Chapter 91 Thunder on the Flat Ground Down

There are three major steel companies in China, the largest is Anshan Iron and Steel Company, the highest profit is Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company, and the oldest is Hanyang Iron and Steel Factory. Among the three steel companies with an annual iron output of more than 3 million tons, Hanyang Iron and Steel Factory has the longest history, because it is the same as Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company. The relationship between the company and the relationship between Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company and Anshan Iron and Steel Company is known as the "father of China's modern steel industry".

At the gate of Hanyang Iron Factory, the most "old" modern steel factory in China, located on the bank of the river, stands a huge iron statue. With deep and serene eyes, he looks down on the employees who go in and out of work like a Buddha. This is Zhang Zhidong, the founder of Hanyang Iron Works.

When he took office as the governor of Huguang in the late Qing Dynasty, he set up foreign affairs in order to seek his way to strengthen the country. Hanyang Iron Factory, Hanyang Arsenal, and self-improvement students left his mark everywhere in Hubei. At the time of Dingxin, his decisive sacrifice and righteousness pushed the glory of his life to the top and became the empire. The Prime Minister finally died in office.

For the political axe, to some extent, he is the fit between the new era and the old era. As a link, he maintained the connection between tradition and modernity in those years. In fact, until now, for China, how tradition fits perfectly with modernity is a problem.

However, in Zhang Zhidong's own eyes, he paid more attention to the "foreign affairs" he had done in Hubei. Although Hanyang Iron Factory was "a lot of money but not effective" in his hands, Hanyang Arsenal's output for many years was limited, and the scale of the self-improvement school was limited, but in the end, the two enterprises and schools he founded were obtained after the establishment of the empire. With rapid development, it spent tens of millions of yuan during the ruling axe period. Through the introduction of thousands of machines and equipment, it became the largest arsenary in China. With the support of the Ministry of Education, the Self-improvement School was changed to the Self-improvement University, which is the largest comprehensive university in the Ministry of China.

The "Hanyeping Company" composed of Hanyang Iron Factory, Daye Iron Mine and Pingxiang Coal Mine, which has long been changed to "official supervision and commercial office", has become the second largest steel enterprise in China after many personnel changes. After Zhang Zhidong's death, Sheng Xuanhuai, who was the chairman of Han Yeping Company at that time, made people use the Han Yeping Company's The copper produced by Dexing Copper Factory cast a bronze statue of Zhang Zhitong in front of the factory. Sheng Xuanhuai was like this. The reason was very simple. On the one hand, it was to commemorate, but on the other hand, he had his selfishness. He used this statue to remind everyone that the iron factory and Han Yeping Company were "run by the old prime minister". Who If you want to move Han Yeping Company, you must first consider the spirit of the old prime minister in heaven.

To this day, this copper green was born on the bronze statue of that year due to natural reactions, but just as Sheng Xuanhuai thought, when Zhang Zhidong was alive, he was guarding the enterprise. When he died, he was still the protector of the enterprise. Not only that, there will be some officials who have been favored by Zhang Zhidong and even students of Ziqiang University, who often put a beautiful wreath under the bronze statue to express their respect and memory for him.

There is a 32-story building on the bank of the river with a total height of 100 meters. This is the "Han Yeping Building", which is the first floor in Wuhan, and even by the Yangtze River, it is the most eye-catching building. Of course, if Pudong District is located by the Yangtze River, this building cannot be compared with it at all.

"Oh, it's time to blow up this building!"

Standing in the chairman's office on the 32nd floor, Sheng Enyi, the new chairman of Han Yeping Company, looked at the Yangtze River and muttered in his heart. Originally, today he was going to the dock to meet Yuan Shikai, the president of the House of Lords. After all, he was the heir of the Viscount Hanyang. Although he did not have the right to enter the House of Lords, he went to welcome Yuan Shi. Kai, there is nothing wrong, but for Sheng Enyi, who came to mahjong last night, who had just smoked a big bag of cigarettes, he would have any intention to welcome the dean.

"What's there to welcome after passing the breath!"

In Sheng Enyi's eyes, Yuan Shikai, who resigned as prime minister, was simply outdated and not liked by the emperor. Naturally, there was no need to welcome him.

And for Sheng Enyi, he has more important things to do - he is about to be 26 years old. At this time, he is planning to hold the biggest banquet in Wuhan, no, China since the founding of the empire.

But his birth party is scheduled for the beginning of June. At that time, the weather in Wuhan had turned hot, but it was bearable - at least it was tolerable for the locals in Kiri.

"Record it down, Secretary Li!"

Looking back, Sheng Enyi said to Li Xinlan, whom he met on the cruise ship when he came back from studying in the United States. When he saw Li Xinlan, he even swallowed his saliva secretly. The reason why he hired her as a secretary at the beginning was that on the one hand, it was because she was a talented student at Harvard University, but on the other hand, it was because of her Face, no, although her face is beautiful, her figure is more perfect. For Sheng Laosi, who was expelled from the University of London in the United Kingdom and then transferred to Columbia University, who had "reviewed the Eighteen-Nation Alliance", Li Xinlan's figure, even those tall foreign women, may not be comparable. Especially when she was wearing a chest-length Confucian skirt, she... swallowed her saliva, and Sheng Enyi said seriously again.

"Have you written it down? My birth is on June 15th!"

"Hmm!"

Before raising her head, Li Xinlan, who was wearing a professional dress, asked.

"Do you have any other plans?"

Her calm and steady temper is not the same as that of the chairman. In fact, of course, she knows what the "famous" Chairman Sheng has to do to her, but she pretends not to know that for her, the job in Han Yeping Company is just a job, a job to realize her dreams.

For Li Xinlan, who is studying business at Harvard University, she hopes to enter a large enterprise and then give full play to her strengths in a large enterprise. Originally, the enterprise she intended to belong to is an industrial company. After all, that enterprise is the only large-scale enterprise that has the opportunity to give up the position of executive president to outsiders. The industrial company is "royal capital". "Industrial", which means that its president can only be held by outsiders, but the industrial company is so huge that it is at most a dream for a woman.

Later, she also considered Qinhuai Bank in the past. The chairman of that bank was also a woman. It was said that she was a very beautiful woman. However, because it was a financial enterprise, she naturally would not choose that enterprise in the wrong situation. In addition, there seemed to be no more, but everything in scale The enterprises are mostly state-owned enterprises, and she has no interest in state-owned enterprises.

But on the cruise ship back to China, she happened to meet Sheng Enyi, the "Sheng Lao Si of Colombia" that she had heard of even at Harvard. Although she refused him very firmly, Sheng Enyi finally hired her as a secretary. After thinking about it, she faced She chose Han Yeping, and the reason why she chose Han Yeping was very simple - Sheng Enyi is incompetent!

Just like this time, although Han Yeping's former chairman, Sheng Xuanhuai's father, Sheng Xuanhuai, is resting in Sheng's house in Shanghai, while Sheng Enyi is thinking about how to hold his banquet, but for Li Xinlan, she likes Sheng Enyi's unprofessional work very much, because his unprofessional work gives her the opportunity to be straight. Manage this large steel enterprise consortium.

"Yo, Xinlan, look at what you said. If there is no other arrangement, can I call you over with great fanfare?"

Looking at Li Xinlan's beautiful appearance, Sheng Enyi only felt that she had "picked up" a treasure. Not to mention her beauty, the most rare thing is that ability. If she hadn't supported her, I guess the board of directors of the company would have driven her down. Now this company is not the head of the old Sheng family, the emperor's industrial company. There are shares in the company.

But Li Xinlan cleaned up everything in the company properly. Even when his father saw the company's performance last month, he didn't come to his senses for a long time. He insisted that his son was not stay at Columbia University for nothing. He finally argued. Yes, he was fighting. He held several "banquets" at Columbia University in a row. Sheng Laosi fought against the "alition forces" of various countries at the banquet.

"You said, where can we hold the largest birth party in China in Wuhan? I mean..."

Seeing Li Xinlan's frown, Sheng Enyi only felt that she was beautiful.

"The largest scale and the greatest influence, so that all Chinese people can suddenly know the kind of my Sheng Lao Si..."

For Sheng Laosi, who just came back from the United States last year, he has been thinking about how to open his "populence" at once so as not to be "submerged in the sea of small aristocrats". After thinking about it, there is only a large-scale banquet. For him, this matter is even better than his father. It is also important.

I saw Li Xinlan's unhappy face.

"I said Xinlan, you have to be considerate of me. Look, now on this street, ask Sheng Lao Si, who knows my name. Yesterday, when I played mahjong with someone, one person listened to my name and didn't even raise his eyes. In the United Kingdom and the United States, when did my Sheng Laosi be treated like this? Those foreign ghosts It's so arrogant. When you see us, you have to laugh with us, right? Just like when I arrived in San Francisco, as soon as the people here entered the hotel, someone sent me the big cigarette over there. It was like here. Xiao Ke had been looking for more than a week to find the big cigarette, but he didn't make me so anxious!"

When Sheng Enyi said proudly, Li Xinlan opened her eyes and sighed in her heart. It was really rare for this man to be so righteous. This fourth young master is also the extreme in the world.

"Chairman, if you are found to be taking drugs, you will lose your title!"

Li Xinlan reminded the fourth young master that the title of Sheng Xuanhuai was asked by Zhang Xiangbao from His Majesty.

"Xinlan, you think that title is expensive, but it's really stupid,"

Sheng Enyi snorted, and then said proudly.

"That title is just that the old man donated one million yuan to the Invalides Academy and then rewarded it. The Chinese Empire is no different from that of the Qing Dynasty. In the past, it was to donate money to the official, but now it is donated money to confer the title. Otherwise, you think that so many people have donated like a fool every year, and good reputation belongs to a good reputation. The most important thing is to be honest. "Something!"

What is real? After a pause, Sheng Enyi reminded Li Xinlan.

"You will understand in the future, Xinlan!"

Sheng Enyi said in a slow and clear voice, as if he were explaining to a child.

"I know, in your eyes, I'm just a two-generation club, a loser. In fact, according to you, the old man has left me so many family business. The old man is the main shareholders in hundreds of first-class companies in China, and he also left me with such a steel factory, as iron mines, coal mines, copper, and China Merchants Shipping Company also has a 40-story office building in Pudong, which is rented in Shanghai... Now it is not a concession, there are more than a dozen lanes alone. Not to mention that the wealth is comparable to the country, I dare to say that in Wuhan, even in Shanghai, the Sheng family is richer than anyone else! What do you think I will do in my life? Anyway, I can't spend all the money!"

At this time, Sheng Enyi has a feeling of "the hero is invincible and the most lonely". It seems that he has nothing else to do in his life except spending money, but his words made Li Xinlan speechless for a while. She really doesn't know what to say about Sheng Enyi's "prodigalright" idea.

"As long as you don't get confused and lose all the company!"

With a hum, except for accepting his attitude, Li Xinlan really didn't know what to do.

"Hey, look what you said!"

Seeing Li Xinlan say so, Sheng Enyi immediately squeezed out a smile.

"With you, this company will not be able to compensate! Who is Xinlan? She is a talented girl from Harvard Business School!"

After a burst of praise, Sheng Enyi said with a smile on her face.

"Xinlan, I don't want to take responsibility for the money left by the old man. As long as it's enough for me to spend. If not, Xinlan, you will marry me. At that time, this Sheng family..."

Before he finished speaking, Sheng Enyi quickly stopped talking when he noticed the anger on Li Xinlan's face.

"I, I just say..."

"I'll help you think about what to do with the birth party later."

Li Xinlan, who looked slightly angry, said that she had never thought of it before that she had fallen to the point of helping others.

"Chairman, if there's nothing to do, I'll go down!"

"Xinlan, still..."

Just as Sheng Enyi was about to speak, a loud noise suddenly came, and the glass windows of the office shattered, accompanied by thousands of broken glass spreading with shock waves.

Smoke cloud, at the same time of the explosion, a huge cloud of smoke almost swallowed up the whole Wuchang wharf. While the gray-black smoke ball rose, the gray smoke and shock wave spread along the wharf to Wuchang and the river. The gray soil and gunpowder smoke instantly swallowed more than a dozen streets and cities, and the smoke covering the clouds only let the streets. The light is dim.

When the violent explosion sound came to the street, the passers-by who were walking on the street were shocked by the deafening explosion. At the same time, the shock wave rushed them away. While the shock wave rushed people away, the glass windows on both sides of the road broke at the same time, and the explosion After that, half of Wuchang City, especially near the dock, was almost like the end of the world. People groaned and cried in the smoke of no sunshine.

On the river surface, thousands of tons of river ships were blown up and sunk in the river. Dozens of fishing boats and passing ships were overturned by the shock wave. The most tragic thing was the cement ship, which was directly broken in the river by the shock wave. The materials on the ship and the crew were directly swallowed up by the cold river water, and at the wharf full of gunpows, there was a deep number. The pits of rice and the wreckage of the river wheel remind people that it is the center of the explosion.

After the cold river water soaked in cotton clothes, Liang's body became heavier and heavier. After being blown into the river, his body sank down to the river. Just as he recovered a little sanity and felt that he was being dragged into the river, he suddenly remembered Song Yu, who was standing on the side with him, and Lin Wenqin, they, they How's it going?

He swam up desperately, and finally looked around while his head came out of the water and took a big breath.

"Buzz..."

There was no other voice in his ears. As soon as it surfaced, Liang reached the water and shouted loudly, shouting the names of Song Yu and Lin Wenqin, but he could not hear his own voice at all. Not far away, the remains of Jiang Lun were smoking, and there were all kinds of...all kinds of objects around Jiang Lun!

"Song Yu..."

"Xiao Linzi..."

The eager shout came out of Liang's voice over and over again, but he couldn't hear any sound in his ear except for the roar that made his brain hurt. He took off his cotton-padded clothes and trousers in the water. Liang made himself swim near the sinking river wheel. When he cruised the river ship, he found the so-called " The object is a corpse, a corpse, men and women, old and young, and his classmates, strange and familiar at this time are floating on the river.

"Song Yu..."

"Xiao Linzi..."

At this time, the original shout turned into a cry. Liang reached desperately turned over the bodies. Although he didn't want to find his friends and favorite girls there, he couldn't help but want to do so.

On the river, several people struggled to swim over, but their frightened faces could not stop them from trying to rescue their relatives or friends and classmates.

"Song Yu..."

"Xiao Linzi..."

When he was crying in despair, suddenly, Liangcheng only felt that there was a man behind him patting him hard. When he turned around, he saw a familiar face, but that face was constantly bleeding.

"Da Chengzi, I... thought you...you..."

"Xiao Linzi..."

The two of them swam and shouted loudly. Although none of them could hear what the other was saying at this time, the reunion after the disaster still made them happy and cry.

"Look, it's Song Yu and Song Yu there..."

Suddenly, Lin Wenqin pointed to the distance and shouted loudly. Liang Dalian turned his head and saw a girl lying on the edge of a lifebuoy on the river. It was Song Yu. Yes, it was her. Song Yu, who was lying on the lifebuoy, desperately looked at the river wheel that fell into the river...

(to be continued)