Sun Yat-sen sighed for a while, picked up the "Far East News Weekly" on the table, gently patted the cover with Xiao Yimin's photo with the other hand, turned to the two students who swore to follow him, and said with great feeling:

In this issue of Newsweek, a long interview with Xiao Yimin, the overseer of Sichuan Province, was published by Mr. Tang Heling, a French-Chinese journalist, and many of Xiao Yimin's views are very thought-provoking, especially his views on army building, which are undoubtedly the most rigorous and insightful in China at present

"After I read it carefully, I found that many of Xiao Yimin's recent views are richer and clearer than the book "The Current Situation and Prospects of the Chinese Armed Forces" published a few years ago, especially the principles of military purity and military education that he emphasized, all pointing to the various ills and shortcomings of today's Chinese [***] Brigade, which are very worthy of our reference!"

Chiang Kai-shek's heart moved slightly, and he looked sideways at Liu Bingxian, who was standing beside him.

Liu Bingxian understood and explained in a low voice: "The magazine was just published yesterday, and the younger brother has only recently read it, and it contains my third brother's serious criticism of our revolutionary army. ”

Sun Yat-sen put down the magazine, stood up, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back for a while, and said something that shocked Chiang Kai-shek and Liu Bingxian:

"Kai-shek, Zicheng, remember the advice you gave me privately in May? At first, I was a little unimpressed, thinking that the revolutionary situation was so good that there was no need to go through much trouble, but as I continued to suffer defeats, I thought a lot about it and argued for a long time, and then I realized that I had made a great mistake

"Facts have proved that your suggestion is very reasonable, our army is indeed too weak and completely impure, no matter whether an army has lofty beliefs or not, as long as this army has a good military education, strict military discipline, and advanced military training, then this army will have strong combat effectiveness, and it will never collapse easily when it encounters a slight setback like the old army, let alone a group of rabble who are greedy for life and afraid of death.

"Therefore, I have decided to adopt your suggestion, and the two of you will be responsible for secretly carrying out it without making a noise, and select a group of aspiring young people with a new education and a firm stance from the revolutionary armies in Zhejiang and Guangdong, and quietly send them to the Sichuan Army Military Academy to study, I believe that Xiao Yimin will not give you two face."

Chiang Kai-shek and Liu Bingxian showed joy in their eyes, and the two looked at each other and smiled, and agreed without hesitation.

"Teacher, how many people do you think is appropriate for this first batch to study?" Chiang Kai-shek asked.

Sun Yat-sen thought about it for a moment: "Twenty people, I'm afraid we don't have so much money." ”

Liu Bing took a step forward: "Teacher, the matter of funding should not be a problem, although Yiming is a little conservative and backward in his thinking, and has different views on the revolution, but his surname is straightforward and open-minded, even if we send fifty people at a time, he will not ask us for a penny, not to mention that this is another measure to effectively improve the relationship between the two sides, last month the Sichuan Army Deng Xihou occupied Hanzhong, didn't we also take a silent attitude?" He should know the goodwill shown by our revolutionary party. ”

Sun Yat-sen smiled rarely:

"The Sichuan army went north to Hanzhong and occupied southern Shaanxi, but it was the Chen Shu clan who betrayed the revolution and the Zhang Fu clan at both ends of the first rat that were damaged, and it also aroused the anger of the Beiyang warlord Lu Jianzhang and vigorously contained the counter-revolutionary forces. It is for this reason that we have not publicly criticized Xiao Yimin, but it does not mean that we agree with his warlord behavior, which is a matter of principle and must not be used for trading, understand? ”

"Got it!" Liu Bingxian replied with a smile.

Sun Yat-sen returned to the rattan chair and sat down, looking at Chiang Kai-shek, who was deep in thought: "Kai-shek, after receiving Ju Juesheng's telegram last week, Zicheng suggested to me that we should establish a revolutionary army that really belongs to us as soon as possible, a real party army, and Zicheng's plan is very thorough, he wants to return to Yucheng, reintegrate his old subordinates who are loyal to him and still serve in the Sichuan army, as well as the veterans of the League who quit the Sichuan army after the defeat of the revolution, and then pull out of Sichuan and put them under the absolute leadership of the headquarters, what is your opinion?" ”

Chiang Kai-shek turned to Liu Bingxian in surprise: "Zicheng, will there be any opinion on this?" ”

Liu Bingxian pursed his mouth: "What opinion can he have?" As long as the elder brother agrees, we will enter Sichuan together, and there will be no problem in pulling one or two regiments out, and the younger brother will have to ask him for guns and equipment. ”

Chiang Kai-shek was overjoyed:

"Teacher, this is a great thing that you can't ask for! After five years of transformation and non-stop war training, the Sichuan Army's combat effectiveness far exceeds that of today's Beiyang Army, especially Xiao Yiming's descendant border army, and it is definitely the strongest and most effective army in China at present.

"From the recent incessant protests of the British, we know that Xiao Yiming's border army not only occupied Lhasa and the Chayu area in southeastern Tibet, but also kept advancing southward, killing more than 3,000 enemies in the past four months, without losing a single battle, killing the Kang-Tibet rebels with fear, and killing the British can only protest and slander.

"Such an army is unprecedented in terms of fighting will and combat level, if we get the support of Xiao Yimin, there will be no more failures like Shandong, if the students had a regimental Sichuan army, they would be able to easily defeat a brigade of the Beiyang Army, and they would never return home like now!"

When Sun Yat-sen heard this, he was quite surprised: "Is Xiao Yimin's army really so strong?" ”

"It's not an ordinary strong, but very strong, especially the weapons and equipment of the Sichuan army, which are very advanced! The teacher also knows that even the infantry company of the ace division of the Beiyang Army is only equipped with three machine guns, and the grenades are only recently equipped with individual soldiers, but an infantry company of the Sichuan Army has two German heavy machine guns, five M1915 light machine guns from German technology, and an artillery platoon equipped with four 60-caliber mortars, and the firepower far exceeds that of a battalion of the Beiyang Army!

"In addition, the officers and men of the Sichuan army are strict in military discipline, brave and good at fighting, and most of the officers at the battalion and company level have entered the military academy to receive advanced military education, so they are invincible, and the students dare to say that if it were not for Xiao Yiming, the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan army, who was too cautious, the two divisions of the Sichuan army would have been able to defeat Xi'an!" Chiang Kai-shek explained excitedly.

Sun Yat-sen was taken aback, stood up and kept walking, and finally stood in front of Liu Bingxian and Chiang Kai-shek:

"You make a plan tonight, tomorrow take my warrant, select cadets in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, I saw that the news of the opening ceremony of the fourth phase of the Sichuan Army Military Academy was published in many newspapers, so you must act quickly, and strive to select 50 people within half a month, and take them to Sichuan by Zicheng to entrust Xiao Yimin's military academy training, and strive to get Xiao Yimin's help to pull out the army loyal to the revolution;" Kai-shek, you stay, make a perfect plan, if Zhejiang can't do it, just let Zicheng bring the army directly to Guangdong, establish a party army that really belongs to the revolution, and beat those generals of the Guangdong army, the Yunnan army and the Gui army who are yang and yin and go against selfishness, and see if they dare to be opportunistic, and dare to take my words as wind in their ears! ”

"Understood!"

Chiang Kai-shek and Liu Bingxian replied with their chests straight, and their spirits were extremely uplifted.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ps: Although the number of words is a bit small, the Son of Heaven has done his best, and this chapter is an update of the monthly pass of 2050!

The three chapters of 2100, 2150 and 2200 are missing, but they can only be made up when they come back from the hospital!

Originally, the doctor recommended hospitalization last time, but I thought that the new book had just been put on the shelves and couldn't afford to delay, so I only accepted conservative treatment and went to the hospital every day for infusion, but the symptoms have become more and more serious in the past few days - the heartbeat has been above 150 beats per minute, and occasionally I faint, and if I don't control the condition, it will be life-threatening, so I can only say sorry to everyone.

During the hospitalization, I would ask my wife to bring back the text I coded on my laptop in the hospital bed and update it, one chapter a day, and strive to keep changing!

(To be continued)