Along the long stone road, Zhuang Jihua walked slowly with Gong Xiuhua and Wu Ziniu and a few guards, several people were wearing civilian clothes, Zhuang Jihua and Wu Ziniu were wearing rare long shirts, and Gong Xiuhua was wearing a white sleeveless embroidered cheongsam, black high-heeled leather shoes, and a slender figure was graceful, which attracted passers-by to turn back.

The shops on both sides of the street were very lively, but only young men and women who rarely wore military uniforms were in it, most of them were ordinary villagers.

"Sir, we have all kinds of shoes here, look at it, it's all handmade, look at it." Seeing that the popularity of the man was extraordinary, the man immediately greeted him and greeted him carefully, although the security in the city is much better now, but such a small shop cannot afford to provoke those who are looking for trouble.

"Okay," Zhuang Jihua said casually, "You show me a few pairs." ”

"Holo." The guy immediately brought a few pairs of shoes: "Look, this is pure black, you can't wash it, this is Shu embroidery, this is foreign cloth, this is a mille-feuille bottom, it's very comfortable to wear." ”

Zhuang Jihua picked up the mille-feuille bottom, stepped on the cardboard box after putting it on, felt very different, turned his head and said to Gong Xiuhua and Wu Ziniu: "Well, it's different, it's very comfortable, it's hard and soft underneath, it's not bad, it's good, it's good, you also have two pairs." ”

Wu Ziniu pursed his mouth, and seemed to be very disapproving of Zhuang Jihua's fuss: "I said, Lord...., sir, have you ever worn cloth shoes, in the early years in Guangzhou, I wore such shoes, what is comfortable or uncomfortable." ”

Gong Xiuhua smiled: "You don't know him, he is a child of a rich family, I'm afraid he hasn't worn such shoes." ”

"What a rich kid, I didn't wear such shoes at school, when I first entered the school, I still wore straw sandals, don't believe it, you can go and ask Zaitian, I said a few jokes, and was fined twenty laps by Director Deng." Zhuang Jihua hurriedly justified his name, but Gong Xiuhua and Wu Ziniu were not wrong, he wore riding boots when he came out of the military academy, and never wore cloth shoes again.

"When did that happen," Gong Xiuhua quipped, "Is it a special feeling to wear this now?" ”

Zhuang Jihua smiled, and then told the guy to bring a few more pairs of women's shoes, insisted on letting the palace embroidery painting try, and then asked Wu Ziniu to pick two pairs, but Wu Ziniu resolutely refused.

"What do you buy and do, you can't wear it on a regular basis." Wu Ziniu is now a lieutenant colonel, and his usual attire must be worn in accordance with military regulations, and cloth shoes are a burden to him at all.

A few people were talking lively, and two women came in from outside the door, holding more than a dozen pairs of shoes in their hands. The two women put their shoes on the counter and said to the men, "Third son, please ask Shopkeeper Luo to have some of them." ”

"Okay, you guys will wait a minute," the man's attitude was still very good, he turned his head and said from inside: "Shopkeeper, the sister-in-law of the Shi family has sent shoes." ”

"Dare to love, these shoes are not made by yourself." Wu Ziniu couldn't help but interject.

"What you have in your hand is that the sister-in-law of the Shi family sent it to the Lin family in Xicheng, they want a large amount, we are too late, the shopkeeper is afraid of delaying the construction period, so let the sister-in-law of the Shi family take some to do, but they make the soles, cut out the uppers, and after we take them back, we have to process them."

Wu Ziniu nodded and didn't say anything anymore, but Gong Xiuhua was a little curious: "What is the Lin family doing so much?" ”

"The old lady of the Lin family is eighty years old, and everyone in the family has to give a pair of new shoes," the guy did not hide it, and told them in 1510: "The old lady of the Lin family is a living Bodhisattva, good to the subordinates, good to the tenants, and now the rent has been reduced. ”

"His family is so rich?" Gong Xiuhua felt strange that the biggest difference between Guizhou and Sichuan was that there were no real rich people in Guizhou, even if the landlords were poor compared to Sichuan.

"The Lin family is one of the best in our Guizhou, and the business has gone to Shanghai," the guy's mouth was fast, but Gong Xiuhua noticed that Zhuang Jihua was staring at the two women, and that look made Gong Xiuhua very familiar, that was the demeanor that solved the problem.

"Do you make military shoes?" Zhuang Jihua interrupted the man's words and asked, Now the shoes of the soldiers in the army are also this kind of cloth shoes, and with the current strength of the country, it is not possible to guarantee that leather shoes will be provided for every soldier. Some local troops even wore straw sandals, such as the Guizhou army, and even the Sichuan army, which was replaced with cloth shoes after reorganization.

"Military shoes, I haven't done it," the guy shook his head a little puzzled, they are such a small shop, even dozens of pairs of shoes ordered by large families have to be wrapped out, how much military shoes are and how to do it.

"Customers don't know that the number of military shoes is too large, and the store is too small to meet the needs." The shopkeeper had been listening to the inner hall for a while, and these guests were not ordinary people, and as soon as they came in, the shopkeeper got the news, but after he went to the door to observe for a while, he found that these people were very polite, and they did not feel embarrassed at all, so they did not come out immediately, but hid there and continued to observe, until the man called him, and he had to come out.

"You can do the same, outsource." Zhuang Jihua gestured to the sister-in-law of the Shi family with his eyes, and the shopkeeper shook his head and smiled: "The guests don't seem to know much about the army, and military shoes generally have their own procurement factories, and it is difficult for a small shop like ours to enter the eyes of the chief." ”

"Oh," Zhuang Jihua nodded lightly and said no more, but he was secretly scolding himself in his heart for being stupid, outsourcing this method that he often used in his previous life, and actually forgetting it, it was really unforgivable.

Out of the door of the shoe store, Gong Xiuhua obviously felt that Zhuang Jihua's mood was very high, and he became a lot more excited, so he asked with a smile: "What, do you have any ideas?" Let's hear it. ”

"Hehe, I thought of an idea that can solve some of the material shortages," Zhuang Jihua said happily: "Look, we can wrap the clothes, military uniforms, shoes, gun butts, and other things to ordinary people, we just have to accept them, think about it, many people have nothing to do at home, and they can be mobilized, which can not only increase the income of the people, but also increase the production of military supplies, the best of both worlds, why not." ”

Gong Xiuhua thought silently for a moment, and felt that this was a good way, she had already guessed how Zhuang Jihua wanted to implement it, it must be through grassroots organizations, the city is the street, and the countryside is the village committee, through them to distribute raw materials and accept finished products.

"It's worth it to come out this time," Gong Xiuhua also smiled: "You see, always hide in the house, come out once, you will find a solution, in the future, you have to go out and walk more, don't stay in the house." ”

"Okay, listen to you." The problem was solved, Zhuang Jihua's interest rose, and he pointed to a blacksmith shop opposite and said, "Go over there and have a look." ”

Back in the office, Zhuang Jihua immediately drafted a document to expand production, in which he clearly proposed to mobilize the people to participate in munitions production, cities to take the street as a unit, each street to set up a front support group, led by the street director, the rural village as a unit, set up a front support group, by the village branch secretary is responsible, military uniforms, military shoes, belts, grenade shells, mine shells, rifle butts can be dispersed to civilian production, the implementation of piecework remuneration.

This document Zhuang Jihua sent to Chiang Ching-kuo, asking Chiang Ching-kuo to draw up specific measures and select one of the 16 counties in Yucheng for trial implementation. In the vast area of the three southwestern provinces, Zhuang Jihua still trusts Yucheng the most, and this area that he has spent countless energy on governance, if there are any new measures, it will always let it take the lead.

After Chiang Ching-kuo received this document, he did not blindly implement it, but first discussed the people of the Sichuan Development Company of the Three Youth League of the Party Department and the Material Bureau, thinking that this policy was feasible, but he still did not implement it in the entire county at one time, but selected the people and towns closest to the development team to start the trial, and at the same time let the Materials Bureau formulate product standards and processing costs.

After the telegram was sent, Zhuang Jihua began to conceive an article for Mei Youlan, he knew that this propaganda war was promoted by He Jinhan behind, but he did not know the final origin of this propaganda war.

After the end of the summer counteroffensive, the frontal battlefield appeared relatively calm, and the two armies entered a period of rest and recuperation at the same time, Chiang Kai-shek convened a meeting of the main generals of the 125th Theater in Luoyang, announcing the reorganization of the army, and senior officers went to the Army University in stages and batches for short-term training, and middle and low-ranking officers went to the special class of the Central Military Academy for training; It is also necessary to reorganize the troops, especially those units that were ineffective in fighting in the early stage. It was clearly proposed that the troops should be reorganized in the manner of the 49th Group Army, and that if the rectification was not effective, the troops would be broken up and integrated into other units.

Although Chiang Kai-shek did not name names, the generals who attended the meeting knew in their hearts, such as Liu Ruming of the 68th Army and Shi Yousan of the 69th Army.

However, the biggest change in policy is still the relationship between the two parties, Chiang Kai-shek re-proposed the strategy of preventing the Communist Party and limiting the Communist Party, and transferred Sun Dianying and Shi You's three divisions to the Taihang Mountains, developed to southern Hebei, and competed with the Eighth Route Army for southern Hebei.

The more Chiang Kai-shek thought about the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan, the more he felt that he could not let the New Fourth Army develop in Jiangnan, and remembered Zhuang Jihua's suggestion at the beginning, so he ordered Chen Lifu and Zhang Chong to propose in the negotiations with Zhou Enlai that all the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan be relocated to North China and assigned to the Eighth Route Army. This move was flatly rejected by Zhou ENLAI.

After the defeat in the battle of Zhang Gufeng, in late August, the army provoked a conflict at Nomenkan on the Sino-Mongolian border, and concentrated 50,000 troops, 200 tanks and 400 planes to attack the Soviet-Mongolian army, as a result, the army suffered another defeat, losing all tanks and more than 30,000 people, only the air force's record was still brilliant, and the plane shot down more than 300 Soviet and Russian fighters, but it only lost less than 100 of its own, and the air force even threatened that the Soviet Russian air force was not as good as the Chinese air force. This result made the Russians even more eager to get the P51 Mustang fighter and the B17 bomber.

The P51 Mustang fighter is the kind of new aircraft mentioned by Merezov, and after the negotiations, Zhuang Jihua immediately called Wang Zhu to find out why he did not report it, and asked him to send a detailed report back immediately.

Wang Zhu saw Zhuang Jihua angry, sent his assistant Li Xiping back to China to report the matter to Zhuang Jihua in detail, Li Xiping is a Chinese in the United States, Wang Zhu's younger brother, Massachusetts Institute of Technology aviation power major, Ph.D., after graduation in North American Airlines for eight years, and then pulled into the Zhuang Jihua system by Mr. Mei, but has been staying in the United States, after Wang Zhu annexed North American Airlines, he was promoted to his assistant.

After Li Xiping returned to China, he reported in detail to Zhuang Jihua the situation of the P51 fighter, in the view of Wang Zhu and Li Xiping, the first generation of P51 is an immature product, but the British have to be in a hurry, so they have to disclose the production, P51A still has a lot of room for improvement, the P51B surname under development can be increased by more than 50%, will completely surpass the current various fighters, according to the plan, this aircraft will complete the test flight within two years, so Wang Zhu did not report to the country.

Zhuang Jihua couldn't laugh or cry, these nerds always want to provide the most perfect products, but the war won't give you this time. However, he patiently explained to Li Xiping what is currently happening in the Chinese sky.

"The new model of the army is a great threat to us, we are already in a weak position in terms of quantity, if the quality is poor, the army will dominate the Chinese sky, and now we urgently need a new aircraft that can completely confront it, you should set up a factory in China as soon as possible, and send all the materials back immediately, Yu Dawei is already choosing a factory site."

Li Xiping still wanted to plead, but after staying in Yucheng for a week and experiencing three bombings, he understood why Zhuang Jihua was so anxious and angry, and the problem of the landing of the P51 Mustang fighter in China was solved.

Chiang Kai-shek, who had returned from Luoyang, successively summoned Chen Lifu, Chen Guofu, He Jinhan, and Chen Cheng to discuss how to deal with the increasingly powerful GCD, and decided to start from the political, economic, and military aspects.

Economically, in Shaanxi, grain control and social reform were carried out, prohibiting all daily necessities from entering the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Special Economic Zone, and Teng Jie, Yan Hanhui, secretary general of the Yucheng City Political Axe, and Xu Haisheng, director of the Sichuan Provincial Food Control Bureau, were transferred to Shaanxi to serve as director of the Political Department of the Northwest Camp, secretary general of Shaanxi Province, and director of the Shaanxi Material Bureau, so as to strictly implement social reform and material control in the style of Chongqing.

Militarily, Hu Zong's southern part will continue to expand, with a total strength of 300,000 troops, all of which will be modeled on the establishment and equipment of the 49th Group Army; in addition, the Jin-Sui-Shaanxi Border Region Headquarters will be set up in Yulin, Deng Baoshan will be appointed as the commander, and Zhu Shaoliang, chairman of Gansu Province, will be appointed as the commander of the Eighth Theater, and Fu Zuoyi's department will be stationed in Suiyuan, and Fu Zuoyi will be appointed chairman of Suiyuan Province and deputy commander of the Eighth Theater, and commander of the North Route Army of the Second Theater; at the same time, Hu Zongnan and Ma Hongkui will be promoted to deputy commander of the theater, and the 17th Group Army stationed in Ningxia will be expanded into two armies and six divisions. Fu Zuoyi's division was expanded into three armies, one of which was the B army.

Politically, it is a propaganda war, GCD in Yucheng is weak, the prestige of the political axe is extremely high, this demonstration effect made Chiang Kai-shek very satisfied, he on various occasions called Yucheng as the Sanming Cooking Righteous Practice Model Defense Zone, to promote the Yucheng model to the whole country. This propaganda war against GCD was launched under the specific command of He Jinhan by using the news control of Yucheng.

Of course, the GCD side was not willing to be captured, but they could not fight back in Yucheng, so the battlefield was transferred to Guizhou, and the Xinhua newspaper in Guiyang was used to launch a counterattack.

(To be continued)