When night came, the surroundings were quiet, and the waves crashing against the hull of the ship could occasionally be heard in the cabin, and in the crowded cabin, a little sound could occasionally be heard, and the people who were still there laughing before the clock would have fallen asleep.

At this time, in a cabin of a boat, a girl was holding her chin and looking at the night in the river outside the outboard, she looked sad, and looked like everyone was greatly wronged.

Looking out the window, it was a little bright, and the river was also shining.

Ah, it's the moon that has risen. Except for the sound of Cui Xi's breathing when she fell asleep and the occasional laughter from her dream, there was no movement in the cabin, Liu Jingxuan sat down at the table gently, supported her chin with her two hands, and began to think about her thoughts.

"I don't know what happened to him!"

Thinking of him in the newspaper in a cage, Liu Jingxuan's brows tightened, this may be the first time in her life that she has tied this mind to a man, although she is still a little annoyed with him in her heart, but for some reason, since he left, she has never let go of that person in her heart.

Thinking about it, maybe it was because it was too long, maybe it was a little tired, a wave of sleepiness hit, Liu Jingxuan's mind also slackened, so she lay on the table and took a nap, in a fog, she seemed to be in a bumpy hut, with the bumps of the hut across the mountain stream and the river, came to a huge Western-style farm.

The door opened, and out of it came a man dressed in a dress, who walked to the front of the house on crutches, gently lifted the red curtain, and then picked himself off his horse. She was anxious to struggle, but she didn't have any strength in her body, she wanted to curse the man, but she couldn't think of anything to scold.

The man carried herself into the courtyard of the Western-style village, and into a red room, and then she saw a large happy word pasted on the bedside and the window.

Sky! It's a cave house!

Before she could react to the man who was holding her, he didn't know when he changed into the groom's clothes, he still had that wicked smile on his face, and his hands were irregular, he touched his chest, and then gradually slid down...... Until...... When she looked down in shame to take the hand away, she found herself lying naked in the man's arms.

She was so embarrassed by this discovery that she was about to push the man away, but the man flew up with her in his arms, and the white clouds passed by them, and the birds lingered around them, ah, how beautiful. At last, the man and himself landed in a strange place, full of towering buildings, and a constant stream of foreign carriages, and on the great river there were smoking iron boats...... At some point, she was standing on the street, and many people were pointing at her, as if they were laughing at her and scolding him.

"I don't have any clothes on!"

Their words frightened her, and she couldn't help but think of the man, what about the man? She searched around, but he was never seen again. And the curse grew louder and louder, and a flying stone hit his forehead, so painful...... "Don't, don't, please don't look at me......"

Screaming, Liu Jingxuan got up from the table in a cold sweat.

"It turned out to be a dream!"

Liu Jingxuan touched her head, with some fear. She really regretted why she came to Shanghai with her father so much.

"I'm ashamed to have such a dream! That stinky man, if I let me touch you again, look girl, I won't pull your tendons and peel your skin! ”

Thinking of the culprit in the dream, Liu Jingxuan muttered with a red face, but after thinking about it, she couldn't remember what the stinky man in the dream looked like, but she remembered the crutch.

"Could it be that the lame man!"

Although his face was red and his ears were red, thinking of the lame's ignorance only made Liu Jingxuan's heart feel strange.

"Stinky cripple, you dare to be disrespectful to me again, look at how I clean you up, hum! …… What are you thinking! ”

As he spoke, he resurfaced the scene of being kissed by him, only to let Liu Jingxuan take a sip, lay on the bed with a red face, and as soon as she closed her eyes, the lame man's evil smile appeared in front of her eyes again, and she showed a sweet smile in her surprising dream. Only the moon was reflected in the cramped cabin.

The sea gradually receded behind it, and the Saidanmaru cruise ship rode the wind and waves at the mouth of the Yangtze River to set off bursts of foaming waves, turned and sailed into the Wusong River, and at night, under the curtain was the metropolis that made adventurers from all over the world intoxicated and yearned for - Shanghai!

At this time, Niu Yongjian was standing on the bow deck of the Sidan, and the closer he was to Shanghai, the more he felt that his blood was boiling. The gentle sea breeze reminded him of a lot, of the trials and tribulations of the land, of the man he regarded as a teacher, and of the words he had seen in the newspaper when the ship was out of port, when the Shanghai tycoon Chen Moran had spoken outside the door of the central patrol room.

"There is only one sentence, if the individual is strong and the country is weak, it will always suffer! The humiliation suffered by Mo Ran today is inseparable from the weakness of the country, and Mo Ran has only one sentence of advice to his compatriots, the people of the country should be self-reliant! ”

A burning blush appeared on Niu Yongjian's resolute face, and from those words, he knew that his teacher had changed! Niu Yongjian, who has a resolute face and a passionate heart, looks at the Bund with the lights on, and seems to see the future from the flickering lights, a future that is rolling in the clouds.

"I'm coming!"

"Toot ......"

When approaching the pier, the whistle of the Saidanmaru echoed in the sky above the Huangpu River...... "Bang! ”

The sound of the utensils breaking came from the room, startling the servants who passed by, but no one dared to go in.

Even Butler Ressa, when she heard the sound of glass breaking and roaring from the room, only frowned and said nothing.

The young master suffered a great humiliation outside, and the whole Chen Mansion already knew about it, even if they didn't read the newspaper, when they left the mansion, they could hear the rumors of "Chen Cripple lost a tael of silver" and "apologized in the newspaper", and the evaluation of the young master was also divided into two sides on the territory of Shanghai.

On the one hand, he thinks that he is soft and soft-hearted to foreigners, but on the other hand, he thinks that it is not him Chen Cripple whose bones are soft, but the soft bones of this Great Qing Kingdom, which is so tired that he Chen Cripple will be humiliated. But no matter what is said outside, there is one fact that Chen Cripple has suffered a great shame and humiliation.

Since coming to this time and space, Chen Moran, who has not suffered any blows, as long as he thinks of his one or two silvers, he paid to Charlie, and was even exhibited by Charlie in the glass window on the street, and there is a sign below that "Chen Cripple of the Industrial Company Compensated", Chen Moran is the blockage in his heart.

"The Manchurian slave of the dog!"

After dropping the glass wine bottle, Chen Moran, who was already drunk, continued to scold the man after scolding Charlie.

"The slave raised by the son of a bitch, you fucking have no bones, and the old man who is harmed will suffer!"

As he spoke, Chen Moran, who was lying on the edge of the bed, tilted his head again.

"A tael of silver!"

A hoarse howl roared out of his throat, and his heart ached not for a tael of silver, but for his own face, and for his grief and indignation, it was for him to suffer such a great humiliation.

At this time, Chen Moran no longer had the pig's tail on his head, and some were just shaved heads, which he shaved with a razor after he went home, and in order to shave out this bald head, he even made more than a dozen cuts on his head.

Staggerly stood up, walked to the broken mirror, and looked at himself in the mirror, but Chen Moran's drunken face squeezed out a sneer.

"You're still like them after all!"

Once upon a time, when he saw a report in the newspaper that the head was accompanied by one or two silvers, he even promised that "it has nothing to do with him, others will compensate, and he Chen Moran will not compensate", but now, whether he wants it or not, he, like 450 million Chinese, has accompanied foreigners for one or two silver.

A tael of silver, a tael of silver in a zigzag, completely shattered Chen Moran's last bit of dignity and false disguise, even when he wore that braid and put on that horse coat, he would occasionally say to himself in his heart that this was just an appearance of the appearance, but his bones were different from them.

But it's different, it's just what he calls different.

Although he was drunk, but with a sneer on his face, Chen Moran still shook and walked out of the bathroom, unscrewed the water faucet and let the cold water spraying wine impact his body, the cold water from head to toe made him sober up a lot, and the strong smell of wine on his body faded.

Anger is good! It's okay to be annoyed!

It's all useless, his eyes are staring at the smooth tiles, Chen Moran's expression is serious and cold, the one or two pieces of silver completely strip his face, but it is the same that makes him completely identify with this era and his identity.

When the cold water fell on his body, Chen Moran was muttering to himself with his eyes closed.

"Non-violence cannot stop Hitler's iron horse, negotiations cannot make al-Qaeda lay down its arms, we say that force is necessary, this is a quibble, but a lesson from history!"

People have always been like this, and the sharp changes of people are due to the changes in things and the environment, Chen Moran is like this, and many people are like this in this era. As a counterfeit banknote, he never thought that he could save the country, and he didn't have the consciousness, making counterfeit money is a head-killing business, in that time and space, he has always used Mayakovsky's "When you have no way out, you still have one last way to go, that is to commit a crime, always remember, this is not shameful." Convince yourself to take that road of no return.

In this era, he originally just wanted to live a good life, but he was changed little by little by the environment, and the environment and encounters stimulated the hidden consciousness in his heart. Even when he was angry with the braid and the symbol of the slave, and when he was born to rebel, it was more for the sake of profit, and perhaps nothing was more important to him than personal gain.

But it wasn't until after the silver or two that he could no longer control himself to calm down and face it. In the past, perhaps he valued himself more, but now, these two silvers told him the reality, as a Chinese, there is always something to do!

Xiao Xinren had a smile on his face when he strode towards the study, and finally after two days of being with wine, Chen Moran still walked out of his bedroom, ordered his subordinates to cook a meal, and then asked people to inform him to go to his study.

After Xiao Xinren entered the study, he saw Chen Moran sitting in the circle chair reading the newspaper, the newspaper was spread out on the table, but his fingers were gently tapping the writing, and there was a thick stack of newspapers on the desk, just by glancing, Xiao Xinren knew that these newspapers were all old newspapers from the past two days.

"Sit!"

Without raising his head and pointing to the chair in front of him with his left hand, Chen Moran said.

His words came with a strong smell of wine, Xiao Xinren frowned, and didn't say anything.

"Now my Chen lame man is notorious, 450 million and one tael! Those one or two are from me! ”

As soon as he collected the newspaper, Chen Moran stared at Xiao Xinren and said.

"It's all the nonsense of the reporters, don't take it to heart, most newspapers still applaud you well!"

Xiao Xinren said cautiously.

"They're telling the truth, aren't they?"

When he said this, Chen Moran took out a cigarette and lit it for himself without letting Xiao Xinren do it.

"The facts are irrefutable, no matter what reason I have, in short, I Chen Moran didn't escape the one or two pieces of silver!"

When Xiao Xinren was still entangled with Chen Moran about the two pieces of silver, Chen Moran's eyes turned to the red oak door.

"Weiyang, I can tell you that originally, I always thought that as long as they didn't push me too much, I would wait, endure it, and wait for that day to come, and when the time comes, everything will naturally fall into place. We'll do it again then! ”

Chen Moran, whose gaze was a little uncertain, showed a hint of mockery on his face, as if he was laughing at himself. Originally, his idea was very simple, endure and wait, and use ten years to build an industrial empire of his own, in the next ten years, with the Pudong Financial Center as the leader, raise funds, take Ma'anshan to Huaimian as the axis, develop metallurgy, coal chemical industry, with the help of radiation effect, in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi to establish their own home, the Yangtze River water conservancy, coastal shipping, convenient transportation will help to realize this dream.

Finally, ten years later, his industrial company and his Chen Moran will be the most financially powerful and prestigious people in the four provinces, and once the Wuchang Uprising starts, the factories and mines of the industrial companies in the four provinces will immediately launch a joint response with the internal thieves planted by the new army.

With the financial resources of the industrial companies as support, the factories and mines of the industrial companies in the four provinces, and some of the new armies as armed forces, the two are held in hand, and the position of the president must be none other than Chen Moran.

It's the least expensive and most successful program, and it's also the most cost-effective investment. But this was just when he was in Nanjing, when Chen Moran was first established in his heart, and before he could plan in detail, the compensation for these two pieces of silver, and the one or two pieces of silver still standing in the cabinet on Nanjing Road, completely woke Chen Moran up.

"Originally,"

Chen Moran smiled coldly.

"According to my past plan, I was 100% sure that I could settle everything in one fell swoop, but now! I don't want to wait! ”

Past plans? Xiao Xinren's face was full of puzzlement, Chen Moran never mentioned his plan, in Xiao Xinren's impression, Chen Moran only vaguely mentioned that it would take ten years to prepare, and it could be launched when the time was ripe. As for how to prepare, at least in Xiao Xinren's view, there is no plan to take shape, after all, the development of industrial companies is the foundation now.

With silver, there is everything! But now Chen Moran said that he was not willing to wait.

"Those one or two pieces of silver completely woke me up, this country has reached this point, if we don't fight again, maybe in ten years, we will really face the situation of destroying the country and extinction! Ten years is too long, just seize the day,"

Chen Moran, who stood up, fell there and became alarmist.

Xiao Xinren trembled in his heart, but nodded his head.

"I'm still the same sentence, no matter what you do, I will follow you! Be your pawn! ”

His eyes were fixed on Xiao Xinren, and the drunken headache made him rub his temples, and then he took a hard puff of cigarette.

"Before I went in, I told Zhang Jing to get those guns out, and now that we have guns in our hands, I'm ready to ......"

"However, now is not the right time!"

Perhaps because of his nervousness, Xiao Xinren's voice trembled, and he almost stood up in exclamation, looking at Chen Moran, he wouldn't do it now.

"Weiyang, don't worry, I once told you, I Chen Moran don't do uncertain things, this was the case in the past, and it is still the case now, I mean, at the beginning, I was only going to get a team of a few hundred people, and we had ten years to practice it anyway, but now I don't think so, I want to pull our engineering team out, of course, I will still leave some people for the company, after all, not everyone will take it away."

Chen Moran, who couldn't breathe, took a deep breath, then walked to the table, pressed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, and lit another one.

"I'm going to find some more instructors and bring these workers to the island!"

"On the island?" At first, he was a little surprised, but then Xiao Xinren understood what Chen Moran meant.

"You mean to bring people to the island for training!"

Chen Moran, who was holding a cigarette in his hand, nodded, as if he remembered something, and walked to the bookcase and took out a map, which was left by the previous owner, although it was an English map of China.

"Weiyang, look here,"

Chen Moran pointed to a small black dot on the map.

"From the Huangpu River through Jinhui Port, you can just get here, about dozens of kilometers, a round trip less than a day's effort, I want you to come forward to buy this small island for me, this island is not big, the island residents will not be many, just buy them some land on the mainland, and move them all out."

At this time, Chen Moran's face suddenly became gloomy, and his eyes looked a little cold, if the people on the island were unwilling to move out by then, then don't blame him for being ruthless.

"This island is not close to the shipping route, and the training troops on it will not be noticed by the outside world, I am going to pull our engineering team, at least 600 people, to train on the island, and when the company sets up an engineering team and a mine protection team in the future, we can pull up a batch of them, and train them for several months according to the year."

"Hmmm! That's a good idea! ”

Nodding his head, Xiao Xinren said in a calm and firm voice that training troops on a desert island will indeed not attract the attention of the outside world, and this place is not close to Shanghai, it is not far away, and the distance is also a benefit.

"Last time, you said to me, let's build a school, I've already thought about it! Let's start a school! ”

When mentioning the school, Chen Moran had an eager look in his eyes.

"I am going to set up a sports school by the Huangpu River, which is externally called to train sports talents, strengthen the body, and improve the national physique, but internally it is to train military talents, as for the name of the school, I have thought of it, it will be called Huangpu Sports School!"

Suddenly, he turned his face to look at Xiao Xinren again, but a smile appeared on his originally serious face, as for the reason for the laughter, I am afraid that only he will know that the great name of "Whampoa" has a deep impact on modern Chinese history, in that time and space, and it is the same now.

"Weiyang, this school, I am the principal, you! I'm going to be the head of the professor's department! ”

"I ......"

In an instant, Xiao Xinren was stunned by Chen Moran's words, he blushed and muttered, not even knowing what to say.

"I ...... I don't know if I can be good, and I ...... And the company ......"

He suddenly added the last sentence for some reason, and once again, he had a feeling of rushing ducks to the shelves.

(To be continued)