Part 3: Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 11: Chaotian Que, Section 7: Vitality (VI)

Tang Zong and Dai Li knew it in their hearts. Chiang Kai-shek still heard the subtext in Zhuang Jihua's telegram. This was the most serious warning Zhuang Jihua issued in 20 years. Over the past 20 years, no matter how big the differences between Chiang Kai-shek and Zhuang Jihua were, Zhuang Jihua admitted that he was his student, but today he issued such a threat.

But Chiang Kai-shek also took this threat. Today's Zhuang Jihua is very different from that of twenty years ago and ten years ago. Chiang Kai-shek can no longer easily ignore his opinions.

Dai Li never expected that the matter would end like this, nothing happened, and the thunder that was willing to bear was furious, and it disappeared silently, and even the gentle breeze and drizzle did not fall a few drops.

After the two left, Chiang Kai-shek Chen Ning pressed the button in the drawer for a while. Xiao Zanyu pushed the door and came in. Chiang Kai-shek asked, "Did Zhang Qun come?"

"Please come in."

Xiao Zanyu quickly invited Zhang Qun in. Zhang Qun was wearing a blue suit, with a chubby face, and smiled three times when he saw people. He was Chiang Kai-shek's classmate when he was studying in Japan. After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, the two smuggled back from Japan and followed Chen Qimei to participate in the revolution. The two met very deeply.

Zhang Qun was good at socializing, and Chiang Kai-shek often sent him to various parties as a representative. Changing flags in the Northeast, the Jiang-Gui War, and the Central Plains War. Zhang Qun ran around all parties and made great contributions to Chiang Kai-shek. The powerful factions in various places also formed a relationship with Chiang Kai-shek through him.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Qun served as secretary-general of the Military Commission. After Liu Xiang's death, Chiang Kai-shek intended to let Zhang Qun serve as chairman of Sichuan Province, but was opposed by the Sichuan generals. Chiang Kai-shek weighed the situation of all parties and finally transferred back to Zhuang Jihua from the front line.

Zhang Qun failed to get the position of Chairman of Sichuan Province, and Chiang Kai-shek did not treat him badly and appointed him as the director of the Chengdu headquarters. The Chengdu headquarters governed the Sichuan-Kang area with the purpose of coordinating the generals and localities of the two provinces, and also monitoring the Sichuan army generals in Chengdu.

Chiang Kai-shek did not chat and said straight to the point: "Brother Yue Jun, you go to Guizhou, well, see the situation in Guizhou," Zhang Qun nodded and was about to agree, but saw that Chiang Kai-shek seemed to have nothing to say, so he waited again. Sure enough, Chiang Kai-shek said slowly: "In addition, you go and see Zhang Hanqing again."

Zhang Qun was stunned for a moment. He had also visited Zhang Xueliang in the past, but he always applied to Chiang Kai-shek for approval before going there. Chiang Kai-shek never took the initiative to ask anyone to see Zhang Xueliang. Thinking of this, Zhang Qun's heart suddenly became tight. Could it be...

"Chairman, has something happened to Hanqing?" Zhang Qun asked tentatively. He had been dating Zhang Xueliang for a long time. After the second Northern Expedition, he persuaded Zhang Xueliang to change his banner and the Central Plains War. He also came out of seclusion and persuaded Zhang Xueliang to support Chiang Kai-shek. The two formed a deep friendship. He did not want Zhang Xueliang to have any accidents.

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head: "Just go and see how he is in spirit? Is he in good health? He has been studying for seven years. Do he have any experience in studying? If so, bring it back to me to see."

Zhang Qun nodded in relief and agreed: "Okay, Chairman, I'll leave tomorrow."

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head and said, "No, go today, the Air Force will send you a plane to Guiyang."

"Okay, is Hanqing still in Qilin Cave?" Zhang Qun asked. The last time he saw Zhang Xueliang was in Qilin Cave next to Guiyang City. It is close to the city. Many people in Guiyang know that Zhang Xueliang's Pass is here.

"No, I have already transferred to Xifeng. Please take my handwriting." Chiang Kai-shek replied that Zhang Xueliang had moved several times, from Qilin Cave to Kaiyang County, and this year he moved from Kaiyang to Xifeng.

After leaving Chiang Kai-shek's office, Zhang Qun was still confused. Chiang Kai-shek called him from Chengdu to Chongqing just to give him such a task, which was a bit of a big deal. Although he had a good relationship with Zhang Xueliang, he was not the only one who had a good relationship with Zhang Xueliang within the Kuomintang. The chairman of Guizhou Provincial Committee Wu Dingchang and Zhang Xueliang had a good relationship. Can't he let him go nearby?

After getting off the plane in Guiyang, he did not go to see Wu Dingchang. He probably had nothing to say when he saw him, so he got on the bus and ran to Xifeng. Xifeng was not far from Guiyang, only more than 60 kilometers. Before Guizhou development, there was no industry in Xifeng. The geological exploration team found bauxite and phosphate ore in the Xifeng area, so they opened an aluminum plant and phosphate fertilizer plant here, which was considered as an industry. Now the aluminum plant output here has accounted for 30% of the national aluminum production.

Zhang Qun rested in the county town for a night. The next day, he went out of the county town and headed towards Langyangba. The person who accompanied Zhang Qu was a captain named Qu from the Military Control Commission Guizhou Station. Captain Qu was relatively young and looked only twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. He didn't talk much, so he spoke on his own ideas. He definitely didn't say anything he shouldn't say. He obviously had good training.

After several tests, Zhang Qun did not get what he wanted, so he stopped asking anything. Captain Qu didn't speak, and the car fell into silence. After a while, Captain Qu seemed to feel that this was not good, and intentionally activated the atmosphere, so he began to introduce the surrounding environment.

The road here was built after development in Guizhou. Although it was originally open to roads, it was just a dirt road, and it was muddy when it rained. Moreover, only one car could pass through this road. If two cars were to intersect, they had to be on special sections. Now this road can be connected in two trucks in parallel. The ground paved with cement is spacious and flat, and the car is driving very smoothly on it.

After talking about the road, Captain Qu began to introduce Qixifeng again, from local specialties to the aluminum factories and fertilizer factories that have emerged in recent years, to the customs and customs nearby, there was a lot of sprinkling, but there was no substantive content at all.

Langyangba is not next to the main road, but in the mountainous area. After getting off the main road, walking another five or six kilometers, climbing over a hillside, a house appeared in front of you.

When Zhang Qun saw this house, he was a little surprised. He could not see this house from the main road. On the surrounding ridges, he could see the well-covered bunkers. The bunkers were conspicuous from a high place, monitoring the entire house.

"Such a big place?" Zhang Qun couldn't help asking. Zhang Xueliang was under house arrest, with so many houses and bunkers, and this scale was too large.

Captain Qu was a little embarrassed: "This is the prison of the Military Control Commission, which imprisoned about a thousand people, all prisoners who were transferred from all over the country after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War."

Zhang Qun said oh and didn't ask again. The Kuomintang detained many political prisoners before the war. After the war broke out, the two parties reached an agreement. The Kuomintang released some political prisoners, and the rest moved to the rear, successively to southern Anhui, and then to Sichuan suddenly. These people were locked up there, and only Chiang Kai-shek knew about them except Dai Li.

Seeing such a secret place, Zhang Qun was wondering if Wu Dingchang knew that there was such a huge prison less than a hundred miles away from him.

"Zhang Xueliang is also locked in?" Zhang Qun asked.

"No, everyone here is an ordinary prisoner. General Zhang is a special person, so of course he can't be here." Captain Qu replied, as he was talking, the car stopped, and the warden of the entire prison area had been waiting beside him, and there were several slide rods next to him.

"There is no traffic ahead, Mr. Zhang can only go up with a slide rod." Captain Qu said as he pushed open the car door and jumped out of the car. Zhang Qun was confused and the warden came over.

After listening to the warden's explanation, Zhang Qun realized that Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned on the mountain and was not with these ordinary prisoners. Zhang Qun said nothing and asked Captain Qu to lead the way. Several people sat on the slide rod and went up the mountain.

Mountain roads are not difficult to walk. Guizhou has many rocky mountains. The mountain roads are paved with stone slabs, extending upwards layer by layer. Two civilians climb up with slide rods, making a sound of panting.

After walking for about an hour, after climbing over two hillsides, Zhang Qun saw a yellow temple faintly on the mountain peak in front of him. When he passed through the woods, his eyes suddenly became clear and a blue wave of lake jumped out. The lake was not big and formed by the mountain. The lake water was clear and there was a thin mist floating on the lake surface.

"What a beautiful scenery!" Zhang Qun blurted out, and Captain Qu turned his head and said, "This lake is called Shuanglong Lake. Look, does the mountain on the left and the mountain in front look like two dragons drinking water?"

Zhang Qun looked carefully and found that as Captain Qu said, facing their mountain, two strange rocks stood on the top of the mountain, which looked like a dragon's horns. The mountain was down, and a piece was raised in the middle, just like a dragon's nose. The ravine slid from both sides, like a dragon's whisker floating.

The mountain on the left is even more peculiar, like a unicorn with his head lowered. The rocks on the top of the mountain are shaking, and a bare white rock in the middle is like an old man with powder on it.

While admiring, the slide rod stopped. An officer and two soldiers came out from the corner to block the way. Captain Qun went over and talked with the officer for a few words before coming back to tell Zhang Qun that Zhang Xueliang already knew that he was coming and was waiting for him at home.

When the slider arrived here, he could not enter any longer. Fortunately, the distance was not too far. Zhang Qun soon arrived in front of the temple gate. Zhang Xueliang and Miss Zhao Si were already waiting at the door.

"Brother Yue Jun, I didn't expect it was you." Zhang Xueliang stretched out his hand from afar. Zhang Qun quickly trotted and held his hand in two steps. He didn't know what to say for a while, so he looked at it for a long time and said, "I look good, I'm a little fatter."

"Is that right?" Zhang Xueliang replied unquestionably. Zhang Qun looked at Miss Zhao Si again. Miss Zhao Si was wearing an embroidered cotton robe, with a haggard face, but her eyes were calm and gentle.

Zhang Qun respected Miss Zhao Si very much, and everyone who knew her respected her very much. It turned out that the one who accompanied Zhang Xueliang was his original wife Yu Fengzhi. Soon Yu Fengzhi was seriously ill and had to go to the United States for treatment. Zhang Xueliang hoped Miss Zhao Si would come to accompany him, so Miss Zhao Si came to him without hesitation and imprisoned in this remote mountain area.

"Miss Four is still so beautiful and charming." Zhang Qun flattered. Miss Zhao Si in the past was like a blooming peony, bright and dazzling, but Miss Zhao Si in front of her was like a quiet orchid blooming quietly in the valley, quiet and elegant, with a distant fragrance.

"Thank you, it's rare to see us, Hanqing, it's a big wind here, so let's go inside." Miss Zhao Si made a gentle gesture of invitation.

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