And now in China, there are two international cities, one is Shanghai and the other is Tianjin. Tianjin has a lot of concessions, and the area of Tianjin is larger and more prosperous than Shanghai. Tianjin is known as the Gate of the East, which shows Tianjin's status in the world.

At this time, in order to celebrate the victory of the National Defense Army, people on the streets of Tianjin sang and danced, gongs and drums were noisy, firecrackers were fired, red flags were displayed, and people were crowded......

Duan Qirui sat in the car and looked outside, next to his son Duan Hongye, since April, although the weather is getting better and better, Duan Qirui's health is getting worse and worse, often coughing, diagnosed with chronic bronchitis, need to recuperate slowly. Duan Hongye was originally known as the Four Great Princes of the Republic of China, but after Duan Qirui went into the wilderness, he could only be an idle person, because he had no ability, he couldn't do anything for long. At this time, I was unemployed and at home, just serving my father.

This car is a car of the National Defense Forces, and Wang Maoru specially asked for senior officers who have retired officers of the National Defense Forces, not only Duan Qirui, but also other warlords in the lower fields. Duan Qirui is not corrupt and bribery, and he has to bargain for rice and noodles on weekdays, so he can afford it. The military affairs headquarters of the Wehrmacht is thoughtful, and as long as these warlords in the field do not live in the concession area in China, they all regard the retirement of senior officers of the Wehrmacht as the standard. Duan Qirui didn't want to enjoy it, but today he was coughing badly and had to take a car to heal.

"General, the front is blocked." The driver, Xiao Wang, parked the car and said helplessly.

"How can these damn people see the parade of heaven." Duan Hongye airway. "The march was made at the beginning of the year, and it was a march in the middle of the year, and it was really endless. Parade parade. Alas, Dad, why do you say they have so much enthusiasm and energy? Now don't let me march, I'm out of breath when I go out for three miles. ”

"Bastard!" Duan Qirui glared angrily and reprimanded, Duan Hongye hurriedly bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

Duan Qirui raised his hand and was about to beat him, but when he thought that his son was thirty-four or five years old, he was not as good as before. I had to put down my hand and say, "You, what do you know, it's good to have more of this kind of celebration." The driver laughed. The old general treats his son like a child of a few years old, if Duan Hongye makes him angry, he will either beat him or scold, and he will forget that his grandson is almost ten years old. also treated his son like a teenager.

Duan Qirui looked at the driver Xiao Wang. asked, "By the way, your name is Xiao Wang, right?" ”

The driver, Xiao Wang, was about to vomit blood, and hurriedly said: "General, just call me Xiao Wang, don't call me Xiao Wangba." ”

Duan Hongye couldn't help but be happy, and Duan Qirui hurriedly said, "Yes, Xiao Wang." How many years have you been in the army? ”

"I've been a soldier for two years."

"What do you think of the generalissimo?" Duan Qirui asked with a smile, he wanted to know Wang Maoru in the hearts of these ordinary soldiers.

The driver, Xiao Wang, immediately said without hesitation: "He is the savior of the country." He is the only hope for leading the country to strength, and he is the supreme leader of our Defence Force. The blade of the general Shangwu pointed out. Even if we die, we will enter the Chinese Lingxiao Pavilion, and after death, we will also be heavenly soldiers and generals. ”

After listening to the words of the driver Xiao Wang, Duan Qirui was dumbfounded, and said half-loudly: "You really think so?" ”

"Yes." The driver, Xiao Wang, said with a serious face, "Generalissimo Shangwu is the reincarnation of Emperor Ziwei, isn't it a heavenly soldier to be his soldier in the future?" ”

Duan Qirui smiled bitterly in his heart, what the driver said in front of him was righteous and arrogant, and he spoke the truth, but when he heard it, there was an evil spirit in the back, what Ziwei Emperor Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals came out, he wanted to refute it, but when he saw Xiao Wang's pious expression, he knew that no matter what he said, Xiao Wang would not believe it. How successful the brainwashing of the soldiers of the Wehrmacht was, Duan Qirui couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart, Wang Maoru, if he does that act of becoming emperor in the future, I am afraid that he will be many times stronger than Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai paid attention to the worship of himself in the early days, and paid more attention to politics than military affairs in the later period, but Wang Maoru was different, Wang Maoru always paid attention to the army's ideology, and carried out brainwashing and education in the army all the time.

"Alas, if Wang Maoru is the emperor, I'm afraid no one will be able to stop it." Duan Qirui thought helplessly.

At this time, the marching crowd shouted: "Long live the Wehrmacht!" Long live the Generalissimo of the Martial Arts! ”

"Hooray!" More people shouted, "Long live the generalissimo!" ”

Duan Qirui looked at the excited crowd from afar, brushing his beard, and felt all kinds of feelings in his heart. The more capable the person who can lead China to prosperity and strength, the more dangerous it is to become the next emperor, I hope that his original choice is not wrong, Wang Mao is not a dictator.

"Xiao Wang, drive, go back." Duan Qirui commanded.

"Father, don't you go to the hospital?" Duan Hongye asked.

"Another day." Duan Qirui looked at the growing crowd of marchers and said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid it's inconvenient today......

On a certain inspection floor, several middle-aged men looked unswerving, during which someone said indignantly: "This Wang Shangwu is becoming more and more arrogant, when will my country's democracy come." After accidentally seeing books introducing American democracy and the Chinese translation of the American Declaration of Independence, these people were very surprised by the freedom and democracy of the Americans, and saw that China's current national conditions are semi-democratic and semi-militaristic, so they secretly formed a club of the Fengyue Society. Of course, these people are only criticizing and criticizing the badness of certain policies, and they can be regarded as a group of like-minded people.

"I think the biggest obstacle to democracy in China today is Wang Shangwu." A bespectacled man named Li Gongzhi turned out to be a reporter from Jinan, Shandong, who made a little money by running errands for foreigners. Later, after Wang Mao ordered the rectification of the newspaper communication industry, an unqualified wild reporter like him lost his job, and no one dared to use him again. When he was in Jinan, he was beaten by several Shandong masters for slandering Chinese in the newspapers, and now he has come to Tianjin, and he has found a job in the concession to inquire about news. It was also a coincidence that he joined this Fengyue Society, and with the sensitivity of the wild reporter, he keenly felt that this Fengyue Club would definitely have something in mind in the future. Therefore, he pretended to be indignant when chatting, but in fact he always guided everyone's thinking direction.

But some people were a little scared at this time, and quickly changed the topic, saying that Wang Maoru's bad words were not something ordinary people could say, so everyone quickly bowed their heads and remained silent. Li Gongzhi said angrily: "You guys, you, alas! The dregs of domestic traditional culture are unbearable, and if it is not fully westernized, the country will not be a country! Seeing that everyone didn't dare to agree, he beat his chest and said: "Here, even the Ming Dynasty is not as good, alas." He had no choice but to bow his head and play with his camera. Suddenly, someone made a noise, he looked up and saw a noisy crowd in the center of the intersection not far from the teahouse, relying on the sensitivity of the news person, he immediately stood up and shouted: "Look at it, what's going on?" ”

Everyone stretched their necks to look over, and several foreigners were surrounded in the center.

"Let's go, go over and have a look." Li Gongzhi immediately ran down, pushed aside the crowd, and saw a few foreigners standing in front of a car with the flag of Xibaya, and he muttered in his heart, China and Spain have just established diplomatic relations, could it be the Spanish ambassador? But it seems that there is no Spanish concession in Tianjin, right? Where did these guys come from?

"What's going on?" Li Gongzhi hurriedly asked the others, and someone on the side hurriedly said: "Uncle Yang drove the old lady into it, it's not ......."

A few foreigners carefully inspected their faces, muttered, and looked at the old Chinese lady lying on the ground with disdain. A foreign uncle raised his cane, knocked on a young man watching the excitement on the side, and said in fluent Beijing films: "You, take her aside." ”

"Huh?" The young man who was beaten was startled and said, "You hit and killed, you hit and killed." ”

"Hit someone?" The foreigner who spoke Chinese said with a proud face: "What did we kill someone, she deliberately touched the porcelain, and I have seen this situation a lot in Beijing." Don't think that just because we're foreigners, we dare to blackmail! This old lady actually dared to blackmail us, the Chinese are really bad. ”

At this time, the old lady carrying the basket woke up leisurely after being knocked unconscious by the car, and said in a Henan dialect: "What's going on, I'm dizzy." ”

The foreigner said disdainfully: "You fraudster, get out of our car immediately." ”

The old lady probably saw this kind of formation for the first time, and she was frightened and wanted to dodge, but as soon as she moved, she found that her legs and feet couldn't move, and she touched it with her hand, and there was a piercing pain, and she couldn't help but cry out because she was sweating profusely.

"You can really pretend." The foreigner sneered, "You dare to blackmail us, you must know that we are the people of the great global empire of the Spanish Empire." It is a great shame for the Chinese to dare to blackmail us. ”

The old lady was so frightened that she resigned, but it was really too painful, Li Gongzhi immediately took pictures when he saw this, and the foreigner saw it, knocked him with a cane, and said angrily: "What are you doing?" ”

Li Gongzhi hurriedly laughed and said: "The Chinese people are low, and extortion is commonplace, especially the people of Henan, and our social elites should criticize it in the newspaper." ”

The foreigner nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good, very good, or you are our friend to foreigners." ”

Li Gongzhi hurriedly smiled humbly: "Traditional culture is dross, dross is extreme, and westernization as soon as possible is the right way -- I'm sorry, I said some of the issues you were involved in, all in all, we should learn from Western civilization." ”

A young man who may be a local in Tianjin said angrily: "Why are you talking nonsense when you open your eyes!" You're a two-devil! Why do you insult your fellow citizens? Are you human or not? The others immediately accused, reprimanding this Li Gongzhi for helping foreigners to abuse their own countrymen.

"Hmph." Li Gongzhi also ignored this young man and the other people, as if he was superior, and disdained to argue with others.

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