The two hungry people swallowed dates and hurriedly ate two bowls of shredded pork noodles, and only then did they regain some strength and spirit. After staying up for several hours, Yang Rui's cigarettes had already run out, and Xu Huafeng saw that he threw away the empty cigarette case, so he smiled and took out something from the drawer. Yang Rui thought he was going to take a cigarette, but he didn't want to touch it out, but it was a cigar. Xu Huafeng smiled and threw it to him: "This is still what you gave me before, there is a box, but I haven't finished it yet." ”

Whether it's a cigar or a cigarette, men are always inseparable from this thing, especially for Yang Rui, who has been particularly brainless recently. He took the cigar cutter and cut it, and lit it with a match without saying a word. The cigar leaves creaked with the bright yellow flame, and when the match was about to run out, the mellow smoke finally inhaled into his nostrils, and only after his lungs had been warmed by the warm smoke for a while did he exhale it for a long time. In the smoke, Yang Rui shook his head with great enjoyment and said, "After dinner... Cigars, race over the living immortals! ”

"Hehe......" Xu Huafeng looked at him and smiled kindly, "The addiction to smoking is getting bigger and bigger, and the gray hair on the sideburns is getting more and more." ”

"What's the solution?" Yang Rui smiled bitterly, "Everyone is not in agreement!" It was good, but this one has this idea, that one has that idea, and they all use the country as a test field, hehe...... I'm at the helm, don't be tired to death. ”

"Tell me the truth," Xu Hua said, "I actually believe that Zhang is crazy?" ”

"Honestly?" Yang Rui glanced at Xu Huafeng, and said with a smile: "Politicians are **, how can you believe what you say?" Even the diary he wrote was mostly used for show, just as the so-called diary is a strong country and a map to open up the territory. ”

"Won't you tell the truth?" Xu Huafeng also knew Yang Rui's impermanence like Wang Jitong, and he was a little stunned to see him joking like this, in his opinion, there was no one more in his position than himself.

"To be honest......" Yang Rui saw him looking at himself. I had to say: "To tell the truth is to have a set of rhetoric before doing anything, and this is called revolutionary theory, and revolutionary theory must be completed before revolutionary action, and when it is transformed, it must be self-justifying, not only to convince everyone." And hypnotize yourself. Uncle Mei's set of things is theoretically very good, but ......" Speaking of this, he took a hard puff on his cigar and said: "I must correct ...... in the future"

"Can you continue to do it as you do now, and can you change it in the future?" Yang Ruiken told the truth, Xu Huafeng was very pleased, what he really cared about was trust, not theory.

"Later? After that, the steering wheel is no longer in our hands. Look at the UK, the Labour Party is not coming up. The nobility went on forever. In the end, there are still three civilizations competing in this world, us, the West, and Islam. "Yang Rui recalls Huntington's theory of the clash of civilizations, although he has no electronic version of this book and no physical book, but he read it several times in college and remembers Huntington's description vividly." In a hundred years, geopolitics and the international situation determine everything in a country; However, in the case of the millennium, it is still necessary to look at the vitality of each civilization. Because the future is basically a competition between various civilizational entities, among the three. We are the weakest. ”

"Islam?" Yang Rui has been on guard against this since the founding of the country, and the degree of vigilance makes everyone cheat the corpse, Xu Huafeng was puzzled: "But why don't I think so?" Now we have a good relationship with the countries to the west. ”

Xu Huafeng was puzzled, and it was extremely natural. Huntington's theory of the clash of civilizations was also unknown before 911, but it became very popular after 911, and the book emphasizes that in addition to Islamic civilization, Chinese Confucian civilization is also a challenge to Western civilization. Nothing else. As for the Japanese civilization that was being assimilated by Yang Rui at this time, in Huntington's view, it was something that had been tamed by the United States, and it was not much of a threat.

"Don't think so." Yang Rui shook his head, "Protect the country, protect the species, and protect the religion." Demand immediate action. When I returned from Paris that year, I deliberately chose to go ashore from Persia in order to experience some Islamic civilization firsthand. Persia is a Shiite, I don't know if it is because it belongs to two empires with the Ottomans, and Persia belongs to the weaker side, and the Shiites belong to the minority, so their teachings are more radical and more likely to be theocracy. Yang Zengxin, the governor of the Western Regions, also saw this, so he asked me to change my path to return to the land, not wanting to say yes at that time, the aristocratic fief would pop up, this must be Xuanqing's idea! ”

At this time, it was no longer necessary to say whose lord it was, Xu Huafeng only asked: "Foreigners have advanced technology, but what are the Hui people afraid of?" ”

"Nothing to be afraid of?!" Yang Rui laughed, "The womb is also a weapon, and it is more terrible than guns, so the magic medicine must be placed in the Buddhist hall, and outsiders and foreign teachers will not give it if there is no gold, and the government will also subsidize the medicine to be sent to the immigration area, plus the birth subsidy, and when the northwest wave of victims settles down, things over there will be almost done." ”

After a beautiful meal, and an authentic Havana cigar, Yang Rui smoked for a while and wanted to leave. Seeing that Yang Rui was looking at the clock, Xu Huafeng, who felt that he still had Yang Rui's trust more than Zhang Taiyan, was understanding, and he smiled: "It's too much, let's go back." I know what you mean, anyway, let's go like this first, industrial construction is just slowing down, not giving up. Externally, the theory of coaxing people to death is ridiculed to stabilize people's hearts. ”

"Exactly, don't bother with a madman." Yang Rui nodded, he saw that Xu Huafeng was becoming more and more pleasing to the eye, and couldn't help but spit out the truth, "After coming back, I thought about it a lot, but in the end I still felt that it could only be like this." Otherwise, not to mention anything else, it is a big question whether the Tingwei Mansion is kept or not. Stay, the cadres at the bottom will be tried and imprisoned, and they will definitely not agree; And the revival members will also go to prison if they obey the orders of the organization, and the morale of the army will be chaotic, which is the most vicious thing about the people at the beginning; If you don't stay, where can you talk about governing the country according to law? It's not terrible to have bad rules, it's unbearable to be disgusting, and I'm most afraid that there are no rules. The Tingwei Mansion is the rule of the country, and it must not be without! ”

"I understand! I understand!! At this time, both of them had already stood up, Xu Huafeng was much shorter than Yang Rui, he looked at Yang Rui talking, and somehow felt that his back was a little burdened, he inexplicably grabbed Yang Rui's hand and sighed: "It's your ......" He wanted to say the words 'that grievance', but he knew that Yang Rui had always hated being comforted and deliberately praised by others, so he had to change his words in the end: "...... It turned out to be... You've done a great job! ”

"It doesn't matter if I'm working hard, but ...... Hey, but Yun Biao is dead. Yang Rui suddenly became a little emotional at this point, and he had to raise his voice to suppress his emotions, and said firmly: "Stability is overwhelming. It's okay to kill and kill, what kind of system! ”

The Yellow Flag official car parked in Xu's Mansion has not been turned off, and Lu Xiaoman, who has been waiting in the back compartment for a long time, has fallen asleep leaning on the side of the door. When she was asleep, she felt that the car sank, and then slammed the door shut, and she woke up in a daze, smelling the familiar smell of Yang Rui. She leaned over weakly, closed her eyes and whispered, "Are you done talking?" ”

"Yes." Yang Rui naturally touched her hair with his left hand, and then said, "There is one more thing to do." Without waiting for her to answer, she opened the rear compartment partition and said to the car in front: "Go to the Praetorian Guard Headquarters!" ”

The car quickly moved forward, touching the hair of the woman next to her, knowing that she couldn't sleep at this time, Yang Rui suddenly said: "Didn't you say that whose poem is very good, I will also read a poem to you." ”

With the visit of the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore to China, new poems became popular in China, and Xu Zhimo served as Tergo's receptionist. His poems are naturally touted by young people, and Lu Xiaoman is one of them. Thinking of her relationship with Xu Zhimo in later generations, Yang Rui deliberately turned out a few new poems from the materials of later generations. Originally, he didn't want to read it in the car, but when he left Xu's mansion, he was moved by something inexplicable.

"Okay." Lu Xiaoman, who was leaning on his shoulder, smiled, she didn't expect the prime minister to also write poems.

"If I were a bird......," Yang Rui began in a low voice, and his long-suppressed emotions unconsciously seeped into it. And Lu Xiaoman thought he was going to recite old poems. When he heard that it was a new poem, he sat up.

"I should also sing with a hoarse throat:

This storm-struck land,

This forever rags the river of our grief and indignation.

This wrathful wind that blows endlessly,

and the incomparably gentle dawn from the woods......"

The last four sentences were read by Yang Rui in one breath, and the poems were like magma, depressing and hot, only referring to people's hearts. Lu Xiaoman, who was originally sitting upright, was looking at his side face at this time, and his eyes seemed to be shining.

"—and then I died.

Even the feathers rotted in the ground.

Why do I always have tears in my eyes?

Because I have a deep ...... about the dwarf land."

After Yang Rui closed his voice, there was silence in the carriage, only the sound of the high-power eight-cylinder engine running of the official car. After a long time, Lu Xiaoman leaned on his shoulder as if he had realized something, and slowly said: "The poem is really well written...... but after a while, she returned to normal. Grabbing Yang Rui's arm, he asked, "Can this poem be published?" ”

"Yes, but don't say I wrote it." Ai Qing's poem I Love This Land was written in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, in the fall of rivers and mountains, and the sadness and indignation in the poem and the deep horror of love are just like his mood some time ago.

"I see." Lu Xiaoman replied a little coquettishly, her head kept turning on Yang Rui's arm, and she was silently memorizing the verses just now - when the two of them were alone in a familiar space, she was very natural. After she finished memorizing it, she asked again: "Actually, is there anything else?" I still want to hear it. ”

"Still want to hear it?" Chanting poetry and flirting with women are all ways to vent and suppress, Yang Rui's mood at this time is not as deep as just now, his face is smiling, his mind suddenly remembered a 'swan song', so he said with a smile: "Then sit down." He laughed a few more times, and finally groaned: "

When I'm doing a handstand,

I walked with my head

Think with your feet

Whistle with your lower body

Respiratory ...... with the hilum of the liver"

This postmodern style poem is completely different from the previous one, when she heard the fourth sentence Yang Rui was going to use the lower half of the body to whistle', Lu Xiaoman, who was infected by the previous poem, blushed, she couldn't help but beat Yang Rui's arm with her fist, and said with a smile: "What kind of poem is this?" So nasty! ”

Yang Rui ignored her complaints and continued to read: "

……

I've found that people always get married first and fall in love later

Fines followed by spitting

Be praised first and then save the children who have fallen into the water

He died heroically and was posthumously recognized as a revival member

Write your memoirs first, and then go to revolutionary work

First, the cadres should be seriously criticized and educated, and then they should engage in corruption on a large scale;

*

I also saw the host pouring tea for the nanny

The rich beg for the poor

Superiors hand cigarettes to subordinates

Comrade Lai Youlu learned from us;

I also saw the director driving the driver

Officials give gifts to the common people

And to the people who came to inspect the work

Sandwich is welcome;

From now on, the people can be the masters of their own affairs

And under the banner of the country

Ride on the head of a public servant and be a blessing. ”

The whole poem was read quickly by Yang Rui without emotion, and Lu Xiaoman couldn't laugh when she heard the second verse, she knew very well that the incomparably funny and obscene section in the front was only paving the way for the last two verses, and the irony in it was obviously aimed at officials at all levels who had become more and more corrupt in the first ten years since the founding of the country.

"It's always better and better." Lu Xiaoman kissed Yang Rui's cheek in the dark. Then he said softly.

"Of course, it has to get better and better!" Yang Rui agreed solemnly, and then got out of the car.

The headquarters of the Praetorian Guard is in the former Iron Fan Alley, the former War Department. It should be the doorman who notified the commander Wu Peifu, and when Yang Rui got out of the car, he helped open the door, and then he saluted a standard Beiyang Army. "Hello Prime Minister!"

In addition to Wu Peifu, Zhang Chengyue, director of the National Security Bureau, and Fan An, deputy director of the National Security Bureau, who knew that Yang Rui would arrive tonight, were also on the side. Yang Rui didn't return the salute, he only said 'go in and say' and walked forward quickly, as soon as he left, the three of them followed behind and entered the conference room directly.

"How's it going?" Yang Rui was extremely serious, and he asked Zhang Chengyue directly.

"Report to the Prime Minister: The situation ......" I didn't expect Yang Rui to ask such a sensitive question in front of Wu Peifu, Zhang Chengyue couldn't help but hesitate.

"Say, Ziyu is your own person!" Yang Rui understood his hesitation, and as soon as he said that Ziyu was his own person. Wu Peifu was already holding his chest tall and tall.

"Report to the Prime Minister: Mr. Taiyan and Mr. Xiao Xu are fine; Other...... Others are unremarkable. Zhang Chengyue said.

"Hmm." Yang Rui replied in a low voice, and he suddenly saw that Fan An wanted to speak and stopped, so he immediately looked at him. "Report to Prime Minister: There is a serious misstatement of the death toll caused by the riot in the capital, and now we have verified the exact death toll......"

Hearing what Fan An said, Yang Rui immediately interrupted: "Don't worry about this. Are there any other anomalies? What is Xuanqing doing now? ”

"Report to the Prime Minister, Mr. Xuanqing is inspecting hosiery factories and garment factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there is nothing abnormal." Zhang Chengyue said.

"Hmm." Yang Rui was silent for a while after answering, and finally said to Wu Peifu, who was waiting: "Now I order: The first-level alert order of the Praetorian Guard is lifted." return to normalcy; The Land Wing Division of the 2nd Marine Division returned to its original position as planned. ”

"Yes, Prime Minister!" Wu Peifu stood up when he heard this. Wait for Yang Rui to issue an order of 10,000. So he hurried out.

The thin page seemed to weigh more than a thousand pounds, and after being taken out by Wu Peifu, Zhang Chengyue and Fan An were obviously relieved. Seeing this, Yang Rui smiled and said, "Are you nervous?" ”

"No ......," the two replied in unison, but it was all duplicity.

"Alright." Yang Rui didn't delve into the attitude of the two, and only said: "Do you think Wu Ziyu is reliable?" ”

"Reliable." Zhang Chengyue replied without hesitation. "More important than ordinary Beiyang officers, and they are righteous and keep their promises. But that's also his shortcoming. ”

After Zhang Chengyue finished speaking, Fan An also nodded. Yang Rui has long known Wu Peifu's character, and when he first returned to the capital, Wu Peifu, who was born in Beiyang, was the best candidate to serve as the Praetorian Guard. He nodded and then asked, "Ziyu wasn't affected by those rumors, right?" ”

"Nope!" Zhang Chengyue affirmed: "He was present at the Battle of Baledik, and he knew that Zhou Ji had done his best to reinforce the 11th Army, and the real reason for the heavy losses of the 11th Army was that the German offensive was too fierce, and it was full of heavy howitzers. That's why ......"

"It's good to be an understanding person." Yang Rui nodded again, "Okay, let's end the matter." In addition, if you do not object, then Yin Ge will return to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Fan An will take over as the head of the Security Bureau......"

"Yes, Sir/Prime Minister." The two have known this result for a long time, and Zhang Chengyue is only in charge of the National Security Bureau.

"Okay." Now that the matter was over, Yang Rui got up and left. As soon as he returned to the official car, Lu Xiaoman greeted him with a fragrant breeze, she was a little short of breath, although Yang Rui's clothes were very cold, she still buried her face in the man's arms.

"Is this done?" She asked in a low voice, thinking that she was going to spend the night in the car, and she didn't want Yang Rui to come out so soon.

"It's all done." Yang Rui hugged her with one hand, "Don't go back so late." ”

"Hmm." She whispered in the darkness, and her face burned with fire.

Because he was off the next day, Yang Rui didn't go home until around noon. Unexpectedly, Cheng Ying was waiting for him at this time, but as soon as he entered the door, the woman stretched her face and asked, "Where did you go yesterday?" ”

"Didn't go anywhere." Looking at Cheng Ying's appearance, she should have not slept all night, Yang Rui felt that she was aware of some things, and said perfunctorily: "Didn't you say that you might not come back at night when you went out yesterday?" ”

"You said it. But you... But you ......" Cheng Ying couldn't say any more, her tears were like tap water, "but you went with other women... Whining... Fooling around with other women, do you think I don't know anything......"

"Which eye did you see me fooling around?" Yang Rui had to lie, so he carried her to the room.

"Don't you have one?!" Cheng Ying obviously heard a lot of rumors from her sisters, and she was very sure. "I know who that woman is. It's the ...... named Lu Mei, how long do you want to hide it from me? ”

"Unreasonable!" Yang Rui stopped drinking again, and then turned around to go out. He hates Qiu Jin so much now, he is not allowed to take concubines, he is not allowed to take concubines, so that now he can only sneak around, like a thief, and the criminal law is a crime of weathering, what a damn!

"Don't go!" Cheng Ying was obviously on the pole today, and she pulled Yang Rui's clothes. Pulling him hard, "Sister Ziying will come in a while, you have to make things clear today!" ”

The couple have rarely quarreled since North Korea, and after all, they are thieves with a weak heart, and they are really guilty and uneasy when their wife is pregnant with another woman. Yang Rui wanted to let her think about how to say it at night before admitting her mistake, but she didn't want her to invite Wu Zhiying here, so her face suddenly became ugly. He turned his head in disgust and said, "What is there to say, you have to think about it." You can leave! ”

Even if he said that he was leaving instead of divorcing, Cheng Ying seemed to have been shot, his body was constantly trembling, and the whole person was fluctuating. "I'm busy! I still have one more will, let me go. Yang Rui wanted to comfort her, but when she thought of it, she didn't even understand the most basic truth that family ugliness should not be publicized. So he hardened his heart and turned his head away from her. Cheng Ying was already weak at this time, and he broke free with a light struggle.

"Don't go!" Seeing that the man was going out, Cheng Ying suddenly shouted with all his strength. "Don't go!!"

Before Wu Zhiying arrived, Yang Rui fled home like a thief. Last night was the first time I spent the night with Lu Xiaoman, and it wasn't just a hurry like before. The woman's fiery body, bold posture, and orgasmic afterimage of this night made him think of it now. Women and women are different in bed. Compared with Cheng Ying, who has always been conservative and unable to fully devote, Lu Xiaoman is obviously a stunner, which even Xianfeng can't compare to - Xianfeng does everything she can to make him comfortable, and although Lu Xiaoman also has this idea, she can't help but indulge in it, everything is like her shy and debauched solo dance......

There's nothing more satisfying for a man! This woman corroded him and seduced him like a opium. He now regrets very much that day when Lu Xiaoman interceded for his pregnant boss - that woman named Sun Xiaoyun reported countless people for her superiors, how can such a person be pardoned?! Anger, insecurity, fear, and long-suppressed lust erupted in an instant.

It was precisely because of this ferocious venting that he fell ill the next day, like a wild dog that had finally escaped the whirlpool of death with all his strength, half-lying on the river embankment and unable to make a sound, only ** and panting. He thought that this woman would automatically leave the Prime Minister's Office after suffering this brutal rape, or go to the Inspectorate to report him, and then he was also tried and discredited like Cai Yuanpei, and he didn't want to go back to the office as if nothing had happened, only when the two looked at each other by chance, the woman had a trace of shame and avoidance, obviously, she didn't mind being whipped mercilessly by him for the second time, and then things became out of control.

The cigarette burned silently in his hand, and the phone in the office suddenly rang, but Yang Rui didn't answer, he thought it should be Wu Zhiying calling. This woman is Qiu Jin's friend, the eldest sister of the Women's Revival Association. Under his command are either the wives of a group of high-ranking officials and representatives of the Inspectorate, or a bunch of widows and runaways from the former Qing Dynasty. She was feared by everyone in the capital - if a general beat his wife, or which representative abused his daughter, once she got the news, she would stand up faster than the patrol police to administer justice for the bullied woman, just like the Beijing aunt in later generations.

'Jingle bell ......' the phone rang again, and seeing that this time it was a confidential line, Yang Rui hesitated for a moment and picked it up. "I'm Yang Jingcheng, please say ......" He pretended to be calm and extremely calm.

"Sir," it was a man's voice on the phone, which made Yang Rui obviously relieved, "Sir, something happened in Soviet Russia......" The voice of the intelligence chief Zhang Shi on the other end of the phone was the voice of the intelligence director.

"Something is wrong?" Yang Rui became alert, he changed his posture and took the microphone, "What's wrong?!" ”

"It's likely that Li Ning is dead!" Zhang Shi gave a shocking news.

"What!" Yang Rui was shocked, and he immediately said: "Come to Wenyuan Pavilion immediately, I want you to report in detail." (To be continued.) )