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Chapter 6: Setting foot outside the customs (4)

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On March 24, after breakfast, Zhao Zhenzhong and others took a train to Chenyang with Yu Xuezhong and others. It was more than 300 kilometers from Suizhong to Chenyang. Zhao Zhenzhong and others did not arrive at Chenyang Station until the evening.

After leaving the station, Zhao Zhenzhong and others originally wanted to settle down at Yuelai Inn near the station, but Yu Xuezhong said in a slut, "It's all in Chenyang. You don't go to my brother's house, but you want to stay in the inn. Aren't you slapping me in the face? Now the family has cooked food and waited, just go with me!"

Zhao Zhenzhong felt a little embarrassed: "Brother, if one or two people only stay for one or two days, it would be fine to disturb your mansion. But there are nearly 10 people in our group, and we have to be busy with business matters. I am really afraid of causing trouble to the mansion."

Yu Xuezhong said without any objection: "The home is big, and this kind of person can live in. No matter how busy you are, you have to go to the house to recognize the door and stay for a few days. When I go back to Suizhong in a few days, if you feel that living at home is inconvenient, then you can do whatever you want."

Seeing Yu Xuezhong insisting, Zhao Zhenzhong no longer refused and said, "Okay, I'll go to my brother's house to bother you for a few days."

When Yu Xuezhong returned to Shenyang, he naturally informed the relevant personnel here to pick up the station. Zhao Zhenzhong and others went to Yu Xuezhong's home together.

Yu Xuezhong's home in Shenyang was called "Yu Xuezhong's official residence" or "Yu Xiaohou's residence" at that time. It is located at No. 17 Weizhengli, Sijing Street, which is the later generations. It is No. 17 Beiwujing Street, Heping District. This is a brick-concrete structure, facing north and south, imitation European-style building with an area of ​​647 square meters, a building area of ​​552 square meters, two floors above the ground and one floor underground. There is a caravan in front of the door, a rainbow and a daughter's wall, which is unique in shape and beautiful and spectacular.

After getting off the bus in front of the door, Yu Xuezhong saw Zhao Zhenzhong looking at his mansion and introduced with emotion: "This house was built by Mr. Zhang when I joined the Fengtian Army. Mr. Zhang's house was also not far from this place. It has been more than two years in a flash. Although the house is there, Mr. Da was killed by the Japanese. Whenever I return here, I always think of Mr. Da.”

Zhao Zhenzhong couldn't help but sigh: The Northeast King Zhang Zuolin's method of winning over his subordinates is probably not even able to catch up with Zhang Xueliang. People like Zhang Zongchang were obedient to Zhang Zuolin, but once Zhang Xueliang took office, he did not allow Zhang Zongchang to leave the seclusion. Later, he killed Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai, two generals of the Fengtian clan, which caused great losses.

That night, Zhao Zhenzhong and others settled down at Yu Xuezhong's family.

The next day, Yu Xuezhong said to Zhao Zhenzhong after breakfast: "Brother, I have some business tasks today, so I won't be with you anymore. Whether you stay at home or go out to do your business, it's up to you. In addition, I will take time to contact Li Yichun, Liu Yifei and the others today to see if I can finalize the cooperation in producing cars as soon as possible."

"Brother, you are busy with yours. This is the first time we have come to Chenyang, and we have also taken this opportunity to go out for a walk." Zhao Zhenzhong said.

"It's nothing to go around, but be careful when you go to a place with a lot of Japanese people. Some Japanese ronin love to make trouble." Yu Xuezhong reminded.

After Zhao Zhenzhong agreed, he separated from Xuezhong and went to work on his own affairs.

Wales visited relevant people in the US consulate and greeted the matter in advance for the matter held by China National Bank of China Chenyang Branch. Zhao Zhenzhong took Li Yuntian and Liu Chenglin to some important locations to take a quick look at the "track" in a variety of places. However, the more places they went, the heavier Zhao Zhenzhong was in a mood.

Although we know that the Japanese entered the three eastern provinces in large numbers after the Russo-Japanese War, Zhao Zhenzhong has always lacked an intuitive impression of this. Now after seeing and understanding the situation in Chenyang, Zhao Zhenzhong understood that Japan's invasion of China did not start from the "September 18th", but should start from the Russo-Japanese War and even the Sino-Japanese War. The "September 18th" just kicked off the prelude to Japan's large-scale invasion of China.

In 1905, Japan and Russia fought in Chenyang. Japan ignored China's sovereignty and took over the South Manchurian Railway in the name of accepting spoils, expanded the area of ​​"rail land" to 13,551 acres, and renamed it "South Manchurian Railway Affiliation". Then it immigrated to the affiliated areas, set up commercial banks, built streets, and built buildings, built a "country of the country" on Chinese land to carry out crazy economic plunder, and accumulated strength for the subsequent military invasions. Now the entire affiliated area has become the world of the Japanese.

In 1906, under the threat of the great powers, the Qing government established a "business port" in Shenyang, and the great powers set up factories, opened commercial banks, exported capital, monopolized the market, and commercial ports became an "international market". Now, the place names of commercial ports are all named after the town, and the famous Taiyuan Street in later generations is now called "Harukhi Town". On some streets, Japanese soldiers and Japanese ronin were unscrupulous.

The Japanese-filled affiliated areas, commercial ports, and the Sita where the Koreans lived had more than doubled the city of Chenyang.

After a day of wandering around, Li Yuntian and Liu Chenglin felt very depressed.

"Uncle Master, we have traveled a lot today. Where should we choose to build the Huamei Company branch? Should the bank and the company be together, or should they be separated?" Liu Chenglin asked, and then continued, "I want to go back early, and I feel bored in Shenyang."

"Banks and companies will work in different places. The bank's address will be determined after two days. It is best to set up a property that can be put into use as soon as possible. I chose to build the company branch at a street from the official silver of the three eastern provinces. At that time, we will purchase several nearby residential areas and rebuild them at the original address." Zhao Zhenzhong said, "The civil engineering construction in Shandong has already entered the formal state. It doesn't matter whether you are in the same place or not. In Chenyang, you have to stay for a while after the project starts until the relevant tasks are completed. It will probably last until next autumn."

"So long? How big is it to build?" Liu Chenglin was a little surprised.

"The place is not big, but construction will not start this fall and winter, and will be suspended after the task is over next year. As for the specific requirements, we will tell you in detail when you have the opportunity. Now, we should not talk too much about Shenyang. In addition, I will take you to visit two leading figures in the domestic construction industry in two days so that you can improve."

"Then the relationship is good." Liu Chenglin saw that Zhao Zhenzhong was unwilling to say more, so he stopped asking.

On the evening of the 26th, Yu Xuezhong asked Zhao Zhenzhong: "How are you busy with your affairs? Is it still going well?"

"It's basically going well. I've contacted the US consulate and will officially apply to the Chenyang Municipal Government to open a bank branch and a company branch in two days. In addition, the addresses of the two industries have also been selected. After signing an agreement in a few days, it should be ready to use it after the rectification."

"That's good." Yu Xuezhong nodded, "I'll take you to see Li Yichun and Liu Yifei tomorrow to see if you can cooperate with the production of cars. If we can really produce our own cars earlier, it would be a great joy."

"Then I'll thank you brother." Zhao Zhenzhong said.

On the morning of March 27, Yu Xuezhong took Zhao Zhenzhong, Li Yuntian and the others to meet Li Yichun, Liu Yifei, and Liu Chenglin and Wales were busy with the matters related to the establishment of the industry.

Yu Xuezhong said before that Minsheng Factory and the Arsenal of the East Three Provinces are not far away, which is not wrong. After all, both factories are in Shenyang. But in fact, there is still a distance between the two factories: Minsheng Factory is located in Zegongnan Lane, Huigong Street, Chenhe District, later generations, while the Arsenal of the East Three Provinces is located in Dongta Street, Dadong District, later generations. However, since the Liaoning Mortar Factory where the Minsheng Factory is located and the Arsenal of the East Three Provinces are both the military industry of Shenyang, the two sides have frequent exchanges in terms of personnel and materials. Especially after Liu Yifei took office as the director of the Arsenal this spring, he was also interested in Li Yichun's ongoing automobile development, which provided a lot of help to the Minsheng Factory.

However, for the sake of convenience, Yu Xuezhong invited Li and Liu to a Minsheng factory to discuss the cooperation in producing cars, which made Zhao Zhenzhong regret that he was unable to enter the arsenal and see the whole picture. However, I think there should be a chance in the future.

You Yu Xuezhong introduced that Zhao Zhenzhong and Li and Liu negotiated to cooperate in the production of cars smoothly. In the end, several people agreed that in order to enable Minsheng Factory to have the ability to produce cars as soon as possible, Huamei Company will first provide all the auto parts for Minsheng Factory, and then mass assembly and production of cars by the end of this year. At the same time, Minsheng Factory will introduce new equipment, transform existing equipment, and strive to achieve the localization of most auto parts by next spring. On this basis, Huamei Company will assist Minsheng Factory in designing and developing its own products.

Of course, in the process of assembling, processing accessories and ultimately realizing the production of cars by itself, Huamei Company will send technicians to Minsheng Factory to guide production and train workers. The equipment introduced and purchased accessories must use Huamei Company's products. In addition, Liu Yifei also proposed that when Huamei Company trains technicians for Minsheng Factory, the arsenal will also send personnel to study, so Zhao Zhenzhong naturally raised his hand to welcome him.

In this way, although Minsheng Factory did not advance much in designing and producing cars by itself, it had the ability to mass assemble and produce cars by mass by the second half of 30 years due to Huamei Company's intervention. Both sides were also happy.

After the result of cooperation in producing cars, Yu Xuezhong returned to Suizhong for official business. In order to stop causing trouble for Yu Xuezhong's family, Zhao Zhenzhong and others moved into an inn in Chenyang.

On March 30, Zhao Zhenzhong took Liu Chengshan to visit Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, who were teaching in the Department of Architecture of Northeastern University.

Speaking of which, although Zhao Zhenzhong met Liang Sicheng and his wife for the first time, both sides had heard about each other's general situation before. Of course, this has nothing to do with the historical situation that Zhao Zhenzhong knew in the previous world, but with Zhou Tian and others.

Liang Sicheng entered the Department of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania in 1924 to study architecture, while Lin Huiyin was transferred to the School of Fine Arts because the Department of Architecture of the school did not accept girls. In the summer of 27, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin entered the Harvard Research Institute after obtaining a master's degree. During his time at Harvard, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin met Zhou Tian, ​​Zhou Hao and others, and Lin Huiyin was even more intimate with Zhou Tian. Liang and Lin naturally knew a lot about Zhao Zhenzhong from Zhou Tian, ​​Zhou Hao and other overseas students, and Zhao Zhenzhong also heard Zhou Tian talk about Liang and Lin in the United States.

After meeting, Zhao Zhenzhong and Liang Sicheng and his wife were naturally moved by Zhou Tian, ​​Zhou Hao and others who were studying in the United States. During the conversation, Zhao Zhenzhong expressed his hope that they could go to Qingdao University to teach and enrich and improve the department of architecture there. However, Liang Sicheng and his wife were unable to leave because they had already taught at Northeastern University. In desperation, Zhao Zhenzhong settled for the second best and agreed with them that they would teach at Qingdao University after the two of their teaching period at Northeastern University. Liu Chenglin also took the opportunity to ask Liang and Lin for advice on many issues related to construction, and they also benefited a lot.

After returning to the inn from Liang Sicheng and his wife, Zhao Zhenzhong took this opportunity to explain the requirements for the construction of Huamei Company branch to Liu Chenglin in detail. Liu Chenglin was stunned after hearing this: "Uncle Master, can this work? You can make a big leak."

"We just need to prepare in advance. If you need it, then say something else." Zhao Zhenzhong said, "There shouldn't be much technical problem, right?"

After thinking about it, Liu Chenglin said, "It shouldn't be a big problem, it's just that we must do a good job of confidentiality. It's best to use our own people."

"That's good. Then we will transfer people from Shandong." Zhao Zhenzhong breathed a sigh of relief.
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