Chapter 896: Breaking the Cocoon and Fluttering its Wings for Dominance (7)
Chapter 896 Breaking out of the cocoon and fluttering wings to achieve dominance (7)
Chiang Kai-shek was worthy of being a political figure who maneuvered freely in these troubled times. Under his repeated maneuvers, whether openly or covertly, holding high the banner, General Yu Xuezhong of the Northeast Army was approved by the central government and the Peiping Military and Political Commission with overwhelming votes, and he became the leader of the Communist Party of China.
Song Zheyuan, the meritorious general who had the most hope of becoming the Chairman of Hebei Province, also happily announced his assumption of the post of Chairman of Chahar Province and stayed in Peiping all day long, waiting for him.
The old boss Feng Yuxiang, who was summoned by the central government, gave up his territory. The former generals, because of the position of chairman of Chahar Province, finally officially moved towards independence. From then on, the Northwest Army was no longer the arrogant Northwestern Army of the past.
Others don't know why Song Zheyuan accepted the appointment from the central government so readily, but An Yi understands one of the most important reasons:
Before the 24th Army withdrew from North China, it quietly sold the advanced weapons and equipment of a Class A division to Song Zheyuan at the best price. However, even at the best price, the total transaction amount was as high as 3.65 million yuan, and
The money was transferred to An Yi's An Jiajun account in less than seven days.
Based on the analysis of Song Zheyuan's difficult financial situation, it was difficult for him to come up with millions of dollars in cash at once. Even if he had accumulated millions of dollars through local tax collection, he was still stretched due to the large-scale military expansion that was still going on.
The reason why Song Zheyuan suddenly became rich is that it doesn't take much thinking to see that there is the shadow of Chairman Chiang behind him.
In the name of the central government, they quietly spent millions to buy the tranquility of North China and the surrender of Song Zheyuan and tens of thousands of his officers and soldiers. They could not only contain and divide the nearly 100,000 Northeastern Army who were in decline but unwilling to give up their vested interests, but also could continue to do so.
Successfully estranged the master-servant relationship between Song Zheyuan and Feng Yuxiang for decades. Chairman Chiang was very willing to do this kind of thing, and he was familiar with the road and could do it easily.
Even if you pay millions or even tens of millions for this, it is still much wiser than using force and spending several or even dozens of times military expenditures. What's more, the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign involving dozens of divisions of the Central Army has reached the stage of strategic encirclement.
During the critical period, the warlords of Guangdong and Guangxi were unwilling to be left alone and were ready to take action. The Japanese invaders who occupied the Northeast were watching day and night with undying intentions. A stable North China could not be more important to the implementation of Chiang Kai-shek's entire strategic plan.
The only thing that made Chiang Kai-shek unexpected and extremely disappointed and angry was the betrayal of his disciple An Yi. Although An Yi still firmly supported Chiang Kai-shek's policy of national unification and nominally obeyed the leadership of the central government and the leadership of the Communist Party,
However, An Yi and the powerful army he led no longer listened to orders and announcements. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek, who had always had absolute command over An Yi, could not bear it and was unwilling to delve into the reasons and find out the focus and core of the contradiction. He was furious and disappointed.
I would rather call it a "deviation".
Yang Yongtai was a man of great resourcefulness, but Chiang Kai-shek's intelligence and power were far superior to that of Yang Yongtai, otherwise he would not be where he is today.
After conducting a detailed analysis of An Yi, both of them knew that now is not the time for public severe punishment, not to mention An Yi's good reputation and rising political status in the minds of the entire *** people and even all walks of life at home and abroad.
Not to mention that the Anjia Army still has more than 100,000 elite troops after the disarmament of 120,000. Just taking the economic strength of the Anyi Group as an example, Chiang Kai-shek, Yang Yongtai and others are helpless. At the same time, they are also suffering from the laissez-faire and neglect for so many years.
Deeply regretful - Anyi Group has penetrated into all fields of the entire national economy. Its banks have formed a large-scale and monopolized light and heavy industrial industry. It has more than all domestic groups and institutions combined, multiplied by ten times and a hundred times.
Advanced technology has deeply affected the pharmaceutical industry and grain and oil companies in the daily lives of people across the country... What's even more terrible is that the interests of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols who control the central government's purse are almost all tightly tied to An Yi, forming a chain.
Prosperity and common prosperity lead to loss.
"Weaken! Suppress! Weaken again, suppress again, then divide it into pieces and break it into pieces!"
This is the only strategy Yang Yongtai wrote in a sixty-page secret report after more than a year of thinking and research and more than three months of writing.
This leader of the Department of Political Science, whose status and influence in China's political arena has risen rapidly, is familiar with all political economics from the East and the West. He has seen the terrifying monopoly power of the Anyi Group that continues to grow and develop.
, saw the rapid trend of An Yi's economic control and military development, and saw the profound crisis that if not stopped, the national power would be subverted and occupied by An Yi and his group in the next few years.
Looking at An Yi's development trajectory over the past eight years, Yang Yongtai clearly realized that if An Yi, who is disguised as a warlord and a big capitalist but possesses strong nationalist ideas and strong socialist ideas, comes to power to maintain elite class rule,
The political science department that advocates capitalist democracy will never succeed.
After repeated weighings, Chiang Kai-shek finally made up his mind to not only continue to suppress the An Yi Group militarily, but also to suppress and alienate An Yi and his group economically.
This time, Chiang Kai-shek did not wield the big stick of money. The Anyi Group and its allies were all wealthy people worth tens of millions, and they could not be shaken by a mere hundred million. Only by standing at the level of a legitimate ruler and relying on the government
Only in the name of national interests can a coercive crackdown policy be implemented to play a substantial role.
The prudent Chiang Kai-shek did not make any announcement before the series of plans were officially implemented, and did not even let any general in the army know about it. Because An Yi's character of clear love and hate and his generous style made him popular among the top brass of the army, especially those in Huangpu.
He has many friends in the department, and only a very few are offended, and he is offended openly and openly, so that neither his political opponents nor his rivals can openly slander him.
Another important reason is that Chiang Kai-shek used a very low-key and very natural and calm way to attack the Anyi Group one by one.
In this very sensitive period, where there are hidden dangers of rebellion everywhere, he still cannot openly offend An Yi, who has gained countless popularity and made great military exploits, so he has to choose a more low-key approach, and after implementing a series of measures
The impact has been reduced to the lowest point, which not only makes An Yi miserable, but also serves as a shock to An Yi's economic partners and promotes their awakening.
Chiang Kai-shek had made up his mind, and Yang Yongtai would naturally take care of the rest. Yang Yongtai, who was well prepared, efficiently formulated a series of combined countermeasures based on the following series of events related to the security of the party and the country, the national economy and the people's livelihood.
On June 15, in northern Sichuan, the Red Army led by Zhang Guotao and Xu Qianqian was defeated steadily. Tian Songyao and Yang Sen, who had lost most of their losses, finally put aside their scarred faces and called on the central government and Chairman Chiang for quick assistance. The Red Army not only defeated Tian Songyao but
Arriving on the other side of the Jialing River, they beat Yang Sen to pieces and took over most of six counties including Guangyuan, Nanjiang, Tongjiang, and Wanyuan. The Red Army's strength quickly increased to more than 38,000 men, and power was extended to all of China.
Announced the establishment of the Red Soviet regime in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Border Region, and took advantage of the victory to press forward step by step towards the Bazhong and Dazhou lines occupied by Liu Xiang. Liu Xiang, who was mobilizing allied forces to prepare for a decisive battle with his uncle Liu Wenhui after the flood receded, was so scared that his face turned pale and he also followed.
Tian Songyao and Yang Sen called Chiang Kai-shek to complain and requested military and material assistance as soon as possible.
On June 17, the warlords of Guangdong and Guangxi, Chen Jitang and Li Zongren, Hu Hanmin, who had retired to Hong Kong, and Jiang Guangding, who was powerful in Fujian, successively called the country to question the US$50 million "cotton and wheat loan" signed by Finance Minister Song Ziwen with the US government during his visit to the United States.
We strongly demand that the central government provide a reasonable explanation and publish the contents of the loan agreement, and also demand that the entire contents of the China-Japan Tanggu Agreement be published.
Immediately afterwards, left-wing newspapers and social groups deeply influenced by communist ideas launched a large-scale denunciation across the north and south of the Yangtze River, criticizing the Nanjing government and provincial governments at all levels for expropriation, corruption, and exposing the warlords, compradors and empire.
The communists worked together to evade taxes and resell mineral resources belonging to the entire Chinese people, and aided the evil deeds. They imported a large amount of Japanese goods, impacted the national industry, and carried out crazy plundering of the Chinese people. For a time, all kinds of gangsters were everywhere, and all kinds of rumors were circulating, making
The prestige of the Chiang Kai-shek government, which had been devastated by internal and external wars, was greatly damaged, and it had to jump out one after another to explain and respond.
On June 18, Yang Xingfo, the director-general of Academia Sinica and executive member of the Civil Rights Protection Alliance, who maintained friendly relations with the Communist Party of China, was assassinated in Shanghai. This instantly pushed the debate sweeping along the Yangtze River to a climax, creating a nationwide crisis of trust and a major crisis.
During the debate, the female writer Ding Ling was arrested in Shanghai and was rescued by Yang Xingfo. The sudden assassination of Ma Shaowu related to Ding's case was revealed again, and a political crisis that could shake the credibility of the Communist Party broke out.
On June 22, the Yangtze River flooded more than ten counties and towns along the lower reaches east of Hukou. Only Jiujiang, which had prepared for flood control in advance, suffered minor losses at Hukou. Chiang Kai-shek, who was inspecting flood control work along the river, once again became a left-wing leader.
*The target of the criticism is very strange this time. The left-wing alliance, which had just scolded the great warlord and capitalist An Yi, suddenly praised An Yi for his contribution to flood control and disaster relief in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
The repeated advice from the downstream areas was brought out again to prove Chiang Kai-shek's incompetence and disregard for the people's life and death, and was only interested in fighting the people's civil war.
On June 24, newspapers across the country published an important news: After British Minister Lan Pusheng went to Chongqing to inspect the work of the British Consulate, he obtained an invitation from An Yi, director of the Sichuan-Hunan-Yunnan-Guizhou Border Region Appeasement Office, to visit southern Sichuan starting from today.
We visited Xufu and Luzhou for two days and visited more than 300 British engineering and technical personnel and religious figures working in various places in southern Sichuan.
Once the news was announced, An Yi quickly became the focus of media reports and attracted strong attention from European and American countries.
The left-wing alliance has once again changed the direction of its struggle. An Yi, a big warlord and big capitalist, suddenly has new labels such as "worshiping foreigners and favoring foreigners", "connecting with foreign countries", "colluding with imperialism and reselling people's wealth" and so on.
Yang Yongtai was waiting for this opportunity and this entry point.
On June 25, four 3,000-ton cargo ships of the Jiangnan Yangtze Shipping Company, fully loaded with export materials, were seized by a battalion of the State Customs and the Tax Police of the Ministry of Finance in the Jiangnan area for tax evasion.
The news was quickly and prominently reported by the "Republic of China Daily" and the "Ta Kung Pao" controlled by the Department of Political Science, which immediately triggered a strong response from all the Chinese Communist Party. The mouthpieces of the left-wing alliance immediately exaggerated it, and they did not even realize that this time they were crusading.
Tone, and what kind of medicine is hard to sell in the center of ***.
Chiang Kai-shek perked up, stood up and asked seriously: "Zu Yan, is Liu Kun still with you?"
"Yes, he is always waiting for the call." Chen Lifu replied calmly.
Chiang Kai-shek was quite surprised and nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, very good! After the opening ceremony, I want to meet Liu Kun... His ability to carry out work under extremely difficult circumstances is enough to prove his commitment to
The daring loyalty of the party and the country...Xue Bing?"
"Here!" Deng Wenyi stepped forward quickly.
"Right now, go and notify General Cixiu, the Chief Instructor General Geng Guang, the Chief Instructor General Jinan, who rushed back from the Xu Mansion and asked me to appoint him as the head of the Lushan Training Group... By the way, there are also Jiang Mingsan and Gu Mosan.
Two of them, let them come to my place immediately, have breakfast together, and talk while eating."