Chapter 185: Bozhou Mengcheng
Fortunately, the carriage soon arrived at the Gu family's house, and after entering the Gu family, Gu Shizhen was surprised by Wang Yongan's arrival. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Wang Yongan told the truth, he was blocked by heavy rain, and there was a sister-in-law living in the Wang family's old house, and it was probably not suitable for him to go back and live as a brother-in-law. Gu Shizhen nodded, and said that you are very right to do this, then the old mansion of the Wang family will be left to your sister-in-law to live in, and you will live in my house tonight.
After washing his face and feet, Wang Yongan lay on the bed, but he couldn't sleep, and many things echoed in his mind, Yuan Shikai, the imperial court, Zaifeng, Huang Bo, Wang Yongtai, Chen Qimei, one by one, the images drilled into his mind like a poisonous snake, and he couldn't sleep. As a person who once had no ambitions, Wang Yongan's transformation made him physically and mentally exhausted, and everyone felt that life as an adult was too tiring, Wang Yongan really wanted to go back to his childhood, at least back to modern times, and live his peaceful and stress-free life - not now, you are cheating, you live and die, today I don't know tomorrow is full of dangers.
Tossing and turning was difficult to sleep, and in the middle of the night, Wang Yongan suddenly heard the sound of the piano, which seemed to come from the back house of the Gu family.
The sound of the piano is beautiful, but it is full of an indescribable sadness, Wang Yongan listened to the sound of the piano, his mood was much calmer, and he guessed that most of the people who played the piano were Gu Wanying, Miss Gu San. He didn't expect Gu Wanying to have a hand in the piano, when a real person can't look like a sea is immeasurable, in the past influence, he is beautiful, and his talent is generally not very good, such as his wife Nianzhen - qin, chess, calligraphy, painting and embroidery, it seems that she only likes to read, or Tunshangtun, that is, her own books.
After thinking about it for a while, Wang Yongan fell asleep in the sound of the piano, but what he never expected was that the sound of Miss Gu San's piano actually solved the problem of Wang Yongan's insomnia. When I woke up, I was refreshed, and even Wang Yongan couldn't think of it, and I couldn't help but wonder if I wanted to record her piano, and I fell asleep listening to the piano every time I went to bed in the future.
Recording is not technically difficult, Edison invented it in 1877, and in 1900 the circular disc appeared, making it much easier. The development of technology made the phonograph quickly popularized to civilian use. A gramophone in the United States is only $10, and in China it is only $15, but at this time in the Qing Dynasty, basically no Chinese are willing to buy this monster thing that can make sounds.
For the sake of his own sleep, Wang Yongan didn't do his job again, and specially sent Chen Qimei a newspaper, asking him to buy two gramophones for himself, one for Nianzhen and one for himself. Chen Qimei knew about the phonograph, but he didn't have much time now, but fortunately, he had a lot of people, so he quickly bought two and sent them.
Nianzhen got the gramophone, and after the person turned it on, a beautiful singing voice came from the gramophone, and she was very happy. But Wang Yongan was miserable, and the gramophone was transferred to him several times, and he was embarrassed to find that Yangzhou had not been electrified......
The only place in Yangzhou where there is electricity is the telegraph office, but you can't sleep next to the telegraph office.
So Wang Yongan began to toss again, he wanted to generate electricity for Yangzhou and prepare for the construction of the power supply bureau by himself. In the future, the State Grid will raise the price of electricity ladder when it is fine, do not allow private power grids, and engage in national monopoly to make huge profits, Wang Yongan deeply feels that his power generation for Yangzhou is to serve the people and do good deeds, for the benefit of future generations.
In the incomprehension and differences of the people of Yangzhou, Wang Yongan bought a set of thermal generators and began to generate electricity for Yangzhou - the original purpose was just to avoid insomnia, when Wei Wenkang learned about it, he looked at Wang Yongan like a fool and said, "Why didn't you marry Miss Gu San?" ”
Wang Yongan was stunned, yes, he spent money on infrastructure construction, and he was busy for more than half a year, so it was better to marry Miss Gu San......
At the same time that Wang Yongan left Miss Gu San's house, Mengcheng County, Bozhou, northern Anhui, the Qing Army's Beiyang New Army 24th Mixed into a Cooperative Military Camp.
As the sun rose, the trumpets sounded as usual, and the soldiers came out of their houses to begin their morning exercises.
Wang Yongtai slowly got dressed, stood in front of the window, and looked at his soldiers with low morale, his heart was extremely complicated.
Wang Yongtai actually woke up more than ten days ago, but fortunately, his body was hard and Yue Wenzheng's medical skills were superb, so he was able to save his life. Wang Yongtai was grateful to Yue Wenzheng, but at the same time blamed himself for being harsh to military doctors in the past, and inevitably regretted that he did not realize the importance of the construction of military medical courses in the past, if it were not for Yue Wenzheng, he would definitely die. After a few days of recuperation, Wang Yongtai officially dealt with the military situation, but suddenly learned that Xi Wusheng and Huang Bo's left army abandoned the army and brazenly led the troops back to the base camp.
After waking up, Wang Yongtai saw that there was no one left and right, so he shouted, and his own soldier Wei Daofeng hurriedly walked in, and said in surprise near the bed: "General, my lord, you woke up so early." What to eat? ”
"Let's have some, some gruel." Wang Yongtai said with a pale face.
"Okay." Wei Daofeng turned around to leave, but heard Wang Yongtai say: "Let Yang Zhenshan come over, I don't know what happened to the Yangzhou base camp?" Xi Wusheng hid in the barracks, and wondered how to deal with us. Alas...... I didn't expect it, I didn't expect that Lao Xi would actually lie to me, he would actually lie to me, hahaha......" Wang Yongtai's face became more and more pale, and his body stumbled and almost fell, but fortunately, Wei Daofeng was agile and supported him.
"Go, go, I'm fine." Wang Yongtai smiled bitterly.
"Yes."
Soon after, Yang Zhenshan came over, and when he saw that Wang Yongtai was in good spirits today, he showed a happy expression on his face and said, "General, you are recovering well. ”
"It's okay, I've slept for so many days." Wang Yongtai asked, "Did they take the military camp of the Pure Law Temple?" Bozhou was defeated, and someone in the imperial court would definitely take the opportunity to fall into the ground, Xi Wusheng knew how to vote for the master. ”
Yang Zhenshan had a complicated expression on his face, shook his head and said with a wry smile: "General, the Jingfa Temple military camp has been taken away, but it is not Xi Wusheng and Huang Bo. ”
"What?" Wang Yongtai was surprised, "If it's not them, who else can it be?" ”
Yang Zhenshan's face changed several times, and he didn't know what to say, but finally decided to report the news directly, saying: "This morning, someone rushed from Yangzhou to deliver the news to us that Xi Wusheng and Huang Bo rushed back to Yangzhou with more than 900 people from the left army day and night, but they didn't want to enter the barracks and immediately fell into an ambush, all of them were arrested, and the Jingfa Temple military camp was also taken away. ”
Xi Wusheng and others were captured, there was nothing more exciting for Wang Yongtai than this news, the haze on Lian Rixing's head seemed to dissipate all of a sudden, and he laughed and said: "Gong Wuyuan did a good job, did a good job." ”
"It wasn't Gong Wuyuan who did it." Yang Zhenshan lowered his head, "Yes...... The fourth young master did it, the fourth young master returned to Yangzhou, and he also appointed himself as the chief instructor of the 24th Mixed Association, and now he is in charge of the military of the Yangzhou base camp, and the one who seized the camp has changed from Xi Wusheng to the fourth young master Wang Yongan, your younger brother. (To be continued.) )