After returning to the office, his friend's voice was still echoing in his ears. Thinking of that incident, Li Guangchen realized that if he could participate, it might be the most important thing for him in his life. In addition to giving advice to that thousand-year-old good law, more importantly, for an individual, being able to participate is also the pinnacle of his life honor, which can be said to be the ultimate glory of his ancestors... "Is it possible that Liang Ji has taken some measures?"

Thinking of his friend's actions, Li Guangchen was cheered up.

"It must be. At this time, who can really ignore it? If Liang Ji can get into it, I think... if I can..."

He thought along this line of thought, and the further he thought, he was even more distracted, even as he was so immersed in his mind, even to the point where he had forgotten everything. Fortunately, he did not have the backlog of cases at hand, otherwise, he would not have the heart to defend his customers.

The time to get off work was over, and the wings of his thoughts were still in the profound and mysterious places to invite him to travel.

What is the key to Feng Guozhang? Who does this general listen to?

...He is Yuan Shikai's man, the famous three Beiyang masters... It would be great if there was a way to approach him... Yes, think carefully and capture this fortress... Giving gifts is not effective for this general. Although it is well known that Feng Guozhang, who was a vendor, is extremely greedy for money, it is said that he has some strange temper in this regard. He is good at "business" but not for others to send him away. He is already famous in the outside world. In order to maintain his reputation, he cannot make an exception for anyone.

It is rumored that someone wanted to flatter him and invested heavily in love. He gave him ten gifts and was returned ten times, and he remained intact every time, which made the gift giver very embarrassed and puzzled: What exactly did this Mr. Feng like? The gifts were different every time, and the rare treasures and priceless antiques were included in it, but he didn't even like them.

Feng Guozhang is by no means the most sage, so why don’t he like others to give things? As the saying goes, “Officials don’t give gifts”, and now all officials are corrupt and officials are not dirty. Feng Guozhang is so eccentric…

Feng Guozhang's only hobby is business. Not to mention Hebei, it is the Tianjin Dagang Economic Development Zone. In any factory or enterprise that can be counted, even factories and mines along the Longhai Railway, there are Feng Guozhang's shares. Feng Guozhang's shares have always been real money and never do anything to "participate in shares". In his own words, he is a businessman. If you do business, you must be fair...

Thinking of the rumors about General Feng, he knew that if such a senior and elderly official was not effective in giving gifts, it would be difficult to get to know each other. Compared with him, his status was very different, and even if he could get to know each other through the path, he would be difficult to get to know each other. There are only two kinds of relationships that can be reliable when asking for people to do big things. One is money and the other is friendship. The first relationship can be effective quickly, and the second is not. It is necessary to have a love and a close friend to exchange for life.

But he was a little bit aware that now he had no time to contact him at all, not to mention that Feng Guozhang did not need to contact him as a young lawyer.

He fell on the bed and went to the constitutional representative together. Although he had not slept all night, Li Guangchen was not sleepy at all. At this moment, he was racking his brains, but he was unable to figure it out. At this moment, he suddenly thought of Xu Weichuan.

Xu Weichuan. This man is not an official, but a businessman. Moreover, in Hebei, a place where Shanxi merchants are popular, he can work as a Shaanxi merchant. He has successively done business such as wood, grain, salt, military uniforms, arms, etc., and everything is easy. He has a clear path of wealth and has accumulated a lot of money in just over a decade, gained a firm foothold in the business world, and revealed his strengths...

But his most successful thing is to set up a business for Feng Guozhang, and Feng Guozhang, a general who was a cloth dealer, handed over most of his business. His major measures in business were related to him, either asking him for advice, or instructing him to act, or out of his work, so he was known as the "Feng Family God of Wealth". He was regarded as the confidant of General Feng by the high-ranking officials and nobles in Hebei. Because of this, he is very popular in Hebei! Therefore, there are many military and political officials who have curled him, and they are crowded with guests all day long...

Xu Weichuan...

Thinking of this name, Li Guangchen suddenly felt no sense of dilemma. He heard that Xu Weichuan had remembered his name for three or four years. At that time, Li Guangchen had just opened a law firm. He remembered his name for the first time when he heard about it, and remembered it very well. The reason was not that Li Guangchen had too strong memory, but that he had "business dealings" with Xu Weichuan. To be precise, he had worked as a lawyer for Xu Weichuan and helped him sue with foreign companies in the court in the Tianjin Concession.

At that time, Xu Weichuan's business practices foreign foreign companies to acquire wool, and the foreign companies later refused to pay the final payment. At that time, Li Guangchen, as his lawyer, helped him fight this lawsuit in Tianjin. After winning the lawsuit, he helped him get back hundreds of thousands of yuan in huge sums. Later, although Xu Weichuan intended to recruit, he finally gave up because Li Guangchen had the belief of "making a blue sky".

Now, thinking about his dream and his experiences in recent years, Li Guangchen sighed and said:

"Sometimes people have to do something."

I thought about it so much and looked at the time. It was only seven o'clock in the evening, so Li Guangchen, who was a little impatient, came to Xu Weichuan's residence.

As soon as he saw Li Guangchen, Xu Weichuan was extremely happy to see the arrival of this famous lawyer who had wanted to recruit. While the two of them exchanged greetings, Xu Weichuan took the time to ask his family to arrange wine and food. The cigarettes and tea were finished. Before he could speak, Xu Weichuan pulled Li Guangchen out and said yes.

"Today I want to have two drinks with me. I am a well-known lawyer in Hebei. I have been busy with work and have trouble writing. I finally took a break from my busy schedule. It should be completely relaxed. I must drink it happily today."

When talking, Xu Weichuan did not ask Li Guangchen for his opinion at all. Once he acted according to his own wishes, his words and behaviors were somewhat graceful and elegant as a familiar person and a handsome and elegant person.

Xu Weichuan led Li Guangchen into a place where the courtyard was built. The house was magnificent and the interior was decorated with luxurious interiors. There were various exquisite dishes on a round table indoors, and four exquisite mahogany chairs were set around the table, and the beautiful maids were accompanying each other.

"Brother, wait. Today, I called two more friends. I will arrive as soon as I want to come! Come, please sit down!"

As he said that, Xu Weichuan forced Li Guangchen to press the guest seat, giving Li Guangchen all his face. Xu Weichuan admired this young man in his thirties very much. When he fought a lawsuit with the Japanese foreign company, even few lawyers in Tianjin dared to accept it. It was not because the Japanese foreign company had a background, but because the president of the Japanese foreign company had never known what reason was. Many years ago, in a commercial lawsuit, he even asked someone to kill the lawyers hired by the other party. This was why in Tianjin, few lawyers were willing to accept the cases related to him, and Xu Weichuan finally took it.

He also won the lawsuit. Not only did he win the lawsuit, he finally lobbled the Japanese consul to intervene in the name of "maintaining the reputation of Japanese trading companies", and finally successfully recovered 300,000 yuan in total, but it didn't cost much, but it showed his courage.

After a while, two well-dressed middle-aged men came in. When they saw the two, Li Guangchen immediately reacted to what was about to happen. He couldn't help but complain in secret. At this moment, he had no leisure to drink and what kind of wine? Regarding drinking, Li Guangchen once boasted to his friends:

"At the wine table, I never got drunk!"

Although he spoke, he was looking for Xu Weichuan to find a way to achieve great things, and hoped to be successful quickly. Time did not allow him to use "circumcision tactics", so he could only go straight to the point and "take the central army directly". He had already analyzed it, only looking at Xu Weichuan's attitude towards him at this moment. "take the central army directly" had been successfully grasped. Unexpectedly, this person did not give him a chance to speak after meeting him!...

Li Guangchen had something in his mind, so he had no intention of greeting these people, but now he was at the table, what else could he do? So he nodded.

"Then thank you Mr. Xu!"

But at this time, Xu Weichuan pointed to the wine and food on the table and said to him quietly:

"Today, let's not talk about it, we must have a good drink."

After saying that, Xu Weichuan didn't wait for Li Guangchen to speak, so he pulled him to the table. Li Guangchen was pressed to the chair again. He stood up, bowed with fists and said:

"I'm so sorry, I'll ruin your excitement when I first met. Guangchen visited Mr. Xu today. He had discussed important matters, but he never thought about going all the way. He was not as good as he could to tell Mr. Xu Ming..."

"Oh, I understand. OK, let's play again the next day, just don't lose the appointment next time."

The middle-aged man stood up and left in disappointment after saying that.

Li Guangchen apologized to Xu Weichuan again and said:

"I am really helpless. Please forgive me. I have to pay my respects to you..."

Before Li Guangchen could finish speaking, Xu Weichuan interrupted him and said:

"This is not a place to talk about serious things, let's go to the front hall."

Seeing that Xu Weichuan seemed a little unhappy, Li Guangchen had to go with him. He thought to himself:

"No matter how anxious you are, you have to be patient, and the guest will follow the guests' wishes. When you are in the guest's seat, you have to let the host arrange it."

When he arrived at the front hall, Xu Weichuan looked at Li Guangchen. In fact, from the servants informed him that Li Guangchen was visiting, he could guess what he was going to come. After reporting the news from the newspaper, he knew that sooner or later someone would come to visit him.

"Mingxin, say, what's the important thing that makes you think about drinking and eating!"

Xu Weichuan had a smile on his face. When he was drinking tea, his tone was as close as close friends who had been intimate for decades.

"this……"

Although he came to ask for help, he would ask someone in person. For a moment, Li Guangchen was not as clever as he was in court and said nothing at all.

"Don't do this, Mingxin, you are not an outsider, just say anything if you have anything to do!"

As he said that, Xu Weichuan lit a cigar. After doing business for so many years, he naturally knew what to do "business". Any business requires investment. Just like when General Feng was still in the new army, the two had already met, and he was just like investing in it. Now, looking at Li Guangchen in front of him, he felt that this might be considered a business.

Xu Weichuan naturally understood Li Guangchen's talent and had always wanted to use it, but now it was an opportunity.

"I don't know, sir, can you know that the Constitutional Assembly will be held..."

Kunming in May has long been in early summer. This southwestern border town with spring all year round is far from prosperous among the provincial capitals of China. Even when domestic industries are developing rapidly, there are almost no industrial industries in this border town. Although it was the sixth year of the Republic of China, everything here seems to be not much different from the Xuantong period. At most, the braid behind the man's head was cut off and the governor became a general. This may be the biggest change in this border town.

After the Revolution of 1911, the highest military and political organ in Yunnan Province was the Yunnan Military Governor's Office. At this time, it was the Kaiwu General Inspector General Inspector. Unlike other provinces, both the Yunnan General Inspector General Inspector General Inspector General were a military-civilian organization. The governor also manages the military and civil affairs of a province, and does not have other administrative leaders such as the Civil Affairs Chief or the Governor. This is exactly the difference between the southwest provinces and other provinces. Even when the internal affairs troops enter Sichuan and other provinces, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi are still the internal affairs troops, let alone the Ministry of Internal Affairs appointed the Civil Affairs Chief or the election of the Civil Affairs Chief in the three provinces.

It can be said that to a certain extent, the three southwestern provinces are the real local powers in China, and even the central government is powerless to do anything to this border. Among the three provinces, Yunnan is the leader. Many people in the Yunnan army are participants in the Revolution of 1911, and there are also a considerable number of members of the Tongmenghui. However, thanks to Yuan Shikai's deterrence and some authority of the central government, the three provinces are far from developing into local warlords...

In the conference room of the General Kaiwu Inspection Office, a voice sounded from time to time.

"...All provinces must send constitutional representatives to participate in the constitutional convention. If a province abolishes the public for personal gain, the Congress will authorize the members of the provincial two houses to elect separately..."

Tang Jiyao, the general of the military, listened to the secretary's official reading of the official documents, but his brows were furious. Finally, after the secretary finished reading the official documents, he looked at the officers in the conference room, but for a while, he could not say a word.

From Cai Songpo to work north, Tang Jiyao became the supreme ruler of Yunnan and became the local emperor in this border area. He became more and more obsessed with this almost unrestrained power. Although there were constraints from the provincial parliament, he had his own way for the provincial parliament. As long as he "looked at" the Kuomintang, the provincial parliament would not become a big climate.

In order to fight against the KMT Party, he sent someone to publish the slogan "Dian people govern Yunnan" in the newspaper, and then organized people to build a "local progressive party", which was actually aimed at using other parties to squeeze the KMT Party. At the same time, the Yunnan border was different from other provinces. The chieftains in various places all had fixed seats in the provincial council, and the chieftains also obeyed the orders. Under the double squeeze, the KMT Party had only thirty seats in Yunnan and could not exert any influence.

But now, this Constitutional Convention has given him unprecedented pressure. Once the constitution is completed, the country will inevitably implement constitutionalism. After constitutionalism, the Kaiwu General, who is full of military and political power, must hand over power. Yuan Shikai appointed this Kaiwu General to seize his civil rights.

Constitutionalism,

In the past, in the Qing Dynasty, in his opinion, perhaps this constitutionalism was a good thing, but now it seems that this constitutionalism is absolutely nothing good, but he could not refuse, because most of the middle and lower-level officers in Yunnan and the civil servants in the office supported constitutional composition. Without their support, would Tang Jiyao, the general of the military, still be a general?

Just like last month, the Army Department ordered Yunnan to send a brigade of soldiers to Jiangsu to train the expeditionary army. He originally wanted to refuse, but the news came from the newspaper. Before he could refuse, the Kunming business community organized a banquet to have a farewell banquet. The middle and lower-level officers even petitioned for the war. Although he was reluctant to send troops, he had to compromise in the end in the face of this situation.

When boycotting the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he could also use the words "Don't let others look down on the people of Yunnan" to persuade everyone to suppress bandits for the sake of the face of Yunnan people, and thus refuse the internal affairs forces to enter Yunnan, but now...

"Okay, now, our China is still on the right track. Our revolutionary moves were finally in vain!"

As soon as his voice fell, there was a sudden burst of discussion in the room, mostly as optimistic as him.

"...With the State Council Xiao Li and General Manager there, even if Yuan Shikai refused to do so, he would probably have to agree to the constitution!"

"That's right, this is called the evil one being beaten by the evil oneself..."

"Xiao Li-General is a bad guy..."

"Look at me, this is what I said..."

Amid this optimism, Tang Jiyao's heart kept twitching. The optimism of these people in front of him made his mind sink, and he suddenly sighed at the short-sightedness of these people. Don't they know...

"Don't be so optimistic, either!"

At this moment, a voice came over, and the person who spoke was Kui Ju, who was the secretary-general of the General of the Military Advisory Office and one of the most trusted aides of Tang Jiyao. After he said this, everyone immediately calmed down and turned their eyes to him.

"You need to know one thing. Although the current division of government and courts has made the central government's political situation seem a bit stable, you need to know one thing. How could Yuan Shikai, who is sincerely planning a constitution? Why did the draft constitution in the second year of the People's Republic of China fail to be drafted? Even if there is a lesson in the past, how can we hold great hope for the constitution today?"

Then, Kui Ju's face turned his head and turned his gaze to Tang Jiyao and said,

"General, if Yuan is sincere in making a constitution, I think he will definitely cooperate with him with the heart of a general. But if Yuan tribe attempts to seize the power of our local area in the name of constitution, he has to be wary of it!"

After Yu Kui Ju said this, everyone was silent. Yu Kui Ju was Tang Jiyao's most trusted confidant. Although he said this now, although it seemed to be making suggestions to General Kaiwu, in fact, it was Tang Jiyao who used Kui Ju's mouth to show his scheming and did not trust Yuan Shikai?

No, he is...

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