Back at the inn, Sister-in-law Fang and Fang Zhichun, who had been waiting for a long time, greeted them and asked if there was any progress in the matter? Fang Youchun hugged his son and kissed him, and after sitting down, he briefly told his relatives about going to the provincial party headquarters.

Wu Ming, who was worried, heard that Kui Yuan and Lei Peng had gone shopping, nodded and entered the room of the two apprentices next door alone, made a cup of tea and sat down, lit a cigarette and thought silently.

Wu Ming's mind was full of people and things he had encountered in the provincial party department, and he carefully recalled every detail and every conversation, and there was an indescribable sense of absurdity in his heart.

After repeated weighing and careful consideration, he judged that Xuan Tiewu, Leng Xin and Liu Zhiyi would not cause trouble to him, and I am afraid that it would be rare to meet in the future, even if they had suspicions, or secretly investigated, the purpose was also based on the nostalgia and respect for Chen Bo'an, the comrade who died in the battle, I believe that with the current level of communication and the chaotic situation, they will not be able to find out anything famous, and Wu Ming still has this confidence.

What makes Wu Ming distressed is that until now he still can't forget Chen Bo'an, who looks similar to himself in the photo, every time he thinks about it, it makes him very painful and entangled, from the expressions and tones on the faces of Leng Xin and the three of them today, Wu Ming deeply understands the deep brotherly feelings between Huangpu Paoze, which is forged with blood and fire and life, which is touching and respectful.

Wu Ming has his own dignity and his own principles of doing things, he has not yet reached the time when he is desperate for life and death, and he faces a lot of choices, and now he can do a career by defecting to Fang Youchun, and he can also make Mao Liangwu's group of brothers and villagers who are looking forward to live a better life, and their life situation is a hundred times better than half a year ago.

Wu Ming never shows anything on his face easily, and no one can see anything wrong with Wu Ming during dinner.

I don't know how Fang Youchun comforted his family, everyone had a smile on their faces, and they seemed to be quite optimistic about the unknown prospects.

When he was almost finished eating, Fang Zhichun suddenly asked Wu Ming: "When will you take Xiaoxin to West Lake to fulfill your promise?" ”

Wu Ming took the last bite of rice, drank a small half bowl of soup, and then replied unhurriedly: "I'm afraid we will have to stay here for a while, waiting for the notice of the party investigation team at any time...... Let's put the play thing down for the time being, I've been busy with something in the past two days, and I'll talk about it after I'm busy, and I won't forget it. ”

Seeing that Fang Youchun and his wife have no opinion, Fang Zhichun can't say anything, she can only be angry in her heart, these days she is looking forward to taking Xiaoxin to the West Lake with Wu Ming every day, but who knows that the road has been delayed again.

After that, for three consecutive days, Wu Ming led his two apprentices to go out early and return late, and everywhere they went was the most lively silk market in the city, the hardware machine market on Changqing Street, the Guangji Hospital next to the Christian Church in Jesus Lane, etc., and even in the hardware processing factory and foundry in the northeast of the city, and the smelly mule and horse market in the east of the city, they could stay for a long time.

Every night when he came back, Wu Ming hid in the room of the two apprentices and buried his head in writing, while the two apprentices lay on the edge of the bed, Lu Kuiyuan recorded what he saw and felt at the end of the day in a brand-new notebook, and the illiterate Lei Peng had to painfully pinch the pencil and copy the "Three Character Classic".

Fang Zhichun was so angry about this that he complained to his brother and sister-in-law every day.

Fang Youchun warned her: Men have their own affairs, don't fool around! According to Wu Ming's purchase of a boat for the villagers of Maoliangwu, Sister-in-law Fang guessed that Wu Ming probably wanted to do business, and persuaded Fang Zhichun not to disturb Wu Ming.

On the seventh day, the three Wu Ming masters and apprentices, who were still tired of going out early and returning late, finally aroused the curiosity of Fang Youchun and his wife, and the couple repeatedly wondered what Wu Ming wanted to do?

Late at night before going to bed, Fang Youchun and Wu Ming chatted about some domestic situations, discussed the hot news in the newspaper, told Wu Ming some of the gains he had gained when he went out to walk around in the past few days, and then asked Wu Ming what he was busy with?

Wu Ming didn't have the idea of hiding it, but he felt that what he knew might not be understood by others, and he didn't know how to develop on this basis to prevent or alleviate the profound disasters faced by the country and the nation, so he never said the choice he had made.

After a comprehensive understanding of this period of time, Wu Ming has a more intuitive understanding of today's social and cultural environment, industrial and commercial level, etc., so seeing Fang Youchun's abnormal behavior tonight, he knows that they need to talk about each other.

Fang Youchun saw Wu Ming brewing two cups of tea again, and very tacitly took out two packs of "Three Forts", put on a shirt and sat opposite Wu Ming.

Wu Ming sent the teacup to Fang Youchun: "In the past few days, I have been to the silk wholesale market and cotton wholesale market, and in order to understand the level of textile printing and dyeing in Hangzhou, I also asked someone to bring it to the eastern suburbs Hengxin dyeing and weaving factory to visit. Secondly, I went into almost every store in the hardware market on Changqing Street, and several hardware workshops next to the provincial mint also went, and found that the level of machining was much better than I imagined before, most of the workshops have ordinary processing machine tools, and there is a factory with the latest German multi-functional cutting machine tools, steam hammer machines and foot punches have been widely used. ”

"Wait!"

Fang Youchun was completely confused: "It's textile printing and dyeing and hardware processing, can you tell me what your purpose is?" ”

Wu Ming replied truthfully: "Big brother, I believe that you can be reinstated, so make some preparations in advance...... During this time, you have also seen that the central army began to change its clothes in batches, and the next step will be the turn of the local army, since I have made up my mind to follow you, I have to figure things out first, not to mention whether to build my own clothing factory in the future, at least the price and texture of the cloth need to be understood, otherwise I will be deceived. ”

"Again, I know that in the quartermaster warehouse of the Quzhou Security Force, there is a batch of imported machine tools and equipment that you bought back last year for gun maintenance and imitation, and I estimate that it can be used as long as it is repaired, in this case, why don't we simply do something bigger on this basis?"

Fang Youchun was stunned and very moved: "Little brother, have you thought about it, if I am defeated and there is nothing, what will you do?" Is it worth the hard work? ”

Wu Ming said with a smile: "If you don't have it, you can't do it, I was different half a year ago and I had nothing?" Big brother, I believe in you, no matter what the difficulties are, I can't beat you...... Take 10,000 steps back and say, you still have a group of good brothers who share life and death, and there are nearly 100 strong brothers behind me, who dares to bully us when they get angry? ”

"I won't say anything else, it's no problem to take Changshan and become the king, what can't be done? It's just a matter of spending a little more time and energy. ”

Fang Youchun was quite excited after hearing this, he only then realized that Wu Ming was indeed a very good talent, he knew far more than he knew, and quietly, he had already made a choice, and had the best and worst plans, it seemed that he had made a comprehensive plan and thought of every step of the countermeasures.

What is even more rare is Wu Ming's fist heart, he has used his actions to show his attitude, his choice, and the cherishing of friendship.

Wu Ming didn't seem to see Fang Youchun's flushed red eyes: "Yesterday morning, we stayed in the mule and horse market in the east of the city for more than two hours, talked with no less than ten horse dealers, and distributed at least three packs of cigarettes, so that ten foals about two years old were ordered...... I had a very ugly-looking lean horse, covered with leprosy, and his head was scarred by other adult horses, but it was cheaper, and sold for only twenty oceans...... I bought it, stayed there with them and let them help raise it first, and then hired a boat to transport it back that day. ”

"Why are you buying horses? Quzhou has horses, and they are cheap, and when I can do this well, I can give you a hundred military horses if you want, and I will return tomorrow. Fang Youchun said.

Wu Ming explained: "It's different, although I don't know about horses, but I can see that these horses that have just been transported back from Liaoxi are good, and all the foals I bought are not castrated, and the price is very fair." As for the foal that I bought with a leprosy in a moment's head, it was a complete accident, this horse was bullied by the horses, and could only stay alone in the muddy clearing, and the horse dealer also hated this horse, and no one wanted to look at it more, and I didn't care at first, but when I walked outside the wooden fence, this skinny and stinking ugly horse actually stuck out its head and bit my clothes, and the horse dealer came and whipped it hard and did not let go, and it took a dozen whips to barely let go, and whimpered at me, as if they knew me, alas! Seeing that it was pitiful, it was less than two years old, and I didn't think much about it and bought it, and I don't know if it was right or wrong, but it really didn't work, so I fattened it and used it as a pack horse. ”

Fang Youchun knew that Wu Ming had already made up his mind, so he didn't persuade anything: "Before dinner, I heard Kui Yuan and the others say, you went to Jesus Lane in the afternoon?" ”

Wu Ming nodded: "I went, but I came back at the door of the church, I originally wanted to find that Father Raymond to see if I could buy some quinine or some medicine to go back." You should have heard of this person, when he was locked up in a cave with his sister-in-law's family, he got along well with me, and once told me that I would have the opportunity to go to Hangzhou to be a guest at his place, but today I found out that I didn't have enough money on my body, so I turned around and came back, and I didn't know if this foreign monk was not there. ”

"I used to study in the Christian church school there, but now the church school has more than doubled in size compared to the original, and has added a medical department, and its reputation and faculty are not inferior to that of Zhijiang University on the banks of the Qiantang River, which can be regarded as the best medical college in Zhejiang Province at present."

"I had the idea of picking a group of basic poor children in Quzhou counties to send them for further study, but I didn't have time to put them into action."

Fang Youchun did not mention Father Lei Mengde, but this led to the importance he attached to medicine, and he knew that Wu Ming could understand the meaning of his words.

Wu Ming knew what Fang Youchun was thinking, but now was not the time to talk about this, so he turned the topic to the appeal result, but to put it bluntly, he had to wait obediently, the initiative was in the hands of Zhang Daofan, acting director of the provincial party department, and Xu Enzeng, the head of the investigation team of the central party department.

Wu Ming and Fang Youchun didn't expect that Wu Ming insisted on the names of the two instructors that Fang Youchun added to the appeal, which brought them huge benefits.

While they were waiting for the tormented days, Xu Enzeng, director of the General Affairs Division and head of the Investigation Section of the Central Party Department, who was scheming and powerful, had already contacted Lin Wei and Jiang Dingwen by phone and obtained the opinions of the two generals.

When he answered the phone, Jiang Dingwen recalled for a long time before he remembered Fang Youchun, and gave an evaluation of "diligent and studious, good character".

The key is that Lin Wei, a senior staff member who was highly valued by Chiang Kai-shek, received a phone call, and after a short period of surprise, he accurately told Xu Enzeng about Fang Youchun's resume, personality, specialties and contributions to the Northern Expedition Revolution that year, and also said that Fang Youchun was a rare general with a resolute personality and vigorous and resolute character.

With Lin Wei's opinion, Xu En once again analyzed and weighed the current situation in Zhejiang's military circles, and after careful consideration, an internal phone call called the Nanjing Central Party Department and reported in detail to his immediate boss Chen Lifu.

Chen Lifu listened to it and attached great importance to it, and now he urgently needed to build Zhejiang, which is extremely important in terms of geographical location and political and economic status, into a solid base for his faction, so after discussing with Xu Enzeng, he immediately instructed: "Treat it as a typical big case, handle it as an iron case, set an example, and deter Xiaoxiao!" ”

Xu Enzeng understood and put down the phone to convene an emergency meeting.

Liu Zhiyi, head of the Hangzhou Military Police Corps, who attended the meeting as an observer, led his troops straight to Quzhou overnight and arrested all 17 generals and colonels involved in the case, including Xie Yuzhang, commander of the western Zhejiang security department, Wang Mouren, deputy chief of staff and chief of military affairs, and Lu Mouren, head of the military police, who were involved in the case, seized all the account books, and confiscated their personal property.