Chapter 710: Confidants and Cronies (II)

Sit next to the president for lunch at the moment. Wu Zhenhan also has a mixture of feelings in his heart, both excited and worried, excited that he can finally show his ambitions, worried that his talents are limited, and he may not be more suitable than Cai Yi.

Because of the concern in his heart, this meal is naturally a little absent-minded.

"Baishan, what are you pondering? Can you tell me? ”

The president's voice sounded in his ears, Wu Zhenhan came back to his senses, looked at the president, and saw that the president had stopped his chopsticks and was looking at him, and the other military and political officials who accompanied him also looked at him curiously.

"No, nothing. I'm just pondering the battle on the front. ”

Wu Zhenhan hurriedly shook his head, and hurriedly took chopsticks and put a chopstick dish into his bowl to hide the strange expression on his face.

"Baishan, don't you usually eat chili peppers? How do you put chili peppers in your bowl? That's Sichuan's Chaotian pepper. ”

Zhao Bei smiled, very curious about Wu Zhenhan's absent-mindedness, speculating about what he was thinking about now.

In the first two years, Wu Zhenhan was kept away from the political center, which was deliberately done by Zhao Bei, but the purpose was not exactly what others speculated about "releasing military power with a glass of wine". One of its purposes is to protect Wu Zhenhan's lineage, when Zhao Bei's competition with the Beiyang Group was still ongoing, in order to avoid Wu Zhenhan being involved in the whirlpool of political struggle, Zhao Bei could only transfer Wu Zhenhan to Anhui, one is to protect this 'sexual' upright soldier, and the other is to help him stabilize the place, and then the situation stabilized slightly, Zhao Bei hurriedly transferred Wu Zhenhan to the Army and Navy Joint Staff, ready to be entrusted with a heavy task after training for a period of time, but he soon found that with the blue sky, Jiang Fangzhen's group of professional soldiers with the foreign faction as the backbone had some rejection of Wu Zhenhan, a "reckless soldier", although this rejection was not very 'fierce', but considering the internal stability, Zhao Bei decisively kicked Wu Zhenhan to the Army University and isolated him from his group of "reckless subordinates", the purpose was also very simple, that is, to avoid internal strife between the two military groups.

Zhao Bei needs time to digest the fruits of victory, and the internal military forces also need to be integrated, before completing these tasks, he must try his best to avoid internal 'fierce' conflicts, in his opinion, Wu Zhenhan, as a veteran of the Republican Army, is very prestigious among many Republican Army faction officers, and Zhao Bei is now the president, it is impossible to mingle with his subordinates at any time as before, and it is impossible to personally listen to the voices of his subordinates often, so as to do so. Those officers of the Republican Army faction will definitely unite around Wu Zhenhan, and on the other hand, Lan Tianwei and Jiang Fangzhen's group of Liuyang faction officers have almost no foundation in the army, but their military quality is much higher than that of Wu Zhenhan's group of officers from the rebel army.

This can be seen as Zhao Bei's precaution, but it can't be said that he was suspicious of Wu Zhenhan at that time, Wu Zhenhan at that time, did not have the ability to challenge Zhao Bei's authority, not only did he not have this ability, no one could have this ability, Zhao Bei would not allow such a person to appear, in order to ensure his authority, but also to protect Wu Zhenhan, a loyal and reliable subordinate, Zhao Bei decisively kicked Wu Zhenhan to the Army University, not only kept him away from the whirlpool of political struggle, but also avoided a very likely' intensifying' internal conflicts.

After kicking Wu Zhenhan to the Army University, Zhao Bei stepped up the rectification of the Republican Army faction and cut the mountain in the National Defense Army. On the other hand, he was also staring at Wu Zhenhan's side, he was carefully observing Wu Zhenhan, to see if this subordinate was the kind of person who was arrogant and discouraged, it turned out that Wu Zhenhan was not that kind of person, this is a tenacious and tenacious soldier, he did not complain because he was excluded from the center of power, nor did he give up on himself because of temporary setbacks, but adhered to the belief in his heart and adhered to his meticulous style of doing things.

Zhao Bei needs such subordinates now, in fact, as early as last year, he was ready to transfer Wu Zhenhan back to his side, but he never found a suitable position, until Duan Qirui resigned as army chief, Zhao Bei decided to transfer Wu Zhenhan to the army department to assist him in reorganizing the army, but before this war against Japan is over, the army chief should still be represented by Cai Yi.

Now the timing of transferring Wu Zhenhan back to the center of power is very good, now Zhao Bei has flattened those big and small hills in the national defense army, the former republican army faction officer group has been disbanded without a shadow, and Lan Tianwei and Jiang Fangzhen's group of foreign officers have also established their prestige in the army.

"Baishan, when you go to the War Department, you will fight Cai Songpo first. When this battle is over, you will replace Cai Songpo as the chief of the War Department, and as for Cai Songpo, he happened to go to the United States to recuperate, and by the way, he inspected the military. ”

Zhao Bei pondered what Wu Zhenhan was thinking at the moment, said a few words tentatively, and saw Wu Zhenhan nodding again and again.

The officers who accompanied him basically knew about the personnel changes of the army chief, but it was the first time that those civilian officials heard that Wu Zhenhan was going to replace Cai Yi as the army chief, so Li Yuanhong and Yang Du both 'revealed' surprised expressions, looked at Chen Tieshan and Li Xiehe on the side, and saw the two of them bowing their heads, and then they understood that the two directors also knew about this personnel transfer in advance.

Li Yuanhong didn't care, but he picked up the wine glass, toasted Wu Zhenhan, and said a few beautiful words, but Yang Du was different, after putting down the wine glass, he immediately pondered, trying to 'figure out' why the president made this personnel transfer.

At present, the Association for the Promotion of Discipline and Administration has developed rapidly, and the training and political organizations in various places have sprung up like 'spring' after the rain. Everyone is preaching the discipline of government, everyone is shouting that the discipline of government is better than the constitutional, and all kinds of "color" people have thrown themselves into this discipline and political movement, quite a bit of the urging of the Qing court to prepare for the constitutional movement was in full swing, but at this time, the president quietly 'sexually' handed over the position of army chief to a general who fought with him in bloody battles, what does this mean?

In Yang Du's view, this shows that the president is making substantive 'sexual' preparations for political training, and in order to ensure the smooth establishment of the discipline and political system, the president must first stabilize the army, and Wu Zhenhan is a veteran of the Republican Army. He is also known as the president's "close comrade-in-arms," and having such a person in charge of the War Department will undoubtedly play a very important role in stabilizing the morale of the military.

As far as China is concerned, as long as the army is stable, then the air force and navy will also be stable, and the rest depends on Yang Du and his group of civil servants, whether they can build the general trend of training and government well, and whether they can concentrate the public opinion and popular will on the cause of training and government, which is not only related to the stability of the country, but also related to the career of Yang Du's group.

Considering this, Yang Du believes that it is necessary to speed up the propaganda now, not only to publicize to the Chinese, but also to publicize to foreigners, for this purpose, Yang Du even brought a few well-known scholars from abroad, ready to let them wave the flag for the cause of political training, foreign monks will chant the scriptures, the current gentry, literati do not believe in anything else, just believe in foreigners, when foreigners said that the Qing Dynasty constitution is good, everyone is open to the constitution, now, if foreigners say that rational training is better than the adventurous constitution, then, The crowd will surely shout along, and as for those who oppose it, they are just mere grasshoppers, how can they shake the tree?

However, there seems to be an obstacle at present, that is, the constitution, if you want to discipline the government, you must first revise the constitution, Yang Du has carefully studied the laws of various countries in Japan, and he knows very well the real role of the law, so he believes that before the president officially announces the training of the government. It is necessary to convene a constitutional revision conference to make good use of public opinion and revise the constitution.

Yesterday, Yang Du had already made a proposal to the president, asking the president to consider amending the constitution, and the president also agreed at that time, but did not determine the time for amending the constitution.

"President Junjian, yesterday I proposed to amend the Constitution, and the President agreed, but no specific date has yet been set, if the President agrees, I suggest that a constitutional amendment conference be held next month, and I will convene the personnel, and the agenda will be drawn up by me, and the amendment of specific articles will also be presided over by me, and after being 'submitted' to the President for review, it will be 'submitted' to the Constitutional Amendment Assembly for voting."

Yang Du suddenly changed the topic to constitutional amendment, everyone present was a little surprised, only Zhao Bei did not feel too surprised, in his opinion, Yang Du is arrogant, if he does not grasp all the power to revise the constitution in his hands, it will be surprising.

"Huizi, you are in a hurry. We must pay attention to this public opinion, and we must not go against the will of the people, let alone force or 'treacherous' the will of the people, so that we can do it only if the people support it, and we must not do it rashly if the people strongly oppose it. ”

Zhao Bei's words are high-sounding, creating "public opinion" has always been his specialty, not afraid of no public opinion, afraid that public opinion will be in the hands of political opponents, and now, he has sat firmly in the country, even the most powerful opposition force in the Congress, the National League, has also bowed down, so, who else in the world can challenge public opinion?

"The president advised, keep it in mind, never dare to forget, and must take the will of the people as the guide and the will of the people as the direction of struggle."

Yang Du swore an oath, and the words he said were a bit resolute, thinking of the president's trust, he was even more proud in his heart, if he completed the training, he would be the first minister under the president in the future.

Zhao Bei nodded, and glanced at Zhang 'Ji', who was sitting opposite, and the other party understood, so he 'interjected'.

"The political propaganda committee has enough propaganda power, and this matter cannot be handed over to the training and political promotion association alone, it is better for the two of us to join hands to jointly guide public opinion for the training and government."

Yang Du was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Zhang 'excited' Yang to actually see the stitches and 'insert' the needle, and was about to refuse, but he had already heard the president speak.

"It's good to have the Political Propaganda Committee come forward, Huizi, this matter is also discussed by you and Shiren, and I won't 'intervene'." Zhao Bei nodded.

Of course, there is no need for the president to 'interject', just this sentence, Yang Du can not object, the president's words Chrysostom 'jade', this power of the Political Propaganda Committee will never sit idly by.

Seeing that Yang Du was a little depressed, Zhao Bei smiled faintly, put down his chopsticks, and said: "Everyone, I have something to announce to you, just before we rushed to Nanyuan, the General Staff received a battle report from the front line in Liaodong, the whereabouts of the Japanese army in Dagushan have been discovered by our army, and the rest is to be surrounded and suppressed by heavy troops." In order to boost the morale of the front, I have decided to set off tomorrow to inspect the front line in Liaodong, to express my condolences to the soldiers on the front, and to boost the morale of the first battle against the Japanese invaders! ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, the president is going to "drive in person".

Although they wanted to oppose it, everyone still did not oppose it, because they knew very well that the president was by no means the kind of person who could easily change his decision, and everything he decided would never change, and he said that if he went to the front, he would definitely go to the front, and no one could stop him, and the only thing everyone could do was probably to go to the front line in Liaodong with the royal driver.