The conversation ended after Wang Zhenkun and Wang Zhenbang came in, and the family dinner began after everyone arrived.

Everyone toasted each other and blessed each other. The lively family dinner was filled with the warmth of family affection. Halfway through the meal, Wang Zhenyu's mother, Wang Chen, suddenly said in a daze: "I don't know how the fourth brother and his wife are doing in Europe."

After hearing this, Wang Long's face collapsed and said, "I told you to eat more and talk less, but you are still talking nonsense here. What a fourth brother, I don't have this rebellious son."

As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became awkward.

As for Wang Zhenyu, Wang Longxian's feeling as a father is very contradictory. On the one hand, his son has made a fortune, gave himself a face, and also gave the Wang family a glorious family. But on the other hand, with such a powerful son, Wang Longxian's patriarchy immediately turned into air. Just as marriage, in addition to the marriage between the eldest and the second, starting from Wang Zhenyu, his children can get employment to get married. There is a half-word question asked by him as a father.

Wang Zhenpeng even saved the basic procedures when getting married. Because of the support of the third brother, he dared to take someone to Europe for a trip to get married after he lost his temper. The more Wang Long thought about it, he became more angry. After drinking these cups of yellow soup, he naturally took the opportunity to vent.

How could Wang Zhenyu not know his father’s thoughts? He had nothing to say, so he could only say, “Brother, let’s start, let us brothers give our father a drink, wishing him good luck and prosperity, prosperity and prolong life.”

Finally, he found some dignity of being a father. Wang Longxian, who had face, naturally turned anger into joy, and a storm was transformed into invisible.

The New Year in 1917 was the first New Year after the founding of the National Government. Wang Longzhong, acting chairman of the National Government, issued an order to hold a grand fireworks show in Nanjing and Wuhan to celebrate. While Wang Zhenyu took his family to the Yangtze River to watch the fireworks show, he celebrated an extremely luxurious New Year. Specialties from all over the country filled Wenlu. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, many military and political leaders from Nanjing and Wuhan came to pay New Year's greetings. Experts from the northern military and political circles, and experts from the business circles from all over the country also sent telegrams to pay New Year's greetings. You should know that telegrams in this era are very expensive, forty yuan per word, and the four words Happy New Year alone offset the salary of a battalion commander for a month. Not to mention the first attribution and the signatures afterwards, if you really count it, it is probably even if the commander works for a month in vain.

After the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the officers and soldiers of the Expeditionary Force began to return one after another, and all the troops were required to carry out military assembly in Shanghai and Guangzhou. Although they were full of doubts about the actual combat effectiveness of the Chinese, after receiving the report from the French Military Training Corps, the British and French governments still expressed great enthusiasm and hope for this expeditionary force. When the transportation capacity was very tight, they tried every means to collect ships from the colonies to transport this army. Fortunately, according to the plan of the Allied Power, the weapons of this huge army will be configured in France. Otherwise, with the current shipping capacity of Britain and France in the Far East, the task of transporting 240,000 expeditionary forces from faraway China to France within a month. You must know that in addition to the Expeditionary Force, Britain and France also need a large amount of tung oil, pig hair and rare metal produced from China.

This European war really emptied the wealth that the British had accumulated for centuries, and did not make enough preparations for war before the war broke out. As a result, after the war broke out, the British's military operations turned into money-burning. In order to win the war, the original world's number one creditor began to move towards the world's number one debtor country. France died all the young people, and Britain spent all the money was the most true portrayal of the cruelty of World War I.

Judging from the final result, the British who won the Germans ultimately failed to get rid of their fate of losing their dominance. Even because the war accelerated this process, the colonial independence movement became more and more intense after the war, and the faces of the British paper tiger became clearer and clearer.

If the Xinhai Revolution changed the direction of Chinese history, then World War I changed the direction of the entire world history.

The dominance of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty collapsed overnight after the Xinhai Revolution. Relying on the superiority of the democratic system, the British had to start to decline after World War I.

Visionary British politicians have seen this, so they all advocated providing 300 million pounds to China in exchange for China's troops to consume with the Germans. This move has two benefits. The first is to prevent the British boy from shedding more blood in France. The second is to further accelerate the rise of the Southern National Government of China through this loan. Britain's expansion in Asia has reached its limit. They suddenly found that Japan, an ally of Russia, who was built up in the past, seemed to be increasingly difficult to control, and was becoming more and more courageous, and began to constantly erode the interests of the empire in Asia, especially the interests of the UK in China.

Now it only takes £300 million to stop the expansion of these hateful little Eastern dwarfs in China. This deal is really too cost-effective for the British. British politicians even secretly proud of this, thinking that the yellow pigs in the East are really easy to cheat.

Juerdian, the British ambassador to China, who has always advocated weakening China, was scolded by the British Whitehall for this reason. However, Juerdian still insisted that compared with Japan, which is currently eager to try, a powerful China is more difficult to control and is more likely to threaten the interests of the British Empire in Asia. In contrast, these little dwarfs in Japan are certainly arrogant and hateful, but at least there are still many ways to control and suppress them.

This report of Zhu Erdian was intercepted by the Telecommunications Bureau of the Military Commission led by Wang Huaishi, and translated it out in a lot of words and placed it on Wang Zhenyu's desk. Wang Zhenyu looked at it quickly, but was not angry. He even felt that Zhu Erdian was a very respectable opponent.

As the division of the north and the south continued, the probability of war breaking out between the north and the south became lower and lower, and the Youth Army also began to compress the organization on a large scale. Although no officers were reduced, this also meant that the difficulty of the Youth Army's promotion began to increase significantly, and young people were always restless, so more and more officers applied to participate in the European Expeditionary Force. This phenomenon made Wang Zhenyu very satisfied, at least it showed that in a peaceful environment, his army still maintained enough spirit and enterprising spirit. So a thought of rotating battles for young officers and soldiers based on the Expeditionary Force came out.

After the New Year, Hu Hanmin took the lead, and the backbone of the Tongmenghui Department proposed to elect the second official chairman of the National Government, and at the same time reorganized the National Congress, the Nanjing National Government, and the Wuhan National Military Commission's proposals were also placed on the table for the final discussion and vote. If there were no accidents, these things would be reviewed by the last National Congress together with the "National Government Constitution", the "Senior and Legislative Yuan Organization Law", the "National Government Military Commission Organization Law", and the "National Government Election Law".

In addition to the major controversy in the position of Chairman of the National Government, the positions of other bigwigs have also made important arrangements that are acceptable to all parties:

Chairman of the National Government: Sun Wen/Wang Longzhong, Vice Chairman: Sun Wen/Wang Longzhong, Wang Zhenyu, Zhang Taiyan.

Speaker of the Senate: Liang Qichao, Speaker of the Legislative Yuan: Hu Hanmin, Premier of the State Council: Xiong Xiling

Members of the Presidium of the National Government: Sun Wen, Wang Longzhong, Wang Zhenyu, Zhang Taiyan, Liang Qichao, Hu Hanmin, and Xiong Xiling.

The reorganized departments of the Government Council:

Vice Premiers of the State Council: Ye Zuwen (in charge of finance, transportation, commerce), Zhou Zhiyun (in charge of industry, land and resources, agriculture and forestry), Cheng Dequan (in charge of labor, education, health), Tan Yankai (in charge of urban construction, public security, and justice) Tang Shaoyi, Secretary-General of the State Council.

List of members of the Political Commissar: Xiong Xiling, Ye Zuwen, Zhou Zhiyun, Cheng Dequan, Tan Yankai, Xu Chongzhi, Hao Bing, Tang Shaoyi, Zhang Jingjiang, Liao Zhongkai, Wang Zhengting, Zhang Jian, Cai Yuanpei.

Constituent department: Zhang Jingjiang, Chairman of the Joint Reserve Management Committee of Bank of China (although Zhang Jingjiang repeatedly opposed the establishment of this institution, Wang Zhenyu still felt that it is safest for Zhang Jingjiang, who is valuable to manage this institution, so he interviewed Zhang Jingjiang for a week and repeatedly explained the interests. He finally persuaded Zhang Jingjiang to take up the position on the grounds that he did not supervise, just to let the harm be allowed).

Minister of Finance: Liao Zhongkai, Minister of Foreign Affairs: Wang Zhengting, Minister of National Defense: Xu Chongzhi.

Minister of Commerce: Zhang Jian, Minister of Justice: Xu Qian, Minister of Public Security: Hao Bing.

Minister of Transport: Zhan Tianyou, Minister of Industry: Chen Jiageng, Minister of Land and Resources: Tan Yankai

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry: Lin Sen, Minister of Labor: Wang Jingwei, Minister of Health: Xie Chi

Minister of Education: Cai Yuanpei.

Hunan Governor Tan Renfeng Hubei Governor Yang Yongtai Guangxi Governor Wang Zhixiang Fujian Governor Changsa Zhenbing (concurrently)

Jiangsu Province Governor Juzheng Zhejiang Province Governor Zhu Rui Anhui Province Governor Chen Yi Guangdong Province Governor Cen Chunxuan

Jiangxi Governor Lin Xiumei Shanghai Mayor Liu Hongsheng Nanjing Mayor Yu You are the Mayor of Wuhan Mayor Wang Zhenbang

List of members of the National Government Military Commission:

Chairman: Vice Chairman Wang Zhenyu: Sun Wen/Wang Longzhong (Chairman of the National Government) Xu Chongzhi (in charge of the Ministry of National Defense) Wan Yaohuang (in charge of the General Staff), Secretary-General Zhao Hengti

Standing Committee: Wang Zhenyu, Sun Wen/Wang Longzhong, Xu Chongzhi, Wan Yaohuang, Ma Xicheng, Li Zongren, Xu Yuanquan, Zhao Hengti, Xiong Kewu.

First-level department:

Minister of National Defense: General Xu Chongzhi; Chief of General Staff of General Staff: General Wan Yaohuang;

Secondary department

Minister of the Armed Forces Department: General Ma Xicheng; Minister of the Armed Forces Department: General Li Zongren.

Level 3 Department

Minister of the Army: Lieutenant General Li Liejun, Minister of the Navy: General Sazhen Ice, Minister of the Air Force: Major General Yang Yixian.

Minister of Political Guidance: Major General Dai Jitao, Commander of Railway Command: Lieutenant General Song Xianfu, Commander of Security Command: Lieutenant General Hao Bing.

Director of the Military Intelligence Bureau: Lieutenant General He Jian, Minister of Military Education: Lieutenant General Zhu Zhixin, Commander of the Military Police Command: Lieutenant General Yang Wangui.

Minister of the Combat Training Department: General Xu Yuanquan, Minister of the Military Discipline Department: Lieutenant General Cheng Qian, Commander of the Engineer Command: Lieutenant General Hu Lichun.

Commander of the Artillery Command: Lieutenant General Zeng Jiwu.

In the end, the various factions within the Kuomintang Party reached a compromise before the vote of the two houses in early March. Sun Wen was pushed to the throne of the chairman of the National Government, and Wang Longzhong continued to serve as the first vice chairman and the chairman of the Kuomintang Party. In exchange, the list was finally passed. Zhang Taiyan became the newly formed president of the Supervisory Council and the chairman of the Civil Affairs Committee of the two houses. The National Government finally became formal in law,.
Chapter completed!