Yimin, Liu Yimin smiled, Ma Bufang, this guy, it seems that he really opened a gold mine and made a fortune. Okay, this show is good!

At this time, Li Qing had already rushed back to Xi'an and began to work with Hu Di. Liu Yimin found Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, Zeng Zhongsheng, and Wu Zheng, and discussed with Li Qing and Hu Di, thinking that if Ma Bufang was really willing to ransom people with money, he might as well put those captured soldiers back to him. Now that the situation has changed, Ma Bufang must have been angry with Xue Yue, and he had no way to complain, so he was eager to increase his strength and compete with Xue Yue for the right to rule Qinghai. In this case, when Ma De came, he negotiated with him and let him ransom the prisoners at the price of 3,000 yuan for the squad leader and 2,000 yuan for the soldiers.

Li Qing proposed that the standard is too high, and Ma Jiajun does not pay for the capture of soldiers, and with such a high price, Ma Bufang must not do it, and it is difficult to negotiate.

Liu Yimin said: "It doesn't matter if we can't talk about it, anyway, we don't need labor to build roads, build schools, engage in reclamation, open mines, and run enterprises?" And it's free. ”

Li Qing muttered, "Don't you want money?" ”

Before Liu Yimin could speak, Cai Zhong continued: "Commander, how do I feel that there is something wrong with your approach, as if we are doing business." Don't forget, we are the Red Army, and we have a prisoner policy. ”

Liu Yimin was a little puzzled, looked at Cai Zhong again, and felt that he didn't seem to have a fever, so he said: "I know that we are the Red Army, and we have a prisoner policy, but that depends on what kind of prisoners are right." If we insist on acting according to the prisoner policy, and don't know how to work around, where did our powerful Seventh Army come from? Where does the combat effectiveness of our troops come from? Besides, how can you develop without money, what can you use to buy equipment and materials, how can you make guns and ammunition? This Tsing Ma unit has done a lot of evil, and it stands to reason that we should not let them go, but hold a public trial meeting for them, and they will all be shot. But wouldn't we not be able to get the money we needed for the revolution? Listen to me, there's nothing wrong with that. However, I remind you that when you go to the battlefield of resistance, don't tell me anything about the prisoner policy, and when you meet your own soldiers, you can say one word, kill! Until they were killed so frightened that they surrendered voluntarily. We must not rush up shouting that we will surrender our guns before the enemy has laid down their arms. Whoever dares to do that will be removed from his post. Everyone remembers my words. ”

Everyone was silent, and the office fell silent.

(To be continued)