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    It was dawn on the first day of the New Year, and Yang Qiu walked to the door of his house in Wuchang carrying two firecrackers.

    After returning to Nanjing, he finished all his work like everyone else. During the New Year, he and Miao Luo deliberately avoided everyone and went back to their home in Wuchang to celebrate the New Year.  The river in the distance was covered with mist, and the machines that had been busy and roaring for a year had stopped. Except for the factory protection team, which was still wide-eyed, the other workers were given a five-day holiday.  It's not that they don't want to rest more, but that they are really busy with orders. Fortunately, the workers understand that most of them agree to come back on time to start work, but only a few will be delayed a little because they have to go back to their hometowns.  Fortunately, in order to train more workers in recent years, almost all factory workshops are currently overstaffed, and leaving some people will not have much impact.

    Behind him, Miao Luo and Ruiyao were also wearing new clothes, like two industrious little bees going about their business.

    The Chinese people have their own traditions. For thousands of years, we can neither call them feudal nor ignorant. The one-size-fits-all eradication is even more ignorant.  For example, after you get married and start a business, as the head of the family, you have to open the door until dawn on New Year's Eve. If you don't get a full night's sleep, you have to get up early and set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year. Without the sound of firecrackers, the whole family cannot go out.  No matter how high her status is, the hostess of the family must cook herself on this day to prepare herself for the guests who come to pay New Year's greetings.  Although he comes from later generations, Yang Qiu insists on handling these chores by himself on such occasions, not only because he wants to experience the long-lost traditions in the parallel world, but also because he wants to tell others in this way that learning advanced Western technology does not mean that  Completely separate themselves from their own traditions and culture.

    "Commander, you have to open it widerthe longer it is, the more auspicious it will be." Lei Meng smiled and stood in the doorway, feeling embarrassed. He wanted to go out to help, but it was a pity that firecrackers were expensive, not to mention that it was rare to direct Commander Yang to do things.  Instead of taking the opportunity to have fun, he only made Chang Si, who had just returned from Nanyang with Ruiyao, laugh.

    Since acquiring 15 German ocean-going ships, the Yangtze River Shipping Company, which originally had only a few second-hand ocean-going ships, has been officially divided into three companies.  One is the Yangtze River Transportation Company, which owns nearly a hundred inland river freighters, and the other is the Four Seas Ocean Shipping Company, which owns eight 10,000-ton ocean liners.  The other company is Wuzhou Shipping Co., Ltd. which owns three ships of 10,000 tons and five ships of 5,000 tons and above.  Moreover, the three companies, Hanyang and Chongqing under Yang Qiu's name, will be listed for financing together after the New Year, and then continue to expand.

    During this period, as foreign ships returned to Europe, more than a dozen Japanese ships were sunk by the navy, causing a huge gap in the originally busy Far East shipping business.  So the three companies were so busy that they almost didn't have time to breathe.  Fortunately, through the introduction of Wang Guangxiong, commander of the Second Fleet.  Many retired naval officers and sailors have joined the three companies. With these experienced employees, they are gradually figuring things out and getting on the right track.  And as more and more goods are shipped to Europe.  Britain and France also began to hire their ships to sail to Europe after it was too late.  resulting in business volume.  Sometimes he thinks about how he wishes he could buy dozens more ships. Unfortunately, even the United States can't build them now. He can only transfer some larger river ships to the closer Nanyang route to barely support them.

    After tying the firecrackers with his own hands and hanging them on the long bamboo poles, Commander Yang found matches and lit the two hanging firecrackers close together.  It was inevitable to be careless when doing this for the first time. The left fuse burned first and before it could run far, the whole body was covered in festive red confetti.

    "Giggleidiot." Miao Luo couldn't help laughing when he saw this.  She leaned forward and backward, with a pair of meatballs on her chest jumping and trembling wildly. She loved to see Yang Qiu being embarrassed in some small details of life.  Because only in these moments can she feel that her husband is just like an ordinary man.

    Ruiyao looked at her, with a gleam of envy or self-pity rising in her beautiful eyes.  In just one year, this junior sister from Hongmen, who was born in the United States, has almost changed into a different person. Perhaps she has been the wife of the vice president for a long time. Even doing housework has a relaxed and relaxed style.  Standing in front of her at this moment, the luxurious and mature style that hit her face made her feel ashamed. The plump and round figure under her cheongsam could not be concealed, which made her, who had always been proud of her figure, secretly frightened.

    Thinking that this year I have been either in Nanyang, Guangxi, Fujian, or Wuchang, Shanghai, all over the world. I finally went to Shandong once, but we only got together for a few days and then came back in a hurry. I didn't even say a few words, and the look in my eyes couldn't help but dim.  , looking at the man laughing together with Lei Meng, I felt sad in my heart and didn't know if the wait was worth it.

    After Miao Luo poured the hot milk into the cup, he turned around and was about to ask Ruiyao to bring two more, but he saw her holding the cup in her hand and wiping it with a rag, while her eyes were staring out the window.  After following her gaze clearly, I immediately understood what she was thinking, and sighed secretly in my heart.  No woman is willing to share a man with others. If she had the choice, she would like to take Yang Qiu to a small place where no one knows her and stay at home to raise her children for the rest of her life.  But he is handsome and talented, young and rich, and holds a high position. He is even famous in Europe and the United States as the vice president and commander-in-chief of the army. Recently, some people have even secretly called her the first lady.Some things are beyond her control. In the past, she was open-minded and dared to love and hate, otherwise she wouldn't have been sent as a bodyguard. But ever since she met Yang Qiu, it was like meeting her nemesis. No matter what she did, he would crush her to death.  Death, and finally fell due to emotional entanglement due to a combination of circumstances.  After living in a high position and in a halo during this period, my character has recovered a lot, so instead of deliberately suppressing things in my heart and feeling uncomfortable, it is better to just clarify them and see the results.

    Thinking of this, I deliberately coughed a few times: "Senior sister, what are you looking at?"

    "No, I didn't see anything." Rui Yao looked away in a panic, lowered her head and wiped the clean tea cup again and again, her cheeks turned pink as if she had been caught.  This scene made Miao Luo sigh secretly. In the past, as the leader of a gang, the senior sister was fierce and hot-tempered, but now there is no trace of the freedom and ease of a child in the world. She is completely like a person who has a crush on others but dare not speak out, and is embarrassed when her friends find out.  Yu Qiqi, a female student from Huaichun.

    Miao Luo took a step closer and took the cup, deliberately leaned to his ear and asked: "Senior sister, do you like Brother Yang?"

    "Huh?" Ruiyao was startled, not expecting that she would ask so directly.  I wanted to pretend that I didn't like it, but I was afraid that she would take it seriously. As for the word "I like it", I couldn't say it out loud. I stood there blankly and didn't know how to answer.

    Miao Luo deliberately didn't look at her. After pouring the milk, he sighed quietly: "Sister, don't you know who he is? He likes to put pressure on himself for everything. He spends the whole day worrying about how he wishes he could provoke 40,000 yuan by himself.  Thousands of people move forward. At best, you are serving the country and the people, but at worst you are asking for trouble. And you always like to use yourself as an example to influence the people below, and you have to think twice about what you say even if you don't say it.  It leaves a bad impression on people. Soit's even harder to wait for him to speak first." Her eyes turned red as she spoke.  There was a sniff in his voice: "In front of outsiders, he looked dazzling and majestic, but when he got home, he seemed to fall apart. That time in Shandong, I had a stomachache, but I still endured digging holes and walking in trenches with the soldiers. I stayed up late to calculate whether  After stopping, Shengsheng insisted on returning to Nanjing to rest for a few days. Before he recovered, he started planning negotiations with Japan."

    "Marrying himI knew it would happen today. Grandpa said that such a person cannot be hidden, so I don't regret it." After Miao Luo finished feeling distressed, he suddenly burst into tears and turned his head to smile.  He rolled his eyes and said, "Senior Sister, if you really like it you might as well tell me directly. I'll be the one to decide whether he dares to push back or not."

    "Junior sisterme." Ruiyao was also moved by what she said.  No woman is willing to push her man out.  Miao Luo obviously did this because he was her senior sister, and he loved Yang Qiu so much that he didn't want to beat her up. He held her hand excitedly, but the three words he just uttered were interrupted by a burst of footsteps outside.

    The two women, who were just a step away from becoming sisters, immediately turned around and saw Cai Gongshi, Xiao Anguo and Jiang Baili walking in in a hurry.  Because Song Ziqing and others took their families to Nanjing, and Yang Qiu had already expressed his intention to have a pure year with his wife.  Therefore, Cai Gongshi was the only one accompanying him when he came back this time, and he also notified Hubei government officials to disturb him as little as possible.  Xiao Anguo and Cai Gongshi celebrated the New Year in Wuchang because they worked here.

    Seeing the three people coming together, Yang Qiu also frowned: "What's wrong?"

    Cai Gongshi looked at Jiang Baili and Xiao Anguo, and took out the telegram: "I just got the news that Yuan Shikai is dead."

    *******

    Yang Qiu immediately set off from Hankou and rushed to Zhangde. The old longevity garden, which used to be full of flowers, fell into desolation. The festive red couplets that had just been posted on the door were replaced by white ones. The yard, which had not been popular for a long time, was crowded with people from all over the world.  Most of the mourners from all over the country were elderly people from Beiyang.

    What is unexpected is that it was not his children but Xu Shichang and Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui who came from Beijing to handle Yuan Shikai's funeral.

    Seeing him, those Cao Kun and others who were forcibly retired after being promoted to generals still had some evil eyes in their eyes, but so what?  After a great war between China and Japan, several Beiyang infantry divisions were all taken into consideration. For them, it would have been particularly merciful not to deliberately seek trouble and follow in Yuan Shikai's footsteps.

    Yang Shiqi, who was kneeling in front of the mourning hall, handed over the white silk ribbon with a complicated look on his face. Yang Qiu took it and tied it around his waist, leading Lei Meng and others into the mourning hall. He bowed three times deeply to Yuan Shikai's coffin in front of everyone.  After bowing, he asked: "Where are Brother Keding and the others? Why haven't they seen anyone?" Yang Shiqi sighed: "Keding went to France to find Wang Jingwei. There is a war there and he can't contact him. Kewen lives in Hong Kong, although he has sent a telegram  But it will take half a month to get back, and the others are scattered all over the place and haven¡¯t come back yet.¡±

    Yang Qiu did not expect that the Yuan family would fall to this level. After the death of a generation of heroes, there would be only a few young sons who had not yet separated. He also sighed deeply and patted Yang Shiqi: "Xingcheng, don't worry, Gong Bao will do it no matter what."  He is the former president of the country. I had already discussed it with the president before I came, and all funeral arrangements will be held.?In accordance with the highest state funeral standards, the whole country held a moment of silence with flags at half-mast.  "These few words made everyone around him look at him differently. Even Feng Guozhang secretly admired Yang Qiu's broad-mindedness for being able to honor Yuan Shikai with a state funeral, even though he had officially recognized the second president of the Republic of China.

    Yang Shiqi even bowed his head and burst into tears of gratitude: "Shiqi, on behalf of Gongbao and his family, would like to thank the Vice President." After he finished speaking, he took out the last few words recorded by Yuan Shikai from his pocket, pulled away half a step and handed it to Yang Qiu, and whispered  : "This is what Gongbao asked me to pass on to you when he was finally awake. He said that chaos and chaos are the means to initially stabilize the world, but if long-term stability is needed, one must be cautious and patient, and the opportunity of the European war must not be wasted. Vice President  You are still young, so you don¡¯t have to worry too much about the elderly. They will die before you! He also asked me to remind you that without our resources, Japan will be like a pheasant without its feathers. As long as time  Keeping it in a state of unrest at all times is half the battle. But the villains of North Korea are so despicable that they cannot be trusted! They also say that you must be careful about Russia. After a hundred years, only the north is the real trouble!"

    "There must be a palace protector in the spring and Autumn period of a hundred years. It is not for us to comment on whether it is merit or demerit." Yang Qiu was startled for a moment, and after silently reciting something, he put away the note.  Although Yang Shiqi annotated the original words, based on his understanding of Yuan Shikai, if he had enough time, he would definitely explain it this way. From these words, it can be seen that Yuan Shikai is worthy of being a hero of his generation, but it is a pity that time does not wait for him.

    "Brother Xingchengthe past is over now. If your talent is in ruins, I'm afraid Gong Baoquan wouldn't want to see it. I know you are already discouraged with political affairs. How about going to Hanyang? There is a shortage of people like you there to take care of things.  Big picture person.¡±

    Yang Shiqi raised his hand but refused: "Shiqi is old, and this world is no longer under our control. The Vice President is in his prime, and it's time to regain the power of the country and return it to me." After he finished speaking, he turned and left.  When this most die-hard Beiyang man leaves, it also means that there will no longer be Beiyang in the world.  Looking at his back, Yang Qiu put his hand into his bag, pinched the words of advice left by Yuan Shikai, and turned to look at the cold coffin: "North KoreaRussia, palace protector, do you know that the curtain is actually there?"  just started."

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