Chapter 564 Beijing Action

Since Cai E received a telegram forwarded by Jiang Baili, he has been planning to go south.

However, the news of the Southern Governor's Consultation Conference became more and more fierce, and it had already caused a lot of shock in the Beiyang. I don't know when the Presidential Palace's "control" on him has been strengthened a lot. Whenever he is not allowed to go out easily after nightfall, someone will follow him even if he spends the night in Qingyun Pavilion.

Cai E knew very well that the momentum of the south was already full of threats, and he could never let the south grow his arrogance. Although his telegrams with the south have been encrypted in the past few months, the Beiyang government cannot find out the content of the telegram. At least it can find out the origin of the telegram, and use basic logic to infer his intentions.

Because of this, he was very distressed these days, and he couldn't think of a suitable way to get out. Tang Jiyao had already told him the time of the Southern Governor's Consultation Conference.

Maybe he didn't have to be petty and arrive in Guangzhou on time, but once the General Administration Conference was held, he had many ideas to express it with the help of the conference but missed the opportunity. At the same time, the north's reaction would definitely be more severe, and it would be even more difficult to leave. He thought of using the excuse of going to Japan to see a doctor, but since last year he had been conditioning his body, and the long-standing symptoms in his early years have improved. I am afraid that this excuse would not be enough to impress Yuan Shikai, but it would make Yuan Shikai more alert.

That night, Cai E came out of Qingyun Pavilion and prepared to return to his residence with a depressed mood.

When he got into the car, he suddenly smelled a cigarette in the car. The depression in his heart immediately turned into anger and burst out. He scolded him in the driver's seat: "It's been more than a year. Don't you remember that I quit smoking? Who borrowed your courage to smoke here!"

The driver was stunned for a moment and quickly threw the cigarette butt in his hand out of the car window. He turned around and quickly apologized: "God of anger, general, calm down, little... little... little forgot, damn it."

Cai E glanced at the driver and found that the other party was not Xiao Li who sent him to Qingyun Pavilion in the afternoon. He hurriedly asked, "Who are you? Where are my driver Li Wenjin?" He was even more upset, thinking that the Presidential Palace deliberately sent all his confidants to monitor him.

The driver smiled honestly and explained: "Li Ge'er's mother suddenly entered the hospital in the afternoon, so she went to the servants for a day off, and sent the young man to take the shift there. Li Ge'er told the general that you don't like the smell of smoke. Now, the young man has forgotten the greed for a moment. The young man must remember the lesson and will never dare to have another next time."

Cai E snorted coldly and said unhappy: "You are so embarrassed to say there is no next time? Go back and tell your master, I only need the original driver, don't think I can be fooled by it if I find an excuse."

The driver quickly said, "If you think of this, General, I really come to take the shift today. The above said that I will be transferred back to my original position. Brother Li will still come back to help the general drive. General must not think too much."

Cai E didn't know whether the other party was saying true or not, so he ordered coldly: "Drive!"

The driver started the car and drove out along the alley street.

Another car, who had been waiting at the entrance of the alley for a long time, also started and followed closely behind.

Cai E only glanced back and immediately recognized the car as the person sent by the Presidential Palace to monitor him. He had been with him for more than two months, and even if he closed his eyes and listened to the sound of the wheels, he could recognize it. He sighed secretly, and his heart became irritable again, so he simply closed his eyes to rest.

I don’t know how long the car has been driving, but Cai E feels that it is much longer than the usual journey back. After so long, he has not arrived at the residence. He opened his eyes and looked out the window sideways. After finally seeing the road conditions outside, he suddenly found that the streets of his residence had already been opened.

He immediately realized something was wrong and hurriedly asked the driver: "Where are you going to drive?"

The driver looked back slightly, and the other party's previous honest and timid appearance disappeared without a shrewd and cold face. He sang two words in a concise and clear manner: "Southern."

Cai E was shocked and asked again: "Who are you?" As he asked, he turned his head and looked through the rear window, and found that the car sent by the Presidential Palace to follow was gone.

The driver smiled indifferently and said, "General, don't worry, our tails have been fooled by us. Now I thought you had returned to your apartment to rest. When we were at the entrance of Nanda Hutong, our people blocked them for a while, and then we went to the corner to arrange a car that was exactly the same as yours. Even the license plate number and curtain color were the same. The people sitting inside had also put on makeup, which was difficult to tell in the dark night."

Cai E took a breath and asked again: "Who are you guys!"

The driver did not look back and said calmly: "The villain came to pick up General Cai on the order of the envoy of Wu to go south to discuss major events. Let's leave tonight. The merchant ship has been prepared in Tianjin. It is a large ship specially arranged by the German Embassy. It enjoys diplomatic immunity. It will be foolproof when you get on the ship."

Cai E was stunned when he heard the name of "Wu Shaoting". He never expected that Wu Shaoting would send someone from the south to cover him through 108,000 miles away. He really didn't know whether to be happy or worried. He sighed and calmed himself down. As the saying goes, since he came, he wanted to leave Beijing early. The only helpless thing was that he left in this way. What would Yuan Shikai feel?

The President... Alas! This is fate! He sighed secretly, with an unconcealed melancholy on his face.

"How did you Wu Rongwu know that I was going south?" After a while, Cai E asked the driver. His tone was very calm, as if he was not surprised when something happened, and as if he was tired and powerless.

"General, you will know when you arrive south. You will have to travel to Tianjin overnight tonight. You'd better take a rest first." The driver said calmly.

Cai E simply stopped saying anything and closed his eyes again, but his mind was filled with waves, and all his thoughts burst out at this moment. From the Great Revolution to the North, from Yuan Shikai to the ideal of national defense, from disappointment with the Beiyang government and today's betrayal, it seems that many things have happened in the first half of his life, and many variables have been encountered, but in the end it is like a brief moment between opening and closing eyes, and nothing has changed!

The car drove out of the city and then changed into a carriage to continue to rush to Tianjin. The carriage was already prepared, and there were a few more people here to accompany Cai E. Cai E didn't say anything and followed the arrangements of these people.

It was not until the early morning that we finally arrived at the Tianjin Pier. From a distance, we could see a large merchant ship moored at the international port, with the flag of the German Empire hanging on it. The dock was brightly lit and busy figures could be seen everywhere. Workers and sailors were sitting on their final preparations before setting sail.

The carriage was parked directly outside the port. There were several people in casual clothes guarding at the gate, and there were two German soldiers carrying rifles next to it. When they saw the carriage coming, these people in casual clothes immediately came forward.

Cai E got out of the carriage and waited for the two sides to negotiate for a few words. Then these people surrounded him and walked towards the dock.

When passing by the German soldiers, the leader greeted him in German. The German soldiers glanced at Cai E, then turned to lead the way. They all came to the shore where the merchant ship was mooring. A figure was walking down from the tower bridge connecting the merchant ship. With the backlight on the merchant ship, they found that the man's left forearm was empty, as if he was a one-armed man.

"General Songpo, don't be fine, I'm here to meet you again." The man walked down from the tower bridge. Cai E looked carefully and found that the other party had only one arm. After a closer look, the one-armed man looked very familiar. It turned out that it was the captain of the guard who appeared in Qingyun Pavilion last year with Wu Shaoting.

"If you haven't seen each other for a year, you have changed a lot." Cai E said in a pun.

"Haha," Wang Yun shook his empty sleeve on his left indifferently and said, "I will explain myself first. In the southeast coastal inspection commission, Wang Yun, the Special Service Office of the Southeast Coastal Inspection Office, is responsible. This time, he is specially ordered by General Wu to welcome General Songpo. I don't know if there are any inconvenient receptions along the way. Please make it clear that I will teach these little ones a lesson."

"It's just a trivial matter to worry about, and it's not worth mentioning." Cai E said impatiently.

"Okay, please ask General Songpo to board the ship. The merchant ship has reserved a room for the house." Wang Yun flashed and made a "please" gesture with his only hand.

Cai E sighed and walked up to the tower bridge. Just as he passed by the middle of the tower bridge, he suddenly hesitated for a moment, turned around and looked north. The sky was still dark in the early morning, and there seemed to be no light in the whole north. He let out the last sigh in the north: President, you can't pacify the world in the end... Wang Yun followed him up. Seeing Cai E's face was dull, he couldn't help asking: "General Songpo, do you have any worries? Oh, by the way, there is still someone on the boat waiting for the general."

Cai E was stunned and asked back: "Who is it?"

Wang Yun smiled mysteriously: "You will know after you get on the boat. I believe that this person will accompany the general, and the general will definitely have no worries about this trip!"

Cai E stopped asking more, and while thinking about who he was, he accelerated his pace and got on the boat.

When I arrived at the deck, I waited for a foreigner wearing a German official dress.

Wang Yun stepped forward and introduced: "This is Major Maximilian, the first-class naval officer of the German Embassy. Mr. Major, this is the youngest general in the Republic of China, the famous Lord Cai Songpo."

Major maximilian smiled at Cai E, stretched out his hand and held it politely, and said in unfamiliar Chinese: "General Cai's name has long been admired, and I am really happy to see you!"

Cai E barely exchanged a few greetings.

Wang Yun said to Cai E: "This time thanks to Major Maximilian's arrangement of this merchant ship, otherwise the general would have suffered more when he headed south this time and transferred to several means of transportation."

The Navy Major said: "There is about forty minutes left for this ship, but please don't worry. If you get on this ship, the Beiyang government has no right to search without the permission of our embassy. The restaurant is on the second floor and is preparing breakfast. Please feel free to see if you need it."

Wang Yun said politely: "Thank you so much for your enthusiasm."

At this moment, a slender figure suddenly ran out of the cabin gate near the deck, and asked anxiously, "Have the general arrived?"

When Cai E heard this voice, his heart thumped, and he immediately looked over in accordance with the voice: "Little Fengxian?"

The figure on the other side of the deck quickly came over: "General? Are you safe?"

Cai E also met up, grabbed Xiao Fengxian's hand tightly, and sighed: "I'm safe naturally. Why are you here? I remember just came out of Qingyun Pavilion last night, why did you arrive before me?"

Xiao Fengxian smiled and said with a smile: "After the general left Qingyun Pavilion yesterday, they immediately found my family and said that it was General, your subordinate, who was going to take me out of Beijing. Although I was very scared and suspicious, I felt that there would be no mistakes, so I followed them out. I caught a late-night train last night and heard that the general was taking a carriage to Tianjin, so it was faster than the general."

Cai E breathed a sigh of relief and said with emotion: "So that's how it is."

The German major looked at this scene and said to Wang Yun with a giggle: "It's really touching. I believe that such an ending is enough to make everyone happy."

Wang Yun nodded and said, "I hope so."

The German major patted Wang Yun on the shoulder and said relaxedly: "I'll leave this to you. I'll go to the bridge to talk to the captain first. See you later!"

After the German major left, Wang Yun stood by the side of the ship and looked at Cai E and Xiao Fengxian. His previous happy face gradually disappeared, and a look of worry appeared on the paper.

A subordinate standing behind Wang Yun noticed something strange, stepped forward and asked, "Mr. Wang, why did your face suddenly look so bad? Is there anything else I haven't finished?"

Wang Yun sighed, shook his head depressedly, and said, "I have done everything I should do. What I am worried about now is what to do when I arrive in Guangzhou. This little Fengxian is an old acquaintance of our General Wu!"
Chapter completed!