"I went to Shanghai secretly, and I was finally able to get rid of those literati who came to me to intercede." At the work meeting of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, Kong Zhangle said. There are many people who are born with good intentions, and these are very emphasized in the education of the People's Party. In addition, this is an era of overwhelming conservatism, and the curiosity of the comrades is not enough to keep them busy.

"Kong Dianba, you're going to Shanghai, do you have anything to explain before leaving?" You Wei said to Kong Zhang with a grin.

"Why are you talking about the same as me going to the execution ground?" Kong Zhang's mouth retorted, but there was a smile on his face. Kong Zhang likes to listen to the Sui and Tang dynasties, so he likes his nickname "Kong Dianba" very much. First, this nickname reminded him of Li Yuanba, the first good man in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and secondly, the story of Li Yuanba being killed by lightning by hammering thunder made Kong Zhang, who is engaged in the power industry, have a special sense of superiority. After all, Kong Zhang's nickname in Xuzhou before he participated in the revolution was "thunder and thunder".

You Yu didn't want to make too many jokes, she asked Kong Zhang, "Have you chosen your successor?" ”

Kong Zhang replied: "Comrade Hei Guofei should be able to give Wuhan to the next, but the personnel issue has to be decided by the party committee." My recommendations alone are of little use. ”

After finishing speaking, Kong Zhang couldn't help but ask, "Comrade You Xuan, I heard that you are getting married?" ”

You Yan's face flushed, "What about work, what does this have to do with work?" ”

"Your home is from Shanghai, and Political Commissar He's family is also from Shanghai. And you have to go to Shanghai anyway, so just go to Shanghai with me and do business and private affairs together. Isn't it also decent for me to rely on the two of you? Kong Zhang said with a grin.

Although Kong Chang is witty by nature and likes to joke, he is by no means a frivolous person. The reason why I mentioned going to Shanghai is because the People's Party is really going to do a lot of work in Shanghai in the near future. Shanghai already has more infrastructure than most of the base towns, but that infrastructure is not enough for Shanghai to be an industrial center. The dispatch of Kong Zhang, minister of electric power, to preside over the work proves the attitude of the People's Party. The Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense also has to invest great strength in Shanghai, and other industrial enterprises can build in other areas of the liberated area, but shipyards cannot be built. The dockyard in Wuhan is designed for the construction of inland river and offshore vessels, and the dock of the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai must be used for the construction of the four 10,000-ton ships proposed by the United States.

As the boss of the industrial department of the People's Party, as a native of Shanghai, after not returning to his hometown for ten years, You Wei had to go to Shanghai for a field trip.

When it comes to work, the feeling of being relaxed when talking about marriage disappears cleanly. You Wu's purpose in participating in the revolution ten years ago had nothing to do with the overthrow of the Manchus, and what she hoped was to be able to show her talents and become a useful talent. Revolution is a process of learning, and You Gou also learned modern Chinese history. During the First Opium War, the British cut off China's shipping and forced the Manchus to surrender. The top brass of the People's Party knew that the next war with Japan was only a matter of time, and that the possibility of Japanese shelling of important coastal cities must be taken into account before the war began. The hard-earned huge investment was destroyed by a few shells, and it was really not worth it.

Therefore, this investment in Shanghai is by no means purely a construction issue. If it were to repair a few power plant waterworks and lay some pipelines, let alone use cadres of the level of You Gui, it would be impossible for even Kong Zhang, the minister of electric power, to leave his job in Wuhan and go to Shanghai for a long time.

Recovering sovereignty and canceling the concession is the wish of many aspiring young people in China, but after recovering sovereignty, sovereignty must be defended. You Yu talked about this when he chatted with He Zudao, and both of them felt that in this drastically changing world, they must be strong enough to defend the interests of the country.

Of course, Kong Zhang knew what You Yu was thinking, which was why he dared to suggest that He Zudao go to Shanghai together. As China's most important gateway, Shanghai does need strong construction and defense. The Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense is a model of integration of military and government, and power plants are key units of military management. Kong Zhang's personal patrol and standing guard with a steel gun over the years is not just a task that has been carried out dozens of times.

Among the people who attended the meeting, Qin Tongren was the one who really experienced the enemy's attack from the sea. His attitude towards the construction of Shanghai was the most conservative, the naval strength of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was too weak, and the construction of the navy could not be effective in a few years. If you want to rely on fleet warfare to defend against Japanese attacks from the sea, it is impossible for the People's Party to do this at present. So Qin Tongren said: "From the experience of Wuhan, urban construction requires overall planning. Even preparations for wartime have to be planned first. Instead, I suggest that Shanghai's industries be designed in a way that is arranged in depth. ”

When You Mu heard this, he immediately became excited, "Urban planning? That still has to be done by Chairman Chen. Not only can we not plan, but the cost is too difficult to calculate. Wuhan's sewage is discharged directly into the Yangtze River, and you can see what has become of the Yangtze River. The location of the sewage treatment plant was also retained, and construction began. But there is also a technical problem with using bacteria to break down the dirt. We have been engaged in bacterial research since six or seven years ago, and we have not yet produced completely feasible results. Even if domestic sewage can be reluctantly purified and discharged into the Yangtze River, what about industrial sewage? It's even harder to deal with. ”

Many times, the more knowledge and the wider the coverage of the overall consideration, the more headache the whole problem becomes. Urban construction must take into account all aspects of the city. After all, Chen Ke is well-informed, and Chinese is an extremely scientific system. In many cases, even if you don't know the specific operation, you can probably guess the technique and method of operation just by listening to the terms.

This is the accumulation of countless readings for Chen Ke, and for the comrades who are actually working, it is an unprecedentedly huge process of practice and exploration. When it comes to work, you you, who have been honed countless times, will be inexplicably excited. It's just that this time the direction of You's feelings is a little different, she said: "I now think that peace is a good thing, and if I can be peaceful, I can rest assured that I can boldly carry out construction." We don't have to waste so much thought in Shanghai. ”

"That's peace as you understand it." As a man, Kong Zhang's view of the world is still very different from that of You Wei, "If we can defend China's peace, why should we care about other countries? They're messing around, and we can see more jokes. ”

"I am against wars of aggression." After all, Qin Tongren had participated in the war, and if he could take revenge on the foreign invaders, Qin Tongren would certainly be happy. But the war left Qin Tongren with a strong feeling, so he hoped that the war could be avoided.

Kong Chang did not come to argue with his immediate boss about the future of China, he changed the subject, "If you want to avoid war, you can only rely on attack power." The biggest threat to holding Shanghai at the moment is the fleet of foreigners, and if we can create a large number of offensive weapons in the short term, such as ships capable of firing torpedoes, it will still be enough to make an effect. ”

Qin Tongren did not fail to consider these plans, he replied: "The torpedo boat will be hit by the secondary guns of the enemy's warships. If a mine attack is adopted, it will affect the normal shipping of Shanghai. As for submarine technology, our current accumulation is not yet mature. Not to mention airplanes. Torpedo attack aircraft, the name sounds magnificent, and now the plane can't fly itself with torpedoes on it......"

The categories under the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense are very complete, including the national laboratory system, and the "brands" of various basic research are also very complete. Just a complete "brand" does not mean that it can really produce results. The basis of the scientific system is not the equations, but a large number of experiments, a summary of the experimental process, and the analysis and summary of the data after the experiment. Even in the 21st century, technicians must go through this process of learning and practice. Not to mention the People's Party, which has just begun to build a real scientific research system.

Seeing Qin Tongren's babbling, Zhang Yu couldn't help but interrupt Qin Tongren's words, "Chairman Chen repeatedly emphasized that don't expect any decisive weapons. Counting on surprise to win is called self-writing, self-directing and self-acting. I'm still very clear about that. But I always believe that if you want to protect yourself, you must first have the ability to attack, and if one weapon is not enough, you must build several more, and sometimes it is more important to make the enemy feel worried. Instead of making some weapons to perfection. ”

You Wei saw that everyone was angry, and she smiled: "It seems that there is no need for on-the-spot investigation to defend Shanghai, let's have a meeting here to probably solve the problem." Do you think so? ”

Such a calm statement dispelled the hostility between Qin Tongren and Kong Zhang, both of whom actually knew that nothing could be debated by debate alone. There was a round of swimming, and the two stopped arguing about the donkey going down the slope.

On February 10, 1917, the joint group of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense arrived in Shanghai. At this time, Shanghai was completely controlled by the People's Party, and the first phase of the work was handled by Lin Shenhe, who was a former Shanghai patrolman.

Having managed Wuhan, Lin Shenhe is well aware of how difficult his work in Shanghai is. The first stage of work is to completely destroy the old system while establishing the new one. The basis for the destruction of the old system was the solution of the land and employment problems.

In the past few months, the People's Party has reached agreements with Britain, France and the United States, the most important of which is the resumption of the concession land. As for Japan, Germany, and Austria, the People's Party simply ignored the existence of these countries. There are many people who come to Shanghai to beg for food, and if they want to unite the masses, they must first find a livelihood for the masses to eat. Lin Shenhe recruited a large number of laborers, and took these laborers to start demolishing the concession.

As a former patrol house patrol, Lin Shenhe is familiar with the concession. After reaching a consensus with Britain, France and the United States on land replacement, Lin Shenhe began to do it without even more discussion. First of all, the Japanese people live there. Lin Shenhe sent someone to tell the minister of the Japanese legation that the People's Party had recovered all the land. The Japanese side hastened to move within the deadline. The Japanese adhered to the consistent style of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and from the official to the private, they were all relocated within the time limit. Seeing that the Japanese were honestly relocated, the residents in the concession also honestly signed the demolition agreement. Lin Shenhe immediately invested a lot of manpower in his hands to raze the Japanese settlement to the ground.

Then it was the turn of the area around Shikumen and Xujiahui, and Chen Ke told Lin Shenhe that wherever there were churches, they must be solved first, and the churches must be completely destroyed. If the missionaries apply for a new mission site, they will be temporarily assigned to the dump. Anyone who believes in foreign religion can be regarded as a pariah in terms of policy. This is not Chen Ke's attitude alone, and the only thing that makes the comrades of the Party Central Committee deprive him of his equal status based on his beliefs is that he believes in foreign religions.

Although Lin Shenhe's wife is a very devout Catholic, Lin Shenhe himself is not the slightest dissatisfied or uneasy about the attitude of the central government. He even carried out this policy with great joy.

The destruction was followed by construction, and the People's Party began to build a large number of four-story residential quarters in the demolished concession area, following the model of the community experimented in Wuhan.

Shanghai has a lot of people and little land, and there is a so-called alley culture. Chen Ke didn't care that he might be saddled with the title of a culture destroyer. As for Lin Shenhe, he doesn't even have the concept of lane culture. It has been calculated that the new housing complex will be able to accommodate more than twice as many people as before. To whom is this extra dwelling provided? When the joint group of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense arrived in Shanghai, the party committee meeting of the Shanghai Management Committee was discussing this issue.

When You Gou heard about this, she didn't care if someone said that she "started pointing fingers as soon as she got off the bus", and she didn't shy away from suspicion, You Gou spoke anxiously, "You can ask first, these people who are now working in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, are they willing to replace these communities with their current residences." ”

"Do those people from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau have their own homes?" Lin Shenhe was not afraid of swimming, he asked.

"I have been in Shanghai for so many years, and I have never seen the ordinary laborers' homes of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau be bigger and better than the houses in our community." You Gou used her intelligence advantage as a Shanghai native.

"What if people don't want to change it?" Lin Shenhe asked.

You Yu smiled and said, "If you don't want to change, you will be expelled." And with Comrade Lin Shenhe, you are this bad guy, I have confidence in you. ”

Lin Shenhe was not angry at all about this, You Yu showed that he was willing to take responsibility. With the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense taking responsibility, what else is Lin Shenhe afraid of?

Demolition is a tedious and lengthy job, and after You Yu only made an urgent suggestion, he left the rest of the work to Lin Shenhe to continue to deal with. Entrenched in the security zone centered on Shanghai Renxin Medical College, the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense set up a stall and began its own work.

The first thing You Yu did after settling down with the basic work was to take He Zudao to meet his parents. After He Zudao's brother died of illness a few years ago, there are no immediate family members in the family. So He Zudao asked Yan Fu to be his parent.

Of course, Yan Fu is a highly respected person, but He Zudao still feels a little regretful in his heart, he has always regarded Chen Ke as his brother and teacher, if Chen Ke is the parent of He Zudao, He Zudao can really feel satisfied.

The You Gou family is also a real rich person in Shanghai, but no matter how they compare with He Zudao or Yan Fu, they are at most an ant-level existence. You Gui, the "swinging girl" in the family, went out for ten years, and at the beginning became a member of the famous rebel gang, You Jia did business, and naturally understood the importance of intelligence, after learning the news, You Jia was very frightened, and also tried to bring You Gui home. With the passage of time, You Wei gradually became a "traitor" to a "cadre of separatist forces", and recently became a dignified founding father, and this rollercoaster-like experience made the You family a little overwhelmed.

No matter how You Yan's identity changes, her daughter is her own daughter after all. When the old lady saw her daughter, she immediately came up and hugged her with tears in her eyes. When the old man saw his daughter, he was first overjoyed, and then his anger surged, and he almost wanted to rush up to give his daughter two mouths. However, looking at the fierce and fierce guard behind his daughter, the old man finally resisted the impulse.

After taking a seat, the old man let Yan Fu take the first seat, and after Yan Fu sat down, he said: "Brother You, I am just a generation to attend today. Originally, sitting here should have been Chen Ke, chairman of our party. But he was too busy with work to come in person, so he wrote to trust me to propose a relative. ”

Of course, Old Man You knew who Chen Ke was now, and that was the equivalent of the emperor's existence. His daughter has followed Chen Ke for more than ten years, and this has finally achieved a positive result. Seeing Yan Fu get up and hand over a letter to him, Old Man You's hands trembled and he couldn't open the letter. Because he was too excited, he didn't know what to say, but he just said vigorously like a malfunctioning gramophone: "Don't dare to be!" Don't dare to be! ”

The excitement in He Zudao's heart at this time was no less than that of Old Man You, and Chen Ke had no other expression in this matter except for encouraging He Zudao to quickly confess to You Wei. Of course, He Zudao knew that Chen Ke would not be able to leave himself and come to Shanghai together no matter what. He originally wanted to set up a drink when he returned to Wuhan, and had a few more drinks with Chen Ke at that time. Unexpectedly, Chen Ke had already arranged He Zudao's marriage.

He Zudao couldn't help grinning and wanted to laugh, but for some reason, tears flowed out of his nose. I was about to wipe my tears with the back of my hand, but I saw that a handkerchief had reached in front of her, and when she turned her head, she was looking at He Zudao with an extremely rare soft smile. He Zudao took the handkerchief and wiped his eyes, only feeling that his heart was very satisfied at this time, and there was nothing to regret if he died at this time.

For the You family, He Zudao is such a family affair that it can be regarded as a "good match". Of course, this threshold does not refer to the identity of the You family, but the identity of the You Gui. For You, this is just a personal matter, and even a small thing for the work she shoulders.

Even before Lin Shenhe was destroying Shanghai's old buildings, he had the Public Concession Committee hand over all the maps and survey data. The engineers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had already begun their surveying work in a hurry. In the plans of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, Wuhan is naturally already an industrial center. Shanghai will be another important industrial center.