After February, Sun Meiyao's delivery date arrived. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info her body is good, when she gave birth, she didn't make a fuss, looking at the big fat boy in her arms, she can also proudly say, I also gave birth to a son for the Zhao family.

Sun Guiliang specially came from Texas, in the ward, the two talked some gossip, and looked at the child a few times, Sun Meiyao took the initiative to ask: "Uncle, what do you think about the discharge?" Guanhou mentioned this to me, and he really doesn't mean anything else......"

"I don't need to explain, I know in my heart that your uncle hasn't reached the time of old foolishness." Sun Guiliang touched his niece's forehead, "Sun Jiageng is a student-oriented, and he is a scholar. It was the way of the world that forced us to put down the pen, pick up the knife, and go up the mountain to make a ringing horse. I thought that if you did this business, it would be the death of the whole family, but I didn't expect that now that you are the brigade commander, the Sun family is born, everyone is an officer, and everyone carries a foreign knife. In the countryside, our family has tens of thousands of acres of land, and at my age, there are sixteen or seventeen girls rushing to be my little wife. In the final analysis, it is not all dependent on the care of the crown marquis to have all this... I think I can understand what he thinks. ”

The old man coughed a few times, "It's old, it's not good." In the past, I was pretending to be sick in the mountains, but now, I really can't do it. It is useless for people to disobey the old, and they are inferior to the young after all. My talents, at best, are the ability to be a leader in the mountains. In terms of leading soldiers, even those young company commanders and battalion commanders are better than me. If you want to say that you are going to kill in battle, now let me charge on horseback and fight back and forth, I will almost be dizzy, and I will fall off my horse without being beaten. Let me go home to retire, this is a good intention...... I have to thank him. For those of us in this branch of the green forest, I will do the work of leaving the army, and if anyone does not leave, I will cut him with a knife until he leaves. ”

Sun Meiyao breathed a sigh of relief, this time Shandong wants to let a group of old people retire from the army, among which Sun Guiliang has the highest military rank and is also old. If this old man takes the lead in making trouble, he will not be able to be a good man. She nodded gratefully, "Uncle, don't worry, the money that should be given will not be less, I have prepared a ...... for you"

"Uncle is so old, what do you need money for? Really marry a sixteen or seventeen to be your little wife? Don't do that sin anymore, I quarreled with your aunt for half my life, and finally cleaned up for a few days, and I didn't find guilt for myself. ”

He kindly looked at his niece, who was weak after giving birth, "Girl, in the future, take care of yourself, you have a wild temperament, you have a temper, you want to say anything, and you will beat people if you don't get along." It's okay to mix the green forest in the mountains, but it won't work if you want to mix in the house. Mrs. Su ignores you, because her wrists are high, and the more she gets used to you, the more she shows her bearing and nobility. Ten Gege is to use you as a knife, whoever she wants to clean up, it is up to you to come forward, she saves her dirty hands. is like that Secretary Liu, if you beat her, the women in the family are happy, but when you do it, no one helps you, but pleads for her, this is the heart eye. In the future, you have to learn more, if you wait until the old love runs out, then you will suffer yourself. ”

"I know, uncle, you will give me more guidance in the future, and if you don't do it right, you can say it."

"Silly Nizi, my uncle is old, I can't take care of it, and you have to go by yourself in the future. A few more eyes, uncle, has never been a good person. Even if it is to his niece, he is just as ruthless. Knowing that you are a daughter's family, you can live a good life if you have a good husband and children. You have to put the honor and disgrace of the Sun family, the calf cub and even these Qiu Ba from our green forest on your shoulders. The future is coming to the end, and your father must beat me to death. It's a pity, there's no way, the future of these people doesn't depend on you, who can they rely on? If you should fight, you have to fight, if you should grab, you have to fight, if you can't fight yourself, you will pull someone to help you. Some of the Sun family are good sons and girls......"

On this day, the old man said many things unusually until the sun went down before leaving the ward. After receiving the severance pay paid by Shandong, the old man sold all the local bonds issued by Shandong.

With him taking the lead, Shandong's demobilization work was carried out relatively smoothly, and more than 600 older generals were discharged from the army, and some officers and soldiers from the green forest were all eliminated because of their age and technical and tactical skills. Fortunately, the severance pay was sufficient, and the demobilization work did not cause too many waves.

As soon as March passed, the shocking changes on the battlefield of Tessie had drawn almost all the attention of the Communists. Prussia, Cape, and Albiang officially ended up fighting, and an assassination affair evolved into a wrestling between several major powers in the world.

Prussia formed an alliance with the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire and declared war on the Capeut, Albion, and Tiele alliances, and the Yankees remained neutral for the time being and did not intervene in the war. Uttar Pradesh, which is currently in power, had received a lot of assistance from Prussia in the previous Civil War, and from the point of view of reciprocation, once it joined the war, it would inevitably be inclined to the Prussian side. Considering the Yankee's strong industrial capabilities, the trend of the war seemed to favor Prussia.

The development of the war situation also seems to confirm this view. First of all, the Prussian warships used surprise attack tactics to make Albion very scorched. In the face of these elusive ships, Albion could only use a few warships to protect the transport and merchant ships, and the huge navy was distracted, and the result was not as one-sided as the pre-war prediction.

In terms of the army, the Prussian Army took the initiative to attack Cape, and Cape, known as the power of the Tessie Army, did not perform well in front of the Prussian military boots. The successive defeats made Cape's army lose face.

The Prussian army set foot in Belgium and converted all the wealth and military industry of Belgium into its own strategic resources. The fortress of Liège, known as the fortified city, did not delay the Prussian army for too long before it was declared. When the literati of Gonghe read these reports in the newspapers, they couldn't help but think of the famous saying of the ancients: "Swallowing thousands of miles is like a tiger."

The Concord Government, which had concluded a peace treaty with Prussia, was therefore particularly emboldened, and some people in the Presidential Palace had already begun to discuss whether to formally join the Prussian side and get a piece of the pie in the future.

As a neutral country, the bloody wind of Taixi has not yet blown Dongjiaomin Lane. Ministers continue to do their duty, but visitors have increased. The staff of the legations of various countries can make a small fortune as long as they are willing to reveal the slightest information.

In the Fuso Embassy, Nichi-yi had just finished a conversation with the personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. The young Foreign Ministry official is not too high-ranked, but he has a surprisingly big temper. With the experience of studying abroad, Xu has endured it for too long, and when he can finally get out of the evil anger in his chest, his attitude towards this Fusang minister is naturally not much better.

Hioki Masimian's style of hiding needles may have made the young man think that he had the upper hand, at least when he left, he was extremely proud, as if he had just won a war.

After seeing off the visitor, Hichiyi poured tea as usual and smiled: "The young man has a big temper, and even in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I'm afraid he is not very liked by people. Such a character has always been regarded as an illusory model in Chinese officialdom. I think it won't be long before he will be sent to an embassy in a small country as an inconsequential counsellor. ”

Banxi Hachiro walked out of the inner room and sat down opposite, "Lu Zhengxiang sent him here precisely because he is an unlikable person." Our Minister Lu is a very smart person, and he will not be so short-sighted in his work. He has come to offend His Excellency the Minister, and that is exactly what he does. This young man is very pitiful, he thinks he has won glory for the country, but in fact, he has been regarded as an outcast by the big guy. ”

Rizhiyi said: "You can't say that, on the chessboard, each of us is a chess piece, and for the final victory, each of us can become an outcast." I don't have any ill feelings towards him personally, it's just that as a diplomat, he is still not hot enough. Minister Lu sent such people to negotiate with us, apparently, with no intention of signing the treaty. ”

"The content of that treaty, even Yuan Weiting, may not have the courage to sign it. Moreover, they now have Prussia as their backer, and perhaps in their opinion, as long as the Prussians are present, the influence of the empire is irrelevant. I'm now focusing on Jiaozhou Bay. Did they follow our instructions and refuse to receive them, or did they actually take them? ”

Rizhiyi shook his head and said: "The great president should understand that Prussia is far away and Fuso is very close. Moreover, Prussia was fighting on two fronts, and at the same time it was fighting against the two great powers of Capet and Tieler, and the assistance it could provide to China was very limited. Especially economically, how long can his country hold out without loans. A week? Or a month? Someone proposed to join the Prussian Union, and I think the president could only smile helplessly. If China now announces its accession to the Prussian Union, at most a month, it will go bankrupt because of the financial collapse. Yuan doesn't have much choice, and cooperating with us is irreversible. ”

"As for Jiaozhou Bay...... It's a poisonous bait that is a tough choice to eat or not. The president needs the hearts of the people, and without the hearts of the people, how can he be the emperor? But he also knew what it meant to eat the bait. So according to what I think, he will probably still eat, but not by himself, but by letting that Shandong Zhao eat. It's his territory anyway, isn't it? ”

Banxi muttered, "If Zhao Guanhou refuses to eat the bait, that is the beginning of Yuan Zhao's reversal, we can give him some help, so that Yuan realizes that he is not irreplaceable." A young imperial president, more helpful to us. If he eats the bait...... It proves that the time for Shandong to take action has finally come. ”

Hichiyi laughed, "Banxi-kun, do I know that there are several generals in the navy and army who are willing to give up after vowing to cut off your head." It can be regarded as your superiority to make the navy and land forces hate the same enemy. If you want to sleep peacefully after returning home, you have to show a little performance to speak. Take Shandong, rely on your intelligence agencies, not the navy and army. ”

Banxi smiled, "In Fuso, there are many people who say that I am a spy, which is the highest praise for an intelligence officer. If I can one day die at the hands of the people of my country, it will prove that my work has been truly successful. Shandong's chess pieces are divided into two types. One is something that can be given up at any time, and the other is something that needs to be given up when necessary. The previous assassination and destruction can be regarded as using up the chess pieces that can be given up at any time. Now, it's the turn of the outcasts who think they're important. I would like to thank my teacher for having laid out in China for so long and leaving me so many usable pieces. ”

Rizhiyi nodded with a smile, "Our work has been done to the extreme, next, just see if Zhao Guanhou eats the bait." But regardless of whether he swallowed the bait or not, his fate had already decided, Shandong was destined to be in the pocket of the empire! ”

In the hall, Yuan Weiting looked at Shen Jinying with some guilt. "Jin Ying, this time, I am sorry for you, and I am sorry for Guanhou."

Shen Jinying's face was also ugly, "Rong An, do you really want the crown marquis to sacrifice?" ”

Yuan Weiting's face was not good-looking, "A-Ying, the current situation, you must be very clear." Prussia, Albion...... Both sides are forcing me to make decisions, leaving me with less and less room to manoeuvre. It's time to make a choice. Many people believed that Prussia would win the war, so the sooner they defected, the better. But this time the bet was wrong, and there was no way back. ”

Shen Jinying took Yuan Weiting's hand beside him, "We...... Maybe there's no turning back for a long time. ”

"Yes, the higher you stand, the harder it is to turn back. Ever since I got to this position, I was destined to not be able to go down. It's a choice to be a winner or you lose everything...... It's too hard. Yuan Weiting closed his eyes and was speechless for a long time.

"The Prussians' loans are less than 30% of the loans, and I have to work for them, how can there be such a good business in the world? Even if Prussia will eventually win the war, who can guarantee whether we will be able to hold out until the end? The Congress is urging me to decide, how much good intentions are there? If the decision succeeds, the credit lies with Congress, and if it fails, the blame lies with me. What is a President? The president is the scapegoat, the target of the gun! People say that the Taixi War is an opportunity for China's development, but in fact, the more fierce the Taixi fights, the weaker the power to contain the Fusang people, and the less room is left for us to maneuver, what kind of opportunity is this? If the decree doesn't work, how can we be distracted? ”

Shen Jinying said: "Then you want to sacrifice the crown marquis?" ”

"I met an old eunuch in the palace, and what he said made a lot of sense now. He said to me: China cannot do without an emperor. China needs an emperor, and since ancient times, which founding emperor did not step on white bones and ascend to the throne? If no one sacrifices, they are destined to not be able to conquer the territory, and if they want to ascend the throne, they must first win the hearts of the people. If I don't do a few beautiful things, how can the common people be convinced of me, the emperor! Even if Jiaozhou Bay is a hot steamed bun, I have to swallow it in one bite, so that it can burn my internal organs, but I also have to save my face! As for the crown marquis......"

Yuan Weiting paused slightly: "In the War Department, there will always be a position of deputy chief. In the future, Daikin can give him a marquis, can't I give him a hereditary replacement and retire with the country? The people of Fuso are water, and we are stones. The water will go, but the stone will never move. When the Fusang people are gone, Shandong is still his. ”

Shen Jinying suddenly asked, "What if...... If the crown marquis refuses to obey the order? ”

Yuan Weiting's face was as usual, and his tone did not change much, "If that's the case, it can only be explained that he is tired of living in Shandong and wants to come to Jurentang to suffer such a crime as me." (To be continued.) )