Chapter 15 Chongyulou Dinner

As soon as Zhao Dongyun took off his coat and gave it to the girl beside him, he had already received a glass of wine handed over by He Zonglian. After drinking this glass, He Zonglian did not continue to hand over the wine, but stretched out her hand to ask Zhao Dongyun to sit in the top.

Among all of you, Zhao Dongyun is the youngest, but his military qualifications are no worse than those of those present here. Although Zhao Dongyun has only returned to China for more than a year, his real time in the army should be traced back to 1895, when the First Sino-Japanese War was newly defeated, and he was young and energetic, abandoned his pen and joined the army like many young people. He applied for Tianjin Wubei School, and later obtained the qualification to study in Germany in 1898, and was successfully admitted to the Berlin Military Academy. Finally, he returned to China in early 1901.

In fact, before studying in Germany, he briefly served as a sentry officer in Yuan Shikai's Wuwei Right Army. After returning to China, after more than half a year of his teaching career, he finally became a battalion leader.

Of course, let all the people here value him and let Wang Yingkai invite him to attend tonight's dinner. Naturally, it is not only because he is a leader, nor because he is a top student who came back from Germany, but more importantly, because the machine gun team he trained in the winter exercise last year was in the limelight and won Yuan Shi in one fell swoop. Kai's reuse got the job of supervising the new machine gun camp.

This is almost a declaration to the whole Beiyang system. Zhao Dongyun has become a military star of the young generation of Beiyang.

In the face of such a person, He Zonglian and others will naturally not despise him too much. After toasting a glass of wine, they stopped pestering Zhao Dongyun and took the initiative to invite Zhao Dongyun to sit at the top right.

After Zhao Dongyun sat down, a girl in the song next to him leaned up to pour wine for him. When he first came in, Zhao Dongyun did not look at the girls in these songs much. At this time, he took a little closer look at the woman sitting next to him. The woman was about 28 years old and looked petite, but in the looming gauze was Swollen, she didn't apply too much rouge gouache, but showed her true colors.

Occasionally, one or two words are also as soft as a woman in the south of the Yangtze River. Sitting next to Zhao Dongyun, he is not too close, but inserting a few words from time to time with a gentle smile and pouring wine for Zhao Dongyun. His words and behavior are not as vulgar as ordinary women, nor like those amorous feelings. Hua Kui, with a smile, is soul-warming.

This woman and several other women can not only occasionally insert a word or two on the topic of military and political current affairs discussed by Zhao Dongyun, but also hold their words and deeds, without the vulgarity of dusty women at all.

This makes Zhao Dongyun praise the boss of Chongyulou, so that the women under him can sell their boudoirs. It is not easy for erudite and talented women. No wonder Wang Yingkai chose the banquet place here.

After sitting down a few glasses of wine, everyone also let go a little and soon began to call them brothers.

"Brother Ziyang, not to mention anything else, but why do I admire your machine gun team? Haha, after last year's winter exercise, I saw several wine glasses broken with my own eyes!" He Zonglian laughed.

"In last winter exercise, he commanded the southern artillery battalion. He failed to kill your machine gun team for many days. I heard that he was severely reprimanded by Shangfeng and fined his salary!" Bao Guiqing next continued, "He can't beat Brother Yang's machine gun team, and the step team on the vanguard side can't rush up. It's okay if he doesn't remember him too much!"

After hearing this, Zhao Dongyun also said, "I'm just taking the lead. Before, no one knew the power of the machine gun, but now everyone knows that it is impossible to fight again in the future."

Everyone didn't care, and Bao Guiqing on one side said, "When there are more and more machine guns, we will not be much better in the future. I heard that your machine gun camp is not small, more than 500 people, comparable to a gun battalion!"

Zhao Dongyun knew that the constitution of his new machine gun camp is a secret for outsiders, but it is not a secret for the officers within the Beiyang system. He can find out carefully and immediately do not hide it: "Well, the scale is larger than the original pilot machine gun team."

"Now you are also the second battalion commander and machine gun battalion supervisor. There are not many people like you who have two major responsibilities at the same time. Ziyang, the day of your soaring is not far away! Don't forget your brothers then!" Bao Guiqing said with a smile, without hiding his envy for Zhao Dongyun.

Zhao Dongyun is undoubtedly worthy of his envy. He has entered the middle level of the Beiyang system at a young age. More importantly, he is now at a time when he is valued by Yuan Shikai. Maybe he will be able to go further in a few years. After all, Beiyang is expanding not only Zhao Dongyun, but also others It is also clear that basically everyone can be promoted in this wave of expansion.

However, Zhao Dongyun is different from others in that he is promoted faster than others!

When Zhao Dongyun talked about these things with these people, a little man in a horse coat came in. After the little man came in, he whispered, "Your Excellency, Lord Wang has arrived!"

At this time, Zhao Dongyun and others stopped talking, and then got up from the table one after another. As soon as everyone got up, Wang Yingkai's voice came from outside: "Wang is late. Let you wait for a long time. It's Wang's fault. I will punish myself three cups!"

Wang Yingkai hasn't arrived yet. His bold voice was already far away. Then the door was pushed open and several people came in. Qian Yan, the housekeeper of Chongyu Tower, who bowed in front of him to lead the way. Several of the people behind him were also known by Zhao Dongyun. The leader was naturally Wang Yingkai, the owner of today, and stood On Wang Yingkai's left hand side is Feng Guozhang.

Of course, there is no need to say that Feng Guozhang, the three heroes of Beiyang, are not as good as Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai now, but he is also one of the high-level bosses. Although it is a little strange to appear on such an occasion today, it also belongs to the understandable category.

There are still three or four people behind the two, including Wang Zhanyuan and Cao Kum.

Wang Zhanyuan is also an old man of the newly built army. He graduated from Tianjin Military Academy and is currently in charge of the 7th Battalion of Zuo Town of the Beiyang Standing Army. He has a close relationship with Wang Yingkai and is an important help from Wang Yingkai.

In addition to Wang Zhanyuan, there is also Cao Kui, whom Zhao Dongyun knows. Like other people present, he is also an old man of the new army and currently serves as the management belt of the 11th Battalion of the Beiyang Standing Army.

These dozen people gathered together, led by Wang Yingkai, the middle and high-level backbone officers of the Beiyang system, and except for Zhao Dongyun, most of them will be important backbones of the direct warlords in the future. If there are good people who take photos of all the people tonight and wait for decades to take them out, they will certainly exclaim that this is over. It's all the first plenary meeting of the direct warlords!

And those present will not think that their future actions can affect the direction of the country. Now they, including Wang Yingkai, are just an ordinary officer in the Beiyang system, and they can't talk about their influence on political current affairs. Nowadays, they are more like the young soldiers of this country.

Wang Yingkai came forward: "You have been military colleagues for many years, and many of them have known each other. I won't waste my words to introduce them one by one. Come on, sit down and don't stand!"

As soon as Wang Yingkai came in, he put on the posture of a superior. This gesture did not mean that he was superior and annoying, but he looked particularly kind. He booed and warmly with a caring tone, and laughed from time to time. And this kind of behavior is precisely the move of the superior to win over people's hearts.

Of course, you have nothing to say that people are born to care about others.

This method is actually similar to Zhao Dongyun's solicitation of leaders and sentries in the second battalion. Zhao Dongyun will also entertain his subordinates and ask for warmth, but what he usually does is imposed on him by others, which makes Zhao Dongyun a little uncomfortable.

The next topic is naturally around Wang Yingkai. Zhao Dongyun can understand why others deliberately flatter Wang Yingkai. After all, if it hadn't been for his special position, I'm afraid he would have directly hugged Wang Yingkai's thighs. But he can't. In addition to Duan Qirui's factors, Zhao Dongyun has to worry about Yuan Shikai.

Now everyone knows that Yuan Shikai has begun to reuse himself. At this time, if he goes to Duan Qirui or Wang Yingkai, it is easy to arouse Yuan Shikai's disgust.

So he just buried himself in drinking and eating vegetables, occasionally answered a few words, and also said a few words with the girls around him from time to time. While chatting, he also knew the name of the girl around him, saying that it was Yingying. As for what her real name was, she did not say, and Zhao Dongyun did not ask, because no one cared.

When Zhao Dongyun talked loudly, he drank flowers and wine in a serious way. However, he was not the only one among the people. Feng Guozhang's performance was almost the same as his!

If Zhao Dongyun, Wang Zhanyuan, Xu Bangjie and others are all subordinates or descendants of Wang Yingkai, then Feng Guozhang is also a colleague of the same echelon of Wang Yingkai.

In the Beiyang system, Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai, Feng Guozhang, Wang Shizhen and Liu Yongqing are all high-level officials in Beiyang. Although they are trusted by Yuan Shikai differently, they are all core high-level officials in Beiyang. Zhao Dongyun, Xu Bangjie and other officers who serve separately and under the command are considered to be middle-level, while Bao Guiqing, Cao Kun and Wang Zhanyuan can only be regarded as middle-level.

Zhao Dongyun did not know why Feng Guozhang accepted Wang Yingkai's invitation to the banquet, but the relationship between the two of them is definitely not like a subordinate relationship, but more like an ordinary colleague, but if they are just ordinary colleagues, then Feng Guozhang is absolutely Yes, it will not appear on today's occasion.

In fact, this occasion is just an occasion for Wang Yingkai to attract subordinates. Wang Yingkai can attract others, but it is absolutely impossible for him to attract Feng Guozhang as a subordinate, because even if Feng Guozhang's status is not as good as Wang Yingkai, his immediate superior can only be Yuan Shikai, absolutely impossible. Wang Yingkai.

It may have found that Zhao Dongyun was observing himself. Feng Guozhang also looked at Zhao Dongyun, and then nodded inadvertently with a smile. Zhao Dongyun also nodded slightly to recall. The wine glass originally held in his hand also paused slightly for a while and made a vague toast.