1928: The rise of giant merchants

Colonel Max Bauer set out for Jinling on January 10. He had arrived at the Principal's First National Revolutionary Army a few days ago and was preparing to serve as an army advisor and accompany the First Army to the border of Henan Province.

The principal met Max happily, and invited him to listen to opera and have dinner with him in Jinling. He also asked the principal's wife to accompany him to the cinema to watch the newly released talkie film of Yip's Film Company - now the third film of the Republic of China. First-time actress Ruan Lingyu stars in "The Cause of Laughter".

In the next few days, the principal's wife accompanied him throughout the whole process. During the negotiation, he learned that Max admired Ye Luo very much. The now prosperous Huade military cooperation project was actually led by Ye Luo and assisted by Max.

Although she had heard many foreigners praise and praise her godbrother, this was the first time she heard him praise Ye Luo's military talents from a military adviser. The principal's wife felt delighted, as if one of her own family members had been praised.

As for the principal, he has been busy these days.

In early January, after Yan Xishan returned to Taiyuan from Peiping, the situation in Central Henan became increasingly chaotic, and the conflict between him and the principal became increasingly irreconcilable.

On January 12, Yan Xishan called the principal, advocating comity for the country, and strongly stating that unification by force should not be used under the rule of the Democratic Party. He also asked the principal to "relax our responsibilities together (and relieve our responsibilities together)" to eliminate party strife.

On January 13, the principal replied via email: "Revolution to save the country is an obligation, not a right. At this time, the national crisis is urgent, and this is not the time for us to be complacent."

Yan Xishan then sent several more telegrams to encourage the principal to go out with him and stop doing this, causing people everywhere to live in dire straits and complain.

In fact, Yan Xishan just said it casually and disgusted the principal.

Because he knew better than anyone else that the principal would not go down on his own, so there was no possibility for the two of them to retreat together. But now he has repeatedly advocated serving the country and the people, which shows that he is very high-ranking and the principal is greedy for power.

The principal was not used to Yan Laoxi, so he sent telegram after telegram to continue arguing with him. Secretly, he began to mobilize troops and plan a war to unify the Republic of China.

On January 14, five people, Li Zongren, Huang Shaohong, Bai Chongxi, Zhang Fakui, and Hu Zongduo, jointly responded to Yan Xishan's actions and elected him as the commander-in-chief of the country's army, navy and air force. That night, 45 people including Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, and Li Zongren jointly signed a call. He raised the issue of party unity and advocated a vote by all D members to resolve party-state disputes. Wang also echoed this by telegraphing.

At this time, all the guys who were hostile to him united together, and the principal couldn't sit still anymore. He directly convened the third plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee in Jinling and formally decided to expel Mr. Wang from the Kuomintang. The highest-level wanted criminal of the Jinling National Government.

On January 15, the day when Ye Luo welcomed Lin Huiyin and his wife in Tianjin City, the warlord leaders also responded to the principal's behavior. Yan Xishan and others listed the six sins of the principal. Warlords from all over the country returned to their hometowns and hid. The apartment residents in the Tianjin Concession also cheered for them and even contributed money and efforts, preparing to watch the principal fight against the crowd alone.

Although Zhang Hanqing, who returned to Fengtian, had been keeping in touch with them, he had completely lost confidence in this group of people because of the Peking Conference.

He nominally agreed with everyone and participated in the anti-Chiang movement, but in fact he only talked about it and the Northern Army did not take any action.

That night, the principal sent an urgent telegram to Ye Luo, asking the Huade military cooperation project under his jurisdiction to immediately send the military supplies produced to Jinling for use by the First Army.

In fact, this thing is all done as long as Colonel Max approves it, and Ye Luo has no reason or right to object.

The principal's urgent telegram actually contained a tentative message.

Ye Luo's business in Tianjin City was well known throughout the city, and he also allowed many current hostile forces to invest in the business.

Although the principal recognized that business and politics were not interoperable, business was business, and war was war, he did not want to see Ye Luo helping his political opponents make money to beat him.

After Ye Luo returned to Tang Yiying's villa, he immediately sent a telegram to Deng Wenyi to comfort the anxious principal and make it clear that he would never collude with those warlord leaders.

In order to prevent the principal from being suspicious, Ye Luosi called Deng Wenyi and Tang Fulu at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

"Aluo, the principal has gone to bed. How about I inform you?" Deng Wenyi has not slept well recently.

This second young master is really very capable.

After giving Dai Li a blow in Shanghai, he actually followed Zhang Hanqing to Peiping and Fengtian with great arrogance. I heard that he was also involved in the Peking Conference.

Dai Li arrested him in Shanghai before and said that he was a member of an underground organization and that he was saved by the principal.

Not long after, this guy went to Tianjin City to do business again and attracted all the businessmen from across the country.

In such a sensitive moment, I don’t blame the principal for thinking too much.

"No, no, no, I don't dare to disturb the rest of the party." Ye Luo said with a smile, "Brother Deng, I just want you to help me tell the principal tomorrow. I have already booked a ticket back to Shanghai and I will arrive 20 days ago. Let him not worry about it."

"Okay, okay, I'll talk about this first thing early tomorrow morning." Deng Wenyi's heart settled down a little.

As long as Ye Luo is willing to come back.

What they fear most is that Ye Luo stays in the north and never comes back, which would be troublesome.

"Then I'll trouble Brother Deng."

"No trouble, no trouble."

After hanging up the phone, Ye Luo called Jinling Song Mansion again.

Even late at night, the phone rang a few times and was answered quickly.

Tang Fulu's voice sounded energetic: "This is Song Mansion, who are you?"

"Brother Tang, it's me, Ye Luo." Ye Luo couldn't help but sigh. It's not easy to be a secretary in the Republic of China. Both Tang Fulu and Deng Wenyi were secretaries around the most powerful people in the Republic of China, but they also had to In this way, I stay on the phone day and night and help my master handle affairs.

"A Luo?! You, why did you call here!" Tang Fu's tone was half happy and half surprised. It was obvious that he had been troubled by Ye Luo's incident recently.

Song Ziwen was one of the people who tried to protect Ye Luo at the beginning. If anything happened to Ye Luo, he would have to bear the responsibility. Song Ziwen's troubles were Tang Fu's troubles. Now Ye Luo called, which made Tang Fu's troubles The feeling that it can be solved.

"I just want to tell Brother Song that I will return to Shanghai from Tianjin before the 20th. The train will pass through Jinling by then. I would like to pay a visit to Brother Song and my sister-in-law."

No matter how stupid a person is to call to make an appointment in the middle of the night, he will not have such a low emotional intelligence, let alone the person on the other end of the phone is Ye Luo.

Tang Fuhe knew Ye Luo's intentions very well. He breathed a sigh of relief and replied with a smile: "I will convey it to Minister Song tomorrow. Don't worry."

"Thank you, Brother Tang. I'll hang up now. By the way, let Xiaoying come to my house to play more when you have time. Qingqing always talks about her, saying that since she went to the north once, it seems that Xiaoying has become separated from her. "Ye Luo didn't forget to mention Tang Ying before hanging up the phone to show his friendly relationship with Tang Fu.

"I got it, girl Xiaoying, I'll talk to her later." Tang Fu cursed in his heart, don't you know the reason why his sister doesn't come to Ye's house to play around?

At first, Tang Ying, Feng Chengcheng and other Shanghainese ladies fell in love with Ye Luo, but Ye Luo immediately married Bai Xiuzhu. Everyone in the Bai family knew how powerful Bai Xiong was, and they were not happy to send their treasured daughter to the Ye family. Become Ye Luo's mistress.

As time went by, the two families became estranged.

If Tang Ying didn't come to Ye's house, wouldn't she be afraid of touching the scene and feeling embarrassed?

But now that Ye Luo has revealed Xiao Aqiao and Hu Die, it seems that the Bai family agrees to Ye Luo marrying several concubines.

Tang Fu was definitely not happy to give his little sister to Ye Luo as his concubine, but now that Ye Luo seems to be the successor to Song Ziwen, Tang Ying is better off than Tang Ying in being his concubine.

As long as Ye Luo doesn't stay in the north to help Zhang Hanqing, the Ye family will still be on the principal's side, and Tang Fulu's mind gradually becomes more active.

After making these two phone calls, Ye Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

Unexpectedly, the principal was so suspicious. It seemed that we had to stabilize him as soon as possible while arranging follow-up plans to evacuate the Republic of China. (End of chapter)