The predecessor of Yan Xishan's "Northern Military Academy" was the Jinsui Military Academy, which was specially designed to train middle and low-level officers for the Jinsui Army. Yan Xishan regarded it as the Baoding Military Academy, and now in the Jinsui Army, except for a few high-ranking officers from the Baoding Military Academy, middle- and low-level officers are all from this military academy.

The cadets of the military academy are recruited from Datong, Taiyuan, Lu'an, Linfen and other places, and they are all high school or equivalent to high school education or above. In military academies, the battalion is the largest unit, and the company, platoon, and squad leaders are all regular soldiers. Military schools study both military and ordinary courses.

The military course consists of four subjects: infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineering; Ordinary courses include Mandarin, English, arithmetic, history, geography and other courses. It can be said that Yan Xishan not only wants to train the cadets of the military academy to become grassroots officers, but also trains these cadets as future senior officers.

Over the past 10 years since the military academy was opened, it has trained thousands of officers for Yan Xishan, and now many cadets have been promoted to senior generals of the Jinsui Army. For example, Yu Zhenhe, Liu Shaotang, Ma Liang and others were all officers at the division and brigade level.

In contrast, although Yan Xishan also put a lot of effort into his aircraft factory, the results were not great. His aircraft factory was established in the 13th year of the Republic of China, and now has more than 5,000 employees and more than 1,100 machines, but only two aircraft have been successfully assembled so far; In addition, his air force is very weak, and now there are only a few French World War I-era Gaudelons and Blege trainers.

Yan Xishan saw the military academy and the aircraft factory and his air force as sending them out, but in fact Yan Xishan used his military academy and aircraft factory and his air force as bait.

"Northern Military Academy" seems to be merged into the Fourth Route Army Teaching Corps, as if Yan Xishan suffered a big loss, but in fact, Yan Xishan is absolutely sure that he will finally completely master the "Northern Military Academy".

Although Shanxi's education level is not the highest in the country, its popularity is definitely the first in the country. Since taking charge of Shanxi, Yan Xishan has not only vigorously expanded the National Normal School, but also opened female teachers; Compulsory enrolment of children throughout the province; At the same time, the county education associations and the county education institutes were rectified, and seven schools for the poor were set up so that the children of the poor could attend school free of charge; Rectification of universities, higher education, specialized schools, and general schools; Set up a study abroad loan, and increase the number of students studying in Europe and the United States year by year; set up preparatory schools for students who are guaranteed to stay in each county; Sent to Yanjing, Nanjing, Wuchang, three higher normal students; Establishment of foreign Chinese language schools; Founded the Boy Scout Training Center, compiled national school textbooks, and set up a phonetic alphabet training center (which is different from today's Chinese pinyin).

In addition, Yan Xishan also vigorously developed vocational education, opened A and B industrial schools, and used his relationship in Yueben to select and send students to various craft factories in Yueben for internship; 200 part-time students are selected to study in France every year; He also did not spare the common people, advocated social education, and focused on improving customs and opening up knowledge.

At the same time, it set up an improved drama club to reward popular newspapers; The establishment of libraries and half-school schools to provide national education for people between the ages of 15 and 25, the distribution of free social remedial education textbooks, the distribution of weekly supplements and judicial weeklies, and the dissemination of agricultural knowledge have opened up the wisdom of the people.

Yan Xishan's "Northern Military Academy" is now in its third phase, and there are more than 1,600 students in the school, although the number of students is less than that of Song Zhewu's officer training brigade of the teaching corps, but their academic qualifications are higher than that of the vast majority of the officers training brigade of the teaching corps. Of course, because of the difference in education level, most of the cadets in the final assignment and the speed of promotion in the army in the later period are faster than those in the teaching corps.

Moreover, once the teaching corps moves into Taiyuan, with Shanxi's education level, most of the people who can pass the military academy academic threshold will be Shanxi people, and after a long time, the military academy will inevitably be the world of Shanxi people. In particular, the military academy is a military academy of the Jin Sui Army, and after graduation, the cadets must be assigned to the whole army, and after a few periods, there will be a large number of Shanxi people serving as middle and low-level officers in Song Zhewu's troops, which is very beneficial to eliminating the regional concept of the Jin Sui Army and the Fourth Route Army.

There is another point that Yan Xishan is also very confident in, that is, although Han Guangdi is allowed to serve as the principal, Rong Honglu, the former principal of the "Northern Military Academy", will inevitably be the vice principal, and Han Guangdi is from the Northeast Army, and his loyalty to Song Zhewu is limited.

As for the aircraft factory and his Air Force, the same. His aircraft factory spent a lot of money, but it did little with little success. It's just that building an airplane is no better than building an ordinary gun, and its technical level is relatively high, and it is indeed not something that can be done well in a hurry and willing to spend money. According to the information he obtained, Song Zhewu did not know how to use some means to recruit a lot of talented people to manufacture aircraft, and there were even people from the Mawei Ordnance Industry Administration directly under the central political axe, if the aircraft factory was handed over to Song Zhewu and his aircraft factory was based on the existing complete equipment of his aircraft factory, maybe he would really be able to build Jin Suijun's own planes.

Yan Xishan's so-called air force is actually just an ornament, it's not that he doesn't imagine that Zhang Xueliang spends money to buy a large number of planes to enrich his air force, but his strength is not comparable to Zhang Xueliang, and he has too many places to use money now.

After Song Zhewu came back from Hubei, he suddenly got in touch with the Americans and brought in a large number of planes, which surprised Yan Xishan! This Song Zhewu is really rich! In Yan Xishan's view, although the planes brought by Song Zhewu were old models from the First World War, it is said that they were all seven or eight percent new, and the planes of the two hundred would definitely not be able to get off without six or seven million.

If Jin Suijun had these planes, then he Yan Xishan and Lao Jiang would have more confidence to fight. Although he handed over the air force to Song Zhewu, this air force is inseparable from aircraft factories and airports, and aircraft factories and airports cannot fly into the sky, as long as they are on the land of Shanxi, in the end, it is he Yan Xishan who has the final say.

Although Song Zhewu has long been thinking about the "Northern Military Academy" and the Shanxi Aircraft Factory, and what his Fourth Route Army lacks most is educated officers, especially the complete equipment of the Shanxi Aircraft Factory can not only save him a lot of money, but also play a role in the shortest time.

But Song Zhewu was not confused by the great gift sent by Yan Xishan, and he could basically guess Yan Xishan's thoughts. However, Song Zhewu was not afraid that Yan Xishan would count him, if there was no major accident, all of this would be his Song Zhewu's in a few months. Moreover, if he can accept the Shanxi Aircraft Factory and the "Northern Military Academy" now, he can secretly deploy more forces in advance to make internal responses. Yan Xishan's gift can be said to be in the hands of Song Zhewu.

Although Song Zhewu was very clear about the purpose of Yan Xishan's "Trojan Horse"-like gift, he still stood up and thanked Yan Xishan very, very eagerly.

Song Zhewu loved and gladly accepted his "gift", which made Yan Xishan secretly proud in his heart.

After smiling and pulling Song Zhewu to sit down, Yan Xishan pretended to be angry and said: "Wen Ge, we are already a family, the family does not speak two words, and it is not allowed to do this in the future, otherwise it will be a raw matter." ”

Looking at Song Zhewu, who nodded again and again, Yan Xishan forcibly suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, and tried to hide it and said: "Wen Ge, although our Jin Sui army is now six or seven hundred thousand horses, it has a slight advantage over Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army militarily, and it seems that we can fight with the Central Army with our own strength alone." However, the soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and it is difficult to predict the number of winners and losers in a real fight, and there are too many lessons for Meng over the years. Therefore, Meng thought that without eighty percent certainty, he would never be able to start the war lightly. Meng still meant to pull these local powerful factions who were anti-Chiang over together and jointly oppose Chiang. In this way, we have more than one million troops, which is 2:1 compared to Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army, and even if Zhang Xueliang does not participate in the anti-Chiang Kai-shek and remains neutral, we are sure enough to drive Chiang Kai-shek away. ”

"The most important thing now is Feng Yuxiang's attitude. Although Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army was greatly damaged by the defection of Han Fuyu, Shi Yousan and others, and the defeat of Song Zheyuan by Tang Shengzhi in October last year, the vitality of the Northwest Army was greatly damaged, but the Northwest Army still has more than 200,000 people with very strong combat effectiveness......

"Feng Yuxiang's 400,000 troops were beaten by Chiang Kai-shek and left only 200,000 people, and they were forced to go into the wilderness, Feng Yuxiang and Chiang Kai-shek's enmity can be said to be incompatible, is it ......" Song Zhewu was very puzzled by Yan Xishan's worries.

Yan Xishan sighed and said, "Wen Ge, don't you know this Feng Yuxiang, since Beiyang, Feng Yuxiang has repeatedly betrayed the allies and benefactors who helped and supported him, and all the people who have worked with him have suffered his losses. For the sake of his own interests, he temporarily unites with Chiang Kai-shek to deal with us, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi can't do it, but he Feng Yuxiang can definitely do it, the key is to see if Chiang Kai-shek is willing to pay the price he approves......"

Song Zhewu understood that he was a little preconceived based on the history of his previous life, and with Feng Yuxiang's usual style of acting, it was completely normal for Yan Xishan to be worried. Although Song Zhewu has always been worried because of the crossing, because of his reasons, the original historical trajectory will definitely deviate, but he still thinks that this time Feng Yuxiang will definitely not join forces with Chiang Kai-shek to oppose Yan. This is not only because Chiang Kai-shek took away Han Fuyu and Shi Yousan, who Feng Yuxiang regarded as his nephews, Feng Yuxiang hated Chiang Kai-shek to the core, but the most important thing is that Song Zhewu thought that Feng Yuxiang was an extremely smart person, and he must have understood that even if he joined forces with Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek would still clean him up in the end.

The reason why Feng Yuxiang is extremely smart is that in addition to what has happened, there are two things that can be corroborated. One is "Nine. After 18, Feng Yuxiang formed a volunteer army in Chahar and prepared to make a comeback. But when he found that he couldn't do anything, he resolutely left behind more than 100,000 people and went back to live his secluded life; And after the Xi'an Incident, he knew that China could not do without Chiang Kai-shek during this period, so he strongly advocated a peaceful settlement, and 'Chiang Kai-shek must return to Nanjing'. These two things not only show that Feng Yuxiang can afford to take it and put it down, but also show that he is very discerning.

Yan Xishan didn't know Song Zhewu's thoughts, and said with a little embarrassment: "Feng Yuxiang is now in Wutai Xihui, he must be very resentful of Meng, Meng wants to ask Wen Ge to do something......"

(To be continued)