May 27, 1902, a hot, depressing, suffocating afternoon.

At the Jiangning Steamship Wharf, a cruise ship sailing from Yuben is moored. After the routine inspection, a young man and a woman stepped out of the boat, their slightly tired faces revealing joy that could not hide their happiness. The man was about twenty years old and looked sophisticated and carefree, while the black-haired European girl next to him was about twenty years old, with a pair of bright big eyes shining stubbornly.

"Is this Jiang Ning?"

The two looked at each other, their eyes full of joy.

"Lucy, I've dreamed of coming back here one day since I was 5 years old!"

Li Sihua's face was full of surprise, and Lucy next to him? Lewis was just smiling, she just wanted to follow him, as it had been and still was.

"Lucy believe me, we will be happy!"

Holding Lucy's hand tightly, Li Sihua swore that from the United States to Yokohama, from Yokohama to Jiangning, they walked hand in hand all the way, and now they are finally about to reach their destination.

"Hmm!"

Lucy nodded, and Li Sihua looked at Lucy's big eyes as if to prove something.

"Believe me, I'll definitely be able to get a job in Ma On Shan!"

But this kind of surprise, but at the moment they got off the dock changed slightly, for Li Sihua, China is the place he has longed for many years, since he was a teenager, his mind has been yearning for this land where his parents were born, but for this land, his parents are rebellious, and even he, maybe in his lifetime, for safety, can not set foot in this land.

If it weren't for Lucy, maybe for the rest of his life, Li Sihua wouldn't be able to return to the land he was dreaming of.

But now, when they first set foot on this land, they were shocked by the poverty here, which they had never seen before. Then the slender men came out of the cabin, one by one on the pedals diagonally on the dock, their bamboo poles carrying heavy loads almost colliding with each other. **'s upper body is dripping with sweat, and the neck, forehead, and legs are full of green tendons. The smell of garlic and sweat wafted from them to this side.

At the exit of the wharf, beggars circled around the passengers, crying and criing disabled people, some with broken arms, some with broken legs, children with purulent wounds, some blind, some with leprosy and no hair on their heads. As soon as they came out of the dock, many beggars stretched out dirty hands to them.

"Ah......h

Lucy screamed in fright by the appearance of one of the beggars, and quickly buried her head in Li Sihua's chest, Li Sihua glanced at the beggar, and was also cold in his heart, the beggar's eyes seemed to have been gouged out, and a pair of black hole eyes were on top of his thin head, like a ghost crawling out of hell.

"Don't be afraid...... Don't be afraid ......"

Patting Lucy on the back, Li Sihua whispered, holding her hand and walking out, he didn't even want to look at the beggar who seemed to crawl out of hell, the surprise in his heart was long gone, and the appearance of those beggars made him finally understand why his parents wanted to "rebel" back then, and what was "official coercion and civil rebellion".

Just like that, a driver with a two-wheeler would run in front of them.

"Uncle, do you want a car?"

"Go...... How to get to Ma'anshan! ”

"Hey! Uncle, you and your wife get in the car first, and I'll take you to the car dealership! It's still dozens of miles away from Ma'anshan! ”

As the main street of the central office area of Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company, Tiechang Road is a very modern street, lined with two- or three-storey Western-style buildings with a slight oriental style. The bustling crowd of people strode forward without looking away, and it was easy to distinguish their differences from the people's clothing.

Suits and leather shoes are often the middle and high-level employees of the company, there are foreigners and Chinese, of course, there are some merchants, and those wearing white short-sleeved shirts are often factory workers, as for those wearing robes are either the workers' families, or small traders who come here to do business, and then the merchants who come to Ma'anshan to buy steel, in short, since coming to Ma'anshan, Li Sihua has a delusion, especially the factories spewing smoke in the distance, which makes him have the illusion of returning to the United States.

The headquarters of the Jianghuai Road Mining Company is located on the north side of the park-shaped square in the center of this "city", and Li Sihua, who is in a suit and leather shoes, took a deep breath before walking into the three-story building with a briefcase.

When he walked into the hall on the first floor, the leather shoes on his feet stepped on the granite floor, and there was a guide sign in the hall, and the personnel department was on the east side of the second floor, and when he went up the stairs and turned east, he overheard two guards standing between the stairs on the second and third floors, and the guards were standing there, as if to block others from going upstairs.

"You must be Mr. Li Sihua!"

Just when he was puzzled, a clerk in a suit stretched out his right hand with a smile on his face and walked towards him.

"I am the director of the personnel department of Jianghuai Road Mining Company, Liang Xianqi! If it weren't for the company's hotel to inform you that you had arrived, I thought you would have to go to Ma'anshan in a few days, and it would have been presumptuous not to send a car to pick you up at the pier. ”

Although it was only two simple sentences, it made Li Sihua notice a trace of abnormality.

In the conference room on the third floor, thick curtains block most of the sunlight, and the light is dim. There were several people sitting around the conference table, each with a folder in front of them, and Chen Moran, who was sitting at the top, seemed to be in the shadows.

took another puff of cigarette, and then Chen Moran extinguished the cigarette butt in the ashtray on the arm of the chair. He lowered his voice, as if trying to suppress the anger in his heart.

"Let me tell you, it's easy to kill Duan Fang, we can directly send a few people, a few bullets, a few bombs or a few shuttle bullets, we can kill him, and then solve the problem?"

"Nope!."

Chen Moran affirmed neatly.

"If they kill one Duanfang, they will send another person from this side and that side to be the governor of Liangjiang, what will we do at that time? Is it possible, let's kill one by one? ”

"And killing officials is tantamount to rebellion!"

Hu Nianzu's voice is very kind, very educated, and has a strong Shonan accent.

"Maybe you can really only rebel!"

Fang Jingyuan muttered softly, but Hu Nianzu swallowed a little embarrassed, and he felt even more uncomfortable now. Before today's meeting, he had no idea that one day he would be involved in this kind of right and wrong.

"What if...... I'm still the manager of the Jianghuai Road mine, and I'll do my job! ”

After a while, Hu Nianzu seemed to be a little resigned, his expression looked a little helpless, listening to his words, Sun Mingjiu glanced at Hu Nianzu, and couldn't help but sigh that he was forced to get on the thief ship, it seems that he is not the only one.

Smoking a cigarette without saying a word, his eyes stared at the folder in front of him, and it was only now that he understood that the factory he was in charge of hanging the "Jianghuai Road Mining Company Machinery Factory", what kind of "profit-seeking underground arsenal" was there, it was simply the arsenal that Chen Moran prepared for himself for the rebellion, he prepared the arsenal, so did he prepare the army?

Which cops?

Those policemen came to mind, and Shi Si thought of those workers who had to undergo fifteen days of military training, and couldn't help muttering in his heart that he was afraid that this side wanted to find industrial trouble, whether it was true or false, and Chen Moran's single-minded desire to rebel was true.

Thinking about the word rebellion.

Shi Si shook his left hand, he didn't ask what the attitude of the others was, but he was very excited, he knew that this might be the only way for him to ease his relationship with his family.

"Huaxia will not return to the Han Dynasty, and the Shi family will never set foot in the Central Plains!"

The patriarchal training of the Shi family made him, a rebel, an unfilial descendant, not to mention that he once wanted to work for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if his father knew that he was going home, he actually "wanted" to restore the Han Dynasty, I don't know what the father would think?

"My son follows the waves, although the words follow the waves, but they move forward against the waves!"

Thinking of his father's open laughter when he received his letter, Shi Si sat up straight and glanced at Chen Moran, and now a vision seemed to emerge in front of his eyes, which was the scene of the heroes and martyrs in the legend of the Ming Dynasty gathering before the incident.

However, although Duan Fang is a Manchu nobleman, but compared with those Eight Banners who carry cages and birds and do not learn countless people, Duan Fang is almost an outlier, his talent is in the Manchu royal family, and is known as "its three talents", Da Rong, Xiao Na, and Duan Lao Si, belong to the tide file that the imperial court focuses on cultivating. ”

Sun Mingjiu, who didn't say anything for a while, began to persuade him, he didn't want the industry he had invested in to be given by the end side, but he didn't want to tie his head to the "rebellion", and if it was good, then he Sun Mingjiu would be the founder of the country, but if he was defeated...... The Sun family is completely finished!

"What's even more commendable is that compared to other royal princes and nobles, he was open-minded, and he was involved in the Wuxu change, but he was lucky, and he was protected by Rong Lu and Li Lianying, and he was not implicated. Gengzi was known in the capital because of his meritorious service in taking over the driver, and he had been promoted all the way, acting as Huguang, and now temporarily signing Liangjiang, and everyone in the capital knew that he was a reformist member, setting up schools, running newspapers, building warships, and commanding the army. However, if we understand the truth with him, we may ......"

Looking at Chen Moran, when Sun Mingjiu said the last sentence, he didn't seem to have much confidence so much that he paused.

"Maybe there's room to maneuver."

"Roundabout?"

Shi Si smiled coldly and leaned back in his chair.

"Is it possible to point to those minions who have betrayed their masters?"

Sneering, Shi Si's voice sank again.

"However, if there is really no way out, then ...... Let's do the opposite! ”

It's the other way around!

The hearts of everyone who only knocked three words trembled, but Chen Moran just glanced at Shi Si, Shi Si didn't say anything from the beginning, but as soon as he spoke, there was only one thought left, rebellion.

Thinking about the past, after Shi Si mentioned that their ancestors were the relics of the Ming Dynasty, and later after the death of the Ming Dynasty, they did not want to be Hu Chen, so they fled to Nanyang, this guy really wanted to create a rebellion against the Manchu Qing Dynasty in his bones!

"Rebellion! Rebellion is not such a simple thing! ”

Guan Mingtang said softly, with a little nervousness in his expression.

"Rebellion requires troops, ordnance, and the right timing, and it can't just be rebelled with lip service."

He swallowed his saliva and squeezed out a little smile, when he entered this industrial company, he really didn't expect that he would one day say that he would rebel, but if it was, ...... Then he has no other choice, maybe that answer can only be made after the rebellion!

"Yes...... There are two regiments of the new army in Jiangning, and there are more than 100,000 eight banners and green battalions and brave battalions in Liangjiang alone...... If there is a real rebellion, if it fails, it will be all over! ”

Sun Mingjiu, who was frightened by the big guy's opinion, whispered next to him, he touched his pocket, and wanted to smoke a cigarette, but he forgot that he didn't smoke at all.

Listening to their opinions, Chen Moran took out a gunmetal-colored cigarette case from his pocket and took out a cigarette from it. His head was straight, his eyes were facing the other end of the room, and his eyes were not on anyone, except for lighting a cigarette with a gold lighter made by an industrial company, taking a deep breath, exhaling the cigarette and then talking again.

"Rebellion is indeed not an easy task, and any negligence may ......"

Chen Moran's words only made Sun Mingjiu's heart suddenly rise to his throat, and he involuntarily closed his eyes. Could it be ...... Is he really ready to rebel?

But Chen Moran continued.

"As far as I know, no matter how enlightened Duan Fang is, one thing is certain, he is Suolu's minion, maybe he is enlightened, but he will never be able to treat my industry like Lord Liu and Lord Zhang. I'm talking about the facts, right? ”

Hu Nianzu cleared his throat.

"I don't think it's going to be a rebellion, but maybe...... I mean, maybe, maybe we should give it a try, so that we can leave some room for it. ”

Chen Moran took another puff of cigarette and moved his body slightly in the chair, but Sun Mingjiu picked up the cigarette case from the conference table and lit it with a lighter, but he couldn't light the cigarette several times due to his trembling hands.

"Maybe ......"

Chen Moran said thoughtfully.

"Oh, maybe you should try, go do it, don't you like antiques? Look at ......"

Only halfway through the words, he raised his eyes and looked at everyone again, the reason why this meeting was held was actually to reach a consensus within the industrial company before the incident, and it was only a matter of time before this was created.

"But if we give a gift here, and he wants to attack the industry over there, what should we do then?"

"This ...... This ......"

Hu Nianzu squeaked and couldn't speak, although the room was very cool, his head began to sweat, his heart was beating non-stop, and even his stomach was a little colic.

"Could it be that we will wash our necks and wait for him to cut off our heads and take away our property?"

Chen Moran suddenly raised his voice, and there was obvious coldness in his words.

Sun Mingjiu, who was smoking a cigarette, was speechless, and the atmosphere in the room took a sharp turn.

"Oh...... I don't know, but let's ......."

Sun Mingjiu's body was trembling slightly, he was not afraid of Chen Moran, but when he thought of rebellion, his body couldn't help trembling there. He silently took a few more puffs of cigarette, and then he raised his head to look at Chen Moran again.

"If that's the case, then it's really the other way around!"

took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and lit it, Guan Mingtang pondered for a while.

"However, if there is a real rebellion, we have to prepare now, the day before yesterday Duan Fang received the order, it is estimated that the ship will be on the ship in Tianjin in the next two days, the ship will go to Jiangning, meet with local officials, appoint cronies, if he wants to attack the industry, at most it will be half a year of effort, we will have at most half a year to prepare everything, and ......"

Taking a deep puff of cigarette, Guan Mingtang looked up at Chen Moran.

"In the past six months, it will definitely be an eventful autumn for the industry, I think we have to endure it no matter what, the industry is well paid, and it is not difficult to recruit a group of soldiers from the workers, and we still have to buy arms......

"You don't need to buy munitions, there are still more than 45,000 guns in the factory's warehouse,"

Like a thunderous explosion sounding in the conference room, Shi Si ignored the surprise of the crowd and just continued there. In the past, he said that the guns were ready to be sold, but now he recognized that the weapons produced were simply Chen Moran's long-term planning.

"However, if we go all out, after half a year, the factory can still produce at least 20,000 rifles, 1,800 light machine guns, 400 heavy machine guns, and 120 mountain artillery.

"Casual ...... Go with the flow, you ...... Is your factory for the production of munitions? ”

Sun Mingjiu stammered and asked, and then he couldn't wait to pump his mouth, since he said so, it must be the production of munitions, if that's the case...... Thinking of what he said before, Sun Mingjiu faintly began to rejoice, fortunately, fortunately, fortunately, he agreed to the rebellion, otherwise...... What a fluke!

"In the past, the machinery factory produced weapons as a last resort, at that time, it was to raise money, and the factory only made a rifle for ten yuan, but it could be sold for one hundred and twenty yuan.

Unexpectedly, Shi Si said something that put Chen Moran aside.

But Chen Moran was smoking a cigarette while estimating the possible effect of Shi Si's words in his heart.

"I told you the truth, since I came back from abroad, I never thought of being a loyal minister of this Suojiao, so I have long held the intention of recovering the rivers and mountains one day, and I am just a person who has died since the death of the country! If we really rebel, it's not for the industry! Not for our little personal wealth, but for the sake of Kuangzheng national rivers and mountains! ”

When Chen Moran said this, everyone nodded, rebellion always needs a great righteousness, and what kind of righteousness can be compared to the great righteousness of "recovering the nation", the Manchu people are only a few million, but the Han people have more than 440 million, if it is really the opposite...... Thinking of this, Sun Mingjiu's body trembled again, not because of the fear of rebellion, but because of the excitement of the founding hero.

Saying that, Chen Moran squeezed out a smile on his face, looked at these people in front of him, and finally turned his gaze to Xiao Xinren.

Let's take the next step! Weiyang, tell me about ......"

(To be continued)