Dalian, Dalian in July 1892 in the Western calendar, is like a construction site, and there is a busy scene everywhere. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As early as two months ago, almost at the same time that the Unified Supervision Office announced that "the Qing Dynasty is on the side and the traitors are eliminated", the chief urban planning engineer of the Beiyang Construction Company, Elliott, began to draw the appearance of the distant city - Dalian in Incheon, and according to the instructions of the Unified Supervision Office, he wanted to build Dalian into a landscape garden-style city. Toil? Elliott in Olmsted is a familiar one.

Almost after the Qing defenders surrendered or surrendered in Dalian Bay, and Dalian Bay was completely controlled by the new army stationed in Korea, Elliott and dozens of architects and engineers of the construction company came to Dalian, which was just a seaside wasteland, and began to conduct field surveys on it, so as to divide the area according to the local topography, so as to determine the municipal planning for the future "Northeast Sea Stronghold", and of course, more importantly, the city will be the seat of the Northeast Governor in the future.

Although nominally the governor of the Northeast does not transfer to one place, but always needs to be stationed, and the reason why the city of Dalian is planned, in addition to it will be the governor of the province, it will also be the first city in the northeast, as the future of the northeast of the sea, the planned Dalian port is not only the most modern port in the northeast, but also will be the headquarters of the Beiyang Shipbuilding Industry Company, although the Beiyang shipyard in Incheon has begun to manufacture ships, and even began to try to build warships, and in the bay of the town is planned to be the "Zhenwan Naval Shipyard", But the real shipbuilding center of the future is in Dalian.

Dalian, as the "first city in Northeast China", will be the leader of the entire Northeast. Railways such as the Shenyang-Dalian Railway and the Shenyang-Changzhou Railway starting from Dalian will become the main artery of the Northeast. Promote and drive the industrial development of Northeast China. Dalian is the leader of this railway industry.

At this time, Dalian is like a large construction site, the rammed earth roads plan out the prototype of the city, and on both sides of the 100-meter-wide "Zhonghua Road", there are Western-style official buildings, these Western-style buildings are designed by architects from the West, which may not be called the sadness of China - as a big country, there is no engineer who is proficient in modern construction engineering knowledge, so that when planning the city of Dalian. Whether you want to or not, you can only accept Western-style buildings designed by Western engineers.

Although it has only been two months, the reinforced concrete building has already taken shape, especially around the 300-meter-diameter "China Square", the planned political center of Dalian, the Governor's Palace, the Military Command Department, the Ministry of Justice, the Northeast Library and the official halls on Guanting Street, all of which have revealed their reinforced concrete frame structures.

The roar of the steam piling machine was heard from time to time in the humble wooden houses, where most of the construction engineers lived, and although it was morning, there were still some engineers resting in the row, most of whom were students of the Department of Architectural Engineering of the Department of Civil Engineering at Incheon Tongbun College. They are the first batch of architects in China, in the last six months. They have been part-time workers and students involved in the construction of Incheon, but now they have moved their classrooms to Dalian and put them together on this construction site.

Because of the rush to meet the deadline, some key government buildings need to work overtime overnight, and most of the night shifts are in charge of these young engineers, Sun Yuchun is also one of the many young engineers, but he did not seize the time to rest, but took a pencil and drew a sketch on the straw paper, which was a whim when he was supervising the construction of the Governor's Palace yesterday.

"It's too Western......"

The Governor's Palace, with its main body of four floors, is a Renaissance building with a granite façade, and although it looks spectacular on the renderings, Sun Yuchun sees the building as too "Western".

"This is the Northeast Governor's Palace, not the Westerners' Governor's Palace!"

Sun Yuchun complained softly, and at the same time, he used a pencil to change the roof of the Western-style Governor's Palace, first modifying the top platform of its corner tower, adding a Chinese-style roof on the protruding platform, and then modifying the roof as if it was out of control, adding Chinese-style eaves.

"It seems a little too abrupt!"

Looking at the two-story Western-style garden roof on the main hall in the center of the building, it has become a little nondescript, frowning, Sun Yuchun tried to change the roof of the garden to the eaves, but the eaves looked very unspectacular.

As Sun Yuchun kept trying to modify the roof of the main tower, he didn't notice that Zori Jiro walked in, as a Japanese, Zori is also an architectural engineer, but he graduated from the Tokyo Architecture College, although he has designed more than a dozen buildings in Japan, but in Beiyang Architecture, he can only be a third-level architectural engineer - only one level higher than a non-graduate student like Sun Yuchun.

Although he was quite dissatisfied with this, Zoli still worked hard to prove his ability, although the architectural design of landmark buildings such as Guanting in Dalian did not have a chance to do so, but he still received several "small projects", such as the East Asia Department Store, Beiyang Consumer Cooperative, etc., although not comparable to the Guanting, but also some street landmarks.

When he entered the room, Zoli saw the pencil drawings scattered on the floor, and was immediately attracted by those East Asian-style rooftops, although it was immediately clear that the East Asian-style eaves were only temporary patchwork, but he had been working in the construction industry for more than ten years, and immediately realized the opportunity to store in this style.

"What a beautiful idea!"

In addition to praising in the blunt Nanjing official dialect, Zoli continued,

"This is the Governor's Palace, Mr. Guerney may have a hard time accepting this change!"

Zolly's Guerney was the architect of the Doge's Palace, and as a Westerner, he naturally did not want to see others dictating his work, even if it was only the surface of change. Sure enough, his words made Sun Yuchun suddenly lose the idea of continuing to try, and just as he tried to tear off the sketch of the drawing plate, he heard Zolly say,

"Sun Jun. If you can. I apply to the company for you to come to me. Well, now that the main framework of the East Asia Department Store has been completed, if you can, you can use it as an experiment,"

As soon as Zoli's words fell, Sun Yuchun shook his head again and again.

"It's impossible, the company won't agree to it at all!"

It's just an immature idea to add an East Asian-style roof to a Western-style building. The company would never agree to such an experiment, because it would require a lot of money.

"What's not to do, it's a big deal, just don't let them know!"

In the face of the opportunity, Zoli will not miss him, now Dalian at the same time construction of hundreds of buildings, if you add the residential area, there are tens of thousands of houses, the company's supervisors naturally can not supervise every building, are the engineer is responsible for supervising the construction, Zoli believes that this attempt is successful. He will personally attract the attention of the company, and not a "little person" who is not worth mentioning.

"This ......"

In the face of Zorley's invitation and audacity. Sun Yuchun couldn't help but be taken aback, and Zoli persuaded again/

"Hey, Sun Jun, you see that the official halls designed by Westerners are really too Western, and the future Dalian will not be the Dalian of East Asia in terms of architecture at all, but the Dalian of Westerners, how about it? Don't you want to change that? ”

"This ...... Zolijun, Rong, let me think about it......"

Indeed, as he said, the city is too Western...... But will the company accept their attempt?

"Think about it? Sun Jun, when the time comes, I will bear the responsibility, you just have to be in charge of the design, besides, if all goes well, the exterior wall of the department store will be completed in four months, in case our Governor sees this building, maybe he will accept this East Asian style of architecture, don't you say ......"

Seeing that Sun Yuchun still seemed a little hesitant, Zoli continued,

"After all, we are not the only ones who think this city is too Westernized, maybe the Governor thinks so too!"

In order to adapt to the new situation of the rapid development of modern industrial civilization in the West, it is inevitable that traditional East Asian architecture is forced to adopt Western architectural culture in terms of design concepts, building materials and construction techniques.

Just like the same Incheon, although not everyone likes the Western-style architecture of Incheon, but still leaves those buildings made of reinforced concrete, Compared with traditional buildings, Western-style buildings with modern technology are undoubtedly more practical, while in contrast, Chinese-style architecture is bound by the "etiquette system", and there is no progress for hundreds of years, and the craftsmanship still follows the traditional construction process of thousands of years. Construction techniques are combined with Chinese style.

“…… The façade of the building is completely Western-style architectural techniques, which means that there is no need to change its architectural framework, and the traditional East Asian style is introduced into the doors, windows, balconies, and eaves, which is completely a new building in the East Asian style! ”

Holding the sketch drawn by Sun Yuchun, Zo Li, who was qualitative of the architectural style he designed, looked at him and said worriedly.

"Sun Jun, this is our Dalian in East Asia, not in the West, please believe me, if this attempt is successful, the city will completely change because of us......"

In the face of fame and fortune, people always choose to take risks, Sun Yuchun, who was persuaded by Zolly, looked at more than ten sketches he had drawn, and finally looked at Zolly,

"I think we can also simplify Western-style column ornaments and cornices, and incorporate traditional practices such as character plaques, weeping lotuses, and moire......

Without any hesitation, Zoli almost immediately agreed to Sun Yuchun's idea,

"You can do what you say, even if it is a Western-style stigma that has been completed, it can also be modified. As long as we can stop the westernization of the city! ”

While Zoli and Sun Yuchun were "worried" about the future Westernization of the "first city in Northeast China" and plotted to try to reverse all this, Tang Haoran, who was traveling from Lushun to Mukden, only glanced at the city from a distance when passing through Dalian, and then entered a high-walled compound in the north of Dalian, which is often mistaken for a prison, but in fact it is the first agricultural experimental field set up by the Agricultural Affairs Section of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce of the Governor's Office in the Northeast - the Central Agricultural Experimental Field. A testing site specializing in agricultural experiments.

The reason why Tang Haoran chose to set up the Central Agricultural Experimental Field in Dalian was not because of the climate in Dalian, but because he could directly participate in the agricultural experiments of the experimental field in the future. After all, when I was young, I was in the "game" with my father. He always learned more or less some knowledge of agricultural methods.

Stand on the ridge of the test field. Looking at the corn seedlings growing in the field, Tang Haoran's expression looked extremely serious. As soon as he took office, he first had to send three "generals" of "my Great Qing Dynasty" to the central center to take up his post, and then it took a lot of trouble to disband the training army and the militia group, and then later the reorganization of the seven new army divisions stationed in Korea into the "Northeast New Army." In addition, it is also a matter to send civil affairs officials to replace the officials at all levels appointed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Things can be said to be one after the other, although the affairs of the Governor's Office are mostly the responsibility of various departments as in the past. But in the end, it was Tang Haoran who had to make the decision, many problems that had never been encountered during the period of the unified supervision mansion, and even the various departments were constantly arguing, and even Tang Haoran felt a headache, and even now this trip to Fengtian, Tang Haoran, who did not accompany him, stayed along the way on the surface to investigate, but in fact, it was to calm down, and before going to Fengtian City, think calmly.

"How. Twenty days late, is the growth of corn okay? ”

The governor's words made Ryuichi Matsumoto, the head of the Agricultural Affairs Section. Hurriedly bowed and said.

"Your Excellency, its growth is very good, and the growth of the seedlings and buds in the field is far inferior to that of the "Zhongyuan No. 1" ......"

Matsumoto Takashi mouthful of the "Central Plains No. 1" corn, is the corn seeds in the bag of "pigeon food" that Tang Haoran brought with him, after two years of breeding in the unified supervision office, I don't know whether it is because of the role of crossing or other reasons, those hybrids of the second generation of corn not only did not appear in later generations of hybrids The second generation of plants is uneven, the size of the ears is inconsistent, the maturity is not consistent sooner or later, the heterosis is significantly weakened, and the yield is also greatly reduced, but continues to maintain its high yield advantage. After two breeding cycles, it was still able to maintain the yield of the first generation, of course, with an abundant supply of fertilizer.

Perhaps this is the effect of meteorite rays or passing rays, which also have the same performance in wheat and cereal seeds, and after two or three generations of breeding, they still maintain the advantages of good in later generations, such as high yield and low disease, so that Tang Haoran is full of expectations for them, and now this is the first time that they have stepped out of the backyard "laboratory" and entered the real experimental field.

When Ryuichi Matsumoto reported on the growth of the "Nakahara No. 1", Tang Haoran only nodded from time to time, the Agricultural Affairs Section is the central organ in charge of agricultural experiments, and unlike other agencies, the person in charge of this organ is Japanese.

As early as the Joseon Dynasty, in order to improve the economy of North Korea, the Unified Supervision Office recruited a group of agricultural and forestry experts from abroad to carry out large-scale field surveys on the agricultural resources and production conditions in North Korea, and more than half of these agricultural and forestry experts were Japanese, and compared with European and American agricultural and forestry experts, these Japanese trained agricultural and forestry experts had a better understanding of the climate and environment of East Asia.

This situation has not changed now, and the subordinate institutions of the Agricultural Affairs Division include agricultural experimental fields, nurseries, trial farms, original seed nurseries, seed nurseries, breeding farms, animal disease research institutes, agricultural training institutes, etc. The people who presided over these institutions were all Japanese employees without exception, and Tang Haoran did not have much resistance to this, after all, now that the Russians had won the "Battle of Kwantung", once their vitality was restored, they could occupy Tokyo at any time. Japan's demise is only a matter of time! After the death of Japan, a large number of Japanese intelligence was originally its own development strategy.

"Matsumoto, China is a big agricultural country, 90% of the population is farmers, the breeding and domestication of improved varieties are directly related to the future of China's agriculture and the livelihood of farmers, understand?"

"Hey, rest assured, we're going to do a good job!"

Matsumoto Ryuichi hurriedly bowed in response to the governor's order, and as the head of the Agricultural Affairs Section, he could feel the distrust of the outside world towards him, and it was for this reason that he needed to devote himself to his work with a hundredfold effort to prove that he was worthy of this position.

While Matsumoto expressed his loyalty, Tang Haoran stood in the middle of this experimental wheat field, sometimes bending down to check the growth of a certain corn plant, and exchanging breeding knowledge with Matsumoto and others, although the wheat, rice, and corn seeds brought from later generations only need to be bred, but at least they need to be domesticated to adapt them to the climate of China's various grain-producing regions, just as they need to be adapted to the northeast region now.

"How much has been planted in Zhongyuan No. 1?"

"Your Excellency, because of the limited seed source, only 1.2 acres of ...... are planted at present."

Matsumoto, who was afraid that the governor would misunderstand, hurriedly explained.

"This is to protect the first breed. The improved seeds provided by the adults can be used on 4.75 acres of fields. And considering the various risks that can be encountered in breeding, since we only use a quarter, in terms of breeding speed and ensuring the safety of the provenance, I think that the latter should be guaranteed first, otherwise it is very likely that the previous efforts will be lost. ”

Matsumoto's explanation made Tang Haoran nod in agreement, and even glad that he didn't encounter diseases when he bred at the beginning, otherwise maybe there would be no good seeds now, even if they were among the seeds given to them. Just in case, I left some of my own.

"It is true that the safety of the provenance should be ensured first, and as for the speed of reproduction...... Hmmm......"

After thinking for a moment, Tang Haoran looked at Matsumoto and said.

"You can consider establishing a Jiadai breeding base in Hainan! Carry out supernatal breeding! ”

If you can't keep up with the speed of breeding, it doesn't matter, there is one of the easiest ways in the future - to carry out southern breeding.

"Gadai breeding?"

Matsumoto and the others all looked at the adult in surprise, as if they didn't quite understand his intentions.

That's right, it's Jiadai, Hainan's typical tropical climate resources, and the superior ecological conditions that can meet the annual growth and reproduction of animals and plants. Agricultural breeding is a long process, and Hainan's abundant light and heat resources can shorten the breeding cycle by more than half. In other words, the breeding work that takes 8 years to complete in the mainland can be completed in 4 years in Hainan. ”

When he was a teenager, Tang Haoran went to Hainan for the first time, that is, his father went to Hainan to participate in agricultural breeding work, and he took himself to Hainan to travel when he went to Hainan to participate in agricultural breeding work.

"The establishment of a modern breeding industry is the lifeline of modern agricultural development and the foundation for increasing grain production. The establishment of a crop seed breeding base in Hainan is undoubtedly the best choice to shorten the breeding cycle and speed up the upgrading of seeds, and Hainan, especially in the southern region, is the best "natural laboratory". ”

Tang Haoran's words only made Matsumoto and the others all look at the governor in front of them in surprise, and it took a while to react, the governor in front of him is also an agricultural breeding expert, and even the "original seeds" bred in the experimental field are also bred by him, although he is still relatively unfamiliar with the term Nanfan, but he is also aware of its importance to breeding.

"Of course, more important is domestication, China is a big country, these seeds in the adaptation to the climate of various planting areas, need to go through a long period of domestication, I think the agricultural section can consider it, in Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan and Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places to establish laboratories, back can be linked with the United Front Work Section, can be listed as the United Front Work Section in the future scope of ......"

In the united front work, Tang Haoran, who has been promoted from a "minister outside the country" to one of the nine governors of the "feudal officials", has given up his ambition for the Guannai in the future, or the ambition for reunification, when Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and others began to change from the feudal officials to the local ministers and began to divide the territory, Tang Haoran had already ambitiously begun to set his sights on the Guannai, and began to lay the foundation for the future "reunification".

Whether it is recruiting workers or recruiting immigrants from the customs, or attracting immigrants, they are all part of the united front work, and even together with the copper dollars now issued, they have also been changed to "Chinese copper dollars", and the breeding and promotion of this improved breed can naturally be used as part of the united front, but all the united front work is in charge of the United Front Work Section, and the so-called United Front Work Section is actually a subordinate department of the Intelligence Bureau.

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

Matsumoto hurriedly bowed again,

"Your Excellency, before conducting domestication experiments in the interior, I think we should first consider conducting domestication experiments in the three northeastern provinces, and Corey hopes to be able to establish corresponding test sites in the three provinces, which requires the support of the Governor's Palace, after all, ......"

"The field can be allocated directly, and you can write a report later!"

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