23. First Encounter with Sun Wen I
According to Chiang Kai-shek's order, Luo Yaoguo's Eighth Division was transferred to Changzhou Island in Guangzhou, and the military camp was built next to the location of the historical Whampoa Military Academy, which is now next to the military headquarters of Chiang Kai-shek's Third Army.
On February 15, 1923, Sun Yat-sen and his entourage set off from Shanghai to the south, and on February 21, they arrived at the agricultural and forestry experimental field in the suburbs of Guangzhou, where they set up the Generalissimo's Mansion. Sun Yat-sen appointed Liao Zhongkai as Minister of Finance, Deng Zeru as Minister of Construction, Tan Yanmin as Minister of the Interior, Wu Chaoshu as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Xu Shaozhen as Governor of Guangdong Province.
Chiang Kai-shek's fate seemed to have returned to the original track of history, and Sun Yat-sen formally appointed him chief of staff of the Generalissimo's Mansion after seeking Chiang Kai-shek's opinion by telegram. At the same time, Liang Honghonghong, commander of the First Army of the Guangdong Army, was appointed minister of the Military Affairs Department, and the numbers of the First Army and the Third Army of the Guangdong Army were immediately abolished, and the Guangdong Army of the seven divisions will be jointly managed by the General Staff Department and the Military and Political Department, and the artillery and engineering units attached to the two armies will be unified into the Artillery Command and the Engineer Headquarters, of which the artillery commander will appoint Qian Dajun and the engineer commander will appoint Deng Yanda. He Yingqin was appointed deputy chief of staff, Qiu Hongjun was appointed director of the General Staff Training Bureau, and Yang Yiyun, an engineer who had returned from studying in the United States, was appointed director of the Ordnance Industry Administration, responsible for managing the Shijing Arsenal, the Naval Torpedo Bureau, and the construction of a new aircraft factory.
This series of personnel arrangements had a far-reaching impact on the future of the Chinese revolution in the future, but it did not attract everyone's attention at the time. However, before Sun Yat-sen returned to Guangdong, he issued a declaration on peaceful reunification and the program for the reduction of troops, which won a lot of praise in China. It was said that it was for peaceful reunification and joint disarmament, and Sun Yat-sen was willing to take the lead in disarmament to show sincerity. As soon as this declaration came out, it was quickly supported by Duan Qirui, Zhang Zuolin and Lu Yongxiang, but Wu Peifu did not believe it, and Luo Yaoguo also did not believe it. In the end, Sun Yat-sen's Generalissimo Office regarded the cancellation of the order of the First Army and the Third Army of the Cantonese Army as a reduction of troops, and the hype was over.
The day after Sun Yat-sen returned to Guangdong, he summoned a group of thieves, including Luo Yaoguo and his uncle Luo Yiqun. A banquet was held in the Generalissimo's Palace, and after the banquet, Sun Yat-sen also took pictures with everyone to give gifts, most of which were Sun Yat-sen's inscriptions. Among them, the inscription that Liang Hongkai got was "The wind blows the grass, and the troubled times know the loyal ministers", Qiu Hongjun got the inscription "Jinshi Tongjian", and Luo Yaoguo got the inscription of "Sweeping a Thousand Armies", it seems that the first battle of Wusong Mountain was already a great victory in the eyes of Sun Yat-sen.
"Is he Sun Yat-sen?" Seeing the father of the country and the former prime minister in his previous life standing in front of him alive, Luo Yaoguo's eyes were a little moist, this may be related to his family background and education in his previous life, right? "Premier Sun's face is yellow and white, he is very thin, his hair and beard are gray, and he looks more haggard than in the portrait." Luo Yaoguo thought that Premier Sun still had two years and a few months to live, and the tears in his eyes could no longer roll down uncontrollably.
"Oh, he is General Fuwen who swept away thousands of armies, well, he is really young, Zhongzheng, it seems that our revolution has a successor." Following the direction pointed by Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Yat-sen saw Luo Yaoguo, who was wearing a major general's uniform and looked a little imposing.
"General Fuwen, why are you crying?" Sun Yat-sen walked up to Luo Yaoguo and asked in a slightly hoarse voice.
"The ministry, the ministry saw that the prime minister had lost weight again, so he felt sad, and the ministry also asked the prime minister to take care of his health." Luo Yaoguo's words came from the bottom of his heart.
"Oh, little general, you don't have to worry about my body, the revolution has not succeeded, and God will not call me back." Sun Yat-sen smiled slightly, revealing a somewhat kind appearance. "I heard Zhongzheng say that you graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and you are very good at leading troops to fight, right?"
"I graduated from West Point in 1921 and just returned to China last year. As for leading troops to fight, the experience of the department is still insufficient, and it is all under the guidance of Generals Jiegong and Jingzhi. These words were all thought out by Luo Yiqun in advance to make Luo Yaoguo familiar with them, Uncle Luo has little other skills, and he is still very good at speaking, and Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin on the side are a little fluttering.
"Well, young people know to be modest and cautious, so that they can continue to improve and do great things." Sun Yat-sen then shook hands with Luo Yaoguo and said, "Don't leave for a while, I have some questions for you." β
Soon after the banquet, Luo Yaoguo was taken by the guards of the Generalissimo's Mansion to a very plainly furnished office, where Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek had been talking for a while, and when they saw Luo Yaoguo being brought, Sun Yat-sen politely beckoned Luo Yaoguo to sit down, and then began to ask questions about military cooperation with the Soviet Union and the establishment of a revolutionary army.
Sun Yat-sen's military idea was a military plan in the northwest, which was to open up roads to Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu, open up revolutionary base areas in the northwest, receive Soviet aid, equip and train a revolutionary army, and then attack Yanjing to seize central power. This plan looks rather naΓ―ve at first glance, and it seems that the former Prime Minister of the Father of the Nation was really a layman in military affairs.
"Prime Minister, the Ministry of Posts thinks that the possibility of the realization of the Northwest Military Plan is relatively low. At present, our only reliable base is Guangdong, so our main focus should be on running Guangdong well, and secondly, we should expand to the surrounding provinces, steadily and steadily, and strive to completely control the whole of South China in three to five years, and then try to develop again. This is a plan that Luo Yaoguo has been brewing in his heart for a long time, and the core of Luo Yaoguo's plan is to completely control, rather than unification on the surface and in fact separation, such "unification" is actually worse than no unity. "The Ministry believes that the only feasible way for our revolution to succeed is to establish a solid base area and a loyal revolutionary army, to turn every piece of territory into a solid base area, to turn every army under our banner into a loyal revolutionary army, and that what we should pursue is to completely control the territory and the army, not to change banners on the surface."
"A strong base and a loyal revolutionary army?" Sun Yat-sen repeated this sentence lightly and nodded slightly. "But how do we build a strong base and a loyal revolutionary army?"
"One relies on education, and the other relies on institutional constraints." Luo Yaoguo has some experience in this area, whether it is positive or negative. Historically, the Kuomintang army was not good at brainwashing, education and system construction, like a warlord consortium rather than a national army, but the GCD was very successful, of course, this is inseparable from the help of the Comintern, the existence of the Comintern makes it easy for the GCD to produce authority, on the other hand, the Kuomintang has been leaderless since the death of Sun Yat-sen, and Chiang Kai-shek's authority in the party cannot be compared with the leaders of the GCD, whether it is Wang Ming, Bogu or Mao ZD.
"How to educate, and what system can be restrained?" Sun Yat-sen has also been thinking about these questions, and now it seems that this is an opportunity, at least seven divisions in Guangdong are absolutely obedient to orders, and can try to subdue other troops.
Luo Yaoguo paused a little and said, "Prime Minister, Jiegong, do you think the Soviet Red Army and the Japanese army have anything in common?" β
"They all have ambitions for China." Chiang Kai-shek's answer was quite straightforward, and it seems that he still had doubts about cooperation with the Soviet Union.
Sun Yat-sen's face sank suddenly: "The Red Army is a revolutionary army, and the present army is a counter-revolutionary army, if they have anything in common, they are not national armies, the Red Army is the party's army, the army is the emperor's army, the Red Army soldiers respect the party leader and the party, and the officers and soldiers look to the emperor as the head of the horse." Do you mean that I want to be a god? β
Sun Yat-sen saw through Luo Yaoguo's original intention at a glance, the so-called education is not to educate the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army to be sober and rational, but to propagate the cult of personality, mythologize Sun Yat-sen, and then use the worship of Sun Yat-sen to unite people's hearts. This is the same as saying that the army worships the emperor and the Soviet army worships Lenin and Stalin.
"That's what the ministry means." Luo Yaoguo stood up and bowed respectfully to Sun Yat-sen. "However, it is not that Yaoguo wants the prime minister to be a god, but that China needs a god, and Yaoguo wants him to be the prime minister. The Chinese people in great suffering and despair do not need any rational way to save their country, nor do they want to face the reality that they cannot be saved. Unless it is a manifestation of God, this generation, or even two generations of Chinese, can only be sacrifices, making sacrifices for the strength of the country, can you tell them the reality? Knowing this reality, will they still go with you? What the people want is a prosperous life, but if the people want to be rich, they must first make the country strong! In today's world, where the law of the jungle is followed, there is absolutely no possibility of survival for a country that is rich but not strong.
In order for the country to be strong, it is necessary to build heavy industry, and it must be established as soon as possible, so that the people must be brutally exploited after the victory of our revolution or after the initial victory. Only by digging out the last silver dollar in the pockets of the people can our country get its fair share in the last feast of dividing up the world, and then the state can give the people a sigh of relief and let them live and work in peace and contentment and pursue a prosperous life. β
If the country wants to be strong, it must have heavy industry, and heavy industry is an industry with large input and slow output, especially the protagonist of this book has no golden finger to open except for the three elixirs given by God, neither inventing penicillin, nor understanding the trend of the international financial market, so there is no other way except to exploit the people, in fact, the heavy industry base of the Soviet Union, the heavy industry base of the capital and even the heavy industry base of New China are all laid down in this way. At that time, exploiting the country first, building up a strong heavy industry and army, and then going out to plunder was basically a necessary way for late-developing countries to rise. If there is no damn atomic bomb, hehe, maybe Mao's line can really lead the Chinese people to prosperity. However, the protagonist has now been reborn in 1923, and the weapon of mass destruction to bring peace to the world has not yet been invented, so China still has one last chance.
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