Shanghai should be the first city in Asia that never sleeps, and at night, the shining street lamps, like crystal pearls, form a long dragon that emits silver light. Electric lights not only bring unquenchable light to Shanghai, but also make the city blender. It will light up the entire concession, and the colorful lights will wrap the vast night sky with a layer of hazy and unreal colors.

Decades after the introduction of electric lights in Shanghai, there are no longer many people surrounding a pillar of street lamps, shouting 'Race the Moon!' Race the Moon'! No one said that it seemed to be a flash of light before a thunderstorm, and whoever passed below would be thundered! He pulled the young child and fled in fear.

Dazzling electric lamps replace dim oil lamps, turning the Shanghai Concession into a city that never sleeps at night!

Before there were no electric lights, there were few pedestrians on the streets of the concession at night, but now even at night, you can still see passers-by coming and going on the streets, and shopping malls and shops are also open at night under the bright lights.

The sound of the wheels rolling of the carriage was accompanied by the "stepping" of the horses' hooves crashing on the asphalt road...... The sound of stepping on the ...... came from afar, and quickly from far to near. In a short time, a horse-drawn carriage with no special features was driving down the street, and the decoration of the body was very simple, just like many of the rental carriages in the concession, and there was not the slightest frills on the black carriage.

However, this does not hide the extraordinary nature of the owner, and the discerning person can see at a glance that the two black tall horses pulling the cart are by no means owned by the rental carriage, and the "CY" sign on the steel beam of the dome on the door reminds everyone that this is the carriage of the industrial company.

At this time, Chen Moran, who was supposed to enjoy the sweetness of the newlywed Yan'er, had just returned to the concession from the other side of the river and was about to return home, through the carriage window, looking at the pedestrians on the side of the road, when there were occasional women in curved deep clothes and skirts, Chen Moran's face showed a smile to a wedding, which would not have caused any sensation, but sometimes, a wedding can leave a deep impression, almost at the grand banquet after the wedding, the twenty or so servants in cyan dark clothes, All the guests left an impression, and even during the banquet, someone asked the housekeeper of the Chen Mansion about the place to make clothes.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation often affect people deeply, two hundred and forty-five years later, the aftermath of the collision of people's hearts and minds by seeing the clothes of the Han family may be expected by Chen Moran, and it is even one of his plans. "The leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost. Wide sleeves fluttering, where is it now. After several vicissitudes of life, several times of mourning. The clothes are insignificant, and they will eventually become a sound. ……”

Also seeing the passers-by on the street wearing Han family clothes, Xiao Xinren couldn't help but hum this song of "great rebellion", and when he looked at Chen Moran, he had to admire his foresight.

"The clothes are slim, and they will eventually become ......"

Eight words only made Chen Moran frown, under the butcher's knife, isn't this Han family's clothes a swan song? Later generations even used the so-called "Tang costume" to fill the slave costume, which must be said to be not enough slaves.

The clothing style at the wedding was made according to the Hanfu pattern in the report on the revival of Hanfu, and the reason why the whole special wedding was made was actually because Chen Moran wanted to remind people who they were, just like the "return to the Han and Tang Dynasties" copied and modified from the truck tape, just to remind the Chinese people what blood is flowing in their veins and who they are.

Before the song was finished, Xiao Xinren looked at the men and women in Han clothes outside the car, and frowned.

"However, now this song has spread all over the country, the song is a great reversal, and the clothes are even more reversed. You see, after your wedding, Han Tang Fang sold more than 10,000 pieces of all kinds of Han clothes, at the beginning, even in the concession, people only dared to wear it secretly, but now, during the day, you dare to wear it into the county town of Shanghai, you are not afraid of ......"

"I also said that there are needles in the cotton, didn't I?"

Chen Moran grinned, but laughed.

"The clothes made in Hantangfang are all high-end fabrics, and the most ordinary curved deep clothes still need more than a dozen taels of silver, and if they are a little more gorgeous, they need dozens of taels, or even hundreds of taels! Who is the person who can go to the Han Tang Fang to buy Han clothes? ”

Hantang Fang is a "dressing room" specially prepared by Chen Moran for his wedding, but this dressing room is open to the public, and even employs more than 600 female workers.

"The rich gentry and their families! There are also a lot of foreign women! ”

When talking about foreigners, Xiao Xinren's eyes lit up, and he instantly understood what Chen Moran meant.

"Han Tang Fang is located in the concession, and even has the name of Ruisha, a fake foreigner, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty wants to seal it, they don't have the courage to come to the concession to seal up the foreigner's shop, as for they want to ban Han clothes, I'm afraid they have to take off the Confucian skirts on those foreign ladies first, last week, Ji Li held a ball, and half of those ladies who came were wearing Han Tang Fang's Han clothes!"

This Chen Moran's face was full of pride, and he used the foreign to weigh himself in his clothes, but out of helplessness, he even "invented" the bra, and the bra with the low-cut Confucian skirt suddenly showed the "waves" of those women, so that they were not bound to suffer, and at the same time, they used the wide and elegant Confucian skirt to cover up the bloated figure of those middle-aged ladies, and it is precisely because of this that they will be sought after.

"The king of Chu has a thin waist, and he starves to death in the palace! People are good at chasing the wind, the lower class people pursue the preferences of the upper class, and slowly when Han clothes are popular among the gentry, they will naturally expand to the common people, the Han family clothes on the body, the pig's tail on the back of the head, that kind of spiritual impact, will naturally remind them, what are they, sometimes, the revolution does not rely on words, a month and a half, Han Tang Fang sold 17,800 pieces of all kinds of Han clothes, including more than 4,000 pieces of men's clothing, not Yang, how many gentry in Shanghai? ”

Closing his eyes proudly, Chen Moran said lightly, he has experienced this kind of feeling, and naturally those so-called social elites will always have some feelings.

"The wind is already blowing, and no one can stop it if they want to! Can't stop it! ”

With the index fingers of both hands tapped, Chen Moran's face showed a sneer.

"As soon as the peace treaty was signed, Li Hongzhang vomited blood in shame, he couldn't last a few days, and his forbearance and humiliation were exchanged for the master's qi for a few more years, but you also saw what the newspaper said, it was a national shame of 725! The one or two silvers not only started me Chen Moran, but also woke up the gentry of the whole country, now everyone knows that "the court of the Manchurians, the Manchu and Han Dynasty defense is more than national defense", and has been a slave for more than 200 years, some people have done enough, some people have realized that there is nothing in the world that is popular for no reason, and a song that returned to the Han and Tang Dynasties spread all over the country, and even the old woman's line was sung, otherwise how could it become a big rebellion! But this big rebel who was born told the big guys, who are they......"

Chen Moran's seemingly bland topic continues to make waves in Xiao Xinren's heart, no one knows people's hearts better than him, in the past few months, he will send articles to anonymously "Qizhi", "Su Bao" and other magazines and newspapers every month, others don't know who Mr. Crutch who broke China's century-old worries, but Xiao Xinren knows, what kind of waves he set off?

Feeling that the carriage stopped for a while, and then moved forward slowly, Chen Moran, who had his eyes closed, said lightly.

"It's home!"

When he opened his eyes and looked at the window with the light on, he thought of the person who was waiting for him to come home, and his face showed a happy smile.

"Honey, you're back!"

Ji Li happily walked down the stairs and ran into Chen Moran's arms, holding the woman in her arms, Chen Moran's heart sprouted a strange emotion, a sense of completeness, a sense of belonging, not only a sense of belonging to this era, but also a sense of belonging to this family.

While sipping red wine and barbecuing Ji Li's favorite bone-in steak, Chen Moran turned his head to look at the sky outside the window, the stars had begun to twinkle, and the color of the night sky was very similar to Ji Li's eyes. A sense of satisfaction that he had never felt before came over him. He looked through the glass door into the lighted kitchen, perhaps Kiri was preparing a salad while she was humming a little song alone.

Perhaps sensing that Chen Moran was looking at her, she controlled herself from the kitchen, and sure enough, she met Chen Moran's gaze, and Ji Li smiled sweetly.

"What are you looking at?"

"Look at you."

Chen Moran's answer made her laugh happily.

"I love you."

Ji Li smiled and confessed, she knew that Chen Moran was not good at expressing her emotions.

Listening to Ji Li's confession, Chen Moran got up and walked over and kissed Ji Li. The kiss was like a spark bursting out of him and falling on hers.

"To me, you are the most important person in the world."

Chen Moran said seriously, at this moment, Chen Moran finally got rid of the emptiness that had been trapping him in this time and space.

Looking at Ji Li, Chen Moran couldn't help but think of the boredom and emptiness he had endured in the past few years. Did you long to have a wife and a family?

Yes!

And now he is about to have all this, but all of this is as unreal as a mirror, why is it unreal?

After dinner, Chen Moran, sitting in a corner of his desk on the second floor, with a cigar between his fingers, stared at the map of Tampico on the table, one of the dozens of maps purchased through the San Francisco Chinese News Agency.

On this map, Chen Moran had already marked the land he wanted to buy with red and blue pencils, his eyes were on the map, and he had always thought that he was very decisive in doing things, but he would seem a little hesitant.

Whatever the original starting point, but in the past month and a half, every night when he fell asleep and opened his eyes to see that it was Ji Li, Ji Li brought him a sense of home, a sense of belonging, and it was this sense of home and belonging that made him unable to say what happened.

Staring sullenly at the map on the table, although he wanted the silver very much, he also didn't want such a beautiful woman to cross the Pacific Ocean to the politically turbulent Mexico, because he had seen a movie about the oil king, Chen Moran knew that the oil exploration and exploitation in this era sounded like a commercial behavior, but in fact it carried the risk of western adventure, and it was not too much to say that it would risk bullets.

"Hey!"

Just when Chen Moran sighed, the teacup with a faint tea fragrance was quietly placed on the table, and a pair of plain hands on his shoulders were gently kneaded, which only made Chen Moran feel numb all over his body, and he closed his eyes as if enjoying this moment of warmth.

"What are you thinking? My dear! ”

When the delicate voice behind him sounded, the pair of plain hands did not stop, it moved slowly from Chen Moran's shoulders, gently rubbing along his neck upward, although his eyes were closed, Chen Moran could imagine that the owner of these plain hands must be looking at him with a smile on his face now, teasing him with her hands, and demonstrating to him so late that he did not return to the bedroom.

"It's nothing, it's just thinking about something!"

Chen Moran still couldn't say it, in the past month and a half, how many times, whenever he wanted to talk about that incident, in the end, he would get lost in that gentle township, "Xianggong!" ”

Ji Li behind her learned Chinese saying, and in the past month and a half, she has not only worked hard to learn Chinese, but also learned Chinese customs to make herself a qualified Chinese wife.

Lying on Chen Moran's shoulder and looking at the map in front of him, the map was in Spanish, it should be a map of Mexico, she saw the words on the Gulf of Mexico, just glanced at it a few times, looked at the mark drawn with a red and blue pen on it, and vaguely guessed what Xiang Gong was worried about.

"Xianggong!"

Some blunt and weird names, only made Chen Moran smile in his heart, Ji Li always thought that to be a Chinese wife, she must learn and accept the customs of Chinese, but her behavior only moved him more, but he was moved...... At this time, Ji Li was already lying in his arms.

Ji Li, who was as charming as silk, looked at Chen Moran.

"Xianggong, can you tell me why you drew a mark on the map of Mexico?"

"I want to buy it!"

Chen Moran, who was a little moved by Ji Liping's holding, blurted out his plan.

"But you're Chinese!"

Hesitating, Ji Li reminded her father-in-law that growing up in England made her know the difficulties of buying such a large piece of land in a Chinese in a place like Mexico.

"Hmmm......"

Chen Moran, who came back to his senses, looked at Ji Li, and realized what he had said, although he was a little annoyed but a little happy.

This Ji Li's delicate body writhed in his arms like a snake, only allowing Chen Moran to have some normal reactions, but Ji Li looked at Chen Moran, bit her lip, and hesitated for a while.

"Xianggong, do you really want to buy this land?"

Do you really want to buy it? In the face of Ji Li's question, although she writhed in her arms like a beautiful snake, Chen Moran had no shadow of her in his eyes, only the land that could bring billions of taels of silver in return.

The feeling of the body made Ji Li get the answer she wanted, her father-in-law wanted that land very much, her beautiful eyes stared at the absent-minded Chen Moran, since marrying him, she always wanted to do something for him, as his wife, she knew very well that for him who had just started his career, he needed to pay far more energy than outsiders imagined.

Looking at him, Ji Li finally found a place where she could help.

"Why do you want to buy that land?"

Ji Li's question made Chen Moran sigh in his heart, although he was a little annoyed, but it was impossible to turn back at this time.

"Oil!"

"Oil?"

"I've been there before, and I think there's probably oil there!"

"Xianggong, does your company need oil?"

He nodded and shook his head again.

"It's not because I need oil and I need it, but I don't need it much now, but because I want to make money!"

"Make money?"

Chen Moran nodded.

"Qian, Ji Li, you know, my industrial company has not only invested in Pudong Development, but also invested in Jianghuai Road Mining Company. All of this costs money! Lots of money! ”

Listening to his narration, Ji Li just blinked her long eyelashes and looked at her husband, although some people in the concession did not approve of their marriage, almost everyone envied her, because she was married to a billionaire, and some people even rumored that he was perhaps the richest man in China. But she once heard her sister mention that the investment in industrial companies has reached hundreds of millions of yuan, and although his father-in-law has money, he may not be able to come up with so much money.

Now it seems that his sister's worries have become a reality, and Xianggong can't come up with more money to complete his business, so he needs the land there.

"I want to buy that land and then mine oil there, and some people are exploring and exploiting there, but I believe they're not in the right place. If I could find oil there and extract it, I would ship it back to England and Europe and even Shanghai in batches. When the oil gets to these places, I can refine kerosene and sell it to those who light kerosene lamps, and I can take anyone who owns a motor vehicle or anyone who owns an engine, and even later ships will use diesel or heavy oil......"

Listening to Chen Moran's narration, Ji Li's eyes were wide open, and there was some sparkle in those beautiful eyes, not greed for wealth, just because she felt that she had finally come in handy.

Leaning down to look at Ji Li, Chen Moran's eyes revealed some mystery.

"Baby, do you want to know a secret?"

Ji Li nodded.

"I think I've found the oil well there!"

"Hmmm! I believe in you, dear! ”

This will be a little emotional Ji Li forgot the Chinese customs she has been trying to learn, those beautiful eyes like autumn water stared at him, but her slender fingers helped Chen Moran's face, although she was a little emotional, but her expression looked very serious.

"There's only land left, isn't it? Let...... I'll help you! May I? ”

(To be continued)