As soon as Zhao Dongyun took off his coat and handed it to the girl in the song beside him, he had already taken a glass of wine handed over by He Zonglian as a respect, but after drinking this glass, He Zonglian did not continue to hand over the wine, but stretched out his hand and respectfully invited Zhao Dongyun to sit in the first place.

Although Zhao Dongyun has only returned to China for more than a year, his real military time should be traced back to 1895, when the first day of the new defeat, he and many young people like the pen abandoned the pen from Rong to apply for the Tianjin Military Academy, and later in 1898 obtained the qualification to study in Germany, and was admitted to the Berlin Military Academy to study, and finally returned to China in early 1901.

In fact, before he went to Germany to study, he briefly served as a sentry officer in Yuan Shikai's Wuwei Right Army, and after returning to China, after more than half a year of teaching career transition in the camp school, he finally became the commander of the first battalion.

Of course, let everyone here value him, and let Wang Yingkai invite him to tonight's dinner, naturally not only because he is a commander, nor because he is a high-achieving student who came back from studying in Germany, but more importantly, because the machine gun team he trained in the winter exercises last year was in the limelight, so he was reused by Yuan Shikai in one fell swoop, and obtained the errand of supervising the construction of a new machine gun battalion.

This is almost a declaration to the entire Beiyang system, and he Zhao Dongyun has become a military star of the younger generation of Beiyang.

In the face of such a person, He Zonglian and others naturally did not have too much contempt, so after a glass of wine, they no longer pestered Zhao Dongyun, and took the initiative to ask Zhao Dongyun to sit in the first place on the right.

After Zhao Dongyun sat down, a girl in the song on the side leaned in and poured him wine, when he first came in, Zhao Dongyun didn't look at these girls in the song, and only then did he take a closer look at the woman sitting next to him, this woman is about twenty-eight years old, she looks petite and exquisite, but the looming gauze is swollen, she didn't apply too much rouge gouache, more to show people in her true colors.

Occasionally revealing one or two words, the voice is also as soft as a woman in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, sitting next to Zhao Dongyun did not get too close, just with a gentle smile from time to time to insert a few words, pouring wine for Zhao Dongyun, words and deeds are not as vulgar as ordinary women, nor are they like those amorous Oiran, a smile is fascinating.

This woman and several other women can not only occasionally insert a sentence or two on the current military and political topics discussed by Zhao Dongyun and others, but also very reserved in words and deeds, without the vulgarity of a dusty woman.

This made Zhao Dongyun praise the owner of this Chongyulou, so that the women under his hands could sell everyone's girlfriends, and it was not easy for a learned and talented woman, and it was no wonder that Wang Yingkai chose the place for the banquet here.

After sitting down for a few glasses of wine, everyone also let go slightly, and soon began to call each other brothers.

"Brother Ziyang, don't say anything else, but that machine gun team of yours is a five-body throw that I admire! Haha, after the winter exercise last year, I saw Lei Zhen smash several wine glasses with my own eyes! He Zonglian laughed.

"In last year's winter exercises, it was the Southern Army artillery battalion under his command who couldn't knock out your machine gun team after fighting for many days, and I heard that he was severely reprimanded by Shangfeng, and he was also fined salary!" Bao Guiqing on the side continued: "He Lei Zhenchun can't defeat Brother Ziyang's machine gun team, and the infantry team on the vanguard side can't rush up, and it's good that he doesn't give him a major demerit over there!" ”

Zhao Dongyun also said after hearing this: "I'm just taking the lead, everyone didn't know the power of the machine gun before, but now everyone knows it, and I'm afraid it's impossible to play the situation like last year's winter exercise in the future." ”

Everyone didn't care, and Bao Guiqing on the side said: "There will be more and more machine guns in the future, and we will not be much better in the future, I heard that Ziyang, the scale of your machine gun battalion is not small, more than 500 people, comparable to an artillery battalion!" ”

Zhao Dongyun knew that the regulations of his new machine gun battalion were a secret to outsiders, but it was not a secret to the officers within the Beiyang system. ”

"Now that you are the commander of the second battalion and the superintendent of the machine gun battalion, there are not many people like you who have two important responsibilities at the same time, Ziyang, the day when you will soar is not far away! Don't forget a few brothers when the time comes! Bao Guiqing said with a smile, and his words did not hide his envy for Zhao Dongyun.

Zhao Dongyun is undoubtedly worthy of his envy, he has already entered the middle level of the Beiyang system at a young age, and more importantly, he is now in the time when he is valued by Yuan Shikai, and he may be able to go further in a few years, after all, Beiyang is undergoing a big expansion Not only Zhao Dongyun knows, but others also know that basically everyone can be promoted in this wave of expansion.

However, Zhao Dongyun is different from others in that he is promoted faster than others!

When Zhao Dongyun and these people were talking about these things, a small guy in a horse coat came in outside, and the little guy came in and said softly: "Ladies and gentlemen, Lord Wang has arrived!" ”

At this time, Zhao Dongyun and the others stopped talking, and then got up from the banquet one after another, and as soon as everyone got up, Wang Yingkai's voice came from outside: "Wang is late, let you wait for a long time, it's Wang's fault, I will punish myself with three cups!" ”

Wang Yingkai has not yet arrived, the bold voice is already far away, and then the door was pushed open, and several people came in, the front side bowed down to lead the way or the housekeeper of the Chongyu Building, Qian Sui, and several people in the back were also known to Zhao Dongyun, the leader was naturally today's master Wang Yingkai, and the one standing on Wang Yingkai's left hand side was Feng Guozhang.

Feng Guozhang, the three heroes of Beiyang, naturally needless to say, although his status is not as good as Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai, he is also one of the high-level bigwigs, although it is a little strange to appear on this occasion today, but it also belongs to the category of understandable.

Behind the two of them were three or four people, including Wang Zhanyuan and Cao Kun.

Wang Zhanyuan is also an old man of the new army, graduated from the Tianjin Military Academy, and is currently the pipe band of the seventh battalion of the left town of the Beiyang Standing Army.

In addition to Wang Zhanyuan, there is also Cao Kun, whom Zhao Dongyun knows, who, like everyone else here, is also an old man in the newly built army, and currently serves as the pipe band of the 11th Battalion of the Beiyang Standing Army.

These dozen or so people gathered together, headed by Wang Yingkai, all the middle and high-level backbone officers of the Beiyang system, and except for Zhao Dongyun, most of them will be important backbones of the direct warlords in the future.

And now these people here will not think that their every move in the future will be able to affect the direction of the country, and now they, including Wang Yingkai, are just ordinary officers in the Beiyang system, and they can't talk about any influence on political affairs. Now they are more like the young Zhuang soldiers of this country.

Wang Yingkai stepped forward: "You are all colleagues in the army for many years, and many of them know each other, so I won't waste words and tongues to introduce them one by one, come, sit, don't stand!" ”

As soon as Wang Yingkai came in, he put on a posture of a superior person, this posture did not mean that he was high and annoying, but he seemed very kind, and he asked for warmth in a caring tone, and laughed a few words from time to time. And this kind of behavior is precisely the move of the superior to win the hearts of the people.

Of course, if you have to say that people naturally like to care about others, that's fine.

This method is actually similar to Zhao Dongyun's wooing of the following commanders and sentinels in the second battalion, Zhao Dongyun will also feast his subordinates and ask for warmth, but what he usually does is inflicted on his head by others, which makes Zhao Dongyun a little uncomfortable.

The next topic, everyone naturally revolves around Wang Yingkai, Zhao Dongyun is understandable for others to flatter Wang Yingkai so deliberately, after all, if it weren't for his position being a little special, I'm afraid he would have gone up directly to hug Wang Yingkai's thigh. But he can't, in addition to Duan Qirui's factors, Zhao Dongyun has to take care of Yuan Shikai's side.

Now everyone knows that Yuan Shikai has begun to reuse himself, and at this time, if he goes to Duan Qirui or Wang Yingkai randomly, it will easily cause Yuan Shikai's disgust.

So he just buried his head in drinking and eating, occasionally answered a few words, and also said a few words to the girls around him from time to time, chatting and knowing the name of the girl around him, saying that it was called Yingying, as for what her real name was, she didn't say, and Zhao Dongyun didn't ask, because no one cared.

When Zhao Dongyun was talking about it, he drank the flower wine seriously, but he was not the only one among them, Feng Guozhang's appearance was almost the same as him!

If Zhao Dongyun, Wang Zhanyuan, Xu Bangjie and others are all subordinates or juniors of Wang Yingkai, then Feng Guozhang can be regarded as Wang Yingkai's colleagues in the same echelon.

In the Beiyang system, Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai, Feng Guozhang, Wang Shizhen and Liu Yongqing are all considered high-level executives in Beiyang, although they are trusted by Yuan Shikai Cheng Dù is different, but they are all core high-level executives in Beiyang. Zhao Dongyun, Xu Bangjie and other officers who serve as sub-commanders and commanders are considered middle-level, while Bao Guiqing, Cao Kun, and Wang Zhanyuan can only barely be regarded as middle-level.

Zhao Dongyun didn't know why Feng Guozhang accepted Wang Yingkai's invitation to the banquet, but the relationship between the two of them definitely didn't look like a subordinate relationship, but more like the relationship between ordinary colleagues, but if they were just ordinary colleagues, then Feng Guozhang would never appear on an occasion like today.

This occasion is actually to put it bluntly, it is just an occasion for Wang Yingkai to win over his subordinates, Wang Yingkai can win over others, but it is absolutely impossible for him to win over Feng Guozhang as a subordinate, because although Feng Guozhang's status is not as good as Wang Yingkai, his immediate boss can only be Yuan Shikai, and it is absolutely impossible to be Wang Yingkai.

Perhaps he found that Zhao Dongyun was observing himself, Feng Guozhang also looked at Zhao Dongyun, and then nodded inadvertently with a smile, Zhao Dongyun also nodded slightly, and the wine glass he was holding in his hand also paused slightly, and vaguely made a toast.