Chen Guofu did not answer Song Ziwen's words, but smiled slightly, and said to himself: "The military enterprises under the Central Ordnance Industry Administration are in financial difficulties, while the local military enterprises are rich in funds. ”

On the one hand, these local troops openly receive the ration of weapons, ammunition and equipment for the political axe, and on the other hand, they use the money they save to buy weapons privately or sell weapons and ammunition in the country, which also allows the military enterprises of these local forces to make huge profits. And these people buy weapons, but without exception, they choose to avoid central enterprises. For example, Zhang Xueliang has just purchased 5,000 shell guns from Germany, and this kind of pistol, which can be completely imitated by the Jinling Arsenal, is now being produced. ”

Chen Guofu's words have the meaning of adding to the crime, if there is no local force who is stupid enough to send the money to the General Administration of Nationalist Axe and Ordnance Industry, then it will inevitably go through the approval of Chiang Kai-shek, if Zhang Xueliang or Song Zhewu is better, and if someone else is replaced, the Ministry of Military Affairs will not only inquire about the purpose of purchasing weapons, but most of them will refuse to sell them on the grounds that the weapons and equipment of various units should be uniformly allocated by the Ministry of Military Affairs, and even the money for buying weapons will probably be directly confiscated. I am afraid that such a result is still good, but if it is not, the Ministry of Military Affairs will inquire into the source of the money. And the money of these local forces, except for Zhang Xueliang and Song Zhewu, can be said clearly, others absolutely can't understand, or the situation is not explained at all.

Despite this, He Yingqin has never been very interested in Zhang Xueliang, and even a little disgusted, and then took Chen Guofu's words and said: "Minister Chen is right, the Northeast finance and taxes are very sufficient, not only does he not pay a cent to the Ministry of Finance, but he Zhang Xueliang still opens his mouth and asks the central government for 20 million military expenses every year!" If these 20 million are saved every year, the central government will be able to build an air force of considerable size in no time. ”

The Kuomintang not only did not collect a penny of taxes in the Northeast, but also gave Zhang Xueliang 20 million military expenses every year, which was personally agreed by Chiang Kai-shek when Zhang Xueliang changed banners in the Northeast that year. When He Yingqin said this, he obviously did not take into account Chiang Kai-shek's feelings.

And this condition was negotiated between Zhang Qun and Zhang Xueliang when he went to the northeast, and now He Yingqin re-mentioned the 20 million, and it was inevitable that Zhang Qun would not be able to come to Taiwan. Also, Zhang Qun and Yang Yongtai are both leaders of the Department of Political Science, which inevitably offends Yang Yongtai. Even Song Ziwen has a bad relationship with Zhang Qun, and he will blame He Yingqin.

He Yingqin beat so many people with such a rod, Lin Wei knew that this was He Yingqin's stubborn temper again, and he couldn't help but secretly worry about He Yingqin in his heart.

Seeing Chiang Kai-shek's complicated expression, Lin Wei was very afraid that He Yingqin would say something that would make Chiang Kai-shek unable to come to Taiwan, so he said with a smile: "When Zhang Hanqing changed his banner, there were many opponents within the Northeast Army, and the central government gave Zhang Hanqing such favorable conditions at that time, which was also to make it easier for Zhang Hanqing to persuade those who opposed the change of banner. If Zhang Hanqing is not easy to command, if the central government wants to unify the whole country, the only way to rely on force to conquer the northeast is to do so. ”

"Let's not talk about the Northeast where I am in the way, how difficult it will be to requisition by force, and the military expenditure alone is not something that a few 20 million can get. It seems that this matter is still very worthwhile. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Wei changed his words and said: "But what Minister He said is also the truth, now the military expenditure given by the central government to the Northeast Army every year is indeed a big burden on the central finance, can you discuss with Zhang Hanqing that half or one-third of the 20 million will be handed over to the Ordnance Industry Administration?" The General Ordnance Industry Administration will pay for the weapons and ammunition at a discount, which will also alleviate the problem of the shortage of funds of the Ordnance Industry Administration. ”

After Lin Wei said this, the atmosphere in the room suddenly eased.

Yang Yongtai shook his head and said: "The scale of the Northeast Arsenal is very large, and the types of weapons produced are very complete, and the vast majority of the weapons and ammunition that the arsenal under the central government can produce, so Weiwen's suggestion is somewhat unworkable. ”

Yang Yongtai knew that Lin Wei was a very easy-going person, so he didn't care about these things, and then said: "In my opinion, the fundamental solution is to wait for the domestic situation to be generally stabilized, and the political axe will come up with a sum of money to compensate a locality, and then nationalize the military industrial enterprises in various places." If the central government is unable to come up with such a large amount for the time being, it can also be paid in batches. ”

Chen Guofu nodded and said: "Chang Qing's suggestion is very good, it would be better if we added a ban on all localities to buy weapons from abroad without permission, so that we could fundamentally prevent local forces from expanding the size of the army without permission." ”

Chen Guofu turned the conversation back to his own original meaning.

"In fact, these local forces not only buy weapons and ammunition from abroad privately, but also buy more weapons and ammunition from the arsenals controlled by various local forces in China, and the local forces in Han Fuyu and Sichuan have bought a lot of weapons and ammunition from Zhang Xueliang. And Song Zhewu of Taiyuan not only sent a large number of weapons and ammunition to Yang Hucheng, but also sold 30,000 stock rifles of the Yan Xishan period to Yang Hucheng. ”

The pencil in Chiang Kai-shek's hand slammed on the table, and his face became gloomy.

"Wen Ge gave Yang Hucheng the equipment of a division, I know about this matter, this is handed over to Sun Weiru's division, after all, it is also appropriate to let the family go to Beimeng to fight and send some weapons, ammunition and equipment. However, Yang Hucheng bought another 30,000 rifles from Taiyuan, is this true? Where did he get so much money from Yang Hucheng? ”

At this time, everyone understood that Chen Guofu had laid so much groundwork, in fact, the purpose was to talk about Song Zhewu and Yang Hucheng, which was his real purpose. He Yingqin couldn't help but feel a little annoyed by Chen Guofu going around in circles.

Chen Guofu said unhurriedly: "According to the report of the Xi'an Provincial Party Department, Yang Hucheng took out the money from Shaanxi's finances. However, Yang Hucheng only gave Song Zhewu one-third of the money, and Yang Hucheng promised to allocate the rest from the income of the demonstration farm that Song Zhewu helped build in Shaanxi from next year. ”

With a "snap", Chiang Kai-shek slammed the pencil in his hand on the table.

Obviously, Chen Guofu had already ignited Chiang Kai-shek's anger, but Chen Guofu still did not stop.

"Yang Hucheng is still very good at civil affairs, and he has also done some things for the people of Shaanxi."

Although it ignited Chiang Kai-shek's anger, Chen Guofu obviously had no intention of stopping, and continued: "Since Yang Hucheng served as the chairman of Shaanxi Provincial Political Axe for more than a year, he has done a lot for Shaanxi, and he has won the hearts of the people in Shaanxi. For example, dozens of primary and secondary schools have been built, and Northwest Agriculture and Forestry College has been established. He also inscribed "The Foundation of the Nation" as the school motto in the school magazine of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry College. ”

In addition, Yang Hucheng also used the land balance of the provincial political axe to send a large number of young students from Shaanxi to study abroad, and exempted and exempted the control of commercial taxes, cotton donations, and special taxes on cigarettes. In addition, water conservancy projects are being built in various places to provide relief to the victims. ”

"This time, we will build a new farm named after Song Zhewu. Now the people of Shaanxi say that one Feng is not as good as one Yang, the Northwest Army is not as good as the 17th Route Army, and it is better for Shaanxi people to govern Shaanxi. ”

Although Chen Guofu did not say anything bad about Yang Hucheng, what he said was said in Chiang Kai-shek's sore spots, especially compared with Feng Yuxiang and Yang Hucheng, which made Chiang Kai-shek even more wary of Yang Hucheng.

Because it involves Song Zhewu, He Yingqin doesn't want to talk about this matter anymore, and the current topic has seriously deviated from today's topic. However, Chiang Kai-shek no longer talked about the Northern Mongolian issue, and apparently deliberately avoided it. Moreover, now the League of Nations obviously can't count on it, and there is really no good way to deal with the invasion of the Soviet army, except for supporting Song Zhewu in terms of weapons, ammunition, equipment, or troops.

As for Zhang Qun, Yang Yongtai, Song Ziwen, Lin Wei and others, they all know that although Chen Guofu is involved with Song Zhewu, it is obvious that Chen Guofu is stumbling on Yang Hucheng. They also don't have a good impression of Yang Hucheng, Yang Hucheng usually only interacts with Yu Youren, the supervision dean who is also from Shaanxi, in private, and has nothing to do with them.

It's just that because of the face of the respected Yu Youren, these people are not easy to add fuel to the fire, and they are not silent when they look at each other.

The expression on Chiang Kai-shek's face was gloomy and uncertain, and everyone was silent.

After a while, Chiang Kai-shek slowly picked up the water cup, took a sip, put the cup away, and suddenly changed the topic, and asked Wang Zhengting: "Confucianism, is there any movement in this regard?" ”

Chiang Kai-shek no longer mentioned the matter of Yang Hucheng, but began to inquire about the situation in this regard, which shows that Chiang Kai-shek has made a decision in his heart. And once Chiang Kai-shek has made his own decision, it is not something that anyone can change.

What's more, among these people, there is only one Chen Guofu who is bent on killing Yang Hucheng, and as for Chiang Kai-shek's decision, it has nothing to do with the others. They also knew that Chiang Kai-shek asked Wang Zhengting about his own situation, and that Chiang Kai-shek was worried about the attitude of the political axe towards the Northeast. Recently, the Kwantung Army has been making a lot of noise in the Northeast. Therefore, everyone turned their attention to Wang Zhengting.

And Chen Guofu, as the main person of the matter, looked at Wang Zhengting with everyone as if nothing had happened.

Chiang Kai-shek summoned Wang Zhengting today mainly to inquire about the attitude of the League of Nations towards the Soviet invasion of Northern Mongolia, but the information collected by the Legation in Yue about the recent movements in the country made Wang Zhengting very uneasy. He had put together a report, now in the briefcase he had brought with him, which was supposed to be presented to Chiang Kai-shek after the summons.

Wang Zhengting opened his briefcase, took out the document, and began to report to Chiang Kai-shek about the negotiations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the political axe.

"In accordance with the chairman's instructions, Minister Jiang Zuobin, who had just arrived in Tokyo, met with Foreign Minister Kishigero Bihara the day before yesterday, and expressed concern over the frequent military exercises of the Kwantung Army in the northeast, and expressed the hope that in order to maintain friendly relations between China and China, the Kwantung Army would restrain the improper ......behavior of the Kwantung Army."

(To be continued)