As Zhao Dongyun walked into the banquet hall, the banquet hall that had been undulating during the conversation instantly quieted down, and the people in the audience all looked at Zhao Dongyun in unison, and everyone's eyes were slightly different.

Xiong Xiling, who is a kilometer away from the government, looked at Zhao Dongyun with a somewhat complicated gaze, to be honest, when he chose to go to the northeast to join Zhao Dongyun as the assistant of Huludao Industrial Zone, he never thought that Zhao Dongyun could develop to this point today, and he thought that Zhao Dongyun was at best Yuan Shikai's second, becoming the head of the nine governors and a very popular minister, but he didn't expect that the domestic situation would change to the point where he couldn't see it clearly.

From last year's governor of the three eastern provinces, to the vice president concurrently serving as the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces, to this year's entry into the Beijing division and the position of the president, the changes here can be said to have made many people's jaws drop.

And Xiong Xiling has also become more and more powerful with Zhao Dongyun's ascension to the top, from the assistant office of Huludao Industrial Zone to the general office of the financial and political bureau of the three eastern provincial government councils, and then to the current prime minister, he has become the head of countless Beiyang civil officials today.

To be honest, he was still very excited that he could become the prime minister of the cabinet, but soon he found that he was the prime minister of the cabinet in name only, and there was no big difference from the previous Lu Chuanlin, who was both rubber prime ministers.

Although today's republican constitution stipulates that the cabinet prime minister system, and the president is just a false name, Zhao Dongyun's strength has made this qiē become a disrespect, especially the existence of the presidential secretariat, so that Zhao Dongyun can intervene in almost every qiē government affairs, and the establishment of the headquarters has allowed Zhao Dongyun to firmly grasp the military power, making the War Department and the Navy Department in the cabinet become fictitious institutions.

Even Xiong Xiling misses the days when he was the general office of the financial and political bureau of the three eastern provinces, although the work was hard at that time, and there were unfinished official duties every day, but for a military and political dignitary, busy means that he is in power, and if he is idle all day long, there is no difference.

Compared with Xiong Xiling's complicated thoughts, the eyes of several other people in the cabinet who looked at Zhao Dongyun were much simpler, especially Zhao E, Zhu Jiabao and several other old colleagues who Zhao Dongyun mentioned with one hand were full of gratitude and admiration for Zhao Dongyun.

If there is no Zhao Dongyun's support for them in the life trajectory of the two of them, they may still be just a prefect and mayor now, but since following Zhao Dongyun, they have grown into well-known Western-style cadres in China, especially Zhao E, the Huludao Industrial Zone he hosted has developed to the point where it has developed to the point where he is famous at home and abroad, and he is a well-known reformist Western-style official in the country.

Today, the industrial output value of the Huludao Industrial Zone alone exceeds that of the other regions of the three eastern provinces combined, and even the Lushun-Dalian area, which has become a public concession, is far behind it.

The only one that can be compared with Huludao Industrial Zone is Tangshan Industrial Zone, but Tangshan Industrial Zone is a heavy industrial city that is fully inclined to military industry, coal, and steel, and its output value is strictly dependent on Fuyuanji Qì Factory, Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant and several coal mines, which is a relatively deformed industrial city with development, and Huludao Industrial Zone has hundreds of large and small enterprises.

After the establishment of Huludao Industrial Zone, Zhao E served as the governor of Fengtian, and during his tenure, he vigorously supported the development of Yingkou Industrial Zone and Fushun Coal Mine, Anton Shengsi and other places of industrial development, although the development of the above places is short, but has begun to take shape, not to mention Fushun and Andong and other places, the establishment of Yingkou Industrial Zone is even more stubborn from the Luda concession to grab a lot of investment shares.

In addition to imitating the Huludao Industrial Zone to implement preferential policies such as three-year tax exemption and five-and-a-half tax exemption, Yingkou Industrial Zone has launched an export tax rebate policy for the soybean industry, that is to say, as long as the soybean cake and soybean oil are exported to Japan, Europe and the United States, they can obtain a refund of export tax, which almost attracted a large number of businessmen from the soybean industry to settle in Yingkou, which has hit the soybean industry hard.

Although the Luda area has the natural advantages of public concession and Lushun public port, the output value of its soybean industry is less than half of that of Yingkou Industrial Zone.

The large number of preferential policies adopted by Yingkou Industrial Zone makes it difficult for them to collect large amounts of tax directly from the soybean industry, but the surging development of the soybean industry will also lead to the development of other industries, especially the financial industry. This soybean industry is also a capital-intensive industry, and there are a large number of financial institutions such as money banks in Yingkou to provide services for soybean-related industries.

Nowadays, Yingkou's financial industry is developing surgingly, from the reform of the bank, the total number of banks with new investment and establishment of various types of capital of more than one million yuan is as high as more than 30, and the development of the tertiary industry such as finance also allows Yingkou to collect a large amount of taxes, thus supplementing the financial losses caused by supporting the soybean industry.

The rapid development of Yingkou Industrial Zone made Zhou Ziqi quickly grow into one of the top Western-style officials in the Soviet Union, and even made him take over from Zhao E as the governor of Fengtian Province.

As the top boss, Zhao E also laid the foundation for his entry into the cabinet because of the large-scale development of the industry in the jurisdiction, and when Zhao Dongyun formed the cabinet, he was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

Zhao E is grateful to Zhao Dongyun, grateful for the opportunity Zhao Dongyun gave him at the beginning!

Compared with the thoughts of civilian officials, several people in the military are much simpler, and most of them look at Zhao Dongyun with admiration!

In the hearts of those military generals, Zhao Dongyun is not only the president, but also their generalissimo, their oath of allegiance, and although Zhao Dongyun has not personally led the army to fight now, no one can deny Zhao Dongyun's military talent, not to mention various military theories, and not long ago Zhao Dongyun personally commanded the Tangshan Campaign won a big victory, and the subsequent victory in a series of battles into the customs has established Zhao Dongyun's position as the first domestic military strategist.

In the hearts of those generals, Zhao Dongyun was the one who led them to continuous victory.

Although there were many cultural relics officials present who worked for Zhao Dongyun, many of them were officials of the Beiyang Neutral faction, and their allegiance was not to Zhao Dongyun personally, but to the Beiyang system. Even if Zhao E, Xiong Xiling and others in the Soviet system are loyal to Zhao Dongyun personally, they can't talk about worship, and those officers in the military who really worship and unconditionally are loyal to Zhao Dongyun.

Especially the class of advanced students in the army, they regard themselves as Zhao Dongyun's students and the most descendant generals wherever they go.

The Beiyang government under the leadership of Zhao Dongyun is not monolithic, everyone has their own ideas, so there will naturally be various changes in their eyes when they look at Zhao Dongyun.

The foreign envoys on the side looked at Zhao Dongyun with similar eyes, basically with the professional smile of a diplomat, and their eyes were flat and they couldn't see the slightest ripple, but what each of these diplomats was thinking in their hearts was unknown to outsiders.

Zhao Dongyun also walked in front of those diplomatic ministers at this time, and then greeted them with the same professional smile: "I hope you can have a good time tonight!" ”

Speaking of which, this is the first time that Zhao Dongyun has met with the ministers of these great powers in public; when he was in the three eastern provinces, although Zhao Dongyun had also come into contact with the diplomats of various countries, they were all ordinary diplomatic officials, and the plenipotentiary ministers of various countries had met at the inauguration ceremony of the great president after entering Beijing.

Although he didn't see it many times, Zhao Dongyun could still recognize the ministers of these countries in front of him, led by Zhu Erdian, the plenipotentiary minister to China of the United Kingdom, the first super empire in the modern era, and then the German minister Rex, the French minister Pasteur, the Russian minister Finkodi, the Japanese minister Lin Quansuke, the American minister Rou Keyi and others.

The career diplomats were of all sizes, but they were almost the same, all dressed in black tuxedos, white bow ties, and some of them wore medals.

After Zhao Dongyun greeted many people present, he soon took his wife Fang Ruolian and Zhu Erdian and his wife to talk softly.

Since this is not a private occasion, but a more formal diplomatic occasion, in order not to disgrace the national body Zhao Dongyun did not use English to talk to Zhu Erdian, of course, he can also use the contemporary international diplomatic language French to talk to them, but Zhao Dongyun's French is very general, reading and writing are okay but the spoken language is much inferior, so Zhao Dongyun still uses Chinese.

Although Zhu Erdian can also speak Chinese, he said that this is a diplomatic occasion, and he will not talk to Zhao Dongyun in Chinese, so in addition to Zhao Dongyun and Zhu Erdian, there are two translators in this small side hall.

Zhu Erdian's translator is not to say, he is one of the British diplomats in the British Embassy, but Zhao Dongyun's translation here is a bit strange, not one of the few translators in the Foreign Affairs Section of the Secretariat that Zhao Dongyun is familiar with, but a strange face that he has never seen, and more importantly, this is a woman.

In many government agencies, especially in diplomatic institutions, there are more people who know foreign languages, and it is very common for the military and political leaders in these years, especially those who have studied abroad, to know one or two foreign languages, taking Zhao Dongyun himself as an example, he is proficient in German, English, and a little French, and his cousin Zhao Dongzhi is also proficient in Japanese and English.

When Zhao Dongyun usually needs to use a translator, he will not go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find someone, because there is a foreign affairs section in the secretariat, and there are a bunch of people who know the foreign languages of various countries, especially the development of the contemporary international common language, basically people who are engaged in diplomacy will.

It is worth noting that the language of contemporary international diplomacy is not Spanish, which is the most widely applicable, nor English of the super-imperial Britain, but German, Russian and Chinese, and even less Japanese, and the common diplomatic language of this era is French, and basically everyone who wants to engage in diplomatic work in every country must learn French, and formal diplomatic negotiations are basically French, and this situation did not change until the negotiations of the Washington Naval Treaty in the twenties.

But the person who came today was not those translators from the Foreign Affairs Department, but a young woman that Zhao Dongyun didn't know.