"Du, du, du..."

Chiang Kai-shek's fingers unconsciously tapped on the coffee table. Next to him, Kong Xiangxi, Chen Guofu, Chen Lifu, and Qin Wei each occupied a seat. Besides the five of them, Song Ziwen, who came to attend the engagement banquet of his niece, was also present. However, Qin Wei thought that none of the generals in the army, such as He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi, who Yu Youren said he could meet, appeared. After asking Kong Xiangxi, he realized that He Yingqin and others were busy dealing with the end of the Changsha Battle, so the ceremony had not arrived. However, even if the generals in the army were in the future, it would be enough to judge the life and death of the Ma family in Qinghai with these few people.

"The Ma family army is not so easy to move." After pondering for a long time, Chiang Kai-shek finally spoke, but the chairman was obviously hesitant: "The central government sent Sun Dianying to Qinghai to settle down, but Sun Dianying led his troops to Ningxia, but was rejected by Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin, Ma Bufang and Ma Bufang. The two sides fought a battle, and both sides were injured. However, Sun Dianying was defeated in the end and was forced to withdraw from the northwest... The Ma family took Qinghai, Gansu, and Ningxia very strictly."

"Also, the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out the previous year, Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing sent troops to participate in the War of Resistance, recruited Datong and Mutual Aid, and more than 8,000 militias from the three counties of Huangyuan formed a temporary cavalry division to go to the battlefield. After that, the two sent a new division to attack again in the name of the temporary cavalry second division. The Ma family army fought bravely on the battlefield and was known for its cavalry. They once killed and injured the Japanese army a lot. During this period, there was also a feat of Ma family soldiers who were unwilling to be prisoners and hundreds of cavalrymen jumped into the river to commit suicide..." Chen Lifu also followed Chiang Kai-shek's words: "The Ma family army was bleeding and sweating for the War of Resistance, but at this time the central government attacked them, and it was easy to be scolded as 'the relatives hurts, and the enemy is happy'."

"But Qinghai can't be controlled by Ma Bufang all the time?" Soong Ziwen was very angry recently. Although he and Kong Xiangxi were relatives, the relationship between the two families has always been very tense. Especially the two's competition for the financial power of the National Government almost started after Soong Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek. Originally, Soong Ziwen took advantage. He became the Minister of Finance first, but within a few years, because of disobedience, he was removed by Chiang Kai-shek and replaced by Kong Xiangxi. For more than ten years, although Soong Ziwen has always served as the chairman of the central bank and has a lot of voice, his actual power is far inferior to Kong Xiangxi, especially after Kong Xiangxi became the premier. Although Soong Ziwen has called people a lot, his actual power is far inferior to Kong Xiangxi, especially after Kong Xiangxi became the president of the Executive.

Helping me to make noise, but it was still difficult to achieve any results. I thought I might not have much chance to turn over again, but I didn't expect that last year, Qin Wei suddenly joined forces with many celebrities in the cultural circle to open fire on Kong Xiangxi... For a moment, Kong Xiangxi almost became a rat crossing the street. Chiang Kai-shek became a little hesitant after supporting Kong Kong Xiangxi in the early days. Finally, he was extremely dissatisfied with Kong Xiangxi's corruption... Song Ziwen immediately seized the opportunity and tried his best behind his back. The result was indeed as he expected. Chiang Kai-shek finally made up his mind and did not want to use Kong Xiangxi anymore. He even asked Chen Bulei to publish articles in the newspaper, intending to force Kong Xiangxi to resign. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek appointed him as the vice chairman of the "Fourth League General Office" Board.

What is the "Four-link General Office"? It is the joint office of the Central Bank, Bank of China, Bank of Communications, and Farmers' Bank of China, which is the joint office of the four most important banks in China, responsible for handling various special businesses related to government wartime, finance and economic policies. Chiang Kai-shek served as the chairman of the board of directors and took charge of all matters. Kong Xiangxi, Song Ziwen and Qian Yongming served as executive directors. The composition of the board of directors includes the chairman of the Military Commission, the Premier, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Economy and the leaders of the four banks. In other words, the Four-link General Office is the central financial decision-making body in the wartime, which is above the four major banks. It can command and manipulate the four banks at will, and actually holds the financial power of the entire China.

Song Ziwen was happy at that time. In his opinion, as long as Kong Xiangxi resigned, he could naturally become the premier. He also believed that with his ability, China's current boring economy would definitely improve. But unexpectedly, day after day, many times passed, Kong Xiangxi still refused to resign. Not only that, the relationship between his elder brother-in-law and Chiang Kai-shek seemed to have gradually recovered, and Chiang Kai-shek did not force Kong Xiangxi much. Kong Xiangxi's originally shaky position seemed to be stable again. So, the uncle, who had been waiting to take over as the premier, was stunned and almost ran to Chiang Kai-shek to question the brother-in-law and asked him why he was so unperforming in his work... But no matter how unhappy he was, Song Ziwen had to accept a fact: his habit of disobedient behavior made Chiang wary and wanted to be the premier, and he probably had no way to be the premier.

So, Song Ziwen had to put his mind on his mind and manage his four-link office. But unexpectedly, he calmed down and Kong Xiangxi started to churn again. The financial policies he had worked hard with a group of experts were almost all stopped by Kong Xiangxi at the board meeting... As a result, the two people's grudges became bigger and bigger, and they almost never met each other, and they would have a fight as soon as they met. If it weren't for the eldest sister Song Ailing personally calling to invite him, this time Kong Ling

He may not necessarily come to Yi's engagement banquet. In contrast, he was also dissatisfied with Kong Xiangxi, and he was also dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek, who had begun to support the Kong family again. Especially dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's hypocrisy of being a bitch and wanting to set up a archway... He obviously wanted to swallow Qinghai, but he had to pretend that he couldn't bear to do it. Is it disgusting? If you are really nostalgic, Liu Xiang led his troops out of Sichuan and died in Hankou, why do you want to oppress other people's younger brothers? He is unwilling to leave even a place for him to leave?

"Mr. Song is right. Qinghai is China's territory, and there is no reason to be controlled by one family..." Qin Wei was very satisfied with Song Ziwen's strength, "What's more, Ma Bufang did not do much good things in Qinghai. Even if his actions in Qinghai cannot reach the anger between man and god, it is almost the same. This person is debauchery, shameless, cruel and unkind, and it can be said... he should have died long ago!"

"Captain Qin has passed a little." Chen Guofu is now in charge of the Organization Department of the Kuomintang, but also the director of the third department of the Chiang Kai-shek's servant office, and the chairman of the Agricultural Bank of China. He glanced at Qin Wei, "Although Ma Bufang has committed many evil deeds, he was an official of the Republic of China, especially the chairman of Qinghai Province. Even if he wanted to take him down, he should not hurt his life."

"In other words, Director Chen supports the removal of the warlord armed forces of the 'Qingma'?" Qin Wei asked back.

"Yes." Chen Guofu didn't say much, but nodded seriously.

"Then it's three to two now!" Qin Wei pointed to Song Ziwen, Chen Guofu and himself, and pointed at Chiang Kai-shek and Kong Xiangxi again, and finally glanced at Chen Lifu: "Minister Chen, what do you think?"

"I also think that the 'green horse' should not exist for a long time." Chen Lifu gave Qin Wei a blank look. This guy will do whatever he wants. Did Chiang Kai-shek and Kong Xiangxi want to reduce the vassals? With Chiang Kai-shek and Kong Xiangxi's temperament, not to mention the "green horse" that cannot be poured into the water or needles, which province in the country does not want to be taken into the central government? It's just that they are big leaders, and their own positions and considerations are different from theirs.

"Four to two!" Qin Wei was too lazy to care about Chen Lifu's thoughts, and he was even more unwilling to care about what Chiang Kai-shek was thinking. Seeing that Chen Lifu had already expressed his opinion, he immediately reported the "voting result": "Most people think that the Qingma should be cut off... Chairman Jiang, it depends on you now."

"The Ma family has been in Qinghai for more than 40 years, and uses the four 'Gan, He, Hui, Ma' (Gansu, Hezhou, Hui, Ma') as the standard for employment, and inherits the authority of the official position by the way that the father dies in his son and the brother ends in his brother. After decades of development, it has long been deeply rooted in Qinghai. Even in normal times, it is not easy to drive it out of Qinghai. What's more, we have to face the threat from the Japanese now..." Qin Wei's behavior slightly means "forced the palace", but

Chiang Kai-shek didn't mind much... Everyone knew that since he became the government leader, he had been thinking about reducing the vassal states. Not only did he cut the vassal states, but he also wanted to cut the Kuomintang in various places... Although the Ma family in Qinghai was not as threatening as Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, Yan Xishan and others before, to this day, Chiang Kai-shek had almost cut all the things he could. Apart from the vassal state, there were only the few "horses" in the northwest who were the most powerful. Who would they cut if they didn't cut them? But the problem is that Ma Bufang was in Qinghai!

"If it was so easy to deal with, Qinghai-Tibet would not have been out of the Central Plains regime for thousands of years." Kong Xiangxi sighed. "Sir Qin, it's easy for you to say this, and everyone is willing to take down this 'green horse', but have you ever thought about the difficulties?"

"The Battle of Changsha has basically ended, and the Japanese still have to 'serve' the Soviets. It is unlikely that they will launch any military operations in the short term... Everyone should agree with this, right?" Qin Wei asked as he looked at everyone.

"Acknowledge." Chen Guofu nodded. This is something that everyone knows. Japan is not rich. It has fought several battles in succession. The Far East has to deal with the Soviet Union, which will definitely consume a lot. Moreover, in the battles of Nanchang, Guinan and Changsha, the Japanese directly lost five to six divisions, about 100,000 troops, and they are all the main forces in the field, and they are veterans. This loss can be said to be a damaging thing. If it weren't for the series of victories against the Soviet Union in the Far East, there might be another turmoil in Japan. But even so, the Japanese would have a very difficult time. Therefore, the Military Commission estimated that the Japanese would have to wait for at least half a year to a year before they could breathe back.

"But the problem is that even if the Japanese cannot attack us, we may not be able to counterattack the Japanese... Our losses are also huge. At this moment, what should we use to deal with the 'green horse'?" Chen Lifu asked suddenly again.

"The plan I expected was...parks!" Qin Wei said.

"Parasite?" Old Jiang was stunned, "Aren't they finished training yet?"

"If you really want to move Ma Bufang, it will take at least a few months to prepare. With the preliminary training, you should be able to use it." Qin Wei smacked his lips: "My plan is to use the Umbrella Army as the assault force, set off from Chongqing, pass through Xi'an and Lanzhou, and raid Xining. Let's take Ma Bufang himself first."

"What?" Everyone's eyes lit up. Everyone here knew the power of the paratroopers. Most of Ma Bufang's troops were defending at the junction with Gansu and other provinces. Xining had few troops left behind. If the paratroopers raided, they would most likely succeed in one strike. As long as they seized Ma Bufang, the Ma family army would have no leader, and the central government would have more opportunities.

"Then? Nothing!" Qin Wei said: "We should have encouraged the Sichuan people to take action before. Haven't Pan Wenhua, Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou and others always felt dissatisfied with the Central Committee reaching into Sichuan? Since they are dissatisfied, don't stay in Sichuan and let them go to Qinghai... and send them in the name of "change defense". At the same time, they must mobilize Zhu Shaoliang from Gansu and Ma Hongkui from Ningxia to put pressure on Qinghai together... In this way, even if our paratroopers take Ma Bufang, the Ma family army may not dare to turn back to Xining to "rescue the horse" easily."

"Good idea." Song Ziwen thought for a while, "I used Qinghai to exchange for Sichuan, and used the name of the Central Committee's 'Great Righteousness'... Not only did I have a much better reputation, but I could also appease Pan Wenhua's group of people, which was extremely beneficial to the Central Committee's acceptance of Sichuan."

"It's good, but the problem is that this is too presumptuous. What if Pan Wenhua and the others disagree? Can Qinghai and Sichuan compare?" Kong Xiangxi said: "And, although the 'Northwest Gathering Horses' occasionally fights internally, they can always unite when encountering foreign enemies. Just like in the battle of 'Four Horses Refuse Suns', Ningma, Ganma and Qingma were united... Who can guarantee that when we move horses and Bufang, the other few 'hors' will watch the show safely and even stand on our side?" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!