The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

   To the east of Tianjin Chengnan Racecourse, there is an avenue leading to the British Concession called Racecourse Road.

   The owner of No. 2 Racecourse Road is Pan Fu, who was promoted to the Minister of Finance of the Beiyang Government two months ago. This person wandered among the Zhi, Feng, and Anhui warlords, and had close contacts with various forces. Basically, he held a dinner party at home every week. The invitees were either a commander or a Beiyang politician.

After    and other principals formally swore to the Northern Expedition in the south, Pan Fu would become the link between the various factions in Beiyang, and was regarded as Zhang Zuolin's top advisor.

   That's next month, and now Pan Fu is still staying in Tianjin, holding parties every once in a while to keep in touch.

   "Drip!"

   Chu Yupu's car drove into the gate, accompanied by the fifth concubine, Chu Nanxiang and Zhou Hexuan.

   "Oh, rare guest, brother Yunshan, please come in!" Pan Fu stood at the door to greet him, shaking hands with Chu Yupu and clapping his shoulders with great enthusiasm.

   Zhou Hexuan was inconspicuous as a sidekick, and he entered with Marshal Chu, and several people had already come inside. Zhang Zongchang and his concubine, Li Jinglin and his concubine, Yang Yuting and his concubine, all belonged to the generals of the Fengjun family.

   Zhou Hexuan was taken to the side hall by the people from the Pan Mansion, where the aide-de-camps stayed. Before he took a few steps, he heard Zhang Zongchang scolding: "Chu Yupu, you rotten brother-in-law, how dare you fight me, I will kill you today!"

When they met in the living room, a fight broke out. "I don't know how much money, how much soldiers, how much my concubine has." Zhang Zongchang, the general of the three unknowns, flew over and kicked Chu Yupu.

  Chu Yupu hurriedly dodged away, not being able to use force with his old boss face to face, and shouted while hiding, "Master, don't force me to fight back, you can't beat me!"

   "How dare you fight back? There is no king!" Zhang Zongchang was even more angry, and he was so angry that he directly pulled out his gun.

   "There is something to say, something to say!"

   Li Jinglin and Yang Yuting hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him to fight. In the end, Zhang Zongchang went back and sat down angrily, his eyes widened and he wanted to eat Chu Yupu.

   Since Chu Yupu became the supervisor of Zhili and the governor of Zhili, Zhang Zongchang became less and less in his eyes, and he even arranged for people to annex Zhang Zongchang's small army. Some time ago, the two had a deadlock because of the Red Gun Club incident. At that time, Shandong Red Gun Clubs developed everywhere, and Wenshang County even gathered tens of thousands of Red Gun Club troops.

  The Red Gun Association is a rural Taoist organization whose purpose is to prevent bandits, bullies, officers and soldiers, and taxes. This thing made a fuss, making it very difficult for Zhang Zongchang to collect taxes, and threatened to wash Wenshang County with blood.

  Wenshang County is Chu Yupu's hometown, and Marshal Chu is a man of nostalgia. He deliberately said loudly to his subordinates during military training: "If he dares to **** Wenshang County, I will bloodbath Ye County within a hundred miles!"

  Ye County is Zhang Zongchang's hometown. Old Zhang knew that Chu Yupu could do it, but he had no choice but to cancel the plan to **** Wenshang. The people of Wenshang County were very grateful to Chu Yupu, and they even erected a stele of virtue for Marshal Chu, calling him the "Second Son of Heaven".

   It is funny to say that Chu Yupu, who is regarded as a beast by the Tianjin people, is a good man in the eyes of his old family.

  Zhou Hexuan sat down in the side hall and exchanged names with several other entourages of the great handsome.

   After a while, the atmosphere in the main hall has become harmonious. Zhang Zongchang and Chu Yupu, who had been fighting just now, actually smoked together, shoulder to shoulder, and their friendship was so good that they were like brothers.

   "Young Master!"

  Suddenly, everyone stood up and stepped forward to meet Zhang Xueliang, who was long overdue.

   Zhang Xueliang also brought his concubine (the original wife is still there), who is his second wife Gu Ruiyu. Gu Ruiyu has often accompanied Zhang Xueliang in recent years, and even took it with him to fight, so he is also known as the wife of the army.

   Last year, because of Guo Songling's rebellion, Zhang Xueliang had sleepless nights, and Yang Yuting encouraged him to smoke heavy cigarettes to relieve fatigue, so he became addicted to opium. Because Gu Ruiyu did not dissuade her, Zhang's family was very dissatisfied with her, but the relationship between the two was still very stable.

   Until later, the young marshal met Miss Zhao Si...

   Zhang Xueliang, Pan Fu, Yang Yuting, Zhang Zongchang, Chu Yupu, and Li Jinglin were seated, and their concubine also stood by their side, and started to push Pai Gow around a table.

The room was soon filled with smoke, Zhang Xueliang held a cigarette in his mouth, rubbed the dominoes in both hands, and then opened his eyes slowly, and kept saying: "Shuangtian, Shuangtian, Shuangtian... , exploded, deflated ten!"

  Everyone stretched their necks and saw that Zhang Shaoshuai's card turned out to be a sky kong, basically losing, unless the dealer was more unlucky.

   "I'm sorry," Yang Yuting spread out his cards and said with a smile, "Young Marshal, I have tall feet."

   "Take it, take it," Zhang Xueliang pushed over a stack of oceans, and said angrily, "I always lose in cards recently, so I still don't believe in that evil. Shuffle the cards for me, and I'll be the dealer!"

   Pan Fu flattered: "The casino is frustrated, the officialdom is proud, the young marshal is going to be promoted again!"

   "Yes, yes, I wish the young marshal to rise step by step." Others echoed.

   Zhang Xueliang was in a slightly happier mood. After shuffling and dealing the cards quickly, he covered his cards and said, "You show your cards first, and mine will be the last!"

  The crowd did not dare to refuse, and each turned over the cards. The cards from big to small are: Zhang Zongchang's double bench, Pan Fu's double axe, Li Jinglin's Zajiu, Chu Yupu's King of Heaven, and Yang Yuting's floor bar.

   Zhang Xueliang also turned over the first card, which was a draw. He slammed the two cards close together, then slowly pulled them apart, first a white dot appeared, and then two more white dots.

   "There's a show!"

   Zhang Xueliang didn't grumble anymore, he just yanked the card to the end, and there was only one red dot on the bottom half. He laughed and took out the cards: "Hahaha, double goose, kill all! Give me the money."

   "The young marshal is still amazing."

   "Young Commander is out of luck!"

   "You can't play cards with the young marshal next time, he's an expert."

  “…”

   Everyone was flattering, and Zhang Xueliang smiled happily.

   After playing cards until evening, Zhang Xueliang, who had been sitting in the village, had already won several thousand oceans. The servant of Pan Fu's family came over and said, "Master, you can have dinner."

   Zhang Xueliang was in a good mood, put down Pai Gow and said, "Eat first, then play at night."

  The crowd immediately crowded Zhang Xueliang to the dining room, and the marshals and concubines sat at a table each. While serving and pouring wine, Zhang Xueliang suddenly remembered something and asked Chu Yupu: "By the way, did you bring someone with you, Zhou Hexuan, who I mentioned last time?"

   "I brought it, I'm waiting in the side hall." Chu Yupu responded quickly.

   Zhang Xueliang waved his hand and said, "Call him over for dinner, the old man is very optimistic about him, let me come to Tianjin to ask for more advice."

   "That's his blessing." Chu Yupu got up quickly and ran to the side hall to call someone in person.