Nanjing, resting house.

Located in the east of Nanjing, one of the three palaces of the chairman of the Central Military Academy, it is a two-story Western-style western-style building with red exterior walls, sitting north and facing south, and is the main residence of Chiang Kai-shek and his wife in Nanjing.

Chiang Kai-shek, who returned home after a day's meeting of the Military Committee, had dinner with Soong Meiling, and sent his wife upstairs to the movie room to enjoy the latest film sent from Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek casually watched it for a while and felt that it was not interesting and got up and came to the study, just sat down and took out the minutes of the day's meeting to revisit, Wang Shihe knocked on the door and walked in with a telegram, and reported to Chiang Kai-shek:

"General Cixiu called urgently in Ningbo...... Accompanied by military and political officials from Zhejiang Province, two generals, Ci Xiu, Ziyang (Liu Jianxu), and Xiang Hua, inspected the Zhenhai fortress and its ancillary fortifications at the mouth of the Yongjiang River, and found many problems. ”

Seeing Chiang Kai-shek's concerned gaze, Wang Shihe, who had already done his homework before coming in, carefully introduced:

"The Zhenhai fortress inspected by General Cixiu on this trip was expanded on the basis of the Weiyuan Fort in the late Qing Dynasty, and a total of nine fortress guns and naval guns left over from the Qing Dynasty were used to organize the fortress defensive firepower, and the navy deployed a garrison there. General Ci Xiu believed that the old Qing Dynasty guns at Zhenhai Fortress were simply inferior to the modern naval guns of the Japanese Navy in terms of firing range, and the rate of fire and accuracy could not effectively suppress the Japanese ship targets on the Yongjiang River. ”

General Ci Xiu believes that, like the Jiangyin forts inspected before, the forts of Zhenhai Fortress were built without taking into account the needs of air defense, and their composition has fatal shortcomings on the modern battlefield. At the same time, the attached batteries on the left Qingliang Mountain and the right Zhaobao Mountain, where the two wings of the fortress are horns of each other, are unusually rudimentary, and only some machine gun bunkers are deployed, which cannot play a supporting role at all in wartime......

"There is also a joke in the middle: before General Cixiu and his entourage were originally going to inspect the Fuquanshan Fort near Meishan Port, but they were taken by people to take a detour to visit the Zongtaishan Fort that they had inspected After that, when the delegation went to inspect the Hengshan Fort near the coast of Qiushan, they were taken to Zongtaishan by a detour, the only difference is that the road to the first two times is different, and the direction of the station is not the same, if it is not for Cixiu is originally from Zhejiang, familiar with the local terrain and landform, I am afraid that he was really fooled"

"Cixiu didn't expose it on the spot, but General Zhang Xianghua felt very strange, and quietly asked General Cixiu why the mountains and rivers in Zhejiang were so similar, and they were exactly the same after running several places in a row, and Cixiu was so angry that he couldn't speak."

"Niang Xipi, it's really embarrassing"

Chiang Kai-shek stroked his forehead with a painful expression: "I originally thought that they were not corrupt at all, as long as they did things well, but now it seems that they are simply begging for fish...... Ningbo is the gateway to eastern Zhejiang, and it is the barrier between Gongwei Fenghua and Xikou, and now it is a mess, how to end it?"

"There's always a document"

Wang Shihe comforted him and asked cautiously: "The fortress group in Ningbo and the surrounding areas is built by the infrastructure company under the Seven Star Company, do you want to ask the relevant people to come and explain?" ”

"Explain what? It's not that you don't know who the Seven Star Company is, my eldest sister, eldest brother-in-law, Ziliang, Chen Xing, Xu Kan and others are not fuel-efficient lamps, even if it is ironclad evidence, they will not admit it, they will only put the blame on the people below"

"That's it"

Chiang Kai-shek waved his hand a little frustratedly: "Now all aspects need money, and there is no mediocre such as a flowery hand, so much money cannot be born...... Besides, in a few days, the two of them will go to London, England on my behalf to attend the coronation of King George VI, and after that, they will have to travel to Europe and the United States to negotiate with the great powers about borrowing money and purchasing arms."

Chiang Kai-shek pondered for a moment and made up his mind: "In this way, tomorrow I will ask Zou Lin, political secretary of the Ministry of Finance, to quietly take out a sum of money and include it in the special military expenditure, and the construction of defense fortifications in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the coastal defense fortress in eastern Zhejiang must meet the design requirements, and the results must be seen within half a year, otherwise it will really be unfortunate to be said by that crow's mouth, and there will be a big mess in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou."

Wang Shihe knew who Chiang Kai-shek was talking about about the crow's mouth.

During this time, Chiang Kai-shek was looking at the inspection report submitted by Wu Ming through Chen Cheng and the secret service, and the situation described above was shocking.

Chiang Kai-shek was unpleasant to eat, and he couldn't sleep at night, always worried that when he woke up, the Japanese army had come to the city of Nanjing. In order to let himself sleep peacefully, Chiang Kai-shek not only assigned Gu Zhenglun, Xu Enzeng, Dai Li, and other henchmen to send people to conduct verification, but also asked Xuan Tiewu, who was going through the formalities for the handover of his duties, to the place mentioned in Wu Ming's report for review.

Recently, the feedback news is becoming less and less optimistic, from all aspects of the situation, Wu Ming's words are not alarmist, the state spent a huge amount of money to build the Jiangsu and Zhejiang defense fortifications more and more like a flashy building block, it seems that only need a light touch from outsiders will collapse, at all can not play the due role of defense.

Now Chen Cheng's telegram once again confirms Wu Ming's judgment.

The people below deceived and concealed it, and even Chiang Kai-shek himself attached the most importance to the coastal defense fortifications in eastern Zhejiang as the barrier of Fenghua Xikou in his hometown can be faked, not to mention the defense fortifications in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it seems that a officialdom rectification is imperative, even if it can't fight big greed, but it is still possible to kill some small shrimp Liwei, and it may not be possible to enrich the empty treasury by the way.

The sea breeze was blowing, the dark clouds were surging, the clouds in the sky were very low, and there was a scene of heavy rain coming.

Although it was only four o'clock in the afternoon, the lights of the concession had already been lit up, and then gradually strung together, as if they were at the end of a galaxy.

Standing on the exquisite and gorgeous balcony of the eighth floor, Wu Ming, dressed and tidy, looked at it and felt a sense of familiarity, as if he was in a city in the 21st century.

Sun Chengyuan leaned on the bar on the wall of the living room with great interest, constantly turning the knob of the radio placed on it, and listening to the local radio program in Shanghai.

It is unbelievable to say that with the gradual popularization of radio, there are more than 20 radio stations in Shanghai alone, and many of them are small broadcasters set up in crowded alleys, and a few antennas are set up and open for business.

These radio stations with little investment are very simple, they only need a well-soundproofed broadcast room, and then put on a microphone, and an announcer with a sweet voice sits in front of the microphone to read newspaper news, and when he is tired, he uses a record player on the side to play Peking Opera and all kinds of music, and then inserts some advertisements from time to time.

"When are we going to set up our own radio station?" Sun Chengyuan changed several stations in a row, all of them played that kind of soft music, and he was bored listening to it, turned to Wu Ming on the balcony and asked.

"Soon after"

Wu Ming said with a smile: "The Maoliangwu Chamber of Commerce has ordered a full set of the latest American-made playback equipment from the Belgians, and it will arrive in less than a month...... I'm afraid our big boss Lu can't wait for the people of the whole country to hear his loud voice. ”

Sun Chengyuan was happy when he heard it, thinking about Lu Zhengde's sassy character, he didn't necessarily think so.

"Jingle bell—"

At this time, the phone in the living room rang, Sun Chengyuan turned off the radio, came to the coffee table and picked up the microphone, hung up after a few "uh-huh", and said to Wu Ming: "Fang Zhibin came with a guest, just walked into the hotel hall below"

"It's time to reckon"

Wu Ming looked up at the sky: "This ghost weather, won't it rain again?" ”

Sun Chengyuan cleaned up the living room, cleaned the tea set, and hurriedly walked out of the room, bringing it from the outside, leaving the space for Wu Ming and the guests.

Five minutes later, there was a knock on the door, Wu Ming called "come in", and the door was pushed open from the outside.

"I didn't expect that Commander Wu, the new Second Division in western Zhejiang, eastern Jiangxi and other places, would be so young, which is really embarrassing."

With the hearty greeting, Wu Ming squeezed out a bright smile at the corner of his mouth, and when he turned around, he saw a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, about 1.7 meters tall, and with a suitable fat and thin figure standing next to Fang Zhibin, nodding and smiling to himself.

Fang Zhibin looked proud, and introduced to Wu Ming with a smile: "Master, this is Wu Jingguan Brother Wu, the word is self-satisfied, a native of Lin'an, Hangzhou, now doing things by Zhang Dashuai's side, can be Zhang Dashuai's half of the master...... How about it, the subordinates live up to the trust, right? ”

"Luckily, fortunately"

Wu Ming stepped forward enthusiastically and held the comer's hands tightly: "I didn't expect Brother Fang and Brother Zide to come so quickly. ”

As soon as Wu Ming came, he was commensurate with Wu Jingguan's name, and naturally there was a sense of closeness and friendliness.

"Master Wu's words really annoyed me and other people in the market...... Division Commander Wu is the commander of the major general and division of the Central Army's descendant division, leading the party, with great military achievements, and being able to come to Shanghai in his busy schedule and agree to meet with him, has already flattered Zismug, how dare he let Division Commander Wu personally greet him? ”

Wu Jingguan gave birth to a good skin, a square face with thick eyebrows, her hair was very neatly groomed, and the whole person exuded an aura of practice. It is a pity that such talents are used by Zhang Xiaolin and are willing to be lackeys

Wu Ming didn't know what to say, if history didn't change, this person who he thought was a pity later really followed Zhang Xiaolin to the Japanese, served as the director of the Japanese puppet Hangzhou Tin Foil Bureau, and implemented his name as a "traitor".