"Ah Soul, why are you here", Kong Yuling seemed to be surprised by Ah Soul's appearance, "Haven't you been following Daddy, is Daddy also here."

Seeing the eldest lady eagerly looking at her father, Ah Soul was still as cold as ever, and replied expressionlessly, as if stating a fact, "The master didn't come, and the master told me to follow the young lady from now on to ensure the safety of the young lady until the old man has a new arrangement."

This ruthless soul to the extreme, Liu Yun is a little interested, on the surface, this guy is only in his twenties, others think he is a young man who has nothing to do, but this person is the only person he has ever seen close to the eldest grandson Mingyue, even if Jilen Jinzhu once injured Tada Jinzo with one shot, if it is about actual cultivation, I am afraid it will be slightly inferior to this person.

When he was in Nanjing, Liu Yun asked Miss Kong about Ah Soul, but she didn't know very well, except that she knew that this person's name was Ah Soul, and the Kong family respected him very much, and had served as Kong Caishen's personal guard for a long time, she didn't know anything about other news.

On the contrary, on the way to Wuhan, the eldest lady inadvertently revealed a very interesting news, since she saw Ah Soul at a few years, in the past twenty years, this person has hardly changed, as if the ruthlessness and loss of years seem to be completely ineffective for him.

In other words, Ah Soul's age may be in his forties or in his hundreds, but fortunately, Liu Yun has seen the eldest grandson Mingyue, and he can quite understand that it is difficult for ordinary people to accept things.

Liu Yun also knew one thing, from the beginning when everyone left Kong's villa, Ah Soul and several other guards never left themselves and Kong Yuling, and even came to Wuhan with everyone, and it was the "Marseille" steamer.

Ah Soul picked up people this time, and the others thought that he had already arrived in Hankou and was coming to the dock according to the steamer's schedule, in fact, he only went ashore a few minutes early, but this person was also proficient in martial arts and stealth, as long as he was unwilling to reveal his whereabouts, ordinary people would not be able to detect it at all.

Being able to detect the whereabouts of Ah Soul, of course, is not someone's own credit, but the strange things that the brain unintentionally found when scanning on its own, Liu Yun immediately inquired a little about Kong Yuling, but the eldest lady didn't know it, and later found that this guy was very concerned about Miss Yuling's safety, so he didn't care too much, and now in retrospect, I'm afraid it's not as simple as it seems.

If Liu Yun guessed correctly, it should be that Kong Caishen still has doubts, and he is very suspicious of whether he can make a new engine, and he is most afraid that someone will sneak away while amplifying his words, so he sent Kong Yuling to Wuhan to inspect the industry, and secretly ordered Ah Soul to monitor everyone at any time on the grounds of protecting his daughter.

Liu Yun can understand the hardships of Kong Caishen, after all, this guy is a politician, not a philanthropist, who is willing to take such a senseless risk, if he is too emotional and benevolent, it makes people wonder how Minister Kong climbed to today's position.

Since the old Kong family has been prepared for a long time, why should everyone be bored, don't want to eat toast, do you want to eat and drink, Liu Yun didn't care about everyone's strange eyes, and took the initiative to drill into the car, that natural proficiency made Miss Kong ashamed.

Sharing a car with Liu Yun, Kong Yuling was overjoyed, and self-righteously concluded that Dr. Liu had adapted to the personnel and behavior of the old Kong family, well, ready to be the son-in-law of the Kong family.

With the movement of the car, Liu Yun found that the Hankou Concession and the Shanghai Concession are actually similar, whether it is the architectural style, the urban pattern, or the pedestrians, trams, they are all so familiar, by the way, even the Indian Ah San, the patrol police of foreign origin, are a little similar to the Bund in Shanghai, and the biggest difference with the Bund in Shanghai is that all kinds of churches stand majestically.

The empathetic Miss Kong looked at Liu Yun with a clever smile, "Do you think this place is very familiar, or it looks like the Bund in Shanghai, yes, this is the famous Jiangwai Bund."

Later, Kong Yuling gave a slight explanation, "Since the opening of the port of Hankou, Britain, Russia, France, Germany, Japan, and even Belgium have all set up concessions in Hankou.

"Moreover, in recent years, the Nationalist Government has established the Hankou Special City, which means adopting special management measures, so some of the personnel and management methods before the concession are still continuing, and even many personnel and appearances are basically synchronized with the Shanghai concession."

No wonder this is the case, isn't it the Republic of China version of "one country, two systems", Liu Yun thought about it, what is going on with the church, by the way, Miss Kong is not a doctor of theology.

In 1862, the vicar of Hubei, the Italian Ming Dynasty, moved the cathedral from Yingcheng, Hubei to Wuchang, built St. Joseph's Cathedral in Hankou in 1876, established the Hankou Catholic Hospital in 1880, and opened the Renji Hospital in Hankou in 1902, and the church has flourished in Hankou since then.

In addition, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the rise of the Westernization Movement, Zhang Zhidong opened a steel factory and an arsenal in Hanyang, and these factories needed to import foreign technology, resulting in an increasing number of foreigners in Wuhan, and most of these people gathered in the Hankou Concession area.

Therefore, there are more than 10 large and small churches in Hankou, such as the Aleksandnev Church in Russia, the Gefei Church and the Datong Lane Gospel Church in England, the Tian Erhe Catholic Church in Germany, and the Church of the Immaculate Conception in France, and so on, as for the pheasant churches, there are even more.

As for what Liu Yun saw along the way, some buildings that resemble churches are not real churches, but some church hospital buildings, church school buildings, and even some seminary buildings, such as the Lutheran Church Chukou Theological Seminary, which runs the "Lutheran Bao" newspaper building.

A line of trolleys passed through the concession area, crossed Jianghan Road and the wharf railway, and finally stopped at the riverside extension of Zhenghan Street, which is just facing the Yangtze River, adjacent to the Dragon King Temple, with beautiful scenery and wide line of sight.

The Confucian villa in Hankou, covering an area of more than 600 square meters, is a Western-style house based on brick and wood structure, the main building is three stories high, the northwest two sides are the main façade, and its corner is a four-story round tower, the shape of the whole building is somewhat similar to the British Georgian style.

After entering the door, I found that the door of this villa, and some inconspicuous parts on the wall pillars, actually had some strange signs, a bit like a pu fan, Kong Yuling smiled and explained, this is the logo of Shell oil, Liu Yun suddenly realized, and wondered that the Kong family also sells oil.

Under the warm reception of the servants, everyone had to solve the stomach problem first, and then Kong Yuling arranged the room of the group, she wanted to arrange Liu Yun upstairs, adjacent to her own bedroom, someone's face seemed to be thinner, and she refused a little embarrassedly.

After a period of busyness, it was getting late, because Yang Kai and Zhang Boyu were about to go away, Liu Yun and Kong Yuling wanted to talk to them, and Pang Yuyan was already tired and fell asleep, Pang Xuezhong was also a busy man, and he had something to do the next day, and his body was no better than that of a young man, so he consciously returned to the room.

Yang Kai said that he was going to take a boat against the river, first go back to his hometown in Jingzhou to see, and then go to the administrative office in Jingmen, Hubei Province to report, if it goes well, then go to Shayang Town as the deputy county magistrate, if you want to report to the Hubei Provincial Government, I am afraid you have to come to Wuchang, but these are all digressions, after all, I haven't been home for several years, and it is normal for people to want to meet their parents first.

Zhang Boyu is a heartless thing, this guy actually used the excuse that the steamer on the Han River is small, and it is very dangerous to go all the way back, and he is unwilling to go directly to Hanzhong from the Han River, but decided to take the train to report to Xi'an Province first, and then report back to the Hanzhong Administrative Office, and by the way, go back to the old Zhang's house to visit relatives, everything is done, and then go to Xixiang County to be his official.

Liu Yun thought that Zhang Boyu was interesting, this guy was an official fan and a lazy person, Miss Kong sat on the side, and didn't interject much, only remembered the itinerary of Zhang Yang and the two, and told the servants to buy tickets tomorrow morning, and prepare some Wuhan specialties in order to see off the two of them.

Yang Kai also smiled at the past, but blessed Miss Kong, grew old with the person she liked, and deliberately glanced at Liu Yun, someone started drinking water again, pretending not to see anything, but the eldest lady herself was generous and nodded in thanks.

Zhang Boyu wanted to speak and stopped, but finally held back, but laughed heartily, warning Liu Yun not to bully his cousin, otherwise his eldest brother is not easy to mess with, in the old Zhang family in Hanzhong, I know a lot of Shaanxi swordsmen, if you are not afraid of thousands of miles of pursuit, you can try.

In fact, Liu Yun is also very strange, and he also asked Zhang Boyu, since he has been good with his cousin since childhood, why don't he walk together, the expression of that guy seems to be a little strange, saying that in his eyes, Kong Yuling is his own sister-in-law, how can there be a brother marrying a sister in the world.

This answer is very speechless, but it is also the same in the 21st century, male and female partners who have played well since childhood, and when everyone grows up, there are many people who can't walk together.

Early the next morning, Pang Taishi went to the Sichuan Hall to worship the wharf, as for Kong Yuling, Liu Yun and Pang Yuyan, they first went to the wharf on Zhenghan Street to send Yang Kai, and then went to the Jinghan Railway to send Zhang Boyu, and then, Pang Kong and his daughter went to Kong's industry to go around, and Pang Liu and the others went to Hanyang Arsenal to report.

The two of them turned the Dragon King Temple, crossed the water surface of the Han River, and the first thing they saw was the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, with more than a dozen high chimneys emitting black smoke, which was unforgettable at first sight, but Liu Yun knew that this was the symbol of the awakening of modern China and was located at the foot of Guishan Mountain on the edge of the Yangtze River in Hubei.

The plant was built in 1890, by the governor of Huguang Zhang Zhidong, in 1893 officially completed and put into operation, there are pig iron, iron and wrought iron and other six large factories, as well as machinery and castings and other four small factories, in a broad sense, should also include Daye iron mine, as well as Jiangxi Pingxiang coal mine.

Seeing Liu Yun stunned, Pang Taishi thought that this guy had no knowledge and did not know the importance of the steel plant, so he roughly talked about the annual output of 100,000 tons of iron and 50,000 tons of steel, which is the largest steel complex in China and the confidence of the Hanyang Arsenal.

Faced with such a smoky scene, Liu Yun had already covered his nose and frowned, but Pang Taishi was a little complacent, not feeling the problem of air pollution at all, and chanted a local proverb, "Located at the mouth of the three rivers, sitting on the ground and supporting the army, there is something in the world."

Liu Yun also knows this sentence that he is talking about the three towns of Wuhan, especially implying that the Han ** has dragon energy, and among the heroes in the world, if anyone occupies here, he will have the qualification to win the world.

This proverb originated from the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Zuo Liangyu father and son were entrenched here, and the strategists wrote and directed their own Qi sayings for their liking, and later this sentence was valued by Wu Sangui, so the "Rebellion of the Three Feudatories" was basically stalemate in this area, and it was not really occupied until this guy died of illness.

In the Yongzheng period, because Nian Qianyao had been the commander here, it became the ironclad evidence of the rebellion of a certain year, until the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and became a slander Zeng Guofan and Zhang Zhidong, etc., a weapon of Hanchen, fortunately Zhang Zhidong was not confused when he encountered a major event, and did not avoid retreating because of rumors.

Therefore, there is the prosperity of the three towns of Wuhan today, as well as the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, the Hanyang Arsenal, this "ten-mile industrial corridor", which supports the last backbone of China.