Zhou Ping said again: "There is one more thing. ”

Qin Zheng smiled: "What else is going on?"

Zhou Ping said: "Now we control more and more territory, there are more and more troops, and more and more medical personnel will be needed, and the current manpower is completely insufficient, so our Ministry of Health also needs to train a large number of medical personnel." ”

Qin Zheng was a little strange and said, "Isn't it that a group of local women from the Ministry of Health have been assigned medical training?

Zhou Ping said: "Almost all the local women assigned to the Ministry of Health are illiterate, and the foundation is too poor, basically illiterate and semi-literate, even after literacy education, development achievements are limited, now basically just as nurses training, but medical staff can not be all nurses, but also doctors, but to train a qualified doctor is not allowed, must start from a young age to receive professional education." ”

Qin Zheng was stunned for a moment, immediately understood, and said with a smile: "Your Ministry of Health is eyeing Hope School." ”

Zhou Ping said: "That's natural, the medical staff have to start with the child." ”

Qin Zheng said: "Teenage children, from now on, it will take at least five years to take up the job." ”

Zhou Ping said: " The idea of our Ministry of Health is to select a group of children over the age of twelve or thirteen to form a separate class, and from now on, they usually learn cultural knowledge like other students, but they take medical knowledge professional courses two to three times a week, and the Ministry of Health sends people to teach, and the amount of courses slowly and gradually increases, so that at most two or three years can enter the internship stage, after one or two years of internship, you can be formally employed, and after two to three years of accumulated experience, you can almost sit in the clinic yourself, which is the fastest training speed。 ”

Qin Zheng thought for a moment, nodded, and said, "I think this arrangement is feasible, okay, I'll talk to Lao Xia and Lao Xiao together, and then make a decision." ”

After resting for the night, Qin Zheng met Zhang Peilun early the next morning.

The last time Zhang Peilun visited Tianjin, it was received by Qin Zheng, so the two were more familiar, after meeting again this time, there was also a lot less politeness, after greeting each other, Zhang Peilun directly proposed to Qin Zheng, hoping that the Qing court could join this meeting and solve the problem of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and also asked the traveler to help the Qing court in this negotiation and try to reduce the losses of the Qing court.

After listening to Zhang Peilun's words, Qin Zheng's heart also had a bottom, the Qing court really couldn't support the wall with mud, and only wanted to reduce a little loss, that is to say, the compensation must be compensated, but the less loss should be regarded as a win. However, the traverser will naturally not let the Qing court get his wish, because since there are traversers involved, of course, they cannot pay compensation, otherwise this will become a big stain on the traversers, and in addition, it is necessary to make full use of the mentality of the Qing court to strive for the interests of the traversers, at least to include Shandong in the jurisdiction of the traversers.

So Qin Zheng said: "Mr. Youqiao, we are originally of Chinese ethnicity, so we will naturally do our best to help our homeland and solve the crisis of the Eight-Nation Alliance, but although we have returned to China, we are still overseas Chinese, and we have not yet been recognized by the imperial court. ”

Zhang Peilun is a famous talent, of course, he knows that in Chinese history, there have been some old clans who returned to China, and even in the Qing court, there are a few cases, the most famous is in the 36th year of Qianlong (1771), the leader of the Turghut tribe Wu Baxi led his troops to return to the motherland.

However, Zhang Peilun also knows that this group of overseas Chinese is completely different from the Turks, of course, this is not only the difference between the Han and Mongolians, but also the Turghat tribe has actually had a tributary relationship with the Qing court before the return, and this group of overseas Chinese is more like suddenly emerging from the bottom of the sea, and has never heard of it before. Of course, the most important thing is that the strength of this group of overseas Chinese is so terrible that even the Qing court has to feel fear.

However, for the current Qing court, the return of this group of overseas Chinese is still beneficial, at least it can suppress the arrogance of the foreigners, and force the foreigners to make concessions, reduce the losses of the Qing court, and at least allow the Qing court to return to Beijing. Therefore, Zhang Peilun said: "This matter is natural, but according to my old list of the Qing Dynasty, if there is a return of the old family, please attach it to the table first, and then the court will issue an order to appease it.

In fact, it's nothing to be on the table, but this is to make the traverser too passive, to the point that the traverser is really begging to return to the Qing court, to be honest, the traverser now only needs a confirmation from the Qing court, and he is too lazy to compensate the Qing court for nothing, so there is no need to follow the pace of the Qing court, just to say the same thing. So Qin Zheng said: "Mr. Youqiao, the procedure you mentioned is in the ordinary period of peace, and now is an extraordinary period, with all due respect, now the emperor and the empress dowager have fled to Xi'an, and the Qing Dynasty has actually become a government in exile, and what to do with so many procedures, I think it is best to be in a hurry, and ask the imperial court to confirm us as soon as possible, so that we can negotiate." Otherwise, when we first go to the court, and then the court will discuss the decision, and when it is finally decided, it will take a long time, and I am afraid that even the negotiations will have ended. ”

Zhang Peilun was startled in his heart, Qin Zheng's words were quite unkind, although the Qing court was driven out of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Alliance, but it used a very interesting word "West Hunting" in the name, which means to go hunting in the West, and in the second Opium War in forty years, the Qing court was also beaten by the British and French forces to escape from Beijing and hide in Chengde, and the word used at that time was "North Hunting", which meant exactly the same, except that Chengde was north of Beijing. And Qin Zheng unabashedly pointed out that the Qing court is now a government in exile, and such a straightforward expression also makes Zhang Peilun very unsuitable.

And Qin Zheng's words are quite a bit of a threat, there is a big possibility that if the Qing court does not give the traverser a confirmation, the traverser will throw away the Qing court and negotiate with the foreigners alone, if it is in the Qianlong era, Qin Zheng's words may provoke the anger of the court, and he will refuse the return of this group of overseas Chinese on the spot, but Zhang Peilun knows very well that the current Qing court is no longer the era of the prosperous era of Kangqian, and there is no capital to refuse at all. Therefore, Zhang Peilun had no choice but to say: "You can't make the decision in this matter, you need to tell Li Zhongtang, and Li Zhongtang will decide." ”

Qin Zheng nodded and said, "Okay, this matter is very important, and we can't hesitate, so I also ask Mr. Youqiao to inform Li Zhongtang as soon as possible, and let Li Zhongtang decide as soon as possible." ”

Having said that, Zhang Peilun also knew that if there was no clear result in this matter, it would not be possible to talk about it later, so he had to get up and say goodbye to Qin Zheng, and agreed to talk about it tomorrow, and then immediately rushed to the telegraph office, sent a telegram to Li Hongzhang, and asked Li Hongzhang to reply as soon as possible.

Qin Zheng came to the office of the executive committee and reported the content of the talks between the two sides to Xia Bohai, Xiao Jianjun, Wang Yunpeng, Xu Jichao and others.

Xiao Jianjun first said: "Is it really so important for the Qing court to confirm our identity? I think Guan Jian still depends on us, if we can uphold military discipline and do a good job in military-civilian relations, it doesn't matter at all whether there is confirmation from the Qing court or not, aren't we doing a good job in Tianjin and Qingdao now? The common people in these two places have not alienated us because we have not yet been confirmed by the Qing court. ”

Xia Bohai said with a smile: "The Qing court's confirmation of our identity is only part of our pursuit, and the main purpose is to tell the Qing court our attitude, don't let the Qing court still have illusions, thinking that it can control us, and it is also for the next step We ask the Qing court to make a plan for Shandong to be our territory, but this has to wait for Li Hongzhang to discuss." ”

Wang Yunpeng said: "What if the Qing court insists on not giving us identity confirmation, or only gives us identity confirmation, but refuses to give us Shandong?

Xia Bohai smiled and said: "Let's take it step by step, of course it is the next policy to tear up our faces with the Qing court immediately, first ask the Qing court to confirm our identity, and we will take the Qing court to negotiate together, if the Qing court refuses to assign Shandong to us, there are also two choices, one is to negotiate successfully, and ask the Eight-Nation Coalition to withdraw from Beijing, and we will take over Beijing; the other is that the negotiations break down, and we will occupy Beijing by force." In this way, Beijing is in our hands, and we have enough capital to bargain with the Qing court. ”

Wang Yunpeng was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly realized that he said: "It turns out that the commander asked to maintain combat readiness, and it turned out to be for Beijing. ”

Xia Bohai said: "This is just one of the goals, in short, at any time, we must not give up the armed forces." ”

Qin Zheng said: "It's not too difficult for me to want the Qing court to confirm our identity, after all, the Qing court has no other choice now, and there is no loss to the Qing court, it's nothing more than a little bit of face, but the Qing court is not a dynasty that wants to save face, not to mention that now they have fled to Xi'an, and the face has long been lost, so I don't care about losing this again, but it is very difficult to let the Qing court assign Shandong to us, after all, there is no precedent in the Qing court." ”

Xiao Jianjun said: "Having ceded so much land, what is the precedent that is not precedented." ”

Qin Zheng said: "That's different, because the land is ceded to the enemy country, and we are the subjects of the Qing court in name, as long as the Qing court recognizes our identity." In the history of the Qing court, only the three feudatories in the early Qing Dynasty were qualified to divide the land, so it is estimated that the greatest possibility is to give us a governor of Shandong, so that in name it is a vassal of the Qing court, of course, in the eyes of the Qing court, this is also conducive to the gradual control of us. ”

Xia Bohai said: "It doesn't matter what form it is, we also have enough ways to deal with it, or that sentence, step by step, and doing our own things well first is the most important thing." ”