Chapter 219: Promoted to Colonel

Beiyang University.

Li Ya parked the car in the back alley, and immediately a section member wearing a student worker hat and a very young-looking face walked over quietly: "Captain."

"Yu Cheng, has he come?" Li Ya asked.

"Today is his girlfriend's birthday, so we might have to wait a little.

"This guy relies on a pretty face to get along well in school; he's dated several, all daughters of wealthy families."

The section member said with a bit of sourness.

"Relying on a face to date a young lady won't work.

"You have to have knowledge, taste.

"And you have to have..."

The word "money" didn't come out; Li Ya frowned slightly and asked again:

"How are his social connections?"

"No social connections.

"When Li Ping was here before, there were some connections, but since Li Ping and Section Chief Liu are gone, their family conditions are average, and no one comes to visit, just like that."

The section member named Yu Cheng replied.

Li Ya nodded.

He believed this point; his master Liu Xiong didn't touch wine, color, wealth, or anger, and the little junior brother Li Ping he took in after coming to Jinhai was said to be a stubborn person, completely following the master.

These two didn't make money when they were here, so it's natural that the family is tight now that they are dead.

"Family conditions average?

"I saw him wearing quite well last time, and he treated the little girl to movies and Western food; where did he get the money?"

Li Ya asked.

"His foreign language is good; it seems he works as a translator for a magazine, so he should be able to earn extra money," Yu Cheng said.

Suddenly, he said:

"By the way, last night, he left the dormitory and went to Hongfu Tea House.

"He met someone.

"Seems like someone from the Party-Communication Bureau.

"That's right, it's a section member from the Party-Communication Bureau; that person once came to our station to negotiate work, and I've seen him.

"Former Gendarmerie Commander Tang Wu.

"The one Liu Section Chief and Ma Kui often contacted also had very close dealings with this person."

Yu Cheng said with surprise.

"Stupid.

"Why didn't you say so just now? What does that person look like? Describe him," Li Ya said.

Yu Cheng described him.

Li Ya's brow knitted tightly.

He had seen this person.

Not long after coming to the station, Wu Jingzhong provided evidence that Liu Xiong was misled by Ma Kui and Tang Wu into "colluding" with the Central-Communication Bureau; the master was blamed for losing his skill, which led to his self-reproach and alcoholism, and he was eventually beaten to death on the street.

That's right, it was still called the Central-Communication Bureau back then.

On one of the photos, the person Tang Wu associated with was exactly as Yu Cheng described.

Having dealings with the Party-Communication Bureau... Li Ya pursed his lips, flicked his chin, and pondered keenly.

"Go, call Li Chong for me," he instructed.

Yu Cheng quickly called Li Chong over.

The young man was indeed handsome, but his eyes were blue, his gaze was evasive, and he lacked the righteousness and spirit of those Red ticket youths like Guo Youliang.

Li Ya had seen all kinds of people; he could tell a mule from a horse at a glance.

This was a scumbag who truly lived off women.

"Captain Li," Li Chong bowed and scraped.

"Did you give all your brother's things?" Li Ya asked.

"They're really gone.

"Except for those evidence of the vote regarding Yu something, he rarely spoke to his family; he would only occasionally say 'revenge' or 'kill Old Dog Wu' when burning incense for Section Chief Liu."

Li Chong replied truthfully.

Li Ya frowned with no interest; these things were asked last time they met.

It was also because of Li Chong's words that he re-doubted Wu Jingzhong.

Now it seems...

"Take him away!" Li Ya waved his hand.

"Captain Li, I, my brother really only had these things," Li Chong yelled in confusion.

"Yu Cheng, call Gao Yuan, take people to search his house."

Li Ya instructed and drilled directly into the car.

Back at the station.

Li Ya took the person directly to the interrogation room.

"Brother Li, what exactly is going on?" Li Chong sat on the electric chair, almost peeing out of fear.

"Who did you meet at 8:23 last night?"

Li Ya rolled up his white shirt sleeves and asked in a deep voice.

"I, I didn't meet anyone," Li Chong said.

"Not talking?

"Hit!"

Li Ya turned his head.

Lu Baoxing swung the whip and lashed Li Chong, causing blood to flow.

"Captain Li, I, I'll talk.

"Someone came to find me last night; he, he said he knew an editor of a magazine invested in by a foreigner and asked me to write some black material about Station Chief Wu." Li Chong confessed honestly.

"Black material?

"What black material?" Li Ya frowned and asked.

"Just say Wu Jingzhong keeps mistresses, has dozens of mistresses.

"Corrupt and taking bribes, worth a fortune.

"Also say Wu Jingzhong specifically gives his subordinates a hard time, is jealous of Lu Qiaoshan's talent, and framed and squeezed him out.

"Also say he, he colluded with the devils, privately sold important intelligence of the National Government, and had close dealings with Okamura Yasuji, and Liu Xiong was killed precisely because he discovered these things.

"Anyway, write whatever is disgusting."

Li Chong was afraid of pain and quickly replied.

Wu Jingzhong being corrupt and taking bribes, Li Ya also participated, so that was understandable.

To say Old Wu kept mistresses and colluded with the devils was pure nonsense.

With his prostate, even if you gave him a woman, he wouldn't be able to use it.

"So, you're saying the matter of Wu Jingzhong murdering Liu Xiong is also made up?" Li Ya said.

"This, this really isn't!"

Li Chong waved his hand to explain.

"Captain Li!

"We found two gold bars in Li Chong's house, as well as some drafts slandering the Station Chief."

Yu Cheng walked in and handed them over together.

"Just these messy things are worth two gold bars?

"You're quite good at acting."

Li Ya shook the gold bars and asked.

"I, I didn't expect the other party to be so generous either.

"Captain Li, you can't trust me, but can't you trust my dead brother?"

Li Chong was anxious.

"Sorry, I don't know your brother at all.

"Heh, acting in front of me.

"Beat him up and throw him into Shuitun Prison to feed the rats."

Li Ya was too lazy to talk nonsense with him and stuffed the gold bars into his pocket, walking out lazily.

It was obvious.

Someone from the Party-Communication Bureau spent a lot of money, wanting to use Li Chong to provoke the relationship between himself and the Station Chief by using Liu Xiong's matter.

This was very possible.

Ye Xiufeng and Sun Chuanzhi had repeatedly suffered losses at Old Wu's hands.

If it were him, he wouldn't miss such a good opportunity.

Fortunately, he left Yu Cheng as a chess piece.

Otherwise, he would have really fallen into their trap.

Inside the villa.

Hong Zhiyou was chatting with Ruirui.

"Secretary Hong, phone," Chou'er called out in the living room.

Hong Zhiyou walked out to answer:

"Good, I know."

Hanging up the phone, he took the coffee Chou'er handed him and took a sip.

Li Ya really went to find Li Chong.

Hong Zhiyou never worried about Xie Ruolin's business ability.

The person he found wouldn't have much trouble doing this little thing.

The current situation is abandoning the car to save the commander.

How to put it? Don't look at Li Ya being trapped by things; once the military aid comes down, soaring to the sky is very possible.

One can get a glimpse of it from the phone call Zhang Qun made to the Station Chief at the Chairman's request.

The National Government has this batch of evidence Li Ya got, and the military aid is basically stable.

Moreover, the Jiang father and son are not very concerned about James's matter.

This shows that the National Government has energy.

It's just that he has watched too many movies and TV shows, and instinctively thinks the Jiang father and son are weak internationally.

If this chess piece James can't nail Li Ya.

Then, Li Ya is very likely to receive a promotion and reward this time.

Not to mention replacing Yu Zecheng.

At least he will be valued by Jianfeng again and become active.

Yu Zecheng has already been pushed to the stage by Old Wu to fight Li Ya.

Coming up with such a move is to protect Wu Jingzhong as much as possible and avoid tearing the face with Li Ya.

Don't underestimate these details.

Old Wu can sit firmly in Jinhai because he is watertight.

Army Hospital.

Mei Yingxue lay on the hospital bed, already on the verge of death.

Li Ya stood at the door without going in.

"How many more days can she drag on?" he asked Ding Defeng beside him.

"Her current condition is very bad.

"The external injuries are too heavy and have already become infected.

"But Captain Li, rest assured, we will do our best to rescue her."

Ding Defeng replied respectfully on the side.

"Do your best to rescue?

"How do I remember that your hospital's penicillin inventory is empty?"

Li Ya looked at him coldly sideways and said.

"No," Ding Defeng was stunned.

"No?" Li Ya's eyes became sharp.

"Oh, it seems it is empty," Ding Defeng was stunned and said in fear.

"If it's gone, it should look like it's gone.

"Understand what I mean?"

Li Ya patted his shoulder and turned to leave.

Ding Defeng walked a few steps quickly to the General Affairs Office: "Director Li, seal the penicillin in the warehouse; if there's a need, for general patients or those without severe inflammation, tell them to wait a few days.

"For those with connections or severe cases, tell them to transfer hospitals quickly."

"Dean Ding, what happened?

"Stopping anti-inflammatory drugs will cause deaths."

Director Li said out of professional ethics.

"This is an Army Hospital, an internal hospital, not a Red Cross charity hospital.

"You ask me, who do I ask?

"Just do it; why so much nonsense?"

Ding Defeng instructed and walked out shaking his head.

Don't look at him as a dean.

This official position is truly hard to hold.

Municipal, garrison, garrison headquarters, Confidentiality Bureau, Party-Communication Bureau—any Bodhisattva who comes can arrange work.

He didn't even know who to listen to day by day.

Four days later.

Mei Yingxue died.

Li Ya personally verified the corpse, and his hanging heart swallowed back into his stomach.

At the same time.

British spies deliberately smeared the National Government, and a large amount of data on the National Government's mineral and oil resources was disclosed, and international public opinion was very favorable.

December 28th.

Wu Jingzhong was ordered to enter the capital and saw the Chairman again.

4:00 PM.

Wu Jingzhong returned to Jinhai and leaned on the sofa with a tired face for a nap.

"Master, why don't you go home and rest?" Hong Zhiyou handed him a hot towel.

Wu Jingzhong covered his face and warmed it for a while:

"Can't rest; one thing after another is endless.

"This shot of James didn't ring.

"Jianfeng and Old Jiang don't care at all how many people Li Ya killed; some time ago, Gu Weijun had a quarrel with the British in the International Court and revealed all the ugly things of the British.

"Truman waved his hand directly and approved a 10 billion dollar loan for the National Government.

"This morning, I saw the old man.

"The old man specially commended me and Li Ya; with Boss Dai's Major General rank blocking, it's very difficult for me to be promoted; the old man's meaning is to take this opportunity to transfer me to the Second Department as Deputy Director.

"In the future, entering the Ministry of National Defense, I will have the capital to be promoted to Lieutenant General."

Wu Jingzhong said.

"What is the Master's meaning?" Hong Zhiyou frowned.

"The old man is truly happy this time; it can be seen that he is also sincerely wanting to lift me up.

"It's just that a golden nest or a silver nest is not as good as one's own dog nest.

"I'm used to staying in Jinhai; I feel panicked staying in Jingling.

"Now that there's Ruirui's child, I have even less heart to plan any official career.

"Thanks to me going to the toilet a few times.

"Didn't dye my hair.

"When the old man saw me like this, he didn't force it; after all, he and Jianfeng are used to using me, and they still want to get rid of Lin Tai.

"I made a turn and came back."

Wu Jingzhong spread his hands and laughed.

"Master is wise," Hong Zhiyou nodded.

In two years, the National Army will collapse.

Taking advantage of the fact that Jinhai is still peaceful now, if you don't scrape money quickly, are you going to run to Jingling and wait for the Presidential Palace to plant a flag?

"It's just that there is another annoying thing right now," Wu Jingzhong said.

"Li Ya?" Hong Zhiyou said.

"Right.

"Li Ya wears this green hat well; he wore it into a peacock feather and turned it into a yellow jacket!

"The Chairman might have held this breath for a long time.

"Openly promoted Li Ya, promoted to Colonel.

"Personally stamped and signed the promotion order; others are usually written by Chen Bulei.

"If it weren't for Jianfeng's obstruction, he would have wanted to summon Li Ya to Jingling for a commendation meeting and personally award Li Ya the Third-Class Cloud Banner Medal," Wu Jingzhong said.

"Understand. 【220】 "Cutting off military aid, in the eyes of the people under us, is always painless. 【221】 "But for the Chairman, that is a major event concerning his throne. 【222】 "Moreover, the new British Prime Minister is not Churchill; the Chairman always feels he is not of the same generation, always picking heads to do his things, so he is holding a belly of fire. 【223】 "Wanting to use Li Ya's matter to show the world's non-commissioned officers and inspire morale is also reasonable." 【224】 Hong Zhiyou said. 【225】 "Yes. 【226】 "The Chairman is also a human. 【227】 "Getting old, occasionally making a little mood is also normal. 【228】 "By the way, has the matter of Li Ping been resolved?" 【229】 Wu Jingzhong said. 【230】 "Thanks to the Master's timely reminder. 【231】 "I've already arranged it; Li Ya has already locked the person in Shuitun Prison; I reckon he 'understands' thoroughly by now," Hong Zhiyou said. 【232】 "Hmm. 【233】 "Fortunately, I prepared this hand, otherwise I would have acted in vain these days. 【234】 "This person is not easy to raise. 【235】 "If you can't offend, don't offend. 【236】 "I have a premonition that Jianfeng will reuse him; who knows, the assassination of Lin Tai might have a share of him. 【237】 "It's really afraid of what comes. 【238】 "If I had known the British were so cowardly and useless, I should have let you take this job." 【239】 Wu Jingzhong patted his hand, regretting his miscalculation. 【240】 "Master, who could calculate this? 【241】 "Jianfeng is also scared to death, not even daring to give an order? 【242】 "This is keeping the military aid. 【243】 "If it weren't kept, Li Ya's head might have already fallen to the ground by now. 【244】 "Can only say his luck is very good." 【245】 Hong Zhiyou laughed. 【246】 "Good luck itself is also a kind of strength. 【247】 "I have already brought back the medal and promotion order for Li Ya. 【248】 "You go call him in. 【249】 "In the future, when you have nothing to do, get closer to him. 【250】 "I estimate that Zecheng might have a hard time in the future; let him carry it first; there are plenty of opportunities; you can always catch Li Ya when he is unlucky. 【251】 "Perhaps this trip of the Madam and Lin Tai to Jinhai is a good opportunity," 【252】 Wu Jingzhong nodded and said. 【253】... 【254】 (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 220 =====

"Cutting off military aid seems painless to those beneath us."

"But for the Generalissimo, it's a major event concerning his throne."

"Furthermore, the new English Prime Minister isn't Churchill. The Generalissimo always feels he doesn't have the seniority, yet he keeps picking fights with him. Isn't he just bottling up a belly full of fire?"

"It's only natural to want to use Li Ya's matter to show the world's officers and boost morale."

Hong Zhiyou said.

"Yes."

"The Generalissimo is also human."

"He's getting old, and it's normal to have little emotional outbursts occasionally."

"By the way, has the matter with Li Ping been resolved?"

Wu Jingzhong said.

"Thanks to your timely reminder, Teacher."

"I've already arranged it. Li Ya has already sent the person to Shuitun Prison. I reckon he 'understands' completely by now," Hong Zhiyou said.

"Hmm."

"It's a good thing we prepared this move, otherwise my acting these past few days would have been in vain."

"This person cannot be tamed."

"Don't offend him if you don't have to."

"I have a premonition that Jiang Jianfeng will reuse him. It's possible he'll have a hand in the assassination of Lin Tai."

"It's really a case of 'fear what you fear'."

"If I had known the English were so cowardly and useless, I should have let you take this job."

Wu Jingzhong slapped his hands, regretting his miscalculation.

"Teacher, who could have calculated that?"

"Wasn't Jiang Jianfeng also terrified, not even daring to give the order?"

"This was to protect the military aid."

"If it hadn't been protected, Li Ya's head might have already fallen by now."

"One can only say he's very lucky."

Hong Zhiyou laughed.

"Good luck is also a form of strength."

"I've already brought back the medal and the promotion order for Li Ya."

"Go call him in."

"In the future, when you're free, get closer to him."

"I estimate Zecheng might have it a bit rough in the future. Let him endure it for now; there will be plenty of opportunities, and we'll always catch Li Ya when he's down."

"Perhaps this trip to Jinhai by the Madam and Lin Tai will be a good opportunity."

Wu Jingzhong nodded and said.

(End of chapter)