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"... Unlike any city, Lianyungang is an emerging port. This port is completely different from any city in the world. It is a port, but it is by no means dependent on a port. It is a city, but it is completely different from a city in the traditional sense. To be precise, this city is a railway station. This city covers an area of ​​400 square kilometers, in fact, is a city with the core of the railway station. It is better to say that it is a railway station, because everything in this city is built on a railway station, and this railway station is the only special station on the Longhai Railway, and the center of this city is the Grand Central Railway!"

"Times" Mo Lixun—"Impression of Lianyun"

As a city centered on a railway station, when Lianyungang Central Railway Station was built, the designers took a lot of effort to plan this railway station located in the center of the city. As the center of the city, this railway station obviously cannot be built on the ground like an ordinary railway station, and even the railway needs to be carefully arranged.

On the eve of modernism, the development of mad urban infrastructure driven by the profit-seeking will of capital and technology had continuously injected new forms of energy into Western architecture at that time. Inspired by the vertical urban extension method of New York and Chicago, the architects began to imagine an urban space that adapts to the multiple surfaces of high-density cities.

In 1910, a French architect Eugenehenard, who was trained in orthodox architecture at the London Town Planning Conference hosted by Riba, gave a report on the future of three-dimensional street systems. In this report, henard specifically challenged the old concept of treating urban streets as burying the land surface of various pipelines. He believed that European streets at that time were still just the Nongken Road in the city with paved cities and could not adapt to the rapidly developing urban service functions. At this time, the city's drainage facilities, various energy and water and electricity pipelines needed to be updated, the pavement surface must be re-excavated.

However, the layout of these pipelines belongs to different departments and does not have any unified planning and coordination. Henard conceives a street that is actually suspended above the surface. Various transportation systems can be arranged in the space under the raised street chassis. In addition to traditional water supply, drainage, energy and electricity, there are postal services, garbage transportation, seawater supply, and even fresh air systems. Henard further envisions a multi-layer street to cope with the explosive demand of this urban infrastructure, such as pedestrians and carriages on the uppermost open-air street, the first floor is a subway system, the second floor is garbage and drainage, and the third floor is a material supply transportation path, etc.

Henard's subversive transformation of urban surfaces was not unfounded. Henard was just the first architect to summarize the scattered experimental systems in the engineering field into a new concept of urbanism. In fact, in the United States, which was still regarded as a foreign country by Europeans at that time, a railway engineer named Wilgus had already tested the urban form of multiple surfaces in the New York Railway System that he was familiar with. New York Central Railway Station is a representative work of multiple surfaces.

New York in the early 20th century witnessed the great development of the urban MRT system. Just below 42nd Street, Irt had planned up to three-story three-dimensional track lines. The entire 42nd Street was the operating lines of various ground rail trams, and Central Station had almost no room to expand its station area. Grassroots engineer Wilgus made two decisions to change the history of New York's urban and Western architecture at this time. First, Wilgus vertically divided the huge railway station after 50th Street into two floors, which means that a whole bunch of railway tracks from the northern suburbs of New York was forked into two upper and lower levels after about 50th Street.

This way of repairing the train station underground has become the only way to solve the problem of Lianyungang Central Station, the central part of the city. The station platform is built underground. However, during the design process, it still faces a series of technical challenges. Unlike the electric locomotives used by New York Central Station, the trains running on the Longhai Line are all steam locomotives, which makes the station have to consider a series of technical problems such as smoking and ventilation.

After solving these problems, we need to consider the noise generated by the railway when passing through the urban area. In the end, more than 20 kilometers of railways passing through the urban area were also built below the horizon. Above the railway passage, trees a hundred meters wide were planted, and overpasses were built above the railway passage. The sides of this railway that crossed the city became the urban oasis of Lianyungang and the park, and those overpasses became part of the urban roads.

The construction of the entire central station is an unprecedented huge project. It is not easy to dig a two-story station on the Lianyungang mudstone foundation. Just cleaning the foundation requires moving up to two million cubic meters of earth and stone. In order to speed up the construction progress, in addition to investing tens of thousands of workers, more than ten steam shovels were also invested. For example, it was nearly a year before the civil engineering work was completed. It was not until a month ago that the main body of the station was put into use, but in fact, the railway station was not completed until now.

If we only look at the appearance of the city, it is difficult for anyone to notice that there is a railway hidden in this urban oasis. Anyone who is just a newcomer to Lianyun will often be amazed by this. When the train entered the central station with 46 platforms and 68 tracks, its platform on the two floors of the underground was also more surprised.

“Central Station is a miracle of engineering and architecture!”

As the train drove into the platform and looked at the platform built on the underground, like every new person here, he was also trapped in the natural worship of the majestic project by mankind. Amid the amazement, the voice of the crew still came from the carriage.

"... Please pay attention to the things you need to pay attention to on the back of the ticket. In the cleaning of the shoe and boots at the platform, please clean your soles. The cleanliness of the city and hygiene are everyone's obligation..."

Listening to the sound on the radio, Liang Qichao remembered the precautions written behind the ticket in the luxury car overhead.

"Keep your hygiene and improve your image! Spitting and throwing garbage in public places is prohibited. Violators are fined 10 yuan and sentenced to half a year. Forgot to flush the toilet in the public bathroom will be fined 5 yuan..."

The back of the tickets as big as a slap are full of punishment clauses, which is a reminder to all passengers who get off the bus to accept the rules here when they come to this "special" city. In fact, Liang Qichao, who has always called for "reforming the national character", agrees very much. In his opinion, heavy punishment is a necessary means to transform the national character, and Longhai is far ahead of any city in this regard.

Although he was amazed at the grandeur of this underground station, for Liang Qichao, he came here today as the president's envoy. As he imagined, when the passengers started getting off the bus, there were more than a dozen officials from the Huaihai Strategic Envoy Office and several reporters standing on the platform near his carriage, and there were several old friends among the officials. Looking at those old friends, Liang Qichao's face squeezed out a smile.

As a person with friends all over the world, Liang Qichao has many friends in Lianyun, and there are also students. Among the people who greet him at the train station today, there are his old friends and students.

However, today the person who greeted Liang Qichao on the platform of Lianyun Central Station was Cai Yuanpei, the vice president of Dehua University and director of the Education Department of the Huaihai Strategic Institution. He was not a friend of Liang Qichao. He had never met before. However, although the two had never met before, they had been together for a long time.

Cai Yuanpei and Liang Qichao were both born during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. Cai was five years older than Liang, but they were in the same year of the Ji Chou Provincial Examination. After that, Cai Kedi won a lot of Hanlin, and was appointed as editor, and entered the imperial capital Wenyuan. However, Liang was frustrated and failed many times. He turned to Kang Youwei and began to embark on the path of reform and enlightenment. In fact, in terms of traditional Chinese academic research, the two were quite similar. Liang studied under Kang Youwei and followed the classics of modern literature, which was not to be said. In his early years, Cai devoted himself to the works of the "Changzhou School" such as Zhuang Cunyu, Liu Fenglu, and Song Xiangfeng, and "she went there smoothly", and then devoted himself to the classics of modern literature, and even made a vow to compile the book "Gongyang Spring and Autumn Great Meaning".

However, Cai was relatively dependent on the current literary style and was difficult to recognize the performance of Kang and Liang's masters and apprentices. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the trend of the Silin Empire changed drastically, and Liang Qichao spread Western learning and advocated reform, and his reputation spread throughout the country. At this time, Cai Yuanpei began to systematically contact the new learning. In the process of seeking new knowledge when he felt "late to hear the truth", Liang Qichao's two books "Biography of Western Learning" and "Reading Western Learning Calligraphy" played a prompting role in a timely manner. Cai Huo read Liang's books and believed that "it was very convenient to review and understand the words and words in a solid way." It can be said that he has benefited a lot.

During the Wuxu period, Kang and Liang were in charge of reform and were also very popular for a while. Cai Yuanpei was in a position in Beijing and was inclined to reform in his heart. He had a relationship with Liang Qichao in the same year as the provincial examination. However, the arrogance of scholars made him "shamed of being attached to him and not accepting friends."

By calmly watching Kang, the rise and fall of Liang's reforms, Cai concluded that it was impossible to expect the Qing court to implement political reforms. This was not the opportunity for him to understand the future performance of the "Hanlin Revolution". Cai Yuanpei once said that among the reformists, especially admired Yan Fu and Tan Sitong, the so-called "Hou Guan, Liuyang, was my first awakening". In fact, he was quite impressed by Liang Qichao's popular passionate words.

In 1902, Cai Yuanpei compiled a three-volume book "Wenbian" and recommended to the academic community a sample essay that reflects "what the world is in the trend", which highlights the collection of several articles published by Liang in the "Shiwubao" and "Qingyibao". The number of selected articles was ranked first among the "Translations of Famous Scholars of the World". At this time, Cai ran schools in Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places, and had extensive contact with Song Shu, Zhang Binglin, Ma Xiangbo, Jiang Zhiyou, etc., and had many friends with Wang Kangnian and Zhang Yuanji for many years. These were all old friends of Liang Qichao, and most of them were still in contact with him. Liang Qichao, who was away from overseas, began to hear and pay attention to Cai Yuanpei, perhaps during this period.

Although Zhang Binglin and others who were in Lianyun were old friends with Liang Qichao, they did not pay enough attention to their aides, so today Cai Yuanpei welcomed Liang Qichao as the Education Director of the Huaihai Strategic Institution, which is also appropriate, and he also attached great importance to his visit.

As Liang Qichao got off the car, Cai Yuanpei took the initiative to walk over. When he was still a few steps away, he clasped his fists and started to erotic.

"Zhuo Ru, welcome to Lianyun!"

"I heard about Heqing's name for a long time and finally saw it today. It is a blessing in my life!"

With Cai Liang and his two polite conspiracies, for a moment, a scene of the host being happy was performed at the station.

Anyone who comes to Lianyungang will often visit the "Domestic Product Exhibition Center" located on First Street, opposite the Central Railway Station. If the Central Railway Station is the first impression of every outsider who has just arrived in Lianyun, then the "Domestic Product Exhibition Center" is where anyone understands the inner part of the city.

Unlike the architectural planning of Lianyungang, which is often designed by designers such as Germany, Britain, the United States, and France, the "Domestic Products Exhibition Center" is a large building designed by Chinese designers. This building designed by Lin Baoren is completely different from the style of China that blindly imitates Western architecture at this time. Instead, it emphasizes the style of oriental architecture. The roof is Chinese and the eaves have Eastern sculptures, such as the bird head sculpture on the eaves, the windows are Jiangnan style, and the spire above the roof imitates Tang-style buildings. It can be said that to a certain extent, this "Domestic Products Exhibition Center" itself is a "Domestic Products" display.

The original "domestic exhibition center" was a modern American-style building designed by American architects. After its foundation and underground part were completed, Lin Baoren, who was presided over the construction of the "Lianyun Community", suggested to Li Zicheng at a banquet that "the domestic exhibition center is the inner part of Lianyun, and Lianyun's inner part should be Chinese-style." It was also under his strong suggestion that the original design was knocked down, and he presided over the use of the original foundation and underground part to redesign the Chinese-style building.

The application of Chinese classical architectural forms to new buildings in the design can be said to some extent that the modern Chinese architecture style has opened up. The buildings are arranged in a "one" shape, but the roof in the middle is higher than the two sides. The middle is a single-eaves hip-green glazed tiles roof, and the two sides are double-eaves hip-green glazed tiles roof. Ventilation windows are decorated at the tip of the hip-green glazed tiles, and the surroundings are decorated with colorful paintings and carvings. The eaves, brackets, and beams are all sprayed with oil. It was also after the "Chinese Products Exhibition Center" that Lianyun's architecture began to shift from Western style to Eastern style.

However, this Oriental-style building did not seem to leave any impression on Liang Qichao and his party except for his tallness. For Liang Qichao, although he was the presidential envoy, he would have come to Lianyun for the first time without visiting the "Domestic Product Exhibition Center". According to the entertainment schedule, this newly built "Domestic Product Exhibition Center" itself is the first stop. In fact, this was also the first stop when the Huaihai Strategic Envoy was entertaining outsiders after the "Domestic Product Exhibition Center" was put into use three months ago, because compared with other countries, the dazzling array of domestic products is more direct and shocking, and can better reflect the achievements made here.

The entire exhibition center is divided into multiple production areas such as electromechanical products exhibition areas, chemical industry exhibition areas, consumer products exhibition areas, etc. The largest of them is electromechanical products exhibition areas. In addition to mechanical manufacturing, it also includes the thermal processing industry, basic workpiece industry, motor industry, etc. The most common category is the consumer products exhibition area. There are as many as tens of thousands of types of products exhibited here. For any foreigner who is just here, when they enter the "domestic product exhibition center", they will also be shocked by unprecedented numbers, not only for the number of exhibits, but also for the technology they show.

"This is……"

As soon as he entered the domestic exhibition center, Liang Qichao was surprised to see a steam locomotive on the cornerstone. Looking at the black locomotive entity, he couldn't help but be stunned.

"Steam locomotives, this is the first large-scale mechanical product manufactured by Lianyun, and it is also the most important export product in Lianyun manufacturing. Last month, the company received an order for 30 locomotives from France. At present, our locomotives have been exported to Russia, France, the United States and other countries. In Africa, South America and India, there are locomotives made in China. It can be said that now, we have surpassed Germany and become the most important locomotive exporter in the world!"

When introducing, Mu, as the manager of ** Company, seemed a little proud. Anyone would feel proud of this, but for him, besides being proud, he was more proud because it was he who controlled the company.

At the exhibition center, looking at those industrial products or industrial product models, Liang Qichao knew what Liu Laolao had joined the Grand Viewer. Most of the large number of industrial products displayed in front of him were the products he had never seen before. And most of them were new industrial products that were unheard of.

When he was dazzled by the sight of one strange or familiar industrial products, Liang Qichao's mind had a clear understanding of ** Company and Longhai, and suddenly became blurred. For a moment, he even began to be unable to tell what reality is and what dreams are. At least, all of this in front of him seemed to have only seen so many industrial products in his dreams.

wrong!

It’s not in a dream, it should be the World Expo!

Although he has been at the site of the World Expo in the future, he knows from newspapers and reading materials that the scale of the World Expo, especially the industrial products exhibitions, and the exhibits at the World Expo are products from all over the world. However, here, the exhibits are "domestic products". Unlike the products displayed in domestic products exhibitions in Tianjin, Shanghai and other places, those traditional products have not even occupied a place here. Even the most ordinary cloth is not exhibited here, but the exhibits are rayon. All the exhibitions here represent modern and civilized "scientific products" rather than traditional handmade products.

"Is everything here domestic?

After Liang Qichao said something in surprise, he suddenly felt that his question seemed a bit stupid, because the outside of the door clearly stated "Domestic Products Exhibition Center!"

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Chapter completed!