Although there is a little green on the slopes, the spring is cold and steep, and the temperature in the middle has always been relatively low, so the scenery is still bleak.

A few people came over on the mountain path, for that man was in his early forties, dressed in a straight republican suit, wearing a black top hat, a pair of shiny high-top leather shoes, and a civilization stick in his hand, it was Tang Hualong, a member of the political committee, and he was followed by five people, one of whom was a secretary, carrying a black briefcase in his hand, and the other four were all young men who were full of energy and had electric eyes, although they were all wearing civilian clothes, but there were obviously small pistols in the pockets of their trousers, which were obviously armed guards.

This is the incense burner mountain in the Xishan Scenic Area, because the boulder shape on the top of the mountain is like the incense tripod, it resembles the incense burner peak of Lushan, so it is named the incense burner mountain, the environment here is elegant, the scenery is charming, it is the most secluded place in the whole Xishan Scenic Area, there are few buildings here. There are only a few villas built at the foot of the mountain, and Su Qilong is now living in one of them.

Tang Hualong rushed to Xishan from Beijing the day before yesterday, and before he left, he asked the Political Committee for five days off. The reason is excessive fatigue, but in fact, the main purpose is to avoid the limelight.

Like yesterday, today Tang Hualong got up early in the morning, and then took his entourage to climb the mountain, and after staying at the top of the mountain for more than half an hour, he hurried to the foot of the mountain. But after coming to Xishan, his appetite has become quite good, although it has something to do with the fresh air here, but not having to worry about government affairs is also an important reason.

Although the snow on the hillside has melted, the road on the mountain is still very slippery, although Tang Hualong is considered a young Zhuang figure among high-level politicians, but he does not dare to be careless, so he walked all the way down. The degree was also unhappy, and by the time Tang Hualong led his entourage back to the villa at the foot of the mountain, it was already nine o'clock in the morning.

After returning to the villa, Tang Hualong first drank some hot tea with his wife, chatted about the customs of the countryside, and then walked into the study alone, and as soon as he closed the door of the room, he was happy.

Without calling the servants, Tang Hualong plugged the bulky tube radio into the electrical socket by himself, and then turned on the switch of the radio and practiced calligraphy listening to the melodious Western music. Cultivate your heart.

After writing a few words, Tang Hualong put down his brush and looked at the alarm clock on the desk, which was already half past nine, so he tuned the radio channel to the news channel, sat on the sand, picked up a few newspapers prepared by the servant, and listened to the report while reading the news.

"According to Tokyo, the Japanese Navy has confirmed. The attack ship of the German Far East Fleet that sank in the East Java Sea the day before yesterday was the light cruiser Nuremberg, and at this point, the German Far East Fleet was left with only "Emden". Light cruiser, "Leipzig." The light cruiser was only two warships, and the Austro-Hungarian battleship "Queen Elizabeth" was also sunk by the British Navy off the coast of Australia. At the moment the naval forces of the Allied Far East are already insignificant, according to well-informed sources. The British naval detachment has pursued the Indian Ocean, and it is speculated that the remnants of the German Navy's Far East Fleet seem to have withdrawn to the coast of Africa, but according to Japanese government sources, the Japanese Combined Fleet is still searching for the remnants of the German Navy's Far East Fleet off the coast of Borneo, and it seems that the German Spey fleet is still lurking in the South Ocean waters.

According to PARIS, the chaotic situation in Petrograd, the capital of the Russian Empire, has not yet subsided, following the withdrawal of the remnants of General Khabarov, who was ordered by the tsar to suppress the revolution yesterday, from Petrograd. In the early hours of this morning, the whole city of Petrograd had fallen into the hands of the revolutionaries, and then the State Duma of the Russian Empire announced the establishment of a "provisional committee" and took over all power in the country, and at the same time sent a delegation of the Duma headed by the Minister of the Army and Navy Guchkov to Pskov to meet with Tsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire, who had returned from the Mogilev base camp, in order to advise the Tsar to abdicate and thus preserve the Tsarist system. Regency of Mikhail, the younger brother of the Emperor, but British commentators disagree, and according to some conflicting accounts, Rasputin, who had been missing for two months, has now returned to the Tsar, who has always been regarded as the Tsar's and Empress's wise trust and spiritual mentor, and according to unconfirmed sources, Rasputin was adamantly opposed to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II.

According to the latest news from Washington, since March, US President Wilson has published the "Zmrman Telegram" in the newspaper. After the detailed content, the call for a declaration of war on Germany in the United States grew, and according to the content of the "Zmelman telegram," it is judged. The German government did incite Mexico to attack Texas and New Mexico, as well as Alizona. This has clearly angered the American public, and it has done the most damage to U.S.-German relations since Germany announced the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare earlier this year. And since the U.S. government announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany last month, European commentators have generally agreed that U.S. entry into the war is only a matter of time, and that the "Zmelman telegram" will obviously further accelerate the pace of U.S. entry into the war.

Now let's turn to the European theater. Although Cai was on the Eastern Front, the German ** team was like a bamboo, and successively won military victories against Russia and the Empire, and the stalemate on the Western Front was not broken, just two days ago, in the artillery fire Lianerden battlefield, the German ** team and the British and French ** teams broke out a tank battle that shocked the Western Front, and the two sides used more than 500 tanks and armored vehicles. And the Air Force also launched large-scale air battles. However, due to the lack of unified command and coordination, the whole battle was very chaotic, and in the absence of reliable communication contacts, all the participating vehicles had to fight on their own. A scene of steel was staged, burning vehicles and the wreckage of blown vehicles could be seen everywhere on the battlefield, and European critics also unanimously called the Verdun battlefield "steel graveyard, and the "Verdun meat grinder" It is worth mentioning that the Chinese military observers stationed in France and Germany also witnessed the whole battle with the participating troops, and now we can read a few telegrams from these military observers, which were approved by the Chinese War Department and broadcast by this radio station for the first time."

The voice of the female announcer on the radio was very sweet, but after hearing this, Tang Hualong still turned off the radio, he had never been very interested in the military, he was just a politician. In his eyes, war is the last choice of politicians, and until the last moment comes, it is better to stay away from war, so as not to be scolded as warmongers.

As soon as the radio was turned off, Lili was much quieter in the study, Tang Hualong continued to sit on the sand and read the newspaper, he attached more importance to domestic news than international news, not to mention, now that a "coup d'état" was brewing in the domestic political arena, of course he had to pay more attention, so as not to fall behind in the political struggle. The length of coverage of the war in Europe has been greatly reduced in the pages of newspapers, after all, the war that has been going on for more than two years has long been boring to the Chinese who did not participate in the war. Therefore, the current newspaper pages are still dominated by domestic news, which is a little different from the radio.

And just in the last few days, almost all the newspapers in China have been focusing on the same thing, and that is the "Political Committee." personnel changes in the . This is also the "coup" issue that Tang Hualong is most concerned about at present.

It has been more than two years since the establishment of the Records Council, which was established from the very beginning under the banner of "the president's arm." It is precisely for this reason that this political committee is regarded as a pocket parliament and an attached cabinet.

There are 15 members of the Council, including the president, who is also the chairman. There are sixteen members in total, and these sixteen constitute the structural cornerstone of the current domestic politics. And Tang Hualong is one of the political commissars.

Although in terms of legal status, political commissars only play the role of supervising the administration of the government, but in fact, this position is very special, because it is an important tool used by the president to strengthen his power, and in some cases, it can even directly replace the role of various cabinet departments, such as Tang Hualong, who was ordered by the president last year to inspect the southwestern provinces and guide the work, and during his inspection, the local administrative authorities were actually no longer under the remote command of the cabinet ministries and the provincial government, but were under the orders of Tang Hualong, the "Qin Mission." "Even the provincial governors elected by the local councils must obey Tang Hualong, but at the same time, this does not mean that Tang Hualong can completely replace the cabinet and local councils. In fact, when Tang Hualong returned from his tour of the southwestern provinces, he immediately handed over his errand to the president, and immediately after that, the cabinet ministries resumed remote supervision of the southwestern provinces, and the local governments immediately restored local autonomy, and the president also adjusted some policies in the southwestern provinces according to Tang Hualong's inspection report, and these policies were soon enacted into law, which was higher than the power of local self-government.

From this, we can see the essence of this political commissar, when it is needed, it can be higher than the local government and the cabinet ministries, when it is not needed, it is an idle post, and the power of the political commissar comes from the authorization of the president, without the president's order, the political commissar does not even have the power to inspect the localities.

Knowing this, you can understand why so many people want to squeeze into the political committee. According to the relevant laws and regulations, political councilors are elected every five years, and there is an evaluation every two and a half years, and if they fail to pass this evaluation, they can only resign, and then the president appoints another political councilor to fill the quota of 15 people.

And the lamb, not long ago, just in time for the first political committee assessment, in that assessment, there were two political committee members who failed to pass the assessment, and those two, one is Wang Zhanyuan, the other is Lu Yongxiang, the reason why the two did not pass the assessment. It's because of the same business scandal.

According to the relevant laws and regulations, political commissars cannot directly run enterprises, but they can invest a small amount of shares in the enterprise, and Wang and Lu also do the same, but they take dry shares, they do not pay a penny, and the shares they own account for almost half of the total shares of the enterprise. This is inconsistent with the law, so the assessment did not pass, although the two were not subject to judicial investigation, but in the face of the turbulent public opinion, they can only resign, but according to the law, before the appointment of the new political commissioner, the two will continue to stay in the political commissar meeting.

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