Yan Shao didn't stay in Xiangcheng for too long, although there were already people in charge of staying behind in Beijing. As long as there is no natural disaster that occurs once in a century, or something like a Japanese person having a convulsion in the head and suddenly coming to the door to find trouble, there will basically be no problem.

The point is that even if Yan Shao doesn't have anything important on his side, he doesn't seem to have any reason to stay here. What's more, during the time he stayed here, he was not easy.

At the banquet, those who came up and wanted to be close to Yan Shaotao didn't say anything, even if the banquet was over, when Yan Shao went to the hotel arranged by the local government for Yan Shao to stay, there were also many people who wanted to meet Yan Shao.

First there are some officials of the local government, and then some local gentry and so on.

In the end, even representatives from all walks of life and students came over, to be honest, Yan Shao just came here to mourn Yuan Shikai, and by the way, he sighed about the time that had passed, and cherished the only time, that's all.

He didn't plan to come here and do something close to the people.

Merely...

He couldn't just turn down the request to meet with the local government, and he couldn't bear to disappoint the students who were eager to see his 'idols'.

just asked Yan Shao to meet one school by one, and Yan Shao didn't have that time, so Yan Shao simply met all the student representatives in the lobby of the hotel where he was located.

During this period, some students also asked Yan Shao questions, which they could answer. Yan Shao basically answered. As for those that could not be answered, such as questions involving confidentiality or personal privacy, Yan Shao could only cover up the past vaguely.

For example, there is a girl who looks like she is still in elementary school. He asked Yan Shao why he married so many wives, and what he thought about the equality of men and women. There is also when the marriage law that includes monogamy will be able to pass guò, and if so, how will Yan Shao treat his current three wives.

There is also the fact that as the head and leader of this country, Yan Shao still maintains a ** relationship with a woman when he already has three wives, does this lose his identity...

Etcetera...

Honestly. Even Yan Shao himself didn't know how the little girl who seemed to be in the sixth grade of elementary school could come up with such a sharp question.

Yan Shao even wanted to tear her pretty little mouth open with his hands. Let's see if she came up with it herself, or if someone else taught her to say it today.

It's just that it was in public at that time, and Yan Shao didn't say much. You can't do things that are unseemly. In the end, I can only say it to the front, let's be vague...

Of course, this incident also deepened Yan Shao's idea that he had to leave Xiangcheng as much as possible, otherwise if there was another similar problem, Yan Shaoke would be a little overwhelmed.

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Fortunately, although the thinking of today's elementary school students is indeed a bit avant-garde, and the problems are becoming more acute one by one, most of them are still limited to the normal range.

For example, some domestic construction problems. Or diplomatic relations with foreign countries, etc.

To be honest, don't say it's Yan Shao. Even Duan Qirui and the others, who were sitting behind Yan Shao, couldn't think of how children could ask such questions now.

Fortunately, these questions are not as sharp as those just now, and they are not as sharp as those just now, which makes it difficult for Yan Shao to answer. So after pondering for a while, Yan Shaozhi gave some more appropriate answers.

As for those that involve confidentiality, naturally they can only be vague.

After all, Yan Shao can't tell some elementary school students secrets, such as the performance of the latest cutting-edge tanks of the Wehrmacht, how much horsepower the engine has, what is the thickness of the frontal armor, and what is the caliber of the main gun.

Please, how could these Yan Shao say it to those elementary school students, but Yan Shao didn't feel strange that primary school students were interested in this―――――― because when Yan Shao was in elementary school, he was actually very curious about this thing.

In particular, after seeing some reports on so-called new weapons from some stall magazines, I was even more jubilant.

By the way, when Yan Shao looked at the stall text, the FC-1 fighter at that time, the code name seemed to be Super 7...

"But today's elementary school students are really precocious, and the questions they ask are so sharp that people feel a little difficult to answer..."

After the meeting was over, after returning from the lobby to a room dedicated to resting, sitting on the sofa, Yan Shao couldn't help but rub his forehead and smiled bitterly at Feng Guozhang and a few others next to him.

"Yes..."Sitting on the sofa, Feng Guozhang couldn't help but smile bitterly. Today's children are much more powerful than we were back then..."

Sitting next to him, Duan Qirui and the others couldn't help but nod in agreement.

Although they were not the ones who answered the question just now, they could be regarded as witnessing what happened to Yan Shao. Although they have been adapting to the changes in the country all the time over the years, it is obvious that they did not expect that the current primary school students are so powerful and can even ask such sharp questions.

To be honest, when they sat next to them just now, they were really worried that Yan Shao wouldn't be able to answer, and if they didn't catch up, it would really be embarrassing.

Although it seems that Yan Shao is only the only one who will be embarrassed at that time, but now he is the president of the national government after all, and he is embarrassed, that is, the national government will be embarrassed...

And Duan Qirui and they can all be said to be from the National Government, if Yan Shao is embarrassed, then they will also feel that their old faces are red.

What I did was that Yan Shao dealt with it properly, except for the problem about polygamy, it was basically okay. Otherwise, I'm afraid things will be a little troublesome.

"Anyway, let's leave early. There are still a lot of things for us to do..."As he spoke, Yan Shao glanced at Feng Guozhang again. "Especially the matter of conferring titles, if you, the marshal, don't do it first, those generals and colonels below won't be able to be promoted. Now those people are in a hurry, so don't let them continue to complain. ”

Hearing Yan Shao do this, Duan Qirui and the others laughed again, and even Feng Guozhang nodded after laughing bitterly twice.

There is no way, the matter of awarding the title has been delayed for too long. Previously, it could be said that the collective conferment of titles had to be postponed because of war or other reasons.

But if it's just because Yuan Shikai is dead, Feng Guozhang is Yuan Shikai's former subordinate. I don't want to be happily promoted to marshal when Yuan Shikai has just died, and I will continue to delay by wearing the rank of marshal. Even if Feng Guozhang's reputation and seniority in the Wehrmacht are high, I am afraid it will be useless.

What's more, Feng Guozhang's position in the Wehrmacht is still a little embarrassing, especially after the defeat in the Korean War, I don't know how many people are pointing fingers behind their backs, without any respect.

After the death of this word, if Feng Guozhang did it again. That's where the situation comes in.

Therefore, don't say it's Feng Guozhang himself. Even if Duan Qirui and the others considered for the sake of them, the former Beiyang people, I am afraid that they would ask Feng Guozhang to do his best to agree to Yan Shao's mention.

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"Okay." seemed to understand that now was indeed not the time to remember Yuan Shikai, and after a moment of silence, Feng Guozhang nodded.

"Hmm." With a slight bow, Yan Shao spoke again after groaning for a while. "Or else."

With that, Yan Shao got up from the sofa and walked around the room twice. After everyone's eyes were already focused on Yan Shao's body, Yan Shao looked down at Feng Guozhang. "If you can't. I first announced in the name of the government that in order to commemorate the death of Yuan Gong, the promotion ceremony would be postponed for three days, and then I revealed the news to the outside world that you personally proposed this to me, how about it? ”

This may seem like an overkill, but on the one hand, if it is suspended for three days, the whole army may not be much disgusted. On the other hand, Feng Guozhang's mention of yì to Yan Shao can also give the world an impression of valuing love and righteousness. At least it's definitely not the kind of unrighteous person who has just passed away and immediately accepts the new rank with a smile on his face.

In fact, the reason why Feng Guozhang resigned is also related to this.

After all, the old boss had just died, and he immediately happily accepted the order to be promoted to marshal. What would this look like to outsiders? No matter what Feng Guozhang is, he is also a face-saving person, it is impossible for him to have no face at all, let alone ignore the discussion of the outside world.

"Thank you, President!"

Knowing that Yan Shao was completely for his own good, Feng Guozhang gratefully stood up from the sofa and wanted to bow to Yan Shao, but Yan Shao hurriedly stepped forward and took the first step to support Feng Guozhang.

After all, Yan Shao is not Yuan Keding's two hundred and five, that guy can sit there as a matter of course when these old-timers are acting and kowtowing, but Yan Shao can't.

Not to mention the people in front of us, they are basically important members of the government, from a certain point of view, they are only one and a half levels lower than Yan Shao―――――― of course, we all know very well how big the difference between the president and the vice president is...

But even so, Yan Shao still needs to do enough. Although Feng Guozhang didn't kneel down and kowtow to Yan Shao, but just bowed...

Anyway, Feng Guozhang's gratitude to Yan Shao is real, after all, Yan Shao is indeed thinking about Feng Guozhang for what happened just now. At the same time, Duan Qirui and the others on the side also bowed slightly, obviously very satisfied with Yan Shao's expression...

A day later, after deciding to continue to stay in Xiangcheng and not knowing how many difficult primary school students they would encounter, Yan Shao, Feng Guozhang and others left Xiangcheng as trains, leaving Duan Qirui alone in Xiangcheng to help Yuan Keding take care of the aftermath.

For this task, Duan Qirui is still more willing. After all, no matter what, Yuan Shikai can also be Duan Qirui's old club. And when he was still alive, he was very good to Duan Qirui, but now that Yuan Shikai is dead, he can't help with many things, and some things after his death are still fine.

It's just that he really doesn't like Yuan Keding very much.

Fortunately, because Yuan Shikai had already left the wilderness, Yuan Keding seemed to be much more low-key, and he was a little gentler. So Duan Qirui is not particularly unbearable.

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On the way back to Beijing called the train. Yan Shao, Feng Guozhang and others did not make any stops. On the one hand, it was because he didn't want to waste time, and on the other hand, he was frightened by the students in Xiangcheng, worried that any more students would come out. Ask some difficult questions to answer.

Fortunately, nothing like this happened in the future, which made Yan Shao, Duan Qirui and others breathe a sigh of relief.

After returning to Beijing, Yan Shao immediately took charge of the matter of conferring the title.

Of course, Yan Shao did not forget to send a telegram to Cai Yi, who was far away in the Urals, asking him to return from the Ural Military Region and participate in the award ceremony.

Of course, I will come back with Cai Yi. There are a number of other generals and officers of the Ural Military District. After all, it is a large number of people who will be promoted this time, not just Cai Yi.

If this were not the case, Yan Shao would not have faced such a huge pressure. It was so huge that even Yan Shao felt a little headache.

"Is there a ceremony for the award..."Glancing at the telegram that had just been sent to his hand, Wu Peifu nodded slightly, and then put the telegram on the table. After more than a year of delay, it finally started..."

"Yes..."The other general on the side also bowed slightly. He said with a little joy on his face. "Originally, it was because Yuan Shikai died. I thought this would have to be postponed, but luckily, otherwise, maybe we'd have to wait another year and a half..."

As soon as these words fell, there was a voice of approval from inside the headquarters.

Obviously, for these people, they did worry about it.

Naturally, it was a joke to hear them about it. A former Beiyang Army general like Wu Peifu will inevitably feel a little uncomfortable. It's just that they also know that their colleagues have no malicious intent, so it's hard to say anything. After all, if it is because of this incident, it is difficult not to have estrangement from colleagues―――――― different from that year, if the generals of the Beiyang Department still occupied a certain number in the National Defense Force, then now, the number of Beiyang Department in the National Defense Force is getting smaller and smaller, especially after the military academies in various provinces gradually matured, and a large number of officers were provided to the combat troops, even the number of Anhui who followed Yan Shao to start a family was greatly reduced.

Of course, there is nothing surprising about this, after all, there has never been a place in this world where the troops can completely establish a dominant position in the army. Naturally, the navy is an exception, because for a considerable period of China's modern history, the navy was dominated by the Min system.

However, with the formation of a new government, this situation was immediately reversed. Because no strong government can allow this to happen, not even Yan Shao.

The other generals in the room may not have noticed the expressions of Wu Peifu and the others, and were just talking and laughing there, but Cai Ye noticed it. Therefore, after coughing lightly, Cai Ye diverted the topic. "Okay, let's talk about what happened after me and Ziyu and the others left, at the moment our relationship with Soviet Russia is very complicated, although on the surface they don't seem to be anything, and they may not clash with us, but the actual situation is not clear to anyone, if I and Ziyu leave the Urals and return to Beijing, I am afraid that we will not be able to return to the Urals for a considerable period of time, if the Soviet Russia launches an attack at this time, although this possibility is very small, but it is impossible not to carry out the embankment..."

"That's right!" Wu Peifu couldn't help but nod. "Recently, Soviet Russia has been making small moves on the border, and some time ago the patrol unit also discovered that there were small groups of Soviet troops trying in vain to return to the Ural Mountains and establish temporary strongholds and posts. This shows that so far, Soviet Russia has not given up, and we must be careful to beware..."

"So..."slapped the table, focusing everyone's attention, Cai said sternly. This time, I summoned everyone here to discuss what should be done in the defense work during the period when Ziyu and I left the military region, if there was an accident..."

In fact, some contingency measures after accidents have been deployed in the past. It's just that this time is different from the past, in the past, Cai Ye and they stayed in Yekaterinburg, even if something happened, they presided over it, and even if they went out, they usually didn't leave too far.

But this time they were going back to Beijing, and the distance along the way was thousands of kilometers, and even by train, it was impossible to return to the front line in a short time.

In modern warfare, there are times when it is not even a few days off, and even a day can change the tide of the war.

Not only on Cai Yi's side, but also in several other more important military regions, some contingency arrangements have basically been made after the departure of the main generals. After all, there are a lot of generals who are leaving this time, especially high-ranking generals, these are all the arrivals that have been delayed in the past without promotion, and now they can be solved all at once.

However, it is also for this reason that almost one-third of the generals of some military regions have to return to Beijing to attend the award ceremony. There are also some military regions, such as the Shenyang Military Region and the Ural Military Region, where the number of generals awarded has reached half of the level, so it is no wonder that Cai Ye will be so solemn... (To be continued......)