Chang Kaishen is not in Nanjing, but in Lushan for the summer, and has been avoiding the summer for two months.

As China's supreme leader, is Chang Kaishen really so stupid that he leaves the capital Nanjing alone and stays in the ravine for months in a row to cool off?

Of course not!

The summer vacation is only a nominal excuse, and Chang Kaishen's real purpose for staying in Lushan is twofold: first, to personally control the training of the "Lushan Officer Training Corps"; Second, it is necessary to supervise the work of "suppressing bandits" in Jiangxi.

Early morning.

Lushan Villa.

Chang Kaishen, who was in a good mood, was walking with Song Meiling and listening to the latest battle report sent by the front line of "suppressing bandits". The battle in the past few months has been very smooth, unprecedentedly smooth, and Chang Kaishen seems to see the hope of truly unifying the whole country.

After listening to the battle report, Chang Kaishen suddenly said to the adjutant: "Xue Bing, you have been by my side for several years, have you ever thought about being released to work?" ”

Adjutant Deng Wenyi immediately panicked and said: "The commission is clear, and the humble position is only willing to follow the commission and do his best!" ”

Chang Kaishen said with a smile: "You are a top student in the first phase of Huangpu, and you also served as an aide-de-camp for the former prime minister (Sun Yat-sen), a talent like you can't lie dormant by my side forever." The Red Bandits are about to perish, and we must ease relations with the Soviet Union and prepare for the future alliance with the Soviet Union to resist Japan. Well, after the Spring Festival this year, you will go to Moscow and take up the post of chief military attache of the Chinese embassy in the Soviet Union. ”

"Despicable liver and brain, please also ask for a lecture!" Deng Wenyi said excitedly. Beginning in 1924, he first served as an adjutant to Sun Yat-sen, and later as an adjutant to Chang Kaishen, and after ten years, he was finally able to show his ambitions.

By the way, Deng Wenyi is also one of the thirteen Taibao of the Fuxing Society, responsible for the summary and collation of espionage information.

Chang Kaishen advised: "You can put down the position of the secret service system for the time being. When they arrived in Moscow, they had to make more friends with Soviet diplomats and military officials and publicize Japan's ambitions for the Soviet Union. In the event of a war between China and Japan, the Soviet Union would be China's natural ally. ”

Deng Wenyi's legs shook, and he stood up and saluted: "Remember your humble duties!" ”

"Report!"

At this moment, another attendant adjutant came to the garden: "Commission, Zhou Hexuan and Jiang Fangzhen ask to meet!" ”

Chang Kaishen was stunned, then waved his hand and said, "Let them in." ”

Deng Wenyi stepped back very sensibly, and Song Meiling asked the maid to make two cups of good tea, and said with a smile: "I have heard about this Zhou Mingcheng's romantic affair in Lushan, and it is worthy of the name of a talented man." ”

Chang Kaishen was a little dissatisfied: "The Central Daily should not be involved. ”

Why is Chang Kaishen unhappy about this?

There are two main reasons: first, the "Central Daily", a Kuomintang organ publication, should not comment on the private lives of celebrities, which is too out of line; Second, when the "Central Daily" criticized Zhou Hexuan, it actually used the banner of Chang Kaishen's New Life Movement and completely used Chang Kaishen as a gunman.

But Chang Kaishen still stood still and did not intervene. He wants to take a good look at who is listening to Wang Zhaoming's call, and those who act as the vanguard will all be on the political blacklist.

When Zhou Hexuan came to the villa garden, Chang Kaishen and Song Meiling were sitting on the stone bench chatting. I haven't seen him for a year, Chang Kaishen has lost a lot of weight, and his cheekbones are high and bulging, but he has a more powerful dictator momentum than before.

When the fifth encirclement and suppression of the red zone is successful, Chang Kaishen should start to deal with Wang Zhaoming, step by step, completely elevate Wang Zhaoming, and become a loner in the national government. In the end, Wang Zhaoming, who was unwilling to be just a mascot, finally jumped back and became a traitor, and Wang Zhaoming no longer had any real power in his hands at that time.

Chang Kaishen suddenly smiled, made a polite corporal and approachable appearance, and got up to greet him: "Brother Baili, Mr. Mingcheng, please take a seat!" ”

Jiang Baili was imprisoned by Chang Kaishen for two years for no reason, but there seemed to be no resentment between the two, and he went straight to the point and said: "Chairman, I visited Japan some time ago, and the situation is extremely critical, and there will be a big war in three years at most. This is a national defense policy that I wrote with Mingcheng, and I hope that the chairman of the committee will read it for himself. ”

Chang Kaishen casually opened the "Theory of the Decisive Battle of the Three Yang Line", thought about it while reading it, and praised it after reading it: "This is the theory of seeking the country, and the two of you have worked hard." ”

Seeing that Chang Kaishen did not make any substantive statement, Jiang Baili hurriedly said: "Chairman ......"

Chang Kaishen interrupted: "Needless to say, I have already thought about it all. ”

Chang Kaishen does have his own considerations, and early next year, he and Wang Zhaoming jointly issued the "Order to Ban the Anti-Japanese Movement" and also vigorously promoted Sino-Japanese friendly remarks. But is he really stupid and thinks that war can be avoided? Of course not!

As early as four months ago, Chang Kaishen told a group of senior political bureaucrats in the national government: "[The war] is less than 1,100 days in total." ”

1,100 days is exactly three years, that is, Chang Kaishen believes that the Sino-Japanese war will break out within three years. From the day he spoke, Chang Kaishen's expected three-year period was only 43 days different from the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, which was extremely accurate.

Jiang Baili's industrial relocation plan, Chang Kaishen has actually been carrying out for a long time.

Since the signing of the Tanggu Agreement, Chang Kaishen has banned the construction of new factories in coastal areas and ordered plans to move heavy industry to inland provinces. Chang Kaishen also had his own ideas about the treacherous act of designating Chahar and northern Hebei Province as a demilitarized zone, and he wanted to "ease the aggression" and "save North China and take a little respite" in exchange for preparation time for the War of Resistance.

There is an old saying that "meat eaters are despised", in fact, meat eaters are not really despised, but they are in a high position and think more, not as chic as Zhou Hexuan and other folk people.

Chang Kaishen is not only prepared economically and diplomatically, but also culturally and militarily.

In terms of culture, he did not dare to shout anti-Japanese slogans, but he launched the "New Life Movement" in order to improve the quality of the people and soldiers.

On the military front, Chang Kaishen actively sought cooperation with Germany and received a lot of military support from Germany, such as introducing arsenal production lines and inviting German instructors to train soldiers. At the same time, Chang Kaishen knew that the Central Military Academy (Whampoa Military Academy) had rotten, so he started a new business and opened the "Lushan Officer Training Corps".

On the surface, the "Lushan Officer Training Corps" was set up to "suppress bandits," but its ultimate goal was to train anti-Japanese officers, as can be seen from the slogan of the training regiment. Originally, there were only three slogans of the "Lushan Officer Training Corps", that is, not to retreat when wounded, not to give in when captured, and not to be humiliated when ordered, but Chang Kaishen specially added a slogan called "Perseverance in the face of difficulties".

The slogan of "not being resolute in the face of difficulties" was obviously added specifically to deal with the Japanese invaders. Because the Red Army has always treated prisoners preferentially, there is no such thing as imminent or imminent.

It's a pity that Chang Kaishen can see it clearly, but it's actually very bad. He knew that it was impossible for Shanghai to hold on, but he was reluctant to give up, and tried his best to consolidate Shanghai's defense, hoping to hold out until the day when the foreign powers intervened.

Chang Kaishen's mind is well understood, and more than seventy percent of the interests of the European and American powers in China are concentrated in Shanghai. If they can hold on to Shanghai for two or three months, the great powers may be able to mediate with armed forces, and a full-scale war between China and Japan may not be fought.

To put it bluntly, Chang Kaishen still has a trace of illusions about the great powers.

However, the funny thing is that Chang Kaishen is very distrustful of foreigners, in his eyes foreigners are all bastards, this guy belongs to extreme nationalists.

Chang Kaishen is full of contradictions from beginning to end. In many cases, he saw the situation very clearly and expected all kinds of bad consequences, but he also had the psychology of a gambler, thinking that things would develop on the good side - such as blatantly provoking the Central Plains War, which was a big gamble by Chang Kaishen.