Chapter 15 Shanghai tycoon Du Yuesheng
After a while, Kitagawa Keiko lowered her head shyly, and when Chen Yaoyang saw this, he also realized this embarrassing situation, and quickly changed the topic and said, "Why are you here?"
Kitagawa Keiko whispered, "Isn't it every day that I come." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Apparently, she was still immersed in shyness.
It may be that Kitagawa Keiko spoke in a small voice, and Chen Yaoyang obviously didn't hear what she was saying, so he asked again: "What did you say, I didn't hear clearly?"
At this time, Kitagawa Keiko calmed down, raised her head and looked at Chen Yaoyang, then turned her head to look away and replied, "I mean, don't I come every day!"
"Oh oh" Chen Yaoyang nodded and said, "Why did you come so early today!"
Keiko Kitagawa quipped, "If you hadn't come early, you wouldn't have heard the wonderful story of your storyteller." ”
"You're really good at laughing, I just think I'm idle and tell them some legends about our hometown. Chen Yaoyang said.
"But I think you're doing a great job of outperforming the storytellers. Keiko Kitagawa said with sincere approval.
"Really?" Chen Yaoyang was a little unconvinced that he still had the ability to do this.
"Really, that's a nice thing to say. You are only concerned with telling the story, and you don't see everyone's preoccupied expressions, which proves that you are right. Kitagawa Keiko praised.
"Do you like to hear it too?" asked Chen Yaoyang.
"Uh-huh," Keiko Kitagawa nodded.
"I'll tell you all about it in the future, how about it?" Chen Yaoyang said generously.
"That's great, I'm going to listen to you every day from now on. Kitagawa Keiko said happily.
"Every day, are you sure you have to listen to me tell you stories every day?" Chen Yaoyang said happily.
Kitagawa Keiko nodded at first, but when she saw Chen Yaoyang's evil smile on his face, she thought of what the audience said just now, and realized the meaning of her words, and said "no" shyly, and then ran towards the inpatient building.
Chen Yaoyang smiled and shouted: "Then do you want me to tell you a story every day!" Before the words fell, the person had already chased after him.
In the ward, Kitagawa Keiko said to Chen Yaoyang: "I went to ask the doctor just now, and the doctor said that your body has almost recovered and you can be discharged, but you must go back to the hospital every two days to change the medicine." ”
"That's wonderful! It's like I'm in prison every day, either eating or sleeping, and I'm not sick until I'm sick. Chen Yaoyang happily told the pain of being hospitalized in the past few days: "Fortunately, I have you by my side to chat with me, otherwise I would have died of boredom." ”
Kitagawa Keiko smiled: "Don't you still have that group of loyal listeners?" Speaking of this, she thought of what happened in the gazebo in the back garden of the hospital that day, and her heart was shy, and unconsciously, a red glow floated on her cheeks again.
Chen Yaoyang obviously didn't see the subtle changes in Kitagawa Jingzi's face, and said, "Hey, it's because I'm bored that I will go to talk nonsense." It would be nice to have a good time somewhere!"
"You really look like a child who hasn't grown up!" said Kitagawa Keiko when she saw Chen Yaoyang's longing look.
"That is, how nice it would be if people could play carefree like children!" Chen Yaoyang said to himself.
"Then you can really follow the example of the 'old urchin' you said in the book. Keiko Kitagawa quipped.
"That's not good, he's always alone, with no one to accompany him. Not good, not good. Chen Yaoyang shook his head and denied, then looked at Beichuan Jingzi and said, "It's still so good, with you by your side, then you won't be lonely." ”
"I'm the only one to accompany you, isn't Brother Shui often coming to accompany you. Kitagawa Keiko didn't hear the meaning of Chen Yaoyang's words.
"No, maybe he's been busy lately, and he hasn't been seen since that time to buy chicken porridge. Chen Yaoyang spread his hands helplessly.
"Oh, that's okay, I'll go through the discharge procedures for you later, and then I'll walk around with you, so that your mood will be better." Kitagawa Keiko is empathetic.
Chen Yaoyang is very happy, since he traveled through time and space to the old Shanghai, except for the last time he went out with Liu Jinshui, Chen Yaoyang has not taken a good look at what this so-called "Oriental Paris" looks like! Moreover, this time not only can he have a glimpse of the style of old Shanghai, but at the same time, he is accompanied by such beautiful eyebrows, what more could he ask for! Thinking of this, Chen Yaoyang's smile is about to burst out laughing from his heart.
Chen Yaoyang, accompanied by Keiko Kitagawa, shuttled through the streets and alleys of Shanghai Tang. Along the way, there are many shops and buying and selling. Gold shops, silver shops, silk shops, shoe stores, hat shops, large shopping malls, watch shops, jewelry stores, foreign goods stores, suit shops, dance halls, theaters, cinemas, very lively. Looking at the signboards on the buildings, what are Swire & Co., Citigroup, Great East Asia Enterprises, the French Shanghai Public Council, the Deutsche Smorzbank, the Victor Restaurant, and the International Savings Club and the Six Nations Hotel...... There are all kinds of red, green, blue, and yellow neon lights, foreign languages on top, Chinese on the bottom, different signs, and many styles, which make people dazzled and confused.
At this time, Keiko Kitagawa acted as a tour guide and introduced: "This is the 'Ten Mile Ocean Field' in Shanghai, I heard that this is the most lively and prosperous place in China!"
Old Shanghai is known as the "Ten Mile Ocean Field". In fact, the formation of "Ten Mile Ocean Field" only referred to the concession at that time, and later, people called it Shun Mouth, and it became a general name for old Shanghai.
After the Opium War, the Qing government, as a defeated country, was forced to sign the unequal treaty "Treaty of Nanjing", agreeing to open five ports, namely Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, and Shanghai, as trading ports. On November 8, 1843, the first British consul in Shanghai, Bafour, led a military ship and six merchant ships to Wusongkou, and landed the next day to meet Daotai Gong Mujiu, and then rented 52 houses in the new streets and alleys of East and West Streets in the city as a British consular office and residential area. On November 14 of the same year, a notice was officially posted, stating that "Shanghai will be officially opened as a commercial port on the 17th, and all the provisions of the treaty will take effect on that day." "The British colonists finally pried open the door to Shanghai Tang.
After the opening of the port of Shanghai, foreign merchants, "gold diggers" and "adventurers" came to China one after another, and settled their entertainment industry and trading companies in Shanghai. They took advantage of these high-sounding "regular" companies to start by trafficking opium, built western-style buildings and opened foreign firms in the Bund area, and gradually became the new masters of the port of Shanghai, and demarcated their respective concessions here. If we add up the two British and French concessions that were first established in Shanghai, they are about exactly ten miles in length. The name of "Ten Mile Ocean Field" was called from this time.
The "Ten Mile Farm", marked by the concession, gradually prospered and developed, and Shanghai became the center of foreign capitalist activities in China. The colonialists successively built the racecourse and opened up the Nanjing Road. They also opened banks and built buildings here, and engaged in speculative activities such as real estate buying and selling, thus monopolizing China's financial and financial affairs in an all-round way. In order to promote Western civilization, many institutions including news, publishing, film, culture, and even dance halls, nightclubs, brothels and so on have appeared in the "Ten Mile Field". All this has cast a strong layer of colonialism on the "Ten Mile Ocean Field", and has finally become synonymous with the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society of old Shanghai.
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