Chapter 52: First Sight of Huang Xing
Liu Ying sent a visit in his official capacity as a councilor, and then took Liu Tie and his wife, Sun Jing, Li Mingyi and Huang Xing to Yunlong Town by boat, which was above board. Zhang Chun had to meet with Huang Xing at the Yamen of Yunlong Town.
In Yunlong Town, there is a clear difference between the east of the town and the west of the town.
Since the Xinmin Primary School in Zhenxi, except for the autonomous board of directors on the Yamen side, Zhang Chun has completely taken over the Wu family's territory.
In the past, the old house of the Wu family only retained the three major courtyards where the head of the family lived and the ancestral hall of the Wu family. Then there is the textile mill and the Yunlong Town Autonomous Board.
The yard was converted into a patrol force, and the textile mill was next to the patrol force. The ancestral hall is being renovated into a kindergarten, and there used to be a health center, and below the health center is a garbage disposal plant that has become like a park.
Most of the merchants in the east of the town moved to the Li family's market, and Li Mingyi set up an intelligence base in the market, and Liu Ying's Quansheng Mei Commercial Bank took over the former Zhang Fenglan's trading house, close to the yamen and the wharf. From the wharf to the west, only the Yamen and Quansheng Mei Commercial Bank remained.
Strictly speaking, to the east of the wharf, except for the Yang family, it is basically the land of Liu Ying and Li Mingyi.
Compared with the bustling wharves and markets, the west of the town is very quiet. The streets here are very open because most of the buildings have been demolished. The wide street is divided into two parts, left and right, separated by flower beds that have not yet been planted with flowers and trees. All the way to the garbage disposal site. The street was narrowed down to a single door, leading directly to the treatment plant.
Although Baimin Lane controlled the board of directors, the board of directors did not make any progress except for the Federation of Industry and Commerce, and the family of Baimin Lane invested all the funds in the textile factory, and the board of directors only rented the empty house of the commercial house that moved to the Yunlong market, and there was no actual action. Zhang Chun, the nominal general director, was not enthusiastic about the affairs of the board of directors, but handed it over to Gu Ming, who also did not attach importance to it.
Zheng Pu of the Federation of Industry and Commerce was very wary of Zhang Chun, so the office was actually in a textile factory.
The difference between the Zhang family is also very obvious. Whether it is the health center, the patrol force or the kindergarten under construction, the original trees have been preserved, and great attention is paid to greening. It's green everywhere. And there are no courtyard walls, it is completely open.
The regular queue training of the patrol team is located in the square of the patrol team, and the strengthening training and shooting training are all in the barracks of Zilin.
However, the training of these more than 30 patrol teams still attracted Huang Xing's attention. Because their skin is tanned, they neatly maintain the movement of raising their legs in a straight step. An instructor dressed in a New Army uniform corrects their leg raisings and hand waves, looking at the posture to make the movements of the three teams uniform.
The lads were tanned during the rainy season and their faces were peeling, but everyone was very serious and did not complain or flinch.
"They've been training like this?" Huang Xing asked Li Mingyi.
"yes, that's it every morning."
"This is very useful for military discipline." Huang Xing nodded.
"The primary school also needs to train for this, but the time is short." Li Mingyi said with a smile: "Every day when they do morning exercises, they are very noisy. ”
"People here are different from other places, and this Zhang Chun is doing a good job."
"There are also disadvantages, Nanzhang Street has suppressed big merchants very much." Kiyoko is completely dressed and styled by a new style of women.
"It's the same in my market, where merchants of all sizes collect business tax on 30% of Chunli's trades. Small traders and hawkers only have a few cents, but large merchants charge much more business taxes. Now the market is full of small traders and vendors. The big merchants are gone. Li Mingyi nodded.
Liu Tie sneered: "Shouldn't you accept it?" In the past, commercial taxes were apportioned, and large merchants paid a few taels of silver, and small merchants also paid a few taels, forcing small merchants to die. ”
Liu Ying sighed: "It's not a question of right or wrong, but a question of whether you can do it." ”
Zhang Chun was not in the Yamen. Gu Ming greeted him at the gate of the yamen early and took a group of people to the health center. Today, it was the Liji Hospital that came to do a check-up on the kindergarten children, and several of these children had allergies a month ago, originally thought to be caterpillars or the like, but finally found out that they were pollen. After the treatment, this time I came for a follow-up visit.
Zhang Chun and Lizhi passed very early.
"A few years ago, we brought in a batch of sycamore seedlings, which are mainly planted in health centers and sewage treatment plants, because this species grows fast. I didn't expect it to bloom in April and May this year, and the new campus of the kindergarten is large and the environment is good, so the children play here in advance, so there are allergy symptoms. ”
Gu Ming explained.
Along the way, some of the female workers of the textile factory had just returned from the health center, laughing all the way, generous and free, without the caution of other places. Seeing Gu Ming and his party, he walked over directly in disregard.
The streets are clearly planned, with sidewalks, roadways, dividers, green belts. It's just that this section of the road is only three or four kilometers away.
In the past, the textile factory was some huge holly trees and osmanthus trees, plane trees, etc., which were planted by the people in the Wu family's compound in the past, one or two for each family, and the smallest tree was thirty or forty years old, and some had a history of 100 years. Now the house has been demolished, the trees are gone, and in a few years they have become forests. However, if the trees are large, the forest is sparse. It's very open under the trees. Health clinics and new kindergartens are among them.
The kindergarten has actually been built and the walls are being painted.
Interestingly, the courtyard wall plays more of a role in propaganda and decoration, and the inlaid on the wall is actually a painting fired on the tile, which is colorful and full of childlike fun.
The large open space under the trees has apparently been zoned for the kindergarten, and there are some facilities such as slides that are apparently for children to play with. A shade-tolerant lawn planted on the ground. Because of the abundant rainfall, the growth is very good. Workers at several sewage treatment plants are mowing the grass again with large scissors, and the cut grass is not taken away, but left in place. There were rabbits on the grass, and they didn't run when they saw people, but they were still jumping behind the workers.
Zhang Chun and a few students were in the forest behind the health center, where several very thick plane trees had been dug up with roots and soil, and the large branches had been removed, and the students were tying the roots with straw ropes. About 60 percent of the trees were dug up. However, there are also workers who lift the same bundled trees up the riverbank.
I saw Gu Ming coming over with Liu Ying and his party. Zhang Chun hurriedly stopped, washed the soil on his hands in the bucket next to him, and wiped his hands with the towels handed by the students. only then stepped forward to shake hands with Huang Xing.
"Mr. Huang, I have admired the name for a long time, welcome and welcome." Zhang Chun took Huang Xing and his entourage to the corridor in the backyard of the health center.
The doctors and nurses at the health center knew that they were going to meet with guests today, so they put fruit and dried fruit on the table. Reiz and a kindergarten teacher are drinking freshly boiled milk with a few children behind closed doors. On a honeycomb coal stove with two stoves, milk is boiled in a kettle, and tea is boiled in a kettle.
The meeting of several people did not avoid the others, the kindergarten teachers and the students of the environmental and forestry institutes were doing their own things around them.
Lizhi apologized on behalf of the hostess: "I'm sorry, Mr. Huang, my husband is not an old-fashioned person. ”
Huang Xing looked around with interest, it was the first time he had met such an unsophisticated official. Even if it's just a county lord.
"Master Zhang is unique here."
Zhang Chun picked up the pot himself and made tea for a few people with Lizhen.
Liu Tie and Gu Ming coolly let everyone into the corridor, and the stone table sat down separately. On the contrary, Liu Ying, Sun Jing and Li Mingyi were a little uncomfortable.
Kiyoko also smiled and sent the children away with the little teacher. She has been in charge of the health clinic for a while, so she has become accustomed to this atmosphere.
Zhang Chun smiled and said, "Mr. Huang, I know your intention. I have no doubt that the revolution will succeed. ”
One sentence frightened Sun Jing on guard.