"The palace?" Zhu Songyun was a little confused. But she didn't need to think about it, Zhang Hanqing had already walked to the opposite side.

The housekeeper surnamed Tong sighed, and the dishes on the table only moved a little, and he had no appetite to eat again. If things don't work out, after all, it's a shame to the owner, and the owner's family is difficult, and it is no longer enough to support the original magnanimity.

I already thought that I would be cheated at this time, but I didn't expect that people would open their mouths and dare to ask for two points directly! According to the previous estimated house price, this is a full 4,000 yuan, enough for a small family to live a lifetime! He can't be arbitrary about this result, but how can he tell the owner?

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw a young brother calmly walk up to the chair opposite him and sit down. He was stunned for a moment but didn't know each other, and was about to ask, but the young man spoke first: "Steward Tong?" Luckily. ”

Steward Tong is well-informed, and when he sees Zhang Hanqing, he feels extraordinary, not because of Zhang Hanqing's great anger after crossing, but because he is very good when he pretends to be forced. Since the Republic of China, the prime ministers and ministers of the cabinet have taken turns to do it, and there have naturally been countless rich second generations, and it is normal for many people not to know each other, and he is not in the officialdom circle.

However, the minimum number of etiquette is required, as the head of the palace, he was naturally influenced by this, and said with a smile at the moment: "Forgive the old man for being presumptuous, Your Excellency?" ”

Zhang Hanqing met his puzzled gaze and said very calmly: "Under the surname Zhang, Steward Tong will call me Xiao Zhang." I happened to hear your conversation just now----" Seeing that Steward Tong's eyes were already round, he smiled and suppressed the other party's nervous voice: "Don't worry, I know the rules of this industry, and it is necessary to keep the confidentiality of the employer, I just suggest that Steward Tong listen patiently to me after I finish speaking." ”

Can you not listen? Who knows where this kid came from?

Zhang Hanqing saw that he calmed down his surprise, so he said slowly: "If the Yuwang Mansion is to be sold, I have a good buyer, not only will the money be given quickly, but also the future troubles will be reduced." ”

Now Steward Tong is interested, the key is that Zhang Hanqing is confident, that self-confidence, coupled with demeanor, is quite tempting. And the business that is about to turn yellow is dead in spring, and it is inevitable that there will be ripples in my heart. He lowered his voice and said, "Oh, I want to hear it." ”

Zhang Hanqing didn't take it seriously, and said bluntly: "My owner is a foreigner, and he wants to build a school in Beijing. If the price is right, I'm willing to be the middleman. You know, foreigners are very well-behaved, and they are not afraid of any recurrence in the future, as long as the contract between the two companies is signed, it must be a good idea of both housing and money. If it is sold to the people, I am afraid that the people of other palaces will put pressure on me, and I am afraid that there will be another twist and turn. ”

That's right. Since the defeat of the Opium War, the status of foreigners in China has been quite high, and Chinese laws are rarely binding on them. After turmoil after turmoil, ordinary Chinese people are definitely a god-like existence for them.

Selling the palace in private, although it is no longer the Qing Dynasty, there will still be many old and young people who will oppose it, after all, it is a loss of face. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the aristocracy had lost their authority, and if they lost face, would they still be alive? Domestic intermediaries, like the one surnamed He, although they really want to take this money, they also use this worry to raise their commissions.

Now there are foreigners intervening, of course, much more reliable than Chinese.

As a result, Steward Tong was very pleased to think that Zhang Hanqing was just a comprador, and his words were somewhat credible. However, doing business with foreigners, it is still the first time that the eldest girl gets on the sedan chair, and she can't help but hesitate a little: "Can that buyer afford this price?" ”

Listening to their conversation just now, Zhang Hanqing estimated that it was only 200,000 silver dollars. He didn't feel much about this money at first, because in later generations, a "birdcage" in a third- or fourth-tier city could not be taken without three or five hundred thousand, not to mention that this was in the imperial capital! And although I haven't seen Prince Yu's Mansion, the name of the shadow tree is said to cover an area of 150 acres, and it is always bigger than a courtyard, right?

But he didn't remember at first that an ordinary courtyard house in the future life was worth 80 million!

Therefore, this price is not expensive, and I believe that Lao Mei is also happy to facilitate this deal.

It's not that he "eats inside and out", in fact, he is very happy to see these down-and-out nobles beaten back to their original shape. The worms that have been parasitic on the Chinese people for 200 years should be dusted off! In addition, he raised his hands in favor of facilitating China's free access to medical advancement. Others don't know the origin of the Rockefeller Foundation, but he knows it very well!

Because it is the one that single-handedly contributed to the best hospital in China in later generations---- Peking Union Medical College Hospital; It was it that single-handedly contributed to the best medical school in China in later generations---- Peking Union Medical College. Since their establishment, Union Medical College Hospital and Peking Union Medical College Medical College have been the most prestigious medical and medical education institutions in China, and the latter will also serve as China's national medical science academic center and comprehensive scientific research institution in later generations.

At the beginning of the 20th century, China's national strength was weakened and its people were impoverished, but it was amazing that it was able to produce such an exemplary medical institution as Xiehe, which was also first-class in the world.

Moreover, today, when the external conditions are much superior, people have not been able to create achievements comparable to those of the past. This cannot but make people re-examine the history in their minds. Perhaps, that era when the country seemed weak and the people were poor actually contained social conditions that were difficult to achieve today.

The Gengzi Incident was a major event at the turn of the century. Although China has suffered an unprecedented tragedy, the relationship between China and the West has also undergone major changes. A group of knowledgeable Westerners have realized that modern knowledge and new education should be popularized in China to promote China's development and progress toward modernization. Therefore, after entering the 20th century, there was a boom among Westerners to set up educational institutions in China. This includes the Rockefeller Foundation in the United States.

Rockefeller's name is known to the world and has become synonymous with wealth. At the same time, Rockefeller is also one of the world's most influential philanthropists. Beginning with the elder Rockefeller, the family made significant donations to a variety of social causes. In China, Rockefeller also has a lot of donations. In fact, apart from the United States, China is the country where the Rockefeller Foundation spends the most, not one of them.

Frederick Gates, who was a key figure in driving the elder Rockefeller to invest his wealth in philanthropy, had a deep interest in China. At his suggestion, the elder Rockefeller decided not only to be a money-making capitalist, but to spend a large amount of money to fund various social charities. At the beginning of the 20th century, Gates specially suggested to the elder Rockefeller that he invest in the construction of a comprehensive university in China to promote the development of modern education in China.

Rockefeller attached great importance to this suggestion, and for this reason, he sent three study delegations to China. In 1909, the "Oriental Educational Mission" came to China with two doctors from the University of Chicago. Through their investigation, they saw the urgency of developing medical education in China and suggested the establishment of an educational institution for natural sciences in Beijing. Rockefeller accepted this suggestion and further limited the scope, initially defining the scope of investment in China as medicine.

In 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation was officially established. Subsequently, the foundation discussed the issue of China and decided to invest in the development of medical education in China. In 1914, Rockefeller sent a second delegation to focus on the current state of medical education in China. The delegation visited more than a dozen cities and dozens of hospitals in China and wrote a report entitled "Medicine in China." This report is still a valuable historical material for Chinese medical education written by Westerners. The report highlights the importance of building high-quality medical education institutions in China and sets out a number of specific guidelines for future medical institutions.

This report sets the direction for the future of Union Medical College Hospital in an important aspect, that is, Union Medical College Hospital will be an educational institution with high standards and training senior talents; Another possible option is to lower the standard appropriately but increase the number of trainees, so that the demand for doctors in Chinese society can be met as quickly as possible. Of the two options, the former was ultimately adopted. This decision was proved to be correct by later history, and it was this key decision that established Union Medical College Hospital's leading position in the Chinese medical community.

In 1915, the Rockefeller Foundation funded the purchase of the "Peking Union Medical College" and renamed it Peking Union Medical College. At the same time, a third delegation came to China. The mission of this delegation was to determine the specific methods of running medical schools, and they included some celebrities in the American medical circles, who brought the world's highest level of medical school management methods at that time, and set a high starting point for Union Medical College, including: all teaching in English, admission standards in accordance with the standards of excellent American medical schools, the establishment of preparatory departments, the first two years of basic study for students, and the provision of world-class salaries and welfare guarantees for teachers. In short, the founders of Concord transplanted a set of American values, scientific and technological civilization, and management model to China. The end result is that Concord has effectively become the gateway and gateway for the world's most advanced medical education system into China.

Compared with China, there is no medical university in a complete sense, which can promote its settlement, Zhang Hanqing will use a hundred times the effort---- without a penny, it can bring great benefits to China, which is what any Chinese with a conscience should do.

Instead of saying that the United States and other imperialism are one and the same, the United States is China's enemy and, in many cases, China's benefactor. It may be that in many cases, it has shown favor more from the standpoint of the United States---- which is reasonable and cannot be questioned. But even so, don't erase any positive impact they have had on China.

What happened to the fact that people used spiritual infiltration to capture the hearts of the Chinese people? It is better than Japan and Russia cutting out large swaths of China's territory by force, 100 times or 10,000 times! The United States is also the only empire in China's modern history that has not taken a single piece of territory from China! Although he provoked China's civil war by supporting proxies and personally fought two wars with China in Korea and Vietnam, he did not make a mistake in his heart and in his own national interests.

What is wrong is China's weakness itself! If you fall behind, you will be beaten, this is a lesson for thousands of years!