The lights are bright, the calm bay reflects the stars and the lamps, and the night is becoming more and more intoxicated in the sound of the violin.

Zhao Bei stood in front of the porch, dressed in a very atmospheric dress, shining leather shoes, and shook hands with the guests who came to the banquet one by one, and beside Zhao Bei, stood his wife, the president's wife was dressed in a gorgeous Western-style long skirt, without vermilion powder, plain to welcome guests, but also down-to-earth and generous, showing the host's luxurious temperament and graceful demeanor. Opposite President Zhao and his wife, a few steps down, stood a senior official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who played the role of a guest, also dressed appropriately, and was loudly reporting the identity and background of the guests in Chinese with a slight Tianjin accent, everything was so formal, and the atmosphere was solemn. Friendly.

"Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lapman, Consul of the United States of America in New Gold Mountain."

"Mr. and Mrs. Jean-François Chau, Consul of the French Third Republic in New Gin-Monte."

"Mr. and Mrs. Tiladimir Prakhov, Consul of the Soviet Union in New Jinshan

"Mr. and Mrs. Ravano Costazi, Consul of the Kingdom of Italy in New Summit."

"Mr. and Mrs. Kogoro Kameda, Consul of the Imperial Japanese Empire in Shinkanayama."

"Mr. and Mrs. Vanstake, Governor of the East Indies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Van Stakkel Bogstahower."

Mr. Jiang Shiliang, President of the Nanyang Overseas Chinese Federation, and his wife

Mr. Takeo Murakami, President of the Association of Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Japan, and his wife.

There is no doubt that the people who attended tonight's banquet were all real bigwigs, not political stars, or business leaders, and wealthy night banquets, which is exactly the scene.

A few days ago, Zhao Bei has been busy attending the banquet, and today's dinner is his return banquet, the power must be sufficient, the face must be enough, the meal is the surface, the essence is to strengthen the contact, and jointly maintain the peaceful situation in the Nanyang region.

Seven and a half o'clock in the evening local time. The real distinguished guest arrived, it was Mr. President of the Second Republic of Lanfang, Zhao Bei walked down the steps, stood at the bottom of the steps, and personally greeted the Chinese president of Nanyang.

President Lan Fang is Huang Chengshan, he is also the leader of the Lan Fang National Party, and like Zhao Bei, he was also elected president in the presidential election of the roaring year, but few people know that this President Huang Da has another more secret identity, he is an intelligence officer of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Republic of China, and the current code name "Midnight Orchid" directly receives instructions from the highest level of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Who the "Midnight Orchid" is, Zhao Yuliang knows, but this orchid can't bloom easily, so since the roar year, the Military Intelligence Bureau has not issued any orders to Mr. "Midnight Orchid".

"Chengshan. The last time you went to China, you went to Xishan to meet with me, and a few years have passed. A few days ago, I went to Xinjinshan, and you also personally came to the dock to meet me, and I will go to the banquet today, no matter how I say, I will come here to meet you. ”

Zhao Bei shook hands with Huang Chengshan with a smile and greeted him, and the other party's drama was also quite good, others would never have thought that this meeting was not only a meeting between the two heads of state, but also a meeting between the head of the secret service and his subordinates.

The number of courtesies in front of the door is sufficient, followed by a grand dinner party and the subsequent ball, Western music, Chinese music, these different styles of tunes take turns, the whole banquet process is quite luxurious, quite intoxicating.

After the banquet, Zhao Bei sat down with several foreign consuls for a while. After talking about the current world situation and the friendship between China and foreign countries, an adjutant walked up to him and whispered a few words, so Zhao Bei left his wife and continued to chat and talk with the consuls and the consuls' wives of various countries, while he himself apologized to the consuls, and then left the living room with the adjutants and went to a small reception room in the Governor's Palace to meet a few special guests.

When Zhao Bei arrived at the reception room, the guests were already waiting there, and the Governor of Bangka Island, Shen Honglie, was already talking to the guests, accompanied by his wife and a number of civil officials of the central government.

These special guests are Xiong Chengji's family, since Xiong Chengji committed suicide with a pistol in the Capitol, Zhao Bei has deliberately instructed the relevant parties to take care of Xiong Chengji's family's life, but this care is only economic. And not politically, in politics, as Xiong Sung-gi was involved in a campaign "aimed at overthrowing the republican system and the constitutional system." The attempted military coup d'état, not only was he politically blacklabeled, but also affected the constitutional party, and directly led to the constitutional party's comprehensive defeat in the Lanfang general election in the year of the roar, not only lost the low-hanging fruit of the presidency, but also lost the majority of seats in the parliament, in this case, of course, the constitutional party will no longer allow any of Xiong Chengji's family members to appear in the public eye, and other political parties will not accept them, so Xiong Chengji's family has to choose a secluded lifestyle, In the past few years, he has been silently enduring the slander of public opinion. and the hostility of those former political allies, which are not comfortable these days.

After Zhao Bei arrived in Xinjinshan a few days ago, he immediately ordered his men to look for Xiong Chengji's family, he wanted to meet them and say a few words to them, these words are what he has been holding in his heart for several years, today, he wants to say these words to reduce the psychological burden.

This morning, his subordinates reported that they had found Xiong Chengji's family and asked Zhao Bei when he would meet him, and Zhao Bei immediately decided to meet him that night, so after the dinner was over, the adjutant was ordered to take these Xiong Chengji's family members to this reception room and arranged for Shen Honglie to meet them first.

Shen Honglie has been stationed in Nanyang for a long time, and he is not very familiar with the domestic political situation, and he does not know why Zhao Bei called Xiong Chengji's family here, so the content of this conversation is only limited to the economic aspect, how is life going? How's the work? What about the income? What is the relationship with your neighbors? These are all scene words, Shen Honglie can speak, Zhao Bei can also speak, but Zhao Bei is not like Shen Honglie's mother-in-law now, after walking into the reception room, this first sentence is quite surprising.

"Xiong Weigen is not a bad person, he is kind to do wrong things. Taken advantage of, used by careerists.

I believe that Xiong Weigen is not against constitutionalism, he is just in a hurry to achieve quick success. The military coup can't overturn the case, but Xiong Weigen can, at least the merits are offset. Without his leadership, the Anqing uprising would not have broken out, and the Manchu dynasty would not have collapsed so quickly

This sentence is equivalent to tearing off the black label on the face of the Xiong family in politics, and when he heard this, Shen Honglie felt "groaning." Suddenly, I was secretly glad that I didn't say the wrong thing just now, and at the same time, the people of the Xiong family also stood up, and under the leadership of the elders, knelt down, thanking President Zhao Da for rehabilitating the wronged Xiong family.

"Get up, I can't stand you

Zhao Bei stepped forward, helped the Xiong family up one by one, looked at the filial piety worn by the Xiong family, sighed, and said: "In a few days, the three-year filial piety period will be over, you pick a day, move the spirit of Xiong Weigen back to your hometown, the leaves fall back to the root, when you want to move the spirit of Xiong Weigen back to Lanfang, I will object, Xiong Weigen was born in China after all, grew up in China, let him sleep in the land of his hometown, I personally inscribed the inscription for him, but the content of this inscription was not chosen by me, but written by Zhang Taiyan, the merit is half, The praise and criticism are half, which is considered a fair statement

After helping everyone up from the ground, Zhao Bei looked at a teenage girl and asked, "You are Xiong Weigen's youngest daughter, right?" I heard that you haven't left the cabinet yet?

The girl nodded, but did not speak, just choked silently.

"From today onwards, you are my daughter-in-law. Your dowry, I'll take care of it

After saying this, Zhao Bei took a small wooden box from the adjutant's hand, opened it, took out a silver whistle from it, looked at it in his hand, and then stuffed it into the girl's palm. "This is what your father gave me before he died, so take it and keep it as a memento. In that year, the coup group paid 100 million Chinese yuan to the constitutional party as the coup transaction fund, and Xiong Weigen did not embezzle a single cent of this 100 million yuan, and handed it all over to the party department of the constitutional party as the party's activity funds. Now, although your father is deceased, and he still has an infamy, I still admire him, because in my opinion, after so many years, he still has not given up his ideals, he once compared himself to a knight who rushed to the windmill, although he knew that the hope of victory was slim, but he still insisted on rushing to the windmill, and regardless of whether his choice was correct or not, at least his insistence on the ideal is worthy of affirmation, this persistence, Nowadays people are becoming more and more neglected. ”

Seeing things and thinking about people, Zhao Bei took out this Xiong Chengji relic. There was a sudden cry in the guest room, miserable and miserable, and even Shen Honglie couldn't help but have red eyes.

"O man of temperament

Shen Honglie sighed in his heart, and looked at Zhao Bei again, but saw that Zhao Bei had a relieved expression.

The things that should be said have been said, the things that should be done have been done, and the guilt in Zhao Bei's heart can be regarded as letting go, and this matter is over.

"Mr. President, Madame has asked you to come over and say that I have something important to tell you."

An adjutant walked up to Zhao Bei and whispered a few words.

Zhao Bei nodded, chatted with Xiong Chengji's family for a few more words, and then instructed Shen Honglie to arrange for them to stay in the Governor's Mansion for a few days, and then left the reception room and hurried to the garden with the adjutant.

Zhao Bei hurried over, stood by the pavilion, and asked his daughter with concern.

"What's wrong? Ah Zhi, who bullied you? You tell Daddy, and Daddy calls the shots for you. The guys who dare to bully the Zhao family, there are really few now, "small."

"Leave it alone! Don't worry about it! Woo,,woo

The little girl ran away crying, and Zhao Bei didn't pull it, but he didn't want to pull it, because he had already guessed why the little girl was crying.

"Zhenhua, are you interfering? Prevent Ah Zhi from dating Zhang Haihuan? These two people do pen pal things, you know? ”

Sure enough, after the little girl ran away. The president's wife began to make trouble and asked President Zhao for an explanation.

"I didn't say that Zhang Haihuan should cut off ties with Ah Zhi. I just gave Zhang Haihuan a suggestion, it's not impossible to chase Ah Zhi, but the premise is that he must leave the submarine unit of the Navy, and I don't want Ah Zhi to cry until dawn with the portrait of her deceased husband in the future. Qiao'er, you may not know that this navy submarine is also called an "underwater coffin" by insiders, and the death rate is quite high, and the submarine is not as good as the surface ship. Once sunk, there is little hope of survival, and even the body cannot be retrieved.

”

Zhao Bei had no choice but to tell the truth, which was also the main reason why he deliberately transferred Zhang Guangyang to the Hu Cong team, let Zhang Guangyang go, and "persuade" Zhang Haihuan. It's just that he miscalculated. Unexpectedly, Zhang Guangyang wanted his son to inherit his mantle and carry forward this naval family, but as a result, the pen pal relationship between Zhang Haihuan and Ah Zhi ended.

"So, are you thinking about Ah Zhi? You. Come up with some bad ideas. Ah Zhi just made a fuss about returning to China immediately, and this new gold mountain is only a sad place for her. ”

Cui Yi sighed, I wanted to blame Zhao Bei, but after all, I understood her husband's good intentions, indeed, the risk of this submarine force is too high, although Cui Yi is not a military expert, but she has also heard of the huge losses and casualties of the German submarine force during the European War, which is similar to Zhao Bei's position.

"I can't go back to China now, and I'm going to stay here for a few more days to inspect the military defenses. Zhang Guangyang's guy is also the same as Xiong Chengji, persistent, and wants his son to inherit the naval career, and Zhang Haihuan's kid is the same, I asked just now, he wants to continue to stay in the submarine unit, so ah, Ah Zhi is afraid that he can only find another pen pal. ”

Zhao Bei sighed and urged his wife to persuade his daughter, while he hurried to the living room and talked with Shen Honglie and the guests in the living room.

Half an hour later, an adjutant arrived in the living room and handed over an urgent telegram he had just received to Zhao Bei.

Zhao Bei read the telegram and was shocked, but quickly calmed down and got up and rushed to the telegram room.

"What happened? Shen Honglie chased after him. Ask Zhao Bei about the contents of the telegram in the telegraph room.

"Qiwen's kid applied to his superiors to join the reserve a few days ago, and I approved it, but I didn't expect that this kid had already planned it, he, he left Beijing yesterday afternoon and boarded a train to Moscow, he was going to join the international column and go to Spain to fight. This telegram was taken by Mu Wen, and now, I am afraid that Qiwen is already in the Soviet Union. ”

As soon as Zhao Bei said this, Shen Honglie was also surprised, now that the Spanish Civil War is in full swing, at this time Zhao Qiwen actually said goodbye and went to Spain to fight, which is simply incomprehensible.

"Persistent, Qiwen is also a persistent person.

Zhao Bei sighed twice, and this sigh was a little helpless. But with a little relief, in his son, he saw his shadow Zhao Bei back then, why wasn't he a persistent person? It is this dedication that has enabled him to win victory after victory.

The matter has come to this, and Zhao Bei can only pray that Zhao Qiwen is safe all the way. (To be continued.) If you want to know what happened next, please log in to Mandarin, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading! ）