Mei Yuntian looked at the streets passing by quickly outside the car window and muttered in a cowardly manner: "I'm too anxious, right?"

"It seems you understand," Zhang Jingjiang's face was calm, not angry, but explained patiently: "Our problem is that Chairman Jiang cannot suspect that the Cultural Revolution involves the issue of the Cultural Revolution leaving the army. His principal did not completely forget that he also remembered some of the deviant behaviors in Chongqing. The last time Song Ziwen failed to issue bonds in Shanghai, he probably noticed that the impact of the Cultural Revolution had expanded to the financial field, but the matter in Shanghai was a spontaneous act of the Shanghai financial community and was not tied to the Cultural Revolution, but it was difficult for him to allow the Cultural Revolution to interfere in finance. We have a close relationship with the Cultural Revolution, so he would inevitably think that our behavior was instructed by the Cultural Revolution."

Mei Yuntian now understood that if he was eager to propose checks and balances, Kong Xiangxi took this opportunity to suggest to Chiang Kai-shek, and then said that it was him. Chiang Kai-shek would immediately think that Zhuang Jihua would definitely be the one behind this. Next, he would find that Zhuang Cultural Revolution had territory, regime and army, and then he would extend his hands into finance. This is a great deal. Who can control him in the future? In this way, what Chiang Kai-shek would do next is self-evident.

Thinking of these, Mei Yuntian couldn't help but tremble, Yu Qiaqing chuckled and said, "Jingjiang, don't blame him. He is still young, not like you and me, he has become an old fox. His path has just begun. () However, Shaoqing, politics is difficult to figure out. You learn from your mistakes and learn from them. Fortunately, Jingjiang interrupted in time. You later changed your words. The subsequent compensation was done very well. Kong Xiangxi can't judge yet, and there is no big problem."

"Mr. Jingjiang blamed him very well. The Cultural Revolution also had such concerns. I have said repeatedly before coming, "I'm too anxious." Mei Yuntian really regretted it. If Zhuang Jihua was not ruined by his mistake, it should have been the hard work of their entire group for several years, then he might even have the heart to jump into the Jialing River.

Seeing Mei Yuntian's self-blame, Zhang Jingjiang was not good at saying anything. He let him go and comforted him and said, "It's not that bad. He has done a pretty job in the past few years. He is not without a way out. And he probably thought of this a long time ago. Shaoqing, think about it, why did he set up a Sichuan development company? Why did you have to invest again? And it was just in the name of an American company. Is it just to prevent people like Kong Xiangxi? The principal of his place once told me that Zhuang Wenge was taking ten steps in his work, and this is true."

Zhang Jingjiang's reminder made Mei Yuntian turn back and examine Zhuang Jihua's decisions over the years. He finally understood why Zhuang Jihua wanted to win over the powerful Sichuan factions such as Liu Xiang and Yang Sen. As Zhang Jingjiang said, Zhuang Jihua's purpose was to prevent Chiang Kai-shek. () He wanted to use Sichuan faction to restrain Chiang Kai-shek, at least not let Chiang Kai-shek take away all the factories and mines with one order.

"I really didn't say anything about doing things in the Cultural Revolution," Yu Qiaqing also nodded and praised: "Working things are steady and generous, and not entangled with small profits. There are ten people who do big things. I had doubts about him back then, and I thought I was really ashamed."

Yu Qiaqing's career has been developing very smoothly in recent years. Several companies have been doing a prosperous journey. The ship route has been opened to the United States, Singapore, and India, and is preparing for a route to Europe.

"By the way, Brother Adler. The Cultural Revolution asked me to ask you if you are interested in starting a car transportation company in Sichuan?" Mei Yuntian suddenly remembered that he had discussed the establishment of a Southwest Highway Transportation Company some time ago, but Zhuang Jihua wanted to let the private sector do it, and wanted to run a few more.

"Car transportation?" Yu Qiaqing asked back: "Does Lu Zuofu not want to do it?"

"Of course he thought, but the Cultural Revolution meant that the government and private sectors were carried out at the same time, and competition would increase." Mei Yuntian said, thinking of Zhuang Jihua's face in discussing this issue, he couldn't help but laugh. In fact, the shareholders of Sichuan Development Company wanted to dominate Sichuan road transportation. But Zhuang Jihua refused and argued with shareholders at the meeting, what monopoly is harmful, monopoly will eventually harm him, etc., which made everyone, including Liu Hangchen, the housekeeper Liu Xiang, dizzy.

"Then it's okay. Even if the Cultural Revolution is pointed out, you can jump even if you have a cliff." Yu Qiaqing said with a smile. He didn't know the situation of the roads in Sichuan at all, but he agreed out of trust in Zhuang Jihua.

Zhang Jingjiang hummed in dissatisfaction: "Brother Ade, don't behave well when you get a bargain. The Cultural Revolution has shown you a way to make a fortune."

Yu Qiaqing laughed loudly. Zhang Jingjiang simply made the words clear: "The Cultural Revolution is focused on the future. Once the war is fought, can your ships still move? From now on, it will be transported by the southwest road."

Yu Qiaqing understood now, and he couldn't help but tremble. He now has dozens of ships, and only five or six people traveling from the ocean. What should he do if the war breaks out? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little scared. This was his hard work for most of his life.

"When will I go to Chongqing to see if Chongqing is the same as what is introduced in the newspaper?" Zhang Jingjiang seemed to see through what Yu Qiaqing was thinking, and hinted that he went to Chongqing to discuss with Zhuang Jihua.

"What are you busy with in the Cultural Revolution recently?" Zhang Jingjiang asked.

"The army, his energy has begun to turn to the army. Many things about the development team have been left to Li Zhilong. In the past few years, it is planned to recruit more than 30,000 people. The entire guard team will be expanded to 50,000 people. He is trying to find the chairman to make a position. ()" Mei Yuntian said.

"It seems that he is determined that he will fight within three years." Zhang Jingjiang said to Zhuang Jihua's purpose.

Zhang Jingjiang's words brought the emotions in the car to a low point. No one wanted to say anything anymore. Yu Qiaqing was thinking about how to find a way out for his boat, but Mei Yuntian and Zhang Jingjiang were in a heavy mood. Three years, is this preparation enough?

Kong Xiangxi's telegram was quickly sent to Chiang Kai-shek's desk in Chengdu. After the Red Front Army crossed the snow mountain in June and met with the Fourth Front Army, Chiang Kai-shek readjusted the bandit suppression deployment. He ordered the recoil to lead the First Army to station in Songpan, block the road to the north of the Red Army, set up the Yichang camp, and ordered Chen Cheng to serve as the director of the camp, unified the command of various departments to encircle and suppress He Longxiaoke's 26th Army, rectify the Sichuan Army, eliminate the weak and retain the strong, reorganize the Sichuan Army into 200 regiments, and ordered Xue Yue to smash the Central Army into the Chengdu Plain; in addition, the Northwest Bandit Suppression Command was added, and Zhang Xueliang, who returned from overseas at the beginning of the year, was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief, and he personally served as the commander-in-chief. He vaguely felt that the final decisive battle with the Red Army would be on the loess land in the northwest. After these adjustments, Chiang Kai-shek personally took charge of Chengdu and urged the various troops to attack the Western Sichuan Red Army.

But the movements of the Red Army surprised him. According to his judgment, the Red Army would soon leave Songpan and attack Ningxia and Gansu. However, the Red Army's actions were very slow at this moment. It actually stopped on the western Sichuan Plateau for a whole month, allowing him to calmly mobilize troops to control all the major roads heading north through Songpan, and sent Zhou Hunyuan Column to chase and suppress the Red Army from Hubei, Henan and Anhui to the eastern part of Xuhai in the northwest. By early August, the Red Army had only one northward road left, that is, to pass through the Songpan swamp, but Chiang Kai-shek believed that this was a dead end.

But the Red Army once again went beyond his expectations. They chose this dead end and finally came out of the dead end. Then they attacked the 49th Division of Hu Zongnan in the Baozuo Battle. The division commander Wu Chengren fled back seriously injured. This battle exposed a huge gap in the encirclement arranged by Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly dispatched troops to make up for it. But at this time, the main force of the Red Army suddenly turned around and went south, crossed the grassland again, and returned to Maoergai. Only a small number of troops were attacking Shaanxi and Gansu.

The banner of the detachment continued to go north. However, it is said that Mao Zdong was in this small team. The movements of the Red Army puzzled Chiang Kai-shek. On the one hand, he mobilized the Sichuan army to arrange defense lines, but on the other hand, he was thinking about what the Communist Party meant. At present, the army gathered in Sichuan, and the power balance between the two sides was very different. If the decisive battle was something he wanted at this moment, the Red Army's actions were completely different from their usual methods. Chiang Kai-shek decided to use static and see what the Red Army wanted to do first.

Soon the Red Army gave him the answer, and the Hongsi quickly controlled the Suijing and Danba area. Then he launched an attack on Jinchuan along the Suijing River. Liu Wenhui and Yang Sen were beaten to the point of being dizzy and soon threw Chonghua and Funing away.

Now not only Chiang Kai-shek and Liu Xiang judged the movement of the Red Army. They were going south to attack the western Sichuan plain. Now the forces in Sichuan panic immediately. Liu Xiang convened an combat meeting. At the meeting, Liu Xiang told the truth. If the Red Army stopped on the northwestern Sichuan Plateau, everyone was at peace, but now they were going to attack the western Sichuan Plain. This was to take our home, so we had to fight. Then Liu Xiang dropped all his major forces on the front line. Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao, Yang Sen, Li Jiayu and others did not dare to preserve their strength. For a time, 200,000 elite troops of the Sichuan Army were concentrated in northwestern Sichuan, and a bloody battle was about to begin.

But Chiang Kai-shek was still worried that he flew from Nanjing to Chengdu and transferred Xue Yue to northwest Sichuan. Then he sat in Chengdu to supervise the battle. Liu Xiang personally served as the commander-in-chief of the front enemy.

When military affairs were tense, the reform of the fiat currency in Nanjing was turbulent. This made Chiang Kai-shek a little annoyed. After reading the telegram, he threw it on the table, looked up at a handsome young man sitting in front and said, "Hanqing, look, the country is so chaotic that even the central government orders cannot be implemented. Can this situation resist Japan?"

Zhang Xueliang picked up the telegram, and Kong Xiangxi reported on it that Guangdong Chen Jitang refused to stop issuing currencies, Yunnan was unwilling to stop issuing currencies, Shanxi agreed to stop issuing currencies, but was unwilling to recycle Jin tickets, Shanghai and Chongqing agreed to recycle currencies, but hoped that the central government could provide funds.

"The central government has been preparing for the anti-Japanese war for a long time, but the domestic chaos is chaotic and a mess. Not to mention the Communist Party, even the party members in the party do not obey the central government's orders. Can this situation be fought against such a strong hostility as Japan?" Chiang Kai-shek said angrily.

Zhang Xueliang silently placed the telegram on his desk. He looked like he was young last year, but in fact he was in his early thirties. After the Rehe War, he traveled abroad to Europe. His horizons were wide open in Europe. He admired Mussolini, the Italian fascist leader, and became friends with Mussolini's son-in-law Ziano.

Perhaps it was because Europe was stimulated. After Zhang Xueliang came back, he began to talk about the War of Resistance on various occasions, believing that all political forces in the country should be united to resist Japan's invasion together.

Seeing that Zhang Xueliang didn't say anything, Chiang Kai-shek continued, "Hanqing, I didn't lie to you. You flew directly from Wuhan and didn't go to Chongqing. I can tell you now that Chongqing is our anti-Japanese base in the future. You will understand when you go to Chongqing to check it out."
Chapter completed!