Wu Ming's answer made Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai stunned, and everyone knew what Wu Ming's mouth was talking about, it was definitely a tiger borrowing a pig and not going back.

Ma Zhizhai, who was upright by nature, was just about to stop Wu Ming from doing this, but was stopped by Liu Rulin: "Zhizhai, don't worry, think about it, if a full-scale war between China and Japan really comes, how long can our army resist?" Who will be able to keep their Wanguan family property at that time? ”

"I dare to assert that at that time, the rich gentry of the whole Zhejiang will not be able to lend money to the government and the army unless they move their families abroad...... There have been countless such things since the Republic of China, not to mention that the loan is used to resist Japanese aggression and defend the country, you think about it

Wu Ming was quite surprised by Liu Rulin's reasonable reaction, and he was also very impressed, stepped forward and held Liu Rulin's hand tightly, smiled and turned to Ma Zhizhai:

"Brother Ma, I heard that your old man always wants to go back to his hometown in Quzhou, I think Yu Crisp will send the old man and children to Quzhou after the New Year...... Quzhou is already considered a large rear, at least this year the Japanese army will not be able to hit there, if you are afraid of danger, the Kaihua county town in the north is also in the mountains, our engineers and the infrastructure company of the Maoliangwu Chamber of Commerce will start to build a fortress on the high ground along Majin Creek after building the fortifications along Fangcun Creek, and it will be difficult for outsiders to attack it."

"Of course, this is only a second-class choice, our sappers are hurrying up to build a house in Maoliangwu, a new batch of small western-style buildings has been completed, I specially left two sets for you and Brother Liu, right next to my yard, when there is really a fight, my father-in-law's family will also move in."

Ma Zhizhai was both grateful and worried, and his heart was very conflicted, and he didn't know how to answer.

Wu Ming didn't pay attention to Ma Zhizhai, whose face was uncertain, said a few words to Liu Rulin, and boarded the train to the west.

The train roared away, and Liu Rulin patted Ma Zhizhai on the shoulder: "Let's go, according to the plan discussed with the younger brother yesterday, we will rectify the army after we go back, and we will not keep any military funds saved before, and strive to recruit three more regiments of recruits for strict training, otherwise if we really want to fight, we don't even have the ability to protect ourselves." ”

Ma Zhizhai, who was full of heavy faces, grabbed Liu Rulin and asked with a heavy heart: "If you really want to fight, will you send the family to Maoliangwu?" ”

Liu Rulin sighed faintly and asked rhetorically, "Is there any other way to do this?" If there is a real fight, Hangzhou, which is close to the mouth of the Qiantang River, will definitely not be able to defend it, not to mention anything else, the Japanese army only needs to send a few planes to drop bombs, and the entire city of Hangzhou will suffer heavy casualties......"

"You and I are both the leaders of the troops, who can take care of the family at that time? It's better to send it away as soon as possible, and it's more reassuring to start a war without worry, even if you die on the battlefield, you won't have any regrets."

Ma Zhizhai was quite helpless, lowered his head and didn't say anything, and followed Liu Rulin to leave the platform of Xiaoshan Railway Station with a heavy heart, and then took the ferry back to Hangzhou.

Wu Ming returned to the Changshan barracks without any major moves, and the main content of the meeting of the officers to discuss was to formulate the next training + plan, and the rest was the vacation arrangements before and after the Spring Festival.

It is now the beginning of January, and the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve this year is the 10th day of February in the new calendar, and the 25th is the Lantern Festival, which means that there are nearly 40 days at Wu Ming's disposal.

Since the internal defense of western Zhejiang was handed over to the local government, the new Second Division was no longer responsible for the cumbersome task of local security protection for the time being, so after thinking about it, Wu Ming decided to take this opportunity to give the officers and men under his command a long vacation in turn, so that every brother could have a one-month family vacation, and after the Spring Festival and even in the next few years, I am afraid that there will be no more opportunities to take a holiday.

Wu Ming has always attached great importance to discipline, and military training and ideological and cultural education have always been unremitting, although every officer and soldier has had a holiday over the years, but it is a short-term vacation of five to seven days, and a long vacation of more than ten days has never been seen before, let alone a month's vacation, so the brothers were very surprised to hear Wu Ming's decision, but none of them were unwilling to get the opportunity to rest and relax, so they all smiled and raised their hands in favor.

Only Long Shaogang, the deputy division commander who rose all the way from the grassroots level and became a serious veteran, was secretly worried, and he knew from Wu Ming's abnormal behavior that a full-scale war between China and Japan was really coming, so he only complained to Wu Ming afterwards that the vacation was too long, and he was worried that the brothers would slack off.

After his brothers took turns on vacation, Wu Ming was not idle, in addition to stepping up the construction of the intelligence network and the construction of Mao Liangwu's combat readiness, his eyes were always fixed on Nanjing, Shanghai, and North China.

The development of the situation in the following month or so basically confirmed Wu Ming's speculation.

Chiang Kai-shek, who had returned to Nanjing to gain supreme power, really began an orderly military and political clean-up work, Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army and Yang Hucheng's Northwest Army were rapidly split under Chiang Kai-shek's Huairou policy, and batch after batch of high-ranking officials in the Nanjing government were either promoted openly and secretly demoted, or resigned and retired to seclusion in the major adjustment.

Chiang Kai-shek's rectification of the restless and panicked Central Army was particularly severe, and a large number of generals led by He Yingqin who vacillated their positions and disobeyed the yang and yin lost power, either hanging on a false title and vacant post and becoming an ornament, or they were relegated to the second line in name only, and the Lixing Society was even more miserable, He Jinhan, Deng Wenyi and others were refrigerated, and only Chen Cheng, Jiang Dingwen, Zhou Zhirou, Dai Li, and others who unswervingly followed Chiang Kai-shek rose rapidly.

Chiang Kai-shek straightened out the upper echelons of the army by vigorous and resolute means, and immediately carried out large-scale reorganization and strengthening of all units of the Central Army, and one power struggle after another entered a white heat.

On the morning of the second day after the Lantern Festival, officers above the battalion commander level of the New Second Division gathered at the Changshan Barracks to hold the first military enlargement meeting after the Spring Festival holiday.

The officers who enjoyed the rich and leisurely vacation were all red and laughing, and after entering the conference room and sitting down, they still exchanged their heads and talked and laughed in a low voice, but when they saw the latest training + planning and assessment standards issued, no one could laugh out loud.

On the rostrum, Chief of Staff Zhang Dongning explained the plan for the three-month training + planning and the large-scale confrontation exercise to be held in three months.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to the decision of the division headquarters meeting, the staff groups dispatched by the division headquarters will follow up and supervise the entire training of all brigades and regiments, and at the same time conduct a comprehensive assessment of the military discipline, spiritual outlook, political ideology, cultural and educational aspects of the officers and men of each regiment and battalion. I advise the brothers not to be lazy, otherwise they will most likely be transferred out of our new Second Division."

A young colonel and two lieutenants who had just come to report with an order from the Central Military Commission were very sorry because they could not attend the military enlargement meeting of the new Second Division, but they were in a good mood under the warm hospitality of several division staff officers, and they inquired about the various situations of the new Second Division from time to time.

Several young staff officers were basically able to answer all questions, and they were able to clearly inform them that they were beyond their authority when they were concerned about the secrets of the department.

It was nearly noon before the enlarged meeting of the new Second Division was announced, and the participating officers, who had planned to get together for a few drinks, no longer had the heart to stay, and rushed back to their units one by one under tremendous pressure, and even the nine chief and deputy brigade commanders and chiefs of staff were not in the mood to stay for dinner

Wu Ming led Deputy Division Commander Long Shaogang, Chief of Staff Zhang Dongning, and Operations Section Chief Dai Ziran into the meeting room, and the three newly arrived officers, who had been waiting anxiously, hurriedly stood up and saluted, and the colonel in the middle, who was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, sent the transfer order to Wu Ming with both hands: "The subordinates are polite, and I ask Chief Wu to take care of me."

Wu Ming nodded slightly, took the order and glanced at it casually, handed it to Long Shaogang beside him, and immediately introduced a few Long Shaogang to Fang Zhibin, and then pointed to the sofa next to him and politely invited everyone to sit down.

After everyone was seated, Wu Ming leisurely lit a cigarette and took two puffs comfortably, and then turned to Fang Zhibin unhurriedly: "Brother Fang was recommended by Director Dai Yunong of the Lixing Society, right?" ”

Fang Zhibin was stunned, he didn't expect Wu Ming to understand his situation so thoroughly, but he remembered the earnest advice of Dai Li, the head of the secret service before leaving Nanjing, so he had to answer Wu Ming's question:

"The younger brother was indeed recommended by Director Dai and approved by the principal to come to the new Second Division to serve as the deputy chief of staff...... The younger brother graduated from the seventh phase of the Central Military Academy, and has been serving as a special agent of the Whampoa Alumni Association and the Lixing Society, and has no actual experience in leading troops. ”

Long Shaogang and Zhang Dongning heard that Fang Zhibin said that Chairman Jiang personally approved the transfer, they both looked at each other in surprise, and they all looked at Fang Zhibin, who was handsome but full of anxiety, no matter how they looked at it, they couldn't tell that this guy who belonged to the little white-faced type was actually from the secret service of the Lixing Society, which Wu Ming had always been quite afraid of.

At the beginning of the 17th year of the Republic of China, the Kuomintang set up a full-time intelligence "Party Affairs Investigation Section" in the Organization Department of the Central Committee.

In the 20th year of the Republic of China, the secret core organization of the "Chinese National Rejuvenation Society" "Lixing Society" set up a "special service department" to specialize in intelligence assassination activities. In the following year, the Party Affairs Investigation Department was expanded into the "Secret Service Headquarters", and in the 24th year of the Republic of China, it was reorganized into the "Party Affairs Investigation Department". This is the origin of the two major secret agencies of the Republic of China, "Military Unification" and "Central Unification".

Long Shaogang and Zhang Dongning learned from Wu Ming that after the Xi'an Incident, in view of the lack of intelligence work, Chiang Kai-shek intended to merge Dai Li's "Lixing Society Special Service Office" and Xu En's "Party Affairs Investigation Office" into the "Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Committee of the National Government", with Chen Lifu as the director, and the former Party Affairs Investigation Office as one place, which was specifically responsible for party affairs, with Xu En as the director, and the former Li Xingshe Special Service Office as the second department in charge of special agents, which was still under Dai Li's management.

In addition to being responsible for spying on intelligence, the special service department of the Lixing Society, which is directly under the leadership of the Central Military Commission, also conducts counter-espionage work and carries out intelligence tasks by means of assassination. Now Chairman Chiang and Dai Li have reached out to the new Second Division, which is by no means a good thing.