The military confrontation exercise was a great success. The two units participating in the exercise ended with the New 1st Brigade of the Independent Division defeating the 46th Brigade of the attacking side. During the exercise, the Chinese army's rapid response capabilities and endless and dazzling tactics were used.
The military generals, envoys and military attachés from various countries stationed in China who observed the demonstration were full of praise. The debut of several new weapons aroused great attention from the observers.
An Yi's sharp eyes had long since spotted Lu Yixuan, the commander of the 17th Division who had never dared to look at him among the generals in the observation group. An Yi saw the defeated senior brother looking pessimistic and felt several times.
Every time it seemed that he mustered up the courage to talk to himself and created opportunities for him, he stopped and seemed very hesitant. After several times like this, he no longer had the mood to care about him.
The banquet held by the Military Commission to celebrate the success of the exercise was over. The generals who stayed at the Nanjing headquarters saw off more than fifty envoys and military attachés stationed in China. An Yi took the opportunity to see off his colleagues at the Military Commission and slipped away first. The 24th Army, Independent Division
, General Staff Headquarters and
The generals and commanders from all the armies and divisions were watching, but they were still unwilling to leave like this. "Cheers" and fist pumps were heard frequently. They all obviously wanted to seize this rare opportunity to get together and exchange as many emotions as possible. The banquet was noisy until midnight.
Disperse.
After dealing with the backlog of military affairs during the exercise, An Yi returned to his home in Houzai Lane. After taking a shower and changing into comfortable casual clothes, he went to the small living room on the second floor and made himself a pot of Longjing tea. He just sat on the sofa.
Next, before I could raise my glass and take a sip, I heard Liu Qing coming to report: Yin Jinan, Hu Jialin, Wu Liheng and Xie Chi accompanied Lu Yixuan, the commander of the 17th Division, to ask for an audience.
An Yi was happy to hear this, but he didn't expect that Lu Yixuan finally came to his door. For this senior brother who was arrogant by nature and never bowed his head easily, the meaning of this move was self-evident. He immediately ordered Lin Yaodong to brew another cup.
After a pot of tea, he quickly went downstairs and welcomed the brothers who were waiting in the living room to the study on the second floor. They chatted until the sky turned white, and then the brothers left without finishing their thoughts.
This meeting solved three problems: First, Lu Yixuan's admission of mistake meant that the 17th Division, which had been separated from the collective, officially returned to the Anjiajun family. An Yi had official skills at his disposal.
There is one more A-type division in the number; secondly, An Yi will find a way to recuperate and recuperate.
The 17th Lu Yixuan Division, which replenished its troops, was transferred to Chuzhou for garrison, officially breaking away from the anti-bandit war in the south and north of the Yangtze River; thirdly, Chairman Chiang and the Central Military Commission were preparing local adjustments, and the Fifth Army was disbanded after the signing of the Songhu Armistice Agreement.
Hu Jialin, who will be reorganized under the leadership of Xue Yue, will leave the position of deputy commander of the Fifth Army.
Reused by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek again - In order to deal with the expansion of the Japanese invaders, and also to give a satisfactory answer to the military and civilians across the country, and to avoid being labeled as passively resisting Japan, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek and the Military Commission unanimously decided to rebuild the 17th Army to serve as
Responsible for the important task of going north to fight against Japan. Hu, who accounted for more than half of the officers and soldiers from the north,
The Jialin Independent Division will be placed under the newly established Seventeenth Army. It has been initially decided that Hu Jialin will serve as the deputy commander and will still serve as the commander of the independent division. The candidate for the commander has not yet been finalized. At the strong request of Lu Yixuan and his brothers,
An Yi promised to try his best to get the 17th Division into the 17th Army.
The brothers were overjoyed and knew what it would mean to realize this intention. As long as the Seventeenth Division entered the order of the Seventeenth Army that was about to be formed as expected, the Seventeenth Army, which had two main divisions from the Anjia Army, could only be led by An Yi.
Having the final say, no matter who is appointed as the commander of this army, in the end the designation of the Seventeenth Army will still fall into the hands of his own group.
In the next week, An Yi went to Hankou twice at the invitation of Chiang Kai-shek to urgently discuss military affairs. The civil war in Sichuan has been intermittent. No, it has not been stable for a long time. The various warlords in central Sichuan are fighting again. This time they are not as friendly as before.
Instead, the war became more and more intense. Deng Xihou's 28th Army and the Chuan-Kang Border Army Liu Wenhui's two divisions fought fiercely in Wusheng, and Liu Xiang
, Tian Songyao, Yang Sen, Li Jiayu and others once again formed an alliance with Deng Xihou, and a large-scale melee was about to break out. He Yingqin, who had friendship with Deng Xihou and Liu Wenhui, came under the influence of Chiang Kai-shek and the Military Commission
After repeated deliberation, he temporarily left his position as commander-in-chief of the suppression campaign and rushed to Sichuan to mediate. As the director of the Sichuan-Yunnan Appeasement Office, An Yi was naturally called by Chairman Chiang to offer advice.
So far, the outside world still does not know that the relationship between Anyi Group and Liu Wenhui Group has greatly improved, and the trade between the two parties has doubled. Liu Wenhui used gold and silver, minerals, medicinal materials, rare wood and tobacco from the Xichuan area in exchange for
A large number of guns, ammunition and munitions were produced in southern Sichuan and western Hunan, as well as various luxury goods and daily necessities. The first batch of outstanding officers and soldiers carefully selected by Liu Wenhui secretly entered the Southern Sichuan Military Academy one and a half months ago and began to receive training in various military professions.
On October 10, the China Commodity Fair opened grandly, with diplomatic envoys, representatives of major financial groups and multinational companies from more than 30 countries and regions around the world gathered together.
Lin Sen, Chairman of the Nanjing National Government, Wang Jingwei, Executive President, and Song Ziwen, Vice President and Finance Minister, all attended the meeting and delivered speeches. Party and government veteran Zhang Jingjiang and Business Department Minister Kong Xiangxi presided over the opening ceremony.
In the afternoon of that day, the wedding of An Yi and Feng Jieyun was held grandly at the Dahua Hotel. Song Meiling, Song Ailing, Kong Xiangxi, and Zhang Jingjiang served as the officiants. The famous Chinese Americans Ou Yaoting, Zhang Xi, Lin Xudong and others jointly
Attendance, military attachés from European and American countries to China and chief representatives of major financial groups were present to congratulate. Celebrities from all walks of life in Shanghai flocked to the event. Major newspapers in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang published the good news on their front pages to express their congratulations.
The wedding ceremony alone included as many as twelve trucks, equivalent to more than 8.5 million yuan in silver dollars. It caused a sensation in the city and soon became known throughout the country. An Yi, a famous general who is good at fighting and has outstanding achievements, has two
The news of this fairy-like wife spread throughout the world.
No matter how the outside world viewed this wedding, at least An Yi and Feng Jieyun were very happy. On the second day of the wedding, An Yi quietly flew to Lushan with the bride under the pretext of flying back to Nanchang to host a banquet.
He received blessings from Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Jieyun's godfather, at the military airport. He was accompanied by Kong Xiangxi and his wife and Chiang's wife Soong Meiling.
After the wedding banquet at the villa's official residence, An Yi flew back to Nanchang with his bride. Song Ailing was very worried and asked An Yi, who had converted to Christianity, if he had just been nominated as a director of the National Youth Christian Association and would be punished by the church for violating the doctrine.
blame?
Chiang Kai-shek smiled slightly but did not speak. Kong Xiangxi quickly said in his wife's ear: An Yi cannot do this job, but the church will never fire An Yi because of this. Otherwise, how can the more than a dozen churches on An Yi's territory survive?
Will consortiums from European and American countries feel uncomfortable interacting with An Yi in the future?
An Yi and Feng Jieyun stayed in Old Nanchang for three days and got drunk for three days. On the fourth day, they had to fly back to Nanjing to live a normal and clean life.
What made Feng Jieyun extremely surprised and admired was that An Yi asked her to use all the more than 6 million in cash from the wedding to support the anti-Japanese armed forces in Northeast and North China. An Yi Group also received a huge sum of money from this unexpected event.
It's a big deal, and the money is divided into
Several parts were transferred to the heads of the Northern Bureau. Jiangnan Group and Xiangxi Arsenal also received orders. Within a month, activity funds and batches of weapons and ammunition were continuously sent to the warriors on the anti-Japanese front line and underground organizations.
in their hands.
An Yi also had a major gain. In the bidding for two railway construction projects and the Syrian tram project, Zhang Xi, who represented the Rockefeller and DuPont consortium in the United States and came across the ocean with confidence, successfully negotiated with the British government-backed
fiscal
The consortium controlled by the German Junkers nobles was defeated in fierce competition. The British won the railway construction project from Xufu to Luzhou and the locomotive sales project, and the Germans won the railway project from Xufu to Yanjin and the railway project from Xufu to Yanjin.
tram construction project
For this purpose, Junkers Aircraft Company and Heinkel Aircraft Company, which have privately reached a cooperation intention in the Far East, successfully signed an agreement with Anyi to jointly build the second phase of the Sichuan Southern Aircraft Manufacturing Plant. The two aircraft companies will accept the project from January 1 next year.
An Yi will send overseas students to Germany in phases to study aircraft manufacturing and aviation theory, with the number of each batch not less than ten. At the same time, Junkers and Heinkel will send two batches of about 80 engineers and technicians to study aircraft manufacturing in southern Sichuan.
The factory provides technical assistance.
The sudden and silent crisis made Zhang Xi puzzled and extremely anxious. Although the operating rights of Anyi Group's electronic instruments, complete sets of automobile equipment and mechanical equipment were still firmly in his hands, invested by Anyi
The huge sum of hundreds of millions of dollars that has increased in value more than ten times is still under his control, but after returning to China, all signs indicate that his rights have been unknowingly weakened and his status has been quietly reduced in the entire group.
Before the wedding, An Yi dedicated an evening to drinking and chatting with Zhang Xi. They were very sincere and frank. Zhang Xi also met with Zhou Chongan, Ou Yaoting, Lin Xudong and others in the morning of the next day at An Yi's request.
people held a meeting and generously
The shares of the Coast Ocean Shipping Company and the California Real Estate Company were transferred to Lin Xudong's Huaqing Society, and it was recommended that Huaqing Society, on the basis of the existing real estate and construction industries, get involved in the tourism industry, commercial wholesale and retail enterprises, and the hotel industry as soon as possible to make up for the prohibition of alcohol.
Loss of profits after cancellation.
The substantial adjustments within the Anyi Group were carried out smoothly in this pleasant atmosphere. As one of the core leaders of the group, Zhou Chongan accompanied his old subordinates and old friends Zhang Xi and his wife on their tours for several days in a row, attending events in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
Social gatherings held by various consortiums, in-depth conversations and joyful gatherings with leading figures in the domestic business community
During the period, Wang Jingwei, Executive Dean of the Nanjing Central Government, and Song Ziwen, Finance Minister, held a grand award ceremony to award medals of honor and certificates to Zhang Xi, a patriotic overseas Chinese, world-famous financier and industrialist, in the name of the central government of the Republic of China. Major newspapers reported this
Continuous reports and overwhelming praise made Zhang Xi and his wife very moved and extremely proud.
However, the bitter aftertaste after the flowers and applause caused Zhang Xi endless pain. Before leaving the United States, Zhang Xi confidently stated in front of the presidents of Rockefeller and DuPont that the Southern Sichuan Railway project with the most guaranteed funds and credibility must be his own.
, the two major consortiums were waiting for his good news, but now many days later, several major consortiums in the UK and Germany
The news of winning the bid for a project worth more than 20 million US dollars in southern Sichuan, China, has probably spread all over the world. Zhang Xi is still empty-handed and does not know how to explain to his American collaborators. An Yi flew back the day after the wedding
Lao Nanchang thanked the elders in his family and the relatives and friends from southern Sichuan. Zhang Xi even wanted to ask An Yi for details but had no chance.
After pondering for several days, Zhang Xi suddenly realized that he no longer waited passively, but took the initiative to find Liu Qing, invited Ou Yaoting, and Lin Xudong to negotiate behind closed doors, pondered over his mistakes painfully, and won the understanding of the brothers with his sincere attitude and frank review.
When Zhang Xi said that he would only keep 25% of his existing assets, and all the remaining assets and working capital would be returned to An Yi, Zhou Chongan, Ou Yaoting, Lin Xudong and others were frightened even though they were mentally prepared for this.
I was greatly shocked. Thinking of the unforgettable days when we worked together and shared the same brotherhood during the entrepreneurial stage, everyone's faces were filled with sadness and sighs.
At Ou Yaoting's signal, Zhou Chongan took a long breath and said with great sincerity: "Brother, there is something that Brother Yu has always wanted to wait for Xiao Yi to tell you in person, but after listening to your statement just now, Brother Yu has to tell you in advance.
"In fact, long before the railway and major project bidding, Xiao Yi bluntly said that among them, railway projects have the largest investment, the greatest impact, and are the most valued by consortiums and governments of various countries. These projects not only represent the relationship between consortiums of various countries and major domestic consortiums, especially
The future cooperation of our group also marks the huge impact of such an important step taken by the Chinese government and business community. It has a huge influence not only in economics and trade, but also in politics and diplomacy. Therefore
Therefore, Xiao Yi told Brother Yu at that time that the Southern Sichuan Railway, which was first built, was still not the largest project. The largest project would be the 250-kilometer railway from Xufu to Chongqing via Neijiang, and its influence would far exceed
For all railway projects currently under construction or about to be constructed in China, this project will start within a year. Xiaoyi would like to hand over this project to you... You don’t have to be surprised, maybe you don’t believe it, but after listening to Brother Yu, you will
Let’s judge again.”
When Zhou Chongan said this, he made a stop gesture to stop Zhang Xi who was in a complicated mood: "How far do you think a large-scale war between China and Japan is?"
Zhang Xi was stunned: "It shouldn't be too far...what does this have to do with it?"
"It does matter."
Zhou Chongan nodded: "The local war in Songhu at the beginning of the year has already caused the Nanjing central government to move its capital to Luoyang. As long as a large-scale war breaks out again between China and Japan, where do you think the Nanjing central government will move to?"
Zhang Xi held his head tightly, immersed in thought, and after a while he raised his head: "I understand! No wonder Xiaoyi has invested so much in southern Sichuan, and also consulted me one by one for the development plans of Xiangxi and Yunnan.
It turns out that he has been secretly working hard for the future... I am ashamed! I am ashamed..."