Guo Runsheng was also bolder at this time, he puffed up his chest and secretly cheered himself up.

I heard him say again: "Master Chen knows my thoughts, and I have learned a lot of useful knowledge by building ships with your students; In the end, I realized that their knowledge can not only help me solve my doubts, but also help me break the bottleneck in the improvement of ship knowledge. This knowledge is what I want to learn, so I follow them behind the ass to ask for advice, and if I don't understand, I have to ask them to understand it thoroughly, so they get bored. ”

At this time, he was a little embarrassed when he said this, so he scratched his hair with his hand, and his body writhed a little unnaturally, looking like he was feeling weak.

Chen Qiming said with a smile: "Guo Runsheng, you don't have to be nervous, it's a good thing to be studious and inquisitive, and it's worthy of praise; But what you are doing is not right, when you are working, you can ask each other for advice and learning, but you can't go too far and bring trouble to others, thus affecting the work of others. ”

He asked again: "Guo Runsheng, let me test your knowledge, if you answer well, you will have a surprise." ”

Guo Runsheng's face was suddenly serious, his body was straight, his eyes were looking straight ahead, and he looked like he was being questioned.

Chen Qiming asked about some knowledge about shipbuilding, and Guo Runsheng answered them fluently.

He tested Guo Runsheng's knowledge of steam engines to test his self-learning ability, and he talked eloquently and was quite insightful.

Chen Qiming was quite satisfied with Guo Runsheng's performance, so he asked, "Guo Runsheng, are you willing to be my student?"

When Guo Runsheng heard this, he was overjoyed, and just as he was about to answer, he heard an angry voice sound, and when he heard the voice, he looked back and saw that the person who spoke was Chen Mingcheng.

I only heard him say angrily: "Okay, you Chen Qiming, you dare to snatch people from me, I have long been ready to accept Guo Runsheng as a disciple, you actually want to insert a bar." ”

When Chen Qiming heard this, he immediately laughed, and retorted: "Hasn't he become your disciple yet?" So there is no priority, we all have the same competitive opportunities, and it is better to go to the University of Tokyo to further my studies than to nest next to you. ”

Chen Mingcheng was immediately angry when he heard this, and hurriedly retorted, only to see that the two had a war of words, and no one could convince anyone, Guo Runsheng seemed to have become a fragrant bait, and both of them wanted to fight.

At this time, a voice suddenly sounded outside, saying: "Why are Professor Chen and Master Chen arguing, I have heard your noise from afar, it is better to say it and let me judge it." ”

When the two people in the room heard this, it was as if their necks had been choked, and the words in their throats were suddenly choked.

Both of them heard who it was, and hurriedly got up to greet him.

The person who spoke was Meng Ming, who was wandering around the construction site with Shengming, and was also brainwashing Shengming to join his team.

Now Meng Ming feels that there are not enough people around him who can hold the beam, and his own industrial planning, in the past eight years, he has done it there when he thinks of it, and there has never been a planning outline, so Meng Ming feels that he can't go on like this, and he must formulate a long-term plan, and take the opportunity of building Shanghai New City to build his own team.

He has been a well-known official for many years, and he was a member of the imperial court on the ruling side, and he is also quite talented and has rich experience in local governance.

Although he has lost his official position, he also has a wide network in the court, is also quite politically minded, and is also proficient in the study of thick black, so Meng Ming is ready to make him his think tank and hire him as the worship of the Meng Group.

The fame has been said to be touched, and Meng Ming is not fooling him, Meng Ming's planning blueprint for Shanghai New City, no matter who is invited to participate in the hosting, anyone will be tempted.

Meng Ming brought him a high hat, and his reputation actually had this ability, allowing him to preside over Shanghai's urban planning and construction and coordinate all aspects of the relationship.

In the end, Sheng Ming agreed, and Meng Ming was also overjoyed, and his team finally ushered in a strong general.

The two were in high spirits, talking along the way, exchanging ideas and opinions with each other, and learning from each other's strengths, both benefited a lot.

The two of them slipped to Chen Qiming's place, and they heard the quarrel inside, so they went to find out.

The two people in the room hurriedly went out to greet them, Meng Ming and Sheng Ming then walked into Chen Qiming's office, and Meng Ming asked the reason for the quarrel between the two.

Chen Qiming told the ins and outs of the matter, Meng Ming was happy when he heard it, and he also looked at Guo Runsheng, only to say that both of them had discovered the same favorite talent, so they also had the heart of competition.

Guo Runsheng didn't know Meng Ming, but he also had a lot of eyesight, he saw the extraordinaryness of the young man who had just come in, and everyone in the room was faintly headed by this person.

Meng Ming asked him, "Guo Runsheng, what is your own idea?" ”

Guo Runsheng said in embarrassment: "I want to worship them as teachers, so that I will have no shortcomings in shipbuilding; You can not only know the surface phenomenon of shipbuilding, but also know the essence of the matter and the reasons for its occurrence, and you can also master the rich skills of shipbuilding. ”

When Chen Qiming and Chen Mingcheng heard this, they also pondered, they didn't expect this layer at all, and most of them had a deep view of the portal.

At this time, Meng Ming said at this time: "Yuxin (Chen Qiming's words) and Chen Dajiang, we are a family, and we are all touching a spoon and eating a pot of rice on the construction site; So you don't have a gateway view, just accept Guo Runsheng as an apprentice, how good it would be for him to gather the strengths of your two families. ”

Both of them also let go of their knots and agreed to the matter, and immediately Guo Runsheng bowed to the two of them one by one.

Then Meng Ming convened a meeting of all the principals on the construction site, mainly because he wanted to introduce Sheng Ming to everyone, so he asked Sheng Ming to sit on the rostrum.

Meng Ming said at this time: "In the past two months, you have been tired on the construction site, and I thank you for your dedication and efforts, which is also a strong support for me Meng, and I will give you a reward." ”

As soon as Meng Ming's voice fell, there was warm applause at the scene, he raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and he still had something to say.

At this time, Meng Ming said again: "Everyone, I will leave for Tokyo tomorrow, there is a way to "have a thousand families, and one person in charge." "When I go back, somebody has to be here to take charge of the big picture, and now I have the best person."

After saying that, Meng Ming let Sheng Ming stand up, and then introduced: "This is Sheng Feng, he is quite talented, has the ability to plan as a whole, and is competent enough to be the director; The chief of the event sat here as if I had been there; However, all decrees signed by the chief minister must be obeyed and implemented, and must not be perfunctory. In short, in addition to the financial and accounting matters of Shanghai New Town, the Sheng chief has the final say. ”

After Meng Ming finished speaking, he looked at everyone's reactions, everyone was very calm, and no one objected, so he announced the adjournment of the meeting.

Now Uncle Xiang has led the construction team to build a residential community, and there are 36 residential buildings built, all of which are four-story buildings; There are six columns, each with six buildings; The innermost two columns are duplexes; The remaining four columns are all ordinary buildings.

A fence was built around the community, and Meng Ming named it "Happiness Lane".

"Happiness Lane" can accommodate 960 households, and the families of managers and technicians on the construction site are arranged in advance.

These people are now the reserve talents of the Meng Ming family, so Meng Ming is very concerned about their daily life, so when the conditions were relatively bad in the early days of Shanghai New Town, we should care more about them.

Meng Ming gave priority to the construction of housing projects to solve the housing problem of these key personnel, so that they have no worries.

Meng Ming is ready to leave for Tokyo, after all, he has been out for more than two months, not only has a letter from home urging him to return, but Zhao Zhen has also sent a letter urging him to go back to discuss politics.

On this day, Meng Ming began to pack his bags and prepare to take a steamboat to Yangzhou, and take the train back to Tokyo from Yangzhou.

Sheng Ming and his entourage came to see him off, Meng Ming put Sheng Ming aside, and also asked him to do some things, so that he could report on the construction of Shanghai in January.

At this time, Sheng Ming also said: "Don't worry, Meng Yuma, I will definitely follow your plan to build Shanghai into a splendid city, and I will still settle down here and retire here in the future." ”

However, he seemed to remember that he had something important to say to Meng Ming, so he stroked his beard and thought about it for a while.

He said with some concern: "By the way, Meng Fuma, I still have a few tricky things to say: first of all, the defense of the construction site, because this place is close to the sea, several pirate snoops have been discovered; The second is that many of the boat owners you recruited from Yangzhou are members of the Yangzhou Boat Gang, and many of them have secretly contacted and formed gangs, and they have made repeated troubles recently, so they must be dealt with as soon as possible. ”

Meng Ming was a little ashamed when he heard this, he hadn't noticed these hidden dangers in the past two months, but he hadn't taken them to heart.

Fortunately, a month earlier, he had submitted to the imperial court an outline of the development plan for the new city of Shanghai, and applied for the formation of a 600 militia regiment and armed with 1,000 muskets to defend the city.

The imperial court had already approved Meng Ming's application and asked Huating County to send officials to maintain law and order.

Meng Ming also hired an instructor from Tokyo to train the militia of the militia, this instructor was recommended by Yang Wenguang, his name is Yang Qinglin, he was injured and retired in the northwest border town, but his marksmanship is particularly accurate, and he can be hired as an instructor.

He had been at the construction site for nearly twenty days, waiting for the musket to be in place, and the practice would begin as soon as it was in place.

Meng Ming comforted him and said: "Uncle Sheng, don't worry, the musket will arrive in the next two days, and after arriving, let Yang Qinglin organize the drill, and as for the regimental soldiers, priority will be given to selecting from the workers who are innocent, and they can also be selected from the local farmers; As for the formation of the Yangzhou Boat Gang, you will be bold and crack down on the leaders of them, and you must not be soft. ”

After Meng Ming finished explaining, he said goodbye to everyone, and then boarded the ship, and then headed for Yangzhou, and after a while, the steamboat sailed out of the sight of everyone on the shore