The next morning there was a brilliant glow, and the rainy weather for a week finally cleared up.
The heavily guarded Hankou Airport was busy. When the convoy transporting Chiang Kai-shek and his entourage drove into the airport, all the officers and soldiers put down everything they were doing, stood up and saluted, and waited for the convoy to pass before continuing with their work.
The convoy stopped on the tarmac in front of Chiang Kai-shek's special Junkers 52 three-engine transport aircraft and An Yi's brand-new AN5 transport aircraft. Chiang Kai-shek got out of the car, glanced around, and then curiously walked to the front of An Yi's special plane and looked at it carefully.
, seeing the beautiful streamlined fuselage and round cabin shape of the AN5 aircraft, and then looking at the square fuselage of his own Junkers plane, he nodded slightly, seeming to have thought of something.
Generals such as Zhang Xueliang, director of the Wuhan camp, Qian Dajun, chief of staff, and Chen Cheng, who had just assumed the post of Army Organization Director, along with civilian officials such as Song Ziwen, Kong Xiangxi, and Yang Yongtai who came to see them off, followed Chiang Kai-shek step by step, surrounding An Yi's
The silver special plane turned in circles, admiring and admiring it as it walked.
Many people said with emotion that we can finally build our own big airplane.
Zhang Xueliang was smiling and in a particularly comfortable mood. At last night's banquet, he not only negotiated with An Yi on the equipment procurement issue for a mechanized assault battalion, but also received strong support from An Yi and will dispatch fifteen instructors within forty days.
Following the equipment, they arrived at the Nanhu Military Camp in Wuhan to conduct three-month training and guidance for the officers and soldiers of the newly formed assault battalion of the Northwest Army.
Secondly, An Yi also promised to provide a full set of weapons and equipment to a regiment of Zhang Xueliang's direct guard brigade within the next six months, with the standards completely consistent with the 24th Army Guard Regiment.
In the end, what made Zhang Xueliang even more happy was that during the banquet, he expressed his appreciation for An Yi's plane and complained to An Yi that the American Boeing 247 special plane he had bought six months ago had a range of less than 700 kilometers and was very crowded with ten people on it.
Not only was it noisy, but the frequency of maintenance was also high. An Yi listened and said nothing, and proactively agreed to give Zhang Xueliang a plane that was exactly the same as his own, and quietly told Zhang Xueliang
Xueliang said: My aircraft is not only easy to fly and has superior performance, but also has an increased fuel tank capacity. It uses two high-horsepower engines from the American Fox Company, which are currently recognized as the most technologically mature and fuel-efficient engines in the world. The bottom of the fuselage
It also uses the latest high-quality alloy steel plate protection developed and produced in Germany. When flying above an altitude of 800 meters, heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground cannot penetrate it.
Compared to Zhang Xueliang's elation, Song Ziwen was very angry. If Chiang Kai-shek had not been flown to Chongqing today to inspect and command the suppression of the Communists, Song Ziwen would not have appeared here at all. During the discussion yesterday afternoon, An Yi, who is usually very talkative,
Except for supporting Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi's financial reform plan and supporting the new currency issuance policy, all other issues are different
Even though Chiang Kai-shek's face was gloomy and extremely displeased amidst the noise, An Yi still insisted on his opinion and firmly grasped the tax autonomy of western Hunan, western Guizhou, southern Sichuan and southern Yunnan, no matter how Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi persuaded him.
, An Yi refused to agree, and when pressed, he shouted that he must first pay off the debt owed to me by the central government, which made Song Ziwen furious, but there was nothing he could do.
Today's Xiangxi and southern Sichuan are different from the backwaters of the past. Qianxi, which is closely connected to the two major industrial and agricultural bases, is easier to negotiate. Anyway, Chiang Kai-shek has asked the central government to exempt the people of Guizhou from taxes for one year. The taxes in western Guizhou
It's not a big deal to temporarily release the power, but it's almost
Southern Sichuan and Western Hunan, which account for half of the country's industrial and commercial output value, and both tax revenue and industrial scale are growing rapidly, as well as southern Yunnan, where the import and export trade with French Indochina is growing rapidly. Once it is not in the hands of the state, Song Ziwen and
Many of Kong Xiangxi's grand plans simply could not be implemented.
However, how easy is it to wrest these pieces of land from An Yi? Today, the An Yi Group has more than 200,000 troops and allies all over the surrounding areas. It maintains harmonious coexistence with Shanxi Yan Baichuan and Guangxi Li Delin and makes a fortune together.
They have good relations with each other and have increasingly close interests with Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang, Zhu Peide in the southwestern border, and Liu Wenhui in western and southwestern Sichuan, forming a huge military and political force.
Internally, An Yi has not only won the enthusiastic support of the people in his jurisdiction and all walks of life, but he is also a member of the Central Executive Committee with huge decision-making power. If An Yi is angered, he dares to draw a gun and confront you. Even Chairman Chiang Kai-shek can't.
If An Yi is allowed to do this or that as he likes in the past, what can Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi do?
Externally, domestic chaebols such as the Kong family, Feng family, Yu family and Shanghai Sanxin Company, as well as famous multinational groups and financial institutions in Europe and the United States, are inextricably linked to the Anyi Group. Any move will trigger
The rapid turbulence of the entire society and the collapse of the economy will also cause many political problems.
In this case, who dares to touch An Yi's interests easily?
After the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek wanted to take advantage of An Yi's interests because of An Yi's outstanding achievements and gradually became powerful. As a result, he was left disgraced and regretted his mistake. In the end, he had to push Yang Yongtai out as a scapegoat.
As a result, the Department of Political Science, which used to have a good relationship with the country's major plutocrats and the bourgeoisie, is now unable to hold its head high, and is still being suppressed by the CC Department, which has seized the opportunity.
In this encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted to force the main force of the Red Army into the territory of An Yi and his allies. The Central Army followed and gained control of western Hunan, southern Sichuan, western Guizhou and other places in one fell swoop, and then exiled An Yi, who had lost all his territory, to
Go northwest and build an industrial and agricultural base that is comparable to the Syrian government. Unexpectedly, An Yifei
He was always vigilant and did not give the Central Army any opportunity to take advantage of it. Chiang Kai-shek also understood from the military mobilization and layout of An Jiajun and his allies that An Yi had seen through his plan, so he pretended that nothing had happened and continued to behave
He showed an attitude of intimacy and trust, but secretly readjusted the direction and plan of the seizure.
Therefore, Song Ziwen is the most depressed and annoyed among everyone today. Fortunately, Kong Xiangxi, An Yi's nominal godfather, is mediating, and An Yi agrees to seriously consider Song Ziwen's "suggestion" to see how to solve the problem of local conflicts in a better way.
The power conflict between the central government.
As for the eighteen-month buffer period proposed by Kong Xiangxi and Xini, both Song Ziwen and An Yi firmly disagreed. Song Ziwen believed that the time was too long. An Yi did not say the length of time at all, but directly shouted, "Give me back the money! It was overdue for so long.
I'll be more generous with the interest. If I don't want it anymore, I'll just keep the principal.
"Repay me the money. If you can pay off your debt to me today, I won't care if you send people to collect taxes at my door tomorrow." This sentence aroused Song Ziwen's anger again. Finally, under Chiang Kai-shek's loud scolding, the two of them started talking angrily.
He kept his mouth shut, but he was no longer in the mood to continue the discussion.
Now, it was Song Ziwen who was anxious. An Yi was not anxious at all. He introduced the excellent performance of the AN5 aircraft to Chiang Kai-shek and everyone with a smile as if nothing had happened, and politely answered various questions about the Xufu aircraft manufacturing factory.
After walking around the big plane, An Yi implored Chiang Kai-shek to take a ride on his special plane to experience the differences and advantages and disadvantages of the two types of aircraft. Chiang Kai-shek readily agreed and flew in the same direction anyway. He would rest for a while in Chongqing and then fly to Xufu.
What will it do to delay An Yi?
After bidding farewell, Chiang Kai-shek boarded the AN5 aircraft under the respectful welcome of An Yi. After sitting down, he waved to the generals below through the bright window. Seeing that everyone was waving, only Song Ziwen was already very angry.
He got into the car and closed the door, shaking his head.
An Yi's attendants and seven or eight staff officers in the attendant's room got into the Junkers aircraft nearby. Soon after, the Junkers aircraft took off first, followed closely by the AN5 aircraft, which also took off into the sky. Three aircraft from the Central Air Force Special Service Group
Escorted by Hawker fighter jets, it flew directly to Chongqing.
Chiang Kai-shek did not express any opinions on the aircraft's excellent performance, simple and elegant interior decoration and good sound insulation effect, but his recognition and love for the aircraft can be seen from his extremely appreciative eyes.
The plane reached the predetermined altitude and flew smoothly. An Yi came over with a cup of hot water, sat on the large and comfortable leather seat opposite Chiang Kai-shek, and smoothly pulled down the movable valve on the bulkhead. An exquisite small coffee table appeared between the two of them.
"Principal, please drink some water."
An Yi carefully placed the cup in front of Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek was very interested, looked around, and finally tapped the coffee table panel with his fingers: "It's a whole piece of peach wood, you will really enjoy it... The design is clever and the layout is beautiful. It is much better than my special plane. It's very good, very good."
good!"
An Yi said with a smile: "The students have always wanted to build a decent special plane for the principal, but when I discussed it with my teacher's wife at the end of last year, my teacher's wife said that she had just replaced it with a 'large-capacity aircraft' (the current military requirements for Junkers 52 aircraft
nickname), it was no longer necessary for the time being. Later, after thinking about it, the students gave it up and waited for the new launch of the German Juncker Company that we were cooperating with at the end of the year.
After the aircraft was finalized and produced, the students immediately built a special plane for the principal that was faster, safer, and more luxurious than this one. According to the current design plan and the performance calculation of the new engine, the load capacity will be 100% higher than the student's plane.
More than thirty years old, it can easily carry forty-five people, and its range is as high as two thousand two hundred kilometers."
"So, there is no need to refuel halfway from Guangzhou to Peiping?" Chiang Kai-shek was very surprised. He never expected that Anyi's aircraft manufacturing factory had reached such a level.
An Yi nodded: "Yes, in fact, the plane we are taking now can barely do it. Foreign countries were able to reach the one-way level of 2,600 kilometers as early as a year and a half ago. Now, the United States has finalized and is doing it
The last test flight of the Douglas DC3, the twin-engine and four-engine large transport aircraft of the German Junkers Company that is about to test flight
, has reached and exceeded this level, let alone our an5 aircraft, which is a perfect combination of advanced technologies from Germany and the United States. If it were not for the fact that students have high requirements in terms of aircraft beams, frames and fuselage materials in order to ensure safety, it would make
The weight of the aircraft has increased a lot, and the speed and endurance may be increased by more than 20%."
Chiang Kai-shek was extremely excited: "If I have time these days, I would like to go and see your aircraft factory with my own eyes. This is a huge improvement, and I must go there. Alas... In the past two years, at your request, our propaganda
Neither the department nor the military government publicizes the improvement of domestic science and technology. Even fewer people know about the many new weapons and equipment that you are testing and have finalized.
"Having said this, I want to tell you, don't blame Han Qing for how he knew about the assault brigade you secretly formed. I told him the specific situation, as well as the six months of continuous experiments and confrontation exercises you conducted in the lower reaches of the Minjiang River.
It's not a big deal. Liu Chengfu even called me quietly to inquire about this. I called back and said that your army was exploring new tactics, so it was not surprising that Han Qing knew about it. Last time I
Reviewing his troops, the glorious Northeastern Army of the past has long since lost its appearance. I really can’t help but use your troops to stimulate him, but he is really in trouble now. After leaving Northeast China, the army’s vitality was severely damaged, and it will be more difficult to leave North China again.
Without a place to eat, he is like a drifting duckweed. In order to improve the combat effectiveness of his troops, I approved a special military expenditure of 2.5 million for him, and now you have earned most of it."
Only then did An Yi know the source of Zhang Xueliang's huge purchase funds, and at the same time he had a deeper understanding of the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang.
The young marshal who returned from training in Italy seemed to have changed a lot. While he cheered up and reorganized his old troops, he also frequently expressed the need to destroy the Communist Party, which won him the love and trust of his sworn brother Chiang Kai-shek. Legend has it that during his stay in Italy, the young marshal had many friendships with Mo.
He met Solini and had an affair with Mussolini's daughter. Unexpectedly, his thoughts changed a lot as his contact with fascism deepened.
"What are you laughing at?"
Chiang Kai-shek frowned slightly when he saw An Yi's cheerful look.
An Yi quickly replied: "I had a lot of fun getting along with the young marshal last night. He is still the same as before, but he is more energetic and cheerful than when he was in Peiping. It's just that Brother Ziwen is not at the right time.
Wan forced me to submit, and he almost ruined the beautiful banquet again.
"Principal, students know that the central government is difficult and they also know the severe situation currently faced by the party and state, but students will never give up power in southern Sichuan, western Hunan, western Guizhou and southern Yunnan, because these places are the hard work of students and soldiers
, which embodies everyone’s hard work and ideals, students cannot use their precious money on those spineless pro-Japanese factions and surrender elements, or on those local warlords who ignore the interests of the party and the country and only care about their own small calculations.
"As I said before, there will definitely be a war between China and Japan in the future. If there is a war, every move will cost money. Now that all the capital in the future has been spent, we will be penniless by then. Let's ask who is going? The Americans or the British?
I'm afraid the European and American powers are eager for China and Japan to start a fight soon so that they can benefit from both sides."
Chiang Kai-shek looked seriously into An Yi's eyes for a while, then nodded and said: "I understand your character. The national financial issues are not under my control now, and it is not convenient for me to interfere. Maybe you have your own reasons. After all, after all these years
The facts have proven that the path you are taking is the right one.
"But I want to remind you that tomorrow the British Ambassador Gardgan and his delegation will come to Syria. This time you have to talk to them properly and don't cause any more trouble. The crisis in North China is getting worse day by day, and we can no longer make enemies everywhere.
, you have to be good at turning enemies into friends, do you understand?"
"The student understands that as long as the British are honest and honest, it doesn't matter if the student releases the more than 500 prisoners first?" An Yi said with a smile.
Chiang Kai-shek nodded with satisfaction: "I like your ability to think and adapt. It's very good! Once the prisoners are released, the British will have to show something, which will be a huge pressure on the Japanese. The longer the war is delayed, the more we
The faster our economy will recover, the more prepared we will be for the war against Japan. Look further, look further!"