Song Zhewu and his entourage have a large number of people, Yan Xishan has already received the report, and he also knows that his house arrest Feng Yuxiang has a bad reputation, and he is afraid that Song Zhewu will be wary of him, but in order to show that he attaches great importance to Song Zhewu, it is not good to arrange Song Zhewu to live outside the city. After thinking about it, Yan Xishan finally decided to arrange Song Zhewu in a large compound near his Overseer's Mansion.

After entering the city, Yan Xishan did not let Song Zhewu go directly to his residence, but only arranged for someone to bring Song Zhewu's guard troops there, and invited Song Zhewu to his overseer's mansion to talk first, and the rest of the greeting personnel went back to the mansion and waited for the evening to attend the banquet to welcome Song Zhewu.

Song Zhewu stopped Li Dayong, who was reluctant to leave, with his eyes, and followed Yan Xishan to the Overseer's Mansion with only a cadre of guards from Liang Bi and Ye Qing.

In addition to Yan Xishan, there are two people accompanying him, one is Zhao Pilian, and the other is Jia Jingde, secretary general of Shanxi Provincial Political Axe.

Jia Jingde entered Taiyuan Academy at the age of 13 and later studied in Zhongzhai of Shanxi University. In 1904, Zhongjiachen Kejinshi, Shandong Zhaoyuan Zhi County, followed by Shandong Tancheng Zhi County. In 1911, his mother died of illness, and he returned to the country. In the Republic of China, he was appointed by Yan Xishan as the secretary general of Shanxi Province.

Although Jia Jingde's reputation is not prominent now, he is only Yan Xishan's staff, but Song Zhewu, a person who travels through the country, knows that Jia Jingde is not only Yan Xishan's most powerful and intimate confidant, known as Yan Xishan's eternal secretary general, he is also extremely talented, knowledgeable, and talented, is a rare talent, and has extraordinary ability in governing internal affairs. His talent was even appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek, and before the Anti-Japanese War, Jia Jingde was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the head of the Nationalist Axe Examination Institute. In May 1945, he was elected as a member of the Central Supervisory Committee of the Sixth National Congress of the Kuomintang; In November 1946, he was elected as a deputy and a member of the Presidium of the Constituent National Assembly; In June 1948, he was appointed as the vice president of the Examination Institute; In March 1949, he was appointed Vice President of the Executive Yuan.

Recruiting talents like Jia Jingde was already in Song Zhewu's plan, although he is now Yan Xishan's henchman, and Yan Xishan has the grace of knowing Jia Jingde, but Song Zhewu doesn't think it's impossible.

In Song Zhewu's view, talented and capable people are ambitious, unwilling to be lonely, and bent on making a big career, Jia Jingde is such a person. At present, at the top level of the Jinsui system, only Jia Jingde strongly agrees with encouraging Yan Xishan and Chiang Kai-shek to meet each other. As far as Song Zhewu knew, Zhao Daiwen, who was now the president of the Nanjing People's Supervision Commission, returned to Taiyuan with Chiang Kai-shek's handwritten letter, the purpose of which was to persuade Yan Xishan not to confront Chiang Kai-shek by military means, and even reprimanded Jia Jingde in front of Yan Xishan.

Jia Jingde's support for Yan Xishan's confrontation with Chiang Kai-shek was nothing more than wanting to help Yan Xishan replace Chiang Kai-shek and ascend to the highest peak of China's power, so that he could have a broader stage to show his revenge. It is impossible to want Jia Jingde to join his men now, but after the Central Plains War, with the existence of Song Zhewu, Yan Xishan cannot have the ability to give Jia Jingde a position to display his ambitions, and then it is the time to recruit Jia Jingde.

After a short rest, Yan Xishan, in order to show his affection, took Song Zhewu to visit his Overseer's Mansion, and explained Song Zhewu in detail with great enthusiasm along the way.

Yan Xishan's Overseer's Mansion has a very long history, according to the Qing Daoguang's "Yangqu County Chronicles", it was originally a Jin Wengong (Chong'er) Temple. In the seventh year of the Taiping rejuvenation of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was rebuilt into the Yamen of Pan Mei's Shuaifu. Liao is the Yamen of Xijing Road. Jin is the Yamen of Hedong and Xijing Road. Yuan is the provincial government office of the book in the line. In the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, it was changed to the Zhongshu Provincial Government Office. From the nineteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, he has been the governor of Shanxi. After the Xinhai Revolution, the Shanxi military and political axe was established, and Yan Xishan was the governor, and it became the governor's mansion. In the 5th year of the Republic of China, it was changed to the Overseer's Office.

The Overseer's Mansion sits on a north-facing south-facing area of about 30,000 square meters. In the gate, one layer is wide and five rooms, two rooms are deep, four corridors are around, a column is set up in the middle of the column, and the column head is used to step on three and double high. The two layers are three wide, two rooms are deep, the corridor is all around, the wood carving bucket, the head is played, the finch is replaced, etc., and the beam is painted with Qing style painting. Single-eaves gabled roof covered with yellow-green glazed tiles. The lobby (Yuanyi Hall) has a stone pedestal, and the main building plane is in the shape of a "concave" character, and there are three canopy buildings in front of it. The exterior of the main building is a two-storey building, the middle of the interior is a hall, and the two sides are two-story buildings made of load-bearing brick walls, and the top is a roof composed of large wooden structures.

The main façade of the lobby is made of stone, consisting of semicircular pilasters and round arches. Above the middle gate, there is a stone plaque engraved with Sun Yat-sen's "the world is for the public". In front of the door, the roll shed with three wide rooms rests on the mountain-style hugging building, the eaves are equipped with dragon-shaped carvings, the column head is five step buckets, and the green glazed tiles are decorated. In the back eaves, there are three round arched doors and windows, and stone doors and windows frames.

In the back is the self-reflection hall, and in the middle of the gate hangs a wooden plaque of Fu Shan's personal book "can live late". The introspection hall was built in the 7th year of the Republic of China, with a Western-style structure and Chinese-style decoration. Built on a stone foundation, nine rooms wide, eight rooms deep, the plane is arranged in the shape of "work". The front and rear eaves are seven upper and lower eaves corridors, and the side entrances are arranged with Western-style leaning doors and pointed arch windows. There are symmetrical narrow windows on the two gables and below. The roof is a traditional roll shed mountain type, and a single-storey four-corner pointed corner tower is built at each of the four corners, with a glazed tile roof. The interior of the hall is surrounded by a two-story wooden corridor, and the hall has a wide space.

Behind it is the corridor building, located on the east and west sides of the gate, a total of 4 buildings, symmetrical arrangement, masonry arch structure, all of which are two floors.

Located at the northernmost end of the Overseer's Mansion is the Jinshan Tower (Bell Tower), which was built in the 8th year of the Republic of China. The masonry structure, with a three-storey base and a five-storey building, is a European Gothic building. It was built on a hill made of artificial, this hill is called Meishan, according to legend, in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty was a place to pile coal, and later it was called Meishan with homonym. It was built when Zhang Zhidong was the governor of Shanxi during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and it has begun to take shape. In the eighth year of the Republic of China, Yan Xishan once again stacked stones from the left, right and back three areas on its original basis, expanded and heightened, and built a mountain view garden with mountains in the east and west, which is the overseer's mansion and even the highest place in Taiyuan City, standing on it if there is no block, you can see the whole city.

The East Garden is located on the east side of the Overseer's Palace. It is a residential area for military and political dignitaries built by Yan Xishan in the east side of the Overseer's Mansion in the fifth year of the Republic of China. The west side courtyard is called Zhonghe Zhai, there is a roll shed roof, and there are two courtyards with corridors that are 7 rooms wide. The Inner North Hall is the place where Yan Xishan held a secret meeting. There are 9 halls in the north, which is the office of Yan Xishan. The courtyard is a courtyard building, there are five main rooms, it is the place of food and lodging of Yan, there are seven halls in the south and northwest, called the south hall, it is the place where Yan Xishan's dependents live.

Yan Xishan took Song Zhewu's hand affectionately, except for the south hall where he lived in his family and did not lead Song Zhewu to visit, he led Song Zhewu around the Overseer's Mansion with great interest. Finally, he returned to his office in the North Hall of Zhonghe Zhai, and drank tea with Song Zhewu, Jia Jingde, and Zhao Pilian, while asking Song Zhewu to tell him about the war in Manchuria, and did not talk about the main topic of opposing Chiang.

The banquet in the evening was very grand, set up in the hall of the self-examination hall, all the representatives of the anti-Chiang city who came to Taiyuan, the civil and military officials of the Jin Sui department were all present, and even the literati and celebrities of Taiyuan, famous businessmen and magnates were also invited, and more than a dozen tables of banquets were set up in the wide hall. Such a scene is also the treatment that Chen Gongbo and Zou Lu in Taiyuan, the Kuomintang bigwigs and representatives of local forces, and even Feng Yuxiang have not had. However, these people all knew the weight of Song Zhewu in Yan Xishan's heart, and no one was dissatisfied.

Song Zhewu met Zhao Daiwen in the hall, and Zhao Daiwen did not go outside the city to greet Song Zhewu, not because he is now the president of the Central Political Axe Supervision Yuan and a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Political Conference, but because he opposes Yan Xishan's armed opposition to Chiang.

Song Zhewu just greeted Zhao Daiwen, and was taught a lesson by Zhao Daiwen with a cold face, and told Song Zhewu as if no one was around, "Don't be with these exiled politicians and frustrated soldiers, the people of the whole country are very war-weary, and hope that after the peace, whoever provokes the war is a national sinner and will be scolded by the people." ’

Not only were the representatives of various local forces called by Zhao Daiwen exiled politicians and frustrated soldiers, but even Yan Xishan was embarrassed and hurriedly asked Jia Jingde to announce the start of the banquet.

After everyone took their seats, Yan Xishan first delivered an enthusiastic speech, and after once again expressing a warm welcome to Song Zhewu, Yan Xishan took the trouble to count the great achievements of Song Zhewu since he joined the Jin Sui Army in Tianjin. Of course, Yan Xishan did not forget to repeatedly hint that the Fourth Route Army was not only born in the Jin Sui Army, don't look at the Fourth Route Army is now strong and strong, but since the Fourth Route Army became an army, including now it is also his subordinates, the Fourth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army are one family, Song Zhewu is on the side of Yan Xishan in the matter of opposing Jiang, he Yan Baichuan is the backbone of the anti-Jiang army, and only he Yan Baichuan is qualified to carry the banner of anti-Jiang.

After Yan Xishan finished speaking, he originally wanted to ask Zou Lu, a veteran of the Kuomintang, to say a few words to add color to the banquet, but when he saw Zou Lu's cold face that everyone in the hall owed him money, he immediately changed his mind and asked Chen Gongbo to give a speech instead.

After warmly praising Song Zhewu, Chen Gongbo began to talk about the current domestic situation, and although he criticized Chiang Chiang with every word, everyone could understand that he was agitating against Chiang. Chen Gongbo's words also conveyed a clear message to them, that is, Chiang Kai-shek's cronyism and exclusion of dissidents, and all local forces were his targets, and Chiang Kai-shek would gradually deprive them of their rights and kick them away. Now that Chiang Kai-shek has defeated two of the most powerful local forces, it will soon be the turn of these people here. If you don't dare to take Chiang Kai-shek, everyone has only a dead end.

Then Chen Gongbo talked about Wang Jingwei again, saying that Wang Jingwei was the most loyal assistant of the former prime minister and the most staunch follower of the former prime minister as early as the early days of the alliance. The meaning of the words is to tell everyone that only Wang Jingwei can be the leader of China.

Although the representatives of the other local forces were very unimpressed, they did not care very much, as long as someone took the lead to lead them to drive out Chiang Kai-shek, first solve the current problem of reorganization, and maintain their military power and status, as for who was the leader, they did not care very much. And except for Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Li Zongren, none of them have the strength to replace Chiang Kai-shek, and politicians like Wang Jingwei are in power, and they may be better off.

But the people of the Jin Sui system are different, and Chen Gongbo's words made them very disgusted. In their opinion, don't say that Yan Xishan has not nodded in agreement with the anti-Chiang, that is, they are anti-Chiang, they have people in the Jin Sui system, they want guns and guns, and their strength must definitely be ranked in the front among the local forces in today's China, and they are the biggest and strongest in the Guannei, and only Yan Xishan can replace Chiang Kai-shek after driving out Chiang Kai-shek, what qualifications does Wang Jingwei have as a politician to compete with their Yan chief. The civil officials were better, they were dissatisfied, and they didn't show it on their faces, but most of Yan Xishan's thirteen Taibao showed dissatisfaction. If he hadn't seen Yan Xishan smiling all the time, he would have made Chen Gongbo ugly a long time ago.

Chen Gongbo has been up and down in the sea for more than ten years, and he is a high-level person in both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and he is by no means an idle person, and he can't see the thoughts of everyone, he thinks that these local forces are a warlord, and they only know how to grab money and grab land, and none of them have the ability to govern the country, even Yan Xishan is the same, it's okay to be an executive premier, but it is not self-sufficient to be the leader of the country, and this leader is only qualified by Wang Jingwei. It's just that their reorganization faction now has no power, no money and no guns, and there is no way for them to oust Chiang Kai-shek from power, only with the help of these short-sighted warlords, as long as they raise the banner of anti-Chiang Kai-shek and drive away Chiang Kai-shek, it will be easy to do it, at that time, it will not be him Yan Xishan alone, at least Feng Yuxiang and Li Zongren will not buy Yan Xishan's account, and the Central Army will not listen to him Yan Xishan, and even because of historical reasons, they will get closer to Wang Jingwei, not to mention Chen Jitang and Zhang Fakui, two followers of Wang Jingwei in Guangdong, Supporting Wang Jingwei to come to power is probably their best choice, and only Wang Jingwei can appease and coordinate their relationship.

Therefore, after Chen Gongbo made his meaning clear, he turned around and began to praise Yan Xishan for not only governing Shanxi well, but also establishing such a powerful army as the Jin Sui Army, which can be called the most powerful army in the north and even in the country.

Chen Gongbo deliberately put forward the Jin Suijun and the Fourth Route Army side by side, just to want everyone to understand that the Fourth Route Army is not the Jin Suijun, and Song Zhewu and Yan Xishan are not a family, saying that Song Zhewu is your Yan Xishan's deployment is just your wishful thinking, and your Yan Xishan's strength is not so great that it is unstoppable. implicitly told Yan Xishan that Wang Jingwei was indispensable in the matter of opposing Chiang, and it was more appropriate for Wang Jingwei to lead the anti-Chiang.

Chen Gongbo's meaning is not understood by the scheming Yan Xishan, although Yan Xishan nodded frequently with a smile on his face, he was full of slander in his heart. The reason why he contacted Wang Jingwei was only because he valued Wang Jingwei's prestige, and with the support of Wang Jingwei, the former chairman of the National Political Axe, it was relatively legal to oppose Chiang, and there would be more people who supported him. Yan Xishan has his own abacus, as long as he has the support of Song Zhewu, Li Zongren and Feng Yuxiang can't compete with him, not to mention Zhang Xueliang, who is very close to Song Zhewu, at that time he has the support of a million-strong army of three families, Wang Jingwei, a scholar and politician, can still go to the sky?

Yan Xishan had been secretly observing Song Zhewu's reaction, and seeing that Song Zhewu's face was calm, he couldn't help nodding secretly, and said in his heart, "Although this Song Zhewu is young, he is very urban, and he is not a 'fuel-efficient lamp', it seems that he will have to put more effort into enveloping him in the future."

After Chen Gongbo finished speaking, Yan Xishan signaled Jia Jingde, the host of the banquet, to announce the opening of the banquet, Yan Xishan and Chen Gongbo talked for more than half an hour, and the dishes on the table had already made everyone moved.

This banquet was set up for Song Zhewu, and Song Zhewu's guest was naturally the protagonist, not only Yan Xishan and several of his senior officials frequently persuaded him to drink, but in addition to Zou Lu and Zhao Daiwen, representatives of various local forces also came to toast. Although Song Zhewu drank a lot of alcohol, he knew that there would be no fewer people who persuaded him to drink today, so he deliberately chose a small cup of three yuan, but that's it, he drank more than a pound in half an hour.

Song Zhewu saw that the time was almost up, and after thanking Yan Xishan again, he said hello to Yan Xishan and went to each table to salute back, and without waiting for Yan Xishan to speak, Jia Jingde and Zhao Pilian accompanied Song Zhewu to toast one left and one right.

Every time the two arrived at a table, they introduced the people who participated in the banquet to Song Zhewu one by one. For the delegates from all over the country, Song Zhewu only had a drink and left, but he stayed at the wine table of Shanxi civil and military officials, and even literati and businessmen, for a long time, especially Qiu Zengyi, director of the Shanxi Department of Finance, Qiu Yangjun, director of the Department of Civil Affairs, Feng Sizhi, director of the Department of Education, Wen Shouquan, director of the Department of Construction, Qi Tingyou, director of the Department of Political Affairs, Xu Yiqing, manager of Shanxi Provincial Bank, Jia Jiying, manager of Jinsheng Bank, Lan Chengrong, chairman of Shanxi Mining Bureau, Wang Luxun, president of Shanxi University, Qu Yongshan, president of the first normal school, Zhao Xifu, premier of Shanxi Daily, Li Tongsheng, the manager of Bingzhou Daily, and others stayed at the banquet for the longest time, not only shaking hands with everyone affectionately, but also toasting these people one by one with a glass of wine. Song Zhewu's actions made these Shanxi officials and literati feel very face-saving, and their good impression of Song Zhewu also increased.

In fact, this is Song Zhewu preparing for his imminent entry into Shanxi, these people are the elites and heads of Shanxi's government affairs, economy, and education, if these people are willing to help him do things, it will be of great help to him quickly recover the hearts of the people in Shanxi.

In this hall, except for Yan Xishan, Song Zhewu is in a high position, but Song Zhewu does not have a trace of the frame of a general and a high-ranking official, and he shuttles between the various banquets to toast with a smile on his face, which makes everyone feel very good, so the toast is very smooth, but he encountered some trouble at the banquet of Yan Xishan's Thirteen Taibao.

Li Shengda and Li Fuying are the most enthusiastic about Song Zhewu, Yang Aiyuan, Sun Chu, Liang Peihuang, Yang Chengyuan, Wang Jingguo, Zhao Chengshou, Chu Xichun, Lu Yinglin, Dong Yingbin and others have a very bland attitude towards Song Zhewu, in their eyes, there is only Yan Xishan, not to mention Song Zhewu, even He Yingqin and Feng Yuxiang will not have any cold, but they can deal with it decently, but Fu Zuoyi and Chen Changjie have a relatively cold attitude.

Song Zhewu didn't know why, after returning to Yan Xishan's side, Yan Xishan and the others repeatedly persuaded him to drink, Song Zhewu didn't have time to think about it, and continued to talk cordially with Yan Xishan and the others......

(To be continued)