Eighth National Day 1

"Don't say it, the president's vision is powerful, this city gate is indeed a little abrupt, it will be ......much better after it is demolished," Wang Shizhen pointed to the Daqing Gate in the south, "The thousand-step corridor is indeed much wider after it is demolished." ”

"It's not just the city gate," Deng Qinghua......, the commander-in-chief of the National Day Celebration, nodded, "That's what the president said." Beijing's city walls are one of the city's features, but too many walls are also a problem. When this damned gate is torn down, a martyr's shrine will be built so that those martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country will be sacrificed forever......"

Wang Shizhen knew about Long Qian's mention. It was this Tiyì that determined the plan to demolish the Great Qing Gate. Long Qian not only chose Tiananmen Square as the main venue of the founding ceremony, but also made a big deal about Tiananmen Square. If we put aside the emotions of history, Wang Shizhen fully agrees with Long Qian's construction. That's right, Tiananmen Square is located on the north-south axis of Beijing, and its geographical location is extremely superior. It is perfectly correct to make a fuss about Tiananmen Square.

Now he is reluctant to accept Deng Qinghua's words.

Deng Qinghua's eyes were due south. It was overcast, it looked like it was going to rain, and he hoped that tomorrow would be a sunny day. The garbage that had once piled up in the square had been removed, and a huge steel flagpole had been erected, and four guards stood in all directions to guard the flagpole that had not yet been equipped with the national flag. The square has been completely cleaned, and there are soldiers of the 4th Division of the garrison standing around it, a few days ago, a regiment of Cheng Erhu took over the guards of the square, and since yesterday, all people need a pass issued by the garrison headquarters to enter the square...... Deng Qinghua's gaze shifted from the quiet square to the gray open space around Dongjiaomin Lane in the southeast, pondering the setting up of government offices. That's his job. As the mayor of the capital. The burden on his shoulders was too heavy, and he was very envious of his comrades who stayed in the army. However, the fate of some of them is also about to change, and the central ministry and bureau are established, but Long Qian is not very satisfied, from the establishment of the organization to the selection of the chief officer, Long Qian is dissatisfied. We are determined to let a group of high-ranking generals take off their military uniforms and engage in politics -- our Mengshan Army cannot only fight wars, but cannot build! These are Long Qian's original words at the military system meeting on the 26th. Indeed, the formation of government agencies gave the commander a headache, not to show the mind of the Mengshan Army for fame and reputation, but because the military system was too few capable of administrative work, and he went to Haiyantang several times to report on the preparations for the National Day ceremony. I saw Long Qian silently flipping through the roster of officers. He knew that Long Qian was selecting cadres. For this matter. Long Qian did not hide from him, and consulted him several times about the situation of senior officers in the northern military system, and now he was sure that Zheng Shuangqing and Xiong Xun would be transferred out of the army by Long Qian. Even Shi Dashou in the garrison will take off his military uniform. Of course. And not just the Northern Military District. A large number of high-ranking generals from other military regions will be transferred to local work and serve as provincial governors or central ministers.

"I still agree with you, it's a shame that that open space is used as a training ground. It's just the right thing to use. Although Wang Shizhen has become the minister of civil affairs, he will remain in the position of deputy mayor until the end of the National Day celebrations.

Dongjiaomin Lane is the embassy area, Gengzi Guo is difficult to guide a large number of houses were destroyed, and the Xinchou Treaty allowed the embassy district to station troops, that "golden" treasure land has become a ruin, and foreign troops wearing various military uniforms can often be seen there.

"Shame on the country." Deng Qinghua's face sank like water.

Their seat is in the Tiananmen Tower. Beside them are busy staff members making final preparations for tomorrow's celebrations, and farther away are the nail-like guards sent by the garrison, with Tiananmen Square as a viewing platform, and the security work has been transferred from the Beijing Police Department to the garrison a month ago.

Wang Shizhen looked up at the huge lantern, which was huge enough to fit three adults into it easily. For this reason, dozens of craftsmen took nearly a month to produce it, and the electric lights were turned on, and it was very beautiful when lit up at night. Now, the golden tassels under the lantern hang silently, without a hint of wind.

Wang Shizhen still didn't answer Deng Qinghua's sigh just now. He understood the attitude of Deng Qinghua's group towards the Manchus, and in their eyes, the main culprit of the current situation was the Manchu regime. But he has a deep affection for the Manchu Qing who has served for many years, and even his braids have been cut off recently, for which he has been ridiculed by Deng Qinghua more than once. But that's a symbol, a cultural recognition. Wang Shizhen admitted that he had stepped into the new era with one foot, but stayed in the old era with the other. It's not better than Deng Qinghua's gang, who entered Beijing completely with the mentality of saboteurs, and for those buildings that are full of his feelings, such as city gates, city walls and archways, there is a concern that Deng Qinghua does not have.

"Brother Hireqing, when I am busy with the National Day ceremony, I will invite you to eat a meal of mutton." Deng Qinghua turned his face and said to Wang Shizhen with a smile, "In the past few months of our cooperation, you have helped me a lot." It's a little bit of my heart. ”

"You're welcome. You are the parent official in Beijing, and you will have to take more care of it in the future. At least my yamen needs your attention. ”

"The president speaks simply. I'm afraid that Brother Hireqing will have to live a few tight days. When the finances improve, we will build a large number of buildings to house the ministries and bureaus...... The president is right when he says that the office space of the various ministries should still be centralized, and the more centralized the better. Deng Qinghua knew that Long Qian had been personally surveying the terrain and choosing a site for the central organ. He didn't seem to like that part of the southeast, and perhaps he hated foreign troops, and now he couldn't drive them out. For the sake of a damn bunch of treaties, the Foreign Bureau is simply sad, "Let's not talk about this for a while." Let's get busy with what's in front of us. That's it here, let's walk along the parade route again. ”

From the left gate of Chang'an to the right gate of Chang'an, the road about six miles long has been completely cleared. The plainclothes people who walked around and looked idle, must have been from the General Directorate of National Security, and they had joined the security of the National Day celebrations. His men were busy with them, marking the different area signs in white ash for the last time, and some were hanging lanterns and bunting from trees and buildings. The side of the house facing the street was completely painted, and when the flags and lanterns were hung up, a joy that had never been seen before appeared. Several families of people who are anxious have already hoisted the distributed national flags for the National Day celebrations, according to the instructions of Premier Fang. The city government has specially ordered more than 60,000 national flags of different specifications to ensure that all offices and residents in the main streets have one.

"Actually, the president's design is good......" Deng Qinghua looked at the nearest national flag, because there was no wind, the flag hung down, covering the majestic golden dragon, probably it was this golden dragon that impressed the parliamentarians and gentlemen, they ignored the former dragon flag of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, thinking that the dragon is the totem of Chinese forever, how can there be no dragon on the national flag? And. Whether it's color or style. It's completely different from the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Mr. Long Qian said well, we are creating on the basis of inheritance.

However, David, who participated in the National Day Celebration, said to himself that this dragon was too majestic. It's going to upset the world.

David though blonde and blue-eyed. But he is already an authentic Chinese. At least in the eyes of the elders of the Mengshan Army. He is Chinese. After helping Liu Xiaoqi deal with aviation affairs, he threw the Huamei Machinery, which was already a behemoth, to his deputy, and rushed back to Beijing regardless of it, and has been living in Long Qian's house. became the English teacher of the two sons of the Dragon Mansion, which made countless high-ranking officials envious. Deng Qinghua knew that David had come back to participate in the founding ceremony, and in his heart, this new country was also his motherland.

Afraid of the Chinese dragon awakening? Deng Qinghua sneered in his heart, this dragon has woken up! The Northern Military Region's march into Outer Mongolia and Tangnu Ulianghai shook the world and inspired the Chinese people. In Long Qian's words, the great powers no longer want to threaten China by erecting a few cannons on the coastline! The Wehrmacht will defend the integrity of the territory with blood and lives!

Fang Shengyuan is also not bad, that is, to hold the founding ceremony solemnly and warmly. Saving is as it should be, but how many times did the founding ceremony come into existence? This is history.

We are all writing history, and we have been, and we will continue to be. Deng Qinghua thought.

Deng Qinghua is not the only one who realizes this.

Shen Zifu is a deputy platoon-level officer of the 16th Division, before dawn, wearing a brand-new military uniform, wearing a first-class hero medal on his left chest, he has already climbed the Tiananmen Tower, quietly waiting for the ceremony to begin. Shen Zifu knew that he was witnessing history, and as the lowest officer of the National Defense Force, it was worth it to receive such an honor.

In the Battle of Texas, Shen Zifu, who had just joined the army, fought bravely, and he was the only one left in the squad who died in the whole class, and was promoted to squad leader by the line of fire, and was seriously wounded on the last day of the battle, and lived in the hospital for four months, and the four fingers of his right hand were cut off by shrapnel, leaving only one thumb, not only that, a bullet pierced the right lobe, and he always coughed. He rejected the army's request for his demobilization and insisted on remaining in the army, promising to complete any task assigned to him. Originally, a seriously wounded soldier like him could no longer be a cadre in the army, but it was his old brigade commander, now the senior division commander of the 16th Division, who personally spoke to let him continue to stay in the unit, but he could no longer be a soldier in the company, and was transferred to the newly established 16th Division Joint Logistics Office to engage in logistics work, and soon he was officially promoted to an officer and sent to study at the newly established Logistics College. For Shen Zifu, good things are not over, he can't help but win the first-class hero medal last year, so that countless soldiers are envious to death, and greater good things are waiting for him, the founding ceremony will select a group of grassroots officers and soldiers to go to Beijing to watch the ceremony, and he was lucky to be selected. On the night when he first arrived in Beijing, Commander Long and their supreme commander went to the Nanyuan barracks to visit the army representatives, and when they saw the disabled hand he saluted, they not only solemnly saluted him, but also asked the accompanying senior commander about his situation, held his stump hand and said, "I will give you a privilege, you can not salute your superiors in the future!" Whoever asks you, say that I have commanded it! ”

He was so excited that he burst into tears. At the beginning, he was so badly injured that he couldn't sleep all night, and he never shed a single tear.

As the light of day brightened, Shen Zifu, who was attached to the chest wall, could clearly see the troops neatly arranged in a phalanx on the east-west street, and the representatives of the regiment he had served in before were also among them. The same military uniform, the same size, so he couldn't tell which phalanx was his old army.

There were many disabled soldiers like him, some missing a leg, some missing an arm, and two were carried up to the city tower by the garrison soldiers in special wheelchairs. Those capable guards had respect in their eyes, and there was no discrimination. Only a soldier understands a soldier, and in the words of Senior Commander Gao, you don't care about your disability, that is your most dazzling medal.

I will see the Supreme Commander-in-Chief again today. The army does not like to be called president, preferring to be called commander or commander-in-chief, commander is the name given to him by generals who have followed him for a long time, and junior officers and soldiers are accustomed to calling commander-in-chief. He saw army reporters coming up with their cameras, choosing a better location to document the unusual day. It would be beautiful to be able to take a picture of yourself. How good would it be for parents and siblings to see in the military newspaper that they were with the commander-in-chief? Shen Zifu thought wildly, and saw that groups of ordinary people began to enter, occupying the square opposite the city tower, and the soldiers were directing them, there were gray-haired old men, and more elated young people, presumably college students in Beijing, each of them holding a small flag, waving it indiscriminately, and laughing loudly.

Shen Zifu saw a sophomore in Beijing named Li Weiguo in the crowd. His name was just changed. After participating in a parade to celebrate the Wehrmacht's dispatch to Mongolia. He changed his name, submitted an application to the school to withdraw from school, and asked to join the Great Wehrmacht. His request was denied, said the teacher. New China was born immediately. The country needs students like you even more. Studying is also for the country, and it is as glorious as those soldiers who fought for the country. Now, Li Weiguo was looking greedily at the four guards guarding the flagpole of the national flag. I think their uniforms are really beautiful! The idea of joining the army rose again, how spirited it would be if one day I also wore a gray military uniform!

His father, a teacher at Tsinghua University's American Academy, officially joined the CDC last winter and is a full member of the CDL's Tsinghua Committee. His father fully approved of his move to change his name, but severely criticized his request to join the army. Now that Tsinghua School has officially changed its name to National Tsinghua University, his father also participated in today's founding ceremony, just in the crowd on the left, he went to look for his father several times but did not find it. It is said that Peking University, the original Beijing Normal University Hall, will be moved to the west of Tsinghua University and be adjacent to Tsinghua University, so that he will be close to home. These are small things, he doesn't think about it now, and what he wants to see most today is the president, the great man who single-handedly overthrew the Manchu Qing and created a republic. The most regrettable thing is that on the day when the president went to Tsinghua to inspect and deliver a speech to teachers and students, he happened to take a leave of absence due to illness and could not witness the president's demeanor, but my father, who listened to the president's speech, was very excited and said to him, "It's a pity that you didn't listen to the president's speech, the president has painted an incomparably great vision for us, and I believe that he will make a great change in the country!" In terms of my understanding of education and scientific democracy, I am simply too superficial compared to the president!

Li Weiguo's mother was born in a famous family, was literate and hyphenated, and could even write good ancient style poems. His mother told his father that it was good to send troops to quell the rebellion, but the boom that had been set off had brought young people into the army! At all times, reckless militarism is a bad government! The president is a soldier, which is not necessarily a blessing to the country.

The father did not agree with the mother's point of view. Although the president was born in the military, he attached great importance to culture and education, increased schools, vigorously promoted compulsory education, and it is said that the salary of provincial governors is lower than that of university professors. Is it the work of ordinary martial artists? Look at it, how many overseas Chinese have returned? Tsinghua alone has hired no less than 20 foreign professors. If we continue like this, the revival of the country will be at hand.

Li Weiguo's greatest wish is to see the president with his own eyes. He has a good seat today, basically in the front row, just behind the side of the military band phalanx, and maybe he can make this wish come true.

Yan Xishan followed a group of civil officials to the city tower, and he took out his pocket watch to check the time. It's a quarter past nine o'clock, and there are still forty-five minutes left before the founding ceremony begins.

On the east side of the castle tower is basically a team of civil officials. He didn't know most of them, and for a twenty-seven-year-old young man, he naturally didn't know the big names in the center of power in the republic. However, Ouyang Zhong, who has already become director of the president's office, took the initiative to greet him and introduced him to Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi and Director Lian Shupeng of the Ordnance Industry Administration. Hearing that he was going to govern Shanxi, Minister Tang said with a smile, Shanxi is the hometown of the president, and you, the governor personally selected by the president, must work hard, at least as a model province!

The director stared at him for a long time and said that the president attaches great importance to Taiyuan's military construction and plans to set up a number of important military factories in Taiyuan.

For these big shots, Yan Xishan can only be the only one.

I never imagined that the president would hand over Shanxi Province to himself! It's like a dream to think about. After meeting the president at the congressional group meeting, he was called by the president to Haiyantang for a light meal, during which the president asked him in detail about his resume, not caring at all about his experience of joining the League in Japan, and said to him, "You don't want to be in the army!" If you are in government affairs, what position do you think you can be qualified for? At that time, he was really reluctant to leave the army, he graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, and made up his mind to work in the army for the rest of his life. However, the president probably did not like the military power held by people from the League, so he said, "If the president trusts me and gives me a county, I will promise to govern it well, and I will not leave no stone unturned, and I will not close my house at night."

The president laughed, "Brother Baichuan! First, your ambitions are a bit low. A county magistrate doesn't deserve my attention yet. Second, the road is not left behind, and the door is never closed, which is just a legend, and it has never really been done. Don't go around in circles, I'm going to make you the governor of Shanxi, do you dare to do it?

The governor is the governor. Yan Xishan was stunned. After a long time, he said, "The president is not joking, is he?" After saying it, I regretted it, this sentence is too disrespectful.

"Not kidding. It's true. Baichuan, you are from Shanxi, and I am also from Shanxi. We all hope that our hometown will become rich, and Shanxi has the conditions to become rich, and it must also become rich. The governor is you, you should think carefully about how to govern, and before returning to Shanxi after the founding ceremony, report to me your policy program, don't be afraid to say the wrong thing, just say what you think. ”

That night, Yan Xishan stayed up all night and wrote several letters in a row, one of which was for his father, and he swore in his heart that if the president really used himself to govern Shanxi, he must come up with a model province! Subsequently, he received a notice from the office that he would go to the Tiananmen Tower on the 28th to observe the ceremony, but not to wear a military uniform.

Now, Director Ouyang personally confirmed that the president was not joking, so he did not say a complete sentence to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Director of the Ordnance Industry Administration under the agitation of his emotions. Waiting for Tang and Lian to leave, Yan Xishan stood alone in the corner, if I became the governor, I would be on the same level as those two! He had read the list of official positions reported by the Political Affairs Bureau to the National Assembly, and the provincial governor was at the same level as the minister. Can you be on the same level as them? Although Tang Shaoyi is not a veteran of Mengshan, his qualifications are not comparable to his own at all, and the director is one of the president's hardcore cronies, and he has followed the president to fight in the north and south for more than ten years. Can you jump to be on an equal footing with these big shots? Yan Xishan suddenly had a feeling of unreality.

While thinking wildly, he suddenly saw a group of people walking up the stairs, led by the tall Long Qian. Yan Xishan hurriedly stood up and saluted, but remembered that he was not wearing a military uniform today, and he was very embarrassed, but fortunately, Long Qian didn't care, nodded to him, and walked forward surrounded by a group of you. (To be continued......)