In November 1917, it was called Fukuoka.

Fukuoka, formerly known as Hakata, was once the birthplace of agriculture in the Wako slave country, and was also the ancient battlefield where the Great Yuan attacked the Wa country, and it was also the place where Toyotomi Hideyoshi of the Wa kingdom was revived. As one of the ancient capitals in the eyes of the Japanese people, Fukuoka represents a springboard spirit.

Through it, the Wa Kingdom said that it was instinctive to look at the countries of Asia with its gaze full of desire and ambition.

Today is the Fukuoka Hakuaki Festival, and a grand event is held every year on November 1st~3rd to commemorate the so-called literati Kitahara. On the fishing boats in the river, people light fireworks, humming and singing nursery rhymes and songs, while drinking and having fun in this drunken night.

In a hot spring hotel near the river, the window facing the river revealed the figure of a man, the night wind was like a knife, but he stood straight, like an eagle falcon-like eyes, staring at the singing and dancing on the river, staring at the riverside drunken ronin. Loud scolding, savage pushing, but the night seems so confused.

At some point, it rained lightly in the gray night sky, and the dim yellow halo from the only two or three street lamps had been completely blocked by the rain and fog.

"Overseer, it's raining!"

The adjutant took off the coat on the clothes rack and put it on Cai Ye, who was standing there looking at the riverside in a trance. Cai Ye didn't make a sound, still quietly looking at the riverside, and there was a sound of selling with a familiar local accent from that direction just now.

"サンザシの串刺し...... おいしいサンザシの串恗" A shouting sound with a Chinese accent went from far to near along the riverside, and Cai Gong suddenly frowned for no reason, revealing a helpless bitter smile.

"Overseer, what's wrong?"

"A Chinese who sells rock sugar gourds." Cai Yi said without looking back.

"Alas, it's too poor in the country!"

Cai Yi nodded: "Back then, the group of people in our non-commissioned officer school still had special funds from the official faction. However, in order to broaden their horizons, many students in the same period studied from the West, but they were shy and had to choose a book separated by a water. Listening to this voice, I'm afraid it's a work-study student. ”

The sound of the rock sugar gourd selling came from far and near, even in the night rain, the kind of voice that was different from the incomparable voice of the traders and marketmen in this book, but it was like a small episode in the rain, which made Cai Ye hear.

There was a moving tone in the shouting voice, which sounded very familiar, and instantly reminded him of the young man he met in Yunnan, and he couldn't help but feel moved.

"Yingchuan, do you remember that Zhang Shusheng?"

"Zhang Shusheng? Was it the leader of the militia who gave the Overseers a miracle medicine and made them recover? Why did the Overseer suddenly mention him? Adjutant Cai Yingchuan closed the other two windows and brought a cup of tea brewed from China.

Cai Yi nodded slightly, and sighed lightly, "It's a pity, Brother Baili is close to him, if he can see him, he will definitely be a temporary confidant." ”

"General Baili and the Overseer are brothers, and they are the same family, not only to help the Overseer to fight Yuan, but also to take care of the General together. Now that he has returned to the country to serve in the presidential office, he is one step ahead. When the Overseers returned, they continued to be arms to each other. ”

"Fighting Yuan's Northern Expedition and leading the troops to kill, I have long been tired. At that time, the so-called three masters, Brother Runnong served as the director of the Xiang'an Rongyun Bureau, and Brother Baili first served as the Baoding Military Academy, and then helped me to ask Yuan. Now I have gradually moved the idea of standing in force, alas, I am the only one, first of all, in the military, in exchange for a sinking body that is about to die. Now he is lucky not to die, he will return to China again, and he will live another famous life. Cai Yi's deep voice seemed to reveal some kind of understanding, "I only found out now that Brother Baili is much better than me." ”

"The Overseers are afraid that they are arrogant, and they swear to protect the foundation of the whole country, and the president praises the Overseers as the giants of the country."

"Yingchuan, you don't understand. At that time, my mentor had many disputes with Brother Baili, and I had several private conversations with him, and Brother Baili once said that it was a great disaster for China. This is almost exactly what the head of the regiment said. In the general direction, I am not as good as Brother Baili, he looks at the problem from the perspective of the nation and the height of national fortunes. Cai Ye still stared at the riverside, and said with a low smile: "I talked to him about the head of the Zhang regiment, and he also called him a stranger, if he ......"

Suddenly, Cai Ye stopped, and snorted heavily, as if expressing this sudden anger.

Cai Yingchuan poked his head out of the window, and through the faint street lights, he saw that a bunch of people had gathered around the river, and the noisy voice suddenly sounded, breaking the silence of the night rain by the river.

By the river, the young man looked at the cart that was pushed to the ground, the rock sugar gourds rolled down everywhere, and then he was trampled by dirty feet, and was about to stand up, but was pushed down by several ronins.

"Don't deceive too much." The young man suddenly burst out with great strength, turned over and stood up, and there was already an extra dagger in his right hand.

"Hahaha...... It's really a Chinese pig. bumped into our own people, and they wanted to resist without losing money. A ronin leader seemed to be angered by this Chinese, who had bullied Chinese students many times, and he had long been accustomed to the kind of cowardice that could not release half a fart when he kicked it, and pulled out the little knife on his belt, and said defiantly, "If you want to fight, I can slaughter your pig with just it." ”

The onlookers applauded, and the arrogant voices came out far away, and one by one the drunk staggered, instigating the ronin leader to teach the lowly pig in front of him a lesson.

The young man stubbornly usurped the dagger in his hand and smiled fiercely, "Soldiers can be killed, but not humiliated, Lao Tzu is not afraid of death." Especially in the face of brutes like you. ”

"Yaga!" The ronin leader was enraged, and the rib chacha knife in his hand was about to stab him.

When the young man saw that the other party stabbed straight over, his body was deflected, the dagger was lowered, and his whole body was leaning down, and he was about to stab him in the waist.

"Ahh Two screams rang out almost at the same time, and the ronin was stabbed in the right waist by the young man's deadly attack, slashing through it, hurting his flesh and skin. The young man was also pulled out by the small knife against his shoulder, and a two-finger-wide blood groove was drawn, and blood suddenly gushed out, splashing everywhere.

"Ahem, hey, hey......" The young man didn't cover his wounds, raised his dagger and had to fight again.

The tenacity of the Chinese youth finally angered this group of ronins, and the original single fight was about to become together, looking at the bright sword light under the street lamp, the young man sighed in his heart: Mother, no one has given you a pension, but the son is not ashamed.

"Huh!" The young man who was surrounded by the group saw that there was no hope of escape, and when he encountered this group of beasts, he wanted to rush up and pull a cushion. But when he saw that the surroundings suddenly became agitated, the beasts who had surrounded him densely actually retreated to the side. Looking back, a man dressed as a soldier was holding a pistol pointed at the group of brutes, and not far behind him, a young man in a suit also took out a pistol and pointed it at the group of ronins.

"Apologize to this young man on his knees!"

"Baga, dare to cause trouble with our Black Dragon Society, who are you." The ronin leader was also scared awake, and when he saw the other party's military uniform, he guessed something, and scolded.

"Cai Yi!"

The ronins finally retreated, I don't know if it was because of the murderous intent on Cai Yi's face, or because the little leader of the Black Dragon Society knew the details of the visitor, and finally knelt down at the gun and apologized, and the young man also escaped with his life.

…… Two hours later

"General Cai, he said that his own nationality has a very strong inferior roots, and there was the Jiawu incident before, and I have seen it in my four years of studying in this country. General Cai, you are a rare general among our people, and you must pay attention to your own wolf ambitions. Huo Dingguo, the injured young man who had just bandaged his wound, grabbed the hand of the general in front of him and struggled to get up, but was stopped by Cai Yi reaching out. General Cai, a junior who has studied abroad for four years, is accustomed to seeing all kinds of murderous faces of his soldiers in the army non-commissioned officer school, and all he talks about is how to encroach on China's benefits. He said that once this group of soldiers takes control of military power, it will be a great disaster for China. ”

"If you think about it carefully, not only now, aren't my classmates the same as those faces. It's just that now they are already in a high position, Hideki Tojo and Yoshio Shinozuka are not simple, and their ability to cause trouble in the future is even greater. Cai Yi personally covered him with a military coat, listening to this Huo Dingguo for more than an hour, his heart was already full of emotion, this person is indeed a rare genius, if he didn't catch up, I am afraid that a future genius of a Chinese [***] person will die by the river on this rainy night.

"You were born as a cowherd, and you can rely on various means of livelihood to travel across the ocean to study abroad, which is really wise. The conversation is even more extraordinary, and the insights in military strategy have surpassed that of the ignorant me back then, compared with that of Brother Baili. Get a good night's sleep, and I'll take you back to China. What the eldest boy has learned, he must show his ambitions. ”

"General Cai, thank you!"

Young Huo Dingguo may not have imagined that a genius who studied at the Army Non-commissioned Officer School should have died in the evening of this rainy night, because Cai Ye in front of him in history would die earlier than himself.

It's just that because of the arrival of a passionate young man, there have been too many subtle changes in this world. Cai Ye did not die, and he Huo Dingguo did not die because of Cai Ye. Moreover, both of them developed a deep hatred for the Japanese country.

The genius is dead, and the posterity is unknown. If a genius does not die, he will naturally break out into an earth-shattering situation.

Half a month later, Yanjing

"Brother Baili, during my tenure, in addition to traveling around the country, I also thought carefully about the domestic situation, and now the situation is chaotic, and it is difficult to correct it. Are you still willing to stay in Yanjing? ”

Cai Yi put down the small blue and white porcelain teacup in his hand, and after he recovered from his illness, he looked so full of vitality and momentum. It was said that the general who scolded Fang Xuan and raised the banner against Yuan Daqi was back. "The north-south trend is a mess, and there are wolf ambitions on the left and right, and I don't want to get involved anymore, I just want to return to Yunnan and set up a high-level military school."

"Brother Songpa, now that I have my responsibilities, it is really difficult to move. Now that you have seen the situation clearly, why haven't you seen it clearly? It's just that now that my teacher is still in office, how can I leave alone? My mentor was so proud and ambitious to change the law and become stronger, but now he is completely disheartened, and wants to go to the West next year to investigate, and he wants me to go with him......"

Jiang Baili was dressed in a military uniform, his face was upright, and his short hair made him look even more heroic, just like Cai Songpo who was recovering from illness, he was also in the prime of life, and he had a leisurely and righteous atmosphere, "At that time, Baoding Military Academy had a lot of controls, which made it really difficult for me to show my ambitions." ”

"The two seniors are bent on being strong, and if they can work together, they will definitely cultivate countless generals who can fight well for our China. Recruiting good materials, supplemented by Western military training and education, and then training elite soldiers by generals, this is the way for Chinese people to improve themselves. ”

Huo Dingguo said with a look in his eyes.

"Brother Songpo, if you can set up a military academy when you return to Yunnan this time, you will definitely throw off this shackle and run a school in the southwest with you after returning to China next year."

"Good! Deal! ”

The two high-fived as an oath, which can be regarded as a covenant for next year.

A month later, in December 1917, the Kunming military and political axe!

"Song Gong, are you really unwilling to raise your arms and chant again, form a Jing [***] with me, and protect the foundation of the Republic of China?" Tang Jiyao, who was wearing a medal ribbon, bowed earnestly to Cai Yi, who was sitting on the side, and said.

"This time I returned to Yunnan, I have already given up the heart of the north-south expedition, you don't need to persuade more. You and I have different aspirations, so let's leave it at that. "Cai Yi was slightly disappointed, but the matter was reasonable, Tang Jiyao threw himself into the confrontation between the north and the south, even if he could see those strategic crises, he would not be able to take a penny to run a military academy." The war is all together, and the lives are devastated. Be a man, just and virtuous. For the sake of a soldier, it is all the more necessary to take Yasukuni as his own responsibility, instead of blindly fighting for power. Even if thousands of years have passed, it will remain in the annals of history. After speaking, Cai Ye left without looking back.

"Songgong, go all the way!!"

Tang Jiyao, who was in a complicated mood, saluted the back of this Song Gong who had escaped the catastrophe with the most upright military salute in his life.

Cai Ye took out the military and political axe, Huo Dingguo and Cai Yingchuan hurriedly caught up, "Overseer, how is it?" ”

"You don't have to call me Overseer anymore! I went out of this gate today, and I have nothing to do with the Dian army from now on. ”

"Then where do we go, without the support of the military and political axes, I am afraid that the military academy will not be able to run." Cai Yingchuan looked disappointed.

"The New Year is coming, and it's time for me, a lucky reincarnation who didn't die, to visit my old acquaintances and life-savers." Thinking of the new Yunnan tycoon He Fangjiong, Cai Ye felt that maybe he could get some help from him. "Yingchuan, you accompany your wife home to save your relatives, it's hard for her, Dingguo will accompany me to Huize."

Zhang Shusheng looked at his most proud students with a smile, at the end of the year, some things must be implemented. The first batch of ten students to study abroad did not have them, because there was a shortage of manpower at that time, so they had to select another ten students with good surnames and smart and studious students to study in San Francisco, USA.

Because of their young age, those children did not go directly to colleges and universities, but to ordinary Chinese-built schools. However, these capable officers under his command can enter the local Chinese secondary school to study, and they only need to study hard, and then they can enter the higher education school in the next few years. During this period, many bright students have embarked on a path of studying abroad in this way.

"Everything has been arranged for you, as long as you are willing to go, you can go to the United States after the first day of the new year. You may not be able to learn more in the United States, but it will allow you to learn something different. ”

Chen Jun, Zhao Ziyun, Zhu Zijian, and two outstanding students in junior high school, Wei Changfa and Xu Jianming.

"I'm not going! I don't want to leave the militia. Chen Jun was the first to shake his head.

"Let the sub-key go, I won't go either." Zhao Ziyun also said resolutely.

The remaining three remained silent.

Zhang Shusheng: "I don't care if you are in a good or bad position, whether you go or not, there will be someone to monitor your progress." Whether you stay or go abroad, if you fall behind, then everything that seems justified today will be taken away by better people tomorrow. Therefore, whether you leave or stay, I have only one request, don't lag behind others, don't indulge in everything in front of you. And I will always have the means to take away the rights of any cowards and betrayers. ”

"Yes!!" The five of them saluted and shouted in unison. In the end, Zhu Zijian resigned from his position as the instructor of the acting company, and together with Wei Changfa and Xu Jianming, he went to the United States with the group.

"Let's go back and prepare for a while, as soon as the first day of the new year passes, you will go to the United States with the group."

Zhang Shusheng motioned for everyone to go out, and then a few more people knocked on the door, but it was Sun Laixi and others who were waiting outside.

"Come on, take a good look at this planner. This time, you and Ms. Hua Yuwei led a team to the United States, and we should pay attention to cooperate with Kenneth to apply for these patents, two circuit patents and one chemical patent. Be sure to do it as soon as possible. You'll also tell Kenneth that starting in the second half of the year, the first batch of soaps and shampoos will be shipped from Hong Kong to San Francisco, and you'll be responsible for the first settlement with him.

Teacher Hua Yuwei, you have to take on a little extra task. Make full use of your advantages and recruit some Chinese talents to study in the United States, teachers, technicians, skilled workers, and scientists. Regardless of whether it is overseas Chinese or Chinese, as long as they have a patriotic heart, in terms of salary, I have set a fairly lenient scope in the plan. ”

After explaining again, Sun Laixi and Hua Yuwei retreated.

Luo Feng walked in.

"Dean!"

"You're traveling to the U.S. this time for several special missions. I'll give you half a year, first, you must give me a strict screening of Western children in this part of Plan A according to the requirements of the plan. Second, this is a scholar's information, and you have to do everything you can to give him back to me, even if it is to buy off the Chinese cousin. As for whether he wants to or not, you just have to show him this design sketch, and I think he'll come back with you. If the first task conflicts with the second task, abandon Plan A and execute the second task. All the things that you secretly find Kenneth after he will cooperate with you alone. As for the orphanage, it will be temporarily managed by your subordinate Tengao, who will carry out your usual tough policy. ”

Wen Tiangao was also an extremely unusual person in the early days of the militia, he was both a soldier and a bandit in his early years, Zhang Shusheng used a medicine to save his seventy-year-old mother, he was very loyal, and Zhang Shusheng was specially dispatched to the orphanage. Under the influence of Luo Feng and Wen Tiangao, several special mission personnel and three extremist patriotic young teachers in the orphanage have become black-faced characters that the children fear.

"Yes!" Luo Feng went to the United States, but he was not with Sun Laixi and others.

After instructing some things one after another, Zhang Shusheng stopped his pen and signaled that the staff could go back early.

Universities, hospitals, research institutes, pharmaceutical factories (simple pharmaceutical factories that produce penicillin), simple cigarette factories, these large-scale construction facilities will be built one after another by the middle of next year, and the scale of the beginning is not large, first, there is no money, and second, it is not necessary.

Not counting the chemical plant and the machinery factory, the first phase of the expansion plan of the arsenal is that these five money-eating monsters have swallowed up all the profits of this year, not to mention the construction costs and equipment procurement costs, and they have also put in a huge amount of nearly two million marks.

Although Kenneth was in charge of some of the finances, the group of people who went to the United States still took a considerable amount of money with them. Thinking about his small treasury of less than 1.5 million marks, Zhang Shusheng has a big head, and the next 1918, 1919, and 1920 will be a three-year plan for blowout development.

Listening to the sound of firecrackers in the distance, he couldn't help but smile, remembering the agreement with that Tingting little and lovely person, "It seems that the Spring Festival is going to be cheeky to pay New Year's greetings, and I don't know what gifts she has prepared." ”

I opened the drawer on the far right of my desk, took out a refined melodica, put it to my mouth, and tried to blow a low tune, beautiful and romantic, the kind of lyrical light music that could make the little girl happy. If you want to take a New Year's gift from a little girl, you have to be prepared, isn't it, another melodica lying in the drawer, the corners of Zhang Shusheng's mouth couldn't help but fly out of a faint smile, who would have thought that the manager of Shusheng Company and the head of the militia who were sad because of various big expenses all day long would also have such a side.

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The sound of firecrackers sent blessings, and in the Spring Festival of 1918, Xiaoqingshan was spent in a lively atmosphere. The pig farm of Shusheng Company still opened the slaughter to kill pigs in accordance with the old rules, and the entire Lishuping was lively for two days.

As the new core area of Xiaoqingshan, Lishuping has replaced the role of the town office and has become a distribution center for goods and agricultural products. Here you can buy chai, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, coat meat, you can buy soap, even the latest luxury soaps and shampoos, you can also buy straw paper or beautifully packaged cigarettes, you can even buy iron drums, foreign nails and iron lighters with roller oil storage......

After participating in the necessary activities, especially the New Year's activities of the two most important departments of the militia group and Shusheng Company, Zhang Shusheng finally set off with a squad of guards.

On the way to the county seat, he couldn't help but think of the scene of the New Year in the orphanage.

Unlike the joy outside, the children here did not hear the sound of firecrackers until the 29th of the Lunar New Year, nor did they feel the atmosphere of the New Year, and they did not even know that it was the New Year.

Every day is repetitive, train, train, train. Learn, learn, learn.

Until the extremely stern and Hades-like vice president announced that the dean would come to celebrate Chinese New Year's Eve with everyone, many sensible children actually cried.

They have never celebrated the New Year, and when they wander outside, they may spend two or even several Chinese New Year's Eve in the streets and alleys, eating other people's leftover Chinese New Year's Eve meals, watching other children set off firecrackers and even fireworks, watching other children pass by with fragrant snacks, and swallowing saliva desperately......

But this Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhang Shusheng came, and their dean came. The dean who quietly gave himself food and told himself that this was the eternal secret between the two of them when almost everyone had been punished for failing to complete the training task.

When the children saw that their beloved dean had brought a whole number of carriages of gifts, they read aloud the names of each student on the stage. When he asked them to go up one by one to receive the gifts, and handed out strings of rock sugar gourds to them; When he handed them the big, round apples; When he reads out the excellent results that each child has achieved in these months; When he smiled and told every child that you were a year older......

The children cried, all of them.

They didn't hear a word of criticism, they didn't hear the godfather-like scolding of the vice-president, but the father-like praise. What they heard was a personal praise from the beloved dean, who praised every student. Maybe it's because they've done a good deed, maybe it's because they've done a good job on a task, or maybe it's because they've done something commendable one day......

The children cried, all of them.

The dean personally lit the fireworks, which were beautiful, beautiful fireworks. The dean personally distributed firecrackers to each group and asked them to set them off one by one on the side of the field. The dean even used something unknown to blow them a very nice and beautiful song. In the end, the dean also took the lead in teaching everyone to sing, and many children learned that very special song, the first song they would sing in their lives, just a few times:

"The wolf smoke rises and the country looks north

The dragon curled the horse, and the sword qi was like frost

The heart is like the Yellow River

Who can fight in 20 years

Hatred is mad and the knife is headed

How many siblings are buried in their bones

What a pity to die to repay the family and country

I sighed and was even more speechless, full of blood and tears

The horseshoe goes south and people look north

People look north at the grass and yellow dust

I am willing to defend the territory and reopen the territory

Dignified China wants to give way to the Quartet

Congratulations"

The children all finished the song while crying, and perhaps except for the older children, who didn't fully understand the meaning of the song, they all cried.

They didn't see that in the office on the second floor, in the dark office, there was a person who was crying alone, it was the vice president who was so stern and terrifying in their eyes that he was faintly saying to himself: Maybe you will always hate me, but you will always have a good dean......

Every child remembers the Dean's last speech, and even a short passage that will affect their entire lives: "Although the whole world has abandoned you, the Dean will always be with you!" Even if you go to the ends of the earth and go to the other side of the ocean, I will always be the dean who loves you and cares about you! ”

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There was a bit of a clerical error in the previous chapter, and the year was corrected. The fisherman still said the same thing, just to write the book. Let the clicks, let the data, let everything go to hell, don't cheat clicks, don't cheat feelings, 7000 words, three o'clock at midnight.