Chapter 155: Gathering Momentum (2)
The next day, Zhongnanhai Fengze Garden New Year's Hall.
All the civil and military members of the group, including several commanders of military regions serving outside Beijing, gathered together, and the bright and eye-catching red carpet and the rare clear blue sky outside the window appropriately corresponded to their mood.
However, sitting on the top seat today, it was not their old leader Liu Yun who appeared as the convener, but the crown prince Liu Qianhua, who was only twenty-eight years old.
"What does that mean?" General Liang Tianhe, chief of the General Staff Training Division, and General Zhang Yiye, commander of the Zhili Military Region next to him and his partner in the war against Russia, quietly muttered.
"I heard that the civil official was persuaded by the eldest lady...... Brother, I know that you have prejudices against the eldest lady, and it is better for you to talk less today. Zhang Yiye kindly reminded. Besides, what's wrong with the eldest lady? If you want to choose a successor among us, who will be able to serve whom? Anyway, it's also from a prestigious school, and everyone can see the performance in the past few years, like a decent one......"
"In any case, if a woman is in charge, it's just unpleasant." Liang Tianhe's words expose the essence of his machismo.
"All of you here today are my elders."
Qianhua spoke, sincere but not weak, majestic but not proud, elegant and not pretentious, just as her beauty that had not yet expired.
"I shouldn't have come forward for this kind of thing, but since it was my father's explanation, I had to do it reluctantly, if there is anything inconsiderate, I ask my uncles and aunts to bear with me."
As soon as these words came out, it not only played the banner of doing things according to orders, but also gave the elders enough face, and it can be said that they left a way back for themselves in advance.
"Your Highness is serious, since Your Highness represents the Emperor, there is nothing to include or not to include, since everyone is here to reach a final consensus today, after the discussion is released, please Your Highness decide." Yang Zhengjin, the current Minister of the Interior, who has the most influence among the group soldiers, hurriedly cheered, as one of Liu Yun's most trusted henchmen, he was not surprised by the fact that Qianhua was sitting at the top today.
"Lao Yang is right, this is not the first time His Highness has presided over a group meeting, so there is no need to be so polite." Zhang Zhigao, who has the most right to speak on the civilian side, also spoke.
Originally, Qianhua would be appointed as the crown prince, and on the surface, it seemed that it was the result of Yang and Zhang's words, although Liu Yun had this wish, but if there was no proposal from the representative group of these two important ministers to Liu Yun, Liu Yun would not have decided the matter early, and it was not impossible to delay it until the last breath.
When everyone heard that the two important elders supported Qianhua so strongly, they also echoed it.
"In that case, I won't be polite, let's get started......"
Qian Hua calmly unfolded the red folder in front of her.
Two hours later, in the Lotus Wind Huilu Pavilion on the south side of the Yi Nian Palace, Zhang Zhigao and Yang Zhengjin sat facing each other, Yingtai was in the west, the willow bank was in the east, the blue waves on the lake were sparkling, and the green water in the cup swirled.
"It's a good thing to have a beautiful woman as an emperor."
Yang Zhengjin seems to be in a good mood.
The corners of Zhang Zhigao's mouth twitched: "If you want to say that, I prefer the little princess Yuelan, the pink girl who has just entered the flowering season or the mature woman who is about to run for three, which one can arouse your desire to protect more?" ”
"It's a pity, if the ignorant girl who was raised in the deep palace sat in that position today, I'm afraid even you and I wouldn't take her seriously."
The wind rises, the willows are slanting, the feet of the clouds hang low, and the birds are gone. Unconsciously, it was twilight autumn, Zhang Zhigao had already wrapped up a woolen scarf, and Yang Zhengjin had also put on a long tweed coat over his suit, and both of them had shown traces of time on their foreheads that could not be washed off.
"I have always felt that the eldest lady is not only not a puppet of the leader, but also has the potential to become a leader who opens a new era."
Zhang Zhigao subconsciously touched his forehead, there were no mosquitoes there.
"Hooked on her?" Yang Zhengjin smiled evilly with bad intentions, and the appearance of this expression on his face was enough to surprise people.
"She has an indescribable charm, so to speak. She is neither the kind of good girl raised in the greenhouse, nor the kind of little woman who is satisfied with trivial matters and extravagant enjoyment, her eyes are full of vicissitudes, but she has not lost hope, on the contrary, I can feel the vitality hidden in her body, her serious and calm appearance, as if to tell us: I can persevere, I can adapt, I can still create ......"
"You know our eldest lady very well." Yang Zhengjin picked up a piece of mung bean cake, pinched it in his hand and looked at it meaninglessly.
"It's Sulan's credit, a woman's heart, a needle under the sea, you have to rely on a woman to understand a woman." Zhang Zhigao crooked his eyes, and on the lakeshore path in the direction of Yingtai, his wife Luo Sulan was strolling leisurely with Qianhua, and from time to time there was a reverie-inducing laughter.
"Having said that, it is most appropriate for the eldest lady to preside over this reconciliation meeting, and some of the things that were difficult to say in front of the leader in the past have been clearly put on the table this time, so it is very good......"
Yang Zhengjin took a bite of half of the mung bean cake: "The main thing is that the eldest lady made it very clear from the beginning, and it also said that it was in everyone's hearts, and the idea of assigning tasks and doing their best was also very feasible, besides, the unpleasant past in the past eighteen years has already planted the seeds of a complete reconciliation in everyone's hearts." ”
"It's good to reconcile, I hope everyone is not just acting in the venue." Zhang Zhigao stretched out his hand to Yang Zhengjin, "Actually, I think it's really my great luck that you can stand on the same front with me." ”
"Each other, each other." Yang Zhengjin smiled.
The two men's hands—the thin white hand of the literati and the thick black hand of the soldier—shook together without hesitation.
"To be honest, the performance of the eldest lady today is enough to impress most comrades. I believe that even the leader herself could not interpret the constitutional monarchy so perfectly, and by extension, the constitutional leadership of the group, and her group reform plan is not so much to convey the meaning of the leader, but rather to her own careful sketching of the situation, those ideas and words are by no means the usual thinking of the leader. ”
Yang Zhengjin put down the remaining half of the mung bean cake and picked up the teacup with celadon dragon pattern: "If I am not mistaken, she has a good chance to become China's Elizabai I, and her era will be a glorious era of inheriting the past and rejuvenating the future......"
"The Constitutional Leadership, the Constitutional Constitution of the Bloc, the Imperial Senate, Social Democracy and the Great Harmony of the World...... This will not be a new era for Miss Qianhua alone, it will be ours, it will be the empire, and it will be a new era for the whole world! Lao Yang, let's have a drink tonight! ”
"Together, you're in for a treat."
"Okay, if you come together, it doesn't matter if I treat you every day."
Zhang Zhigao is rare to be bold.
It's a day worth celebrating with an all-night drink.