After the family had lunch, Jin Yuran and his wife returned to the backyard, Qi Ruifang instructed his subordinates to bring over the suitcase that Jin Yuran brought from the United States, and took out two boxes of American ginseng inside, and the couple personally sent them to Eniang's bedroom, Mrs. Tai happily accepted it, and the couple talked to Mrs. Tai again, knowing that Mrs. Tai had the habit of taking a nap, so she said goodbye and took her son Boyang back to the backyard. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the living room, Jin Yuran checked his son's homework and big characters, and said a few ancient poems and prose titles for his son to memorize their contents, and his son recited them skillfully, Jin Yuran was very satisfied. He then asked about his son's martial arts practice, and his seven-year-old son practiced a set of internal martial arts for his father in the living room, although the movements were immature and not completely in place, but it was also interesting.

Jin Yuran praised and said: "Very good! You have to thank the master! His son Boyang said, "Yes! I've been practicing with Jin Gui! Master Jin Gui said that he would teach me swordsmanship, and ...... other words, Jin Yuran corrected without waiting for his son to finish speaking: "Don't call Jin Gui or Master Jin Gui!" Call Grandpa Kim! Do you understand? The son didn't understand and said, "He doesn't let me call him grandpa, he still calls me little master!" And so is the master! "The master that my son Jin Boyang said is the old man of the Jin family, and also the calligraphy teacher of his son Boyang, the Manchu surname is Yehenala, who is over sixty years old, and used to be the big tent of the shops on the outer street of the Jin family, but now the big shops on the outer street are gone, and he is old again, and he has no children and no daughters in the Jin family all these years.

Of course, there are several such childless and daughterless people in the Jin family, that is, the wet nurse of Jin Yuran and his brothers and sisters in the past, and there are also the big girls who married with Mrs. Tai, etc., the so-called big girls in the house are the wedding girls of the ladies of the feudal social bureaucrats, and they generally rest in the same room with the master, called Tongfang or Tongpu Da Yahuan, that is, the concubine, also called a certain girl, if she gives birth to a child, she can be promoted to an aunt. Jin Yuran told his son: "Then master, Master Jin Gui, they are elders and old people, what should you call the person I call uncle?" Be respectful to the elderly, that's a good child! Do you want to learn knife skills from Grandpa Jin? The son nodded a little understood, Jin Yuran gave his son a set of rail-rail electric train toys, and his son happily took it and couldn't put it down. Qi Ruifang, his wife who was packing the suitcase next to him, came over and said: "Seeing that your eyebrows flutter as soon as you lift the knife and gun, is it good for him to dance with a knife and a gun at a young age?" He should be encouraged to learn more about the way of helping the world and the country! Jin Yuran said: "The world is chaotic and the current affairs are impermanent, practicing martial arts can not only strengthen the body but also defend the country, and also save foreigners from calling us 'the sick man of East Asia'" was saying that Mrs. Tai came to call Bo Yang, Mrs. Tai was afraid that her son would embarrass her baby grandson, so she quickly asked people to call her baby grandson away.

When Jin Yuran came back from the United States, he specially brought Qi Ruifang a beautiful fox fur shawl and a tweed sun hat decorated with feathers that was popular among upper-class women in Europe and the United States. It's not like it's a monster in the sea! Besides, what solar terms are now? You've got it out of your mind! Jin Yuran said: "This is very popular abroad!" Don't you have a cheongsam? The cheongsam with the shawl must look good! "Insist that Qi Ruifang try to wear it. Qi Ruifang put on a shawl, put on a hat and turned around in front of Jin Yuran, Jin Yuran praised with a little flattery: "It's so beautiful!" Madame, you are so charming! Qi Ruifang slapped Jin Yuran's hand lightly, and said with a flushed face: "Go!" Nonsense! He hurriedly took it off.

In addition, there is a small iron box in the suitcase, Qi Ruifang doesn't know what it is? Jin Yuran told that the automatic lighter installed there was ready to be given to Uncle Jin Gui. Jin Yuran shouted in the outer hall: "Dongmei! You go to the front yard and call Uncle Jin over! Qi Ruifang said: "No need to shout! Uncle Jin Gui will not come! You forgot that this is the inner house! "It turns out that in the past, the inner house of a large family was forbidden for the male servants of the family to enter and exit, how could Jin Yuran forget? He wanted to say: What age is it now? But before he could say it, he had to send it himself.

Jin Yuran came to the gate and saw Uncle Jin Gui about to smoke, holding a fire sickle in his hand and lighting the fire "clatter, clatter"! Jin Yuran walked up to him and said, "Uncle Jin! Come! As he spoke, he opened the tin box and took out a beautiful silver-plated lighter, and lit Uncle Jin Gui with a "click". Jin Gui saw that the young master personally lit a cigarette for himself, and he panicked and didn't know what to do, and after lighting it, Jin Yuran took out a sharp-spouted soft bottle from the iron box and told him how to refuel, Jin Yuran told Jin Gui: "Uncle Jin Gui! This is my old one for you! Jin Gui was so moved that he burst into tears and said, "Thank you, young master!" Thank you, young master! The master and servant were talking in the porter.

At this time, the car horn of "Didi" sounded outside the gate, Jin Gui hurriedly greeted him, and the car that sent Jin Yuran yesterday suddenly came to the gate, and after stopping, a secretary-like person came down from the car, standing outside the door with an invitation card in his hand, standing at the gate and saying loudly: "Please inform Mr. Jin Yuran!" There is business! Jin Yuran looked out of the gatehouse and saw that it was one of Duan Qirui's rooms, so he came out and said, "I am Jin Yuran!" Is there anything wrong? The person who came said: "Consul Jin is disturbed, Premier Duan is invited!" Jin Yuran asked, "Is it now?" He said, "Yes!" It's now! The Prime Minister invited Consul Jin to the Prime Minister's Office to discuss important matters! Here's the invitation! As he spoke, he handed over the invitation.

Jin Yuran took the invitation and looked at it and thought: I have a month or two off when I come back from the debriefing, why is it so urgent? I'm afraid it's really urgent? Jin Yuran said, "Please wait! I'll go back and change my clothes! He turned around and walked towards the courtyard. After a while, Jin Yuran came out in formal clothes and got into the car with the people.

Jin Yuran came to the Prime Minister's Office and walked into Duan Qirui's office to take a look: there were already several people sitting there, in addition to Prime Minister Duan Qirui, Vice Minister of War Xu Shuzheng, Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang, there were also SD Overseer Jin Pengcheng, Chief of Communications Cao Maolin, etc. After a while, Liang Qichao, the chief of finance, and Cheng Tianxiong, the chief of the navy, also walked in, except for Liang Qichao, the chief of finance, most of the rest were Duan Qirui's cronies. The reason why Jin Yuran was called here was probably because the matter discussed involved the United States, and Jin Yuran was more familiar with the affairs of the US government, right? Otherwise, it would not have been possible in his present position...... Jin Yuran thought to herself.

When Premier Duan Qirui saw that everyone had arrived, he took out a letter from the drawer and said, "Look! Look! The Americans are coming to put pressure on me, inexplicably! As he spoke, he slammed the letter on the table.

Duan Qirui is a very rigorous person, and the content of this letter is probably only known to Chief Lu, Xu Shuzheng and the three of them so far, so he said to Chief Lu Zhengxiang: "Defang! Tell us about this letter! "Defang is the word of Chief Lu Zhengxiang. General Lu recounted the contents of the letter written by Secretary of State of the United States of America, Lansing, to Premier Duan, and of course translated the contents of the letter in his own words, and the central meaning of the letter was that he did not want China to enter the war.

Duan Qirui got up from his seat, everyone hurriedly stood up, Duan Qirui pointed to the letter on the table and said: "The Americans have said a lot about the difficulties of our participation in the war: what is the long distance, the Germans carry out unlimited submarine attacks, and the transportation is difficult; What transport ships are difficult to concentrate, logistics cannot be guaranteed, etc. Advise us not to do things in the fire for others! Others? Who is the other? What else do you say, don't 'teach Yu Shengmu' who is Yu? Be all abroad! Xu Shuzheng, who was standing next to Duan Qirui, interjected with a sneer: "Others? It's nothing more than an Oriental person! Hum! Also in the fire! Teach the Rising Wood! Treat us all for fools, right? What a joke! He clapped his hands as he spoke.

Duan Qirui walked back and forth around the table, and the other people in the hall surrounded him, Premier Duan looked at the people around him and said, "You all heard it, right?" What else do the Americans say: The dispute between the government and the court is suspected of undermining democracy and will cast a shadow on Sino-US relations, and they deeply regret this! This is obviously threatening me! Regretful? What do we have to do with them? What do they regret? Duan Qirui said with two deep big lamp sockets, his eyes swept over the subordinates in front of him, his nose trembled and he was a little angry, and his hands were pressed heavily on the desk, Jin Yuran was really afraid that Premier Duan would be angry, so don't crook your nose.

Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang said with deep feelings: "This is the mournful book of Medun!" The Americans are already accusing us, weak countries have no diplomacy! SD Overseer Jin Pengcheng comforted Duan Qirui and said: "Don't be angry, Prime Minister! Is there always a workaround? Navy Chief Cheng Tianxiong said indignantly: "Until now, he has not made a clear statement about the loan. But Finance Minister Liang Qichao did not speak, although he was also a member of Duan's cabinet, but he was not Duan's cronies, he understood that Duan Qirui had already known whether to participate in the war or not, and he also knew that Premier Duan was a person who dared to take responsibility.

Everyone sat down again, Xu Shuzheng looked at Jin Yuran and said, "Brother Yuling! Tell us what you think! Jin Yuran was taken aback, looking at the group of senior elders in front of him in a daze, Xu Shuzheng encouraged him and said, "Brother Yuling is okay!" Speak freely, the speaker is not guilty, I promise! Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang also encouraged him.

Jin Yuran slowly stood up, looked at Duan Qirui, settled down and said: "I have also communicated with many political and business people in the United States, including some senators, they actually don't really oppose our participation in the war, they also want us to join the war, but they don't want us to get too close to the RB people, so as not to damage their own interests in China!" Jin Yuran saw that everyone was very interested in listening and continued: "Another key reason is that the Americans do not want the supervision of participating in the war to fall into the hands of Premier Duan, and the Americans think that the former President Li Da and the current successor President Feng Da are closer to them, and the key to whether to participate in the war or not lies in ourselves!" Jin Yuran's words relieved everyone, and the atmosphere eased a lot.

Xu Shuzheng said to Jin Yuran again: "Brother Yuling, what is your attitude towards participating in the war?" Or what are the ideas? Tell everyone about it! When Jin Yuran heard Xu Shuzheng say this, he obviously wanted him to express his attitude on the issue of participating in the war, and let it go! Moreover, Xu Shuzheng has a bottom in his heart, thinking of this, Jin Yuran said: "I think we should join the war!" After saying that, his face flushed slightly.

When Premier Duan Qirui heard this, he suddenly came to his senses and said with great interest: "Oh! Do you think so too? Let's talk about it! As he spoke, he stared at Jin Yuran, in fact, Duan Qirui, Chief Lu, including the current Xu Shuzheng, are all staunch combatants, and they just want to hear other people's views and attitudes towards participating in the war.

Jin Yuran continued: "According to the present war situation, the defeat of Allied Germany is only a matter of time, and we must seize the opportunity, and entering the war will enable us to qualify as a victorious country." At the same time, we want to make a gesture that we want our voice to be heard by the world! The world is now a world of the jungle! In a world where no one awards medals to laggards or losers! Jin Yuran paused for a moment, raised his hands and said: "In addition, there are several advantages to participating in the war: first, it can improve the international status of our country, and take advantage of the situation to abolish the Gengzi indemnity of Germany and Austria; Second, participating in the war can win the favor of the majority of countries in the world, which will benefit our multilateral diplomacy; Third, to obtain assistance by participating in the war to accelerate the extension of our country's railway mileage and the development of mine resources" Jin Yuran said so much in one breath, he took a breath, and then lowered his voice and said: "As for how to participate in the war, it is up to the bosses to decide whether to send troops or not!" After Jin Yuran finished speaking, he bowed and sat down. Everyone was convinced by what he said, and they praised him for being terrible! Xu Shuzheng, who has always been proud of his talents, also gave a thumbs up to his friend and younger brother.

Duan Qirui was afraid of the table and said, "Okay! I see how he Feng Laogou (referring to the current President Feng Guozhang, Feng Guozhang is known as the dog of the Beiyang) still opposes it! War! He raised his hand again, pointed at Xu Shuzheng and said, "Another Zheng!" Sign a contract with him Oriental! After the loan and weapons are in hand, immediately organize and train the 'war army'! Xu Shuzheng immediately nodded and said, "Okay!" Please rest assured! I immediately set to work! Duan Qirui looked at Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang and said, "Defang! It's up to you to negotiate the affairs of the United States! The Minister of Foreign Affairs said: "Prime Minister rest assured! I'll telegraph Minister Gu and ask him to start mediation immediately! Duan Qirui looked at everyone and said, "Knowing that I sin against me, it is only Spring and Autumn!" Sun Hongyi (then member of Congress): They said that I was a traitor? What country to sell? I have not sold an inch of land in the country, and I have not granted a concession to any foreign country, so how can I sell the country? Said that you Zheng (Xu Shu Zheng is also Zheng) is overbearing and guilty! Where is the sin? Shouldn't you 'send yourself to the East Market and face the West Capital'? If you can't do business, you can shrink your head when you are done! These bunch of literati politicians! It's purely fed! Duan Qirui swept the people in front of him with a pair of deep eyes, and continued: "If he Dongyang people dare to borrow, I dare to spend it, as for not paying it back, they have taken a big advantage in mining and building railways in our land, and if he Dongyang people dare to use force against me, I will fight to the death with him!" As he spoke, he slapped the table heavily, and Duan Qirui at this time completely forgot his identity as a politician, highlighting the arrogance and arbitrariness of the martial arts.

Xu Shuzheng said: "'Faith is not beautiful, beautiful words are not believed. The good don't argue, and the debater doesn't argue well, 'What do these people do?' However, Duan Qirui said: "Fight to the death with the RB people!" He had said this sentence before: In 1914, when the Japanese army occupied Qingdao, Duan Qirui once suggested to Yuan Shikai in person: Fight to the death with the Japanese army! After all, he is a professional soldier, and at the same time, Duan Qirui does not want to repay the loan, and he is still haunted by the fact that only RB has no Gengzi refund!

In fact, it seems a bit aggrieved to say that Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng are lackeys of the RB people, and one thing is very revealing: after the outbreak of World War I, Germany and Japan fought in China for Qingdao, which Germany had operated for more than ten years. At that time, Xu Shuzheng was only a deputy minister of the War Department, and he did not consult General Duan or the president, so he took matters into his own hands and agreed to borrow 2,000 rifles equipped with bullets and transport a train of munitions to the German army in Qingdao. At that time, SD Overseer Jin Pengcheng questioned Xu Shuzheng: "You are pro-Japanese, why did you do something against RB?" If you don't ask your boss for instructions on such a big matter, won't your boss know about you and cause a big disaster? Xu Shuzheng replied: "RB is China's closest power, China is a poor and backward country, and some of the things that China wants to do, if it is not understood by RB, it may not be possible, so it is necessary to do a good job in Sino-Japanese relations, which is the reason why I am pro-Japanese on the surface." But RB does not want China to be rich and strong, China is poor, backward, and weak, so it can bully China, so RB will never be our friend! Only distant Germany and the United States will be our true friends in the future! After Duan Qirui knew about this, he also thought that Xu Shuzheng had done the right thing.

Xu Shuzheng's political vision is still admirable! From this incident, it can not only be seen that Xu Shuzheng's foresight and boldness, but also on the other hand, it shows that Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng's apparent pro-Japanese strategy is a strategy.

After the meeting, Jin Yuran took the car to his home, got out of the car and saw that it was already time to hold the lights, he looked up at the two auspicious Ruyi palace lamps hanging above the gate, and walked up the steps silently, just about to knock on the door but opened it by himself, it turned out that Jin Gui had been lying on the crack of the door waiting for him, Jin Gui saw Jin Yuran and said, "The young master is back?" "It's back! Uncle Jin! Jin Yuran replied, and then walked in, it seemed that it was impossible to make Jin Gui change his words, so he had to let him be. Jin Yuran walked to his mother's door and saw that the two longevity and longevity palace lamps were also red, he thought that his mother should rest, right? When I arrived in front of the courtyard where my wife lived, I saw two dragon and phoenix Chengxiang palace lamps, and my heart was even warmer. Don't want to! Watch my baby daughter go!

Later, Xu Shuzheng wanted Jin Yuran to participate in the loan negotiation with the RB people, but Jin Yuran insisted on resigning, Xu Shuzheng knew that Jin Yuran hated the RB people to the core, so he was not reluctant, so he recommended SD overseer Jin Pengcheng to negotiate and sign. Jin Yuran soon returned to the United States at the call of Gu Weijun, the minister to the United States. When the loan arrived, as for how to operate the war, how to get President Feng Guozhang to agree to seal it, and not lose Premier Duan's right to supervise the war, Xu Shuzheng has a way. Under the instigation of Xu Shuzheng behind the scenes, a farce of the "petition group" was staged to make trouble in the Congress, and after a power struggle, Duan Qirui finally took office as the governor of the war and continued to control the Beiyang regime.

The second battle between the government and the court ended with Feng Guozhang's defeat.

From the very beginning of borrowing from RB people, Duan Qirui didn't think about repaying the loan, he later said to his cronies: The loan is to train the army and enhance the national defense force, as long as the country is strong in the future, the accounts of the foreigners will be slowly calculated, and the contracts signed are all secret agreements, who will admit the account after the matter is changed? But the RB people are not fools, they supported Zhang Zuolin to seize the Northeast to fight against the BJ government, and used economic means to win over the real power figures who controlled the Republic of China government to manipulate the political situation in China, and the development of things came step by step beyond Duan Qirui's expectations and control.

On August 14, 1917, the government of the Republic of China officially declared war on Germany! It also abolished the Gengzi indemnity to Germany and Austria, and recovered the independent tax collection rights of Germany and Austria in China Customs.

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