After New Year's Day in 1935, the Central Red Army really turned around and advanced to the hinterland of Guizhou, forcibly crossed the Wujiang River, defeated the Dan Department of the Guizhou Army, conquered Zunyi, an important town in northern Guizhou, avoided the encirclement deployed by Chiang Kai-shek in Hunan, and hung the pursuing Xue Yue on the east bank of the Wujiang River.

After Feng Yi was promoted to Sichuan, the forces of all parties in Nanjing focused their attention on the selection of the director of the party department in Yucheng, and just as they were gearing up to enter a new round of contention, Chiang Kai-shek unexpectedly announced that Yang Yongtai would be the director of the party department in Yucheng City, and at the same time announced that in order to facilitate the development of the southwest, the party headquarters of Yucheng city would be under the leadership of the southwest development task force. This change made Chen Lifu angry enough.

The large number of factories built around Yucheng made its position more and more important, and it is difficult to say that it is a victory to gain the Sichuan Provincial Party Headquarters and lose the Yucheng Party Department, and more importantly, the Yucheng Party Department is outside the reading force and the Sichuan Party Department, so in the long run, it should be said to be a failure.

Chen Lifu is uncomfortable, Zhuang Jihua also feels embarrassed, it is a good thing that the party department of Yucheng City has been transferred, but Yang Yongtai, director of the party department of the city, is a powerful person, in addition to being the director of the city party department or the director of the camp in Yucheng, this position allows him to read hard in the southwest development team, originally he could not interfere in the affairs of the southwest development team, but after the city party department was transferred, he was equivalent to having the power to interfere in the southwest development team, which made the originally clear level of power complicated.

"The principal's hand is really powerful," Li Zhilong said to Zhuang Jihua with a wry smile: "I'm afraid we won't be able to do things so smoothly in the future." ”

"It's all about the 40,000 guns." Zhuang Jihua said lightly, but this was not what he really thought in his heart. After so many years, Zhuang Jihua and Chiang Kai-shek have played hide and seek, and he has also played some political experience, and he saw the purpose of Chiang Kai-shek's hand, and to put it bluntly, he still came to those factories. Du Yuming, Hong Junqi, Teng Jie, and Tang Zong in the Southwest Development Task Force were all sent by him, but these people were all from Huangpu, and they couldn't play a role in controlling him at all, at most, they were just spying on them, like Du Yuming and Teng Jie, I am afraid that they wouldn't even make a small report, so Zhuang Jihua could completely follow his ideas and carry out the southwest development as he wanted. But the 40,000 guns reminded Chiang Kai-shek that Zhuang Jihua's authority in the task force was too heavy, and he could not be contained by Huangpu classmates alone, and it was necessary to insert a person outside the Huangpu department, and Yang Yongtai was the best candidate. Chen Lifu's struggle for party affairs in Sichuan has become the best excuse for him to push the boat along the river.

"Zaita, I want to make some adjustments to the division of labor within the development team, what do you think?" Zhuang Jihua decided to take some measures and make some adjustments to offset Yang Yongtai's influence this year, and at the same time let Li Zhilong play a bigger role.

"Adjust now, is it appropriate? Isn't it going to be a little bit later? Li Zhilong was somewhat clear about Zhuang Jihua's thoughts, but he thought that as soon as Chiang Kai-shek's side moved, Zhuang Jihua responded, and it was inevitable that there would be traces and make Chiang Kai-shek suspicious.

"Don't be afraid, I have an excuse." Zhuang Jihua said nonchalantly: "I have long told the principal and Yang Yongtai that I will implement rent reduction and interest reduction this year, which is an important part of this year's work, but its resistance will be great, and it needs the full cooperation of government affairs, party affairs and the army to succeed, so it is necessary to adjust the division of labor." ”

"It's better to be careful, not too much." Li Zhilong kindly reminded him that he had suffered several losses from Chiang Kai-shek and had lingering fears about Chiang Kai-shek's wrist.

"Don't worry." Zhuang Jihua didn't care, his biggest talisman now was the development of the southwest, and Chiang Kai-shek would never touch him until this plan was completed.

After the Red Army occupied Zunyi, Chiang Kai-shek was quite difficult to judge the next move of the Red Army, and entered Sichuan to the north to join the Red Fourth Front Army or to the east into Xiangxi, where he joined the headquarters of He Longxiaoke. So Chiang Kai-shek ordered Liu Xiang to mobilize troops to blockade southern Sichuan, ordered He Jian to step up the attack on Helong in Xiangxi, and ordered Xue Yue to cross the Wujiang River and attack Zunyi as soon as possible.

After Liu Xiang received Chiang Kai-shek's telegram, he immediately rushed to Yucheng to discuss with Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua was a little panicked, the Red Army occupied Zunyi and Loushan Pass, if it entered Sichuan along Tongzi and Mengdu, the first to bear the brunt was Qijiang, and the Qijiang Iron and Steel Plant could be there.

In the face of Liu Xiang's request, Zhuang Jihua immediately allocated all the latest 20 82 mortars and six 75mm mountain guns to Liu Xiang, and also allocated 100 light machine guns and 30 heavy machine guns.

"Keeping the Qijiang Iron and Steel Plant and the Qijiang Iron Mine is the first priority, and this is our hard work for two years." Zhuang Jihua almost gritted his teeth and said: "Director Yang, Teng Jie, and Guangting, you have to mobilize the local reserve and party affairs system, clean up the wilderness, protect the factory and mine, and tell the workers that if the factory is destroyed and the mine is destroyed, then they will lose their jobs and everything." ”

Yang Yongtai originally objected to Zhuang Jihua for handing over such a weapon to Liu Xiang to survive, but seeing that Zhuang Jihua was a little angry, he couldn't say anything, so he nodded and agreed.

When it came to the important assets of the Sichuan Development Company, Liu Xiang did not dare to slack off, and ordered Guo Xunqi's model division to go out to defend the Sichuan-Guizhou border. Guo Xunqi's model division is Liu Xiang's treasure, the division has more than 12,000 people in two brigades, and the equipment is the best in the whole Sichuan army, and almost all the weapons obtained from Chiang Kai-shek and Zhuang Jihua are equipped with this unit, and they are not willing to take out the six-way siege last year, and now with these dozens of cannons and machine guns, they are almost catching up with the equipment of the German armor division.

But Zhuang Jihua was still not at ease, he secretly transferred Song Yunfei's special forces to Qijiang, and ordered the formation of a special escort team of 6,000 people, and ordered Du Yuming to lead and enter Qijiang.

"Cultural Revolution, see if you let Teacher Yan go," Li Zhilong said to Zhuang Jihua with some worry, Zhuang Jihua looked at him puzzled, in his opinion, Du Yuming's command ability should be higher than serious, serious may hinder Du Yuming's play, Li Zhilong saw his eyes, knew that he didn't understand what he meant, so he made his words clear: "Teacher Yan had a good relationship with Director Zhou when he was in Huangpu, Guangting went, and he would only fight by force, but Teacher Yan could negotiate with them, and if necessary, he could give up his wealth to protect the factory and the mine." ”

Zhuang Jihua patted his head, he felt that he was a little messy, in addition to armed confrontation, it can also be solved politically and economically, so he invited Cheng Zheng and quietly told him that if the Red Army attacked Qijiang, he could negotiate with the Red Army, as long as they did not destroy the factories and mines, anything was easy to discuss, and he was given a batch of medicines and 100,000 oceans. Seriously naturally agreed, and went to Qijiang with the money and medicine.

The transportation around Yucheng was very convenient, Guo Xunqi's whole division of 12,000 people was sent to Qijiang in two days, and then led his troops out of Sichuan into Guizhou, but after he left Sichuan, the movement began to be slow, Liu Xiang gave him instructions that if he found that the Red Army had an attempt to enter Sichuan north, he would resolutely block it, otherwise he would not provoke them.

In mid-January, the main force of the Red Army left Zunyi and drove north, Guo Xunqi judged that the Red Army really wanted to enter Sichuan this time, so he immediately led his troops to block it, and the two sides started a bloody battle in Tucheng. In this battle, the vitality of the Sichuan Army was not weaker than that of the Central Army, causing great casualties to the Red Army, forcing the Red Army to abandon its attempt to cross the Jinsha River from southern Sichuan, cross the Chishui River, and insert itself into the map of Xuyong Gulin to rest.

However, the Red Fourth Front Army launched the Southern Shaanxi Campaign at this time, and Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army and Shaanxi Army, including Hu Zongnan and Liu Maoen, who were urgently transferred into Sichuan, returned to Shaanxi to block the attack of the Fourth Front Army towards Hanzhong. Although the Battle of Southern Shaanxi attracted Hu Zongnan and other troops, it also relieved the worries of the Sichuan army, and the Sichuan army began to encircle the Central Red Army with all its might.

Liu Xiang ordered Yang Sen and Pan Wenhua to form an interception army to intercept the Red Army at Xingwen south of Yibin, ordered Wang Zanwei to garrison Luzhou, ordered Li Jiayu and Luo Zezhou to enter Yibin, and strictly ordered Guo Xunqi to continue to pursue the Red Army.

Knowing that the Red Army had retreated to Yunnan, Zhuang Jihua breathed a sigh of relief, and in the end he did not meet them in battle, and he could talk when they met in the future. As soon as the threat of the Red Army was gone, Zhuang Jihua began to prepare for the implementation of his plan.

In early February, Zhuang Jihua held a meeting in the Southwest Development Team to discuss the deployment of rent and interest reductions, and Yang Yongtai also attended the meeting.

Yang Yongtai This is the first time to participate in Zhuang Jihua's work conference on the development of the southwest, Yang Yongtai also found a characteristic of Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua rarely holds meetings, most of the decisions he will find a few relevant people to discuss, and then decide himself. He meets only for actions related to social reform. This made him feel like he couldn't get started when he wanted to meddle in the specific things within the development team.

In fact, he misunderstood Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua wanted to hold a meeting, but every time he held a meeting, he only asked people related to the meeting to attend, like Du Yuming only participated in the meeting of the army and the reserve, Hong Junqi only participated in the meeting of the reserve and logistics, Teng Jie was only in charge of propaganda and party affairs, and Tang Zong participated in even fewer meetings.

This rent and interest reduction gave Yang Yongtai the opportunity to fully understand Zhuang Jihua's way of doing things, so he arrived at the conference room very early, but after he came in, he found that the people attending the meeting were all from the Huangpu family, so he decided not to open his mouth first to see what Zhuang Jihua wanted to move?

"Rent reduction and interest reduction is a rural policy that the national government has long promulgated, is an important strategy to stabilize the countryside, and is also our established strategy, considering the difficulty and complexity of the implementation, we have not been implemented in the Yucheng area, and now the grassroots organizations have been established, with the conditions for the implementation of this policy, so I decided to start this year in the 16 counties around Yucheng to implement rent reduction and interest reduction, let's talk, how should we start?" Zhuang Jihua's opening remarks were simple, and Yang Yongtai immediately found that the participants did not question whether to discuss the implementation of this policy this year, but immediately entered into a discussion on how to implement it.

(To be continued)