Hu Xiaoyan stayed in Shanghai for only three days, meeting with Zhang Binglin, Cai Yuanpei and the local martial arts community. He arranged for a total of nine people, including Yung Hong, Liang Qichao and Yip Yizhao, to form the school board, and the others were representatives of other funders. Yung Wing is the principal and has full responsibility for all matters of the school, Leung Qichao is the dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Cai Yuanpei is the director of the teaching office. This was echoed by Ye Yizhao's brothers, and Ye Yizhao said that the Ye family should not give up the money in the later period. After Zhu Baosan, Yu Qiaqing and others also made it clear that they supported, Hu Xiaoyan left the education paper he wrote on the ship, and asked Mr. Mike to serve as the dean of the School of Education and the deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office of Shanghai Chengxin University, assisting Cai Yuanpei in arranging school education issues. In addition to the problem that foreign teachers are not good at Chinese and the students' English and German are not professional enough, the matter of Shanghai Chengxin University was quickly solved by Hu Xiaoyan. Fortunately, the Ye family brothers, Zhu Baosan and others also supported it.

After leaving Shanghai, Hu Xiaoyan went to Tianjin to meet Yuan Shikai. Although the two had already reached an agreement, Yuan Shikai had already accepted the southeast mutual insurance agreement proposed by Sheng Xuanhuai at this time. He made it clear that it was incumbent upon him to suppress the Boxers, but he would never clash with the foreigners because of this.

Hu Xiaoyan was disappointed by this. Without the support of Yuan Shikai's new army, the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance would be unstoppable.

He then came to Beijing to meet Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang was already extremely lonely at this time. He also said that the Boxer Rebellion belonged to bandits, and he also issued an order to Nie Shicheng, asking Nie Shicheng to suppress it quickly. But the Boxer Rebellion has actually become the climate. It's not just Nie Shicheng and Yuan Shikai who can be completely suppressed. The current situation in China is like a chestnut in the fire. Either chestnut ripe or hand ripe.

Li Hongzhang himself was helpless, and he was now ready to move, because the imperial court had issued a decree requiring him to go out and take up the post of governor of Liangguang.

After leaving Beijing, Hu Xiaoyan returned to Anhui in late October and met with Enming, the governor of Anhui. Enming received Cixi's will and actually agreed with the Boxer Rebellion and said that he would support the Boxer Rebellion. This made Hu Xiaoyan very disappointed. The so-called invitation to God is easy and difficult to send God, and the Boxers are so easy to use? Foreigners are so easy to destroy? Neither of these two sides is a good bird. Neither side could be arbitrarily resolved by the Manchus.

In private, Enming also expressed concern to Hu Xiaoyan about this, but this matter is not something that Enming can change, and he is also helpless.

Hu Xiaoyan had no choice but to beckon Tao Chengzhang to come to Anqing to build an industrial zone for Enming. The new industrial zone is a light industrial base, in addition to yarn factories and garment factories, there are foreign fire factories, foreign noodle factories and so on.

In order to ensure that the yarn mill could reach the scale of the top merchant Zhang Jian, Enming ordered Anqing to implement a large manor system, using Suxian as a model to annex the small peasant class on a large scale, and then absorb them into the factories and farms.

The farm is dominated by agricultural production and cotton cultivation. All agricultural production is sold to the mills, while all cotton is sold to the mills. Because it's the end of October, of course, it's too late for cotton production, but it's still too late to plant wheat and soybeans and the like.

Hu Xiaoyan was very disappointed, and of course he would not stay in Anqing to engage in large-scale production. His biggest enemies now are the Boxers and the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Back in Su County, Hu Xiaoyan immediately convened a meeting of the Yamen of the General Department of Anhui Mining. The yamen was asked to focus on conscription and grain procurement.

Then he went to the barracks, this time with more than three hundred officers, a hundred soldiers, and twenty intelligence officers from Germany.

Soldiers and intelligence officers were placed by him in his own secret aircraft base. The new airboat production base will also be placed there. Similarly, the intelligence training base will be placed there. All the intelligence officers, including Cao Shangfei, Li Chen, and Zhang Song, had to go through the training of these 20 German intelligence officers. Then they were also trained by British intelligence officers. Ten British intelligence officers were arranged by Hu Xiaoyan to enter the special forces base in the canyon. There was also a Lawrence who was tortured to death, unable to die, or unable to live.

With 300 German officials as a foundation, Hu Xiaoyan asked Wang Tingjiao and others to learn from the German officials on the one hand, and on the other hand, send all 300 German officials to reorganize the troops.

Originally, there were only 2,400 troops. But in less than three days, Wang Tingjiao organized 10,000 troops. This time, Wang Tingjiao was extremely happy, because Hu Xiaoyan brought back the Mauser rifle that the German Army had not yet fully equipped. Fifteen thousand in total. And a million rounds of bullets. Plus fifty 75mm army rapid-fire guns (the Germans did not have such a large stock of 75mm rapid-fire guns at that time, for which Wilhelm II drew from the active artillery). Wang Tingjiao even had the confidence to compete with Yuan Shikai's new army.

Thanks to the efforts of Cai Yuanpei and others, more than 100 college students have joined the Beiyang University Hall of the Yamen of the Anhui Mining General Division, including students who have graduated for a few years and young people who have not graduated. Under Li Jingmai's arrangement, some of these people were doing administrative work, and some of them joined the army to do ideological work. In addition, local primary and secondary school students in Su County are often sent to the army to conduct literacy training for the troops.

Your sister's, this kind of literacy training is the most hated by the troops. Because the uncles are all over 20 years old, many of them can't even write their own names. Children who are more than a decade younger than them can recognize hundreds of words. It hurts their little hearts.

The 2,400-strong troops before the expansion were destroyed and almost all of them were literate. Almost everyone is able to start writing letters to their families.

After the expansion, more than 2,000 people, each of whom was promoted, and the most recent one became a squad leader. With this group of literate squad leaders leading the team, Hu Xiaoyan believes that his unit is definitely the army with the highest literacy rate in China.

A troop of more than 10,000 people was reorganized into a division: three infantry regiments, each with more than 3,000 people, and a guard company directly under the division with 300 people; An artillery regiment has 1,000 people, 50 75mm rapid-fire guns, 300 engineer platoons, and 100 logistics platoons.

The regiment is composed of three battalions of one regiment plus one battalion directly under it, and three companies of one battalion, three platoons per company, and one hundred men per platoon.

Each regiment has about 3,500 people, including direct escorts and liaison officers. There are about 12,200 men in one division.

This is only the number of establishments, in fact, Hu Xiaoyan's division has 15,000 people. This also includes some security police. Because of the expansion of the army, the number of policemen in the entire Huaibei is less than 500. However, it was not a big problem, because there were less than 20,000 residents in the new town, and most of the residents had been rehired by nearby farms. Originally, these people Hu Xiaoyan were going to be raised aside

While training, prepared for their own steel plants and thermal power plants. But money can be channeled, and Hu Xiaoyan's steel plant has no shadow for the time being. However, the farm is in dire need of manpower.

The strength of this division has actually exceeded the strength of the security regiment. But Hu Xiaoyan didn't care about that at all. If it weren't for the fact that the number and quality of the officers under his command were really insufficient, he would have wanted to reorganize a regular army.

The weapons used in this division were all German. Except for the sapper shovels and military uniform boots that Hu Xiaoyan had already arranged for the blacksmith shop.

Of the 300 German officers, except for 120 who directly joined the army as adjutants for the commander of the unit and training officers in charge of training, the other 180 were all stuffed into the military academy by him. The first batch of students were the cadets of the Tianjin Martial Arts Academy led by Wang Tingjiao and the non-commissioned officers and students recommended by them. There were about a hundred of these people. This resulted in more officers than cadets. In order to change this situation, Hu Xiaoyan selected 50 literate scholars from among the local merchants and scholars to enter the military academy. At the same time, he recruited about 300 people in the army, and finally gathered 500 people.

Major Andrew, a German officer, was a German officer on active duty, and with the assistance of 180 instructors, he spent one night giving a plan for the reorganization and overall planning of the military academy. Hu Xiaoyan didn't even look at it, and he signed the appropriation. He has no doubts about the military quality of the German ** officer, and the performance of the German ** team in World War I and World War II proves this, even if the pig teammates of the German army during World War II are so powerful, if it is not for the United States to participate in the war, Lao Maozi may not have done anything to the German army. The German army's record was written with the lives of tens of millions of enemy soldiers.

On the military side, after Hu Xiaoyan let go, he began his heavy industry plan. Hu Xiaoyan, a German-aided heavy industry project, was not intended to be placed with the equipment of the British. After the German equipment was transferred to inland river transportation, it was directly unloaded at the mouth of the Yangtze River in Ma'anshan, and then transported to the vicinity of Ma'anshan City in later generations through inland carriage shops for installation and commissioning. At the same time, ten mining engineers from Germany followed the footsteps of the uncles who studied in the United States and began to carry out detailed exploration of the Nanshan iron ore mine in Ma'anshan.

Nanshan Iron Ore is the most suitable area for mining after several months of exploration. Because this is an open-pit mine, it can be mined directly and can be mined quickly. Hu Xiaoyan did not intervene in the construction of the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant and supporting facilities, because the Ruhr industrial area in Germany is a ready-made success story, and the German's rigorous work attitude is world-famous, and he is only a little worried about his own pockets. The Ruhr industrial zone was not built in a day, and it was not possible to pay 10 million taels of silver. Hu Xiaoyan only hopes that these Germans will look at their own poverty and not directly copy the model of the Ruhr industrial zone in Germany.

Hu Xiaoyan originally had 15 million pounds in cash. But then some of the money was scattered, and less than four million pounds could be brought home. The rest were all replaced by industrial equipment and a team of foreign teachers. In addition to the German faculty who remained at Chengxin University in Shanghai, more than 1,000 Germans arrived in the Ma'anshan area, and in addition to the technicians necessary for the industrial zone, there were also some experts in physical chemistry. They will follow a batch of German laboratory equipment and will take root in the Ma'anshan area to provide technical support to the steel plant at any time.

Four million pounds may not seem like much, but anyone who has read Mark Toon's million-pound novel will be able to understand it. The book simply means that a few rich people have nothing to do after eating, and they give a beggar a cheque for a million pounds. As a result, the beggar ran to the bank to go in advance. The bank told the beggar that there was not a million pounds in cash in the entire bank. It was a small joke in 1899, but it was worth a million pounds.

The current exchange rate of one pound is about 6 taels of silver. That is to say, four hundred kings and pounds is about twenty-four million silver dollars. Even with the wealth of the red-topped businessman Hu Xueyan, it was difficult for him to come up with 20 million taels of cash that could be accessed at any time in his heyday.

In order to carry out the activities of the Ma'anshan Industrial Zone smoothly, Hu Xiaoyan had to mobilize Chen Ronggui to lead a group of college students and 500 newly recruited miner families to support. The development of the industrial park will be dominated by Tan Rong Gui and Teo Kang Ren. Zhang Kangren is a lawyer and was one of the first batch of students to study in the United States. He now has a stable job and a relatively happy family. But he couldn't refuse Li Hongzhang's recruitment.

Although he was reluctant to come to Anhui because of the experience of returning to China, he soon devoted himself to work with confidence. Not everyone can invest 10 million taels of silver to build a modern heavy industry base.

Chen Ronggui is really not good in the field of aircraft design, and Hu Xiaoyan was transferred to Ma'anshan Industrial Zone to stand by because of Wang Wenyuan's joining.

Hu Xiaoyan himself stayed behind to participate in the construction of the special forces on the one hand, and to take care of the installation and commissioning of the equipment of the British steel plant on the other hand. The iron ore mines in Huaibei are not comparable to the scale of Ma'anshan, and the British are not as cooperative as the Germans. Not only are they not happy to work, but they are very motivated to ask for money. Hu Xiaoyan has to be worried for a long time if he doesn't read the account book for a day.

When Li Jingmai sent a few college students from Peiyang University to help, Hu Xiaoyan was relieved that he was finally able to participate in the training of special forces wholeheartedly.

At this time, it was the end of the twelfth lunar month. Soon it was the spring of 1900.