Cai Yuanpei had several long talks with Hu Xiaoyan and went to Ma'anshan to prepare for the establishment of his Anhui University. It was originally supported by the teachers and students of the Beiyang University Hall in Tianjin.

Hu Xiaoyan's characterization of Anhui University is that science and engineering are the mainstay. The liberal arts are listed separately and cooperated with colleges across Anhui to form a liberal arts college. But it doesn't happen overnight. After handing it over to Cai Yuanpei, Hu Xiaoyan didn't care.

Zhang Binglin also returned to Ma'anshan soon after to take charge of the overall situation. This little thing is easy for Zhang Binglin.

Li Jingfang also took office. Hu Xiaoyan privately took out 100,000 taels and gave them to Li Jingfang and Zhan Tianyou. In these years, it is absolutely impossible to do things without money. The purpose of giving money to Li Jingfang was to make his work go smoothly. Although Jae-hoon is not capable, his ability to make things is unique.

And to Zhan Tianyou, it was to let him and his group of technicians settle down. You know, these people won't have much time to reunite with their families for at least ten years!

After meeting Zaifeng again, he finally got the news. Kiyomi negotiations begin.

Now that the negotiations have begun, it is Tang Shaoyi who is in charge of the negotiations. In that case, there is nothing to do with him.

After everything was done, when Hu finally breathed a sigh of relief, Zheng Jun sent another piece of information that worried him.

Zhang Yuan, who was far away in Mongolia, was seriously injured and easily escaped from Mongolia.

"Underestimate these Mongolian princes!" Hu Xiaoyan said bitterly to Qin Yun.

Qin Yun took the information, looked at it, and put it aside.

Zhang Yuan was responsible for contacting Liu Yidao, and then through Liu Yidao to catch up with a swarm of bees.

There is no problem with cooperating with Liu Yidao. The powerful bandits are not as rich as doing business. Zhang Yuan used the goods of Anqing Light Industrial Zone and foreigners as bait, and it was difficult for Liu Yidao to agree or not. Not everyone can persevere to the end.

At this point, Wang Yue's task was completed. He will be in charge of the delivery when he returns.

Next, Zhang Yuan didn't come to the door immediately. He doesn't have any strength at all, and it's useless to find a swarm of bees. Maybe before I saw the master, I was killed by a swarm of minions.

After the two batches of goods passed through Liu Yidao's hands and were sold to Mongolia, Zhang Yuan's name was opened in Mongolia. After all, Liu Yidao's goods are first-hand sources, and both price and quality are much better than those of the original suppliers. But it's precisely because of the day that the accident happens.

Zhang Yuan met the boss of a swarm of bees very smoothly. Although no concrete agreement was reached, the atmosphere was good. The problem is after leaving.

Shortly after leaving the meeting place, Zhang Yuan began to be hunted down. Liu Yidao's younger brother who came with him and more than 20 special forces from two squads who responded halfway were killed.

Afterwards, Zhang Yuan realized that a swarm of bees was just a dog pushed out by the Jin merchants and Mongolian princes. The big businessmen who had cooperated with the Mongolian princes for a long time and several Mongolian princes formed such a horse bandit gang. These people specialized in robbing merchants from other provinces who were robbing merchants from other provinces who were robbing business with Jin merchants. Similarly, the Mongol princes also used this constant horse bandits to kill some tribes who were dissatisfied with them.

Otherwise, the whole prairie is so big. Where else can we keep so many centaurs? It is said that the elite cavalry of this group of people exceeds 3,000, and if the whole army is dispatched, it can have more than 5,000 soldiers and horses. And that's not even counting the men of the small tribes who might have been coerced into sending troops together.

Such a large number of people are active in the steppe, if it has nothing to do with the local Mongolian princes, I am afraid that no more ignorant people will believe it. Quite simply, the grasslands of the prairie generally belong to the prince. What do you eat and drink with so many horses? It's not about the pastures of the prairie yet. But the spare pasture simply could not support so many horses.

How much pasture does a swarm of more than 8,000 horses need to survive? Without the nod and support of the Mongol princes, a swarm of horses would have starved to death!

It's a pity that Zhang Yuan knew too late!

First of all, Zhang Yuan's behavior of entering the Mongolian steppe is bound to offend the Jin merchants! What's the matter, you sell such cheap goods by empty boat, so what's the matter with Jin Shang?

In the same way, you rushed in at once, and the Mongolian princes were not very happy. There was collusion between the Jin merchants and the Mongolian prince, and the Mongolian prince had a share of the profits. You Zhang Yuan's goods don't have the princes' share. So the more Zhang Yuan sold, the more the Mongolian prince lost.

What's even more infuriating is that Zhang Yuan cut off their financial route. actually ran to find a swarm of bees, you are going to talk about the black gloves of the Jin merchants and the Mongolian princes!!

If I don't kill you, it's just unreasonable!

Zhang Yuan slowly figured out these problems in the process of escaping, but he also threw the lives of the two teams of special forces he brought out on the prairie because of this.

Hu Xiaoyan met Zhang Yuan at the former airboat base outside Beijing. It used to be a training camp for the Forces nouvelles and airboats.

"You go to Shanxi and pick some people. Mainly Mongolian and Shanxi dialects are spoken. After taking root in Shanxi, wait for the call. Hu Xiaoyan didn't want to hit Zhang Yuan, but he was really caught by geese all day long, but he was pecked by geese.

"Yes!" Zhang Yuan's will was a little depressed.

After Zhang Yuan went out, Hu Xiaoyan was silent for a long time.

"Qin Yun!"

"Send a telegram to Yan Zhuzhu in Shanghai. Just said I wanted to meet Chen Gongzi. ”

"Chen Gongzi?" Qin Yun was a little curious.

"Okay."

All that's left after returning to Beijing is to wait.

At the end of the year, Enko's exams began. County → government test→ hospital test→ township test→ meeting test, → palace test. The last level is the temple test. The palace test is also known as the court test and the imperial test. Originally, the temple examination was supposed to be at the end of this year. But because the time to decide on the content of the exam has been delayed for too long. There are also changes to the content of this year's exams. Therefore, the temple test was put on next spring.

After the results of the examination are out, the candidates who have passed the Jinshi will stay in the Guozijian to prepare for the next year's palace examination. As for the students of the former Guozijian? None of these people are poor moneymakers. There are also very few people who actually live in Guozijian.

The results of the palace examination will completely change the fate of these people, and according to Zaifeng's urine nature, these people will definitely be arranged to the railway plan.

Hu Xiaoyan didn't care much about the results of the test, but was busy negotiating loans with ministers from various countries every day. On the whole, ministers are very interested in borrowing money for railway construction. However, there are some opinions on the mortgage and repayment method of the loan. For example, Britain and Russia wanted to pledge the proceeds of the railways in Guangzhou, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang for the next 50 years. Japan, on the other hand, hopes to use the 80-year proceeds of the railways in the three eastern provinces as collateral. Germany hopes to be Shandong Zhili and other places. France, on the other hand, hopes to be Fujian and Guangzhou. The United States wants the inland railways and so on.

Anyway, it's a mess. Hu Xiaoyan and Li Hongzhang themselves, as borrowers, made it clear in one sentence, and the ministers of various countries themselves quarreled first. Not only was it noisy during negotiations, but I heard that it was even worse in private. Rumor has it that a couple of guys are already fighting in private.

Hu Xiaoyan believed this, because he clearly saw that the faces of several gentlemen, especially the noses and eyes, were a little special.

After a few days of fruitless talks, Li Hongzhang never went again. He is already busy enough as the prime minister of a country, and it is already very face-saving to be able to find time to go twice.

After Hu Xiaoyan went, he also slept with his eyes open.

Before the end of the year, Hu Xiaoyan and others finally arrived.

Chen Yu and Hu Xiaoyan have been friends for more than two years. But the two of them have only seen each other four or five times in the past two years.

The place where the two met was a teahouse near Liulichang. Hu Xiaoyan occasionally brings Angel here to experience Chinese culture, and then sits in the teahouse.

There was no one else today, just the two of them.

Chen Yu has rarely stopped running around the country over the years, and he has gained a lot of weight. A few strands of gray hair on the top of the head are clearly visible.

And Hu Xiaoyan is much thinner than he was at the beginning.

"It's really not easy to see you. But it's worth it to be able to drink the tea you brewed yourself. Chen Yu quipped.

Hu Xiaoyan was making tea like Yang Du. It's just how awkward it looks.

"I smiled. Just learned. It's a pity that there is no talent. ”

“。。。。” Chen Yu was speechless, what kind of tea ceremony do you learn from an Englishman?

Chen Yu was mainly responsible for opening teahouses and restaurants in various parts of the Qing Dynasty over the years, but only for half a year, and after that, he went abroad to England and France. It mainly examines some technologies and machines that Hu Xiaoyan is interested in but are inconvenient to buy. Especially after the European countries reached a technical blockade agreement this year, Chen Yu's importance has become even more prominent.

Hu Xiaoyan's arrangement this year has finally reached the harvest season.

"France specially developed mulberry silk breeding technology, skein machine and textile machine for Japan. It's a bit expensive though. ”

"The newest spinning machine in the UK, the loom. Take them all too. ”

"The equipment for the upgrading of light industry in Anqing Industrial Zone has also been basically won. Finally fulfilled the mission. ”

"In addition, the production technology of the M1900 Browning that your student Liu Min won for you was also bought. Also arriving in Shanghai were Belgian technicians. ”

"Oh, and in Nanyang I bought 10,000 acres of rubber plantations. Do you know? I almost broke up with my father for this. This means that I'm going bankrupt now, and I'm homeless. ”

Chen Yu said pitiful. But Hu Xiaoyan was unmoved.

If you want to buy this thing, you will definitely not lose money, at least until the beginning of World War II. In particular, the low-price sales strategy of Ford Motor Co., Ltd., which was originally in historical time, led to the rise in rubber prices all the way, which indirectly led to the rubber stock boom in Shanghai, China in 1909. Countless Shanghai tycoons went bankrupt in the course of this rubber stock crash. The bankruptcy of the rubber stock was not because the rubber industry was unprofitable, but because the rubber industry was so profitable that after 1903, a large number of British and American businessmen came to Nanyang to invest in rubber plantations, and when the rubber was harvested, these people found that the output of rubber plantations was too high, while the sales of Ford's cars entered a low ebb. The market determines that supply exceeds demand. So the price of rubber began to plummet around 1909. The collapse in rubber prices has also led to a collapse in rubber stocks.

Therefore, Chen Yu smashed the pot and sold iron, coupled with Hu Xiaoyan's funding, Chen Yu gritted his teeth and bought a 10,000-acre rubber plantation. Chen Yu can be regarded as the businessman with the largest number of rubber trees in Nanyang at present.

Hu Xiaoyan was positive about this, because in two years, at the end of 1902, he would push low-cost cars into the market. At that time, these rubber plantations will be hens that can lay golden eggs. If Chen Yu was sold at that time, he would not be reluctant.

So a lot of things are not taken one step at a time. Hu Xiaoyan can get to where he is today, completely by looking at nine steps before taking one step. He saw far farther than anyone else in the world.

When the ministers and prime ministers of various countries were looking at the big railway plan, Hu Xiaoyan was already thinking about World War I and World War II.

When the U.S. Prime Minister was still coveting the Qing market, Hu Xiaoyan had already gained a foothold in the United States with high-priced cars, and had already laid a nail in Mexico.

Chamberlain in England and Wilhelm II in Germany were still thinking about war. Hu Xiaoyan was already thinking about the post-war economic development, so he started the construction of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge.

Those who have not sought eternity since ancient times are not enough to seek a moment; Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain.

PS：

I didn't want to write a lot of things, but I was afraid that my book friends wouldn't be able to see it, and then blame me for writing inexplicably, and I was smart or something. In fact, if you really look at many things, it is quite interesting to look back and imagine them: Oh, I see.

The strategy part of this book is different from the other books, and this is where it is. Many of the arrangements were not visible at the time. But you won't know until you think about it later.

For example, it is still the problem of Cheng Biguang, the commander of the airship, before Cheng Biguang became the captain, the flight altitude of the airship was 1,200 meters, and the attack altitude was 1,000 meters. But after Cheng Biguang arrived, the airship altitude was 1,000 meters, and the attack height became 800 meters, or even 600 meters. I only mentioned this data in the later battles, but I didn't say that it was arranged by Cheng Biguang. In fact, if you think about it, you will understand that this must have been changed according to the actual combat results after Cheng Biguang took office. From here, it can be seen that Cheng Biguang's practical ability, personal command ability, and so on. These are the things I should have written. However, the first time I wrote a book, I didn't pay much attention to this thing, so I ignored it, and it was indeed the author's fault. But if you read and understand military affairs, you can see it.