Or is it because Tang Shaoyi's family came to Wuhan, without him, it was the most powerful Marshal Wang Zhenyu in South China who personally summoned him.

Wang Zhenyu has always felt that he lacks a loyal and reliable diplomat with real talents. This diplomat is all over the street, but most of them inherit the crooked tendencies of the former Qing Dynasty, and when they see foreigners, they are like pugs. If you just want to be polite to the great powers, do you still need to spend so much time and effort to engage in industrial construction and build a strong army? Therefore, these so-called old diplomats who have become a country should not be used, and it is better to replace them with young and sharp people. And Gu Weijun, who is two years older than himself and left a prestigious name at the Paris Peace Conference in history, is obviously the best candidate.

Therefore, when I happened to read the routine monthly report on personnel changes in the Nanjing government of the Party Affairs Investigation Department, Wang Zhenyu, who saw Gu Weijun's name, immediately asked the attendants to send a report, and asked Tang Shaoyi, secretary general of the Government Affairs Yuan, and Gu Weijun, the new director of the Department of the Americas of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, to go to Wuhan to discuss matters.

These words came out of Wang Zhenyu's mouth, but when they arrived at the Tang family, they caused a shock, after all, Wang Zhenyu's status in South China was even higher than that of Yuan Shikai in Beiyang back then, because Yuan Shikai's control over the army back then could not be compared with Wang Zhenyu. As for the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, this guy who is privately called a big warlord also has the highest power, but he basically doesn't use it much, so everyone's feeling is not so obvious. However, there is one thing that Tang Shaoyi, as secretary general of the State Council, is clear, that is, after the regular meeting of the Executive Yuan Committee every three months, he will go to Wuhan with Premier Xiong Xiling and other members of the presidium of the Nationalist Government to hold a meeting of the presidium of the Nationalist Government once every three months, and the purpose of everyone having to leave Nanjing is very simple, that is, to accommodate Chairman Wang Zhenyu, who is in Wuhan and basically does not come to Nanjing. And now this god-level figure actually wants to meet with himself and his son-in-law, and it means that he is very interested in his son-in-law, who has just returned to Nanjing. As the backbone of the progressive department, Tang Shaoyi is now in an important position, and when he looks at the thriving national government and the increasingly prosperous Nanjing, he also feels a little bit of the so-called prosperous era. And all this seems to come from the handiwork of the great god of Wuhan, so Tang Shaoyi also hopes that his son-in-law can be appreciated by Wang Zhenyu. As for Tang Baoyue, it was because Tang Baoyue was not worried about her husband, because it was rumored that this classmate Wang Zhenyu was a very brutal warlord, although he had done anything bad and had not heard of it, but as long as he was a warlord, he must be very, very bad. So she chose to face this situation with her husband very bravely, whether it was a blessing or a curse......

Since it was not a formal meeting, but a private summons by Wang Zhenyu, neither Tang Shaoyi nor Gu Weijun wore a very beautiful diplomat's dress, but uniformly wore suits. However, the place of the summons was very special, and it was not placed in the reception room or study of Donghu Wenlu, where Wang Zhenyu usually received guests, but in the headquarters of the Military Commission of the National Government, Tianyuan Local Building.

The 1,000-acre building was designed by designers from China, Belgium and Luxembourg, integrating the essence of Eastern and Western cultures, and reflecting the highest level of China's construction industry in this era, at least as the Political Guidance Department of the Military Commission claims.

May 21 is said to be an auspicious day for the zodiac, and after a month and a half of ventilation, Wang Zhenyu took the lead, and the entire Military Commission moved into the building that cost 100,000 labor. It is said that the level of the Military Commission has also been improved a lot because of this building, at least for Tang Shaoyi and Gu Weijun, the two sons-in-law who came from Nanjing, this place is much more magnificent than the Nanjing Nationalist Government.

What moved Tang Shaoyi was that Wang Zhenyu arranged for his first secretary Chen Bui to personally bring two Ford cars to the dock to pick him up, and also arranged two guards with guns to protect the safety of the party. Tang Baoyue was not on the list of interviews, so although Tang Shaoyi was already a senior official of the National Government, Chen Bui still insisted on arranging Miss Tang to stay at the 80-meter-high Yangtze River Hotel on the 21st floor that had just been completed. This Changjiang Hotel is the property of China Development Corporation, with a total cost of 110 million Chinese dollars, and the decoration style is all European-style, and it is one of the 50 major old city renovation projects proposed by Wuhan Mayor Wang Zhenbang in 1916. Tang Shaoyi's last visit to Wuhan was in April, and after only one month, he was surprised by the changes in the city, many of the wooden buildings on both sides of the main road have been demolished, and although the foundations of the new buildings are still being laid, the road has been significantly widened. However, what makes Tang Shaoyi feel a little unpleasant is that the road is too wide, and the construction of the underground drainage system is too expensive. The Wuhan municipal government regularly reports to the government affairs department in Nanjing, where the main road is required to be 12 lanes or 30 meters wide, the secondary trunk road is required to ensure that 8 lanes are 20 meters wide, and ordinary streets are also required to be 4 lanes and 10 meters wide, and there are also bicycle lanes and pedestrian paths. This actual width will have to add ten meters to this basis, that is, when he encounters Wang Zhenyu, the king of demolition, he is demolished everywhere in Wuhan with an army in his hand. In the case of Nanjing, the current relocation work is not going smoothly, and there are many disputes over compensation alone. The planning scheme of the underground drainage system shocked Tang Shaoyi, the separation of water and sewage is not unusual, it is said that Qingdao and Anjiang New Town also do this, but Wang Zhenyu attaches so much importance to drainage but Tang Shaoyi is very strange, what is the reason for Wang Zhenyu to care so much about this, until he saw a document from the Ministry of Construction Wang Zhenyu's instructions to understand and admire, just four words: "Centennial plan." ”

According to the regulations, the visiting guests came in from the main gate of the Tianyuan Building, that is, the south gate, although Gu Weijun came with his father-in-law, but he was inevitably nervous and uneasy, he couldn't help asking: "Father, what kind of person is this chairman?" ”

Tang Shaoyi shook his head and said, "A genius, but my father has never talked to him alone. After the death of Duke Keqiang, he basically did not come to Nanjing. But don't worry too much, Premier Xiong and Keqiang Gong are both our old masters of Chairman Wang, and Chairman Wang is said to be a person who misses the old. ”

Chen Bui seemed to guess the thoughts of these two, and he smiled: "Mr. Shaochuan and Ling Son-in-law (Tang Shaoyi and Gu Weijun have the same word Shaochuan) don't need to worry, the commission appreciates both of them, especially Ling Son-in-law has been mentioned many times. ”

At this point, Chen Bui didn't say much, and Gu Weijun looked out of the car after smiling and thanking him, and saw a white marble building standing there from a distance, like a staircase, low on the outside and high on the inside, with clear layers.

The south gate they were about to pass through was an eight-meter-wide circular arch, and according to Secretary Chen Bui, who was sitting in the front row, the diameter of this gate was twenty-five meters deep.

According to the rules, even with the sign of the attendant's office hung, the car had to stop fifteen meters from the gate. Wearing a white gold-trimmed military uniform, the young officer with a standard figure stepped forward to salute, and then very politely took the document from Chen Bui's hand and looked through it carefully, and returned the certificate to Chen Bui after confirming that it was correct, and then saluted again: "Nice to see you, Secretary Chen!" Then he waved for the pass, and the soldier who was stationed at the guard immediately raised the bar and removed the spike belt for the release of the tires. Gu Weijun felt that the precautions here were silent at first, but as soon as the car passed the fixed post, he saw two bunker fortifications, and the heavy machine guns in the black hole were clearly visible. Tang Shaoyi seemed to see her son-in-law's doubts, and introduced in a low voice: "This unit is the guard regiment of their military commission, and it is composed of loyal and reliable veterans of a hundred battles, and their uniforms are the most beautiful in the army, and the guards in the attendant office are not comparable to this. ”

Gu Weijun nodded, he suddenly felt that many things in this country were getting closer to the West, and some problems could be seen just by military uniforms.

Passing through the first doorway, there is a distance of about fifty meters to the second doorway, and at this time, Gu Weijun saw the cars parked on both sides to realize the prosperity of South China, you must know that in Beijing, only the chief has a car, but in the Nanjing National Government, many directors of various ministries are equipped with cars, but they are not comparable with officials at the level of father-in-law who are equipped with Ford cars. They are equipped with domestically produced "Zhonghua" cars produced by the Shanghai Automobile Factory, and the price is about 2,000 Chinese yuan, which is very cheap, and you must know that during this period, the monthly salary of grassroots civil servants is 400 Chinese yuan. The government's revenue in 1917 was expected to reach 4 billion Chinese yuan, and the speed of economic development in the past year was astonishing, regardless of the increase in tariffs. In the past year, nearly 2 million laborers have entered Europe through military and labor, and about 4 million laborers have entered Guangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing and many other provincial cities to become industrial workers, and this number was less than 1.2 million a year ago, which is quite staggering. Thinking of this, Gu Weijun couldn't help but agree with his father-in-law's statement that China's development is inseparable from Wang Zhenyu, the actual controller of the national government and the army.

After passing through a doorway about 30 meters long, and being inspected by the guards in black suits and sunglasses at the attendant's office, the group got out of the car and walked through the garden to enter the core of the entire military committee, the Standing Committee building. Tang Shaoyi and Gu Weijun sat in the 101 reception room on the third floor for a while, Wang Zhenyu pushed the door in, and then shook hands with Tang Shaoyi with a smile, and then shook hands with Gu Weijun, who was not yet thirty years old, and said: "I am Wang Zhenyu, I need a young talent like me, Mr. Gu, to help me......"