Chapter 27 Finale

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  The prison was empty, but the huge materials processing plant was still in operation, producing extremely detailed materials. Many Soviet advisers were drawn into it. There must have been Stalin's instructions, and there must have been a re-examination by the Soviet side. Yezhov and Beria both came to Di Hua, but couldn't find any flaws. A layer of corpses of Soviet advisers piled up in the cemetery outside Di Hua. Later, even Stalin didn't believe it, because neither the Communist Party nor the KGB dared to go to Di Hua. Stalin summoned Beria, "What's going on? How much more Russian blood will be shed?" Beria broke out in a cold sweat, "The Chinese have mastered an even more formidable secret weapon."

  "Can they surpass Zelensky?"

  "A prosperous era produces ten great doctors."

  "Haven't you already stepped aside? His police system is in our hands."

  "This is where the Chinese are cunning, they have a tacit understanding, without needing any organization, yet they can form their own system, you simply can't fathom these guys."

  Stalin was silent, stroking the famous black pipe, puffing out clouds of smoke.

  Bai Liya said: "Like wiping out the 36th Division, send troops to wipe him out."

  "We are at war with Hitler, and Shengshi is very good at finding opportunities."

  The Soviet tank troops secretly stationed in Hami withdrew, and when they passed through Dihua, the governor ordered the most elite mechanized brigade to be on high alert and ready to go to war at any time. The oil mine in Dushanzi was also taken over by the provincial army. The Nationalist Army entered Hami.

  The Kuomintang's secret agents and political workers entered Dihua. The material processing plant quickly drew them in, turning into a batch of detailed materials. Chen Guofu personally came to Dihua, but it was no use, re-examination did not yield anything, and could only be executed by firing squad. Chen Guofu's face turned pale as he flew back to Chongqing.

  That huge machine swept away all the die-hard KMT secret agents. "Damn it, you're defying the Central Committee!"

  Chiang Kai-shek was furious, this time it wasn't the Zhongtong who got dragged in, but the Tianzi Gate students, they were Dai Li's trump card agents, and in Sheng Shicai's big prison, they all became Communist Party members. "Damn it, Sheng Shicai doesn't take the Central Government seriously at all."

  No one expected Madame Chiang Mei-ling would go all the way to Dihua.

  "Madam, why bother? Let Dai Li go and it will be fine."

  "Have you forgotten the scene of Qiu Yu Fang following her husband to conquer Dihua? The women's circle in Nanjing regards her as a heroine of the Republic, and I really want to experience the scenery of the Western Regions."

  The agents saw the first lady as if they had seen their own mother, and they all burst into tears and recanted their confessions. The case could not be concluded, and it was impossible to bring it to a close. Chongqing and Dihua were at an impasse.

  The supervisor has always been the first to take the initiative, handing over a letter of resignation to Director Chiang. Chongqing reacted extremely quickly, accepting the resignation, appointing Wu Zhongxin as the new chairman of Xinjiang Province, abolishing the special institution of border defense supervision, and appointing Sheng Shicai as the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of the National Government. The major newspapers reported this news first.

  The relationship with the Soviet Union has gone sour, and this is a matter of time. According to the latest intelligence, Stalin wants to put Sheng Shicai to death, providing Chiang Kai-shek with Sheng's secret Communist Party membership certificate and various secret agreement copies. Stalin puffs on his large pipe, waiting to see the excitement of Sheng being executed for treason in Chongqing.

  "What to do? What are we going to do?" Qiu Yufang panicked, no matter how fierce a woman is, she still can't withstand the storm.

  Sheng Shi nodded and said, "Go to Chongqing."

  "Go jump into the net?"

  "Go be the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry."

  The lady had something more to say, but was refused by her husband. Her husband went to the prison in full dress to deal with the last batch of deaths, which were those traitorous Military Intelligence Bureau elements. The Military Intelligence Bureau elements were really scared this time, they thought Sheng Shi-ts'ai was going to surrender to the Soviet Union, their legs were shaking with fear, after two were killed, the others quickly became stupid, doing whatever the guards told them to do. Madame Chiang was invited onto the grand stage again, she could no longer hear the prisoners retracting their confessions, watching as they were taken out and shot one by one.

  Not only Sheng Shicai and his wife Qiu Yufang went to Chongqing, but also more than 2,000 camels and 50 trucks loaded with gold and silver, as well as the official seal of Xinjiang Province. After the Xinhai Revolution, the newly appointed Chairman of Xinjiang Province by the Central Government took office in Urumqi for the first time and received this seal from Sheng Shicai. The Nationalist government also received tens of millions of taels of gold in taxes from this border province for the first time. Chongqing was shocked.

  "Look at this, in a prosperous era, there are always some capable people who can make things happen. Not only did they submit 500,000 taels of gold to the Ministry of Finance, but also left Wu Zhongxin with several tens of thousands of taels of gold as surplus. Which provincial governor has such ability?"

  With Chairman Mao's words, all past grievances were swept away.

  Qiu Yifang tightly grasped her husband's arm.

  "I can finally breathe a sigh of relief."

  A great era says: "Brave and straightforward, will not be restricted by others."

  Taklamakan is not the Dead Sea. When the last rider was crushed by tanks, all the sand and horse manes shook violently. Dunes connected to dunes, growing higher and higher, running wildly, with a golden glow, shining brightly, chasing after the sun. The sun retreated into the high sky, making the heavens even more vast. A herd of golden wild horses galloped westward, pushing back the mountains, as the Kunlun Mountains and Tian Shan yielded to make way for a heavenly path; the torrent of horses flowed westward, sweeping away the mountains as well. Suddenly, the mountains rising from the Pamir Plateau leapt onto the horse's back, undulating majestically. More and more mountains jumped onto the horse's back, more and more sand and grass shook violently like the horse manes, until the mountains rising from the Pamir Plateau were blocked by the Black Sea in the Caucasus, no matter how fiercely they charged forward.

  Horses will always be stopped by the sea.

  The Black Sea is by no means the burial ground of riders.

  The Black Sea had just swallowed a rider, and even the rider's big gray horse was swallowed up. From that day on, the waves began to make a sound like horsehair brushing against something, and from that day on, the waves were stained with a strange glow by the rider's blood. The sea surged forward, crashing onto the land, which let out an angry roar. The land sank down, creaking like a broken ship, and the towering mountains, which had been as high as masts, turned into even more turbulent waves, rushing over. The land was completely destroyed, with shattered fragments floating on the rolling waves, soon to be washed up onto the shallow beach. The vast ocean stretched out flat and calm, yet heaving powerfully in its tranquility, making it hard to see any troughs, but rather endless expanses of water rising up like plateaus.

  The sea water is gray-blue in color and shines brightly and beautifully.

  The knight returned to the dewdrop, back to the Valley of the Divine Horse in Mount Qi. What a desperate dewdrop it was! The endless arid wilderness and the bare mountains without a blade of grass brought him no comfort, only the sky did. He stood on the cliff, gazing up at the high sky for many years. When the wilderness became an ocean, he suppressed his inner excitement and didn't make a sound; when Mount Qi became a galloping horse, he suppressed his inner excitement and didn't make a sound, until he left the Valley of the Divine Horse without even asking what he had seen. The great master didn't even give him any scriptures. When he walked out of the crowded wilderness and the towering bare mountains, he indeed heard a solemn and majestic voice: "When the ancient ocean surged towards us with waves, I plucked the dewdrop of love."

  (The end)