As the champion of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Jian, a native of Nantong, Jiangsu Province, once took refuge under Wu Changqing's banner and served as a staff member with Yuan Shikai. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhang Jian is a high apprentice of Weng Tonggong, but Weng Tonggong was dismissed from his post and went home under the influence of the Hundred Days Restoration, Zhang Jian also felt that the scene was dangerous, so he resigned and returned to his hometown Nantong to begin to realize his idea of industrial salvation. In 1896, Zhang Jian founded the Dasheng Yarn Factory, and after more than ten years of continuous operation, it reached an annual profit of three million taels of silver last year alone. In 1904, Zhang Jian founded Nantong Dada Lunbu Company, which set a precedent for private shipping in the late Qing Dynasty. At the same time, he successively established new schools in Nantong and Shanghi, and founded Shanghai Textile School and Nantong Normal School. In 1909, Zhang Jian was elected as the chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Consultative Bureau and initiated a petition to the Congress, but he returned in vain.

Wang Yongan gave Zhang Jian and his entourage a warm welcome, and asked about the officialdom in Beijing, especially who can speak, Wang Yongan is ready to buy an official hat, but it is a pity that Zhang Jian said that Wang Yongan can't ask for it. Zaifeng, Yixuan and Xu Shichang. Zaifeng has been jealous of the Wang brothers for a long time, and Yixuan has long been dissatisfied with Wang Yongtai, these two clan nobles will definitely not accept Wang Yongan's silver, and although Xu Shichang can speak, he will not accept Wang Yongan's silver.

However, although Zhang Jian couldn't help him, Zhang Jian didn't dare to offend Wang Yongan, in the Jianghuai region, the 24th Mixed Association was a well-known butcher's camp, who didn't know that the most capable army in the Qing Dynasty today was the 24th Mixed Association. Zhang Jian and others also wanted to take a look at this legendary mysterious army, so Wang Yongan took everyone to the Jingfa Temple military camp to watch the sergeant training.

When the House of Representatives saw the sergeants' neat queue training, horizontal and vertical, they couldn't help but be surprised. As the so-called outsiders look at the excitement, not to mention how the sergeants are fighting, just the formation of this army is so uniform that everyone worships. It's not that the deputies have never seen an army, but they have never seen such an army, and even standing in line has become an art, and I am afraid that even the six towns of Beiyang with German instructors cannot reach it.

"These are elites, aren't they?" Zhang Jian asked.

Wang Yongan shook his head and said, "These are all recruits, recruits who have just joined the army for less than two months. Your predecessors also know that our army suffered heavy losses in the bloody battle of the Vortex River, with a quarter killed and a third wounded. But it also made me a spirit of the Twenty-Four Mixed Association. ”

"What spirit?" Everyone couldn't help but ask.

"Bright Sword Spirit." Wang Yongan said proudly, but in fact, he plagiarized the TV series of later generations...... Well, no one knew that he plagiarized, but everyone was impressed by his arrogance, this is the spirit of the Twenty-Four Mixed Association, this is the world's first association that is famous at home and abroad. The other gentry and parliamentarians of the petition group left the next day, and Zhang Jian was retained by Wang Yongan for two days to discuss the cooperation between Yanghua Shipping Company and Zhang Jian's Nantong Shipping Company, the transportation routes of the two sides are different, Yanghua Shipping Company's main business scope is along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, gradually replacing the role of the Cao Gang, while Nantong Shipping Company's main business scope is along the Yangtze River, and has opened up a number of long-distance routes from Shanghi to Osaka, Nagasaki and Keelung Port in Taiwan. The two shipping companies have their own characteristics and shortcomings, and the two sides can form cooperation and complement each other, so for cooperation, Zhang Jian and Wang Yongan have great sincerity.

In Zhang Jian's view, as Wang Yongtai became the Jiangbei Patrol Envoy and supervised the Jiangbei officialdom, it was inevitable that the Huaihe River Valley would become his independent small kingdom. And Yanghua shipping company is also an ambitious company, in Zhejiang Province Luo Shitong as the general manager, this person has done his best, successively annexed the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Cao Gang's sphere of influence, and even the former Yangzhou Cao Gang rudder has not done the task of unifying the Cao Gang, and now from Nanjing to Tianjin, this section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Cao Gang transport business, completely mastered. And Luo Shitong's next goal is to compete with the Yangtze River shipping and start international shipping.

If Nantong Shipping Company does not cooperate with Yangzhou Shipping Company, the two sides will soon formally confront, and Nantong Shipping Company is not Zhang Jian's core business, the reason for the establishment of Nantong Shipping Company is also very simple, he needs to transport Nantong's cotton yarn and cotton to Shanghi, because the employment cost is too high, he established his own shipping company. Therefore, although the development of Nantong Shipping Company has been good, it has always been serving Dasheng Yarn Factory, and there is no need for Zhang Jian to compete with Yanghua Shipping Company.

Zhang Jian also heard about Luo Shitong's skills, this person has extraordinary business acumen, but at the same time, because of the absorption of the Cao Gang into the company, a special security team was set up, on the one hand, it was responsible for protecting the ships of Yanghua Shipping Company, and on the other hand, it secretly attacked competitors and even caused trouble. Behind Yanghua Shipping Company are Wang Yongtai and Wang Yongan brothers, one is the Qing Dynasty warrior who holds the 24th Mixed Association of the Beiyang New Army, the first of the world, and the other is Yuan Shikai's son-in-law, known as Yangzhou Xiao Zhuge .

Zhang Jian did not need to offend them at all, on the contrary, the two sides strengthened the ties between business and officialdom through cooperation, and the two sides helped each other and cooperated to protect each other.

For business, the subordinates of both sides are talking, and Zhang Jian and Wang Yongan are talking about personal feelings.

In the afternoon, Zhang Jian was invited to the old house of the Wang family, and saw Wang Yongtai who was recuperating, and the three of them sat in the sun room built by Wang Yongan himself, basking in the sun while drinking tea and chatting about the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty and the national fortune of the Qing Dynasty, and the situation in the world.

Zhang Jian was very interested in the sun room made of glass, Wang Yongan explained to him, after the wooden beams were built, with glass as the wall, the floor heating was paved in the room, and if the temperature in the sun room was low, the floor heating was burned. Therefore, the temperature of this sunroom is about 20 degrees Celsius 24 hours a day, and the glass of the sunroom is a three-layer large piece of glass to avoid accidental breakage such as hail attacks.

Zhang Jian is a celebrity in Jiangsu Province, the Wang brothers are very polite to him, Zhang Jian mentioned one thing, which made Wang Yongan feel a little surprised, a young man named Wang Zhaoming in Guangdong Province was about to assassinate the regent Zaifeng two months ago, and he caused a catastrophe, but Zaifeng spared his life.

It turned out that Wang Zhaoming studied in Japan to study at the Japanese School of Law and Politics, but because of his poor exam results, he had to return to China, but he still served as the editor of the Chinese newspaper "People's Daily" in Japan. At this time, Korea was formally annexed by Japan and improved to the Republic of Korea, and the whole Qing Dynasty was furious at Japan's arrogance and unreasonableness and the diplomatic weakness of the Great Qing Dynasty, and many believed that the reason for this was the Manchu clan, the ruling class of the Great Qing Dynasty. So Wang Zhaoming returned from Japan and came to Beijing, where he and his comrade Huang Shuzhong plotted to assassinate the regent Zaifeng, forcing the Manchu clan to agree to establish a parliament and return power to the Han Chinese.

They planted explosives and mines under the Ganshui Bridge where Zaifeng passed every day, and when they were about to pass by, they ignited the explosives and killed the largest official among the Manchurians. However, they stepped on the spot every day, wandered around the Ganshui Bridge for several days, and as two southerners, they muttered and spoke the southern dialect that the people of the capital could not understand, so they were exposed by the "Chaoyang District masses" in Beijing. The infantry commander and the commander of the Nine Gates, Na Tong, directly sent someone to arrest him.