Chapter 42: Co-optation and Jealousy
9.42 Co-optation and jealousy
Surrounded by a large number of "acquaintances", Huang Haoran didn't have time to come up with a reason. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Seeing that the meeting was about to start, the remaining time was only enough for him to say a few words to Gu Mosan.
"Third Brother Mo! After the meeting, we must have a drink! ”
There is not much moisture in Huang Haoran's enthusiasm for Gu Mosan, and Gu Mosan's impression on Huang Haoran has always been quite good. Gu Mosan not only has a good personal relationship with Huang Haoran's brother-in-law Jiang Baili, but also a well-known "good temper" among the generals of the Central Army! Compared with those arrogant so-called "Whampoa elites", Huang Haoran actually prefers to deal with old-school soldiers like Gu Mosan who came from the Baoding Military Academy. He felt that at least these people should be more upright......
As early as 1935, Gu Mosan was awarded the rank of second-class general in the army, Huang Haoran had long heard Jiang Baili tell him that in the descendants of the highest authorities, there are eight important generals who were born as instructors of the Whampoa Military Academy, and they have won the trust and reuse of the highest authorities, known as the "Eight King Kongs". These eight people are: Minister He, Liu Zhi, Gu Mosan, Zhang Zhizhong, Qian Dajun, Chen Cixiu, Jiang Dingwen, and Chen Jiji.
It can be seen from this how heavy Gu Mosan's weight is in the eyes of the highest authorities!
The "Eight King Kongs" under the highest authority all graduated from regular military schools: among them, Minister He and Qian Dajun were international students at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School; Jiang Dingwen studied in the Zhejiang Army Lecture Hall; The remaining five are all top students of the Baoding Army Military Academy. Moreover, the "Eight King Kongs" all served at the Whampoa Military Academy, and after they came to power at the highest authority, they went on to become the core of the military team of the highest authority, and they were the first batch of army and division commanders in the Central Army.
So when Hu Zongnan and Xue Yue saw that Gu Mosan also took the initiative to greet Huang Haoran like Minister He, both of them were a little dumbfounded! Hu Zongnan thought even more hatefully: It seems that the rumor that Huang Haoran will become the first army general among the Whampoa generals is very likely to be true! Otherwise, how could Minister He and Gu Mosan, the veterans of the military circles, be so polite to Huang Haoran?
Hu Zongnan has always had his pride, and this pride was earned by following the highest authorities from birth to death!
In 1932, the highest authorities instructed his henchmen, Whampoa graduates He Jinhan, Deng Wenyi, Kang Ze, Gui Yongqing, and others to set up a spy organization, the "Chinese National Rejuvenation Society" (modeled after the fascist organization Italian Black Shirts and the German Brown Shirts, also known as the "Blue Shirt Society"), and the highest authorities personally selected 13 officials, Liu Jianqun, He Jinhan, Deng Wenyi, Kang Ze, Gui Yongqing, Yu Yi, Zheng Jiemin, Zeng Huqing, Liang Ganqiao, Xiao Zanyu, Teng Jie, Dai Li, and Hu Zongnan. As the backbone of the "Chinese National Rejuvenation Society", these 13 officers were later called the highest authority, the "Thirteen Taibao".
This is a very impressive qualifications! And where was Huang Haoran in 32? It's just a small colonel mixed in with the Central Army!
In Hu Zongnan's view, everything Huang Haoran got today should have belonged to him! Like Gui Yongqing, Hu Zongnan, who was born in the "Thirteen Taibao", occupies a lot of first place among Whampoa students! He was not only the first to step into the ranks of generals, but also the first army commander and the first corps commander in Whampoa!
On September 2, 1937, when Hu Zongnan led his troops to participate in the Battle of Songhu, Huang Haoran was only a major general and division commander. Although Huang Haoran became a military commander through the Battle of Songhu, he was still a big step behind Hu Zongnan! Hu Zongnan was promoted to the commander of the 17th Army Corps only 10 days after participating in the war, as the first corps commander among the Whampoa students, Hu Zongnan did not take Huang Haoran in his eyes at all!
But in the next battle to defend Nanjing, Hu Zongnan's old 1st Army was actually dragged into the war group by Huang Haoran and crippled! What made Hu Zongnan even more unacceptable was that Huang Haoran also became the lieutenant general commander of the 25th Group Army by virtue of his outstanding exploits in the defense of Nanjing! suddenly appeared to be on an equal footing with him Hu Zongnan!
And it's not over yet! In the Battle of Xuzhou, Huang Haoran became the first deputy commander of the theater in Huangpu's life! Since then, Hu Zongnan has fallen behind!
When it came to the Battle of Lanfeng, Huang Haoran became Hu Zongnan's top boss! drove Hu Zongnan's army and Tufeiyuan Division to start a bloody battle! In less than a year, Hu Zongnan, who has always regarded himself as the "first person in Huangpu", was crushed by Huang Haoran, a well-known "poor student" in the Huangpu Military Academy! Your name is Hu Zongnan, how can you swallow this breath?
At this moment, Hu Zongnan looked at Huang Haoran, his eyes were full of jealousy!
Gu Mosan, who was sitting on Huang Haoran's left, didn't come to answer Huang Haoran's greetings, and the executive officer of the meeting began to loudly remind the generals present to "stay quiet", which was a sign that the meeting was about to begin.
So Gu Mosan could only nod at Huang Haoran, and agreed to Huang Haoran's request to drink with him, and then sat up straight, straightened his waist, and pretended to be a wooden man.
Huang Haoran smiled, and then did the same. When Huang Haoran sat down, he suddenly found that the person sitting across the conference table from him was actually Chen Cixiu! And since just now, Chen Cixiu has been looking at Huang Haoran intently, with complicated eyes!
Chinese have always respected the left, and Huang Haoran silently calculated in his heart according to the seat arranged today. Gu Mosan, who sat in fifth place on the right side of the conference table, was a second-class general of the army; Then Chen Cixiu, who sat in the sixth place on the left side of the conference table, was sent with the rank of lieutenant general and general; Then came to Huang Haoran, who was sitting in the 6th place on the right side of the conference table, with the rank of lieutenant general!
"In this way, among the lieutenant generals of the Wuhan government, Lao Tzu is already the first person!"
Huang Haoran muttered quietly in his heart, and at this time, a black tunic, next to the highest authority, loudly announced the official start of the meeting! Huang Haoran turned his head to look at the person, and found that the person in the black tunic was Lin Wei!
"Why do you keep seeing acquaintances lately?"
Counting the three women who live in the Great China Restaurant, Huang Haoran can meet a few "old people" he hasn't seen for a long time almost every day in the past few days, this luck is really fucking evil!
"Hello everyone! Everyone, thank you! ”
Hearing this familiar Zhejiang-style official dialect, the generals in the conference room immediately jumped up from their chairs, and then shouted in unison:
"Hello!"
The mood of the highest authorities was obviously very good, he smiled and waved to the generals attending the meeting, and then said in a gentle voice: "It's me who is late!" You've all been waiting for a long time! Sit down, sit down! ”
"Huh!" Very neat movements, Huang Haoran followed the team and sat down, and then secretly glanced at Gu Mosan and Hu Zongnan, who were sitting on his left and right hands, respectively, and as expected, these two people all became sculptures!
"I'm afraid all of you already know, right? The Soviets and the Japanese fought in the Far East! And there is a tendency to fight further! Well, now the Japanese have finally dragged the Soviets into the water! I think our days will soon be better...... What kind of thoughts do you have on this matter, you can speak freely! Which one will stand up and talk about it first? ”
It is rare for the supreme authorities to sing such a loud voice as soon as they come up, and the optimism revealed in the speech sends a clear signal to the generals present that the supreme authorities are now very happy! So the best way to deal with it at the moment is to sing praises and pat yourself on the back!
So in the next ten minutes, Huang Haoran was almost vomited by the performance of a group of "sycophant generals"! Huang Haoran was very sure that he had never seen these guys on the battlefield, but the generals on the collars of these guys didn't look like fakes at all! It seems that in the Republic of China, sycophants are really a shortcut to promotion!
After a while, perhaps the highest authorities felt a little embarrassed to hear it, so they stretched out their hands to end the farce of the demons, and then began to ask questions by name.
The first person to win the lottery was Wang Zhaoming, the "big traitor leader" who will betray the Chinese people in the near future is really a staunch pessimist, and he seems to have decided that China is definitely going to die in Japan! Even if he saw that the highest authorities were obviously happy, Wang Zhaoming still had to use a lifeless voice to find a thorn:
"Do you think Stalin will really fight the Japanese?"
As soon as Wang Zhaoming's words came out, Huang Haoran saw that the brows of the highest authority immediately furrowed tightly. Obviously, the highest authorities were angered by Wang Zhaoming's attitude! However, the highest authorities could not say that what Wang Zhaoming said was completely unreasonable. Because until now, neither Japan nor the Soviet Union have officially declared war! There is a real possibility that the war in the Far East will not be fought!
Seeing that the atmosphere was about to fall into embarrassment, Minister He, who was sitting opposite Wang Zhaoming, suddenly jumped out and inserted a lever to relieve the siege of the highest authorities:
"Dean Wang's words are wrong! I don't see it like you, you must know that the Japanese started this conflict first. The Japanese Army did not know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, so it not only concentrated heavy troops in Central China, but also provoked a war on the Sino-Soviet border. It's just not self-sufficient! But for us, it's definitely a good thing. Stalin was no idle man! He will not show weakness to the Japanese, and this battle on the border will definitely continue! ”
Minister He's words made the highest authorities excited again, looking at Wang Zhaoming, whose eyes began to shimmer and shrink, the highest authorities seemed to feel the joy of fighting back, and he gave Minister He an encouraging look, as if hoping that Minister He would continue to say something similar.
Looking at the battle between the highest authorities, Minister He and Wang Zhaoming, Huang Haoran secretly shook his head in his heart! With such a fragmented leadership, how could China win the battle against the Japanese?
The only thing that can make Huang Haoran feel some joy now is that Minister He's sycophant has become! I have more confidence in what I have to do today! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )