After Li Zhilong left, Zhuang Jihua still took the children for a walk on the side of the field, and when the bell rang for the end of class, a large number of students poured out of the teaching building, and they quickly mixed with the students on the field.

Looking at these energetic young people in front of them, they had just fallen and enjoyed the moisture of the sun unscrupulously in the early spring sun, and the female students passed by them with curious eyes. Some old teachers recognized Zhuang Jihua and came to greet him, he was also very excited to chat with them, there were more and more people around him, and after a while, a group of students surrounded outside, Wu Ziniu and Shi Shaoxian began to worry, fortunately, at this time, the class bell rang, and the peripheral students walked quickly to the teaching building, and the teacher who had a class also immediately said goodbye, and the people around Zhuang Jihua were a lot less, and Zhuang Jihua also took the opportunity to leave.

This kind of leisure is really comfortable, but Zhuang Jihua is helpless to prepare to say goodbye to it, there is no war, there is no intrigue politics, Zhuang Jihua yearns for it in his heart, but now he still has to deal with all forces.

The next afternoon, Zhuang Jihua called Wang Jingwei's mansion and went to Wang Jingwei's mansion. From the base to Wang Jingwei Mansion only across the Jialing River, get on the boat to cross the river and then go uphill to the gate of Wang Mansion.

When Zhuang Jihua arrived, Wang Jingwei was chatting with Chen Gongbo, Tao Xisheng, and Zeng Zhongming, a member of the Nationalist Political Council and a professor at Shanghai and Central University.

After receiving Zhuang Jihua's call, Wang Jingwei was very excited, he had long wanted to talk to Zhuang Jihua, on the day he came back, he wanted to go to Chaotianmen to pick up the wharf, but Chen Bijun refused to let him live or die, the vice president of the Kuomintang, the drafter of the Prime Minister's will, to welcome such a junior boy, and not let people laugh to death, so he let Zeng Zhongming go.

Zeng Zhongming was very encouraged by the information he fed back, so after receiving a call from Zhuang Jihua, Wang Jingwei called Chen Gongbo and Tao Xisheng together, hoping to have a good talk about peace with Zhuang Jihua.

"The Cultural Revolution, we haven't seen each other for more than ten years." Wang Jingwei smiled and stretched out his hand, Zhuang Jihua held his hand, this hand was completely different from Chiang Kai-shek's hand, white and soft.

Looking at the courteous Wang Jingwei, Zhuang Jihua sighed slightly in his heart, but with a smile on his face: "Yes, more than ten years have passed, Chairman Wang's demeanor is still admirable." ”

In fact, after the Zhongshan ship, Zhuang Jihua has never seen Wang Jingwei, when he was recuperating in Wuhan and imprisoned in Wuhan, Wang Jingwei was scratching his head for the chaos of the Wuhan political axe, and he had no time to take care of him, so the two of them had not seen each other for about 13 years.

"Cultural Revolution, you're laughing," Chen Bijun said bitterly on the side: "Now it's almost time to scold us traitors, what is there to admire, but you, the hero of the Anti-Japanese War and the founder of the Yucheng model, have countless halos on your body, which is really admirable." ”

"Madam, if you want to say that, I will be even more frightened," Zhuang Jihua said with a bitter face: "These halos are really annoying, to be honest, I also have a little bit of a sense of hiding from Mr. Wang's place, it's too annoying, it's easy to have a few days to get together with my wife and children, but I didn't think about it, and I received more than a dozen invitations at this time, asking me to make a report, what Boy Scouts, Women's Federation, Student League, my head is big." ”

"You were born in the blessing and don't know the blessing, many people can't look forward to such an invitation, alas, from time to time it is said that you would rather be a hero concubine than a mediocre wife, you don't go out to shine as a hero, how can the hero concubine come?" Zeng Zhongming quipped sourly.

"Secretary Zeng, be careful with this, Madame is an advocate of women's reading, and taking a concubine is a very serious crime in her eyes, don't harm me." Zhuang Jihua pretended to be worried and approached Zeng Zhongming, and whispered in his ear: "Otherwise, I will give you these invitations, and you will go for me, and by the way, I will also take a heroic concubine." ”

It seemed to be lowering the voice, but in fact, the voice clearly reached the ears of Wang Jingwei, Chen Bijun and others, and several people couldn't help but be happy.

Entering the living room, several people sat down, Wang Jingwei sat next to Zhuang Jihua, the two servants sent tea and then retreated, Wang Jingwei picked up the teacup, turned it gently in his hand, he pondered for a moment and said: "Cultural Revolution, you are now the general of the main battle faction, I am known as the standard-bearer of the main and faction, the two of me sit together, let those reporters see that I am afraid it will be another storm, don't you worry about the Cultural Revolution?" ”

After speaking, he looked at Zhuang Jihua with great meaning, Zhuang Jihua glanced at Chen Gongbo, Tao Xisheng and others, he was a little puzzled in his heart, he didn't know what Wang Jingwei meant, so he said with a smile: "We practice the Sanming Cooking Righteousness, every citizen has freedom of speech, not because of words, the Lord and the main war is just a matter of opinion, which dynasty and which generation, as long as there is war, there is war and dispute, this is normal, to be honest, now the attack on the Lord and the crowd, some are narrow-minded, some have ulterior motives. ”

Zhuang Jihua paused when he said this, Wang Jingwei, Tao Xisheng and others showed excitement on their faces, Chen Bijun slapped his face and said happily: "The Cultural Revolution is really insightful, I think that's it, the War of Resistance, the War of Resistance, the mountains and rivers were broken, the people were devastated, but in the end it was GCD that benefited, this kind of stupid thing of making a wedding for others, there are still people doing it." ”

"The Cultural Revolution is too right, ulterior motives, GCD is like this, holding the banner of the War of Resistance, but let us GMD fight hard with Yu himself in front, but they are hiding behind and quietly developing their forces, look at it in just a few years, the Eighth Road has developed to hundreds of thousands, the New Fourth Army has developed to seventy or eighty thousand, and it will be in a few years, the Cultural Revolution, you are fighting at GCD in Jiangsu and Shandong, it is really happy." As Wang Jingwei's secretary, Zeng Zhongming knew Zhuang Jihua's important surname to Wang Jingwei's plan, and now it seems that Zhuang Jihua, the main battle general, does not reject the main peace, which shows that it is entirely possible for him to join the cause of peace.

"The War of Resistance to the End," Wang Jingwei's eyes were full of joy: "I asked Feng Yuxiang, where is the bottom, his answer is actually to say that his unconditional surrender is the bottom, isn't this ridiculous, the gap between China and China is obvious, if I feel itchy, we have been in pain, reality has proved that we have lost ground again and again, millions of refugees, and the disaster is so serious, I still don't want to change my course, this is difficult for me to understand, and it hurts my heart and lungs. ”

Wang Jingwei stood up and took two steps, with a heavy heart: "Peace talks and the War of Resistance are actually not contradictory, I know that advocating peace talks will bear a huge responsibility, but who will go to hell if I go to hell?" Cultural Revolution, I am very pleased that you have this attitude today. ”

Zhuang Jihua was silent for a moment, then raised his head to meet Wang Jingwei's gaze and said calmly: "Mr. Wang, I said that the peace talks are not guilty, it is not that I am in favor of the peace talks, I am still the main battle. ”

With his words, the living room suddenly fell silent, the air almost stagnated, Wang Jingwei looked at him blankly, Chen Bijun was like a wounded tiger, showing bloodthirsty fangs, and blood-red eyes glared at him fiercely.

"I have always believed that the condition for peace talks is the chairman's Lushan talks, which is our bottom line, and only the agreement reached under these conditions can bring peace, and the final peace must be the return of all Chinese territories, including the three eastern provinces, so that the final and real peace can be obtained."

Zhuang Jihua talked eloquently, he turned his head to look at Wang Jingwei: "Mr. Wang, I have returned from the front line, and I know the situation of the army best. In the later stages of the Second Jinpu Road Campaign, we captured more than 1,000 prisoners of war from the Yue Army, ranging in age from seventeen or eighteen to their thirties, and the longest time they joined the army was just over a year. What does this mean, this shows that the casualties of experienced veterans have not been able to replenish in time, and human resources are about to be exhausted. ”

"Second, Ben's economy is already in serious trouble. On the surface, his industry is several times stronger than ours, but he has an Achilles' heel and a lack of local resources, so he must start a busy international trade. At the end of last year, the United States announced that international settlements should be settled in US dollars and gold, and this alone could drain the foreign exchange reserves of the country, and steel was needed for war, and iron ore was needed for steelmaking. Cars, tanks, warships, and airplanes are very powerful, but in order to start them, they must have oil, but there is no foreign exchange, so what can I use to buy oil? On the contrary, we are different, we have everything except petroleum rubber, so we have lower international requirements and less economic pressure in comparison. Our stress comes mainly from refugees born of war, but these problems can be solved. ”

"I said that my political axe now feels that it is difficult to ride a tiger, and I should have broken my wrist and resolutely abandoned the achievements since the Lugou Bridge Incident, but the narrow surname of the island country makes them short-sighted and reluctant to vested interests, but their strategy towards our country has also changed, from simple military conquest to a combination of military conquest and political inducement, and political inducement is to play the peace card."

"Mr. Wang, the peace you hope for is to restore our country's sovereignty in a peaceful way and promote the withdrawal of the army, but this is not the peace that you want, and the peace you want is a peace for the purpose of our submission, Mr. Wang, this kind of peace is absolutely impossible."

Zhuang Jihua took a sip of tea from his teacup to end his tirade. Wang Jingwei was stunned, and before he could react, Tao Xisheng fired first: "General Zhuang, millions of refugees, you said it can be solved, I want to ask, how to solve it?" ”

Zhuang Jihua put down the teacup and said unhurriedly: "To strengthen infrastructure construction, simply put, the chairman asked me to come to Sichuan, and at the same time serve as the three southwestern provinces, which also means that I will solve this problem." In the next few years, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou will start some large-scale transportation construction, including the railway from Ugly Girl to Guizhou, the highway from Xikang to Yunnan, the highway from Guizhou to Yunnan, and the construction of power plants in various places. The Southwest Development Corporation will expand its production to meet the needs of the war effort, which in turn will provide a number of jobs. ”

Tao Xisheng chose a wrong battlefield, his scope of study was politics and philosophy, and he knew almost nothing about economics, so he set his sights on Chen Gongbo, who had served as the Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Industry of the National Government, and had a certain understanding of the economy.

Zhuang Jihua's long conversation shook Chen Gongbo very much, and some vague ideas became clear in his mind. But in the face of Tao Xisheng's gaze for help, he couldn't help without words.

"Brother Xi has forgotten that the Cultural Revolution will not only lead troops to fight," Chen Gongbo said calmly: "But the Cultural Revolution, such a large-scale infrastructure construction, requires a lot of funds, where does this money come from?" ”

"Director Chen, don't forget that I came back from the United States, I can persuade some consortia to invest, and I can also issue bonds, and the funds have actually been basically arranged." Zhuang Jihua smiled slightly.

"General Zhuang, are you too optimistic about Yu Ben's prediction, according to what you say, we will be able to win in two or three years? Will Ben surrender unconditionally? Tao Xisheng decided to bring the battlefield back to his familiar territory and challenge in the field of international relations.

"Too optimistic?" Zhuang Jihua shook his head: "My predicament is not obvious now, it will be obvious in two years, unconditional surrender, we can't do it now, because we don't have a navy, but the navy, Britain and the United States have, we can borrow them." ”

"Cultural Revolution, I thought you were in favor of peace." Wang Jingwei's face was gloomy, he had a feeling of being toyed with, and an uneven erection arose: "It turned out to be just a pastime and laughing." ”

"I will never dare to be humble," Zhuang Jihua stood up and shook his head and said: "Mr. Wang is the elder of our party, how dare he be humble." He then went on to explain: "In the current political environment, it takes extraordinary courage to talk about peace talks, and I know this very well, so I do not agree with the idea that peace talks are traitors." However, I also believe that the bottom line of the peace talks is the Lushan Speech of the Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, and for no other reason, this speech was delivered at a meeting presided over by Mr. Wang and the Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, and it is universally recognized by all circles that the bottom line for resolving the Sino-Chinese conflict is absolutely unacceptable. ”

"The bottom line is set, so what's the point of talking? Do I want to do it? Zeng Zhongming asked angrily.

"Secretary Zeng, there is a bottom line in any negotiation," Zhuang Jihua showed a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth, is this Zeng Zhongming too stupid, he doesn't even know this: "I don't want to do it, I still don't want to do it, what's so great about Xiao Yue, it's strong outside." At the beginning of the war, he claimed to have destroyed China in three months, but as a result, Nanjing lost 100,000 in the First War, Xuzhou lost 120,000 in the First War, and Yucheng lost 70,000 in the First War. Two years ago, what was the alliance sent by Todman, after the battle of Nanjing, Konoe issued a statement that he would not use the national political axe as an opponent, but why did he frequently send us peace messages recently? Secretary Zeng, can't you figure out the joints in this? ”

(To be continued)