Chapter 1022: Belief and Unbelief (II)

In the whole city of Beijing. Although the hotel industry has made great strides in this era with the penetration of Western culture and modernization, as part of Chinese tradition, the guild hall did not immediately withdraw from the stage of history, but stubbornly survived the impact of this modern lifestyle and business mode.

After all, the most important thing for Chinese is a relationship, the guild hall as a gathering place for people of the same nationality everywhere, the relationship between the hometown here can play an important role at some time, out of the 'door', the most hope is to have fellow villagers to take care of, and the guild hall is undoubtedly the place with the most fellow villagers, so although the lively local guild halls can no longer be compared with before, but in the face of the 'fierce' competition of new hotels, the guild hall finally survived.

In order to survive, the clan has also had to evolve to adapt to the new competitive environment and competitive era, and in the past, the clan was generally only open to local people. But now, the guild hall is not refused, the Guangdong guild hall lives in Jiangsu, the Shanxi guild hall lives in Guangxi, this is not a new thing, in fact, although many guild halls still carry the "guild hall" signboard, but have completed the transformation to the role of modern hotels, and most of the owners have changed.

The Jiangsu Guild Hall in Beijing is one of these remodeled guild halls, and although the owners of this "guild hall" are still from Jiangsu, the guests who live here are already from all over the world.

Now, the former president of the Republic of China, Xu Shichang, lives in the No. 1 room of Jiangsu Hall, Xu Shichang is not from Jiangsu, his ancestral home is Zhejiang, born in Henan, but his hometown is subordinate to Tianjin, according to Xu Shichang's current identity, any high-end hotel in Beijing is at his disposal, and the hotel will be proud of it if he can live in Xu Shichang, a distinguished guest, but Xu Shichang chose Jiangsu Hall as a place to stay, the reason is not complicated, because the opposite side of Jiangsu Hall is the "champion 'flower' garden", It is the residence of Zhang Jian, the recently deceased vice president of the Republic of China, and Xu Shichang came to Beijing from Tianjin this time, and Xu Shichang came to mourn Vice President Zhang. It is most suitable to live in Jiangsu Hall, because the distance is very close, and you can reach it by foot.

In order to entertain this distinguished guest, the shopkeeper of the Jiangsu Hall personally took the servants to guard the 'door' of the No. 1 room in this day, Xu Shichang but what he commanded, it was the shopkeeper's personal 'errands', and he was happy to fart, but he was also a person who had been president, although he had only been the president for a few days, but this was a distinguished guest, if it was because of the good service, Mr. Xu was happy, and then he wrote a new signboard for the hall, it would be more cost-effective.

Knowing this, you can understand why the shopkeeper of the Jiangsu Hall is so attentive.

Today is the day of Vice President Zhang's moving spirit, Xu Shichang originally went to protect the spirit in person, but the road conditions were not good, the car on the road was too bumpy, and Xu Shichang's blood pressure suddenly rose on the way, and the accompanying nurse hurriedly ordered the driver to turn the head of the car and pull Xu Shichang back to the Jiangsu Hall. Fortunately, the problem is not big, but there is no need to send it to the hospital, on the one hand, it is the doctor's diagnosis, on the other hand, it is also Xu Shichang's own request, now at this time, he is not willing to step into the hospital half a step anyway, Zhang Jian died in the hospital, Xu Shichang has a 'yin' shadow in his heart, he is afraid that once he enters the hospital, he will never be able to come out straight, so he would rather be in the guest room of this Jiangsu hall to get a hanging needle, rather than let people send him to the hospital to live in a senior ward, let people treat him as a patient.

Although he is reluctant to enter the senior ward, but the specialist doctor is not far from his side, and the shopkeeper of the Jiangsu Hall is now waiting in front of the guest room, the special "door" for the famous doctor in Beijing to run the "errand", the doctor called tea, the shopkeeper personally served it, the doctor is too hot, Xu Shichang is afraid of catching a cold, so the shopkeeper of the hall takes a fan to fan the doctor, this is called a courtesy, but it is not for the doctor's courtesy, but for Xu Shichang's hospitality.

Fortunately, Xu Shichang's blood pressure finally dropped, and the doctor left the nurse to take care of him, and then he took his leave, and the shopkeeper of the Jiangsu Hall had to be free, and sat down at the tea table in front of the 'door' of the Tianzi No. 1 room to take a breath, and was instructing the guy to bring him herbal tea. But I saw a limousine stop in front of the hall, and there was a white silk hanging in front of the car, which was obviously also a car to participate in Vice President Zhang's spirit transfer ceremony, so the shopkeeper didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly stood up, and grabbed the 'door', but it was still a step slow, the car 'door' had been opened by the driver, and two men wearing black gauze walked down the car, an old man, a middle-aged man, and the old man in charge of the shopkeeper knew that it was Zou Tingbi, a famous financial tycoon in Kyushu.

"Master Zou, you're back."

The shopkeeper of the hall hurriedly greeted him, and he was also very attentive, he was originally the shopkeeper of the teahouse, and his skills in flattering guests were very skillful.

"What's wrong with Old Xu? Has your blood pressure come down? Zou Tingbi asked.

"It's down, and now it's getting a sling. I'll give you a message. ”

After the shopkeeper of the hall finished speaking, he turned around and ran into the hall to report the news of Zou Tingbi's arrival to Xu Shichang.

Waiting for the shopkeeper of the hall to leave, Xiong Chengji asked Zou Tingbi in a whisper.

"It turns out that the 'key person' you want to show me is Xu Donghai."

Zou Tingbi nodded and looked left and right for a moment. Then he said, "I'm afraid this is not the place to talk, let's go into the house and talk." ”

While the two were talking, the shopkeeper hurried out again.

"Two, Master Xu is invited."

Xiong Chengji and Zou Tingbi followed the shopkeeper into the hall, and stepped into the Tianzi No. 1 room, after entering, Xiong Chengji first glanced into the room, and found that there were two other acquaintances standing here, namely Rao Hanxiang, chief of staff of the president, and Zhou Xuexi, Senator of Congress, who also participated in Zhang Jian's spirit transfer ceremony like Xiong Chengji and Zou Tingbi. But he went first, so he arrived at the hall before the two, and in addition to the two of them, there was also a nurse and a servant of the Xu Mansion present, while Xu Shichang was lying on a chaise longue covered with bear skin, and was getting a hanging needle.

"Sit, sit."

Seeing Xiong Chengji and Zou Tingbi coming in, Xu Shichang raised his head, nodded, said hello, and then instructed the servant to prepare a stool for the two of them, and sat down on his left hand.

"Miss nurse, let's just watch here, you go down and rest first, I'm tired for a long time, I'll ask the guild hall to prepare a place for you to rest, and when this needle is almost finished, we will call someone."

Zhou Xuexi sent the nurse away in a few words, and then took the shopkeeper of the hall away, and the servant of the Xu Mansion also walked outside the 'door' and stayed at the 'door' to facilitate the conversation of a few people in the house.

"Old Xu, Mr. Song Yuchu was assassinated in Beijing back then, what happened to that case? Didn't the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai do it? Mr. Zou talked to me about this matter just now, it seems that there is something else hidden in this matter, and Mr. Xu seems to know? This presumptuous visit disturbed Xu Lao's innocence, just to 'figure out' the matter. ”

Since there were no more idle people here, Xiong Chengji immediately opened the 'door' and asked a question.

"Alas! Many years have passed since this incident, and I have been holding it in my heart and have not told anyone about it, but in the past few days, I have been pondering over and over again the case of Song Yuchu's assassination, and the more I think about it, the more I feel that I can't bring this secret to the grave. I finally couldn't help it, and told the two of them about it as it was, I don't want them to tell Brother Zou again, and it seems that Brother Zou now seems to have told Weigen the truth of that incident again, then, at this time, it seems a little 'selfish' for me to deceive Weigen again, anyway, I'm also a handful of people now, so I'll tell you when I can speak, how to say that you are also Song Duchu's Guan' Disciple of the sect, you should know the cause and effect of this matter, but many years have passed since the incident, and it seems that there is no need to pursue it, not to mention what the truth is, I don't have a definite conclusion, everything is just my speculation. ”

Xu Shichang first sighed, said a few words, and then got back to business and talked about the assassination of Song Jiaoren that year.

"That was still after the decisive battle of Henan in the North-South War, at that time, the United Front defeated the main force of the Beiyang Army in Henan, and the Beiyang situation was in danger of a complete rout.

Originally, the negotiations between me and Song Yuchu went relatively smoothly, and the British minister also assisted me, seeing that the north and the south were about to be reunified, but at this time, a major event occurred in the city of Beijing, and the banner people were dissatisfied with the republic, and riots broke out, instigating in various parts of the city, and at the same time robbing the Qing dynasty to abolish the emperor and the regent, and in the riot, the foreign "diplomatic carriage" of the Japanese embassy was "fired" by machine guns, and several Japanese foreign "diplomatic personnel" were killed and wounded, which in turn caused a foreign "diplomatic dispute" dispute.

At the same time, there was also an internal strife in Nanjing, where the soldiers of the two factions fought for the post of the southeastern patrol envoy, causing heavy casualties to the peaceful residents of the city.

Taken together, these two events contributed to Congress's At that time, Yuan Xiangcheng had passed away, I had just officially taken over as the president of the Republic of China for only two days, and Zhao Zhenhua was also sworn in as vice president of the Republic of China, at this time, the Congress suddenly launched the impeachment of the president, which was clearly aimed at me, because the parliamentarians were aggressive, and the Congress was basically controlled by the United Front, so that once the Congress initiated impeachment, I could only resign, although I tried to save the situation, but I didn't want Song Yuchu to be suddenly assassinated, since the situation is irreparable, then, in order to avoid embarrassment, but also to avoid the country falling into the soul againIn this way, in just a few days, the situation changed abruptly, and the United Front not only controlled the Congress, but also controlled the presidential palace, so that in that in that South Korean War, the United Front won a complete victory, while Beiyang was defeated, and it collapsed until it collapsed. ”

Hearing this, Xiong Chengji was a little strange, and when he saw Xu Shichang pause, he said: "I also know what happened to the impeachment of the president, it was a political struggle between Li Songqing and Tang Jiwu adhering to the will of Zhao Zhenhua, which was completely in line with the constitutional procedure, but I don't understand, what does this matter have to do with Mr. Song's assassination?" If I am not mistaken, Mr. Song had already been assassinated before Mr. Xu officially handed over his resignation to the National Assembly and sent a telegram. ”

Xu Shichang nodded, took a cup of tea brought by Zhou Xuexi and moistened his throat, and then continued to speak.

"That's right, Song Yuchu's assassination is directly related to this congressional impeachment of the president, it can be said that Song Yuchu was assassinated because of the impeachment of the president, and I analyzed afterwards that the most suspicious person for the assassination of Song can only be Zhao Zhenhua."

Although he was mentally prepared, when he heard Xu Shichang say this, Xiong Chengji was still taken aback and hurriedly asked.

"Why does Elder Xu think so? Song and Zhao are both leaders of the United Front, and according to the organizational program of the United Front, Mr. Song is Zhao Zhenhua's subordinate, how could it be that Zhao Zhenhua sent someone to assassinate Mr. Song? ”

"Song and Zhao are inseparable, Song Yuchu is bent on establishing a constitutional system, and Zhao Zhenhua is bent on seeking to monopolize power, the two are fundamentally at odds, how can they cooperate for a long time? The reason why they cooperated at that time was mainly to deal with the common enemy Beiyang, and once Beiyang fell, it was only a matter of time before the two broke up. In my opinion, even if Song Yuchu did not die at that time, he would die in the future, as long as he adhered to his constitutional ideals, he would have to die, because Zhao Bei would never allow anyone to stand in his way to power.

At that time, the National Assembly was preparing to initiate the presidential impeachment case, and I saw that the United Front was making great noise in the Congress, and it was difficult to resist, so I sent someone to invite the leader of the constitutionalist faction, Song Yuchu, to go to the presidential palace to discuss the matter, and the National Assembly was still in the south at that time, and Song Yuchu stayed in Beijing because of the matter of the peace talks between the north and the south, so Song Yuchu immediately went to the presidential palace to negotiate with me and discuss how to settle the Congress. The leader of the spirits, naturally, hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to expand the power of the United Front and the constitutionalists in the political fǔ ministries, and the Beiyang side feared that I would be impeached and removed from power, thus causing Beiyang to lose its unity. In exchange, Song Yuchu also agreed, using his influence in the constitutionalist faction of the United Front to persuade the parliamentarians to obstruct the passage of the presidential impeachment bill, so as to save my presidential position, but before he could start to act, in the middle of the night on the day of the end of the negotiations, Song Yuchu was assassinated in the Qiren ghetto, the assassin acted quickly, the news was accurate, I am afraid that it is the people lurking around Song Yuchu, Song died, and the Congress passed the impeachment case. 'Sex' is higher, so I have to retreat if I don't retreat, think about it, and finally decide to take the initiative to quit and give up the presidential throne to Zhao Bei.

Now that I think about it, the reason why Zhao Bei wanted to send someone to assassinate Song Yuchu is probably a plan to kill two birds with one stone, on the one hand, to prevent the Song family from assisting me in maintaining the power of the presidency and then seizing the presidential throne, and on the other hand, to get rid of potential political opponents within the United Front and prevent Song Yuchu from causing 'trouble' with him in the future. This is the conclusion that I have thought about for many years, maybe it's just speculation, but maybe it's the truth, as for whether to believe it or not, Akan can figure it out for himself. ”

Xu Shichang's words were also thrilling, but after finishing speaking, Xiong Chengji raised his eyebrows and asked.

"There is no evidence, what Xu Lao said, can there be evidence to prove it? After all, this is just Xu Lao's words. ”