In the office of the deputy commander of Song Zhewu in the city, three dishes have been connected, and the Zhuang cuisine banquet in the last Jin dish has just come up.

At this time, a staff officer came in and called Ye Changgui out, and ten minutes later, Ye Changgui returned to the wine table, and after whispering in Li Wentian's ear for a while, Li Wentian nodded quietly, and then said with a smile: "Shanxi has a long history of culture, Jin cuisine became famous during the Warring States period, and Jinzhuang cuisine in recent years is especially a must." ”

In addition to being divided into three schools, in the north, the south and the middle, in fact, there is a division in the three schools of cuisine, that is, it is divided into two categories: seasonal cuisine and Zhuang cuisine. The so-called seasonal dishes are popular dishes, which can be seen in ordinary restaurants, small shops, and ordinary people's regular dishes. Zhuang cuisine is popular in the old Jin merchants such as the ticket number of each money village, these dishes are very particular about the materials, and the ingredients are mostly uncommon on the market, although they also inherit the characteristics of Jin cuisine, but the materials and color and flavor are excellent.

Most of the high-ranking officials of the Jin Sui family are from prominent families, and some of them are also wealthy families, such as Xu Yiqing, Jia Jingde, Zhao Pilian, Zhou Yu and others who were not present, and Zhang Dasan and Kong Wei who were present have very solid family backgrounds. Hearing Li Wentian praise Jin Cai, he immediately echoed it.

Zhang Dasan said teasingly: "Although Jin cuisine can be divided into three factions in the north, south and middle, the taste is different, but the Jin cuisine can not only be divided by a few factions, for hundreds of years, each Jin merchant has a good hand not to pass on the famous dishes, especially Taigu and Jinzhong are the most, because the money of each family has different operating regions, all have absorbed the essence of local cuisine, even if the dishes use the same ingredients, the taste is also distinctive, as Chief of Staff Li said, it can be called three Jin and one unique!" ”

"Good! Commander Zhang said it well. Jinzhuang cuisine can stand out among the major cuisines precisely because it draws on the strengths of others and collects the results of extensive harvesting. On the contrary, although its origin, Jin cuisine, has a long history, it has been stuck in the old ways, and now it has been squeezed out of China's four famous dishes, which cannot but be said to be a pity. Li Wentian nodded slightly at Zhang Dasan and said.

For Li Wentian, who has been praising Shanxi's simple folk customs, humanities, and heroes since the beginning of the banquet, suddenly made a 180-degree turn and wantonly slandered Jin cuisine, which made Zhang Dasan, Zhou Shilian, Kong Wei and others very puzzled, and they didn't know how to answer for a while.

Li Wentian took care of the cup in his hand and said: "Today's Jin Sui army is like this Jin cuisine, blindly reusing Shanxi generals and crowding out people from other provinces. ”

When Li Wentian said this, even a fool could hear that the taste in his words was wrong, but Zhang Dasan and Kong Wei were both old and sophisticated, and they were unwilling to conflict with Li Wentian on this, and Wang Bi and his officers were not happy to express their dissatisfaction because Zhou Shilian did not speak.

Only Zhou Shilian couldn't stand it a little, his face sank, and he said unhappily: "Deputy Chief of Staff Li, what you said is not right. The Jin Suijun is a local army in Shanxi, and it is understandable that Baigong appoints more locals in Shanxi, not to mention that Baigong does not exclude people from other provinces, for example, among the four provinces controlled by our Jin Suijun, Li Peiji, chairman of Suiyuan Province, Shang Zhen, chairman of Shanxi Province, and Xu Yongchang, chairman of Hebei Province, are not from Shanxi. ”

"That's it." Zhou Shilian pointed to Li Yaoming, the chief of staff sitting next to him, with his hand.

"Chief of Staff Li is from Shaanxi, and Deputy Brigade Commander Liu of the 37th Brigade and Deputy Commander Wang of the 112th Regiment are all from Hebei, how can it be said that Baigong excludes people from other provinces?"

Afraid that Zhou Shilian would not end up if he said too much, Zhang Dasan secretly pulled the corner of Zhou Shilian's clothes with his hand, laughed dryly, and said in a round game: "Brother Canxuan, Commander Zhou has drunk a little too much, don't you mind, come and drink with us." ”

ignored Zhang Dasan, smiled slightly and said: "If you can speak Wutai, you will cross the foreign knife." I believe that Commander Zhou and everyone here have heard of this sentence. Don't say that Wutai people, even Shanxi people, are also much more important than people from other provinces. Just now, Master Zhou said that it is true that Li Peiji, Shang Zhen, and Xu Yongchang are all from other provinces, but to say that they have all been reused, this is self-deception, and I don't need to say more, you should all know their situation. ”

"Although Shang Zhen is the chairman of Shanxi Province, he is actually under house arrest in Taiyuan, and there is no nod from Commander-in-Chief Yan for anything in Shanxi, and no one listens to him; Li Peiji became the chairman of Suiyuan Province, which was because Commander-in-Chief Yan wanted to reduce his military power and completely eradicate the influence of Shang Zhen, who had made great contributions to the Jin Suiyuan army, in Shanxi. ”

"I also want to ask Commander Zhou, where is Shang Zhen's 32nd Army now? If I am not mistaken, Chief of Staff Li Yaoming was the brigade commander and deputy division commander of the 32nd Army, Deputy Brigade Commander Liu was the regiment commander of the 32nd Army, and Deputy Regiment Commander Wang was the battalion commander of the 32nd Army. After the 32nd Army was withdrawn by Commander-in-Chief Yan, the original senior officers from other provinces seemed to have been promoted, but in fact they were all cut off from military power, either as chief of staff or as deputy, did Commander Zhou say that this was not an exclusion? ”

Zhou Shilian was ashamed and angry, and couldn't help but blush. Li Yaoming, Deputy Brigade Commander Li, and Deputy Regiment Commander Wang sat there very awkwardly, looking at a loss.

Li Wentian continued: "But our Fourth Route Army is different. We, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Song, are most opposed to having a regional concept, and all those who join our Fourth Route Army will be treated equally. For example, Zhao Fengwu, the former brigade commander of the Northwest Army, Liang Zhongjia, the former brigade commander of the Northeast Army, and Li Sichi, the former commander of the Gui Division, are now all army commanders; Han Guangdi, the former brigade commander of the Northeast Army, is the captain of our teaching corps, and now he is also the principal of the Northern Military Academy; Li Ruifang, the former battalion commander of the Gui Department, is now the commander of the major general of the mountain division. As for me and Chief of Staff Tao, let alone me. ”

Li Wentian looked at Li Yaoming and said: "Our Fourth Route Army is a very young unit, and there is a great shortage of senior officers with rich combat experience, such as Chief of Staff Li and Deputy Brigade Commander Liu, as well as Deputy Regiment Commander Wang. ”

If Li Wentian's previous words are provocative, then the latter sentence is a naked temptation. Especially in front of Zhou Shilian, the military commander, he co-opted his subordinates.

Zhou Shilian couldn't help but be furious, ignoring Zhang Dasan's repeated secret stops, he slapped the table, shaking the cups and plates on the table, and said angrily: "Deputy Chief of Staff Li, what are you talking about!" Since the Jin Suijun is so bad, what are you still doing in the Jin Suijun? ”

Although the people of the special combat team who had been hiding next door for a long time had not yet received the signal to let them in, there was such a big movement in the house that the captain who led the team did not allow the captain to think too much, and immediately rushed into the house with people. pointed the muzzle of the black hole at the people of the Jin Suijun in front of the wine table.

This sudden change stunned the people of the Jin Suijun in the room, and even the commander-in-chief, who was so angry that his face was flushed, opened his mouth wide and was stunned.

Ye Changgui waved his hand: "Put their guns down." ”

The special operators quickly stepped forward and seized all the guns of these men.

Zhang Dasan said in surprise: "Brother Canxuan, this must be a misunderstanding, Zhou Junchang has a little too much wine, let's not hurt the harmony because of these words." ”

Li Wentian stood up, smiled slightly, and said: "There is no misunderstanding, Commander Zhou asked a good question just now, I can tell Commander Zhou that our Fourth Route Army has never really joined the Jin Sui Army, and our Commander Song is wholeheartedly supporting the central political axe, and the reason why we are doing this is to take Shanxi." ”

Zhou Shilian, who came back to his senses, pretended to be calm and said: "Deputy Chief of Staff Li must be joking, there are more than 10,000 military, police and genres in this Taiyuan City, and you can take Taiyuan City with just a few hundred of you?" ”

"Of course, a few hundred of us here are not enough, but if you count the more than 3,000 cadets of our garrison regiment in Wusu and the Northern Military Academy, as well as the more than 1,500 people we arranged in advance to secretly enter the Xinghua factory, there are more than 8,000 people. There are more than 10,000 people mentioned by Commander Zhou, excluding the police, your strength in Taiyuan City is more than 8,000 people, do you think we have the ability to take Taiyuan? ”

"Also, I have just received a report that Suiyuan has been occupied by us, and Xu Fang and Zhao Fengwu, two armies equipped with horses, who are heading south from Outer Mongolia, have crossed Suiyuan and are heading south; The large army in Laiyuan, commanded by Chief of Staff Xiao, has passed through Lingqiu and is marching towards Fanzhi; In Jingcheng, Li Sichi's army had already occupied Niangzi Pass, and Li Ruifang's mountain division was heading to Taiyuan by rail; In addition, Commander Song personally commanded the two armies in Xinxiang and Zhengzhou, which have also begun to move north, and will be able to enter Jinnan tomorrow. In short, the more than 300,000 troops of the Fourth Route Army are entering Shanxi in four ways. There are currently three security forces stationed in three places in Shanxi, with a total of more than 60,000 people, do you think they can stop us? ”

Li Wentian's words shocked Zhou Shilian, Zhang Dasan, Kong Wei and a group of people from the Jin Suijun Army, looking at each other, you look at me, I look at you, and they don't know what to do.

After being silent for a long time, Zhou Shilian knew that the general trend had gone, sighed, closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair.

Li Wentian glanced at everyone attentively, and said unhurriedly: "As soon as we learn the news that our Fourth Route Army has entered Shanxi, the anti-Chiang coalition army will immediately be in chaos, not only will there be no chance of defeating the Central Army, but there will even be many people who will defect to the Central Army, and the remaining troops will definitely accept the reorganization of the Central Political Axe, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan will be arrested by the Central Political Axe, and it can be said that the Northwest Army is finished, and the Jin Sui Army is also finished." ”

After a pause, Li Wentian said: "All of you are experienced soldiers, it is a good time to be in the prime of life, if you are disarmed and returned to the field, it is really a pity to be hungry, if you are willing to join our Fourth Route Army, I guarantee that your positions will only be promoted and not demoted......

(To be continued)