The air in the room was as silent as death, and Zhang Guotao weighed Huang Baopei's last words. The eyes of the two of them met without giving in.

Behind the toughness on the surface, Zhang Guotao's heart couldn't help but feel a little weak.

As the saying goes, officials crush people to death! He, the deputy political commissar, is crushed to death by Huang Baopei, the political commissar, and almost all the officers in power in the team are from the Red Brigade, so they are not Huang Baopei's people? If this Cantonese guy really turned his face, maybe he would really pull himself out and collapse with an order!

After being breathlessly depressed, Huang Baopei suddenly smiled.

This is probably the difference between ordinary people and heroes in history, right? Although he had the advantage, Huang Baopei still chose to patiently explain the situation.

"Kaiyin, I understand your little thoughts, you want to maintain a usable armed force for the party. But what you probably don't know yet, our party is much stronger than you think! Our Comrade Zuo Min also has another identity, he is an elite with three divisions and a large warlord with the territory of one province! A contingent of three or four thousand will not do much for the cause of our party, but it is of vital importance to us that we can make strong reinforcements like the Russian Bolsheviks! ”

He talked eloquently, but Zhang Guotao was surprised and delighted, he stood up and walked a few steps quickly, then sat down again, took out a cigarette, lit the fire, and took a puff: "A Beiyang warlord!" If there are three divisions and one province, doesn't that mean that our Party's revolution will soon be victorious? ”

"It's not that easy!" Huang Baopei sighed softly: "Today's China is suffering from internal and external troubles!" It would not have been a problem for Comrade Zuo Min to use one province and three divisions to liaise with other revolutionary and progressive forces to defeat the warlords and eliminate internal worries. However, internal and external troubles often unite together, and the imperialist powers are around the right and left, manipulating the warlords and constantly encroaching on our land and rights and interests. Once there is a sign of China's reunification and rejuvenation, they will inevitably interfere on a large scale, and then we will be attacked from the back! ”

"That's why Comrade Zuo Min asked us to come to Russia. Want to figure out how guò supported the Bolshevik revolution to get strong foreign aid? Zhang Guotao's brain was really good, and after a little thought, he guessed Chang Ruiqing's intentions.

Huang Baopei emphasized: "Looking at the great powers of various countries, they have the greatest ambition and the greatest threat to China. It's Japan and the tsarist Russia before it! Both countries are neighbors of China, and both are likely to send troops to China to interfere in the Chinese revolution. After all, China's revolutionary army is no match for the imperialist powers such as Japan and Russia, and the only way is to form a good alliance with one of the two countries. ”

Zhang Guotao frowned: "Isn't the Russian Provisional Government okay?" ”

Huang Baopei shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The Russian Provisional Government and British, French, Japanese and other imperialism are the same thing. If they take control of Russia, Russia will inevitably follow Britain and France, and Britain and France also do not want to see China united and thus get rid of its semi-colonial status! And these Bolshevists were radical and raised high the banner of world revolution. Claiming to be the leader of the world revolution, such a regime must not be tolerated by the British and French powers! So at the moment Britain and France did not support the Bolsheviks either. ”

Zhang Guotao nodded slightly: "I understand!" Once the Bolsheviks came to power, they would inevitably turn against Britain and France, and even want to export the revolution to Europe, so they would not follow Britain and France to oppose the Chinese revolution. If we vigorously support the Bolsheviks now, it is possible that they will also support our party in seizing power in China in the future! ”

Huang Baopei stood up, walked to Zhang Guotao's side, leaned over his ear, and whispered: "Before I left China, I had an in-depth discussion with Comrade Zuo Min about the biggest threat to the Chinese revolution in the future -- Japan is likely to seize Manchuria by taking advantage of the revolutionary war in China!" So it is quite possible that the nascent revolutionary regime will fight a war against the Japanese invaders! We need allies like Red Russia. ”

Zhang Guotao's face was a little worried: "But the Workers' and Soldiers' Soviets of the Bolshevik Party have been suppressed by the Provisional Government. Even Lenin fled from Russia. I'm afraid of the situation in Russia****??"

Huang Baopei took out Chang Ruiqing's telegram from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Guotao: "Comrade Zuo Min believes that unless the Russian Provisional Government can lead Russia out of the war, the Bolsheviks will definitely win this struggle!" ”

"Out of the war?" Zhang Guotao grinned and shook his head: "Participating in the war is not participating in some kind of drinking party and dinner, where is it so easy to quit?" Even if the Russians shouted to stop, wouldn't the Germans still attack? And now that the United States has declared war on Germany, it is only a matter of time before the Entente wins the war. How could Russia have withdrawn at this time? ”

Huang Baopei sneered: "So Comrade Zuo Min asserted that the Provisional Government would not withdraw from the war, and the Bolsheviks would definitely be able to take advantage of the war-weariness of the Russian people to win power!" So now we have to show goodwill to the Bolsheviks as much as possible. Kaiyin. It's not early, let's hurry into the city and find Comrade Stalin. ”

And right now. Somewhere in Shanghai, China, thousands of miles away, several people were also discussing the future situation in southeastern China with the Japanese invaders.

The conversation took place on the lawn of a garden house. A colorful parasol has been spread out in all directions, a table has been set up, a chef wearing a white top hat is busy putting all kinds of Chinese and Western food in place, and the servants and maids wearing white shirts and holding wine trays are standing neatly and solemnly, as if an open-air drinking party is about to begin.

The two newcomers have not yet appeared, and there are only some early guests on the lawn, as well as the elders of the Chang and Lu families, chatting and laughing together.

Chang Ruiqing also appeared at the reception early in the morning, holding a glass of champagne in his hand, and formed a circle with Lu Yongxiang, Lu Yixuan, Okamura Ningji, as well as Lu Yongxiang's military adviser, Matsui Ishine, military attache of the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai, and He Fenglin, the brigade commander of the Fourth Division of the Army who came from Zhejiang.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Let us toast to the marriage of the Changlu family and the unity of our Shanghai, Fujian and Zhejiang! ”

It was the bride's father Lu Yongxiang who spoke, and the Zhejiang overseer who came here now had a smile on his face that could not be concealed, not only because his rude and willful fourth daughter finally found Ruyi Langjun, but also because of the Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai alliance established on the marriage of Changlu. In his opinion, Chang Ruiqing's Fujian Province, no matter from any point of view, has no way to compare with Zhejiang and Shanghai, so the leader of the Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai Alliance here is none other than himself!

He Fenglin said loudly: "There are three governors of the Yangtze River in the direct line, and now the commander has the Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai alliance, which is enough to confront them!" Does Li Xiushan in Jiangsu still dare to read his mother's soldiers in Nanjing every once in a while? ”

Although he was the brigade commander of the Fourth Division, his relationship with Lu Yongxiang was extremely close. The two families have already married their children, and Lu Yongxiang has already given him the fat shortage of the next Songhu military envoy. At this time, he already regarded himself as Lu Yongxiang's subordinate, and shouted "joint commander" one by one: "Joint commander." If the surnamed Li dares to send any peaceful telegram next time, we will also send a telegram against him in the name of the Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai Alliance! If he doesn't accept it, let's just send troops to fight! How can one of his sixth divisions beat our five divisions in Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai? As he spoke, he turned his head to Chang Ruiqing and said, "Yaoru, do you think this is the truth?" ”

Heard He Fenglin's big words. Chang Ruiqing set his eyes on Lu Yongxiang and said with a smile: "The younger generation is naturally looking forward to Jiashuai and the horse, but they are the three governors of the Yangtze River, if we want to move Li Xiushan in Jiangsu and Chen Guangyuan in Jiangxi." Hubei's Wang Zichun (Wang Zhanyuan) must not sit idly by, right? By the way, there is also Cao Zhongshan of Zhili, his third division is the elite of our number one in Beiyang, and the three Fujian divisions of the younger generation are estimated to be unable to deal with a third division! ”

He Fenglin sneered, and just wanted to refute it, but Lu Yongxiang said lightly: "Yaoru's words are reasonable, even if we have the Fujian, Zhejiang, and Shanghai Alliance, we can only protect ourselves for the time being...... After all, it's not against us. Not only the three governors of the Yangtze River. And two wide! Yaoru, the Kuomintang in Fujian has been quite honest recently, right? ”

Chang Ruiqing shook his head and said lightly: "To be honest, Fujian was originally the territory of the People's Party, and the local officials were all members of the People's Party. Brother is trying to find a way to replace them all, you say they can be honest? The Kuomintang in Yongchun and Shaxian is already ready to move. Seeing that it is another military disaster! ”

Lu Yongxiang can become the last pillar of the Anhui system in history, in fact, there is still a bit of an elder's style. Hear that Fujian's shape shì is unstable. He kindly reminded: "Yaoru, you still do some things." For local forces, it is still necessary to focus on co-optation, and do not go too far. At present, autonomy is popular everywhere, and we should also adapt to it. I believe that people's hearts always know good and bad, we are good to the locality, and after a long time, the local people's hearts will turn towards us! ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled bitterly in his heart. This Lu Yongxiang has been in Zhejiang and Shanghai for nearly ten years, and according to the records in the history books, he is still good to the locality, and he has not been as violent as the warlords elsewhere, and his Beiyang Army is also considered to have strict military discipline. But later, he was betrayed to Sun Chuanfang by the local snakes in Zhejiang?

In fact, in the history of the Republic of China, the really more successful ones are the forces that squeeze more local people's and financial resources! A certain party is a typical example, once mobilized more than 200,000 troops in the Fujian and Jiangxi base areas with a population of two or three million! The kind of warlord group that really wants to rest with the people and think about benefiting one side will not end well......

Chang Ruiqing shook his head and said: "Jiashuai, the younger generation thinks that the current national conditions in China are actually unable to implement local autonomy, because most of the local heroes and powers now support their own troops!" The so-called autonomy is not based on the will of the people, but on the guns of the powerful! This kind of autonomy is nothing but local separation, which is not only detrimental to our stability of the situation in a province, but also does not benefit the ordinary people in the local area in the slightest! Therefore, the policy of the younger generation in Fujian was to take over the local government in an all-round way and implement the centralized management of the provincial government...... As for the strong resistance in those places, the younger generation still decided to suppress it by force! In fact, the problems that China is facing now can only be solved by relying on the barrel of a gun! ”

Chang Ruiqing was already majestic, and he looked like a barbaric warlord at first glance! Now it was full of shouting and killing, which made the few people around listening to him frown.

However, Chang Ruiqing seemed to be unaware, and was still talking there: "The heroes above those places have controlled so many people's armies and militias, and the total number is more than the soldiers in our hands!" These soldiers also have to be fed, clothed and paid, and those leaders of the people's army also have to get rich, where does the money come from? Not yet exploiting the place? If we can completely control the local political power and suppress all the local forces that do not obey, we will be able to take into hand those interests that were originally taken by the local tyrants.

The younger finance minister has already made a rough estimate. If the younger generation can get the land endowment, centijin, commercial taxes of various counties, and various apportionments that were originally intercepted by the local government, it will not be a problem to increase the tax revenue by more than 10 million yuan every year! If you can save a little money, the financial resources of Fujian Province alone are enough to support ten divisions of men and horses! If the China ** Industrial Group is successfully run, there will be enough weapons and ammunition to equip these troops, and then the strength of Fujian Province will be enough to pacify the southwest! ”

With a province like Fujian, which is not rich, it raises soldiers of the 10th Division! What does this have to scrape into the ground? listened to Chang Ruiqing's words. The two warlords, Lu Yongxiang and He Fenglin, looked at each other, and couldn't help but sympathize with the old folks in Fujian Province in their hearts.

And the two Japanese devils both took a breath at the same time, if Fujian can mobilize 10 divisions. Wouldn't the whole of China be able to mobilize two or three hundred divisions! With so many troops, not to mention being equipped like the Japanese army, as long as there are the most basic rifles, machine guns and mountain artillery, it is also a force that should not be underestimated! In fact, China's huge population. is their most powerful war potential......

"Mr. Matsui, Advisor Okamura." Chang Ruiqing smiled at this time and spoke to the two Japanese devils: "Contempt and Lu Jiashuai have long discussed the integration of the Fujian Manufacturing Bureau and the Shanghai Arsenal into a large military industrial group...... The main products of this new military-industrial complex will be rifles, machine guns, mountain artillery, mortars, machine rifle bullets, artillery shells, grenades and much more! The output must be enough to supply 20 infantry divisions for combat, so the arsenals in Shanghai and Fuzhou need to purchase a large amount of equipment and equipment, and they also need to introduce some weapons manufacturing technology and technology. I wonder if the Japanese side can provide it? ”

I heard that a big business came to the door. The two Japanese devils both glanced at each other. During this period, the great powers had not yet implemented an arms embargo on China (historically initiated by the United States in order to prevent the Chinese government from having enough weapons to fight a civil war), so as long as the Chinese side is willing to pay, it will always be able to buy weapons and the equipment and technology for the production of weapons, of course, the really advanced things still can't be bought!

"What General Yaoru means...... In the future, the Chinese industry group will adopt Japanese equipment and technology, and the weapons and ammunition will also be made of Japanese standards? Matsui Ishine asked with some hesitation, as if he didn't believe that such a good thing came to the door!

Let's be honest. In this era, the reputation of Japanese products in China is not very good. Most of China's major arsenals purchase German equipment and use German standards. In the "21 Articles" signed by Japan to force Yuan Shikai two years ago, there was a clause for China to purchase Japanese weapons and equipment, which meant that it was forced to buy and sell!

Chang Ruiqing turned his gaze to Matsui, shrugged his shoulders, and smiled, "Do business." Naturally, it is necessary to shop around, if the equipment provided by the Japanese side is of good quality and cheap. Why don't we adopt it? Besides, Japan and China are now allies (both are members of the Entente). ”

Lu Yongxiang also chimed in: "Most of the equipment of the Fujian Manufacturing Bureau and the Shanghai Arsenal is outdated. The weapons manufactured are also outdated. At present, the initial idea is to import equipment and technology from France or Japan, and Bishop Du Paul of the Catholic Church is a good friend of Yaoru and has already helped to contact the French company Schneider...... Now that the European war is coming to an end, France's huge military industry will have a lot of production capacity to be reduced, and it is an opportunity for us to buy equipment at a low price. However, considering the traditional friendship between China and Japan, the old man gave priority to using Japanese goods. ”

"General Yaoru." Okamura Ninji smiled faintly and took over the topic: "I guess you also know that their French and German ordnance is designed and produced according to the body shape of Europeans and the requirements of European battlefields, and they are not necessarily suitable for Asians and Asian battlefields, right?" On the contrary, our Japanese weapons and equipment have been improved and redesigned according to the actual situation in Asia after the introduction of European technology, so they are the most suitable for the needs of the squadron. ”

Chang Ruiqing knew that what Okamura Ninji said was true, and some of the Japanese weapons and equipment, such as the Type 38 rifle, the Meiji 38 style mountain artillery, and the later Type 92 infantry gun and grenadier canister, were actually very suitable for the Chinese battlefield...... Of course, the Japanese also have a lot of very bad weapon designs, so it is impossible to introduce them all, and the best solution is to selectively introduce some.

Thinking of this, he smiled slightly: "After the merger of the Fujian Manufacturing Bureau and the Shanghai Arsenal is completed, there will be a large-scale recruitment of merchant shares, and it is expected that 10 million yuan of shares will be recruited within three months, and then there will be a bidding meeting for equipment procurement...... At that time, there will be a wide range of experts involved in the competition, and I will conduct a comprehensive and fair evaluation of the bids submitted by companies from various countries, and I am looking forward to the participation of Japanese military companies. ”

Chang Ruiqing's words fell, and the sound of the wedding march sounded, it turned out that Chang Ruiyuan and Miss Lu Si had come out, and an engagement ceremony related to the future situation in southeast China had finally begun...

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