Jingshi Jurentang.

This building has become the most famous building in China in recent years, and the reason why it is famous at home and abroad is because it is a very rare Western-style building in contemporary China, but because of its unique political meaning.

In the years before the fall of the former Qing Dynasty, when this building was called the Yiluan Palace, Cixi lived here and even dealt with government affairs, received foreign ministers and daughters, etc., last year after the republic, Wang Yingkai unceremoniously drove the former Qing imperial family out of the Forbidden City under house arrest, and the huge Forbidden City was changed into a museum, but he occupied the Xihai Royal Garden across the wall as the presidential palace, and also as a place for family to live, and renamed the Yiluan Hall as a daily office.

Wang Yingkai went into the wilderness, and after Zhao Dongyun became president, he naturally accepted this large area of royal gardens and set up his office in Jurentang.

Although the presidential palace of the contemporary northern republican government is a whole garden building including the West Sea, including the Juren Hall, when people talk about the northern political center, they do not mean the presidential palace, but refer to the Juren Hall.

Therefore, the contemporary Jurentang is only a building in a narrow sense, but in a broad sense, it refers to the political center of the north, and its meaning is very similar to the meaning of No. 10 Downing Street in the United Kingdom and the later Zhong'Nanhai political zhì.

Jurentang is not only where Zhao Dongyun's office is located, but also the office space of the secretariat, especially the offices of the four first-class secretaries are actually set up in Jurentang, but although the number of the secretariat is close to breaking 100, many subordinate departments have gradually moved to several buildings next to Jurentang, and several buildings next to it also have the offices of the inspection department, the military attache office and the barracks of hundreds of officers and soldiers of the presidential guard.

Somewhat similar to most of the political buildings in contemporary China, the first half of the West Sea is occupied by office buildings, including buildings such as the Juren Hall, while some of the garden buildings in the rear are used as the private residences of Zhao Dongyun's family.

At this time, in the small garden space behind the West Sea, many people wearing formal dresses are gathering together in twos and threes, each holding a fine wine and talking in many small circles.

It looks like there are nearly 100 men, some of them wearing Western-style tuxedos, some wearing traditional horse coats and robes, and some wearing generals' gowns. Women are more showy, some wear traditional plackets, some wear retro-style late Ming style long skirts, and some wear Western-style back-brace long skirts, but more people, especially young women, wear a kind of Western-style long skirt without back-brace, those women in order to distinguish from those back-bracing traditional Western long skirts, called Chinese and Western skirts, which can be roughly explained as Western-style skirts with more Chinese characteristics.

This style of skirt has only begun to appear in northern China in recent years, at first only the high-level military and political dignitaries of the Su Department in Fengtian imitated Li Wan and Fang Ruolian, but with Zhao Dongyun staying in Beijing, this kind of women's clothing with a strong modern atmosphere quickly became popular among the women of the powerful family of Beijing.

Among this group of men and women, there were not only high-ranking Soviet military and political dignitaries, but also many foreign ministers and their wives as in the past, as in many balls and drinking parties in the past.

In the crowd, Fang Ruolian is as dazzling as a star, this dazzling is not about her beauty, Fang Ruolian is certainly beautiful, but the people present are all military and political dignitaries, and there are more beautiful women I have seen, and a handful of women who are more beautiful than Fang Ruolian will climb into their beds.

Fang Ruolian's dazzling comes from her unique identity in contemporary China: the wife of the president of the Republic of China!

Although several military and political ladies around Fang Ruolian looked relaxed, just like their husbands saw Zhao Dongyun and wanted to be respectful, these women naturally needed to maintain enough respect in Fang Ruolian, but blind respect was naturally not enough, and several female dependents with enough self-sustaining identities gathered around Fang Ruolian and specially picked what Fang Ruolian liked.

"Today's Winter Garden Party is this year's event, look at this arrangement, tsk, if I let me organize such a big cocktail party, it will definitely not be able to do it so well!" A middle-aged lady wearing a red Chinese and Western skirt complimented her, but although this person was wearing an extremely popular Chinese and Western skirt, it was just that the red and her extremely fat body destroyed the beauty of this long skirt.

This kind of long skirt without back support and waist and hips, it is difficult for women of average figure to wear a sense of beauty, otherwise there will not be only women with good figures in this occasion today will wear this kind of skirt, other women do not like to wear, but this kind of long skirt is the same as the cheongsam or stockings of the forties and fifties, and the figure above the middle and upper level cannot be worn at all, and it will blind a blind eye if it is barely stuffed in, just imagine a short and round thigh wearing black thin silk swaggering in front of you, It's possible to spit out your overnight meal.

Obviously, not all women have this kind of self-knowledge, and the middle-aged lady in front of her is like this, with a bloated figure and barely squeezing off the Chinese and Western skirts that cinched the waist and hips, which looks as weird as it gets.

It's just that this woman didn't care about others, especially the disgusted expressions that those men showed after sweeping away, but continued to compliment Fang Ruolian with a smile on her fat face.

The woman in her thirties next to her was not far behind, and then said: "Who said it wasn't, some time ago I ran errands behind my wife, and I saw with my own eyes that my wife was busy running before and after, in order to organize this winter garden party, but my cheeks were tired!" ”

Fang Ruolian listened to the words of these people, with the same smile on her face, she couldn't see joy but also couldn't see disgust, although she personally didn't like the women in front of her, but all the women present today were the daughters of the high-level military and political leaders of the Soviet Union, and most of the people who could appear on today's occasion were also genuine ladies or concubines, these women themselves had nothing, but their father or husband was an important subordinate of their husband Zhao Dongyun, so for the sake of their husband's face, Fang Ruolian would also smile and deal with it.

After saying this, she swept her eyes and saw a few people, Shi Yanglin from the combat department happened to walk in with his wife, although Shi Yanglin was only a young general, but Fang Ruolian knew that this son was not simple, not to mention anything else, just the title of the director of the combat department was enough to make him one of the most powerful young generals in the Feng army. It is not an exaggeration to say that such a person is deeply reused by his husband.

The husband wants to reuse this Shiyang Forest, as his wife, Fang Ruolian naturally does a good job of related logistics work, and has had a lot of contact with Mrs. Fang in the past, plus this Mrs. Shi is not very old, and she has a broader vision when she lives freely in Shanghai, and she has a very good appetite for Fang Ruolian, so there is more contact on weekdays.

After Shi Yanglin came in, he first walked to the other side with his wife, and on the other side of the crowd was Zhao Dongyun and several other military and political dignitaries were talking about something, Zhao Dongyun saw Shi Yanglin come in, and immediately beckoned: "Bao Ke, you came just in time!" ”

When the men were talking about things, Mrs. Shi naturally wouldn't rush forward, and at this time, she happened to see Fang Ruolian coming, and immediately took the initiative to greet her.

"Madame, it looks like she's getting more and more glorious this time, and the health medicine soup I introduced to you last time has an effect!" Mrs. Shi has a lot of contact with Fang Ruolian on weekdays, although the relationship between the two is far from that of any best friend, but she has seen a lot and become familiar with a lot.

"Not to mention that I used it quite well, thank you sister!" Fang Ruolian stepped forward with a smile, and then talked to Shi Yanglin in a low voice, once the topic of this woman's house was opened, it was endless, and it was natural for these two women to say this to make the other ladies around them feel a little embarrassed.

However, they also knew that there were too many differences in each other's identities, and Fang Ruolian had already given face to them for a while just now, so naturally they would not continue to be cheeky and continue to follow, and after a while, several noble ladies left the circle around Fang Ruolian one after another, without Fang Ruolian by her side, their expressions would be much more relaxed, and they no longer deliberately flattered Fang Ruolian when they spoke.

The fat lady in the red dress picked up a glass of sweet wine from the plate held by the waiter with her gloved hand, and then her eyes just happened to see Fang Ruolian talking to Madam Shi, although it was a little far away, she could still see that they were talking happily.

Thinking of Fang Ruolian's perfunctory attitude towards herself just now, she was naturally angry in her heart, but this anger naturally did not dare to say that Fang Ruolian was angry, but that Mrs. Shi.

Several other ladies next to her have also been friends with her for many years, looking at her face changed slightly, and then following her eyes to see what she understood, immediately a woman just showed a jealous tone and said: "Isn't it a young 'general', my family is still a 'general', what is there to be angry about!" ”

This young general is naturally not talking about Mrs. Shi herself, but about Shi Yanglin!

The red lady also said: "That's it, don't say that the one in my family is the deputy chief, which one who can come here today is not the chief minister, Sister Zhao's is the chief minister of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and his status is not much stronger than her!" ”

However, a middle-aged lady next to her who looked a little older smiled and did not answer, this woman is the wife of Zhao E, the chief minister of industry and commerce, although she is old, but she is a scholarly family, everyone is from a beautiful background, and the father and brother of the family are not one or two, this has been in contact with high-ranking officials and dignitaries since childhood, and the knowledge is naturally not comparable to the woman born in front of the daughter of a small landlord.

She snorted coldly in her heart at the moment: Just a young general? Don't look at what position other people's husbands hold, that is the most prominent major general position in the entire Feng army, and formulate a battle plan for hundreds of thousands of Feng troops, don't you see that Shi Yanglin was called by President Zhao Dongyun as soon as he came, and this kind of treatment is there a few cabinet chiefs or generals in the army?

Although there are high-level military and political leaders of the Soviet Union present today, not every high-level can be powerful, let alone everyone can trust Zhao Dongyun.

When I turned my head to look at President Zhao Dongyun, I saw that Zhao Dongyun was talking to Shi Yanglin with his head sideways, how many people can have this kind of treatment?

Not only Mrs. Zhao paid attention to Shi Yanglin, but in fact, other people in the venue today were also paying attention to Zhao Dongyun's wholly-owned property, if it weren't for their identity and etiquette, they would have been eager to surround Zhao Dongyun in the past, and it was not even obvious to pay attention from a distance, so they could only glance at it occasionally, looking for an opportunity to come forward and talk to Zhao Dongyun.

It's just that this kind of opportunity is really rare, because there are not many people standing by Zhao Dongyun's side at this time, but they are all the real power core high-level leaders of the contemporary Soviet system.

Among them are Xiong Xiling, premier of the cabinet, Fang Biyong, chief of the General Staff Department of the General Headquarters, Yang Jiayi, director of the Quanxu Division of the General Headquarters, and Shi Yanglin, director of the Operations Division of the General Headquarters.

If other people come forward to join this conversation circle, it is actually quite difficult, even if someone comes forward to say hello, but if there is no Zhao Dongyun to leave, even Zhao E, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, they can only say hello and leave.

Zhao Dongyun's small circle was talking, and these people were gathered together, even if they were chatting about this topic, it would involve military affairs.

As soon as Shi Yanglin opened his mouth to say a few words, he was asked by Zhao Dongyun: "I read that the briefing said that the Third Division has chased to Chuzhou, what is the situation on Gu Lanyu's side now?" ”