The reason why Song Zhewu did this was that he wanted to give the young staff officers in the Operations Department another boost, and a confident Operations Department would be very beneficial to the upcoming war.

"We are still only controlling some of the large and medium-sized cities in Shanxi, which is far from enough, Yan Xishan has made a lot of efforts to run Shanxi, and has set up security regiments in various counties and villages and towns, although the security regiments have no weapons, but these people are well organized, and they must be strictly controlled as soon as possible, so as to ensure that Shanxi is not chaotic. The cavalry division should not stay in Taiyuan, and ordered Li Jinming to divide his cavalry division into companies and platoons to control all counties, townships, and towns to maintain order. ”

Song Zhewu was very satisfied with the military deployment, and even he felt very relieved now, but in order to develop in Shanxi, it was not enough to rely on military means alone.

Xiao Guodong hesitated for a while and said, "Wen Ge, Shang Zhen said he wanted to see you." ”

"Not today, tomorrow." Song Zhewu replied a little absent-mindedly, he had already begun to think about the affairs of the Military Management Commission.

When Shang Zhen was the chairman of Hebei Province, he took great care of Song Zhewu, and now that Chiang Kai-shek handed over Shanxi to Zhang Xueliang, then the chairman of Shanxi Province will definitely not be Song Zhewu or the person recommended by him, and Shang Zhen is now the chairman of Shanxi Province appointed by the Nanjing Central Political Axe, and Nanjing Political Axe has not removed Shang Zhen from his position, in principle, Shang Zhen is still the master of Shanxi at this time.

However, the area under Song Zhewu's jurisdiction will never allow outsiders to interfere, if the chairman of this province is someone else, it is okay to say that Xiao Guodong can completely ignore him, but now it is a little tricky for Shang Zhen.

Seeing that Song Zhewu was a little distracted and didn't understand his difficulties, Xiao Guodong said again: "Wen Ge, in our "Turtledove Project", the idea of using Shang Zhen seems to be a bit taken for granted now. ”

"Oh! How? Shang Zhen is not cooperative? Song Zhewu asked in surprise.

Xiao Guodong smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that he doesn't cooperate, but he is too cooperative." Last night, Canxuan invited him over according to the plan, hoping that he would help us stabilize the political situation in Taiyuan and Shanxi as soon as possible in the name of Shanxi Province's political axe. Although Shang Zhen was very cooperative, he arranged for the personnel of the provincial political axe to give instructions to various places. However, he also sent a telegram to Liu Duoquan, the head of the guard of Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Frontier Commander's Office, through the telegraph office, asking him to dredge up with Zhang Xueliang on his behalf, and he would continue to serve as the chairman of Shanxi Province and take charge of Shanxi's affairs. ”

"What is the relationship between Shang Zhen and Liu Duoquan?"

Song Zhewu was very strange how Shang Zhen got in touch with Zhang Xueliang so quickly, which made his idea of indirectly controlling Shanxi through Shang Zhen frustrated.

"According to him, Liu Duoquan, like Shi Yousan, was a student of him when he was in the Northeast."

Song Zhewu took out a cigarette and thought about it: "Since Chiang Kai-shek handed over Shanxi and Suiyuan to Zhang Xueliang, the chairman of Shanxi Province naturally wants him to recommend it. Now it seems that it is no longer possible for us to monopolize Shanxi, at least we are temporarily powerless in Datong and Jinnan, and after Zhang Xueliang successfully absorbed Shanxi, we will not be able to interfere in the military and civil affairs of these two places. ”

Song Zhewu lit a cigarette, squinted slightly in the faint green smoke, and continued: "Of course, others in the area under our control also want to intervene, whether it is the chairman of Shanxi Province or Zhang Xueliang, ignore him. No matter who is the chairman of this province, he will not be willing to let the areas under our control not be under his jurisdiction, friction is inevitable, so it seems that if the chairman of this province is Shang Zhen, it should be better. ”

Song Zhewu said solemnly to Tao Rong: "Order Li Jinming to allow only local officials at the county, township, town, and village levels to carry out our orders and regulations in the areas effectively controlled by his cavalry division. In addition, after the military control committee is put into operation, the areas under our control must absolutely obey the military control committee, and the orders issued by any other institutions and political axes will be invalid. If there is any disobedience, it will not hesitate to use force to solve the problem. ”

Now it seems that it is not only necessary to become a military management committee, but also to operate as soon as possible, and Song Zhewu has already decided to exercise the power of the provincial political axe in the name of the military management committee.

"Is the establishment of the Arms Control Commission still going well?"

Although Song Zhewu has persuaded Zhao Pilian, whether others will cooperate or not, his heart is still not very steady.

When the "Turtledove Plan" was formulated, Song Zhewu attached great importance to the Military Management Committee, and Xiao Guodong, who was very clear about this, said with a smile: "Wenge, don't worry, everything is going well, do you want to meet them?" ”

"He Qigong and Jia Jiying are willing to cooperate and support us?"

Song Zhewu did not answer Xiao Guodong's question, but asked about He Qigong and Jia Jiying, he was still a little worried that He Qigong and Jia Jiying would suddenly resist Yan and Feng.

When He Qigong arrived in Laiyuan, Song Zhewu had already gone to Zhengzhou and did not see him. According to Song Zhewu's intentions, Xiao Guodong arranged for He Qigong to organize and take over the work under the pretext of preparing to take over Henan. According to Xiao Guodong's report, He Qigong was extremely capable, and with the cooperation of Chu Feng, Fang Zhen, Wang Xinggang, and others, he made arrangements for the personnel establishment and related matters to be taken over in a few days, and also raised some questions that Song Zhewu and others had not considered in advance about taking over the city.

Not only that, according to Xiao Guodong's report, He Qigong also highly respected the Military Management Commission, and he suggested that the functions of the Military Management Commission should be expanded, and that it should continue to exist as a permanent body in the future, so that it can better and more comprehensively coordinate and organize all kinds of resources in the area under its jurisdiction and make them play the greatest effect.

He Qigong's suggestion is very much in line with Song Zhewu, who believes that in order to do a good job in the economy of the areas under his control in the shortest possible time, especially when there is hardly any foundation, and to build a complete set of scientific and technological systems and industrial systems from scratch, it can only be done by implementing a certain degree of planned economy.

The reason why the Soviet Union established a powerful and complete modern industrial system in a short period of more than 10 years in the thirties was that, in addition to making good use of the economic crisis in Europe and the United States and purchasing a large amount of industrial equipment from Europe and the United States in a frugal manner, the most important point was that they practiced a planned economy and could organize construction and production in accordance with a strict plan, so that the purchased equipment could be rapidly integrated into productive forces.

Of course, because Song Zhewu had the experience of his previous life and he had a deeper knowledge and understanding of the planned economy, it is absolutely impossible for a large country like China, which has been poor and weak for a long time, to catch up with or even surpass the European and American powers in the shortest possible time, and to implement a capitalist free economy, although it may be more flexible, more dynamic, and even more likely to achieve sustainable development.

However, Song Zhewu also did not believe that it would be best to fully implement the Soviet-style planned economy at present, and that one of the biggest and most obvious shortcomings of the planned economy is that it is too rigid and lacks vitality and motivation, and when it develops to a certain extent, it will seriously hinder economic development.

Song Zhewu believes that the most suitable system for China's national conditions at present is the planned market economy policy that he experienced in his previous life and began in the late 70s. He admired Grandpa Deng very much, and in particular, his extremely creative argument on the "primary stage of socialism" succeeded in organically blending the two systems together at once, and made China's national economy rush forward at a high speed for more than 30 consecutive years.

However, he also understands that it is unrealistic to completely copy that model now, after all, the current social environment and economic foundation are very different from those of China at that time. In Song Zhewu's mind, the most ideal model should be the model of planning, guidance and market, to a certain extent, Song Zhewu believes that this model can also be called guidance or guided market economy.

However, no one in the Fourth Route Army knew very well, let alone understood, whether it was a planned economy or a guide or guide the economy. Of course, this is in addition to him Song Zhewu and He Qigong.

He Qigong went to the Soviet Union twice, especially the latter time with the Northwest Army inspection delegation, and he was very clear about the planned economy of the Soviet Union. In Song Zhewu's heart, He Qigong is the best and only person to implement this model.

Not to mention Jia Jiying's role, whether it is the expansion of arms warfare, or the construction of the economy and industrial system, money is needed, and a large amount of money is needed to achieve it.

Although Song Zhewu is very rich, and even the amount of money he has in the United States is still very large, but even so, this money is far from enough to realize the dream in Song Zhewu's heart. In order to have as much money as possible for construction, he needs to constantly expand its financial resources.

Song Zhewu, as a person who has come over, of course, knows very, very well that not only the products produced by the factory can make money, but also the money can also make money, and the money to make money has the shortest time and the most significant effect. And Jia Jiying is the best candidate to use money to make money.

Song Zhewu's thirst for talents, Xiao Guodong was still somewhat incomprehensible at first, but after the facts of the past few years, he has deeply understood the purpose and significance of Song Zhewu's recruitment of talents.

It was precisely because of the participation of Tao Rong, Li Wentian, Li Sichi, Liang Zhongjia, Han Guangdi, Zhao Fengwu, Li Ruifang, Wang Zhe, Mike, Gao Zhihang, and others, as well as a larger number of middle- and low-ranking officers with rich combat experience, that the military strength of the Fourth Route Army was rapidly improved not only in terms of quantity but also in terms of quality.

And what makes Xiao Guodong feel the most is that the "literati" who are not valued by most short-sighted local forces have played an even more amazing role, not only making refrigerators, air conditioners, radios, and other things that could only be made by foreigners in the past, but even making their own airplanes!

Although Xiao Guodong is not very clear about the significance of Song Zhewu's efforts to recruit He Qigong and Jia Jiying, he now believes in Song Zhewu very much, as long as Song Zhewu values the people, it must not be wrong, and they are the people who have a great role in the development of the Fourth Route Army.

(To be continued)