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Volume Two Chapter 234: Heart Like Pine and Cypress

Dai Jitao has been in a good mood recently. Since sneaking into Beijing, everything has been implemented smoothly under his original plan. In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is coming, and the various academic institutions in Beijing are about to start holidays. Considering the suggestions put forward by Ju Zheng, Shao Yuan and Tan Renfeng, in order to ensure a thunder blow to the Song Jiaoren government, it was decided to launch it after the holiday.

After escaping overseas for many years, Dai Jitao hasn't had a truly decent Spring Festival in China for a long time. When he remembered the last time he celebrated the festival in China, it was already a few years ago. He wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to come back to his hometown Huzhou to take a look, but in the end he gave up the idea and continued to stay in the capital.

It was twenty-nine days. Since Ju Zheng and others left Beijing yesterday, Dai Jitao stayed in Liutiao Hutong alone. The things they should buy during the holidays had already been arranged, but they sat in the study and flipped through several books. Dai Jitao, who was idle, felt a little annoyed. Listening to the sound of firecrackers coming from time to time, he put down the book, got up and walked out of the door.

In recent years, the national finance has gradually decreased, and the government has strongly encouraged industry and commerce, and the lives of the people among the people have been much better than those in their early years. The streets and alleys are mostly happy pedestrians, walking back excitedly with New Year's goods in their hands, or meeting familiar people with each other for a while.

Walking on the street, Dai Jitao walked leisurely, came to a restaurant casually, looked up at the sign of "Taibaiju". He smiled silently and walked in.

"Old guest is here, please!"

"Is there a private room?"

"Yes, please, you are on the old building!" The waiter greeted enthusiastically, shouting to the second floor at the top of his voice: "There is a private room upstairs!"

After going upstairs, I looked pretty good. Dai Jitao sat down with satisfaction, ordered a few signature dishes from the shop, and then ordered a pot of wine to taste them. Although the wine and dishes in the north are not as exquisite as those in Huzhou, it is a rare delicacy compared to the Japanese wine and dishes that are light soup and poorly watery.

"This elbow is well done, waiter! Come and sell it again!"

"Good!"

Dai Jitao is 26 years old this year. In his prime, the restaurant's sign aroused his greed. He swept away a plate of rock candy elbows with just a few chopsticks. He was still unsatisfied and shouted outside, asking for another plate.

After a squeak, he took a sip of wine and threw a peanut into his mouth. Dai Jitao looked out the window and found that it was snowing outside at some point.

"The ice in the abyss is three feet thick, and the plain snow covers thousands of miles. My heart is like pine and cypress, how does your love look like?"

"What a heart I feel like!"

Looking at the heavy snow falling outside the window, Dai Jitaoqing couldn't help but recite the poem. Who would have thought that as soon as the last sentence fell, a sigh of praise rang at the door.

"Brother Chuanxian. I'm so interested!"

"Jiang Ruiyuan!"

With a thick curtain lifted, a figure walked in. When Dai Jitao saw the other person's face clearly, he was shocked and suddenly stood up. His movements almost knocked over the wine and food on the table.

"Brother Chuanxian didn't tell me this old friend when he came to Beijing. Instead, he drank and recited poems leisurely here. Haha, it's not interesting enough." Jiang Zhiqing walked up with a smile, sat directly opposite him, looked at the wine and food on the table, and nodded slightly. He took a pair of chopsticks and picked up a peanut and chewed it.

"Why do you have to have an old friend reunion? Come on, what's the point of drinking alone? I'll sit with you withered brother Chuanxian, but I won't drink this wine anymore. You know I never need to drink it." Jiang Zhiqing saw Dai Jitao still standing there on the spot. He smiled and lit it with chopsticks, and called him down.

"Ruiyuan, are you bringing someone to catch me?" Dai Jitao sat down slowly and asked after a while.

"Catch you?" Jiang Zhiqing seemed a little surprised. He thought for a while and laughed: "Chuanxian is too worried. I, Jiang, is not a soldier or a policeman. I am just a stolen family in the central bank. How can I talk about arresting people? I happened to pass by today and accidentally heard Brother Chuanxian's chanting poems and came to meet old friends."

"Hmph! Jiang Ruiyuan, can you think I am a three-year-old child? Do you think you can deceive me?" Dai Jitao not only did not breathe a sigh of relief, but his expression became more serious.

"Haha, whether you believe it or not, so what if you don't?" Jiang Zhiqing smiled slightly and feasted on his own.

Dai Jitao stared at Jiang Zhiqing for a long time, and the nervous expression on his face gradually relaxed. He smiled immediately, and picked up the chopsticks and reached over to a plate of dishes.

None of the two of them talked again, and they were eating everywhere. When they were almost full of wine and food, Dai Jitao put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth: "Jiang Ruiyuan, since you are not here to catch me, Dai will say goodbye first. Today's wine and food is considered to be Dai, thank you."

"Brother Chuanxian, why should I leave so quickly? Why don't I talk a little more when I meet?"

"Then are you going to catch me?"

"Haha, Chuanxian, Chuanxian, don't you feel bored if you say this?" Jiang Zhiqing shook his head and laughed. Although Dai Jitao wanted to leave here as soon as possible, he hesitated for a long time and finally did not move.

Jiang Zhiqing didn't tell Dai Jitao anything else first, but just talked about the past. After chatting, he asked when Dai Jitao came to the capital.

Dai Jitao was already prepared for this question, and smiled faintly without answering. Jiang Zhiqing was not angry, but instead talked about Chen Qimei's defeat in Shang*hai. When talking about this, Dai Jitao's face was a little embarrassed. You should know that when he and Sun Wen and others saw that the situation was not good, they ran away without even saying hello, and sent Chen Qimei, Jiang Zhiqing and others into the tiger's mouth, otherwise Chen Qimei would not have committed suicide later.

"Rui Yuan, I'm sorry...I..."

"Even if the things that happened back then are over, you can't help it. I understand it in my heart." Jiang Zhiqing waved his hand and sighed. Dai Jitao nodded silently. As Jiang Zhiqing said, he was sorry for Chen Qimei and him back then, but as Sun Yat-sen's secretary, some things he could only do according to Sun Yat-sen's wishes.

"Isn't it easy for these years?" Jiang Zhiqing asked: "Jiang has also been living in Japan, and it's not a good time to live under someone else's house. Besides, Sun Wen is also aware of this person. He is just a talented person, and he is worried every day under his command..."

"Shut up! Mr. Sun can you comment?" Before Jiang Zhiqing finished speaking, Dai Jitao slapped the table and said with a brow: "If you weren't kmt colluding with Beiyang, how could my revolutionary party fall to this point? And you, Jiang Ruiyuan! Betray the revolution and surrender to the enemy and sell friends! Have you forgotten the oath of revolution back then?"

"Revolutionary oath? What oath?" Jiang Zhiqing looked upright and asked back: "Expel the Tartars, restore China, establish the Republic of China, and equal land rights! Are these oaths you refer to?"

Before Dai Jitao answered, Jiang Zhiqing said again: "Now that the Qing Dynasty has overthrew, China has been restored, the Republic of China has been founded, the government encourages industry and commerce, development of agriculture, and building a strong country and an army. Is it not for these oaths? And what are your revolutionary party doing? Accept Japanese aid, act as an accomplice for the enemy country and disrupt the government order, conduct assassination, riots and even rebellion! Are these just for the original oath? Chuanxian, you are a smart person and a clear-headed person. Sun Wen fought for the position of president with Yuan Shikai in Nanjing, and first served as the president.

It is not so powerful. But when Yuan Shikai took office as president, he encouraged the cabinet system to replace the presidential system, and attempted to form a cabinet with the Tongmenghui Party. Who would have thought that after the competition among the KMT party was defeated by Song Dunchu, he actually broke up and resigned from the party and opposed going north to form a cabinet. After Song Dunchu's successful formation of the cabinet, he started the battle on the grounds of the second revolution, which caused wars in the southeast half of the wall. Now he is shameless and arrogant as a pawn of the enemy country, intending to overthrow the current legal government, and still utterly verbally for the sake of revolution and the people of the world? It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous!"

"You...you are a wrong theory!" Dai Jitao's face turned pale with anger and immediately refuted: "Song Dunchu colluded with Beiyang and rebelled against the revolution and had embarked on the road of dictatorship. Of course, I, the revolutionaries, have to oppose it."

"Collective? Dictatorship? Haha, isn't the Beiyang faction part of the government? The two houses of Congress are looking at it? As for dictatorship, there is no question. You must know that the replacement of the presidential system with the prime minister system was strongly advocated by Sun Yat-sen. Did he change his mind in just a few years?"

The two of them said to each other and said to me, and the more they debated, they became louder and louder, but no one came to disturb me, because as early as when Jiang Zhiqing entered the restaurant, the entire restaurant was taken over by his subordinates. Of course, no outsiders would come in at this time.

"Questions! It's total quibbling!" No matter how Dai Jitao said, Jiang Zhiqing argued with a lot of facts. In the end, Dai Jitao had almost nothing to say, but he retorted it with dissatisfaction.

"Okay, just a few words over and over again, why bother?" Jiang Zhiqing smiled and said, "I know what Sun Yat-sen is like this person. Chuanxian, you also know that the success of the Xinhai Revolution was the Restoration Association, not his Sun Yat-sen. The man who forced the Qing Dynasty to abdicate was Yuan Shikai, not his Sun Yat-sen. The success of the KMT Congress election was Song Dunchu, not his Sun Yat-sen. Even Sun Yat-sen, who could cease the war at the minimum cost in the Sino-Japanese War some time ago! Haven't you thought about these carefully? What's the virtue of Sun Yat-sen besides the name of cannons and the agitation of the party crowd?"

"You...!" Dai Jitao's eyes were on fire, but his heart was already weak. As Sun Wen's secretary, he knew the truth of some things much better than ordinary people. To be fair, many aspects of what Jiang Zhiqing said were indeed facts and could not be refuted, but a long-term belief still supported him, making him unable to admit defeat.

"After saying this, Brother Chuanxian should have his own judgment. I hope Brother Chuanxian will not look at the problem from the perspective of one party, one faction or someone, but will look at the problem from the overall situation, especially the future of the country. This is the real world for the public, not verbal."

After saying this, Jiang Zhiqing saw Dai Jitao speechless and smiled and suddenly said again before leaving: "Chuanxian, there are many doubts about Huang Keqiang's death in the sea back then. Do you really think this was done by Yuan Shikai or Beiyang? Haha, there is a saying that is often the one who is the closest person who takes your life. It's a pity, Huang Keqiang, how sad! How painful!"
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