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Chapter 1074: Turning Enemies into Friends (3)

The next morning, the sun was shining, and the rainy weather for a week finally cleared. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

When the convoy carrying Chiang Kai-shek and his entourage entered the airfield, all the officers and men put down everything they had, stood in solemn salute, and waited for the convoy to pass before continuing their work.

The convoy stopped in front of Chiang Kai-shek's special Junkers 52 three-engine transport plane and An Yi's brand-new AN5 transport plane on the tarmac, Chiang Kai-shek got out of the car, glanced around, and then curiously walked to the front of An Yi's special plane, looked carefully, and saw the beautiful streamlined fuselage and round cabin shape of the AN5 aircraft, and then looked at the square fuselage of his Junker special plane, nodded slightly, and seemed to think of something.

Zhang Xueliang, director of the Wuhan camp, Qian Dajun, chief of staff, Chen Cheng, who had just taken office as director of the Army's Organizing Division, and other generals, together with Song Ziwen, Kong Xiangxi, Yang Yongtai, and other civilian officials who had come to see him off, followed Chiang Kai-shek step by step, circling around An Yi's silver plane, sighing and envious as they went.

Many people said with emotion that we can finally build our own big plane.

At last night's banquet, he not only negotiated with An Yi the issue of purchasing equipment for a mechanized assault battalion, but also received strong support from An Yi, and within 40 days he would send 15 instructors to follow the equipment to the Nanhu Barracks in Wuhan to conduct training and guidance for the officers and men of the newly formed assault battalion of the Northwest Army for three months.

Secondly, An Yi also promised to provide a full set of weapons and equipment for a regiment of Zhang Xueliang's directly subordinate guard brigade within the next six months, and the standard is completely consistent with that of the 24th Army Guard Regiment.

In the end, what made Zhang Xueliang very happy was that during the banquet, he expressed his appreciation for An Yi's landline, and complained to An Yi that the American Boeing 247 special plane he bought back for half a year had a flight range of less than 700 kilometers, and it was very crowded with ten people, not to mention the noise, and the frequency of maintenance was also high. An Yi didn't say a word, and took the initiative to promise to give Zhang Xueliang an identical plane to his own, and quietly said to Zhang Xueliang: My plane is not only simple to pilot, excellent performance, but also increased the fuel tank volume, the selection of the United States Fox Company's two high-horsepower engines, is currently recognized in the world as the most mature technology and the most fuel-efficient engine, the bottom of the fuselage is also protected by the latest German development and production of high-quality alloy steel plates, flying at an altitude of more than 800 meters, the ground heavy machine gun and anti-aircraft machine gun can not penetrate it at all.

Compared with Zhang Xueliang's elation, Song Ziwen was very angry in his heart, if he hadn't sent Chiang Kai-shek to Chongqing to inspect and command the suppression of the Communist Party today, Song Ziwen would not have appeared here at all. In the discussion held yesterday afternoon, An Yi, who is usually very talkative, disagreed with all other issues except for supporting the financial reform plan of Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi and supporting the new currency issuance policy, even though Chiang Kai-shek was gloomy and extremely unhappy in the midst of the noise, An Yi still insisted on his own opinion, and held the tax autonomy of Xiangxi, Qianxi, southern Sichuan and southern Yunnan in his hands, no matter how Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi persuaded him, An Yi just did not agree, and when he was in a hurry, he shouted that he would pay off the debts owed to me by the central government first. made Song Ziwen thunderous, but he was helpless.

Today's Xiangxi and southern Sichuan are different from the poor and remote areas of the past. Anyway, Chiang Kai-shek had already asked the central authorities to exempt the people of Guizhou Province from taxes for one year, and it was not a big deal for Qianxi to temporarily delegate its tax power, but southern Sichuan and Xiangxi, which accounted for almost half of the country's industrial and commercial output value and whose tax revenue and industrial scale were growing rapidly, as well as southern Yunnan, which had a sharp increase in import and export trade with French Indochina, would not be able to carry out many of the grand plans of Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi if they were not in the hands of the state.

However, how easy is it to take these pieces of land from An Yi's hands? Today's Anyi Group has more than 200,000 troops, allies all over the periphery, and Yan Baichuan in Shanxi and Li Delin in Guangxi have maintained good relations of harmony and prosperity together, and they are related to the interests of Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang, Zhu Peide in the southwest border, and Liu Wenhui in western Sichuan and southwest Sichuan, and have become increasingly close, and have formed a huge military and political force.

Internally, An Yi not only won the warm support of the people and all walks of life in the jurisdiction, but also the Central Executive Committee with huge decision-making power, which provoked An Yi, he dared to pull out a gun and fight against you, even Chairman Jiang couldn't let An Yi do this and that as he did in the past, what could Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi do?

Externally, domestic chaebols such as the Kong family, the Feng family, the Yu family, and Shanghai Sanxin Company, as well as well-known multinational groups and financial institutions in Europe and the United States, are inextricably linked with the Anyi Group.

In this case, who dares to easily touch An Yi's interests?

After the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, Chairman Jiang wanted to move An Yi's interests because of An Yi's high achievements and gradual growth, but he was disgraced and regretted his mistakes, and finally had to push Yang Yongtai out as a substitute for the dead, so that the political science department that had a good relationship with the major domestic chaebols and the bourgeoisie now can't raise its head, and is still pressed behind by the CC department that seized the opportunity.

This time to encircle and suppress the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted to force the main force of the Red Army to enter the territory of An Yi and his allies, but the Central Army followed behind, gaining control of Xiangxi, southern Sichuan, Qianxi and other places in one fell swoop, and then banished An Yi, who had lost all his territory, to the northwest and re-created an industrial and agricultural base comparable to Syria. Unexpectedly, An Yi was very vigilant and did not give the Central Army any opportunity to take advantage of at all, and Chiang Kai-shek also understood from the military movements and layouts of An Jiajun and his allies that An Yi had seen through his plans, so he also pretended that nothing had happened, and still showed an attitude of intimacy and trust, but secretly readjusted the direction and plan of the seizure.

Therefore, Song Ziwen is the most depressed and annoyed among everyone today, but fortunately, Kong Xiangxi, An Yi's nominal godfather, mediates from it, and An Yi promised to seriously consider Song Ziwen's "next policy" to see how to solve the power contradiction between the local and central governments in a better way.

As for the eighteen-month buffer period proposed by Kong Xiangxi and Xi Ni, Song Ziwen and An Yi both resolutely disagreed, Song Ziwen thought that the time was too long, An Yi didn't say the length of time at all, but directly shouted "Pay me back!" I'll be generous with the interest that has been overdue for so long, don't want it, pay me back the principal, you can pay off the debt owed to me today, and I don't care if you send someone to my door to collect taxes tomorrow", one sentence provoked Song Ziwen's anger again, and finally under Chiang Kai-shek's loud reprimand, the two closed their mouths angrily, but they were not in the mood to continue to discuss.

Now, it was Song Ziwen who was in a hurry, and An Yi was not in a hurry at all, as if he was fine, he introduced the excellent performance of the AN5 aircraft to Chiang Kai-shek and everyone with a smile, and politely answered various situations about the Syrian Aircraft Factory.

Walking around the big plane, An Yi implored Chiang Kai-shek to take his special plane and feel the differences and advantages of the two planes. Chiang Kai-shek readily agreed, anyway, he flew in the same direction, and when he arrived in Chongqing, he would not delay An Yi or anything.

After saying goodbye, Chiang Kai-shek boarded the AN5 plane under An Yi's greeting, and after sitting down, he waved to the generals below through the bright window, and saw that everyone was waving, only Song Ziwen had already gotten into the car angrily and closed the door, and couldn't help shaking his head.

An Yi's attendants and seven or eight staff officers in the chamberlain got into the Junkers plane, and soon after, the Junkers took off first, followed by the AN5 plane, which also broke through the sky and flew directly to Chongqing under the escort of three Hawker fighters of the Central Air Force Special Service Group.

Chiang Kai-shek did not say anything about the aircraft's excellent performance, simple interior decoration and good sound insulation, but it was evident from his extremely appreciative eyes that he recognized and loved the aircraft.

The plane reached the predetermined altitude and flew smoothly, An Yi came over with a cup of hot water, sat on the wide and comfortable leather seat opposite Chiang Kai-shek, pulled down the movable valve on the bulkhead, and a delicate small coffee table appeared between the two.

"Headmaster, please drink water."

An Yi carefully placed the cup in front of Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek was very interested, looked around, and finally tapped the coffee table panel with his fingers: "The whole piece of peachwood, you can really enjoy it...... The design is clever and the layout is beautiful, much stronger than my special plane, very good, very good! ”

An Yi said with a smile: "The students have always wanted to build a decent special plane for the principal, but when I discussed it with my wife at the end of last year, my wife said that I had just changed to a 'large capacity machine' (another name for the Junkers 52 aircraft in the army nowadays), and it was not necessary for the time being. According to the current design scheme and the performance calculation of the new engine, the load capacity will be more than 30 percent higher than that of the student aircraft, that is, it can easily carry 45 people, and the range will be as high as 2,200 kilometers. ”

"So, you don't need to refuel halfway from Guangzhou to Beiping?" Chiang Kai-shek was very surprised, he never expected that An Yi's aircraft factory had reached such a level.

An Yi nodded: "Yes, in fact, the plane we are taking now can barely do it, and foreign countries can reach the level of 2,600 kilometers one way as early as a year and a half ago." Today, the Douglas DC3 that the United States has finalized and is doing the final test flight, and the twin-engine and four-engine large transport aircraft that the German Junkers company is about to test fly have reached and surpassed this level, not to mention our AN5 aircraft, which is perfectly combined with advanced technology from Germany and the United States. If it weren't for the high requirements for the aircraft's girders, skeleton and fuselage materials in order to ensure safety, the weight of the aircraft would have increased a lot, and the speed and endurance would have been more than 20 percent higher. ”

Chiang Kai-shek was extremely excited: "If I have time these days, I want to go to your aircraft factory to see with my own eyes, this is a great progress, I must go there." Alas...... In the past two years, at your request, neither our propaganda department nor the military government has publicized the improvement of the country's scientific and technological level, and even fewer people know about the many new weapons and equipment that you are testing and have already been finalized.

"Speaking of which, I want to say to you, don't blame Han Qing for knowing about the assault brigade you secretly formed, the specific situation is what I told him, and there is also the fact that you have been conducting experiments and confrontation exercises in the lower reaches of the Minjiang River for half a year, and the movement is not small, Liu Chengfu has quietly called me to inquire about this, and I called back to say that your troops are exploring new tactics, so it is not surprising that Han Qing knows. The last time I inspected his troops, the glorious Northeast Army in the past has long been gone, I really can't help it, so I use your troops to stimulate him, but he is really difficult now, after leaving the Northeast, the army is greatly injured, and then leaving North China has no place to eat, like a wandering duckweed, the roots are gone. In order to improve the combat effectiveness of his troops, I have approved a special military expenditure of 2.5 million yuan for him, and now most of it is earned by you. ”

Only then did An Yi know the source of Zhang Xueliang's huge procurement funds, and at the same time he also had a deeper understanding of the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang.

The young marshal who came back from Italy seems to have changed a lot, and while reorganizing the old department, he also frequently made remarks that he must be exterminated, which won the love and trust of Chiang Kai-shek, the eldest brother of righteousness. Legend has it that during his stay in Italy, the young marshal met Mussolini a lot, and there were scandals with Mussolini's daughter, but he didn't expect his thinking to change a lot with the deepening contact with fascism.

"What are you laughing at?"

Chiang Kai-shek frowned slightly when he saw An Yile's appearance.

An Yi hurriedly replied: "I was very happy with the young marshal last night, he is still the same as before, but he is more energetic than when he was in Beiping, and he has become more cheerful." It's just that Brother Ziwen is out of place, forcing me to obey all day long, and the good wine banquet was almost disturbed by him again.

"Principal, the students know that it is difficult for the central government, and they also know the grim situation facing the party-state at present, but the students will never give up the power of southern Sichuan, Xiangxi, western Guizhou and southern Yunnan, because these places are the painstaking efforts of students and soldiers, and embody the blood, sweat and ideals of all people.

"Again, there will be a war between China and Japan in the future, and it is money to really fight and move, and now the future capital is all spent, and then there will be no money, let's ask who is going? American or British? I am afraid that the European and American powers would like China and Japan to fight as soon as possible, so that they can benefit from both sides. ”

Chiang Kai-shek looked at An Yi's eyes seriously for a long time before he nodded and said: "I understand your personality, the national financial problems are not under my control now, and it is inconvenient for me to ask, maybe you have your reason, after all, the facts over the years have proved that the path you are taking is the right one."

"But I want to remind you that tomorrow the British ambassador Kadgan and his entourage will be in Syria, and this time you have to talk to people well and don't make any more trouble. The crisis in North China is getting worse day by day, and we can no longer make enemies everywhere, we must be good at turning enemies into friends, understand? ”

"The students understand, as long as the British are honest with each other, why not let the students release the more than 500 prisoners first?" An Yi said with a smile.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded with satisfaction: "I just like your ability to think and be flexible, very good!" As soon as the captives were released, the British had to show something, which was a huge pressure on the Japanese. The longer the war is delayed, the faster our economy will recover, and the more fully prepared we will be for the war against Japan. ”