Since the beginning of human society, there have not only been reproduction, life, and combination, but also death, war, and separation, and human society has lasted countless years in this cycle of division and integration. The following is www.biquge.info ordinary and ups and downs of a woman born in an aristocratic family, as well as the social environment and historical portrayal that accompanied her growth and life (introduction)

The heat in Beijing in July was annoying, and the hot wind mixed with the wind and sand blew everywhere hit the faces of the rickshaw drivers and passers-by, and the running rickshaw drivers cursed in a low voice from time to time: "Scratch! Scratch your grandma's! Have the ability to scrape down the front door building, phew! While scolding, he spat out the grains of sand that blew into his mouth and sped up the speed of the car, and the car flew past the pedestrian.

Unkempt beggars lazily lie on the stone steps on the side of the street, their dirty hands reaching into their torn clothes from time to time to rub the sweat and mud on their bodies, and some beggars take off their ragged coats to catch lice, and send them to their mouths to chew with relish, making a faint "rattle, rattle" sound, as if they are eating delicious food.

Because of the hot weather, there are not many pedestrians on the street, and the owner or shopkeeper of the shop does not sit at the counter anymore, so he asks the man to move a chair on the outside of the counter exit, holding a purple clay pot in one hand and shaking a folding fan in the other, and from time to time he sets up a teapot to take a sip, and the black spun silk gown on his body shakes back and forth with the folding fan and retracts it.

It seems that the time to welcome customers will have to be after the future, and this time is the busiest time for the apprentices in the store, they have to use damp cloths dipped in water to wipe down the tables, chairs, benches, counters, etc., inside and out, and wipe the outside of the store, including the door face, signboards, etc., to be spotless. Look at the sweat beads on the faces of the apprentices in this shop shining in the sunlight, dripping on the bluestone slab under their feet from time to time, the shirt is open, and the sweat flows down the central axis from the heart socket to the navel, forming a thin wet mark.

In July 1917, the smoke of the First World War was thick, and on the main battlefield of the First World War in Europe, the two major international blocs - the Entente and the Central Powers - were fighting each other, and the armies of the two sides were still fighting to the death. However, as Italy, one of the members of the Central Powers, secretly signed secret treaties with Britain, France, and Russia, members of the Allied Powers, and Italy withdrew from the German-Austrian Allies and switched to the Entente, the balance of war tilted in favor of the Entente bloc. Although Russia soon withdrew from the war against Germany due to the outbreak of the October Revolution, and there was no fighting on the Eastern Front, with the economic and military strength of the United States of America joining the Entente to fight against Germany, the defeat of Germany and Austria seemed only a matter of time. At a time when the Western world powers are fighting for the sake of dividing up the world's territory and rights and interests, there is an ancient and huge weak country in the East Asia of the world, China, and the people in power are also closely watching the direction of this war......

Although the fight in that place in Europe is very lively now, here in Beijing, since the descendant of "Zhang Yide, a Yanren who is armed with a Zhangba snake spear gun and has the courage of ten thousand people", the pigtailed handsome Zhang Xun was driven away by Duan Qirui, and the farce of the restoration soon subsided. The melee between the Sichuan army and the Yunnan army has also ended, and the powerful factions in various places are watching from the flags, and the battle is not there, and the city of Beijing is now relatively calm. Europe – besides, the war is far away! What does it matter to us that the red-haired and blue-eyed Westerner is beaten to the head and bleeding? Regardless of him! As for sending troops to participate in the war, that is something that President Feng Guozhang and Premier Duan Qirui should be concerned about. At the beginning of the year, Mr. Cai Yuanpei, a well-known social activist and educator and former the first director of education of the Republic of China, became the president of Peking University, and put forward the policy and concept of "freedom of thought and inclusiveness", which undoubtedly blew a fresh wind into the Chinese education circles. The magazine "New Youth" edited by Chen Duxiu, a talented man from Anhui, also moved from Shanghai to Beijing, and scholars such as Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, and Li Dazhao held high the banner of the Cultural Revolution, and the New Culture Movement was vigorously launched. Although Mr. Gu Hongming still dragged his pigtails and stood on the podium of Peking University to give lectures, it did not matter, people were only concerned about how to eradicate the "invisible pigtails in their hearts", and the cultural revolution would inevitably bring about ideological emancipation and freedom of speech, thus giving more or less enlightened influence to the rulers, and it seemed that the "tangible braids of the Qing Dynasty" were getting farther and farther away from the lives of the people.

As soon as the sun turned west, there were many men in suits and leather shoes, robes and horse coats, and melon skin hats and top hats, but there were also many women wearing cheongsam, slim short-sleeved shirts, long black skirts, and high collars and earlobes. There are many shops on the street, and each shop is trying to attract customers by all means, and there are various signboards in front of the store, on which are pasted with all kinds of advertisements written on big red paper.

For example, the billboard of Ruifuxiang cloth store reads: Tong Suo is not bullied, the first eight big characters of integrity, and the font of the following content is slightly smaller: Hangzhou silk just entered, the quantity is limited, and it is sold out! The corduroy cloth of our store is thick and durable, and the cheap code is eighty-five fold, and the short one is fine! Note! The camel flannel cloth that has just arrived in our store, authentic Oriental goods, such as a fake package! The advertisement in front of the inline shoe store is also very interesting: black satin, mille-feuille bottom, wear it, upgrade three levels! The price is not the same!

The advertising in front of the Ma Juyuan hat shop over there is not to be outdone: the materials are exquisite, the workmanship is fine, the goods are genuine, and the variety is complete! But there are also a few stores that have an ingenuity: copy the reserve price! It's a bloody sale! All the guys in the store are smiling, singing the names and prices of the goods in a long voice, you see this guy shouting: "The fifth young master of the old three alleys is here!" "Holding the cloth in both hands, it looks like the eunuch in the palace is offering tea to Lafayette (Cixi), and he almost kneels.

There is also a guy from the antique jewelry store who shouted: "The twenty oceans of the huge master reward on West Street have been credited!" "It's kind of interesting to say "reward" instead of "flower" for the money spent by guests! One by one, they respectfully greeted and sent: "Yo! Qin Ye, you are auspicious! As he spoke, he clasped his hands and then bent his right hand on one leg and drooped down, so that after passing the guests, he just looked up and looked at the horse: "Yo! The fourth master is here! The thing you want has just arrived, the high-quality multicolored enamel jade snuff bottle, Ma Shaoxuan Ma Ye's inner handwriting, or do you want to move over and palm your eyes? "Bow down and lead. The guy led the guests to the inner hall and just came back with a smile: "Oops! Third wife, you are auspicious! The little one is saying hello to you! Coincidentally, the store has just arrived with a gold ring inlaid with Burmese ruby frog pattern, please sigh inside! Whenever a customer is about to walk out of the store, a man sounds behind him: "Slow down!" You are welcome to come back next time! Voice.

But there are also some store guys who don't say this when they send customers, just like Rentang Pharmacy, where the guys hand the medicine bag to the customer and say, "You're good to go!" "Whenever the street is cleaned, the sound of the large self-striking clock in the Hengdeli watch shop is heard throughout the street......

Most of Beijing's dwellings used to be courtyard houses, and some of the courtyards lived in a lot of people's homes, and there were three religions and nine streams doing anything, so they were called miscellaneous courtyards, as for the alleys in Beijing city, there were too many to count, from time to time there were lazy shouts of small traders, and the nasal voice was very heavy shouting: "Jiaoquan, dates, osmanthus sugar" and then the merchant drum of "Porphyria, Porphyria" sounded, mixed with the sound of "Di Lingling ......" of the head shaving master. In Beijing's eight major alleys, the business is done, every night, what "Yingchun Garden", "Cui Red Building" and so on are still red lights hanging, the traffic in front of the door is busy, and the Beijing city on the surface shows prosperity, calm and peaceful.

However, the people in power in ******** were not at peace in their hearts, and the anxiety and uneasiness in the air permeated the Iron Lion Hutong in the city of Beijing, as if the owners of this complex smelled the smoke of gunpowder on the distant battlefields of the West.

There is a group of buildings in the Iron Lion Hutong in Beijing, which was connected to three aristocratic mansions in the Qing Dynasty: Prince He's Mansion in the east, Beile Fusu Mansion in the middle, and Princess Hejing's Mansion in the west. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the original buildings here were basically demolished, and three groups of brick and wood buildings were rebuilt: the main building in the middle is a European classical gray brick building, and there is a building in the east, west and north, and the gray brick building with European classical characteristics is the presidential palace of the Republic of China. The current president is Feng Guozhang, one of the "Three Heroes of Beiyang" with the title of "Dog of Beiyang", and after the split of the Beiyang warlord group, he is also the leader of the direct warlords. Although Feng Guozhang is a veteran of Beiyang and is now the head of state, the actual person in power here is praised by the world as the hero of the "Three Republics" - iron-blooded Prime Minister Duan Qirui.

A small car drove straight to the field in front of the Prime Minister's Office (also the Presidential Palace) building and stopped, and then out of the car got out of the car a man less than 30 years old, the man who got out of the car was dressed in a suit, fair complexion, wearing a pair of round myopia glasses framed by gold wire, and his temperament was not bad, and he obviously looked like a scholar. After the man calmly got out of the car, he turned around and bent down to take out a black leather briefcase from the seat of the car, tucked it under his left armpit, straightened his suit and tie with his right hand, calmed down, and walked vigorously towards the gate of the Prime Minister's Office. The scholar-like man walked up to the guard on duty at the gate, showed his business card, and the guard inspected it and let him in.

The person who came was Jin Yuran, the then deputy minister and consul general of the Republic of China in Los Angeles, the United States of America. This is the second time that Jin Yuran has returned to China in more than a year, because he carried important letters in his bag, so he did not even return home after returning to China, but went directly to the Prime Minister's Office, and after entering the building, he went directly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet his immediate boss, Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang.

Lu Zhengxiang, the current foreign minister, is a direct subordinate of the Chinese people, Zi Defang, graduated from a foreigner-run church school in his early years, and since the end of the Qing Dynasty, he has followed the famous diplomat Xu Jingcheng to deal with foreigners, and he himself has lived abroad for decades, not only can he speak several Chinese, but even his wife is a foreigner who is married, and he has extremely rich diplomatic experience and is an old diplomat.

After the two met, they exchanged a few words, Jin Yuran was one of the 60 diplomatic talents recruited by General Lu on the basis of merit that year, and the relationship was naturally not ordinary, so after Jin Yuran's routine work report, the chief asked with a concerned smile: "How about Yuling?" Haven't you been home yet? Jin Yuran said with a smile: "Thank you, Chief Executive!" The responsibility is heavy, and I dare not slack off, so I have not returned to the cold house! Jin Yuran said and took out the handwritten letter written by US Secretary of State Lansing to Duan Qirui, Premier of the Republic of China, from his briefcase and said: "Commander-in-General, this is a handwritten letter from US Secretary of State Lansing to Premier Duan, and I must not delay the mission of Gu Gong!" You see? After speaking, looking at the Commander-in-Chief, Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang understood what Jin Yuran meant, and he wanted to see Duan Qirui immediately. But the officials of the Republic of China government at that time knew that Premier Duan Qirui's official frame was very large, whether it was the overseers or governors of other provinces who came to Beijing to see Duan, or the dignitaries in Beijing had something to do with Duan, they had to report in advance, and then wait in the downstairs living room for a long time, not to mention a small consul like Jin Yuran.

Of course, Chief Lu understood, so he smiled at Jin Yuran and said, "Okay then! I'll go directly with you to meet Premier Duan! Let's go! Because Chief Lu is a special case, he doesn't need to report when he sees Premier Duan, and the guards on duty also know Chief Lu, so they won't stop him, and the two walked to Prime Minister Duan Qirui's office together. After seeing Premier Duan, Jin Yuran first greeted the Prime Minister, and saw Premier Duan nodding and saying "Uh-huh" twice in his mouth, Jin Yuran then took out the handwritten letter of US Secretary of State Lansing from his briefcase and respectfully handed it to Premier Duan, the words on the letter are in English, whether Premier Duan can understand it is unknown, Premier Duan is a German student who studied in Germany! Perhaps in front of juniors like Jin Yuran and the secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, Premier Duan did not want President Lu to read such an important letter, so he took the letter and put it away.

Then Prime Minister Duan Qirui stared at Jin Yuran with two big lamps and looked him up and down, and suddenly said in his mouth: "Does Minister Gu have anything you want to give me?" Obviously, Premier Duan Qirui wanted to know more about the situation in the United States, but Jin Yuran was not prepared for this, so he had to shake his head and say, "No!" The foreign minister next to him accosted him: "Prime Minister! That being the case, I have telegraphed to Minister Gu to ask him to pay attention to collecting the official views of Britain and the United States on the current war situation in Europe, and I will submit it to the Prime Minister in writing in the form of diplomatic advice, and it will be in the next two days! A smile appeared on Premier Duan's expressionless face with high cheekbones, and he nodded and said, "Hmm! Defang, good! Good! Young people are nice! Jin Yuran, right? Well! Good! "I don't know if he is saying that Jin Yuran is a good person, or that President Lu is doing a good job.

Jin Yuran was a little stunned when he saw Premier Duan's old-fashioned face, so he said goodbye to Duan Qirui and retired with the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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