Chen Zikun has been wearing a beard for so many years, at first it was a Prussian mustache, then it was a beard, and then it became longer and longer, becoming a classical three-lock long hair, and finally it was a pair of beautiful hairs of Guan Yunchang.

On the banknotes issued by Jiangdong Industrial Bank, Chen Zikun's bareheaded military uniform elephant is printed with a long beard, so Jiangdong tickets are nicknamed "Guan Emperor tickets", and the image of Chen Dashuai and beautiful bearded men is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people through banknotes, so the new gate guard did not recognize this dusty traveler as the chairman of the province and the male owner of the mansion.

Shuangxi came up from behind and scolded: "Blind your eyes, this is handsome!" ”

The door guard was frightened, and after a closer look, in addition to having no beard, he was really handsome, so he hurriedly stood up and saluted, Chen Zikun waved his hand, and walked into the mansion with a smile.

Yao Yilei and Jianbing were talking in the living room, discussing how to celebrate the New Year, when they suddenly saw Chen Zikun walk in, both of them were stunned, and Yao Yilei said after a while: "Are you back?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "I'm back." ”

Jian Bing said: "Done? ”

Chen Zikun said: "I'm done. ”

With tears of happiness in their eyes, the two women glanced at each other and asked in unison, "Are you still going out?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "The country is unified, I should also retire, and I will take care of my children at home in the future." ”

Yao Yilei became happy at this time, asked the old mother to bring Yan'er over, pointed at Chen Zikun and said, "Call Dad." ”

Yan'er is almost four years old, dressed like a little princess, and her little head is shaking like a drum: "He's not a father." ”

Yao Yilei said: "He is my father." ”

Yan'er said: "Liar, Dad has a big beard, but he doesn't." ”

The adults laughed, but Chen Zikun felt sour in his heart, and he wanted to compensate his family in the future.

First of all, Chen Zikun's old father-in-law, Yao Qizhen, the general office of the railway, said that the railway construction in Jiangdong Province has been in progress, and at the end of last year, the Huaijiang Iron Bridge was completed, and the railway crossed the Huaijiang River to the Jinpu and Longhai lines in the north and south, and the day of completion was the time when Jiangdong's economy took off.

Gong Jiaxiang, president of Jiangdong Industrial Bank, showed him the bank's balance sheet, and the stock remained firm at two yuan on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

"We are blue chip stocks, with coal, iron ore, and railway assets in the province as collateral, and rich dividends. Gong Jiaxiang swore solemnly.

Liu Youjin, secretary general of the provincial government, kept pace with the times, put on a navy blue tunic suit, and pinned a blue sky and white sun emblem on his chest, which did not look like the provincial government, but like a cadre of the provincial party department, and he also brought good news.

The report of Chief of Staff Yan Su is equally shocking, the Jiangdong Army has expanded to 100,000 horses!

Chen Zikun was shocked: "How can there be so many soldiers in the establishment of the two armies?" ”

Yan Su explained that after the incorporation of Sun Chuanfang's 40,000 horses, the Jiangdong Army was expanded to 70,000, the old, the weak and the disabled were abolished, new recruits were recruited, and in addition to filling the establishment of the two armies, three provisional divisions and four mixed brigades were established, making a solid army of 100,000.

"The Nanjing government is about to disarm, abolish the establishment of the group army and the army, and only keep the division-level troops, and our Jiangdong Army will not take the opportunity to expand it first, and we will only be afraid of being cut off at that time." Yan Su said.

Chen Zikun said: "Can the central government have a detailed disarmament plan? ”

Yan Su had already prepared, and took out the minutes of the Nanjing Formation Meeting, and Chen Zikun read it and said: "It seems fair, but in fact it is the most beneficial to Chiang Kai-shek, according to this disarmament method, Feng Yuxiang's troops must be cut by at least half, and according to Huanzhang's temper, I am afraid that he will stab someone in the back again." ”

"This is also one of the reasons for my army expansion, if there is another war, it will definitely be very cruel than the Northern Expedition, Jiangdong is between Jiang and Feng, the war is spreading, and it will definitely not work without troops to protect itself." Yan Su said.

Chen Zikun thought so, and ordered a sum of money from the provincial treasury that was originally intended to be used to purchase machinery, and ordered a large number of weapons from Europe, such as ZB26 light machine guns from the Czech Skoda factory, VZ24 rifles from the Brno factory, 20-round fully automatic box guns from the Spanish Astara factory, and an entire production line of 7.92 mm rifle cartridges.

When approving the money, Chen Zikun's hands were shaking, and he hastily signed and threw his pen and said angrily: "With this money, you can build hundreds of miles of railways and build several schools, and China will be destroyed in the hands of these new warlords sooner or later." ”

After thinking about it, he crossed out the purchase price of the rifle again, and still purchased six steam locomotives from Schneider in France. He also called the logistics office and asked them to reload all kinds of miscellaneous firearms captured during the Northern Expedition and equip the troops as soon as possible.

In the Spring Festival of 1929, Chen Zikun's family spent time together in the Fenglin Road Mansion in the provincial capital, and a month after the holiday, the Third National Congress of the Kuomintang was held in Nanjing, and Chen Zikun was indeed promoted to a member of the Central Executive Committee.

On 25 March, the central authorities announced a crusade against Li Zongren, Li Jishen, and Bai Chongxi, and the Chiang-Gui War officially began.

The Jiang-Gui War lasted only three months, and the Gui faction was defeated, and Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi went into the wilderness.

In July, Zhang Xueliang forcibly reclaimed the China Eastern Railway and sent troops to search the Soviet Consulate General in Harbin. Stalin established the Soviet Red Banner Special Far East Army, invaded Jilin and Heilongjiang in two ways, and fought fiercely with the Northeast Army, Zhang Xueliang's department suffered heavy casualties, and asked Nanjing for help, at this time Wang Zhaoming announced a crusade against Chiang Kai-shek in Guangxi, Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang jointly opposed Chiang, Fengbu Song Zheyuan's army and the Central Army fought in western Henan, the civil war in the land of China and the foreign war continued, Chiang Kai-shek looked flawlessly to the north, fortunately, the Soviet Union was afraid of the reaction of the Japanese, and did not go deeper.

In October, the Jiangdong railway branch line and the Longhai line were connected, the provincial chairman Chen Zikun personally wedged the last gold road nail with a hammer, and suddenly firecrackers rang out, gongs and drums were noisy, and colorful flags fluttered, and the traffic between the northern half of Jiangdong Province and the outside world was smooth.

Chen Zikun took a French-made steam locomotive with great interest, drove from the starting station to Jiangnan, and when he passed through Beitai County, he was surprised to find that it was ten times more prosperous than the last time he came, especially around the railway station, there are houses and shops.

Xiao Lang, chief engineer of the railway, said that most of the new immigrants were refugees from Anhui Province, Henan Province, who had fled here because of drought and military disasters, and that when the construction of the railway required a large amount of labor, many people were hired at low prices.

Chen Zikun said: "It's really good to raise a city on flat land, but this building is too disorderly, is Xiao Gong interested in helping me build a modern city?" ”

Xiao Lang's eyes lit up, but he still shook his head and said: "I'm just an engineer, not a designer, you find someone to design, I'll do the construction." ”

Chen Zikun stretched out his hand: "A word is a certainty." ”

The two hands clasped tightly together, in a word, doomed the rise of a city.

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When Chan returned to his residence in the provincial capital, the director of the National Police Agency, Zeng Jiao, came to report that he had arrested a political prisoner who had incited workers to revolt.

"It's strange that there are political prisoners in the province." Chen Zikun was quite puzzled that after Mai Zilong purged the party, the province has spared no effort to ban illegal party activities, but it has not been possible to prevent it.

"If the prisoner is caught, he will be dealt with according to the law, and he will be killed if he should be killed, and he will be closed if he should be closed, what will you do with me." Chen Zikun directly threw the case file back.

Zeng Jiaolong straightened his waist: "Chairman, you know this person." ”

Chen Zikun hooked his hand and asked him to return the case file to the table, flipped through it, and sure enough, it was an old acquaintance, Zhao Dahai's godson, Ye Kai.

"Bring him in, and I'll interrogate him myself."

A few minutes later, Ye Kai was brought in, there was blood at the corner of his mouth, he had obviously been beaten, the young man at the age of 412 had been tempered for two years, he was much taller, his shoulders were broader, his hands were handcuffed, his unyielding eyes, and his waist was straight, as if he was not a prisoner in custody, but a determined warrior.

Chen Zikun reprimanded his subordinates and played with a pencil: "Ye Kai, we met again, let's talk about it, what happened?" ”

"I didn't commit a crime." Ye Kai said lightly.

"Oh, how did I hear that you incited the workers to rebel, since I, Chen Zikun, took charge of Jiangdong, I have practiced the eight-hour work system, it is strictly forbidden to beat and scold the workers, and deduct wages for no reason, I am worthy of you workers' big brothers, why do you want to rebel against me?"

Ye Kai said: "I didn't rebel against you, I just called on everyone to defend the motherland." ”

Chen Zikun said: "How do you say this? ”

Ye Kai glanced at Chen Zikun with a little contempt and said: "Marx said that workers have no motherland, but as soon as the cannon of the October Revolution sounded, the workers of the world will have a motherland from then on, and this motherland is Soviet Russia." ”

"Stop." Chen Zikun was even more inexplicable, "Boy, do you know what nationality Marx is?" ”

Ye Kai said disdainfully: "Of course Marx is a Soviet. ”

Chen Zikun said: "You are wrong, Marx is a German, more than 30 years after his death, the October Revolution you said broke out, and you messed around without understanding the theoretical basis, isn't this nonsense?" ”

Ye Kaidao: "In short, the superiors have instructions, armed defense of the Soviet Union, armed defense of Stalin, our working class to defend their motherland, rightfully so. ”

Chen Zikun said: "Since you want to recognize the Soviets as your father, I won't stop you, but why do you want to defend the Soviet Union in my Jiangdong, where is this?" ”

Ye Kaidao: "Your Kuomintang imperialists launched a provocation against the Soviet Union, don't you allow us to fight back, the main battlefield is in the northeast, but all parts of the country are divided into battlefields, we just want to blossom everywhere and oppose your aggression against the Soviet Union with the best situation." ”