First to pass in review were one hundred and twenty cavalrymen of the First Cavalry Regiment of the Imperial Guard, riding tall military horses, marching in step with their drums beating in unison. They passed by the reviewing stand and saluted General Wang Zhenyu. The commander of this cavalry regiment was none other than He Yunqing, the eldest son of He Shidao, the director of the Salt Administration Bureau, also known as the leader of the Gelao Society. This name was personally bestowed upon him by General Wang Zhenyu. Historically, He Yunqing should have been a groom for the governor of Changde, Wang Zhengya, but due to General Wang's rapid expansion, he ended up becoming a groom for General Wang instead. Last year, he was sent to the Hunan Western Military Academy and graduated with the intention of making a name for himself on the battlefield. However, our great general once again assigned him to the Imperial Guard as a cavalry officer. At this moment, seeing General Wang Zhenyu on the reviewing stand also stirred up some emotions in him, having followed him closely for almost a year. He immediately shouted at the troops behind him: "Eyes right! Salute!"
There were sixty teams of various forms, 6,800 officers and soldiers who accepted the review. This also included the Long Yun Fei mobile detachment of the Jingzhou branch team that participated in the Guangxi campaign. Since they had not received strict training beforehand, Long Yun Fei could only select 120 brothers who were most skilled at riding and controlling horses to rush ahead and participate in the review, and they were almost arranged at the very end of the whole army.
The fifty mountain guns of the Guards Brigade were also pulled by carts through the Chenyuan Avenue, and the Xiangxi Group looked at their own strong army with a burst of applause, including the surrendered generals Lu Rongting and Wang Zhengya.
About twenty minutes later, all troops had passed through Chenyuan Avenue and formed up in Qianyang Square.
The fleet continued to depart and drove all the way to the main gate of the former Zhenzhai Mansion, now the Supervision Office, before stopping.
Wang Zhenyu's wife, Ye Ziyun, was already waiting there with their son and other family members: "Long Waizai is about to see his father, isn't he happy?" After giving birth to the child, Ye Ziyun also had a strong maternal instinct, revolving around her son every day.
As the adopted son, Shen Quan was also very happy. He wore a miniature military uniform made by the butler himself and waited for his adoptive father's arrival. Wang Zhenyu's old man didn't come out. This cheap old dad insisted that even if his son became an emperor, he would still be his own son. What kind of reason is there for him to go welcome his own son?
The motorcade stopped in front of the governor's mansion. Wang Zhenyu seemed to ignore his own wife and actually held hands with Zhao Yuting, whose face was flushed with shame, as they got out of the car together.
Ye Zhiwen immediately became furious and almost threw the child in her hands to the ground. Ye Zuowen also subconsciously frowned, thinking that his son-in-law's behavior was indeed inappropriate. But he quickly reminded himself that it would be best for everyone if they didn't make a scene in front of others and instead discussed whatever issues they had when they got home.
Ye Zuowen still has some misgivings about his son-in-law's unusual behavior, and his precious daughter is indeed a bit too much.
It turned out that during Wang Zhenyu's expedition, Ye Ziyun did a few things that made Wang Zhenyu very disgusted.
The first thing was that without consulting Wang Zhenyu, a sum of money was allocated from the attendants' department to repair roads and houses on Mount Wanfo. The plan was to go there for summer vacation next year. Since it was the intention of the commander's wife, the subordinates naturally went all out. Li Lezhong, the deputy director of the attendants' department, not only embezzled 1 million yuan from the investigation bureau led by Zhou Lian, but also arbitrarily transferred all the workers who had been allocated to Tongdao for the construction of the Xianggui Railway to Mount Wanfo for road repair. Wang Zhenyu discovered this when he inspected the railway progress on his way back. As a result, Weng Wenhao and Song Xianfu were severely criticized. According to Wang Zhenyu's personality, Li Le was originally going to be unlucky, but since he had to flatter his superior's wife, he was spared. However, others would think that Wang Zhenyu was being too lenient. With a single bite of his teeth, Li Le became tragic and was directly sent to Guangxi as the chief of staff of the 806 new recruit base. It is estimated that he will not have any further development in his official career.
The second thing is a family matter. Ye Guowei arrived in Anjiang at a young age and, with his father-in-law being busy, there was no one to discipline him. He quickly got to know a group of wealthy young men, as his sister was the wife of a high-ranking official, and they naturally looked up to him as their leader. Due to Anjiang's modernization and adoption of Western lifestyle, nightclubs and other such establishments became common, and Ye Guowei also fell into this kind of life. Originally, this wouldn't have been a problem, as the Ye family was wealthy and could afford some extravagance. However, this young man had poor drinking habits, and during a fight at a nightclub with some young men from the Zhu family, someone was killed. The victim was a cousin of Zhu Zihang, who was not an ordinary person - he was the eldest son of one of the four major wealthy families, the Zhu family, and had served as a deputy officer under the General for over a year, having also graduated from military school and received a new appointment to serve as the chief of staff of the newly formed land army in Guangxi.
Therefore, Chen Quzhen, the administrative officer of Anjiang Special District, did not hesitate to mobilize the Anjiang Special Police Team to arrest both parties involved in the fight.
It was originally a small matter, paying for what should be paid, apologizing for what should be apologized, judging what should be judged, and imprisoning what should be imprisoned. But as soon as Ye Zhiwen heard the report from Ye Guowei's personal attendant, she immediately became furious and called Han Guowei, the captain of the guard team responsible for guarding the mansion, to bring a team of guards to take the person back. This young lady's temper suddenly made a big fuss. Who is Han Guowei? He is an old man who follows the general, uncultured, and does whatever he is told to do.
As a result, the two sides confronted each other at the police station entrance. If it wasn't for Qianyang Branch Tian Shouhai bringing people over in time, considering Korea's temperament, they would have opened fire.
Chen Quzhen also knew that she had gotten into big trouble. The telegram of resignation was immediately sent to Wang Zhenyu's headquarters communication team.
These two things made Wang Zhenyu very dissatisfied with Ye Ziyuan's arrogance. At first, when he was pursuing her, he thought she was beautiful and the only shortcoming was that she had a bit of a princess temperament. As a result, now he found out that she also had a bit of brain damage and couldn't even tell what her own identity was.
Adding up all the unhappiness accumulated in daily life, Wang Zhenyu finally exploded.
But after all, Wang Zhenyu is already in his 40s or 50s when you add up his age, so he chose this method of beating around the bush. In Ye Zuwen's opinion, who knew the inside story, it was quite gentle. So what Ye Zuwen feared most was not his son-in-law's actions, but his own daughter. From childhood to adulthood, Ye Zuwen knew exactly what kind of temperament his own daughter had.
"Wang Zhenyu what do you mean" Along with Ye Ziyuan's uncontrollable angry roar, Ye Zuwen was so scared that his liver and gallbladder were split. What was supposed to come finally came.
According to the memory of the attendants at this time, Wang Zhenyu should be accompanying a smiling face to coax Ye Ziyun.
However, today Wang Zhenyu, dressed in the Republic of China's lieutenant general uniform, did not do so. He gave Ye Ziyun a very gloomy look and spat out several extremely hurtful words: "Who are you?"
After finishing, Wang Zhenyu took Shen Quan's hand and walked into the passageway of the viewing platform under the guidance of the guards. The entourage followed suit, but they all looked back at Ye Ziyun who was standing still in a daze.
Ye Zhiwen never thought that her usually obedient husband would suddenly ask her who she was. The originally well-dressed and beautiful woman, now pale and disheveled, suddenly shouted: "You bastard, you don't even recognize your aunt!"
The maids were so frightened that they rushed to hold back Ye Zhiwen, who was about to run wildly. Ye Guoxuan also hastily ran back from the casual team, one hand taking over his nephew and the other embracing his sister's shoulder: "Sister, you're crazy! You don't even consider the time and occasion when throwing a tantrum! What do you want to do? Do you want to destroy the entire Ye family?"
Ye Zhiwen finally calmed down and tears fell pitter-patter.
Ye Guoxuan finally let go of Ye Ziyun and said to the maids, "You send the lady back to her room to rest."
Ye Zhiwen took two steps and suddenly felt the sky spinning, her eyes went dark, and she fainted. The maids rushed to hold her up, shouting "Milady!"
The several people who came to welcome him on the side of the Wang family were also stunned by this scene, and after they regained their senses, they also returned home to report the news.
Ye Guoxuan saw that his sister was like this, and he hastily ordered the maids to carry Madame back to rest. He sent her off for a few steps, then turned around and carried his less-than-one-year-old nephew Jing Sheng to the viewing platform.
"Each and every one of you must remember that what should make you most proud is not a thick salary, nor a beautiful wife or concubine, nor official position or power. It should be this uniform on your body, representing justice, light, and hope. Wearing the uniform does not necessarily mean being a soldier; only those who firmly believe in justice, light, and hope are worthy of wearing this uniform. Many people ask me why we joined the army and took up arms to fight. Today I tell you that you are not fighting for me, Wang Zhenyu, but for justice, for light, for the future of our nation and country. Perhaps someone will say this is all empty talk, wondering why no one fought for us in the past. Now I tell you that the past is gone; from now on, we are fighting for our children, for the people of Xiangxi, for Chinese citizens, and for the entire Chinese nation. Let's work hard and shed blood and sweat!"
The officers and men of the Guards Regiment on the platform immediately became excited and raised their weapons in their hands: "Long live the Grand Marshal, long live the fierce tiger, long live Xiangxi!"
At this time, Ye Guoxuan appeared very timely and handed Wang Jingsheng over to Wang Zhenyu.
Wang Zhenyu took a look at the smiling silly son, this is the first person he created in this generation. All the unpleasantness was immediately forgotten by him. Almost under conditioned reflex, he hugged his son into his arms, and then felt a bit inappropriate, so he simply hugged Shen Quan, who was standing beside him, into his arms as well.
The guards below are all elites, and it seems that the commander is giving a signal. As a result, someone took the lead and added another sentence: "Long live the young marshal!"
Wang Zhenyu was suddenly left speechless and stood at a loss, while Ye Zuwen, who was standing not far behind him, let out a sigh of relief. Shen Zongyi furrowed his brow.