Seeing the familiar face, Liu Yuan suddenly felt like a dream. Is the person in front of him the young man in his prime who he met when he was in Whampoa?

His bookish spirit was gone, his gentleness was gone, his eyes were firm and powerful with a hint of vicissitudes, and the crow's feet revealed the tiredness of the young commander.

He was wearing a shabby peasant uniform, with a few patches on it, his hair was neatly combed, but he already had a trace of silver hair, Jiang Xianyun was twenty-seven years old this year, and it would have been the most attractive season for a man, but now he was like an old farmer, and Dabie Mountain gave him too much pressure.

But Jiang Xianyun is proud, Jiang Xianyun is like a blazing star, no matter where he is, he will not lose his brilliance, he is a natural leader, as if he was born to be a dragon and phoenix among people. Leaving Liu Yuan gave him the opportunity to show himself, and groups of outstanding talents surrounded him and fought side by side with him.

Seeing that Liu Yuan had been speechless, Jiang Xianyun also fell silent, Li Erniu waved his hand and drove everyone away with the militia captain, leaving space for the two of them. Although the children were not satisfied, they were stubborn against the adults.

The two of them looked at each other, and they both wanted to see something from the eyes of both sides, there was longing, and there was brotherly love. Liu Yuan, who rarely smokes, actually lit a cigarette for himself with a trembling twist.

Smoking up to himself, Jiang Xianyun sat on the ridge, looking at Liu Yuan silently, the man in front of him did not change at all, his eyes were clear and commanding, his Zhongshan suit was straight and neat, and his smoking eyes had a hint of infatuation, Jiang Xianyun was too familiar with that look, and he in front of him was still the selfless teenager in Huangpu.

The silence is terrible, no one wants to speak first, like lovers who haven't seen each other for a long time, miss when they can't see, but after meeting, they don't know what to say.

"Me." Jiang Xianyun took a cigarette from Liu Yuan's hand and wanted to light it, but found that Liu Yuan's cigarette case was empty, and Liu Yuan's body was full of strong smoke smell, which was very choking, and Jiang Xianyun's heart was gloomy.

"Don't make a fuss, let's go back to the southwest." Liu Yuan pursed his lips, and at the end of the day, it was just a simple sentence, not even a greeting.

Jiang Xianyun has thought about how many scenes when he met Liu Yuan, the way he scolded him, the way he apologized to himself, or the two of them took off their coats and fought hard like they did in Huangpu, young people should be passionate and speak with their fists.

But he only guessed the beginning, but not the end, he was really angry when he saw him, but because of one sentence, all the resentment disappeared.

"What should they do, there are 80,000 elite soldiers here, more than 1.5 million people here, and here is my base for overcoming thorns and thorns, do you want me to give up on them, become a deserter, and survive alone?" Jiang Xianyun looked up at Liu Yuan, with a question in his eyes, and a hint of ridicule at the changes in Liu Yuan's body.

"You have changed, the person in front of you should be called Chairman Liu, not Liu Fuguo. In vain I thought you had been telling my soldiers how you taught us to fight. After the worst, Jiang Xianyun's ridicule turned into self-deprecation.

Liu Yuan took a handful of soil, put it between his noses, sniffed it, and said, "Do you smell this soil?" ”

I don't have to smell it, every inch of land here has the smell of blood from the children of Dabie Mountain, and the smell of sweat, every time I fall to the ground, I can smell this smell that penetrates my heart, he makes me feel that I am a giant, a giant full of strength.

"I'm not in a good mood, can you walk with me? Maybe I'm in a better mood, and I'll resume your post as secretary of the Southeast Bureau. Liu Yuan put forward his own conditions.

Jiang Xianyun laughed, "Some people spend money to buy land, some people spend money to buy wives, and today is the first time that someone has the supreme right to ask for accompaniment." ”

"Who said no, King Zhou You used the supreme right in exchange for a smile, Wu Sangui used the supreme right in exchange for a red face and was angry, when the ruler became stubborn, no matter how the world turned upside down, why am I willing to fall, and I am still unwilling to accompany me to go?" Liu Yuan instead laughed at Jiang Xianyundao.

Jiang Xianyun calmed down and followed Liu Yuan side by side, and more than a hundred special guards hid in the grass, protecting the safety of the two people.

"The zongzi here are a must, I don't know if you eat them during the Double Ninth Festival?" Liu Yuan asked inexplicably.

"People here only eat glutinous rice cakes during the Spring Festival, but I specially asked the guards to make two." Jiang Xianyun said knowingly.

"How about it, when you sacrifice, should I also eat zongzi to commemorate you?" Liu Yuan stood still, this was a hill, in front of which was a terraced field, and a woman was working in the field with her child.

"Can't you say something nice? In your eyes, am I so unbearable? And I don't have a base, so it's okay for you to treat me as Qu Yuan, but don't fantasize about yourself as the king of Chu. Perhaps because he felt that the atmosphere was too serious, Jiang Xianyun took the lead in breaking the heavy atmosphere.

"Do you want to do it? You don't remember, who sprinkled the quilt with water in order to fold the tofu blocks, and ran to my quilt in the middle of the night, and the eyes of Brother Shoushan have been weird when he looks at me. Liu Yuan complained.

"You also said that when you were working against the principal, who kept reporting the news?" Jiang Xianyun asked rhetorically.

The two of them chattered about what happened a long time ago, who loved to fart when he slept, and who failed training until Xu Ke.

Liu Yuan couldn't hold back any longer, and grabbed Jiang Xianyun's shoulder, "Can you listen to me, go to the southwest for me, I will appoint you as the secretary of the Southwest Bureau, that is for a purpose, I want to go to the United States, I need someone to be able to sit in the town, the older generation is too old and enterprising, the younger generation, with enthusiasm, but not thoughtful, so I hope you can go back, the best brothers back then have died too much, Xu Ke, Cao Yuan, Wang Erzhuo, and even Chen Mingren almost died in battle, you said I left you in this tiger's den, Am I reassured? ”

"You only care about my safety, so why don't you care about the safety of these tens of thousands of soldiers and more than a million people, I don't care about their lives or deaths, do you think I can go with you? Can I be as selfish as you? Jiang Xianyun looked at Liu Yuan like a stranger.

Liu Yuan shook his head and sighed and said, "You should live in a declining dynasty, then you must be a character like Yue Fei, a song full of Jianghong can be immortal, but you were born in the era of princes' disputes, if you don't listen to my persuasion, you can only leave a song to sacrifice Jiang Xianyun."

"Nonsense, Sichuan and Dabie Mountain, one south and one north, supporting each other and responding to each other is the best policy, why do you have to give up Dabie Mountain?" Jiang Xianyun asked anxiously, he found that no matter what he said, Liu Yuan's intention to give up Dabie Mountain was still so firm.

"There were so many people left in Dabie Mountain back then, and there were many wounded, and it was impossible for all of them to break through, especially when the combat effectiveness was uneven, so the Dabie Mountain Department was left, and the other was to guard against the principal, for fear that he would break his word and get fat." Liu Yuan said bluntly.

Jiang Xianyun admired Liu Yuan's strategic vision very much, it was very rare to be able to sit with Mao and talk about it, this Liu Yuan was one, they had talked and laughed about the Northern Expedition strategy, no one knew it, he had a premonition that the Northern Expedition failed, and the southwest was also famous all over the world, and the three left the soldiers of Dabie Mountain to attack Kyoto, which was also Liu Yuan's plan, such a strategic master, but now he wants to give up the land of Dabie Mountain.

"Can you tell me why you gave up Dabie Mountain? I don't want to listen to those words that are for my safety. Jiang Xianyun looked at Liu Yuan seriously.

Liu Yuan knew very well that as long as he didn't impress him, he would turn around and leave.

"Left Pass? There is such a sentence in "Thirty Years of Duke Xu", Qin and Jin surrounded Zheng, and Zheng knew that he was dead. If the death of Zheng is beneficial to the king, dare to annoy the deacon. The country is far away, and you know its difficulties. Do you understand? Liu Yuan also looked at Jiang Xianyun very sincerely, hoping that he would understand his hardships.

Jiang Xianyun nodded thoughtfully and said, "In this way, I understand, in fact, what I hate is the estrangement between you and me, you shouldn't take my child to Sichuan, it is enough for me to dedicate myself to the country alone, why let my child be the same, you must know that there are only three generations of generals in ancient times, and it makes me very happy that you do this." And you do this, I can't help but think a lot, back then, your children lived in Nanjing, and there was the principal's care, I don't think your life was happy. ”

"Actually, there is a deep meaning to suppress Dabie Mountain, you didn't expect it, that is, your Dabie Mountain has formed a system of its own, I transferred a lot of comrades from Nanyang District, but I was squeezed out by your people and could not be reused, this is a very dangerous omen, to get closer, in the future, I will go to the battlefield I may not be able to mobilize them, and in the future, the country will be too peaceful, the swords and soldiers will be in the warehouse, and the horses will be put in Nanshan, your former subordinates are the problem, they are the source of **, You see that Mao is now letting those people engage in guerrillas outside, although they can quickly multiply their strength, but they have formed a system, this is the source of **, if Mao gains power in the future, he needs to use national fortune to make up for this mistake. I don't want my business to suffer such a big loss in the future, so I appointed Xu Xiangqian to replace you The first order after you rejected it was to reappoint you as the secretary of the Southwest Bureau, I hope you can understand my hard work. ”

Liu Yuan's words stung Jiang Xianyun deeply, and Jiang Xianyun frowned and asked, "Can you tell me what's going on with the cost of national fortune?" ”

There is no one who has not experienced the change of dynasty in the past dynasties, Gaozu Liu Bang started at the end of the millennium, Chu and Han fought for hegemony, the king of the world, why did he unify the world but did not do more, it was because he and Lu Pheasant wanted to consume national strength, kill Han Xin, Zhu Yingbu, until the rule of Wenjing recuperated, and did not do anything until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Moreover, there is the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin is heroic and ambitious, young and promising, why set the alliance under the city, throughout his life, there are not many foreign soldiers, although he is respected as the Khan of the sky, but there is no glory of the Han Dynasty, it is because he spent his life fighting against the Shandong clan, after Emperor Zhou, the chaos continued, until Xuanzong had the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

Moreover, in the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, a monk and disciple, achieved the great cause of the emperor, but after the most Lu also spent his life doing the predecessors, killing all the heroes, slaughtering the generals, until Zhu Di went south and captured Nanjing, there was Zheng He's trip to the West, and there were several northern expeditions to Mongolia.

Mao has the ambition of the emperor and acts quite like Ming Taizu, what he just said consumes national fortune, and he is afraid that things will be more than ten years, after all, Mao's background is not very good, there are too many people to rely on, and there are too many forces, which leads to the fact that cutting the feudal domain in the future is not a simple matter.

I think that Brother Fuguo thinks that after he becomes famous in the future, he can't bear to kill his brothers and sisters in the past. The reappointment of Jiang Xianyun as secretary of the Southwest Bureau should be primarily due to this consideration.

I don't know when Xiao Xiucai has followed Li Erniu to the two of them, holding a simple meal in her hand, and said her analysis with a smile.

Because the two of them were too engaged, they didn't find that someone had come, Liu Yuan didn't care about the stunned Jiang Xianyun walked to Xiao Xiucai's side and said, "I haven't seen you for many times, you have become a woman, and you are so beautiful, I really looked away back then." You actually disguised yourself as a man next to me, but when you came to Wushan, you changed into women's clothes, what are you doing?"

Xiao Xiucai blushed and said, "Hmph, you also said that although I haven't been by your side for a long time, you have been in constant scandals, first Sister Duanmu, then Sister Zhihan, and Zhang Mei, and Yangniu, you are a big **, I naturally have to guard against you." Xiao Xiucai snorted and said.

"Strong words, I'll tell us Brother Wushan in a moment, you like him." Liu Yuan said with a wicked smile.

"Don't, he is already a woman's husband and the father of the child, although I like her, but I also know that the Tao is in love, and it is in courtesy, I am familiar with the Confucian classics, so naturally I will not do anything out of the ordinary, you can rest assured that I have dedicated my voice to the country." Xiao Xiucai pulled Liu Yuan aside and continued, "If you can take him away this time, you can take him away, Dabie Mountain can't stay, I always have an ominous premonition." As long as you go abroad, I'm afraid you will have to live right and wrong, Wushan is stubborn, I can't help it. ”

Liu Yuan shook his head and said, "I can't help it, this guy is so stubborn, but my contact information for the fire phoenix, they are very successful in the internal corrosion of the principal, if there is a change in the future, you can ask him for help." ”

"Stingy," Xiao Xiucai snatched the note from Liu Yuan's hand and glared at Liu Yuan, "Don't talk nonsense, be careful that I go to my senior brothers to complain." After speaking, he ran to Jiang Xianyun's side with a smile and said, "Let's eat first, when you are full, you will have an idea, where is the rude and willful appearance just now." ”

Xiao Xiucai pulled Jiang Xianyun's arm, Jiang Xianyun sighed, came back to his senses, and said, "What you said is not wrong, but the matter has come to this, I have no choice, I am their general, the Dabie Mountain system has been formed, I will protect them to the end, and I will not leave until this place is completely safe." ”

This time Liu Yuan became very generous, and said, "You think so, I can't help it, but when I come back, you are not allowed to transfer away from the Dabie Mountain Corps, in fact, you leave is the best choice, if you leave, the troops here will disappear, and the people here will not continue to fight, although you gave them land, give them a good life, but all this is based on the continuous bloodshed, you must know that every bite of food you eat, is watered by the blood of your soldiers, But you look at how many men are there in heaven and earth, and you can't afford to eat this blood-watered crop. ”

"Hmph, you haven't joined the Red Party, you naturally don't know how much the people of Ludao want land, not to mention that the young strong laborers died in battle, even if everyone died in battle, they did not hesitate. You can go with confidence, it is still unknown whether the principal will make a move on Dabie Mountain, you must know that I am already a general of the national government, and I am ready to promise the principal in the past two days to participate in the award. Jiang Xianyun smiled very heartily this time.

Jiang Xianyun smiled, and Liu Yuan was happy, "That's right, endure the calm for a while, when we return to the southwest, we will naturally have something to do, do you remember our A plan?" It's about to start. ”