Lu Zhengxiang stayed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for an extra year, handing over work with his successor, Cao Rulin. When Lu Zhengxiang was the chief minister, Cao Rulin was the deputy director who assisted him in the negotiations, in fact, there was nothing to hand over, and Lu Zhengxiang was kept in office for one year, just for fear of leaving outsiders with the impression that the negotiations would be unfavorable and removed from his post for investigation, but except for the first two months of the work handover, Lu Zhengxiang has been sick at home, just in the name of a general chief.

Before he left, he also deliberately found Xie Huaichang: "I'm stepping down, how do you plan?"

Xie Huaichang immediately said: "Only the chief is from." ”

Lu Zhengxiang waved his hand: "I don't want you to show loyalty, Ning Yin, I have a relationship with you, I want to find a good future for you, if you still plan to stay in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I will appoint you as a senator in the name of the chief of the army, if you don't want to stay, I will go to greet the head of the War Department and transfer you to the army headquarters." ”

Duan Qirui, the chief of the army, is Yuan Shikai's confidant, one of the famous three heroes of Beiyang, known as the Tiger of Beiyang, and is rumored to be cultivated by Yuan Shikai as an heir. If you can get under him, not only will you have a good future, but I am afraid that it is possible to enter the cabinet and pay respects to the prime minister. Lu Zhengxiang really thought about Xie Huaichang in all aspects, and tried his best to find a good future for him.

Xie Huaichang was silent, this future is exciting, but accepting this future is equivalent to being completely tied up with Duan Qirui and Yuan Shikai, and it may not be able to be prosperous, but I am afraid that it will be a loss.

Lu Zhengxiang saw that he was hesitating, but he couldn't guess what he was hesitating, the future he arranged for Xie Huaichang was like a pie falling from the sky, and he couldn't think of any reason to refuse.

Xie Huaichang said: "I am impressed by the chief's intentions, but this matter is really important, if I am alone, I naturally can't ask for it, but the chief knows that my family is huge, and it affects the whole body, so every decision must be made carefully." Therefore, if the chief will allow me, please allow me to go home and consult with my uncle. ”

After hearing this, Lu Zhengxiang didn't reveal any expression, he was probably physically and mentally exhausted, and he was too lazy to think about the deep meaning behind Xie Huaichang's words, so he nodded in agreement: "Okay, you decide as soon as possible, and then come to me." ”

Xie Huaichang brought the news back to Xie Daoyong: "I don't know what uncle's opinion is?"

Xie Daoyong shook his head: "Don't go." ”

Xie Huaichang breathed a sigh of relief: "I think so too. ”

Xie Daoyong looked at him with a smile: "Your reaction, do you think I will support you to go to Duan Qirui's command?"

Xie Huaichang smiled embarrassedly: "That's not true, it's just that considering that you have a lot of friendship with the president, so"

"I'm with the president" Xie Daoyong lowered his eyes and sighed softly, "In the past, I served under Li Wenzhong Gong with the president, after the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, Wen Zhonggong's Beiyang army was annihilated, and he himself was forced to go to the temple on the outskirts of Beijing to cultivate. ”

"After he left, Duke Wen Zhong prophesied to me that in the future, I am afraid that this son will not only enter the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister. ”

Xie Huaichang said: "Wen Zhonggong has a good vision. ”

Xie Daoyong sighed softly: "At the beginning, Duke Wen Zhonggong asked me to have a good relationship with him, because we are all old ministers of Beiyang, and we are more close to others than others, but I am young and vigorous at that time, and I always thought that I had the ability to meet the source of the left and right, and I did not take the words of Duke Wen Zhonggong to heart." ”

Xie Huaichang was surprised: "Could it be that my uncle regrets not serving him?"

Xie Daoyong shook his head: "I don't regret it, I just think that if I serve him, I can do more." ”

He was the first person in the Xie family to enter Beijing as an official in a hundred years, and he did not hesitate to turn his face with his brother for this, but he was only a petty official in Beijing in the end after his life. He has no lack of ability to do things, but he has never been reused, regardless of the level of ability, standing in line is the decisive factor.

You can have no ability, but you can't be without faithfulness.

Only the lowly do not need to stand in line.

Xie Daoyong raised his eyelids again and looked at Xie Huaichang: "If Lu Zixin recommends you to go to Duan Qirui's command, he will definitely be able to ask for you, but whether he will reuse you may not be, he is now in the climate, and there is no shortage of loyal soldiers and good generals under his command, I am afraid that a loyalty alone will not make a difference, not to mention that you don't even have a loyal heart." ”

Xie Huaichang said with a smile: "I am still a member of the Kuomintang." ”

Xie Daoyong let out a long "um": "Let's go back to the Baoding Army Officer Academy, be a good teacher, teach and educate people, and peach and plum all over the world." ”

The last sentence "peach and plum all over the world" He said in a very light tone, which seemed to be said casually, and seemed to have another connotation.

Xie Huaichang reported his final decision to Lu Zhengxiang, which surprised Lu Zhengxiang, but the explanation was already thought of, and there were three points of sincerity in the high-sounding palace, he saw the former chief in the study of the Lu house, looked at him earnestly, and said: "I have followed the chief to participate in the first battle without gunpowder, and I have a lot of feelings, compared with the country, what is my personal future? If my country is rich and the people are strong, how can a small country like Japan dare to be aggressive to my Chinese president?" Huaichang went, reluctant to go out, unwilling to pay homage to the prime minister, but asked to train a group of loyal and fierce men for the country to guard the Quartet. ”

Lu Zhengxiang looked at him, his expression was emotional, he stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and he was speechless for a long time. He took out a glass-framed newspaper from his desk drawer and handed it to her, and on 9 May, it was reported that the National Board of Education had designated that day as a day of national disgrace.

"For you," he said, "as a warning." ”

Xie Huaichang took it with both hands, looked at it carefully, and pressed it to his chest: "Thank you, chief." ”

Lu Zhengxiang called Duan Qirui in front of him and asked him to transfer Xie Huaichang back to the Army Officer Academy, and at that time, Qu Tongfeng, the principal of the Military Academy, connived at the students' strike and march during the 21 Article negotiations, which caused Duan Qirui's dissatisfaction.

For Xie Huaichang, this position of vice president is simply an unexpected joy, he has heard a little about Qu Tongfeng's deeds, and he agrees with the patriotic intentions he showed during the negotiations.

Coming out of the Lu house, he was in a very good mood, he was simply proud, and it was rare to have leisure in five months, so he remembered the dinner he had with Wei Yunru that had been delayed so far, so he called a rickshaw and went to Peking University to look for her.

Wei Yunru didn't wait for him at the gate of Yanyuan, because he was in class, Xie Huaichang inquired several times before finding the classroom where the English Department was teaching, he quietly entered through the back door, sat in the last row, and listened attentively.

The teacher had already seen him come in, and thought he was a late student, but judging from the military uniform without a military insignia, he thought that he had participated in the student demonstration before. But Xie Huaichang didn't make a sound or make trouble after he came in, so he pretended not to see it, and calmly finished the whole class, until the bell rang at the end of class, he assigned his homework, packed up the handouts, walked up to Xie Huaichang, and stretched out his hands to him: "I've been waiting for you for a long time, let's go." ”

Xie Huaichang looked at him confusedly: "You know me, where are you going?"

The teacher was also inexplicable: "Aren't you here to arrest me?"

Xie Huaichang couldn't cry or laugh, but looked at the teacher's frank face, and deliberately teased him: "Do you know that I am here to arrest you?

The teacher said solemnly: "I am dedicated to the country, every day can be expressed, the march was my anger, and I also encouraged the students to participate in the demonstration, you have to be arrested and punished, I am responsible for it, and it has nothing to do with the students in my class." ”

The students behind him were excited, gathered around Xie Huaichang, and scrambled to shout: "I came up with this idea, and it has nothing to do with my teacher, don't arrest him, arrest us!"

Wei Yunru was at the outermost part of the crowd, unable to squeeze in, and no one listened to what he said, and his head was sweating in a hurry.

The teacher stretched out his hands and protected the students behind him: "Don't arrest people in the classroom, let's go out, I'll go with you." ”

"You go with me, I don't want to take you away," Xie Huaichang had already seen Wei Yunru, and stretched out his hand to her with a smile, "I'm here to pick her up to finish eating, how can I have time to arrest you? Even if I want to arrest her, it's a matter of the Police Department, what does it have to do with me as a soldier?"

The students were in an uproar for a while, and they all turned their heads to look at Wei Yunru, and a handsome girl who accompanied her suddenly gasped, covered her mouth and exclaimed: "Are you the Xie Ershao who saved us that day?"

Xie Huaichang raised his eyebrows: "Li Qiawen?"

Li Qiawen nodded hurriedly, pulled Wei Yunru through the crowd and squeezed in front of Xie Huaichang, looked at him with a smile, and said mischievously: "Second brother, it's me, I listened to your flowers, studied hard, and didn't make trouble anymore." ”

As she spoke, she pulled Wei Yunru down and explained to her classmates: "It was the time when some of our classmates were arrested, and Yunru happened to know this Xie Ershao's own sister, so his sister took him to find Ershao's help, and we were released so quickly." ”

Lao He of the police department only locked up the students for one night, and there was no use of force or torture to extract confessions, and Li Qiawen was the first to be released because of Xie Huaichang's relationship, so he counted all the credit on Xie Huaichang's head.

Xie Huaichang hurriedly explained: "The credit is not mine, and the police didn't intend to hurt you." ”

Only then did the teacher know that he had misunderstood, and his face was suddenly flushed, and he held Xie Huaichang's hand and shook it: "It turned out to be a benefactor, we regretted that we didn't thank the benefactor before, it's great that you can come in person." ”

Xie Huaichang nodded and politely greeted him: "You are serious, I am not a benefactor, so I didn't scare you." "() "Jiangnan Family" only represents the author's views on the content of Lianpian, if it is found that its content violates the national law and contradicts the content, please delete it.

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