A train full of passengers slowly pulled into the Tianjin Railway Station and stopped on the platform.

Now that the war has begun, the national train schedule has been completely disrupted, and the longer the train, the more confusing the train and the frequency become. Take this train that has just entered Tianjin Railway Station as an example, judging from the number of trains, it was originally running the Tianjin-Pudong line, but from the current frequency, it is obviously temporarily undertaking the transportation task from Beijing to Tianjin, not good, this train has just returned from Jinzhou and Shenyang, and has just completed a military transportation task.

This chaotic situation of trains and departures has caused some inconvenience to the passengers, but since the national war is at the head, the people do not have too many complaints. Moreover, the frequent reports of good news on the front line have somewhat cheered up the depressed people, and in the past few days, most of what this passenger has been talking about on the train is about the Sino-Japanese war.

After the train entered the station, when the train came to a stop, the conductor opened the door of the carriage, and the passengers got off the train with their luggage, and among these passengers. The team of two wealthy businessmen is particularly eye-catching.

The two wealthy businessmen traveled in a group and also came from Beijing, one was Gao Tingbi and the other was Liu Renxiang, one of them was a successful banker, and the other was a real estate tycoon in the real estate industry, in order to show their identity. There are more than 20 followers of the two.

It is said that it was supposed to be a special car, but now during the war, the train was requisitioned in large quantities for logistics transportation, and the wagons were tight, so this "special car" disappeared temporarily, Gao Tingbi and Liu Renxiang could only be the same as other passengers, crowded in the ordinary car, stuffy sweating, after getting off the train, they called the servants, one left and one right with a pu fan for the two of them.

"Brother Liu, now that there is a war, why are there so many people going out?"

Looking at the black crowd in front of him. Ministry Tingbi smiled helplessly and complained to Liu Renxiang who was standing beside him.

"I told you earlier, let's just take a car all the way over, but you just didn't listen." Liu Renxiang also smiled bitterly.

"That's a bit ostentatious. Our trip to Tianjin, after all, is shouldering a heavy responsibility. ”

The ministry didn't dwell on the topic anymore, and waved his hand. The servants first took the luggage out of the train station, and then called two more slide poles to carry him and Liu Renxiang out.

As soon as he walked out of the train station, Gao Tingbi was looking around, but he heard someone shouting his name. Looking back, there was a group of men in short clothes standing outside the exit of the train station, one of whom was waving to him, but it was not a stranger, it was Gong Chuntai.

Gong Chuntai used to be the leader of the Hunan Hui Party, before the "Wushen Revolution" broke out, he led the congregation to participate in the Pingliuyi Uprising, and after the failure of the uprising, he died in Jiangxi, just in time for the republican army to recover Jiujiang, in Jiujiang, he got acquainted with Zhao Bei, and was entrusted with a heavy task by Zhao Bei, and ordered him to lead his subordinates to incite the Qing army sailors stationed along the river to revolt. Gong Chuntai did not fail in his mission, and with the assistance of his fellow villagers, he disguised himself as a Hunan cook. mixed with the Qing cruiser "Haishen", and took advantage of the friction between the Fujian and Lu lines in the Qing Navy to successfully instigate a mutiny, making the "Haishen" cruiser the first regular warship owned by the rebels; Gong Chuntai also made great contributions to the revolutionary cause, and was sent back to Hunan by Zhao Bei to participate in the Hunan anti-Qing uprising.

Because the Communist Progressive Association in Hunan squeezed out non-descendant forces, Gong Chuntai could only rely on the support of the Republican Army to barely gain a foothold in northern Hunan, and it was precisely because of this that he was on the same page with the Communist Progressive Association, and in a clash he killed a Hunan legislator who owed a blood debt to the Communist Party, which made his relationship with the Communist Association in charge of Hunan even worse, if it were not for the timely outbreak of the "Hunan and Guizhou Incident". It is likely that Gong Chuntai's team has already joined forces with the Communist Advancement Society.

After the "Hunan and Guizhou Incident", Zhao Bei commanded the republican army to enter Hunan and Guizhou provinces to exterminate the forces of the monarchy and constitution, and quickly calmed down the situation. Gong Chuntai's troops, like other local armed forces, actually became an auxiliary unit of the Republican Army, until the outbreak of the Great War in the North and South Henan, and Gong Chuntai eventually became a division commander of the "United Front Revolutionary Armed Forces".

However, Gong Chuntai was born in the rivers and lakes and could not get used to the discipline life in the regular armyAfter a period of consideration, he finally decided to withdraw from the military and assist the central committee in handling the affairs of the party. So he resigned from the post of division commander and got a job in the "Community Organizing Committee", and from then on, he no longer cared about the affairs of the army.

Bu Tingbi is a businessman, and when doing business, he inevitably deals with all kinds of people, including the Jianghu Society, and it is precisely because of this that he and Gong Chuntai not only know each other, but also talk very well.

On the surface, it is a non-governmental organization, but in fact it has the support of the center, and the main purpose of its formation is to regulate the forces of the rivers and lakes, and to incorporate them into the entire social transformation action, and to use what can be used, and to resolutely eliminate what cannot be used, this is the principle of action of the "community organization committee", but they do not directly take violent actions, but often use the law as the main weapon to find out the handle of those "community dregs". It is then referred to the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior and the Military Intelligence Agency.

After more than two years of rectification, the current Jianghu forces have basically subordinated to the central government, and even the elders of the past, the Pao Ge, the Qinghong Gang, and the Salt Gang, which were quite powerful in the past, have also consciously reorganized into "political party groups", although they are inevitably still engaged in some not very legal business, but at least they have been included in the management, as long as time passes, these Jianghu forces will eventually complete the complete transformation of their identities.

In this process of transformation, the role played by leaders like Gong Chuntai is crucial, and they can use their status as a scoop to directly exert influence on those low-level members of the party, which can reduce the resistance in the process of transformation, and skip the middle-level figures of the party who are difficult to fill, and reduce the cost of transformation.

Now the party associations in various places are much more disciplined than before, and Zou Tingbi almost no longer needs the "organization sorting committee" when he goes south and north. However, his relationship with Gong Chuntai was not affected, and the two were in frequent contact.

Seeing Gong Chuntai greeting him, the Ministry of Ting Bi hurriedly instructed the sedan chair man to put down the slide pole and greet him. Say hello to Gong Chuntai.

"Brother Gong, don't come unharmed? A few years ago, you sent a telegram to me and said, you went to Nanyang, why, when did you return to China? ”

"Haha! Just back, just came back. It's not. I only went to Tianjin Wei the day before yesterday, and I rushed to the train station to pick up people today, but I didn't want to meet the boss of the department. ”

Gong Chuntai hurriedly introduced Gao Tingbi to the gang of subordinates. These are all the overseas Chinese children he brought back from the Nanyang, this time back to China, everyone traveled by boat, and when they didn't want to go to the road, the Sino-Japanese war had already started. The steamer did not dare to go any further, and docked at Xiamen. Everyone had to change trains and rush from Fujian to Nanjing. Crossing the Yangtze River, then taking the train from Pukou, rushed to Tianjin.

"I don't know who Brother Gong will greet at this train station?" Gao Tingbi asked casually.

Gong Chuntai squeezed his eyes, smiled mysteriously, and said, "Actually, this person Boss Gao has met a few times before, and it is that Tian Yiren's brother." ”

I heard that Gong Chuntai was here to pick up Tian Jinfu. Gao Tingbi closed his mouth with interest, Tian Jinfu is the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau, what does the Military Intelligence Bureau do, Gao Tingbi can guess a few points, about the matter of the Military Intelligence Bureau, if you can not ask, you will not ask.

Ministry Tingbi hurriedly changed the topic, pulled Liu Renxiang to Gong Chuntai, and introduced him to him, but the few people were not wordy, and after a few words of greeting, Gong Chuntai made an appointment with the two to drink tea together. Then he ran to the stationmaster's office at the railway station, made a phone call, and called a few cars for Gao Tingbi and Liu Renxiang

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Sitting in the car called by Gong Chuntai for them and leaving the train station, Gao Tingbi and Liu Renxiang were both a little emotional, especially Ministry Tingbi, he only knew that Gong Chuntai was a person from the "Community Sorting Committee", but now, he vaguely felt that this person might also have something to do with the Military Intelligence Bureau, otherwise, he would not be so calling, saying that he would call a few cars, and these cars are obviously from the Tianjin Garrison Command.

With the license plate of the garrison headquarters, the road can be unimpeded, otherwise, Gao Tingbi and Liu Renxiang may only have to go around. Far away, because now the main roads are full of young people marching and marching, they are celebrating military victories, and this is the scene all over the country. Naturally, the incitement of youth political organizations is indispensable.

"Dongqing people, it's always easy to be incited."

Ministry Tingbi sighed, Liu Renxiang also smiled bitterly, both of them understood that in terms of political skills, no one is the president's opponent, and now the reason why the president can respond to every call is not unrelated to those youth political organizations, no wonder the National League will be defeated in front of the president.

The car of the garrison headquarters will help Tingbi and Liu Renxiang and their entourage to the hotel, and then leave in a hurry, because the guest room has already been booked, Gao Tingbi and Liu Renxiang quickly changed the clothes that have been soaked with sweat, and then left the hotel, took a few servants, called a few rickshaws, and told the coachman to take them to the British Concession in Tianjin.

The Tianjin British Concession is located in the southern suburbs of Tianjin. Adjacent to the German Concession and the French Concession, and across the Haihe River from the Russian Concession, the British Concession is not the largest in the area of the Tianjin Concession. However, the prosperity of commerce is far from being comparable to that of other concessions, and compared with the French Concession and the Russian Concession, the order of the British Concession is also relatively good, and gambling houses and enemy cases are not everywhere.

The rickshaw dragged Zou Tingbi and Liu Renxiang into the British Concession and did not stop until Victoria Road.

"Sir, when you get to the place, this is Victoria Road, and the small western-style building is Zheng's house. It used to be the courtyard of Mr. Zheng Yizhi, the comprador of the British Swire & Co. in Tianjin, and he also lived here when the president of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, was in trouble, and later he became the president of the Republic of China, and the people said. This is the Hidden Mansion, so the price of this building has risen, and it has changed hands several times, but later Yuan Shikai died, and Beiyang collapsed. The price of this small western-style building also fell, and it was not sold for a long time until last year that it was bought by a businessman. ”

A coachman was talkative and exchanged a few words with the minister, and of course, these words of wordiness also earned him a few more feet.

"So, do you know who lives here now?"

Ministry Tingbi handed the money to the coachman, and asked casually with a smile.

The coachman shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, after the merchant bought it." No one knows what his origin is, and the British patrol does not allow us to inquire casually. Sir knows? ”

Ministry Tingbi smiled and waved his hand, signaling that the coachman could leave.

After the rickshaw drivers left, Bu Tingbi and Liu Renxiang stood at the intersection and looked at the gray western-style building, where they saw two Indian patrolmen with red cloth on their heads patrolling back and forth at the door.

"Isn't it just an outdated Manchu prince? Such a great majesty. Liu Renxiang smiled bitterly.

Ministry Tingbi also smiled and said, "The family is a big business. When he was the prince, he never lost silver. If this is going to be me, I also have to live in seclusion, and find a few foreign patrols to support the façade, so as not to be targeted by gangsters. ”

The two of them did not linger long at the intersection, but soon walked over with a few servants, stopped in front of the main entrance of the small gray western-style building, and patted the tightly closed iron door.

The iron door was pulled open from the inside, and the porter walked out, looked at Tingbi and Liu Renxiang, and saw that the two were dressed noblely, so they were also very polite.

"Two gentlemen. Who are you looking for? ”

Ministry Tingbi and Liu Renxiang instructed the servants to hand over the prayer post.

"I heard that Mr. Yipu, the former Prince of Qingqing, lives here, and we are here to visit." Gao Tingbi said, and gave the porter a silver dollar.

The porter was stunned and said, "Who are you listening to?" ”

Ministry Tingbi smiled and said: "You don't have to ask about this, quickly present the greeting note to your lord and say that someone from the north is here, and I want to discuss the country's affairs with him." ”

"A national event? Our lord has long ceased to be the prince, and the Qing Dynasty has been dead for several years, and our lord has long stopped asking about state affairs, what national affairs do you discuss with him? If it's a restoration, you'd better leave here, it's too late for the lord to hide now. ”

The porter obviously wanted to go beyond the bounds, but how could Ministry Tingbi and Liu Renxiang leave so easily? As soon as the faces of the two of them fell, the porter turned around and walked back to the door, and closed the iron door with a "bang".

"It's a shame that the Manchu is finished, otherwise. Without a thousand taels of silver, we want to enter this iron gate. ”

Liu Renxiang turned his head to look at the two Indian "red-headed patrols" who were standing not far behind them, and then complained a few words to the ministry.

Bu Tingbi just smiled faintly and didn't wait for him to speak. The porter had hurried out and opened the iron door. I made a "please" gesture.

Ministry Tingbi and Liu Renxiang followed the gatehouse into the courtyard, and the servants they brought looked around curiously.

"Several, please drink tea here."

The servants didn't wait for the servants to finish looking at the courtyard. The porter pointed to a gazebo in the courtyard. led them over, and as for the Ministry of Tingbi and Liu Renxiang, they followed the housekeeper who came in a hurry into the small western-style building.

I entered the living room and sat down on the Western-style sand. The housekeeper instructed the servants to serve tea and snacks for Gao Tingbi and Liu Renxiang.

"Sit down for a while, I'll go and ask the master to come over."

The housekeeper left in a hurry, and a few minutes later led an old man into the living room, none other than Yiqin, the last Qing prince of the Manchu Dynasty.

This time they came to Tianjin, Gao Tingbi and Liu Renxiang came to contact Yizhu, but this was not their own opinion, but the president called them over, in order to assist them, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs even sent two right-hand men, pretending to be servants, and followed them to Tianjin. If you want to know what happened next, please log in to 6, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!