Chapter 96 All Night
Not only did Mrs. Chen no longer force Qi Jun to study abroad, the couple even planned to bring the students they supported to Sichuan.
Whether they transfer to Sichuan University, Chongqing University, or Yongzhou Normal University, the children will complete their studies.
Because Chen Haoran's mother was having dinner with them, several officers from the special forces battalion and Chang Desheng were much more restrained than usual.
Even Zhou Xiaoshan didn't tell any jokes at the dinner table.
Even so, he still gained great favor from Chen Jingfang and his wife, and they asked Chen Haoran to interact with him more and even let him stay overnight with them.
Zhou Xiaoshan was not willing to live in Chen's house.
He returned to the camp with his soldiers. Tonight, he planned to take Zhang Zhenhe, Luo Liang and some others to kill the dead traitor.
Seeing that Zhou Xiaoshan declined his offer to stay overnight, he pushed Chen Haoran, who was seeing someone off, back and told him to have a good rest.
Chen Jingfang turned away and asked his wife.
"You are an educator and you often interact with the younger generation. What do you think of this Sichuan Army major?"
"He's a very brilliant child. I used to think that our Haoran was already good enough, but there are always better ones."
Chen Jingfang laughed out loud.
"I'm really curious about Feng Tiankui and Liu Xiang. How did they train such a powerful guy?"
Gao Fengxiang agreed with her husband and nodded.
"Responsibility is measured in big and difficult matters, and tolerance is measured in good and bad times. After the heavy snow in midwinter, the plum blossoms on the branches emit a subtle fragrance. Today, I heard that they were trying to attract investment in Pingjin and encountered setbacks everywhere . It is hard to imagine that a young man of the same age as Haoran led the team alone, was rejected for ten days and a half months, and was indomitable. You can't even see any complaints from him."
"You haven't noticed that we once discussed Mr. Jiang Baili's views on the trend of the Sino-Japanese War. But you and I are not like this kid. We are full of the belief that we must win. We are in the middle of it and are unconsciously infected by him. A nation with thousands of years of cultural accumulation can definitely rise to the top of the world again. The Chinese can do it!"
Chen Jingfang picked up a freshly washed Baizhanjun glass goblet, poured two glasses of red wine, and handed them to his wife.
Gao Fengxiang took the red wine and clinked glasses with her husband.
"Yes, this is the happiest night for us since we decided to move. Everyone is laughing at Feng Tiankui's absurdity, but he is actually the most sober. Liu Xiang dared to entrust such a young adjutant, who is said to be born in the same year as Haoran, with an important task, and let him lead the team to Pingjin to lobby and escort those enterprises and schools that are willing to move to Sichuan back to Sichuan. With such a strategic vision and such a good attitude towards personnel, the Sichuan Army will definitely make a difference in the future anti-Japanese battlefield."
Chen Jingfang burst into laughter.
"Madam, you are wrong. As far as I know, Liu Xiang is a man of temperament . Sometimes he only cares about practicality and does things in a fanciful way. There was a wandering Taoist priest who said he could make chemical weapons. He allocated funds and bought land for this guy to develop. You don't know that the guy said that the weapon test was successful. He threw chickens and rabbits into the chemical weapons room, and they really fell into a coma. Liu Xiang was so happy that he immediately allocated hundreds of thousands of dollars to this guy."
"and after?"
"Later, during the war, his chemical weapons expert actually threw a clay pot filled with cow and sheep dung onto Deng Xihou's city wall. Feng Tiankui's dung-based battle against Liu Chenghuo was learned from Liu Xiang."
"Oh, these warlords in Sichuan are really interesting. I heard that if one of them loses a battle, he will issue a telegram to resign, hold a tea ceremony and admit defeat, and then stop fighting?"
Chen Jingfang was particularly happy when he saw his wife talking about the Sichuan warlords, as if she had heard about it and knew about it.
"I used to have a business friend who was from Sichuan. He told me that Sichuan was the place with the most warlords in China, and Sichuan was also the place with the most . When a war broke out, the big warlords led the small warlords and it was so lively, especially the small warlords. Today they followed Liu Wenhui to fight Li Jiayu, and tomorrow they followed Deng Xihou to fight Wang Baogong. It was so lively. From the Beiyang period to the Republic of China, there were more than 400 battles in total."
Gao Fengxiang's eyes widened.
"More than 400 games, even if each one is small, will have a huge impact on the economy. Won't it make people's lives miserable?"
Chen Jingfang quickly waved to his wife.
"It's not as serious as we outsiders think. There are many warlords in Sichuan, especially small warlords. Today they are attached to Yang Sen, and tomorrow they are attached to Deng Xihou. So when a war breaks out, they are not willing to fight to the death. They all want to preserve their strength. Especially if the warlord above them is defeated, they will have to change their allegiance. If they have done something dirty, how can they face people in the future?"
Gao Fengxiang burst into laughter.
"There's something even more interesting. Many of their soldiers were conscripted men. Especially when they occupied someone else's territory, the first thing they did was to conscript men. This created a large family. Maybe my elder brother was Deng Xihou's soldier, and I was Liu Xiang's soldier. When they bumped into each other, the soldiers would shout, 'Brothers, come on! My brother Lao Wan is on the other side. Let's shoot into the air.'"
This time, not only Gao Fengxiang was laughing like crazy, but even Chen Jingfang himself was laughing.
"My friend Li Zongwu told a more interesting story. He has lived in Chengdu for many years. He said that there was a great war in Chengdu that year. At first, the residents of the city were very scared, but later they found that the gunshots were very sparse, and the soldiers only attacked targets of military value, and did not hurt innocent people at all. It was completely different from the Central Plains War, where the scene of soldiers passing by like a comb was completely different. Chengdu people also became bolder and ran to the streets to watch the war. They kept commenting, "Look, that soldier is so stupid, he hid his head at the end of the alley, just stretched out his gun and shot, without even aiming, what a hammer."
This time, Gao Fengxiang, who was originally a little sleepy, completely laughed away his sleepiness.
No wonder the northern warlords looked down on the Sichuan warlords. Not only because the Sichuan warlords had a small territory and weak power, but also because they thought that the Sichuan warlords' war was just a child's play.
"I heard that the warlords in Sichuan are all Pao brothers. What's going on? They seem like they are fighting among gangs."
"Hey, this matter has to start with the Sichuan Governor Yin Changheng. Yin Changheng grew up in Sichuan since he was a child, and later entered the Sichuan Military Academy, and then went to study in Japan. When he was fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Erfeng, who represented the Qing court in handing over power in Sichuan, was preparing to restore the monarchy, so he lured Zhao Erfeng and killed him. Because he grew up in Sichuan since he was a child, he found that people of status in Sichuan were all in the Pao Brothers, and this organization was born out of the Gelaohui, which was fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. He thought that the Pao Brothers were very powerful, and he had no confidence in taking over the Dahan Sichuan government and controlling the whole of Sichuan, so he not only hung up the sign of the provincial government, but also hung up the sign of Dahan Gong, the chief of the Sichuan Pao Brothers."
"Now it's interesting. All kinds of people in Sichuan have put up their Pao Brothers signs. Walking down the street, you can see Pao Brothers everywhere. Sichuan is full of banners of Benevolence, Righteousness, Courtesy, Wisdom and Trustworthiness. Those at the front row of the branch offices even asked Yin Changheng if they could put up government signs at the same time."
