Sixteen shops, here is the starting place of Shanghai Shili Yangchang, perhaps because of the early morning, the bustling Shili Yangchang is filled with a thick fog, which makes the Shili Yangchang blur a lot, and the scenery beyond 50 meters is wrapped in a vague and diffuse shell.

Standing on the bow of the ship, Chen Moran saw that there were several towering high-rise buildings that only showed the highest floors in the fog, and the rows of window openings flashed and shimmered with miserable yellow lights.

And this dense fog is boundless, and the cargo ships traveling on the Huangpu River break through the suffocating tide and move forward, and even the characters who are close at hand have become dizzy and weird; Everything has lost its distinctive silhouette, everything is blurred and deformed, although the fog hits the woolen coat on his body, Chen Moran is still standing at the bow of the boat.

"This ...... It's Shanghai! ”

In the memory of countless people, the old Shanghai is just a yellowed black and white photo, it is a freak under the relationship between poor and backward China and foreign powers, but everyone who knows it knows that on the other hand it is a paradise for the rich, an arena for adventurers, but it is a hell on earth for the poor masses......

The place left Jinling to come to Shanghai, the reason is very, electricity! Without electricity, his own machine cannot operate, and although Jinling has a small power plant, the power supply is only for the government, the rich gentry, and the arsenal to light the lamp.

"Master, the ship is docked!"

The head of the ship will be respectful Shi Li said, from Jinling to Shanghai, charter a ship of five hundred taels, such a high price is afraid of the first Cao, but in other words, in order to transport the two big iron cabinets of the lord in front of him, this sand boat, and sawing boards, and backing boards, but also took a lot of effort, if there is no dock on the two wooden cranes at the same time to hang at the same time, I am afraid that the two big iron broken cabinets, even the boat can not be on.

"Hmm!"

Chen Moran nodded, and looked back at the two containers covered under the sail rain, those two containers were his everything.

"The boat waits on the dock, stops for a day, and I will give a day's silver!"

After that, Chen Moran walked towards the springboard, walked on the swaying springboard, stepped on the land of Shanghai, his heart jumped suddenly, and his breathing became heavier, which was the boundary of Shanghai.

A high gatehouse, behind is the two-entry style of the southern style of the house, the gatehouse with the door compartment, the door with a red lacquer bottom is closed, the plaque on the door from right to left horizontal calligraphy gold characters "generation of scholars", the authentic Han Li, soft with Jun, peace and danger in the danger.

The white walls and blue bricks of the house, the begonias in the courtyard are hung with snow, although they are placed in the south, the snow begonias are added to the color of the north, and the beautiful and beautiful women enter the main hall with tea.

In the main hall, Sun Jingnan, who was sitting in the first seat, was drinking tea, although he was over fifty years old, he was in good spirits, his body was thin but not woody, he was sitting on a chair, and his body was very straight.

Although the furnishings in the main hall are not luxurious, but reveal the wealth of the family and the taste of the master, the door is the lacquered table and chair of the eight immortals, although the jujube red paint on the corner of the table and the armrest of the chair has been faded by the years, revealing the wood, but it shows that the family has been handed down for a long time, and the middle hall above the table is accompanied by a very old begonia reflecting the snow, although I don't know the wild grass painted on it, but Chen Moran, who is holding the tea, guessed how much that this may be from the hands of a famous artist.

Sun Jingnan, who was sitting on the Taishi's chair, didn't say anything at this time, just lowered his head and tasted tea, as if he was not interested in what the person in front of him was saying.

"Five thousand taels!"

A simple number, but the stench of copper suddenly permeated the room.

When he heard this number, Sun Jingnan just smiled slightly and continued to drink his tea.

"Mr. Sun, this price is already very high!"

Sun Jingnan's indifference in front of him made Chen Moran only feel a headache, since he came to this study, this person didn't say a few words, just occasionally asked himself about something, and he didn't seem to have any interest in renting a house.

Despite this, Chen Moran can only blindly flatter, this Sun Jingnan, who has been in the flower exploration and served as a passageway, but the landlord of the house he found, the backyard of the house is by the river, and there is still electricity, not to mention, there is a wooden crane at the small wharf behind the factory, which solves the problem of the machine going ashore and entering the factory.

It's just that it seems that this Mr. Nanping doesn't seem to have the idea of renting out, otherwise he wouldn't have visited himself.

Silver, although in Jinling pawned watches, necklaces, made 12,000 taels, but in order to get the two containers weighing more than 10 or 20 tons on two sand ships, it cost 1,000 taels, the freight of renting the ship, the cost of the ship to dock for three days, plus the past few days in Shanghai running around, this before and after nearly 3,000 taels of silver, long gone, finally found this suitable place, but the person is still unwilling to rent, saying that his own master Xu is for his own use after the year.

This is not in a hurry, Chen Moran will come to rent a carriage in a hurry, and run from Shanghai to this Songjiang County, and this will be five thousand taels, which is almost the highest price he can offer.

"Mr. Sun, who is also invited, will become a junior!"

After speaking, Chen Moran stood together, although there was a dull pain in his left leg, he still bent down respectfully.

"You Chen cripple, if you hadn't returned from abroad and didn't have much courtesy to the country, just the previous words, I'm afraid people would have blasted you out!"

Sun Jingnan smiled slightly and reprimanded casually.

"Ahh

Mr. Sun's words made Chen Moran stunned, what is going on? Etiquette? I haven't been so respectful to that person since I was a child, and I still say something about gifts.

"However, just now you said that you have just returned from abroad, and I don't know what you think of the current situation."

Sun Jingnan looked at the puzzled Chen Moran in front of him with interest, from the moment this young man on crutches entered the main hall, he became interested, because he said before that he had studied in Britain and the United States for 20 years, and how many people had studied in Europe and the United States for 20 years.

In particular, he mentioned the sentence "the idea of saving the country through industry" mentioned in renting a house and setting up a factory, which made Sun Jingnan feel like a confidant, the factory was originally abandoned by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and after he bought it many years ago, he originally planned to set up a factory, but this delay was several years, and he originally planned to try to run a factory after the year, but he never thought that someone would take a fancy to the factory now.

"The current situation?"

Chen Moran was suddenly stumped by this question, saying that returning from abroad is just a pretext, how can he know anything about the current situation, well! It seems that the treaty of Xincho is about to be signed.

The Treaty of Xincho?

Recalling this word, Chen Moran remembered a paper he had read in college, and he seemed to have argued with others because of it.

Although many years ago he saw through the darkness of officialdom and resigned to do business, but he did not dare to forget Sun Jingnan about state affairs, still since last year, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army occupied Beijing and Tianjin, the Queen Mother and the Emperor fled west to Xi'an, and the coalition army occupied Beijing for several months.

"However, you grew up in Britain and the United States since you were a child, do you think that Britain and the United States will destroy my heart of the Qing Dynasty?"

His question made Chen Moran breathe a sigh of relief, although he was not from a history background, but no matter how he knew the 450 million taels of indemnity from the Xinchou Treaty, since he lost money, the country would definitely not be destroyed, not to mention that in that paper, the head of the analysis of this reason was the Tao, and even added comments like an afterthought.

"Mr. Nanping, however, is only a later life, and he doesn't know much about military affairs, but except for Russia, other countries of the eight countries have no intention of destroying our China."

As he spoke, Chen Moran paid attention to the expression of Sun Jingnan in front of him.

"Oh! What does it mean that, apart from Russia, other countries have no intention of destroying China? ”

Sun Jingnan was attracted by Chen Moran's words, or he ignored the great rebellion in Chen Moran's words out of curiosity.

"The policies and contradictions between the eight countries on China determine that it is impossible for them to divide China at all! That is, there is no way to divide it, and how can we talk about destroying our China! ”

Putting the teacup on the shelf, Sun Jingnan's body couldn't help but lean forward slightly, looking full of interest.

"Oh! However, let's take a closer look! ”