After the military meeting, the subordinates withdrew, and the chief of staff of the major general, Yan Su, stayed behind and discussed countermeasures with Chen Zikun, the two of them are old partners, and there is no need to beat around the bush to speak, and Chen Zikun's expression is not as high-spirited and confident as just now, but slightly sad.

"The situation is getting worse and worse, Duan Qirui ordered the removal of Qi Xieyuan from his position as the overseer of Jiangsu, and it is only a matter of time before the army goes south, what is Brother Xiao'an's good plan?" Chen Zikun said worriedly.

Yan Su said: "Qi Xieyuan is bound not to be restrained, the Feng army is going south, it is definitely not Shandong and Jiangsu that can satisfy the appetite, Jiangdong, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and other provinces are in danger, if the army of these provinces can have a unified command, maybe they can fight against the Feng army......"

Chen Zikun understood, the direct line is a plate of loose sand, but all of them are above the top, and they are unwilling to live in the back, if Wu Peifu can carry this banner, it is easy to say, but after the defeat of Yushuai's troops in Tanggu, the rivers are declining, and there are only 100 guards left, and no one cares about him at all, and this battle is impossible to fight.

With a long sigh, Chen Zikun said: "Is it possible that this Jiangdong Province will be handed over to others." ”

Yan Su said: "Kun Shuai is brave and good at fighting, his prestige is outside, and the Feng army is also afraid, if my estimate is correct, Zhang Shaoshuai is afraid that there will be secret envoys in the past few days." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Feng Jun wants to break each one." ”

Yan Su said: "If Zhang Xueliang really extends an olive branch, which side does Kun Shuai plan to help?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "Whoever wins, I will help whom." ”

Yan Su was dumbfounded, although this was true, it was too straightforward.

Chen Zikun added: "Fengjun really has the ability to unify China, even if Zhang Zuolin is the emperor, I am in favor of it, the common people can't stand the toss, the military spending of the past few months has cost nearly five million!" If this money is used to build factories and railways, how much can be done, and if the money is spent, all the money will be spent, and all the people will die, and it will be China that suffers, and it is the foreign foreign companies that sell arms that take advantage. ”

Yan Su said: "It would be nice if every soldier in the world thought like Kun Shuai." ”

……

At noon, Chen Zikun met with Ruan Mingchuan, a reporter from Beijing, and asked him about the situation in the north.

Speaking of the chaos in Beijing, Ruan Mingchuan, who is already a senior reporter, sighed for a long time: "It's a failure." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Yushuai is indeed unjustly defeated, if it weren't for Feng Huanzhang's stab in the back, he wouldn't have lost the whole game." ”

Ruan Mingchuan said: "I'm not talking about Wu Peifu, but Feng Yuxiang, he really fell short, and he was the first to launch the coup, but he took the lead in making wedding clothes for others, and he didn't catch anything." ”

Chen Zikun said: "How do you say this? ”

Ruan Mingchuan said: "In the final analysis, Feng Yuxiang still doesn't have the prestige and qualifications, and he can't control the situation at all, he asked Duan Qirui to preside over the overall situation, hoping to use Duan Hefei's prestige to support him, but what kind of person is Duan Qirui, is he a puppet at the mercy of Feng Yuxiang, after taking office as a temporary government, he immediately removed the Huang Ying cabinet and replaced it with his own Anhui old man. ”

"And Zhang Zuolin, that's a bandit! There is no faith at all, Feng Yuxiang had an appointment with him when he defected, and the Feng army did not enter the customs, what was the result, before the ink dried, the Feng army entered the Shanhaiguan Pass, and the troops were stationed in Tianjin, and the tiger style Shandong could go south at any time. Feng Yuxiang's Nationalist Army did not dare to confront at all. Ruan Mingchuan said heartbreakingly.

Chen Zikun said: "Brother Ruan seems to be quite upset with Feng Huanzhang. ”

Ruan Mingchuan said: "I have been a reporter for so long, these warlord martial artists have also studied a lot, Feng Yuxiang is a true hero with ideals, it can be seen from one thing, this is a secret, I only tell you, Kun Shuai must not spread it." ”

Chen Zikun saw his mysterious appearance, and suddenly became interested: "You say, I will never leak it." ”

Ruan Mingchuan lowered his voice and said: "I heard that a group of generals of the National Army want to kill Zhang Zuolin and his son when they enter Beijing. ”

Chen Zikun was shocked, this kind of thing is done by two people, one is Feng Yuxiang, the other is Xu Shuzheng, these two are ruthless and unscrupulous, if Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang father and son are really killed, and the Fengjun group is leaderless, it is indeed a good thing for Feng Yuxiang, but for the people, it is simply a monstrous disaster.

Ruan Mingchuan continued: "Zhang's father and son only brought a battalion of guards to Beijing Shunchengqun's palace, which was an excellent opportunity, but Commander-in-Chief Feng gave up, he said that if he killed Zhang's father and son, the northeast would inevitably fall into the hands of the Japanese, and he would rather go into the wilderness by himself than a sinner through the ages, so I greatly admire Feng Huanzhang." ”

Chen Zikun said: "As you said, Feng Huanzhang is indeed a hero for the country and the people, but Xia Ye may not be true, I guess he is retreating to advance, forcing Duan Qirui to choose between the national army and the Feng army." ”

Ruan Mingchuan said: "Feng Yuxiang has called Guangdong, inviting Mr. Sun Yat-sen to Beijing to preside over the overall situation, the Anhui Kuomintang is an iron triangle, see if this time can form a coalition government, if Sun Wen goes north smoothly, I think the situation will get better and better." ”

Chen Zikun nodded and said, "I hope so." ”

As soon as I finished talking with Ruan Mingchuan, the adjutant came to report that there was an envoy from the Fengjun side, and Chen Zikun asked him to invite him quickly, and it was Zhang Xueliang's personal representative who came and sent Chen Zikun two fine women's mink coats, a thousand-year-old mountain ginseng, and a handwritten letter attached to reminisce about the old days and talk about major events in the world, which are just some general words.

However, the meaning of the Feng army was very clear, and he wanted to reconcile with the Jiangdong side, so Chen Zikun also repaired a letter and prepared a generous gift, and asked the envoy to bring it back to Beijing, and the two sides could be regarded as establishing a communication channel.

Sent away the envoy of the Feng army, the adjutant brought in a large pile of documents for Chen Zikun to sign, there are appointments to officials, there are withdrawals, reimbursements of military expenses, all kinds of things, dizzying, Chen Zikun took a pen, read the document at a glance and ten lines, and made instructions on it, the signature force is through the back of the paper, the instructions are clear and clear, and it does not take much effort to approve the documents.

"Anything else?" Chan asked.

Adjutant Director Zhao Yufeng was stunned: "I heard them say that in the past, Sun Kaiqin only approved ten documents a day, but Dashuai, you have completed the backlog of documents for two months in one go, this efficiency is too awesome." ”

Chen Zikun said: "It's not that I'm awesome, it's that Sun Kaiqin is too inefficient, and being an official is the easiest thing, which can't be done well, no wonder I lost my territory." ”

Zhao Yufeng picked up the official document and walked out, and accidentally dropped a copy, which was a document for Duan Haixiang's ministry to apply for additional military salaries, and Chen Zikun approved a line of words on it: Transfer to Chief of Staff Yan for reading.

"Dashuai, no wonder you're fast." Zhao Yufeng suddenly realized.

Chen Zikun said: "Do you have to give me instructions for this kind of specific affairs?" In terms of military affairs, Chief of Staff Yan can take care of it, and in terms of politics, it will be handed over to Governor Liu, who has been a rubber stamp for so many years, and it is time to do something practical. ”

Zhao Yufeng said speechlessly: "You are really willing to let go of power." ”

Chen Zikun said: "You don't understand, there are some things that can't be grasped, it's better to let go quickly, and things may not be bad." Okay, it's not too early, there are big things tomorrow, I'm resting, don't bother if there are big things. ”

said that she went back to the back house, now Yao Yilei and Jian Bing have come to live in the provincial capital, husband and wife are reunited, and I have to be reunited, Yao Yilei half-jokingly asked Chen Zikun, have you been messing around outside during this time, Chen Zikun said categorically no, but her heart is empty, is this woman's sixth sense so sensitive?

The next day, the inauguration ceremony of the East China Anti-Smoking Committee was held in the Grand Theater of the provincial capital, the province together with the celebrities and gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the officials of the lower field participated in the event, and many people served as the honorary vice president of the committee, in order to make up for the loss of farmers after the ban on smoking, Chen Zikun initiated a donation, and donated his salary for a year, and the handsome lady also donated a few pieces of gold jewelry.

Chen Dashuai and his wife set an example, how can others lag behind, the gentry present are more than 10,000, less than hundreds, and donated 100,000 oceans in one morning, although there is still a big gap from the expected goal, but it is also very satisfactory to Chen Zikun.

"Jiangdong's fathers and elders are so supportive of the anti-smoking cause, and Zikun expressed his gratitude to everyone on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Anti-smoking Committee." Chen Zikun stood up and saluted, then stepped down and shook hands with the former ranking gentry one by one, gently comforting him, and suddenly a person broke into the auditorium and said loudly: "I'm late!" ”

Chen Zikun looked at it, it turned out to be General Manager Gong of Huijin Bank, and immediately smiled: "Brother Jiaxiang came just in time. ”

Gong Jiaxiang stepped forward quickly, held Chen Zikun's hand tightly, and said with excitement on his face: "You don't live up to me, I don't live up to you!" ”

Chen Zikun knew that he was talking about the ban on smoking and the acceptance of military tickets, which he had promised him, and now that these two major matters have been successfully resolved, it is no wonder that Gong Jiaxiang is so excited.

Gong Jiaxiang took out a check from his arms and handed it to the emcee, the emcee helped his glasses, his hands trembled, and he said loudly: "General Manager Gong donated 200,000 yuan!" ”

The audience applauded thunderously, Chen Zikun and Gong Jiaxiang took the stage to speak, General Manager Gong delivered a speech, praising Chen Zikun, Chen Zikun also took advantage of the situation to announce that Gong Jiaxiang was invited to be the honorary chairman of the anti-smoking committee. Gong Jiaxiang is a banker and a member of Parliament, and he was already quite famous in the provincial capital, but this time he is even more in the limelight, and his reputation is like a sky.

The anti-smoking committee is menacing, the first is the tobacco halls all over the province, the ban on smoking is no better than the promotion of poppy seedlings, the interests involved are too wide, hundreds of thousands of smokers are even more difficult to quit smoking in a short period of time, but this is not Chen Zikun's concern, he is concerned about how to implement a smoking ban in Shanghai.

It is said that the Jiangdong overseers could not manage the affairs of Shanghai, but Chen Zikun proclaimed himself the title of secretary general of the anti-smoking committee and chairman of the executive committee, and shoveled 20,000 acres of opium poppies planted by himself, thus gaining great prestige.

Chen Zikun transferred 500 capable soldiers to the special mission in Wusongkou, changed into black police uniforms, painted white steel helmets, and wore armbands on his arms, with the words "No Smoking" printed on them, and declared to the outside world that "the Law Enforcement Special Brigade directly under the Anti-Smoking Executive Committee is directly under the Law Enforcement Brigade." In this way, the dispute of the military harassing the citizens was avoided, and after the change of clothes, the ban on opium officially began.

Eighty percent of Shanghai's opium was imported by water, and the law enforcement brigade took a speedboat to ban opium in the waters of Wusongkou, seizing two tons of opium in one day.

It is worth mentioning that these two tons of opium were purchased by Sanxin Company.