Chapter 14 Family Banquet
Due to the tight accommodation in the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek did not settle his home in the military academy, but placed it in a two-story villa-style building on the mountainside on the west side of the Changzhou Fortress, which was only 7 or 8 minutes away from the military academy. Before lunch the next day, Zhuang Jihua came to Chiang Kai-shek's house. Wu Sao Wu, the female worker in the home who opened the door for him, was a local. Chiang Kai-shek invited her home to settle here. When Wu Sao led Zhuang Jihua in, Chiang Kai-shek was reading the newspaper on the canvas recliner in front of the living room. Seeing Zhuang Jihua in, Chiang Kai-shek put down the newspaper and stood up. Zhuang Jihua hurried forward to salute. Chiang Kai-shek did not wear a military uniform today but a long blue gown. Seeing Zhuang Jihua's appearance, he said, "You Zhuang's time for Cultural Revolution is accurate. You came at the meal time. Come in."
Zhuang Jihua intended this. He was a little discouraged now, or because he couldn't find a way. Why did Chiang Kai-shek invite him to dinner? He had guessed that **地官网官网, but he didn't want to talk about this topic. Even if the military academy gave him a punishment or even expelled him, it would be fine. He would get out of this trouble early.
"The principal is busy with affairs, and the students dare not disturb the principal too early." Zhuang Jihua's answer was so impressive.
"Oh, you're quite thoughtful." Chiang Kai-shek turned around and walked into the living room without comment.
The living room is furnished very simple and traditional, with two rows of elm chairs, and there is a carved elm coffee table in the middle, but it can be seen that it is a bit old.
After Chiang Kai-shek came in, he didn't go to the seat, so he sat down on the chair on the left, then pointed to the chair opposite and said, "Sit."
Zhuang Jihua didn't politely agree and sat down.
"You are very leisurely recently. Other students are fighting for the revolution. How do you feel when you are watching the fun next to you?" Chiang Kai-shek's tone was filled with a hint of teasing.
"Report to the principal, the students are ashamed of their teachings." Zhuang Jihua said in his heart that you didn't give me a living, but he pretended to be here, and he said...
"Shame? I'm afraid there is no, but I'm sure it's true. You are thinking in your heart that you don't do anything for me, it's not that I don't do it, right?" Chiang Kai-shek seemed to see through Zhuang Jihua's thoughts: "You didn't arrange work in the entire Huangpu period. You need talents so much in the country, but you didn't arrange work. What does this mean? It means you made a big mistake. If you only offend one side, it's okay to say it, but you offend both sides. You want to walk in the middle, but you end up becoming a mouse in the bellows. Do you think so?"
Zhuang Jihua could not help but admit that Chiang Kai-shek was right, and he saw this, but Chiang Kai-shek came to him to tell him this? Zhuang Jihua decided to wait and see.
"The principal is right, but the students' ideas are still too naive." Zhuang Jihua said "shamed".
"Just understand. Even the Soviet bearded men sometimes have to look at their faces. You go and provoke them. It is natural to suffer some trouble." Chiang Kai-shek said here, and he looked at Zhuang Jihua. The strategy he adopted for Zhuang Jihua today was to go straight to the point and add a little "open and honest". Seeing that Zhuang Jihua was a little confused when he mentioned the Soviet Union and was a little satisfied. It seemed that he didn't know where the trend came from. Then he continued: "You don't know, your article made Borotin very angry, so he summoned all the leaders in Guangzhou to investigate the author, and that's what happened later."
Zhuang Jihua was a little confused now. Borotin responded so much to his articles beyond his expectations. He had already figured out the reason for the accusation. In history, the left-wing practices that were adopted by the emperor were even the extreme left. Li Lisan and Wang Ming were one peak, and the Cultural Revolution was another peak. It was not until after Deng Gong came to power that the strategy of governing the country returned to normal.
However, today Chiang Kai-shek mentioned Borotin, which made him think of another possibility. Is the Communist International deliberately guiding the left and right behind now? Zhuang Jihua thought of this and asked, "Why?"
Zhuang Jihua's reaction made Chiang Kai-shek feel a little satisfied: "Why? Your article must have hit the pain of the bearded man. As for what it is, I don't know, but the ancients said that caring will cause chaos. Since they have such a big reaction, there must be a reason."
As soon as Chiang Kai-shek spoke, Zhuang Jihua knew that Chiang Kai-shek had misunderstood, but he would just make mistakes and listen to what Chiang Kai-shek said. Chiang Kai-shek's strategy today is not to speak clichés. He believes that "smart" people like Zhuang Jihua cannot be like Wang Bailing. As long as Wang Bailing promises an official or something, he will be moved to show loyalty. This is useless to Zhuang Jihua. Look at Zhuang Jihua's past few days, if he doesn't look for him, he may still be willing to go on freely. For Zhuang Jihua, you have to force him to choose, and you have to arrange the most practical way for him and block his other ways. Now ** and the rightists have helped him and blocked Zhuang Jihua's other ways. He will not be able to do it without taking the path he arranged.
As the two were talking, Chen Jieru came in from behind, and Zhuang Jihua quickly stood up and said hello to her: "Hello, Master's wife." This was not the first time he saw Chen Jieru, but it was the first time he was so close.
"Sit down, sit down, don't be polite, this is your principal's home, that is, your home." Chen Jieru kept a long line of sea, wearing a Chinese wide-sleeved women's clothing that exposed half of her arms, and a half-skirt and half-heeled leather shoes. She is from Ningbo and grew up in Shanghai. She has the unique foreign flavor of Shanghai girls. In Zhuang Jihua's opinion, she is the kind of petty bourgeois taste.
"When the guest is here, let's have a meal. Let's talk about what's going on after dinner." Chen Jieru said to Chiang Kai-shek softly.
"Well, let's have a meal first." Chiang Kai-shek stood up and walked straight towards the dining room. Zhuang Jihua asked Chen Jieru to walk in front and follow him behind.
The dining room is not big, with a round table in the middle, with six plates and a bowl of plum blossoms on it. Which one in the middle is a fish, the others have a plate of dried vegetables and fried meat, and the other are fried eggs and two ordinary vegetables. The bowl is fish head tofu soup, but Zhuang Jihua noticed that there was no wine on the table.
Chiang Kai-shek said politely: "Please sit." Zhuang Jihua dared to sit down like this and hurriedly said: "Principal, sit, teacher's wife." Chen Jieru smiled and said, "Cultural Revolution, don't be polite. I often hear your principal talk about you, saying you are brave. A few days ago, he said that you are powerful in wars, and even the consultants praised them."
"That's the principal's excessive award." Zhuang Jihua's face turned red. He knew that the tactics he used that day came from the old senior. In another world, his skin had been very thick (no way, work required). After coming to this world, the thickness of the skin increased a lot. It was probably not bad to use the city wall as a metaphor. Unexpectedly, the praise of this young master's wife actually made him blush.
"Try this, Jieshi's favorite Huangpu egg. The food in your school is poor, eat more today." Chen Jieru happily added a piece of scrambled egg for him when he saw Zhuang Jihua swallowing voraciously. Although Chiang Kai-shek loved Chen Jieru very much, there were few women on the Huangpu Island. The families of officers in the Whampoa Military Academy were either like He Yingqin, Wang Bailing and Deng Yanda, who were the former Deng Yanda, or they would settle their families in their hometowns like Liao Zhongkai, or they would keep their families in their hometowns like He Yingqin, Wang Bailing and Deng Yanda, or they would keep their families like Liao Zhongkai.
In Guangzhou, only Chiang Kai-shek settled his home on Huangpu Island. Chen Jieru had almost no social activities. Chiang Kai-shek only accompanied her in his spare time. However, Chiang had too little free time. There were very few guests at home, and even less meals were invited. Today, Zhuang Jihua lacked the awareness of tension and restraint. In Zhao Benshan's words, he was relaxed. This kind of laissez-faire made Chen Jieru very interested and made Soong Mei-ling feel that he was different from others.
"You don't know this. Their conditions are already good enough. They have 8 yuan of food per month, which is much better than soldiers. They are even better than when I was a soldier. I only had a small box of cold rice for each meal in Japan, and only two or three pickles of pickles. I didn't have a full day." Chiang Kai-shek said.
"Really, aren't Japanese soldiers not enough to eat enough? How can they fight?" Chen Jieru was a little surprised. It seemed that she also learned about Chiang Kai-shek's first time when he was studying in Japan.
"Warring depends on courage and perseverance, that is, Chinese soldiers pay and food. The Japanese regard the country as honor to fight wars, and do not pay attention to these things. So if I want to talk about revolution, I must first endure hardships, less conditions, and spirit. Where the spirit comes from, it comes from ideology. Therefore, we must talk about ideology to soldiers, and they can be brave and good at fighting after they understand." Chiang Kai-shek said.
"The principal is right. If students have the opportunity to lead troops, they must follow the principal's teachings." Zhuang Jihua certainly understood that Chiang Kai-shek was right. Which of the Eighth Route Army was not hard, but the army did not collapse and it still developed. But he didn't understand why Chiang Kai-shek knew that the difference between this and the reaction in his previous life was a bit big.
"There must be a chance to lead the troops. Don't be discouraged. Let's talk about it slowly after eating." Although Chiang Kai-shek was quick to eat, he was very particular about eating and rarely spoke at the dinner table.
While talking, Chiang Kai-shek had finished eating and put down the bowl, so Zhuang Jihua made another big deal. Chen Jieru didn't eat much and put down a small bowl after eating. The couple watched Zhuang Jihua perform the gluttony there.
With the eyes fixed on Zhuang Jihua's face, no matter how thick the skin was, he felt embarrassed, so he hurriedly finished the rice grains in the bowl and put down the bowl to indicate that he had finished eating.
"Are you full? Do you want to eat a bowl?" Chen Jieru asked with concern.
"Thank you, Master's wife, I'm full." Zhuang Jihua said in his heart that you two saw me, and the one you can eat was a monster.
"In the past, Kangxi commented on the great scholar Fang Bao and said that he was broad-minded and strong, and he was the kind of person who could eat with his stomach and stand firm in his feet. In the Cultural Revolution, I think you had such a meaning." After returning to the living room, Chiang Kai-shek seemed to be still reminiscing about Zhuang Jihua's Taotie.
"Fang Bao?" Zhuang Jihua didn't know who Chiang Kai-shek was talking about.
"Fang Bao was a talented man in Tongcheng, a famous scholar during the Kangxi period. He walked into the study as a commoner." Seeing that Zhuang Jihua looked like he knew that he didn't understand who Fang Bao was, Chiang Kai-shek briefly introduced him.
"You grew up in the United States and don't know about Chinese history, so you don't know. However, Fang Bao is very famous. In the late Qing Dynasty, the leader of the Hunan Army, Zeng Guofan, was the Xiangxiang faction founded in his academic field." After Chiang Kai-shek said this, Zhuang Jihua even more did not understand. Zeng Guofan knew that the leader of the Hunan Army suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Li Hongzhang knew that he had no idea what the Xiangxiang faction was about to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
Chiang Kai-shek looked at him and said, "It seems that you should learn more about Chinese culture. Although there are some dross in Chinese culture, there are still good and excellent ones, especially military tactics, such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, Zeng Hu's military quotations, you must read these two books."
Zhuang Jihua nodded and agreed: "Students have read the Art of War, and Zeng Hu Zhibing's quotes have not been read yet. Since the principal said that, the students will definitely come to study it carefully when they go back."
Chiang Kai-shek nodded and said, "That's good. People all think that Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi are just literati, but they don't know that they are more unique in managing military affairs. General Cai Songpo compiled the words of the two men to manage military affairs, and then this book was created. Later, General Songpo trained troops in Yunnan and protected the country and attacked Yuan. All of them were based on this book. You can wait a moment, I will give you a set."
Zhuang Jihua then realized that General Songpo was Cai E, and Zeng Hu's quotations were compiled by him. He thought it was compiled by Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek came out of the study and held a set of books in his hand, handed them to Zhuang Jihua, and then said: "I have recently investigated this military management statement and added a chapter "Governing the Heart", which focuses on how to cultivate the fighting spirit of soldiers. You can take it back and take a look."
Zhuang Jihua took it and shouted: "Yes, the students will definitely live up to the principal's admonition."
He thought that it would be over and he could go back. Unexpectedly, Chiang Kai-shek pointed to the chair behind him and said, "Sit down. The old saying goes, Master leads you into the door and practices are for everyone. From now on, it will be seen how you use the knowledge you learned in the military academy on the battlefield."
Then Chiang Kai-shek turned the topic to Zhuang Jihua's current situation.
Chapter completed!