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Chapter 982 Gains and Losses

It's late at night, and it's silent. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe light was still on in the study room of the Central Military Academy in Nanjing, and when An Yi arrived as promised, he found that Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi were there, and immediately understood that what Chiang Kai-shek wanted to talk to him about tonight was not just about Sino-British relations and the Sino-Burmese border issue.

Chiang Kai-shek was still sitting behind his desk and waving his pen, looked up at An Yi, who was standing and saluting after entering the door, nodded and signaled him to be casual, and then continued to lower his head and write.

Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi looked calm, and the two sat on the sofa very relaxed, no different from the last time they met and talked in Shanghai. Seeing An Yi coming, Song Ziwen smiled and continued to read his newspaper, Kong Xiangxi smiled and put down the Chinese piece in his hand, pointed to the position beside him, and motioned An Yi to sit over.

An Yi took the tea brought by the attendant, thanked him in a low voice, put the teacup on the coffee table, sat down and unbuttoned the style and discipline of the yellow tweed military uniform, leaned close to Kong Xiangxi's ear and whispered:

"It's been half a month since the young marshal came back from Italy, why is he still living in seclusion in his Shanghai apartment and doesn't want to go out of the mountains?"

Kong Xiangxi smiled and nodded: "The reason why Han Qing is reluctant to show his head is because his new position has not yet been implemented, and the army left in North China is not fully prepared. Second, economic work and party affairs are not Han Qing's specialty, and if he makes a high-profile comeback during the Central Committee meeting, it will be a difficult problem for how to place him in his post; according to his reputation, once he is appointed, it will be confirmed that he wants to change it, and it is better to stay in Shanghai and wait for the meeting to end, which is also a relatively safe approach. Moreover, during the holding of the conference, General Baichuan and General Mingxuan (Song Zheyuan), who had been tense because of the garrison and the division of forces, had reached a consensus that there would no longer be too much disagreement on the North China issue for their own interests, and now the rebels such as Ji Hongchang and Fang Zhenwu in the north have been wiped out, and the internal affairs of North China have been solved, and Han Qing has no place to play. In my opinion, Han Qing's biggest task for this comeback is to devote himself to the great cause of suppressing bandits. ”

"Oh...... I see. ”

An Yi suddenly realized that he finally understood the reason why Zhang Xueliang was stranded in Shanghai after returning to China and was unwilling to move his nest. Chairman Chiang originally called Zhang Xueliang back from Europe, with the original intention of resolving the chaotic situation in which various armies in North China were vying for power and profit and tearing each other down, and to exert pressure on Song Zheyuan, who was growing bigger and more ambitious, and Yan Xishan, who was pressing forward step by step. As long as Zhang Xueliang returns, the leaderless Northeast Army will be able to unite temporarily, and will no longer be co-opted and divided by the Jin Sui Army and Song Zheyuan's army, and the political situation in North China will form a relatively stable three-legged trend, so that Yan Xishan, Song Zheyuan, and Zhang Xueliang can check and balance each other and watch out for each other, which is better than letting the central government send people to appease this and persuade that every day.

As soon as Zhang Xueliang returned, they smelled the smell of conspiracy in the air, invariably gave up infighting, compromised with each other, and vigorously supported the central authorities in dealing with the "Min mutiny" and encirclement and suppression, and won Chairman Chiang's understanding and approval, so the situation in North China suddenly became clear, and Zhang Xueliang's role suddenly became less important.

The return of a Zhang Xueliang is equivalent to a piece of paper that is about to unfold but still holds the pipa, but it can make the princes of North China jump up and down and be willing to surrender, but the most disappointed is Zhang Xueliang, who was used as a bargaining chip, I don't know how the veteran will deal with the aftermath.

The more An Yi pondered, the more he felt that Chiang Kai-shek's methods were clever, and it seemed that Zhang Xueliang was angry in Shanghai for this reason, and rushed back thousands of miles away to draw water in vain, and he must have had a feeling of being fooled, so he stayed in Shanghai and was unwilling to attend a series of important meetings in Nanjing.

"What are you looking at me for?"

Song Ziwen put away the newspaper and glared at An Yi, it was obvious that he saw An Yi's thoughts from An Yi's mocking look.

An Yi put down the teacup and said with a smile: "Don't you have a weak heart...... I'm thinking, during this time, you are busy with the Central Committee meeting, and you don't have time to go back to Shanghai to accompany the young marshal, will the young marshal feel that he is particularly lonely? It's not a matter of listening to small songs and drinking small wine all day long. ”

Song Ziwen replied solemnly: "Go, go, don't look at people with old eyes, Han Qing's trip to Europe focused on recuperation and rehabilitation, and he successfully quit drug addiction, and he is much stronger, next time you see him, you will understand." By the way, what's going on with you? After Han Qing came back, almost all relatives and friends called to greet him, but you guy didn't say anything about it, with your friendship that An Yi and Han Qing have been fighting side by side for half a year, as well as your exquisite way of dealing with people, it seems that there shouldn't be such impolite negligence, right? Is it because a few scum of the Northeast Army made you lose your troops and generals, and you have been obsessed with it, and then you are angry with Han Qing? ”

Song Ziwen didn't mention it, but when he mentioned An Yi, his face suddenly became extremely ugly. He snorted, leaned on the back of the sofa, subconsciously distanced himself from Song Ziwen, knocked on the coffee table with his slender fingers, and replied rather annoyedly:

"That's right! To put it bluntly, that's what it is! I never dreamed that the group of fools in the Peiping Political Branch would actually revoke Tang Yulin's wanted warrant, such a sinner of a country and nation, a scum who fled without a fight and let tens of millions of people fall under the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders, and now he has been reinstated, how can you explain to the more than 100,000 soldiers under his command who participated in the War of Resistance in North China? How can I explain to the spirits in heaven who gave their lives for this purpose, more than 15,000 brothers in three divisions? Shame on you! No wonder there are so many generals in the history of our army who are capricious, and regard betrayal as child's play, and I finally understand the reason now! You wait and see, the bad impact of unclear military discipline and unfair rewards and punishments is still to come, and if you sacrifice the military and national prestige for the sake of the slightest interest in front of you, you will be punished! ”

Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi were so excited and angry at An Yi, and they looked at each other, and they were both deeply surprised. The two had never seen An Yi lose his temper so much before, and they were stunned in their seats for a while, not knowing what to do.

Song Ziwen can understand An Yi's sadness and righteous indignation, and Kong Xiangxi can also understand An Yi's heartfelt brotherhood affection for the soldiers under his command, but the two have nothing to do about it, the cancellation of Tang Yulin's wanted warrant was not done by the two of them, and the opinions of the two were not consulted in advance, all of them were made by those people of the Beiping Political Branch to artificially reconcile contradictions and check and balance the armies in North China, and there is an extremely important reason for this, that is, the result of Zhang Xueliang's repeated requests, after all, Tang Yulin is also Zhang Zuolin's sworn brother, Zhang Xueliang had to be called his uncle, and he had to rely on more than 10,000 loyal troops under Tang Yulin to decorate the façade.

Chiang Kai-shek had just finished handling official business at this time, silently walked to the opposite of the three of them and sat down, and quietly looked at An Yi, who was extremely annoyed, for a while: "I guess you have been holding this matter in your heart for a long time, right?" ”

"Yes, principal, the students really can't figure it out and can't accept it, but in the past month, the students have endured it for the sake of the overall situation, and they don't dare to hide it from the principal and everyone, the students have already rejected the four application reports in the army that require Tang Yulin to be slaughtered, otherwise, even if Tang Yulin has great ability, he will not live today!"

An Yi was excited, and said the hatred and anger from within An Jiajun.

Chiang Kai-shek immediately sank his face: "I understand the feelings of you and the soldiers under your command, but I want to warn you, you must not make things out of control at this critical juncture, otherwise North China will be in chaos, and you An Yi will be a sinner of the country and the nation!" ”

An Yi sighed: "Principal, why don't students understand the stakes, but ...... Forget it, let's not mention this matter for the time being, the student union will strictly restrain the soldiers under its command. However, the students also took this opportunity to boldly say to the principal that the impact of Tang Yulin's incident on the whole ** team was extremely bad, and it would be very difficult to make up for it, so the sinner not only did not receive the punishment he deserved, but also reinstated him as an official, and appeared in the revolutionary army with the rank of general, and there will be endless imitators in the future, especially in the face of strong enemies, it is even more ......"

Chiang Kai-shek sighed and waved his hand to signal An Yi not to say any more: "How did I not know the bad effects of this incident? Don't talk about it...... Today, let's talk about the issue of Sino-British relations, the minutes of the two talks between Lam Pusang and me, you have just read it outside, the British are unwilling to fight with us on the Sino-Burmese border, and I have to thank you for this, if it were not for your decisive decision and bloody revenge, the British would not have been so easy to speak, but I don't know what kind of evil fire the British sent today...... How much do you know about the Anglo-Burmese invasion of the small village called 'Lufang' west of Ban Hong? ”

"Yes, An Yi, tell me, why are the British suddenly so interested in that small village that can't be found on the map?" Song Ziwen also asked curiously, while Kong Xiangxi looked at An Yi quietly.

An Yi drank half a cup of tea to stabilize his mood, holding the teacup and replied in a low voice: "Principal, two, 'Lu Fang' is just the name of the British, and the small village surrounded by mountains is actually called 'furnace room', the furnace of the stove, the room of the house, this is also the exact information that the students only got a few hours ago, the reason why the British invaded brazenly is that there is a huge interest in it." As early as the mid-to-early Qing Dynasty, huge silver deposits were discovered near that village, and the Kawa people, the most powerful of Yunnan's ethnic minorities, lived here, and this secret was kept secret by them for hundreds of years. The Kawa tribes knew that there was an inexhaustible supply of silver, and for hundreds of years it had been extracted using the most primitive smelting methods, hence the name 'furnace house' in that barren land. ”

"I see...... You go on! Song Ziwen suddenly realized.

An Yi glanced at Song Ziwen: "This matter has never been reported to be a cottage other than the Kawa people, until the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu in the last year of the Qing Dynasty, when China and Britain held negotiations and border demarcation for the border issue, and it was not known to the British, but after the British knew that there was a large silver mining area in that place, the boundary line had already been demarcated, and the 'furnace house', which was only twelve kilometers away from the Sino-Burmese border, had been included in our Chinese territory.

"Unfortunately, the two officials sent by the Qing Dynasty to negotiate were fools, and they did not know whether they were bought by the British or were not serious, and only marked the boundary line according to the names of the mountains and tribes, but did not clearly mark the latitude and longitude like the British, and got part of the furnace mining area to the boundary line. As a result, the years have changed, two flash floods have occurred, and several villages near and far in the mining area are gone, where are the British still polite? Directly between the two mountains to demarcate the border, insisting that the entire furnace house is tens of square kilometers of Burmese territory, five years of frantically digging and transporting slag, to get back to Myanmar for smelting. When the slag at the border was finally dug up, the insatiable British crossed the border and clashed fiercely with the local Kawa people, and finally brought in troops to beat the Kawa people of Banlao Village and drive them out of the furnace area. It is said that this intermittent small-scale mining could produce three to five tons of silver a year on both sides, most of which fell into the pockets of the British. ”

Chiang Kai-shek, Song Ziwen, and Kong Xiangxi were extremely surprised, and only then did they know how big the interests contained in it were, and it was really unexpected that a small border village could produce such a huge amount of silver, and it was not a large-scale mining.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded frequently: "Cangyuan County, to which the furnace house belongs, wasn't it not long before the Southern Yunnan Reclamation Zone was assigned to you?" Have you sent troops to see it before? ”

An Yi replied a little helplessly: "No, it is precisely because the Yunnan Provincial Government has just assigned several counties on the border of southern Yunnan to our southern Yunnan Prefecture not long ago, we don't have time to look at it, plus Meng Lian and the border line south of it has been very tense, the poor troops in southern Yunnan are arranged on the border line, the 26th Army approved by the principal was hurriedly formed and left for southern Yunnan, the army commander Xia Jian only caught the bandit leader Scar 5 a few days ago, and went to office satisfied, if it weren't for the Kawa people who knew that our garrison in southern Yunnan not only did not commit any crimes in autumn, Moreover, the British and Burmese troops who had cleaned up and bullied them would definitely not be willing to report the matter of the furnace house to the Southern Yunnan Prefecture Administration, and the students would not know that there was such a huge silver mine in that remote barren mountain and wilderness that could only be used by horses. ”

At this moment, Chiang Kai-shek was embarrassed, stood up and walked slowly, and it was difficult to make up his mind for a while.

The outgoing British minister has extended an olive branch of peace before leaving, and the new ambassador to Beijing, Ward Gan, once again expressed his willingness to improve the economic and trade relations between the two countries and gradually lift the economic sanctions against China. Once China and Britain have bad relations, the majestic economic revitalization and construction plan that has just been passed will be tantamount to painting a pie to satisfy hunger, and I am afraid that it will once again become a laughing stock of people from all walks of life at home and abroad.