No matter what era, there are always many women who can be crowned as beautiful women, and although there are few women who can be crowned as talented women, there are occasional women, but women with both are very rare.

Compared with the four beauties of the Republic of China in the hearts of later generations, the four talented women and the like are compared with the Yu Wanling in front of them, it is completely impossible to compare, she is more beautiful than her talent, and those who have her talent do not have her appearance, even if she has both beauty and talent, she does not have her illustrious background.

This woman is the third daughter of Yu Geng, her father is a high-ranking official, not to mention, and this woman was also named the county lord by Cixi, although the former Qing Dynasty has been finished, but it is also a woman who has been the county lord, and if the servility comes up, it is estimated that the future generations will shout Princess Wanling.

When the combination of background, appearance, and talent has created this special woman who is active in contemporary China's diplomatic circles.

And Zhao Dongyun is also a little curious about this woman, he has been in this world for many years, and he can't see such a special woman in ordinary times, Zhao Dongyun's cognition of women in this era mostly comes from the women around him, such as Fang Ruolian and Li Wan, but he also knows that in fact, Fang Ruolian and Li Wan are actually very few sensible women, most women still follow the traditional 'no talent is virtue', at least he saw that most of the wives and daughters of other uncles and brothers in the Zhao family are like this.

However, Fang Ruolian and Li Wan are already considered relatively enlightened women in this era, but they are still the same set of traditional Chinese women in their bones.

And this Yu Wanling in front of her is very different!

After this gossip was spoken, Yu Wanling also let go slightly, although her expression was still a little restrained, she still accompanied Zhao Dongyun to speak, and after talking for a while, Zhao Dongyun heard the footsteps from upstairs, and looked back to see that Fang Ruolian had already changed her clothes and was going downstairs, Zhao Dongyun immediately said: "She is here, I will not delay the activities of your ladies!" ”

Then he turned his head to the other party Ruolian and said, "Today's meeting is a bit much, I won't accompany you for dinner!" ”

Fang Ruolian nodded: "Well, if it's a banquet for subordinates, I'll let the kitchen deliver the food when the time comes!" ”

Zhao Dongyun smiled and replied, and Yu Wanling on the side looked at the way Zhao Dongyun and Fang Ruolian got along with each other, although they had seen it many times, they still felt a little strange.

Although Zhao Dongyun is the president, in the hearts of many people, in fact, Zhao Dongyun is directly regarded as the emperor, especially many people from the old constitutionalists, many people thought about persuading Zhao Dongyun to ascend the throne as the emperor, but they want to think about it, but reason also tells them that it is 100% tragic to play the imperial system in China now, especially in the Beiyang faction, so no matter what they think in their hearts, but no one really dares to do it.

But Zhao Dongyun's special status in the country is realistic, no matter whether you are the president or the emperor, you live in the former royal garden, do you still want outsiders to think that you are a selfless prince for the people?

No matter what you say, this Zhao Dongyun and his wife are the first family in contemporary China, but today in Yu Wanling's opinion, the relationship between the two of them is much more plain, and they do not pay attention to any etiquette, and they speak very casually, which makes Yu Wanling, who has been constrained by various etiquette laws in the palace for many years, a little unaccustomed.

Pressing the messy thoughts in her heart, Yu Wanling accompanied Fang Ruolian to the side hall, preparing to hold a small tea party to entertain the wife of the British Minister Zhu Erdian and the wife of the French Minister to China.

did not mention the diplomatic activities of Mrs. Fang Ruolian's side, but said that after Zhao Dongyun arrived at the office, he began to give instructions on a large number of documents as before, and then met with Zhou Xuexi of the Ministry of Finance to discuss the issuance plan of the second phase of patriotic bonds, and then met with Liu Guanxiong of the Admiralty of the Command, and the main thing to talk about was the reconstruction of the Navy and the upcoming inspection missions sent by the Admiralty to European and American countries.

After meeting these two people, Zhao Dongyun immediately held a routine weekly military meeting, which was supposed to be held in the morning, but Zhao Dongyun was a little busy in the morning, and at noon, it was also a family lunch that had been scheduled for a long time, so it was delayed until the afternoon.

The generals of the General Headquarters who participated in the weekly routine military meeting were all under management, including Fang Biyong of the General Staff, Shi Yanglin of the Operations Department, An Yutong of the Intelligence Department, and Zhao Dongping of the Ordnance Department, Hong Putao of the Quartermaster Department, and Cheng Biguang of the Navy Division will also come.

According to the current Soviet military system, the War Department and the Navy Department of the Cabinet belong to the executive department, and the War Department is completely hollowed out, and it has no name, while the Admiralty is better, but it only has administrative power, and the power of the naval operational command is attributed to the Navy Department of the High Command.

After a group of generals sat down, according to the usual practice, Shi Yanglin first introduced the current war in the south on one side, and the recent war in the south is relatively calm, since the Feng army conquered Zhengzhou, the Feng army is in a period of large-scale strategic transfer in the short term, although there are also wars in the near future, but the scale is very small, mainly the second army of the Feng army went south to the southeast of Shandong and the remnants of the Lu army, and the other is the small scale of the first army and the third army of the Feng army when the remnants of the enemy in Henan were cleared.

These small-scale battles had little impact, so they were only briefly mentioned at today's meeting, and then there was no follow-up.

The next thing to talk about is the ordnance department, the quartermaster department, especially the logistics and transportation of this matter is deeply valued by Zhao Dongyun, now his nearly 100,000 troops are about to gather on the front line of northern Jiangsu, he does not want these troops to have no shells and bullets at that time.

"Today, our army's logistics and transportation mainly rely on the Beijing-Feng Railway, the Jinghan Railway, and the Jinghan Grand Canal, of which the troops fighting in Henan mainly rely on the railway supply of the Jinghan Railway, and the supplies needed by the troops fighting in Shandong and later in northern Jiangsu and Anhui will depend on the Jinghan Grand Canal."

Hong Putao of the Quartermaster Department said: "In order to use the Grand Canal to transport supplies to troops in Shandong and other directions, we have specially set up an inland river transportation bureau and set up eight inland river transportation battalions in various places. However, the Grand Canal has not been repaired on a large scale for many years since the grain was transported by sea, and the navigable capacity in many places is insufficient, which has now caused a certain amount of trouble in the process of our army's logistics transportation to the south. ”

In the absence of a railway, the Feng army's ordnance and ammunition and other supplies departed from the Tangshan Arsenal, transported to Tianjin after passing through the Beijing-Feng railway, and then loaded into the canal ships to the south, limited by the limited navigation capacity of the canal, so when the canal could not be navigated, the ships stopped, organized personnel to carry the ammunition ashore, and then transported it from the land for a certain distance, and then transferred to the inland river vessels, so that after multiple transshipments, the ammunition could be delivered to the Feng army on the front line.

"Based on the great trouble of canal transportation, the Quartermaster Department and colleagues in the Admiralty have proposed the construction of maritime transportation after many considerations!" When Hong Putao said, Zhao Dongyun listened carefully, and then asked at the right time: "Oh, tell me, how to ship by sea!" ”

Hong Putao immediately said: "According to the current progress of our army and the follow-up battle plan, the future is to fight with the enemy in Xuzhou and other areas of northern Jiangsu, if we can control a certain coastal port in northern Jiangsu, then our supplies can be directly transported to the port by ship, close to the supply!" ”

At this time, Cheng Biguang of the Navy Department also said: "Although the strength of our navy is weak at present, without the interference of foreign warships, the navy can absolutely guarantee the safety of sea transportation!" ”

The reason why Cheng Biguang packed the ticket for the safety of the navy is more complicated, and the most important of them is to expand the influence of the navy, and the navy is currently very weak in the power system of the northern republic, because Duan Qirui in the south and the southern federation do not have any decent maritime power, so naturally the top level of the Soviet system does not pay much attention to the navy, although they have said something about the reconstruction of the navy, and even plan to send an inspection delegation to Europe and the United States.

But many people know that today's Soviet system cannot afford to develop the navy.

The group of people in the navy were naturally unwilling, and this plan to transport supplies by sea was their proposition, in order to demonstrate the role of the navy.

At this time, Hong Putao said: "If our front-line troops can take Haizhou (now Lianyungang), then our supply ships will be able to unload here, and this place is only about 120 kilometers away from Suqian, only about 160 kilometers away from Xuzhou, and less than 100 miles away from Qingjiangpu." If Haizhou is used as an important supply and transshipment point for our army to fight in the south, it will greatly reverse our army's troubles in logistics and supply when fighting in northern Jiangsu. ”

Zhao Dongyun heard Hong Putao say this, and felt that it was still a little interesting, but he didn't want to decide directly, but turned his head and asked Shi Yanglin: "What is the situation in Haizhou now, can our army take it?" ”

Shi Yanglin said: "Although there is a certain amount of enemy deployment in Haizhou, there are not many of them, and our army has enough spare strength to take it!" ”

When the Operations Department was planning the Northern Jiangsu Campaign, it was to consider the difficulties in subsequent supply and transportation, and in order to solve this trouble, the people in the Operations Department proposed various paper constructions, which were only one of them, and there was a plan to directly build a temporary military railway.

Seeing that these subordinates were all in favor of transporting supplies by sea, Zhao Dongyun also knew in his heart that they should have communicated in private, otherwise they would not have said it today, so he just nodded: "Since everyone thinks it is okay, then it will be determined, and the follow-up operations department will formulate relevant combat plans, take Haizhou and other coastal ports, and open up a shipping supply transfer station, in addition, the transportation department of the staff department and the quartermaster department will coordinate and prepare the ships for shipping. The Navy Department should prepare for future escort work. ”

The matter of sea supply came to an end, but the meeting was still going on, and what they discussed later was the coordinated operation of the First Army and the Second Army, and as the main force of the First Army crossed Shangqiu, Henan, it was already less than 50 kilometers away from Xuzhou.

After the Second Army gradually moved south in Shandong, the main force has now arrived in Yixian County, Yanzhou, and it is only more than 50 kilometers away from Xuzhou, and with the main force of the Feng Army gathering in Xuzhou, it is very important to cooperate with each other in such a large-scale operation.