A convoy of cars and five trucks came from the direction of Beijing, and the convoy drove into the Nanyuan Air Base without hindrance and stopped at the school grounds.

A strong man wearing a general's uniform stepped down from the car, and it was Tian Jinfu, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau. He was followed by an adjutant carrying a bag. The black leather briefcase he was carrying in his hand was stuffed to the brim, and the straight military uniform looked very energetic.

Tian Jinfu glanced at the trucks that had stopped running, and the canvas covering the cars did not move. The passengers on the bus know the rules very well, and without orders, they will never get out of the car, or even show their heads, so they will not know what this place is.

Tian Jinfu turned his head to look at the slanting sun on the horizon again. Then he took the adjutant and left the school with a brisk pace, and hurried straight to the small two-story building where the president was located.

After Tian Jinfu walked into the small building with his adjutant, the adjutant of the attendant's room took the black briefcase and accompanied Tian Jinfu to the second floor, while Tian Jinfu's adjutant waited in the reception room with interest.

When Tian Jinfu walked into the president's office, Zhao Bei just finished reviewing all the official documents on the table.

"Yiren, you came on time

Zhao Bei didn't hesitate, took the black briefcase handed over by the adjutant, took out a few documents from it, and picked one that he thought was the most important. Flipping it open, as for Tian Jinfu, he sat on the sand in the corner without saying a word, and the adjutant of the attendant's room and Qin Sihu, the captain of the guard, were guarding outside the office door, with their ears sideways. Always at your beckon.

Five minutes later, Zhao Bei closed the file, paced back and forth in front of his desk with his hands behind his back, and then walked to the corner and sat down on the sand opposite Tian Jinfu.

"The efficiency of your military intelligence bureau is still very high, the operation over there in Nanyang, you have indeed done a good job, and the development of things is completely expected by the center, even more than expected, better than the center expected, now is the next step to be implemented immediately, I want to ask your opinion."

Tian Jinfu had already taken these details into account when he came to Nanyuan, and when Zhao Bei asked at this time, he naturally answered very neatly, and the answer also made Zhao Bei more satisfied.

"In my personal opinion, now is the best time to implement the next step. On the one hand, the frontal battle in Europe has begun, the French and German teams are engaged in a fierce battle, and the British government is now fully concerned about the European battlefield, and has no time to take care of the South Seas at all, at most from India; On the other hand. The German Far East Fleet had just defeated the British Far East Fleet, and it was at a time of complacency that our actions in the South Seas would further strengthen Germany's strategic superiority in the Far East. Therefore, I believe that it is more in the long-term interests of our country to start the next step now. ”

"You're right, and that's what I'm analyzing. Okay, let's do it, as for the North Korean death squad members you brought, I won't meet them in person, ask the attendant room to arrange it, and Lixuan will send them to Tianjin. From there, take Jinpu Road, don't take Jinghan Road, and it's better to disperse your actions. Speaking of this, Zhao Bei stood up. Walked back to the desk, picked up the phone, and shook the switchboard. The switchboard was ordered to transfer to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent someone to accompany Shin Guizhi, the foreign minister of the "Independent State of Korea," to President Namwon.

When Shen Guizhi arrived at the president's line. Tian Jinfu had already left Nanyuan for half an hour, and Zhao Bei also met this person alone in the president's office. The two talked in the office, and no one knew what the specific content of their conversation was, but Shen Guizhi's face was indeed a little pale when he left the president's office.

When Shin Joo left President Namwon. It was completely dark, but like most of the time, Zhao Bei did not stop working because it was dark, the president's line was brightly lit, and everyone knew that Mr. President was fighting at night again.

It wasn't until late at night that the lights in the president's office went out, and before that, Zhao Bei had met more than a dozen senior officials in the office in one breath, both civil and military, if you just look at the list of these people, no one can guess what the president wants to do, but one thing is very clear, these senior officials who accepted the president's overnight summons belong to the kind of people who usually eat idle meals, such as Lu Yongxiang, Wang Zhanyuan, Zhao Qi, Ruan Zhongshu, Yang Wangpeng and others, these people are all "idle knowledge" who serve as senior officials in the government. outside. Another common denominator is that they belong to the "pro-German faction" of the government, at least on the surface.

Wait for the last government "idler." After leaving President Nanyuan, Zhao Beicai returned to the presidential palace in Beijing exhausted, slept until dawn, and did not go to work the next day, but informed the chamberlain. Spread a message to the society, announcing that the president had decided to accept the doctor's advice and go to Xishan for recuperation due to his overwork some time ago. During the period of President Sai Son recuperation, the cabinet handled government affairs with full authority, and Vice President Zhang Xiao and National Assembly Speaker Le Yuanhong jointly supervised it.

Then, Zhao Bei really ordered all the people. Hao Hao rushed to Xishan and lived in a government villa. As for the busy government affairs, they are relieved to be handled by the cabinet departments, but the military power still refuses to let go.

Lost the personal supervision of the leader, originally looked

And with the cabinet ministries! Occasionally, there was a disharmony with the divination. Yan Huiqing, the acting foreign minister of the Qing cabinet, was anxious, and he could barely support the situation at the beginning of the net. However, when a dispute arose between the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Heavy Industry over the jurisdiction of the mine, the acting foreign minister was completely out of choice and sent a telegram to the Xishan government villa to ask the president to make a decision, but the person who called back was Li Bianhe, director of the chamberlain. The director of the chamberlain told Yan Huiqing that the president is now undergoing the latest "seclusion and recuperation method" in Europe in order to recover his energy as soon as possible, so. In recent days, the president has not been able to deal with any government affairs. Nor will they meet with any government officials.

In desperation, Yan Huiqing had no choice but to discuss with Li Yuanhong, who stayed in the National Assembly, and finally the two decided to notify the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Heavy Industry to "reconsider" the issue of mine jurisdiction

Again, this means that the respective reports of the two sides of the dispute will be rewritten, and as for where it needs to be revised, no clear opinion has been given from above, so even after the amendment, it may not be able to pass in the cabinet, which is one of the methods used by the cabinet to promote the committee, but it is only nominally high-sounding.

Yan Huiqing finally put down the dispute between the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Heavy Industry for the time being, but soon the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had a dispute with the Admiralty, and the Admiralty planned to seize a Dutch gunboat that had "strayed" into the military control zone in Jiaozhou Bay, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not want to cause a diplomatic dispute at this time, and wanted to ask the Admiralty to raise its hand, but the Admiralty did not do it. So the lawsuit went to Yan Huiqing, who is now the top boss of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Naturally, he had to avoid suspicion, so this hot potato was thrown to the outgoing Vice President Zhang Cha, but Mr. Zhang is now obsessed with the cause of water conservancy planning, and he has no intention of taking this responsibility. Therefore, the final result of the discussion is still "renegotiated"

Discuss again, discuss again, don't know how expensive firewood and rice are not at home. Once he became the home of the cabinet, Yan Huiqing really understood what it means to be "a great opportunity for daily management"

However, these government affairs were not the most headache for Yan Huiqing, and the things that really gave Yan Huiqing a headache were born in the people, and on the second day after the president went to Xishan to recuperate, a major incident occurred in the German concession in Tianjin, when a group of drunken foreign sailors rushed into the office of the "Independent State of Korea" in Tianjin. After beating all the North Koreans there and setting fire to the door of the office, German patrols were dispatched to arrest several troublemakers. After interrogation, the troublemakers confessed that they were instructed to do so, and that the person who instructed them to commit the crime was a Japanese national. Most of these troublemakers were British, and according to the tacit understanding between Germany and Britain, in times of war, expatriates from the two countries could live in each other's concessions, but could not break the law, so Germany immediately used this pretext to expel the British sailors who made trouble, and in retaliation, the British Concession authorities also expelled a group of German merchants who were doing business in the British Concession.

As for the newspapers controlled by the Korean independence faction, they unanimously accused the Japanese Government of sabotaging the Sino-Japanese peace situation, while the German newspapers in China began to trumpet all kinds of despicable acts of "British sea hooligans" in various parts of the world, inciting Chinese readers, and provoking hostility against Britain. He denied that British citizens had appeared in the German Concession in Tianjin during the war, and accused the German Concession authorities of plotting this "conspiracy" aimed at driving a wedge between China and Britain.

In the midst of the uproar, the "Tianjin Foreign Sailor Troublemaking Case" finally reached the center, and the hot potato was thrown into Yan Huiqing's hands, and he didn't accept it, and he didn't accept it, but because the matter was too wide-ranging, it was not appropriate to "discuss again".

A few days later, the "Goryeo Volunteers" who staged an armed riot in the Straits Settlements officially raised the banner of anti-British, thoroughly regarded Britain as a hostile force, and announced that they would "fight to the end" against the British colonists

Immediately after that, the German government declared the South Seas region a "war zone," and the German ships would have the right to intercept any ship transporting military supplies to the British territories, and if they met resistance, the German ships would be sunk.

In the face of the chaotic situation in the Far East, people of insight have called on all countries to calm down, and Lu Yongxiang, Wang Zhanyuan, Zhao Wei, Ruan Zhongshu, Yang Wangpeng, and others have joined forces with the chambers of commerce of various countries in China to jointly send a telegram demanding that the reorganization of the "Far East Peace Committee" be completed quickly.

This power supply quickly attracted the attention of the government and the opposition. Vice President Zhang Xiaoyu telegraphed to announce his support for this proposal, and Speaker of the National Assembly Li Yuanhong later made a speech announcing his support for this proposal. And the U.S. government has decided to pick it up. Completion of the restructuring of the Far East Peace Commission.

However, the British government, which was in the whirlpool, suddenly hesitated at this time, after some hesitation. The British government finally gave the order, and so. Several troop carriers preparing to set sail from India turned around and sailed toward Malaya with thousands of Indian soldiers on board, a move that attracted the attention of Asian public opinion circles and the attention of China's central government.

However, President Zhao remained silent. No one knows what Mr. President, who is "in seclusion" in Nishiyama, is thinking about now.