In September, Nanjing still continues to have hot and high temperatures.
An Yi was stranded in Simao for two days when he suddenly received an emergency report and was summoned by Chiang Kai-shek. An Yi put down all his work and took a special plane directly from Simao to Nanjing.
On behalf of Chiang Kai-shek, Minister of Military and Political Affairs Chen Cheng personally went to the airport to welcome him. Accompanying Chen Cheng were Commander of the Gendarmerie Gu Zhenglun, Vice Minister of the Military Training Department Chen Jiijie, and Secretary General of the Nanchang Camp Jiang Jingguo.
An Yi cordially shook hands with Chen Cheng, Gu Zhenglun and Chen Chengcheng and exchanged greetings. When it was Chiang Ching-kuo's turn, Chiang Ching-kuo showed emotion, with tears in his eyes. He called out "brother" with some choking, and then embraced him warmly.
Chiang Ching-kuo's status in Chiang Kai-shek's mind has now risen sharply. The series of reforms he led in Jiangxi have achieved great results.
After Jiangxi was far away from the harassment of the Japanese invaders, industry and commerce developed rapidly. The area around Nanchang originally had an excellent foundation. In addition, a large number of immigrants from North China, Huanghuai area and Taiwan were introduced. At the same time, Sichuan Bank provided low-interest business loans, and industry and commerce quickly flourished.
In the second spring, Lao Nanchang achieved tax revenue of 280 million French currency in the first half of this year alone, which greatly eased the financial pressure on the National Government.
The camp director in Nanchang was Cheng Chengguang, but he was now the commander of the South China Navy and was not staying in Nanchang at all. Chiang Kai-shek had no intention of appointing a new camp director, so Jiang Jingguo, the secretary-general of the camp, became the de facto person in charge of the camp. With ample funds,
Guaranteed, Chiang Ching-kuo began to implement his reform measures in a drastic way.
The development of industry and agriculture throughout Jiangxi is extremely uneven. In the central and northern regions, due to convenient water and land transportation and the good foundation left by the Anyi Group, industry and commerce are second to none in the Jiangnan region, and its industrial base is even better than that of the war-torn areas.
Shanghai is slightly better. The western and eastern railways are connected, and relying on the economic radiation of old Nanchang and the huge investment of Anyi Group in the development of Pingxiang Coal Mine and Dexing Copper Mine, it is also developing rapidly.
Only in southern Jiangxi, the main battlefield of the original confrontation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the vacuum left by the Red Army's retreat was quickly filled by ruffians, returning gentry, cigarette and drug dealers, bandits, refugees, prostitutes, and government officials who were greedy, stolen, photographed, and feared.
, many people in remote areas still live in poverty.
In Shangyou County, a security guard was chopped into two pieces for recruiting soldiers. Someone wanted to file a complaint, but not only was he beaten, but his eyes were gouged out. Hengshijing in Nankang County is rich in rice, and Fengtai Rice
The boss received a dental shop license from the government four years ago and engaged in intermediary trade. However, he took donations from farmers selling rice. For more than five years, he has been collecting two dan per day without interruption, making huge profits.
In Dayu, Chiang Ching-kuo once visited a paper mill. Chiang asked the workers if the paper-making method was like this in the past. The workers replied that it had been like this hundreds of years ago. Not only in rural areas, but also in the urban areas of Ganzhou, the situation is absolutely the same.
Without improvement, outsiders and local snakes control opium dens and brothels, collect donations, play with prostitutes, harbor gambling dens, and gather for gambling for fun, but the local government has nothing to do about it...
This is almost a microcosm of the current Chinese society. In response to this special situation, Chiang Ching-kuo's first shot was to eliminate the three evils: crack down on smoking, gambling, and prostitution, and implement it starting from the smoking ban.
There is a Renji Baocheng Store on Zhongshan Road in Ganzhou. It was a local paste store funded by a Guangdong military commander in the Fourth War Zone. After Chiang Ching-kuo sent people to investigate, he suddenly sent troops to seize the store and seized a total of 190 boxes of clouds.
Soil, one hundred per box
Jin, worth two million silver. In order to prevent the boss from sending people to ask for help, Chiang Ching-kuo convened a joint meeting of representatives from all walks of life on the second day of the seizure and burned the confiscated smoke and soil on the spot. Chiang Ching-kuo lit the fire himself, and immediately, yellow smoke came out and the aroma could be smelled for ten miles.
There is a large casino in Ganzhou City, on the third floor of Limin Department Store. The boss behind the scenes is Lieutenant General Li Zhenqiu, commander of the 65th Army of the 12th Army. In this gambling club, everything is complete, including mahjong, Pai Gow, and betting.
The scale was huge, and tens of thousands were won and lost overnight. Due to the tough backstage and tight security, this casino still gambled with confidence and stayed up all night even after Chiang Ching-kuo ordered a ban on gambling.
A gambler who lost a bet tried to default on his debt and was severely beaten, so he quietly went north to submit a letter to the camp in Nanchang to expose the gambling situation. Chiang Ching-kuo immediately mobilized troops and surrounded the casino. He arrested hundreds of gamblers who were gambling on the spot and confiscated 200 yuan of gambling money.
More than ten thousand silver dollars.
Chiang Ching-kuo banned gambling and issued regulations that not only casinos would be punished, but caught gamblers would also be punished by kneeling in the park for three days. The troops caught the wife of Jitai garrison commander Lai Weiying and called Chiang Ching-kuo. Chiang replied that he didn’t care what the commander was.
Tai, the Commander-in-Chief’s wife will be punished by kneeling if she is caught gambling, so go ahead and do it, I’ll take care of it! Once the news came out that the Commander-in-Chief’s wife knelt down in the park, it attracted many people to watch, and it became a sensational event in the ban on gambling in southern Jiangxi.
While banning smoking, gambling, and prostitution, Chiang Ching-kuo set specific goals in industry, agriculture, infrastructure, education, etc. He first reorganized newspapers and periodicals in Jiangxi, rebuilt news agencies, publishing houses, bookstores, and created "Jiangxi Youth Monthly" etc.
Promote cultural institutions, activate propaganda machines, and spread the New Deal.
Under the massive propaganda campaign, the reform of southern Gansu slowly opened. The first new children's village to be built was a new children's village modeled on the Anjiajun Boy Scouts. The first new children's village to be built is located in Hugang, a suburb of Ganzhou, close to the mountains and rivers.
With a radius of ten miles, the new village is mainly composed of Zhengqi Primary School and also includes a kindergarten.
By the end of July, there were more than 1,200 students, most of whom were homeless children. Adjacent to the Children's Village, Zhengqi Middle School was also established. Due to sufficient funds, the school built an auditorium in just half a year.
Major facilities such as classrooms, dormitories, libraries, and playgrounds will begin enrolling students in early September.
If the establishment of Children's New Village and Zhengqi Middle School is for everyone to have books to study, then the establishment of trading public stores is to achieve the goal of everyone having food. The Anti-Japanese War has entered the second year, and rice in southern Jiangxi has skyrocketed.
It exceeded 50%, and even exceeded 100% in urban areas. Large grain merchants took the opportunity to hoard and raise prices. Jiang
Jingguo set up a trading store to sell grain to the public, that is, the government controlled certain grain resources and sold them to approved households at a fair price. Later, the commodities sold in the trading store were not limited to grain, but expanded to all
The sales outlets of daily necessities and local products have also expanded to large towns in the counties under its jurisdiction.
This public store is not for profit. All the industrial products and grains sold are purchased from Jiangnan Group and Sichuan Group, and unified purchasing and marketing are implemented. Because the public store has sufficient funds, convenient transportation, reasonable prices and complete varieties of goods, it has become a popular store in Gannan.
The Temple of Wealth and the establishment of trading houses made the southern Jiangxi area a special case in Chinese society during the three or eight years when prices soared.
Chiang Ching-kuo also imitated the land reform measures in southern Sichuan and implemented a plan to support homesteaders in southern Jiangxi. He sent working groups to the local areas to rate the land into nine grades according to its quality. Then a multi-party land value assessment committee assessed the reasonable land price. In the demonstration area, the original land value was
The land rented by tenants will be owned by the tenants regardless of the area. The tenants only need to sign a land lease agreement.
The IOU for the land value assessment was handed over to the credit union, and the credit union used the loan to pay the original landowner. Because the price was relatively low, this policy immediately gained support from tenant farmers. Some tenant farmers were expected to repay the land price in about one year or so, which was supposed to be paid back in three years.
After paying off the harvest, in addition to eating it yourself, there is still some leftover that can be sold on the street, which was rare in the past.
Due to the success of the model in southern Jiangxi, Chiang Ching-kuo vigorously supported self-cultivation demonstration zones throughout Jiangxi. In most of the demonstration zones, land was provided to the tiller. In addition, Chiang Ching-kuo also promoted the policy of abolishing exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in rural areas. There was a landlord in Anyuan County
, nicknamed Ding Huhu, privately owned more than a hundred armed men and controlled the entire village. Upon hearing the complaint, Jiang Jingguo immediately sent people to confiscate Ding Huhu's weapons and sent him to the "Newcomer School" for education and training.
In addition, Chiang Ching-kuo guided the establishment of laws and regulations, severely cracked down on loan sharking, spread hospital construction to counties and townships, opened cultural cram schools to educate workers and farmers, and built employee clubs and libraries to become a good place for workers and farmers in their spare time.
The policies implemented by Chiang Ching-kuo in Jiangxi greatly offended the interests of the big capitalists and landowners in the Kuomintang. They gathered together to ruthlessly criticize Chiang Ching-kuo's various policies, such as Chiang Ching-kuo's style of requiring cadres to contact the people.
, is described as the Communist Party "taking the mass line", the trading public shop is considered to be a "controlled economy", and the planning and prediction of the economy is a pure "Soviet model", while the entire effort to build Jiangxi is complete
"Redness".
"Chiang Ching-kuo is an authentic Communist Party." Now the public opinion outside Jiangxi is accusing him more and more openly.
However, Chiang Ching-kuo's political achievements are obvious there. The fiscal revenue of the entire Jiangxi Province, which last year was 200 million French currency, has been reached in one quarter now. Moreover, with the cooperation between Anyi Group and the central government, Chong Youyu, Yushan, Sannan, Yan
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With the mining of the four major tungsten mines, there will be a large-scale increase in finance and taxation in the future, which no one can deny. However, some people say sourly behind the scenes, if I also get the support of Anyi Group, my political achievements will not be as good as
That kid who was turned red.
Among the media in the country, only the media controlled by Anyi Group sings praises to Chiang Ching-kuo. Xufu Radio often broadcasts the situation in Jiangxi, which greatly increases Chiang Ching-kuo’s popularity. Therefore, no matter from which aspect, Chiang Ching-kuo is now considered
He is a die-hard ally of Anyi Group, so no wonder he behaved so emotionally.
When Jiang Jingguo let go, An Yi smiled and said to him: "Jianfeng, I haven't congratulated you yet. Jiangxi's construction is outstanding. The principal must be very pleased with it!"
Jiang Jingguo said embarrassedly: "In fact, I copied many policies from southern Sichuan, and without my brother's abundant financial support, I would not be able to do it in a drastic way! Also, the New Eighth Army stationed in Nanchang gave me a lot of help
, when inspecting the smoking ban and gambling, those sharp-headed military sticks thought they were grass-headed kings and did not take me seriously. The New Eighth Army was transferred out for a round, and everyone obeyed obediently. Brother, Jianfeng is grateful to you.
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After Li Jinlong and Sun Desheng led their troops back to southern Sichuan to reorganize the army, each of the two divisions left one regiment, and then transferred new troops from Hanzhong and Yichang, and reorganized them into the 68th Division and the 137th Division. The commander of the 68th Division was
Major General Chang Huai and the commander of the 137th Division were Major General Liu Liancheng. They were the commanders of the two main regiments of the original 118th Brigade of the 40th Division. During the battle in Jidong
He was injured. In December, the injury basically recovered. He was promoted to one rank and transferred to Nanchang to be responsible for the training of the New Army. In order to facilitate Chiang Ching-kuo's dispatch, the nominal commander of the New Eighth Army was still Li Jinlong, but he was actually under the control of Major General and Deputy Commander Chiang Ching-kuo.
This is also an important guarantee that Chiang Ching-kuo is still standing strong after he punished the landlords and wealthy people in Jiangxi to the point of "outrage and resentment".
An Yi patted Jiang Jingguo's hand: "Our brothers, don't say these polite words. Over the past six months, nearly two million people have immigrated from Jiangxi to Nanhua, which has effectively alleviated the problem of labor shortage in Nanhua. If you really want to thank
, I, as the elder brother, will probably have to hold a banquet in Nanjing for three days to repay your friendship..."
Seeing that the two of them were chatting endlessly, Chen Cheng was afraid that Chiang Kai-shek had been waiting for too long, so he smiled and joked: "It would be nice to have a banquet. Xiaoyi is now in charge of the party. It is time to treat the guests and to get in touch with the Huangpu alumni. Jianfeng
, you and Ji Chang, please do as you please, I have something to talk to Xiao Yi and I need to ride in the same car, is that okay?"
Chen Cheng is now the most popular person around Chiang Kai-shek. He holds the titles of Minister of Military and Political Affairs, Director of the Operations Department of the Military Commission, Director of the Political Department of the Base Camp, Director of the Logistics Department of the Military Senate, and Director of Education of the Officer Training Corps. He has pushed aside his old boss He Yingqin.
Although the words were spoken in a consultative tone, who dares to disobey?
Jiang Jingguo wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said with a smile: "Uncle Chen, I just need to sit in the same car with Uncle Gu and Uncle Wu Min. I am returning to Beijing this time and I just have something to ask your uncles for advice."
An Yi was startled for a moment, then pointed at Chen Cheng and others and laughed and scolded: "Okay, you guys take advantage of me. Jianfeng calls you uncle. Jianfeng and I are brothers, so shouldn't we also call you uncle?"
Chen Cheng couldn't help laughing: "Haha, according to seniority, it is true, but we have been brothers for many years, we can't just change our words now, we can each do our own thing!"
Chen Chengyi said with emotion: "Seniority and seniority are nothing to you! I think back then, when I was the commander of the 22nd Division, you were still the engineer battalion commander of the 2nd Division, and now, you have left me alone.
You’re in trouble...I thought at this time, except for the principal, no one else dares to be your elder!"
An Yi said seriously: "I have great admiration for the principal, Pei Gong (Zhu Peide), Ren Gong (Li Jishen), Gui Gong (He Yaozu), Zhong Gong (Yu Feipeng) and other elders, as well as Ci Xiu, Ji Chang (Gu Zhenglun), Ci Xiu
The life-saving grace of brothers Heng (Mao Bingwen), Jiochen (Cai Zhonghu), and the support of mentors such as Wu Min, Ming San, and Mo San will be unforgettable for the rest of my life.
"I, An Yi, have clear grievances in my life. Let me put it down here. Whenever you find me, An Yi, I dare not say anything else. I am guaranteed prosperity, wealth, food and clothing! If you are willing to put down everything and follow me now
It’s not impossible to do it as mayor or governor!”
When Gu Zhenglun heard An Yi mention the life-saving grace, he immediately understood that it was a failure of the Northern Expedition. When An Yi withdrew to Jiangbei, Nanjing, he organized a rescue with Li Xianzhou, Mao Bingwen and others, and he couldn't help but have many feelings. But at this moment, he could also be regarded as Chiang Kai-shek.
The celebrity in front of me naturally has no interest in becoming mayor or governor.
However, Chen Chengyi was a little tempted. Although he was named the Eight Great King Kong under Chiang Kai-shek, he had gradually lost the opportunity to lead troops since he took up the post of Wuhan Garrison Commander in October 1934. Now he serves as the deputy director of the training department in name only.
I feel a lot of discomfort. Now that Nanhua has just annexed Siam, there must be many positions vacant. If I join the army at this time, I wonder if I will be reused and become a provincial governor? Thinking of this, Chen Chengcheng looked at An Yi,
A little more fiery.
Chen Cheng now holds great power. Although he felt very comfortable listening to An Yi's words, he didn't take it to heart. He took An Yi's hand and got into the car. After the convoy started, Chen Cheng said to An Yi: "Little
Yi, do you know why the committee asked you to come back to Nanjing?"
An Yi had already received information from Zhao Rui, the director of the Fourth Department, and knew it well. However, in order to avoid suspicion, he pretended to be curious: "Isn't it because of the principal and the wife's daughter's happiness?"
Chen Cheng shook his head and sighed quietly:
"The Communist Party is getting more and more outrageous. A few months ago, in the name of fighting the Japanese invaders in the Hetao area, they crossed the Yellow River westward and established a base in the Hexi Corridor. Then they took over the defense of Xinjiang in June. Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin
, Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing were dissatisfied with the nuisance of the Communist Party and sent troops to expel them several times, but
The rebels were defeated by the Huang Han Department of the Communist Party. Now Qinghai, Ningxia, and Gansu have been integrated with northern Shaanxi. In addition, Xinjiang is in the hands of the Communist Party. The great cause of the party and the country is seriously threatened. If it is not restrained, it will be destroyed! The principal is determined.
Armed expedition, I have called you here to ask for your opinion."
An Yi was stunned, deliberately pretending to be shocked, and blurted out: "At this time, the principal wants to take action against the Communist Party?"
Seeing Chen Cheng nodding affirmatively, he shook his head repeatedly: "This is a quick move for relatives to hate enemies, no, no!"