The heavens began with Huo Yuanjia

Chapter 25 Current Situation and School Running

On October 1904, 10, Yan Fansun and Zhang Boling founded a private middle school in Tianjin, which later became Tianjin Nankai Middle School.

People from all walks of life in Tianjin came to congratulate, and the chamber of commerce naturally also came to participate, and Li Yong followed Nong Jinsun to see the world.

The speeches are the repertoire of the founders of the school and some political and business leaders. It is nothing more than going on stage to tell the origin of the school, thanking the folks who donated money and assistance, introducing the basic situation of the school, and finally looking forward to the future.

Although Nong Jinsun has a lot of money, he is still not qualified for this qualification, so he sits in the audience to watch the show like Li Yong.

Of course, Nong Jinsun came here not only to attend the opening ceremony, but also to "beg for alms".

Because the Huo Family Boxing Gym has exploded in popularity recently, the location of the Huo Family's ancestral home must have been insufficient—in fact, it was originally enough, but there must be some living areas and places for worship.

So in the end, Huo Yuanjia, Nong Jinsun, and Li Yong discussed it, and they decided to move out of the Huo family's ancestral house and find another place as the venue for this martial arts gym.

Of course, this is not just a matter of the venue, there are also some facilities, and dormitories and so on.

Undoubtedly, these all need money.

Nong Jinsun came here to attract investment, and secondly, to attract relationships, and then to choose a place.

He really wanted to sell the house at first, but he gave up after Li Yong's persuasion.

Guyuelou is a long-term business, and it cannot be given up so hastily.

After all, to be honest, the martial arts school can only barely maintain a balance of income and expenditure. It is hard to say that it can make a lot of money by relying on this.

Whether it is Li Yong, Huo Yuanjia or Nong Jinsun, none of them have the idea of ​​making a lot of money by relying on this. In this case, it is necessary to have another business that can support daily expenses.

And this is still nothing, if something happens later and needs money urgently, then at least there is a way out.

Since Guyuelou was not easy to sell, and Nong Jinsun couldn't afford that much money for a while, he simply came to others to raise funds.

With the current faint influence of the Huo Family Boxing Gym, it is already attractive enough to some businessmen or big households.

Whether it's for investment or if you want to take the opportunity to do something practical, it's fine.

In this way, they can also take the opportunity to build good relations with all walks of life in Tianjin. After all, Nong Jinsun and Huo Yuanjia currently only have certain status and contacts in Tianjin's business and martial arts circles, let alone Li Yong.

So after the ceremony, Nong Jinsun took Li Yong to the small auditorium, where a meeting was being held.

Because Yan Xiu, that is, Yan Fansun, was able to set up this school thanks to the funding from all walks of life, those who contributed money, their efforts, and others who sold face to get children to sign up.

So this meeting is actually also a thank you reception.

Nong Jinsun met a lot of familiar faces here, so he didn't care much about Li Yong, so he let him go and have a look around by himself, just pay attention to what he said and how he acted, and don't accidentally offend someone who can't be offended.

Li Yong is naturally not so reckless, not to mention that he has practiced martial arts with Huo Yuanjia for these years, he has really cultivated his character, even in the original reality, his personality is also kind to others, if people do not offend me, I will not offend others.

But here, he also met acquaintances.

He actually saw it just now when he was in the audience. The problem is that the person next to Zhao Bingjun who was chatting with him was actually that Zhou Xuexi.

Li Yong was also quite surprised. After that encounter, he and Zhou Xuexi had never seen each other again. In this era, there was no such thing as a phone or text message. He originally thought that the relationship would be broken like this.

Looking at it now, Tianjin is still too small.

Zhou Xuexi obviously still remembered him. When he saw him coming, he was stunned for a moment, and then he smiled and said: "Little brother, do you still recognize me?"

"Mr. Zhou!" Li Yong stepped forward to say hello, and then said with an apologetic smile, "Why didn't I recognize Mr. Zhou, but I told Mr. Zhou that I was free to visit, but since then I have been busy, and I feel a little embarrassed... ..."

Zhao Bingjun looked at the two from the side, and asked, "Why, Jizhi knew him?"

Zhou Xuexi said: "There was a relationship before..." After seeing the faces of Zhao Bingjun and Li Yong, he couldn't help but wondered: "Why, you two also recognize each other?"

Zhao Bingjun leaned close to his ear and whispered: "The second young master sent me a letter asking me to take care of him, that's him."

"Oh?" Zhou Xuexi was stunned for a moment, and then realized, "So you are the 'Golden Hero'?"

"I don't want Mr. Zhou to have read my clumsy work?" Of course Li Yong was doing his part at this time, and he didn't need to be humble when he shouldn't.

If "Tianlong" still has a strong shadow of the original work at the beginning, it has been written to a large extent by Li Yong and Zhang Muzhi.

Of course, it also depends on Li Yong's determination of the conditions from the beginning, so when "Tianlong" is becoming more and more popular and the manuscript fee is increasing, the cooperation between the two is still very harmonious.

However, Li Yong was always the only one to the outside world, and Zhang Muzhi rarely had contact with outsiders, and no one even knew about him.

Zhou Xuexi had no doubts at all, just nodded and said: "The book "Tianlong" has a lot of controversy outside, but in my opinion, this book can be the first of its kind."

"Jizhi, Zhi'an, what are you talking about here?" At this moment, Yan Fansun, the owner here, also came over, and then glanced at Li Yong, "This is..."

Zhou Xuexi introduced Li Yong, but Yan Fansun was also very surprised. He didn't expect such a young face to be the author of "Tianlong", which has been widely circulated in the room recently.

But Li Yong didn't know that the three people in front of him were all inextricably linked with Yuan Shikai, so they were all related to Yuan Kewen and the second son Yuan, and naturally he could also know from Zhao Bingjun that the second son Yuan had been Tell him to take care of him.

However, in their opinion, what Li Yong valued the most was his identity as a writer.

As Zhou Xuexi said, the book "Tianlong" at this time actually has a tendency to create a new school of precedent. At least there are already imitated works of the same type on the market, but Li Yong's ideas are perfectly combined with Zhang Muzhi's writing style. , no other work can match it.

For example, Zhou Xuexi is the general manager of Tianjin Polytechnic School, Yan Fansun is a new-school literati who is deeply involved in education, and Zhao Bingjun is more engaged in police practice. Their ideas are not old-fashioned, and they are naturally more able to accept various new types of things.

If it were those old-fashioned literati, such as Kang Youwei, they would probably start criticizing his novels as "not doing business properly".

But after all, the two fields are not related, and they are not very familiar with each other, so Yan Fansun did not pay attention to Li Yong after that, but asked Zhou Xuexi: "Jizhi, what good lessons can you learn from your craft school?" , you can come to me to work part-time.

"You also know that in Western-style education, this hands-on ability is also required, so if you can cultivate some extracurricular specialties and do some leisure activities, I personally think that it is very good for discovering children's various talents. help."

They are all engaged in education, so of course they are no strangers to this, so Zhou Xuexi nodded after thinking about it and said, "Fan Sun has needs, and I am obliged to do so, but I still need to ask for their own ideas. After all, they are not appointed by the court, but mostly employed. Yes, more degrees of freedom.

"Even if you really agree at that time, I'm afraid you will still need to spend a lot of money here..."

"Hahaha..." Yan Fansun smiled and said, "If it's just about money, then it's not a big problem."

When Li Yong next to him heard this, he suddenly had an idea.

(End of this chapter)