The afternoon sun shone on the lush foliage overhead, and occasionally a few bits of sunlight took advantage of the swaying gap of the leaves to playfully burrow in, fell on the gravel-paved mountain road, and fled in a panic after falling into eight petals. July in Guangzhou is the hottest in July, but here it seems to become cool under the mountain breeze.

Liang Sihan took Huang Kuan to a mountain villa at the foot of Baiyun Mountain, although the villa has only three entrances, but the front is open, covering an area of really not small, because it is far away from the urban area of Guangzhou, it seems to be clean and deep, in this midsummer season, it is a good place to cool off the heat.

This is the campus address that Master Liang found for Guangzhou Medical College.

Although Huang Kuan has a lot of income now, he is also worth a little, but after all, he is from a civilian family, and such a big mountain villa is not something he can have, but this does not prevent him from liking this courtyard, especially in this season.

"Senior, what do you think of here?"

"There's nothing better than here, Sihan, you actually found such a big mountain villa, it looks like I'm really lonely."

"It's nothing, it's just borrowing the light from home, I think it's clean here, it's not too far from the city, it's still very suitable to be used as a school, not disturbed by the outside world, and the students can also calm down and focus on their studies with peace of mind" Young Master Liang took Huang Kuan to chat while walking.

"This school building is here, and the rest is teachers, teaching materials, teaching equipment, and then enrollment, how do you arrange these things?" Huang Kuan asked.

"The teaching materials are set by the seniors, I don't know anything, teachers, let's find a way to invite together, you make a list of teaching equipment for me, I arrange people to purchase, enrollment is not in a hurry, and it is too late to recruit when the previous things are arranged, senior, do you think this arrangement will work?"

"It's quite proper, I can't see it, you do things in an orderly manner, Sihan, if you study medicine, your level and achievements in the future will definitely surpass me." Huang Kuan has been impressed by his junior brother.

"The senior praised it, I still have to rely on you to take care of it here, I don't have your level." Young Master Liang behaved very humbly, he turned his head to look at Huang Kuan and said, "Senior, you came back from abroad, you said that in this education alone, how much worse is this Great Qing Kingdom than European and American countries?" ”

Huang Kuan was stunned for a while, stayed for a while and said: "Alas, it's not a matter of how much worse, it's something that can't be compared at all." After speaking, he sighed helplessly.

"Yes, this Great Qing Kingdom is poor and white in this regard, if our generation does not make extraordinary efforts, the country does not promote education from top to bottom, the gap will only get bigger and bigger, and it will never be able to catch up, so this Great Qing Country, I can't count on it" Young Master Liang once again revealed his disappointment with the Great Qing Dynasty.

"Sihan, this kind of thing can't be rushed, you have to think about it in the long run" Huang Kuan finally expressed his attitude, he was also very disappointed in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, otherwise he would not have resigned from Li Hongzhang.

"Senior, I'm going to go to Shanghai in the near future, as far as I know, the other senior Rong who you stayed abroad with back then is in Shanghai, do you want to go and see him together?"

"Oh, Rong Hong, we haven't seen each other for almost twenty years, we were young when we were separated in the United States, and now we are not confused, alas, it's good to meet, otherwise I really don't know when we will have the opportunity to meet again, Sihan, when do you plan to leave, I also need to arrange it here."

"How about setting off the day after tomorrow? Now I also have a companion, don't worry about the journey being lonely and boring," Young Master Liang squeezed his eyes mischievously.

"Hahahaha, you kid" Huang Kuan found that it felt very relaxed and happy to be with this junior.

Shanghai, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. The birthplace of the Westernization Movement in China.

In fact, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau was founded by Zeng Guofan, not by the later Du Niang and founded by Zeng Guofan's planner Li Hongzhang, Li Hongzhang was only entrusted by Zeng to take over the original American merchant Qiji Iron Works in Hongkou in June 1865, which was bought by the atonement merchants, and Zeng Guofan ordered Rong Hong to go to the United States with 68,000 taels of silver to purchase machinery as early as October 1863. The steamship yard was expanded by them. It's just that Zeng Guofan died early (March 1872), after Zeng's death, Li Hongzhang took the largest military industrial enterprise in the Qing Dynasty as his own, and the original management personnel were also dispersed by him, and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau became owned by the Li family, and later became the creation of Li Hongzhang, which is a strange thing! From raising funds, dispatching personnel, to purchasing machinery, and selecting a factory, these things were all done by Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang only became the receiver of the factory once, and then the teacher died, and his wings were stiff, so he put this historical honor on his head, no wonder even the Japanese Ito Hirobumi looked down on him, calling him a person who did not live up to his reputation and reputation.

History is indeed written by the victors (including the thick-skinned).

At this time, in the translation hall of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, there was a gathering of young masters Liang and Huang Kuan to visit Rong Hong, Rong Hong was engaged in the translation of Western industrial science and technology materials in the translation hall at this time, and at this time, the only few scientific researchers in the Qing Dynasty Xu Shou and Xu Jianyin father and son, Hua Yufang, Li Shanlan and other talents were in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, they are all good friends with Rong Hong, it can be said that they are all looked down upon by the mainstream culture of the Qing Dynasty and the so-called scholars, but they were appreciated by Zeng Guofan, and worked under the shogunate of the Zeng family early. Later, after Zeng Guofan's death, they all resigned and left because they couldn't get used to what Li Hongzhang did.

The scene in the translation hall was very touching, and Rong Hong and Huang Kuan, a pair of old classmates who shared hardships and pursuits, hugged each other tightly. From 1841 to 1849, the two of them were classmates at Morrison School in Hong Kong and Monson High School in the United States, after which Yung Hong went to Yale University, and Huang Kuan went to the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, becoming the only two graduates of famous foreign universities in China at this time.

After a long time, the two separated, and Huang Kuan took Rong Hong's hand and introduced him: "Brother Dayin, let me introduce you, this little friend is our junior, a graduate of Morrison School this year, Liang Sihan, the young owner of Guangzhou Tianbao Xing, don't look at his young age, he is a great talent."

Liang Sihan immediately saluted: "Sihan has seen Senior Rong", facing the father of Chinese students in later generations, Young Master Liang was very respectful.

"Oh, Brother Jiechen, if you don't say it, I thought it was your nephew, Brother Liang, even Jiechen praised you like this, it seems that you have real skills, you know, he has never praised me like this."

Everyone burst into laughter, Huang Kuan pointed at Rong Hong and said with a smile: "You Dayin, do you want me to write an article and praise you in the newspaper."

"That's it, I won't be embarrassed, if you really do this, it is estimated that we will all be scolded to death by the scholars and doctors of the Qing Dynasty, saying that the two of us have learned a little foreigner's things, so we shamelessly praise each other."

Everyone listened, but they couldn't laugh, they were all sad in their hearts, they were all about the same, they were all regarded as heretics by the Qing Dynasty scholars, and only by working here did the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau give them a place to use.

Rong Hong smiled and said: "If it weren't for Zeng Du's heavy use of me, I would still be selling tea in Jiujiang, I heard that you are doing well in Guangzhou, and foreigners are full of praise for your medical skills."

"Alas, it's hard to say, I want to use what I have learned to serve my hometown fathers, but I didn't expect them to accept me at all, but foreigners often come to me for medical treatment, because I often treat foreigners, the locals in Guangzhou have excluded me even more, the wives who married me at home the year before last have fallen me because of this number, and I was divorced in a fit of anger, and now I am a loner again", Huang Kuan met his best friend, and all secret private matters were said.

"Alas, don't talk about this, I'm not single like you, it's better not to marry someone who can't be like-minded, why don't you marry, why don't you have a wife!" Rong Hong also empathizes.

Young Master Liang listened to them complaining to each other, and secretly wrote down in his heart that he had to find a suitable person in the room for these two seniors to take care of their daily lives, so that Huang Kuan would not die young. He remembered that Rong Hong later married an American wife in the United States and gave birth to two mixed-race sons, and his life was quite satisfying.