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With the fall of Jinan and the imminent danger of Nanjing, Germany changed its position, and the newspapers of the Western world were more willing to report on lace news than on the war in Asia, and it seemed that all of a sudden everything became unfavorable for the war. The arrogance of the Japanese is becoming more and more arrogant day by day, the cabinet and the military department in Tokyo have not taken the Chinese government that has retreated to Wuhan into account at all, and the Japanese spy organs have already organized a puppet government in Beiping, which is simply an open contempt for the highest authorities! For this reason, the highest authorities lost sleep for two nights in a row, and at the end of 1937, China ushered in the lowest point since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War......

As the head of the chamberlain, he must sleep later than the highest authority and get up earlier than the highest authority, and as soon as the highest authority tosses like this, Qian Dajun has to accompany the highest authority, thinking about it, in fact, Qian Dajun is even more miserable, because the highest authority sits most of the time, and Qian Dajun does have to stand all the time.

Outside the window, the sky gradually began to turn white, and the long winter night finally came to an end, Qian Dajun asked people to open the heavy green velvet curtains, and stayed in this room for two days and two nights, Qian Dajun felt that it was time to see some sunshine.

At the end of the corridor outside the study where the supreme authority was located was the officer on duty of the General Staff, and almost every ten minutes, officers on duty would knock on the door and come in to deliver the latest battle reports.

The country and the family are sometimes very similar, it is difficult for the person in charge to take it easy, and the big family in China is not very united, and there are too many people with ideas; In addition, there is a powerful opponent like Japan in the courtyard, and the highest authorities have a headache.

"Director Qian, pick out the telegrams from Nanjing, Beiping, and the Five War Zones, and hand over the rest to the Ministry of Military Affairs and the General Staff, the state pays so many salaries every year, these people have to do something...... It's not early, let people get some breakfast, it's good to meet the guests after eating, someone should be in a hurry......"

The highest authority said that he stood up and began to move his legs and feet, Qian Dajun wanted to hurry up and help the highest authority, but the two legs that had stood for dozens of hours suddenly became disobedient, and the tired muscles and sluggish joints made Qian Dajun slow down by half a beat.

The highest authorities, who were accustomed to Qian Dajun's careful care, also discovered Qian Dajun's abnormality, and the highest authorities looked at Qian Dajun, who was a little embarrassed, and said: "We are all old, and we can't stand it after a while!" Young people are too young, and the outside always says that I Jiang someone is in power, where do they know my suffering? Who will give such a mess to? And who wants it? In the end, I'm not the only one to carry this burden? ”

Qian Dajun listened to the words of the supreme authority and immediately realized that the supreme authority was talking about the article written in the newspaper a few days ago, and he didn't know that the force was behind it, and the article said that the supreme authority was the only person who could resist the war in China, and the supreme authority only said a few words lightly when reading the newspaper, but in fact, the supreme authority was very proud in his heart, and in the past few days, some sentences in that article would pop out from the mouth of the supreme authority from time to time. If the author of this article were now standing in front of the highest authorities, Qian Dajun was sure that the Propaganda Department would have one more deputy minister.

Since the master has opened his mouth, Qian Dajun has to answer, fortunately, there have been several such conversations in the past few days, and Qian Dajun is now familiar with it, coaxing the highest authorities to be happy, which is a necessary condition for being the head of the chamberlain.

The telegrams from Nanjing, Peiping, and the Five War Zones were quickly picked out, and Qian Dajun's breakfast came quickly, two plates of dim sum and a glass of hot milk, which was a recipe drawn up by the "Madame" and the personal doctor of the highest authority.

The highest authority picked up the cup of milk and took a sip, the glass of milk was sent out of the kitchen to measure the temperature, plus the time consumed on the road, the current temperature is just the highest authority's favorite degree, after the Nanjing evacuation personnel came to Wuhan one after another, many things used by the highest authority have returned to the standards of the Nanjing period, for all this, Qian Dajun has spent a lot of time.

"Chief Qian, you can also use some, you have to rotate as soon as the morning dawns, and you can't bear it......"

Qian Dajun's hard work paid off, and Qian Dajun was flattered by these words from the highest authority, and he quickly replied that he was not hungry now, and the highest authority did not continue the topic, and the attendant room has the rules of the attendant room, and occasionally some small things can be easier, but it is better to follow the rules in everything.

Qingdao fell into the hands of the Japanese this morning, and the Japanese have been thinking about this excellent military port city for a long time, and it was little Japan that drove the Germans out of Shandong, and if it were not for the Chinese redemption of Shandong under the intervention of the international community, the Japanese would have turned Shandong into a second Manchukuo long ago.

As soon as the gunfire of the "77 Incident" rang out, the 10th and 16th destroyers of the Japanese Third Fleet near Taiwan hurried to Qingdao. The Japanese in Qingdao organized the "Youth Volunteer Corps" and "Township Soldiers" to parade around the urban area, rush to repair fortifications, collect intelligence, and respond inside and outside; On August 14, the day after Japan launched a military attack on Shanghai, it was impatient to create the "Dexian Road Incident" and create a pretext for war. On the afternoon of that day, six Japanese marines marched in a procession to Dexian Road, and two of the Japanese soldiers who refused to fight in Shanghai were attacked by two Japanese ronins in civilian clothes, killing and wounding one each. Five minutes later, the Japanese Navy entered a state of imminent battle, aimed the guns of the ships at the city, and the Japanese ships arrived at the shore.

On December 18, Shen Honglie, then mayor of Qingdao, ordered the implementation of the "scorched earth policy" and used explosives to blow up many Japanese factories in Qingdao, such as the Qingdao Brewery and Toyota Oil Factory, as well as water sources and docks, and the fire burned for three days and three nights. On December 25, he ordered the sinking of more than 20 warships and ships trapped in Jiaozhou Bay, and on December 30, Qingdao fell.

Another pearl on the Shandong Peninsula was planted with the sun flag, before the start of the Anti-Japanese War, the highest authorities can be said to have little feeling for such a small city as Qingdao, after the continuous loss of a series of large cities such as Shanghai, Suzhou, Beiping and a series of other large cities, now the news of the fall of a small city like Qingdao can also make the highest authorities sigh for a while.

The Wuhan government had been driven away from China's wealthiest regions by the Japanese, and the top authorities now felt that he had become more and more like a local warlord from the leader of China, which was the main reason for his resentment of the Japanese in erecting puppet regimes in the occupied areas.

There was not the slightest bit of good news in the telegram of the Fifth Theater, because Han Fuyu abandoned Jinan without resistance, all of Chief Li's strategic plans came to naught, and now at least half of the daily war reports sent by the Fifth Theater Commander's Department to the highest authorities were scolding Han Fuyu, and the troops below the Fifth Theater were also busy remobilizing and adjusting, and the Japanese were living a very prosperous life in Shandong.

After reading the telegrams from North China and the Fifth War Zone, the mood of the highest authorities began to become a little depressed, and if it had been a few days backwards, Qian Dajun would have immediately handed over a telegram to the Nanjing battlefield to make the highest authorities happy, and the entire Chinese army was retreating, and only Huang Haoran's troops were still winning, and Huang Haoran was the last consolation of the highest authorities.

A few days ago, the intelligence officers of the "military command" lurking in Shanghai reported a new situation, and the Japanese sent reinforcements to Wusong, numbered the 4th Division, and the intention of the Japanese base camp was obvious, and they wanted to put Huang Haoran's Nanjing garrison to death!

Yesterday, the 4th Division had already arrived in Wuhu, and the only way for the Nanjing garrison to retreat was greatly threatened, and whether or not it could jump out of the three-way encirclement of Matsui Shigen depended on Huang Haoran's ability.

The highest authorities squinted their eyes and rested on the back of their chairs for a few seconds, and then opened Huang Haoran's telegram, Qian Dajun didn't know what was written in it, there was no news in the telegrams sent by various war zones these days that could make the highest authorities happy, Qian Dajun hoped that Huang Haoran's telegram would have a miracle......

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Tianjin, No. 19 Road, British Concession.

A few men in civilian clothes braved the biting cold wind to walk the streets in the early morning, the street lights on both sides of the street had not yet been extinguished, and the men and women in the rented room were still immersed in the revelry of last night, this was the refuge of the British Empire, and the typhoon of war never came to this land.

The leading man in civilian clothes walked under a street lamp and took out a cigarette, and several men in black suits suddenly appeared from the alley on the side of the street, these black suits were obviously very in awe of the men in civilian clothes, and only one of them took the lead in front of the men in civilian clothes, and then nodded and pulled out matches.

The man in casual clothes impatiently pushed away the other man's hand trying to light the match, and asked in a very stiff Chinese, "Didn't anyone go in last night?" ”

The black suit nodded again and again, and the man in casual clothes was very dissatisfied with the performance of the black suit, and gave the black suit two slaps with a shake of his hand, the black suit didn't dare to resist, he just lowered his head and kept saying: "Hai!" Hail! ”

In a small building across the street lives an old man who was once prominent, he is the leader of the direct warlords in the early years of the Republic of China, Cao Kun, who was elected as the fifth president of the Republic of China by bribery!

The black suit was a spy sent by the Japanese secret service to the British Concession to monitor Cao Kun, after all, this was the territory of the British, although the Japanese had already occupied Tianjin, they still had some scruples when they were doing business in the British Concession.

"Governor Gao, everything is please! You are a friend of the Great Japanese Empire! The Great Japanese Empire will not treat you badly, and, of course, your friend President Cao......"

The man in civilian clothes turned around and said these words with a smile at the person he brought, the strange pronunciation made the person listening to him shudder, what kind of goods are Japanese, Gao Lingwei knows very well, if it weren't for the fact that he and the man in the house across the street were valuable to the Japanese, the devil in front of him would not talk to him so kindly!

What the Japanese wanted Gao Lingwei to do was to persuade Cao Kun to join the puppet government they had set up in Beiping, and the position given to Gao Lingwei was the governor of Hebei Province.

Who better to serve as a sign for the Japanese to form a puppet government than Cao Kun, who has served as a great president? The attention of the Japanese in beating Cao Kun is not a day or two, and these Japanese spies who infiltrated the British Concession to spy on Cao's house are very telling.

Cao Kun's wife Liu is also a very powerful character, and in Gao Lingwei's opinion, Cao Kun's reluctance to cooperate with the Japanese is at least half because of this Mrs. Liu. A few days ago, a big Zuo from the intelligence agency of the Japanese Kwantung Army came to the British Concession in Tianjin to ask Cao Kun to "go out of the mountain." Cao Kun was afraid of offending the Japanese and wanted to open the door to summon him, but Mrs. Liu blocked the door and did not allow Cao Kun to go out, and pointed out that Sang scolded Huai and shouted scolding. The Japanese were bored and walked away. Afterwards, Mrs. Liu recounted the crimes committed by the Japanese in the three northeastern provinces, and said to Cao Kun: "Even if you drink porridge every day, you can't go out to do things for the Japanese." ”

The intelligence department of the Kwantung Army did not give up after Cao Kun's house ran into a wall, and sent Qi Xieyuan, a friend of Cao Kun who was a member of the "Jicha Political Affairs Committee," to be a lobbyist. One night, Qi Xieyuan knocked on the door and asked to see him. Cao Kun's doorman followed Mrs. Liu's instructions and refused to open the door, and Qi Xieyuan did not go to Cao's house again.

Seeing that Japanese lobbyists often visited at night, Mrs. Liu made a new rule that the door should be locked at 9 o'clock in the evening, and no family members were allowed to go out, and no guests were allowed to visit. The key to the door is in the hands of Mrs. Liu herself.

Gao Lingwei really has no confidence in this lobbyist trip, if it weren't for the Japanese pressing, he wouldn't have thought of coming to Tianjin at all, it's bad enough to be a traitor himself, and now he has to come to pull Cao Kun into the water, thinking of the angry Mrs. Liu, Gao Lingwei has some legs and stomachs.

Of course, Gao Lingwei would not say these words to the Japanese, Gao Lingwei had already made up his mind to give up if he couldn't be convinced, as long as he didn't anger Mrs. Liu, then his old face might still be preserved.

In his later years, President Cao Kun Cao Da has been living in Tianjin, Cao Kun believed in Buddhism in his later years, he often burned incense and recited scriptures, and also spent a lot of money to buy a golden Buddha and put it in Tianjin's "Great Compassion Temple", and asked someone to draw a "holy miracle map", worship every day.

After Cao Kun went into the wilderness, there were no soldiers around him, and after he came to Tianjin, he only had two attendants and a secretary by his side. Mrs. Liu paid for a few guards in the British Concession. There are 3 old mothers and a few girls in the family, who are dedicated to serving their wives and children, cleaning up the house, etc. There were also two men, a driver and an errand boy.

Gao Lingwei is also a frequent visitor to the Cao Mansion, after Cao Kun bribed the president, the cabinet dragged on for three months to be formed, and in that period of cabinet vacuum, it was Gao Lingwei who nominally acted as the prime minister.

So Mrs. Liu didn't embarrass Gao Lingwei and opened the door and asked him to see Cao Kun.

Seeing Gao Lingwei smoothly enter Cao's house, the man in casual clothes smiled under the street lamp......

At the age of 20, Cao Kun enlisted in the army and began his military career, first studying at the Tianjin Wubei Academy and becoming a sentry officer in the Yijun after graduation. Cao Kun heard that Yuan Shikai's uncle and grandfather Yuan Jiasan had a brother named Cao Kezhong, who was very powerful in the local area and was known as "Dashuai", so he prepared a generous gift to pay his respects. This Cao Kezhong is also a native of Tianjin, and he was once the admiral of the Guangdong Navy Division, and he was very happy to see a little fellow surnamed Cao. Then he checked the genealogy and found that Cao Kun was actually his grandson, so he was naturally even more happy, so he officially recognized Cao Kun as his grandson, and sent his aunt and wife to Yuan Shikai to accommodate him.

Cao Kun was the backbone of Yuan Shikai's small station training, participated in the First Sino-Japanese War, and was later appointed by Yuan Shikai as the commander of the third town of the Beiyang Army. In the Republic of China, Cao Kun served as the commander of the Third Division of the Army, and led the army south to Sichuan during the Protectorate War to fight against the Protector Army. After Yuan Shikai's death, the Beiyang warlords were divided into two lines, and Cao Kun stepped on two ships in the secret battle between the two lines. After Feng Guozhang's death, Cao Kun became the direct chieftain of the line, and successively won the Zhiwan War and the First Zhifeng War, and became a powerful figure who dominated the central power.

The most famous thing Cao Kun did in history was bribing the president. In 1923, Cao Kun, whose political ambitions had skyrocketed, planned a scandalous drama of bribing the president, despite the opposition of Wu Peifu, the immediate pillar of his immediate family.

In this farce, many parliamentarians have been exposed to their ugliness. The attention and concern of these people is focused on the ticket price. There is also how to receive the money for selling votes, those who sell votes are afraid that they will not get the money after voting, and those who buy votes are afraid that the parliamentarians who pay the money will not vote for Cao Kun; Therefore, whether the payment is cash or check, whether the check is spot or forward, who the drawer is, and which bank it is, are the focus of negotiations between the two parties.

On the afternoon of October 5, 1923, Cao Kun was elected as the fifth president of the Republic of China with 480 votes, and Sun Yat-sen, who was among the participants with Cao Kun, only got 33 votes! As soon as the results came out, public opinion was in an uproar!

The truth behind the scenes that was later revealed was that a total of 480 members of the conference had accepted bribes from Cao Kun. Cao Kun spent a total of 13.56 million yuan on bribing the election, including 32.42 million yuan in subsidies to political parties, 1.41 million yuan in special ticket prices, 30.45 million yuan in ordinary ticket prices, 5.72 million yuan in attendance fees for constitutional conferences, more than 20 yuan in regular meeting attendance fees, 3.24 million yuan in special remuneration fees, more than 190 yuan in "Bing Jing", "Tan Jing" and husband and horse fees, more than 120 yuan in temporary fees for guest houses, and more than 70 yuan in secret fees.

It didn't take long for Cao Kun to become a small episode in history, and the title of bribing the president became an infamy for the rest of Cao Kun's life!

But these are old things, and now Cao Kun gets up early every morning, practices a set of tiger boxing in the courtyard, and then returns to the house to meditate and practice qigong. All day long is either practicing calligraphy or drawing. As he gets older, Cao Kun can't remember all the ambitions he had before.

But now, the Japanese remembered that there was such a person they needed in Tianjin...... (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )