Jiang Baili's military masterpiece is "On National Defense", which contains half of his life's research painstaking efforts and will not be published until 1937.

Many public rumors in later generations said that Taizu's "On Protracted War" plagiarized "On National Defense", and brazenly shouted: "Give back the plagiarized things to others!" ”

Those who can say such things obviously have not read "On National Defense." This book has nothing to do with the anti-Japanese resistance at all, but is Jiang Baili's summary of the great powers since World War I, including political, economic, military, and cultural contents, and then absorbs new Western military theories and ancient Chinese military thought to expound his own conception of China's national defense construction.

As for the idea of "protracted war", it is not unique to Taizu, he said in the first paragraph of the opening paragraph of "On Protracted War": "But what will be the process of war...... A lot of people say protracted war. It can be seen that at that time, "protracted war" had become a mainstream view.

After the outbreak of the all-out war between China and Japan, the thinking of the Chinese people was very complicated. Some say that they will fight a "protracted war" and call for a war of resistance to the end; There are also many who believe that China will perish, that is, the "theory of the death of the country"; There are also those who firmly believe in "quick victory" and think that China can quickly defeat Japan.

The greatness of Taizu did not mean that he put forward the idea of "protracted war", but that he expounded on it: how to effectively protract the war, how to carry out the war of resistance in stages, how to mobilize the masses to wage a protracted war on the basis of the people's war, how to save people and lose land, how to save themselves and destroy the enemy, and how to fight mainly by destroying the enemy's living forces...... Even his old man discussed how the international situation would change because of China's protracted war.

It can be said that Taizu's "On Protracted War" published in 1938 accurately predicted the whole process of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Jiang Baili's "Theory of the Decisive Battle of the Sanyang Line" is like a pediatric in front of Taizu's "On Protracted War". The biggest flaw in his theory is that his military thinking is still stuck in the period of World War I, and he wants to turn Hunan into China's "Verdun meat grinder."

Of course, Jiang Baili's theory also has many highlights, such as carrying out industrial layout in advance, exchanging the geographical space in the east for strategic time, and so on. From this point of view, Jiang Baili is already a very good military strategist, and he can at least throw Lao Jiang out of a few galaxies.

Lao Chiang was not a fool, and although he was also seeking "Sino-Japanese friendship," he knew very well that it was delusional, and Japan would come over sooner or later.

Chang Kaishen is already preparing for the national war, but how did he prepare?

Well, Chairman Chiang must first ensure the safety of Shanghai, because Shanghai is the most important city in China and the most important source of his wealth. He is unwilling and unable to give up Shanghai easily, so he is secretly improving Shanghai's defense system and wants to build Shanghai into an impregnable fortress......

Well, it turns out that this deployment of Chang Kaishen is still somewhat useful. If he hadn't consolidated Shanghai's defense in advance, the Battle of Songhu would not have lasted for more than three months. Although the Battle of Songhu ended in failure, it broke Japan's ambition of "destroying China in three months", made many Chinese people with a pessimistic attitude see hope, and greatly strengthened the determination of the people of the whole country to persist in the War of Resistance.

That night, Zhou Hexuan and Jiang Baili repeatedly discussed for two hours, repeatedly revising and supplementing the "Theory of the Decisive Battle of the Sanyang Line".

"Mingcheng, you can come with me to see the chairman tomorrow." Jiang Baili received the manuscript and said.

Zhou Hexuan smiled: "I don't have to." ”

Jiang Baili blinked and said, "If Wang Zhaoming wants to stink you, he can mobilize many newspapers and literati to attack you." The only way you can do it is to let Lao Jiang speak for you, at least the "Central Daily" will not dare to publish editorials again. ”

"Okay." Zhou Hexuan shrugged, feeling a little depressed.

Jiang Baili smiled: "Actually, you can also find someone to help." ”

"Who?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Jiang Baili slowly said three words: "Zhu Jiahua." ”

Zhou Hexuan was suddenly overjoyed, and immediately clapped his hands and said, "Yes, how did I forget about Liu Sheng (Zhu Jiahua)!" ”

Jiang Baili has always given people the impression that he is a professional who only understands military affairs and does not understand politics. But the fact that he can name "Zhu Jiahua" shows that Jiang Baili does not understand politics, but does not want to get involved in politics.

Chang Kaishen may not be able to do anything else, but he is a good hand at playing with power and knows the way of political checks and balances.

He firmly grasped the three lifelines of the army, finance, and spies, including Chen Cheng, Hu Zongnan and others in the army, Kong Xiangxi, Song Ziwen and the Chen brothers in finance, and Dai Li, Xu Enzeng and others in the spies. Most of these people are people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who contain and rely on each other, and whoever dares to be arrogant will suppress whomever he wants.

For example, Chen Guofu has danced the most happily recently, and Lao Jiang is already very unhappy, and he will appoint Zhang Lisheng as the head of the Central Organization next year. And Zhang Lisheng is a traitor to the CC department, so he is naturally opposed to Chen Guofu, and this appointment is undoubtedly a rope around Chen Guofu's neck.

How did Chang Kaishen suppress Wang Zhaoming?

He raised the secretary general of the Central Party Department of the Kuomintang by one level and renamed him the secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, placing him above the ministers of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Party, with the status of second only to the vice president, and was in charge of the day-to-day affairs of the Central Party Department. Such a simple appointment directly hollowed out Wang Zhaoming's power and made Wang Zhaoming have no say in the KMT. This move not only restrained Wang Zhaoming, vice president of the Kuomintang, but also weakened the CC power of the Chen Guofu brothers, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

By the way, the idea was come up with by Dai Jitao. Old man Dai seems to be upright and crazy, but in fact, he is very yin, no wonder he can become Chang Kaishen's chief think tank.

As for Zhu Jiahua, whom Jiang Baili just mentioned, he has now become a rising political star, and he belongs to Chang Kaishen's extremely important celebrity.

Zhu Jiahua was born in education, and a few years ago, Cai Yuanpei and Li Shizeng made the education system so miserable that Chang Kaishen had to concurrently serve as the Minister of Education.

With Dai Jitao's strong recommendation, Chang Kaishen tried to appoint Zhu Jiahua as the minister of education. As a result, Zhu Jiahua lived up to expectations and completed the formulation of laws and regulations on specialized education, teacher education, and primary and secondary education within one year, which made the education system of the Republic of China rapidly improve and greatly alleviated the factional struggle within the education system.

Chang Kaishen finally found out that Zhu Jiahua was a talent, and hurriedly transferred Zhu Jiahua to the Ministry of Communications as a minister. Zhu Jiahua himself is also very powerful, and it only took two years to reverse the chaotic situation of transportation and greatly improve the efficiency of railway transportation in the Republic of China.

Historically, Chang Kaishen will appoint Zhu Jiahua as the chairman of Zhejiang Province in two years.

Everyone knows that Chang Kaishen is from Zhejiang, and his main henchmen are all from Zhejiang, and the position of chairman of Zhejiang Province belongs to a hot potato, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will offend a powerful person. Chang Kaishen asked Zhu Jiahua to be the chairman of Zhejiang Province, undoubtedly with high hopes for him.

As soon as Zhu Jiahua arrived in Zhejiang, he immediately reduced or exempted all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and although he offended the powerful, he won the hearts of the people - and at the same time won the support of Zhejiang businessmen. With the support of Zhejiang's local consortium, Zhu Jiahua immediately embarked on local reform and construction, and his various political achievements were dazzling.

Chang Kaishen was very happy about this, and completely cultivated Zhu Jiahua as a "prime minister", and became the third-in-command of the government under Chang Kaishen and Wang Zhaoming.

Why did Wang Zhaoming defect to the Japanese and become a traitor?

A big reason is Zhu Jiahua, Zhu Jiahua's ability is too strong, and Wang Zhaoming, Chen Guofu, and Chen Lifu are pressed to the point that they have no sense of existence. After Zhu Jiahua served as the secretary general of the Central Committee, Wang Zhaoming completely became a mascot-like decoration.

If Wang Zhaoming does not become a traitor, but continues to stay in the national government, then he will have no rights, and he will even have to look at the face of Zhu Jiahua, a junior.

At this moment, although Zhu Jiahua is still the Minister of Transportation, he has won the absolute trust of Chang Kaishen and Dai Jitao.

Chang Kaishen's current diplomatic strategy is to befriend Germany, and specially made Zhu Jiahua the chairman of the "Sino-German Cultural Association". When Hans von Seckert, the "father of the German Wehrmacht," visited China last year, Zhu Jiahua was ordered to greet and accompany him throughout the whole process.

It just so happened that Zhou Hexuan and Zhu Jiahua had a good personal relationship, and they chatted happily when there was an education reform. At that time, Zhu Jiahua was still a supporter of Cai Yuanpei, and together with Zhou Hexuan, he opposed Li Shizeng's reform plan at the education conference.

So connections are very important, and the little people I met before may soar to the sky one day.