"Okay, I believe what you say. You have never let me down before, and I believe you will never let me down again. Have a good two days in Nanjing, and don't rush back. Let Xiao He accompany you around." Chairman of the Committee
After that, he left.
"Congratulations, this is the Medal of the Blue Sky and White Sun, the highest honor." Deng Wenyi came over to congratulate.
"Yeah, let me tell you, there are no more than twenty people who can get the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal now." He Zhonghan also said enviously.
"Isn't it too much to award me such a great honor?" Lu Ming himself felt a little like a dream.
The Chairman of the Generalissimo said that he would personally award him a medal. He originally thought that it was just a general medal, such as a first-class medal or a second-class medal. He never expected that he would be awarded the Medal of the Blue Sky and White Sun.
"Since the medal is awarded to you, there is enough reason. The government has very strict regulations on the issuance of the Medal of the Blue Sky and White Sun." Deng Wenyi said with a smile.
At the end of 1928, Zhang Xueliang announced the change of flag, and the Nationalist Government in Nanjing formally unified the whole of China. In order to commend those meritorious generals who had made outstanding contributions to protecting the country, in May 1929, the Nationalist Government promulgated the "Regulations on the Medals of the Army, Navy and Air Force".
The Medal of Blue Sky and White Sun officially appeared in front of the world.
According to the plan, the first recipient of the Medal of Blue Sky and White Sun should be Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, who "unified the country". However, in May of that year, the "Middle East Road Incident" broke out in Northeast China, and a fierce conflict broke out between the Northeast Army and the Soviet Army.
In order to commend the generals of the Northeast Army for resisting foreign aggression, in 1930, the first batch of the Medal of Blue Sky and White Sun was awarded to six people including Zhang Xueliang, Wang Shuchang, Yu Xuezhong, and Shen Honglie.
The Chairman, who originally wanted to be the first to receive the Medal of the Blue Sky and White Sun, had to settle for second place and become the seventh recipient of the medal.
After the "128" Incident, the government of the Republic of China decided to award twelve generals including Jiang Guangnai, Cai Tingkai, Zhang Zhizhong, Ou Shounian, and Yu Jishi the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun.
After careful calculation, Lu Ming's place was exactly the twentieth one.
Several people were laughing and talking together. After all, they had all worked together before, and their relationship with each other was quite close.
Everyone is talking about the Medal of the Blue Sky and White Sun. In comparison, the position of major general counselor does not seem so important.
Deng Wenyi, He Zhonghan and the others have already been major generals. They think it is not difficult to be promoted to major general, but it is too difficult to get a medal of the Blue Sky and White Sun. There is almost no hope.
After Lu Ming returned to the hotel, he took off his medal and put it in a delicate box. Then he took off his military uniform and put it in his suitcase. He changed back into his suit.
Although the military uniforms fit well, he was still not used to wearing military uniforms. He felt that wearing military uniforms was still a bit restrictive, and it was not as comfortable and casual as wearing a suit.
After He Zhonghan and others left, Liu Qiwen also came, and with her was He Zhonghan's female secretary. The two of them were also staying in this hotel tonight, and they were in the same room. This was specially arranged by He Zhonghan.
"President, you are really able to keep your composure. You have been holding back such a big matter for so long without saying a word." Liu Qiwen's tone was filled with excitement and complaint.
"This is not a big deal, it's just some honors." Lu Ming smiled calmly, seeming to have something on his mind.
Lu Ming didn't have much trouble in his heart. In his mind, neither the rank of Major General nor the Medal of Blue Sky and White Sun held a very important weight, at least it had nothing to do with his life.
If the American Journalists Association had awarded him the Pulitzer Prize, the highest journalism award, he would probably be ecstatic and so excited that he would not be able to sleep for three days and three nights.
The same thing will have different weight in everyone's heart.
The Chairman of the Generalissimo personally conferred the title, and General Zhang Wenbai conferred the title. It was indeed very honorable and very honorable, but Lu Ming asked himself that those things were what he should do, but he had more innate conditions than others.
Whether it is the "December 28" Incident or the Hongkou bombing, they are actually pains for the Chinese nation and are not very glorious things.
There is also the matter of cracking down the underground organization of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. For Lu Ming, it was also out of helplessness. Getting a reward for this matter was more like a black humor for him.
Lu Ming's biggest wish now is to quickly set up the secret service school. This matter is what he is proud of. Medals and military ranks are nothing but passing smoke.
"President, you are now a major general. Let's go back this time to see if Weng Bailing dares to show off in front of you." Liu Qiwen said with a smile.
"I won't compare myself to him. Comparing myself to this would make me inferior. I have high aspirations, don't you know?" Lu Ming joked.
"Well, President, you still stand taller. You don't have to compete. I am competing. I am a woman and I am so big-minded." Liu Qiwen
"Director Lu, where is your medal? Can you show it to us?" He Zhonghan's female secretary said.
"Of course." Lu Ming took out the medal and handed it to the two of them.
The two of them looked at it again and again, and touched it again and again, both cautiously, as if they were afraid of damaging the medal.
"Is this medal made of pure gold?" Liu Qiwen asked.
"Wherever there is pure gold, it is gold-plated. All medals and medals that are not pure gold are gold-plated." Lu Ming said.
"The government is really stingy. It is the highest medal of honor. It is not even willing to part with this little gold."
"It's not that I'm reluctant to part with it, but that it's unnecessary. The honor of this medal is much more valuable than the same amount of gold. The value of a gold ingot of the same weight is incomparable." Lu Ming said with a smile.
He remembered a joke, saying that the warlord Zhang Zongchang was envious of others wearing medals on their chests, so he used five kilograms of pure gold to make a medal for himself, and then found a reason to award it to himself, and hung it on his chest every day.
Everyone laughed so much that it became a laughing stock in the community.
Liu Qiwen wanted to see Lu Ming in a major general uniform again, but Lu Ming couldn't resist her, so he had to put on a military uniform to show her.
"Well, it's so beautiful and majestic." Liu Qiwen clapped her hands repeatedly and smiled, wishing she could go up and kiss him.
"What makes this military uniform so powerful and beautiful is that it has nothing to do with me," Lu Ming said.
"No, first of all, people are powerful and good-looking, and they complement each other best when they wear military uniforms. Unlike some people who don't look like emperors even if they put on dragon robes, they look like they are crowned by monkeys," Liu Qiwen said.
Lu Ming knew that she couldn't help but ridicule Weng Bailing, so he didn't answer her words.
He Zhonghan's female secretary watched with envy as the two talked freely, inevitably misunderstanding their relationship.
As He Zhonghan's secretary, she would not dare to talk to her superior like this. The most common thing she said every day was: "Yes, sir; as ordered, sir."
She had also heard for a long time that Lu Ming was very easy-going and kind, without any pretensions to being a superior. Only today did she see that he was indeed well-deserved.
Putting on a suit, Lu Ming didn't look like a chief, but more like a gentleman and a kind big brother.
Liu Qiwen and He Zhonghan's female secretary messed around with Lu Ming for a while, then went back to their room to wash up and rest.
Two people are lying on two beds facing each other.
He Zhonghan's female secretary suddenly asked: "Xiao Liu, are you in love with Commander Lu?"
"Well, I've fallen in love with him a long time ago."
"Then does he love you?"
"Of course I don't love him anymore. He doesn't even know that I love him."
"Then you still love him, aren't you wasting your expression?"
"It has nothing to do with whether I love him or not." Liu Qiwen said with her big eyes.
"Well, the biggest taboo for us female secretaries is to fall in love with our superiors. There will be no good results." He Zhonghan's female secretary warned.
"I know, but I can't help myself." Liu Qiwen also sighed.
Hearing what she said, He Zhonghan's female secretary fell silent. After all, women put feelings first in life, even higher than their own lives.
There was no shadow of an officer in her heart, not He Zhonghan, but she didn't even dare to express it and kept it silently in her heart.
She envied Liu Qiwen's courage to speak out and love, and even more envied her for meeting such a kind, easy-going, generous, and otherworldly officer.
The two of them were silently thinking about their own thoughts, neither of them spoke anymore, and soon fell into sleep.
Lu Ming sat in front of the window sill, looking at the beautiful night view of Nanjing City, but he still couldn't sleep.
He was still thinking about why the Chairman of the Generalissimo was so generous and awarded him two awards, one was the highest medal of honor that was never imagined, and the other was the rank of major general and the position of senior counselor of the Military Commission of the Republic of China government.
If there was no fame behind it, he simply didn't believe it.