Three days later, Qin Zheng took care of the work at hand, set off from Tianjin for Xi'an, and began a diligent journey to the Qing court.

From Tianjin to Xi'an, the straight-line distance is more than 1,000 kilometers, and along the way will experience countless barren mountains and mountains, there are many thieves, and even the local Qing army is a major danger, so Qin Zheng's safety is very important, the executive committee and the military commission decided after consultation to send two battalions and one cavalry to protect Qin Zheng's safety, the two battalion commanders are Li Wenfei, In addition, a squadron was also transferred from the special forces to serve as Qin Zheng's personal guard, and a three-member medical team was also assigned, bringing the total number of troops to nearly 1,500 people.

The whole team was also equipped with 30 large four-wheeled horses to carry the accompanying baggage materials, and the executive committee originally planned to equip Qin Zheng and others with two warrior cars and a large truck. But Qin Zheng refused, because the road in this era is too poor, although there are also official roads, but Xi'an is in the northwest region, due to the backward economy, so the official road is also in disrepair, very damaged, it is the road bridge of the gravity is not strong, and whether it is a warrior car or a truck, the weight is very large, not conducive to such a long-distance driving, so it was finally decided to be equipped with two off-road vehicles and an 11-seat small passenger car, and the small passenger car was transformed, adding lifting high-power antennas and radios and generators, to ensure the contact between Qin Zheng and others and Tianjin。

The group first took a train from Tianjin to Beijing. Qin Zheng planned to meet Li Hongzhang in Beijing first, and then leave for Xi'an, but at this time Li Hongzhang had not yet arrived in Beijing, and Prince Qing and Li Songchen, who had stayed in Beijing from the Qing court, greeted Qin Zheng and his party at the station.

It turned out that Prince Qing had received a telegram from the Qing court, ordering him to accompany Qin Zheng to Xi'an, and Li Hongzhang was in charge of handling Beijing's affairs. Because overseas Chinese come to Xi'an to meet, they always have to bring a person who is familiar with them and has a certain relationship, as an intermediary to contact each other, so that there is anything to communicate in advance, Li Hongzhang is the most suitable candidate, but Li Hongzhang is almost 80 years old after all, this to Xi'an all the way to the mountains and rivers, I am afraid that Li Hongzhang's body and bones can not withstand such turbulent waves, so let Prince Qing accompany him, no matter what, Prince Qing has lived in Beijing for more than 4 months, and overseas Chinese also have a lot of contact, is the best candidate after Li Hongzhang。

And Prince Qing was also very happy after receiving the order of the imperial court, because this is a good errand, and now the imperial court and overseas Chinese have basically negotiated the conditions, and this diligent meeting is just a formality, but once this diligent meeting is successfully completed, his companion also has a credit, so this is actually a great opportunity to accumulate merits.

In addition, through the contact in the past few months, Prince Qing believes that it is not difficult for overseas Chinese to deal with, because they are a group of people who are very rules-oriented, as long as they follow their rules, everything is easy to do, and overseas Chinese are neat, without delay, with a kind attitude, clean and honest style, and no one charges tea fees, errands, etc., so Prince Qing feels that he can handle the relationship with overseas Chinese.

After Qin Zheng got out of the car, he also met with Prince Qing first, and Prince Qing also represented the Qing court and once again rewarded the achievements of the crossing group, Qin Zheng also politely said a few words, and also expressed his gratitude to Prince Qing. Prince Qing was also very happy, thinking that his relationship with overseas Chinese had taken a step further, and through this period of contact, he also knew that overseas Chinese did things simply, simply and directly, without so many false courtesies, since his courtesy had arrived, and there was nothing substantive to communicate, so he said goodbye to Qin Zheng.

After sending Prince Qing away, Qin Zheng met with Li Songchen and *, who had stayed in Beijing, and listened to their work report. In order to manage the order of Beijing, there are now more than 200 non-military crossers working in Beijing, and more than 600 local residents are attached to Beijing, more than half of whom are engaged in public security supervision work, and in Beijing, about 1,600 people have been recruited to work for the crossing group, of which more than 1,000 are serving as police officers to maintain public order in Beijing. Thanks to the hard work of the traversers, during the nearly nine months that the traversal group took control of Beijing, the Beijing area has always maintained a relatively good public security environment, and now it has even resumed certain commercial and economic activities.

Many old Beijingers believe that during the period of control of the crossing group, the public security environment in Beijing was the best, that is, before the Gengzi Revolution, there were a large number of powerful people in Beijing who could run amok, and under the rule of overseas Chinese, no one dared to mess around. When the traverser first took over Beijing, there were still some remnants of the powerful brothers who did not believe in evil and made some trouble in the city of Beijing, but the traverser did not care how big you are, you should be caught, punished, dug up the soil for a few months or swept the streets for a few months, and the remaining powerful children in Beijing were also honest and no longer dared to violate the rules set by the traverser.

At present, the Sixth and Seventh Regiments of the People's Army are stationed in Beijing, and when they first took over Beijing, there were still quite a few remnants of the Boxer Rebellion and scattered Chun troops in the surrounding areas of Beijing, and they formed one independent force after another with Zhuangcun as a unit, and many of them had already become bandits and outcasts; after the situation in Beijing was initially stabilized, the People's Army organized several successive clean-up operations, which wiped out several evil forces in a row, and also greatly shocked other forces, and even caused several scattered Qing troops to surrender to the People's Army on their own initiative. After June 1901, there were basically no independent forces within 200 kilometers of Beijing.

On the other hand, the People's Army also recruited new troops in Beijing, and achieved great results, the newly recruited soldiers were organized into five regiments, and a cavalry battalion, of which the original Qing army numbered more than 800 people, but they were all scattered and distributed to each regiment. At present, the newly established army is undergoing rigorous training under the supervision of the People's Army.

After listening to the report of the two, Qin Zheng was also very satisfied, and instructed the two that after Li Hongzhang arrived in Beijing, the palace would be handed over to the Qing army to guard, and the People's Army and the Qing army would have a period of time to jointly manage Beijing. Moreover, the crossing group has to gradually evacuate from Beijing, and the two are also required to make a plan for evacuation, and they will arrange a new appointment. Evacuation of the families of soldiers who joined the KPA. In addition, the families of the soldiers are mainly settled in Qingdao, which also needs to do a good job of colluding with Qingdao.

However, with regard to the willingness to evacuate, we respect each soldier's own decision, and of course we must do our best to do the ideological work of each soldier and strive to let all soldiers evacuate with the large army, but if someone is resolutely unwilling to evacuate with the People's Army, he can also go through the formalities for discharge.

As for the other personnel working under the traverser, they also used the same method, trying their best to mobilize them to evacuate Beijing with the traverser, and promised that after the evacuation, they would arrange work and regulations, etc.

In the end, Qin Zheng asked Li Songchen to pay attention to collecting the maids of large families, and explained that this was to solve the marriage problem of the traverser, Li Songchen also agreed, and told Qin Zheng that the medical department had taken in more than 300 lone women and children, many of whom were born from maids.

Beijing's medical office is in charge of Qin Zheng's wife Zhou Ping, a total of 18 medical personnel, Qin Zheng's daughter Zhou Weiying is also one of them, the original medical office is to provide medical security services for people working in Beijing, and later it was also opened to Beijing residents for medical treatment, in fact, it is equivalent to a hospital. Due to the modern medical skills of the traverser, as well as a large number of modern medical equipment, and the medical attitude and service are far better than this era, the hospital has not been open for a long time, but it has won many praises in Beijing. Moreover, the medical department not only treats people, but also shelters orphans and single women, and there are more than 500 orphans before and after, and a group of orphans have been sent to Tianjin for education in the early stage.

Although Qin Zheng is one of the few people with a family in the crossing group, but in this era for almost a year, the family is less together and more separated, because a family of three is the backbone of the crossing group, and everyone has their own work. However, Qin Zheng is not dissatisfied, after all, compared with other traversers, his family can still be reunited in this era, which is very lucky, like Xia Bohai, Xiao Jianjun, Wang Yunpeng, Xu Jichao and others, they also have wives and children in the old time and space, and now of course there is no contact at all, and until now, several people are still bachelors and have no organized families.

This time, Qin Zheng stayed in Beijing, of course, he could take this opportunity to reunite with his wife and daughter for a few more days, but by the time Qin Zheng arrived in Beijing, Zhou Weiying had already left Beijing and was sent to Jinan to work with four other medical personnel. On the one hand, the medical staff have begun to prepare for the evacuation of Beijing, and the Jinan side also needs medical personnel; on the other hand, Zhou Ping also has a little selfishness, and now Luo Yue is stationed in Jinan, so he sent Zhou Weiying to work in Jinan, and the two also have more opportunities to get along.

Although Luo Yue and Zhou Weiying have already determined the relationship and can talk about the stage of registering marriage, Luo Yue has been fighting outside the world and has not stabilized, so there are not many times when the two meet, if young couples do not meet for a long time, it will definitely not be conducive to the cultivation of emotions, after all, there is no telephone network in this era, and there are not many means to contact, and Zhou Ping also intends to create more opportunities for the two young people to meet.