Chapter 162: A Confrontation
Luo Jiu followed Chen Zhi's line of sight and saw a man wearing a top hat and a long gown, quickly following the secretary into the inner room.
Luo Jiu followed and saw Guo Song and her own guards guarding the door.
She pushed the door open and went in. The secretary was making tea. Marshal Zhang was about to stand up. Luo Jiu smiled and said, "Don't be polite, brother. Just treat it like your own home and be casual."
Marshal Zhang sat down again and said with a smile, "I am sorry for coming here uninvited. I thought it would be rude of me since it is my sister's home. There should be nothing to say."
"Well, we don't need to talk nonsense among our own family." Luo Jiu also took a sip of the hot tea, "Is my nephew okay? Why didn't you bring him here?"
Marshal Zhang stroked his mustache and said, "He did insist on coming, but I came here to discuss some serious matters with my sister, so it's inconvenient to bring him along."
The two of them were each preoccupied with their own affairs and exchanged a few fake greetings. If you didn't know better, you would have thought they were visiting relatives.
Lao Zhang and Luo Jiu looked at each other and glanced at the secretary beside them.
Luo Jiu: "Comrade Yang Liu, there's nothing going on here. Go outside and keep watch. Don't let anyone disturb us."
The secretary went out, and Lao Zhang took out the envelope that Luo Jiu asked Xiao Zhang to bring him last time, and asked, "Sister, what does this mean?"
Those were a few pages torn from a history book. In just a few pages and a few words, they recorded the merits and demerits of the Zhang father and son throughout their lives.
Luo Jiu said calmly: "Last time I said on the phone that you would be blown to death by the devils, I was not cursing you.
What is written here is also true.
There are many things I can't explain to you.
But I can tell you, brother, if you continue to waver like this, the outcome will not be much better than what is written in the book.
The country must be unified, and I will defeat Yuan Shikai sooner or later.
Instead of trying to survive in the cracks, why don't you join me and choose a smooth path that will go down in history?"
Lao Zhang smiled bitterly, "I'm just a bandit, why should I leave my name in history?
The history book is very thick, and I, Old Zhang, can barely read a few characters and cannot recognize a few pages.
But if it is really as written in the book, my father and I, Zhang, would really feel ashamed of the Northeast and our fellow countrymen.
I want to surrender, sister, you can get the Northeast without firing a single shot, but I hope you will agree to one condition. "
Luo Jiu immediately became interested, "Tell me about it."
Lao Zhang: "You must swear brotherhood with me in front of everyone and promise me that you will treat me and the Northeast Army equally from now on and will never treat us as cannon fodder."
Luo Jiu immediately agreed: "Don't worry, you and I both love soldiers, and I never let any team be cannon fodder.
After you surrender, your army will be under your control. We can discuss where and when to fight. If you don't want to, I won't force you."
Lao Zhang added: "I built this team, and I can't bear to see them fall into the hands of others.
After I die, my position will be passed on to my son."
Luo Jiu nodded, "That's no problem. Your old subordinates are all your trusted followers that you have cultivated over the years. I'm afraid that even if I send someone else, I won't be able to mobilize them."
Lao Zhang couldn't believe it was so easy, "Aren't you afraid that gentleman would object?"
Luo Jiu smiled and said, "That's a problem I'm responsible for handling. I just ask you, are you going to return?"
Old Zhang pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said, "Return, if you regret it, you are a grandson!"
"Okay, go back and prepare. I'll take care of the other problems."
"Okay!" Lao Zhang stood up to leave, but suddenly remembered, "There's one more thing I want to discuss with you. You have a girl named Fubao, right?"
Why did it get involved with Fubao for no reason?
Luo Jiu asked hurriedly: "Yes, what's wrong?"
Old Zhang chuckled, "."
Luo Jiu almost laughed out loud, "Our Fubao is still young, don't think about these things."
Lao Zhang said quickly, "Liu Zi said that they are about the same age, so they can get engaged first and then get married in a few years.
Besides, you have to ask the child's opinion, what if the child is willing?"
Old Zhang tried his best to promote this marriage, simply because he wanted to provide his son with an additional layer of in-law relationship as a guarantee.
But Luo Jiu knew that this was like a mismatch and they were really not a match.
Old Zhang insisted again and again, and Luo Jiu thought that it would be better to let Fubao reject him himself, so that he would give up this idea completely.
She asked someone to call Fubao over. Old Zhang thought there was something going on and was drinking his tea with a smile on his face. Suddenly, a tall and strong girl came in from outside. She stood at the door and held it open. She was like a solid wall, isolating the air inside and outside the room completely.
She held a half-eaten cabbage rice dumpling in her hand, chewing it with a bulging mouth, and asked in a childish voice, "Second Mom, are you looking for me?"
Old Zhang was stunned for a moment. Wasn't this the female warrior who had just been swinging people on the ring? Was this the Fubao that Liuzi had been talking about every day?
Oh, he thought it was a cute little girl, but this... this is a big girl as big as a mountain.
Luo Jiu looked at his expression, suppressed his laughter and said, "Your Uncle Zhang has something to ask you."
Lao Zhang waved his hands quickly, "Nothing, the child is still young, I just said it casually. It's just that Liuzi always mentioned you, so I wanted to meet you."
Old Zhang rummaged around in a panic and pulled out a pure gold pen from his pocket. It was a gift from someone else and he wore it as a decoration and had never used it once.
"This is our first meeting, and uncle didn't prepare any gifts. This is a gift for us. Let's go to Fengtian to play when we have time."
He never dared to mention the engagement again, because this girl looked like she could slap his son to death with one slap, and her eyes were bloodshot, as if she could kill his entire family if she was unhappy.
Old Zhang was a ruthless man who would not even eat his own cubs. He never mentioned the engagement and immediately ran away with an excuse.
Fubao: "Why is Liuzi's father so sneaky?"
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After Lao Zhang left, Luo Jiu held a high-level meeting and said, "The Northeast can be liberated peacefully."
"That's great!" Everyone's eyes lit up and a smile appeared on their faces.
Luo Jiu added: "But Marshal Zhang has a condition. After his death, his position must be passed on to his son."
Zhang's guess was correct. The gentleman was the first to object. "Isn't this destroying the electoral system? It's going back to the feudal hereditary system. I don't agree with it."
Luo Jiu hurriedly said: "The situation of the Northeast Army is special. The capable generals under Lao Zhang are all brothers who have followed him for many years. They crawled out of the pile of dead bodies together and swore brotherhood.
If we try to destroy this relationship by force, it will only backfire.
Moreover, after liberation, the military and politics were separated, and the Northeast Army was affiliated with the new government. Any orders we had were simply conveyed and dispatched by him.
In peacetime, it is just an ordinary garrison, no different from other liberated areas.
Lao Zhang promised us to send him a political commissar, and all the soldiers, from the division to the company, would undergo ideological transformation in our army.
The new generation of Northeast Army will be like any other local army, a national force, not a Zhang family force.
It’s just that this generation needs to make a peaceful transition in this way, which saves us time and effort.”
The gentleman sighed, "But now that he has been liberated, he has implemented a different electoral system from us. What does this mean?"
Luo Jiu held up two fingers, "This is called one country, two systems. Within 30 years, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast region can be appointed by the previous commander."
The gentleman asked hurriedly: "What about thirty years later?"
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