The Fourth Outstanding Person of Huangpu Military Academy

"Bang!

Lu Deming, with a dark face, said nothing. He slammed the door shut with even greater force and refused to come out again. Huang Wei and Du Yuming were left staring at each other in bewilderment.

Tianjin.

Late at night, after Zhang Zuolin finished his official duties for the day, the doorman reported that the Japanese Minister to China, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, was visiting.

"Your Excellency, the Japanese have noticed that you are planning to move your troops south along the Jinpu Road."

Zhang Zuolin: "Your Japanese embassy in China should have moved to Nanjing two months ago. Why haven't you moved yet? And why are you bothering me every day?

Yoshizawa Kenkichi: "Where the Japanese embassy in China is located has nothing to do with our conversation today. Your Excellency, Japan strongly recommends that you stop oppressing the Chiang Kai-shek clique.

Zhang Zuolin gritted his teeth and stared at Fangze Qianji for a long time, and finally snorted.

"Japan believes that communism is a common enemy of both China and Japan. The current Guangzhou Communist regime has achieved a great victory on the battlefield. Chiang Kai-shek's clique will have no military means to contain Guangzhou for at least six months. Your Excellency, do you wish China to become a Communist-ruled country?"

Zhang Zuolin: "Ambassador Yoshizawa Kenkichi, do you think that if we defeat Chiang Kai-shek's 200,000-strong army in Guangzhou, his Chen-Deng gang will sweep across the country?"

Yoshizawa Kenkichi: "Yes. I'm surprised you didn't notice that."

Zhang Zuolin: "If it's not my world, what difference does it make whether it's Chiang Kai-shek's or the Communist Party's?"

"That's enough. Your Excellency, if the core of China is still the Chiang Kai-shek regime in Nanjing, you can continue to occupy the rich land of Northeast China and become an independent force. If the Communist Party comes to power, all of your power will disappear.

Zhang Zuolin stood up suddenly and said, "You don't allow me to do this, you don't allow me to do that, Mr. Minister, you have done me a favor, but you shouldn't interfere in everything, right?!"

"This isn't a decision I make alone. Behind me is the Empire of Japan and the Imperial Army General Staff. Your Excellency, if you and all the powerful factions across the country can temporarily put aside your selfishness in the face of the Communist threat and unite, after defeating the Communists, Your Excellency, you still have a chance to conquer the world."

"Call-

Chen Tianheng woke up in shock.

"Are you awake?!"

The nurse had been in the room. When she saw Chen Tianheng wake up, she hurried over and replaced the ice pack on his forehead with a colder one.

"No, I'll go back to sleep later. It was just a dream.

Chen Tianheng shook his head.

I've had a fever all day, and as soon as I fall asleep I have all kinds of strange dreams.

only--

Why is this dream so real?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Yoshizawa Kenkichi in person? Oh, maybe it’s just an image I imagined in my mind.

Chen Tianheng: "There's a figure at the window. Who's in the corridor outside?"

"Yes... a lot of people.

Chen Tianheng: "What a fuss! I can't die.

After mumbling something, Chen Tianheng fell asleep again in a daze.

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Volume 3: Separation and Reunion

Separation will eventually lead to reunion

--John has a long beard

Chapter 1: Guangzhou also faces a financial crisis

It is now May 1928, 1.

"Principal Ye, why haven't you paid me this month?

With New Year's Eve just two days away, Mao Runtan, a teacher in the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, encountered Ye Jianying on the street and immediately stopped him, demanding money.

"Well, well, well, I haven't received my salary yet, but the money will arrive tomorrow, tomorrow!" Ye Jianying explained in embarrassment.

Mao Runqin: "Then I will ask again tomorrow.

The Whampoa Military Academy has not yet paid the salaries that were supposed to be paid on January 1st.

However, what Ye Jianying said was true. The wages that should have been paid on January 1 have been collected in Guangzhou and will be paid tomorrow, the last day before New Year's Eve.

We can’t let the military academy teachers and students, the Guangzhou Municipal Government, and the local county and municipal governments have no money to celebrate the New Year.

"Ah! Only when you manage a household do you know how expensive firewood and rice are!"

Chen Duxiu bit the end of his pencil while listening to Mao Runmin talk about the financial situation of Guangdong/United Government before the end of the year.

When the Guangdong clique was in power, Guangdong's annual fiscal expenditure for maintaining municipal government was about 660 million silver yuan.

Now that the coalition government has settled in Guangzhou, and while some notorious financial and corruption black holes have been eliminated, no matter how much the national government rushes into Guangzhou to streamline its institutions and lower salaries, there will always be a group of unemployed people who need to receive a salary. Current statistics show that the annual fiscal expenditure is 720 million silver yuan.

The 720 million yuan does not include military spending.

This does not include government investments such as Ganzhou Tungsten Mine infrastructure, road and bridge projects, etc. These expenditures have consumed more than 300 million yuan in the past four months.

10、11、12、1月，广东市政开支用掉了240万元，军费开支594万元。

Among the officers and soldiers who died, the total pension amount exceeded 100 million yuan, based on the pension standard of 100-150 yuan per martyr and 100 yuan for the only son.

The fiscal revenue for these four months was 310 million yuan.

The customs duties in Guangdong were of course retained for their own use, and the customs duties in Guangzhou could not be taken to Nanjing to be spent by Chiang Kai-shek.

Mao Runmin: "Guangdong's annual tariff revenue currently accounts for two-thirds of its fiscal revenue, but the tariffs on many imported goods, especially industrial products, are relatively low. If we gain tariff autonomy and raise tariffs on these industrial products, tariff revenue could increase by 50% to 100%, assuming other conditions, such as economic activity, remain unchanged. Furthermore, raising tariffs on imported industrial products would help the development of the local industrial and commercial manufacturing industry.

Deng Yanda: "Negotiations are already underway. Moreover, the Nanjing government is also negotiating."

Both Nanjing and Guangzhou want to regain tariff autonomy.

The "three powers" of tariff autonomy, consular jurisdiction, and concession administration were what Sun Yat-sen proposed in 1912 that China must recover, and both Guangzhou and Nanjing had to recognize them.

Nanjing and Guangzhou then sent diplomats to formally negotiate with Britain, France, the United States and other countries, as both believed they were the sole legitimate representatives of China.

Then Britain started negotiations with Nanjing and Guangzhou simultaneously. All contacts and negotiations with both parties were open to the media.

The UK created a logical bug. Both parties, believing that they were the only legitimate representatives of China, suspended negotiations, claiming that the negotiations could not continue unless the other party withdrew.

"Commissioner Chen, the newspaper is here.

The cruise ship from Guangzhou to Nikolayev docked in Colombo. Feng Dafei brought up a small bundle of newspapers. These were the newspapers from the past seven days.

During the seven days between the cruise ship's departure from Singapore and its arrival in Colombo, Chen Tianheng was effectively cut off from all outside information. The cruise ship had a radio, but unless it was an emergency, Chen Tianheng couldn't use the captain's radio to chat with Guangzhou.

"Commissioner Chen, your wound has fully recovered."

Chen Tianheng: "It's been over ten days since I left Guangzhou, so the wound has healed, of course. But there's a shrapnel in there that's in a very tricky spot. ... The British are really tricky."

Chen Tianheng saw the newspaper in Colombo, which reported the tariff negotiations between Britain and the governments of Guangzhou and Nanjing, and successfully amused the cat.

Feng Dafei: "There can only be one China. It's disgusting what the British are doing.

Chen Tianheng: "The British Empire is the best at this. We need to be mentally prepared to fully reclaim tariff autonomy only after national unification... Speaking of which, the air force you dream of also relies on tariffs."

Feng Dafei was the staff officer and party representative of the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Division. When Chen Tianheng went to the Soviet Union for surgery and recuperation, Feng Dafei also went to the Soviet Union.

But he wasn't going there to recuperate. As the 4th Regiment's staff officer, he'd survived two days of fierce fighting at Dishui Mountain unscathed – a truly lucky feat. He was taking over twenty pilots and potential pilots to the Soviet Union for training. These twenty-plus individuals also served as Chen Tianheng's safety guarantee.

"Dafei, how long do you and your group plan to study in the Soviet Union?"

Feng Dafei: "There are one-year and two-year programs. The one-year program teaches flight techniques and basic air force officer training, while the two-year program also includes some mid-term air force officer training. I had to complete both years before returning.

Chen Tianheng: "If you, the dozen or so pilots, can choose or adjust your course hours, you can learn less about flight operations and more about officer courses.

"Oh? Why?"

Chen Tianheng: "Because the Soviet Union also abides by international conventions and does not sell arms to the two regimes in civil war...at least you can't be caught selling arms."

Feng Dafei: "That's right. Aircraft have to be placed on the ground and cannot be hidden. The United Nations government can't even buy the aircraft we fly in the Soviet Union.

Chen Tianheng: "It's because we can't buy military aircraft. So, your pilots just need to get familiar with Soviet trainer aircraft and learn some general aircraft control techniques, such as navigation and positioning. They don't need to specialize in a specific type of military aircraft. In the future, we will probably buy some Western European and American civilian aircraft and modify them ourselves..."

Guangzhou.

"Chen Tianheng had previously written a plan for the coalition government to establish an air force. Before he left, he told us that this was something we had to consider now because the air force wouldn't be combat-ready once we bought all the planes.

Even though it was Chinese New Year, the CMC and its Secretariat still had to work. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, everyone gathered to discuss the issues concerning the Air Force.

The air force plan previously written by Chen Tianheng stated that the first phase goal of air force construction was to have reconnaissance capabilities and limited bombing capabilities, and the second phase goal was to build a large-scale bomber fleet with a certain degree of air combat capability.

Because the Nanjing government now has only a few planes, more than 30, more than half of which are the property of Marshal Zhang Zuolin, and Nanjing itself has 11 planes.

The Guangzhou Joint Government currently has six aircraft, all seaplanes, primarily used to assist customs in anti-smuggling and anti-piracy operations. These aircraft are unarmed and cannot engage in aerial combat. If two aircraft encounter each other mid-air, the pilots can only politely pass by and exchange middle fingers.

The anti-piracy feature is a bit of a stretch, just for show, because the aircraft has no weapons and no batteries.

Without radio, this would be impossible. For example, if a plane goes out for reconnaissance or patrols at sea and sees a pirate ship, it will return to the airport and verbally report where the pirates or smuggling ships are.

By the time the anti-smuggling ship arrives at that sea area, the opportunity to try it out is already gone. So another method is usually used: after the aircraft detects the target, it flies back, flies over the anti-smuggling ship or warship, and shakes its wings to indicate the direction for the anti-smuggling ship.

The communications system was crucial for effective aerial reconnaissance. The aircraft had to be two-seater, with the pilot in the front seat and the navigator and radio operator in the back seat (a Morse code telegraph, not a voice radio). At the same time, the ground division headquarters also had to have equipment to receive aerial radio transmissions.

It is not necessary to set up an air force for bombing immediately, but we should pay attention to the fact that new types of aircraft (referring to civilian aircraft that can be purchased in Guangzhou) will become more and more powerful in a few years. By setting up an aviation repair factory in Guangdong (medium repair and then upgrading to a major repair factory), the aircraft can be transformed into light bombers.

Of course, modifying a light bomber is not just about adding a bomb rack. Communication and navigation must also be solved first. In other words, the aircraft must solve the two life-threatening problems of "where is the enemy" and "how do I get back after the bombing."

Deng Yanda finished reading Chen Tianheng's plan and looked up at Chen Duxiu:

"Zhongfu, no wonder you always have such a point when it comes to military matters. Chen Tianheng's plan is practically a popular article on military aviation!"

"Haha," Chen Duxiu laughed. "Haha. Just a little understanding. What's this called? Well, it's called fragmented knowledge. It's mainly to prevent those of us at the top decision-making level from getting confused and issuing orders about a field we have no knowledge of.

Yun Daiying: "Committees, regarding the construction of the Air Force, since there are no major problems with the overall plan, the biggest problem is money.

Chen Duxiu: "Alas."

Deng Yanda: "Alas."

Mao Runzhi: "Alas."

"You mean, in five years, we're going to have an air force of at least 50 planes, and preferably 100?"

Mao Runmin looked at Chen Duxiu, then at his brother Mao Runzhi: "Commissioner Mao Runzhi, our finances are almost bankrupt.

Mao Runzhi: "This year, we won't be putting your Ministry of Finance in a difficult position. Of course, we'll need to allocate funds for maintenance and repairs on the existing aircraft. We still need to increase Guangdong's fiscal revenue capacity."

Mao Runmin: "The increase cannot be so great, otherwise it would be like squeezing the government.

"General Secretary Chen, Commissioner Mao, Minister Mao, in fact, it cannot be said that increasing fiscal revenue is squandering the people.

Chen Yun also now works at the Ministry of Finance. Many people in the Guangzhou United Government's Ministry of Finance were transferred from Mao Runmin's company and the United Reading Group, and Chen Yun was one of them.

Chen Yun: "From Guangzhou's fiscal revenue last year, including the first half of the year, I studied the documents left by the Guangzhou Municipal Taxation Office. I found that from the beginning of 1927 to September 1927, Guangzhou's commercial trade and other economic activities were gradually declining.

Mao Runmin: "Yes, this is what the Cantonese faction did in the past. When the situation in Guangzhou was so bad that the merchants had no money to do business, the factories had no working capital, and they closed down one after another. How could there not be a recession?

Chen Yun: "So we have to find a way to restore this kind of commercial activity in Guangzhou. It can't be so stagnant any longer. We have to stimulate it."

"Also, I don't think Guangzhou's total trade volume in 1924 was the upper limit for Guangdong Province alone. Guangdong, with its southern Jiangxi and southern Hunan population of 40 million, should have generated at least 40 million yuan in fiscal revenue.

This is what our government has been doing over the past three months, giving Guangzhou a break and allowing all industries to return to their previous levels, ideally even higher than before.

"After a year or two, it might still be difficult for Guangdong Province alone to finance the military and political expenses of the coalition government. But it's not impossible.