It is difficult for friends in the north to imagine what kind of three-dimensional city Chongqing is.

If you are driving in Chongqing completely by navigation, then congratulations, Sister Chiling reminds you that when you have arrived, you may still be 500 meters away from your destination.

Although the traffic in Chongqing in 1936 was not so complicated, it was actually more of a headache, and all kinds of climbs and bumps made you doubt your life.

If you ask a local for directions: "Excuse me, how do you get to such and such a street?" ”

The enthusiastic locals replied, "It's very close, and you'll be there after climbing this slope." ”

Half an hour later, you're still on your way up......

Li Ziba, where the Zhou Mansion is located, is where there is a subway line passing through the wall from the eighth floor in mid-air in later generations, and many friends must have seen that photo.

At this time, Liziba is not strictly speaking an urban area of Chongqing, only one old street is still prosperous, and there are various villages and houses scattered around.

But the feng shui here is not bad, Sichuan Wang Liu Xiang's mansion is here, only two kilometers away from Zhou Hexuan's house. The mansion of Li Gengu, commander of the Chongqing garrison and commander of the newly formed 25th Division, is also under construction, and he will soon be a neighbor with Zhou Hexuan.

There are probably two roads to go from Liziba to Chongqing City: one is to take the waterway directly to Chaotianmen Wharf; The second is to take the mountain road to the intersection of the two roads.

Want to get into town by car?

That's impossible, at least not yet.

Chongqing in the 20s was even more backward, thanks to Liu Xiang's number one confidant and the first mayor of Chongqing, Pan Wenhua. During Pan's tenure, he directly doubled the size of Chongqing's urban area, which had previously been a wasteland of mass graves outside Tongyuan Gate and Shangqing Temple.

Fan Ha'er set off from his own Fan Zhuang, first took a sliding pole to Qixinggang, then changed to a car and went straight to the two intersections, and then changed to a sliding rod to go over the mountains and mountains - well, Master Fan is going to visit Zhou Hexuan, and this road is enough to toss.

On the steep mountain road, a team of people and horses came from afar, and when they bumped into each other, they all stopped and bowed their hands in greeting.

"Well, Mayor Li, it's a coincidence that we met here today." Van Haal greeted with a smile.

The person who came was Li Hongkun, Liu Xiang's former chief of staff and the third mayor of Chongqing, and he also smiled: "It's a coincidence, you can meet Brother Ha anywhere." ”

Fan Haer said: "I'm going to visit Mr. Zhou, where is Mayor Li?" ”

"We're all in this together." Li Hongkun said.

"That's right, you're the mayor, you go ahead." As he spoke, Van Har ordered his entourage to get out of the mountain path.

Li Hongkun did not shirk, and walked forward with peace of mind, too lazy to talk nonsense with Fan Haer.

The communication between the two seems to be harmonious, but in fact, they are all pretended. Liu Xiang has now unified Sichuan, and while developing internal affairs, it is natural that he must also eliminate dissidents in the army, and Fan Ha'er is one of the targets that will be eliminated.

The reason is very simple, it doesn't matter how many bosses Fan Harr has taken refuge in, which Sichuan warlord is not like this? However, Fan Ha'er defected to Chang Kaishen halfway, which can be regarded as a taboo in the Sichuan warlord world.

Just last month, Van Ha'er's friend Xie Guangxing died on a mahjong table on charges of resisting arrest and being shot dead on the spot. It doesn't matter if Xie Guangxing dies or not, the problem is that Liu Xiang wants to carry out an anti-drug campaign, and the spearhead is directly aimed at Fan Harr, who is engaged in the opium trade, and Xie Guangxing's death is equivalent to cutting off half of Fan Harr's financial resources.

After Fan Haer learned the news, his first reaction was to raise troops to make trouble, and then began to plan assassination activities, wanting to kill Hou Jianguo, the inspector appointed by Liu Xiang (in charge of banning smoking). This is the "assassination incident" that shook Sichuan, and the assassination will be successful next year, and from then on, all county magistrates and commissioners who come to Dazhu to take office will inevitably go to Fan Harr to worship the pier first.

As Li Hongkun, who has served as Liu Xiang's chief of staff for a long time, he naturally can't urinate in the same pot as Fan Shaozeng, and the personalities and concepts of the two are too different.

For example, when Liu Shuai instigated the Luzhou Uprising and was arrested, Li Hongkun not only came forward as a guarantee, but also paid someone to escort Liu Shuai out of Chongqing. As for Fan Harr, he actually took the initiative to attack He Shuai on the way to the Long March, and was beaten to the ground in minutes, Fan Harr robbed a buffalo from his fellow countryman, and rode the ox across the river to escape from the battlefield.

The entourage of these two people is clearly distinguished, and they are at least seven or eight feet apart, so there is really no possibility of communication.

After about ten minutes of advancement, an old gentleman with a wooden cane appeared in front of him. The old gentleman was dressed in a blue robe, with a thick beard and a paper roll under his arm.

"Principal Hu, go slowly!" Li Hongkun sat on a sliding rod and chased after him and shouted.

Hu Shuhua turned around slowly, stroked his long beard and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Mayor Li." ”

Li Hongkun hurriedly got off the sedan chair and got off the sliding pole, walked with Hu Shuhua, and asked, "Principal Hu is also going to visit Mr. Zhou?" ”

Hu Shuhua explained: "Chongqing University has established a new motto, and when I heard that Mr. Zhou has settled here, I would like to ask him to write an inscription for the motto of Chongqing University. ”

Hu Shuhua has been the president for half his life, including Tongji University, Hunan University, Chongqing University, and later Northwest Associated University. Among them, the school songs of Hunan University and Chongqing University were written by Hu Shuhua himself, and the school motto of Chongqing University was also written by him.

Li Hongkun said with a smile: "Just ask Mr. Zhou to be a professor, with him in Chongqing University, it will definitely attract many students and teachers." ”

Hu Shuhua stroked his beard and shook his head: "Mr. Zhou is running around all the year round, how can he have time to be a professor, he ran away before his class in Peking was finished, and the students of the History Department of Tsinghua University are scolding his mother." ”

"Hahaha, scolding well, how can there be such a teacher." Li Hongkun laughed.

The two of them chatted energetically in the front, but Fan Harr was very uncomfortable in the back. He is a big man and a coarse one, and he has no common language with cultural people, unlike Li Hongkun, who also studied at the Whampoa Military Academy.

Turning over the mountain, Li Hongkun said in surprise: "Hey, when is there an extra road on that side?" ”

"It should be Mr. Zhou's money to repair it." Hu Shuhua guessed.

In fact, it is not a road at all, so a dirt and stone road is opened up halfway up the mountainside, only more than four meters wide, which can barely allow cars to pass, connecting Zhou Mansion and Liziba Old Street. It was a tragedy on a rainy day on this road, all kinds of mud and difficult to walk, and the car could only be carried along.

Everyone came to the back gate of the Zhou Mansion - the main gate is near the river, and was soon greeted by the servants.

When I got inside, I found that the Zhou family already had guests, and Li Gengu, the commander of the Chongqing garrison, was here as a guest, and he would move to Liziba after a while.

Everyone met and exchanged pleasantries, Fan Shaozeng regretted a little that he shouldn't have come, and all he met today were rivals.

Hu Shuhua didn't beat around the bush and said straight to the point: "Mr. Zhou, I want to hire you as an honorary professor of Chongqing University with a monthly salary of 100 yuan." Every year, you only need to come to the school to give three academic lectures and one public lecture, and please don't refuse. ”

Now that he has settled in Chongqing, Zhou Hexuan also wants to have a good relationship with the local area, he said with a smile: "The monthly salary of 100 is not needed, and the school funds are not generous, and the symbolic 1 yuan is enough." ”

"That's what you promised?" Hu Shuhua was a little surprised, he didn't expect Zhou Hexuan to be so easy to speak.

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "Principal Hu, don't say that I mislead people's children." ”

"Mr. Zhou is modest," Hu Shuhua took out a few pieces of rice paper and said, "This is the new motto of Chongqing University, and Mr. Zhou is invited to be stingy." ”

Zhou Hexuan is a little embarrassed to mention the brush, he is good at calligraphy, and the major school motto is obviously more suitable for regular script or official script, and the calligraphy seems too frivolous. After pondering and contemplating the idea, Zhou Hexuan wrote the school motto with lines: hard-working, thrifty, diligent in study, and love for the country - Zhou Hexuan's question.

"Free and easy without losing stability, elegant without losing bearing. Good word! Hu Shuhua stroked his beard and admired it.

"Laughing." Zhou Hexuan was modest, in fact, he was very proud, he has been practicing calligraphy for almost ten years, and he is confident that he will not lose to many famous calligraphers of the Republic of China.