Chapter 165 Meeting
"Oh, this is not something you can do. Sir, you are a rich and powerful person. We are all inferior people. How can Feng Yun be qualified to become sworn brothers with you?" Old Man Zhang waved his hand in surprise when he heard this.
"I'm not saying this. Now is the new government era. There is no distinction between high and low people. In my government, everyone will be equal. There is only a distinction between high and low positions between people. Don't belittle yourself like this again." Li Tiancheng saw that Old Man Zhang looked panicked and waved his hand.
"Xiao Fengxian, what do you mean?" Li Tiancheng then turned to look at Xiao Fengxian and asked seriously.
"Since Mr. Li looks down on his little girl so much, if he refuses, it will be a shame for his husband. Brother is above, please accept a bow from his younger sister." Xiao Fengxian was still standing a little confused, unable to believe his ears. Then Shui Ling's eyes flashed and she immediately reacted and immediately knelt down to the ground again.
"Get up, my sister Fengxian." Li Tiancheng saw that Xiao Fengxian was aware of the general and clever, so he immediately made up his mind for such a major matter. Without any hesitation, he happily stepped forward and helped her up.
"Just calling brother is not enough. We also need to burn incense. Just pray to Mr. Guan Er." Li Tiancheng then teased.
"Then the relationship is good, my brother is right, so let's go to Mr. Guan Er." Xiao Fengxian clapped his hands excitedly and smiled happily, and the joy in his heart was beyond words.
Then, under the excitement of Old Man Zhang's old eyes, Li Tiancheng and Xiao Fengxian each raised incense and bowed down to the statue of Guan Erye. Although Wang Sihai was a little puzzled, he knew that Li Tiancheng must have his intention to do this, and he was happy that Li Tiancheng had such a smart and clever sister in his heart.
Then Li Tiancheng visited Xiao Fengxian's mother, Mrs. Zhang. She was not Xiao Fengxian's biological mother. Xiao Fengxian's mother had long passed away. She was taken in and raised by Mrs. Zhang.
When the old man learned that Xiao Fengxian and Li Tiancheng had just become sworn brothers and sisters, he burst into tears. While wiping his tears, he invited the chairman of the Nanjing government who had just called him his mother into the house. Li Tiancheng had no relatives or parents in this world. He recognized a sister and mother and seemed very excited. He drank a few more drinks at his sister's house and almost got drunk. In the end, Wang Sihai helped him leave.
However, Li Tiancheng was still awake before leaving. He specifically told the mother Zhang and the old man Zhang that before Xiao Fengxian came back from Kunming, the two of them should not be publicized to avoid unnecessary annoyance. Therefore, the mother Zhang and the mother Zhang had not informed the neighbors of this great good news. If their neighbors learned about this, it would be a blowout, and it would be another story of the Cinderella becoming a princess who has been famous for all the time.
After Li Tiancheng stayed secretly in Shanghai for a day, he returned to Nanjing the next day. Yesterday, Xiao Fengxian and Zhang Laohan were on the way to Kunming under the protection of the guards arranged by Li Tiancheng.
It takes about 2,000 kilometers to walk along the official road from Shanghai to Kunming, so Li Tiancheng thought it was too slow and would delay things, so he ordered his subordinates to prepare fast horses for them every time they walked for a while, and replaced a batch of new good horses every time they walked for a while, so that Xiao Fengxian could arrive in Kunming as fast as possible. On the way to get through the car, he would allocate the government's cars to them for use. In this way, Xiao Fengxian estimated that he could travel more than 300 kilometers per day, and it would take less than a week to arrive in Kunming. At this time, it was November 20th, and there was still one day before Sun Yat-sen led a delegation to Nanjing.
On the morning of November 21, Sun Yat-sen and his group of more than a dozen people had arrived in Nanjing. Li Tiancheng sent Tan Jianye to greet him, and then waited for them to arrive in the government office.
"Chairman, Mr. Sun and his group have arrived in Nanjing. I have arranged their accommodation and itinerary for them. I have arranged a banquet for them at noon. When it is time to eat, the chairman can go to the living room to meet with Mr. Sun in person." After Wang Sihai properly arranged more than a dozen people from the Guangzhou National Government, he came back to report to Li Tiancheng.
"Okay, this exciting historical moment has finally arrived." Li Tiancheng had long wanted to meet Sun Yat-sen and had been waiting for this day for a long time. He immediately stood up from his seat and sighed expectantly in his heart.
At twelve o'clock noon, Li Tiancheng and Nanjing government officials sat in the spacious and bright banquet hall. There were more than thirty large round tables in the hall, all covered with clean and tidy flower cloth. The hall looked magnificent, and the tables and chairs were made of high-end yellow rosewood. Each table was decorated with gold and silver bowls and high-foot wine glasses. More than a dozen magnificent large chandeliers on the top illuminate the entire banquet hall.
Tan Jianye and Wang Sihai went to welcome Sun Yat-sen and others. Li Tiancheng, Ma Chaoyun, Yan Lisan and others were talking on a table while waiting for Sun Yat-sen to arrive. Most of the other tables were filled with well-known people from all walks of life, and there were also reporters invited on the table, and people's faces were filled with expectations and excitement.
Yang Ziyin also received a special invitation. She rushed to the banquet hall on behalf of the report and was chatting with the photographer about the interview later. Her beautiful eyes threw them at Li Tiancheng, who was separated by several tables from time to time. Li Tiancheng also looked back at her several times. The two of them had deep affection. Ma Chaoyun, Yan Lisan and others also understood it and made laughter from time to time.
While everyone was chatting and waiting, the table of reporters sitting in the front row suddenly became sensational. A group of reporters began to run from the seats with paper and pen and cameras, and crowded over to a spacious passage where the red blanket was laid at the entrance of the banquet hall. Then people from all walks of life and government personnel in the banquet hall stood up one after another and began to applaud and welcome the guests of the Guangzhou government.
I just saw a middle-aged man with a short stature but very energetic look, his eyes shining with wisdom, and short hair, leading the way in. The person who came was Sun Yat-sen with extraordinary demeanor and a majestic body. He wore a standard navy blue Zhongshan outfit and walked behind him with Chen Qimei, Song Jiaoren, Luo Wen, Chiang Kai-shek and others, Tan Jianye and Wang Sihai, and everyone walked into the hall with calm smiles.
The reporters immediately pressed the shutter in their hands to record this exciting historical moment, but there was an agreement in advance that they only needed to take photos before the banquet and were not allowed to interview, so the reporters were very lawful and would not interview Sun Yat-sen and others until the banquet was over.
Li Tiancheng took Yan Lisan, Ma Chaoyun had already stood up and walked towards the passage. The crowded crowd immediately made way for them.
"Mr. Sun is so lucky to be here for three lifetimes. Please ask your friends and friends who are far away to come to the table." Li Tiancheng quickly walked forward, stretched out his hands, and then held Sun Yat-sen's hand tightly together. Both of them were quite excited, facing the camera of the reporter and expressed the joy in his heart at this historical moment.
Under the guidance of Li Tiancheng, Sun Yat-sen sat on the table in the middle. This table could accommodate twenty people to have dinner at the same time. In addition to the dozen people brought by Sun Yat-sen, Li Tiancheng, Ma Chaoyun, Tan Jianye, Yan Lisan and others also sat on this seat.
Under the obstruction of government staff, the reporters retreated to their table one after another. The thunderous applause around them gradually stopped. Everyone sat down and their eyes were betting on the tables of Li Tiancheng and Sun Yat-sen. Li Tiancheng and Sun Yat-sen sat face to face. Both of them were looking at the unusual person opposite indifferently, wanting to see a bit of extraordinary temperament and scheming hidden in their hearts from each other's appearance.
"Please be quiet, now please ask Mr. Li Tiancheng, Chairman of the Nanjing Military Government, to deliver an important speech." Wang Sihai stood up first, waved to the people who were still noisy around, and signaled them to calm down.
The sound around suddenly stopped, and hundreds of pairs of hot eyes gathered on Li Tiancheng. After Wang Sihai sat down, Li Tiancheng immediately picked up a high-legged wine glass on the table, filled with a glass of clear Moutai wine. The transparent glass shone under the light. Li Tiancheng's hand holding the wine glass was slightly trembling because of excitement.
Li Tiancheng looked around and found that most of the members of the Guangzhou government were well-known figures of the Kuomintang in history. Li Tiancheng knew almost all of them. He learned more or less about the origin and appearance of these people from later TV series, movies and books. Only three of them were completely unrecognizable to him. The rest were a little impressed. Of course, Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Song Jiaoren, and Chiang Kai-shek's big bald head were even more impressive.
Li Tiancheng's eyes finally fell on Sun Yat-sen's face. Sun Yat-sen's expression was very calm at this time. He was also looking at Li Tiancheng, as if he was staring at an old friend he had not seen for many years.
"I am here to represent the Nanjing government and warmly welcome the guests of the Guangzhou National Government headed by Mr. Sun Yat-sen to visit. I express my respect to Mr. Sun Yat-sen with the most sincere respect. I wish Mr. Sun Yat-sen and all the guests of the Guangzhou Government this glass of wine. I wish our cooperation a complete success." Li Tiancheng then took a deep breath, calmed his mood, and then held the wine glass towards Sun Yat-sen and said slowly.
Tan Jianye and others also accompanied him to raise their glasses and stood up. Sun Yat-sen and more than a dozen people on the opposite side immediately picked up the wine glasses on the table and stood up. All people from all walks of life around stood up and raised their wine glasses...
Chapter completed!