Since the Nationalist Army took complete control of Zhejiang in late May, Chen Jingyun has been busy with this matter, and he must personally solve the financial problems of both the army and Zhejiang, and the follow-up naval affairs and the expansion of the Fifth and Sixth Divisions cannot be done by opening his mouth, and many important matters must be decided by him personally.

Therefore, from the end of May to the beginning of June, Chen Jingyun was extremely busy, and in his limited free time, Chen Jingyun mostly went to the Dong family's courtyard.

This time naturally made Lin Yun in the inner courtyard a little depressed, but no one dared to tell her about the affairs of the Dong family's courtyard for the time being, so she didn't know. Later, when he saw that Chen Jingyun would not come for several nights in a row, and asked Luo Li where he was, and found that there was no rest in Luo Li's room, Lin Yun was also a little suspicious.

"Yesterday I asked Wang Ma to prepare crab roe tofu soup and it was all wasted, I thought you would come back to eat it!" Lin Yun said with a look of regret, but her big eyes were staring at Chen Jingyun's reaction.

Chen Jingyun dealt with the people in the political axe all day long, and his face did not change when he told lies, so he immediately said casually: "I was late at the staff headquarters last night to discuss things, and I didn't come over for a while." ”

"It's okay, I'll let Wang Ma do it tomorrow night!" Lin Yun was young in the end, and seeing that Chen Jingyun had no obvious change in his face, he immediately couldn't suspect anything.

Chen Jingyun also guessed Lin Yun's careful thoughts slightly, he didn't say it thoroughly, and he didn't know how to tell the facts, sometimes it was better to lie. It's just that seeing Lin Yun look so unsuspicious also made Chen Jingyun feel guilty.

"Didn't I say I wanted to accompany you back to Huaxiang to have a look, because of the things in Hangzhou, I couldn't spare time before. There are fewer things to do these days, so how about I go back with you tomorrow! Chen Jingyun pondered in his heart that there would not be much to do tomorrow, and if he squeezed it, he would be able to free up in the morning, and it would not be too late to go to the Fuzhou Military Academy to inspect after lunch.

As soon as Lin Yun heard Chen Jingyun say that she wanted to accompany her back to her parents' house, she immediately smiled: "Really, don't deceive people!"

"Well, no lie!" Chen Jingyun said this, and then remembered that a few days ago he had instructed the secretariat to buy a small gift, and immediately said: "By the way, I have something for you!" ”

"Oh? Gifts? Lin Yun still remembered his initial suspicions at this time, and he was completely attracted by the gift in Chen Jingyun's mouth.

After Chen Jingyun stood up, he went to the study and took out a small gift box. Inside the gift box was a necklace, which Chen Jingyun originally planned to give to Dong Bai's, but since he talked about it today, Chen Jingyun, who felt a little guilty, put Dong Bai's aside for the time being, and coaxed his own genuine lady first.

The necklace is a small silver necklace with a ruby hanging from the end. This thing was bought from a foreign trading house, and it is said that it was a good product that had been passed down from a European aristocratic family for hundreds of years.

Women are the same as Western dragons, they have a natural liking for some shiny things, and when Lin Yun's eyes fell on the finger-sized ruby, her eyes just couldn't turn away: "It's so beautiful!" ”

"Here, I'll put it on for you!" Chen Jingyun took the necklace, walked behind Lin Yun, breathed in the faint fragrance from her hair, then ruffled the hair on her neck, put the necklace in front of her fragrant neck, and then buttoned it, turned her body, and faced her, only to see that the ruby was dazzling on her chest.

"Is it pretty?" Lin Yun had expectations on her face.

"Beautiful! Chen Jingyun nodded without a doubt, and thought in his heart, if this chain was worn on Dong Bai's body, it would be so beautiful, her breasts would be a little more upright, maybe it would be more dazzling.

Lin Yun naturally didn't know what Chen Jingyun was thinking, after all, she didn't know that when a man gave his wife or girlfriend a gift for no reason, he must be guilty.

While Chen Jingyun and Lin Yun were enjoying a romantic night, the night in Yanjing was as noisy as ever.

"He, Tang Shaoyi, thought that he was something, and even refuted a batch of appointment letters!" Zhao Bingjun, the chief of the Ministry of the Interior in Tang Shaoyi's cabinet, scolded fiercely, holding an appointment report that had just been approved by the State Council.

Since the establishment of Tang Shaoyi's cabinet of Beiyang political axe, Zhao Bingjun has been extremely dissatisfied with Tang Shaoyi's actions, and even accused each other in public, the direct reason is that Tang Shaoyi is dissatisfied with Zhao Bingjun's support for the appointment of Beiyang officials, but in the deeper sense that this is the contradiction between Tang Shaoyi and Yuan Shikai, or the contradiction between the cabinet system and the presidential system, and he Zhao Bingjun is just standing at the forefront of the conflict.

Zhao Bingjun scolded and scolded, Tang Shaoyi was also depressed, originally he thought that he would be able to show his skills by organizing a cabinet after becoming the prime minister, but he didn't expect that there would be so many troubles that followed. I won't talk about the external troubles of the southern provinces and the great powers, and I can't finish talking about it, but what makes him most depressed is the internal conflict, the conflict with Yuan Shikai.

When Yuan Shikai asked him to be in charge of forming the cabinet, Tang Shaoyi was full of hope, and in the subsequent process of forming the cabinet, Yuan Shikai's arrangement was also fully considered, and Duan Qirui, Zhao Bingjun, Liu Guanxiong, Lu Zhengxiang and others of the Beiyang faction were arranged to important positions such as the Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of the Navy, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

However, it does not matter if the Southern Revolutionary Party does not come to office, and it does not have any serious impact on the cabinet, but the contradictions within Beiyang are the most fatal.

When Sun Wen threw out this temporary law, Tang Shaoyi, as the prime minister of the cabinet, naturally welcomed it with both hands, after all, everyone wants to be a prime minister with real power and not a cabinet prime minister who can only seal it. According to this temporary agreement, Tang Shaoyi really treated his cabinet as a responsible cabinet, and interfered in everything big and small, which made Yuan Shikai extremely annoyed.

What kind of character is Yuan Shikai, basically he has been a person who covers the sky with one hand since the Beiyang era, even if he hid in Xiangcheng's hometown in order to avoid the limelight during the Xuantong period, but he basically controlled the Beiyang Army remotely. Not to mention after Xinhai, basically he will do whatever he says. In this case, Yuan Shikai's positioning of the so-called cabinet is also simple, that is, it is almost enough to be obedient and able to do things.

But Tang Shaoyi was a person who was unwilling to be a puppet prime minister, and wanted to intervene in everything, which naturally made Yuan Shikai extremely dissatisfied. Similarly, Yuan Shikai's behavior of covering the sky with one hand also made Tang Shaoyi extremely dissatisfied, if it weren't for the fact that the two were old friends in the past, it is estimated that these two would be able to openly turn against each other.

The specific performance is that Tang Shaoyi refused to appoint Yuan's descendants, and even made Zhao Bingjun resign as a threat.

On the other hand, on the issue of the large-scale loan for the aftermath of the four-nation banking group, this large-scale loan for the aftermath has basically been discussed since the beginning of the year, but there has not been much progress, mainly because the requirements of the four-nation banking group are too high, beyond the scope of what the Chinese people can bear, and in particular, Tang Shaoyi is resolutely opposed to the four-nation banking group's request to supervise China's finances.

Yuan Shikai and Tang Shaoyi think differently, in Yuan Shikai's opinion, as long as you get the money, what kind of supervision are you afraid of, and what powers are you afraid of after you have this money to unify China!

There was a contradiction between the opinions of the two, and in the eyes of the four-nation banking group, Tang Shaoyi was indeed a trouble, and Zhu Erdian had even said to Yuan Shikai many times that the British Empire regretted the words and deeds of the Prime Minister of your country!

At the beginning of June, the Zhili Provincial Council elected Wang Zhixiang as the governor, and this Wang Zhixiang is not a person from the Beiyang faction, although this person was originally the governor of Guangxi, he can be regarded as an old-school general, but fortunately, this person has been serving in the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, and is the former commander of the Third Army, one of the four left generals and generals of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, strictly speaking, this person is considered a southern faction.

And what is the place of Zhili, this is the old nest of Beiyang, how could Yuan Shikai let other people be the governor, Yuan Shikai immediately did not say a word, and directly revoked Wang Zhixiang's position as the governor, and then sent another Beiyang descendant to serve as the governor of Zhili. This incident should have been a contradiction between the Beiyang and the Southern faction, but the key is that Tang Shaoyi believed that Wang Zhixiang's election was legitimate according to the provisional law, so he approved the appointment. And when Yuan Shikai directly dismissed Wang Zhixiang and others without even giving Tang Shaoyi a move, Tang Shaoyi immediately felt that the slap was slapped!

If the contradiction between Tang Shaoyi and Yuan Shikai could be restrained on both sides before, then this time Yuan Shikai directly stepped on Tang Shaoyi's face to the ground. In fact, Yuan Shikai can't really be blamed for this, everyone in the Beiyang system knows that the important place of Zhili is the backbone of the Beiyang system, and Tang Shaoyi, as the backbone of the Beiyang system, let Wang Zhixiang serve as the governor of Zhili, the so-called reason is just in accordance with the law.

In front of the entire collective interests of Beiyang, Tang Shaoyi's face was worthless, and Yuan Shikai stepped on it without hesitation.

Tang Shaoyi, who was slapped in the face, was also arrogant, and he couldn't take care of any Beiyang interests, and now he was fighting for a breath, and after continuously asking Yuan Shikai to take back the order, Tang Shaoyi simply announced his resignation with a ruthless heart.

Now that his face has been beaten and his real power is gone, what's the point of continuing to be this puppet prime minister!

Tang Shaoyi ignored the friendship of his old friend for many years and said that he would resign and resign, which made Yuan Shikai very annoyed, and secretly sent someone to persuade him, and seeing that Tang Shaoyi still insisted on his own opinion, Yuan Shikai simply did not do anything, and directly appointed Lu Zhengxiang as the prime minister and reorganized the cabinet!

As a result, the cabinet, which had existed for less than three months, collapsed!

With the fall of Tang Shaoyi's cabinet, Lu Zhengxiang recognized the situation after taking office, in short, he tried to avoid conflicts with Yuan Shikai and honestly stamped the prime minister.

Under such circumstances, the most important obstacle has been cleared by the large loan of the bank group of the four countries, and if the loan negotiation goes smoothly, Beiyang will be able to get a total of 25 million pounds of loans!

If there is this money, China's reunification is in sight, at least in Yuan Shikai's opinion!