On the morning of September 12, when Yan Fu sent someone to the workshop, Chen Ke was preparing to go out. The purpose of Yan Fu's dispatch was to ask Chen Ke when he would have time, and he was going to talk to Chen Ke about the joint establishment of a pharmaceutical factory by the government and the people. Chen Ke politely told the visitor that he was not available today. He's going to the hospital site, where he's been there all day. If it is to talk about things, Chen Ke will visit Mr. Yan Fu in three days. The person who came was a little surprised by this reply, but he didn't say much, and just left.

To be honest, Chen Ke didn't really think that Yan Fu would be able to negotiate the matter of the pharmaceutical factory in the short term. With the efficiency of the Manchu bureaucracy, Chen Ke thought it would be remarkable that this matter could be achieved in two months.

On September 11, when making a drug production plan, You Gou asked Chen Ke what he would do if this pharmaceutical factory really started. Chen Ke's answer was succinct: "We must be prepared that by 1917, this pharmaceutical factory has not yet been put into production." You Wei didn't understand Chen Ke's joke, Chen Ke had to explain, "In 1917, I'm afraid that the headquarters has moved to Anhui, and you don't know if you will move to Anhui with the headquarters." Don't worry about that now. ”

In the plan, on September 12, all members of Huangpu Publishing House conducted outward bound training. So on the 11th, Chen Ke conducted a simple sports compliance test. At least, on the surface. The standard test is 30 meters round trip, standing long jump, and throwing a solid ball.

Young people love to be lively, especially this kind of physical activity. Whether it was a kaftan or a suit, everyone participated. The cheers, the encouragement, and the cacophony of discussions are really full of people. Everyone took the sports test, and those who did not get good results were asked to do it again by the referee. It's really a lot of laughter.

Chen Ke was very satisfied with such a scene, but he was not optimistic about the result. The members of the Huangpu Book Club are not particularly fond of sports. By 21st-century standards, only half of them met. Chen Ke felt that these people were completely unsuitable for the original expansion plan. Therefore, the place of outward bound training was changed to the construction site.

The roster is ready. One of the main purposes of the PE test is to improve the collection of personal data. This is also part of the social survey. Engaging in social research, if the information of your own people is not completed, it is not just a joke, but a shame.

Seeing off Yan Fu's envoy, Chen Ke led a group of young people to set off. Zhou Yuanxiao's workshop is at the end of Nanjing Road. It belongs to the "old building". In the end, the history of this large-scale workshop, Zhou Yuanxiao did not say. Shanghai Renxin Hospital, where Chen Ke is named as the principal, is at the end of Sichuan Road.

The city where Chen Ke was born had few wooden buildings. When I was a child, I lived in the family area of the factory. It was all a bungalow area with red brick or blue brick walls, cement floors, and red tile roofs. Later, there were reinforced concrete, blue gravel walls, and new buildings with tiled floors inside. When he set up his own door, it was a house in the community. It is even less likely that there are any wooden parts. Even the handrails of the stairs are plated metal.

Growing up, he hadn't even seen a few wooden pillars other than wooden beams. Shanghai in 1905 gave Chen Ke the feeling that there was not much difference from the county seat in the 80s, except that there were more people. The wooden buildings on both sides have a bit of a taste.

The streets are mostly gravel roads, and there are many people. There is no green belt. The streets of the commercial area are all identical two-story buildings, with brick walls, wooden door panels, and wooden windows. What Chen Ke thinks is most special is that the buildings have a narrow balcony enclosed by a wooden fence on one side of the street. Most of the wooden parts of these buildings are painted red, which makes them look quite vibrant.

Most of the parked cars and rickshaws on both sides of the street are parked. There were a lot of cars, and except for the ones that had been pulled alive, the drivers rarely ran, and just parked at the places they felt they could pull to the customers, and as a result, a considerable part of the street was blocked. Shanghai is the largest commercial city in the Far East, and the transportation industry is naturally quite developed.

The coachmen wore coarse cloth jackets, coarse cloth trousers, and a thick belt around their waists. This belt also doubles as a money bag. Their skin is tanned, and their arms are muscular and their joints are thick. However, compared to modern humans, the fat layer is noticeably thinner, and the skin color is dull and lacks radiance. Excessive physical exertion, as well as insufficient meat food, bruises on the arms, and dry skin.

Chen Ke specially explained the clothing requirements, and the group of young people he led were obviously much whiter and had a more radiant complexion. Especially the leader Chen Ke, in the modern city, there are fewer and fewer people with bare backs and wearing big pants. Chen Ke has even become accustomed to long sleeves and long pants all year round. The same is true back to this era. In addition, after he came back, he dyed cloth all day long, made medicines, lectured, and always wore a long-sleeved shirt and trousers. Today he wore short sleeves, and finally showed his muscular arms. But compared with these working people, the skin looks white and tender. It made Chen Ke feel a sense of inferiority. He also claims to be going to launch a socialist revolution, but can the people believe that he is such a white person who is engaged in revolution?

Such a group of people acted together, everyone talked and laughed on the road, the drivers naturally did not misunderstand, and no one came up to pull business. Although Chen Ke wanted to see more of the surrounding environment, Mao Ping, a Chinese student who came back with Chen Tianhua, kept chatting with Chen Ke. Chen Ke was very optimistic about this young man, and was willing to answer him more questions, and his attention to observing social customs had to be distracted a lot.

Mao Ping's ancestral home is Fujian, but he himself is a Fujian immigrant from Taiwan. After the Japanese occupied Taiwan, Mao Ping returned to the mainland with his family. Mao Ping's family is quite rich, and they are not conservative. Since Japan was able to defeat the Manchus, there was naturally something to learn, so Mao Ping simply went to Japan to study medicine.

In Japan, seeing the more civilized scientific and technological and cultural atmosphere of Japan, Mao Ping, who was originally full of hatred for Japan, gradually turned his hatred to the decadent and backward Manchu Qing Dynasty. Mao Ping's tutor is very good, and after Mao Ping read "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution", he established the concept of "natural selection, survival of the fittest". During the Sino-Japanese War, Japan was also fighting for its own national interests. If the Manchus were able to defeat Japan, Taiwan would naturally not be lost. The Treaty of Shimonoseki will not be signed. It's the power that determines everything. Rather than hating the Japanese invasion, it was better to hate the cowardly and incompetent Manchus. Mao Ping couldn't change Japan, but he felt that he should be able to change the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Unconsciously, Mao Ping changed from a simple young man who hated Japan because of his hatred of Japan to a rather radical anti-Qing activist, and every time there was a revolutionary activity among international students, Mao Ping participated in it whenever he had time. And his relatively ideal attitude has also been supported by many international students. I even made a lot of Japanese friends.

Mao Ping had read Chen Tianhua's book and was very much in favor of Chen Tianhua's fierce anti-Qing attitude. Later, Chen Tianhua went to Japan, and after Mao Ping learned about it, he immediately went to meet him. The two met very happily. Mao Ping and his small group became a "small revolutionary party" that firmly supported Chen Tianhua personally.

When Chen Tianhua returned to Japan from Shanghai and brought back the book he wrote with Chen Ke, Mao Ping was really shocked after reading it. The book "Chinese Cultural Inheritance and the Rise of Materialism" thoroughly points out the relationship between the development of productive forces and social development, and clearly explains the connection between the industrial revolution and national development. Mao Ping felt that all the doubts that had plagued him for many years had been solved. "Chaowen said, Xi can die!" Mao Ping exclaimed. Mao Ping, who has always studied seriously, began to skip class for the first time, and he devoted all his energy to the formation of a "reading club".

With Mao Ping's efforts, the reading club expanded again and again, reaching the scale of more than 100 people. Knowing that Chen Tianhua was going back to Shanghai to join the "Mr. Chen Ke", Mao Ping insisted on going with him, and in the end more than 20 Chinese and Japanese young people in the reading club followed Chen Tianhua back to Shanghai.

Chen Ke did not disappoint Mao Ping, and his level of explanation of the course was much higher than Chen Tianhua. Mao Ping felt that Chen Ke was simply some kind of incredible existence, no matter what the question was, he could give a reasonable answer based on the theory in the book. When the revolutionaries encountered a problem, they would only shout, "The Manchus are the root of all evil." But what the Manchu sins were, they couldn't tell. Chen Ke never said who was evil, he only analyzed how the participants in the social phenomenon did it, and what class characteristics they did it. Or even forced to do so.

This moderate and rational attitude was even more effective than the most fierce opposition, and Mao Ping was already very dissatisfied with the Manchus, and before meeting Chen Ke, Mao Ping was also a constitutionalist in a certain sense. After listening to Chen Ke's explanation, Mao Ping completely changed from a constitutionalist to a revolutionary.

Chen Ke is very optimistic about Mao Ping, not only because his thinking is quite progressive. And Mao Ping's performance on the construction site is also very good. When the number of people in the Huangpu Publishing House was rapidly expanding, Chen Ke set a rule and asked the members of the Huangpu Publishing Society to help on the construction site. Half the time is spent listening to lectures and half the time is working. Chen Ke also pays everyone according to their workload.

This regulation is "strongly recommended, but not forced." That's a very polite thing, but everyone has some culture, so naturally they can hear the voiceover. At first, everyone participated in the labor with the mentality of "helping". In less than a week, one-third of the students did not go to the construction site. The other two-thirds are still holding on. Mao Ping and the classmates who came back together were two-thirds of the ranks. And it works well,

After passing through the business district, you will enter the residential area. Shanghai is in a new stage of expansion at this time, and the residential areas are all inside the alleys, and it is not clear from the outside. Except for the occasional shuttle bus transporting firewood, there are hardly any people in sight, and everyone wants to go to work.

Chen Ke didn't have the idea of going in to see it, and it would be too late to visit these places when he conducted social surveys in the future.

The location of the school is relatively far away, and the British run the school, and the local government in Shanghai does not support or oppose it. The core area of Shanghai is the Bund. After the opening of the port of Shanghai, the British forced the Qing government to sign the "Shanghai Land Charter" under the pretext that "it was inconvenient for Chinese and foreign people to live together, and the clause in the "Humen Treaty" that allowed the British to rent land and houses in the treaty port was allowed to be used. On November 29, 1845, two years after the opening of the port of Shanghai, the Qing government issued a notice on Shanghai Road: "In consideration of the people's conditions and considering the local conditions of Shanghai, the land north of Pidgin and south of Lijiazhuang shall be leased to British merchants for the purpose of building premises and residence." This area of 830 acres of land was later the British Concession.

In 1846, Bafur took a fancy to the land of Lijiazhuang and planned to build a new British consulate. Lijiazhuang is located on the southwest side of the confluence of the Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek, where the Qing army once set up forts and guarded the river defense. During the Opium War, after the British gunboats captured the first line of defense at Wusongkou, they destroyed the second line of defense in Donggou, and the confluence of Suzhou Creek and Huangpu River was the third line of defense. In June 1842, the British gunboat "Vengeance" bombarded the Lijiazhuang Fort, and although the defenders resisted stubbornly, the fort was destroyed by heavy artillery fire. This land is not only strategically located but also has its historical story, Bafur visited this abandoned fort many times, and negotiated with the owner of the land, Shi Bingrong, and others to purchase real estate, despite the decree that the British were not allowed to build embassies abroad at that time. After Bafur advanced the deposit, he had to delay because he did not have this special fund, and it was only after the second consul Ali Guo took over that he kept applying, and finally the British government approved it.

After the hastily built consulate house, on July 21, 1849, the British consulate moved from the old town to the new Lijiazhuang on the Bund. After only two years, the building was demolished due to problems, and in 1852 the consulate rebuilt the house. Eighteen years later, at midnight on December 24, 1870, the British Consulate caught fire. As a result, it is difficult to see documents and photographs from early British consulates today.

But now that the concession centered on the Bund has long been overcrowded, it is absolutely impossible not to get any land, and Chen Ke did not care so much about this medical school. Anyway, I have to go to the countryside within a year, and this school will definitely not be able to produce any results. If the revolution does not win, the investment in this school will be in vain, and if the revolution wins, the school can be built as much as you want. So Chen Ke simply chose a location close to the residential area of ordinary people. It's a suburb, land is cheap, and there are few residents. Moreover, Wu Xingchen brought those tall and sturdy Shandong heroes to the door in person to take the money to "persuade education", and finally bought this land.

After walking for half an hour, the school was already visible. After a month of construction, the main six buildings, two teaching buildings, one laboratory building, one library, and two dormitory buildings have taken on some appearance. Tall scaffolding, as well as lifting equipment made of various pulley sets, are attached to the various buildings, and many people are working on them.

Seeing that the destination was approaching, the young people were overjoyed. After walking for a while, I saw that in front of the simple gate of the school, many people were waving, this was the young man who had arrived in advance. Everyone has quickened their pace and rounded up with these classmates. However, Chen Ke and Mao Ping soon fell behind. Chen Ke looked back, and there were still a few classmates behind him who followed Chen Ke and Mao Ping in a regular manner. These are all Japanese classmates.

"Let's hurry up, don't keep everyone waiting." Chen Ke said with a smile.

"Hey!" The Japanese students responded in unison.

The people gathered in the playground, which was built according to the standards of later generations. It can be seen that the place has been cleaned, the runway is full of various building materials, and half of the site has traces of hastily moved. In the center of the playground, there are four wooden barriers more than three meters high like door panels. There are also some inexplicable things, and the young people do not understand these simple things. Everyone has heard Chen Ke talk about the meaning of "outward bound training", which is probably something that cultivates team spirit and uses imagination. For such a mysterious statement, everyone thinks that there should be something very different, but such a simple venue, there is nothing that can be associated with Chen Ke's explanation.

Hua Xiongmao greeted him, "Wenqing, it's already ready." Looking at the young people around him curiously looking at the simple equipment around him, he asked with some concern, "Wenqing, can this work?" ”

"Let's see. You have to do it if you can't do it. Chen Ke said with a smile. After speaking, he stood on a stool and shouted, "Students, our outward bound training today is just the first step. I now ask, now ten people in a row, start the lineup. ”

Such a simple requirement is estimated to be easily completed by fourth-grade students in the 21st century. But this group of young people in 1905 stood in a daze after hearing this, and they didn't know what to do.

Chen Ke pointed at Mao Ping, "You take five steps forward." And then stand there. ”

Mao Ping obeyed Chen Ke's orders.

Chen Ke pointed to Mao Ping's position and shouted to everyone again: "With him as the origin, everyone stands north and behind Mao Ping." ”

This order was executed, and everyone began to stand indiscriminately with Mao Ping as the center. Some people stand south of Mao Ping, and some people stand in front of Mao Ping. There are also people who watch everyone rushing in a swarm, but they are at a loss and stand motionless.

Chen Ke called the names of his classmates one by one and ordered them to adjust their positions. After ten minutes, the students were finally divided into five teams and stood north and behind Mao Ping.

"How many people do I have standing in a row?" Chen Ke shouted.

"Ten." Scattered responses came from within the ranks.

"First row, report the number!" Chen Ke ordered. This time, he not only asked everyone to report the number, but also taught him how to report the number himself.

Hua Xiongmao watched everyone coaxing, and Chen Ke skillfully taught everyone. The original worry immediately flew out of the clouds. It's so laborious to organize such a large group of people and teach them the basics. It doesn't look like there's going to be nothing to do. After confirming such a fact, Hua Xiongmao turned around and left. There's still a lot of work to be done on the site.