Crimson Dawn

Chapter 38

On the morning of September 9, when Yan Fu sent someone to the workshop, Chen Ke was preparing to go out.The purpose of Yan Fu's sending someone was to ask Chen Ke when he would be free, and he was going to talk to Chen Ke about the joint establishment of a pharmaceutical factory by the government and the people.Chen Ke told the visitor very politely that he was not free today.He was going to the hospital site and was there all day.If we talk about things, Chen Ke will visit Mr. Yan Fu in three days.The visitor looked a little surprised by this reply, but he didn't say much, and left directly.

To be honest, Chen Ke didn't really think that Yan Fu could settle the matter of the pharmaceutical factory in a short time.With regard to the efficiency of the bureaucratic system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Chen Ke thought that it would be very remarkable that this matter could be brought to fruition within two months.

You Gou once asked Chen Ke when making the drug production plan on September 9, what would happen if the drug factory was really established?Chen Ke's answer was concise and to the point, "We have to make preparations for the pharmaceutical factory not to be put into operation by 11." You Gou failed to understand Chen Ke's joke, and Chen Ke had to explain, "In 1917, I'm afraid the headquarters has already You moved to Anhui, and you still don’t know if you will move to Anhui with the headquarters. Don’t worry about such things now.”

In the plan, on September 9, all members of Huangpu Publishing House will conduct outward bound training.So on the 12th, Chen Ke conducted a simple physical fitness test.At least, on the surface.The standard test is a 11-meter back-and-forth run, standing long jump, and medicine ball throwing.

Young people like to be lively, especially this kind of sports.Whether they were wearing long gowns or suits, they all participated.The sound of applause, encouragement, and the noise of discussions is really full of people.Everyone took part in the sports test, and those who did not get good grades surrounded the referees and asked to do it all over again.It was really a lot of laughter.

Chen Ke was very satisfied with such a scene, but was not optimistic about the result.Members of the Huangpu Publishing House are not particularly fond of sports.By 21st-century standards, only half of the targets are met.Chen Ke believes that these people are completely unsuitable for the originally planned expansion plan.So the location of the outward bound training was changed to the construction site.

The roster is ready.An important purpose of carrying out the sports compliance test is to improve the collection of personal data.This is also part of the social survey.It is not just a joke, but a disgrace if the information on one's own people is not completed when conducting social surveys.

After seeing off Yan Fu's envoy, Chen Ke led a group of young people to set off.Zhou Yuanxiao's workshop is at the end of Nanjing Road.Belongs to "old building".Zhou Yuanxiao never mentioned the history of this rather large workshop.Shanghai Renxin Hospital, where Chen Ke is the principal, is at the end of Sichuan Road.

The city where Chen Ke was born had no wooden buildings.When I was a child, I lived in the family area of ​​the factory.Those are all red brick or blue brick walls, concrete floors, and red tile roofed bungalow areas. When they grow up, they live in red brick buildings.Later, it was reinforced concrete, the walls painted with blue gravel on the outside, and the new building with floor tiles inside the house.When he sets up his own family, it will be a house in the community.It is even less likely that there are any wooden parts.Even the handrails of the stairs are galvanized metal.

Since he was a child, he has never seen a few wooden pillars except for wooden beams. Chen Ke felt that Shanghai in 1905 was not much different from the county town in the 80s except that there were more people.On the contrary, the wooden buildings on both sides still have some taste.

The streets are mostly gravel roads and there are many people.There are no green belts.All along the streets of the commercial district are identical two-story buildings, with brick walls, wooden doors, and wooden windows.Chen Ke thinks the most special thing is that these buildings have a narrow balcony surrounded by wooden fences on the side facing the street.Most of the wooden parts of these buildings are painted red, which looks rather angry.

Most of the cars and rickshaws parked on both sides of the street.There are a lot of cars, except for the ones that have already been pulled, the drivers seldom run. They just stop at places where they think they can pull customers, and a considerable part of the street is blocked as a result.Shanghai is the largest commercial city in the Far East, and the transportation industry is naturally quite developed.

The coachmen wore coarse cloth jackets and coarse trousers with a thick belt around their waists.This belt also doubles as a money bag.Their skin is tanned and yellow, and although their arms are naked, their muscles are strong and their joints are thick.But compared with modern people, the fat layer is obviously thinner, and the skin color is dull and lacks luster.Excessive physical exertion, lack of meat and food, bulging veins on the arms, and dry skin.

Chen Ke specifically explained the clothing requirements. The group of young people led by him were obviously much fairer and their complexion was smoother.Especially the leader, Chen Ke, in modern cities, there are fewer and fewer people with bare backs and big pants.Chen Ke has even gotten used to wearing long sleeves and trousers all year round.The same goes back to this era.In addition, after he came back, he dyed cloth, made medicine, and gave lectures all day long, and he always wore a long-sleeved top and trousers.Today he wore short sleeves, finally showing off his muscular arms.But compared with these working people, the skin looks fair and tender.It made Chen Ke feel inferior.I also claim to launch a socialist revolution. Can the people believe that such a vain person is making a revolution?

Such a group of people moved together, and everyone talked and laughed on the road, so the drivers would naturally not misunderstand, and no one came up to solicit business.Although Chen Ke wanted to see more of the surrounding environment, Mao Ping, a Chinese student who came back with Chen Tianhua, kept chatting with Chen Ke.Chen Ke was very optimistic about this young man, and was willing to answer some of his questions, so he had to divert his attention from observing the social atmosphere a lot.

Mao Ping's ancestral home is from Fujian, but he himself is a Fujian immigrant from Taiwan.After Japan occupied Taiwan, Mao Ping returned to the mainland with his family.Mao Ping's family is still rich, and they are not conservative.Since Japan was able to defeat the Manchu Qing, there was naturally something to learn, so Mao Ping simply went to Japan to study medicine, majoring in medicine.

In Japan, seeing Japan's more civilized technological and cultural atmosphere, Mao Ping, who was originally full of hatred for Japan, gradually turned his hatred to the decadent and backward Manchu Qing Dynasty.Mao Ping's family had a good tutor. After Mao Ping read "Evolution and Evolution", he established the concept of "natural selection, survival of the fittest".During the Sino-Japanese War, Japan was also fighting for its own national interests.If the Qing Dynasty can defeat Japan, Taiwan will naturally not be lost.Nor will the Treaty of Shimonoseki be signed.It is power that determines everything.Rather than hating the Japanese invasion, it is better to hate the cowardly and incompetent Manchu.Mao Ping could not change Japan, but he felt that he should be able to change Manchu.

Unknowingly, Mao Ping changed from a simple youth who hated Japan because he hated Japan, to a very radical anti-Qing activist. Whenever he had time, Mao Ping participated in the revolutionary activities among the overseas students.And his relatively ideal attitude has also won the support of many international students.I even made a lot of Japanese friends.

Mao Ping has read Chen Tianhua's book, and agrees with Chen Tianhua's fierce anti-Qing attitude.Later when Chen Tianhua arrived in Japan, Mao Ping went to see him immediately after learning about it.The two met happily.Mao Ping and his small group became a "small revolutionary party" that firmly supported Chen Tianhua personally.

When Chen Tianhua returned to Japan from Shanghai and brought back the book he wrote with Chen Ke, after Mao Ping read it, he was really surprised. The book "Chinese Cultural Inheritance and the Rise of Materialism" thoroughly pointed out the relationship between the development of productive forces and social development, and clearly explained the connection between the industrial revolution and national development.Mao Ping felt that the doubts that had plagued him for many years were all solved. "I heard the Tao in the morning, but I can die in the evening!" Mao Ping sighed.Mao Ping, who has always studied hard, started skipping classes for the first time. He devoted all his energy to forming a "reading club".

With Mao Ping's efforts, the reading club expanded again and again, reaching a scale of more than 100 people.Knowing that Chen Tianhua was going back to Shanghai to join the "Mr. Chen Ke", Mao Ping insisted on going with him. In the end, more than 20 Chinese and Japanese youths in the reading club followed Chen Tianhua back to Shanghai.

Chen Ke did not disappoint Mao Ping, and his level of explanation of the course was much higher than that of Chen Tianhua.Mao Ping felt that Chen Ke was an incredible existence. He could give a reasonable answer to any question based on the theory in the book.When the revolutionaries encountered problems, they would only shout, "The Manchus are the root of all evil." But they couldn't explain exactly what the Manchus' crimes were.Chen Ke never says who is evil, he only analyzes social phenomena, how the participants do it, and what kind of class characteristics they want to do.Even forced to do so.

This kind of gentle and rational attitude is even more effective than the fiercest opposition. Mao Ping was very dissatisfied with the Manchu Qing. Before meeting Chen Ke, Mao Ping was also a constitutionalist in a certain sense.After listening to Chen Ke's explanation, Mao Ping completely changed from a constitutionalist to a revolutionary.

Chen Ke is very optimistic about Mao Ping, not only because his thinking is quite progressive.And Mao Ping's performance on the construction site is also very good.When the number of Huangpu Publishing House expanded rapidly, Chen Ke made a rule that the members of Huangpu Publishing House were required to help on the construction site.Half of the time is used for lectures and half for work.Chen Ke also pays wages according to everyone's workload.

What we told Chen Ke about this rule is "strongly recommended, but not forced." This is very polite, but everyone is somewhat educated, so they can naturally hear the voice-over.At the beginning, everyone took part in the labor with the mentality of "helping".In less than a week, one-third of the students refused to go to the construction site.The other two-thirds are still holding on.Mao Ping and the classmates who came back together belonged to the two-thirds of the ranks.And it worked well, passed through the commercial area, and entered the residential area.At this time, Shanghai is in a new stage of expansion, and the residential areas are all inside the lanes, and it is hard to see clearly from the outside.Except for the occasional bus transporting firewood, there are basically no people in sight, and everyone seems to be going to work.

Chen Ke didn't intend to go in and have a look. When conducting social investigations in the future, there would be time to visit these places again.

The location of the school is far away, and the local government in Shanghai neither supports nor opposes the establishment of the school by the British.The core area of ​​Shanghai is the Bund side.The British Consulate in Shanghai was first established in the mansion surnamed Gu in the county seat of Shanghai. After Shanghai was opened as a port, the British used the pretext that "it was inconvenient for Chinese and foreigners to live together" and forced the Qing government to use the terms of the "Humen Treaty" that allowed British people to rent land and houses in treaty ports. Signed the "Shanghai Land Regulations". On November 1845, 11, when Shanghai was opened for two years, the Qing government issued a notice on Shanghai Road: "We hereby observe the people's sentiments and consider the local situation in Shanghai to delineate the north of Yangpidbang and the south of Lijiazhuang. The land is allowed to be leased to British merchants for the purpose of building houses and living in it.” This reserved land covers an area of ​​29 mu, which is the later British Concession.

In 1846, Balfour took a fancy to the land of Lijiazhuang and planned to build a new British consulate.Lijiazhuang is located on the southwest side of the intersection of Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek. The Qing army once set up a fort here to guard the river defense.During the Opium War, after the British gunboat captured the first line of defense at Wusongkou, it then attacked the second line of defense at Donggou, and the intersection of Suzhou Creek and Huangpu River was the third line of defense. In June 1842, the British "Revenge" gunboat bombarded the Lijiazhuang Fort fiercely. Although the defenders resisted stubbornly, the fierce artillery fire still destroyed the Fort.This piece of land is not only superior in geographical location, but also has a historical story. Balfour inspected this abandoned fort many times, and negotiated with the owner of the land, Shi Bingrong and others, to purchase real estate in disregard of the British decree that forbade the establishment of embassies outside the country at that time.After Balfour advanced the deposit, he had no choice but to delay because he did not have the special funds. After the second consul Ali Guo took over, he continued to apply, and finally got the approval of the British government.

After hastily building the consulate house, on July 1849, 7, the British Consulate moved from the old city to the new Lijiazhuang building on the Bund.In just two years, the building had problems and was forced to be demolished. In 21, the consulate rebuilt the house.Eighteen years later, that is, at midnight on December 1852, 18, the British Consulate caught fire. The fire hose was not enough due to the twists and turns of the water intake route.Therefore, it is difficult to see documents and photos of the early British consulate today.

But now the concession centered on the Bund has long been overcrowded, and it is absolutely impossible not to get any land. Chen Ke didn't care much about the medical school.Anyway, I will go to the countryside within a year, and this school will definitely not produce any results.If the revolution does not win, the investment in this school will be in vain. If the revolution wins, then we can build the school however we want.So Chen Ke simply chose a location close to the residential areas of ordinary people.This is a suburb, the land is very cheap, and there are few residents.Moreover, Wu Xingchen brought those tall and strong Shandong heroes to the door to "persuade and educate" with money, and finally bought the land.

After walking for half an hour, the school is already far away.After a month of construction, the six main buildings, two teaching buildings, a laboratory building, a library, and two dormitory buildings have taken shape.Tall scaffolding and lifting equipment made of various pulley blocks are attached to various buildings, and many people are working on them.

Seeing that the destination was approaching, the young people all showed joy.After walking for a while, I saw many people waving in front of the simple gate of the school. They were young people who arrived early.Everyone speeded up their pace one after another, and had a round with these classmates.However, Chen Ke and Mao Ping soon fell behind.Chen Ke turned his head and saw that there were still a few students following behind Chen Ke and Mao Ping in an orderly manner.These are all Japanese students.

"Let's hurry up too, don't keep everyone waiting." Chen Ke said with a smile.

"Hi!" The Japanese students responded in unison.

Everyone gathered on the playground, which was built according to the standard playground of later generations.It can be seen that the place has been cleaned up, the runway is full of various construction materials, and half of the site has traces of hasty handling.In the center of the playground, four wooden barriers as high as three meters high were erected.There are also some inexplicable things, and young people don't understand these simple things.Everyone has heard Chen Ke talk about the meaning of "expanding training", which is probably something to cultivate team spirit and use imagination.For such a mysterious statement, everyone felt that there should be a very different place, but such a simple venue, there is nothing that can be associated with Chen Ke's explanation.

Hua Xiongmao greeted him, "Wen Qing, it's ready." Looking at the young people around him curiously at the simple equipment around him, he asked worriedly, "Wen Qing, can this work? "

"Let's see. It doesn't matter if it works." Chen Ke said with a smile.After finishing speaking, he stood on a stool and shouted loudly: "Students, our outward bound training today is just the first step. I ask now, ten people in a row, start to line up."

Such a simple requirement, it is estimated that in the 21st century, fourth-grade students can easily complete it.But this group of young people in 1905 stood there in a daze after hearing this, not knowing what to do.

Chen Ke pointed to Mao Ping, "You take five steps forward. Then stand there."

Mao Ping obeyed Chen Ke's order.

Chen Ke pointed to Mao Ping's position and shouted to everyone again: "Take him as the origin, and everyone stands to the north and behind Mao Ping."

This order was carried out, and everyone started to take positions randomly with Mao Ping as the center.Some people stand on the south side of Maoping, and some people stand in front of Maoping.Some people watched everyone running in a swarm, but they were at a loss and stood motionless in place.

Chen Ke called the students by their names one by one and ordered them to adjust their positions.It took 10 minutes, and the students finally divided into five teams and stood on the north side and behind Maoping.

"How many people should I let stand in a row?" Chen Ke shouted.

"Ten." Scattered responses came from the team.

"First row, report the number!" Chen Ke ordered.This time he not only asked everyone to count, but also taught how to count by himself.

Hua Xiongmao looked at everyone's chaos, and Chen Ke taught them skillfully.The original worry immediately flew to the sky.Just organizing such a large group of people and teaching them the basics takes so much effort.It seems that there will be absolutely nothing to do.After confirming such a fact, Hua Xiongmao turned and left.There's still a lot to do on the construction site.

Chapter 38

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