Chapter 1004: High-level gatherings
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Chen Jingyun himself is six cousins, and it can be said that there are six major branches, and these six cousins have their own children, and with the birth of the third generation of the Chen family, the descendants of the huge Chen family have more than 100 people.
In order to ensure the continuation of the family's prosperity, the children of the Chen family are also widely involved in various military, political and economic activities in China, some are engaged in business, some are in politics, and there are even more in the military.
In Chen Jingyun's generation, although the Chen family did not join the army except for Chen Jingyun himself, the Chen brothers of this generation relied on the original Huaxia Bank, with the rise of China to control China's economy, and the Huaxia Bank controlled by the Chen brothers in the twenties, a little action can cause a major earthquake in China's economy. After entering the thirties, although the Chen family gradually retreated into the background, it used Liuhe Fund, the largest private fund in China, to control the majority of the shares of Huaxia Bank, China's largest bank, and the majority of the shares of Fule Electric, which is known as the flower of China's industry, while other domestic super-large-scale enterprises such as Southeast Iron and Steel, Pacific Shipping, Sanshi Chemical, and North China Petroleum are the largest shareholders.
If the first generation of the Chen family controlled China's economy, then the second generation, that is, the generation of Chen Huatian and Chen Huajun, is quite a part of them have entered the military circles, and some have only served for a few years before retiring from business, but in addition to Chen Jingyun's sons, there are also many second-generation Chen clansmen who have become professional generals and gradually entered the military hierarchy.
For example, Chen Jingsheng's eldest son Chen Huatong, this person is older, he was a colonel in the thirties, although in order to avoid negative influences, there has been no rapid promotion, but he still climbs up step by step by accumulating qualifications, in this process, because there is no bottleneck problem encountered by most generals, such as the hurdle of colonel promotion to major general, which is more than 95% of the school officers can not break through, but as a member of the Chen family, he does not have this problem, After accumulating sufficient qualifications, he was successfully promoted, and is currently holding the rank of Major General of the Army, serving as Deputy Director General under the Director of Ordnance of the Army Armament Department. And now his qualifications have almost accumulated, and he can almost be promoted to lieutenant general in the next two years.
In addition, there is Chen Jingan's son Chen Huaka, although Chen Jingan is not very good and has never been valued by Chen Jingyun, but his son Chen Huaka's military talent is quite good, and his development is smoother than Chen Huatong, and he is now a major general, serving as the commander of the 87th Division and the rank of major general.
The remaining major general is Chen Jingkai's son, Chen Huaping, who served in the Air Force and served as deputy chief of staff of the Shanghai Air Defense Command during last year's Sino-Chinese War, with the rank of colonel. He was promoted to major general of the Air Force at the beginning of this year because of his meritorious service in the air defense operations in Shanghai, and is currently serving as chief of staff of the Shenyang Air Defense Command.
As for the rest, most of them are still hovering at the rank of lieutenant and lieutenant, not to mention it.
But with the passage of time, these people will eventually grow up, and when the time comes, they will always maintain a certain number of senior generals in the military of the Chen family.
Compared to the serious atmosphere between Chen Jingyun's four sons in the side hall, the atmosphere of these people staying together is much more relaxed, because they have no competition, but a relationship of mutual support.
Because in the conversation, he talked and laughed about various military and political affairs at home and abroad.
In addition to these Chen clan people, more are naturally the military and political bigwigs who are qualified to be invited to the wedding, but these people came to the wedding not for Chen Huabiao, but because of Chen Jingyun.
Many military and political dignitaries who have been in other places for a long time want to take this opportunity to meet Chen Jingyun and keep in touch with each other.
In the study, General Song Junpeng, who had just returned from Turkey, was one of them, and he did not come to China this time to attend Chen Huabiao's wedding, but mainly to meet Chen Jingyun and report to Chen Jingyun in person.
"On the Turkish side now, the overall situation is quite good, although the Turkish troops are not strong, but they are numerous, and they also share our pressure in many ways to a certain extent. However, now the ambitions of the Turks are not small, and as soon as they conquer Greece, they demand that Greece cede a lot of territory, and the same is true on the Bulgarian side. Song Junpeng said: "Turkey's ambitions are still too big, and I am afraid that it will affect our overall layout in Europe to a certain extent!" ”
Chen Jingyun nodded after hearing this: "It is not surprising that Turkey has ambitions, if they don't have ambitions, they won't join forces with us, isn't it just for the sake of interests, although the cession of territory can be regressed by one or two, but it must be measured, and it must not affect the situation in the Balkan Peninsula too much!" ”
In order to win over Turkey, China promised a lot of things, including supporting Turkey's acquisition of part of the territory of Greece and Bulgaria, and now Turkey wants to reach out and obtain these benefits. However, Chen Jingyun will not oppose Turkey because he says that Turkey is ambitious, he is not afraid that Turkey has no ambitions, he is afraid that they are not bold enough, otherwise why let Turkey and China stand together and fight against Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union together, people are not stupid, if you don't give enough benefits, why should people give you your life.
You must know that among the coalition forces that have been fighting for many months and attacking the Balkan Peninsula, although there are not many casualties among the Chinese troops, the casualties of the Turkish army are not small, and there are 50,000 or 60,000 casualties.
"I will instruct the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to properly handle these matters, you don't have to worry, now your task is very heavy, the situation in Europe is related to our country's strategic security in the next few decades, and there must be no mistakes!" Chen Jingyun said: "Although the strength of the Ninth Army is not less, but in the face of the responsible situation in Europe, I am afraid that it is still insufficient, in the future, the army will liaise with allies such as Turkey and Iran, so that they can send more troops into Europe and assume the responsibility of being an ally, and these troops are managed by you, so you should pay more attention to it!" ”
Song Junpeng naturally claimed that "the ministry understands!" ”
On the European side, Song Junpeng served as the commander-in-chief of not only the Chinese Expeditionary Force, but also the commander of the entire allied European Expeditionary Force, not only commanding China's Ninth Army, but also shouldering the command of the two major Turkish armies, Iran, Thailand, North Korea and other allies sent a small number of troops. In terms of the quality of his position, he is equivalent to the commanders of the two major theaters established by China last year.
And in order to allow Song Junpeng to better command the troops, Chen Jingyun already planned to continue to raise his rank and promote him to field marshal.
This plan is not a secret, before Song Junpeng went to Europe at the beginning of the year, he knew that as long as he did not disappoint Chen Jingyun, then during or after the war, a marshal rank would be in hand.
Now Song Junpeng has been commanding operations in Europe for many months, and has commanded the coalition forces to successfully conquer Greece and Bulgaria, as well as the southern part of Yugoslavia and the western part of Romania. It's not bad in terms of military merits, so Chen Jingyun also thought about it, and then said: "This time you come back, you will leave in two days, and I will ask them to prepare a ceremony to promote you to a marshal!" ”
Although he had already been mentally prepared for this, when he heard Chen Jingyun say this to him personally, he couldn't help but become extremely excited in his heart.
"The chairman is loved, Junpeng can't repay it!" The joy on Song Junpeng's face was undisguised, as a general, his biggest dream in this life is to obtain the highest honor of representing a general and become the highest-level marshal.
Song Junpeng, who has been in the army all his life, has followed Chen Jingyun to fight at home and abroad since the civil war, and participated in the domestic unification war, the Sino-German Qingdao Campaign, the first Sino-Chinese War, the Second Sino-Chinese War, and the Russian War, and was promoted to general in 1939. This year, he was jointly recommended by several military bigwigs for the post of commander of the coalition forces, thus paving the way for him to become a marshal.
Chen Jingyun smiled, looked at Song Junpeng, who was six years older than himself, and said with a smile: "As long as you take Europe down, it will be the greatest reward for me." You will live up to the expectations of the people! “
"Rest assured, the chairman will overcome all difficulties and present a European gift to the country and the nation!" Song Junpeng made his oath without hesitation.
Chen Jingyun nodded: "You have your own sense of the specific operations on the European side, but in the general direction, you still have to discuss with Chen Yi and Shen Gang more!" ”
Song Junpeng naturally nodded yes.
Although he Song Junpeng is now a leading general outside, and he is about to be promoted to marshal, but in terms of qualifications, he is still a big step behind Shen Gang and Chen Yi and others, Song Junpeng is a general who belongs to the second echelon in the army, and Chen Yi and Shen Gang and others are generals who belong to the first echelon, and the gap is still relatively large.
Where is the specific gap reflected? That is, Song Junpeng can only be responsible for the war in one direction today, but a few people such as Shen Gang and Chen Yi are responsible for the strategic direction of the whole of China, and the difference here is still quite large.
Then Song Junpeng spoke to Chen Jingyun for more than 20 minutes before he came out, and he was seen by some military and political dignitaries who were also waiting outside for Chen Jingyun to summon him.
"Brother Song, looking at your expression, I'm afraid that it's going to happen?" Xie Yan walked over and asked with a smile.
Song Junpeng knew that it was no secret that he was going to be promoted to marshal, and the news that he was going to be promoted to marshal began to spread at the beginning of the year, and it was no secret among the high-ranking generals of the military, and it was not officially confirmed by Chen Jingyun today. So he nodded: "Loved by the chairman, the ceremony will be held in two days!" ”
"That's a good feeling, among us people, you are the first to be promoted to marshal, no, you have to have a treat, a few of our old brothers have to have a few drinks!" Xie Yan said with a smile, but there was a hint of envy and extreme taste in his words.
Xie Yan, like Song Junpeng, is also a veteran, from the civil war all the way to the present, he is also sixty-five years old this year, but unlike Song Junpeng, who frequently has the opportunity to command operations, he Xie Yan has not commanded a battle in World War II, there is no him in the Russian war, there is no him in the war last year, and there is no him in the European war this time. This is a big regret for him!
"Yes, let's set a table at night, and we won't go home if we don't get drunk!" Song Junpeng was in a good mood, and when he said this, he remembered that Xie Yan's eldest son Xie Chanan also served under him, and immediately said: "By the way, your kid played well in Greece some time ago, and I heard that the chairman praised him personally!" ”
Although there is no hope for Xie Yan to go further, he has given birth to a good son, that is Xie Chanan, who was among the top three when he graduated from the Wuhan Military Academy, and when he was still a lieutenant officer in the same period, he was a school officer, when his classmates were still struggling with the school officer, he had been in the position of major general for many years, and this year he was only in his forties, if it wasn't for his young age, he would have been promoted to lieutenant general early with his qualifications.
This Xie Chanan is a recognized rising star in the Chinese Army, and within the Army, he is a proud son of heaven who has been cultivated with Li Yuting and a few others.
Hearing others praise his son, Xie Yan was also full of smiles, and the trace of envy and jealousy in his heart just now had long since disappeared, I myself am not as good as you Song Junpeng, but compared to my son, you are far worse than me......
Song Junpeng also has a son in the army, but his son did not inherit Song Junpeng's military talent at all, and he graduated from the Wuhan Military Academy and was only ranked 280 in the infantry section, you must know that there were only 300 people in the infantry section in that class! After serving, there are no obvious signs of late blooming, and now he is only a lieutenant colonel in his forties, and he is estimated to be unable to cross the threshold of a major general in this life.
And Xie Yan asked himself, his eldest son Xie Chanan was properly promoted to lieutenant general after the war, and he would be a general after more than ten years, as long as he lived longer and lived for more than ten years, the Xie family would be a double general family at that time, and it would be the only one in the whole of China!
Some people are happy and some are sad, but Bao Gangyi, who was watching Song Junpeng and Xie Yan laughing and talking, was not in such a good mood!