471 The Biggest Crisis of the Kuomintang Five Requests for Subscriptions and Votes

As a result of the KMT's version of the road map for "peaceful reunification" and "democratic constitutionalism," the turmoil that had risen slightly in various parts of the south was quickly quelled. On March 22, the 18th year of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen's funeral was successfully held as scheduled. Prior to this, on 18 March, the Central Committee of the Kuomintang and the Central Committee of the Kuomintang reached a consensus on launching talks on "peaceful reunification." The history is called "three. 18 "Consensus."

The carriage carrying Sun Yat-sen's coffin and the long procession of sending the Tibetan people to Tibet composed of important Kuomintang military and political figures, representatives of various factions, celebrities, and friends left the Moshan Mansion early in the morning of 22 July. Along Zhongshan Avenue, head west into Wuchang City, go around the city, and then enter the "Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall" where the coffin is temporarily parked. On both sides of the avenue, Wuhan citizens who spontaneously came to mourn have long been crowded, and there are no less than one million people on both sides of the road, crying.

At the front of the solemn marching procession was a group of Kuomintang cavalry wearing khaki uniforms, riding Western high-headed horses and holding snow-bright sabers, slowly advancing. Behind them was a hearse with a coffin, flanked by the five bigwigs of the Kuomintang and Sun Yat-sen's eldest grandson. The hearse was followed by Sun Yat-sen's family and other high-ranking and high-ranking members of the Kuomintang, followed by representatives of various factions in the north, well-known figures from all walks of life, and people from friendly countries. At the end of the line was a phalanx composed of cadets from the Central Military Academy and the Army University, and the young soldiers were dressed in straight uniforms, holding rifles with bayonets, and lined up in a neat line, like a steel jungle slowly advancing.

Luo Yaoguo walked slowly with the hearse, but the corner of his eye kept staring at Chiang Kai-shek on the other side of the hearse. The world thinks that it is the so-called five bigwigs who maintain the situation of the Kuomintang after Sun Yat-sen, but in fact, where could they have thought that among the five bigwigs, the real pillars are only Chiang Kai-shek and Luo Yaoguo, and the other three bigwigs are not mediocre, right? For the sake of the people, it is already too deep to take on the big responsibility, and their role is only to maintain balance. The Kuomintang is now a three-legged stool, Luo Yaoguo is one leg, Chiang Kai-shek is one leg, and the other three bigwigs together are one leg. Only the existence of these three legs can support the Kuomintang, which rules most of China. If one of the legs breaks, the balance is immediately broken...... The Kuomintang will immediately fall apart, and history will return to its original track. But how do you keep this third leg strong?

The general trend of the world has changed greatly, and the behemoth of the Kuomintang should turn its main energy to the interior in the next few years, right? There are not many words, so where should G's energy go? Thinking of this, Zhou Elai, who was walking in the middle of the team to send Tibet, with a sad expression on his face, turned his eyes to Zhang Xueliang and Zhang Shaoshuai, who was hanging his head and had a deep expression not far away. Beijing's nominal central government is a team set up by the Central G and Feng factions. If we want to turn this regime into a people's power in the true sense of the word, we must first transform the Feng system and make it **. Manchuria is also the most ideal base in China, if there are rich resources and fertile land in Manchuria, there should be a low cost to compete with the Kuomintang, right? There are not many words, but how can Zhong G transform the Feng system and control the Northeast?

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"Xixian, what kind of place have they arranged for you to visit in the past few days? How do you feel something? ”

After attending the funeral, on the way back to the station of the Southern Bureau of Hankou Zhongg, Zhou Elai asked Deng Xixian, who was in the same car with him, about the visit in the past two days. Deng Xixian is currently the party secretary of the Baotou Special Economic Zone, the heavy industry base of China and G, and is fully leading the construction of heavy industry in China and G. In addition to attending Sun Yat-sen's funeral, I came to the south this time to take the opportunity to observe the heavy industry enterprises in the south.

"Comrade Elai, we have been around Wuhan for the past two days, and we have not gone far. I saw the arsenal and power plant in Hanyang, the steel mill in Daye, and several hydropower stations under construction. How do these factories feel...... It's the same factories that Yamato saw in France. Hanyang's arsenal covers almost half of the city, with everything from rifle bullets to heavy howitzers. A director of the Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Armaments, surnamed Lu, also took me on a tour of the 210mm heavy howitzer that had just been assembled, which was said to be a copy of the German Model 1910, and that a single shell weighed 120 kilograms and could hit almost 10 kilometers away. The man surnamed Lu also asked about the Dagukou Fortress in Tianjin, which we were building, and seemed to want to sell this artillery to us as a fortress gun...... The Daye steel plant is also very large, larger than the Schneider steel plant where I worked in France, and it is said that this year's annual output will exceed one million tons, and it is still under construction, not fully completed...... In the end, I went to see a university, just across the East Lake, called Sino-German University of Technology. It was jointly organized by the Ministry of Education of the Kuomintang and the Technical University of Munich in Germany, but the management was completely controlled by the Germans, and the professors were all from Germany. ”

Deng Xixian's face was solemn, and he spoke in official dialect with a strong Sichuan accent, and introduced to Zhou Elai in detail what he had seen and heard in the past few days.

Zhou Elai listened with a serious face, when Deng Xixian said about the United Polytechnic University, he frowned and said that this university cultivates all engineering and technical talents, and it is very difficult to take the exam, and the people we arranged to apply for the examination were almost wiped out, and only two or three people were admitted. If we want to develop heavy industry, we need a large number of engineers and technicians. Comrade Xixian, do you have any thoughts on this? ”：“

Deng Xixian nodded lightly, we need engineers and technicians to develop heavy industry, and we can't just rely on the universities in the national control area to train for us, and the top science and engineering universities here are too difficult to get into. And at present, there is a shortage of engineers in the national control area, so the salaries are very good. I'm worried that the students we're sending will be tempted...... So for the time being, we can only rely on the help of the Soviet Union. ”

Zhou Elai was slightly stunned when he heard this, and it took a while for a while to say that the students we sent to study were at least members of the Communist Youth League, and some of them were party members. They are all Marxists, and things will be confused by the bourgeois way of life? Speaking of this, Zhou Elai saw that Deng Xixian's expression was a little hesitant, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it.

"Xixian, there are no outsiders here, if you have something to say, just say it."

Deng Xixian smiled bitterly, nodded lightly, Comrade Elai, I won't tell you, our Baotou Special Economic Zone is now not only engineers, but also lack of skilled workers, and now the southern industry is developing rapidly, and the treatment of skilled workers is also very favorable, and few people are willing to stay in Baotou. This time, the skilled workers sent to Baotou by China Iron and Steel and China Military Industry to be responsible for the construction of the factory refused to stay in Baotou, and our mobilization didn't work, and most of the workers and masters of the Dexian Arsenal refused to come to Baotou, and even if they came, they all thought about leaving all day long, which made us very embarrassed, after all, they said that they were all working class ......."

Zhou Elai took a deep breath, and his two thick eyebrows were tightly twisted into a ball, and the skilled workers must pay close attention to training, and select from the Red Army soldiers who have been laid off, even the active Red Army can also be selected. The treatment should also be preferential, and priority can be given to joining the party and being promoted. As for...... Engineers, just ask the USSR for help. Heehyun, is there any other difficulty? ”：“

Deng Xixian lowered his head and thought about it, but there was still a shortage of funds, and he couldn't keep people, and to put it bluntly, this is still the reason. This heavy industry did not do it, and only after doing it did I believe that this banknote was really spent like flowing water, and for a long time, it only went out and did not come in."

"Didn't I give you 50 million silver dollars? Is it all spent? Zhou E looked at Deng Xixian and asked lightly.

Deng Xixian let out a long sigh, crossed his fingers and calculated for Zhou Elai, and 40 million of the 50 million silver dollar coupons were used to pay for the construction of arsenals, steel plants, power plants, railways and other projects. The remaining 10 million is planned to be used as start-up funds for these projects, as well as 100,000 resettlement costs for the Production and Construction Corps. We're already very strapped for money, and it seems to have been ...... lately There are some signs of depreciation, so it is even more inadequate. ”

Zhou Elai nodded and sighed softly. He naturally discovered that the silver dollar bills began to depreciate slowly. During this period of drought in the northwest, grain prices rose; The customs area has started to start again, so the price of imported materials has also increased; The Japanese Korea Bank and Jeongjin Bank received another injection of British capital, resumed the exchange of banknotes issued by them, and began to compete with the silver dollar bills for the market; In addition, since South China abandoned the silver standard, the Central Bank of the Nationalist Government and the major banks in the South sold silver to buy gold in the international market, resulting in a decline in the price of silver itself, and the value of the silver dollar bills linked to it naturally also depreciated. All this combined has caused the weakness of the silver dollar bills, which has also increased the difficulties in the construction of China-G heavy industry.

"Comrade Elai, in the final analysis, the difficulties we are encountering in the construction of heavy industry are still too few financial resources and resources at our disposal." Deng Xixian leaned over to Zhou E and lowered his voice:

"Heavy industry is piled up by real money, and their Kuomintang has invested hundreds of millions of dollars every year over the years, and capitalists and foreign businessmen have invested together, so it has the current scale...... Relying on the little financial resources of our Soviet districts, we really can't afford to run much heavy industry. Now we have to find a way to make money, and if we can control the central government and use the central government's money to invest, then the situation can be greatly improved. ”

"Control the central government...... Zhou Elai frowned tightly and nodded noncommittally.

Zhou Elai didn't speak again, his eyes stared straight ahead, his thick eyebrows were furrowed, and his gaze was extremely solemn. Deng Xixian, who was familiar with Zhou Elai, found that Zhou Elai must have made a very difficult decision in his heart.

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The Yangtze River is rolling eastward. Perhaps after a few spring rains, the water level of this great river that traverses the land of China also began to rise, rolling and churning until it flowed towards the sea.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, Liao Zhongkai and Deng Yanda are standing side by side on the newly completed embankment with their hands behind their backs. However, it is not facing the great river surging eastward, but the urban area of Wuchang, which is protected by a levee as tall as a mountain. What catches your eye is more than a dozen construction sites with a huge area. About 100 new buildings are being built under scaffolding made of bamboo.

In recent years, the economic development of the south has been very rapid, and major cities are expanding their area at an unimaginable rate. Every year, millions of young people from rural provinces migrate to cities in search of opportunities. It not only provides sufficient cheap labor for the development of urban industry and commerce, but also creates a lot of demand.

Especially after the major banks in the south began to issue "real estate mortgage loans", the spring of the real estate industry seems to have come...... Well, it could also be that a bubble is coming, but Liao Zhongkai and Deng Yanda, the two big leftists, don't have much of an opinion on this.

Liao Zhongkai looked at the scenery of the city for a while, shook his head and said with a smile, in fact, these rightists are doing a lot. Whether it is heavy industry or people's livelihood, the past few years should be regarded as a good report card. There is such a political achievement...... Why don't these people dare to go to the GCD election? ”

Deng Yanda sneered and said that their economic development is entirely for personal interests, and the fruits of economic development are mainly attributed to big capitalists and big bureaucrats. How much benefit do workers and peasants get? And the GCD has an economy for the people, and their leaders live a simple life, they are not privileged at all, and even most of our working class here are richer than them, and they are better fed and clothed than them. Therefore, once we start to engage in democratic constitutional government, although our Kuomintang can temporarily win power, it will eventually lose to GCD. This should be the reason why those rightists in our party are unwilling to practice democratic constitutional government. ”

Liao Zhongkai smiled, but why did they reiterate the statement of the sixteen-year training period? For example, in the 29th year of the Republic of China, Guangdong Province will have to elect the provincial chairman and representatives of the legislature. But it's only eleven years. ”

Deng Yanda snorted, his face was full of disdain, and these people were just trying to delay the army...... When the period of discipline in Guangdong expires in 11 years, there will definitely be some reason to prevaricate. ”

Liao Zhongkai frowned, and just wanted to say something. Suddenly, he clearly felt that he had been hit in the chest by his son, and then there was a sharp pain that was heart-rending. He wanted to scream, but all his strength disappeared from him, and he couldn't even utter the last scream. There was only one thought left in his mind that was gradually dissipating, and he finally became a victim of a conspiracy, and was about to follow the former prime minister, but who was behind this conspiracy? Who is the one who hates him to the core, and wants to put him to death? But he'll never find out. In the end, he also heard Deng Yanda crying loudly......

On March 22, the 18th year of the Republic of China, on the day of the funeral of Mrs. Sun Yat-sen, the former premier of the Kuomintang, Liao Zhongkai, the leader of the left wing of the Kuomintang, was assassinated on the south embankment of the Yangtze River, and what killed him was a 7.62mm rifle bullet, which was the most common...... It is exactly the same as the bullet used in the Kuomintang Army infantry machine rifle

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Central Military Academy Shooting Range.

Luo Yaoguo also had several such 7.62mm caliber rifle bullets in his hands, and he also had a rifle in his hands. This is a new rifle codenamed "Zhongshan type", which was designed and developed by the gun factory of the Chinese military industry according to the figure of the Chinese. The original code name was Min 18 style, but it was changed to its current name in honor of Sun Yat-sen. This rifle has a total length of 1110mm, a total length of 1335mm with a bayonet, an empty gun weighing 3.9kg, a barrel length of 600mm, and a muzzle velocity of 810m/s. In addition, there was a model with a folding bayonet, which was named the Nakayama mounted rifle.

Not far from him, several non-commissioned officers lying on the firing line, each with one of these 18-style rifles in their hands. The roasted blue on the rifle steel, brand new and dazzling, is obviously also just out of the factory. A hundred meters on the opposite side, there was a row of targets, and the center of the bullseye was densely packed with bullet holes. These non-commissioned officers are all squad leaders of the infantry squad in the teaching corps, and they were transferred here today to test their guns.

In addition, there was another person standing beside Luo Yaoguo, wearing a general's uniform and a big-brimmed hat. However, this military uniform is not the national ** military system, it turns out that he is Wang Zijiu, the commander-in-chief of the Youth Army who came to Wuhan to attend Sun Yat-sen's funeral. As soon as the funeral was over, he came to this shooting range with Luo Yaoguo to observe the target shooting of the freshly baked Zhongshan-style rifle.

Luo Yaoguo pressed the bullets in his hand into the magazine one by one, and pushed the bolt with a snap. Then he threw the rifle to Wang Zijiu beside him, and said with a smile, Jun Hao, you can also shoot a few shots to try and see how things look, and your youth army will soon start to equip this rifle. ”

After taking the rifle, Wang Zizhi did not shoot immediately, but appreciated it slightly, and sighed with emotion, Mr. Hand, this rifle is much more refined than the Min Thirteen we used before, and it has a German flavor all over its body...... If the caliber is changed to 7.92mm, it is a German gun. ”

"They wanted to change it, but I didn't agree." Luo Yaoguo frowned slightly, shook his head, and now our engineers are all German fans, as if they are not advanced if they don't learn German. ”

"Take virtue as a teacher" Wang introspects, right? The so-called smiled, raised the rifle in his hand, aimed at the target a hundred meters away, and fired five bullets in one go.

"Feel like something?" Luo Yaoguo raised a six-fold telescope and looked at his hand, yes, it's all on the target. Looks like your shooting skills have improved a bit, too. ”

"Teacher, don't be sarcastic, the student's skill in fighting is not good." Wang Zizhi smiled a little embarrassedly and threw the rifle to an adjutant who was following him.

Luo Yaoguo stepped forward, patted Wang's self-reflection brief, and laughed at the fact that among the people who came out of the first phase of Huangpu, you are the highest in the army, who will fight if you don't know how to fight? By the way, what is the Beijing government going to do this time? ”

A hint of surprise flashed on Wang Zizhi's face, but he quickly calmed down, and they wanted the student to become the commander of the Fifth Army. ”

471 The Biggest Crisis of the Kuomintang Five Requests for Subscriptions and Votes