Chapter Thirty: Campaign Against Ganzhou

  The newly formed 38th and 39th Divisions have a total of nearly 50,000 people when fully manned. Li Ruofeng's current troops are still far from enough.

  Now in his hands are some of Chiang Kai-shek's appointment certificates, Li Ruofeng is conducting a new round of reorganization and recruitment in Hexi Province with great fanfare.

  Ma Zhongying's original subordinates, including his brother Ma Zhongjie's men, were all reorganized under Ma Zhongying's insistence.

  At the same time, Li Ruofeng sent a telegram to Li Chengxu, asking Li Chengxu to hurry up and transport military supplies and other strategic reserves to Hexi Province.

  SITC was reorganized into SITC Group under the proposal of Li Ruofeng, with its headquarters located in the Shanghai French Concession.

  Li Chengrui brought back a large number of various mechanical equipment from the United States through Sitong Group's subsidiary, Sitong Ocean Transportation Company. These devices were all idle equipment from numerous US companies that went bankrupt in the past two years, including steel smelting, chemical production, textile printing and dyeing manufacturing, machinery manufacturing, firearms manufacturing, ammunition production, medical production, medical device manufacturing, wireless research and manufacturing, engine manufacturing, mining of various minerals, oil exploration and extraction, tractor manufacturing, aircraft R&D and manufacturing, and more than 20 other industries.

  In the previous life, many enterprises in the United States that went bankrupt in this global economic crisis had their equipment acquired by the Soviet Union at a low price and transported back to the country. However, now nearly half of these devices were brought back from the United States by Li Ruofeng's elder brother and then transported from Shanghai to Hexi Province by Li Chengxiao.

  Li Ruofeng did not expect these equipment to be returned, he could establish China's industrial system within three to five years. His original idea was that as long as it could slow down the Soviet Union's industrial development, he would get them back and put them in the trash so that the old Soviets wouldn't get a bargain. As long as the Soviet Union did not have its original huge industrial production capacity during World War II, at that time, when World War II broke out, they would not be so easy to face Germany's invasion.

  When the time comes, think of a way to help Hitler get out of trouble and cripple the Soviet Union. He can then take advantage of this opportunity to cause trouble for the old Mao in the Soviet Far East and Central Asia.

  As for the direction of history after World War II, whether he knew it or not didn't matter, anyway, his ideas caused trouble and allowed China to gain the greatest benefits.

  In five years, it was enough for him to build Xinjiang into a new Xinjiang with initial industrial modernization, self-sufficient in weapons and equipment, which could support his troops in the Northeast battlefield against the Japanese army. If he could make the 918 Incident not so easy for the Kwantung Army, would Japan, which had not fully prepared for war, be indefinitely delayed from fully invading China?

  Li Ruofeng certainly knew about the 918 Incident, which was actually privately planned by the Kwantung Army headquarters and had not been approved or authorized by the Japanese military and cabinet.

  Through the Northeast battlefield, continuously bleeding Japan, making it not so easy to obtain resources from the three northeastern provinces, slowing down the speed of Japan's war machine, all this is not impossible.

  And this could win him more precious time.

  If Japan had waited until 1940, when the Second World War broke out in full scale, to launch a full-scale invasion of China, or if it had diverted its attention southward, then China might have been given more opportunities.

  Xinjiang's initial chaos, Ma Zhongying led the troops to participate, he didn't have to worry too much, and he wasn't worried that Ma Zhongying would change his mind at the time. Anyway, without his support, no matter how hard Ma Zhongying tried, he couldn't stir up a big wave.

  Ma Zhongying did not disappoint Li Ruofeng, and within three days, he had escorted all the Communist Party members and suspected personnel out of Lanzhou, and it was no longer Li Ruofeng's concern whether they went south or east.

  Zhang Shao-ya and others originally wanted to ask Ma Zhongying through Ma Bufang, whether they could let Ma Zhongying take them into Xinjiang. Li Ruofeng flatly refused, and for this reason, he even specially dispatched someone to secretly monitor Ma Zhongying until Ma Zhongying took Zhang Shao-ya, Wu Yingqi and more than 50 people out of Liangzhou.

  Taking this opportunity, Li Ruofeng mobilized the army to carry out a round of rectification against the black underworld organizations within the scope of the Hexi Xing Province. Those who listened and obeyed were registered and filed for future reference, doing what they should do, while those who dared to resist disappeared after the event, leaving their territories in the hands of obedient organizations.

  In terms of stabilizing the environment, whether in Nenjiang or now in Ganzhou, Li Ruofeng has always attached great importance to this matter. The nature of eliminating bandits and eradicating black societies is roughly the same. When Li Ruofeng treated this work as a practical combat method for training troops under his command, the local tyrants and bandits in the Hexi Xingzhong Province could be said to have suffered a disaster.

  This move can not only capture a large amount of gold and silver treasures, but also select a part of the prisoners with reform potential to replenish the army.

  Li Ruofeng's move, of course, did not deceive the special agents of the Zhongtong River West Branch, but he also did not agree to let these Zhongtong people go and capture Zhang Shaoya and others. The reason is that this is his agreement with Ma Zhongying, and he absolutely cannot be a man who does not keep his word.

  For this matter, Ye Pei had troubled him many times.

  This time, this beautiful female agent from Zhongtong has cornered Li Ruofeng at the Security Command Center again.

  Li Ruofeng's command post had a delicate and compact study room.

  A faint scent of paper and ink wafted through the room, with two tall bookshelves standing against the walls on either side. The cabinet doors were inlaid with glass, and through the sparkling clean glass, one could see that the bookshelves were neatly arranged with all sorts of exquisite rare books.

  There is a desk by the window, on which are placed the four treasures of the study. At this moment, he is standing in front of the desk, playing with a delicate Yuan dynasty blue and white porcelain vase in his hand, lost in thought.

  Ye Pei wore a tight-fitting emerald green velvet cheongsam, which set off her tall and slender figure. A white silk embroidered orchid patterned shawl was draped over her delicate shoulders, and on her snow-white left wrist hung a black leather handbag. Her slender feet, clad in stockings, stepped into a pair of shiny black high-heeled shoes, making soft "dang dang" sounds as she walked back and forth on the wooden floor.

  "Commander Li, you wouldn't be interested in this kind of antique as well?" Seeing that Li Ruofeng was ignoring her, Ye Bei couldn't help but take the initiative to find a topic.

  "In a chaotic world, antiques are priceless. What a pity!" Li Ruofeng carefully placed the two Qinghua porcelain bottles on the table, "It's rare to see such well-preserved Qinghua porcelain. If this were to be auctioned off, it would fetch a handsome price!"

  But in his heart, he thought this auction was in the 21st century.

  "Really? Commander Li, if you really have this hobby, I can try to get a few for you." Ye Bei's right hand lightly lifted and tucked the ends of her dark, curly hair behind her ear, her eyes fluttering as she smiled at Li Ruofeng, her demeanor extremely alluring.

  Li Ruofeng slanted his eyes and glanced at the beautiful snake, saying lightly: "Speak, what do you want from me? If it's related to those people with Zhang Shaoya, don't bother mentioning it."

  As he spoke, he came to the bookcase, opened the door, pulled out a "Zizhi Tongjian", walked back to the desk, opened the high-back armchair, sat down and carefully read it.

  "Am I that detestable to you?" Ye Beida's eyebrows furrowed slightly, but her lovely melon-seed face didn't show any joy or anger.

  "This has nothing to do with whether or not I dislike it." Li Ruofeng replied without lifting his head, as if the beautiful woman in front of him was air. "Director Ye, we are all Chinese, there is no need to be ruthless."

  "Commander Li, I'm not here to see you today about the Communist Party members, but rather about the Japanese." Ye Bei's hands lightly pressed against the desk, her full breasts leaning forward, staring at Li Ruofeng's high nose bridge, exhaling softly.

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