Chapter 24: The letter of appointment written by oneself

Chen Zikun's heart moved. Jiangdong Province is located in the Central Plains and is a land of fish and rice. If he can occupy a piece of land, it would be much more enjoyable than being a brigade commander in the Third Division. However, such a good place can be a land without a border.

"So, who is in charge of this place?" Chen Zikun asked.

Yan Su said: "Jiangdong Province is an Anhui territory. Jiangdong Governor Sun Kaiqin is a disciple of Duan Qirui and a veteran subordinate of Lu Yongxiang. However, the north of the Huai River is not under his jurisdiction. The place I am talking about is Nantai County in Jiangbei. This place turned out to be the territory of Zhang Xun, the leader of Jiangdong. After Zhang Xun stepped down, it became a land without a border."

Chen Zikun said: "So you want me to be this Jiangbei Guardian."

Yan Su nodded and said, "That's right, the Army Department was planning this matter, but it was not found a suitable candidate and repeatedly postponed it. Now this suitable guard has finally found the candidate, it is you."

Chen Zikun said: "Stop it, you just said that coal and iron resources are abundant and water transportation is convenient. Isn't that obvious a Feng Shui treasure land? Why no one is willing to take office? This is not right."

Yan Su said: "After Zhang Xun's failed to restore the reign, the Wuwei Army under his command mutiny, and the bandits in Jiangbei were seriously in trouble. Sun Kaiqin had sent troops to encircle and suppress the enemy several times but failed to return. Instead, he lost his troops and generals. In name, Jiangbei was still the jurisdiction of Jiangdong Province, but in fact, Sun Kaiqin had lost effective control of this place, so the Army Department had always had this plan, hoping to set up a military guard office north of the Huai River to compete with the Sun Governor. Unfortunately, the Army Department had no soldiers to send, and Cao Kun was busy with political struggles, which delayed after a while."

Chen Zikun finally understood that this Jiangbei Guardian was a hot potato, but the more it was to get the chestnut from the fire, the more attractive it was to him.

"Such a good thing, why didn't Brother Yan take action personally?" Chen Zikun said suspiciously. He didn't want to be used as a gun.

Yan Su smiled and said, "I think, but I don't have this strength. If I hadn't met you, maybe I would have forgotten about this."

Chen Zikun said: "Is it so suitable for me to be this guard?"

Yan Su said seriously: "It's not just suitable, it's just a task tailored for you. You are the direct descendant of Marshal Wu, with a deep background and no fear of someone making trouble. You are the son-in-law of the Vice President of the Bank of Communications, and raising funds is not a problem; you are from the United States and have a close relationship with foreigners. Nowadays, foreigners are the hardest backers; more importantly, you are brave enough to even slap the deputy chief of the army, so what else can stump you?"

Chen Zikun said: "But I don't have any soldiers."

Yan Su laughed and said, "This is the simplest thing. Nantai is full of soldiers. It depends on whether you have the ability to recruit them."

Chen Zikun also laughed. Yan Su's words were true. He was a horse thief and was a veteran in the industry. Whether it was suppression or appeasement, it was no problem.

"How is it, are you willing to do it?" Yan Su's voice was full of seduction.

"It's just that the Grandmaster is not easy to explain." Chen Zikun was still hesitating, but in fact he had agreed in his heart.

Yan Su said: "You are not inferior. Instead of being Wu Peifu's civil war pawn in the Third Division, you might as well go to the vast world and shoot to create a bright future. Besides, Jiangbei is the frontier of the confrontation between Zhi and Anhui. If you manage it well, it will be a great achievement for the Zhili."

Chen Zikun smiled and picked up the wine cup: "Okay, that's all, let's go."

Yan Su was overjoyed: "Go one!"

Two wine cups collided in the air, and the fragrance of wine was everywhere.

"Boss, let's have another fried dough flower!" Yan Su shouted loudly.

After discussing the action plan with Yan Su, Chen Zikun went to the Six Kingdoms Hotel to find Jian Bing. Although Li Yaoting did not tell him to stay at Six Kingdoms Hotel, since he came to Beijing, there was no reason to go on a night out. The Xizai and the Shanghai tycoon today must have lived in Six Kingdoms Hotel.

As expected, Jian Bing was staying at the Six Kingdoms Hotel in Dongjiaomin Lane. When he saw Chen Zikun coming to find him, Jian Bing looked at him freely and did not look like he had just made a temper. Instead, he asked Miss Yao if she had coaxed her.

Chen Zikun couldn't help but feel deeply moved. Jian Bing was bought by the madam since she was a child and was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and was extremely accurate in men's psychology. It's not that she did it deliberately, but that she had this awareness from the bottom of her bones. When she entered a family in the future, Yao Yilei would never be able to beat her.

When asked where Li Yaoting was, he was told to go back to his hometown. So Chen Zikun took Jian Bing back to the Liushu Hutong slum outside Xuanwu Gate. Li Yaoting sat in the yard in suit and tie and was chatting with everyone. The idle men in the whole alley gathered together, and the women were holding their children around, and the wild dogs were even arching under their feet, which was so excited.

After four years, Xiao Shunzi, who had been picking cigarette butts outside Qianmen Railway Station, has now become a wealthy man. However, Li Yaoting did not show any airs in front of his elders. He was still the same as Xiao Shunzi of the past. He took out the whole piece of three cannons and opened it and threw it to everyone in a box. He was so generous.

Seeing Chen Zikun bring Jianbing, Li Yaoting bowed everywhere: "Young and young men, come here tomorrow, I'll invite you! Let's all be here today."

Everyone dispersed, and the slums returned to quiet. Li Yaoting looked at the cigarette butts all over the ground and smiled self-deprecatingly: "If you want to put it in the past, so many cigarette butts won't make me very happy."

Chen Zikun said: "When will you go to your mother's grave to worship?"

Li Yaoting said: "I agreed with Baoqing to go to the grave together tomorrow. I will come to the slums first to earn face for my mother. The neighbors looked down on her back then, and there was no one who gave her a good face. What do they said just now? They all said that my mother is a good person. She has been blushing with her neighbors for so many years. Oh, how good it is to live for my mother. Look at how promising her son..."

The man doesn't cry easily, just because he has not reached the sad place. At this moment, Li Yaoting choked up, and Jian Bing's eyes also had tears in her eyes. She heard Chen Zikun telling Li Yaoting's story and knew that his mother was a secret prostitute who half-closed the door. She thought that she was just a girl's school student, but just a senior prostitute. When she arrived in Beijing, she would be bullied by Miss Yao. Half of these tears were shed for herself.

They were each injured for a while, and the three of them returned to the Ziguang Car Factory together. When Baoqing Xinger and his wife saw Chen Zikun bringing back another charming wife, their eyes widened, and they thought to themselves that Da Kunzi was really lucky. Before Miss Yao could pass the door, the concubine was ready.

The world in Beijing has been in chaos these days, and the car factory has made a lot of money. Baoqing's face has grown up with smiles. He has been busy arranging meals and said to Xing'er privately: "Da Kunzi's wife, each one is handsome."

Xing'er stretched out her hand and pinched him: "Are you jealous and want to take a concubine?"

Baoqing sucked the cold air with an exaggerated snoring: "I haven't even married a wife, so how could I think about taking a concubine?" As he said that, he reached out and touched Xing'er's little hand. Although they had been engaged, they had a three-year mourning period after Xue Xunzhang passed away and had not officially finished their marriage. Xing'er is a person who adheres to his wife's deeds. Baoqing has not tasted it yet.

Just having supper in the car factory, Li Yaoting lives here, and Chen Zikun took Jianbing back to the Six Kingdoms Hotel to rest.

The next morning, Chen Zikun sent Jianbing to the car factory first and asked Li Yaoting to take her to wander around the scenic spots in Beijing. He followed the agreement to the Army Department of Tieshizi Hutong.

Since Chief Jin left yesterday, he has never come back. The people in the Army were in panic. Many people did not come to work at all. Even the sentries at the door were withdrawn.

Chen Zikun was wearing a straight military uniform and shiny horse boots. He entered the Army Department as if no one was around. The yard was empty and many office doors were locked tightly. When he arrived at the door of the military law department, he knocked on the door lightly. Yan Su opened the door without saying a word, made a gesture to come with me, and went to the General Affairs Department.

There was no one in the General Affairs Department, and the door of the house was locked. Yan Su took out a key and opened the door directly. He entered the room. Chen Zikun fainted from behind and asked in a low voice: "Where did you get the key?"

"I have worked in the General Affairs Department for a while and I have my own keys." Yan Su didn't hide it from him, and sat straight behind the director's desk, took out a steel wire, easily threw open the padlock on the drawer, and took out a brocade box from it.

"This is the official seal of the Chief of the Army. Zhang Shao once served as the Chief of the Army. The seals were handed over to the General Affairs Department for safekeeping." Yan Su introduced, taking out the inkstone, ink blocks, two brushes, and three blank letters of appointment from his briefcase, saying: "Grind ink."

Chen Zikun did not dare to neglect, so he personally served as the book boy, added water to the inkstone, and carefully grinded half of Cao Sugong. In a short while, the ink was melted. Yan Su dipped the wolf's hair into the ink, thought for a while, and wrote it on the letter of appointment. His writing was very good, and his handmade clerical script was the standard font for the military department's writing.

After writing three letters of appointment, Yan Su took another brush, took a deep breath, and wrote the three words "Dragon Flying and Phoenix Dance" in the blank space below the letter of appointment: Zhang Shaozeng.

These three characters are written in a completely different way from the previous text, but they are exactly the same as the signature of Zhang Shaozeng that Chen Zikun had seen in the official document.

"I am good at imitating other people's handwriting, but it takes a lot of time." Yan Su smiled faintly, put away the brush, opened the brocade box, and carefully held out the big seal. Chen Zikun hurriedly opened the ink box to serve. Yan Su dipped the big seal into the ink paste, first wiped off the excess red oil on a piece of rice paper, and then carefully covered it under the letter of appointment.

While stamping, he explained, "The letter of appointment is in triplicate, one you take to take office by yourself, one is kept by the Department of the Army Archives Section, and one is submitted to the Presidential Palace. Anyway, there is no one in the Department of the Army, so we will just leave these procedures by ourselves."

After stamping the big seal, he blew it a few times, then took out a long small seal from the drawer and stamped it behind the big seal, "This is the private seal of the seal supervisor. Without this, the letter of appointment would be imperfect."

Finally, Yan Su handed over the letter of appointment. Chen Zikun accepted it and admired it carefully. This letter of appointment was not printed on ordinary paper, but was made of paper as thick and crisp as banknotes. There were patterns on all sides. Just above is the five-color star emblem surrounded by Jiahe, and the file code of the number xxx of the letter number is on the lower right.

The main text is written as follows: The Army Ministry’s appointment letter, appointing Chen Zikun as the Jiangbei Guardian Envoy in Jiangdong Province. This letter is Zhang Shaozeng, the Chief of the Army. Behind are the huge general seal and the long seal of the seal supervisor, and then on June 13, 12th year of the Republic of China.
Chapter completed!