Autumn in Jinan is poetic. Suppose there is an old city in the Middle Ages in your fantasy, with a large city tower asleep, a narrow ancient stone road, a wide stone city wall, a clear stream flowing around the city, reflecting the shadow of the mountain, and a chick in red robes and green pants squatting on the bank. If there is such a realm in your fantasy, it is Jinan. If you can't imagine it - many people don't imagine it - please come to Jinan to have a look (here to commemorate Mr. Lao She's "Autumn in Jinan"). The early autumn of Jinan Mansion is the best time, and in 1899 Jinan Mansion is facing fantastic changes.

At the foot of the Qili Mountain, a magnificent South Gate Barracks has risen from the ground, the white ash courtyard wall, the corner tower of blue bricks, the main entrance is separated by the old South Gate of Jinan Mansion for nine and a half miles, the Western Han Dynasty style gate is three zhang high, and the gate is the "South Gate Barracks" with black characters on a white background, and the calligraphy of Yuan Shikai's brother is hard to want. The sentry's watchtower under the blue-gray gate pillar is also made of cement, and it is very imposing to stand on a half-person-high sentry position, which invisibly establishes the concept of the sanctity of the sentry. Entering the gate is greeted by a wide stepped square, the whole square covers an area of 100 acres, except for the holly and poplar trees on the edge. After the square that has been raised by the topography of the third level, there is a large hall overlooking the gate, the same cement primary color hooked "Jinan green" marble wall, solemn, dark red wooden doors and windows, large flat float glass, reflecting the brown luster. Standing at the gate, Governor Yuan had a stunned expression of a countryman entering the city gate, but no one cared about laughing at him, the white-bearded left-wing commander Jiang Guidi was also the same stunned, Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, Li Chunyi, etc., because they had been training with me, had already seen the unbuilt military camp, so they could still hold it, Brother Zhang Xun was the most unbearable, and his saliva was dripping and wetting his placket unconsciously, which made Duan Qirui and them all get out of the way, with an expression that I don't know this idiot. "yes, yes, I didn't expect that. Brother Chenxuan, our Wuwei Right Army finally has its own barracks, haha, this is like the barracks of our Wuwei Right Army. "Yuan Fatzi still has a lot of feelings for his new army. Finally, under the guidance of me and Boss Meng, everyone came to the auditorium, bypassing the corridor, facing a huge hall, although the tables and chairs were still stacked on the side of the wall, but it was obvious that all the scoops of the Wuwei Right Army had never seen such a spacious auditorium, Brother Zhang Xun stretched out his arms and tilted his head left and right, trying to measure the width of the auditorium. The auditorium is 27 meters wide, 43 meters long, and 15 meters high, and can easily seat up to 3,000 people. If even the corridor is used, it can accommodate seven or eight thousand people if they all stand, and the rostrum is 20 meters wide and 10 meters deep, about one and a half meters higher than the ground, and there are turning stairs on both sides to go to the stage. Behind it is a dark red velvet back* scenery cloth, on which are crossed with two huge Yellow Dragon pennants of the Qing Dynasty. Eight huge wooden loudspeakers were installed on the roof, a loudspeaker attached to the podium on the podium, and of course our standard factory phonograph was installed in the broadcast studio on the second floor of the interior. Waiting for these old boys with an average age of more than forty to be on and off the stage, Boss Meng and I were drinking tea in the reception room on the second floor, and by the time Lao Wu brought them up, it was already lunch. Let's just go to the banquet hall of the Great Hall and taste the first banquet in the Great Hall of the Wuwei Right Army. Before the banquet began, everyone was attracted to the corridor outside the banquet hall by Zhang Xun's shouting, it turned out that Zhang Xun was in a hurry to find a toilet, and was led to the toilet by the cleaning workers to release water happily, but actually saw the south terrace and the south playground through the glass window, and hurriedly came to tell Boss Yuan when he put on his pants. So the group didn't care about the wine and food that had been put on the table, and they all poured into the big terrace in the middle of the corridor, half of the large terrace of nearly 300 square meters shrunk in the three-sided building, and half leaned out of the auditorium. You can see sections of cement primary color courtyard walls and faint two-story red brick barracks in the courtyard wall, small city-like barracks, eight can be seen on the east and west sides, all the way to the foot of the hillside, the slope is marked with white lime on the dirt and cross circles, the east side can also faintly see the horse farm surrounded by barbed wire, the semi-underground gun hangar in the southwest is facing east, and the white Arabic numerals are drawn in the white circle on the oily green gate. On the hillside are wooden buildings resembling bunkers and circles marked with lime, apparently for the training of the artillery team. The two podiums extending from the two wings of the auditorium and the two annexes to the south are all blue brick buildings, which are harmonious and unified with the style and color of the auditorium, and the traditional heavy eaves hall top buckle on the Western-style brick and stone building actually has no sense of disobedience, these buildings are actually equipped with bright glass windows, although there are no carved beams and paintings, strange flowers and stones, but the use of such a large area of flat glass and cement is enough to make the well-informed Yuan Shikai children's shoes staggering, and it really responds to Wu Chenxuan's words: "What is taste?" Those rich people in the countryside who wear gold and silver, depict dragons and embroidered phoenixes, that is called burning buns. The gray cotton robe is used as a button with Hetian seed jade, and the old cloth shoes with the palace embroidery are used as the insole, which is called taste. "The blue-gray walls, the gray-white cement, the black-brown glazed tiles, the white marble railings, the whole building complex is like a simple-dressed, introverted family child, it seems that the atmosphere is everywhere in the ordinary, simple but not simple, solemn and twilight, the surrounding fuss among the people smiling from time to time Yuan Fatman, at this time there is a faint vigilance of Wu Chenxuan in his mind, after all, the old Yuan has read countless people, so young and talented is not unseen, But to be able to play with such a complicated military, political and economic affairs, and to be able to have no arrogance at all, but he has never seen it, and he originally had the intention of incurring it under his command, but combined with Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui, and Li Chun's sporadic reports, Boss Yuan found that the more he understood, the more he couldn't understand the young man in front of him, perhaps in response to the sentence "I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain".

"Chen Xuan, although I, Yuan Xiangcheng, am a lowly official at the moment, he will do something in the future. I don't know if my old Yuan can be fortunate to have the help of your virtuous brother, you and my brother have made meritorious contributions in this Qing Dynasty, served the imperial court, and glorified the ancestors, trying to win the name before and after death, how about it? ”

Yuan Du repeatedly recruited each other, and Chen Xuan was inexplicably grateful. However, when he entered the business sea, it was difficult to extricate himself. If adults don't dislike villains for being vulgar, I'm not boasting about making money, but I'm a little careless. ”

"No matter what, everyone has their own ambitions, and they should not be forced. Brother Xian, my brother knows that the construction of this South Gate barracks project is huge, and there are seven or eight cement factories, glass factories, and brick kilns alone, and every day on the construction site are seven or eight hundred people who get up early and work in the dark, and the expenses are like flowing water. I don't understand, brother, but I guess I have to invest 200,000 yuan. Of the 70,000 taels of appropriation earlier, I'm afraid that only 40,000 or 50,000 taels fell into your pocket, even if you donate 50,000 taels from your Chamber of Commerce, I'm afraid you will have a famine of 8*90,000 taels. "Old Yuan expected that I would not join easily, but Yuan Shikai is a hero, this bit of elegance is still there, even if I don't join his team, I can become a well-coordinated ally, and he will naturally not do anything stupid to drive fish and birds for the abyss. Sure enough, after Lao Yuan sighed, he thought that I had made a fortune in building barracks for the right army of Wuwei, and decided to take preferential treatment for the Jinan Chamber of Commerce in terms of taxation. At the same time, I also promised that in the future, the officers and sergeants of the insurance team can go to the new army to train together, and they can also continue to draw elite soldiers from the right army of Wuwei to train the insurance team, and they can continue to draw elite soldiers from the right army of the armed forces to train the insurance team. Lao Yuan was very righteous to put the original Beiyang import hoarded in the warehouse of the Wuwei Right Army a batch of 500,000 Manlixia gun bullets, reported that they were drifted on the way, allocated to the insurance team for use, and also very interesting to help contact the Mongolian Prince Rebudan Jiaren to help buy a three or five hundred Mongolian horses, of course, the old Yuan snake big hole is thick, and his own family background is not enough for the Wuwei Right Army to chew, so I have to find my own way to find the silver of this horse, But then I completed the transaction with a ton and a half of a tin box sealed with Rizhao green tea and 500 kilograms of high-quality sea salt and 30 bicycles, of course, with the prince two gramophones and two sewing machines, the sewing machines are okay to say, I don't know that there is no electricity on the grassland, how to use the hot prince's children's shoes with my family's phonograph? Whatever, it's all his own products anyway, and it's not worth worrying about Lao Yuan.

Throughout the afternoon, I was pestered by a group of curious babies from Beiyang, in the East No. 1 Teaching Building, East No. 2 Teaching Building, West No. 1 VIP Building, West No. 2 Command Building, upstairs and downstairs one by one, even the flushing urinal in the bathroom was pulled by Brother Zhang Xun Yuan and I to take a look. The four-in-one blackboard that can be pushed up and down the teaching building made the veteran Jiang Gui can't help but try it out himself, and the amplification equipment of each classroom is even more surprising to Lao Yuan, he originally thought that it would be luxurious enough to have a set in the auditorium, but he didn't expect that each classroom has an independent amplifier. The layout of the dormitory in the single courtyard made Lao Duan Tongshoe's great admiration, and in the future, the battalion officers and their own troops stayed together day and night, which could well change the disadvantages of the Qing army's lieutenants who did not know the soldiers. The upstairs and downstairs military quarters are clean and tidy, with concrete floors, white lime walls and ceilings, and electric light bulbs in each room. Looking at the four bunk beds in each dormitory, they were lined up against the east and west walls, and there was a separate small bed at the door, which was obviously the bunk of the sentry chief or the captain, and there was a fireplace by the window in each room, and the chimney was hidden in the wall, and the stove shelf on the fireplace could also boil water or hot meals. In the open space in the center of the room was a large wooden table, under which the log benches were neatly arranged. There is also a built-in closet in the space behind the door, which looks like everyone has one. In the middle of the room there is also a closet placed opposite each other, and from the open cabinet door you can see that inside is a gun rack for ten rifles, and another closet is a small compartment for ammunition. Such a novel and intimate arrangement made Lao Yuan and the generals sigh greatly, these rabbit cubs are still unwilling to leave the roots of the imperial city, and they can only fall into the nest when they arrive in Jinan Mansion.

In the evening, Boss Meng and I said goodbye and left. Lao Yuan, Wang Shizhen, and Duan Qirui were not in a hurry to leave, sitting in the conference room on the second floor of the auditorium, looking out the window at the workers who were decorating at night, and they could also hear the loud voices of Zhang Xun and Jiang Guidi on the terrace, and the three of them were speechless for a long time. Lao Yuan seemed to be choked with sullen breath, and suddenly let out a sigh, sighing, "Jin Lin*is* a thing in the pool", silently thinking about what he has seen and heard in the past few months, and the two brothers of Beiyang Dragon and Tiger are also related.