According to the original contract between the two sides, the Chinese European Expeditionary Force was supposed to depart from China in January 1917 and make a long voyage of nearly 17,000 kilometers in 30 to 45 days through the relatively safe passage of the Suez Canal.

However, Wang Zhenyu suddenly discovered that January 22 was the traditional festival of the Chinese, and thinking that the first batch of 230,000 children might be many of them celebrating a Spring Festival, Wang Zhenyu suddenly gave a merciful order, and all the officers and men of the expedition began to take a holiday from January 10, a holiday of 20 days, and returned to the team on the eighth day of the new year.

After this round of tossing, the date for the expeditionary force to send troops will naturally be late. As a result, Britain and France were scolded but helpless, and Beiyang was nervous, afraid that Wang Zhenyu would make plans for the Northern Expedition under the guise of participating in the war, because they themselves thought so. Zuihou was Japan, and they made a miscalculation because Wang Zhenyu had a bad debt after obtaining 200,000 British and French arms.

I don't know what is going on with the Japanese intelligence agencies, anyway, Wang Zhenyu's image in their eyes is really bad, and it can't be changed in the short term.

Zuihou China's European Expeditionary Force still went out, and the spies of the Japanese intelligence agencies almost ran out of breath to cut their stomachs. However, they didn't do it, because it was very painful to cut the flesh with a knife, and they decided to leave it to serve the Emperor Bixia until Zuihou.

The preparations for this expedition were also fully strengthened because of the postponement, including inoculating the officers and soldiers participating in the battle with various kinds of vaccinations, including assigning 4,000 doctors to the expeditionary force, and so on.

These doctors then ensured the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers during the more than 30-day voyage, and the officers and men of the expeditionary force also saw the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, the busyness of the Strait of Malacca, the tranquility of the Red Sea, the grandeur of the Suez Canal, and Zuihou entered the Mediterranean, the symbol of human civilization. It can be said that in almost more than 30 days, the horizons of these officers and soldiers have greatly expanded, and they know that Shijie outside China is so big, and that there is such a civilization outside the Celestial Empire. The officers and men of the Chinese European Expeditionary Force returned to their homeland after the European War, some remained in the army, some engaged in politics and advocated national expansionism, and more returned civilians made more Chinese open their eyes to shijie.

However, it is obvious that Wang Zhenyu's decision to send troops to Europe on the basis of his personal prestige still aroused the dissatisfaction of many people of insight, and Wang Jingwei, the mayor of Nanjing, organized a peace club to openly contradict Wang Zhenyu. After all, in everyone's eyes, the armies of the great powers are not something that the Chinese army can look at at them equally, let alone go all the way to Europe to play with people, so there is no chance of victory.

Regarding the move led by Wang Jingwei, Wang Zhenyu just snorted coldly and ignored it. When the national government was first established, this kid tried hard to lean on his side, and he also gave trust and returns, but after Huang Xing became critically ill, this kid's ambition was exposed almost overnight. Actually openly planning armed actions, Jihua took the opportunity of his visit to Huang Xing in Nanjing to put himself under house arrest. Fortunately, Yu Zuobai was highly skilled, and he and Yan Daogang, who were born as military police commanders, conspired to coerce Lu Chao, the commander of the Nanjing Garrison District, the most important link in Wang Jingwei's Jihua, to come out to greet him, and at the same time transferred the troops directly under the garrison area to Pukou for training. Coupled with Huang Xing's son Huang Yiou's reluctance to participate, Wang Jingwei's coup d'état was aborted before the results were born.

Although Wang Zhenyu is unwilling to destroy the achievements of the party because of Wang Jingwei alone, it is unrealistic for Wang Jingwei to continue to serve as mayor of Nanjing, after all, this position is a real shortage.

Wang Jingwei has now learned from the comrades of the League about the future personnel arrangements, and when the Nationalist Government is reorganized in April, he will be the mayor of Nanjing, and the next position will be to serve as a legislator according to the opinion of Wang Zhenyu's number one adviser, Yang Yongtai. No matter what the result is, Wang Jingwei is determined to carry the banner of peace and carry out the anti-Wang Zhenyu movement to the end.

The New Year of 1917 was spent in Wenlu, a three-story German-style villa that was built in April 1916 and completed in July 1916. Compared with Wenlu in Anjiang, the facilities here are more complete, with three bathrooms and a swimming pool, which can be said to be extremely luxurious.

This time the Chinese New Year was very lively, not only Wang Longxian led all the old and young of the Wang family into place, but Ye Zuwen's family also did not pull any of them, and in addition, he also invited Li Zongren's family to come together. The reason for inviting Li Zongren's family is very simple, everyone will soon become relatives.

After the Sichuan war, Ye Ziwen came forward, Li Zongren and the little sister of the Wang family met, and then began the tug-of-war of Aiqing. Although the little sister of the Wang family, who received a new education, advocated freedom, she was still no match for Li Zongren's strategy and methods, and was unceremoniously taken down by our brother Delin.

The two families decided to settle the family affairs during the Spring Festival, and the happy event was done after the New Year. In the military, attention to the list of members of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission has also increased in a large area, but many people have guessed that Li Zongren will definitely be in the regular position this time. This time the Standing Committee is different from the previous one, there are many fewer false positions, and more real power, so it can be said that as long as they are regular, they are basically one of the giants in the military.

Compared with Wenlu on the Anjiang side, the Wenlu on the Wuhan side covers an area almost five times larger, and the living room on the first floor with a length of 45 meters and a width of 36 meters is enough for a medium-sized dance party. The furnishings in the living room are very special, and the entrance door is directly facing the escalator on the second floor. On the left side of the door are 12 groups of square British genuine sofas, all of which are three-meter-long leather sofas, which are said to be brought by Du Yuesheng, the boss of Shanghai Sanxin Company, to a foreigner friend. This Du Yuesheng is Wang Zhenyu's second brother, and he is very heartfelt. In April last year, the construction of Wenlu in Wuhan was about to start, and he personally invited the construction team from Shanghai to come over for construction, and invited French designers to design the interior decoration. After it was completed in June, I brought experts over to see the layout, and then customized a full set of British furniture. When I moved in in September, a lot of furniture was sent to Wenlu, and all the suitable points were not bad. This thing was done, so that the hostess Ye Ziwen couldn't help but praise our Boss Du in front of Wang Zhenyu. In the middle of this sofa is an eight-meter-square cashmere blanket woven from Xinjiang, which is beautifully made and has a charming style. This was sent from Xinjiang by Yang Zengxin, a native of Mengzi from Yunnan, the de facto ruler of Xinjiang, and with the unification of the south, the separatist regimes in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Gansu began to come into contact with Nanjing and Wuhan. After all, it is unlikely that people in these places will win the central government, and it is very common to leave some way out for themselves at this time. Wang Zhenyu also has some thoughts about this, if Xinjiang in history was not supported by figures like Yang Zengxin and Sheng Shicai, it is estimated that it would have been lost to Russia long ago. Therefore, Wang Zhenyu's idea is to take Xinjiang and Tibet as soon as possible, even if he cannot complete the reunification of the whole country. As for Russia, Wang Zhenyu is not worried at all, for the simple reason that in two months, the February Revolution of the Russians may break out. At that time, let alone Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia, even if he drove his troops into Kazakhstan, it was estimated that he could only strongly protest in a diplomatic note.

Now Wang Zhenyu and his brother-in-law Ye Guoxuan, brother-in-law Ye Guowei, and future brother-in-law Li Zongren are sitting on the sofa chatting for a while. On the other side of the living room, a long dining table was opened, and when the meal was opened, a total of twenty-four dishes and twelve plates of dim sum would come up, and everyone could eat as if they were eating a buffet, this was not a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but because Wang Zhenyu's adopted son Shen Quan was going to Changsha's Shen family tomorrow for the New Year, and held a party in advance.

Shen Quan, a ten-year-old little guy, is running around in the living room with his eldest brother Wang Zhenkun's nine-year-old eldest son Wang Jing'an, his six-year-old second son Wang Jingcheng, and Wang Jingye, the eldest son of Wang Zhenyu, who has begun to like to be naughty. The Ye family is not married yet, so there is no third-generation man. Ye Ziwen, the mother and sister-in-law Wang He, are now watching these children tossing together, preventing them from touching the dining table. And Wang Zhenyu's third son Wang Jingwu is more than a year old, and he is being teased in Ye Zuwen's arms at the moment, but he doesn't seem to be very friendly to his grandfather, and he just peed hard in Ye Zuwen's arms, which provoked everyone to hahadaxiao.

The second son, Wang Jingwen, was in Zhao Yuting's arms, and tried his best to touch Zhao Yuting's jade neck with his white and flawless little hands, because it was the identity of the second lady, so Zhao Yuting's mother's family was not qualified to attend such an event, and Wang Zhenyu's cheap mother Wang Chen seemed to realize the fall in Zhao Yuting's heart, and pulled her daughter Wang Ziqi, who was about to get married, and Li Zongren's mother accompanied Zhao Yuting to chat on the hanging chair on this side. Over there, the cheap father Wang Longxian was chatting with Li Zongren's father Li Peiying, fortunately, one of these two had been an official errand and the other had been a teacher, and they could both speak barely qualified official dialect, otherwise it is estimated that these two would only be staring at each other on the dialect issue alone. Li Zongren's brothers were led by Wang Zhenyu's seventh brother Wang Zhencheng (who was already thirteen years old) for a walk in Wenlu, while the two female dependents and three children seemed very reserved, sitting honestly beside Li Peiying motionless. At this time, Wang Jingye suddenly fell, crying, Wang Longxian, who had always regarded this grandson as a baby, hurriedly hugged this grandson, and kept coaxing and teasing.

It's a picture of a harmonious family with family happiness, but what Wang Zhenyu didn't notice was a hint of gloom that occasionally flashed in Zhao Yuting's eyes.