1928: The Rise of Giants

The affiliation of the Tax Police Corps was successfully agreed upon. The principal was very satisfied and specifically instructed Huang Jie to try his best to meet Ye Luo's requirements. After all, he suffered a great loss this time and he deserved compensation.

Ye Luo was not polite to Huang Jie. He did not leave any of his people to the principal. As for the weapons and equipment, if Huang Jie wanted them, he could buy them with money. If he didn't want them, they would all be left at the Jiacheng military base and later handed over to the newly established tax inspection team.

The person who suffered the most in this transaction was Wen Yingxing.

He was originally a direct subordinate of Song Ziwen. After being sent to Shanghai, he became acquainted with Ye Luo. Later, he was transferred by Song Ziwen to the General Tax Police Corps as the head of the Corps. He never expected that before he could even get comfortable in his position, the entire General Tax Police Corps was packed up and given to Ye Luo.

From then on, he followed the second young master and became a non-staff soldier. Although he was not short of money, he was getting further and further away from the power center of the Nanjing National Government.

Finally, I got the chance to fight and prove myself.

Wen Yingxing worked very hard and made a name for himself, but he never expected that in the end he would be robbed of his success by the immature Huang Jie.

In the Battle of Shanghai, in terms of military achievements, he could be ranked fifth after Chen Mingshu and four others, but in the end, he gained nothing and was demoted from regiment commander to political commissar, a promotion in name only but a demotion in reality.

Seeing that the Tax Police Corps, which he had trained for more than a year, was about to change hands, Wen Yingxing finally couldn't hold back and made up his mind. He went to Ye Mansion with a bunch of gifts.

It was him that Ye Luo was waiting for.

Wen Yingxing didn't want to stay in the Tax Police Corps to be Huang Jie's deputy, but he couldn't influence the principal's will, so he could only go to the second young master to ask for help.

Ye Luo then called Huang Jie, hoping to "buy" back a group of generals including Wen Yingxing, so that they could continue to serve in the Tax Inspection Corps and not follow Huang Jie to the Midwest.

Huang Jie readily agreed.

He is happy too.

He took under his command a reinforced regiment of 3 men, but more than half of the soldiers and generals in it were not his own people, so it would certainly not be easy to operate.

He was already a lieutenant general and a division commander, and the last thing he lacked under his command was talented middle-level generals. He wholeheartedly agreed with Wen Yingxing and others' willingness to leave and vacate their positions.

After Huang Jie took over as the chief commander, he added two infantry regiments (namely the 5th and 6th Regiments), two deputy chief commanders (originally there was only one deputy chief commander), and a teaching corps.

The two newly appointed deputy commanders-in-chief will each have their own headquarters and command two infantry regiments each. The remaining two infantry regiments will be directly under the command of the regiment headquarters.

The two deputy chiefs of the regiment newly appointed by Huang Jie this time are He Shaozhou, the son of the current Minister of Military and Political Affairs He Yingqin (the prototype of Yu Xiaoqing in My Chief, My Regiment), and Wang Gongliang of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps introduced by Gui Yongqing.

The commanders of the two newly formed infantry regiments (the 5th and 6th Regiments), Qiu Zhiji and Zhong Baosheng, were also introduced by Gui Yongqing from the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps.

Among the "Whampoa" generals, Gui Yongqing was known for his boasting and ambition. He would always mention the word "big" every three sentences. But the real reason why his official title was so high was that he was submissive and followed Chen Cheng closely.

Relying on his eloquence, he got along well in the army and had good relations with people like He Yingqin.

When the Tax Police Corps was incorporated this time, these people from the Kuomintang military immediately became active and tried their best to stuff people into Huang Jie's corps.

This is the current situation of the National Army.

Once a piece of cake is ready, you don’t know how many people will come to share it, and you can’t chase them away or refuse them.

The Tax Police Corps, which had been thrown into a mess, had no future, and the Tax Inspection Corps that Ye Luoxin had assembled had no military number and no military resource support. It was just a local self-defense tax inspection force approved by the Nanjing National Government.

It can't attract those warlords at all.

In this way, within a month, the tax inspection team had regained a size of about 3000 people, and the team was still growing. The principal was very tolerant of this, saying that in the future, Ye Luo's tax inspection team would have to assist the military in tax work in the southern provinces and cities, and the number of people would be at least to .

Shortly after the Battle of Shanghai ceased, while China and Japan were still arguing over when the Japanese troops would withdraw from Shanghai, the puppet state of Manchukuo held its founding ceremony in Chuncheng, with Puyi as the ruling party and Zheng Xiaoxu as prime minister.

This move by the Japanese invaders was clearly an attempt to split the Republic of China. Their evil ambitions were known to everyone.

Under their fierce attack, the North fell one city after another.

People from all walks of life began to call for resistance against Japan, but the principal at this time proposed the policy of "pacifying the country before resisting foreign aggression" and began to reorganize the national army in the name of "suppressing bandits".

In order to consolidate his position and military power, the principal issued a number of informal documents to local areas, requiring departments at all levels to call him "Chairman" and not to use any other name.

During this period, Zhang Hanqing, who had not contacted Ye Luo for a long time, finally sent a short telegram from the north.

But the writer of this telegram was not Zhang Hanqing, but his wife Yu Fengzhi and confidante Zhao Yidi.

These two women have been fighting openly and secretly for a man for many years. Zhao Yidie was able to gain a foothold in the Zhang family with the help of Ye Luo, while Yu Fengzhi and Bai Xiuzhu were close friends and their relationship was extraordinary.

Both of them have close relations with the Ye family.

But this was the first time they sent a joint telegram to the Ye family.

Ye Luo immediately took it to the study to watch it with Bai Xiuzhu and Xiao Aqiao.

The content of the telegram was very simple, and it only said two things.

First, after the fall of the North, a large number of anti-Japanese volunteer armies organized by civilian organizations were in a very difficult situation when fighting against the Japanese invaders and the puppet Manchukuo army.

Yu Fengzhi wanted to assist these anti-Japanese warriors, but since the person who caused this situation was Zhang Hanqing, if they came forward now, it would be like a weasel paying a New Year's greeting to a chicken, and those warriors would be unwilling to accept it.

Therefore, she wanted to use the name of the Ye Charity Foundation to transport all the aid materials to the battlefield to do her part.

Ye Luo had also heard of this newly formed anti-Japanese army. Its composition was very complex, including native northerners, former soldiers, people from all walks of life, progressive people who had supported the army in the past from the south, and even overseas Chinese.

These people fought against the Japanese invaders and puppet troops in the harsh environment of the north and achieved great results. It was not easy.

Even if Yu Fengzhi didn't say this, Ye Luo would definitely strongly support their actions.

The second thing was that Zhang Hanqing became addicted to opium and became extremely decadent.

It’s actually no secret that Zhang Hanqing smoked opium; many people knew about it.

Moreover, many people in the upper class of the Republic of China had been poisoned by this kind of thing that brought disaster to the country and the people.

For example, Lu Xiaoman once smoked opium to relieve stomach pain, but after Ye Luo helped her with massage, she gradually stopped.

The problem was that Zhang Hanqing was addicted to smoking, and the fall of the North dealt him a heavy blow, making him even more addicted.

Yu Fengzhi and the others were at a loss, and hoped that Ye Luo would spare some time to go north and help his sworn brother. (End of this chapter)