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And after listening to Li Hongzhang's speech, Prince Zhuang and Zhao Shuqiao also breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what, since Li Hongzhang has negotiated the conditions with overseas Chinese, this is naturally the best result. Then it will be much easier to go to Tianjin to appease overseas Chinese on this trip. A boulder finally landed, so the two of them were in a good mood, and hurriedly persuaded Li Hongzhang to drink freely.

After lunch, the train started again and headed for Tianjin.

Since everything has been negotiated under the table, then the rest of the things will be much easier, after the train arrived at Tianjin Station, Prince Zhuang and Zhao Shuqiao were also warmly entertained, and Qin Zheng greeted them at the station on behalf of overseas Chinese, and placed them in the Li Shunde Hotel. Of course, the soldiers they brought were all arranged in the barracks.

And on the next day, Prince Qing and Zhao Shuqiao read out the imperial decree to the overseas Chinese leaders, compared with the last edict, the content is not new, all are rewards and praises, but this time it was clear that the Qing court was willing to accept overseas Chinese, and invited the overseas Chinese leaders to Xi'an to see the emperor, after the decree was read, Prince Qing released the court's reward to the overseas Chinese. Xia Bohai also expressed his gratitude to the Qing court on behalf of all overseas Chinese, but Xia Bohai also told the two that because they were about to negotiate with foreigners in Shanghai, it was inconvenient to go to Xi'an to meet the empress dowager and emperor for the time being, and wait for the Shanghai negotiations to be completed before the trip.

Prince Qing sent this request to Xi'an to ask Cixi for instructions, and soon received a reply from the imperial court, agreeing to the request of the overseas Chinese, and the time for coming to Xi'an could be postponed, and the imperial court ordered Li Hongzhang to go to Shanghai with the overseas Chinese to participate in the negotiations on the armistice between various countries. Although the Qing court and overseas Chinese have now negotiated terms, but the Qing court and other countries have not yet negotiated an armistice, and theoretically speaking, the Qing court and other countries are still in a state of war, although now the Eight-Nation Alliance has been completely defeated, but if the conditions are not negotiated with the countries, the Qing court is still unstable in Beijing, to put it bluntly, whether it is the countries or overseas Chinese, they are all forces that the Qing court cannot provoke, and it is impossible to offend that side.

Moreover, in this Shanghai negotiation, the overseas Chinese undoubtedly occupy a strong position, and the Chunting and the overseas Chinese still have some incense affection, so they can take advantage of the momentum of the overseas Chinese to negotiate a result that is favorable to the Chunting. And of course, the only one who can do this is Li Hongzhang. Anyway, now that Li Hongzhang is the Minister of Military Aircraft, he should naturally sell more effort.

At the same time, the imperial court also made a new order to the minister, the whole team was divided into two, Prince Zhuang led half of the soldiers to stay in Beijing, for Cixi and Guangxu to return to Beijing to prepare, and asked overseas Chinese to cooperate with the actions of the Qing army, while Zhao Shuqiao led the other half of the army to return to Xi'an, to reply to the imperial court.

Since the negotiations with the overseas Chinese have been settled, the return of the Qing court to Beijing is basically a foregone conclusion, so it is natural to send people to Beijing in advance to deal with some preparations for the return of Cixi and Guangxu to the palace, as well as the handover of garrison, public security, and administration with the overseas Chinese, including the communication and liaison with the overseas Chinese stationed in Beijing in the early stage, and the status and status of Prince Zhuang are also enough to assume this responsibility. Of course, he was only the first batch of personnel to enter Beijing, and then he would negotiate with overseas Chinese, and then increase the number of troops and personnel stationed in Beijing. Of course, on the other hand, this is also a gesture, to Beijing, but also to the whole country to announce that the imperial court has returned, to enhance the prestige of the Qing court, to balance the political influence of overseas Chinese, simply put, is to brush the sense of existence, although the effect may be minimal, but after all, it is a step forward, which also shows that Cixi's political skills are indeed not simple.

After receiving this telegram, Prince Zhuang was naturally happy, so that he did not have to go back to Xi'an, and it was naturally much better to live in Beijing than to live in Xi'an. Of course, it depends on whether the overseas Chinese agree.

After consultation, the executive committee believed that it would not matter much to let these hundreds of Qing troops enter Beijing, because now there are 3 regiments in Beijing, and there are nearly 10,000 reserve troops, and they are not afraid of how big waves these hundreds of Qing troops can make, so the Qing court wants to brush up the sense of existence, let him brush it up, anyway, the crossing group has no intention of controlling Beijing for a long time, but before the traverser hands over Beijing to the Qing court management, these hundreds of Qing troops, including Prince Zhuang, must respect the management rules formulated by the traverser.

Of course, what the traveler and the Qing court have negotiated now are some framework principles, and there are still many details that need to be further negotiated, if these details are not negotiated, it is impossible for the Qing court to return to Beijing, but the traveler will not be so easy for the Qing court to get the desired result, but this will have to wait until after the Shanghai negotiations.

After the business was dealt with, Prince Zhuang and Zhao Shuqiao visited some public works, factory facilities, etc., built by the traveler in Tianjin, and on the same night, Prince Zhuang, Zhao Shuqiao, Li Hongzhang and others were officially invited by the traveler to watch a concert. This is, of course, one of the tools that the crossing group has fought back against the public opinion turmoil in Shanghai.

After the plan was approved by the Executive Committee, it immediately began to prepare, on the one hand, arranging people to make exhibition panels and furniture, and designing booths, and on the other hand, it also started the affairs of the concert.

In contrast, the exhibition is of course easier, after all, the exhibition is based on display boards, as long as a few people do PS, and then find a few design furniture stages, so the main focus of the work is on the concert.

First of all, several main responsible persons were determined, the director of the concert was Jiang Huanwu, who turned out to be the producer of the program group, with Lin Mu as the deputy director, and also as the photographer and stage sound and lighting arrangement; while Zhang Yang and Li Ying served as the principal and deputy chief directors respectively, and the two also served as the host of the concert, in fact, this is their own job; and the captains of the three bands on the passenger ro-ro ship, Yang Sen, Gong Bingbo, and Li Weibo, served as executive directors, executive producers, and art directors respectively. Yang Sen also serves as choral conductor and singing director, Gong Weibo is in charge of program choreography and set design, and Li Weibo is in charge of orchestra and choreography. These seven people formed the responsible group for this concert.

The three bands have a total of 26 people, of which singers account for half, 13 people, and the rest are musicians. All the singers will naturally be the lead singers and lead singers of the concert, and they will also serve as musicians, so as to ensure that there are about 2o musicians for each song.

The number of chorus members, determined by the responsible group through consultation, will be divided into adult group and juvenile group, and each group is divided into two groups of men and women, 3o men and women in the adult group, 2o men and women in the juvenile group, a total of 1oo people, this phase will be according to the different repertoire performed, different combinations can be matched, and also reserve a certain amount of rest and rotation space, after all, such a concert is quite tiring; at the same time, the juvenile group also needs about 1o people for the lead singer and lead singer, and about 15-2o people for the dance group. In this way, the total number of participants is expected to be between 15o and 16o, which can also be regarded as a large scale.

The determination of the chorus is like this, the adult chorus group and the dance group are recruited for all traversers, of course, the requirements of the chorus group are looser, as long as the five views are correct, the voice is normal, and there is no need for good singing skills, because this is a chorus after all, of course, if there is a particularly good, you can also be selected into the lead singer group, and the dance group needs to have a certain dance foundation for the applicant, and if there are people who can play musical instruments, you can also sign up for the instrument group, after all, there are a few more candidates.

As a result, after the recruitment announcement came out, it immediately attracted a large number of people to sign up, because up to now, there are still hundreds of time-travelers who have no fixed jobs, and there are also some time-travelers who are not satisfied with their current work and want to try a different environment, and doing concerts is also a new thing. Amateur singers or something, even musical instruments and dances are also a lot of people, so it attracted a lot of interest from the traversers, and the total number of applicants finally exceeded 9oo people, after 3 days of selection, not only determined all the members of the adult choir group and dance group. And it also recruited 8 musicians, which is an unexpected gain.

The junior choir is selected from the Hope School according to the original idea, because there are not many teenagers in the crossing group, less than 6o minors under the age of 18, and the age of the general junior chorus is 13-16 years old, so the range of options is even smaller, less than 2o people. Now that the students of the Hope School have passed through thousands of people, the Zizhulin Church is no longer enough as a place for teaching, so several surrounding houses are included in the school. The Ministry of Education has submitted an application to the Executive Committee to relocate and build a new school building in Tianjin. It's just that because the group has determined the relocation plan, I hope that the school will definitely move to Qingdao with it, and the new school building will naturally be built in Qingdao, so the Ministry of Education can only temporarily shelve the plan for the new school building.

Now more than half of the students have gone through more than 5 months of study in the Hope School, which is in the old time and space, this period of time has passed a semester, this group of students have been able to carry out basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and due to the improvement of diet, living conditions, coupled with modern management and teaching, the students' mental outlook has changed a lot, compared with their past, although it can not be regarded as a rebirth, but it should also be impressive.

And in order to cultivate the emotional intelligence of the students, it is also a part of the travelers who have nothing to do, I hope that the school opened a music class three months ago, and the students who entered the school in advance have received more than two months of music training, and have some foundation, at least to understand the notes and tones, so it is not difficult to select 5o members of the junior choir from them.

However, the lead singer of the youth group is served by a person of appropriate age who crosses over, because the age limit for the lead singer is relatively relaxed, and he is even a few years older, but as long as he looks good, he can pretend to be a high school student.