A car quickly drove into Zhongnan Avenue. This newly planned asphalt road in Wuchang is divided into three sections and a total length of about 12 kilometers. The most famous building on the street is probably Li Han’s administrative office!

The car stopped steadily in front of the gate of the administrative department. A middle-aged man got out of the car in a hurry. After whispering to the driver, he walked towards the administrative department.

"salute!"

The soldiers standing guard outside the administration recognized the visitor and saluted them all. The chief guard stepped forward and asked, "Minister Wang, I want to see the commander-in-chief!"

It turns out that the person who came was Wang Zhengting, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Western Military Government.

"Well, where is the Commander-in-Chief now? Take me to see him quickly. There is an emergency military situation!" Wang Zhengting's anxious face made the chief guard dare not delay for half a minute. He immediately sent two people to guide him into the administrative office and hung up the phone to the secretariat.

On January 17, as the first Spring Festival that all the people of this country are about to come, not only in Wuchang City, but also in the Administration, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival is much stronger. There are red lanterns hanging everywhere. The word "Fu" has not been posted yet, but in the past few days, I have been busy organizing these things.

"The lantern goes to the left a little bit, yes, and passes a little bit more, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right!"

Li Han stood helplessly in the courtyard, directing several guards who were arrested as strong men to hang lanterns, and his face was so reluctant. He said that during the Chinese New Year last year, the administrative office did not have such a heavy New Year atmosphere. He just invited some ministers and family members of the military government to have a meal with the girls and Jiang Fangzhen. Of course, he had a meal with several consuls in Hankou. After the second day of the Chinese New Year, he was busy with all the work of the military government again.

However, this year is different. There is no way. According to the national regulations, this year will be the first Spring Festival in this country in thousands of years. It is impossible not to be serious. At least the girl likes it. She and a few classmates she met at the girls' school were preparing for this Spring Festival a few months in advance, and Li Han didn't want to make her unhappy.

There was a "Spring Festival" in Chinese history, but it refers to the "Spring Festival" among the twenty-four solar terms. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, "Spring Festival" generally refers to the entire spring. It was a matter after the Xinhai Revolution. On New Year's Day 1912, the Republic of China was announced in Nanjing, and Sun Yat-sen became the interim president. He immediately announced that China abolished the old calendar and adopted the solar calendar (i.e., the Gregorian calendar) and used the Republic of China. However, the people still used the old calendar according to tradition, namely the Xia calendar, and still celebrated the traditional New Year on February 18 of that year (the first day of the first lunar month of the year of Renzi), and other traditional festivals were the same. In view of this, in 19137,

Zhu Qiqin, who was the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Beijing (Republic of China) government at that time, presented a report on the four-season holiday to President Yuan Shikai, saying: "Old customs in our country, the four-season festivals every year should be clearly stipulated. It is planned to make the New Year's Day of the lunar calendar the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival is the Summer Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the Autumn Festival, and the Winter Solstice is the Winter Festival. All Chinese people must rest, and public personnel are also allowed to have a day off." However, Yuan Shikai believed that the country should implement the "Five-National Republic". It is inappropriate for Han nationality festivals such as Dragon Boat Festival to be listed as national festivals. It is only approved to use the first day of the first lunar month as the Spring Festival, and agreed to the routine holiday of the Spring Festival. It has been implemented since 1914. Since then, the summer year is called the Spring Festival.

It’s ridiculous that Li Han spent dozens of Spring Festivals, but only recently did he realize that this Spring Festival was actually related to President Yuan. After learning about it, he could only secretly complain about the history of the Republic in later generations. I don’t know how many things were learned by experts who compiled textbooks, and since then they have become real facts that a few people know.

“Are you tired?”

The girl's soft voice sounded beside her, and he shook his head but didn't say anything. It has been half a month since he returned from Sichuan. The pile of official documents in Wuchang over the past half month need him to deal with, and the final punishment of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces also needs him to deal with. The filth between the northern government gradually increased, making him afraid to relax his vigilance at all times. At the same time, all the pressure that should have fallen on President Yuan began to make him feel heavy. Ten provinces in the Republic of China were in control, and there were too many great powers who were eager to cut a piece of fat from him, and he still needed to argue.

Therefore, it is better to say that the arrangement of the Administrative Office is not so much that he is accompanying the girl, but it is better to say that the girl thinks that he has worked too hard and temporarily pull him out of a pile of heavy official duties to relax.

But then again, is it so easy to take a break with his current identity? Seeing that the Secretary-General quickly hurriedly led a person in. When Li Han heard the guard salute, he turned to see that he was carrying Wang Zhengting behind him, and his face was slightly stunned.

"Why is he here?"

The girl obviously saw the two of them, and got closer, "Are you going to be busy again?" Her voice was very low.

Li Han nodded, "You make arrangements first, I'll go and see what's going on!"

He took off the tool gloves he wore on his hand, although he had never done anything except picking up a few lanterns from the house.

"Yeah!" The girl's disappointment was obviously heard after a few degrees, but this was also a time when there was no way. Li Han's current identity determined that the normal life of a normal person had been ignored for a long time. Gone are the same, yes!

After patting her hand, Li Hansong walked away and greeted her.

"What made Minister Wang so hurry?"

After all, human energy is limited, so he handed over most of the things he dealt with foreign forces to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and asked Wang Zhengting to help share some of them. Only when he really matters like consuls of several countries meet or negotiate major issues will he take charge of them personally. However, Wang Zhengting rarely takes the initiative to come to the Administrative Office to see him. He will come here today, obviously some important things.

Wang Zhengting left in a hurry. Although it did not snow in Wuchang this month, some places had ice, but sweat was seen on his forehead, and there were many things that were more serious and urgent.

"Commander-in-Chief, please take a look at this first!"

He didn't care about his demeanor anymore, so he hurriedly handed a slightly crumpled telegram to Li Han.

Li Hanwei was a little surprised. After taking it, he immediately looked at it and his face turned stern, "When did this happen?"

"The Telegraph Bureau said it was taken in the early morning. They classified it like usual and did not wait until the Secretariat sent someone to pick it up. It happened that I was going to the Telegraph Bureau to wait for a telegram from Shanghai today. When I went there, I heard from the head of the Telegraph Bureau to pick it up and read it." Perhaps because I found the backbone, Wang Zhengting breathed a sigh of relief and spoke much slower.

Li Han smiled bitterly. Today he took a day off in the Secretariat, but he didn't expect something happened at this critical moment!

This matter is big and small, but it depends on how he handles this matter. How should the Beijing man react?

Why did Li Han act so strangely? It turns out that something happened in Hunan again. Yesterday, January 16, Kong Zhaoshou, the principal of Hunan Public First Normal School, who is famous for promoting student autonomy and self-help establishment skills, was actually the last moment when all teachers and students of the school gathered together before the Spring Festival holiday, and openly issued an "anti-Yuan manifesto" in front of all teachers and students of the school, and openly called on all teachers and students to join forces with people of aspirations across the country to defeat Yuan Shikai who abolished the Congress.

As soon as the manifesto came out, the sensation caused by the Hunan Provincial Governor (full name: "Hunan General Supervises Hunan Provincial Military Affairs") Tan Yankai happened to go to Leiyang to inspect that it was not in Changsha City. As a result, Hu Ying, the new Hunan Civil Affairs Minister appointed by Yuan Shikai, did not take any countermeasures (he could not command it too), but just called the Changsha Police Station and sent dozens of police to Hunan Public First Normal School for alert. When Changsha passed the news to Tan Yankai in Leiyang, he found that something was wrong, and immediately ordered Changsha to block the news, and the police detained Kong Zhaoshou first, but he did not expect that a group of policemen would actually be empty at his home. The man was already empty and the building was missing!

The root cause of this matter starts a month ago. On December 12, Senate Speaker Wang Jiaxiang and Acting Speaker Zhou Hongli jointly issued a statement announcing that he would ask the President for instructions for various reasons, hoping to approve the suspension of Congress. That afternoon, the Presidential Palace approved the suspension of Congress. Two days later, Yuan Shikai organized an imperial political meeting to usurp the power of Congress and at the same time accelerated the drafting of a constitution that would benefit him.

After the news came out, the whole country was sensational, and there were many insults and attacks from all over the north and south. However, they were all hard-core literati and the unstoppable revolutionary party. None of the provincial governors who had real power in the local area made a sound, and they all ignored each other, as if they were not aware of it. In consideration of their own interests, Li Han also remained silent. Anyway, in the "political conference" meetings that Yuan Shikai wanted to organize, 30% of the members controlled by him accounted for. Although they were suppressed by Yuan Shikai, it was still possible to pass several bills occasionally remotely.

This is a key point where everyone cultivates a tacit understanding with each other, no wonder he feels trouble.

"For the sake of the present, we must first determine how big this matter is!"

This matter is not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but Wang Zhengting will inevitably be troubled by the verbal matter. When the two entered the office, Li Han picked up the phone on the table. After pondering for a little, he called his intelligence officer and asked him to wait for a while before a voice came from there, "Hey!"

"It's me!" As soon as his low voice sounded, Li Donglai knew who it was immediately there!

"Come on the east, check the matter of Kong Zhaoshou, the principal of the Public First Normal School in Hunan, issued an "anti-Yuan manifesto". In addition, let Beijing pay attention to the reaction of the Beijing person!"

A few days ago, the German Hankou Consulate conveyed a message to him that Dehua Bank received a 1.71 million mark military machinery purchase from the Dexian Arsenal. In addition, the Investigation Bureau also found that the president seemed to have obtained a batch of Japanese aid supplies and information on the condition of allowing a Japanese foreign company to mine coal in several specific places in Datong, Shanxi. In addition, the Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, which had been breaking ground for almost two months, was uneasy. The speed of the northern government's expansion of military industry made Li Han feel uneasy. It was about to fight. Although he was also doing a general mobilization of war, it was not the time to start the war, at least it would not work before spring came.

The other side of the phone was quiet for a while, and Li Han seemed to hear the sound of the pen drawing on paper. After a long time, he heard Li Donglai say yes lightly. Immediately, the other side lowered his voice, "Sir, new information has been sent to Beijing Station. In short, the president's body seems to have the plan to resolve the military government as soon as possible. In the past three months, the north has basically used up all the large loans and purchased enough equipment from foreign countries for the 13th Armed Division rather than the six divisions we had inquired before. You'd better make a decision as soon as possible. Beijing is ready and can be done at any time!"

"I've hung up the phone!"

Can Beijing control the increasingly larger territory and more complex situation in a few months? Li Han actually had no clue in his heart. After putting the phone down for a while, he remembered that Wang Zhengting was still standing in the room. He nodded apologetically. He pondered for a while, "I informed Beijing in the name of the military government. A few days ago, Deputy Speaker (Deputy Speaker of the Political Conference) Zhang Guogan proposed to expand the presidential term to ten years. Let Zhang Wangpeng, Lu Chai and others stop stopping it, let it go! Tell Beijing not to do anything recently, including the proposal of disbanding the parliament and repatriating all members of the parliament to return home!"

Hesitated, "including disbanding the local council!"
Chapter completed!