Song Zhewu understood that Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that Yan Xishan would collude with Feng Yuxiang at this time, and it was just a delaying tactic to give Yan Xishan, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army. I can't help but sigh in my heart, it's good to have power! Chiang Kai-shek didn't need to take a piece of the ocean, just a "brand", and let Yan Xishan show off like a treasure. However, he also admired Yan Xishan's quick learning, and immediately brought a smaller one to himself.

However, Song Zhewu likes this "brand" very much, with the title of deputy commander-in-chief, then he is second only to Yan Xishan in the Jin Sui army, and the generals of the Jin Sui army below Yan Xishan are one level lower when they see him, and he Song Zhewu is their superior. Although his superior, who was only in name, there would never be anyone in their hearts who would believe him, and it would never be possible for them to obey Yan Xishan's orders without nodding.

This deputy commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army, no one will care too much, but Song Zhewu cares, which shows that he, Song Zhewu, is now a person who has attracted the attention of the whole country, and all forces will no longer turn a blind eye to him Song Zhewu.

After repeatedly thanking Zhao Pilian for his hard work, he inevitably raised a glass to celebrate, and the banquet did not disperse until the three jars of Fen wine were drunk.

Early the next morning, Zhao Pilian was in a hurry to leave. Song Zhewu knew that Yan Xishan was waiting for his news, and it was not easy to keep him too much, so he had to ask Xiao Guodong to send Zhao Pilian. Of course, Song Zhewu will not let Zhao Pilian run for nothing, and Song Zhewu will not be stingy with people who have enough weight in front of Yan Xishan. Therefore, Zhao Pilian has two more "big yellow croaker" in his purse.

sent Zhao Pilian away, and the next thing was the promotion of the officers of the Fourth Route Army.

At this time, the management of military ranks in China was very chaotic, and with the position of commander-in-chief of Yan Xishan's North Route Army, he could give his subordinates the rank of promotion, and he only needed to report to the Nanjing Military and Political Department afterwards. Yan Xishan appointed Song Zhewu as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army, and Song Zhewu's military rank naturally had to be improved. If Song Zhewu, the deputy commander-in-chief, is still a lieutenant general, it would be a joke.

This time, Yan Xishan appointed Song Zhewu as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army, and at the same time promoted to general, the ranks of his subordinates naturally had to rise and rise, and they all had to be promoted.

As a matter of fact, several division commanders headed by Zhang Yafei now have nearly 40,000 men under their commands, and if such a large number of troops are in the troops of any other force, they are almost one and a half armies, and they can be organized into three or four divisions, but since Song Zhewu is only a lieutenant general, they have no choice but to surrender to the major general. This time, with the promotion of Song Zhewu, all of them were promoted to lieutenant generals; Xiao Guodong, Tao Rong, Wang Xu, and Li Wentian were also promoted to lieutenant generals; Both the deputy division and brigade ranks were promoted to major generals.

At the first time, Song Zhewu also sent several telegrams.

The first letter was sent to Chiang Kai-shek, and the content was to report to Chiang Kai-shek on Yan Xishan's appointment to him. Since he understood that this incident was Chiang Kai-shek's helpless move to temporarily appease Yan Xishan, and Yan Xishan's appointment of him as deputy commander-in-chief was obviously to woo him, it was because he had a strong Fourth Route Army, and Yan Xishan was preparing for an open confrontation with Chiang Kai-shek.

Since this is the case, then he must take the initiative to inform Chiang Kai-shek, if Chiang Kai-shek has doubts about his appointment as deputy commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army, it will be more than worth the loss.

The second telegram was sent to Yan Xishan, since he was appointed deputy commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army, it was inevitable to express his gratitude to his commander, and he even swore loyalty to Yan Xishan in the telegram. It was just the original text of the telegram to Yan Xishan, and Song Zhewu cautiously forwarded a copy to Chiang Kai-shek.

The reason why Song Zhewu did this was because he was afraid that Yan Xishan would make his telegram public if necessary, or that the all-pervasive intelligence personnel in Nanjing would report the telegram to Chiang Kai-shek after obtaining it, causing Chiang Kai-shek unnecessary suspicion.

The fourth telegram was sent to Shang Zhen, and the content of the telegram to Shang Zhen was very simple, that is, to forward Zhao Pilian's conversation about the military academy to Shang Zhen.

Chiang Kai-shek's telegram was the fastest and simplest, with only two words: "Very good!" ”。

Song Zhewu took the telegram and thought for a long time, but he didn't understand whether Chiang Kai-shek's word "very good" meant that it was better for Song Zhewu to report to him, or to take up the post of deputy commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army, or both. Although Song Zhewu did not fully understand the meaning of these two words in Chiang Kai-shek's telegram, he was sure of one thing, that is, Chiang Kai-shek must have been very satisfied with him.

Yan Xishan's telegram was sent early the next morning, in which Yan Xishan not only praised Song Zhewu for his deep understanding of righteousness, but also promised Song Zhewu that he would help him get the position of chairman of Henan Province, and even vaguely hinted that as long as Song Zhewu assisted him with peace of mind Yan Xishan, there would be a higher position waiting for him. In addition, Yan Xishan told Song Zhewu that Song Zhewu's factory could be opened anywhere in Shanxi, and asked Song Zhewu to send people to Shanxi as soon as possible to choose the site of the factory and the location of the aircraft factory. said that as long as Song Zhewu's people are optimistic about the address, the factory can be opened anywhere. As for the airport, as long as the address is selected, all the costs of land purchase and relocation and construction are taken care of by the Shanxi Provincial Government, that is, any flight through Shanxi, the fuel is prepared by the Jinsui Military Aviation Department'.

Since Yan Xishan already knew that Song Zhewu was going to move the factory to Shanxi and build an airport, this means that Zhao Pilian must have reported to him. However, there are more than 300 miles from Laiyuan to Taiyuan, and Zhao Pilian will not be able to return to Taiyuan for a day and a night, so it must be that Zhao Pilian sent a telegram to Yan Xishan as soon as he arrived in Lingqiu.

Shang Zhen's telegram arrived two days later, and the content was very simple, 'Tell Song Zhewu that he can send someone to take over the military academy immediately, and he has already explained everything to Wang Zhe, the training director of the military academy. It's just that the graduating students at the end of the year are asked to give him some. ’

For Shang Zhen's request, Song Zhewu naturally agreed, originally Song Zhewu also had a headache for some people with political backgrounds in the military academy, these people had attracted the attention of Nanjing very early, and now he didn't dare to cause any trouble, so he just handed over these people to Shang Zhen.

In the face of Shang Zhen's telegram, Song Zhewu was still somewhat guilty. He knew that this military academy was Shang Zhen's capital for seeking self-reliance, and it was where his hope lies. As early as the fifteenth year of the Republic of China, when Shang Zhen was still acting as the commander of Suiyuan, in order to break away from Yan Xishan and stand on his own in the future, he established the "Suiyuan Military and Political School", which is the predecessor of the Beiping Military Academy. At this time, he was forced to hand over the military academy to Song Zhewu, and the helplessness and bitterness in Shang Zhen's heart, Song Zhewu was completely understandable.

However, Song Zhewu knew that this military academy was no longer of any use to Shang Zhen, and in history, Shang Zhen was reappointed as the chairman of Shanxi Province shortly thereafter, and after the Central Plains War, he was not allowed to be the generals of the Jin Sui Army, so he had to lead his troops to Hebei, and since then he has left the Jin Sui Army system, and returned to the chairman of Hebei Province in 35 years, and soon handed over the post of provincial chairman to Song Zheyuan. That is, he no longer has the conditions and foundation for self-reliance.

Although Song Zhewu was a little uneasy in his heart, but for the great cause of resisting the war, he had to come to the military academy, and with the continuous expansion of the army, Song Zhewu now feels more and more how important talent is to him.

Because of this, Song Zhewu attaches great importance to the relocation of the military school, he wanted to go to Beiping in person, but he is now a little afraid of seeing Shang Zhen, and this time it is the overall relocation of the military school, not a day or two can be moved, and now many things in the Fourth Route Army are waiting for him to deal with, and he really can't get out. Not only him, but also Xiao Guodong, Tao Rong, Wang Xu, and Li Wentian could not leave, and Song Zhewu had no choice but to write a letter to Wang Zhe, the training director of the military academy, to apologize, and sent Xu Zheng to Beiping with a large number of trucks to assist in the relocation. The two foreign academies immediately vacated barracks and arranged for manpower to step up the construction of new barracks and classrooms.

After finishing these things, Song Zhewu rushed to Li Minghua's Electronics Research Institute to guide the work, but Li Minghua was urged several times.

For each research institute, according to Song Zhewu's original intention, it should be appropriately centralized and convenient for the management of guards; It should also be relatively readable, which is conducive to confidentiality. The best way to meet these conditions is to establish a research base. But in this way, it is not only time-consuming, but more importantly, it conflicts with Song Zhewu's plan, because according to his plan, he will have to enter Shanxi in a year at most, and he will not rest assured that such an important department will be placed in Laiyuan. Since we must move to Shanxi, there is no need to build a large number of buildings in Laiyuan now.

In the end, it was Song Zhewu who solicited the opinions of these experts, of course, the truth could not be told to them. Unexpectedly, these people did not have too many requirements for residence, which saved Song Zhewu a lot of things. Song Zhewu made a decision that because the personnel and equipment of the Chemical Research Institute had increased a lot, it would be very inconvenient to stay in the Geyuan Temple. Because the confidentiality level of the Chemical Research Institute is not high, the Chemical Research Institute moved to Xinghua Company; The Weapons Research Institute is still in the Fourth Route Army Repair Institute for the time being; The Medical Research Institute is located in the Fourth Route Army Military Hospital; The Electronics Research Institute is located in the suburbs where there are still empty rooms. Of course, all research institutes are guarded by troops.

There are now more than 30 people in the Institute of Electronics, in addition to Li Minghua, a doctor of electronics, and Cui Hao, an engineer from the Hankou Telegraph Office, with more than 30 students. In the past few days, both of them have been teaching these students during the day, and only in the evening have time to do some scientific preparation work that is about to begin. Including the installation and commissioning of some equipment that has just been bought.

When Song Zhewu arrived, Cui Hao was giving a lesson to the students, and the sound of a diesel generator roaring could be heard a little west of the courtyard.

Hearing that the guard said that Li Minghua was in the laboratory alone, Song Zhewu left Liang Bi, Ye Qing and others outside, and walked into the laboratory alone.

In the laboratory, Li Minghua is sitting alone in front of the table, on which some electron tubes and metal wires are placed, and Li Minghua is soldering some electron tubes to a bakelite board with an electric soldering iron.

The sound of the door opening alarmed Li Minghua; After Li Minghua soldered an electron tube, he turned around and saw that it was Song Zhewu, hurriedly put down the soldering iron in his hand, stood up happily and said, "My commander-in-chief, you are here, what is the task you gave me?" I'm in a hurry! ”

Song Zhewu looked at the things on the table and asked with a smile, "What are you doing as a big doctor?" ”

Li Minghua replied with a smile: "We recruited some students, although these people have a secondary school degree or above, but they have no concept of electronics, and some people are not even willing to come to us, I checked with Cui Hao, I think the first thing to arouse their interest, we want to install a radio for them first, Cui Hao is teaching students, I will do it myself."

"Radio!" Song Zhewu's eyes couldn't help but light up, this is another big money road, how could he forget him?

(To be continued)