Guifu Building.

"The Liangguang Parade has made Lord Lu arrive!"

With this voice, Chase came out with a spring breeze on his face, greeted and greeted, and introduced Lu Rongting into a private room specially prepared for him.

There were four or five people sitting inside, all of whom were businessmen who had done a lot of business, most of whom Lu Rongting recognized, and when they saw the patrol envoy coming in, they greeted Lu Rongting together.

There was only a young man who was not very old, and his face was pale due to excessive wine, but he sat there with a grin, as if Lu Rongting did not exist at all, which caused Lu Rongting to be a little unhappy at that time.

It's just that with so many guests, it's not easy to have a seizure for a while.

Chase raised his glass and toasted them one by one, and after a few glasses of wine, the atmosphere became lively.

Chase is the master, but Lu Rongting is the well-deserved protagonist, a group of businessmen have flattered, Lu Rongting is also thinking of a way to scrape some oil and water from these businessmen, so as to cover the military expenses, and try to behave himself politely.

The topic turned to the battle situation in Hunan, and Lu Rongting couldn't help but exaggerate how the Gui army was brave and good at fighting in order to make the businessmen more confident in himself.

I didn't want to talk about the happy place, but the young man with a big shelf snorted coldly: "If President Yuan is still here, will the world be so chaotic?" It's a pity, it's a pity, President, what will become of this country as soon as you leave! ”

Being made such a fuss by him, Lu Rongting's face became gloomy at that time, and Cai Sili hurriedly said: "Seventh Master, Seventh Master, you drink." ”

Lu Rongting looked at Chasley's face, endured his breath, put on a smiling face again, and said to those businessmen: "Protecting the Dharma is the most important thing, my Gui army is fighting bloody battles on the front line, and it is all for my place to win the color."

"Yes, yes." Several merchants said in unison.

"It's just" Lu Rongting's words changed: "It's just that fighting is the money for fighting, and now the front-line army has begun to owe salaries, and now that you are here, Lu still wants to ask you to help more."

As soon as he heard that he was going to take out the money, the lively banquet suddenly became deserted, and several businessmen lowered their heads and just drank and ate, and no one dared to look at Lu Rongting.

Lu Rongting was angry in his heart.

To be honest, Guangxi's finances were still good before.

Lu Rongting worshipped Chen Bingkun as the overseer of Guangdong, and his uncle Tan Haoming as the overseer of Guangxi. The guns and bullets produced by the various arsenals in Guangdong first met the needs of the Gui army or were transported back to Guangxi, and the Cantonese army could not get their hands on it, so that the mint produced silver quills and shipped them back to Guangxi, so that Guangxi's finances and finances were more than sufficient, but Guangdong's silver was short, the currency was low, and the losses of the Cantonese people exceeded 10 million a year, which caused a deep contradiction between the Cantonese people and the Gui clique. Most of the middle and upper officials of the Gui family became rich people.

But the successive wars have allowed Guangxi to accumulate those family funds, a lot of consumption, and in the current situation, it is too difficult for you to ask the businessmen to come up with money.

On the side, Chase suddenly said: "Since the patrol envoy is in difficulty, I will donate 10,000 yuan to help the army!" ”

As soon as he heard that someone was starting, it was actually Chase Siley, Lu Rongting was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly. Chasley shrugged his shoulders: "When I was in Paris, in order to please Countess Warren, I spent the equivalent of 20,000 oceans of francs in one day, which is nothing. ”

There was an exclamation during the banquet, and Lu Rongting also made up his mind to befriend this God of Wealth.

Who would have thought that the "Seventh Master" said in a non-yin and non-yang manner: "Only you countrymen who live at home all day have never seen the world, 20,000 oceans?" The seventh master threw 180,000 oceans in ten days for the sake of Xiao Peach in Yanjing! ”

After a while, the banquet exploded, and the merchants exchanged heads and talked about each other.

If this is true, this is a bigger God of Wealth than Chase Silie, although Lu Rongting is disgusted with this person's style, he reluctantly smiled: "Don't dare to ask the name of Gao?" ”

"This is Hu Qiying and Hu Qiye from Yanjing!"

Cai Sili had just finished the introduction, and Hu Qiying sneered again: "If only I could take those things from North Korea"

Chase hurriedly coughed, and Hu Qiying realized that he had lost his words, so he quickly lowered his head and drank and stopped talking

But this attracted Lu Rongting's attention.

This meal, since the beginning of talking about military salaries, everyone has a ghost in their hearts.

Everyone didn't say a word, and after eating for a while, they all got up and said goodbye.

Lu Rongting sat down for a while, had something on his mind, and also said that he was busy with military affairs and left.

"Check the origin of that Hu Qiying." As soon as he came out of the restaurant, Lu Rongting said with a gloomy face.

"Yes."

The Wuzhou military conference convened by Lu Rongting was convened on time.

In addition to the military leaders of the Gui family, Hu Hanmin, a representative of Sun Wen, Wang Zhengting, vice minister of foreign affairs, Cheng Biguang, chief of the navy, and Li Yaohan, governor of Guangdong Province, were also invited to attend the meeting. The Wuzhou Military Conference was larger than the Nanning Military Conference, and it was a joint meeting that included the Kuomintang, the Gui faction, and the local military personnel in Guangdong.

The theme of the meeting was to cooperate sincerely to fight against the Northern Army and at the same time eliminate internal barriers. Gui himself took charge of the frontal action to aid Hunan, and at the same time asked the Kuomintang to send troops to Fujian and open up a second battlefield to contain the northern army.

The Kuomintang only had the opportunity to express its opinion at this time, so it raised the issue of Chen Bingkun, the Guangdong overseer of the Gui line, being unpopular and seizing the governor's pro-army, which Lu Rongting immediately accepted and suggested that Chen be transferred to the commander-in-chief of the army to fight against Long Jiguang, and that Cheng Biguang be promoted to be the overseer of Guangdong, and that the 20 battalions of the governor's pro-army received by Chen Bingkun also be transferred to Chen Jiongming's command to attack Fujian, but subject to Cheng Biguang's control.

Cheng Biguang was a well-known moderate in the Kuomintang, he always advocated to unite with the Gui faction to resist the Northern Army, and the Gui faction recommended him to serve as the overseer of Guangdong and temperate Chen Jiongming, because he trusted him, and at this time the Kuomintang did not want to make the Gui faction sad in the position of overseer of Guangdong, so it strongly urged Lu Rongting to come to Guangzhou himself to preside over the military. In the final meeting, Lu Rongting was promoted to concurrently serve as the overseer of Guangdong as the envoy of the two Guangxi patrols, Cheng Biguang as the commander-in-chief of the navy and the commander-in-chief of the army-navy alliance of the Fujian army, and Lin Zaoyi, the commander-in-chief of the navy, and Fang Shengtao to jointly attack Fujian.

At the end of the meeting, a statement condemning Wang Hengyue was actually made.

The statement said that Wang Hengyue sabotaged the Dharma Protector, attacked Yunnan and Guizhou, and undermined the situation in the southwest, and so on, and also asked Wang Hengyue to immediately invite Tang Jiyao and Liu Xianshi from the lower field to return to Yunnan and Guizhou to re-preside over the military and political bureaus of the two places.

Only this condemnation, Wang Hengyue should not take the matter seriously, then it is difficult to say

The military resolution is there, but it is still the same old question:

Military!

Where to get military spending? Military spending is needed to aid Hunan and military spending is needed to attack Fujian, and it is also necessary to guard against Wang Hengyue, the number one powerful faction in the southwest, a lot of military spending!

Lu Rongting's hands were tight, and the hands of the Kuomintang were even poorer.

Wang Hengyue, who holds the three southwestern provinces, has money in his hands, but why do you ask him for it? only then did he issue a statement of condemnation, and in a blink of an eye, he was asked to take the money? This is too much to say, not to mention that even if you want Wang Hengyue, you won't give it to you

"The patrol envoy has found out the background of that Hu Qiying."

These words brought Lu Rongting back to his senses from his troubles, and then he thought of Hu Qiying that day.

didn't pay much attention to it, and asked "what's the origin", Lin Tianlong said in a low voice: "This person is from Yanjing, and he really has a background." He is called 'Seventh Master', Zhang Xun looked for him when he was restored, Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang also treated him as guests, and it is said that he was very polite and respectful. This person spends money in Yanjing like flowing water, in order to make a show, hundreds of thousands of oceans are thrown without frowning! And he has a close relationship with the foreigner bank, but there is a strange thing"

He looked to the side: "This person suddenly left Yanjing quietly, as soon as he left, it seems that Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui are in some chaos, and they send people everywhere to arrest him in secret, and they are unwilling to arrest him publicly, don't you think it's strange?" ”

Lu Rongting only felt that there was a lot of weirdness in it, what was the origin of this "Seventh Master", who could be regarded as guests by such unstoppable figures as Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui? Later, why did he leave Yanjing, so that Feng and Duan could only be arrested secretly?

"What about his relationship with Chaseley?" Lu Rongting couldn't help but ask.

"This man had been to France, and he and Chase knew each other around the time they were in France." Lin Tianlong quickly said everything he knew: "And I also inquired that when Chase came back this time, he didn't want to transfer his business to China at all, he must have come back for Hu Qiying." There is also a strange thing, before Cai Yi died of illness, Cai Sili hurriedly arrived at Yue Ben and has been by Cai Yi's side, I think"

"I want to think, I want to think"

Lu Rongting kept circling around the room, his brows tightly locked.

suddenly stopped, and his brows loosened: "There are weird, there are weird, Hu Qiying must have hidden secrets, and Cai Ye must also know it." Don't forget, Cai Ye is in Yanjing, and he has been by Yuan Shikai's side for a long time, etc."

Lu Rongting suddenly thought of something: "Hu Qiying opened his mouth to President Yuan Da and closed his mouth to President Yuan Da, what does this person have to do with Yuan Shikai?" Or, maybe do you know what Yuan Shikai's secret? ”

"Possibly, why didn't I think of it?" Lin Tianlong patted his head and said, "If he really knows any secrets, if he can tell them, it will be of great help to us." ”

Lu Rongting thought about it for a while, rolled his eyes a few times and said:

"Take my film immediately, invite Hu Qiying, and that Chase to come to my place for dinner, be polite, no matter what, you must invite them here for me!"

(To be continued)