Of course, no one agreed with Emperor Xuanwu's words. Hu Xiaoyan's eventual official position was the governor of the three northeastern provinces. Emperor Xuanwu's words were just angry words. It is impossible for Zaitao to be a prisoner. Because the peace talks are over, Zaitao needs to go to various countries as an envoy to apologize and study in the UK.

When Hu Xiaoyan received the results of the peace talks, he also received news that Li Hongzhang had asked him to meet in Beijing. There was no surprise in the peace talks, because Tang Shaoyi's sudden rise interrupted the attempts of Japan and Russia to attack the two northeastern provinces, and Britain's concern that the Japanese and Russian offensive in the three northeastern provinces would be too smooth. Dou Nale and Tang Shaoyi reached an agreement to completely cut off the attempts to legalize the occupied areas of the two provinces by Japan and Russia.

After Li Hongzhang had a long talk with Dou Nale again during his illness, he finally signed the peace talks.

The end result is:

The total amount of compensation was 80 million taels of silver. Anqing and Nanjing were opened to the mainland as new treaty ports, and merchants from all over the world were allowed to openly establish warehouses and legal immunity in Anqing and Nanjing.

The coalition forces and captives of various countries finally withdrew from Chinese territory within three months. The Qing pledged to protect the interests of all countries in China, and they also pledged to guarantee the territorial integrity of the Qing (as in 1899).

All other terms remain unchanged.

This is the general direction. The amount of silver was greatly reduced because the greed of the Russian army completely disgusted Britain, France and Germany, and even Japan was very dissatisfied with the Russians. Russian General Yevgeny Ivanovich Alekseev as commander of the coalition forces sent more than 100,000 coalition troops to prisoner of war camps was the most important factor in the dissatisfaction of various countries with Russia. Second, the Russian offensive in the northeast made Japan very nervous, and it was only after Japan urgently united Britain, France, and Germany that under the persuasion of Dou Nale, it agreed to reduce the reparations in order to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

As for the complete withdrawal of the army from the territory, such a thing was, of course, raised by the-stirring Germans. After Hu Xiaoyan hated the Germans, he asked the Germans to help build the railway. Klint immediately chose to forget about Hu Xiaoyan's "betrayal" and instead supported Hu Xiaoyan's political demands.

As for whether Japan and Russia will agree to the withdrawal of troops from Qing territory after signing the agreement, this kind of matter does not need to be cared about by Klint and Hu Xiaoyan. The Japanese and the Russians will make a choice for this.

After the peace talks, each has its own gains. The Japanese and Russians suffered the most, because they lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and as a result, they only received more than 20 million taels of silver. Other countries are much more comfortable. At least the British got an active airboat.

The protocol of this plane is much better than that of the original plane. But Hu Xiaoyan paid even more. First of all, he had to find a way to build a workable way to build a long-distance railway that would connect Ma'anshan and Anqing to Shenyang. In the middle, the mountains are chiseled, and the bridges are built when the water is encountered. The difficulty and financial requirements are simply too much.

However, all provinces already have existing railways, and most sections only need to be connected to the railway lines. There are also many disadvantages, such as the different railway gauges of Germany, Japan, and Russia. Hu Xiaoyan had to gather experts to gather information in order to determine a track gauge that would cost less.

In short, there are many problems. But Hu Xiaoyan found a good person to complete the project for him: Zhan Tianyou! Li Hongzhang recommends it.

The railway was finally funded by Britain, France, Germany and Japan, and the Qing people were responsible for the construction, and the chief engineer was Zhan Tianyou. The construction period was initially set at three years. The rails are provided by Hanyang Iron and Steel Works and Maanshan Iron and Steel Works.

After getting the railway, Hu Xiaoyan had to plan to go to Beijing.

On this day, after Yan Fu finished talking about the Spring and Autumn Period, he saw that Hu Xiaoyan was still thinking deeply. I couldn't help but ask.

Hu Xiaoyan smiled bitterly, he has been in power for almost a year and a half, and he doesn't even have a secretariat now. Just like the recruitment letters required by Yan Fu some time ago, they were all written by Hu Xiaoyan himself.

Sun Lutang and the others are just simple bodyguards, and now they are also busy with the affairs of the martial arts academy in the university, and I heard that even Li Cunyi, Ye Yunbiao, Huang Feihong and others have received invitations to go to the martial arts academy to form the Chinese Martial Arts Association.

And Hu Xiaoyan's assistant during this time is Liu Zhensheng, Liu Zhensheng is very smart, but one bad thing is that he doesn't understand foreign languages. The materials that Hu Xiaoyan needs are generally stored in the study. There are thousands of books there, of which 80 percent are in foreign languages. Every time I want to read something, I have to go out in person. The study and office are on the same floor, but not in the same place. Liu Zhensheng is not like an assistant, but like a housekeeper's assistant. He spends more time doing things for Luo Jin and less time doing things for Hu Xiaoyan.

"There are a lot of things to do when I go to Beijing this time. There are too few people available. ”

Not too little, but not at all. Zhang Song is a candidate, but since he accepted Hu Xiaoyan's view of a century-old education-oriented, he has devoted himself to presiding over the translation of Western studies. He is not very enthusiastic about such a thing.

"Oh, I have a few candidates." Yan Fu's eyes lit up.

"Bring it to you tomorrow?"

"Okay." Hu Xiaoyan responded, but he didn't take it seriously.

Throughout the history of the original time and space, whether it is Yuan Shikai or Sun Dacang, there are basically few talents. Yuan Shikai's right and left hands Xu Shichang and Yang Du, one was cultivated by him, and the other was forced to take refuge in him.

The last time Hu Xiaoyan saw Yang Du and Xu Shichang together, it was because Xu Shichang asked Yang Du to be familiar with the situation of Jingshi. Yang Du had not yet taken refuge in Yuan Shikai at this time.

And Sun Dacang's subordinates are not to mention. To put it mildly, it is the sage who retreats and the villain who takes the position. Among the three giants of the Restoration Society, Cai Yuanpei and Zhang Binglin directly carried the cannon, while Tao Chengzhang was assassinated by Chen Qimei, and the one who did it was the bald head who did it. and Song Jiaoren, the hero of the reorganization of the League (very right, people actually think that the Kuomintang was founded by Sun Dacang!! Speechless. The assassination can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, Song Jiaoren could not have been killed by Yuan Shikai, and more than 80% of the time it was Chen Qimei's move. It's very simple, if Yuan Shikai wants to do it, there is no reason to only move Song Jiaoren and not your Sun Cannon. Later, Chen Qimei also got the same fate, he assassinated a large number of progressives for Sun Dacang, and he was also assassinated by Yuan Shikai. Murderers are always killed. Sometimes I have to say that it's not that I don't report it, it's not time yet.

The fate of Sun Dacang's friends is not much better than that of Tao Chengzhang. Huang Xing, a chivalrous man who has always been obedient, later lived in seclusion for no reason, and among them was Chen Jiongming, a big man who went to Guangdong alone, and as a result, the big man was forced to bombard the presidential palace and break with Sun. And so on and so forth.

It is not for nothing that Sun achieved nothing in the first half of his life, and in the second half of his life, he was almost abandoned by his friends who were accepted in the first half of his life.

Hu Xiaoyan's status now is not higher than that of Yuan Shikai and Sun Dacang, so there are no cattle people crying and shouting to come to run. It is precisely because of this that Hu Cai is extremely glad that the three giants of the Restoration Society actually found him within a month.

Thinking of the triumvirate of the Restoration Society, Hu Xiaoyan thought of Cai Yuanpei, now Tao Chengzhang is busy forming S.H.I.E.L.D., Zhang Binglin went to Ma'anshan to help Hu Xiaoyan take care of his family, only Cai Yuanpei is still "idle" in school.

Just thinking of Cai Yuanpei, Cai Yuanpei came to see.

Cai Yuanpei's matter has been settled, and it is not a problem to have money. He wanted to go to Anhui University and do it himself. Anhui University is still being formed, mainly composed of the teachers and students of Tianjin Beiyang University. In addition to this, the number of new students is scarce. This is also something that cannot be helped, and it is really not easy to find a student who is willing to go to university in the mainland these days. Only open cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou can accept the new concept of universities. Therefore, Anhui University is actually based on secondary education, supplemented by university education.

Since he thought of letting Cai Yuanpei be his secretary, of course he couldn't let him go easily.

"Sir, tea." Hu Xiaoyan hurriedly got up and respectfully poured the tea and handed it over.

Cai Yuanpei was stunned. He was not surprised, but disappointed.

"Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief. Is it the school thing that is yellow? Cai Yuanpei asked slowly.

"Sir, can you not be so smart?" Hu Xiaoyan was helpless.

"Say it. I'm mentally prepared. Cai Yuanpei put down the teacup.

"I'm going to Beijing to meet Your Majesty and Li Zhongtang, so I want to ask Mr. to help me sit here." Hu Xiaoyan said flatteringly.

"Sitting? Let's be a secretary! I've wanted to say it for a long time. I'll introduce you to someone and make sure you're satisfied. Cai Yuanpei laughed.

"My lord! You're still too young to be an official. ”

Hu Xiaoyan could only be speechless.

The next day, Hu Xiaoyan, who was preparing for a meeting, saw the talent recommended by Yan Fu and Cai Yuanpei. When he saw it, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

"How are you?"