There are three major iron and steel companies in China, the largest is Anshan Iron and Steel Company, the most profitable is Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company, and the oldest is Hanyang Iron Works, among the three iron and steel companies with an annual iron output of more than three million tons, Hanyang Iron Works has the longest history, because of its relationship with Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company, and the relationship between Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company and Anshan Iron and Steel Company, it is known as the "father of China's modern iron and steel industry".

At the gate of the Hanyang Iron Works, China's oldest modern steel mill on the riverside, stands a huge iron statue that looks down like a Buddha at the employees who commute to and from work like a Buddha. This is Jang Zhidong, the founder of Hanyang Iron Works.

When the late Qing Dynasty mainstay was appointed as the governor of Huguang, in order to seek his way to strengthen the country, he set up foreign affairs, Hanyang Iron Works, Hanyang Arsenal, and self-improvement students, leaving his mark everywhere in Hubei.

For the government, to a certain extent, he is a fit of the new era and the old era, and he is a kind of link that maintains the connection between tradition and modernity in those years, and in fact, until now, for China, how to perfectly fit tradition and modernity is a question.

However, in Zhang Zhidong's own eyes, he attaches more importance to his "foreign affairs" in Hubei, although the Hanyang Iron Works in his hands "spent a lot of money and did not work", the Hanyang Arsenal has limited output for many years, and the scale of the self-improvement school is limited, but in the end, the two enterprises and one school he founded have been rapidly developed after the establishment of the empire, and spent tens of millions of yuan during the ruling government, through the introduction of thousands of machinery and equipment, it became China's largest arsenal, and the self-improvement school was changed to Ziqiang University with the support of the Ministry of Education. It is the largest comprehensive university in China.

After the death of Zhang Zhidong, Sheng Xuanhuai, who was the chairman of Hanyeping Company, made up of Dexing Copper Factory, which belongs to Hanyeping Company, cast a bronze statue of Zhang Zhitong in front of the factory, Sheng Xuanhuai is so so, the reason is very simple, on the one hand, it is to commemorate, but on the other hand, he has his selfishness, He used this statue to remind everyone that the iron factory and the Han Yeping Company were "run by the old Xiangguo", and if anyone wants to move the Han Yeping Company, they must first consider the spirit of the old Xiangguo in the sky.

To this day, the bronze statue of that year gave birth to this patina due to natural reaction, but just as Sheng Xuanhuai thought, when Zhang Zhidong was alive, he was guarding the company, and he was still the protector of the company when he died. Not only that, but every year, some officials who have received the favor of Jang Zhidong, and even students of Ziqiang University, often put beautiful garlands under the bronze statue to express their respect and remembrance of him.

There is a 32-storey building with a total height of 100 meters on the riverside, which is the "Han Yeping Building", which is the first floor in Wuhan, and even on the Yangtze River, it is also the most eye-catching building, of course, if Pudong District is located on the Yangtze River, this building cannot be compared at all.

"Hey, I really should blow this one up!"

Standing in the chairman's office on the thirty-second floor, Sheng Enyi, the new chairman of Han Yeping Company, looked at the Yangtze River and muttered in his heart, Originally, today he was going to the dock to meet Yuan Shikai, the president of the House of Nobles, after all, as the heir of the Viscount of Hanyang, although he did not have the right to enter the House of Nobles, there was nothing wrong with him going to greet Yuan Shikai, but for Sheng Enyi, who came to mahjong all night last night, he had just smoked a bag of cigarettes, and what thoughts would he have to greet the dean. …,

"What is there to greet when you are out of breath!"

In Sheng Enyi's eyes, Yuan Shikai, who resigned as prime minister, was simply an outdated "old thing" that the emperor didn't like, so naturally there was no need to welcome him.

And for Sheng Enyi, he has more important things to do - he is about to reach his 26th birthday, and he is planning to hold the biggest banquet in Wuhan, no, all of China since the founding of the empire.

However, his birthday party is scheduled for early June. By then, the weather in Wuhan had turned hot, but it was bearable - at least for the locals of Kiri.

"Write it down, Secretary Li!"

As soon as he turned around, Sheng Enyi said to Li Xinlan, who he met on the cruise ship when he came back from studying in the United States, when he saw Li Xinlan, he even swallowed his spit secretly, the reason why he hired her as a secretary in the first place, on the one hand, is because she is a highly talented student at Harvard University, but on the other hand, it is because of her face, no, although her face is beautiful, but her figure is more perfect, for the Sheng Laosi, who was expelled from the University of London in England and later transferred to Columbia University, and had "reviewed the Eighteen-Nation Alliance" in bed, Li Xinlan's figure, even those tall and tall foreign girls, may not be comparable, especially when she is wearing a full-breasted Confucian skirt, that ...... Swallowing his saliva, Sheng Enyi said seriously again.

"Did you write it down? My birthday is June 15th! ”

"Hmm!"

Without raising her head, Li Xinlan, who was wearing a professional attire, asked.

"Is there anything else to do?"

In fact, of course, she knew what Chairman Sheng, who would be "famous", had ideas about her, but she pretended not to know, for her, the work in Hanyeping Company was just a job, a job to realize her dreams.

For Li Xinlan, who studied business at Harvard University, she hopes to enter a large enterprise, and then give full play to her strengths in a large enterprise, the company she originally belonged to is an industrial company, after all, that company is the only large enterprise that has the opportunity to cede the position of CEO to outsiders, and the industrial company is a "royal asset", which means that its president can only be held by outsiders, but the industrial company is too large, and it is at most a dream for a woman.

Later, she also considered going to Qinhuai Bank, the chairman of the bank is also a woman, it is said to be a very beautiful woman, however, because it is a financial company, in the wrong situation, she will naturally not choose that company, in addition, it seems that there is no more, but most of the large-scale enterprises are state-owned enterprises, and she has no interest in state-owned enterprises.

But it happened that on the cruise back home, she met Sheng Enyi, the "Columbia's Sheng Laosi" that even she had heard of at Harvard, although she rejected him very firmly, but Sheng Enyi finally hired her as a secretary, after some thought, faced with the choice of either entering a state-owned enterprise or going to a small private enterprise, she chose Han Yeping, and the reason why she chose Han Yeping is very simple - Sheng Enyi is incompetent enough!

Just like this, although Han Yeping's former chairman, Sheng Xuanhuai, Sheng Enyi's father, is recuperating in a mansion in Shanghai, and Sheng Enyi is thinking about how to hold his banquet, but for Li Xinlan, she likes Sheng Enyi's non-business, because his non-business gives her the opportunity to directly manage this large iron and steel enterprise consortium.

"Yo, Xinlan, look at what you said, if there is no other arrangement, can I call you over with great fanfare?"

Looking at Li Xinlan's glamorous appearance, Sheng Enyi only felt that he had "picked up" a baby, not to mention the beauty of the person, the most rare thing was that ability, if she hadn't supported her, it was estimated that the board of directors of this company would have driven herself down, and now this company is not the head of the old Sheng family, and the emperor's industrial company has shares in the company. …,

But Li Xinlan cleaned up everything in the company properly, and even when his father saw the company's performance last month, he didn't come back to his senses for a long time, and insisted that his son was not in vain at Columbia University.

"You say, where can you hold a birthday party in Wuhan, the largest birthday party in China, I mean ......"

Seeing Li Xinlan's brows frowning, Sheng Enyi only felt that she had a beautiful appearance.

"The largest and most influential is to let the whole Chinese know the kind of ...... of my Sheng Lao Si at once"

For Sheng Laosi, who just came back from the United States last year, he has been thinking about how to open up his "popularity" at once, so as not to be "drowned in the sea of small nobles".

saw Li Xinlan's unhappy look.

"I said Xinlan, you have to be considerate of me, you see, now on this street, ask Sheng Laosi, who knows my name, yesterday when I played mahjong with someone, one person listened to my name, and didn't even raise his eyes, in the United Kingdom, in the United States, when did I Sheng Laosi let people treat me like this, those foreign devils are horizontal enough, see us, then you have to laugh with you! Just like when I arrived in San Francisco, people here just entered the hotel, and someone over there brought me big cigarettes, like here, Xiao Ke looked for more than a week before he found big cigarettes, but he didn't kill me! ”

When Sheng Enyi said proudly, Li Xinlan opened her eyes and sighed secretly in her heart, it is really rare for this person to lose his family so confidently, and these four young masters can be regarded as the pole in the world.

"Chairman, if someone finds out that you are taking drugs, you will lose the right to inherit the title!"

Li Xinlan reminded the fourth young master that Sheng Xuanhuai's title back then was asked by Zhang Xiangzuo to ask His Majesty.

"Xinlan, you think that title is expensive, but it's really stupid,"

Sheng Enyi's nose snorted, and then said proudly.

"That title, it's just that the old man donated a million yuan to the Invalides and then rewarded it, this Chinese Empire is no different from the Qing Dynasty, in the past, it was to donate money to officials, and now it is to donate money to confer knighthood, otherwise, do you think that so many people donate like a fool every year, a good reputation is a good reputation, and the most important thing is something real!"

What is it? After a pause, Sheng Enyi reminded Li Xinlan.

"You'll understand later, Xinlan!"

Sheng Enyi said in a slow, clear voice, as if he were explaining to a child.

"I know, in your eyes, I am just a second society, a loser, in fact, according to you, the old man left me so many family businesses, the old man is the main shareholder in hundreds of first-class companies in China, and he also left me such a steel plant, as well as iron ore, coal mines, copper, and China Merchants Shipping Company, and a 40-story office building in Pudong, rented in Shanghai...... Now it is not a concession, there are more than a dozen alleys alone. Not to mention that the rich rival the country, I dare to say that in Wuhan, even in Shanghai, the Sheng family is richer than anyone else! You say, what am I going to do in my life? I can't spend all the money anyway! ”

At this time, Sheng Enyi had a feeling of "heroes are invincible and the loneliest", it seemed that in his life, there was nothing else to do except spend money, but his words made Li Xinlan speechless for a while, she really didn't know what to say about Sheng Enyi's idea of "being a loser is right".

"As long as you don't make a fool and lose the company!" …,

Snorted, in addition to accepting his attitude, Li Xinlan really didn't know what to do.

"Hey, look at what you said!"

Seeing Li Xinlan say this, Sheng Enyi immediately burst out laughing.

"With you, this company can't afford to lose! Who is Xinlan, the dignified female high school student of Harvard Business School is not! ”

After a burst of praise, Sheng Enyi said with a smile on his face.

"Xinlan, I don't want to take responsibility for the money left by the old man, as long as it's enough for me to spend, or Xinlan, you will marry me, and when the time comes, this Sheng family will ......"

Without waiting for him to finish, after noticing the anger on Li Xinlan's face, Sheng Enyi hurriedly put away his words.

"I, I'm just a ......"

"I'll help you think about it, what to do with that birthday party."

Li Xinlan, who was slightly angry, said that she couldn't have imagined that one day she would fall to the point of helping others "lose".

"Chairman, if it's okay, I'll go down!"

"Xinlan, it's ......"

Just as Sheng Enyi was about to speak, suddenly a loud noise came, and the glass window of the office shattered, and thousands of broken glass flew apart with the shock wave.

Smoke cloud, at the same time as the explosion of a huge cloud of smoke almost engulfed the entire Wuchang wharf, at the same time as the gray-black smoke rose, gray smoke and shock waves spread along the wharf to Wuchang and the river, ash and gunpowder smoke instantly engulfed more than a dozen streets and cities, and the smoke that covered the clouds only made the light in the street dim.

When the violent explosion reached the street, the passers-by who were originally walking on the street were in severe pain in their ears by the deafening sound of the explosion, and the shock wave washed them away, and at the same time that the shock wave washed people away, the glass windows on both sides of the road shattered at the same time, and after the explosion, half of Wuchang City, especially near the dock, was almost like the end of the world, and people were groaning and crying in the smoke of gunpowder without sunlight.

On the surface of the river, the thousand-ton river boat was blown up and sunk in the river, dozens of fishing boats and passing ships were overturned by the shock wave, but the most tragic thing was the cement boat, which was directly broken in the river by the shock wave, and the materials on board and the crew were directly swallowed by the cold river water, and at the wharf filled with gunsmoke, a pothole several meters deep and the wreckage of the river ship were all reminding people that there was the center of the explosion.

After the cold river water soaked through the cotton clothes, it only made Liang Dacheng's body heavier and heavier, and after being blown into the river, his body sank into the river, just when he regained some consciousness and felt that he was being dragged into the river, he suddenly remembered Song Yu who was standing on the side with him, and Lin Wenqin, they, how did they be?

Desperately swimming upwards, he finally looked around as his head came out of the water and took a big breath.

"Buzz ......"

There was no other sound in his ears, and as soon as he surfaced, Liang Dacheng shouted loudly, shouting the names of Song Yu and Lin Wenqin, but he couldn't hear his own voice at all...... All kinds of objects!

"Song Yu ......"

"Kobayashi ......"

The eager shouts came out of Liang Dacheng's voice again and again, but in his ears except for the roar that stirred his brain, he couldn't hear any sound, and he took off his cotton clothes and pants in the water, and Liang Dacheng swam towards the sunken river ship, and when he swam the river boat, he found that the so-called "object" was a corpse, a corpse, a man, a woman, old and young, and his classmates, strange and familiar at this time floating on the river.

"Song Yu ......"

"Kobayashi ......"

At this point, the original shout turned into a cry, and Liang Da desperately turned over the corpses, even though he didn't want to find his friends and the girl he liked there, he couldn't stop wanting to do it.

On the surface of the river, a few more people struggled to swim over, but their frightened faces could not stop them from trying to rescue their relatives, friends, and classmates.

"Song Yu ......"

"Kobayashi ......"

While crying in despair, suddenly, Liang Dacheng felt that someone behind him was patting him hard, and when he turned around, he saw a familiar face, but that face was constantly bleeding.

"Dachengzi, I'm ...... Thought you ...... You ......"

"Kobayashi ......"

The two of them were swimming and shouting loudly, and although neither of them could hear what the other was saying, the reunion made them cry while they were happy.

"Look, it's Song Yu, Song Yu is there......"

Suddenly, Lin Wenqin pointed to the distance and shouted loudly, Liang Dalian turned his head to look, and saw a girl lying on the side of a lifebuoy on the river, it was Song Yu, yes, it was her, and Song Yu, who was lying on the lifebuoy, looked desperately at the river wheel that had overturned into the river......