Zheng Jiemin has always wanted to lead the troops.

I dreamed of it.

In fact, he is not very interested in the post of chief secretary of the Military Command Bureau, and the reason why he has been working hard to maintain the position of secretary general of the Military Command is mainly because he has a "good wife" at home. His wife Ke Shufang was reluctant. The military commander has a lot of money and things, and it can be supplied in a steady stream; Not only were Zheng Jiemin's cars and gasoline supplied by the Military Command Bureau, but the adjutants, male and female servants, and cooks used at home were all paid by the Military Administration, and even many of the family's expenses and entertainment expenses were covered by the Military Administration. When the open organs under the control of the military command, such as the Anti-Smuggling Bureau, the Freight Bureau, the Traffic Inspection Department, and other smuggling and anti-smuggling items, "pay tribute" to the special agents of the military command, Zheng Jiemin always has a share. For these reasons, Ke Shufang went to the headquarters of the military command in Hunan Hall more times than Zheng Jiemin himself. For this reason, Mao Renfeng once caught the "handle", and therefore made the two have a nameless conflict. Of course, the final result was that Zheng Jiemin took advantage of Mao Renfeng's injury to suppress the Maoists.

can be suppressed and suppressed, Zheng Jiemin is mainly not angry that Mao Renfeng is calculating behind his back, he still wants to lead the troops.

Shortly after the start of the war, Chiang Kai-shek asked the British for help in setting up an assault force. When Zheng Jiemin received the news at that time, he immediately asked Chiang Kai-shek to send him to this task. It's a pity that Lao Jiang thought that he had no experience in leading troops to fight and was not suitable for this kind of work, so he sent Li Mo'an to prepare for the establishment of an assault force with British equipment, which greatly disappointed Zheng Jiemin.

Later, the General Staff Headquarters was reorganized into the Military Command Department, and Zheng Jiemin was promoted by Chiang Kai-shek to deputy director of the Second Department of the Ministry. Although this made him settle down, he still did not forget the work of leading the troops. When the Army University set up a training class for senior officers to train middle and high-ranking Kuomintang officers, Zheng Jiemin asked to take his post to receive training. At that time, someone asked him, you are all major generals. Why do you want to go? He said happily: "At present, the chief of staff of military organs and units stipulates that all graduates of the University of the Mainland are graduates, and if they are not, not only will they not have the opportunity to lead the troops, but they will also not understand the business and will not be able to work. And because I am not a classmate with Lu University students, it is not easy to control, so I have to go. ”

After that, Zheng Jiemin really entered Lu University. This is also the reason why he rarely met with Qin Wei during this time...... The Army University is located in Zunyi, Guizhou, and he can't run at both ends. And Qin Wei has been staying in the Bai Mansion again. So, he entrusted his business, especially in Burma, to Colli. It's a kind of trust, but it's also a kind of self-confidence for Jung Kai-min...... He believed he could control Collie. But think of Collie as a small consul and his dismissal. For a director of the Military Command Department, it is indeed not difficult to deal with. Even if the other side is British.

Zheng Jiemin studied very hard at Lu University. The senior officers who were transferred and trained at the same time as him took on-the-job studies. Even drawing maps had to be done by the staff chargé d'affaires, and I often went to Chongqing and Guiyang to have fun. Even in Zunyi, these people also spend all day drinking, sometimes gambling all night, attending classes and listening to lectures are just perfunctory, anyway, to mix up a degree. Zheng Jiemin is completely different from these people. He studied very seriously and wrote in his spare time. He occasionally went back to Chongqing for a few days, and he also went to the Military Command Bureau and the Second Department to ask for some materials as a reference for his writing. For this matter. Ke Shufang even took Yu Lingling to Qin Wei and asked Qin Wei to help her persuade Zheng Jiemin to go home often...... Qin Wei naturally knew what Ke Shufang's idea was, and on the surface, he responded to it, but in fact he didn't speak. Later, I paid attention to inquiring, and learned that Ke Shufang often wrote to Zheng Jiemin, scolding Zheng Jiemin for not thinking about home, and others often came back, but he didn't want his wife. even suspected that Zheng Jiemin was playing some tricks in Zunyi, and for this reason, the woman also secretly went to Zunyi twice to check the post. turned out to see that Zheng Jiemin was indeed immersed in studying and writing, so he was relieved.

And from this, Qin Wei could see that Zheng Jiemin really wanted to lead the troops. He even saw that this thing regretted that he had not led troops to fight, and the smell of "martial arts" was still worse, and on the other hand, he was intoxicated with wanting to be a "Confucian general", and had the idea that "martial artists are afraid that they cannot be literate". And Zheng Jiemin collected materials from the archives of the military command and the second hall from time to time, and put on an appearance of intending to write military books, which made Qin Wei know that this guy's ambition in the use of soldiers was not small.

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"Can you let me lead the troops?"

Sure enough, Qin Wei's words hit Zheng Jiemin's itch...... They are all generals, but they have not even brought half a company of troops. It's a joke to say it.

"Do you know the tax police corps?" Qin Wei asked again.

"Of course, I know it." Zheng Jiemin was in good spirits. He also thought that Qin Wei said that he would let him lead the troops, but he would just intercede with Lao Jiang and give him an ordinary number at most, but he never expected that what Qin Wei said was actually the Tax Police Corps...... That's an amazing elite army. It was a private army set up by Soong Ziwen in 1932 when he was finance minister. As the name suggests, it should be an irregular army used to collect taxes on anti-smuggling. Originally, such a force, other people, including Lao Jiang, did not pay attention to it, how much combat effectiveness can it have? But they all forgot who the backstage boss of this unit was.

Song Ziwen didn't plan to make the armed forces in his hands dispensable, he not only had to use this army to ensure the collection of salt taxes, but also to compete for military capital. Therefore, it is extremely generous in the use of money, and it is also carefully selected in terms of employing people. Among them, all the high-ranking officers were personally recruited and hand-picked by him. Wen Yingxing, the first and fourth commanders, and Wang Geng, the second commanders, were all graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Mo Xiong, the third commander-in-chief, was a brave general in Zhang Fakui's Fourth Army during the Northern Expedition. Sun Liren and Zhao Junmai were also recruited as the head of the regiment. Zhang Yuannan, the brother-in-law of Song Ziwen, who graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, also went to his brother-in-law to serve as the regiment commander. Most of the officers above the platoon level are students studying in the United States. There was also an advisory group of eight Nazi German officers.

The Tax Police Corps is supported by the surplus salt tax that is amortized annually from the loans of the banks of the eight countries. All establishments, equipment, and personnel are all based on Song Ziwen's wishes, and others have no right to intervene. Chiang Kai-shek thought it was just a small and insignificant force and did not care. Although Jiang's secret service agencies have great powers, neither Chen Lifu nor Chen Guofu, nor Dai Li, dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head, because if they don't do it well, they will set themselves on fire. After all. Everyone knows that Chiang Kai-shek's marriage is a political marriage, and the Chiang family wants to use the Song family to connect with the United States. And Song Ziwen has never bought Lao Jiang's account, and when the two disagreed, Song Ziwen was helpless to flip the table in front of Lao Jiang. In this way, Song Ziwen took the opportunity to turn an insignificant tax police corps into a crack army.

The Tax Police Corps is an armed force that does not belong to the official order of the state, and its weapons and equipment are all procured by Song Ziwen's Ministry of Finance, and the degree of sophistication is not comparable to that of ordinary troops. Absorb the strengths of European and American military powers. Began to purchase mainly American weapons, equipped with Oligen anti-aircraft cannons, Vickers amphibious combat vehicles, and rifles mainly German-made 1924 standard Mauser series guns or Belgian FN1924/30 rifles. The water-cooled heavy machine gun, the pistol is, of course, the famous 7.63 mm Mauser M1932. It's even equipped with a "Carden. Lloyd" ultralight tank.

It can be said that after the determined rectification of Song Ziwen and his generals, the Tax Police Corps has become an absolute "irregular army" elite force, and it is a rare force.

And it turns out that the tax police corps is not just good-looking. "I. Twenty-eight "On the eve of the incident. Most of the tax police corps were stationed in Shanghai and Pudong during the Japanese raid on Shanghai. Song Ziwen resolutely pulled the tax police corps to the front line of resistance to the enemy without reservation. He also personally issued a battle order, inflicting great casualties on the Japanese army.

After that, "a. 28 "The incident was resolved with concessions from the Chinese side. But at this time, Song Ziwen was already deeply aware of the serious threat posed by Japan. Ignoring Chiang Kai-shek's "Fighting Outside the Country, We Must First Settle Inside," he demanded resistance against Japan and salvation, flew to Peking several times to hold talks with Zhang Xueliang and Tang Yulin, and vigorously publicized Japan's crimes of aggression in the international community. In order to cope with the sudden incident in North China. He even secretly negotiated with Qian Zongze, director of the Longhai Railway Bureau, to prepare more than 30 trains, concentrate them in Haizhou, and transport all the tax police regiments to Zhengzhou at once. Prepare to leave for Beiping. As a result, Liu Zhi, chairman of Henan Province, discovered the matter and called Chiang Kai-shek to inform him. Chiang Kai-shek was furious and said that he should call the tax police corps to return to the original defense area, otherwise he would disarm. Wen Yingxing, who was the head of the tax police at the time, did not dare to disobey and led his troops back. Soong's series of activities and attitudes, coupled with his refusal to increase military spending for Chiang Kai-shek's suppression of the Communists, affected Chiang Kai-shek's strategic deployment. Chiang was very annoyed and forced Song to resign as finance minister and "go abroad for inspection". In the same way, Lao Jiang has always been unable to tolerate the existence of a strong army that is not a descendant, so in 1934, he ordered Huang Jie, the commander of the Second Division stationed in Xuzhou at that time, to take over as the head of the Tax Police Corps. The army that Soong Ziwen had painstakingly managed was easily annexed by Chiang Kai-shek.

Later, the Tax Police Corps and another unit were combined into the Eighth Army, with Huang Jie as the commander, and participated in the Battle of Songhu, where he fought fiercely with the enemy for 66 days and suffered heavy casualties. But after the war, Huang Jie was co-opted by Gu Zhutong, the commander of the Third War Zone, and organized the rest of the post-war Tax Police Corps into 40 divisions, but ignored the other more than 5,000 wounded. As a result, Sun Liren, the former head of the subordinate regiment of the Tax Police Corps, reorganized the "Anti-Smuggling Corps" on the basis of these 5,000 wounded soldiers, recruited the old troops, and soon led his troops to participate in the Battle of Wuhan...... After the Nationalist Government moved its capital to Chongqing, the Ministry of Finance reorganized the Tax Police Corps, and Sun Liren was promoted to the head of the Major General Regiment and led his troops to move to Guizhou Duyun for training.

"Song Ziwen is not yet the premier, but he has regained control of the finances, and most importantly, he pays great attention to this tax police corps...... Therefore, I intend to propose to Chairman Chiang that this unit be expanded and incorporated into the system of the National Revolutionary Army. Looking at Zheng Jiemin, who was eager, Qin Wei said slowly.

"That Song ......"

"Anti-Japanese War, he can't say anything." Qin Wei smiled, "What's more, the expansion of the Tax Police Corps is also good for him...... That Sun Liren was his man. As a commander-in-chief, how can you be a military commander? ”

"You want to expand the Tax Police Corps into an army?" Zheng Jiemin couldn't help but shout.

"The tax police corps had more than 30,000 troops at the beginning of its establishment, which is almost an army." Qin Wei said: "Song Ziwen's money is not easy to get, and there must be people he can trust." Therefore, once the army is formed, Sun Liren, the army commander, will not be able to escape. However, with Chairman Chiang's usual character, at least a few people should be arranged to be division commanders...... I would like to recommend you! ”

"I'll do it!"

Zheng Jiemin jumped up directly.

"You happen to be in class in Guizhou, so look for an opportunity to run more evenly, have a relationship with Sun Liren, and exchange experiences at the same time...... After all, you didn't bring any soldiers. ”

"Yes!"

"Very good...... Get ready to be a division commander. (To be continued......)