The chaotic teahouse was full of people after noon. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info customers wearing foreign clothes and top hats, wearing military uniforms and boasting foreign swords, and wearing robes and horse coats, constantly going in and out of this teahouse. Sometimes the collision of change is so direct, just like people's clothing, of course, there are inevitably braids on people's heads, the braids, some cut off, some keep, after all, Kannai is not better than the Northeast, no one forces to cut braids.

This teahouse located in Jiangning City has always been a non-existent place. Every day after noon, it is even more crowded. Those who come here to drink tea are not only tea customers who love to taste tea, but also brokers who are accustomed to learning about the market and trading in the teahouse, of course, not to mention businessmen, as well as officialdom figures from Liangjiang, as well as New Army officers wearing foreign military uniforms and carrying foreign knives on their hips.

There are people who like to spend time here, and it is also a place to date, get together, spread trivia and anecdotes to each other, and talk about the world's major events. The sound of talking, laughing and scolding, coupled with the jingling of teacups and dishes, the shouts of the overwhelmed teahouse, the noise of selling cigarettes, melon seeds, pictorials, magazines, and sometimes some shouting beggars, merge into a noisy and colorful downtown scene.

At this moment, among the chaotic tea seats, there are two customers, who are sitting opposite each other against a delicate tea table. One is Li Yushan, who wears ink-framed glasses and a coffee-colored suit, and the other is Xu Shiyun, who wears a blue robe. They mingled in this lively teahouse, and they were not at all conspicuous. Even their costumes stand out.

This lively environment is the perfect place for spies to meet and discuss certain tasks. The more lively the place, the less noticed. Even if it is discovered. There are also ways to explain it. After all, this is a very ordinary way to sit in the tea room, drink a cup of tea, and listen to a song.

The five-spiced melon seeds on the table have been swallowed a lot. Xu Shiyun's fingers tapped the tea bowl, and he looked quite leisurely calling the tea room to boil the water.

The teahouse came, and a pot of tea was quickly refilled.

When refilling the tea in the tea room, Li Yushan slowly put down the "Asia Daily" in his hand and said slowly:

"In my opinion, the stock of our Luning Railway has to be bullish. Don't you see, now, it's a railroad stock, and you have to watch it rise! ”

His words were mixed with the noise of the red-eared arguments on the side seats, and it seemed very harmonious. After the guy in the tea room rushed through the boiling water, he habitually shook off the newspaper and told Xu Shiyun softly.

"I heard that this yamen is preparing to transfer the new army of Anhui's First Association to Jiangxi, is the news confirmed?"

Xu Shiyun nodded, and also asked in a low voice:

"This news is true. However, in the yamen, it seems that there is still a struggle. After all, it's not easy to train a new army! ”

"According to what you say, this transfer of troops is also a face? Probably nothing substantial? ”

Li Yushan said calmly.

"If that's the case, then there won't be any danger in Jiangxi this time......"

Li Yushan was expressionless when he said this, but a sharp look occasionally flashed in his seemingly lazy gaze.

"If that's the case, then it looks like ......"

"Looks like there's no danger anymore!"

"Oh." Li Yushan said:

"In that case, I'll try to get in touch with the people on their side later."

The people on the other side of his mouth refer to the people sent by the Jiangxi People's Army, and the two sides have rarely been in direct contact for a long time. It was a newsboy shaking the newspaper in his hand, passing through the crowded customers in the store, Li Yushan took out a match and calmly lit a paper cigarette.

“…… A new "China Times", as well as this "Liangjiang Daily"! Shanghai's Yangtze River Review, which was published only yesterday......"

The newsboy shouted that these newspapers were all flourishing because of the implementation of the New Deal, and since the Nine Governors' Council two years ago, with the permission of the government, newspapers and newspapers have sprung up like mushrooms, although the circulation of these newspapers varies, and the few are only about 1,000 copies, but they have greatly enlivened the originally lifeless society.

Newspapers and periodicals are certainly the most important carriers for transmitting news, and their role and value have been greatly enhanced with the changes in the country's current situation, so people often associate the number of newspapers with the progress of national civilization. Under the influence of "newspapers are today's books", it has become a common practice for readers to read newspapers, and in the situation of "the times are dangerous", the change of readers also marks the change of the country to a certain extent.

In the process of transforming the gentry class into intellectuals, between classical and modern, conservative and avant-garde, middle school and Western learning, scholars were faced with identity and value trade-offs. Whether readers are willing to read New Deal newspapers and periodicals is a consideration of their position and concept. As a product of the New Deal, the newspapers and periodicals led the social trend of thought with the concept of "the New Deal is strong", and soon received a wide response from Shilin, and formed a huge "reading community" around the readership of the local government-run New Deal newspapers and periodicals. Newspaper people who advocated the New Deal used their extensive network resources and distribution system to infiltrate newspapers and periodicals into the "urban society" and "rural society." The New Deal's remarks caused many readers to "drink like a sweet spring" and produce a huge shock in the whole society, even to the point of "dreaming of it."

The newspaper formed a huge field of public opinion in the whole gentry society, and thus attracted more readers to join the trend of reading newspapers and periodicals. Even the old-fashioned gentry were influenced by the newspapers and began to waver. It can be said that it was the newspaper that made the current New Deal trend. And the local governors never neglected the newspapers, because the newspapers were the main front for the public opinion, and the words themselves were by no means the main front of the rebels and thieves, and it was under the influence of this series of motives that the current national newspaper industry flourished.

Even in this teahouse, the newspaper boy who sold the newspaper just held the newspaper and shouted left and right for a while, and quickly sold dozens of newspapers. Of course, neither Li Yushan nor Xu Shiyun paid attention to all this, they just quickly changed the topic when the newsboy approached, just like most tea customers.

However, when I changed the topic to cover it up, I heard the topic that Li Yushan talked about. Xu Shiyun's brows locked slightly. Immediately got a certain understanding of the current situation. As a hidden line lurking in the Liangjiang Mansion, he has been collecting information on Liangjiang in the yamen, and in the intelligence setting of the Intelligence Bureau, Liangjiang is not a hot spot, and even its level is not as good as Shanghai, so he is one of the few intelligence officers who infiltrate the high-level of Liangjiang. Because of this, he was able to access some military intelligence. Originally, according to his thoughts, this information would be about the Jiangxi People's Army's resistance to the Liangjiang New Army, but the information revealed in Li Yushan's words revealed a problem -- the intelligence station had no direct contact with the people of the People's Army. There is only one possibility, and that is mutual distrust!

Xu Shiyun glanced at Li Yushan, who was smoking a cigarette, he just took a puff of cigarette, and he was still as calm and calm as before, could he say that he guessed wrong?

The teahouse was full of people who often interrupted their conversations. They don't get bored. Instead, feel safe. Swallowing melon seeds, wait for the newsboy to pass. Li Yushan spoke again.

"Yesterday the nearest order came from home...... I would have liked to convey it to you today. ”

Xu Shiyun understood that the home Li Yushan was talking about was referring to the headquarters of the Intelligence Bureau in Dalian, and although there were Shanghai Station, Hangzhou Station, Anqing Station, and Wuchang Station near Jiangning, everyone was not affiliated with each other, and they were all directly under the orders of the Intelligence Bureau, and the Intelligence Bureau would issue instructions to Li Yushan, as the stationmaster, through newspapers, telegrams, and other means, and then he would convey them to the downline.

"There is one circumstance that deserves serious attention."

Pressing the cigarette butt into the ashtray, Li Yushan's voice became softer:

"The bureau believes that the signs of collusion between all parties in the customs are becoming more and more obvious...... Judging from certain indications, in the future, Kannai will suddenly become two groups with Li and Zhang as the main groups, and among Zhang's groups, it is Liangjiang that poses a threat to them, so the bureau hopes to find out the attitude of Liangjiang......"

"Liangjiang's attitude!"

Xu Shiyun swallowed melon seeds, smiled calmly, looked at the back of the vendor selling melon seeds and peanuts who walked by, and said slowly:

"This is no different from the past, Liu Shuai is different from others, he has no other ambitions, but it is because he does not have too many ambitions that the attitude here is a little subtle, since he may be pulled by Wuchang, it is also possible to be used by Tianjin."

"Exactly!"

Li Yushan nodded and took a sip of tea.

"That's why the family is worried, after all, everyone knows that if there is no Liangjiang, Wuchang really has no strength!"

Although the words seemed to be said casually, both of them expressed its seriousness in their eyes.

Xu Shiyun immediately thought of some clues that he had come into contact with in the recent past: several staff members who had connections with Tianjin seemed to be walking up and down, could this be a sign that Beiyang would act on Liangjiang!

Now as soon as I contact the information revealed by the stationmaster, a dangerous feeling immediately flashes through my mind: Maybe the Beiyang side has already started to attack! Xu Shiyun's train of thought changed and said worriedly:

"If it comes true, it's dangerous."

Not to mention the danger, the most important thing is that the balance of power in the customs will be broken, and it will inevitably aggravate the exclusive situation of the Beiyang family.

"Do you think that with Liu's person, it is possible for him to fall to Tianjin now?!"

"Hmm!"

Xu Shiyun's brows suddenly gathered into a line.

"This, in my personal opinion! Although Liu has no ambitions, this person's attitude is very clear, and he will never make a real decision before the situation is clear, I think ......"

Xu Shiyun picked up the tea bowl, put it down again, and thought carefully for a while before speaking.

"The reason why he will cooperate with Zhang should also be to increase his own weight, so that Tianjin and Wuchang will make a price, if it is not bad, it will be the one with the highest price in the future!"

"Man."

Li Yushan smoked a cigarette with a hint of mockery in his expression.

"Always driven by profit, he is now selling at a price, no wonder Liangjiang has no intention of a new deal, this person is ......"

With a sigh, Li Yushan took a deep puff of cigarette.

"Don't be afraid!"

"Yes."

Xu Shiyun nodded and agreed.

"It's not ambitious, it's not something to be afraid of, so I think, maybe, we have a chance to do something here."

Xu Shiyun's words were tentative, in his opinion, in the current bureau, to be precise, the Governor's Mansion is too conservative in its actions towards the Guannei, and there is no trace of aggressiveness at all.

"Huh?"

Li Yushan's eyebrows raised slightly, and he looked at Xu Shiyun in surprise:

"Tell me what you think."

Now that he has opened his mouth, Xu Shiyun let go of his thoughts and continued:

"I think that since Tianjin and Wuchang can carry out the way of integration in the Guannei, and strengthen their own strength by uniting with other governors, I think we can also do the same, after all, now the world knows that among the three great powers in the world, the northeast has the strength of its new army, so as not to be despised by the world......"

Speaking of this, Xu Shiyun's brows furrowed, and he said uneasily:

"But since the establishment of the province in Northeast China, our actions have become smaller and smaller, and even have the intention of waiting to see the changes in the world. When the time comes, the people in the customs will bring the elites trained by more than a dozen provinces to the north, how should they stop it? ”

"Well, it's not impossible!"

Li Yushan nodded and softly agreed.

"Then from your point of view, if we show favor to the two rivers now, how sure are we that the two rivers can be integrated with the northeast?"

"This ......"

"There is not a single possibility!"

Li Yushan smiled coldly, looked at Xu Shiyun, who was more than ten years older than him, and said in a rather helpless tone.

"Not to mention, some people regard the marshal who is bent on restoring China as a rebellious minister and thief, and many scholars also look down on the marshal, thinking that the marshal has not read a few books......"

"It's just that I'm used to talking nonsense about slaves, and then the handsome talent is something that others can understand!"

While speaking to defend the handsome, Xu Shiyun understood that what the stationmaster said was the truth, not to mention other people, it was himself, if it weren't for his admiration for the handsome Kuang Zhenghua's heart, I am afraid he would also despise him, after all, he had not read a few sage books.

"So, there are some things, it's not that you don't do it, but you can't do it now, and when you can do it in the future, you will naturally do it, and now, it should be said that the time is not ripe enough......"

Li Yushan took out the cigarette case, only to find that the cigarette box was empty. So he stood up and spoke.

"That's it for today, contact me next time, I'll go first, buy a pack of cigarettes at the door, you wait a few minutes before leaving."

"Hmm!"

Xu Shiyun nodded, and after Li Yushan left, he picked up the newspaper on the tea table casually, looking like he was looking at the newspaper and drinking idle tea, although he knew that there would not be too much danger, but it was always a big mistake to be careful. (To be continued.) )