Episode 32 Shang Xiaojun makes a move

That night Xiuxiu returned home,.

Shang Xiaojun comforted and touched his beloved daughter, comforted her and said, it doesn't matter, a stomachache shows that he is a straw bag, but there is no need to worry. Tell Your Majesty, quit your position, and go home to be a rich girl.

But Xiuxiu didn't think so. Her mother's words aroused her competitive spirit. And the arrogant and disgusting performance of stomach pain made Xiuxiu feel that he couldn't be so cheap. The stomach hurts and the character is very poor, and the People's Guard, which was created by Xiang Adult, cannot fall into the hands of such people.

In the final analysis, Xiuxiu is not a person who can stand loneliness. She feels that she is destined to work hard in the workplace and to fight for a piece of her own world. For a long time, Xiuxiu has unconsciously taken the fourteen grids as an example, and imitated the fourteen grids everywhere in terms of means and style of doing things. Although she didn't know why, she was unhappy to look at Fourteen Gege, but she still admired Fourteen Gege very much. Xiuxiu subconsciously always feels that today's fourteen grids is her tomorrow.

The stomachache seemed to see Xiuxiu's thoughts, and repeatedly tempted her with "becoming fourteen grids" in her words. It really played a big role too. Xiuxiu felt that she couldn't just leave: This is the People's Guard created by my husband, why do you say you will inherit it. Even if I can't inherit it, at least whoever inherits it must have my part.

"Xiuxiu, ......" Shang Xiaojun listened to Xiuxiu's heartfelt words, shook his head and smiled, "A stomachache is not a big deal, but you can't underestimate him." Although his words were arrogant, the current headquarters was really like what he said. The advantages and disadvantages of several commanders he analyzed were basically correct. …… Xiuxiu, who do you think is more suitable to be the commander-in-chief than him? ”

Xiuxiu was stunned, thought for a long time, and said reluctantly:

"Like...... There really isn't anybody. ”

Shang Xiaojun smiled and said:

"Kid, you're wrong. In fact, everyone is more suitable than him. ”

Xiuxiu looked at her mother in confusion.

Shang Xiaojun pouted and smiled and said:

"He has a stomachache and is very talented, his brain is flexible, he reacts quickly, he is very good at intelligence, and as he said, he is also the most 'political' of the commanders. However, he has an Achilles' heel that will never make him commander-in-chief. Even if you do, it won't last long. ”

Xiuxiu asked:

"What weakness?"

Shang Xiaojun smiled:

"Lack of leadership. …… He's like a gummy candy, or rather, ugly, like a pug. It is very suitable to be a subordinate, but if he really wants to sit in the position of the number one, he can't control anyone. …… At this point, Tingzhidu is much stronger than him. Although Tingzhi is young, although his intelligence profession is not as good as his, Tingzhi can make your group revolve around him. And with His Majesty's 100% trust, with the 100% assistance of Princess Liaoyang, and your 100% help, you three women can twist a rope for him. Stomach ache? Nothing but himself. ”

At the mention of Xiang Xiaoqiang, Xiuxiu lowered her head again, her back trembled, and tears rolled down again.

Shang Xiaojun knew that he was speechless, sighed, hugged his daughter into his arms, and wiped her tears with a handkerchief. But the more she rubbed, the more Xiuxiu cried, and finally threw herself into her mother's arms and cried loudly, crying and saying intermittently:

"Mom...... What am I going to do...... You teach me...... What should I do......"

Shang Xiaojun hugged her daughter, choked up, and sighed:

"Daughter...... Don't hold on, quit and come...... Returning to my mother and accompanying my mother ......"

Xiuxiu buried her face in her mother's arms and shook her head.

Shang Xiaojun stroked Xiuxiu's brain and said with a smile:

"Xiuxiu, you think you're very smart, you have some small skills, and even some small wings, you can fight with a stomachache, don't you? …… Don't be stupid, Xiuxiu, you're too young. I have a stomachache and I'm older than you. How many of your previous 'wings' in the headquarters relied on it? How much did you get it yourself? The stomachache is to see this, so I peeled off all your little 'wings' as soon as possible.

"Do you think that a stomachache left you out of the door because of the villain's ambition? No, it's not that simple. He had to show it to the other junior officers in the headquarters. When you go to see him, if he invites you in as soon as he receives the secretary's notice, then your little authority, that little wing, may be preserved. But the stomach ache deliberately said that you hung out the door in public, waiting in line like other ordinary clerks.

"At this special time, the middle and lower-level officers in the headquarters are watching, and the girls who were attached to you before are even more watching. And if you have a stomachache, then in their opinion, you really have nothing. Attached to you anymore, there is no value left. …… Xiuxiu, it's not your mother who poured cold water on you, I don't believe that if you go to the headquarters tomorrow, you will be able to feel the difference. Xiuxiu, you're no different from other petty officers. ”

Xiuxiu pursed her lips, tears of grief and indignation rolling down. Her mind was clearer. To do this with a stomachache is to "beat yourself back to its original form" and defeat the possibility of "becoming a force of its own", and you can only support him and attach yourself to him with all your heart.

In terms of stomach pain, Xiuxiu is much easier to manipulate now. And from Xiuxiu's side, it is much more difficult to fight against a stomachache.

Shang Xiaojun sighed:

"Child, you are too young, too young, too inexperienced. You don't always compare yourself with Princess Liaoyang. You can't compare. Far more than that. You still need to grow now, you need to be attached to a strong man, with the help of the power of the strong. If you really want to throw yourself into the whirlpool of power, you must first find a strong person to protect you. Otherwise...... Even if you don't get swallowed up, you're going to lose badly. …… Kid, if you really want to work hard, find a dependent. ”

Xiuxiu was stunned, looked at her mother, and said uncertainly:

"Mom...... Do you really want me to cling to that stomachache? ”

Shang Xiaojun smiled dumbly:

"Who is he with a stomachache? It's not worthy of being a follower with my little show! How could Mom let you cling to him? Mom is talking about ......"

She put her arms around her daughter and whispered a name.

……

The next day, on the 24th, Xiuxiu canceled her plan to visit several other commanders in the headquarters and stayed at home to rest, accompanying Qiu Yu and her mother.

Like Qiu Qiu, she still has a glimmer of hope, hoping that Xiang Xiaoqiang will not die, even if he is captured by the Soviet Union. As long as he is captured by the Soviet Union, Her Majesty the Empress will exchange him back, no matter what the cost.

The family listened to the radio and asked the servants to keep going to the street to buy newspapers, hungry for hope that Xiang Xiaoqiang was still alive.

But no. Today's main news is the report of the engagement between the two reinforced motorized infantry divisions and the Soviet troops. There are also air battles, endless air battles. The Ming people, who have been accustomed to air supremacy since the beginning of last year, suddenly feel very unaccustomed to it. For the first time in a year and a half, the sky is not its own.

Governments all over the world have condemned this act of the Soviet Union, and they have all sent telegrams of condolences to Daming to express their support. Many countries in the League of Nations have long looked at the Soviet Union unpleasantly, and they all clamored that the Soviet Union should be removed from the League of Nations. However, because the victim country, Daming, did not file a complaint with the League of Nations, he had no choice but to give up. And the Soviet Union is still a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, and he is righteously saying that he doesn't believe in it.

Some reporters counted that in the half-hour speech of the Soviet deputy, there were 15 "justice", 12 "great", 10 "proletariat", 8 "Lenin's banner", 11 "people", 9 "liberation", 6 "imperialism", and 4 "bandits".

The counterpart to the USSR was Germany. Hitler gave a speech in the Reichstag, looking active and excited. He almost jumped to his feet and scolded the Soviet Union, and almost greeted the eight generations of the ancestors of the Soviet leaders. In particular, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Livinov, because he was Jewish, was scolded the worst, even surpassing Stalin.

In conclusion, Hitler said that Germany would unswervingly stand with the Ming Dynasty in its struggle to eradicate the greatest plague of mankind.

Along with Germany's active condemnation of the Soviet Union, Japan was also involved. Of course, Japan uses traditional Japanese expressions, such as "Asia is the Asia of Asians" and so on.

The Japanese representative to the League of Nations also made a sharp speech, starting with Russia's expansion in Siberia, saying that it was insatiable for land, wanted it again, and would never be as content as Japan; said that it has always bullied weak and small countries, participated in the partition of Poland several times in Europe, and constantly encroached on Chinese territory in Asia; Speaking of the Russo-Japanese War, he said that if it had not been for Japan, as the elder brother of the Asian family, to stand up and block Russia's expansion, even the easternmost part of Asia would have been occupied by Russia now......

Anyway, no matter how it sounds, Japan hates Russia, and it is impossible for the two countries to come together.

……

On the third day, on the morning of the 25th, Shen Rongxuan received a letter.

As the first and auxiliary minister of a large empire, Shen Rongxuan would receive hundreds of catties of letters from all over the country every day. These letters were opened and screened by a special department of the Shoufu Residence, and finally a more valuable or representative stack of letters was selected and handed over to Shen Rongxuan for personal reading.

But this letter, which arrived yesterday, was green all the way, passed through layers of screening, and finally sandwiched between the dozen or so letters and was directly delivered to Shen Rongxuan's hands.

When Shen Rongxuan was wearing glasses and saw this letter, his face changed suddenly.

The letterhead is - Brother Ji Mo Huijian:

"Ji Mo" is Shen Rongxuan's character, but now there are very few people who call him the word table. When he was the governor of Dongchang before, there were several big names who called him his cousin, such as Fang Hongru, the first auxiliary minister, such as Zheng Gongyin and the like. But then after she became the first assistant minister, no one called him by the word table anymore. Even Zheng Gongyin, the king of Yanping, saw him, and called him "Pavilion Elder" half-truthfully.

The letter is very short, claiming to be an "old man in his early years", he hasn't seen him for a long time, and he hopes to reminisce about the past.

The tone of the whole letter is calm and relaxed, neither humble nor arrogant, as if the recipient is not the head of a country, but a pure "old man". The writing and handwriting are elegant and chic, with a strong bookish atmosphere, as if it was written by a university liberal arts professor.

There was also a photograph in the envelope. Shen Rongxuan poured out the photo and immediately fixed his eyes on it. Then, the brow became tighter and tighter.

……

The photo shows a young girl, dressed in a light veil and holding a paper fan, sitting on the Taihu Lake stone by the lake with her knees crossed, staring into the distance.

In the background are several canna plants. In the distance are several pavilions.

The early memories in Shen Rongxuan's mind immediately woke up like lightning. He couldn't be more impressed by this place in the photo - this is Shangwang's Mansion. At the beginning, he had just graduated from college, and his new wife had just entered the Shangwang Mansion as a tutor, and he was often invited to play in the mansion. And later, when he learned about his wife, the monk and the prince, he was full of shame and humiliation, and personally entered here to take her back......

This girl who sits leisurely by the lake is certainly not her wife. But Shen Rongxuan was too familiar with her—he had even seen her yesterday.

This is Shang Xiaojun!

This is the "No. 1 talented girl of Donglin University" who entered Shangwang's Mansion as a tutor with his wife, Shang Xiaojun!

What does she want to do? In particular, what did she mean by sending such a photo of Shang Wangfu? What do you want to hint at yourself?

……

Shen Rongxuan subconsciously put the photo on the table, and looked to the side like a ghost in his heart, but in the spacious office, there was no one else except for his secretary sitting opposite.

His face was already a little pale, and he slowly took out his handkerchief, wiped the beads of sweat from the bridge of his nose, and then quietly put it back on.

Shen Rongxuan took this photo and looked at it, while analyzing the group of people who opened the letter below, how likely it was to recognize the heroine in the photo. After analyzing it for a while, he decided that the person below was unlikely to recognize the person in the photo. It's also unlikely that you will even recognize the place on the photo.

It's too old, and Shang Xiaojun is not a celebrity. The only people who can recognize this photo now are probably only a few classmates from Donglin University back then. The group of people who opened the letter below are all young and impossible.

…… The reason why this letter passed five levels and cut six generals and reached his own hands is probably due to this photo. Although it was impossible for the people below to recognize who it was, at least they delivered the letter to themselves...... So what do they think? They shouldn't have guessed that this was their early lover!

Thinking of this, Shen Rongxuan stared coldly at Shang Xiaojun in the photo, feeling a nameless anger. However, there was nothing to be done for a while.

He kept the photo and letter in his folder and put it in a drawer. Then look at the watch, it's already eleven o'clock in the morning.

He called the secretary.

"Check my schedule," he commanded, "and see if you can spare half an hour at noon or afternoon to-day." ”

As soon as the secretary heard him say the word "today", he immediately showed an embarrassed expression. However, she still picked up the schedule and said:

"Your Excellency, from 11:30 to 12:15 p.m., you will have lunch with the U.S. Ambassador;

Between 12:20pm and 1:30pm, you will meet with the Chancellor of the Exchequer;

From 1:35 p.m. to 2:10 p.m., you take a break;

From 2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., you will meet with the Secretary of War;

From 3:35 p.m. to 3:50 p.m., you will meet with the representatives of the Russian Social Revolutionaries' government-in-exile in Nanking;

From 3:50 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., you would like your wife to join you for afternoon tea with Mr. and Mrs. British Ambassador;

From 5:10 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., you will meet with the Minister of Industry and the Minister of International Trade;

From 6:10 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., you will attend a dinner for the White Russian nobles and ladies in Nanking, as well as representatives of the Russian Social Revolutionaries, generals of the White Guards, ambassadors and wives of Britain, France, the United States, Germany, and other countries;

After the dinner, you will also preside over a cabinet meeting......

Look, my lord, ......"

Shen Rongxuan waved his hand, took the schedule and read it himself, and then ordered:

"The reception of the Socialist-Revolutionaries was temporarily cancelled, and the afternoon tea was shortened by fifteen minutes. Schedule this spare half hour between four and five o'clock. Okay, you go out first. I'll make a personal call. ”

The secretary agreed, and turned to leave with the schedule in hand.

……

Shen Rongxuan leaned on the wide backrest, let out a long breath, and covered his face with his hands.

After a few moments, he sat up, picked up one of the two telephones on the table, and began dialing the number of the house.