Ertulong also avoided the limelight because of Wang Lu's assessment case, Er, because it is very simple, he is the middleman of Wang Lu's stock transaction, and in this transaction, Tang Hualong's role is very worthy of investigation. Therefore, when the spearhead of public opinion is gradually pointed at the trading middleman. As soon as the president gave the order, Tang Hualong submitted a leave report to the Scraping Committee and came to this Xishan to "recuperate".

Tang Hualong also knew that the president meant to save him from this whirlpool, after all. He is different from Wang Zhanyuan and Lu Yongxiang, he is a standard politician, talented and aggressive, so the president still needs him, and the reason why the president is so anxious to kick Wang and Lu out of the political committee is actually to clean up the door, let those who only eat and don't work get out, and put those who have talent into the political committee.

So, the "coup d'état" of the political council. In fact, the president would like to see it. And Tang Hualong just suffered from the pond fish, as long as he can keep a low profile, this "scraping political commissar." He can still wear the hat. After all, it is the government of the president now, and the president is the law.

In Tang Hualong's view, in the "coup" of the political committee, one person in the political committee played an important role, that is, Li Yuanhong.

Like Tang Hualong, Li Yuanhong is also a political commissar. But when the political committee held a plenary meeting, Li Yuanhong sat next to the president, on par with Yang Du's status, while Tang Hualong sat far away from the president, so, in terms of status. Tang Hualong is inferior to Li Yuanhong.

Although it was indeed Li Yuanhong who invited Tang Hualong to go out of the mountain to assist Zhao Bei in running the republic, and the two have been working together very happily in the Congress, this does not mean that the relationship between the two is intimate, also as professional politicians, Li Ya, Hong and Tang Hualong have their own interests and related interest groups, all of which are playing their own small abacus, and their views may tend to be consistent in some government affairs. But when it comes to divergent interests, there is little to work with.

Goe in the last year. When Tang Hualong was ordered by the president to inspect the southwestern provinces. There was a difference of interest between Li Yuanhong and Tang Hualong. Dai Ji, the superintendent of the old tin mines in Yunnan, was a man of Li Yuanhong, who had been in charge of the mining work in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces since the republic. There is a lot of power. It is not surprising, then, that power is used for one's own benefit.

Although Tang Hualong also knew Dai Li, and even had correspondence with the other party through Li Yuanhong, this was not enough to make Tang Hualong turn a blind eye to Dai Ju's behavior, in fact, Tang Hualong was ordered to inspect the southwestern provinces, which also had the task of cleaning up the officials, and Dai Ji's gang ran into the muzzle of the gun, and if they were not handled, Tang Hualong would not be able to account for the president, so it went back and forth, Dai Ji took it, and the differences of interest between Tang Hualong and Li Yuanhong also appeared.

From the economic level, Tang Hualong's handling of Dai Halberd actually directly harmed Li Yuanhong's interests, and from a political point of view, Dai Halberd's handling made those politicians and businessmen who had taken refuge in Li Yuanhong somewhat sad, which was not conducive to Li Yuanhong's maintenance of the situation, so no matter in terms of that aspect of interests, Li Yuanhong also wanted to find a place for Tang Hualong.

Li Yuanhonglie is not only a political member of the Political Committee, but also the leader of the United Front. Since Zhang Binglin was squeezed out of the leadership of the United Front, Li Yuanhong has been the de facto head of the United Front, presiding over the work of the United Front on behalf of the president. The United Front is currently the largest political bloc in the country, and relying on the strength of this bloc, it is very easy for Li Yuanhong to get rid of any political opponents, and just creating a public opinion is enough for political opponents to be in a hurry.

And Li Yuanhong's counterattack against Tang Hualong also started from public opinion, but he did not directly target Tang Hualong, which was too eye-catching, so at the beginning, the focus of public opinion was Wang Zhanyuan and Lu Yongxiang, and those two were Tang Hualong's henchmen, otherwise, Tang Hualong would not have threaded the needle for their shareholding in financial enterprises.

Even better, Li Yuanhong did not turn public opinion to the political committee at the beginning, which might anger the president, so the first breakthrough he chose was public opinion within the United Front, because Wang Zhanyuan and Lu Yongxiang were not only political commissars. Moreover, he is also a member of the United Front, a subordinate of Li Yuanhong, and Li Yuanhong, the party leader, naturally has every reason to supervise the discipline of the two. Thereupon. It was very easy for Li Yuanhong to file a disciplinary investigation against Wang and Lu, so the matter of the two of them joining the cadre stock was exposed, and it was soon known by the press. Then, of course, in the subsequent political commissar assessment, Wang Lu and the two were thrown into the whirlpool of politics, and had to submit their resignations and give up the positions of the two political commissars. In the face of Li Yuanhong's fierce offensive. Tang Hualong didn't have the power to fight back at all, if it weren't for the president and covering him, I'm afraid he would have followed Wang Zhanyuan and Lu Yongxiang to get out, but even so, Tang Hualong still had to temporarily take refuge in this villa in Xishan.

In this battle, Tang Hualong can be regarded as a big defeat, not only missing two party henchmen in the political committee

Ya "has been greatly reduced, and his prestige has also been weakened, and compared to his cleaning up Dai Bullying, Saucei Hong's attack can be regarded as a real big deal.

Tang Hualong even suspected that even if he didn't pack up the halberd, there would be such a battle between him and Li Yuanhong sooner or later, after all, the two had different interests. Conflict is a matter of time, and the so-called "where there are people, there are rivers and lakes." This is a sentence that President Zhao Bei often puts on his lips.

However, Tang Hualong also believed that the president would definitely not stand by and watch Li Yuanlong, who is now the leader of the United Front, kicked him out of the political committee. is also a key figure in the scraping committee, this, the power of people is getting bigger and bigger, no matter who is replaced as president, they will not be satisfied with this situation, so. Ji Ge, who weakened Li Yuanhong's power, is likely to be on the president's agenda. There is only one chance left at the moment.

Of course, in Tang Hualong's view, the most important thing at present is not only to help the president maintain the balance of power in the political committee, but also to give Li Yuanhong a head-on blow, and this best means of counterattack is undoubtedly the two vacant seats of the political councilor.

Now there are two vacant seats in the political committee waiting for people to sit in, so Tang Hualong, as one of the political councilors, can of course nominate a successor to the president in accordance with the law.

In fact, Lie already has two very good candidates in Tang Hualong's mind, one is Wang Yongjiang and the other is Liu Qingen.

Wang Yongjiang is an expert in financial management, and what the center and the president need most now is a financial expert, once Wang Yongjiang is stuffed into the political committee, it will undoubtedly greatly strengthen the president's interference in financial affairs. As for Liu Qingen, he not only made great contributions to the cause of the ordnance industry. More importantly, the president's wife is his niece, and there is such a relationship, as long as he is stuffed into the political committee, Li Yuanhong's power will be further contained.

However, this is only the initial idea of Tang Hualong. As for whether the president will agree with him. It's still unknown, and there's a difficulty. It must also be taken into account that the 16 members of the Political Council are divided equally between the civil and military forces. And Wang Zhanyuan and Lu Yongxiang, who have resigned, are both senior military advisers. Therefore, if two more civilian personnel are promoted to the political committee, we cannot but take into account this, the issue of the ratio of civilian to military personnel. Although there is no explicit provision in this regard, what is the attitude of the military. Tang Hualong is not clear now.

While Tang Hualong was thinking about the "coup" of the Political Committee, the telephone bell in the study suddenly rang. The phone was swung by the secretary from the duty room.

"Sir, Yang Zhezi has come over and asked to see you immediately. Can't you see it now?.

"Yang Du? What did he come here for? Why don't you just shake the phone over? "Invite him to sit in the living room for a while, and I'll go over to see him."

Hearing that it was Yang Guo, Tang Hualong was a little surprised, he and Yang Du were not on the same path, and Yang Du had always shown a strong desire for competition. In the political committee, Tang Hualong had many disputes with Yang Du, speaking of which, in the eyes of outsiders. His relationship with Yang Du is far less "harmonious" than his relationship with Li Yuanhong.

Tang Hualong quickly rushed to the living room and saw Yang Du, and the other party got straight to the point.

"Jiwu, I'm here this time to discuss something with you, this matter is very important, you have to help

"What do you have to come and tell in person? Isn't it okay to shake the phone? It's not that Xishan doesn't talk on the phone

"No, it's very confidential, and it's not only inconvenient to say it in words, but it's also unclear, so you have to say it in person

"Oh? I would like to hear about it

Seeing Yang Du so mysterious. Tang Hualong's curiosity was raised, so he dismissed the servant. Secretly discussed with Yang Du in the living room.

"Yesterday, US Ambassador to China John Steder went to the presidential palace and told the president that he would order the severance of all diplomatic relations with Germany and follow the US government immediately after the United States declared war on Germany. Declaration of war on Germany

Yang Duxian mysteriously revealed a top-secret news to Tang Hualong, which made Tang Hualong a little surprised.

"Oh? Is there such a thing? Truly? What does the president say? Tang Hualong's brows furrowed.

Yang Du sighed: "What the president said to me personally, how can it be fake? Ambassador Guan Guo also had good intentions, but the president rejected the US ambassador's suggestion, saying that China and Germany have friendly relations. Germany helped China establish its initial industrial system and was a friend of China, although China also opposed Germany's policy of unlimited submarine warfare that killed innocents indiscriminately, but it took into account the feelings of the Chinese people towards Germany. China will not declare war on Germany, at least not for now

The president is right, even I have a good impression of Germany Tang Hualong nodded, but he was pondering Yang Du's position in his heart.

"Jiwu, you're confused!"

Yang Du shook his head. This comment made Tang Hualong's brows tighten even tighter.

This Yang degree, among all the shortcomings. This arrogance is the most intolerable.