readx; Hong Zitai didn't want to sit still, although he was now a core high-level official in the national army system, as the head of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Xuanfu Embassy, his power was no longer conceded to Zheng Zuyin and others, and even because of Chen Jingyun's emphasis on industry and commerce, the position of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce was more important. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but strictly speaking, this power is not very guaranteed, the existing system of the national army, to a large extent, is tied to Chen Jingyun, relying on the national army's more than 100,000 troops to be able to protect the officialdom system of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.

Although Chen Jingyun did not interfere too much in the civil official system, Chen Jingyun's authority is still irreplaceable, Chen Jingyun may not have too much interference in the civil official system, and there are not too many suitable officials in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces for Chen Jingyun to be appointed as a high-level official. However, as long as Chen Jingyun is willing, as long as he says a word, he can pull down Hong Zitai, the chief minister of industry and commerce.

And Hong Zitai knows this very well, like Zheng Zuyin, he has become more and more ambitious to climb up with the growing national army system this year. However, he is different from Zheng Zuyin, Zheng Zuyin is now completely politically focused, and he doesn't even bother to take care of the family's industry, and has already been handed over to the juniors in the family to toss, and he has no special hobby for money, although he occasionally gets a little money to supplement the family, but it is completely different from Hong Zitai.

Although Hong Zitai had become a high-ranking official in the Fujian military and political axe after the Fuzhou Uprising, he had always been in charge of the family industry, and more often than not, he regarded himself as a businessman rather than an official. This official's status is more to seek benefits for his own industry, and even his support for Chen Jingyun's vigorous promotion of economic development zones and the implementation of many policies conducive to industrial and commercial development is generally similar to this idea, and the reason why he did it was because those things were beneficial to himself and his Hong family's industry.

But tonight's Hong Zitai had a cold back, and then many thoughts turned in his mind, and after drinking the already cold tea in the cup, Hong Zitai sighed.

After thinking about it for a long night, he roughly figured out the idea, and the more money the better. But there is also a premise, that has to be a life flower. In the past few days, many of the officials secretly arrested by the Investigation Bureau are worth more than one million, but once they are arrested by the Investigation Bureau, there is basically no possibility of returning safely, so what is the point of accumulating so much money.

In the final analysis, China is still an official-based society, and after becoming an official and having power, there is no shortage of these things outside the body, even if you avoid letting them find you. But once you lose your power, even if you are worth hundreds of millions, you can't afford to be worth someone's sentence of 'raiding your home'.

At the time of the Fuzhou Uprising, Hong Zitai had seen a lot of powerful people in the former Qing Dynasty being raided, although it was said that the clan was not wiped out, but a huge family was basically defeated, slaves were scattered, wives and daughters were displaced, after the collapse of the former Qing Dynasty, the Manchu magnates in the north were better, at most they had no power, and they would not encounter such a thing. But the Manchu magnates in the southern provinces are much more miserable, the most inferior one is also raided, and there are not a few people who were killed, even if it is still a mild Fuzhou uprising, there are few Manchu magnates who were killed, but most of them have been confiscated of their family wealth, and the slightly more important characters are still locked up, they have a very bad time when the phoenix becomes a sparrow overnight, and there are not a few people who sell their wives and daughters, and many of the former Qing Dynasty Gege have already cried and walked into the Qinglou to sell and laugh, with the former Qing nobles, the business is naturally exceptionally good, Many people took out their savings that they had accumulated for a long time and walked into the courtyard, in order to crush the noble ladies who had only looked up before, and listen to their groans of pain.

Although the Nationalist Army has not done anything like raiding homes since the Fuzhou Uprising, it has other names, such as fines and confiscation of illegal gains. Although this name is different from the raider's house, it is actually no different, and after this confiscation, the families of those offending officials are left with only the necessary living necessities, and most of the others will be taken away.

Hong Zitai can basically guess that many of the criminal officials who committed the crime a few days ago may be able to come out alive, but there will definitely be no one who can keep their family assets, and more importantly, their political future is basically over, and the future life path has come to an end for them.

Hong Zitai doesn't want to be like this, so he can't sit still, although the hand of the Investigation Bureau is still reaching for high-level officials of the political axe, and it is only at the department and bureau level, but no one can guarantee how it will change in the next few days.

After Hong Zitai thought about it all night, he gritted his teeth and didn't even eat breakfast the next day, but went to the Xuanfu Embassy to ask to see Chen Jingyun.

The Xuanfu Embassy, that is, the original Governor's Mansion is different from before, Chen Jingyun is not there, Chen Yu's family took out a lot of money, ready to repair the status of Chen Jingyun's residence, demolished some old houses directly, and then expanded the area of the back garden, plus Chen Jingyun also renovated the backyard of the Governor's Mansion before marriage, and now the structure of the entire backyard is different from the traditional Jiangnan house.

The early morning of winter came a little late, and Chen Jingyun didn't have the habit of getting up early to work, although he was woken up early in the morning by the sound of birdsong outside the window, Chen Jingyun turned his head and hugged Lin Yun to continue sleeping.

Lin Yun is also a lai, although she didn't even get out of bed in the morning like those married ladies in the West, and ate breakfast directly in bed, but she didn't have anything to do, and she usually slept until three poles, plus she fought with Chen Jingyun for hundreds of rounds last night, and the wheezing and moaning sounded until the early hours of the morning, so she was even more lazy to move this time, and after being hugged by Chen Jingyun in a daze, she also twisted her body, and then shrunk the whole person into Chen Jingyun's arms, and she didn't even open her eyes during the whole process.

This lazy couple slept very well, it was almost nine o'clock before they opened their eyes one after another, this time point is very late for ordinary people, there is no night entertainment this year, generally go to bed early, go to bed early in the morning, and get up early in the morning, people have already begun to go to work at six or seven o'clock in the morning. However, Chen Jingyun has always slept late, and he usually says that he will be very late when he handles official business, and sometimes when he returns to the backyard, he will play cards with Lin Yun and Luo Li, talk and so on, or continue to work in the study, most of the time after ten o'clock in the evening, Chen Jingyun sleeps late, and the rest of the family will naturally follow late, and they will develop a habit after a long time.

Seeing that the time is almost up, although there is nothing urgent to do today, Chen Jingyun is planning to go back to Liuhe Lane today and accompany the old man for a day. After returning from Shanghai, although I have already returned to Liuhe Lane, I have been very busy in the first few days, and when I go, I can only go in a hurry, and I can only go back in a hurry, and my left and right brains stay for only an hour. Now that I have time, I have to take Lin Yun back to Liuhe Lane to sit down.

Lin Yun was still in a daze and refused to open her eyes, heard Chen Jingyun's voice when she got up, stretched out her hand and touched it and found that there was no one, and then she half-squinted and opened one eye, seeing that Chen Jingyun had already gotten up. She didn't care, she closed her half-squinted eyes again, and shrank back into the warm and soft quilt.

Chen Jingyun looked at her like this, smiled, Lin Yun looked like an eighteen-year-old girl when she got up in the morning.

The maid quickly came in to change Chen Jingyun's clothes, and then rinse and so on, seeing that the maid was going to go outside the window and draw the curtains, Chen Jingyun lowered his voice and said, "Don't pull it yet, well, you will come and wait for Mrs. to get up in half an hour!" ”

It's still early, so there's no hurry!

After dressing up and going downstairs, Chen Jingyun read the newspaper and ate breakfast at the same time, the habit of reading the newspaper was only after this era, there was no habit of reading newspapers in the past, most of the news was directly learned through the Internet, and occasionally read some financial newspapers, other national events, social focus is not something he pays attention to. In this era, reading newspapers has become a habit, and reading newspapers can be a good way to understand some ordinary livelihood affairs. Although he Chen Jingyun knows a lot of things, and he has Chen Cai's investigation bureau to provide him with all kinds of information, some ordinary things such as humanities still need Chen Jingyun to slowly experience it himself.

There are several newspapers, some of which are the newspapers of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, while others are newspapers from Shanghai and even Yanjing. Most of the newspapers such as Fuzhou Newspaper and Hangzhou Evening News are already under the control of the propaganda department of the Nationalist Army, and the news involving the two provinces is a song and dance, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the people of other provinces are living in dire straits, and those involving Beiyang are all lackeys of imperialism and the public enemies of the people. It is a joint venture with a well-known American-funded enterprise to build a factory, and it is trying to recruit as many workers as it wants, and what the salary is. For example, the poor management of a certain textile factory, the merger with a certain factory, and the old business as usual are hereby announced, etc., these commercial advertisements and reports make Chen Jingyun more concerned, on which you can intuitively feel the development of industry and commerce in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and the ordinary living conditions of the people.

However, the newspapers in Shanghai and Yanjing and other places are different, most of these newspapers are run in the concessions, and neither the Beiyang nor the Nationalist Army can control them, and because most of the newspapers in these concessions are run by foreigners, some of the remarks are obviously inclined to other countries, and generally have obvious political tendencies.

However, the content of these newspapers still has their reference value, but it is more or less a problem.

Chen Jingyun doesn't read the newspaper carefully, and he doesn't read much about those situation analyses and current affairs, and he is not interested in reading the analysis of the domestic situation and the world situation, because he himself is the one who decides the direction of the situation in China, and those comments and analyses are only about what the National Army will do next. However, he found that some foreign-language newspapers in Shanghai still paid more attention to the news about the situation in Europe, and now the situation in Europe has become more and more tense, and the arms race between the Allies and the Entente has reached the final sprint stage, whether it is Germany, Britain, or France and Russia, they have all launched a large-scale arms race, the scale of the army has been expanded again and again, and the warships have been launched one after another, and the expected First World War has already started in the early stages of war. According to the current development of the situation, the world war may not stop breaking out because of Chen Jingyun's arrival.

The outbreak of war in Europe will be of great benefit to China, and it will have great benefits in terms of diplomacy, politics, and industrial and commercial development, but in fact, it will not only be beneficial to China, but also to the Far East.

It's just that the European war has not yet broken out, and the Nationalist Army has not yet been able to unify China, so it is still too early to consider these things, so Chen Jingyun only paid a little attention to it and then read the content of other newspapers.

When breakfast was over, he just took a cursory look at the newspapers, and there was nothing interesting about them overall. After putting down the newspaper, Chen Jingyun drank tea, and at this time, Lin Yun also walked down, and she didn't have much energy when she just got up.

"I'll go outside and have a look first, and then we'll go back to Liuhe Lane together!" Chen Jingyun got up and walked to her side, Lin Yun hummed, she didn't want to say too much when she just got up.

After Chen Jingyun put on his coat, he walked out of the hall and looked up at Luo Li who was smiling at him not far away, he walked over and hugged Luo Li's waist: "I'll go to your side tonight!" ”

Luo Li smiled when he heard this, and nodded: "Hmm!" ”

After Chen Jingyun came back from Shanghai, except for working during the day, most of the time he spent with Lin Yun, but he snubbed Luo Li a little, although Luo Li was a little apprehensive in his heart, but he didn't dare to say anything, her identity and Lin Yun couldn't be compared, and Chen Jingyun just came back and had a hot fight with Lin Yun in those days, so it was not easy for her to get up. Now when I heard Chen Jingyun say this, I knew that my young master had not forgotten himself, and then he went back to the room with a festive look, thinking about what to wear tonight to make Chen Jingyun look good, whether to wear the underwear that Chen Jingyun asked her to wear before, but those clothes were really embarrassing, and Luo Li didn't dare to look at herself in the mirror when she put them on.

But when I thought of my identity, and then thought of Dong Bai, who was already with a big belly in Shanghai, Luo Li, the little girl, also bit her red lip, and then took out a pink light gauze style pajamas from the wardrobe. This kind of lace-style pajamas were made by Chen Jingyun on a whim, but this is said to be pajamas, in fact, nothing can be covered, and even the black forest can be clearly seen after wearing the translucent light veil, which is undressed, fortunately, Luo Li can still stand in front of Chen Jingyun, but wearing this dress makes Luo Li so ashamed that she doesn't even dare to look at herself, and wearing this pajamas makes her feel embarrassed and shy more than taking off.

Chen Jingyun naturally didn't know that Luo Li was preparing to put on that 'fun' pajamas at night to tempt and please him, and when he just went out of the door, he saw Yu Shifeng who was waiting early.

Seeing Yu Shifeng here, Chen Jingyun was a little surprised, Yu Shifeng is still the director of the secretariat, but it is no longer the secretariat of the Governor's Mansion, but the secretariat of the Xuanfu Mission, and his responsibilities have not changed too much, as the director of the Secretariat, he is also very busy, and he has to deal with miscellaneous things. I saw him waiting here today, so I was a little surprised.

"Something?" Chen Jingyun asked directly: "I remember that I didn't have any itinerary today, right?" ”

Chen Jingyun's itinerary was all pre-arranged, and he knew that he had nothing to do today, so he planned to go back to Liuhe Lane to accompany Chen Yu today.

Yu Shifeng said: "There is nothing else, but Chief Hong, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, has been waiting for the commander for a long time, saying that he asked to see the commander!" ”

When Chen Jingyun heard that Hong Zitai was coming to see him, he didn't feel too strange in his heart, he had already ordered Chen Cai to start taking action to arrest those officials who were corrupt and bent the law, and as the first person on the list, Hong Zitai was nervous and wanted to come to him.

Although he didn't plan to meet this Hong Zitai before, he thought about it carefully and said, "Then see you!" ”

Soon, Chen Jingyun had already seen Hong Zitai, this Hong Zitai obviously didn't sleep all night, with a pair of big dark circles under his eyes, and when Yu Shifeng and the others who accompanied him just went out, this Hong Zitai immediately spoke: "Please also ask the commander to spare this meeting!" ”

As soon as he spoke, Chen Jingyun didn't have any other face, and after picking up the teacup, he said, "Are you short of money?" ”

Hong Zitai immediately said: "Commander, a few days ago, I was confused about my humble position, so I committed these things, as long as the commander gives my humble position a chance to change, I promise not to do it again in the future!" ”

Seeing that Chen Jingyun's face remained unchanged, Hong Zitai continued: "I am willing to donate half of my family wealth to the treasury!" ”

Hearing Hong Zitai say this, Chen Jingyun also pondered, he knew how much money Hong Zitai used his power to get, and he had known it for a long time, and the amount was tens of millions, or a lot more. But how to say it, Hong Zitai is at most using power for personal gain, using policy and personal power to carry out business activities for profit, which is the same as the development and growth of the Chen family's industry.

On the other hand, in fact, he didn't plan to take down Hong Zitai in this arrest, otherwise Chen Jingyun would not have put Hong Zitai up as the head of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in the first place, although Hong Zitai used his power for personal gain, but he still has the ability to do things, and he really wants to get him down, for a while Chen Jingyun didn't know where to find a suitable person to be in charge of industry and commerce.

As for Hong Zitai's current statement that half of his family's wealth will be confiscated, this is a little unexpected for him. After being silent for a long time, Chen Jingyun said: "Your ability is obvious to all, you have also seen the development of the national army, and you can probably understand the future prospects." And you know how to go on your own mind, I don't want to say more about other words, in a word, 'good for yourself'"

After saying this, Chen Jingyun didn't care about him, got up and left directly, leaving a pale Hong Zitai, this time, Yu Shifeng also walked up, looked at Hong Zitai and sighed: "Old Hong, you are not as good as Zheng Lao in this matter of money." How much can this person spend in his life, and can he, as the chief of civil affairs, still have enough food and clothing. Not to mention in the future, if he really becomes the prime minister of the cabinet, can this scenery be exchanged for millions of family fortunes? ”

Hong Zitai's face turned pale after hearing this, he was already feeling pain in his heart by donating half of his family wealth, isn't it enough? Finally, looking at Yu Shifeng, he knew very well that Yu Shifeng was not an ordinary director, but a close figure of Chen Jingyun. In terms of status, it is higher than yourself. Immediately, he suppressed his voice and said, "If I donate it all, can this position be kept?" ”

Yu Shifeng smiled: "You can keep it if you don't donate it?" ”

Hong Zitai did not reply, but walked back with a bitter face, and in the afternoon he went to the Ministry of Finance with a large box, saying that he wanted to contribute to the revolution, including bank cashier's checks, share bonds, house deeds, land deeds, etc., with a total value of nearly 20 million, which surprised Anwarin.