Chapter 326: Xi'an Secret Talk
Li Tie and Tang Mengxue's wedding night was quietly spent in a tired conversation between the two. The next morning, both of them slept in their clothes and did not wake up until dawn.
The two of them are too tired on the wedding day, the two get married in the United States is not like in China, there are parents and siblings on both sides to help Zhang Luo, and the parents of both sides will deliberately control the newlyweds not to be tired, so as to leave them some physical strength to use in the cave room.
But in the United States, it is different, although the process of marriage is much simpler and faster than in China, and it is during the economic crisis, it is even less suitable for extravagance in the United States, but Americans play tricks on newlyweds more than Chinese.
So although Li Tie and Tang Mengxue had a group of bodyguards and subordinates to help, the two of them were still tired and didn't have any worries about the cave room, not to mention that the wedding of the two was originally to deal with the parents of both parties, and there was no traditional sport of reserving the cave house at all.
Moreover, Tang Mengxue and Li Tie had three chapters of the law. So the next morning, Li Tie and Tang Mengxue got up separately.
Everyone can only see that Li Tie and Tang Mengxue respect each other more than before, but they can't see the happy and crooked feeling of the newlyweds at all.
Fortunately, in the era of the Republic of China, both Li Tie and Tang Mengxue are the top figures, so although the subordinates were suspicious, no one asked the doubts in their hearts.
In the following days, Li Tie and his wife visited high-level figures from all walks of life in the US Government for the first time in the name of husband and wife, and they had friendly consultations and discussions. They reached a series of agreements on future Sino-US cooperation and further cooperation between China and the United States economy.
Although after Roosevelt's first successful presidential campaign, the United States amended the latest election law, which clearly stipulates that all presidential candidates must have their own citizens on their teams.
Candidates are also not allowed to receive any foreign capital funding. Therefore, in this presidential election, Li Tie and Tang Mengxue will not directly help President Roosevelt run for re-election.
However, Li Tie and his wife have expressed their full support for President Roosevelt's decision to be re-elected on more than one occasion, both privately and publicly.
With the propaganda of Li Tie and his wife working so hard, the congressmen of the ** party were so happy that they couldn't keep their mouths together, because the ** test showed that in just a little more than a month from Li Tie's marriage to Li Tie's departure from the United States, President Roosevelt's approval rating rose by more than ten percentage points.
This widened the gap between President Roosevelt, who already had a large advantage, and the Republican candidate. However, Republicans know that they are unlikely to defeat Roosevelt in this presidential election. However, the Americans' spirit of not admitting defeat has once again been fully embodied in the Republicans.
Sometimes, even when there are only three or two kittens in front of their podium, the Republican candidates still go out of their way to speak.
Republicans have said that even if there is only one voter, they will fight until the last minute. However, the Republican Party's persistent election campaign has won the sympathy of the broad masses of American people, and it has even brought back a lot of impression points for them.
This also allowed the Republican Party's support to rise a little, but almost all the people of the United States thought that Roosevelt's re-election was almost a foregone conclusion.
Therefore, the presidential campaign at the end of '36 was quieter and friendlier than any other campaign. It is not at all like the past when the two parties were in the election campaign, they exchanged words, attacked each other, and slandered each other.
For the first time, the American people have felt the spirit of friendship first and campaign second. It also convinces the American people that with the concerted efforts of both parties, they will soon be able to extricate themselves from the economic crisis and eventually lead the American people to a prosperous and powerful life.
At the same time, although Li Tie and Tang Mengxue's wedding honeymoon was a month, Li Tie and Tang Mengxue almost never rested for a day, they traveled to various construction sites in the United States, visiting the newly acquired factories in various cities in the United States.
A month's travel did not allow Li Tie to fully explore all his industries in the United States, but he had to embark on another journey back to China. Because he received a secret telegram from the domestic thousand-tailed scorpion, Zhang Xueliang seems to be about to make a change recently.
So Li Tie could only immediately bid farewell to his newlywed wife Tang Mengxue, and boarded the plane back to China in the warm farewell of a group of employees of the American Huaxing Company.
Just as Li Tie was about to return to Shanghai from the United States, Yang Hucheng, commander-in-chief of the 17th Route Army, and Zhang Xueliang, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army, were quietly thinking in a conference room.
There were only two people in the huge conference room, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng. The two of them sat facing each other, each with a huge ashtray in front of them, which was already stuffed with cigarette butts.
"Brother Hucheng, are you really going to do the opposite?" Zhang Xueliang solemnly looked at Commander Yang Hucheng in front of him.
"Han Qing, my old Yang swordsman was born, I have never been afraid of anyone, and I have never regretted doing things, so I will not regret my decision to deal with Lao Jiang this time, I only came to you and discussed with you because our goal is the same.
I just want to fight to the Northeast and fight against Japan, and you want to stop the civil war and sweep the Northeast to clean up the lost territory, so we have a common goal.
And I know that you are kind and faithful. Even if you don't participate in my actions, at least you won't report me. Commander Yang Hucheng, who is already forty-four years old, said solemnly.
"Brother Hucheng, is there no room for turnaround?" Zhang Xueliang still does not give up.
"Han Qing, after so many years, haven't you seen the true face of Commander Jiang clearly? The reason why I opposed Feng Yuxiang and voted for Commander Jiang back then was not because Feng Yuxiang was not a stable lord, he repeatedly provoked wars, made the people of the northwest miserable, and repeated wars were a waste of national strength.
Second, it's also because Feng Yuxiang always used my miscellaneous army as cannon fodder. That's why I didn't wait for him, and instead voted for Commander Chiang.
But what was the result? In the Central Plains War of that year, Tang Shengzhi betrayed Commander Chiang, and half of Commander Chiang's country was in danger of overturning.
At the end of the Central Plains War, you led the army into the pass, and saw that Feng Yuxiang led the troops to run, but it was I who personally led the Seventh Army to travel 100 miles a day, and went straight to Tongguan to block the retreat of Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, so that it was electrified to go into the field. The Northwest Army was also able to divide the Nationalist Army and your Northeast Army equally.
Later, I helped Commander Chiang fight dozens of battles, large and small, and I also rose from a small division commander all the way to the current commander-in-chief of the 17th Route Army and commander of the 7th Army.
But what was the result? Seeing that the northwest was poor and that he had no great generals, he threw me to the northwest and let me, a rebel general of the Northwest Army, lead the new Northwest Army to encircle and suppress the Northwest Red Army.
He knew that it was impossible for the Northwest Army to support me in rebelling against him. It is even more impossible for me to establish myself as a king in the northwest, and I have a low culture and do not have the support of a strong consortium, and it is the credit of his commander Jiang to manage the world in the northwest well, and if I don't manage it well, he can take me down at any time.
He, Commander Jiang, had a good calculation, but he didn't count the hearts of the people in the northwest by thousands of calculations. Seeing that the northeast has fallen, the Japanese have all ridden on the heads of the Chinese to, and he is still blindly suppressing bandits and wasting national strength.
Can't we beat the Japanese? Some of us have people, some have guns, and some of us are generals who don't want to die, so why can't we beat the Japanese.
What a good situation the Great Wall War of Resistance was, how many soldiers and soldiers were sacrificed by our Northwest Army, but what was the result? Win but not win. Do you know what my nemesis Song Zheyuan did when he saw me again? He cried. He said that he had never fought such an unjust battle in his life, such a tortuous battle.
Today's Northwest Army is bent on resisting Japan, but several times of asking for war have made Commander Jiang ruthlessly reject. So what he didn't expect was that the current Northwest Army had already become united because of its anti-Japanese feelings.
As long as I raise the banner of anti-Chiang anti-Japanese resistance, more than 100,000 followers of the Northwest Army will surely gather. Yang Hucheng talked eloquently.
"But Brother Hucheng, even if you pull out the banner of resisting Japan and opposing Chiang, you only have more than 100,000 people, Chen Jitang and Li Zongren of the Liangguang Incident, they don't also want money and money, guns and guns, and they don't let Commander Jiang clean up bloodlessly.
Do you think your hundreds of thousands of poor soldiers can fight Commander Chiang? Zhang Xueliang reminded Yang Hucheng not to forget that the Northwest Army has always been known for its poverty.
"Our Northwest Army is different from their Liangguang troops, they are afraid that Commander Chiang will take back the management of Liangguang, so they use the reputation of anti-Japanese resistance to win the favor of the people of the whole country, but in fact, they still follow the line of working together to fight against Commander Chiang.
Although I did not read much, after so many years of conquest, I clearly realized that no warlord was an opponent of Commander Chiang within the confines of China, and even if all the warlords were united, it would be useless.
Because these warlords will always be divided by Commander Chiang and eventually defeated individually. This can be seen from the Central Plains War, including the 400,000 troops of the Northeast Army led by Zhang Dashuai before, and it was not Commander Chiang's opponent.
Today, your Northeast Army only has 100,000 regular troops, and it is not the opponent of the Central Army, so even if you and I are united, it is not the opponent of Commander Chiang.
However, there is a premise for this, that is, if we rebel against Commander Chiang, it must be self-defeating, but I don't plan to fight him, I just want to go north to resist Japan.
As long as my true intentions remain unchanged, my soldiers will be loyal to me, will share weal and woe with me and will not accept the bribes of Commander Chiang, and only then will they be able to burst out with powerful combat effectiveness. So this time against Chiang, I am determined to win. Yang Hucheng is full of confidence.
"But even if your Northwest Army succeeds in going north, with your hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers, you don't even have decent heavy weapons, you can't beat the Japanese at all, you are sent to death." Zhang Xueliang persuaded again.
"What's the point of dying? Rather than die in vain at the hands of the Chinese themselves, we would rather die at the hands of the Japanese, at least before we die, we will kill one more Japanese soldier.
Even if we are killed by the Japanese, we have to take a few more breaths and pay a few more bullets to the Japanese. Yang Hucheng replied calmly.
Seeing that Yang Hucheng was determined to die, Zhang Xueliang was deeply moved.