On April 8, 2015 in the Han calendar, Xie Niancheng, Yang Yuwei and Ye Xiaoqiu stood on the bow of the boat and enjoyed the scenery on both sides of the Three Gorges.

The mountains and rivers are beautiful, and you never get tired of seeing them.

"Nian Cheng, how can you compare with last year, you seem to have a lot on your mind?" Ye Xiaoqiu asked.

"The higher the position, the heavier the responsibility...... Do you think I can make it easy? ”

"Hehe, you just worry about it, this trip, I'm a tourist." Yang Yuwei said with a smile.

"When I was a child, I just wanted my family to earn more money. When I got rich, I just wanted my family not to be exploited, thinking that as long as I formed a unit in Guangdong, I would definitely not have to worry about anything if I could fight back to my hometown...... As a result, I now find that those things in the past were not a big deal. ”

"No accumulation of steps, no thousands of miles. Without what you did before, would you be where you are now? Yang Yuwei held Xie Niancheng's hand.

Ye Xiaoqiu was a little sad when she saw this scene.

She secretly compared herself with Yang Yuwei, the gap between herself and Yang Yuwei in appearance is not big, and her figure is much stronger. In terms of ability, he is the director of the government's National Development and Reform Commission, and Yang Yuwei is the president of the bank, and the gap is not big.

What frustrated Ye Xiaoqiu was that compared with Yang Yuwei, he had read fewer books.

Hearing that Xie Niancheng and Yang Yuwei began to talk about philosophy and literature, Ye Xiaoqiu felt like he couldn't interject.

Forget it, everyone has their own strengths, Ye Xiaoqiu gave up the idea of joining the conversation, returned to the kitchen of the boat, and planned to make a boiled fish for Xie Niancheng with his own hands.

This time I passed by the Three Gorges, and the boat went a lot better.

These two months. Thousands of veteran shipwrights, together with the government's demolition team, have cleaned up the Three Gorges Channel in a down-to-earth manner, and a lot of Mingshi reefs have been blown up. The capacity of the Sichuan River has increased a lot.

"Nian Cheng, why are we so mysterious this time? If you are worried about the safety of gold and silver, we can set off without gold and silver. ”

"Yuwei, you've been busy issuing new coins recently, so you may not know much about domestic shapes."

"What's wrong? Isn't it a great thing to have a revolutionary shape? After Guangdong, Guangxi, and the Honghe Province south of Liangguang announced their accession to the Federation, the entire south of the Yangtze River joined the federal government. The Northwest Army and the Jin Army also expressed their participation in the revolution. Now that the power of the warlords is already weak, is there any problem? ”

"Revolution, revolution, Yuwei. Now there is such a saying: 'Military Northern Expedition, Political Expedition Southern Expedition', do you know what it means? ”

Yang Yuwei shook her head, she studied economics and finance. She'd heard that. But I didn't think much about what it meant.

The meaning of this is that the Northern Expeditionary Army, led by the Socialist Party, after occupying the territory, acted in a very different way from the propaganda of the Socialist Party, but was similar to the previous warlords. Everywhere we go, we just take over the political power, but we are not like we are in Sichuan to carry out reforms vigorously and let the people really benefit. ”

"But that's it. We don't need to keep it a secret. ”

"The top of the Socialist Party has now split, and I have received news from the Confidential Bureau. Jiang Wei wanted to set up a separate central government in Shanghai and fight against Wang Zhongzheng's federal government in Wuhan...... During this time, both sides were sending me cipher, hoping that I could power up to support. ”

"And who do we support?"

"Who are you supporting? I will not support anyone, if the Chinese do not fight the Chinese, I will not participate in the civil war. ”

At the beginning of the year, the Chinese Federation carried out a major reorganization of the revolutionary army under it, and Xie Niancheng's department got the number of the 42nd Army.

The entire Sichuan army was given the name of the Fifth Army, which was under the jurisdiction of the 17th Army, the 42nd Army, and a number of independent units.

The commander-in-chief of the group army is Xie Niancheng.

Considering that there will not be much war on the Sichuan side in the next few years, unlike other warlords in the country, Xie Niancheng did not expand the armament war on a large scale, and under his order, the troops were reorganized, and the sequence was as follows:

Xie Niancheng, commander of the 17th Army, has two divisions under his command, the 50th and 51st, all German armaments, the two division commanders are Peng De and Su Huaiyu, and the army is equipped with a heavy artillery regiment, with more than 40,000 people.

Xu Geng, commander of the 42nd Army, had three lightly armed divisions under his command, namely the 126th, 127th, and 128th, and the division commanders were Zhang Chengyue, Lin Sanhu, and Su Xiangzhi.

The heaviest firepower at the regimental and battalion level of the light division was only 80 mortars and 70 infantry guns. The division's artillery was only equipped with 85 field cannons, and the whole army was more than 20,000 people.

In addition, there is a teaching regiment directly under the group army, and there are 70,000 regular troops in Sichuan.

In Xie Niancheng's plan, these 70,000 people will be trained into elites. Sichuan has opened the Chinese Military Academy, and in the future, every soldier of the regular army will have to go to the military academy to study.

These 70,000 men will be the seed troops, each of whom will be able to command a platoon or even a company if necessary.

In addition to the regular army, each district, under the auspices of the Ministry of Armed Forces, has set up security regiments, ranging in number from a few hundred to a few thousand, as paramilitary units to assist police stations in maintaining law and order.

"This time we went to Shanghai, and after we found my second uncle and talked to a few business partners, we went directly to Germany, and I didn't go to the troubled waters of the Socialist Party fighting."

For Yang Yuwei, Xie Niancheng said that she understands some of the major events in the world, and she doesn't understand some of them, but she will listen very carefully.

She didn't listen to these things, she listened to Xie Niancheng speak.

What Xie Niancheng said to her seriously, no matter what she said, she would keep it in her heart.

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The boat went down the river, and there were several interrogations on the way, which also made people feel that the relationship between Wuhan and Nanjing had deteriorated to the point where they regarded each other as enemies.

After the boat crossed the Jiujiang River and encountered the interrogation of the revolutionary army again, Yang Yuwei couldn't help but ask.

"Nian Cheng, why did the Socialist Party troops, after the Northern Expedition, turn against each other like they do now? Why would the Socialist Party abandon Mr. Zhu's ideas and not work for the well-being of the workers and peasants? ”

Xie Niancheng knew that Yang Yuwei had not seen much of the sinister world since she was a child. After joining the revolutionary army, what she did had little to do with politics, so it was reasonable for Yang Yuwei not to understand why the Socialist Party had degenerated.

Seeing that Ye Xiaoqiu was not far away, Xie Niancheng said, "Xiaoqiu, you can tell Yuwei about this problem." ”

Ye Xiaoqiu said with a smile: "With our Commander-in-Chief Xie here, where do I dare to speak." ”

"Sister Xiaoqiu, just talk about it."

Ye Xiaoqiu said: "I think, this matter is quite easy to figure out, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than a question of selfishness or public heart." Those people of the Socialist Party, when they were not in power before, must have shouted 'the world is for the public', and if they said that raising troops to rebel was for their own glory and wealth, where would anyone follow them? ”

"After shouting 'the world is for the public' for so many years, after becoming a trend, from being poor and white to having everything, you can see what this person thinks...... In the past, they were all poor anyway, and they were greedy, but of course they could say that they were selfless, and they did everything for the country and the nation. Now that it's the climate, and there are gold and silver in their hands, many people are reluctant to give money to others. ”

"Like Commander-in-Chief Xie, let alone the gold and silver collected from the people, even if his own family has turned upside down, he has collected so much gold and silver, and he doesn't spend it at all, and he has to go all the way to foreign countries to buy equipment and go back to Sichuan to open a factory, develop the economy so that everyone can live a good life, this is the real revolution."

"What is the difference between the current Socialist Party and the old warlords, all of whom are busy reaping their own benefits?"

Yang Yuwei said: "Nian Cheng is actually doing this for his own good...... If the economy of Sichuan is doing well, the Xie family will not suffer. With the great development of Sichuan, whether it is the Xie Group or the factories and mining enterprises directly controlled by the government, they can make a lot of money. ”

Ye Xiaoqiu nodded: "Yuwei, this is true, but whether it is other warlords or the Socialist Party, do they have the mind and ability of Commander-in-Chief Xie?" I've been doing business with my father and second master for some years, and I've never seen someone as capable as Commander-in-Chief Xie. ”

"Xiaoqiu, I know I'm wise and handsome, but don't say it to your face, I'm very thin-skinned, I will be embarrassed if you say so."

Yang Yuwei covered her mouth and chuckled.

Ye Xiaoqiu stepped forward and said, "Sister Yuwei, this person is very thick-skinned, don't fall for him." ”

"Oh, Sister Xiaoqiu, what are you talking about."

Between Xie Niancheng and Yang Yuwei, during this time in Sichuan, there was indeed no agitation. Love events.

Maybe it's because fate hasn't arrived, and there have been a few times in the past few months when I almost got off the rails, but by accident, good things never worked.

In Xie Niancheng's plan, after arriving in Shanghai, they will divide their troops into two routes.

Ye Xiaoqiu, together with Xie Xinyi, will go to the United States with the people of the Kong family to purchase equipment and hire personnel for more than 300 light industry projects, and at the same time arrange for future students to study in the United States.

The international students who were originally scheduled to leave last year are still staying in Sichuan and have not left for Germany.

Xie Niancheng and Yang Yuwei will go to Germany to buy equipment for heavy industry projects and pick up the first batch of international students.

"Nian Cheng, why did you arrange it like this?" Yang Yuwei wants to know the truth.

In front of Yang Yuwei, Xie Niancheng basically has no secrets.

"Yuwei, on the European side, it is estimated that there will be a big fight at the end of this year...... This time, at least three or five years, international students can only change to the United States. The people we sent out last year can only be picked up. If they stay in Germany, they probably won't be able to learn anything, and it will be difficult for them to return home once the fight starts. ”

"Oh."

Yang Yuwei nodded, in fact, no matter who won or lost in the European competition, she thought of the woman who often exchanged telegrams with Xie Niancheng.

"Zhao Ke? What kind of woman are you that can make people like Nian Cheng often worry about it? ”

Yang Yuwei and Xie Niancheng can be said to have confirmed their relationship, but Xie Niancheng has not opened his mouth to ask for marriage, which makes Yang Yuwei a little unhappy, but this kind of thing, how can Yang Yuwei be embarrassed to ask directly?

In Yang Yuwei's heart, Zhao Ke is the reason why Xie Niancheng did not ask for marriage.

"Is the battle about to begin?"

Yang Yuwei silently warned herself: "Yang Yuwei, come on, you can't lose to anyone!" (To be continued......)