The girl who was chatting happily with Ye Qing saw An Yi and stood up happily to say hello: "General An, I didn't expect to see you here."
An Yi stepped forward and nodded to Ye Qing, then his eyes fell on the girl's breathtakingly beautiful face, and he scolded slightly: "Miss Zhou, when you left Baoding last time, didn't you tell Marshal Ziyu to go with you when you got home?
Did your parents leave Peiping? Why are you still here now?"
Zhou Ziwei shook her head helplessly: "General An, it's not that we don't want to leave, but that after we returned to Peiping, we were plotted by others and were so busy that we had no time or energy to think about other things."
An Yi was very surprised: "What happened?"
Zhou Ziwei sighed: "It's very bad. The Japanese bribed my grandpa's confidants and added a drug that makes the body weak in the sandalwood that my grandpa used daily. As a result, my grandpa was bedridden. I and I
My mother had to get up early every day and rush to the Assorted Garden in Dongcheng. She was busy taking care of his old man's daily life. I didn't even have time to go to school. At this time, our Zhou family's business was maliciously sabotaged and we were in debt.
It can barely survive without going bankrupt, but it is extremely difficult to cash out. Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. In the second half of last month, the 29th Army and the Japanese army fought fiercely in Beiping City. The rebels set fire to the Shijin Garden Hutong entrance.
Several houses were burned down, and my grandfather and his family temporarily moved out of Shijin Garden in a critical situation. After moving into our Zhou family, my grandfather's health unexpectedly improved, and then the spies left without saying goodbye. We gradually figured out the cause and effect of the matter."
"Oh? Who is so bold?" An Yi hated the traitors and thieves the most in his life. After hearing Zhou Ziwei's words, he asked angrily.
"Oh, it makes people sad to talk about this..." Zhou Ziwei sighed and said quietly: "The right-hand men who have been with my grandpa for many years felt that there was no hope for my grandpa to make a comeback, so they all saved up for something else.
mind, through
Selling my grandfather to seek his own interests. Chen Tingjie, the secretary-general whom my grandfather deeply relied on, took the lead in this matter. It is said that the chief of staff Zhang Fangyan also participated. What is especially unbelievable is that my second mother-in-law also secretly accepted *** people
A gift to give!”
Zhou Ziwei's mother was born to Wu Peifu's first wife, Li. Due to Li's early death, she was not favored by Wu Peifu's second wife, Zhang Peilan. Before she had grown up, she was promised to Zhou Huaili, the second son of the Zhou family, a merchant family in Peking.
The eldest son Zhou Huairen married Lu Bicheng's fourth sister. This is the relationship between the three families of Wu, Zhou and Lu.
An Yi never expected that Wu Peifu, who was once so famous, would turn away from his relatives. If it were not for the help of his eldest daughter and granddaughter who were married to the Zhou family, the situation would be unimaginable.
At this time, no one noticed that an old man with a bloated figure, wearing a long mandarin jacket and a thick beard under his nose walked into the room with slow steps. After listening to Zhou Ziwei's words, the old man shook his head and sighed.
: "I'm so ashamed. I think that I, Wu Ziyu, spent my whole life as a soldier, and when I got old, I was surrounded by Xiaoxiao. If I hadn't wanted to see the day when the mountains and rivers were restored, I would have put an end to this broken body and cut off the thoughts of the Japanese!"
An Yi turned his head in surprise, and Zhou Ziwei stood up in a panic and called "Grandpa."
"Why did Brother Ziyu say this? After the Japanese took pains to win over, Brother Ziyu is still clean and self-sufficient, and the world admires him. Now that our army is gathering, we will soon drive the Japanese invaders out of North China. Brother Ziyu should give full play to his power.
Influence is to help Songyun carry out his work. Why are you saying such world-weary words?" Cheng Qian quickly stepped forward to comfort him.
An Yi already understood at this time that the unattractive old man in front of him was the once all-powerful Beiyang general Wu Peifu, and he quickly stepped forward to salute:
"Commander Yu, I would like to say hello to you, my junior An Yi. My senior has been in charge of the army for decades, has ruled several provinces, and has hundreds of thousands of troops, but he has no private savings or property. His reputation for integrity is well known throughout the world. He is particularly admirable.
Yes, the seniors always adhere to the national integrity and do not take refuge in the Japanese and become traitors. This open-mindedness makes the juniors extremely admired!"
"Are you An Yi, the commander-in-chief of the Anjia Army who made the *** people howl like ghosts and wolves!?" After Wu Peifu finished speaking, he looked at An Yi for a long time and nodded repeatedly: "I often hear about the fame of the Anjia Army, and I always feel confused.
Looking at the flowers was hazy, but today I saw General An himself, and I realized that he was truly worthy of his reputation. When Ziyu was born
My late father once dreamed of the famous anti-Japanese general Qi Dashuai. Because Qi Shuai was called Peiyu, he named Ziyu Peifu. He hoped that Ziyu could be like Qi Shuai and be a person worthy of the country and the nation. General An, although Ziyu was arrogant and arrogant.
For a while, you never made any achievements in foreign wars, but you did what Ziyu wanted to do but failed to do. Ziyu is deeply grateful!"
An Yi didn't expect that Wu Peifu's name had this origin. Just when he was about to say a few words of humility, Zhou Ziwei lowered his head, walked obediently to Wu Peifu, carefully supported his grandfather, and said timidly: "Grandpa, I shouldn't...
..."
"It doesn't matter! It doesn't matter! I, Wu Ziyu, am upright and aboveboard, and I am not afraid of exposing my family's scandal! Anyone who wants to be honored as a traitor, no matter who he is, is my Wu Ziyu's enemy!" Wu Peifu patted Zhou Ziwei's delicate hand to express comfort: "
Ziwei, General An is an extraordinary person. He actually predicted that the Japanese army would take action on the Beiping-Tianjin line more than half a year ago, and took the initiative to persuade grandpa and his family to go south. This keen observation ability cannot be matched by grandpa."
"Oh? Did Brother An already predict that there would be a war between China and Japan in North China last year?"
Cheng Qian asked with interest. At this time, Cheng Qian was quite confused and secretly speculated that there was some secret between An Yi and Wu Peifu that was not known to outsiders.
For a long time, the Nanjing government has been aware of the capabilities and influence of old Beiyang people such as Wu Peifu, Jin Yunpeng, and Cao Rulin, but it cannot simply adopt the approach of killing them all. That will lose many people's hearts. Therefore, the successive leaders of Pingjin and Tianjin who have been inspired have all expressed their opinions.
Wu Peifu and others had an attitude of respecting ghosts and gods and keeping them at a distance. They did not allow them to come back and threaten the stability of the regime, but they also paid attention to gathering and utilizing them, and even spent a lot of money to keep them in captivity.
This time the theater headquarters moved to Peiping, Cheng Qian was in urgent need of military veterans to advise him, so he invited Wu Peifu, but he was still worried about how Chiang Kai-shek would view the matter. At this moment, he suddenly discovered that there seemed to be some kind of relationship between Wu Peifu and An Yi.
After contacting me, I had a little more doubts.
An Yi explained: "This is not just my personal opinion. General Ci Xiu and General Geng Guang also hold the same opinion. At the end of last year, I was introduced to Miss Zhou and accidentally heard about her relationship with Yu Shuai. In order to
To avoid harassment by the Japanese, I made the suggestion that Yushuai’s family move westward to Xufu.”
Cheng Qian nodded in understanding, but at this time Wu Peifu said to Cheng Qian solemnly: "Brother Songyun, how did you go about the thing I asked you to do?"
"Brother Ziyu, now that our Chinese *** team is winning consecutive battles in North China, why do you rush to arrange for the people around you to go south? Could it be that you are not optimistic about the current war situation?"
Wu Peifu hesitated for a moment, glanced at An Yi, and shook his head: "The current situation is chaotic, it is always good to be careful. At your invitation, I took my family and entourage to stay in Xiangluan Pavilion. I heard from Ms. Biyun who visited me two days ago. Talking about the tragedy that happened in Meihua Temple, I broke out in a cold sweat. The Japanese invaders did all kinds of evil, even monks were not spared. They are really worse than animals. In this way, how can I trust my relatives to stay in such a dangerous place?"
An Yi saw Zhou Ziwei's eyes turn red all of a sudden, looking like he was about to cry. He knew that it might be another murder committed by the Japanese army after Wancheng massacred my civilians, so he quickly asked: "Where is Meihua Temple?" What happened?"
Hu Jialin, Shen Fengdao, Lin Yaodong and others gathered around, and Cheng Qian and the generals at the theater headquarters also pricked up their ears and listened carefully.
Zhou Ziwei's delicate body trembled slightly, obviously she was frightened. Wu Peifu patted her back comfortingly, and then said: "Meihua Temple is located in the foothills of the north of Changping City and south of Tianchi. It is a temple with more than fifty bhikkhunis. The nunnery where he practiced. After Bicheng took refuge in the Three Jewels, he was named Manzhi and started to practice in Meihua nunnery. In early July, the situation was unstable, so the abbot advised Bicheng to temporarily return to Peking to practice and wait until the situation improved a little before returning.
"Nankou, after the Battle of Wanping, the situation around Beiping became clearer. Bicheng returned to Meihua Nunnery, only to find that it had been burned to the ground. Bicheng was so anxious that he finally found several dying and battered bhikkhunis in a dry well behind the nunnery. In the name of the name, the Japanese invaders were heartbroken. After occupying Changping, the Japanese invaders could not vent their anger because all the people near and far fled. They found Meihua Temple out of nowhere and committed such beastly acts against more than 50 defenseless monks. Later, In order to cover up their crimes, they surrounded the nunnery and set a fire. Many masters rushed out of the fire and were pushed back by the Japanese army until they were burned alive. Only a few masters jumped into the abandoned dry well and were killed. A collapsed stone slab happened to block the entrance of the well, and the disaster was spared.
"I heard that many Japanese people also believe in Buddhism. I didn't expect that they would not let go of monks. What they do to ordinary people is even more unimaginable. I have to say that I still had a glimmer of hope for the Japanese people before. After this incident After that, I have completely awakened to the fact that there is no possibility of reconciliation between China and Japan unless there is a life-and-death struggle between China and Japan! No matter how hard I fight, I, Wu Ziyu, will not let the Japanese occupy an inch of my land... Everyone Can you imagine what kind of life the people in Northeast China have lived after being occupied for nearly six years?"
Everyone was stunned after hearing this, and they were very angry at the atrocities committed by the Japanese army. They all understood Wu Peifu's intention of insisting on sending away the female family members.
As early as when Wu Peifu was explaining, Ye Qing took out a pen and paper to record the tragic story. After Wu Peifu finished speaking, she came to Zhou Ziwei, gently took her into her arms, comforted her, and leaned into Zhou Ziwei's arms. He whispered into his ear: "Sister Ziwei, can I interview Ms. Lu Bicheng?"
Zhou Ziwei raised her head and glanced at Ye Qing, with a look of pain on her face: "My third aunt suddenly encountered such a tragic incident, and her spirit almost collapsed. I don't want her to be stimulated anymore."
Ye Qing smiled and did not force it, but he made up his mind to find out the matter clearly and accuse the Japanese army of their crimes to the people across the country.
Wu Peifu raised his head and sighed: "The country is poor and weak, and the people have suffered. Now I regret what I did back then. If the country was united, why would we..."
Cheng Qian interrupted Wu Peifu: "Brother Ziyu, now the Japanese army has been driven out of Peiping by our North China Army. Once Jidong is recovered, peace in Pingjin and Tianjin will be guaranteed within a few years. I will take care of your family's affairs, but now it is dark."
Tonight, let's go have dinner for now and talk about this later. I guess Ziguang Pavilion can't wait any longer."
After saying that, Cheng Qian took Wu Peifu's hand and walked out of the house first.
On the way to Ziguang Pavilion, because it was getting late and it was impossible to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Zhongnanhai, An Yi simply got together with Hu Jialin to discuss the issues of setting up various departments of the Army Headquarters.
At present, the Anjia Army's stall is too spread. Southern Sichuan, southern Yunnan, Yichang, and Hanzhong all need people. The Second Route Army and the Fifth Army have their own headquarters, plus each army and division, and must be controlled in
The fourth department in hand can be said to have reached the extreme use of talents. Therefore, the issue of whether to set up departments directly under the First Army must be carefully considered.
"We have a very rich talent reserve. If we can promote people freely, we are not afraid that no one will be able to use them. However, this will break the promotion system we originally established and will be detrimental to the regularization of the military. However, if we leave so many official positions idle,
, it would be too extravagant and wasteful, and it would also be detrimental to improving the enthusiasm of the soldiers." Hu Jialin said in a troubled manner.
"Equipment still has to be set up. The key is how to select talents. Maybe we can adopt a voluntary registration method to select a group of talents from middle-level officers and fill them into leadership positions. Nothing can be made without polishing it. At the beginning, we were not growing up all the way.
The company and platoon commander have reached this day?
We have to create an opportunity for them to develop their talents. Look at the northbound detachment, aren't they doing a great job? If they had been promoted normally, it is estimated that at their age, they would never be able to have an army of tens of thousands today.
Opportunity." An Yi thought for a while and said.
"But what if the backbone of each department is transferred and the combat effectiveness is reduced?" Hu Jialin said worriedly.
"It's very simple. Continue to use merit-based selection. After several battles, I believe that a large number of outstanding grassroots company and platoon leaders have emerged from various departments of the 17th Army. Promoting a group of them at this time will not only boost morale, but also
It allows the soldiers to see the direction of their efforts."
"Well, while Lu Yixuan and the others arrive in Peking tonight, let's discuss it carefully and come up with a charter. It's best to move quickly. I think a tragic war is already waving at us."
An Yi responded and suddenly felt that people were stopping. He looked up and found that he had arrived at his destination. Cheng Qian was standing at the door with a smile, greeting everyone to come in.
There were six tables in the large banquet hall. An Yi randomly found a seat and sat down. Ye Qing blushed and sat down on his left side pretending to be casual. An Yi just wanted to call Hu Jialin, but Zhou Ziwei
He arrived uninvited and sat down on An Yi's right side. He had no choice but to give up at that moment.
The atmosphere of the banquet was very lively. After toasts, hot dishes were served one after another, including roasted sea cucumbers with green onions, roasted duck, fish rolls in chicken soup, roasted mutton, tomato loin fillet, braised wild rice, rock sugar meat, and jadeite.
soup, braised duck four
Baobao and other dishes are also served, as well as dishes such as Kung Pao Chicken and Fish-flavored Shredded Pork, which are familiar to Sichuan people, as well as delicious small steamed buns, pea yellow and other snacks, plus the eight cold dishes that were previously placed on the table.
, which shows that Cheng Qian put a lot of thought into it.
At this time, Zhou Ziwei had adjusted her mood and said to An Yi: "General An, don't you think it's a coincidence? The three times we met were all before meals. Are we so destined to eat?"
Ye Qing pinched An Yi under the table, smiled like a flower, and responded on behalf of An Yi: "This is normal. People are like iron, and rice is like steel. If you don't eat one meal, you will starve. Nowadays, ordinary people only eat two meals a day."
A small number of soldiers and wealthy families eat three meals a day. Things that they have to do every day happen when they happen to happen. It’s not a matter of fate, don’t you think so? Xiaoyi?”
An Yi was stunned. Didn't the two girls get along well just now? When did they meet?