Zheng Jiemin always wanted to lead troops.

I dream of it.

In fact, he was not very interested in the position of the chief secretary of the Military Control Bureau. The reason why he has been working hard to maintain the position of Secretary-General of the Military Control Bureau is mainly because his wife has a "virtuous wife". His wife Ke Shufang is reluctant to leave. The Military Control Bureau has a lot of money and lots of things, and can be supplied in a steady stream. Not only the cars Zheng Jiemin rode, gasoline was supplied by the Military Control Bureau, but the adjutants, men, women, servants, chefs, etc. used at home are all paid by the Military Control Bureau. Even many expenses and entertainment expenses at home, such as the expenses and entertainment expenses at home are all covered by the Military Control Bureau.

Come on. The public agencies controlled by the Military Control Commission, such as the Anti-Smuggling Bureau, the Freight Bureau, the Traffic Inspection Office, etc., smuggling and anti-smuggling things, and when "tribute" to the Military Control Commission's major spies, there was always a copy of Zheng Jiemin. For these reasons, Ke Shufang went to the Military Control Commission's headquarters at the Hunan Guild Hall more times than Zheng Jiemin himself. For this, Mao Renfeng caught the "handle" and caused the two to have an unknown conflict. When the end result was that Zheng Jiemin took advantage of Mao Renfeng's recovery and suppressed the Maoists.

But the suppression of Zheng Jiemin was mainly resentful that Mao Renfeng was behind his back, he still wanted to lead his troops.

Shortly after the War of Resistance began, Chiang Kai-shek asked Britain to help establish an assault force. Zheng Jiemin received this news and immediately asked someone to request Chiang Kai-shek, hoping to send him to this task. Unfortunately, Chiang Kai-shek thought he had no experience in leading troops to fight and was not suitable for such work. He also sent Li Mo'an to prepare for the establishment of an assault force equipped with British equipment, which disappointed Zheng Jiemin.

Later, the General Staff Headquarters was reorganized into the Military Command, and Zheng Jiemin was unexpectedly promoted by Chiang Kai-shek to deputy director of the Second Department of the Ministry. Although this made him feel at ease, he still did not forget to lead troops. When the Army University established a senior officer training class to train middle and senior Kuomintang officers, Zheng Jiemin asked to take the post to train. At that time, someone asked him, you are a major general. Why do you still have to go? He said happily: "The current chief of staff of military agencies and troops stipulate that they all need graduates from the University of Lu. If you are not, you will not only have the opportunity to lead troops, you will not understand business, and you will not be able to work. Moreover, since you are not a classmate with a student of Lu, it is not easy to control, so you must go."

Afterwards, Zheng Jiemin actually entered Lu University. This is why he rarely met Qin Wei during this period... The Army University is located in Zunyi, Guizhou. He could not run around often. Qin Wei stayed in Baigongguan, so he entrusted all business matters, especially business in Myanmar, to Kerrley. This is a kind of trust, but at the same time, it is also a kind of confidence of Zheng Jiemin... He believes that he can control Kerrley. But thinking about Kerrley as a small consul and was dismissed, it is indeed not difficult to deal with for a director of the military command, even if the other party is British.

Zheng Jiemin worked very hard at the University of Mainland. The senior officers who were trained at the same time as him were studying, and even the map was in charge. He often went to Chongqing and Guiyang to have fun. Even in Zunyi, these people were spending time. Sometimes they gamble all night long, and listening to lectures in class was just perfunctory, but they were just going to have an academic degree. Zheng Jiemin was completely different from these people. He studied very seriously and even worked in writing when he was free. He occasionally went back to Chongqing for a few days, and also went to the Military Affairs Bureau and the Second Department to ask for some materials for his writing reference.

As for the matter, Ke Shufang actually took Yu Lingling to Qin Wei and asked Qin Wei to help her persuade Zheng Jiemin to go home often... Qin Wei naturally knew what Ke Shufang was thinking, and she responded on the surface, but she didn't speak. Later, after careful investigation, she realized that Ke Shufang often wrote letters to Zheng Jiemin, scolding Zheng Jiemin for not missing the family, and others often came back, but he didn't want his wife. He even suspected that Zheng Jiemin was playing tricks in Zunyi. For this reason, the woman secretly ran to Zunyi to check post twice. However, she saw that Zheng Jiemin was indeed studying and writing, so she felt relieved.

From this, Qin Wei could see that Zheng Jiemin really wanted to lead troops. He even saw that this guy regretted that he had not led troops to fight, and the smell of "military" was still a little worse, but at the same time he was obsessed with being a "Confucian general", with a thought of "military men being afraid of being unable to write literature". Zheng Jiemin occasionally collected materials from the archives of the Military Commission and the Second Department, and put on an attempt to write military books, which made Qin Wei realize that this guy has a lot of ambitions in using military forces.

...

"Can you let me lead the troops?"

Sure enough, Qin Wei's words hit Zheng Jiemin's itchy spot... He had become a general, but he had not even brought half of his troops. It was a joke when he said it.

"Do you know the Tax Police Corps?" Qin Wei asked again.

"Of course I know." Zheng Jiemin was excited. He thought that Qin Wei asked him to lead troops, but he would just plead with Jiang Jiang, and at most he would give him an ordinary number, but he never expected that Qin Wei was talking about the Tax Police Corps... It was an amazing elite army. It was a private armed force established by Song Ziwen during his tenure as Minister of Finance in 1932. As the name suggests, it should be an informal force used for anti-smuggling and tax collection. Originally, such a force, of course, was not taken seriously by others, including Jiang Jiang. How much combat effectiveness can it have? But they all forgot who the backstage boss of this force was.

Song Ziwen had no intention of turning the armed forces into an optional existence. He not only had to use this force to ensure the collection of salt taxes, but also to compete for military capital. Therefore, he was extremely generous in using money and carefully selected people. Among them, all senior officers were recruited and promoted by him. The first, fourth general commander Wen Yingxing, and the second general commander Wang Geng were all graduates of the American West Point Military Academy. The third general commander Mo Xiong was a brave general in Zhang Fakui's Fourth Army during the Northern Expedition. He also recruited Sun Liren and Zhao Junmai as the regiment commander. Song Ziwen's wife, brother-in-law Zhang Yuannan, who graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned school, also ran to his brother-in-law Mo to serve as regiment commander. Most of the officers above the platoon were students studying in the United States. There was also an advisory group composed of eight Nazi German officials.

The Tax Police Corps uses the remaining salt tax payments that are borrowed from the Eight-Nation Bank Group every year as supplies. All establishments, equipment, and personnel are all based on Song Ziwen's wishes, and others have no right to interfere. Chiang Kai-shek thought it was just an insignificant small army and did not care. Although Chiang's spies under him were powerful, neither Chen Lifu, Chen Guofu, or Dai Li dared not make ground on Tai Sui, because they might cause trouble. After all, everyone knows that Chiang Kai-shek's marriage was a political marriage, and the Chiang family had to contact the United States with the help of the Song family. Song Ziwen has never bought Chiang's accounts. When the two disagree, Song Ziwen overturned the table in front of him and could not do anything. In this way, Song Ziwen took the opportunity to turn a trivial tax police Corps into a strong armed force.

The Tax Police Corps is an armed force that does not belong to the official sequence of the country. Its weapons and equipment are purchased by Song Ziwen's Ministry of Finance, and its level of precision is beyond the ordinary troops. It is well-known among European and American military powers. It began to mainly purchase American weapons, equipped with Oligen anti-aircraft cannons, Vickers amphibious tanks, and rifles are mainly German-made 1924 standard Mauser series guns or Belgium's FN1924/30 insurgent rifles. Water-cooled heavy machine guns. The pistol is naturally the well-known 7.63mm Mauser m1932, and is even equipped with the "Carden Royd" ultra-light tank.

It can be said that after the determination of Song Ziwen and his generals, the Tax Police Corps has become an absolutely "informal army" elite force and a rare powerful force.

But the facts proved that the Tax Police Corps did not just look good. On the eve of the "January 28th" Incident, most of the Tax Police Corps were stationed in Shanghai and Pudong. When the Japanese army raided Shanghai, Song Ziwen resolutely pulled the Tax Police Corps to the front line of the fight against the enemy without reservation, and personally issued combat orders, which greatly injured the Japanese army.

Afterwards, the "January 28" incident was resolved with Chinese concessions. But at this time, Song Ziwen had already deeply realized the serious threat from Japan. He ignored Chiang Kai-shek's "must settle the country first when resisting foreign powers." He demanded anti-Japanese and national salvation, and flew to Peking several times to meet with Zhang Xueliang and Tang Yulin, and vigorously promoted Japan's crime of aggression internationally. In order to deal with the emergencies in North China, he even secretly negotiated with Qian Zongze, director of the Longhai Railway Bureau. He prepared more than 30 trains and concentrated in Haizhou, and transported the tax police group to Zhengzhou at once and prepared to go to Peking. As a result, the matter was discovered by Liu Zhi, chairman of Henan Province. He called Chiang Kai-shek to call.

Chiang Kai-shek was furious and said that he would ask the Tax Police General Regiment to return to the original defense zone. Otherwise, he would be disarmed. Wen Yingxing, who was then the chief of the Tax Police General Regiment, dared not disobey and led his troops back. Song Ziwen's series of activities and attitudes, coupled with his refusal to increase military expenditure for Chiang Kai-shek to suppress the Communist Party, affected Chiang Kai-shek's strategic deployment. Chiang was very annoyed and forced Song to resign from his position as Minister of Finance and "go abroad to investigate". Similarly, Chiang had never tolerated the existence of a powerful army that was not a direct lineage. So in 1934, he ordered Huang Jie, the commander of the Second Division stationed in Xuzhou, to take over as the chief of the Tax Police General Regiment. The army that Song Ziwen worked hard to manage was easily annexed by Chiang Kai-shek.

Later, the Tax Police Corps and another unit were combined into the Eighth Army. Huang Jie served as the commander and participated in the Battle of Shanghai. He fought fiercely with the enemy for 66 days, with heavy casualties. However, after the war, Huang Jie was attracted by Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third War Zone. He organized the remaining headquarters of the Tax Police Corps into the 40th Division after the war, but ignored more than 5,000 wounded people. As a result, Sun Liren, the former leader of the Tax Police Corps, reorganized the "Anti-smuggling Corps" based on these 5,000 wounded soldiers, and soon led his troops to participate in the Wuhan Battle... After the National Government moved the capital to Chongqing, the Ministry of Finance reorganized the Tax Police Corps, and Sun Liren was promoted to the Major General General Commander and led his troops to Duyun, Guizhou to train troops.

"Song Ziwen is not the Executive Director yet, but he has regained the financial power. The most important thing is that he pays great attention to this tax police corps... Therefore, I plan to suggest to Chairman Jiang to expand this force and incorporate it into the system of the National Revolutionary Army." Looking at Zheng Jiemin with a eager face, Qin Wei said slowly.

"That Song..."

"He couldn't say anything when he resisted the war." Qin Wei smiled, "What's more, the expansion of the tax police regiment will also be beneficial to him... Sun Liren is his person. How can he be a commander of the general regiment? "

"Do you want to expand the Tax Police Corps into an army?" Zheng Jiemin couldn't help but shout.

"The initial construction of the Tax Police Corps has more than 30,000 troops, which is almost the same army." Qin Wei said: "Song Ziwen's money is not easy to get, and he must have people he trusts. Therefore, once the army is formed, Sun Liren's army cannot escape. But with Chairman Jiang's always character, at least a few people should be arranged to be division commanders... I want to recommend you!"

"I'll do it!"

Zheng Jiemin jumped up directly.

"You happen to be in Guizhou, so you can find opportunities to run more Duyun, get along with Sun Liren, and also exchange your experiences... After all, you have never brought soldiers."

"yes!"

"Very good...be prepared to be a commander."
Chapter completed!