The snow in the winter of the fourth year of Shenwu seems to be particularly heavy, the days after the Western Christmas, the goose feather snow day by day, the ground and the roof of the capital, as long as it is a place to live, all have accumulated thick snow, so that the snow sweep not only has to sweep the ground, but also sweeps the roof many times, otherwise some old and dilapidated houses will be crushed by the snow.

In a teacher's apartment at the Army University, Jiang Baili was carefully looking at the map of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, constantly calculating something on the papyrus, but no matter how he calculated, he still shook his head vigorously in the end, and crossed out and shredded all the things written on the papyrus, and then rewrote it. If he didn't know how many times, he finally threw away the straw paper, and slapped it helplessly on the position in Yunnan, which was painful. After a long time, he calmed down and began to stare at Europe for a long time, and a hazy thought suddenly jumped out of his mind, and without thinking about it, he put on a sheepskin jacket and hurried out.

Donglai Shunshabu Mutton Restaurant, who often meets, he waited for a long time Cai Ye came. After the two met, they retreated, and Jiang Baili immediately said: "Whether the thing is successful or not, it is all between Germany and France." ”

I came here to talk about the Yunnan incident, and I didn't want Jiang Baili to involve Germany and France, Cai Yi coughed a few times and said: "What does it have to do with Germany, Burma is a British place, and it is also ... Ahem...... It has something to do with the UK. ”

"It does have a relationship with Britain, but it has a closer relationship with Germany, and France is Germany's sworn enemy, so the most important thing is the German-French relationship." Jiang Baili said, "Yunnan is a remote place with a backward economy. Although there is a machinery factory in Kunming, it can only be used to repair firearms and the like. It cannot be used as a supplement to the military industry in the slightest, and if it wants to settle in Yunnan. There has to be external support.

Although the Sunwen Revolutionary Party has a relationship with Russia, it is only in the northwest, and even if there are more rubles, it will not be spent in the southwest. The current government supports the Allies on land and the Entente at sea, and Yang Jingcheng does not want to do anything else, but wants to make a fortune in the arms business, and Germany and Austria have been protesting against this. If we can take advantage of these contradictions, it will not be difficult to gain support from France and Germany. Thus, Yunnan was used as a base to launch a struggle to protect the law. ”

"Brother Baili, Yang Jingcheng is now flattering both sides of the European war, but now, in a year or two, there will be a result in the European war, and he will definitely choose the victorious side to take refuge at that time, and maybe he will send troops to help the European war......" Cai Yi coughed, and it seemed that he couldn't say all of it.

"What? Sending troops to help in the war in Europe? Jiang Baili was shocked. Caucasian people fight each other, why do we bother to join in the fun? After he finished speaking, he thought about it again, "With the tragedy of the war in Europe, is this going to put those non-Renaissance descendants to death?" ”

"Is it really going to send troops to Europe. I can only guess from the order issued by the General Staff to the Reserve Bureau that even if we don't go to Europe, there will be a big war to fight in the year after next. Cai said. Although this land reform has eliminated many non-Fuxing officers in the army, this is far from enough. At least most of the 11th Army were descendants of the Beiyang, and the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang were deeply brotherly under the oppression of external forces. It's not something that can be lightly moved by the revival society's rhetoric. ”

"But if you want to transfer people from the 11th Army to Europe, then the Renaissance Army will have to transfer more people......" Jiang Baili questioned.

"This is nothing more than a low exchange ratio, two or three Renaissance Army soldiers for one Beiyang soldier, no matter how you can afford it. You don't want to think about how many people there are in Beiyang? The Fuxing Army sent out 100,200,000 soldiers, and it was not enough for the entire 11th Army to fill in. In this way, it not only cleared the non-descendants, but also earned face benefits for the government of the current dynasty, and was praised by the domestic gentry and people, so why not do it? Cai Yi smiled and said, "Many times, you don't have to use a knife to kill people." ”

"If that's the case, then it's not just the 11th Army going to go, the 19th Town, the Ninth Town of the New Army, and the New Army Town where Wu Luzhen rebelled," Jiang Baili suddenly concretized the matter, and his brows furrowed even tighter.

"So I said, ahem...... things can't wait any longer, if you don't do anything next year, then there will be no chance to do anything." Cai Yi said, "The teacher is now in prison, and the only way to rescue him is to rob the prison. I have already consulted with the revolutionary party, they are responsible for saving people, and we are responsible for raising the uprising in Yunnan, taking advantage of the fact that France has declared war and our country has not declared war on them, to transport arms and ammunition from Hanoi, Vietnam, to Kunming. ”

Cai Yi's plan was obviously more complete than he thought, Jiang Baili looked up at Cai Ye who was still coughing, only to see that his pale face had a trace of sickly redness, but his gaze was resolute, and he said at the moment: "Songpo, the plan is good, but how do we get out of here, if those people in Dongchang are intentional or unintentional, they are staring at us more and more closely; And your sick ......."

"The two of us just need to go one." Cai Yi said: "I'll go this time." It's good for you to stay in the capital and find out the news. It doesn't matter if I'm sick. Yang Jingcheng ignored the constitution and seized the people's wealth, and as soon as this move began, all kinds of evil deeds will only become more and more fierce in the future, and eventually form a dictatorship of the Dictatorship of the Revival Association, which is absolutely unacceptable! Although the Kuomintang in the early Song Dynasty shouted a slogan different from that of the Renaissance Society, what was the use of that? The peasant association is the puppet of the Fuxing Association, after this forced land reform, those foolish people who have benefited will obey the words of the Fuxing Association, if we want to reform in politics, I am afraid that it will take decades, so we have to raise righteousness, or Yang Jingcheng said before, it is good, the power is ...... out of the barrel of the gun"

Cai Yi said that it was rare that he did not cough, and Jiang Baili, who understood that he had made up his mind, was not good to persuade again, and after a long silence, he asked, "When are you leaving?" ”

"It's probably just a few days." Cai said. I only thought about the chess piece that had been laid out a long time ago.

Approaching the end of the year, the eight alleys at the entrance of Xizhu City are even more lively, originally the imperial court will issue a month's salary in December every year, and this year because of the war between the Westerners, the official business is extremely hot, and the year-end salary is almost double that of previous years, and suddenly the Manchu Dynasty civil and military are happy. Unlike the old dynasty, officials banned prostitution and gambling – it is said that this was promoted from the Decree on the Restoration of Officers and Soldiers. It means that since the soldiers have special comfort institutions, why can't civilian officials go to the Qinglou. In the end, the regulations on the management of civil servants did not restrict officials from soliciting prostitutes, leaving only a blank line.

At the end of the year, business in Bada Hutong was better. And the most well-known in the hutongs, Shaanxi Lane Yunjiban, is even more lively. Every day when the sky is dark, countless red lanterns outside Yunjiban will illuminate the laneway outside the house that has been swept away with snow, and the curling music and the fragrance of rouge flow out of the house, ** and the prostitutes' thousands of charming laughter, the drumming of the flop, ** the shouting of the guests, the whole Yunjiban seems to be a fairyland on earth, as long as mortals come in to spend a day, then they will completely forget the sorrow of the world.

Cai Ye came here after getting off work on this day, and he is now a 'celebrity' - a few days ago, he wrote a letter of resignation, and the two wives were divorced together. made the girls in Beijing scold, but after all, this is a family matter, and the two parties divorced voluntarily, and others were helpless. The carriage along the winding alleyway, after a while arrived at the gate of Yunjiban, adjutant He Pengxiang got out of the car and opened the door to help Cai Yi get out of the car, he couldn't help but be excited and stretched out his hand to grasp his hand tightly, his eyes were full of reluctance.

"It's okay, it's okay." Cai Yi smiled. At the same time, he inadvertently glanced at a carriage following the car, and then shook He Pengxiang's hand vigorously and whispered: "Take care, see you in Yunnan!" ”

"Good! See you in Yunnan. He Pengxiang also knew that there was a carriage behind him, and this place was not a place to stay for a long time. He shook Cai Yi's hand and grabbed it tightly and let go suddenly, reluctantly got into the carriage, and went without looking back.

Cai Ye did not watch the carriage leave. As soon as he turned around, he entered Yunjiban in a warm greeting and walked through the courtyard full of red lanterns. Walked into the welcome hall full of various tickets, and shouted with the turtle outside the door. Boss Hu, who was sitting in the hall, greeted him with a smile, "Hey......, General Cai is here, hurry!" Fast! Please go to the Fengxian wing. ”

Boss Hu was born in an opera troupe, known as 'fox spirit', although he is forty years old, he still has charm and gorgeous makeup. Although she has only been in Beijing for a few years, her kung fu of observing words and emotions and meeting horses is first-class, Cai Ye divorced his wife some time ago, she knew, I thought that Cai Ye would spend a lot of money to redeem Xiao Fengxian, but I don't want to have no movement in the past few days.

Cai Yi looked at Boss Hu's smiling face, and it was also a natural smile, he reached out and handed over a stack of silver dollar coupons, and said, "Mom has worked hard." ”

"Gege ......" a woman in her forties emitted the laughter of a woman in her twenties, although the posture was similar, but the tone was harsh. Boss Hu snatched the money, and then urged the flop rattle to the palm shifter, only to hear the shout from the palm shift, "Little Phoenix Fairy picks up guests!" ”

In the wing room north of Yunjiban, Xiao Fengxian was standing by the window, and she didn't hear the shout of the head of the class at all, only waiting for a girl outside the door to shout 'Sister Feng picks up guests', she came back to her senses in a daze. At this time, Cai Ye had already entered the house, turned the antique screen at the door, and stood in front of Xiao Fengxian. The long-term incurable lung disease made the man's face extremely pale and weak, but his eyes were clear, and his face was more angular because of the emaciation.

"Are you leaving?" Xiao Fengxian asked subconsciously, she didn't know why she said this sentence as soon as she opened her mouth.

Without concealing anything, Cai Ye coughed and nodded, he took off his coat, and then deliberately approached the woman, and said in a low voice, "It's time to go, otherwise it's too late." ”

"But I don't want you to leave ......" The words rolled repeatedly in Xiao Fengxian's heart, but in the end she didn't say it. She just stroked his face with her hand and said, "Then what about your illness?" Does anyone take care of you? ”

"Don't talk about that." Cai Ye didn't want to think much about his illness, he only smiled, "I'm only talking about Fengyue today, not about it... Ahem......"

"Is revolution really that important?" Seeing Cai Yi coughing again, Xiao Fengxian grabbed his clothes in distress and asked puzzled. In her view, every revolution was a terrible upheaval for her.

Ten years ago, the Revival Society revolutionized in Hangzhou, and her father was scared to death because he was a bannerman. She was born in a partial house, and was abused by the eldest woman, and later her mother died of illness, so she followed the nurse to Shanghai. At that time, there was no life, and finally had to be pawned to Boss Hu to learn drama, so life was stable, and I didn't want Xinhai to be a revolution again, so Boss Hu had to take her to escape from Nanjing, return to Shanghai, and finally go to Beijing. Both revolutions had caused her to suffer from displacement, and now that she had revolutionized again, she was worried that the man in front of her would never come back.

"Where there is injustice, there is revolution." Cai Yi hugged the woman who didn't know how to govern, and was very pityful, "Before Xinhai, under the sacrifice of countless people with lofty ideals, the Manchu Emperor was finally overthrown, but I didn't want to overthrow an emperor, someone set up an emperor again." Not only did they set up an emperor, but they also did not abide by the original covenant, wantonly plundered the people's wealth and framed Zhongliang, and if this continues, the country will still be the same as before. Therefore, whether we succeed or fail, we must launch a revolution, and only revolution can awaken the people of the world to stop sinking deeper and deeper into the quagmire of autocracy......"

"But didn't the emperor say that if there is still a person in the world who can't dress warmly, can't eat enough, and can't read, he won't ascend the throne as the emperor?" Xiao Fengxian is literate and reads newspapers, and she understands China's political system better than ordinary people. After listening to Cai Yi's revolutionary reasons, she looked at the man very puzzled, for fear that he was wrong.

"Haha......" Cai Yi looked at Xiao Fengxian's serious appearance and wanted to laugh, he said: "Many times the emperor is just a representative, whether he ascends the throne or not, he is actually the emperor; Sometimes, the emperor will not be called the emperor directly, but will be called something else, such as the prime minister, such as the chairman. Those who shout long live the prime minister and long live the chairman are actually no different from shouting long live the emperor in their hearts. Although King Min did not ascend the throne, he was already the emperor in the hearts of the people, but the power of his emperor was not in his hands, but in the hands of the Revival Association.

More than ten years ago, what we opposed was the power of the emperor, and anyone who had the power of the emperor was the object of our opposition and the object of revolution. Now that revival will hold the power of the emperor and practice autocracy, we must advocate revolution again and remove them from power, only then can this country and this nation have hope... Ahem......"

Holding his breath and saying such a long series of words, Cai Ye finally couldn't help coughing in the end, this cough was a small half of the tea, and finally he couldn't hold back the cough under the service of Xiao Fengxian. Seeing that he finally eased up, Xiao Fengxian stroked his emaciated cheek with her slender hand again, and said softly: "Don't talk, I know what you did was right." (To be continued......)