After Ruili's victory, the status of the southwest in the country surpassed the north and the south in one fell swoop and became a political star. When people have not forgotten the Wu cannon, the northeast Zhang cannon, and the Sun cannon, Zhang Shusheng, the king of the southwest, walked from the backstage to the front desk and became the talk of the folk after the tea money.

Some people say that he was sent down by Wuqu Xing, and the immortals sent him down in order to help mortals defeat foreign devils. Some people also say that he got the true biography of Zhuge Kongming, so he led his troops well and won all battles. Some people also say that he is a giant thief of the country, and in times of chaos, he has provoked a powerful foreign enemy to China, which is suffering from poverty.

Of course, more progressive young people are better than these people who can only blush-face and argue a few words after dinner, pack the package, find the office or branch of the local Shusheng company, and you can sign up to go to the southwest, or study, or be a worker, and the people of the Shusheng company will send them to the southwest.

Regardless of the jokes, it is an indisputable fact that the southwest has completely risen in this war. Even the North and the South are fighting for him. Duan Qirui, a warlord in Beiyang, and Wang Jingwei, a political axe in the south, both repeatedly issued solicitations. Although when it comes to political sparring and shamelessness, Zhang Shusheng is not as strong as their elbow, but when it comes to the military strength embodied in the war against Britain and France, from a local point of view, I am afraid that he will have to turn around.

However, there are also two local warlords who are unable to sleep well, a number of large and small warlords in Sichuan and Zhao Hengti, a warlord in Hunan, have felt a great crisis, and with such a strong southwest king by his side, it is conceivable that once the other party moves the idea of expanding its territory again, Sichuan and Hunan will be the best choice.

Sichuan is better, there are too many warlords, big and small, there are more than a dozen operational serial numbers at the division level alone, but if you really want to make a mess and fight Zhang Shusheng's Southwest People's Army, it will definitely be an egg hitting a stone, and as for the Hunan warlords, the problem is even more serious.

However, all this domestic situation, in Zhang Shusheng's eyes, has become a matter of time, sooner or later, no matter how you jump, as long as you have a little bit of the southwest longitude, your life will come to an end.

It is not that the Southwest People's Army will not be able to defeat these two provinces, but that after they are defeated, the existing forces in the southwest will be greatly dispersed, and economic construction and various reform policies will be greatly hindered.

When you think of the so-called revolutionary parties, a small army can take a large territory. It was not because they were too good at fighting, but that the local political axe fell with the wind, and as soon as the wind blew fiercely, the flag at the door was changed, and they immediately mixed into the revolutionary ranks. Zhang Shusheng will never let this happen. Although he was also eager to capture Sichuan and Hunan, two well-known granaries, he only intensified his military preparations and quickened the training of grassroots political personnel.

However, at present, these domestic turmoil and the tripartite negotiations between China, Britain and France have not affected Zhang Shusheng, and as a prerequisite for the negotiations, Zhang Shusheng sternly demanded that he and the British withdraw from Fangchenggang first. Naturally, he would not agree to his own strength, but under the joint coercion of the British and the French, he had no choice but to retreat in disgust, in exchange for the acquiescence of Britain and France to the interests of Northeast China.

In this way, Zhang Shusheng will not be in a hurry, as soon as the problem of access to the sea is solved, and the economic export volume will gradually recover, no matter how strong he is, he will not be able to stop the sea ships flying the flags of Britain, France or the Americans.

After handing over various key tasks such as political propaganda and folk ideological work to the efficient political axe departments, Zhang Shusheng was busy with his own big event - getting married!

"Dad, Mom, Mingming. This is my 10th year here. I've done many, many things over the years, and you can't imagine what I've been through. There are right and wrong during this period, but I swear before you that I will never be a national sinner who uses the nation as the capital for enjoyment.

Today is September 28th, and there are three more days before your birthday. The child is far away from time and space, and he can't fulfill his filial piety, and he hopes that his father can be healthy and live younger and younger.

Mom, you are usually too kind and easy to be bullied, don't blindly tolerate everything, otherwise others will kick your nose and eyes.

Parents. Although I have come to this era, I Zhang Shusheng is still born and raised by you, even if you are separated by time and space, you are still my parents. Whether I am as humble as a dog or as illustrious as the world, I am your son and your pride.

Mingming, I'm sorry for you, it's gone all of a sudden, I've delayed you all these years, and I don't know which happy young man I will marry. You are really a good girl, I climbed you high, but I couldn't fulfill my promise to you.

Dad, Mom, Mingming, I came to see you today to tell you good news. I'm going to get married, hehe, it's a little different from my hometown, I'm going to marry two this time. It's He Ning and Lu Yunyan that I told you, the two girls I talk to you about every year, hehe, they are very good girls, and their family backgrounds are also very innocent, I've been waiting for me for many years, and if I don't give them an explanation, I'm too confused......"

This is a secret room that only Zhang Shusheng can enter. It took a long time for him to stop muttering to himself. On the virtual screen of the dream machine in front of him, three three-dimensional images like real people are made of memories extracted by Zhang Shusheng, the intelligent little kid of the dream machine, and the last time he saw them before he came to this era, the similarity reached 99.9999%.

Whenever there is a festival, Zhang Shusheng will come to the secret room, take out the strap around his neck, turn on the stealth function, and only have an accessory-sized dream machine to see his relatives who he hasn't seen for ten years.

The wedding is scheduled for three days later, and the son is chosen by Sun Changqing, Zhang Shusheng's only relative in this era, and He Ning and Lu Yunyan will marry into the Zhang family in no particular order.

"Old Wu, old Wu, come here......"

The General Headquarters of the Southwest People's Army is located on the side of the political axe of the United Governance, and in order to implement the style of frugality, although the General Headquarters has many departments, the overall style is relatively single and conservative, and there is no luxury after a great business.

As soon as Wu Tiejun walked out of the headquarters building, he saw Tao Qian standing in the distance with a smile on his face and shouting to himself, and in an instant he understood what this old man meant, and strode over.

After the reorganization of the Southwest Army, the most elite First Guards Division was personally appointed by Zhang Shusheng as the division commander, and Li Junming as the instructor. Three elite divisions, the first division was headed by Wu Tiejun and Ye Yulong was the instructor. The second division was headed by Tao Qian, and Chen Wenqing, the former chief of staff of the Second Brigade, was appointed as the instructor. Chen Jun finally stood alone and served as the commander of the Third Division, and the instructor was Qin Chu, the personal guard chief of Zhang Shusheng in his early years. As for the other eight garrison divisions, they were all militia elders, such as Tie Sanqian, Zhuge Sheng, and Huo Dingguo, who was extremely talented in military affairs, as division commanders or instructors. (Huo Dingguo, an army cadet who Cai Ye rescued from the Black Dragon Society.) "I said Lao Wu, what have you prepared for this wedding? Let's hear it. Tao Qian pulled Wu Tiejun to an activity room, and it happened that there was no one in one room, so the two went in and sat down and began to communicate.

What's more, these senior commanders and fighters of the Southwest Army all came back to attend Zhang Shusheng's wedding. Although Zhang Shusheng ordered that this wedding, no matter whether the invitee is political, military, business, or private, there will be no congratulatory gifts of money and valuables. But as a hardcore confidant who has followed him for more than ten years, especially many generals and officials, they are thinking about what they should send, which will not violate the regulations and set a precedent for wasting luxury and pomp, but also enough to represent their own hearts.

"I said Lao Tao, what have you prepared? Don't give me a sloppy look, take my words, you go back and think about it yourself. Wu Tiejun smiled deceitfully, this old Tao is not a tentative idea, I am afraid that my congratulatory gift will not work. In fact, I don't want to know what these old people have prepared.

The two have been with Zhang Shusheng for nearly ten years, and they are already in their thirties at this time, although they are sophisticated, they are extremely decent, and they don't have too many hearts, so they communicate right away.

"I said Lao Tao, your painting is not low, if you send it like this, I'm afraid you will be scolded by the commander-in-chief." Tao Qian took out a picture of flowers and birds, signed by a native of Baishi Mountain, but Wu Tiejun had never heard of it, but his intuition told him that this lifelike ink painting must be worth a lot. In case it is a famous painting of the Qing Dynasty or earlier, I am afraid that my old brother will be punished on the spot.

"Old Wu, don't scare me. This is a modern painting and calligraphy work, which was captured during the previous battle, and was auctioned off after the headquarters selected cultural relics and antiques. I think that although this painting has not been two years, it is better because the painting is good, and I originally wanted to buy it back to honor my father-in-law, which cost me almost a year's salary. Tao Qian immediately disagreed, he is such an unprincipled person, he is known as a Confucian general in the army, he has a good family background since he was a child, and he knows a little bit about these things, so he wants to give a painting as a gift. This picture of two birds making trouble is probably the most suitable. "Look at yours, what you've prepared."

"Nothing!"

"You're joking again, with your old Wu's wisdom, it's not false to say that it's not, I think it's ingenious."

"Haha, I can't hide anything from you, this time the three of us, but everyone is looking at it. Speaking of congratulatory gifts, it's really hard to choose, so I directly took out two years' salary and donated it to the headquarters, which was regarded as a congratulatory gift. Wu Tiejun smiled heartily, in the Southwest Army, he and Tao Qian's surnames are somewhat similar, they are both cheerful and upright people, which is also because when they started with Zhang Shusheng, they were not the pride of the sky, just a leader among civilians.

"That kid Chen Jun, I heard that I brought back a jar of good wine for the commander-in-chief, hahaha......"

"Wine? How to send wine for the wedding celebration? Does it mean that it is taken for a long time? ”

"Nonsense, that's when he sent someone to the jungle of Myanmar to shoot a few tigers, and I heard that it was soaked in tiger whips......"

"Hahaha...... This Chen Jun is really a good gift! ”

On October 1, Zhang Shusheng's wedding was held as scheduled, and there were only more than 100 people invited, all of whom were people from the military, political, business, and private fields.

Externally, although Zhang Shusheng did not prevent the He family and the Lu family from holding a feast for their daughters, he still strictly warned in private that he was not allowed to accept gifts and valuables. As a result, at the banquet that started in the morning between the two families, it was a big feast, and both families were also wealthy families, with three guests inside and outside, except for the guests on the two floors inside who were invited, the outermost guests did not need any gift money, as long as you came to visit, you could eat the flowing water banquet.

Originally, according to Zhang Shusheng's meaning, this local custom was a little inappropriate, but both families insisted that they would never accept a gift money, nor would they use Zhang Shusheng's banner, given that this was a local custom, he acquiesced. After all, the He family and the Lu family, because of the special reasons of their early years, are both people with a lot of wealth in the eyes of ordinary people, and this banquet and the various donations announced for the celebration of marrying a daughter will be a return to society.

However, he was originally from the Southwest, and this kind of flowing water mat is still a custom decades later. Rich people, put a free running water seat, that is a big face-raising thing. As long as there is a location, it is a very distinctive local wedding custom to eat for free from morning to night.

However, the Zhang family's wedding banquet was relatively simple. The wedding banquet was privately entrusted by Zhang Shusheng to the sister-in-law of the Sun family, and he resolutely denied the reports of some officials, did not make his private marriage a political axe, and even the busy personnel who ran before and after were selected from the veterans.

In a lively burst of firecrackers, two convoys arrived at Zhang's house from two directions, and after strict security checks, Zhang's family opened the middle door and welcomed two brides wearing red hijabs in.

"The bride is here, the groom is welcome~~!"

In the long shouting of relatives, the guests who had been waiting for a long time rushed up, and the scene suddenly became very lively. Zhang Shusheng, accompanied by the Sun family, personally walked outside the door, with the idea of reform and innovation of the southwest political axe, he did not follow the old calendar too much, but in order to show respect for the two brides, he still obeyed part of the customs, and everything was handed over to the sister-in-law of the Sun family to preside.

After the bride stepped into the brazier, the dowries of the two families were crowded in no particular order. The dowries of both families were very rich, and in addition to the shares that had been promised to both families before, the ostensible dowry included cars and various curiosities. Of course, these are also negotiated, He Lu's two families want to save face, and the dowry sent is so rich that it is not good, but Zhang Shusheng has also discussed with the two families for a long time, except for the dowries of the two personal heirlooms, such as cars and antiques for no reason, all of which were sold and donated to the political axe. Otherwise, a family of three, should there be more than a dozen cars in the garage to sit in turn? Don't talk about it now, even Zhang Shusheng will not allow it in the future, the family business is not terrible now, if it makes a bad precedent, it will be difficult to clean up in the future.

Of course, these donations and dowry sales will be witnessed by the two brides and his announcement at the wedding banquet in the afternoon.

"He Ning, Lu Yunyan, before visiting the church, I, as a godfather, will say a few words. The three seats above, the middle two seats are reserved for the two high halls of the Zhang family, Mr. Zhang Fengshou and Ms. Chen Wenshu, the eldest brother and sister-in-law and Shu Sheng have been separated for many years, but now the worship hall is absolutely indispensable for them. That position belongs to Ms. Zhang's sister, Ms. Jingming, who can be regarded as half of your relatives, and like your eldest brother and sister-in-law, she has been missing for many years. ”

After talking briefly, Sun Changqing sat next to the two empty chairs, which were Zhang Shusheng's relatives and witnessed the wedding.

"Worship heaven and earth!!"

"Second worship of the high hall!!"

"Husband and wife say goodbye!!"

Under the auspices of Mr. Yuan Jiagu, the master of ceremonies, this authentic Chinese classical wedding finally came to the most critical moment.

From beginning to end, Zhang Shusheng didn't see the pretty faces of the two brides hidden under the red hijab, of course, he didn't wait until the wedding was inevitably interrupted in the novel.

After the various ceremonies, Zhang Shusheng did not send him to the cave room with the bride, after all, there were still a number of military and political dignitaries here.

Zhang Shusheng took the two brides who unveiled their red hijabs and walked to the big garden of the banquet. Even Lu Yunyan, who was a little more open, blushed at this time, and the whole person was like a dream, immersed in the great joy of marrying Zhang Shusheng, yes, the three of them finally came together, but they didn't have the various tribulations that they had predicted thousands of times.

This man is trustworthy, and as soon as the war ended, he married himself and He Ning's sister, and he didn't care about each other.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today is my Zhang Shusheng's big talk, don't say more, thank you. Sitting here today are my brothers who started my business, my old friends for many years, and people who have made major military, political, economic, and social contributions to our southwest. For the public and private, I would like to take this opportunity today to thank you. Today's wedding banquet, I Zhang Shusheng did not make it very grand, but it is definitely in line with the regulations, and I also hope that all the powerful gentlemen can take this as the standard, and should be simple. I'll do it first as respect, everyone is free!! ”

Zhang Shusheng simply pointed out his meaning in a few sentences, thanked and reminded, and the wedding banquet entered the main topic. However, although the words of doing first for respect have been fulfilled, the words of everyone who are casual have not been fulfilled.

"Today is the great joy of the commander-in-chief, brothers, let's talk about it, should we line up to toast!" Chen Jun was the first to coax, as Zhang Shusheng's absolute confidant, this kid never regarded himself as an outsider, and in private, he always regarded Zhang Shusheng, a teacher, as a "monarch father".

He coaxed together, and several of Zhang Shusheng's students did not follow.

"Chen Jun, I'm afraid you kid have forgotten, this kind of private occasion actually calls the teacher the commander-in-chief, and the punishment for drinking is the punishment for drinking." It was Zhu Zijian who spoke, and he, like several other people, called Zhang Shusheng a teacher in private, which was not hypocrisy, but a group of them who were all taught by Zhang Shusheng by hand.

"Shu Sheng, don't listen to these little ghosts, come, old man, I will first and Old Man He, your godfather The three old men respect you, rest assured, it's not above and below, we are respecting all this you have done for the southwest, come, I wish you a group of children as soon as possible, hahaha......"

It was Lu Rongting, the original warlord of Guangxi, who retired and stayed at home for a long time, accompanied his daughter, and became an adviser to the southwest political axe. In addition to the righteous son who died as a traitor, he can also be regarded as a successful heir, his son Lu Yunlun became the vice governor of Yunnan Province, and his daughter just married Zhang Shusheng.

As for the old man He Fangjiong, although he fulfilled his oath and changed 50% of his shares in Xinhe Industrial Company to He Ning's name, he still has a huge family property. Today's Xinhe Industrial Company, Zhang Shusheng, in order to drive private investment in the industry, has repeatedly participated in Xinhe Industrial Company with Shusheng Company, and Shusheng Company has the largest shares. However, in order to give an explanation to the He family, Zhang Shusheng only promised to accept 50% of He Ning's shares in name, but did not transfer or honor. In this way, although Xinhe Industrial Company seems to be the industry of the He family, but the people who actually know the root know that Shusheng Company accounts for the majority, and the idea of making money is not as strong as before, and he has done a lot of things to make profits, but is more keen on social undertakings and political and business affairs. It's just that now, there is another hope, that is, looking forward to He Ning giving him a big white fat grandson as soon as possible.

"Okay, manly man, I'm afraid that this little wine won't work." Zhang Shusheng is only thirty years old, and he was cheered by everyone, so naturally people are in good spirits at happy events, drinking one cup after another. As a result, he was drunk on the spot by several old subordinates and students who started his family back then......

(To be continued)