The election of a new party chief and military commander is tantamount to basically solving the organizational problem. The next step is to solve the question of the direction of the Red Army's action, that is, the question of where the Red Army is going and what it is going to do.

This issue is not easy to decide in an instant, and it is necessary to communicate with the comrades. Therefore, the afternoon meeting ended quickly, and [***], Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De respectively talked to the comrades attending the meeting to solicit their opinions.

Seeing that the meeting was over early, Liu Yimin asked Li Chengyi and Tang Xingying to deliver the leather robes, blankets, leather boots, cigarettes, and other items given to the central leaders to the Red Army headquarters, and then led Li Chengyi and Tang Xingying to deliver them one by one.

The first one to send is [***]. [***] took the cigarette handed over by Liu Yimin and said happily: "Now there is dry food!" Then I put on a leather robe and leather boots and tried it on, and it felt very suitable. Liu Yimin took out the leather robe given to He Zizhen again, He Zizhen put down the child, put it on and let [***] see, [***] smiled and said: "This leather robe, Zizhen is a fairy descending to earth!" He Zizhen asked Liu Yimin why he was so suitable.

Liu Yimin hurriedly said: "I didn't pick it, it was Cai Zhong, Liu Jianjian, Li Qing, and Wu Zheng, several old Red Army cadres of the guard division, who all knew the height and shoe size of the chairman and Sister He. I'm a rookie egg, I don't know! ”

He asked Liu Yimin to sit down, inquired in detail about the battles of Xiaoshui, Xikou, Qingxi Town, and Yangping Town, and asked about the equipment and real combat effectiveness of He Jian's troops, Bai Chongxi's troops, and the Central Army.

Liu Yimin answered one by one.

He also asked about the establishment, strength, equipment, and cadres of the guard division. When he heard that the guard division currently had more than 15,000 troops, was well-equipped, and had sufficient ammunition, [***] was very happy and asked what problems still existed.

Liu Yimin hurriedly reported: "It is still a cadre problem, because the development of the army is too fast, and the proportion of new soldiers in the army who have been captured and joined the army is too high. There are mainly two old Red Army soldiers, one is the remnants of the 18th Regiment during the reorganization of the Xiangjiang River, the 34th Division Sharp Knife Company, and the cadres and soldiers stranded on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, a total of more than 1,000 people; the other is the 3,382 Red Army soldiers rescued from Gui and He Jian, of which 1,382 rescued from He Jian are all old Red Army veterans, who were captured due to injuries or exhausted ammunition and food in the battle, and are the backbone of the battle; The 2,000 soldiers rescued from the Gui Army, although they are in relatively good physical condition, most of them are new soldiers scattered by the Eighth Army and the Ninth Army Corps, and these people have almost no training, basically have no combat effectiveness, and need further training. The rest of the warriors, except for the new ones who joined the army in the passage, were basically captive soldiers. Among them, the soldiers of the Hunan Army and the Gui Army who were captured in the Xiangjiang Campaign and the Xiaoshui and Xikou Battles have now been thoroughly integrated into the Red Army and have become the backbone of the troops after being educated in the grievance campaign, but there is still a process of education for the new soldiers who joined the army in Qingxi Town and Yangping Town. ”

He Zizhen served the tea, and after Liu Yimin took a sip, he continued: "In terms of cadres, there are mainly five pieces, one is the cadres of the original 18th Regiment and the 34th Division, and the second is the regiment-level cadres who were removed from their posts in the defense of the Soviet area during the reorganization of Xiangjiang, and the chief officers of the main force of the guard division are these people. The third piece was the support cadres of the Third Army Corps in the Xiyan Mountains, with 30 people, and at that time, in order to train the prisoners of the Gui Army, I asked the commander of the Peng Corps to transfer the old Red Army from Guangxi from the Fifth Division. The fourth block is the more than 200 cadres who were supported by the central government at the time of the passage, and the cadres of the Seventh Regiment, the Artillery Regiment, the Engineer Regiment, the Heavy Machine Gun Regiment, the Baggage Regiment, the Cavalry Battalion, and the Divisional Staff Office, the Political Office, and the Logistics Office are composed of these people. The fifth block is the cadres and soldiers who were supported by the commanders of the four corps Peng, Lin, Dong, and Luo when they went to meet the guard division the night before, of which a battalion supported by the 1st Army Corps was incorporated into the 1st Guard Regiment, a battalion supported by the 5th Army Corps was incorporated into the 2nd Regiment, and 80 cadres supported by the 3rd Army Corps and the 9th Army Corps strengthened the 6th and 7th regiments respectively. ”

[***] said: "Drink tea, talk while drinking!" ”

Liu Yimin took another sip of tea, waited for He Zizhen to add water, and continued to report: "At present, our division lacks a deputy division commander, a deputy political commissar, two deputy chiefs of staff and a security chief or deputy director of the political department who is specifically responsible for internal security. Consider whether it is possible to select cadres from the column of the Central Military Commission. ”

[***] took a puff of cigarette and said: "These cadres who need them are sent to you by the central government, and you can report after the meeting." Last time you returned more than 10 million silver dollars in Zhenyuan, what happened? ”

Liu Yimin said in his heart, here. Hurry up and report in detail on the situation, your thoughts, the measures you have taken, and the results.

[***] pressed out the cigarette butt and sighed: "It seems that our policy is a bit left and needs to be adjusted." You should go to Comrade Chen Yun and Comrade Li Fuchun in a moment, and repeat what you have just said to them, and the three of you will be responsible for coming up with a draft of the party's basic policy on industry and commerce at the present stage and submitting it to the Politburo for examination. ”

Liu Yimin hurriedly stood up and saluted, and said loudly: "Guarantee to complete the task!" ”

[***] smiled: "Sit down, sit down, don't be so serious." I have something more to say! ”

Liu Yimin sat down in a proper manner.

[***] lit another cigarette and said: "The main force of our army is going north and will pass through Sichuan." The Sichuan warlords will definitely do their best to intercept it, do you have any ideas? ”

Liu Yimin said: "Report to the chairman, after our army left Guangxi, the Gui army was not active in pursuit, and the Hunan army was also like this. This shows a problem, the warlords have adopted a rigid defense against our army, and they have pursued them in the form of sending them off. As long as our army does not make development plans in their territory, they will not fight with us, and the same should be true for warlords such as Liu Xiang in Sichuan. At present, I judge that the Sichuan warlords must have received Chiang Kai-shek's strict order to deploy heavy troops in southern Sichuan to prevent us from entering Sichuan. In this way, the Sichuan army was divided into two parts, one in northern Sichuan against the Fourth Front Army, and the other in southern Sichuan against our army. As long as our army is determined to go north, the best strategy is to negotiate with Liu Xiang and pass through the road. In the middle strategy, our army left a small force to camouflage the main force to deal with the enemy, and the main force adopted the method of sneak attack by detour, entered the Chengdu Plain, attacked Chengdu directly, raised food and funds in the Chengdu Plain, completely disrupted the deployment of the Sichuan enemy, and then joined the four front armies and went north to Shaanxi. The next strategy is to concentrate the main force of our army, fight the enemy's Sichuan army before the arrival of the enemy's central army, destroy one part of it, and then use Sichuan to go north. However, it should be noted that when fighting the Sichuan enemy, first, it is necessary to keep it strictly secret. Second, the pre-war intelligence should be accurate, because the Sichuan army has strong troops, rapid reinforcements, and the terrain here is very complicated, in case the battle forms a stalemate, it will be unfavorable to our army. Third, we should not underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army, because once the battle is engaged, the Sichuan army and I may have a great surname, and we cannot afford to fight. ”

[***] asked again: "If the guard division takes the lead and opens the northward passage for the whole army, do you have confidence?" ”

Liu Yimin replied: "Chairman of the report, as long as the guard division can have 10 days of training, the troops will be completely integrated, not to mention facing the Sichuan army, even facing Chiang Kai-shek's most elite troops, there is also a certainty of victory." I can assure the chairman that the guard division is willing to be the vanguard of the whole army and will never disappoint the high expectations of the chairman! ”

[***] nodded, called Squad Leader Hu, and asked him to give Liu Yimin the words he wrote in Huang Ping last time.

Squad Leader Hu took the [***] handwritten "Three Songs of the Sixteen-Character Order" and handed it to Liu Yimin. Liu Yimin opened it and saw that it was the chairman's handwriting, the pen was strong, and the pen was unbridled, which showed that when the great man put down the pen, he must be full of excitement, the pen walked at will, and the end was a priceless ink treasure.

Liu Yimin handed the chairman's handwritten letter to Tang Xingying to put it away, turned around and salivated and said, "Chairman, when you have poems in the future, can you give me a handwritten letter?" ”

[***] smiled: "My words are very ordinary, and if I write too much for you, it will not be worthy." ”

Liu Yimin said: "The chairman's handwritten letter is a priceless treasure. In the future, when the revolution succeeds, I will hang the chairman's handwritten letter on the wall of my home and read and study it every day. When I die, in case my son has no money to spend that day, he will take out one and auction it, or sell it for one million yuan. When the time comes, my son will be very grateful to him for saving a large sum of money for him in advance. ”

At this time, [***] and He Zizhen all laughed.

After laughing, [***] said: "It seems that our doll master is not only a hero in battle, but also a master in accumulating wealth, last time you blackmailed He Jian, Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi, and I read the telegram." Tell me, what did you think at the time? ”

Liu Yimin immediately replied: "Report chairman, I felt that He Jian must be in a hurry to redeem those officers and keep the number of his three divisions, and he should accept our conditions." As for Li and Bai, Li has a strategic vision, and Bai's strategic vision is slightly worse, and I estimate that the two of them are afraid that our military disaster will move eastward and introduce the Central Army into Guangxi, and second, they want to use us as gunmen to weaken Chiang Kai-shek's armed forces with the help of the Red Army, and they should also accept our demands, so they knocked them out. Now that I think about it, I regret it, I want less, I should ask for 1 million more, it's cheaper for them! ”

[***] laughed again, and the cigarette ash in his hand fell to the ground. After laughing, he said: "Brother little comrade, okay, don't be greedy, it is estimated that you are the only one in China who dares to blackmail He Jian, Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi with open fire, maybe they will blow up their lungs!" I'll do the math for you, 3.05 million were dug in the channel, 1.2 million were dug by He Jian, 300,000 by Gui, 2 million by Zhenyuan, 300,000 by Xue Yue, a total of 6.85 million silver dollars. Less than a month after joining the Red Army, you not only saved the Red Army's troops left on the east bank of the Xiang River, but also annihilated six or seven enemy divisions and raised the main force of more than 15,000 people, so that the Red Army has greatly improved its funds, weapons, ammunition, and soldiers. Recently, several comrades of the Central Committee mentioned your name, and they all laughed when they spoke. Remarkable, really a hero of our Red Army. Don't be proud, we still have a long way to go, and everyone is watching you make new contributions to the Red Army! ”

Liu Yimin thought to himself, it turned out that everything he had done, the central leaders had kept it in mind, his blood was boiling, and he immediately stood up and saluted: "Report chairman, since the day I joined the Red Army, I have given my life to the Red Army. I want to follow the chairman to fight the world, life and death, and never betray. Please rest assured that under any circumstances, the Central Guard Division will complete all tasks in accordance with the chairman's orders! ”

These words made [***] extremely warm to hear. Looking at this newly rising young senior general of the Red Army, who had brought him too many surprises, [***] said: "You have a sense of the overall situation, a strategic vision, loyalty to the party, a full of combat tricks, courage and tenacity, and you will have to bear greater responsibilities in the future." Do a good job, our Red Army will create a miracle on earth! I won't keep you, you go and get busy, remember to find Comrade Chen Yun and Comrade Fuchun! ”

Liu Yimin saluted and left.

Looking at Liu Yimin's back, [***] muttered to himself: "God bless the Red Army!" ”

When meeting Vice Chairman Zhou, Liu Yimin focused on giving a report on the ideological education work in the building of the troops, and specifically asked for support for the security cadres and radio workers, and told Vice Chairman Zhou that since there are many recruits in the troops, it is best for the security cadres to be sent to have work experience in the special branch of the Central Committee, and those who are keen on suppressing rebellion will resolutely not do so.

Vice Chairman Zhou said: "It seems that you are as afraid of the rebellion as a snake and scorpion!" Well, there are a few suitable candidates, and their qualifications are very old, so I'm afraid you won't dare to use them! ”

Liu Yimin immediately made a report and said: "We are all in the Red Army, we have come together for a common goal, and as long as it is conducive to the development of the Red Army, we will all obey the organization's distribution." The guard division is part of the Central Red Army, and the transfer of personnel is very normal, for example, tomorrow the Central Committee will transfer me to work in other units, and I will obey the organizational decision and carry out the order. Please rest assured, Vice Chairman Zhou, that I will protect the cadres transferred to the guard division as if they were my own eyes, so that they can feel comfortable in the guard division and play their role. ”

Vice Chairman Zhou said: "Okay, you have such a mind and bearing, I believe that the comrades you pick will be very happy to take up their posts." ”

Seeing that Vice Chairman Zhou was very busy, Liu Yimin hurriedly said goodbye, and when he went out, he found that Tang Xingying had not come out yet, so he had to wait at the door for a while.

When Tang Xingying came out, her face was flushed, and she looked very shy. Liu Yimin thought to himself, girls are trouble, and they can be excited like this when they see Sister Deng.

Mr. Zhu and Sister Kang lived opposite Vice Chairman Zhou, and Liu Yimin went in directly after leading Li Chengyi and Tang Xingying to report.

Mr. Zhu and Sister Kang put on the leather robes and boots given by the guard and tried them on, which was very suitable. Mr. Zhu asked how much he got and how much he bought. When he heard that there were all the central leaders, Mr. Zhu smiled and said: "It's better to win the battle, and with the seizure, the conditions will be better." Then, he took Liu Yimin to the map of the war room, and together with Liu Bocheng, he studied the situation of the enemy and us. Liu Yimin took the opportunity to ask Li Chengyi to give him all the leather robes and boots given to Chief of Staff Liu and other leaders.

The map used by the headquarters of the Red Army was very old, and when Liu Yimin saw it, he knew that it was an antique from the captured enemy. I thought that relying on such a map to command a war, how could I be invincible?

Looking at the enemy's situation marked on the map, the Hunan army, the Gui army, and the Guangdong army have entered southern and southeastern Guizhou, the Yunnan army has been ordered to enter the Guizhou border, and Xue Yue's army has arrived near Zunyi. Only there was no enemy Central Army reinforcement army and Sichuan army. I thought, no wonder the Battle of Tucheng took place in history, it turned out that the headquarters of the Red Army did not know anything about the heavy gathering of troops in the Sichuan Army. They only relied on radio intercepts and reconnaissance information, and were not clear about the enemy's strategic intelligence.

Thinking of the Zunyi Conference in history, when Liu Bocheng and Nie Rongzhen put forward a proposal to develop in Sichuan, the main force of the Red Army marched to the border of Sichuan in three ways, but encountered the main force of the Sichuan army in Tucheng, and after a fierce battle with the enemy at Qinggangpo, suffered heavy casualties, and had to withdraw from the battle and began to cross the Chishui four times.

Now that you have crossed it yourself, these disadvantages can be avoided.

Thinking of this, Liu Yimin said: "Report to Commander-in-Chief Zhu and Chief of Staff Liu, according to the information obtained by our department, at present, Chiang Kai-shek has mobilized heavy troops from Jiangxi to support Xue Yue's operation, and I estimate that this part of the Central Army is at least 100,000 people, and it should have arrived near Liping. The Sichuan army has also completed mobilization, and Liu Xiang may have concentrated the strength of 11 brigades, with Pan Wenhua as the commander-in-chief, to deploy defenses in southern Sichuan, and can enter Guizhou at any time to attack our army. ”

Mr. Zhu was shocked: "Is this information accurate?" ”

Liu Yimin replied: "It is intercepted enemy radio information, which should be accurate." ”

Liu Bocheng said: "After you finished the battle in Qingxi Town, the code of the Central Army seems to have been changed again, and the Military Commission has not yet deciphered it, how do you know?" ”

Liu Yimin said: "Report to the chief of staff, when our division fought in Qingxi Town, it was still possible to intercept the enemy's telegrams, and the movement of the Central Army was intercepted more than once, and Chiang Kai-shek also ordered Xue Yue's troops to replenish the insufficient part to be made up by the reinforcement department. In addition, we interrogated Han Hanying, commander of the enemy's 59th Division, and learned about Chiang Kai-shek's deployment. As for the Sichuan enemy, without intelligence, it can be deduced from analysis that Liu Xiang, like He Jian and Bai Chongxi, must be a strict guard against us and prevent our army from entering Sichuan, and may even put the battle in northern Qianbei to fight. ”

Liu Bocheng hurriedly marked them one by one on the map with a pencil.

Fortunately, Mr. Zhu and Chief of Staff Liu were very familiar with the Sichuan Army and Pan Wenhua.

Liu Yimin knew that these were all characters with the title of god of war, and with a little reminder, the natural situation would change greatly. Seeing that Mr. Zhu and Chief of Staff Liu didn't care about him, they went to Comrade Chen Yun and Comrade Li Fuchun.

Comrade Chen Yun and Comrade Li Fuchun have already received a telephone call from [***] and are waiting for him in the General Political Department of the Catholic Church.

As soon as he saw the two, Liu Yimin found that the two were not much different from the images in the photos of later generations, but they looked younger.

As soon as Comrade Chen Yun saw Liu Yimin, he took his hand and thanked the guard division for the materials and funds sent several times. made Liu Yimin embarrassed.

Comrade Li Fuchun did not have so many greetings, and directly asked why he wanted to return more than 10 million yuan to the ocean.

Liu Yimin knows that these two people are the economic leaders of the party, with good character and high moral prestige, and are deeply respected by everyone. He made a report on the situation.

After listening to the report, Comrade Chen Yun said: "You are doing the right thing, we Red Army are not bandits, and we cannot do anything to destroy the Great Wall. At the beginning, when I heard that you had returned the more than 10 million silver dollars you had seized, I was distressed and stomped my feet. More than 10 million, how much can we do! To be honest, I want to hit your heart. After listening to your report, I can understand why when the Soviet area was suppressed, all the people who did business ran away, and it was our policy that was not in the right way. [***] said, let the three of us come up with a draft of the Red Army's industrial and commercial policy, I see, you draft, Comrade Fuchun and I study it. What do you think? ”

Liu Yimin smiled and said: "Obey the order and listen to the command!" ”

The three of them climbed on a table, Liu Yimin wrote, Chen Yun and Li Fuchun studied, and soon formed several opinions, which were the first relatively standardized regulations of the Red Army for the protection of industry and commerce, which were later known as Liu Batiao.

Regulations on the Protection of Industrial and Commercial Enterprises of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army: The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is the vanguard of the liberation of the Chinese people's national reading power, and has the important task of protecting and promoting the development of national industry and commerce.

Article 2: National industrial and commercial enterprises are an important part of the country's development, and all industrial and commercial enterprise owners and their employees who abide by these regulations, operate legally, and reasonably earn profits are an integral part of the Chinese working class.

Article 3: The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army shall protect the interests of national industrial, commercial, financial, and other industrial and commercial enterprises within the territory of China from infringement, and oppose the embezzlement of national industrial and commercial enterprises by all bureaucratic and colonial capital.

Article 4: Oppose all acts that undermine the development of national industrial and commercial enterprises.

Article 5: It is strictly forbidden for all units of the Red Army to levy or collect floating wealth from industrial and commercial enterprises, and it is strictly forbidden to detain industrial and commercial enterprise owners and their employees during battle.

Article 6: People of insight are welcome to enter the Red Army base areas to set up enterprises, engage in commodity trade, and exchange materials, and the tax rate shall be calculated according to the preferential tax rate of the base area.

Article 7: It is strictly forbidden for industrial and commercial enterprises to engage in the following acts:

1. Funding the aggressor with the capital, means of production, products and commodities of industrial and commercial enterprises, and the violator will be punished by Han Annihilation; 2. It is strictly forbidden for industrial and commercial enterprises to hoard, raise prices, and seek huge profits; 3. It is strictly forbidden for industrial and commercial enterprises to exploit workers and trample on workers' rights; 4. It is strictly forbidden for industrial and commercial enterprises entering the Red Army base areas to evade, evade, or evade taxes.

Article 8: Penalties:

1. In addition to confiscating assets, the parties involved in the Han Dynasty industrial and commercial enterprises shall be punished as criminals.

2. The bureaucratic capital of the Kuomintang reactionaries shall be confiscated. Captured bureaucratic capitalists are treated as prisoners.

3. For those who exploit workers, trample on workers' rights, or have blood debts, in addition to confiscating assets, the parties shall be tried and dealt with; 4. For those who hoard, raise prices, and seek huge profits, in addition to confiscating illegal gains, the parties shall be tried and dealt with; 5. Those who evade, evade, or evade taxes in the Red Army base areas shall be held accountable in addition to recovering taxes.

After the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army finished writing it in December 1934, the three of them exchanged views one by one, and finally decided to submit it to the Central Committee for discussion and implementation at an appropriate time.

At the end, Chen Yun sighed: "There are too few cadres in the Red Army who have studied the economy like you, and I really want to transfer you to me as an assistant, but unfortunately now that the war is tense, you have a high military talent, what a pity." ”

Li Fuchun said: "Don't regret it, he just got us money and materials in front, and we will do the rest." ”

Liu Yimin smiled and said, "Look, I'll be assigned another task in a while." If possible, support me more cadres, only then can you really support me. ”

Chen Yun said: "It's hard to say anything else, I'll be responsible for solving the cadres in charge of logistics." Last time, I already went to Wu Zheng and a few cadres, and if it is not enough, I will send it again. As long as you can get money, food, and ammunition, let me serve as a soldier for you!" ”

Liu Yimin hurriedly said that he couldn't bear it, and the three of them laughed.

(To be continued)