The two most famous parks in Shanghai are the Yu Garden and the Zhang Garden, near the Jing'an Temple. But the most famous is the Zhang Garden, the first private garden in Shanghai to open to the public.

At the west end of the remote Jing'an Temple Road, he bought more than 20 acres of land to build a garden, and in the center of the garden stands a building covering an area of 4 acres, which is tall and spacious, with a tower-shaped center and a spire reaching into the sky, and the ground floor hall has a luxurious ballroom, dining room, pachinko room and a stage for the performance of the foreign theater troupe, which can receive and accommodate four or five thousand guests at the same time, but it is not crowded. The owner named it Ankaidi.

In the eighth year of Guangxu, Galen made a fortune and returned to China, and sold this garden and the building to Wuxi Caizhu Honglu and renamed it Weichun Garden. However, the Shanghainese people called Zhang Yuan by the surname of the owner. The owner of the garden has expanded to 70 acres on the basis of the original area, in addition to preserving Ankaidi, he also built a building called "Haitian Sheng" in the southwest corner of the park, with two floors up and down, and there are fashionable children's plays, Kunqu opera and beach spring performances every day.

After entering, there is a grassy square. There is a rare flying dragon island on the square, there are several wooden boats in the shape of dragons on the island, the machine starts, the dragon boat takes off and spins, so that visitors like sitting on the dragon and flying in the sky. The west side of Feilong Island is Zhuge Liang's Eight Array Diagram, rows of densely packed bushes, arranged into zigzag paths, people walked in, lost on the way and could not find a way out, only heard men, women and children laughing and screaming in the maze, making a fuss.

Crossing the square is a Western-style inn for tourists to rest and stay overnight. In the south of the building, there is a pond with clear water and lotus lotuses, and a small bridge with a red fence close to the water surface is erected on it, and when you look down from the bridge, you can see that the bottom of the water is covered with silver dollars and gold coins, and the water is sparkling with the sparkling water.

Seeing these silvers, everyone wants to reach out to pick them up, but the pool water is electrified, and as soon as the fingers touch the water, they are only numb by the electricity, which makes people feel that they can't get their ill-gotten wealth easily, which may also reflect the unique side of Zhang Yuan's owner. The pond is surrounded by craggy rockeries and is also full of colorful lanterns, and at night, the lights are brilliant, comparable to the starry sky.

Every holiday, fireworks are set off at night, brilliant and dazzling, there is a big red balloon during the day, and a foreigner is hoisted from the ground to the sky, which is considered a special program, so when you enter the garden gate, you have to pay a few copper dollars extra as a ticket.

Holding Ji Li's arm, Chen Moran stepped into the garden gate, only to see that there were already many tourists in the square, men's robes and horse coats, suits and leather shoes, well-dressed, women's short jackets and long skirts, and Western-style clothes. Among them are wealthy merchants, magnates, literati, celebrities, wives, ladies and wives, celebrities and girls, as well as foreign tourists with their dependents.

Some of them ride on dragon boats for fun, some enter the Eight Array Diagram to be fascinated, and some even endure the pain of touching money from the pond. For Chen Moran, the simple and boring entertainment in this garden is difficult to arouse his lack of interest, and tourists occasionally see this Shanghai tycoon appear in the park with his British wife, but they will quietly get out of the way, who does not know the industry Boss Chen in Shanghai now.

"Xianggong, let's go there and have a look!"

Ji Li, who was wearing a yang hat, pointed to the depths of the sea and sky not far away, and said coquettishly, her face was overflowing with a happy smile, which was the kind of smile she had as a mother.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and it is the same for Chen Moran, the news brought by Ji Li that day made the fear and uneasiness in his heart disappear, Ji Li is pregnant, and in eight months, he will be promoted to one level and become a father.

"Son, now your father's career is finally a successor!"

It's been a week, and for a week, Chen Moran has always been immersed in the ecstasy of Chengren's father, just like he is supporting Ji Li now, but he is willing to do so.

You must know that all along, the thing he is most worried about is that he is afraid that he will be like Xiang Shaolong in the Xun Qin Ji, he will be hacked into this time and space, and as a result, he will lose his fertility, and every time he thinks about this, he is always scared into a cold sweat, but now Ji Li's pregnancy makes this worry no longer exist.

The two walked into the depths of the sea and the sky, only to see the performers on the stage singing and dancing, there are dozens of round tables under the stage, the tables are full of sweets and cakes, the young masters and guests are drinking tea, while flirting with the girls next to them, some hooking shoulders and backs, and some laughing. Seeing that kind of ugliness, even Chen Moran, who had a yearning for this kind of thing in the past, didn't know why he felt a little disgusted. Walking out of the depths of the sea and sky, I looked up to catch a glimpse of Ankaidi standing in the middle of the garden, where a group of young men and women were attracted and rushed towards its door.

"It's so lively there!"

Since his wife said so, Chen Moran would naturally support Ji Li with interest, walk through the lawn with the flags of all nations, and walk towards An Kaidi, a giant building made of marble, with long arched windows inlaid with stained glass everywhere. The carved ebony hall door was open, and the hall was full of black crows, already crowded with people, and there were dozens of foreigners in the middle.

Later, they had to wait in the corridor outside the hall, stretching their heads and necks and looking in through the windows or through the cracks in the people. There is a middle-aged man in a robe with his hair braided in a melon skin hat, he is Xu Jingwu, the owner of Qinglian Pavilion Bookstore on Sima Road. Today he closed his shop and came to this conference with his daughter.

Moreover, he was standing on his short and fat body, putting a stack of "Su Bao" and "Zhongwai Bao" in his elbow, and distributing them to the people who entered the venue one by one, while loudly publicizing it.

"Today there is a conference to resist Russia here, all my hot-blooded compatriots, come and participate!"

Anti-Russian Conference! As soon as he heard this, Chen Moran understood what was going on. Three years ago, Tsarist Russia invaded and occupied the Northeast, although the Xinchou Treaty had been decided, and the Qing Zheng Axe had lost the silver, but the Tsarist Russia broke the treaty and refused to withdraw the troops that had invaded the Northeast, and also put forward seven unreasonable demands to the Qing Zheng Axe, which aroused strong opposition from the people. Even the students studying in Yuben planned to set up an "anti-Russian volunteer team" to prepare to go to Manchuria to fight to the death against the Russian invading army, and the Liberation Society was also involved.

Just when Chen Moran was stunned, Xu Jingwu saw Chen Moran, and couldn't help but be stunned, today's participants are people from all walks of life in Shanghai Shinong, I didn't expect that the boss of this industrial company would also come, and hurriedly walked forward and shouted excitedly.

"Boss Chen, please come back."

After taking over the "Su Bao", Chen Moran couldn't take a closer look, so he squeezed into the hall at the respectful invitation of this middle-aged man, standing behind the crowd and watching. I saw that there was a platform three or four zhang away, and someone was reading out the "Letter to China" on the stage, exposing that when Tsarist Russia participated in the invasion of our country by the Eight-Nation Alliance, it alone sent troops to forcibly occupy the three eastern provinces! If once the Qing court surrenders and signs a contract, other countries will follow suit, then our Shenzhou will be reduced to a foreign race in less than a month, and the descendants of Yan and Huang will be reduced to slaves for generations! Then Wang Kangnian, the manager of the "Shiwu Bao", the novelist Wu Zhaoren, and Sun Jigang gave speeches on stage.

The impassioned remarks made the blood boil of hundreds of people in the audience, but Chen Moran just supported his wife and quietly watched the impassioned speech on the stage.

When Ji Li was listening to the speech, she saw that Chen Moran was hearing the sentence "My Shenzhou will be reduced to a foreign race in less than a month, and the descendants of Yan and Huang will be reduced to slaves for generations", her face showed some sarcasm, and she vaguely heard Ji Li mention that "we are just a group of slaves who have lost their country!" ”

No one expected that just when Chen Moran sighed for these compatriots who were slaves and didn't know, when several celebrities in Shanghai were speaking, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, wearing a plain school-style dress, strode proudly on the stage, and as soon as she opened her mouth, it was like a string of silver bells jingling in the hall.

'My name is Xue Jinqin, and I am a student of Jingzheng Female School. I said that China has been corrupted to such an extent, and the reason for this is really because the court officials are mediocre [***], have no patriotic heart, only seek their own wealth and wealth, and let all major state affairs be abolished! And the people are like young babies, thinking that they have nothing to do with the country, and they are not interested in the affairs of the state!" Finally, she raised her arms excitedly and shouted loudly.

"Compatriots, if we unite 40,000,000 people and strive to persuade the minister who presided over the Russian treaty to retreat, and replace him with a patriotic minister of peace, then the coercion of the Russians can be reversed......

The audience in the audience had different reactions to the girl's speech, some applauded warmly, and some shook their heads and sighed. Xue Jinqin's appearance and speech caused an uproar in An Kaidi, some people said that "it is really contemptible for women to speak in public", and some people said that "if everyone can be like Miss Xue, why is the country not strong".

When they said this, Chen Moran stared at the girl on the stage with stunned eyes, before today, he never thought that in this thousands of years of ancient nations, only after a few decades of the times, there would be such a clear and heroic and energetic girl, if the people of this country were like her, maybe he would not wait for the opportunity.

Occasion!

At the end of March, the sixth batch of recruits had completed their training, and nearly 27,000 well-equipped and well-trained Guangfu troops were enough to sweep across the entire south.

The key to the success of the Xinhai Revolution eight years later lies in the awakening of the people's national consciousness, and it is precisely the awakening of the national consciousness in various localities that enables the revolutionaries or the Guangfu faction to influence the general trend of the whole country in an instant, but now it is different.

At this time, the presiding officer on the stage glanced at the crowd and began to divert everyone's attention by inviting them.

"Which passionate man came up to the stage to speak?"

Xu Jingwu, who was distributing "Su Bao" at the door just now, was squeezing towards the front desk, listening to the host's words, and shouted violently.

"Please ask Boss Chen of the industrial company to come to the stage!"

Only then did people notice that Chen Moran and his foreign daughter-in-law were standing here, and before Chen Moran could say anything, the people around him couldn't help but say something, and pushed him and hugged him together. In the eyes of these people, if Boss Chen of the industrial company can come here, if he gives another speech, it will undoubtedly expand the influence of this anti-Russian conference.

Although he had given a speech on Hell Island, Chen Moran had never given a public speech in front of the public, and he felt shy and restrained when he stood on the stage, not knowing what to say in the first sentence. Everyone else who can say it has said it, and repetition makes people tired, and as for what I want to say, I am afraid that it is what I can not say now.

Do you want to tell them here that the rest of my Shenzhou has long been reduced to a foreign race, and the descendants of Yan and Huang have long been reduced to slaves? At least now is not the time to make such a statement publicly, looking at his wife in the audience, Chen Moran took a deep breath and introduced himself.

"My name is Chen Moran......"

Before he finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter in the audience, there were a few people in Shanghai who didn't know the boss of the industrial company, Boss Chen, and Wang Kangnian, who was on the side, got up and saluted respectfully.

"It turned out to be Boss Chen of the industrial company!"

Then he turned back to the hall, raised his voice, and announced loudly to the public.

"He just wants 50,000 rich workers and not three or two rich people's boss Chen!"

Many people in the audience knew Chen Moran's words, and when they were envious of the treatment of industrial workers, they couldn't help but cheer for Chen Moran, and An Kaidi suddenly burst into applause.

In the past, Chen Moran only enjoyed the respect and worship of the workers, as well as the compliments and praise of the business and his subordinates, and had never heard so many people applaud his works. He looked under the lookout, and his wife was staring at him deeply with a pair of gentle and encouraging eyes, as if two flames were burning his whole body.

After settling down, Chen Moran took a breath, he did not repeat what others said, but said it in a flat voice with some tragedy.

"The big truth, everyone has said it, if I repeat it, it will be nonsense, this is my country, Kanto is our land, Yan set up Mu Qin set up counties, thousands of years of our ancestors grew up in the ......"

Chen Moran did not mention anything "Manchuria", let alone say "the birthplace of the ancestors" like those people, but used a folk title, and Chen Moran, who didn't know what to say, pondered for a while and looked at the people in the audience when the warm applause covered up his words.

"My home is on the Songhua River in Northeast China, where there are forest coal mines and soybean sorghum all over the mountains. My home is on the Songhua River in Northeast China, where I have compatriots and my aging parents. That year, that year, from that miserable time, that year, that year......"

When Chen Moran sang this song, the people gathered in An Kaidi fell silent, and they all looked at Chen Moran humming on the stage in surprise, singing with tears and tears in a tone like crying, singing a voice of grief and indignation.

"When and what month will I be able to return to my lovely hometown? What year and month will I be able to recover my endless treasure? Daddy, Daddy! When will we be able to gather together......"

The heart-rending melody, the call to the relatives in the hometown, and the desire to regain the lost land were passed from Chen Moran's song to everyone, and finally when the low and sad singing stopped, the applause rang out, maybe this was not the drama they were familiar with, but it was moving and crying. Thunderous applause rang out.

That Xue Jinqin suddenly pulled Xu Jingwu's daughter and squeezed out of the crowd. Xu Jingwu also followed. They ran to the lawn outside the Ankaidi Building, lowered the Tsarist tricolor flag on the flagpole, and tore it to pieces in anger, which pushed the passionate atmosphere of the anti-Russian congress to **!

After the meeting, Wang Kangnian held Chen Moran's hand and warmly made an appointment for an interview. As the hundreds of attendees dispersed, almost all of them looked at Chen Moran with admiration, amazement, and respect.

"Xianggong, did you write this song on your own initiative?"

Looking at his father-in-law in surprise, the admiration in Ji Li's eyes became stronger, and when singing this song on stage, Chen Moran would pause for a second or two from time to time, as if he was composing a song in his heart.

"Xianggong, tomorrow, the whole of Shanghai will know that you are not only a successful businessman, but also a talented musician!"

The tearful grief in the song contained the power to ask to rise up and fight, and if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, Ji Li would never have believed that this was actually a temporary initiative of the Xianggong. The admiration revealed in those beautiful eyes, in Chen Moran's eyes, he just sighed lightly in his heart, and after singing the song "On the Songhua River", he couldn't calm down for a long time.

O Northeast! Northeast!

Thinking about that place in his heart, Chen Moran's expression became more and more solemn, and the anger of the people at the anti-Russian conference made him realize that maybe this was an opportunity.

"This is an opportunity!"

Located only 700 meters west of Hell Island, Goji Island is located in a tunnel blown up by blasting operations during engineer training on the mountainside, unlike Jill Island, which is responsible for the training of recruits.

In the middle of the night, the lights had been turned off in the wooden barracks on the island, and only the sentries and patrols of the light and dark sentinels patrolled back and forth on the island, while the lights were still on in the tunnel, and the smoke was filled with smoke in a compartment separated by a stone wall in the tunnel, and several people were sitting or standing in this room, and a large map was spread out on the wooden table in the center.

Xiao Xinren, who is usually a very small smoker, frowned and smoked a cigarette, and Chen Moran is the same, Lan Tianwei and Niu Yongjian are the same, since Chen Moran came here in the evening, after saying those words, the three of them were so silent, the three of them were the commanders of the three brigades of the Liberation Army, although Chen Moran had the name of the commander of the Liberation Army and the president of the Liberation Association, but in fact, the three of them were not only the military commanders of the Liberation Army, but also Chen Moran's military staff officers.

Touching his pocket, Chen Moran found that he had finished smoking the few cigars he was carrying.

"Sir!"

Niu Yongjian took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes and handed it to Chen Moran, and after taking out one and lighting it, Chen Moran walked in front of the map, which was a topographic map of the Northeast region, a military map drawn by the Second Detective Department from the north to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in several years. Staring at the map of the northeast, and then Chen Moran looked up at the three of them again, since that day, he has not been able to calm down for a long time, but he will open his mouth and only say one sentence in the end.

"Unless we really want to lose the provinces outside the gates! Otherwise......"

(To be continued)